BBC One: Day 16: 10.50-13.20

:00:24. > :00:28.Good morning and welcome to the final straight of the London 2012

:00:28. > :00:32.Games. The morning after Tom's reverse triple, Mo's historic

:00:32. > :00:41.double, and Usain's double triple. As far as the athletes pushing

:00:41. > :00:44.themselves today are concered, it's a marathon not a sprint. Mind you,

:00:44. > :00:51.judging by the calibre of some of these lads, they won't be hanging

:00:51. > :00:56.around. Put Kenyans are so strong, they could leave the world record

:00:56. > :00:59.holder at home. Could Team GB have a golden ending to the 2012 Games?

:00:59. > :01:02.World champion Mhairi Spence and Samantha Murray have a tough day in

:01:02. > :01:09.the Modern Pentathlon. We'll keep you up to date with their progress

:01:09. > :01:16.throughout the day. We have an afternoon of boxing finals for you.

:01:16. > :01:18.Fred Evans is in the final of the Welterweight competition at 2.15pm.

:01:18. > :01:28.And an hour later, Anthony Joshua takes on defending champion Roberto

:01:28. > :01:32.

:01:32. > :01:38.Can you believe it? In around 12 hours time, that beautiful flame

:01:38. > :01:44.will be extinguished and the Games will be brought to a close. We'll

:01:44. > :01:50.be looking back at a wonderful 16 days at 7:30pm, ahead of the

:01:50. > :01:53.closing ceremony which begins at 9pm. Before that, the Olympic

:01:53. > :02:01.marathon today returns to the streets that set its distance, in

:02:01. > :02:04.1908, at the first London Games. The marathon started at Windsor

:02:04. > :02:10.Castle and ran past the royal box in the stadium, a distance of 26

:02:10. > :02:14.miles and 385 years. -- yards. So who do you look out for? Well, in

:02:14. > :02:18.the run up to these Games, 278 kenyan men clocked the A time for

:02:18. > :02:23.qualification. Absolutely incredible. Tanni Grey Thompson is

:02:23. > :02:27.at The Mall to give us an idea of the three athletes are a made it

:02:27. > :02:37.out of that extraordinary statistic. The the absolutely amazing, isn't

:02:37. > :02:38.

:02:38. > :02:42.it? The three guys who have made it reckon at the Olympic record at

:02:42. > :02:47.least will go today. It shows the strength but the world record

:02:47. > :02:51.holder, who has run up by 206, was left behind. How devastated would

:02:51. > :02:56.you be as a world record holder, still in very good form but you

:02:56. > :03:01.don't make the team at? Do you think a world record will go today

:03:01. > :03:04.because the marathon runners are on form? We've seen three of the

:03:04. > :03:09.fastest times in the world last year. At the weather is very good

:03:09. > :03:13.for the African runners. It's quite warm although the sun keeps

:03:13. > :03:18.disappearing and we get a bit of shade. We have rain predicted at

:03:18. > :03:25.1pm which is hard to see at the moment. But, by then, the hard work

:03:25. > :03:29.will be done. A cooling temperatures won't help some of the

:03:29. > :03:33.guys who preferred to run in cooler conditions. That might be

:03:33. > :03:38.refreshing for them after that bit of running the but what about the

:03:38. > :03:41.terrain? Is it well suited to the African Nations? It's very

:03:41. > :03:48.different from the big city marathons the athletes are used to

:03:48. > :03:54.running. It's a four eight-mile it looks. It's good for the athletes

:03:54. > :03:58.to be aborted test each other out. It's generally quite flat. On big

:03:58. > :04:00.city marathons which go through the streets, it's much harder to pick

:04:00. > :04:06.out people's strengths and weaknesses and I think we could see

:04:06. > :04:11.a race where the real action happens in the second half while

:04:11. > :04:18.everybody is watching what they are doing. OK, we will be back with you

:04:18. > :04:21.shortly. Well. Team GB has two runners today. Lee Merrian and

:04:21. > :04:24.Scott Overall. Scott was the only athlete to make the A time for

:04:24. > :04:28.Great Britain. And finished fifth on this marathon debut last year in

:04:28. > :04:36.Berlin. He was even an usher at Mo Farah's wedding. Here are his

:04:36. > :04:39.thoughts on the big day. It's the pinnacle of our sport. When you

:04:39. > :04:43.start running you may not immediately aspire to be in the

:04:43. > :04:48.then picks but, as time progresses, and you continue to improve, it

:04:48. > :04:54.becomes a reality and you start thinking about it. For me, but last

:04:54. > :04:57.four years since Beijing, I've tried for the 5,000 metres in

:04:57. > :05:04.Beijing and was seven seconds off the qualifying time, so now we have

:05:04. > :05:09.switched it around a little bit and it has paid off.

:05:09. > :05:14.COMMENTATOR: What a great run of four Scott Overall. I have got to

:05:14. > :05:18.make sure I don't get carried away early on in the race. The crowds

:05:18. > :05:22.must not make me go off too fast, I need to keep it under control,

:05:22. > :05:25.impress the crowds, but to be honest, I'm not thinking about a

:05:25. > :05:30.time. It's a championship race and position is more important than

:05:30. > :05:34.time. The course is not the fastest in the world. It will be a tactical

:05:34. > :05:39.race. I don't think the time it will be too important but, for me,

:05:39. > :05:44.a top 10 finish is what I want. I'm going to be working towards that

:05:44. > :05:50.and if I have to run a British record to get that, that will be

:05:50. > :05:54.nice, as well. It's not just the weather which is glorious force at

:05:55. > :05:58.The Mall is the most fantastic start to this men's marathon, so we

:05:58. > :06:08.will go straight over to Brendan Foster and Steve Cram who will talk

:06:08. > :06:14.final athletic event of these Olympic Games. It's been a

:06:14. > :06:20.fantastic couple of weeks and I hope we are going to finish off

:06:20. > :06:23.with a cracking marathon here. The Annika Schleu is looking absolutely

:06:23. > :06:31.glorious in the sunshine this morning. -- The Mall is looking

:06:31. > :06:41.absolutely glorious in the sunshine this morning. We might just get a

:06:41. > :06:41.

:06:41. > :06:43.little splash of rain up later on. This man here Wilson Kipsang

:06:43. > :06:53.Kiprotich one at the London Marathon this year and will be

:06:53. > :06:56.

:06:56. > :07:00.hoping to repeat that. From Ethiopia, Ayele Abshero, one of the

:07:00. > :07:05.strongest competitors. They are not necessarily picking up the

:07:05. > :07:15.favourite but athletes we think will go well. Once were of interest

:07:15. > :07:16.

:07:17. > :07:25.to the crowd, as well. And that will include Scott Overall. Great

:07:25. > :07:32.support. But we are expecting it on the streets and the world champion,

:07:32. > :07:38.he Abel Kirui. The Americans will have very high hopes as well. Brian

:07:38. > :07:46.Hall. Olympic marathon times, and not necessarily going completely

:07:46. > :07:54.out of the window, but it will be as much as many other events in

:07:55. > :07:59.athletics. The Brazilian will be hoping to go well. If you were with

:07:59. > :08:08.us last week, when the whole thing got under way, the women's marathon

:08:08. > :08:12.in very different conditions, we were trying to keep ourselves dry.

:08:12. > :08:22.Very wet conditions. We're expecting something rather

:08:22. > :08:32.

:08:32. > :08:37.marathon. 105 entrants from the 68 countries. A pretty large field for

:08:37. > :08:41.the Olympic marathon which, I'm delighted to see, and you can see,

:08:41. > :08:47.just looking back down The Mall, this is where the London Marathon

:08:47. > :08:52.normally finishes but is also a start point today. Four laps, one

:08:52. > :08:58.short lap, and then three laps of around about eight miles each, for

:08:58. > :09:03.the three big laps. We'll get to see them on four occasions. Coming

:09:03. > :09:08.past us here in The Mall, and the first time around of calls will be

:09:08. > :09:12.for the finish. We had got a grade C two. We have got a teacher to

:09:13. > :09:18.honour. Sun screen at the ready. We are looking forward to a great

:09:18. > :09:24.marathon. We are looking forward to a great marathon. Such an exciting

:09:24. > :09:28.evening last night in the Olympic Stadium. We were talking last night

:09:28. > :09:34.saying what a privilege it was after all those years to watch Mo

:09:34. > :09:38.Farah, double Olympic champion. I talked to him this morning in the

:09:38. > :09:43.studio, and he's agreed to give me his autograph because he's my new

:09:43. > :09:49.hero. I mean that. This is going to be an interesting race because last

:09:49. > :09:53.week we had a beautiful conditions, it was wet, as the runners

:09:53. > :09:57.approached Admiralty Arch. Beautiful conditions for marathon

:09:57. > :10:00.running last week. Today, it's beautiful conditions to be on the

:10:00. > :10:03.streets of London and you can see the crowds are on the streets of

:10:03. > :10:08.London. But not a beautiful conditions to be running on the

:10:08. > :10:13.streets of London. A combination of the most wonderful two weeks of

:10:13. > :10:21.sprawl to this country has ever had. I was think might at last night,

:10:21. > :10:28.80,000 people in the stadium all smiling, because, unlike a big

:10:28. > :10:34.football match, nobody lost or that they were all one when Mo Farah won,

:10:34. > :10:40.and Usain Bolt broke the world record. Great were the food,

:10:40. > :10:44.Jessica, 160,000 people could say they were there. -- Greg Rutherford.

:10:44. > :10:48.London has responded to this marathon like you have never seen

:10:48. > :10:51.anything like it before. If you have been to the Olympic Games, any

:10:52. > :10:55.of the other events, you might as well come out on a nice morning and

:10:55. > :11:03.work around the streets of London like we had to do to get here,

:11:03. > :11:08.Steve. You were not happy with the booking, were you? It wasn't a

:11:08. > :11:13.little walk, it was about half-a- mile. Sunday morning, it's far too

:11:13. > :11:23.long run it. The crowds, when we did occur in a couple of hours ago,

:11:23. > :11:31.

:11:31. > :11:34.it was fairly quiet, but look at there. Many more people out

:11:34. > :11:42.compared to the women's marathon although, admittedly, it was

:11:42. > :11:47.raining on that day. It's great to see, just over two weeks, it has

:11:47. > :11:50.really captured the imagination of the British public. The venues have

:11:50. > :11:55.been well supported and this was always billed, the marathon,

:11:55. > :11:58.triathlon, road cycling, billed as the free events, and people came

:11:58. > :12:01.out in their hundreds of thousands to support these athletes and that

:12:01. > :12:05.gives them something they don't normally get at the Olympic Games,

:12:05. > :12:08.because, in the past, when we talk about this in the next couple of

:12:08. > :12:13.hours, probably, the Olympic marathon has not always had the

:12:13. > :12:18.best people there. It hasn't always been an event that has been

:12:18. > :12:22.targeted but, in recent years, that trend has been turned around again.

:12:22. > :12:28.I think the Olympic marathon, because it in August in London,

:12:28. > :12:33.quite a warm day, to be fair, but the Olympic marathon is attracting

:12:33. > :12:36.the best. Of course, as was said in the introduction, Kenya could only

:12:37. > :12:41.have three. Ethiopia could only have three and they have put their

:12:41. > :12:45.best to deliver their gold medals. That's exactly why we haven't got

:12:45. > :12:49.the best runners in the world. The world record holder is not here

:12:49. > :12:54.because he was not selected by the Kenyan team. The controversial

:12:54. > :12:59.selection. You know when you have got 48 of the top 50 marathon

:12:59. > :13:07.runners in the world, it's not surprising you can't have everybody.

:13:07. > :13:17.Here we are. Coming under Westminster Bridge. A sight so

:13:17. > :13:22.

:13:22. > :13:27.touching its majesty, said William because there is not room. Look at

:13:27. > :13:31.that! They are all taking photographs. They all want to be

:13:31. > :13:35.there. This is the traditional end of the Olympic Games, the men's

:13:35. > :13:40.marathon. Historically this has been the way the Games have

:13:40. > :13:43.finished. Often the event finishes in the stadium. Today it will

:13:43. > :13:52.finish in The Mall. The whole of the British public who wanted to

:13:52. > :13:58.come and see it has been able to. The fans will come to see it and

:13:58. > :14:08.appreciate it and see some of the best runners in the world. Abel

:14:08. > :14:11.

:14:11. > :14:17.Kirui highs the World Champion. -- Abel Kirui as the World Champion.

:14:17. > :14:19.In 1948 when London last held the Olympic Games, marathon started at

:14:20. > :14:26.Wembley Stadium and finish them as well, which used to be the

:14:26. > :14:31.tradition. They went out through Borehamwood and then returned to

:14:31. > :14:37.Wembley. Even in those days, the streets were not lined with as many

:14:37. > :14:40.people as this. They were well supported all around the course.

:14:40. > :14:46.Certainly there were huge crowds around Wembley Stadium and in the

:14:46. > :14:52.stadium, of course. But this is just magnificent. This marathon

:14:52. > :14:57.course contained very much within the city. The Birdcage Walk, which

:14:57. > :15:03.they will head down, familiar part of the London Marathon, of course.

