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picture. But sometimes, what doesn't move at all, can be moving. | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds | :01:22. | :02:40. | |
And here it is again, the connection between the moving and | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
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the still. The fastest mover of them all, the captured instant. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
What a fantastic journey it has been. Over the next couple of hours | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
or we will reflect on some of those are Olympic moments in moving form | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
and hear from Mo Farah, Sir Steve Redgrave, Denise Lewis, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Gebrselassie, and the Prime Minister is joining us for his | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
assessment of London 2012 and what happens next. Great Britain ends | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
these Olympics with a medal tally these Olympics with a medal tally | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
we could only dream of. A tally of 62 medals. 28 gold medals among | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
them, more than any in the last century. Third place in the medal | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
table is secure. Or we were 4th in Beijing. How can we make sure this | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
Sir Matthew Pinsent has been investigating. | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
In Atlanta, 1996, Steve Redgrave and I were the only gold medalists | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
13 GB. 16 years on, haven't things changed? They are going quicker and | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
quicker, Great Britain have won the gold. Be it is going to be a | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
glorious win for Great Britain. It is gold! We have more | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
professionalism, more coaches, talent identification is amazing. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
But the main thing that has changed is the amount of cash in British | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
Olympic sport. The National Lottery started a Olympic funding in 1997 | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
and the Return was instant. 11 gold medals in Sydney and a similar | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
amount in Athens. Once London was chosen to host in 2012, no amount | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
of money knocking around increased even more. �235 million the Beijing, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
264 million, the amount spent on these Games. We have had more | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
resources for London because what we have committed to is to fund | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
every Olympic and every Paralympic sport. So not only those sports | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
that have medal potential, but those sports that have not achieved | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
entry to the Games, which has given them a fantastic platform. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Hopefully to attract more youngsters into a broader range of | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
sports as a result. The sports that had the most unsurprising lead | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
performed the best. Cycling, sailing and rowing are at the top | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
of the funding list. Money means medals. We Investment, more sports | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
can achieve more medals, which is what we have delivered. What | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
delivers gold medals at the end of the day our athletes that have the | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
talent and the ability. Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Daley Thompson. Those | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
people would have succeeded with a without funding. But there are | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
those, like Mo Farah, without the current set-up might have drifted | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
away and never really done what he has now been able to do so. He has | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
been able to tap into resource and knowledge, which has been provided | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
through funding. What do you would deep pockets by you? The best | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
coaches, facilities and the most professional approach. Nothing is | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
left to chance. But if you take, you are going to have to give back. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
What is the future for those sports that have underperformed on home | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
soil? A few of the sports that have not done well will be having | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
discussions after London. And there will be some sport won't get to Rio. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
We still think we can do it, but we have got to change the way we do | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
things. The no compromise approach we have taken has been really good. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
It is clear, not funding for everybody, but funding for the best. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
The question is, when the venues empty, the crowds disappear and the | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
lights go out, can it ever be this good again? It will be a tragedy if | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
we did not continue to invest will stop other countries will and we | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
will fall back. We have done brilliant. We have set the bar very | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
high, why should we accept the only way is down? John Major started | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
this with the lottery in 1994. His legacy is clear and plain. He was | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
the Prime Minister at the time and that is the kind of back-up Lee | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Mead from our Prime Minister and the Government now. To say, this | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
has been fantastic and we will continue to invest. Le the sports | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
keep on delivering. My aim as sports minister is to make sure UK | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Sport have the same amount of money for the Rio's cycle as they did for | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
London. These people are massive role models. It will inspire other | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
kids to have a go in the future. And we have got to provide the same | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
sort of support to those kids that we have provided to these people | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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The Prime Minister is here to answer some of those questions. | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Good morning. Good morning. An amazing tally of gold medals, 28. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
At the Opening Ceremony, what did you think was possible? It's has | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
been an extraordinary few weeks, it has lifted the country and brought | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
people together. I am very proud of what everyone has done, from the | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
athletes, the police service, the military and the Games makers, the | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
volunteers and everyone involved. We came 4th in Beijing. A country | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
of 60 million people, you up against Russia, Germany, China, | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
India. Coming 4th, I thought was amazing. I thought holding on to | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
fourth place would have been a challenge. But we have produced | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
this extraordinary result. We did put in a lot of money. I know you | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
saw quite of the Olympic venues and experience those men did -- moments, | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
any particular favourite? It has to be Mo Farah last Saturday and last | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
night. An incredible performance. Just to be there, you felt you | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
wouldn't want to be anywhere else at any other point in time. It was | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
a magic moment. And Nicola Adams, the boxer. I was there for her | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
semi-final, it was very special. The first time we have had women's | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
boxing at the Olympics and an iconic British woman who will be a | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
fantastic role model. So the question we have to ask, what | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
happens to elite sport now? You have made an announcement. I am | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
very clear. What has happened since the lottery has worked. John | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Major's legacy is secure. The lottery has transformed the way we | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
formed a lead sport. The �125 million of funding, that will | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
continue every year up until the Rio 2016 Olympics. Normally | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
governments fund programmes have won a two years before. But this is | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
worthwhile because it helps to deliver those medals. It is only | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
two more years because the Treasury funding was guaranteed until 2014, | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
2015. You have given them another two years. But it is vital because | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
they can plan all the way between now and Rio. I was talking to Ben | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
Ainslie about this. He said it is so important sailors can go to Rio | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
and practice were they can go and compete. I think sport UK, Sue | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Campbell and those people have delivered a system that works. We | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
will go on backing it. It is welcome news, but two years in the | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
life of elite sport is not a long time. Shouldn't we be thinking more | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
ambitiously and coming up with the longer turn strategy? I hope I will | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
be the Prime Minister in 2016 and we will make the decision for the | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
next four years. But the decision is, when I became Prime Minister, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
the elite sport programme wasn't fully funded up until the 2012 | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Olympics we have just had. One of the decisions I had to make was to | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
make sure it was funded. We don't know how long he will be Prime | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Minister, but you could set the tone in saying, our ambition is for | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
a long-term strategy and you have not done that. I cannot think of | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
any reason why any Government would change this strategy, it works. It | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
has delivered the 2012, it can deliver for 2016. There is no was | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
some shin this would change. Because we have returned lottery | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
funding to good courses, sports, arts, there will be more money | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
through the lottery generally over the next five years. So the money | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
will be there for anyone in the future to continue to expand this | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
elite sports programme. This is what the athletes have asked for, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
delivered up to 2016, and I think it is a very good thing to do. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
about difficult decisions on how you spend money on a lead sport. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
How it divides up the cookie. What about sports that have | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
underperformed likes winning, which had a target of more medals than it | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
ended up with? It is vital Government ministers don't make | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
these decisions. The reason we have professional sport bodies like | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
sport UK, is for them to make those decisions. They will be having | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
tough conversations with the difference governing bodies because | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
they have his policy of trying to funds by results. It does not mean | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
if you do badly you automatically don't get the money, but you have | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
to prove you are learning the lessons. If you look at cycling, I | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
am not an expert, but it seems they have just applied the most immense | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
amount of science and expertise to this area. I'm sure everyone will | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
be looking at the most successful sports and ask what they can learn. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
You have come out with plans about earlier in the training, we have to | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
