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:02:08. > :02:13.The Olympics are under way and it was an opening day to savour. Today

:02:13. > :02:17.there are 14 gold medals up for grabs. After early disappointment

:02:17. > :02:24.for Team GB eaters over to the Beijing Golden girls today to get

:02:24. > :02:29.things going. And plenty in the case for the defence.

:02:29. > :02:35.Rebecca Adlington surprised the field for years ago. Shirt -- can

:02:36. > :02:39.she retained her 400m freestyle title today? Nicole Cooke was

:02:39. > :02:49.another Beijing winner but will Lizzie Armitstead grab the

:02:49. > :02:53.limelight in London? Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter cannot

:02:54. > :03:02.win a medal today but there hoping to follow up with another good day

:03:02. > :03:08.for British rowing. And Wimbledon finalist this month, it could be a

:03:08. > :03:15.golden August for Andy Mariek ft? And here's the plan for the early

:03:15. > :03:20.part the day. Earls Court first of all for the volleyball. Then over

:03:20. > :03:24.to Lord's for the archery with the British women hoping to do better

:03:24. > :03:30.than the men yesterday when they take on Russia. And then we're at

:03:30. > :03:40.the equestrian event to see Zara Phillips in the dressage. And you

:03:40. > :03:40.

:03:40. > :03:50.shall deal of rowing heats later on. If you what action straight away,

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:03:53. > :04:00.BBC Three has the Badminton at Wembley. New Zealand take on

:04:00. > :04:03.Australia in the women's hockey. And there are many options on the

:04:04. > :04:08.BBC sport website with shooting, table tennis and beach volleyball

:04:09. > :04:13.all under way. Or you could stay with us here on BBC One as we bring

:04:13. > :04:18.you all the best bits from the second day of London 2012. Ian

:04:18. > :04:24.Thorpe is back on the sofa with us once again. Let us start with that

:04:24. > :04:33.eventful night in the pool. It has been a shocking day in swimming.

:04:33. > :04:36.There were unexpected results and that followed through to the finals.

:04:36. > :04:41.For a lot of people it was a devastating result for Michael

:04:41. > :04:48.Phelps. What happened? I think he is going to be better in the

:04:48. > :04:53.shorter events. He is prioritising the 200m butterfly. And maximising

:04:53. > :05:00.his opportunities here. Ryan Lochte had a great night. But Michael

:05:00. > :05:04.Phelps, he had a poor race, he has admitted that. I think everyone was

:05:04. > :05:11.surprised that he was not in a winning position. They expected to

:05:11. > :05:19.see him with the silver medal. Lochte looking on fantastic form.

:05:19. > :05:25.Fantastic. There was a moment that must have had personal significance

:05:25. > :05:30.for you, seeing you're Olympic record broken? I'm happy. When you

:05:30. > :05:35.have a record of some kind you are the custodian of it until someone

:05:35. > :05:44.else does it. I was excited last night and felt someone might

:05:45. > :05:50.actually break that record in the freestyle. It was so close.

:05:50. > :05:54.Congratulations to China for the first ever men's gold medal. Well

:05:54. > :05:59.overall it was a disappointing start for Team GB's swimmers in the

:05:59. > :06:04.pool. Today the focus will be Rebecca Adlington, the start of

:06:04. > :06:14.British swimming after Beijing. She is defending both Olympic titles at

:06:14. > :06:19.

:06:19. > :06:24.these Games. And the weight of I have coached over 30 years and

:06:24. > :06:29.have never coached anyone with the drive that Rebecca has got. She has

:06:29. > :06:34.an innate ability to push yourself to the limit. It is in her DNA and

:06:34. > :06:40.what makes her such an awesome competitor. She is one of the most

:06:40. > :06:46.grounded people I have ever met. She just takes it in her stride.

:06:46. > :06:50.And she's always happy. She has done an incredible job. Not only

:06:50. > :06:59.her results in Beijing but being able to follow them up with strong

:06:59. > :07:06.consistency. Rebecca Adlington, you are

:07:06. > :07:10.absolutely brilliant! So going into Beijing you could

:07:11. > :07:16.sneak under the radar but certainly not this time. Definitely not. But

:07:16. > :07:22.everything has been so enjoyable. In Beijing it all happened so fast,

:07:22. > :07:28.it was overwhelming. I forgot to have enjoyed it, take it all in.

:07:28. > :07:34.Whereas this time I have been doing that and it has been good. After

:07:34. > :07:38.Beijing I wanted to take some time off. I wanted to enjoy everything,

:07:38. > :07:46.it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would never have

:07:46. > :07:53.that experience again. I'm glad I did that, I have no regret at all.

:07:53. > :07:58.I was pleased with my 400 in two dozen and nine but not so much the

:07:58. > :08:06.800. I have definitely learnt more from my not so good swims than the

:08:06. > :08:12.good ones. And I definitely would not change that. Are you excited at

:08:12. > :08:17.that moment when they announce your name and 17,000 people scream?

:08:17. > :08:23.never really focus much and the crowd, I'm so busy thinking what I

:08:23. > :08:28.have to do, concentrating, checking everything. You're doing so many

:08:28. > :08:34.little things. You do not fully appreciate the crowd until the

:08:34. > :08:38.finish. Then you look around and think, that was incredible. Anyone

:08:38. > :08:43.can do absolutely anything in an Olympic year. No one expected me to

:08:43. > :08:47.do so well in Beijing and it will be the same this time, there will

:08:47. > :08:53.be people coming out of know where you have never heard of. There will

:08:53. > :08:59.be surprises, everything, that is the point of a Olympics. Hopefully

:08:59. > :09:04.we can all pull something out of the bag and get some personal bests.

:09:04. > :09:10.Where such a good team, so strong. A personal best for you would mean

:09:10. > :09:18.a new world record, is that the target? I would love to get a

:09:19. > :09:26.personal best, of course. And everyone always says that to me. I

:09:26. > :09:31.would love to be able to go faster, try to get a little bit quicker.

:09:31. > :09:36.But I would definitely take a personal best!

:09:36. > :09:42.Rebecca Adlington who will be in the pool this morning. It is so

:09:42. > :09:46.different for her going into these games. A yes she was the underdog

:09:46. > :09:54.going into Beijing and then produce these fantastic results and became

:09:54. > :09:58.the darling for the British public. It has been a long time since we

:09:58. > :10:02.had a swimmers such as this. It will be very different for her at

:10:02. > :10:07.these games and also the pressure of a home a limpets and being the

:10:07. > :10:11.defending champion. Your experience is that you're the darling of

:10:11. > :10:16.Sydney and then went on to Athens for years later. It was a little

:10:16. > :10:23.bit different. There was always a heightened expectation around my

:10:23. > :10:29.performance. For me to produce a result. You do feel it. Although

:10:29. > :10:35.you try to pretend you do not, it is there. You can use it but

:10:35. > :10:39.sometimes it does feel like pressure. And for Rebecca she will

:10:39. > :10:43.have all of these things to contend with. I think she will swim well

:10:43. > :10:47.and I think that will make her performance even better. Will she

:10:47. > :10:51.want to hear the crowd, do you think? Many of them are wearing

:10:51. > :10:56.headphones will stock it is the home games and some of that

:10:56. > :11:01.swimmers have not experienced this kind of a crowd before. And knowing

:11:01. > :11:10.they will be cheering for the GB team, some of them have decided to

:11:10. > :11:19.block it out. Others have said, I want to hear the roar of the crowd

:11:19. > :11:24.and use that to my own advantage. Well Rebecca Adlington herself will

:11:24. > :11:30.be taking place in the swimming heats within the hour.

:11:30. > :11:38.It is always interesting being here early. Look how many swimmers are

:11:39. > :11:45.out there. They have to swim in clockwise rotation. There is a lot

:11:45. > :11:50.of activity. Mark, this is your environment. We could talk about

:11:50. > :11:58.Rebecca Adlington of four hours. But she is not listening to this,

:11:58. > :12:04.she is in their just getting on for it. She may come in for a first

:12:04. > :12:08.warm-up. Depending on what your distance is, most swimmers will go

:12:09. > :12:17.in for about an hour before they start. Everyone has their own

:12:17. > :12:23.ritual. A lot of people like to swim in the competition full -- the

:12:23. > :12:32.competition full to get the feel of it. I love being here. Going back

:12:32. > :12:36.to Rebecca, it seems that in Beijing she was 19 years old and

:12:36. > :12:41.very fresh and did not expect anything. For A23 year-old she is

:12:41. > :12:46.still now quite naive. She does not seem to be burdened too much.

:12:46. > :12:52.Looking at the race again, it is the most extraordinary thing. She

:12:52. > :13:02.was fifth-place with one length to go. She did come back and no one

:13:02. > :13:04.

:13:04. > :13:14.expected this. She just came and came. No one expected that. It was

:13:14. > :13:14.

:13:14. > :13:20.just an amazing moment. Joe Jackson is also taking part and she has had

:13:20. > :13:23.terrible problems with asthma. It is amazing that she has come back

:13:23. > :13:30.from that. Rebecca's problems have not been physical but she did have

:13:30. > :13:34.a kind of mental dip, the pressure of being the Olympic champion.

:13:34. > :13:41.There is expedition from the public and you go from being the Hunter to

:13:41. > :13:48.the hunted. And everyone is now chasing her so it is a different

:13:48. > :13:52.mindset. Then you're dealing with the public pressure. And also

:13:52. > :13:57.people saying stupid things about you, and just get on with it and

:13:57. > :14:05.say this is what I do, I will go out and do my best. And good luck

:14:05. > :14:09.to her. Gemma Spofforth was the best in the world in 2009. She has

:14:09. > :14:15.been through a lot of things at home that you would not wish upon

:14:15. > :14:20.anyone. Her mother died, she kept it secret and decided she did not

:14:20. > :14:27.want to talk about it. After the Olympics her father, his new

:14:27. > :14:35.partner then died. And his partner's daughter. That was three

:14:35. > :14:40.deaths in the space of five years. It has been a tough ride for her.

:14:40. > :14:49.It is so nice to see you smiling. You have had such a tough couple of

:14:49. > :14:54.years. Definitely. The last few years, I have been all over the

:14:54. > :15:00.place. But since the trials I have been the happiest I have been in my

:15:00. > :15:04.whole career. I've just learnt to take each moment and enjoyed it.

:15:05. > :15:09.Just in join my training and the paint I'm getting from it and the

:15:09. > :15:13.fun. It has changed everything about my training and my world and

:15:13. > :15:18.everything. I'm just excited about what is to come because I'm in the

:15:18. > :15:25.best place I have been for a long time. Are you now racing for

:15:25. > :15:30.yourself? I am. It is amazing how quickly that turn around took place.

:15:30. > :15:37.One of the things I struggled with for a long time is how selfish an

:15:37. > :15:41.athlete can be and how much we take from so many people. Family and

:15:41. > :15:46.friends sacrifice so much, coaches give us so much all the time. It

:15:46. > :15:50.took me a long time to get around that. What I have learnt is that I

:15:50. > :15:57.am being selfish but I'm also giving back in a lot of ways. I

:15:57. > :16:07.have to balance that. And using swimming to be able to give back to

:16:07. > :16:09.