:15:03. > :15:07.Heading back towards Buckingham Palace. We expected big crowds for

:15:07. > :15:11.the Olympic marathon but nothing like this. The great thing is that

:15:11. > :15:18.it is four laps. The runners will appreciate the support. Hopefully

:15:18. > :15:21.they will not get too carried away because they run for 26 miles, and

:15:21. > :15:25.with the roaring of the crowd behind you that is an unusual

:15:25. > :15:30.experience. To be fair, the athletes may respond to it. They

:15:30. > :15:35.don't want to respond too early. The only thing I am concerned about

:15:35. > :15:42.now, it is quite warm. They are going to be running in the midday

:15:42. > :15:46.sun. It will be tough here. It was easier last week for the women's

:15:47. > :15:51.marathon. As a result, I think we are going to see lots of changes in

:15:51. > :15:56.positions. Some people are going to be going well at a certain point

:15:56. > :16:00.and will not keep it going. Abdul Rahman of the United States is

:16:00. > :16:04.trying to encourage the pace along. We watched the track events, men's

:16:04. > :16:10.and women's, and none of them have been excessively quick. They have

:16:10. > :16:14.all been steady in the early stages, gauging their pace. In a marathon,

:16:14. > :16:20.you would expect it to be similar, but you just sense it from here,

:16:20. > :16:29.and we will get some split times... They are role going for bottles of

:16:29. > :16:35.water now, which is absolutely right. -- they are all. There was

:16:35. > :16:38.nervousness when they took their labelled drinks. The Moroccan is

:16:38. > :16:43.just going for bottle of water and I am not surprised. We would expect

:16:43. > :16:53.that to be the case. They do look to me that they are going at an OK

:16:53. > :16:55.

:16:55. > :16:59.place. I am staggered. -- at an OK pace. There are so many people

:16:59. > :17:05.watching. And flags from all over the world being waved. I guess if

:17:05. > :17:10.people have come to the Games and they have been to the athletics,

:17:10. > :17:13.the cycling, the hockey, the equestrian, whatever, and they are

:17:13. > :17:19.still here in this city and they have taken the chance to come and

:17:20. > :17:26.enjoy the very last event, which you do not need a ticket for... And

:17:26. > :17:30.look at it. Fantastic. They are coming into The Mall, the Queen

:17:30. > :17:36.Victoria Memorial, which overlooks it in front of Buckingham Palace.

:17:36. > :17:39.This is absolutely wonderful. You do not get better than this. To win

:17:39. > :17:44.this marathon in this setting, they have already got the traditional,

:17:44. > :17:49.the famous, the wonderful mass participation marathon, the London

:17:49. > :17:52.Marathon, but this is the icing on the cake. Just in front of

:17:52. > :17:57.Buckingham Palace. The red carpet of The Mall leading up to

:17:57. > :18:01.Buckingham Palace. The London Marathon team organised that event

:18:01. > :18:05.so wonderfully in April. They are the main organisers of this, the

:18:05. > :18:09.elite marathon. Easier to organise in some ways, but more difficult in

:18:09. > :18:13.other ways to organise. They responded last weekend to the

:18:13. > :18:19.women's marathon in those dreadful conditions. And they are responding

:18:19. > :18:23.again. They are so much part of British sport. All of these

:18:23. > :18:27.athletes know about the London Marathon. What will happen is we

:18:27. > :18:30.will see the athletes, the medalists, and to be honest, you

:18:30. > :18:33.will be able to remember them next spring because the best ones will

:18:33. > :18:38.be back to run the London Marathon because that is the attraction of

:18:38. > :18:44.this event. The Olympic marathon winner will certainly toe the line

:18:44. > :18:48.in nine months' time when we'd all come back. That is Lee Merrien of

:18:48. > :18:52.Great Britain, the Guernsey athlete. He has got a big fan club down the

:18:52. > :18:56.road with a Guernsey flag and he will appreciate that support. He

:18:56. > :18:59.has been in the London Marathon for the last couple of years. We were

:18:59. > :19:05.delighted that he was selected because he deserved to be. They had

:19:05. > :19:10.to go through a process of appeal. Scott Overall, the first British

:19:10. > :19:18.athlete going through. Further down the road, I just noticed Lee

:19:18. > :19:21.Merrien, too. Here they come, right in front of us. The crowds who

:19:21. > :19:26.bought the tickets for the grandstands have got a fantastic

:19:26. > :19:31.view. Scott Overall just at the back of that large group. Lee

:19:31. > :19:36.Merrien is in the second group. Going in front of us now. Lots of

:19:36. > :19:42.support out there. As Brendan was saying, Guernsey are so pleased

:19:42. > :19:50.that he got selected. It was good that you did. Dave Webb got injured,

:19:50. > :19:55.unfortunately. He was selected as well. Then we would have had three

:19:55. > :20:00.in this. The training camp that the rest of the team were at, it was

:20:00. > :20:05.hotter than this. They got some acclimatisation which they might

:20:05. > :20:08.not have been expecting. We were chatting about how hot the serious

:20:08. > :20:16.workouts were, and he said at least it will not be this hot in London

:20:16. > :20:21.but it really is. In the North East, the 10 K, his form was much better

:20:21. > :20:26.than last year. He has trained hard and worked well for this. He has

:20:26. > :20:29.relaxed into it. He is feeling as though he has got a chance to run

:20:29. > :20:39.well today. He is running very sensibly at the back of that

:20:39. > :20:56.

:20:56. > :21:00.massive group of athletes. Abel having completed that first short

:21:00. > :21:10.lap. You will see a role to art every time. They turn down

:21:10. > :21:16.

:21:16. > :21:24.Arch. This design of the course is to show off as many sides of London

:21:24. > :21:31.as well. When they go along the Embankment, they will turn away and

:21:31. > :21:35.pick up St Paul's Cathedral and wind their way through the old city.

:21:35. > :21:40.Around the Bank of England, the market, the Tower of London, where

:21:40. > :21:43.they will turn around and head back along the Embankment and back to

:21:43. > :21:51.Westminster. That pretty much completes the lap. Each lap is

:21:51. > :21:56.about eight miles, the big ones. Twisting and turning, that might

:21:56. > :22:01.have an effect. Brendan and I are sitting at the finish. There are

:22:01. > :22:08.lots of great champions of the past working for various broadcasters

:22:08. > :22:11.and we were chatting to the great Australian Rugby Costello. He was

:22:11. > :22:15.saying that he thought the rhythm would be broken up by the twisting

:22:15. > :22:20.and turning nature of the course. That is bound to be a little bit of

:22:20. > :22:25.a factor. Coming back to the selection, the Kenyans have

:22:25. > :22:31.certainly gone for what they think is a championship team. They will

:22:31. > :22:37.be able to deliver championship style run. Wilson Kipsang has won

:22:37. > :22:45.in London. And talking about the Australians, that is Michael

:22:45. > :22:55.Shelley. The Ethiopians, there was a lot of thought they would go for

:22:55. > :22:56.

:22:56. > :23:04.a runner who knew London Zoo well. -- so well. But there have not done

:23:04. > :23:07.that. -- but they have not done that. I think essentially the

:23:07. > :23:14.Ethiopians picked their three fastest guys. Hayley Dobriskey

:23:14. > :23:21.Lassie was telling me that he did not think they have the best

:23:21. > :23:26.Ethiopian in this field. -- Haile Gebrselassie. The good news is that

:23:26. > :23:33.he is with us. He has joined Tanni Grey-Thompson at the top of a mile.

:23:33. > :23:39.He will be delighted to be watching. Let's hear from him. I will put

:23:39. > :23:42.that question directly to him now. Thank you for joining us. You

:23:42. > :23:51.thought that Ethiopia had not selected their best athletes. The

:23:51. > :24:01.Dubai marathon was not the best selection process. Well, they are

:24:01. > :24:02.

:24:02. > :24:07.not just the fastest always. It is very difficult to say right now.

:24:07. > :24:17.This is the race and everybody is just fighting to win the race. We

:24:17. > :24:21.

:24:21. > :24:29.will see the result. These three athletes, you know, they are OK.

:24:29. > :24:33.They are good enough. The -- we will see. The Kenyans and

:24:33. > :24:40.Ethiopians need each other to run well. A well, it is not helping

:24:40. > :24:44.each other. But it is with the competition. It is a piece fight.

:24:44. > :24:54.The Ethiopians want to be strong, stronger than the Kenyans. This is

:24:54. > :24:55.

:24:55. > :25:00.a competition. If the Kenyans just win always, that is not good. That

:25:00. > :25:06.is why we need each other. This rivalry, it keeps going forever.

:25:06. > :25:12.But now there is another rival, from Britain. That is Mo Farah. Now

:25:12. > :25:17.we have to work hard. He has done OK in a 10,000 and the 5000. What

:25:17. > :25:26.do think about him doing a marathon? That would give me a

:25:26. > :25:29.fright! I would advise him not to go early. He needs to keep on the

:25:29. > :25:34.track in the next few years and then the marathon will stay with

:25:34. > :25:38.him forever. So he has plenty of time? Absolutely. The course is

:25:38. > :25:43.very different with the short loop and then the four big ones. Will

:25:43. > :25:51.the athletes use that to test each other out? Yes. Especially for the

:25:51. > :26:00.Ethiopians, it is OK. We like this kind of course. We like that. Where

:26:00. > :26:07.we trade in Ethiopia, it is not very flat. -- where we train. We

:26:07. > :26:12.are used to training like this. That is why the Ethiopians often

:26:12. > :26:22.win the marathon. And the weather, for most it is probably too warm,

:26:22. > :26:26.

:26:26. > :26:30.isn't it? Yes, it is. Five degrees higher. On most courses there is a

:26:30. > :26:35.shade from the trees and the buildings, which is an advantage

:26:35. > :26:40.otherwise it is too warm. If you had to bet today, who would you put

:26:41. > :26:45.your money on? It is difficult to say. Between Kenya and Ethiopia!

:26:45. > :26:51.Thank you so much. Now back to the commentators, Brendan Foster and

:26:51. > :26:55.Steve Cram. That is why he has got a great

:26:55. > :26:58.career in diplomacy ahead of him! He will be a politician. He is

:26:58. > :27:01.brilliant. He commentates around the world in English on these

:27:01. > :27:05.events but you can tell why he wanted to be really. He said they

:27:05. > :27:09.did not have the best runners from Ethiopia in at the race. The

:27:09. > :27:15.Olympic bronze medallist last time is missing. Highly Gebrselassie

:27:15. > :27:20.told me he was the best marathon runner and that would be the one he

:27:20. > :27:30.would like to see. But there could not be any more because you cannot

:27:30. > :27:34.

:27:34. > :27:37.very best here. And the support which has been shown to the

:27:37. > :27:43.athletes, in the stadium in particular, all of the venues, has

:27:43. > :27:49.been replicated out here on the streets. It is set out at a fairly

:27:49. > :27:57.steady pace. The first five Kay, they were running at around 210.

:27:57. > :28:06.Steady enough. We were talking about to the bronze medal position.

:28:06. > :28:12.We had a fantastic race in Beijing. Sadly Sammy, he died in an accident

:28:12. > :28:16.of. He was a great runner. He was a great front-runner. With that race

:28:16. > :28:21.in Beijing, it was one which epitomise the type of marathon

:28:21. > :28:26.runner he was, I think. With Haile Gebrselassie not being here, it

:28:26. > :28:31.probably lacking a great marathon hero, if you like, so one of these

:28:31. > :28:35.guys could push themselves forward for that. The guy who wins the

:28:35. > :28:44.Olympic marathon in London will be an automatic hero. Back to Beijing,

:28:44. > :28:48.2008, Sammy ran a marvellous race, in record time for that and he died

:28:48. > :28:53.recently after falling off the balcony at his home. Following a

:28:53. > :28:58.domestic dispute. They are still not sure if it was suicide or

:28:58. > :29:02.homicide or even accidental. There is still a question hanging over

:29:02. > :29:05.that sad situation. A great runner who will always be remembered for

:29:06. > :29:11.the he would certainly have been in this event today and have been at

:29:11. > :29:18.the man to beat. Here comes the Brazilian athlete, very

:29:18. > :29:25.surprisingly taking the pace out, making a statement here, Franck de

:29:25. > :29:28.Almeida, but there are strength in numbers, following him. Talking

:29:28. > :29:34.about strength in numbers, wonderful crowds around St Paul's

:29:34. > :29:38.Cathedral, and, really, remember, the story about the bishop a

:29:38. > :29:43.Pennsylvania making a speech in a 90 no aid during the Olympic Games

:29:43. > :29:49.in St Paul's Cathedral, and out of his speech came the Olympic motto,

:29:49. > :29:55.the importance is not winning but taking part, twitched everybody has

:29:55. > :29:59.adopted. It that has been the Olympic motto. In this event today,

:29:59. > :30:03.it epitomises that. These are the best athletes in their own country.

:30:03. > :30:08.They are not going to go anywhere near winning this race but the

:30:08. > :30:11.number of countries represented around the world, being cheered on

:30:11. > :30:16.by this wonderful crowd. The British public have certainly been

:30:16. > :30:21.the winners at the Olympic Games. They have been absolutely fantastic.

:30:21. > :30:25.They have support of the Olympic Games, by National Lottery tickets,

:30:25. > :30:31.and the money which comes from that, to the good causes, some of it goes

:30:31. > :30:38.into sport. It goes into UK Sport, and will you be able to fund and

:30:38. > :30:42.manage the development of the government bodies, and the team's

:30:42. > :30:44.performances have improved and improved and improved. The

:30:44. > :30:49.improvement is happening at a time when the are staging the Olympic

:30:49. > :30:54.Games which, again, was paid for largely out of the funding from the

:30:54. > :30:57.National Lottery. If you are sitting at home and a but luckily

:30:57. > :31:02.tickets over the years, you are part of this. You have all

:31:02. > :31:09.supported the bid, the events, Britain staging it, watching it on

:31:09. > :31:16.TV, and you had taken British sport to a completely new level, and the

:31:16. > :31:21.winner is the British public. said. I think people sometimes

:31:21. > :31:25.forget that the success we have seen, which we have all enjoyed,

:31:25. > :31:30.would not have happened without that Investment Board that it's not

:31:30. > :31:34.giving athletes money. That's not what it's about. It's about

:31:34. > :31:38.providing infrastructure to allow them to train as hard as they can,

:31:38. > :31:42.to have one of the best support systems, the best coaching,

:31:42. > :31:48.medicine, and giving them the chance to show how good they can be.