think before we get to the elite sport level. How important | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
competitive sport is, and that seems to be at the heart of what he | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
wants primary schools to be doing. Shouldn't you put the focus on | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
high-quality, physical education in schools? Competitive sport is | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
important, that is what the Olympics is about. It is | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
competition which inspires people. We need to look at what is working | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
in schools, and what is not working well enough. Two out of five | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
primary-school children are playing competitive sport within schools, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
and less than that playing competitive sports with other | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
schools. There are children who can be alienated from competitive | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
sports. Mo Farah's all P teacher said if you expose children who | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
were not ready to competitive sport, you can put them off sport for life. | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
Up to the age of 11, sport's should be there and after. They should be | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
part of the team learning about working as a team, and learning | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
about losing as well as winning. It is character-building stuff. The | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
arguments some people make his competitive sport does not belong | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
in a primary school setting. I don't believe that. I watch my son | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
playing football and there is an under 18, and under 10 team. They | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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like playing sport and make this What was the role -- what was wrong | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
with a target of two hours of sport in school? The activity could have | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
been things like dance routines, but schools felt it if they had met | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
that target, that was enough. The point is, if you don't want a | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
system where a school thinks, I have done two hours a week, I have | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
done my bit. I think it was limiting and restricting. We are | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
putting �1 billion in, over five years, into youth sport. To make | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
sure that competitive sport is in the curriculum. Those two things | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
will make a difference. I am also announcing today that Seb Coe, who | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
has made this game is a success, is going to be my legacy ambassador, | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
on how to make the most economically from the Games, how to | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
win the contracts in terms of the next Olympics, decisions on future | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
funding in sport. He will be helping to advise us. This was | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
always the legacy Games, we want the Games on the basis of planning | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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for a strong legacy. At the moment, it is just a blueprint, it is a | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
question of the effort you make. There are lots of things which have | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
already been done. We are at the start of the journey of building a | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
legacy. We are some way down the track. 5,000 schools have formed | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
partnerships with local sports clubs, 1000 sports facilities have | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
been upgraded. We have lost school playing-fields, do know how many of | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
those could be safeguarded for the local community? In the last two | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
years, 21 school playing fields have been sold, 14 because the | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
school in question had been closed, four because of school a mile | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
commissions. The other three were about getting funding for sports | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
facilities. If you look at the detail, it doesn't stack up. Could | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
those playing fields be safeguarded for community use? Absolutely, that | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
is why we do not allow schools to sell playing fields, that is the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
position of the government, it has to be an exceptional circumstance. | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
What we want to seek his more playing fields available to schools. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
A big part of the future is linking up schools with local sports clubs. | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Way and kids get competitive sport at the local village club, | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
organised by volunteers, with teams, hundreds of children taking part in | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
competitive cricket and football. These clubs are in real key, one | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
way to secured the legacy of the Games. You say we are already | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
securing the legacy, but you cannot be heartened by figures on | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
participation. Only six of 31 funded sports are showing an | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
increase in participation. It is only running and cycling doing well. | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
There is no level of complacency. We haven't just invented legacy | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
this week, the whole thinking of the government which bid for the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Games macro and this one, it is about securing legacy. Whether it | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
is about making sure that this amazing Park does not become, like | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
some previous Olympic parks, covered in Tumbleweed with unused | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
facilities. We do not know who will use the stadium. Almost all of the | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
eight major venues are secured. The Aquatics Centre, that has a totally | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
secure a future. 800,000 people, nearly one million people, will use | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
it every year. I am confident in saying this park will be a | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
fantastic place for Londoners to live, work and play. Even though | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
there is no permanent tenant? will be sorted out relatively | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
rapidly. A fantastic facility, football clubs are vying to be its | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
tenants. I was in the Athletes' Village, that will be an amazing | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
house into element, people will be queuing up to live in it. It has | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
transformed this part of London. Going back to these figures on | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
participation in sport. The theme of these Games has been, inspired a | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
generation. But as a nation among 16-24 year-olds, -- participation | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
among this group, that is the focus. That is why Seb Coe will be | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
advising me as legacy ambassador. To transform people's thinking | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
about sport, that is important. There is no complacency in | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
government. The thinking of legacy didn't start last week, it has been | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
at the heart of these Games. Legacy is vital. It is a huge opportunity. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
My own children have been inspired by the past few weeks. We are in | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
the final few hours until the closing ceremony. What do you think | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
this experience has taught us about who we are in Britain? It has been | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
a massive self confidence boost. We can all feel we don't just have a | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
great past but a great future ahead of us. I have been struck by the | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
number of people, athletes, visiting prime ministers, who say | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
these are the best Games they have been two, a confident country which | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
has produced something superbly well done, on budget, on time. The | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
sense of voluntary spirit which has come from those Games makers has | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
completely inspired people. We can make our wake in a tough and | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
competitive world. The reality is that tomorrow morning, we are | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
reminded we are in a severe recession, this country is not in a | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
good place economically. We do face a tough economic situation, I do | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
not belittle that at all. These Games show, if you work hard enough | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
at something, plant something, if you are passionate enough, you can | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
turn things around. That is a lesson you can take from these | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Games. Prime Minister, thank you. Now, if you've just joined us, it's | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
a quiet morning of Olympic Sport. The main event of the morning is | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
the marathon before 11am, here on BBC One. So we're taking this | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
opportunity to reflect on the past fortnight, and the highlights of | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
London 2012. Overall, it's been an impressive performance by British | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Olympians, though the athletics total was two short of chief coach | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Charles Van Commenee's target of eight track and field medals. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Nevertheless, there were four gold medals for Great Britain, and many | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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other moments that helped light up champion. The moment of truth has | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
arrived. There goes Usain Bolt, he is going | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
to win the gold! The champion becomes a legend! The brilliance of | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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for Britain. Christine Ohuruogu it is coming, | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
will she make it? Christine Ohuruogu, a sterling effort, to get | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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striding away to become the Olympic champion. That is the world record, | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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he smashes it to pieces. The only man to have defended the | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
Olympic 200 metres title ever. He is kicking again, Mo Farah is | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
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going for it. It is a gold medal! champion. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion, best all-round athlete in | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
the world. Come on, Mo Farah, the Mo Farah is | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain, beautiful. | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
Have you ever seen anything like We have had so many fantastic | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
moments in the stadium, thanks to those athletes. Denise Lewis, you | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
are watching from your ringside seat. Can I ask you to choose a | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
highlight, there are probably so many. No, you cannot. If I have to | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
try to pick one, it is impossible. The freshest one is Mo Farah, his | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
double was sensational. I have run out of superlatives. Truly sublime. | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
It was amazing, not only did he run tactically really well. But, the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
way he'd almost dominated, mentally, he had a physical presence at the | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
start of the race which I have never seen him do before. He got | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
the crowd going, he responded to them. Psychologically, he won that | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
battle from that moment on. Jessica Ennis and her heptathlon | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
gold, that must have meant a lot you personally. The pressure she | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
has had to deal with, leading up to the Games, in the months and years, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