:16:09. > :16:19.certain people. It took me a long I know that whatever I do in the

:16:19. > :16:24.pool is 100%. There is nothing more that I can give. So Gemma Spofforth

:16:24. > :16:29.is back? Yes, she is back and enjoying swimming again and the

:16:29. > :16:35.world is my oyster and anything can happen and die have my own personal

:16:35. > :16:40.golds. Nobody comes to the Olympics to come second, third or 4th, so my

:16:40. > :16:46.golds are high, but if that does not happen I know that I have put

:16:46. > :16:53.might all into that race. She is back, which is very good news. She

:16:53. > :16:57.trains in Florida with a Ryan Lochte? Yes they have a grit their

:16:57. > :17:02.which is the best in the world. She went through that Sujit lull after

:17:02. > :17:06.becoming world champion and she was on top of the world. Dealing with

:17:06. > :17:13.all those demons and things that happen in your life, I have never

:17:13. > :17:20.had those losses, but she is such a lovely person. I saw her walking

:17:20. > :17:25.and she had a smile on her face and a glint back in her eyes. She will

:17:25. > :17:29.be in the swimming pool at about 10:20am. Lots of action with

:17:29. > :17:34.British swimmers. Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte are back in the

:17:34. > :17:38.pool as well. Gemma Spofforth will be competing

:17:38. > :17:44.against Missy Franklin. She has become a teenage sensation over the

:17:44. > :17:48.course of the last year. As Michael Phelps says, she is one of the best

:17:48. > :17:52.female swimmers he has ever seen. And she is and it is quite

:17:52. > :17:58.extraordinary. This happens from time to time when you see a very

:17:58. > :18:02.young, talented swimmer who bursts onto the scene. We saw it last

:18:02. > :18:06.night with the Chinese women just at 16 winning an Olympic gold and

:18:07. > :18:12.breaking a world record. But a Missy Franklin will have an

:18:12. > :18:19.incredible Olympic Games. There are lots of young swimmers in the squad.

:18:19. > :18:25.How world for you when you became world champion? I was 15. The

:18:25. > :18:30.youngest ever male world champion. There are pluses and minuses about

:18:30. > :18:35.being young. You have this childhood naivety about what you

:18:35. > :18:42.are doing and you do not realise the significance of it. But you are

:18:42. > :18:45.quite immature. You think you are an adult, every teenager does. It

:18:45. > :18:51.is one of those things that you feel like you can conquer the world

:18:51. > :18:56.and it is a bigger advantage to being young. But the impact it can

:18:56. > :19:01.have in later years is you can be a one-hit wonder and there have been

:19:02. > :19:06.a number of cases where it has been a one off. I guess it is about

:19:06. > :19:10.managing those experiences for those around those young swimmers.

:19:10. > :19:15.There is lots to watch out for up in the swimming heats, but it is

:19:15. > :19:21.busy as well in the rowing and it is all happening at Eton Dorney.

:19:21. > :19:25.John Inverdale is there again. Great start for Britain again.

:19:25. > :19:31.Amongst them Alan Campbell he was in imperious form in the single

:19:31. > :19:37.sculls, how did you feel? I am very happy. My season form was not quite

:19:38. > :19:42.there, but we have turned a corner and we are on top of it. I was very

:19:42. > :19:50.happy with yesterday and I felt good. I was just thinking about

:19:50. > :19:55.myself, about what I was doing. Not really worrying about the rest.

:19:55. > :20:00.talk about it being internalised, and there was a piece a minute ago

:20:00. > :20:04.with Gemma Spofforth who has said only personal tragedy has made her

:20:04. > :20:10.realise how selfish you have to be as a sports person to achieve what

:20:10. > :20:16.you want. Are you very conscious of that? People close to get

:20:16. > :20:21.marginalised? Yes, getting married this year, my first year of

:20:21. > :20:29.marriage and it is the first year I have been homesick. On training

:20:29. > :20:33.camps... She is loving hearing this. I have had a line of pillows to

:20:33. > :20:40.have that presence. It is very odd for her because she is not an

:20:40. > :20:45.athlete. She is not in to sport, she is into Alan the person, not

:20:45. > :20:50.Alan the rower. It has been very hard for her with me disappearing

:20:50. > :20:53.off on the training camps and she has done very well. But the support

:20:53. > :20:59.team behind have to take a huge amount of credit and they allow me

:20:59. > :21:03.to get on and do what I want to do and they support me. Being a role

:21:03. > :21:10.and an Olympic athlete is one of the most selfish vocations you

:21:10. > :21:15.could have because it is all about how good you can be. It is not so

:21:15. > :21:20.much that there are great gains for other people. But on the flipside I

:21:20. > :21:26.hope we can make good role models. Steve is a fantastic role model and

:21:26. > :21:31.he inspired me to take up sport in the first place. What did you make

:21:31. > :21:37.of Alyn yesterday? I thought it was very good and I thought the

:21:37. > :21:41.interview you did before on Portugal was an insight in some

:21:41. > :21:46.ways of the pressure that is on the athlete coming up to the final

:21:46. > :21:51.trials and then the attitude of going into the season and not doing

:21:51. > :21:54.the double and sticking to the single. Then finding you are

:21:54. > :21:57.isolated and fighting against the selection, even though everyone had

:21:57. > :22:02.agreed with it and you were trying to justify that and the results

:22:02. > :22:07.were not happening as consistently as they had over the past few years.

:22:07. > :22:11.That is a good insight of where he is and where he is now. It is

:22:11. > :22:15.always difficult in the first race because the entry is so big. Six

:22:15. > :22:21.heats and there is one good one in each one and there is nobody to

:22:21. > :22:25.race. It is a case a bracing yourself and putting down a marker.

:22:25. > :22:29.As a veteran campaigner and you have been to so many regattas, it

:22:29. > :22:35.must be in the hundreds, how does this whole environment and

:22:35. > :22:41.atmosphere compare with anything you have had before? It does not

:22:41. > :22:48.compare to Eton Dorney any time I have been here before. If anything,

:22:48. > :22:53.it reminds me more of Beijing and the set-up there. It is fantastic.

:22:53. > :22:59.When I was watching the racing before my own race, I watched the

:22:59. > :23:09.girls pair, and I heard the crowds and I thought that you had been

:23:09. > :23:14.dubbing in-crowd denies. Don't tell anybody that! I could not imagine

:23:14. > :23:20.where you had been recording it. As I came down it was absolutely

:23:20. > :23:24.insane. The noise is not something I have experienced before. I had

:23:24. > :23:29.been at Henley with 100,000 people on the banks and it did not sound

:23:30. > :23:35.anything like that. It was absolutely phenomenal. Coming into

:23:35. > :23:39.the last 300 where you have got the grandstand, it reminded me of the

:23:39. > :23:44.Crucible in the snooker with two match is happening on either side

:23:44. > :23:48.and one side is cheering as the other side is lining up the pot. It

:23:48. > :23:52.was like the two size were competing against each other to get

:23:52. > :23:57.the cheering. What you hear on the television is what we are hearing

:23:57. > :24:05.out there, definitely. Brilliant, that is the best you have summed it

:24:05. > :24:11.up. Best of luck. I'm sure we will be talking to you a few more times.

:24:11. > :24:14.As far as today is concerned, one of our main focus of attention is

:24:14. > :24:19.on a Zac Purchase and our country. Sport is great when it is going

:24:19. > :24:27.well and less good when it is not going well and they had experienced

:24:27. > :24:32.the good and the bad. Beijing was am really exciting year. We had 13

:24:32. > :24:38.races and won 13 races. It is nice to have it in the back of your mind,

:24:38. > :24:43.but you cannot rely on it. You have to be on the starting line and not

:24:43. > :24:50.rely on the past. These men are Britain's best ever lightweight

:24:50. > :24:55.rowers. In 2008, Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter went to Beijing and did

:24:55. > :25:00.something that no-one had ever done before. We have now gone into the

:25:00. > :25:06.record books. Great Britain by the Olympic champions and it sounds

:25:06. > :25:11.fantastic. A partnership that was only a year in the making, Zac

:25:11. > :25:20.Purchase's style and punter's attention to detail made them a

:25:20. > :25:25.formidable combination. We had the right combination, the right team.

:25:25. > :25:31.We made history by winning gold and we knew we had a long way to go. We

:25:31. > :25:35.knew we could progress and move on. Hunter had given so much for his

:25:35. > :25:40.golden moment in China he headed to the beaches of California for some

:25:40. > :25:45.time out, but the lure of London enticed him back into the boat and

:25:45. > :25:52.they won the World Championships in 2010. Despite Zac Purchase missing

:25:52. > :25:56.much of 2011, with a buyer is, they managed to repeat that feat. It was

:25:56. > :26:00.about making sure that the progression was centred about

:26:00. > :26:05.winning the World Championships, rather than on a day-to-day basis.

:26:05. > :26:09.It was good to prove to ourselves that we could pull ourselves out of

:26:10. > :26:15.a whole, but hopefully we will never get into a hole again.

:26:15. > :26:23.Olympic year began so brightly with victory in the Belgrade World Cup,

:26:23. > :26:28.but the stark reality of the Lucerne Regatta where they finish

:26:28. > :26:34.amongst the also-rans, made it clear what they had to do. We had

:26:34. > :26:40.some good form, but also some disappointing results. We came 6th,

:26:40. > :26:43.but they were very different races in very different regattas. We were

:26:43. > :26:51.critical and we played the big here to see what happened and we picked

:26:51. > :26:57.out a lot of faults. Some we probably would not have looked at

:26:57. > :27:01.in as much detail if we had not got beaten. They had dealt with injury,

:27:01. > :27:05.illness and high-profile defeats, but they are natural winners. All

:27:05. > :27:10.that has gone before or will be forgotten if the heroics of Beijing

:27:10. > :27:16.can be repeated. When you sit on that start-line history is

:27:16. > :27:21.forgotten. It is what you do in that race. The only reason we are

:27:21. > :27:25.going to London is to cross that finish line first and hear the

:27:25. > :27:33.national anthem and hear the crowd go absolutely crazy. I just cannot

:27:33. > :27:36.wait. They do not have long to wait. 11:20am is their first race. Offer

:27:36. > :27:42.as reasons for optimism given the fact their last two performances in

:27:42. > :27:47.the World Cup were disappointing. To come back to win a medal is

:27:47. > :27:51.going to be tough and to win a gold medal is ridiculous, but they can

:27:51. > :27:57.do this. They are the type of characters who can get themselves

:27:57. > :28:02.out of a whole. They are able to turn it around. If they win gold,

:28:02. > :28:06.that would not surprise me. Anybody else in the world championships

:28:06. > :28:12.coming 6th, there is no way. That is why I'm interested in this

:28:12. > :28:16.morning because it will tell us if they add back on form or not.

:28:16. > :28:21.back and join us a bit later on. If you want to watch the rowing,

:28:21. > :28:24.you can press the red button on goat to the BBC sport website.

:28:24. > :28:34.Yesterday we had a look at the beach volleyball, but now it is

:28:34. > :28:35.

:28:35. > :28:40.time to look at the more The court is 18 metres long and

:28:40. > :28:47.nine metres wide. There is a three- metre attacking zone either side of

:28:47. > :28:52.the net. This separates the back and front of the court. The Net is

:28:52. > :29:00.2.43 metres high for the men and 2.24 metres for the women. The ball

:29:00. > :29:06.weighs between 260 and 280 grams. It can travel at speeds of up to

:29:06. > :29:11.100 miles an hour. Each match is the best of five sets. The first

:29:11. > :29:16.four sets are played to 25 points with the final set being played to

:29:16. > :29:20.15 points. Each team has six players on the court with a further

:29:20. > :29:26.six substitutes. Every point begins with a service and the main aim is

:29:26. > :29:29.to stop the ball hitting the floor on your side of the court. If the

:29:29. > :29:35.opposing team hit the ball out or fail to return it properly, they

:29:35. > :29:39.lose the point. Teams can touch the ball no more than three times and

:29:39. > :29:47.no single player is allowed to touch the ball twice in succession

:29:47. > :29:55.and lest the first touch is a block. There will be 12 teams in both the

:29:55. > :29:58.men's and women's events. Divided into two pools of six they play a

:29:58. > :30:03.round-robin format with the four best teams qualifying for the

:30:03. > :30:13.knockout phase all the way through to the final wears a gold medal

:30:13. > :30:14.