:31:48. > :31:54.Britain is leading the world in that respect also opt Mo Farah was

:31:54. > :32:04.talking about the recovery process. He said a recovered from the

:32:04. > :32:09.

:32:09. > :32:12.race, but she did not recover. But he didn't bother if these Games

:32:12. > :32:16.have been held 20 years ago, they would have been marvellous in every

:32:16. > :32:23.sense, the Olympic Stadium, the crowds and so forth, but the

:32:23. > :32:27.performances would not have been able to go alongside the staging.

:32:28. > :32:32.So the coincidence of that staging ability of Great Britain has and

:32:32. > :32:37.Sebastian Coe and his team have been wonderful, and the sporting

:32:37. > :32:42.prowess and performance we had been able to demonstrate, means we had

:32:42. > :32:46.the happiest of all coincidences and, as a result, sport is changing

:32:46. > :32:51.the face of the nation. It's an amazing effect, this is having. The

:32:51. > :32:55.next few months, we will see something changing in society

:32:55. > :33:01.because have you ever seen so many happy faces around place? And

:33:01. > :33:05.millions watching on TV. The oddly enough, I guess this is the one

:33:05. > :33:11.event people have engaged in away from the elite events, the half

:33:11. > :33:14.marathons, but the access to have to those events. It's very

:33:14. > :33:17.straightforward ball that it's always great to see so many

:33:17. > :33:24.hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people taking part in

:33:25. > :33:31.these events but, today, it's the turn of the leads. Scott Overall is

:33:31. > :33:34.having a chat, checking his pace. When the group were together, they

:33:34. > :33:38.were running at a pace he would have enjoyed but since then, there

:33:38. > :33:43.has been an injection of pace at the front and it has broken up the

:33:43. > :33:48.pack. It was probably about 50 athletes at the very beginning and

:33:48. > :33:53.now, they are starting to spread out now and settle into a different

:33:53. > :33:59.rhythm, defending on do race strategy. Whether you feel you want

:34:00. > :34:06.to go with a pace which is beyond that which you normally run at or

:34:06. > :34:12.you settle down and don't go too hard in the early stages. A very,

:34:12. > :34:21.very experienced man will be hoping to replicate his great runs of the

:34:21. > :34:31.past, Mebrahtom Keflezighi. I think the Americans are very high hopes.

:34:31. > :34:35.And why not? Today at had their own at resurgence, as well. Marathon

:34:35. > :34:41.running is so important in the USA. It's important for them to do well

:34:41. > :34:46.in these events. I'm sure they will figure for that looking further

:34:46. > :34:53.back down the field. We saw Scott Overall going through. Going past

:34:53. > :34:57.the Museum of London heading down orders gate now, and I'm looking

:34:57. > :35:04.for Lee Merrien. There he is on the left of the group, wearing

:35:04. > :35:11.sunglasses. The man from Guernsey going through the picture. There's

:35:11. > :35:17.one or two others in this field, who are fairly familiar. They are

:35:17. > :35:27.running for local clubs. In Britain. You might think, how is that

:35:27. > :35:30.

:35:30. > :35:39.happening? 30 years of age now, the Mongolian, he runs for a local club,

:35:39. > :35:49.Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, because he says it's easier running for local club.

:35:49. > :35:55.Also running for Sri Lanka or, Anuradha Cooray, he runs for a

:35:55. > :35:58.local club. He was told that the marriage yet under two hours and 18

:35:58. > :36:02.minutes in the London Marathon, they would pick him and he did it

:36:02. > :36:07.by one minute. So, representing his country here. If you were not

:36:07. > :36:12.watching the women's marathon, this could be sick of it in later on. I

:36:12. > :36:18.remarked at the time it that it's a long feed station. 60 countries

:36:18. > :36:23.taking place and you got to find your own flag, your own personal

:36:23. > :36:29.drink. This is exactly where they are. They are part of the Bank of

:36:29. > :36:34.England and the streets are quite narrow here. On occasion, the

:36:34. > :36:38.feeder stations provided quite a bit of drama. If people on the

:36:38. > :36:44.wrong side, they had got to cut across athletes and they start

:36:44. > :36:47.throwing bottles, as well. Always a chance of one or two incidents.

:36:47. > :36:54.Hopefully nothing like that will happen today. They need to be a

:36:54. > :36:59.little bit careful. Scott Overall, there, just aiming for his own a

:36:59. > :37:07.drink. The camera pulled away. I hope he got it. He did get it.

:37:07. > :37:17.That's good news. Leaden will market. Isn't that great? -- Leader

:37:17. > :37:22.

:37:22. > :37:29.section, because it slightly downhill, it was quite slippery. It

:37:29. > :37:37.was a popular place to stand. These crowds of phenomenal for that look

:37:37. > :37:39.at that. And there are 15 or 20 Deco and can't even see. Maybe

:37:39. > :37:46.they're out there Sunday-morning lunch and somebody said, what's

:37:47. > :37:52.going on? Let's have a look. -- 50 not 20 deep. Remember last week

:37:52. > :38:02.when it absolutely soaked. We were soaking wet. Commentating with wet

:38:02. > :38:18.

:38:18. > :38:24.feet is not to be recommended! But world, it is the old London people

:38:24. > :38:27.love, isn't it? We had some fantastic new buildings. The London

:38:27. > :38:33.Eye. We saw a glimpse of that earlier pulled up Buckingham Palace,

:38:33. > :38:38.St Paul's. And the old part of the city. For people who have never

:38:38. > :38:45.been to London, these pictures will go around the world. It shows the

:38:45. > :38:51.City often a wonderful way. -- it shows the City off in a wonderful

:38:51. > :38:56.way. At the idea of giving so many people the chance to see the

:38:56. > :39:01.runners, come by, three or four times, it makes you feel really

:39:01. > :39:10.part of the event. With the closing ceremony to look forward to this

:39:10. > :39:15.evening, it's still running about two hours and 10. The only thing

:39:15. > :39:21.you can guarantee here, there will be some drama in the later stages.

:39:21. > :39:30.We are looking at the Brazilian, an eight-second lead, again some of

:39:30. > :39:34.the East African talent, Franck de Almeida, and unless I'm mistaken,

:39:34. > :39:38.it's an awful long way to try to lead a marathon. And then the race

:39:38. > :39:47.will start to happen, it will change, and the racing will start

:39:47. > :39:51.to happen. These weather conditions, because it's 11:30am, coming up to

:39:51. > :39:56.the height of the midday sun, it is warm. I would like to see what the

:39:56. > :40:01.official temperatures are, because sitting here, it feels very warm

:40:01. > :40:05.indeed. The fact we haven't had much warm weather means the

:40:05. > :40:13.athletes have been here preparing in the UK, and had not for the

:40:13. > :40:17.chance to acclimatise, really. until I'd say around 19 degrees.

:40:17. > :40:22.I'm a reading that of the computer for that the humidity is around 77%.

:40:22. > :40:26.I'm not sure it is assume it is that. It does not feel like that.

:40:26. > :40:34.I'm not sure I'm going to go with what the computer is telling me

:40:34. > :40:38.there. We are sitting in a suntrap here. The temperature will rise. It

:40:38. > :40:42.was supposed to go up to 27 degrees. A beautiful day for watching and

:40:42. > :40:48.visiting the Tower of London. A little cooler in the stadium last

:40:48. > :40:58.night, when Mo was running the 5,000 metres, but the warm weather

:40:58. > :40:59.

:40:59. > :41:05.has returned today. This is one of the Ethiopian. He's not one of

:41:05. > :41:12.their most experienced. Dino Sefir. Perhaps this selection policy was a

:41:12. > :41:18.misguided one. Haile Gebrselassie went to see the selectors. And he

:41:18. > :41:24.pleaded on behalf of Dino Sefir, because he's been an athlete who

:41:24. > :41:29.has run a three marathons, but the times from the Dubai marathon were

:41:29. > :41:35.called into question. Ryan ball from the USA for for a big

:41:35. > :41:45.following he has. A lot of people expecting him to run well. At the

:41:45. > :41:45.

:41:45. > :41:51.moment, he's letting the leaders do their own thing. Here is Wilson

:41:51. > :42:01.Kipsang Kiprotich, the fastest runner in this field. Ayele Abshero.

:42:01. > :42:07.He's following him. You sense, you know, the heat is having an effect

:42:07. > :42:11.on some of his athletes. They are fading away already. I think some

:42:11. > :42:19.of them and make no tries, they are not going to go up at a pace in

:42:19. > :42:29.this heat and then they will hope the others will survive. The you

:42:29. > :42:32.have more of a cushion if you are running 2.5, rather than 2.10. The

:42:32. > :42:42.Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, he's wearing his Sunday best name it

:42:42. > :42:57.

:42:57. > :43:07.names on the forms, so sometimes they are credited with different

:43:07. > :43:08.

:43:08. > :43:12.names. Normally when we see Wilson Kipsang, that is his name. We all

:43:12. > :43:17.thought that they would hang around before this would happen. We see

:43:17. > :43:27.two of the favourites at the front. Wilson Kipsang is already making an

:43:27. > :43:37.effort here, pulling Ayele Abshero away with him. The reference point

:43:37. > :43:38.

:43:38. > :43:43.is the Tower of London. Coming back towards Blackfriars. They will drop

:43:43. > :43:51.back down on to... Well, there are hardly any hills. There is one

:43:51. > :43:54.little section on the Embankment and near St Paul's. On the Flat,

:43:54. > :44:04.there is the familiar curve of the river that takes them towards

:44:04. > :44:05.

:44:05. > :44:15.Westminster. Emmanuel Mutai is there, Wilson Kipsang, go to for

:44:15. > :44:19.Lecky, all tried to go with this injection of pace. Abel Kirui is

:44:19. > :44:24.slightly adrift. The Kenyans need each other for competition. That is

:44:24. > :44:29.what keeps us going and that is what makes us go. At the end of the

:44:29. > :44:35.day, I did not think it would be happening this early. 11 kilometres

:44:35. > :44:39.into the race. It is starting earlier than people expected. When

:44:39. > :44:42.you think about the contrast between this London Marathon and

:44:42. > :44:52.the regular London Marathon, for the first half of the London

:44:52. > :44:53.

:44:53. > :45:02.Marathon itself, the pacemakers deliver a pace. They trained

:45:02. > :45:05.specifically for this race. You watch Victor now. He has trained

:45:05. > :45:13.specifically and I can tell you that he will finish higher than

:45:13. > :45:21.this. He will be working his way through unpicking of the positions.

:45:21. > :45:25.-- and picking off the positions. Distance running in Japan is about

:45:25. > :45:30.marathon running. They were disappointing in the women's race.

:45:30. > :45:34.They are not featuring too much so far in the men's race. Just to

:45:35. > :45:42.bring you up to date with the British athletes, with Wilson

:45:42. > :45:52.Kipsang building a lead of 10m. Scott Overall was not too far

:45:52. > :45:53.

:45:53. > :46:03.behind. 43rd place. Lee Merrien is a little further back. He was in

:46:03. > :46:04.

:46:04. > :46:13.50th place, 47 seconds behind the leaders. -- 58 place. Wilson

:46:13. > :46:17.Kipsang has made his decision to go for it. He has a different name on

:46:17. > :46:23.his chest. He is better known as Wilson Kipsang. The fastest in his

:46:23. > :46:32.field. He is the favourite. He has got all the credentials and he has

:46:32. > :46:36.made his move. That is it. It is up to him now. Up to him to see if he

:46:36. > :46:41.can maintain it. It is up to the rest of them to see if they can do

:46:41. > :46:46.something about his lead and catch it. He has only run five marathons.

:46:46. > :46:54.In his first one, he was third in Paris in 2010. He has won the other

:46:54. > :47:00.four. So he knows how to win. He knows how to run quick. He knows

:47:00. > :47:05.how to gauge his pace. He looks completely relaxed. At the moment

:47:05. > :47:11.Kenya have won two Olympic gold medals. The steeplechase,

:47:11. > :47:18.inevitably. Ezekiel Kemboi, and the men's 800, with that world record

:47:18. > :47:22.by David. The marathon, they are top of the pile in the marathon and

:47:22. > :47:26.they expect to win it. To be honest, they need to win it to be

:47:27. > :47:30.respectable in the medals table. They were expecting to win six

:47:30. > :47:33.Olympic gold medals and they are not going to. There will be an

:47:33. > :47:38.inquiry because they have not done so well because they have dominated

:47:38. > :47:40.distance running all the year round. They are not able to convert it

:47:40. > :47:48.during the major championships. They have lots of favourites going

:47:48. > :47:53.into the races that were not able to win them. The Japanese athletes

:47:53. > :48:01.are looking at a gap of 15 seconds. The fastest man in the world, four

:48:01. > :48:06.seconds outside the world record, on his best performance. He has

:48:06. > :48:16.laid down his intent. The marathon will be a challenge for him but it

:48:16. > :48:23.

:48:23. > :48:26.will be a bigger challenge for the All of the French team were not

:48:26. > :48:30.born in France but they all showed service in the French Foreign

:48:30. > :48:35.Legion and they have all ended up competing for France. There is a

:48:35. > :48:37.certain romanticism. I like that, it is good. The lesson is, Doge

:48:37. > :48:47.joint the French Foreign Legion because you might end up running

:48:47. > :48:55.