has been immense. She has conducted herself so well. That is the mark | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
of a true champion, who can work under such intense scrutiny and | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
still deliver a performance. We felt it was on, from the moment she | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
stepped onto the track. To deliver that hurdles race, it was majestic. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
She was part of that first Super Saturday. Overall in British | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
athletics, we didn't get to the target of eight medals, a shame? Or, | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
do the four gold medals make up for it? He going into these | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
championships, we thought maybe there could be made the two of gold | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
medals. We have superseded our expectations, | :28:00. | :28:09. | |
as a sport. The target, it is there as a guideline to Kara Goucher but | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
you cannot put a measure on what we have experienced as a country. It | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
has up weighed everything. What does success but that do to the | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
team as a whole? They are practical results. You attract more money, it | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
secures the team going forward. That is what we hope. The athletes | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
have delivered. The big thing now is funding, and continuing through | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
to Rio. This is not just, London has finished, it all stops. This is | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
the real legacy. We have a lot of young athletes who have come into | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
these Games for a first time, and who want to build on it. What about | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
what it does for British athletics as a whole, we hope people will be | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
:29:09. | :29:12. | ||
inspired. I can only look at my own situation, are being inspired as a | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
kid by watching events like this, of wanting to go to my local club. | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
That is what I hope the young children around the country will be | :29:21. | :29:28. | |
inspired, to have a go. No one can guarantee success, that you will | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
stand on that Olympic podium, but it is all in that Jenny and having | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
a role model to follow. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
excitement. Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will be joining us in the | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
studio later in the programme. And, while he's claimed two gold medals, | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
he's still four behind Sir Chris Hoy, who took his tally to six, | :29:54. | :30:04. | |
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during another fantastic week for What a night we have got to look | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
:30:40. | :30:45. | ||
forward to. It is going to be an Great Britain are absolutely flying. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
Great Britain are the world champions and they are now going to | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
become the world champ -- Olympic champions. They are on fire. | :30:56. | :31:03. | |
cannot believe it. Laura Trott is on fire. I cannot | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
believe this has happened to me. The new world record. It is | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
:31:21. | :31:23. | ||
unbelievable. He is the Olympic sprint champion. | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
Look at the time! It is a new world record. We have spent so many years | :31:28. | :31:36. | |
thinking about this moment. It is a mad explosion of a motion. Victoria | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
Pendleton is the Olympic clearing champion. I would have loved to | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
have won my final race, but I just say it is all done and I can move | :31:49. | :31:59. | |
:31:59. | :32:07. | ||
on. You have been incredible. Sir Chris Hoy is now the most | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
successful British Olympian. Congratulations to Bradley Wiggins. | :32:12. | :32:21. | |
It has not been a bad year for him. They are two more men, Sir Matthew | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
Pinsent was there to witness Ben Ainslie winning a 4th successive | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
title. Will we will speak to Steve Redgrave and Ben Ainslie in a | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
moment. But first this is what happened. | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
Ben Ainslie is often ridden up as the best small boat sailor in the | :32:40. | :32:48. | |
world, but winning the gold in 2012 would prove it. By his recent | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
Olympic standards, first three days of racing were close to disastrous, | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
but one of his main race opponents, Jonas Hogh-Christensen, had made a | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
crucial error. From where I was sailing, it looked like he had hit | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
the mark. Ben Ainslie is doing a penalty turn. Big mistake, he made | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
me angry and they had better watch out. Essentially, Sunday 5th August | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
boils down to a man on man race for gold. It is going to be a huge race | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
on Sunday, but I am up for it. races of the regatta are completed | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
and today's race is the last medal race. The situation is delicate for | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
Ben Ainslie, he is two points behind the Dane, Jonas Hogh- | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
Christensen, so he must beat him to win the gold. This is going to be | :33:43. | :33:53. | |
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tight. Perhaps we were going to see more confrontations. Not Ben | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
Ainslie's best start, but by the first mark, the Briton was in | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
charge. Ben Ainslie has gone a round the top mark in gold medal | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
winning positions. Denmark have a big job to do. Things are looking | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
good for the British sailor. Ben Ainslie wins his 4th Olympic gold. | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
The Battle of the Bay between Benn's -- Ben Ainslie and the great | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
Dane is over. History is made, Ben Ainslie is the best sailor the | :34:27. | :34:35. | |
Olympics has ever seen. Have you ever had to work harder for an | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
Olympic gold medal than that? it was the toughest. The way Jonas | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
Hogh-Christensen has sailed this week, it is a long time since I | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
have seen somebody sail that well. You were dead and buried after six | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
races? I was worried, and something had to change and thankfully it did. | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
I got myself back into a position with a chance. I feel I should have | :35:01. | :35:07. | |
a special card or a key to say, four consecutive gold medals, it is | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
a special club, welcome to it. Well done. | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
So, there is a special club, but people have gone further with five | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
gold medals, so we thought we would bring you together. Well done, | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
dramatic days in Weymouth. It was touch and go for a little while? | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
was, it was very tough. It was difficult for me. I did not sail | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
the greatest opening series and I had to fight for it. Which she | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
would expect for any Olympic medal, but this was tough and a close the | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
medal race. Thankfully, I managed to get it right on the day. | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
much did the thought of that record you wanted to get to really | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
motivates you? In sailing, for gold medals is special, only one other | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
man who has done that. And to have a silver medal as well, it was a | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
big day. Or you can focus on is doing the best job and you cannot | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
get carried away with what might happen. You have to get the job | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
done and have a good regatta. It was tough, but came good in the end. | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
You have done very well, but we thought we needed to inspire you | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
and get you to think about Rio. Steve is here to make you think | :36:31. | :36:38. | |
about another Olympics. For me, I might be making a comeback! He has | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
the opportunity to do that if he wants to, it is a huge commitment. | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
He has been such a firm favourite to win this gold medal and in | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
everyone's eyes over the next few years, it is going to be tough. I | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
thought he was playing to the crowd are making it exciting and bringing | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
it to the last day. But he has got the capability, if he wants to | :37:02. | :37:09. | |
carry on. Do you want to carry on? I honestly don't know right now. It | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
does get pretty emotional after these campaigns and you have to go | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
away, as Steve did, give it some time and then decide what you want | :37:19. | :37:28. | |
to do. In sailing, the America's Cup is also a big challenge. So the | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
next challenge is to head off to San Francisco and get involved with | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
that. We will see about Rio, physically a don't think I could do | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
another four years. You are young enough, you won your first gold at | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
the 19? I have had some issues with my back in particular. I had an | :37:48. | :37:55. | |
operation over the winter. You have to force the boat through the water | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
and it is pretty hard work and my back doesn't enjoy it. The Olympics | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
as been a huge part of my life for the next 20 years, and it will be | :38:03. | :38:11. | |
hard to walk away. Steve, you famously said, "if you see me in a | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
boat again, you have permission to chute me". The minute you have won | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
a medal, people ask you about the next stage. It is not the right | :38:20. | :38:26. | |
time to make those decisions? Definitely not the right time. And | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
that saying has been thrown back to me for the last few years. You need | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
a little bit of time, time to reflect. Within rowing, the biggest | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
thing is the Olympic Games. We have a World Championships every year, | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
before the Olympic year, it is a stepping-stone to the Olympics. The | :38:49. | :38:56. | |
only reason to carry on his towards the next Olympic Games. But other | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
things for him have a big draw, and the America's Cup. If you relate it | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
is cycling, Bradley Wiggins has won the Tour de France, which is the | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
biggest thing in Cycling. And then he won another gold medal. You have | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
also had to go through the Games are watching people edge closer, | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
and in Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy's case, overtake your Olympic | :39:21. | :39:27. | |
record, how has that felt? It has been straight forward, it is a | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
record I didn't know I had until four years ago. I when to the | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
velodrome on watch Bradley win the team pursuits will stop and a | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
journalist said to me if Bradley wins a medal of any sort, he goes | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
past do in the record. And I thought myself, I had this record | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
for a years and didn't know I had it will stop within days it could | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
have been taken away from me. I knew that Chris and then it would | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
go past me at these Games. It has been enjoyable watching it happen. | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
What about your thoughts about your sports. Both of your sports are the | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
best funded, they have had a lot of money from UK Sports. Yours was the | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
only sailing gold medal for Great Britain at these Games. If you look | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
at the overall record of the same team, did it not go as well as you | :40:21. | :40:29. | |
hoped? Our goal coming into the Games was five medals -- four | :40:29. | :40:36. | |
medals. We took five. And the individual teams were so close. It | :40:36. | :40:42. | |