:30:14. > :30:20.If you would like to get involved in the Olympic sports, go to the

:30:20. > :30:24.website for more information. And the action has got under way.

:30:24. > :30:31.The captain of the British team thinks they have a realistic chance

:30:31. > :30:35.of getting into the last four. Today they are digging on Bulgaria.

:30:35. > :30:40.Today they are digging on Bulgaria. -- taking on.

:30:40. > :30:50.Join us with Bulgaria at just having taken the first point. Great

:30:50. > :30:54.Britain making their debut in these games. The women's saying yesterday

:30:54. > :31:04.that as they walked on in front of a huge crowd, the feeling was

:31:04. > :31:08.

:31:08. > :31:18.indescribable. Can they mustered 25 points to take the first set?

:31:18. > :31:23.

:31:23. > :31:33.A first 0.4 Great Britain! -- point for Great Britain. That is a

:31:33. > :31:42.

:31:42. > :31:52.significant moment for them. Great Britain now serve. Point two.

:31:52. > :32:04.

:32:04. > :32:09.The trademark huddle. The GB coach, a calm presence on the sidelines.

:32:09. > :32:19.Mark McGivern normally plays volleyball in France. Now in front

:32:19. > :32:22.

:32:22. > :32:32.of his home crowd. That is the power of the Bulgarians, ranked

:32:32. > :32:38.

:32:38. > :32:48.nine in the world. GB feel this match is winnable. Great Britain

:32:48. > :32:48.

:32:48. > :33:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:33:40. > :33:50.in the afternoon is fine for him! He does not like the early start.

:33:50. > :33:53.

:33:53. > :34:03.Good block by the Bulgarians. Bulgaria take the point and the

:34:03. > :34:12.

:34:12. > :34:22.lead. The block by the British team going out of court.

:34:22. > :34:32.

:34:32. > :34:42.Samba, as he is known, here he comes! He applied to join the team

:34:42. > :34:44.

:34:44. > :34:54.as soon as he heard London were hosting the games. An attacker

:34:54. > :35:05.

:35:05. > :35:13.coming from deep, a pike as it is called. Bulgaria have the lead.

:35:13. > :35:23.Miscommunication there between the British front three.

:35:23. > :35:23.

:35:23. > :36:06.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:36:06. > :36:13.attacking shot but Bulgaria blocked for! But it was not good enough. I

:36:13. > :36:23.think that was an extra touch so great Britain have lost the. With

:36:23. > :36:29.

:36:29. > :36:35.the first technical time out. -- the point. Each coach has the

:36:35. > :36:45.chance to call his players off twice in Passat. So it is a solid

:36:45. > :36:55.start. But if they are to advance they need to see that they stayed

:36:55. > :36:55.

:36:55. > :37:49.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:37:49. > :37:59.what Great Britain aspire to. The block was there but he was not

:37:59. > :37:59.

:37:59. > :39:20.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:39:20. > :39:29.prevented from finishing. And a for the British team.

:39:29. > :39:39.Bulgaria take the point and have the serve. That was just in. It

:39:39. > :39:43.

:39:43. > :39:53.dipped at the final moment. We have seen this throughout this

:39:53. > :40:24.

:40:24. > :40:34.tournament. The ball can sometimes specialist position. And Great

:40:34. > :41:05.

:41:05. > :41:15.right arm over. Even the top blockers, few could have stopped

:41:15. > :41:33.

:41:33. > :41:43.impressive in a warm up game against Germany.

:41:43. > :41:49.

:41:49. > :41:59.And Britain have the point. The block worked well. Speed and energy

:41:59. > :42:31.

:42:31. > :42:41.three points in it now. Time-out. Not sure who has called that. It

:42:41. > :42:50.

:42:50. > :43:00.must be the Bulgarians. So far this has been a more

:43:00. > :43:00.

:43:00. > :43:57.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:43:57. > :44:07.promising patch of the game for deft touches. The tactics of

:44:07. > :44:25.

:44:25. > :44:35.working and opening. Nathan French to serve. Nikolov again. Six foot

:44:35. > :44:44.

:44:44. > :44:54.nine. Samba man comes to Great Britain's

:44:54. > :44:57.

:44:57. > :45:07.aid. Bulgaria have the experience but Great Britain have the belief

:45:07. > :45:25.

:45:25. > :45:35.and the spirit. And they are going points scorer with three so far for

:45:35. > :45:49.

:45:49. > :45:59.Bulgaria. And on the back of that Britain team unable to act quickly

:45:59. > :46:35.

:46:35. > :46:40.momentum, so important in inside. It has been a tense first

:46:40. > :46:45.set against Bulgaria, but a promising experience overall

:46:46. > :46:51.because this is an Olympic debut for Britain's volleyball team. They

:46:51. > :46:59.are taking a technical time-out. If you want to stay with it, press

:46:59. > :47:09.your red button. Also you can find judo. That competition is under way

:47:09. > :47:13.

:47:13. > :47:17.with Sophie Cox and Colin Oates in action. There are even more options

:47:17. > :47:23.on the 24 streams on the BBC website. Table tennis, beach

:47:23. > :47:33.volleyball, badminton, take your pick. Now it is time for the

:47:33. > :47:33.

:47:33. > :47:39.It was a disappointing day yesterday for the men's team and we

:47:39. > :47:47.can head over to Lord's to see if the women can do any better. It is

:47:47. > :47:53.in north London, St John's Wood at Lord's Cricket Ground which has

:47:53. > :47:59.been transformed. Lords as you have never seen it before. What is it

:47:59. > :48:03.like to see this world famous Stenuit such a different event?

:48:03. > :48:09.The home of cricket is most definitely a great summer rental.

:48:09. > :48:14.They have got sued, temporary stands to house 5000 spectators and

:48:14. > :48:19.it has created an amazing amphitheatre style. It has been

:48:19. > :48:23.brilliant over the past couple of days. It was disappointing for the

:48:23. > :48:30.men yesterday. Eight that at the first hurdle and were beaten by

:48:30. > :48:34.Ukraine. They were out in the first round. We are going to see if Great

:48:34. > :48:40.Britain's women can do any better. They did not perform at their best

:48:40. > :48:48.on Friday, but they are up against Russia today, that seemed to whom

:48:48. > :48:51.they have lost twice. However, Russia can be inconsistent. The

:48:51. > :48:57.British girls say they think they are in with an outside chance of a

:48:57. > :49:05.medal. Not an easy day for the team as a whole after the men yesterday.

:49:05. > :49:10.No, so I think the GB women are hoping to turn it around. We are

:49:10. > :49:18.dominant in this sport, being knocked out at the semi-final stage,

:49:18. > :49:24.the men, by the USA. Then the USA were beaten by the Italians for

:49:24. > :49:31.gold. India have been knocked out in this event, so there has been

:49:31. > :49:38.huge drama. They are just about ready to go. Let's hand over to Liz

:49:38. > :49:44.Mynott and Eddie Butler. Russian team have been introduced

:49:44. > :49:52.to a very loud crowd. Great Britain against Russia, the third match of

:49:52. > :50:00.this morning. We have seen high quality, we have also seen

:50:00. > :50:07.disintegration here at Lord's. Poor old Ukraine rather collapsed on the

:50:07. > :50:17.team outing in front of the pavilion. Great Britain ceded only

:50:17. > :50:26.

:50:26. > :50:35.11th out of 12 after the ranking and Russia to go first. Liz Mynott

:50:35. > :50:41.is alongside me. The Russians are coming into this and they start off

:50:41. > :50:46.with a 10. They are world-ranked No. 7 at the moment. None of the

:50:46. > :50:53.Archers in the Russian team have ever been to an Olympic Games. They

:50:53. > :50:59.have never experienced the enormity at Lord's before. It is being

:50:59. > :51:07.recorded as an eight, but a little star means it will be checked. If

:51:07. > :51:17.it touches the line, it will go up to nine. And eight with the last

:51:17. > :51:34.

:51:34. > :51:39.with 10. Naomi has been shooting incredibly well this year. She got

:51:39. > :51:45.a silver at the European Championships. She can pull 810 out

:51:45. > :51:55.of the bag when she needs to. Oliver with a nine. Alison

:51:55. > :51:55.

:51:55. > :52:48.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:52:48. > :52:58.Williamson. Her 6th Olympics. It is She has been shooting incredibly

:52:58. > :53:27.

:53:27. > :53:37.Oliver. Nine. That is good. They get a bit blase about nine, but

:53:37. > :53:46.

:53:46. > :53:54.nine is good. Deep breath, Alison Williamson. Seven, first Arrow,

:53:54. > :54:00.nine, second. Alison was world ranked number one in 2005. She has

:54:00. > :54:04.been inspiring the British archers for us long as I can remember. I

:54:05. > :54:08.remember her giving me my first award at a junior national

:54:08. > :54:13.championships and I remember not wanting to wash my hands afterwards

:54:13. > :54:23.because I had met the famous Alison Williamson. She was a lovely

:54:23. > :54:25.

:54:25. > :54:30.inspiration. Britain will have a lead of six arrows. Down at the

:54:30. > :54:40.target end they are checking how big that lead will be. If the Arab

:54:40. > :55:05.

:55:05. > :55:13.touches a line, the score is still in the Goldstone.

:55:13. > :55:19.Confirmation of the scores. Russia 50, Great Britain 54, but we are

:55:19. > :55:23.only a quarter of the way through. We have got a long way to go. That

:55:23. > :55:28.is one of the long things in archery, you have to keep focusing

:55:28. > :55:37.on the arrow that you are shooting right now. You have to forget about

:55:37. > :55:47.whether you are winning or whether you are using. That is her worst

:55:47. > :55:59.

:55:59. > :56:09.score. She has gone 10, 10, 9. She has wobbled a bit. 9, 7, 8. This is

:56:09. > :56:27.

:56:27. > :56:34.the anchor, the start of the trio. girls in the stadium. They

:56:34. > :56:39.struggled a bit in the ranking range. This is so different, this

:56:39. > :56:49.is rapid fire. 24 arrows against the clock and the women are

:56:49. > :56:55.

:56:55. > :57:00.responding. Amy Oliver with a nine. Four consecutive nines. I know that

:57:00. > :57:10.all three girls have been shooting incredibly hard and together at the

:57:10. > :57:11.

:57:11. > :57:21.National Sports Centre for several years. Five nines on the trot. A

:57:21. > :57:21.

:57:21. > :58:32.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:58:32. > :58:41.halfway mark. She drifts want out medal in the team event for the

:58:41. > :58:45.ladies. There is Lloyd Brown. He is from the USA. He has been working

:58:45. > :58:55.with the girls and the boys in the British team for the last four

:58:55. > :59:00.

:59:00. > :59:07.years. It is a 10. Their lead is cut, but Britain still go into the

:59:07. > :59:12.second half with a two-point advantage. The British team are

:59:12. > :59:18.incredibly experienced. Alison Williamson, MBE, on her 6th

:59:18. > :59:25.Olympics. Naomi is on her third. This is Amy Oliver's first Olympics,

:59:25. > :59:28.although she has medals over the past few years. The last time they

:59:28. > :59:37.shot together with some significance was in the

:59:37. > :59:43.Commonwealth Games. There is a clogged issue. The clock starts and

:59:43. > :59:50.they have two minutes to shoot their six arrows. It can be a

:59:50. > :59:58.factor. We saw Ukraine rushed into their last arrow when it's nearly

:59:58. > :00:02.missed. It went for a 3 in the white rings. No place to go, it is

:00:02. > :00:09.at very lonely spot. We are really lucky with the weather because the

:00:09. > :00:14.sun is behind the clouds and it is not affecting the shooting. Before

:00:14. > :00:24.this match it was driving into the eyes of the Archers. The wind is

:00:24. > :00:29.not too bad, nothing is affecting the Arrows this morning. When the

:00:29. > :00:39.wind picks up and the rain comes this afternoon, that will be quite

:00:39. > :00:39.