:48:55. > :49:00.the marathon! -- don't joined the leading it as Wilson Kipsang, even

:49:00. > :49:05.though he has a different name on his chest. He has broken away and

:49:05. > :49:12.it has taken the others by surprise. You have to work out your strategy.

:49:12. > :49:16.What is your response going to be? Abel Kirui, particularly him. We

:49:16. > :49:25.were hoping that Wilson Kipsang would run well, but we were

:49:25. > :49:31.expecting him to as well, with all of his experience at World

:49:31. > :49:34.Championship experience, to be the right sort of selection as well.

:49:34. > :49:37.This is a small group and these guys are moving at a really good

:49:37. > :49:44.place now. They are trying to do something about not letting him get

:49:44. > :49:51.too far away. He is a very good athlete. Like Haile Gebrselassie,

:49:51. > :49:58.who has run three times under two hours and five minutes. His bench

:49:58. > :50:05.market so much higher than everybody else's. -- benchmark is

:50:05. > :50:09.so much higher. This is a flight station now. When we were arriving,

:50:09. > :50:14.Brendan, the buses were there with all the various drinks teams and

:50:14. > :50:17.team members, taking the drinks for the athletes. They are five in a

:50:18. > :50:20.different way so they can recognise their own bottles and not grab the

:50:20. > :50:24.wrong one because they were all have their own mixtures and

:50:24. > :50:27.concoctions that they are used to running with. They use them in

:50:27. > :50:32.training as well. It is important that they are put there in the

:50:32. > :50:37.right place. Then they do not worry about grabbing the wrong drink. We

:50:37. > :50:43.do see them sharing them occasionally. Plenty of fluids on

:50:43. > :50:49.board today. This is the chasing group and there are good athletes

:50:49. > :50:52.in this group. Several of them have run two hours and four minutes.

:50:52. > :51:01.There is a strong move in that chasing group, but he has declared

:51:01. > :51:11.his intent. He ran last year in Frankfurt and he ran at four

:51:11. > :51:12.

:51:12. > :51:17.seconds outside the world record. The only man who has run faster

:51:17. > :51:21.than home was in a world record race and the only other man is

:51:21. > :51:25.Haile Gebrselassie. That tells you that this man is top class, an

:51:25. > :51:31.outstanding distance runner, but very, very brave to lay it out like

:51:31. > :51:35.this. His gap is 16 seconds. He is glancing over his shoulder. It is a

:51:35. > :51:40.bit early to be worrying about what is going on behind. The thing about

:51:40. > :51:46.the marathon that has been consistent in marathon history,

:51:46. > :51:53.marathon=drama. You are looking at a chasing group of seven athletes.

:51:53. > :52:00.The two Ethiopians and two Kenyans, top-notch distance runners. And

:52:00. > :52:08.there will be changes in this group and changes from behind. And when

:52:08. > :52:12.we looked down the road, is Wilson Kipsang going to be good enough?

:52:12. > :52:21.Izzie great enough to run it from 10 kilometres all the way to the

:52:21. > :52:28.finish? -- will he be great enough? Brave decision. The crowds at

:52:28. > :52:34.Westminster Bridge, where they will go past Big Ben. That is always

:52:35. > :52:39.great. It is a great side anyway but even for the marathon runners,

:52:39. > :52:43.you can spot Big Ben in the distance. There is a real curved

:52:43. > :52:51.around the river. It is a popular spot for some of us trying to get

:52:51. > :52:57.fit in London. Sometimes Big Ben does not come as quickly as you

:52:57. > :53:01.would like! Do you mean as quickly as it used to? I think that is what

:53:01. > :53:05.I mean! Our sport has never seen anything like this before. We have

:53:05. > :53:11.never seen as many people. I don't think the London Marathon has ever

:53:11. > :53:16.had as many spectators as this. Truthfully, you cannot believe

:53:16. > :53:19.these numbers. It would be wonderful if somebody could go

:53:19. > :53:25.round and count them and tell us how many there are. It is

:53:25. > :53:33.staggering. 10 and 15 deep. They have not got a great view but they

:53:33. > :53:37.do see the athletes every four laps. Both sides of the roads, the

:53:38. > :53:44.windows, the walls, every vantage point is full. A celebration of the

:53:45. > :53:49.Olympic Games. Seb Coe wanted to get out quickly to watch the

:53:49. > :53:55.marathon. When he what is this, we are so proud of what he has done. -

:53:55. > :53:58.- when he watches this. We are so proud of what LOCOG have done, and

:53:58. > :54:03.we are so proud that our sport has risen to the top of the pile,

:54:03. > :54:07.because you have never seen support like this before. Going back all

:54:07. > :54:12.those years, running against Seb Coe, I shared a room with him in

:54:12. > :54:15.1980 in Moscow when he went from losing the 800m to win in the

:54:15. > :54:20.1,500m, and he has steered us into this position and he has steered

:54:20. > :54:24.the nation into supporting this thing. It is absolutely

:54:24. > :54:30.unbelievable what we are seeing here today. We are seeing a man who

:54:31. > :54:34.may be worthy to carry off the position of running a marathon in

:54:34. > :54:41.front of more spectators than have ever witnessed a marathon before. I

:54:41. > :54:45.cannot claim that statistic with any fact. But I would like it to be

:54:45. > :54:49.challenged because I don't know where we have ever seen it before.

:54:49. > :54:55.There is a formula. The length of the course, you estimate how many

:54:55. > :55:05.people there are. Get your pan out, do the sums, inventor number and we

:55:05. > :55:08.

:55:08. > :55:12.will stick with it! -- get your pen. If you think this will be a one

:55:12. > :55:17.athlete race with Wilson Kipsang getting ahead, then stay tuned. He

:55:17. > :55:27.is a very good athlete but it is a brave decision of his at this stage

:55:27. > :55:40.

:55:41. > :55:45.second 10, then he ran much quicker. He ran well under 15 minutes for

:55:45. > :55:55.that section, Sony is picking up 45 seconds on the previous five

:55:55. > :56:03.kilometres action. -- so he is picking up. Dos Santos, with a

:56:03. > :56:11.couple of the Brazilians will appear. He went off pretty quickly.

:56:11. > :56:15.The Queen Victoria Memorial looking resplendent in the sunshine. Steve,

:56:15. > :56:21.what happens to British sport after this? It can't get any better, can

:56:21. > :56:28.it? What is the next stage of this? You cannot just have the Olympic

:56:28. > :56:31.Games and celebrated and everybody cheering and then just stop.

:56:31. > :56:35.next thing is the Paralympics, which I am sure will be supported

:56:35. > :56:39.very well, and Great Britain will do very well and get lots of medals.

:56:39. > :56:44.I hope that the crowds come out and support our Paralympians in the

:56:44. > :56:47.same way and I am support that they will. It is a difficult question,

:56:47. > :56:51.because I think we are going to continue producing great athletes,

:56:51. > :56:57.and I mean that in a generic cent across all of the sports. We are in

:56:57. > :57:02.the position that none of us thought we would be in the medal

:57:02. > :57:06.table. We always knew that USA, China and Russia would be up there,

:57:06. > :57:10.because they are big nations. But we are now the third best sporting

:57:10. > :57:16.nation at the Olympic Games, which is phenomenal. If you think back to

:57:16. > :57:19.1996, not that long ago, we were at 36, with one gold medal. It has

:57:19. > :57:27.been a massive transformation. The important thing is that we do not

:57:27. > :57:30.step back from that. It has been a particularly tough lesson for the

:57:30. > :57:34.Russians. They were 4th in the world and they have fallen back

:57:34. > :57:38.from that. Let's use this as a springboard to push on to the Rio

:57:38. > :57:41.Games. We can look forward to hosting many more major events.

:57:41. > :57:45.Great Britain has shown that the sporting public love our own

:57:45. > :57:53.athlete and those from around the world as well. As they come in

:57:53. > :58:03.front of us, the chasing pack, about 15 seconds still behind. The

:58:03. > :58:10.

:58:10. > :58:14.chasing pack just keeping an eye on glory in the London Rubber On. He

:58:14. > :58:22.has a lot of hard running ahead of him, we are not even approaching

:58:22. > :58:30.halfway yet. That lead is staying about the same. There are some good

:58:30. > :58:37.athletes end that chasing group. Ayele Abshero. The fastest debut

:58:37. > :58:47.marathon ever, when he ran two hours and four minutes. He is only

:58:47. > :58:50.

:58:51. > :59:00.21. Out of the athlete's highly deborah glass and St -- Haile

:59:01. > :59:08.

:59:08. > :59:12.Scott Overall working nicely through the field, heat is on for a

:59:12. > :59:22.good run today, let us hope he can sustain it. He seems to be getting

:59:22. > :59:39.

:59:39. > :59:48.stronger. Looking down the road, Scott Overall. Lee Merrien has gone

:59:48. > :59:54.through. Kenneally is running just ahead of him.

:59:54. > :00:02.And, here comes Lee Merrien, the flags of the Guernsey supporters

:00:02. > :00:08.are waving at him. He is getting a great reaction here. Just across

:00:08. > :00:18.from us, I can see Ed Warner, the chairman of British athletics. He

:00:18. > :00:33.

:00:33. > :00:38.was so excited last night. So American who might have had a

:00:38. > :00:44.little chance here. He is a big favourite in America but he has

:00:44. > :00:48.stepped off. He looked in a bed of pain, rather than struggling in

:00:48. > :00:55.terms of fitness. The American journalists are disappearing to

:00:55. > :01:01.find out what has happened to him. The coming back, there he is. He

:01:02. > :01:11.decides, enough is enough. He was holding the back of his leg. Maybe

:01:12. > :01:13.

:01:13. > :01:18.a hamstring. Around his hip area. Hall it is out of the London

:01:18. > :01:25.Olympics Marathon, which is sad to see.

:01:25. > :01:35.The third 5K was 14.11, which has caused this break-up. It is a

:01:35. > :01:35.

:01:35. > :01:42.higher risk strategy that Wilson Kipsang is operating, he didn't

:01:42. > :01:51.build it gradually, he went about hard, quickly. A lead of 21 seconds.

:01:51. > :01:57.It looks as if that group is set to ring. Here is Emmanuel Mutai --

:01:57. > :02:07.Emmanuel Mutai. He is struggling to stay with the chasing group which

:02:07. > :02:08.

:02:08. > :02:18.is breaking as well. Just trying to spot, Abel Kirui it is in there.

:02:18. > :02:19.

:02:19. > :02:25.Asmerom is in there. Abdirahman and, two of the Americans have gone. It

:02:25. > :02:30.is not good for the Americans. They have a trial system, the first

:02:30. > :02:40.three past the post, they have to run a very hard are met -- Marathon

:02:40. > :02:41.

:02:41. > :02:50.to getting the team. -- get in the team.

:02:50. > :02:56.There is the group. You get a sense of the pace that he

:02:56. > :03:06.is running at, the camera following him, the crowd behind him. That was

:03:06. > :03:11.

:03:11. > :03:16.a very aggressive 5K split. One minute faster. This is a very good

:03:16. > :03:26.group of athletes. Emmanuel Mutai looks as if he has dropped away

:03:26. > :03:43.

:03:43. > :03:52.from the group. The world champion, getting great support around the

:03:52. > :03:55.route. It is not a day for being it up there on your own, the

:03:55. > :04:04.loneliness of the long-distance runner and that sort of thing.

:04:04. > :04:07.is great to see, that's signed about drinks. In the women's

:04:07. > :04:12.marathon, they were having difficulty with this. They know

:04:12. > :04:22.they have to get themselves in position. To Weymouth for their own

:04:22. > :04:27.

:04:27. > :04:36.drinks. On this kind of day, it is crucial. -- To aim for their drinks.

:04:36. > :04:43.The temperature is rising. Asmerom of Eritrea, they haven't had a good

:04:43. > :04:51.Games. The Kenyans haven't been the best they have ever been. Kiprotich

:04:51. > :04:56.of Uganda. Alongside Abel Kirui. Ayele Abshero, the fastest

:04:56. > :05:00.debutante in history. Dos Santos is a very good athlete, he won the New

:05:00. > :05:10.York Marathon a couple of times. He is in the right place. That group

:05:10. > :05:11.

:05:11. > :05:21.is going to provide a challenge. Also in that group, Mokoka of South

:05:21. > :05:37.

:05:37. > :05:43.Africa. Semenya, he coaches her too. This is a good group. They can just

:05:43. > :05:50.about keep him in sight, as they go through this section, where they do

:05:50. > :05:55.Twist And Turn. He is a deceptive runner. He looks as if he is not

:05:55. > :06:05.running quite as well for some reason. Our head on shocks macro

:06:05. > :06:09.

:06:09. > :06:19.never give you the best to -- head- on shots.

:06:19. > :06:21.

:06:21. > :06:31.He has taken a gamble. Now, he has got to hope it pays off. The

:06:31. > :06:37.

:06:37. > :06:47.saw earlier. He was a reserve initially, then he came in. Even at

:06:47. > :06:52.

:06:52. > :06:59.that point, there were questions about selection. He is a man who

:06:59. > :07:03.knows London very well. But he is struggling today.

:07:04. > :07:13.Six athletes in that the group. Seven athletes now, but they are

:07:14. > :07:14.

:07:14. > :07:24.good athletes. Getu Feleke. From Ethiopia.

:07:24. > :07:27.

:07:27. > :07:36.They are approaching St Paul's around. F&C people heading down

:07:36. > :07:44.across the bridge -- I often see people.

:07:44. > :07:50.This is not a foregone conclusion. He hasn't blown the field a way. He

:07:50. > :07:57.has run a very aggressive bipolar split. I have noticed they are

:07:57. > :08:03.anxious to get a drink which is right. They are doing it sensibly.