has been another great performance by the team. I think one of the big | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
things to say is it is a continuation. You cannot just say, | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
it is London 2012 and that is it. All these teams have been growing | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
up there so many years and they will keep going. It is vital we | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
keep the funding coming from UK Sport and keep the ball rolling, | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
and all of those teams are building for the future and doing a great | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
job. Particularly there are sports like cures, were having the best | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
possible Technology makes a difference, cycling being one of | :41:14. | :41:21. | |
them? It is the International Federation make sure it is about | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
the athletes, and not about the boats. There is an improvement of | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
each four years process, but there isn't a huge market within sailing | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
boats, it is not like golf clubs, technology is changing almost by | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
the minute to be able to get a little bit more accuracy and | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
distance. It is not like that within the sport of rowing. It is | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
about preparation, training, it is about putting everything in process. | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
Why one of the reasons for the rowing team of the best in the | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
world at the moment from Great Britain, is because of the staff, | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
all the back-up team, behind the athletes. We have great athletes | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
being looked after very well and that is the reason, I think, as a | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
country we are performing very well. It is not just the opportunity for | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
those athletes, it is about helping them and what over there issues may | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
be in the four-year cycle. We will get more from you as the programme | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
continues. There is live sport available on BBC Three. It is | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
volleyball, Bulgaria are playing Italy in the bronze-medal match. | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
Also lots of other options on the red button. On BBC One or we will | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
be live at the Mall as we build up to the men's marathon which starts | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
in just over an hour. Now for another Sir Matthew Pinsent | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
reports. We asked him to pose some questions for years ago about what | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
London could learn from Beijing. Now London 2012 is almost over, he | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
has been out to deliver his assessment of what has happened | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
here. There were people saying in the | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
wake of Beijing 2008, we had a hard act to follow. Before we had our | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
Opening Ceremony, Britain played a blinder. 70 days, 8,000 miles and | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
8,000 Torch bearers. The torch relay opened British hearts in a | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
very special way. Come on! Experience of lifetime. I am not | :43:28. | :43:38. | |
anybody, and people are cheering me on. I felt like I was in Wonderland. | :43:38. | :43:44. | |
When Danny Boyle did get to put on his show, it was British, it was | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
quirky and some nations wouldn't have got the jokes, but for me it | :43:48. | :43:58. | |
:43:58. | :44:01. | ||
boiled down to one moment which the whole world would have understood. | :44:01. | :44:08. | |
Good evening, Mr von. Good evening, your majesty. London's venues came | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
in on budget, they were open for their test events, and some of them | :44:13. | :44:23. | |
:44:23. | :44:26. | ||
were beauties. There is no doubt, there have been empty seats, the | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
ticketing website - universally panned. A lot of people did not get | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
tickets and that is unfair. I feel bad so many people were out there | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
looking for tickets and there are so many empty seats. My report card | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
- could do better. Six out of 10. Four years ago in Beijing, the | :44:49. | :44:54. | |
Olympic Park was an exclusive place to be. In London, you still need a | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
ticket, but this place is all about inclusion. 2.4 million people have | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
watched events at Olympic Park, but that spirit has spread to open | :45:04. | :45:13. | |
spaces Nationwide. You don't have to be at home to watch the Games | :45:13. | :45:21. | |
any more. You can be any worse. No surprise, this has been caused the | :45:21. | :45:27. | |
first genuinely digital Olympics. Social Media has loved the Olympics, | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
fans don't miss a moment. They watch, commiserate and congratulate, | :45:32. | :45:39. | |
very often directly to the athletes. My followers on Twitter. Twitter. | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
Thanks for all of the fans for supporting and believing. Transport, | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
lots of people said it would be a nightmare. I think we did OK. | :45:50. | :45:55. | |
London 2012 is on course to break attendance records. 7 million | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
people through the turnstiles. Were they happy? I have been using it | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
the whole time, over ground, Underground and everything, it is | :46:03. | :46:10. | |
easy. Security was an issue. In the race to be ready, G four S is | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
playing catch-up. Soldiers have arrived at a Olympic venues, part | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
of a 3,500 fours needed to plug the gap. Have nearly 300,000 people | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
coming through and we talk to them, help them and assist them at the | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
park. It has been a great experience. We did recover it well. | :46:33. | :46:43. | |
:46:43. | :46:46. | ||
The forces, a huge upgrade. Where Volunteers of the lifeblood of any | :46:46. | :46:52. | |
Olympic Games, and in London, they have been amazing. There is no job | :46:52. | :47:00. | |
too menial, this lot have and very nearly stolen the show. The final | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
request from 2008 was an outstanding performance from Team | :47:03. | :47:13. | |
:47:13. | :47:14. | ||
GB. I think we got that, don't you? COMMENTATOR: Sir Chris Hoy, the | :47:14. | :47:22. | |
greatest Olympian. If I had to sum up the 2012 games, it would be to | :47:22. | :47:32. | |
:47:32. | :47:34. | ||
Seb Coe and his team, well played. So, a thumbs up from Matthew. | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
Let me ask you for your verdict, you have seen plenty of the Olympic | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
Games between you. Did you dare to think it could be this good? Nobody | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
could have written this script, that things would go so remarkably | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
well. I am so proud of the job we have done on every level, everyone | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
has raised their game, from volunteer, to elite performer. This | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
will go down in history for me, I will sleep well. We started from | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
the opening ceremony where you had a special role you had to keep | :48:08. | :48:16. | |
under wraps. Very special. I wasn't actually the one who lit the | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
cauldron but bringing it into the stadium was very special for me. | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
That moment was remarkable. What the Olympic bid has been about his | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
passing it on to the next generation which is what Seb Coe | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
wanted, passing it on to the 7th athletes. What wasn't caught on | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
film, the moment they came back to ask when I lit -- when they lit the | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
cauldron. The pressure had been taken away from them. They had been | :48:47. | :48:56. | |
nervous about making mistakes. They knew a week in advance. My normally | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
had told his parents, watch the opening ceremony but am not allowed | :49:01. | :49:10. | |
to tell you. Ben Ainslie, it hasn't just been London's Olympics, you | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
have been showcasing Weymouth, how has that worked as an Olympic | :49:14. | :49:23. | |
venue? It was a great part of the country. The Olympic torch, passing | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
around the whole nation before the Games, helped the build up. I was | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
:49:39. | :49:42. | ||
in plans end, the atmosphere. -- in Land's End. The volunteers were a | :49:42. | :49:49. | |
huge part of the Games, getting the atmosphere right. It turned it into | :49:50. | :49:56. | |
a great Games. You have a special role in the closing ceremony. | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
get the honour of carrying the flag, leading the team back out. A huge | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
moment for everybody. We should be so proud of what we have achieved | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
as a nation, the team has done fantastically well. For everyone | :50:11. | :50:20. | |
involved, the Games has been a huge achievement. I wonder, we all | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
really have to think about how to build on this moment, it would be a | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
crying shame if we look back, and then it evaporates. | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
We need a moment to take stock of what we have achieved, we have set | :50:35. | :50:43. | |
records. But, careful planning is needed about how weak the continued | :50:43. | :50:50. | |
this momentum, to build on sport. We cannot lose this momentum, we | :50:50. | :50:58. | |
need to think how we fund, and where the emphasis is. We had an | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
announcement on this, but it is only two years. The general public | :51:03. | :51:09. | |
have enjoyed this Games, a huge spirit of following Team GB through | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
their success. It is quite expensive, supporting a team at top | :51:15. | :51:23. | |
level. But, the feel-good factor it is amazing, smiles on faces, | :51:23. | :51:30. | |
motivating youngsters. It is money well spent. We don't have to spend | :51:30. | :51:38. | |
as much, but it is important we keep supporting our top athletes | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
and bringing youngsters through. In terms of the trickle-down, to | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
leading healthier and more active lives. The figures on participation | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
in sport among young people, it is going down overall. You would hope | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
an event like this will help turn that around. We can't ask for a | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
better inspiration for the youngsters in school, looking for | :52:02. | :52:09. | |
something to do. They can see that these sports are accessible. Some | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
are more accessible than others. sport, sailing, it is a great | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
example. Some think it is elitist and expensive, but at grassroots | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
level, it is easy to get into, you don't even need to live by the sea. | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
The Olympics has brought this realisation that it is accessible. | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
It is a culture change we have to address, parents, children, | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
teachers. Mo Farah said, if you want to achieve something, it is | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
simple, dedication and commitment. But the key word is funding. This | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
Olympics has brought it home we can do really good things. We need to | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
inspire the kids to start over again. Nutrition, exercise. Those | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
who want to achieve in sport, the pathway is set. They can do it. | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
What has inspired me is the sheer hard work that goes into the | :53:11. | :53:16. | |
achievement. Thank you for being with us. Ben | :53:16. | :53:23. | |
Ainslie, we will be watching tonight. | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
:53:33. | :53:34. | ||
The Steve Redgrave, we will be talking about rowing later. | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
We haven't shown any rowing yet. Four gold medals. And tears are | :53:42. | :53:52. | |
:53:52. | :54:04. | ||
Olympic champions, it couldn't go to two more worthy winners. | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
A steely look of determination, a bronze medal for Britain. | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
This is going to the wire. Were the silver medal for Great Britain. It | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
was a valiant effort from the British four. | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
The British crew of pushing on hard. Great Britain, a well deserved | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