:00:39. > :01:43.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:01:43. > :01:53.have changed their order a bit. As you can in the second half. A nine

:01:53. > :02:19.

:02:19. > :02:29.execution is always strong. It is a pleasure to see. Alison Williamson

:02:29. > :02:39.with a 10. That was fantastic, the balance of

:02:39. > :02:39.

:02:39. > :03:38.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:03:38. > :03:48.the shot. fire. It is lovely watching the

:03:48. > :04:09.

:04:09. > :04:19.girls, they are so settled and calm shot. It is a nine. If Russia get

:04:19. > :04:29.

:04:29. > :04:34.the extra point on checking, they will be in the lead. Nice to see

:04:34. > :04:44.Lloyd Brown getting in there with the girls. It is important that Amy

:04:44. > :04:51.

:04:51. > :05:01.gets back to her normal routine. Her heart must be pounding. We know

:05:01. > :05:12.

:05:12. > :05:22.she can shoot the ten. We are all square. Three ends gone, one to go.

:05:22. > :05:22.

:05:22. > :06:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:06:27. > :06:37.The last six arrows will settle it. two points dropped in that batch of

:06:37. > :06:42.

:06:42. > :06:52.three arrows. Absorb the support, Naomi, and use it. On the line,

:06:52. > :06:52.

:06:52. > :08:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:08:21. > :08:31.score. They will have to have very high scores to have any chance. And

:08:31. > :09:09.

:09:09. > :09:18.Lovely finish. Still a long way behind the Russian score. They

:09:19. > :09:28.finished very powerfully. And dropped very few points. And

:09:29. > :09:35.

:09:35. > :09:44.Britain suffered with an Amy Oliver six.

:09:44. > :09:52.The Rusland dad - the Russians shot above there average for this year.

:09:52. > :09:56.It was a pleasure to see. The British girls, there will take the

:09:56. > :10:05.lines and tens they shot at the beginning of the match into the

:10:05. > :10:15.individual event. They will appear in the individual

:10:15. > :10:16.

:10:16. > :10:26.competition. Russia milking the applause at the home of cricket.

:10:26. > :10:34.

:10:34. > :10:37.They are through to the quarter So the British women are just

:10:37. > :10:44.knocked out of the Olympic competition. And to bring the up-

:10:44. > :10:49.to-date with the volleyball, the men's volleyball team and Great

:10:49. > :10:55.Britain have lost the first set. They're playing Bulgaria at Earls

:10:55. > :10:59.Court. Well we will shortly see Gemma Spofforth and Miss C Franklin

:10:59. > :11:03.in action. In the meantime a special moment is approaching for

:11:03. > :11:10.Zara Phillips as she competes at the Olympics for the very first

:11:10. > :11:15.time. Wriggle over to the dressage. After missing out in Athens and

:11:15. > :11:19.Beijing what better place for Zara Phillips to make her Olympic debut

:11:19. > :11:25.than on a world heritage site overlooked by the Queen's House and

:11:25. > :11:29.in front of a home crowd? She is one of five riders on the British

:11:29. > :11:33.eventing team. The sport is a bit like a Triathlon. First they have

:11:33. > :11:37.the dressage where they perform as that test and they are judged

:11:37. > :11:42.according to balance and obedience. Then comes the cross country which

:11:42. > :11:48.is about speed and endurance as they take on a course of fixed

:11:48. > :11:54.obstacles. And then the course of flimsy coloured poles in the show

:11:54. > :11:59.jumping. Britain have been pretty successful over the years but have

:11:59. > :12:03.not won a team Olympic gold medal in 40 years. Can they do it here?

:12:03. > :12:13.They are currently lying third behind Germany and Australia. But

:12:13. > :12:13.

:12:13. > :12:18.they have only had two riders going so far. Today after Zara Phillips

:12:18. > :12:23.we have Tina Cook and William Fox- Pitt. All three more than capable

:12:23. > :12:26.of achieving big scores. And if things go their way they could have

:12:26. > :12:31.not beat him the lead, be close enough to give the leaders as

:12:31. > :12:36.sleepless night. We're a few moments away now from

:12:36. > :12:40.Zara Phillips making her Olympic debut. Both her parents are

:12:40. > :12:49.Olympians so she is following a proud family tradition. We can join

:12:49. > :12:57.our commentary team over at Greenwich Park.

:12:57. > :13:07.The Brazilians with just four riders, most teams have got five.

:13:07. > :13:23.

:13:23. > :13:33.riders, most teams have got five. Germany. And getting close to Zara

:13:33. > :14:05.

:14:05. > :14:13.Phillips now who is in the arena dressage. And some who are not

:14:13. > :14:23.quite so good and survey has been one of those, unfortunately. --

:14:23. > :14:30.

:14:30. > :14:40.Sergei. He does not look too happy in the dressage here at Greenwich

:14:40. > :15:06.

:15:06. > :15:14.European champion on her horse Toy Town. And the Princess Royal is

:15:14. > :15:23.there to watch along with Prince Philip. Her brother Peter is also

:15:23. > :15:28.here with his wife. This young lady, 31 years old, has had a tremendous

:15:28. > :15:33.record of rising to the occasion. She won both the world title and

:15:33. > :15:38.her first ever right for Britain in the European Championships when she

:15:38. > :15:44.won the European title. She has taken a while to find a horse as

:15:44. > :15:49.good as Toy Town but this could be it. And 11 year-old who really

:15:49. > :15:53.burst onto the scene last year finishing 10th. And then in the

:15:53. > :15:59.final trial really put in a great performance which I think nailed

:15:59. > :16:09.her position in this squad. She missed out on a couple of games.

:16:09. > :16:26.

:16:26. > :16:31.But now is her chance to make her Imperial Cavalier. The bell is 45

:16:31. > :16:35.seconds before you go into the ring and then you can get penalised. She

:16:35. > :16:45.is beautifully positioned to get in quite comfortably and not put

:16:45. > :16:47.

:16:47. > :16:56.herself under tension. Zara Phillips in her first Olympic

:16:56. > :17:02.appearance, riding the 11 year-old High Kingdom. High Kingdom's

:17:02. > :17:05.certainly proved his value and worth in getting here to London. He

:17:05. > :17:15.has just improved and matured in strength over the last couple of

:17:15. > :17:17.

:17:17. > :17:25.years. A pretty good at medium trot. An excellent start. There is no-one

:17:25. > :17:28.cooler under pressure than Zara Phillips, a real cool cookie. I

:17:28. > :17:35.went to a press conference the other day and she not only handles

:17:35. > :17:43.herself well on the horse, but she handles herself well under pressure

:17:43. > :17:51.by the media and anyone else around. Both mother and father have ridden

:17:51. > :17:57.for Great Britain. The Princess Royal in Montreal in 1976. And

:17:57. > :18:03.Captain Mark Phillips, several Olympics including the gold medal

:18:03. > :18:10.team in Munich. We had a brief moment of panic in the veterinary

:18:10. > :18:17.inspection when they asked hiking them to trot for a second time. But

:18:17. > :18:25.he was showing he was full of life and turning Zara Phillips around. -

:18:25. > :18:35.- if they ask pie Kingdom to go again. She goes into an extended

:18:35. > :18:38.

:18:38. > :18:43.walk again. A horse of this quality shows the extended walk beautifully.

:18:43. > :18:53.This is where you see how we lacked he is. Just anticipating a little

:18:53. > :18:56.

:18:56. > :19:05.bit of a canter. He lost the rhythm a fraction. Sevens for the extended

:19:05. > :19:14.walk. Four and five for that disobedience. But incredibly

:19:14. > :19:24.straight in the canto line. It is attention to details of where you

:19:24. > :19:28.

:19:28. > :19:33.throw away marks. She is being very accurate, but missed the change.

:19:33. > :19:43.You have to be very quick when that happens and put it behind you and

:19:43. > :19:51.

:19:51. > :20:01.not panic about the rest of the test. Two, 3 and 3. Ala be extended

:20:01. > :20:08.

:20:08. > :20:18.canter and a very well-balanced back. Nine for the extended canter.

:20:18. > :20:21.

:20:21. > :20:25.Good boy, that is more like it. is all about par many of those

:20:25. > :20:32.signals between horse and rider, particularly in this very tense

:20:33. > :20:42.atmosphere. Absolutely on the centre line, lovely balance, no

:20:43. > :20:44.

:20:44. > :20:49.resistance, one more, good boy. Eights coming back. What a good

:20:49. > :20:59.performance because she did not panic when she missed that first

:20:59. > :21:06.change and so neither did the horse. Her Royal Highness will know

:21:06. > :21:16.exactly what she is thinking. There is Mike Tindall. He will be a proud

:21:16. > :21:19.

:21:19. > :21:23.man. The marks are going back towards that 70% again. The

:21:23. > :21:30.grandstand is very nearly full, the biggest crowd we have seen here so

:21:30. > :21:40.far. We have still got to get the collective marks, the marks that

:21:40. > :21:42.

:21:42. > :21:52.look the whole test. We are with just under the 70%. Still looking

:21:52. > :21:55.

:21:55. > :22:05.pretty serious. 46.10. We will wait to get that confirmed. A lovely

:22:05. > :22:09.

:22:09. > :22:17.extended trot. That is good news for Britain. We are right there.

:22:17. > :22:27.One very happy jockey. That is definitely very good news for the

:22:27. > :22:32.

:22:32. > :22:36.This is her Olympic debut, she was disappointed in missing out in

:22:36. > :22:42.Beijing and Athens because of injuries to her previous horse.

:22:42. > :22:47.This time it is High Kingdom. She has made a very good start and that

:22:47. > :22:50.is goodbye the British squad. Watching her in the dressage was

:22:50. > :22:54.her grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh and her mother the

:22:54. > :23:00.Princess Royal who knows exactly what it is like to compete in the

:23:00. > :23:04.same event at the Olympics. She did that herself. Captain Mark Phillips

:23:04. > :23:10.won a gold medal. You can follow all the equestrian

:23:10. > :23:14.action later on this afternoon on the website. Let's go to the

:23:14. > :23:20.Aquatics Centre because we are going to get our first taste of the

:23:20. > :23:25.swimming action. It is happening behind me. I wonder if you have had

:23:25. > :23:31.one eye on the dressage. Both eyes. I thought Zara Phillips did really

:23:31. > :23:36.well because High Kingdom is the baby of the team. To recover from

:23:37. > :23:44.not a great first canter section she did very well. We have got Tina

:23:44. > :23:49.Cook to come on Miners Frolic. He has the capability of getting a

:23:49. > :23:54.great score. William Fox-Pitt should get a great score of. I

:23:54. > :24:00.would expect going into the cross country phase we could be in a very

:24:00. > :24:06.strong position with the scores of William Fox-Pitt, Mary King and

:24:06. > :24:11.Tina Cook. A team of five and took the best three scores count. In the

:24:11. > :24:17.swimming it is a team spirit and we want the British team to do well

:24:17. > :24:21.and when their medal, but it is also a sport for individuals. Every

:24:21. > :24:26.individual on the British team, which has definitely strengthened,

:24:27. > :24:34.every individual has a Astoria. We are going to see George Ed Davey is

:24:34. > :24:39.competing. She has always been there or thereabouts. At the trials

:24:39. > :24:45.at Lizzie Simmonds was expected to make it with Gemma Spofforth and

:24:45. > :24:49.George Davis was third. All of a sudden she wins the trials. Some

:24:49. > :24:58.events we have such depth and others we do not. When you need to

:24:58. > :25:03.step up, she did that and she made the team. There are an awful lot of

:25:03. > :25:13.people and they are cheering for the British swimmers. They are

:25:13. > :25:24.