:08:03. > :08:10.Dos Santos gets his drink, then accelerates into the group.

:08:10. > :08:16.Alongside Mokoka of South Africa. Asmerom of Eritrea. Here comes

:08:16. > :08:21.Wilson Kipsang, approaching the 20km. In these races, they talk

:08:21. > :08:31.about getting halfway and then the race starts, but it has started

:08:31. > :08:41.early this time. In front of St Paul's Cathedral.

:08:41. > :08:41.

:08:41. > :08:47.The chasing group going after Wilson Kipsang. He ran 15 minutes,

:08:47. > :08:55.just under, for that 5K section. He has slowed down, he had to. He can

:08:55. > :09:01.keep it up all the way. But the gap has also got a little bit less,

:09:01. > :09:11.down from 21 seconds, down to 14 seconds. They are closing in and a

:09:11. > :09:12.

:09:12. > :09:17.pink Kitson it is in a bit of bother. -- and I think Kipsang is

:09:17. > :09:23.in a bit of bother. This chasing group are working

:09:23. > :09:27.together, helping one another. The Japanese have come out to support

:09:27. > :09:32.this marathon. In previous ravens, we would have had a couple of

:09:32. > :09:41.Japanese in that leading group. So far today, they are not quite up to

:09:41. > :09:51.He now needs to just stick with the game plan, there is no going back

:09:51. > :09:52.

:09:52. > :09:57.from this. His leader has been chipped into, is he aware of it? In

:09:57. > :10:02.this section of the course. It is his team-mate's pushing things

:10:02. > :10:07.along at the front of this group. Abel Kirui, who ran so well in

:10:07. > :10:12.different conditions at the World Championships last year. He is

:10:12. > :10:17.looking behind already, I think he is struggling, I do think he has

:10:18. > :10:27.got this wrong. He is such a good athlete. He may well be able to

:10:28. > :10:30.

:10:30. > :10:40.resurrect something from that. From that stars and in quick -- that

:10:40. > :10:41.

:10:41. > :10:49.quick first section. If here is the next group. You can

:10:49. > :10:59.see Keflezighi. And a couple of South Africans. But the lead is

:10:59. > :10:59.

:10:59. > :11:46.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds

:11:46. > :11:51.halfway point. 13 miles. 10K exceptions. -- sections. It is

:11:52. > :11:58.an interesting way to do it. To do that running from the halfway point

:11:58. > :12:03.on, it is more acceptable, more understandable. The halfway point

:12:03. > :12:09.for the others, 16 seconds behind. So, the race is starting to get

:12:09. > :12:16.exciting. The world champion is in there, the fastest marathon

:12:16. > :12:26.debutant is in there. Mokoka from South Africa is in there. Dos

:12:26. > :12:34.

:12:34. > :12:44.Santos, a very good athlete from to be chasing group because you

:12:44. > :12:47.

:12:47. > :12:52.want to, you give it away because you have to. You can see how far

:12:52. > :13:00.back the other athletes are. The chasing group has been broken up as

:13:00. > :13:10.well. Plenty of us Eritrean flags flying around here. There would

:13:10. > :13:11.

:13:11. > :13:18.have been high hopes. Mutai who quickly went off the back of the

:13:18. > :13:25.chasing group. He is still leading. Maybe he can settle into a more

:13:25. > :13:34.comfortable pace. We said earlier on he has so much ability. That

:13:34. > :13:41.leader might have eked out a little bit more. This is the area around

:13:41. > :13:46.the Bank of England. Look at the crowds! Steve, I love marathons and

:13:46. > :13:51.I love watching them because they are so dramatic and you sense this

:13:51. > :13:57.will be a dramatic one. But even in a dramatic marathon like this, I

:13:57. > :14:06.have never been overawed so much. I don't think the race has ever been

:14:06. > :14:10.such that the crowd is overwhelming. It is unbelievable. You watch these

:14:10. > :14:16.marathons and you, and tech -- commentator on them over the years

:14:16. > :14:21.and you get embroiled in the drama itself. That was a bit of drama, he

:14:21. > :14:27.nearly missed his drink. He didn't even go to the side, he was called

:14:27. > :14:37.on by his team manager. The race is playing second fiddle today to the

:14:37. > :14:43.crowds. I don't mean that in a bad way, it is absolutely wonderful.

:14:43. > :14:48.That was a bad sign, concentrations. And there is a sign to say 100m to

:14:48. > :14:54.go to the feed stations. He was running along in the middle of the

:14:54. > :15:03.road. Not necessarily doing anything about it. There he is,

:15:03. > :15:09.just running a long. He gets a call from his team manager. Turns back,

:15:09. > :15:14.goes to the side, gets his drink. You have got to stop for that. It

:15:14. > :15:19.doesn't matter if you lose a few seconds, but what matters is he

:15:19. > :15:24.gets a drink on board. He looks like Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda

:15:24. > :15:30.moving ahead of the group of Africans. We are getting used from

:15:30. > :15:36.our American television colleagues Ryan Hall came into this with a

:15:36. > :15:41.tight hamstring or wanted to give it a go. Rather than just go on

:15:41. > :15:47.regardless Lee, it is the first time he has ever dropped out of a

:15:47. > :15:51.race. He felt it was the best policy. It is a long way to run, he

:15:51. > :15:56.will only do himself more permanent damage will stop disappointing for

:15:56. > :16:01.the Americans. But the leader looking more rejuvenated now. As

:16:02. > :16:05.Brendan was saying, this like laps of confrontation -- concentration

:16:05. > :16:15.as he passed the feat stations will stop this is the second chasing

:16:15. > :16:37.

:16:37. > :16:45.group. -- a slight laps. They will The field is so strung-out, there

:16:45. > :16:52.are runners going past all of the time. This is dos Santos from

:16:52. > :16:58.Brazil and running well. The chasing group is split up. The

:16:58. > :17:06.second Ethiopian has fallen away from the group, that is Feleke. His

:17:06. > :17:15.manager, who manages Gebrselassie told us the of the day he had high

:17:15. > :17:20.hopes for Feleke, but it looks as though he is tiring. Dos Santos

:17:20. > :17:30.moves into that position. This is the chasing group, which is down to

:17:30. > :17:32.

:17:32. > :17:42.three. Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda. The world champion, Kirui. They are

:17:42. > :17:42.

:17:42. > :17:47.chasing down the leader. Wilson Kipsang. Once he burst away he has

:17:47. > :17:52.had a chance to recover, which is probably why you are saying, Steve,

:17:52. > :17:57.he looks more comfortable and relaxed? This is an interesting

:17:57. > :18:03.part of the course. They do a turn around and he will be able to see

:18:03. > :18:09.where they are. I think it is about 13 seconds now. It hasn't short and,

:18:09. > :18:13.it hasn't got any bigger. But look at the crowds at the Tower of

:18:13. > :18:20.London cheering on the leader of the marathon. He can see the

:18:20. > :18:26.chasing group is getting closer, and it contains the best of the

:18:26. > :18:34.Ethiopians, Abshero and the world champion from his own country, Abel

:18:34. > :18:39.Kirui. Also, Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda. The Tower of London is one

:18:39. > :18:48.of the biggest tourist attractions, but it has never seen crowds like

:18:48. > :18:56.this before. It has been there since 1068. If you wanted to see

:18:56. > :19:01.the crown jewels, that she would be very long! -- that you. Have you

:19:02. > :19:09.seen the cue for the ice-creams at the back? Lovely day, and a great

:19:09. > :19:13.climax we are hoping is for this Olympic Games. Can other medals

:19:13. > :19:20.being one around different venues today. Hoping Britain can pick up

:19:20. > :19:26.more success before the climax of the closing ceremony tonight. Now

:19:26. > :19:31.13 million people watch Mo Farah win his gold medal last night. Some

:19:32. > :19:38.great moments over these couple of weeks, shared by millions and

:19:38. > :19:45.millions of people. You know what? There is a good few hundred 1000 if

:19:45. > :19:50.not approaching a million or so, but there is an awful lot of people.

:19:50. > :19:59.I thought you said earlier you did know how to work it out? In the old

:19:59. > :20:04.days they used to make up a word for an amount of people will stop

:20:04. > :20:14.our editor has just said, why don't you just say there is a lot! Which

:20:14. > :20:18.

:20:18. > :20:21.I think there is. He is usually more specific than that. Kiprotich

:20:22. > :20:28.is realising there is a bit of a push on thought stop when he looked

:20:28. > :20:38.around, and I am surprised it is coming from Stephen Kiprotich from

:20:38. > :20:38.

:20:38. > :20:44.Uganda. Looking at Kirui, he has a lot of respect the Kirui. They must

:20:44. > :20:54.be thinking, are we going to let him go. A great deal of the London

:20:54. > :21:07.

:21:07. > :21:11.Kiprotich, the Ugandan. Abshero in third place, the Ethiopian false

:21:11. > :21:16.start and Kirui trying to go with them. The gap is only seven or

:21:16. > :21:21.eight seconds now. It is a significant move from Stephen

:21:21. > :21:26.Kiprotich. The Ugandan, who not surprisingly, decided he wanted to

:21:26. > :21:36.be a top-class runner. He was making progress, but there wasn't

:21:36. > :21:41.

:21:41. > :21:51.enough training partners in Uganda, so he moved. He moved to El The

:21:51. > :21:54.

:21:54. > :21:58.Ruts, and Wilson Kipsang and Kiprotich is building a hotel there.

:21:58. > :22:04.It wouldn't be difficult to count in your head, and you are all doing

:22:04. > :22:12.that now. To look at this, it is such a hot day, you don't normally

:22:12. > :22:16.see a leads runners going for a bit of spray, certainly races in the UK.

:22:16. > :22:22.Kirui, I think he still has something to say here, Kirui. He

:22:22. > :22:28.judges his races very well. This attempt, dos Santos is struggling

:22:28. > :22:34.now. These athletes in front of him are pushing on. The attempt to

:22:34. > :22:44.close the gap, maybe it is a little rash from Stephen Kiprotich. But it

:22:44. > :22:57.

:22:57. > :23:03.them. Abel Kirui, twice what champion, Steve was saying, he

:23:03. > :23:10.judges his races well. You don't become world champion twice if you

:23:10. > :23:15.don't judge your races well, moving into second place. So, for the

:23:15. > :23:21.first time the Kenyans now have first and second in the marathon.

:23:21. > :23:27.The famous red, green and black vest of Kenya. Slightly

:23:27. > :23:33.disappointing Games overall for them, two gold medals in the back.

:23:33. > :23:36.Two chances of a gold medal in this event. You almost feel as though

:23:36. > :23:46.they have to win the marathon. They dominate the marathon throughout

:23:46. > :23:48.

:23:48. > :23:53.the year, and may have done throughout the years. The gap was

:23:53. > :24:00.seven seconds as suggested. Kirui looks the strongest and looks as

:24:00. > :24:04.though he is ready for this four- star heat allow it Kiprotich to

:24:04. > :24:14.accelerate a little bit too much but went with him. Kirui looking

:24:14. > :24:17.

:24:17. > :24:21.relaxed and strong. The leader has slowed down again. He is not

:24:21. > :24:28.slowing dramatically, but the others are sensing its and they

:24:28. > :24:38.have made a more gradual move back. So when they are running at B15

:24:38. > :24:43.

:24:43. > :24:53.minute pace, it was the 15km section. -- 1, five kilometres

:24:53. > :24:53.

:24:53. > :24:58.section. Only time will tell. Time is ticking away. That lead, only

:24:58. > :25:04.seven seconds, and how many times have we seen over the years, and

:25:04. > :25:08.Brendan has said, the last two, three miles, these positions can

:25:08. > :25:13.change and you can lose a couple of minutes it just in the last couple

:25:14. > :25:19.of miles. If you look at the position of 25 kilometres, this

:25:19. > :25:25.won't be the same order as the finishing. Because it is a warm day,

:25:25. > :25:28.it has been unusual the way the race has been run. Some of them

:25:28. > :25:34.will be tired from the way they did it will stop others will be more

:25:34. > :25:42.control because they gradually picked the pace up. But it is

:25:43. > :25:46.Kiprotich, Kirui, Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda, and then Abshero. That

:25:46. > :25:53.order won't be the same at the finish because that is what happens.

:25:53. > :26:01.You cannot tell and I think it will hit them late. This is a brave

:26:01. > :26:08.effort by the fastest marathon runner in the field. That is the

:26:08. > :26:15.world champion Kirui, just behind him now. Has him in his sights. If

:26:15. > :26:21.you are just joining us, the lead was around 20 seconds at one point,

:26:21. > :26:26.Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, but Wilson Kipsang, he is more

:26:26. > :26:34.generally known as, at the winner of the London Marathon, the fastest

:26:34. > :26:42.man in the field, has been leading since the six-mile mark. He made a

:26:42. > :26:52.big effort and probably went too hard. He senses, he has his team

:26:52. > :26:55.

:26:55. > :27:00.mate, Kirui following him. Dos Santos is very consistency but not

:27:00. > :27:10.the quality of these guys. And Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda is

:27:10. > :27:21.

:27:21. > :27:26.having the best race of his career effects on the leader, as it looks

:27:26. > :27:36.as though the lead will disappear in the next mile or so. Will he be

:27:36. > :27:38.

:27:38. > :27:48.able to go with them as they come past? There is the blue line, it

:27:48. > :27:54.

:27:54. > :27:59.signifiers the shortest route and route around.