bronze medal. Let us do this, let us finish the | :54:30. | :54:40. | |
:54:40. | :54:48. | ||
story. Grainger and Anna Watkins. | :54:49. | :54:58. | |
:54:59. | :54:59. | ||
Campbell, on the line, getting the Olympic champions in the men's four, | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
we have done it, and we have done it in style. | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
Hold on now, girls. And it is yours. They are the Olympic champions. | :55:13. | :55:16. | |
It is Great Britain for the silver medal. | :55:16. | :55:24. | |
A remarkable few days at Eton Dorney, you must have been | :55:24. | :55:30. | |
delighted. You didn't quite think we would do so now. What were your | :55:30. | :55:40. | |
:55:40. | :55:45. | ||
projections? I had said, seven medals, three or four gold medals. | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
We had some outside hopes as well. One of them came in, with the | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
lightweight women's double. For let us look at the medal table | :55:55. | :56:05. | |
:56:05. | :56:14. | ||
One of my old boats. I have been through most of the rowing | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
:56:24. | :56:25. | ||
categories in my time. The coppers four -- coxless four. That was | :56:25. | :56:35. | |
:56:35. | :56:41. | ||
Grainger and Watkins. They really deserved it. A great story, the | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
effort and commitment. They could have easily have walked away. | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
Katherine Grainger decided she would put her neck on the line | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
again, another are four years of hard work towards it and it has | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
paid off. A story of real perseverance. | :56:57. | :57:04. | |
The overall, these were the Games where we saw British women rowers | :57:04. | :57:09. | |
strike gold. Definitely. It was looking doubtful | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
at one stage that the men would win a gold medal of any sort. Paul | :57:14. | :57:22. | |
thompson, the women's chief coach, has come up trumps. Women's rowing | :57:22. | :57:28. | |
was introduced into the Olympics in 1970 six. We got our first medal in | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
Sydney, with Katherine Grainger in the quadruple sculls, a fantastic | :57:33. | :57:43. | |
:57:43. | :57:43. | ||
result. We hoped that would go on. Three in one go. Really special. | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
There has been more effort made in women's rowing? I do not think you | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
can say there has been more effort put in over the last four years, it | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
is just that they have had the capability of doing it four years | :57:57. | :58:03. | |
ago and it didn't happen. Of the whole of the printing, they are | :58:03. | :58:12. | |
looking to improve all the time. Helen Glover? She was part of the | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
sporting chance programme which I lodged. We were looking for girls | :58:16. | :58:24. | |
over 5 ft 11, meant over 6 ft 3. She came through that scheme. She | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
watched the Games and thought, why can't I do that in four years? I | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
have had e-mails from parents and children saying, I am told, can I | :58:34. | :58:42. | |
be part of it? This is what sport, all the different federations in | :58:42. | :58:49. | |
the UK, will be relaunching, talent identification. Rowing may think it | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
is harder to have a go. It is seen as elitist, but forever there is | :58:54. | :59:01. | |
water, a lake or canal, there will be a rowing club of some sort. | :59:01. | :59:07. | |
A great week for our rowers. Overall, British swimmers didn't | :59:07. | :59:13. | |
have such a fantastic Games. Ian Thorpe has been with us. This | :59:13. | :59:23. | |
:59:23. | :59:28. | ||
Hello. I have only just started. People have been so kind to me | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
while I have been in the UK. I have offered everyone a free swimming | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
lesson this morning. A lot of people have come by and I am about | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
to start off doing that right now. A lucky them to get some swimming | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
tips from you. I know that we work to fairly hard as a commentator. | :59:45. | :59:49. | |
You told me that you work harder than as a good editor! What stood | :59:49. | :59:57. | |
out for you when you watched all of that happening? My favourite moment | :59:57. | :00:07. | |
:00:07. | :00:08. | ||
during the Games was Chad Le Clos's father, his reaction to his son's | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
performance. I related to that because it is not just one afraid | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
performing. There are a lot of people behind the athlete, | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
supporting them. We saw all of that. Chad Le Clos was one of the gold | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
medallist at these Games. For so many other swimmers it did not go | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
according to plan. You Australian team and experienced that at the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
British swimmers did as well. Is there something going wrong in | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
nations that have traditionally been good at swimming? Look, I can | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
talk more directly about the Australian programme than the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
British programme. I actually think we have one of the best programmes | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
in place that we have ever had. I think we were just unfortunate that | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
we did not get the medals that we expected to win. When I look at the | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
British programme and the improvements that have happened | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
over the course of the last three years, I think there has been an | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
improvement. It is just that the rest of the world moved faster than | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
the British team. I know there will be inquiries into both of those | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
programmes. Literally I think we have got to the point where world | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
swimming has become more difficult than any of us had ever anticipated. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
You are there as part of your own legacy effort. Can you still hear | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
me? How important do you think it is for there to be more of a | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
connection between what happens in the elite sport and what happens at | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
a swimming pool like the one you are at now? Look, it is important. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
I think the Olympics should be offering more than just every four | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
years. I wanted to do this and I did it quite randomly. I wanted to | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
come and do something and connect with people that enjoy swimming, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
simple as that. I think lots of athletes are willing to do | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
something like that on a national teams. A connection needs to be | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
made between the elite level and participation in sport. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Have a lovely morning. Lucky people getting swimming tips from you. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Thank you very much. Thank you. Goodbye. | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
He has become a much-loved member of the BBC team! A fantastic effort | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
overall. One person who has been to almost as many Olympic venues as | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Prince William and Steve Redgrave, the BBC's Clare Balding. We will | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
hear from her in just a moment because she has been seen at more | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
than one Olympic venue. She has done the rounds and she has | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
gathered many fans along the way. Before we hear from her, let's hear | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
:02:59. | :03:03. | ||
I grew up in the area. I really just wanted to be involved in the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Games. Being a volunteer was one way that I could get involved. It | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
has been brilliant to see the public's reaction to the Games and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
especially to the volunteers. I guess in a way, the volunteers have | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
been so crucial to make this such a successful Games. Sometimes it | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
might not then be the most glamorous job, it might not be in | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
trouble at all times, it might be hard work. But the benefits of it | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
are huge. The people in England love sport and you can see how they | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
support it. They are nice with us. They asked for people that could | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
speak Spanish and English to help them communicate better with the | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Spanish team. They are telling us we are the best volunteers that | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
they have had! For this we are here. I am from the University of Antwerp | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
doing computer science. If there were any problems relating to IT | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
equipment in the venue, they report them to us. That is where I am | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
staying. I have enjoyed myself. It has been a great atmosphere. Just | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
great. I was born and brought up in the area and I know it really well. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Stratford has been quite deprived and I have seen a lot of investment | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
going in. I wanted to see what it was all about and actively take | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
part. I think that knowing that I have helped in my small role here | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
has helped give everyone a positive view of Britain. People are coming | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
from outside London with preconceived ideas. Everybody is | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
warm and friendly and that is really nice to see. I have never | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
done any kind of volunteering before in my life. I love sport and | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
I love the internet. It is a great opportunity to meet people and make | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
friends. I find nothing but smiles when you wear the uniform. I | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
started conversations that in my experience you would not normally | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
have in London. It has inspired me to be more involved in volunteering | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
and helping other people. You had an image in your head of what it | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
was going to be light, but it has definitely beaten that. Everybody | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
is so positive. I have met some fabulous people. I think I have | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
made friends for life and we have inspired each other and kept each | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
other going on long shifts. Some wonderful people. People from all | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
different backgrounds. It has been great. Even the athletes are | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
telling us what a wonderful job we have been doing so it picks you up. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
I am proud of how well everything has gone and how wonderful | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
everybody has felt the Olympics have been. And they have done a | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
wonderful job. It will be one of the very special memories of these | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Games. Clare Balding is in the Olympic Park this morning with some | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
of those who have made the Games so special. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
They really have. It is one of the triumph of the Games. They were not | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
just volunteers. They were games makers because they have made the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Games. Some of them have been camping and some of them have had | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
very long journeys and some of them are going back to work next week. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
When are you going back? I have a week off, which will be good. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Driving back tomorrow and back to work on Tuesday. Back to the Isle | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
of Wight for Tuesday. Back to Scotland tomorrow and back to work | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
on Tuesday. What has it been like for you? What has been your | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
favourite experience? I favoured experience is meeting people from | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
different countries and being able to help them. -- my favourite | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
experience. Have you enjoyed it? Yes. Will you wear those uniforms | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
again? No? They are lovely but they are strange to go out in! These | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