:25:24. > :25:31.qualifying for semi-finals at this Davis in lane six in the red cap.

:25:31. > :25:37.She has got a very high, still head. Emily see Burma was on the Israeli

:25:37. > :25:47.in relay that one by fantastic gold medal in the relay. She is leading

:25:47. > :26:12.

:26:12. > :26:22.Emily Seebohm a good length ahead of the rest of the field. Georgia

:26:22. > :26:32.

:26:32. > :26:37.Davis is in a good place. She gets a good second. I am pretty sure

:26:37. > :26:47.that will get her through to the semi-final. A new Olympic record

:26:47. > :26:49.

:26:49. > :26:59.from Emily Seebohm. We all liked talking about gliding in. It is not

:26:59. > :27:00.

:27:00. > :27:05.easy to do. A big signal to the rest of the field. That is really

:27:05. > :27:15.frightening in the first of the seeded heats. 16 very fast swimmers

:27:15. > :27:20.

:27:20. > :27:26.Not far off the world record which is held by Gemma Spofforth. Last

:27:26. > :27:35.air Emily see Bernhard swine flu! It is one of those things, you have

:27:35. > :27:41.to make it through to the top 16, but she does not know how she is

:27:41. > :27:48.swimming. She just missed the world record. It shows you on the backs

:27:48. > :27:58.of all these ups and downs, people surprise themselves. A big swear

:27:58. > :28:29.

:28:29. > :28:39.and for Jorja Davies. -- a big swim Spofforth is going well in lane

:28:39. > :28:40.

:28:40. > :28:46.seven. Wilkinson, the Canadian, doing very well indeed. She is

:28:46. > :28:51.leading the field and stretching away. This is goodbye Gemma

:28:51. > :29:00.Spofforth. That is a great place for her to be, she is nearest to

:29:00. > :29:10.you. She is looking very good indeed. The rest of the field are

:29:10. > :29:42.

:29:42. > :29:52.starting to come back. Gemma She was off the pace at 50, but

:29:52. > :29:57.

:29:57. > :30:04.Not bad, but more is needed. does go out slow and fight back

:30:04. > :30:09.against people. She is the world champion and the record holder. You

:30:09. > :30:14.like to think she has got more in the bag. I would have liked to have

:30:14. > :30:20.seen a bit more. But she looked so happy, she is back to herself, but

:30:20. > :30:30.it is going to be tight going through to the finals. I hope she

:30:30. > :30:34.enjoyed the atmosphere as well. The final heat featured Missy Franklin,

:30:34. > :30:44.the new American swimming sensation. She is only 17 and has the chance

:30:44. > :30:49.

:30:49. > :30:59.We take a check on those who have qualified for the finals. Georgia

:30:59. > :31:01.

:31:01. > :31:09.Davies, a really good swim for her. Gemma Hope sabbath his 12th fastest

:31:09. > :31:15.and we will see her again in action tonight.

:31:15. > :31:25.tonight. And here is Robbie Renwick. We do

:31:25. > :31:31.

:31:32. > :31:41.have a British swimmer, Robbie Renwick and Johan Lloyd. They also

:31:42. > :31:42.

:31:42. > :32:38.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:32:38. > :32:48.have the world record holder in Robbie Rennick in second place, the

:32:48. > :32:49.

:32:49. > :32:56.crowd getting behind him. He has rarely picked it up for

:32:56. > :33:03.Great Britain. And Johan Lloyd at the top there, this is good to see.

:33:03. > :33:09.It could beat Ronnie -- Robbie Renwick to turn first. The crowd

:33:09. > :33:19.going absolutely nuts. The big boys in the centre really starting to

:33:19. > :33:38.

:33:38. > :33:48.at the top. He looks like he may get a second. I am sure that we'll

:33:48. > :33:50.

:33:50. > :34:00.get him through to the semi-final. Just outside his best, but great

:34:00. > :34:05.

:34:05. > :34:15.experience. Look at him with his head down, digging deeper. The

:34:15. > :34:21.

:34:21. > :34:27.crowd were just going ballistic, it is fantastic. Izotov wins heat four.

:34:27. > :34:37.It is pretty exciting! The second of the three seeded

:34:37. > :34:45.

:34:45. > :34:53.champion. And he really destroyed Michael Phelps, a massive surprise

:34:53. > :35:03.last night. Two gold medallists already in the

:35:03. > :35:03.

:35:03. > :35:57.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:35:57. > :36:07.freestyle. Sun Yang of China in a little bit slower. He is starting

:36:07. > :36:17.

:36:17. > :36:27.to pick it up now. Dreesens of Holland taking the lead. It is all

:36:27. > :36:29.

:36:29. > :36:39.over the place. Sun Yang starting to make his move with about 70

:36:39. > :36:50.

:36:51. > :36:56.Ryan Lochte. And Sun Yang has will speed, he is such a fighter and

:36:56. > :37:06.once he gets going it is kind of hard to see anyone stop him.

:37:06. > :37:12.Amazing. Sun Yang wins it. Ryan Lochte second. It looked have

:37:12. > :37:22.reasonably comfortable. Sun Yang has got the stroke, Ryan

:37:22. > :37:45.

:37:45. > :37:49.1500. So that is the results of heat five. Sun Yang winning it, and

:37:49. > :37:54.heat five. Sun Yang winning it, and little bit of a surprise.

:37:54. > :38:00.Sun Yang of China up looking very good indeed in that heat. It looks

:38:00. > :38:05.like one of the rivalries of these Olympics. It will be. And a great

:38:05. > :38:13.example, similar to what we have seen what Rebecca Adlington against

:38:13. > :38:17.Pellegrini. This is happening with Sun Yang and Ryan Lochte. Sun Yang

:38:17. > :38:27.is more experienced in the distance events and Ryan Lochte experienced

:38:27. > :38:36.at the slightly shorter events. There's also the French swimwear.

:38:36. > :38:41.Ryan Phelps was not in his race. De - Michael Phelps. The reason is he

:38:41. > :38:47.wants to be part of the United States relay team. He wanted to

:38:47. > :38:56.restrict his programme to concentrate on some key events.

:38:56. > :39:01.We will be back with the swimming later on. We gold live now to Eton

:39:01. > :39:08.Dorney and John Inverdale. Because we're getting the first live action

:39:08. > :39:16.today. This is so V Hosking and cat clubland in the women's lightweight

:39:16. > :39:26.double sculls. There in positive double sculls. There in positive

:39:26. > :39:59.

:39:59. > :40:08.seconds before they are off. Great time a British crew comes up on the

:40:08. > :40:18.big screen. We're on the starter's orders.

:40:18. > :40:30.

:40:30. > :40:36.Copeland will be closest to us. The last time some of the crews came

:40:36. > :40:39.together was in Munich when Great Britain finished 4th. Denmark were

:40:40. > :40:47.ahead of them in second place so watch out for that little novel

:40:47. > :40:57.week. New Zealand recorded the world's fastest time in Lucerne and

:40:57. > :41:33.

:41:33. > :41:41.us. There is such expectation on British teams. Everyone is waiting

:41:41. > :41:46.just to get through the heat, get that out of the way. Laid out the

:41:46. > :41:50.marker of exactly where your car. Their coach has been very

:41:50. > :41:56.encouraged by their last six weeks of training. They came together

:41:56. > :42:02.only this year. They go through the 500m mark in second place. New

:42:02. > :42:12.Zealand leading. Their last game together in masseur and. And on

:42:12. > :42:19.that occasion New Zealand were quicker than the British double.

:42:19. > :42:25.New Zealand currently holders of the world's best time. The world

:42:25. > :42:31.champions, Greece, are in the next heat. So important for the British

:42:31. > :42:36.to open up their Olympic campaign with a good result. They will not

:42:36. > :42:46.be too concerned by New Zealand on the far side at the moment. There

:42:46. > :42:52.

:42:52. > :43:02.are looking good, moving very well. They have certainly picked up speed.

:43:02. > :43:05.

:43:05. > :43:15.Sophie has moved back into the stroke seat. Up until now it was

:43:15. > :43:16.

:43:16. > :43:22.Kat Copeland. This is good sculling from the British double. Great

:43:22. > :43:27.Britain have found over them now that is efficient. There have been

:43:27. > :43:32.tracking New Zealand in the first 500 metres will stop there are now

:43:32. > :43:39.just able to squeeze on and move out to the halfway mark. 1000

:43:39. > :43:44.metres gone, 1000 to go. And the flags are waving, the crowd going

:43:44. > :43:54.mad because the British have taken the lead from the world record

:43:54. > :43:58.

:43:58. > :44:03.holders, using and. -- New Zealand. This is a fantastic performance

:44:03. > :44:11.from Ms double. Their coach has done a wonderful job in the last

:44:11. > :44:20.two months to bring them on. There sculling with such confidence. 37

:44:20. > :44:30.strokes per minute. New Zealand normally do around 38 strokes per

:44:30. > :44:35.

:44:36. > :44:45.minute. We are beginning to pull out from the top picture there.

:44:45. > :44:55.This is heat number one in the women's lightweight double sculls.

:44:55. > :45:01.

:45:01. > :45:09.They will all have waded around two hours before. - weighed in.

:45:09. > :45:19.There is just no letting up here, moving really sweetly. And New

:45:19. > :45:32.

:45:32. > :45:41.Zealand under pressure now from well qualified direct through to

:45:41. > :45:48.the semi-final. Seve Hosking from London Rowing Club and Katherine

:45:48. > :45:55.Copeland from Leeds a rowing club looking absolutely fabulous. Job

:45:55. > :46:00.well done so far. They now just need to keep a cool head. This is

:46:00. > :46:06.lightweight rowing at its very finest. New Zealand were first in

:46:06. > :46:13.Munich, second at Lucerne. Look at his British double, they have

:46:13. > :46:20.totally exposed them. There is now about 4.5 lengths between them and

:46:20. > :46:26.Denmark. No-one will catch this British double. We are well and

:46:26. > :46:34.truly into a tunnel of Norway's on both sides of the course. They are

:46:34. > :46:41.going to relish the prospect. It is all coming together very well. It

:46:41. > :46:51.is eight cannot of Norway's. They can enjoy this last scull up

:46:51. > :46:57.

:46:57. > :47:04.towards the line. On the far side New Zealand are struggling. Serve

:47:04. > :47:11.the Hosking and Katherine Copeland coming up to the line. A well

:47:11. > :47:16.deserved first place. They are through to the quarter-final and

:47:16. > :47:23.they acknowledge that. They are on the right track. Then Mike coming

:47:23. > :47:28.in second. New Zealand, the world's best time holders, are really

:47:28. > :47:38.suffering, into third position. There will be a little bit of

:47:38. > :47:52.

:47:52. > :47:59.demonstration from them. The change pudding Sophie Hosking in stroke.

:47:59. > :48:09.Katherine Copeland is a very strong athlete. She is now back in the bow.

:48:09. > :48:19.Sophie Hosking set the rhythm and that was a superb performance.

:48:19. > :48:20.

:48:20. > :48:25.Britain and Denmark go through to The Olympics in London, do not

:48:25. > :48:32.forget your umbrella. That was fantastic and they are looking good.

:48:32. > :48:37.There are rumours in the camp, that the lightweight double is going

:48:37. > :48:44.very well, keep an eye out for them. People have been asking me if they

:48:44. > :48:48.have a chance of a medal and that has proved they have. It is easy to

:48:48. > :48:55.understand when batsmen say they lack confidence and copper say they

:48:55. > :49:00.have got problems with their swing. How confident do you have to be in

:49:00. > :49:06.rowing? Katherine Copeland exuded confidence and said she was going

:49:06. > :49:14.to surprise a lot of people, just believe me. The sceptics were

:49:14. > :49:19.thinking not. You have got to have confidence. The Americans are very

:49:20. > :49:24.good at building themselves up, but when that bubble bursts, it

:49:24. > :49:28.explodes everywhere. In this country when we have got confidence

:49:28. > :49:33.it is justified because of the performance. The rumours I have

:49:33. > :49:39.heard, they have proved it and their confidence is up and raring

:49:39. > :49:47.to go. We have got Greece in the next race. It has stopped now.