:27:59. > :28:06.We were privileged to have Haile Gebrselassie to join us, to give us

:28:06. > :28:11.an insight into how the Ethiopians have chosen their team. They didn't

:28:11. > :28:16.win the 5,000, they didn't win the 10,000. They don't look as if they

:28:16. > :28:21.will win the marathon. The Ethiopian men have struggled in

:28:21. > :28:27.these Olympic Games. The leader is just going part,

:28:27. > :28:37.water and sponge. Abel Kirui seems to be more tuned in, he spotted it

:28:37. > :28:42.

:28:42. > :28:48.a while back. Whereas our Leader is just focusing ahead. Now, after 15

:28:48. > :28:56.kilometres, he has been rejoined by his team-mate, the world champion

:28:56. > :29:06.Abel Kirui, and Kiprotich of Uganda. All three of these men trained in

:29:06. > :29:09.

:29:09. > :29:13.the rift Valley End Uganda. -- in Kenya. Psychologically, this is

:29:14. > :29:18.important for Wilson Kipsang. Will he let them run with him or when he

:29:18. > :29:25.tried to break away again. There are huge crowds here, we sink a

:29:25. > :29:31.great race. We had a leader, at some point in athletics history,

:29:31. > :29:37.you see men run away from a field like this. He had a 21 second gap.

:29:37. > :29:44.And now, he is running abreast with two men he knows very well, two men

:29:44. > :29:48.he runs with when he is at home in Kenya. Now, can Kenya when their

:29:48. > :29:56.third a Olympic gold medal, or, is the man from Uganda going to be the

:29:56. > :30:02.first man from Uganda to win a gold medal in the marathon?

:30:02. > :30:12.Interesting times. Ayele Abshero, in the distance, in 4th place.

:30:12. > :30:13.

:30:13. > :30:21.Further down the road, Dos Santos of Brazil in 5th place. The bike

:30:21. > :30:29.camera behind the lead three. It is odd, this almost feels like

:30:29. > :30:33.this should be the last couple of miles. They have another lap to go.

:30:33. > :30:38.It really feels as though this would be reaching the climax of the

:30:38. > :30:44.race. There is an awful lot of running still to do. When you talk

:30:44. > :30:54.about another lap to go, that doesn't sound bad, but a lack is

:30:54. > :30:54.

:30:54. > :31:04.eight miles. -- a lap. Big Ben Clarke's the point where they take

:31:04. > :31:08.

:31:08. > :31:13.a right town. -- marks the point of a right turn.

:31:13. > :31:17.The south bank providing a fantastic view. I don't think

:31:17. > :31:27.anybody could ever believe London would have responded like this to

:31:27. > :31:29.

:31:29. > :31:34.the Olympic Games, or in that total, and to the mad and in particular.

:31:34. > :31:39.As they run along the Embankment. The great sights of London being

:31:39. > :31:49.transported in all their glory, all around the world. Dos Santos of

:31:49. > :31:53.

:31:53. > :32:00.Brazil. He isn't sick place. -- is in sixth place.

:32:01. > :32:07.The leading group has settled down. Wilson Kipsang, Kiprotich, the

:32:07. > :32:15.early leader led for almost half the distance. Now, he has company.

:32:15. > :32:22.The fabled Abel Kirui, and the man with ambition. At the age of 17, he

:32:22. > :32:32.said he would leave home, go to Kenya, and be a full-time runner.

:32:32. > :32:38.The leading Ethiopian. There may be better of runners at home than the

:32:38. > :32:46.three days selected today for the London 2012 Olympics Marathon.

:32:46. > :32:56.Scott Overall was in the 27th position, at the 25 kilometre or

:32:56. > :32:58.

:32:58. > :33:08.point. Scott Overall, he has done pretty well, half way it in at 65.

:33:08. > :33:10.

:33:10. > :33:17.Not far off his personal best. Lee Merrien was not far behind. 46th

:33:17. > :33:27.position. As we see them come into the mile -

:33:27. > :33:28.

:33:28. > :33:32.- Mall. Ayele Abshero can see that group of three ahead. But as

:33:32. > :33:42.Brendon and I keep saying, more than eight miles of the toughest of

:33:42. > :33:43.

:33:43. > :33:50.races. I was worried he would give me more poetry today it! Robert

:33:50. > :33:57.Browning wrote a poem in the early part of the 19th century, always

:33:57. > :34:07.credited with publicising the myth of what he did, running the

:34:07. > :34:09.

:34:09. > :34:14.marathon, Athens, announcing victory, the idea of running from

:34:14. > :34:22.Marathon. And that became the world's most gruelling event.

:34:22. > :34:28.is a brilliant introduction to you recited it, Steve! I could read it,

:34:28. > :34:35.if it were in front of me. They are grabbing at water bottles and

:34:35. > :34:43.sponges. Olsson hasn't been bothering with that. -- Wilson

:34:44. > :34:53.Kipsang. There were some words exchanged with Abel Kirui, I wonder

:34:54. > :34:56.

:34:56. > :35:06.if he is saying, we can work together. To get Stephen Kiprotich,

:35:06. > :35:15.I presume they know each other pretty well. They will want to work

:35:15. > :35:25.together to ensure there is a Kenyan one, two. After Buckingham

:35:25. > :35:30.

:35:30. > :35:40.Palace, the last laps macro. -- lap. The gaps behind these lead 3 are

:35:40. > :35:44.

:35:44. > :35:54.getting bigger and bigger. Look at the crowds. Incredible. Buckingham

:35:54. > :36:21.

:36:21. > :36:25.as if he is running tide at the be the finishing straight the next

:36:25. > :36:31.time around. A eight miles a go, the crowds

:36:31. > :36:39.around us are getting really cheering. Kiprotich of Uganda,

:36:39. > :36:46.Wilson Kipsang of Kenya. In 4th place, Ayele Abshero. If you look

:36:46. > :36:50.at those four places, the only thing for certain is it won't be

:36:50. > :36:57.the same order when they come back the next time. Some of them are

:36:57. > :37:00.struggling. Ayele Abshero, only in his second marathon. And I imagine

:37:00. > :37:07.I good friend Haile Gebrselassie will be disappointed with the way

:37:07. > :37:17.the selectors of Ethiopia have picked their team. Dos Santos,

:37:17. > :37:22.

:37:22. > :37:29.through in 6th place. A real delight to watch the race unfold on

:37:29. > :37:39.TV, but, to be here, where this atmosphere is magical. The red

:37:39. > :37:41.

:37:41. > :37:51.carpet of the Mall. The Queen Victoria Memorial. Mokoka looks

:37:51. > :37:55.tired. We are able to get a close- up view. We are looking for the

:37:55. > :37:58.British athletes who are acquitting themselves really well, this must

:37:58. > :38:03.be an experience of a lifetime for those men. They have worked hard

:38:03. > :38:09.for it, Scott Overall and Lee Merrien. They both deserve to be

:38:09. > :38:18.here. The boat handling themselves quite well. For British athletics

:38:18. > :38:26.and British distance running, these are marvellous hours.

:38:26. > :38:33.Through Admiralty Arch, into Trafalgar Square. That is where it

:38:33. > :38:38.all began. Singapore, Trafalgar Square, the celebrations in 2005.

:38:38. > :38:44.The players went crazy then, and it is going crazy today. They turned

:38:44. > :38:54.down Northumberland Avenue, back towards Embankment again. Ayele

:38:54. > :39:09.

:39:09. > :39:13.Abshero chooses to vote through the That is because it was Wilson

:39:13. > :39:19.Kipsang who had been reading. The others have maintained their pace,

:39:19. > :39:27.but even they have slowed a little from chasing him down. Look at

:39:27. > :39:30.Emmanuel Mutai and Asmerom, who sat back a little, who decided not go

:39:30. > :39:40.with that surge. They are picking athletes off, moving into the top

:39:40. > :39:42.

:39:42. > :39:46.10. The two Japanese athletes, Arata Fujiwara and Nakamoto,

:39:46. > :39:54.committing to the split times in their mind. If you cut bladed long,

:39:54. > :40:04.you don't do so well but if you calculated right, there are some

:40:04. > :40:09.

:40:09. > :40:17.than usual. They will tell us that the conditions have been difficult.

:40:17. > :40:27.Dos Santos running comfortably, pulling away from Emmanuel Mutai.

:40:27. > :40:30.

:40:30. > :40:35.On to the last lap. Welcome shelter. The leaders at the feeding station.

:40:35. > :40:40.Again, up Wilson Kipsang goes straight past. The Kenyan badger

:40:40. > :40:50.road distributing the drinks but he didn't 11. Scott Overall has picked

:40:50. > :40:52.

:40:52. > :41:01.up a few places. If O oar, looking a bit tired.

:41:01. > :41:11.Scott Overall. He had these two have been having a

:41:11. > :41:15.

:41:15. > :41:18.good few conversations. Kiprotich, he has done well.

:41:18. > :41:23.Stephen Kiprotich, for the first time, looking as if he is

:41:23. > :41:33.struggling to stay with the two Kenyans. Starting to look more

:41:33. > :41:34.

:41:34. > :41:40.laboured. He looks tired. Dos Santos was close to him. 49 seconds

:41:40. > :41:44.to the leaders, he is not catching them. Lean -- Lee Merrien,

:41:44. > :41:54.representing Great Britain and Guernsey where he comes from. He

:41:54. > :41:59.

:41:59. > :42:09.crosses the line with one lap to go. Just ahead of Kenneally of Arles

:42:09. > :42:27.

:42:27. > :42:32.and. -- Ireland. About five minutes any Bath and will feel increasingly

:42:32. > :42:41.more uncomfortable. When it is hot, everything from your feet to the

:42:41. > :42:51.top of your head starts to hurt. They are heading back, and for the

:42:51. > :42:56.

:42:56. > :43:02.last time, out a long the river, Probably going as well as any of

:43:02. > :43:08.these athletes in the top three. It could be a top two shortly because

:43:08. > :43:15.Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda, can sense these two are working

:43:15. > :43:21.together. He is sitting in behind them. Has run one marathon so far.

:43:21. > :43:26.If you wonder how all of the pictures appear the next day, they

:43:26. > :43:29.are in the media centre here, and that group of photographers were

:43:30. > :43:37.put on their bus about an hour beforehand false start and they

:43:37. > :43:43.have a prime a view of this race. And Kirui is the chatterbox amongst

:43:43. > :43:48.this group. He is probably the one that commands on more respect. When

:43:48. > :43:54.you have won titles, that is when you get to the business end of the

:43:54. > :44:04.Championship races, and they will start to look to him, I think.

:44:04. > :44:05.

:44:05. > :44:10.Three of them together now. Running together, starting to feel this is

:44:10. > :44:16.where the medals are going to go. Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda was

:44:16. > :44:21.going through a bit of a bad patch. I thought Dos Santos was chasing

:44:21. > :44:31.and running well. He is still running well. But he is 46 seconds

:44:31. > :44:34.behind the leaders. Abshero, but tiring Ethiopian. I am sure there

:44:34. > :44:43.will be an inquiry into the Ethiopian men's distance running.

:44:43. > :44:53.The women had one the 10,000m, and the marathon. At the men have not

:44:53. > :44:56.

:44:57. > :45:06.want any of them. They are fierce rivals with the Kenyans. Macca

:45:07. > :45:21.

:45:21. > :45:25.working so hard, we are going to be seeing in the Mile, in half-an-hour,

:45:25. > :45:32.we will be seeing some very tired athletes false start and they have

:45:32. > :45:37.worked hard for it. -- in the Mall. You gave the crowd a bit of

:45:37. > :45:47.rehearsal when you jogged down here earlier? They got a bit of Hu

:45:47. > :45:51.didn't I? Very impressive. It was a rehearsal for the cameras? No car I

:45:51. > :46:01.was in a hurry coming back from an interview position at the other end

:46:01. > :46:12.

:46:12. > :46:19.of the Mall. But a similar pace, obviously! Wilson Kipsang and Kirui.

:46:19. > :46:26.Not moving as quick as they were, these three, in the middle section

:46:26. > :46:33.of the race. Saw the race apart the very early stage. They have had to

:46:33. > :46:39.pick themselves up after that. You can see how things stand. Dos

:46:39. > :46:48.Santos in fourth place, Abshero in 5th, he is going backwards all of

:46:49. > :46:54.the time. Were one of those three to faltered, 50 seconds is a lead

:46:55. > :46:59.that could disappear. But they look comfortable together, working

:46:59. > :47:03.through this section. One of them at some point, you feel, will make

:47:03. > :47:13.a bit of a move as they circumnavigate St Paul's Cathedral

:47:13. > :47:41.

:47:41. > :47:49.getting the best deal possible. -- view. The Kenyan flags waving. The

:47:49. > :47:54.Japanese contingent it as well. The Games Kenya were hoping to have,

:47:54. > :47:59.there was all sorts of talk about how many medal they were going to

:47:59. > :48:07.win false start their coaches came out and said they were going to win

:48:07. > :48:15.a hatful of gold medals. It comes across as disrespectful to the

:48:15. > :48:21.other teams. 800, 1,500m, steeplechase, the marathon, they

:48:21. > :48:29.are difficult medals to win. They are looking to finish on a high

:48:29. > :48:39.here. There are some very tired athletes. About 12 I reckon have

:48:39. > :48:40.

:48:41. > :48:46.dropped out already out of the 100 as and odds and that started.