children are from Elwood junior school. What are you going to see? | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
The handball. Fantastic. When you go back to school, what would be | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the one thing if you could improve your school experience, what would | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
you do? Be more involved in sport so that in the future we can be | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
Great Britain's stars. Who have you seen that you want to be like? | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Probably Usain Bolt, running. I know that he tried his best so I | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
would probably try my best if I was a fast runner. I just want to be | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
fast like him. Just Usain Bolt? Do it? Like it! You are watching the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
modern pentathlon, so we will see you later. I would also like to say | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
a big thank you to the police, who have been immense. They were | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
brilliant throughout the torch relay and they have been brilliant | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
here as well. You must feel that as an operation you have been able to | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
enjoy it. Thoroughly. I have worked inside the ground and outside. It | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
is great to see all of the people coming together, enjoying it. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
all the people loving you, high- fives, patting the horses. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Fantastic atmosphere, everybody else is happy so we are happy. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
NHS ambulance service has been here as well. Hopefully you have not had | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
to do too much. Not too much. know that you are always there and | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
always ready but we have nobody has needed you. Ready and waiting. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
of the main problems has probably been the heat. We did not expect | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
fantastic weather. Luckily there has been a lot of water provided so | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
it has not been too bad. The Air Force and the Navy and the army | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
have also been involved. They have made London 2012 really special. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
All of us have felt that it has been good. Have we? Fantastic! | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
have lost track of how many venues I have seen you at over the last | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
fortnight. Which was your favourite? Gosh. Genuinely, all of | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
them have had something very different. I love going to | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Greenwich for three days. It felt like going to another country for a | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
while. It was much quieter. And huge respect from the crowd to the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
performers. In Greenwich, with the horses, tried to be quiet when | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
things were in action. If I picked one, it would be Hyde Park for the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
open-water swimming, one of the three venues. Walking out of the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
park afterwards, people having picnics, it was so special and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
relaxed. You remember how beautiful London is and how it has these | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
great big spaces. The Olympic Park is now one of them. The trees and | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the planting and the wild flowers and the canal. I just think this is | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
now really magical place. Thank you very much. Enjoy the rest | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
of the day. This is our last chance to soak up the atmosphere at the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Olympic Park before the closing ceremony. Steve, so many great | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
moments. They said at the start but they wanted great British moment | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
but we have had more than that. You can see how great Usain Bolt is and | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
wherever you are from, you can enjoy those moments. Absolutely and | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
that is what the Games of all about. Respect to the games makers, the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
volunteers, making and breaking the Games. The forces have been | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
fantastic. The crowds have really made it. Being in the stadium last | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
night, out at the rowing venue, and Weymouth, I have been to lots of | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
the venues and it has been the crowds and the enthusiasm. That has | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
really rubbed off on the athletes and they have always commented it | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
has been wonderful. This will be the last time we see the Games in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
our lifetime, but the IOC are saying let's bid again! The | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Government think it will cost too much, but that is a great credit to | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
the whole of the Games. Seb Coe and LOCOG have done a wonderful job and | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
without the athletes we do not have anything to showcase. It has gone | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
off so well logistically and safely, which was a worry at the start. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
the Paralympics still to come. Obviously and we will talk about | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
that later. Still lots to look forward to as the summer goes on. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Thank you. Just behind us in the stadium they | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
are gearing up for the closing ceremony tonight. The athletics are | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
over and the preparations are under way for the closing ceremony. If it | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
is anything like the opening effort, we are in for a treat. What we saw | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
in the stadium last night from our new double Olympic champion was | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
:11:17. | :11:39. | ||
This is his stage. It is his crowd. The men's 5,000m final. The plan | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
will be to gauge it and work it from here. Next time he commits it | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
will have to be for real. There are no second chances. He does not want | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
:11:58. | :11:59. | ||
to lose that position. He needs to the best way to hold the position | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
is to get to the front. This is positioning. This is putting | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
himself in a place where nobody can cut in front of him. He has got the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
lead when he wants it, with 600 to go. Now the feet start to go down, | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
:12:23. | :12:29. | ||
let's hold this. Words exchanged. He has to run his own race. The | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
bell will sound in 100m. He has got to be very careful that he does not | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
let anybody get ahead of him. He wants to hold that place. He is | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
doing it right. He is holding the position on the inside. There will | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
be a fearsome last lap but Mo will go for it. He is into the medal | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
position. He is running strongly. He is running perfectly well. He | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
has got a chance now but he is going to try and steal it. It is | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
coming up over his shoulder. The 1,500m man is in third place. He is | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
trying to get there. They still have all got chances. Holding the | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
inside curve. The crowd on their feet. They are calling him home. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
The big kick has started. He looks dangerous in third. Gritting his | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
teeth now. They have got to pump the knees. He has got to find | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
something extra. Come on, Mo Farah! Come on! I think he is going to get | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
there! He is going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain! The | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
:13:50. | :14:02. | ||
place erupts! He is the double that? That was just the moment in | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
the history of British athletics. The double Olympic champion. 10,000 | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
:14:17. | :14:19. | ||
and now 5,000m. He must be bursting I am delighted to say that he is | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
with us in the studio. Mo Farah, congratulations. How does it feel | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
to have both those gold medals weighing you down? It is an | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
unbelievable feeling. The Olympics do not come round often, especially | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
not in your home town. As an athlete he dreamed of becoming an | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Olympic champion, but for me, becoming an Olympic champion twice | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
is unbelievable. You gave us some fantastic moments. Thank you. I was | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
lucky enough to be there in the stadium when you were running and I | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
could feel something that is difficult to get across on | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
television. How much did the crowd They make a big difference. 80,000 | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
people cheering your name, getting louder and louder, the best feeling | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
ever. It's like being at a football game. I think better than that, | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
actually, for many of us. Had you planned the way you are going to do | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
it because you pulled back and you were right at the back at the start | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
of it? Yes, my aim was to use my speed at the end and I thought the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
race would be faster. I thought they would have done some of the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
work to try to get rid of me early on. I wanted to save as much energy | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
as possible and come through at the end. And go hard on the last lap. | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
You had the danger it might not have gone according to plan it you | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
had been boxed in it. Were you worried about that? Yes, I didn't | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
want to be boxed in. I came close to getting boxed in because I was | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
on the inside line and a lot of guys try to come past me. I had to | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
fight and not let anybody come in and it just opened up and I came to | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
the home straight and it got louder and louder. The last two laps, you | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
really took it away. You knew you still have it in you to do that? | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
Yes, the crowd were getting louder, but it when I kick, make sure I got | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
enough of a gap and hold onto it. To the guys have a strong finish. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
It's quite a scrum but are you conscious of where your main rivals | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
are in relation to you? Yes, you see what's going on but try to | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
concentrate and look at the corner of your life. When you make a move, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
everybody was watching me so played in my favour. -- corn of your eyes. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
I could dictate the race and was an amazing feeling to do that. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
much have you watched it back yet? With my family last night, I | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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that point but you knew who was gaining upon you and you could not | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
let up at this point? Yes, I was always told by my coat to try to | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
sprint like a sprinter rather than long strides. -- coach. Also, this | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
has been the most extraordinary eight days for you because first | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
you ran the 10,000 metres and then you had to run the whole of the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
5,000 metres to get into the final. Some people were worried about you | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
at the end of that thinking you I was tired, to be honest with you. | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
I was tired in the heats, but I hope to the guys would do something | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
to suit my race and it would work well but I was tired. Each day we | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