:49:47. > :49:54.it has not, it is raining on me. Greece will be interesting. Zac

:49:54. > :50:00.Purchase and Mark Hunter, the champions from Beijing, in about 25

:50:00. > :50:05.minutes' time. What a fantastic start, all about

:50:05. > :50:11.getting to the next stage of the competition. There is no rain at

:50:11. > :50:16.the Olympic Park. In just over an hour's time the women's road race

:50:16. > :50:26.in cycling will get under way. Yesterday it was disappointing for

:50:26. > :50:27.

:50:27. > :50:36.Mark Cavendish, and today Nicole Cooke is defending her title. How

:50:36. > :50:43.will this one pan out? Nicoll takes it and she is the Olympic champion.

:50:44. > :50:49.On paper she is the sprinter and Nicole is the aggressive rider. We

:50:49. > :50:55.are going with a two-headed attack. It will be very clear going into

:50:55. > :51:00.the race what our options are and what our strategies are. We will go

:51:00. > :51:07.in with a number of options and see what happens. It is a benefit to

:51:07. > :51:12.have different options. As the race unfolds you have to work out the

:51:12. > :51:15.best way to play it. You need to sacrifice your own chances for your

:51:15. > :51:20.own team-mates at at different phases in the race, just like they

:51:20. > :51:27.will do it for you. Are you confident that when it comes down

:51:27. > :51:32.to a bunch sprint you will be the protected by do? The S. As with the

:51:32. > :51:37.meant this race starts and ends on The Mall and watching it with us

:51:37. > :51:42.will be Baroness Tanni Grey- Thompson. What do you make of the

:51:42. > :51:46.relationship between these two riders? It has been difficult in

:51:46. > :51:50.the past and there were issues last year over the tactics. But they

:51:50. > :51:55.seem to be quite happy with where they are. They are presenting a

:51:55. > :51:59.united front. It depends what happens in the race. If it comes

:51:59. > :52:04.down to a sprint finish Lizzie is the strongest and that is where the

:52:04. > :52:10.team will be supporting her. But it will be a different race from

:52:10. > :52:14.yesterday. It will be very hard from the start because everybody is

:52:14. > :52:19.looking to Marianne Vos as the favourite. It might give GB a

:52:19. > :52:26.little bit more of a chance to play their own tactics. Who I the other

:52:26. > :52:36.main contenders? Marianne Vos has come in with five soldiers. She is

:52:36. > :52:38.

:52:38. > :52:43.desperate to went. There is Judith Arndt from Germany. There are only

:52:43. > :52:50.five women's teams with four riders. There is Giorgia Bronzini from

:52:50. > :52:55.Italy. We think Holland will race hard. We will be back in over an

:52:55. > :53:01.hour for the start of that race. There was a fantastic atmosphere

:53:01. > :53:08.yesterday, so I am sure it will be the same today. You can watch it

:53:08. > :53:16.live on BBC Three. On BBC One it is time for a more swimming. It has

:53:16. > :53:23.been a very busy morning already. We are going to reflect briefly on

:53:23. > :53:29.the 100m backstroke. Gemma Spofforth spoke to Sharron Davies.

:53:29. > :53:37.You would have liked to have got that touch in? Yes, the finish was

:53:37. > :53:44.not great. I have got a lot more in me. I will let the excitement died

:53:44. > :53:50.down a little bit. No matter how experienced you are, none of us

:53:50. > :53:59.have ever competed in front of a home crowd like this. I have said

:53:59. > :54:04.all the a rock -- all year long that I will come back tonight and

:54:04. > :54:09.give it the best I have got. Do you feel the last few months have given

:54:09. > :54:13.you enough time to get you back to what you are capable of doing?

:54:13. > :54:20.race was not quite what it was in training, but I will figure out

:54:20. > :54:29.what I can do now. Gemma Spofforth being very honest. I was distracted

:54:29. > :54:37.by the earrings. She has a real chance of making the

:54:37. > :54:45.semi-finals. 12 in their heats, but if you look from 16 to third, there

:54:45. > :54:50.is just over half a second. Making those tiny improvements and she is

:54:50. > :54:55.experienced and she can use this crowd and she knows she can swim

:54:55. > :55:00.faster. What I like more than anything else is she has got a

:55:00. > :55:05.smile on her face and she is being positive. It seems the mood in the

:55:05. > :55:12.British camp among the women is very positive. Let's hope that

:55:12. > :55:18.feeds through. We are going to see Kate Haywood from a great present.

:55:18. > :55:28.Larsson from the UK is also there. She is the shock winner from the US

:55:28. > :55:42.

:55:42. > :55:52.trials. Jessica Hardie, the world Larsson of the USA won the American

:55:52. > :55:53.

:55:53. > :56:03.trials. That is Suzuki of Japan. Larsson beat Rebecca Sonia. --

:56:03. > :56:20.

:56:20. > :56:30.American trials. They did not even consider her a hopeful. Look at

:56:30. > :56:30.

:56:30. > :56:35.that big effort. I think that was lane six. The German. Larsson is in

:56:35. > :56:45.Number four, with the white cap. She has got a very controlled

:56:45. > :56:47.

:56:47. > :56:55.stroke. That was a decent turn, maybe not the best turn. The best

:56:55. > :57:02.turn came from Suzuki of Japan. At the moment Kate Haywood is going

:57:02. > :57:12.reasonably well. She has got to wind it up in these last few metres

:57:12. > :57:28.

:57:28. > :57:35.That will not get through. Larsson only started competitive swimming

:57:36. > :57:41.three years ago. She is 20 now. Competitive swimming aged 17.

:57:41. > :57:51.never too late. She must have a natural talent in athleticism. And

:57:51. > :57:52.

:57:52. > :58:02.if you get the right coaching... She did get the right coaching. She

:58:02. > :58:02.

:58:02. > :59:02.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:59:02. > :59:11.said she needed a goal and she was She had a fantastic swimmer in the

:59:11. > :59:21.June trials to make the team. A real talent for the future. In lane

:59:21. > :59:42.

:59:42. > :59:52.number to the German has been Chiffon O'Connor is still going

:59:52. > :00:02.

:00:02. > :00:09.well. She is still hanging in. This is a very fast heat. Siobhan

:00:09. > :00:17.O'Connor is just outside the time she did at the trials. That was

:00:17. > :00:21.also on the last 25 metres. She is accelerating the stroke. It is

:00:21. > :00:26.quite hard to explain, but it is like a roller-coaster and the

:00:26. > :00:33.momentum is building and building. All the way through to the finish

:00:33. > :00:43.she was in control. That is very dangerous and ominous. I think they

:00:43. > :00:55.

:00:55. > :00:59.will struggle to beat her tonight. She didn't do well enough to make

:00:59. > :01:04.it through to the semis. Neither of them through. But they did have a

:01:04. > :01:09.private battle. That is basically because the bottom line is it is a

:01:09. > :01:14.relay spot. Our fast as backstroke, breaststroke, Butterfly and

:01:14. > :01:17.freestyle will make up the medley relay. Those two girls will not go

:01:17. > :01:22.through to the semis, so whoever was fastest, Siobhan-Marie, she

:01:22. > :01:28.will go into the medley Arena. They have a good chance of getting a

:01:28. > :01:32.medal Margaret Forster Guy 4G did great. 16th. A tiny bit of her best

:01:32. > :01:36.time but she performed well. She is time but she performed well. She is

:01:36. > :01:46.only 16, but we saw a 15-year-old from Lithuania, trained in Plymouth,

:01:46. > :01:47.

:01:47. > :01:56.when the first heat. She was up against Leisel Jones and Pickett.

:01:56. > :01:58.Meilutyte blasted into the water. Her trainer has had a lot of cut -

:01:58. > :02:04.not good swimmers come through. You get different training groups

:02:04. > :02:07.around the world and they train with some of the best coaches. We

:02:07. > :02:17.need to get a few of our own breaststroke swimmers to train

:02:17. > :02:30.

:02:30. > :02:40.the likes of Rebecca Soni and Larsson and Piggott. -- Pickett.

:02:40. > :02:41.

:02:41. > :02:45.Rebecca Adlington coming up in the I've been watching with Ian Thorpe.

:02:45. > :02:48.It's been such an action-packed morning at the Aquatics Centre of.

:02:48. > :02:54.It feels like the swimmers of putting everything into the heats.

:02:54. > :03:01.We had an Olympic record set today. We did. Emily Seaborne, from

:03:01. > :03:05.Australia, surprise to sell but how fast she swam up. -- Seebohm a. We

:03:05. > :03:10.saw it in the 200 freestyle, some of the top guys were able to swim

:03:10. > :03:14.comfortably and get through, like Lochte and Sun, who got through as

:03:14. > :03:20.they should. But we are seeing the level of swirling around the world

:03:20. > :03:24.lived so high that you can't take the heats for granted. We saw

:03:24. > :03:29.Michael Phelps almost miss out on a final place in that 400m, the event

:03:29. > :03:33.that he won just four years earlier. But where you finish in Naheed has

:03:33. > :03:37.a role in which lane you are going to swim in in the final. Generally

:03:37. > :03:40.speaking, you want to be with the action. You want to be in the top

:03:41. > :03:46.four positions, bobbing through to the semi-final on the final. That

:03:46. > :03:50.way you know where the best competitors are rat. You have a

:03:50. > :03:53.good few, if you needed, to be able to swim off them and be able to get

:03:53. > :03:58.through to the next round, or gain some distance to be able to get

:03:58. > :04:03.that gold. It is not all about hard work, although clearly there's

:04:03. > :04:13.plenty of training for all of the swimmers, but the US swimming squad

:04:13. > :04:19.

:04:19. > :04:29.have taken a bit of time out to # Welcome to the land of fame and

:04:29. > :04:30.

:04:30. > :04:40.excess, am I going to fit in? # This is also crazy.

:04:40. > :04:43.

:04:43. > :04:51.# Everybody seems so famous. # Nodding my head like, yeah.

:04:51. > :04:54.They had fun making it, we've had fun watching it. I don't know who

:04:54. > :04:59.did the vocals but they are very impressive. The they are talented

:04:59. > :05:03.and more than one way. It's amazing. They sound a lot like Miley Cyrus.

:05:03. > :05:07.For did you ever do anything like that with the Australians? This is

:05:07. > :05:11.a team-building exercise. You have the older swimmers in the team and

:05:11. > :05:14.the youngest swimmers in the team, so you break down looking at this

:05:15. > :05:17.person as a superstar as you were growing up. So you have team

:05:17. > :05:22.building and silly things like this which actually bring a team

:05:22. > :05:26.together. You see the City side to someone you thought was just an

:05:26. > :05:30.amazing competitor, then you gel together. Someone who looks like

:05:30. > :05:34.she has been having fun today, she's been in competition making

:05:34. > :05:39.her Olympic debut at Greenwich Park in the dressage, and that is Zara

:05:39. > :05:44.Phillips. We've just heard from her after her competition.

:05:44. > :05:48.Zara, so much pressure on you but that looked fantastic out there.

:05:48. > :05:52.Yet, obviously I had a couple of mistakes but that will be the

:05:52. > :05:59.second biggest test he has done. I was really pleased with the way he

:05:59. > :06:04.dealt with everything. He is still learning. Unfortunately, I missed...

:06:04. > :06:09.The changes are good but I missed one, which you get punished for.