:48:46. > :48:50.have just spoken to the assistant general secretary of the

:48:50. > :48:56.international athletics federation and he said it is the best Olympic

:48:56. > :49:02.SFA athletics. He said the response to the marathon is absolutely

:49:03. > :49:11.staggering. Eyesore his boss when I was coming in, President of the I

:49:11. > :49:19.double left, -- I f f. He was referring to the stadium and he

:49:19. > :49:25.said it was incredible. And I think his words a will be echoed. It is a

:49:25. > :49:32.fantastic response to these Games by the British public, and they are

:49:32. > :49:37.carrying it right to the finish line, and of course the

:49:38. > :49:43.international athletics a federation, the mouth-watering

:49:43. > :49:51.prospects for them to have the World Championships in London in

:49:51. > :49:57.2017, back in the Olympic Stadium. It will be wonderful to have these

:49:57. > :50:07.sides back again. It it would be wonderful to see Mo Farah back in

:50:07. > :50:15.

:50:15. > :50:20.the Olympic stadium in 2017. That is Mutai and Asmerom. These are two

:50:20. > :50:27.very good runners. But they are struggling now. They are very good,

:50:27. > :50:36.but they look as if they are slowing down. Mutai was going to be

:50:36. > :50:46.one of the dangers. He is an outstanding a marathon runner but

:50:46. > :50:46.

:50:46. > :50:54.was unable to compete today. It looks now as though we are going to

:50:54. > :51:02.get a real, real race. One hour 42 minutes behind them. Just over 20

:51:02. > :51:05.minutes of running left. One of three, the world champion, Abel

:51:05. > :51:14.Kirui false start Dos Santos not able to make any inroads into the

:51:14. > :51:24.gap. Still running well in a lonely positions. He has a long road on

:51:24. > :51:25.

:51:25. > :51:31.his own. That is Kirui, that is Wilson Kipsang. I am just worrying

:51:31. > :51:37.or why the experience of Wilson Kipsang, who has won four macro out

:51:37. > :51:47.of five marathons, why he ran the way he did. Why did he go out and

:51:47. > :52:07.

:52:07. > :52:14.run at -- run so quickly, had a will be interesting this neck split

:52:14. > :52:23.when they go through 35 kilometres. After the 14.11 which was Wilson

:52:23. > :52:31.Kipsang, I suspect it might be slower. Abshero being caught now.

:52:31. > :52:36.The Ethiopian hasn't got the experience at this event yet.

:52:36. > :52:45.Finding this is difference to just going out with nice pacemakers,

:52:45. > :52:51.setting out with a game plan. This is not the same, they go off slow

:52:51. > :52:54.and then after 10 kilometres, suddenly find the pace is run at a

:52:54. > :52:59.world record pace for five kilometres, then it comes back

:52:59. > :53:04.again. Trying to make decisions whether you go with it, or sit back

:53:04. > :53:10.and take the risk others will does appear and you won't get them back

:53:10. > :53:20.again. He has learnt a lesson today. Maybe the Ethiopian selectors have

:53:20. > :53:24.

:53:24. > :53:29.as well? The two Kenyans, the Bank of England have probably never seen

:53:29. > :53:35.sites like this. This is alongside the Guild Hall. Dos Santos is

:53:35. > :53:39.running strongly, but he is not catching them. The lead they have

:53:39. > :53:45.is extending am very, very slightly false start he is in fourth place,

:53:45. > :53:54.and if any mishap were to occur to the front three, he is in a strong

:53:54. > :54:04.position. There is nothing in happening behind him. The Japanese

:54:04. > :54:11.runner looking strong. Abshero is going further back. And de Almeida,

:54:11. > :54:16.the silver-medallist from Athens flying the flag. I hope they have a

:54:16. > :54:24.head for heights false start you wouldn't catch me doing that.

:54:24. > :54:33.kilometres. 7.2 kilometres to go sol stop the result is far from

:54:33. > :54:39.decided. Stephen Kiprotich, from Uganda at the back of the three.

:54:39. > :54:46.The two Kenyans, the two better known athletes, Wilson Kipsang, the

:54:46. > :54:50.second fastest marathon runner in history. 15.48, it is the slowest

:54:50. > :54:56.five kilometres split of the race. And these conditions are taking

:54:56. > :55:01.their toll. The way Wilson Kipsang round the middle of the race is

:55:01. > :55:07.also taking its toll. It is breaking up, a gap is opening

:55:07. > :55:13.between the two Kenyans and Stephen Kiprotich. Stephen Kiprotich

:55:13. > :55:19.holding his leg. It is a bad sign. The Ugandans, he looks as though he

:55:19. > :55:25.is struggling. Uganda have only ever won two medals in the Olympic

:55:25. > :55:33.Games. They won a gold medal for two years ago in the 400-metre

:55:33. > :55:38.hurdles in Munich. They won a bronze medal in 1996 in the 400m.

:55:38. > :55:43.Is this man going to run into Ugandan distance and running

:55:43. > :55:48.history? I hope he does. He has a problem with his leg and is losing

:55:49. > :55:54.a few yards on the leading group. He sacrificed his whole existence,

:55:54. > :55:59.moving away from Uganda to train in Kenya. It has paid off so far, but

:55:59. > :56:04.he is going through a difficult point will stop you look further

:56:04. > :56:13.down the field at the speed stations. The gaps are significant.

:56:13. > :56:18.In distance and in time. And those two, Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, and

:56:18. > :56:23.Abel Kirui, the twice world champion, beginning to break away

:56:23. > :56:29.from Stephen Kiprotich. I hope he can stay in touch. There is a long

:56:29. > :56:36.way to go. An awful lot is going to change. You cannot predict the gold

:56:36. > :56:40.medal. You cannot even predict the podium finish. It looks to be

:56:40. > :56:46.locked on for these three, but I am worried about Stephen Kiprotich. He

:56:46. > :56:53.keeps clutching at the top of his leg. This is a renewed effort from

:56:53. > :57:01.the man who certainly earlier on, went too hard when he went to the

:57:01. > :57:11.front. He was pegged back. This is another effort from Wilson Kipsang.

:57:11. > :57:14.

:57:14. > :57:19.That is the battle for 5th and 6th. The American trying to hang on to

:57:19. > :57:25.the Japanese athlete. When your legs are dead, this is not a

:57:25. > :57:34.particularly enjoyable way to have to keep running. He is having a

:57:35. > :57:39.look behind. Looking to see of this gap starts to build will he be

:57:39. > :57:46.under pressure from behind. Might think he will be happy with a top-

:57:46. > :57:51.six finish. It is Wilson Kipsang making a big effort. At the second

:57:51. > :57:56.time he is wanting to push on. Making an effort to try and win

:57:56. > :58:03.this. The first time was too early. It was too quick, couldn't be

:58:03. > :58:13.maintained all sustained. And now, he finds Kirui once more moves

:58:13. > :58:26.

:58:26. > :58:34.along the Embankment. Abel Kirui. The two of them pulling a few yards

:58:34. > :58:41.away. Stephen Kiprotich. When you hear about an athlete life -- like

:58:41. > :58:48.him, at the age of 17, deciding to be a runner. It means more in Kenya

:58:48. > :58:53.and Uganda. So, he moves from Uganda, to Kenya. He is now in a

:58:53. > :59:00.position, with six kilometres remaining. A medal position, for

:59:00. > :59:07.his country. Never been there before in a distance race. Never

:59:07. > :59:13.been there beyond 400m from the track. I certainly really hope that

:59:13. > :59:19.Stephen Kiprotich can just hang on and get a medal. Maybe even better

:59:19. > :59:29.than that. He has not lost this race to get. There is Dos Santos.

:59:29. > :59:32.

:59:32. > :59:36.Look how far behind, they turned a while ago. Four minutes. 1.14

:59:36. > :59:46.minutes behind the leaders. He is well aware of it. He is still

:59:46. > :59:56.

:59:56. > :00:02.running strong, Dos Santos. Nakamoto and Kifle. -- Keflezighi.

:00:02. > :00:05.Having a good race. I think they were hoping that Hall would produce

:00:05. > :00:12.something special but he was the first to drop out with a hamstring

:00:12. > :00:16.problem. You are right, Kiprotich has not lost this yet. They have

:00:16. > :00:22.pushed on a little. Certainly, Wilson Kipsang pushed on. Abel

:00:22. > :00:27.Kirui was not ready to push on. He joined his team mate. But they

:00:27. > :00:31.haven't been able to sustain that pace. Therefore, Kiprotich is still

:00:32. > :00:40.in contention, at least for him at will, if not actually to win this.

:00:40. > :00:47.He is only six metres adrift. What happened there? Steve, I think he

:00:47. > :00:57.heard you. Suddenly, at Stephen Kiprotich, the athlete who lives in

:00:57. > :01:04.Kenya, who was brought up in Uganda. He moved to better his running. Now

:01:04. > :01:12.he leads an Olympic marathon. go quite so hard up? You feel good,

:01:12. > :01:18.are you think, I am ready. He is either thinking he is feeling

:01:18. > :01:24.incredibly well. Abel Kirui, started to try to give chase but

:01:24. > :01:29.that is a gap which has built very quickly. If it has been too quick,

:01:29. > :01:36.remains to be seen. The Kenyans couldn't get away. They went around

:01:36. > :01:43.a couple of corners, it has turned into a 20-metre lead. We saw in

:01:44. > :01:49.Manchester a few weeks ago, 4th in the 10K, behind Haile Gebrselassie

:01:49. > :01:54.and Ayele Abshero. If you had said he would be leading the Olympic

:01:54. > :02:00.marathon in London, at this point in the race, the Ugandan athlete, a

:02:00. > :02:06.country which has never won an Olympic medal beyond 400m.

:02:06. > :02:10.Unbelievable. How quickly has he responded? I thought he was

:02:10. > :02:15.struggling earlier with his leg, that doesn't seem to be bothering

:02:16. > :02:20.him in the last few minutes. He is getting the roar of the crowd. It

:02:20. > :02:26.is a sight we have never seen in a marathon before, so close to the

:02:26. > :02:32.finish, an athlete from Uganda. Another African athlete. It is not

:02:32. > :02:37.over yet but this is a significant lead. He was 10m behind. The camera

:02:37. > :02:43.went behind. When we picked him up on the other side, he was in the

:02:43. > :02:50.lead. That was like a 1,500m surge. It has paid off for him, he is

:02:50. > :02:59.reading. That lead, if anything, it is being extended. He is looking

:02:59. > :03:04.strong. Every stride is a strong one for the Ugandan, but in

:03:04. > :03:13.daylight between himself and the world champion, Abel Kirui, of

:03:13. > :03:18.Kenya. He was running much wider around that bend and he needs to.

:03:18. > :03:25.Look at Wilson Kipsang, in their place, the fastest man in the field.

:03:25. > :03:32.He ran a strange race, going off so quickly. He has ignored his own

:03:33. > :03:39.drinks at the water stations. I am surprised the overall way he has

:03:39. > :03:45.run this race. At the halfway point, one hour and three minutes. Stephen

:03:45. > :03:51.Kiprotich was off the pace, well away from the lead. An update on

:03:51. > :03:56.Scott Overall, he is really suffering. He has dropped 20 places

:03:56. > :04:04.in the last five kilometre section. He has been passed by Lee Merrien

:04:04. > :04:14.who has picked up 10 places. In 34th position. Six minutes behind

:04:14. > :04:16.

:04:16. > :04:19.the leaders. 45 seconds behind him is a struggling Scott Overall.

:04:20. > :04:26.Kiprotich leading. Abel Kirui constantly dropping that right arm,

:04:26. > :04:32.trying to relax. But it doesn't matter. About relaxing at this

:04:32. > :04:36.point. He has to try to find something, somehow, all hope that

:04:36. > :04:41.Kiprotich has some have judged this wrong. With about are four

:04:41. > :04:49.kilometres to go. Dos Santos, does he have a chance of catching Wilson

:04:49. > :04:59.Kipsang, a good minute ahead. I don't know if Wilson Kipsang will

:04:59. > :04:59.

:04:59. > :05:09.fade that badly. But you can lose a minute in the last mile easily.

:05:09. > :05:15.

:05:15. > :05:20.Keflezighi and Nakamoto, contesting Keflezighi... There is Scott

:05:20. > :05:27.Overall, the first because we have seen him. Really struggling, he has

:05:27. > :05:33.slowed down significantly. He went halfway in 65 minutes, which would

:05:33. > :05:37.be expected of him. But he is really struggling. And though he

:05:37. > :05:44.won't want to give up, he will want to get to the finish line if he

:05:44. > :05:48.possibly can. We will keep you posted. We hope to stay to watch

:05:48. > :05:53.the two British athletes over the line. Is this over, Brendan, or is

:05:53. > :05:59.there more to come? He has spent a lot of time looking over his

:05:59. > :06:06.shoulder. What a remarkable story it if Stephen Kiprotich can win

:06:06. > :06:11.this. Running along the Embankment. This is what we see every year in

:06:11. > :06:18.the London Marathon. He had never run here before. Lots of the others

:06:18. > :06:25.have. Their fears, crossing over, looking for the Ugandan flak. Sorry,

:06:25. > :06:32.that is the Kenyan, Abel Kirui, in second place. We are looking,

:06:32. > :06:42.previously, at Stephen Kiprotich. Now, the world champion gets his

:06:42. > :06:42.

:06:42. > :06:52.drink. I am not sure if Kiprotich bothered. 38.8 kilometres. As

:06:52. > :06:56.Stephen Kiprotich, a shock, a pleasant shock, a great one. The

:06:56. > :07:06.crowds of roaring him on and he will appreciate that. It will be

:07:06. > :07:06.

:07:06. > :07:16.interesting, they might start closing down. Mo farrow macro has

:07:16. > :07:31.

:07:31. > :07:38.been there to train, to see how the the south Bank, the Royal Family.

:07:38. > :07:41.To cheers and support along the route has not waned one bit. Still

:07:41. > :07:47.looking behind but that lead is getting bigger with every stride.