had a day of rest and I got fresher. If it wasn't for my medical team, | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
Barry, Neil Black, for the whole medical team, help me recover, I | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
spots and the rest of the stuff, I don't think I would have recovered | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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He also had the support of your family and wife and daughter. | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
was beautiful see my wife and daughter at the track. Once I had | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
won gold medal, I thought my wife is having twins and no wonder they | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
get a second one otherwise the second one would feel left out. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
You're about to become a parent of twins. I'm looking forward to it. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Last night I had to think about it even more. There is going to be two | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
more. As a parent of twins, you need to conserve your energy. What | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
about your overall journey because we really did have hopes for you | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
but you have exceeded everything we could possibly have imagined. How | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
tough has it been for you? How much hard work has gone into those gold | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
medals? A lot of grafting, to be honest with you 4th in Beijing, I | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
didn't even make the final. I was disappointed. And there I had to | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
move forward. Recover and get into my running again. Last year I made | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
a big decision to be coached by Alberto so we moved everybody to | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
the USA. It wasn't easy. A double European champion at that time so | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
people were thinking, Mo, why are you going away? I knew something | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
needed to change. My old coach has done great stuff for me. If it | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
wasn't for him I would not be at that level. It was a decision in | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
your career, you have to make, and it was one of the hardest decisions | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
balls of I'm glad I made it. It just shows you it worked. A lot of | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
miles have gone into these legs. There must have been many times | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
when you are printed your whole family. You told your wife you need | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
to move to the USA. Yes, there were times when you're down, but we had | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
great help from Alberto and my team in Oregon, so there was great | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
supporter. I'm used to living here and I want see my friends and | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
family and have a laugh and go out for coffee and watch a football | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
match. And then on the other side of the world, so it's hard. But | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
that's what it takes. When you get a gold medal, it's well worth it. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
What you put into it, being away from my family, my daughter, my | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
wife, sometimes almost two months, it's not easy. There are no short | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
cuts, are there? Just hard work. For the children at the, it's | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
possible. As a child, I'd love to play football but since then, I got | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
into athletics and it's been hard work to get better and better. And | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
to try to keep improving. You can get there. Of course, now be | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
anything you try to do in the future, going to a football match, | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
popping out to the supermarket, you're now one of the most of | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
recognisable people in the country. Do you feel your life has changed | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
entirely in the course of this fortnight? A little bit. This great | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
support from everybody when I'm walking around, people wanting | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
autographs and that's what the sport needs. It's nice to have that | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
because we never had that a moment like this. I remember Steve Ovett, | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Steve Cram, that was the era when they had the record. It is coming | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
back balls and I believe myself, people want to do what I can do. We | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
can change that mentality. In the past, we could never challenge the | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Africans. The Kenyan guys were just so good. But we can challenge it | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
but it's hard work. You learn from the best and that's what I did. | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
proved it. Now you're a celebrity and we all know about the Mobot, | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
which has some high-profile fans in the stadium. Let's have a look at | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
this. We saw you doing the Mobot at the end. I tell Mo I was going to | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
:22:34. | :22:34. | ||
do it. Yeah, boys. That was his tribute to you. It was awesome. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
When he crossed the line and did the Mobot, it was unbelievable. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
That's all the sport knees, to have a laugh but at the same time, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
training hard. -- sport needs. People will learn lessons about | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
perseverance and hard work from all of you, but do you hope children | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
are thinking, I want to be the next Mo Farah? I hope so, because I used | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
to love football and I wanted to be a footballer but now, you know, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
having the Olympics in London, I think it's going to change people's | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
lives and people will get into more sport, running, and I hope we can | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
change the way we think. To be Olympic champion, it didn't come | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
overnight. It's something I trained so hard for. I have had ups and | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
downs in my career as with injuries. That's what makes it more tasty. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
must make it even more valuable and knowing you have earned it in that | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
way. You mentioned Brendan Foster and of course he was watching every | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
step of the way. He is down at The Mall this morning so what would you | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
like to say to Mo? He's an absolute privilege to watch you run. I | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
remember in Beijing, when he stepped off the track and not | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
qualifying for the final, I know he was depressed, but we knew he had | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
the ability and the thing about Mo, nobody has worked harder, made more | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
sacrifices, and when I see you next week, I want to autograph. You're | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
now my hero! That is one autograph you can't forget. Is that a | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
promise? Do yes, I will give him one. I would do the Mobot. Can you | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
do the Mobot now? I'm not flexible enough! Come on, Brendan. | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
Which was your favourite of the races from a Mo? Before we started | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
last night, I said Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium, every | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Saturday night we come here, Mo wins a gold medal, so I wonder what | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
you will do next Saturday night? Arsenal are playing. I knew you | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
would say that. I have seen me play football. You are better at | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
athletics and football, Mo. It was a good call, leaving football. | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Thank you very much. Going forward, were there are times, thinking back | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
to Beijing for a moment, when you didn't get into the final, did you | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
think it wasn't meant to be? Yes, there was a time when I thought, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
not making the final is a big disappointment and I was so down | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
and coming back, the following year, I was 7th for the World | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Championships, and I thought, and I ever going to be able to mix in | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
with these guys? I just thought, just give me one medal, as a joke, | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
to my friends. I wasn't training very hard. I wasn't doing training | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
in the gym, ice baths, recovery, sleeping in the afternoon. You have | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
got to do all of those things for that everything just came together | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
for me. What did Alberto's sellers are two differently with you? | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
always had the talent but never had the right tactics. Mentally, it's | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
been different, as well as physically. He gave me more belief | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
in myself to be strong. But, you know, I'm not running a lot quicker | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
than I was running before, but, at the same time, I'm a winning races. | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Q train with one of your competitors in both of those events, | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
so does that help? It's a bit like using bold training with James | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
Blake. All the way along, you are reminded of who you have to beat. | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
We are friends, having a laugh, and in the race, our plan was, if the | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
race was too slow, we would come to the front and stay there, and we | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
would be one and two so if people want to go around us, they could go | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
around us. He is my team-mate. We work together. And then every man | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
for himself on the last lap. Does it raise your game in training | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
because you are reminded how good you have to be? You just enjoy it. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Long-distance is a lonely event. You put in at 20 mile runs on | :27:27. | :27:36. | |
Sundays. You share the workload. It works well for the now you have had | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
two moments on the podium, at the top of the podium, fantastic | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
moments of for everyone in the stadium, to watch you. What does it | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
mean to you? You were not born in this country. You have made this | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
country your home. It's amazing for that I came from Somalia to the UK | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
and this is where I grew up and went to school, university, and | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
this is my whole life, but, you know, at the time you don't think | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
that because I was at school, when I was all right but I was a little | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
kid, running around, I've always loved sport. But a comeback years | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
later on, to be double Olympic champion, you know, to be on a | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
podium, it's the best thing. There's no words to describe it. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
All the work, the sacrifice is, the things you put into it is | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
unbelievable for that it did you have a hard time when you came to | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
this country because you couldn't speak English? Yes, I learnt quick. | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
As a child, you pick it up. I had a hard time but I got through it. I | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
just loved sport and associated with it. Athletics has helped me. | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
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How much did it help you? It helps your lot, talking to other good, | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
good in two different countries balls that I'm lucky I can travel | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
all around the world because of my athletics. A lot of people would | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
love to do that. It's something you take for granted. Also I have set | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