:06:09. > :06:13.But hopefully we can improve tomorrow. What went through your

:06:13. > :06:18.mind when those changes went wrong, because you seemed to really retain

:06:18. > :06:24.your composure? I know he's got good changes, it's just he's not

:06:24. > :06:30.quite secure at counter canter, because -- that's probably why I

:06:30. > :06:35.didn't get the bend right for his change. But it -- his other ones

:06:35. > :06:40.are lovely. We've long talked about the fact you have missed out, you

:06:40. > :06:43.weren't in Beijing. But Beijing, but not Athens. We've talked about

:06:43. > :06:46.the fact you could have been at the last two Olympic Games but you

:06:46. > :06:51.didn't make it because of the injuries to Toy Town. How has it

:06:51. > :06:55.been for you getting out at the Olympic Games? It's been good. The

:06:55. > :07:00.Olympics is the best show on earth. It is incredible to be here and to

:07:00. > :07:06.be able to compete for your country, to try and do the best for your

:07:06. > :07:10.team-mates. The support is amazing. The location and everything, it has

:07:10. > :07:15.been an unbelievable experience. I'm just trying to enjoy it.

:07:15. > :07:18.cross country tomorrow, how do you think you will get on in that?

:07:18. > :07:22.is a stronger face. This is probably his weakest phase.

:07:23. > :07:30.Hopefully we can just improve and hope that the cross country really

:07:30. > :07:37.makes a difference to the rest of the competitors. Will he be

:07:37. > :07:41.nervous? Probably. Until you get on the horse, then you are fine.

:07:41. > :07:44.whole country is rooting for you. It must be a feeling of relief to

:07:44. > :07:47.have made that strong start in the dressage. It will be Tina Cook and

:07:47. > :07:52.William Fox-Pitt who will be competing for Britain today, as

:07:52. > :07:56.that competition continues. Men's beach volleyball is live now one

:07:56. > :08:01.BBC Three, if you want to see how they're doing over there. Here on

:08:01. > :08:04.BBC One in just under half an hour, it will be Rebecca Adlington's turn

:08:04. > :08:09.to be in the pool for but heats of the women's 400 metre freestyle.

:08:09. > :08:13.Before that, Liam Tancock will be in action again. Lots of interest

:08:13. > :08:17.in the Aquatics Centre. We will see Liam Tancock shortly.

:08:17. > :08:20.First, let's hear from Kate Haywood, who didn't manage to qualify for

:08:20. > :08:25.the semi-finals from the breaststroke heats earlier. But

:08:25. > :08:29.when she got out of the water, she talked to Sharron Davies.

:08:29. > :08:33.This is going to be your last meet. How are you feeling? Disappointed

:08:33. > :08:39.but it was always going to be tough. It's been a tough couple of years,

:08:39. > :08:44.I moved away from my Helmand changed my whole life. Yeah, I'm

:08:45. > :08:49.gutted, I thought I was better than that but maybe it's my time to give

:08:49. > :08:53.it to the youngsters and move on. You've been a great ambassador for

:08:53. > :08:58.British swimming for a very long time, are there a lot of people

:08:58. > :09:03.you'd like to thank? I'd like to thank Graham Basij, my first coach,

:09:03. > :09:08.then Ben, I was with him for eight years. Owen Taylor coached me the

:09:08. > :09:13.past couple of years. Obviously my family. And the main person, Kevin,

:09:13. > :09:21.my boyfriend. He moved with me and he has based be supported me this

:09:21. > :09:25.whole time. -- basically supported me. Poor Kate Haywood. And inside

:09:25. > :09:29.there into how much swimmers actually have to completely give up

:09:29. > :09:34.their life for training. Yes, the sacrifices you make. She trained in

:09:34. > :09:38.the UK forever. When she was a junior she was an unbelievably

:09:38. > :09:41.talented swimmer but never really made the shift into senior swimming.

:09:41. > :09:45.Went off to Australia, packed her bags, her boyfriend went with her.

:09:45. > :09:48.That's a huge sacrifice. People would love to go and live in

:09:48. > :09:51.Australia but the fact that he moved his job and moved their life

:09:51. > :09:56.together, you can see how much it meant to her. She was devastated.

:09:56. > :10:01.It is just not a sport you can take short cuts with. You have to do the

:10:01. > :10:06.hours and hours, and Kate has done that. So, too, as Liam Tancock, who

:10:06. > :10:10.is a double world champion. But that is in the 50m. That is not an

:10:10. > :10:20.Olympic event. He has to go 100. Before we see him in action, let's

:10:20. > :10:24.

:10:24. > :10:29.on, Liam, get the touch. Well done, Liam Tancock. World champion again.

:10:29. > :10:34.Normally we think of you of being a 50 metre swim a, you've got to to

:10:34. > :10:40.step up to the 100m. Do we need them to shout really loudly for the

:10:40. > :10:44.last 20 metres to get to through it? Yes. People talk about home

:10:44. > :10:48.crowd advantage in football and rugby week-in, week-out. In London,

:10:48. > :10:52.there's going to be 17,500 people when I walk out of the block.

:10:52. > :10:56.Hopefully it's going to be electrifying. Most people think of

:10:56. > :11:01.me as a 50 metre swimmer, becoming world champion in 2009 and

:11:01. > :11:04.retaining it in 2011, and breaking a world record. But it's not really

:11:04. > :11:08.been my focus. It sounds a bit strange, it's a big thing,

:11:08. > :11:12.Commonwealth champion is an amazing experience, pretty incredible.

:11:12. > :11:15.Something I can keep with me forever but the 100 is the thing.

:11:15. > :11:22.It's what I've been training for. I can't wait to stand behind the

:11:22. > :11:27.block. The French and the Americans are probably big rivals in the pool.

:11:27. > :11:30.Do you look at your rivals or just focus 100 % on your performance?

:11:30. > :11:35.Swimming is a strange event, no one can affect you unless you let them.

:11:35. > :11:38.I don't even think about who is next to me. I don't care if I'm

:11:38. > :11:43.raising the Devon champion or the world champion. It will not change

:11:43. > :11:48.the way I swim. I swim for me, and best when the way that I know I can

:11:48. > :11:50.swim to swim fast. You have introduced some rock climbing and

:11:50. > :11:55.ballet into your training, but a few people might be inquisitive

:11:55. > :12:00.about. How has that work? It's weird, people look at ballet and

:12:00. > :12:03.they think, why would you do ballet, you are a swimmer? We look at other

:12:03. > :12:07.athletes and think about what attributes they have and if they

:12:07. > :12:11.can transfer to the pool. Look at a ballet dancer, someone who is slim,

:12:11. > :12:17.Great Court, greater physique, very aware of the body position, be

:12:17. > :12:21.warned that in the pool. We want to be toned, we want to be aware of

:12:21. > :12:25.our hands and feet placement. We want to know where our hand enters

:12:25. > :12:29.and. Our toes and kick through the water, so that's a good crossover.

:12:29. > :12:32.We also do kick-boxing, which is completely opposite de ballet, but

:12:32. > :12:37.that is controlled aggression that we need in the water as well. For

:12:37. > :12:40.me it is a no-brainer. We are talking about hundreds of a second,

:12:40. > :12:46.and it I can gain that by doing something slightly different, it's

:12:46. > :12:50.not that I do less in the pool ATOL, I do more. It is a bonus. If I can

:12:50. > :12:56.get that hundreds of a second, I'll be the one laughing. It is so

:12:56. > :13:01.interesting because you do have to think tangentially. You have to

:13:01. > :13:05.come up with ideas. I love that he says, right, I'll go and do ballet.

:13:05. > :13:09.You think outside the box, there's a guy doing ballet and everyone is

:13:09. > :13:14.raising their eyebrows. But he described did well, the hand

:13:14. > :13:17.position in the water, the core strength. It's lovely that they

:13:17. > :13:22.look outside these different things. It is not just about swimming. It

:13:22. > :13:27.used to be, 20 or 30 years ago, you just swam up. Then Waits became

:13:27. > :13:30.involved, cross-training, running, I did a lot of running on the track

:13:30. > :13:34.to get that explosive power. Some do rock-climbing, there are

:13:34. > :13:39.different ways of working your body and you don't have to keep going in

:13:39. > :13:45.the water all the time. You are a sprinter. How hard is it a Liam

:13:45. > :13:50.Tancock, who really specialises in 50, to go 100 and win a medal?

:13:50. > :13:53.used to be the world record holder at 50 butterfly. It was never an

:13:54. > :13:58.Olympic event, I could do it at other events but never at the

:13:58. > :14:01.Olympic Games, which is what everyone talks about. But to go

:14:01. > :14:06.double the distance is difficult. You have to train your body in

:14:06. > :14:09.slightly different ways but if it is -- if he has done more

:14:09. > :14:13.conditioning work and endurance work, it just means you can come

:14:13. > :14:19.back and finish the race properly. These heats are seeded, so the

:14:19. > :14:22.better, faster swimmers come later. Let's show you Chris Walker-Hebborn,

:14:23. > :14:31.of Great Britain, he is in lane seven. He turned in third place,

:14:31. > :14:35.this was in one of the earlier heats. He has a Red cap. He is very

:14:35. > :14:39.close to the camera. Trying desperately to register a time fast

:14:39. > :14:43.enough that might see him through to the semi-finals. There are three

:14:43. > :14:48.more heats. There are 24 swimmers on paper that are faster going in.

:14:48. > :14:51.He has to go as fast as possible. It's not like a lot of sports where

:14:51. > :14:56.we are going to be on the podium. They have to go as fast as possible

:14:56. > :15:06.to make it through to the semis. encouraging swim but probably not

:15:06. > :15:12.

:15:12. > :15:21.fast enough. Here we go. Live metres backstroke, and Liam Tancock,

:15:21. > :15:26.in the red hat, in the centre, and a good start. The red hats of Great

:15:26. > :15:31.Britain next to the record holder. The phrase crowd-pleaser is

:15:31. > :15:35.applying to Liam Tancock. I think he has not used all his energy,

:15:35. > :15:41.which is great. Sometimes he gets excited and uses too much, but he

:15:41. > :15:46.has turned well on his side. Neck- and-neck, these two it will battle

:15:46. > :15:51.through the last 50. 25 metres to go. Liam Tancock really needs to

:15:51. > :15:58.hold his arm stroke. This will be hurting. But he is doing well.

:15:58. > :16:06.Going very well. Also the French world champion. As smooth a

:16:06. > :16:14.turnover. Tancock 53.8, in second, so that will put him through to the

:16:14. > :16:19.semi-final and a good, solid heat swim. Vatican the box, and he has

:16:19. > :16:24.made it through to the semi-final would still a heat to go -- a tick

:16:24. > :16:32.in the box. That actually looked very good. Maybe his head moving a

:16:32. > :16:36.bit too much in the last two metres. De court looked smoother. It will

:16:36. > :16:46.be tough for him to get a medal though, I still think that -- lack

:16:46. > :16:50.

:16:50. > :16:54.What a good result for Liam Tancock, finishing second in the heat.

:16:54. > :16:59.Rebecca Allington will be in the swimming pool later on, but we just

:16:59. > :17:04.want to take the opportunity to talk to Ian -- Rebecca Adlington.