:07:47. > :07:55.Abel Kirui, the world champion. Solid, in second place, but not

:07:55. > :08:05.able to do anything about this. Stephen Kiprotich. Relaxed. Of

:08:05. > :08:15.course he is tight, it has been a tough way to run this race. -- he

:08:15. > :08:25.

:08:25. > :08:32.two miles to go, for those two. One more look behind for Kiprotich,

:08:32. > :08:39.PCS Abel Kirui going across for some water. He looks too strong to

:08:39. > :08:43.come under pressure. They he looks really strong. I

:08:43. > :08:52.don't want him to be worrying and looking over his shoulder, I want

:08:52. > :08:58.him to concentrate on how far to go. There is a bronze medal position at

:08:58. > :09:07.the moment, Wilson Kipsang. He won the London Marathon here, he beat

:09:07. > :09:12.his team-mate Abel Kirui on that occasion who was 6th. Abel Kirui,

:09:12. > :09:22.one of the best. Kiprotich, acknowledging the support, already

:09:22. > :09:39.

:09:39. > :09:47.see some Ethiopian flags. He will be looking for a Ugandan flag. He

:09:47. > :09:54.is quite a well known 1000 on the road rage -- road racing circuit.

:09:54. > :10:01.Goodness knows what this will mean when he goes home. His training

:10:01. > :10:10.mate, the former world champion. We are looking at the second place,

:10:10. > :10:16.Abel Kirui. If you look at that gap, 19 seconds. They are beyond the 40

:10:16. > :10:22.kilometre point. Now, he has to concentrate. Please, don't look

:10:22. > :10:32.over your shoulder. Just keep running, finish this last mile, do

:10:32. > :10:37.

:10:37. > :10:47.all the celebrating you want to. That 40 kilometre., reached in the

:10:47. > :10:54.two hours, one minute and 12 seconds. Considering what had

:10:54. > :10:58.happened 5K before, 15.48. An injection of pace. Which was begun

:10:58. > :11:06.by the Kenyans. Then he picked it up and has pushed on and they have

:11:06. > :11:16.suffered. He had a little glass behind at the corner. -- little

:11:16. > :11:39.

:11:39. > :11:43.honestly did not think we would be saying that. Kenya have dominated

:11:43. > :11:47.Marathon all throughout the year, the major city marathons, the

:11:47. > :11:52.Kenyans have been winning. Stephen Kiprotich first entered the mouth

:11:52. > :12:02.and because he was invited to be a pacemaker a few years ago. He

:12:02. > :12:10.

:12:10. > :12:14.stayed on, after being a pacemaker the years we have been doing the

:12:14. > :12:18.London Marathon, I never thought I would see more people on the roads

:12:18. > :12:28.in London than we do seek in the London Marathon. Today, in the

:12:28. > :12:28.

:12:28. > :12:33.Olympic marathon, we are looking at Stephen Kiprotich. Looking strong.

:12:33. > :12:37.Doing the business. Not far to go now. The crowds are beginning to

:12:38. > :12:47.gather around here. They will see a site not one of them would have bet

:12:48. > :12:48.

:12:48. > :12:58.on. Two hours and seven, his best of time. Uganda have waited 40

:12:58. > :13:02.

:13:02. > :13:08.years since Munich 19 scented to -- 1972. Only the second ever gold-

:13:08. > :13:15.medallist from that country, it will be a huge beast -- boost.

:13:15. > :13:19.Wilson Kipsang has faded away. He has run, not a clever race. Stephen

:13:19. > :13:25.Kiprotich has run a brilliant race. I had thought he was struggling

:13:25. > :13:33.with his race but he relaxed. He is taking on water, I am delighted to

:13:33. > :13:43.see that. He is on his way to history. A proud country, a proud

:13:43. > :13:53.

:13:53. > :13:58.at the age of 17. He is now 23. I bet the London Marathon seen will

:13:58. > :14:07.be getting hold of him straight after this. He will be coming back

:14:07. > :14:12.to London, he loves it so much. What a great story, what a great

:14:12. > :14:20.result. What a great young man and what great ambition he has shown to

:14:20. > :14:27.move away from his home, to pursue his athletic dream. And there he

:14:27. > :14:32.comes, Abel Kirui in second place for start Kenya, two gold medals in

:14:32. > :14:42.the Olympic Games. A disappointing Olympic Games from their point of

:14:42. > :14:43.

:14:43. > :14:48.view. This man, in front of Buckingham Palace and the Queen

:14:48. > :14:54.Victoria Memorial, with the crowds thronging the streets, what an

:14:54. > :14:58.experience this must have been, as he swings round and he lines up.

:14:58. > :15:07.All he has to look at is the red carpets of the Mall and he knows he

:15:07. > :15:15.is on his way to the finish. Well done Stephen Kiprotich. The last

:15:15. > :15:21.corner of the marathon. About 350 metres away he will be able to see

:15:21. > :15:25.the finished tape. They have got it out ready for him. This man, who

:15:25. > :15:32.came here with a personal best of just two hours, seven minutes and

:15:33. > :15:38.20, completely unfancied. Nobody would have put him down as a medal

:15:38. > :15:43.contender. He won't be too far outside his personal best. The

:15:43. > :15:49.smile breaks out across his face. One of seven children. The

:15:49. > :15:53.sacrifices he went on to make for his athletics career. They have

:15:53. > :15:59.come too rich fruition at the Olympic Games. Stephen Kiprotich of

:15:59. > :16:05.Uganda, enjoying these last few strides as the crowd in the Mall

:16:05. > :16:11.rise to him. The cameras are out, the flags are being waved. The

:16:11. > :16:15.world champion, Kirui wasn't able to do anything about it. The

:16:15. > :16:20.Kenyans thought they have this one in terms of another gold medal for

:16:20. > :16:25.them. But it wasn't to be. It is the flag of Uganda draped across

:16:26. > :16:35.the shoulders of Stephen Kiprotich will be waived. The gold medal for

:16:35. > :16:40.Uganda. The race of his life, he is the Olympic champion. One of the

:16:40. > :16:50.quickest races of his career, in these conditions. What a time to

:16:50. > :16:51.

:16:51. > :17:01.find the best you have ever done. World champion, Kirui comes in for

:17:01. > :17:03.

:17:03. > :17:10.Kenya, vindicating his selection. It has been a long wait the Uganda.

:17:10. > :17:20.As Brendan was saying, since 1972 and now they have a new hero.

:17:20. > :17:24.

:17:24. > :17:30.this man, Wilson Kipsang, I think ramp a strange race, Steve? Wilson

:17:30. > :17:38.Kipsang is in the Mall, on his way to the finish for the bronze medal

:17:38. > :17:42.for Kenya. And there he is. To be honest, I think he lost the race

:17:42. > :17:47.because of his own tactics. Disappointing to see the fastest

:17:47. > :17:53.man in the field, the second fastest marathon runner in history,

:17:53. > :17:58.not able to judge it in a big competition. They get so used to

:17:58. > :18:04.pacemakers in these races, when you run a race, you sometimes make a

:18:04. > :18:14.wrong judgment. And that was the wrong judgments by a very talented

:18:14. > :18:15.

:18:15. > :18:21.runner. A bronze medal for his efforts. Kenya, a silver and a

:18:21. > :18:27.bronze in an Olympic marathon is a great achievement for the

:18:27. > :18:37.individual athlete, but their team management will be looking at it as

:18:37. > :18:38.

:18:38. > :18:45.a failure. Keflezighi, ahead of Dos Santos. Nakamoto in 6th place at

:18:45. > :18:51.the moment. Keflezighi, a very good run from him, the man who took the

:18:51. > :19:01.silver-medal eight years ago. He he might be as surprised as anyone to

:19:01. > :19:08.find out who the winner was. Lee Merrien is still going OK, has

:19:08. > :19:14.picked up another few places and has moved into 30th place. But

:19:14. > :19:22.coming to finish his marathon, it has been a long, hot day, and he

:19:22. > :19:29.will be able to hold his head up high. Keflezighi. Fourth place at

:19:29. > :19:36.the USA has been received with great pleasure, Stars and Stripes

:19:36. > :19:45.all over at the finish line. Dos Santos just caught. He finishes 5th

:19:45. > :19:49.of. And Nakamoto of Japan finishes in 6th. It was a comfortable win in

:19:49. > :19:56.the end by Stephen Kiprotich and Uganda. Our long wait for another

:19:56. > :20:00.gold medal for his country, 1972. He must be tired, but a later.

:20:00. > :20:07.Congratulations, what a wonderful performance. Only the second gold

:20:07. > :20:14.medal for Uganda, what will this mean to your country? It means a

:20:14. > :20:19.lot, since 1972 we have never won a medal. I am very happy to have done

:20:19. > :20:29.this false start you made a lot of sacrifices, at the end of 17 going

:20:29. > :20:48.

:20:48. > :20:58.to Kenya to train. How did that are having a language barrier with

:20:58. > :21:04.

:21:04. > :21:08.him, but you can tell by the smile on his face he is a happy man.

:21:08. > :21:12.STUDIO: lots of people surprised to see him come over the line first?

:21:12. > :21:17.It was a surprise, it is almost like the curse of the Olympic

:21:17. > :21:20.marathon. If you look back in history, for the last few Olympic

:21:20. > :21:26.marathons, whoever has been the favoured going into the right, has

:21:26. > :21:31.not won. Stephen Kiprotich's name was never in the frame. We thought

:21:31. > :21:36.it was a battle between Kenya and Ethiopia, but Ethiopia had nothing

:21:36. > :21:40.to show. It was dramatic, with a few kilometres lap, Stephen

:21:40. > :21:46.Kiprotich looked like he was struggling, holding his leg. When

:21:46. > :21:50.he kicked, it was such a decisive move, the others had no response.

:21:50. > :21:55.It seems like a fitting end that so many people have come out onto the

:21:55. > :21:59.streets. It has been a common theme the way the nation has got behind

:21:59. > :22:04.these Games. What a display, Brendan was saying he has never

:22:04. > :22:08.seen this street like it for a marathon? The facts Stephen

:22:08. > :22:12.Kiprotich ran 40 seconds slower than his personal best, you

:22:12. > :22:17.wouldn't expect to see that in an Olympic marathon. The crowds have

:22:17. > :22:21.been amazing. In all the big city races I have done, I have never

:22:21. > :22:26.seen this number of people out on the course, cheering and offering

:22:26. > :22:31.their support. It is a great end up for the athletics at the Olympic

:22:31. > :22:41.Games. We will go back to Steve and

:22:41. > :22:45.

:22:45. > :22:50.Brendan to see the British athletes city marathon, they may not choose

:22:50. > :22:55.to extend their stay on the course when they are having a bad day, but

:22:55. > :23:03.when it the Olympic marathon, you want to finish. Lee Merrien, we're

:23:03. > :23:10.just waiting for him. He is heading for a top 30 finish. This is one of

:23:10. > :23:13.the best marathon runners in the world. He has won here in London.

:23:13. > :23:20.Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai, crossing the line, very, very tired

:23:20. > :23:30.athlete. He is in 17th position. Just look at what it is doing to

:23:30. > :23:30.

:23:30. > :23:40.are running at lunchtime, 12 o'clock. The hottest part of the

:23:40. > :23:41.

:23:41. > :23:51.day. To be fair to the athletes, the shop steward would have asked

:23:51. > :23:52.

:23:52. > :24:02.to start at 8 o'clock. Courts back in 1948, -- the Belgian athlete was

:24:02. > :24:07.in the lead going into the stadium. He staggered in. I think the

:24:07. > :24:15.British athlete came through. The Argentinian Guy won the race. Tom

:24:15. > :24:19.Richardson won the single muddle. - - silver medal. These last few

:24:19. > :24:23.yards are often the hardest, and it's the mental strength that gets

:24:23. > :24:30.you to the finish line. Lots of people have now experience that for

:24:30. > :24:34.themselves, of course, in big city marathons around the world. Waiting

:24:34. > :24:39.to see a Lee Merrien from Great Britain and Guernsey. We think he's

:24:39. > :24:43.very close to the finish line. He will be the first British person to

:24:43. > :24:49.finish because Scott Overall is having a difficult day out there.

:24:49. > :24:59.He was going well for a while but conditions took a toll on him.

:24:59. > :25:02.

:25:02. > :25:08.absolutely fantastic. The crowds have been kinder. The weather has

:25:08. > :25:12.not been kind. Here comes Lee Merrien of Great Britain. Well done.

:25:12. > :25:18.Well done for getting into the selection of the team. Two hours

:25:18. > :25:23.and 16 minutes. The British supporters are giving him a great,

:25:23. > :25:27.great support. Well done, Lee Merrien. He looks at his watch like

:25:27. > :25:37.the professional athlete that he is, and I think that was a decent

:25:37. > :25:41.performance. Well done to him. A top 30 finish to him. Unfortunately

:25:41. > :25:46.Scott Overall is having a difficult time, and has slipped back to 57th.

:25:46. > :25:51.I'm sure he will finish. He will be another seven or eight minutes

:25:51. > :25:56.before he crosses the line. And hope the completes his Olympic saga.

:25:56. > :26:01.A surprise winner, Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda. Wilson

:26:01. > :26:06.Kipsang Kiprotich having to settle for silver and bronze. A hot day,

:26:06. > :26:16.in terms of support, it's been great. For Brendan and I, it's been

:26:16. > :26:34.

:26:34. > :26:41.a fantastic couple of weeks at the over the line up on the red button.

:26:41. > :26:46.Scott Overall will be coming through shortly. What a morning.

:26:46. > :26:53.Absolutely boiling hot. Memorable scenes a million people turned out

:26:53. > :26:59.down there to cheer everybody on. It's all over for you. You can go