up the Mo Farah Foundation to help children and people in Africa | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
particularly. It will make a big difference so me and my wife have | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
set it up. 1st September, we will have a massive auction. We will | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
have Steve Redgrave and a lot more people, Paula Radcliffe, Steve | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
Cram,... I think you can guarantee a good turnout now. Hopefully. | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
September will be a big month for you. Yes, they will be hanging this | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
around their necks, the babies. Clearly, you have had a fantastic | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
Olympic Games personally, but as you look around at these venues | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
which are about to empty until the Paralympics, how would you rate | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
what has happened? Who would have thought London would be able to put | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
this together? You have a dream and you go to other Olympics, but this | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
is the best thing. The opening ceremony was amazing, and people | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
just turning out, athletics sold out every time, unbelievable, | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
people cheering, and who would have thought? But it didn't put any | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
comes around every four years and will only happen once in London. | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
The crowd, the atmosphere, I hope we can hold on to the stadium. And | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
have a legacy. That's what we all hope, somehow. Congratulations, | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
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it's been a privilege to speak to Get some sleep as well before the | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
twins are born. I will! I will get some sleeping tablets! Mo Farah, | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
double gold medallist, fantastic. Those were two of the four gold | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
medals at the athletics stadium. We had five at Eton Dorney, seven at | :31:05. | :31:15. | |
:31:15. | :31:42. | ||
the Velodrome, and also the Zara Phillips! Absolutely screaming | :31:43. | :31:52. | |
:31:53. | :31:55. | ||
out of the arena. Over the last! It is silver for Great Britain! | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Greenwich has already given us so much and it is going to give us | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
more on the team showjumping day. It is going to be a jump-off for | :32:03. | :32:13. | |
:32:13. | :32:22. | ||
the gold medal. # I like the way This could be the first... Yes! | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
Britain have got gold. Will they be here to see Britain win their first | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
ever dressage medal? This is gold about to happen. She has made it! | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
:32:45. | :32:50. | ||
She has made history. Could it be British magic as we come to the | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
first? That is one of the best I have ever seen from a British rider. | :32:57. | :33:05. | |
She is going for gold. She has done it in style! Britain has got | :33:05. | :33:14. | |
Some of the fantastic equestrian moments that we will remember from | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
London 2012. Clare Balding was in Greenwich watching many of them as | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
she is in the Olympic Park now. A more peaceful spot than where we | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
:33:32. | :33:32. | ||
saw do a moment ago. Which is your particular the highlight? -- | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
particular highlight? I think that the gold medals came from a range | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
of backgrounds. The connection the athletes have made with their | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
horses and the way they have spoken about their sport, they have done | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
something special. They have reached out to think that riding | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
horses is for rich people, they have broken through that lazy | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
assumption. Sebastian Coe brought the events back into the centre of | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
the Games, bringing them to Greenwich, having them very close. | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
At Beijing I was on a four hour flight away for the equestrian | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
events and it was in danger of being dropped off the programme | :34:10. | :34:18. | |
altogether. Seb Coe and everyone at LOCOG tried really hard to be in | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
the centre of London and to leave something here. There is a riding | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
club called Ebony near Greenwich, which is designed to help children | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
from urban backgrounds to connect with horses and help them feel that | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
huge pleasure of learning to ride and have a massive three quarter of | :34:35. | :34:43. | |
a tired horse do what you tell it to do. Children were telling me | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
that the dancing horses were beautiful and I think there is an | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
aesthetic beauty as well to the equestrian sports. Sometimes you | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
can test sport as to whether it ticks the aesthetic box, do you | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
want to see it in slow motion? Yes, you do. It was absolutely stunning | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
as well as being hugely successful for our team. And we learn so much | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
about the different events during the Games. De Sade was a revelation, | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
not just the medals, but how they managed to produce something so | :35:11. | :35:18. | |
beautiful. -- dressage. And seeing the horses respond to the music and | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
choreography. That is something the Olympic Park has given us. Looking | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
at the artistic effort that has gone into this, as the flames go | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
out tonight, this flower looks just like an Olympic Flame. It is part | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
of the reason why this garden was designed the way that it is. The | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
Paralympics start on 29th August and there will be new flowers that | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
come out by then. A timely reminder, thank you. We are effectively only | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
halfway through London's Games because the Paralympics will pick | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
up the baton at the end of the month. Comprehensive coverage on | :35:53. | :36:01. | |
that on BBC Sport and on 5 Live. That will be led by John Inverdale | :36:01. | :36:11. | |
:36:11. | :36:11. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds | :36:11. | :37:38. | |
and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. That 29th August, that is when the | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games will start, marking the start | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
of that. Not long to go to get more of the excitement. We will be | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
talking to Tanni Grey-Thompson about what we can expect from the | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
Paralympics wants it all happens. The first part of this sporting | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
summer at the Olympic Park is over and haven't we had a fantastic | :37:57. | :38:07. | |
:38:07. | :38:07. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds | :38:07. | :39:28. | |
Well, we all hope for a fantastic Olympics but I don't think any of | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
us imagined that this is how the medal table would look. Great | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
Britain in third place with 28 gold medals, 15 silver and 19 bronze | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
medals. 62 medals in total. We were in 4th place at Beijing with 19 | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
gold medals and there is still a chance of more medals today because | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
live sport is still under way, and that will be the case right up | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
until the closing ceremony. The next bit of live sport on BBC One | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
will be the men's marathon, which is just about to start at The Mall. | :39:59. | :40:06. | |
Women should the Paralympics a moment ago. The opening ceremony is | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
on 29th August. -- we mentioned the Paralympics a moment ago. You have | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
got to imagine that there will be a big boost for the Paralympics from | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
what we have seen already? Ticket sales have taken off. They were | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
already going well. This was always going to be the best-attended | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
Paralympic Games ever but in the last 10 days it is suddenly very | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
hard to get a ticket for lots of the events. The same venues will be | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
used. The Aquatics Centre will be used for the swimming, with Ellie | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
Simmonds one of the big stars of that. The Olympic Stadium itself | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
for all the athletics, with David Weir, the fantastic wheelchair race | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
over a number of distances. He could win three or even four medals. | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
Wheelchair rugby is fantastic to watch. Cycling will happen in the | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
Velodrome as well. Sara's story will be the flagbearer there. We | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
have a great chance of winning medals. I hope that people will be | :41:03. | :41:11. | |
listening to the Paralympics on Radio 5 Live and tuning in to watch | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
it on television. The thing is, Great Britain has a good chance of | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
winning medals on every day. A friend of mine asked me what to | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
watch and I said pretty much anything. China will top the table. | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
Ukraine always do very well in terms of gold medals. The USA not | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
so much. It is strange. America has not really embraced the Paralympic | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
movement yet. The exciting thing for me about the Paralympic Games | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
being staged here is it is coming back to the place where it was | :41:39. | :41:46. | |
invented. There is a very good drama, up on the man who invented | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
this, getting injured servicemen to play sport as part of their | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
rehabilitation. That is well worth watching to understand where the | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
Paralympic Games came from. And in tribute to that, that is why one of | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
the mascots is called Van de Velde, because it was in Stoke Mandeville. | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
-- is called Mandeville. I think the big fear is that after the | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
Paralympic Games and on 9th September, by which time children | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
will be going back to school, it is what everybody else does then. In | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
Australia I remember hearing couples talking to each other, | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
saying what do we do now? I think we have become so excited and | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
interested in people, their stories, watching them achieve in the | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
different sports, that it is lovely to get another chance to do that. | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
From my point of view, I think the Paralympics is something incredibly | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
special. It changes the way people think and the way that they feel. | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
It is really powerful. It is just great to see these venues in use | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
for a few weeks longer. Absolutely. At the end of the Paralympic Games | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
this will be called the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and it will | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
be open, a public park. It is such a beautiful place to come. Even | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
though there are thousands of people here, I have managed to find | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
a lovely wild spot by the canal with the wild flowers nearby and it | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
is just gorgeous. By the Velodrome, my word, the tree planting by the | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
lawns is sensational. We will see a lot more of it on television during | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
the Paralympics. Thank you very much. And their key to all of our | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
guests. We have just about run out of time. -- thank you to all of our | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
guests. There is plenty more to enjoy today with gold medal hopes | :43:34. | :43:38. |