:17:04. > :17:06.That was a great swim for Liam Tancock. A 50-metre specialist,

:17:06. > :17:10.world champion in the backstroke and he has had to prepare himself

:17:10. > :17:15.knowing that he doesn't get to swim that event at the Olympics, and

:17:15. > :17:20.looking at that he looked quite comfortable. He would have been in

:17:20. > :17:25.a lot of pain in the last 15 metres, going into the wall. A fantastic

:17:25. > :17:29.heat swim. In the semi-final he will look to improve. He is up

:17:29. > :17:33.there with the best. Is it difficult to make the jump if your

:17:33. > :17:38.strength is as a 50-metre swim, how hard is it to make the jump to 100

:17:38. > :17:44.metres? It would be similar to say to Usain Bolt, you know what, at

:17:44. > :17:50.the next Olympic Games for you can't run at the hundred metres,

:17:50. > :17:58.you have to run the 200 metres. He could probably do it, but it's a

:17:58. > :18:03.difficult thing. What else has stood out for you in the heats this

:18:03. > :18:07.morning? What I think would be interesting to talk about is just

:18:07. > :18:11.looking at the different sizes we have been swimming. We talk about

:18:11. > :18:18.women as a global sport and we say smaller, more petite swimmers, and

:18:18. > :18:21.then the bigger ones, and what I really liked seeing is how they use

:18:21. > :18:27.the work under water. The smaller swimmers have a higher frequency of

:18:27. > :18:32.kick over the water compared to the tall ones who can use power and

:18:32. > :18:37.glide and introduce the kick. is not always the bigger, powerful

:18:37. > :18:40.ones who will have the total advantage? No, because then body

:18:40. > :18:45.builders would be swimming. Thank you, Ian. There will be the final

:18:45. > :18:48.heats later on as we go back to the aquatics centre, but our second

:18:48. > :18:56.rowing race of the day, the defending champions in the

:18:56. > :19:00.Talking about like weightier, that is interesting, because there was a

:19:00. > :19:04.major departure for rowing to admit it was not just about the big boys

:19:04. > :19:10.taking part and introducing the lightweight category which makes

:19:10. > :19:13.the sport egalitarian and open to people. Very much so. We had

:19:13. > :19:16.lightweights and the sport for number of years but it was

:19:16. > :19:21.introduced after Barcelona as an Olympic event and it has opened the

:19:21. > :19:31.sport up to more countries. It is great from that point of view. One

:19:31. > :19:33.

:19:33. > :19:37.of the issues that have a lot of countries doing well in the race.

:19:37. > :19:41.Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, the form has been so erratic. What

:19:41. > :19:46.would you see as a statement of intent? The they have drawn the

:19:47. > :19:51.world champions. The guys they had a tussle with, and it was nip and

:19:51. > :20:01.tuck all away. They do not need to win this but they need to show they

:20:01. > :20:06.

:20:06. > :20:15.they hear the introduction of the Olympic champions, Purchase and

:20:15. > :20:22.Hunter. The Olympic and world champions, Zac Purchase and Mark

:20:22. > :20:26.Hunter, in lane at number four. In the shadow of Windsor Castle on a

:20:27. > :20:34.Sunday morning in July, the Olympic champions get their defence of

:20:34. > :20:39.their title but they won in such style in Beijing are under way.

:20:39. > :20:44.They are quickly out. Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, a really difficult

:20:44. > :20:48.season that they have had. Six at Lucerne, the middle of the three

:20:48. > :20:53.regattas. The last time they came together in Munich six weeks ago

:20:53. > :20:57.they languished at the back of the final in 6th place. They have

:20:57. > :21:02.worked hard through the summer training camps and are now starting

:21:02. > :21:09.to look as though they have turned things around. Early days, but this

:21:09. > :21:12.will be an important race for these guys to win. They have to put a

:21:12. > :21:16.marker down against New Zealand. They are sculling very well. They

:21:16. > :21:26.seem to be back on track. The difficulty this season, Mark said

:21:26. > :21:27.

:21:27. > :21:31.it was about fitness lacking in Munich and Lucerne. Zac Purchase

:21:31. > :21:35.thought the timing was not right, that the boat wasn't really working

:21:35. > :21:44.with them. A bit of a difference of opinion, but they have pulled it

:21:44. > :21:48.together by the look of it. fabulous start in the first 500,

:21:48. > :21:54.Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter. They have taken the race on. When they

:21:54. > :21:57.are on form, they find such a brilliant rhythm in the second 500

:21:57. > :22:04.that takes them through. Let's see what they can do as they start to

:22:04. > :22:10.stretch it out. They are in at the 5th lane and a being pushed by

:22:10. > :22:16.Peter Taylor and Storm Uru of New Zealand. They were second behind

:22:16. > :22:22.the British double scull at the world championships last year.

:22:22. > :22:27.These two cruise alongside China, who raced earlier in the heats and

:22:27. > :22:32.they will be watching through the regatta in the event. We are

:22:32. > :22:38.looking at the British double scull, and they look OK. Yes, looking OK.

:22:38. > :22:44.Last year at the World Championships New Zealand came

:22:44. > :22:50.through them, just as it looks like by might do again here. Then the

:22:50. > :22:53.British push on again. At the New Zealanders were much higher in

:22:53. > :22:57.number of strokes per minute and they seem to be much more steady in

:22:57. > :23:02.the way they are sculling. 37 per minute, about the same as the

:23:02. > :23:06.British. We are watching Great Britain, but a word on the

:23:06. > :23:14.Australians, the world champions from last year in the lightweight

:23:14. > :23:18.eight, so they know how to win races. They switched to sculling,

:23:18. > :23:22.qualified as the Australian double here, so that is one crew what we

:23:22. > :23:27.will need to look out for. The British have stretched the lead,

:23:27. > :23:33.but only just as they go through the halfway mark, over New Zealand.

:23:33. > :23:38.1,000 metres down, and Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia

:23:38. > :23:44.there. Only two of the boats will qualify automatically for the semi-

:23:44. > :23:50.finals. The remaining boats will go on into the repechage. The British

:23:50. > :23:54.look OK. They look good. They have a good flow and they are back to a

:23:54. > :23:59.good rhythm and they are to it very talented athlete. They are just

:23:59. > :24:01.naturally talented -- they are two a very talented athletes. They are

:24:01. > :24:08.stretching out a lead over New Zealand, who look a bit

:24:08. > :24:13.agricultural in comparison. Very interesting. New Zealand will be

:24:13. > :24:20.surprised how great Britain have come back from being 67 weeks ago

:24:20. > :24:25.two leading at the halfway mark. The British have upped their rate

:24:25. > :24:29.by about a stroke per minute. They know they need to push on hard.

:24:29. > :24:34.They will hit a wall of noise very shortly and the adrenalin will pump

:24:34. > :24:39.hard through their body. That will raise them up. All the British

:24:39. > :24:43.crews have been talking about the rapport here. New Zealand tracking

:24:43. > :24:48.Australia. There has been a push from Great Britain. They need to

:24:48. > :24:58.step on, because they come New Zealand. They will get a raw of

:24:58. > :24:59.

:24:59. > :25:04.support in the next few strokes. -- a roaring a shout of up -- support.

:25:04. > :25:11.A quarter of the race to go. New Zealand just coming back again. It

:25:11. > :25:15.is cat and mouse. New Zealand comeback, Great Britain comeback.

:25:15. > :25:20.This is a hard stage of the race. But they are looking very good and

:25:20. > :25:27.confident. Mark really has that could swing back to the finish of

:25:27. > :25:31.the stroke. -- good swing. They have some flexibility to push

:25:31. > :25:39.through and up those number of strokes again. New Zealand up to 38

:25:39. > :25:45.already. This is storming up sculling. The Olympic and world

:25:45. > :25:50.champions back on form on Eton Dorney Lake. They will see an sense

:25:50. > :25:54.for those flags and the shouts. The adrenalin will start to come round

:25:54. > :25:59.hard. They know they are on home of water. This is a sensational

:25:59. > :26:04.opening heat from Great Britain, but the charge is coming again from

:26:04. > :26:08.New Zealand. Both of these crews are through to the semi-final, but

:26:08. > :26:12.neither of them want to let up. They want to go through as winners.

:26:12. > :26:18.This is a battle so the line. The New Zealand crew are pulling for

:26:18. > :26:23.one more effort, but the British are holding and the champions are

:26:23. > :26:26.defending. The speed and the drive from the legs is there. They are up

:26:26. > :26:30.to 40 strokes per minute and opening up again. New Zealand

:26:30. > :26:36.throwing everything at them but they cannot make an impression.

:26:36. > :26:40.Into the last 50 metres. New Zealand creeping ever so close, but

:26:40. > :26:44.the Olympic champions have done enough. They will hold on. They

:26:45. > :26:49.open up their 2012 Olympic campaign with a magnificent, magnificent

:26:49. > :26:54.victory. They punched the air and acknowledge the crowd. That was how

:26:54. > :26:59.important that victory was for them, from a confidence point of view.

:26:59. > :27:05.New Zealand also through, but that was a personal battle won by Zac

:27:05. > :27:10.Purchase and Mark Hunter. That was absolutely remarkable. They had

:27:10. > :27:14.come back from the dead, almost, from six or seven weeks ago. What a

:27:14. > :27:18.storming race. They put the boat together so well and it is a

:27:18. > :27:24.natural talent that they both have that has allowed them to just

:27:24. > :27:29.dominate all the way over the course. A fantastic piece of

:27:29. > :27:35.sculling. They had a disappointing 2012 season through the regattas.

:27:35. > :27:41.They started off all right, getting first in Belgrade, then six in at

:27:41. > :27:45.Lucerne and Munich. They came away with their heads down, but self-

:27:45. > :27:49.belief here. It is early days, but these guys are the world champions,

:27:49. > :27:53.the defending Olympic champions and carry the weight of the nation on

:27:53. > :27:57.their shoulders, but they have set themselves big targets, which is

:27:57. > :28:07.why it was important for them to win today. And that is what it

:28:07. > :28:15.

:28:15. > :28:20.For you can tell things are getting exciting because Gary upped the

:28:20. > :28:24.Herbert metre! For all the doubts people had from the year they seem

:28:24. > :28:28.to have banished them today. Those doubts have gone. I thought they

:28:28. > :28:33.could get back from the poor results to getting maybe a medal,

:28:33. > :28:36.but what they have shown their is they are not after a medal, there

:28:36. > :28:40.is only one thing they want. The reigning world and Olympic

:28:40. > :28:44.champions, and they want to win this. That was very big for them.

:28:44. > :28:48.The Kiwis are very strong and the French have beaten the New

:28:48. > :28:56.Zealanders in earlier rounds, so at Zealanders in earlier rounds, so at

:28:56. > :29:00.this stage, both boats were needed to make a statement. Whatever the

:29:00. > :29:04.New Zealanders threw at them, they can do anything about it. The is

:29:04. > :29:09.that full throttle? That is for throttle for both boats. I think

:29:09. > :29:12.the Kiwis have a little bit more to give, but at this boy and they

:29:12. > :29:21.wanted to win that, and that is not good for the Kiwis -- at this point

:29:21. > :29:25.The two is always interesting to watch fluctuations in form in sport

:29:25. > :29:30.-- it is always interesting. Kiwi pair who had been unbeaten for

:29:30. > :29:34.years and years, winning becomes a habit, when you lose the habit as

:29:34. > :29:41.Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter have done, how hard is it in a context

:29:41. > :29:46.of rowing to get it back? Almost impossible. If you finished 6th in

:29:46. > :29:50.the World Cup races, coming into the major championships, you cannot

:29:50. > :29:54.turn that round. It is a very consistent sport, but these guys

:29:54. > :29:58.have the ability and have so much talent. They could not put a figure

:29:58. > :30:01.on why it was going badly because training was going well, but it is

:30:02. > :30:06.clicking, and if it is going to click at any time, this is the time

:30:06. > :30:10.for it. Let's hope somewhere, subliminally, Rebecca Adlington

:30:10. > :30:19.knows about that. One more race featuring a British crew to come in

:30:19. > :30:23.the next half an hour and that was That was a fantastic race at Eton

:30:23. > :30:28.Doni. Hazel is taking the next part of the coverage away. No medals for

:30:28. > :30:32.Great Britain yet. A nobody panic. Exactly the same situation four

:30:32. > :30:36.years ago in Beijing, and it all came together that very rainy

:30:36. > :30:41.Sunday. Nicole Cooke got the first medal in the women's road race, and