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awful lot to come in the next three or four hours. A mayor Boris | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
Johnson calls it the Olympic mania. Whilst it's not at fever pitch yet, | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
that could break out, if and when that elusive first medal is in the | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
bag for the British team. There's a huge wave of goodwill towards Great | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Britain's athletes around his Olympic Park and beyond, from | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Weymouth to Wimbledon, to inside the giant whale that is the | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
successfully defended an Olympic title. Becky Adlington Stobbart in | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
her attempt to be the first this morning shortly. Ben Ainslie takes | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
to the water to go for an historic record equalling fourth sailing | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
gold at the Olympic regatta. It gets under way at high noon. Andy | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Murray was on his lonesome after doubles disappointment. Can he | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
served up another run to the singles final at Wimbledon, a month | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
after his last? Andy lost to Federer in that emotional final | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
three weeks ago. Today, he's got a Swiss roll again. Stanislas | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Wawrinka in his match. We are gearing up for the first appearance | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
in the Staines of Britain's most successful Olympic swimmer for over | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
a century. You know her. Two gold medals in won the Olympic Games. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Rebecca Adlington, you are absolutely brilliant! I've coached | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
over 30 years and I've never coached any body with the drive | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
that Rebecca has got. I've definitely learned more from my not | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
so good swims than I have my good swims. She's got this innate | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
ability to push herself to the limit, day-in day-out. It is in her | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
DNA, I suppose. As an athlete, you want to keep improving, you want to | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
get faster. Anybody can do absolutely anything at the Olympics | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
will start nobody expected me to do what I did in Beijing. There's | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
going to be upset us, highs, everything. That is the whole point | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
everything. That is the whole point Double gold at 19 years of age in | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Beijing. She became the first British woman to strike gold at the | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Games since Rome in 1960. She did it again, doubling the distance at | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
800. But she's got some way to go before she beats this man's total | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
of five, but who knows? Ian, let's get a sense of perspective. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Everybody is saying this medal is in the bag. This is the weaker of | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
her two events. What might we expect today? High expectations of | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Becky Adlington. We will put it in perspective. This is trying to | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
defend an Olympic title at her home Games. At the moment, we expected | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
some of her team mates to have perhaps had better performances | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
than they've had. So it has all added, all of this weight was on | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
her shoulders. Plus the rest of the world is swimming well. She has | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
great competitors in this event. Everybody knows of Pellegrini. But | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
there are other contenders for this spot. Can you tell us what it is | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
like to defend successfully at his title? You did it in the men's race | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
in Athens, and also Sydney. What are the main components that one | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
needs to do so, and how much more pressure is there when you are the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
one to watch in this race, a defending champion? The worst thing, | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
and we talk about the home crowd and what happens around this, but | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
when you walk out and you are Olympic champion, they say that | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
when you are announced as defending Olympic champion, and you go, | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
though, it's that moment where you go, I have to defend this title. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
You feel that. And they will say that when it is Becky Adlington | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
going out there. But it is knowing what you've done to become Olympic | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
champion and committing and sticking with that. Because if you | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
can get to number one, you know how to do it. It's not a matter of | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
thinking of number two, because you always want to be better than them. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
You've talked about a home Games, and in Sydney that was your own | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Games. I've noticed the increased level of emotion that is surging | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
through Great Britain's athletes here. I guess in a Olympic terms, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
one has to have a cool, hard-headed approach to things, so how | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
distracting is the overwhelming emotional experience that it is | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
proving to be? It can be overwhelming. It can also be one of | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the things that gives you that extra bit that you need, that extra | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
thing that kind of finish us off a performance. But if you let it | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
become a distraction, it will be. If you get caught up in the hype, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
you will be lost. You need to keep a calm head but enjoyed that it is | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
at home. Remember, the best things about home, and not think of all | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
that of the pressure and expectation. Think of mum and dad, | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
your friends and family. Don't think about everyone else. I am | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
sure that is what Becky and Jo Jackson will be doing, because they | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
will be going in the third of the heats in his women's 400m freestyle. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Adrian and Andy about to pick up for us. A quick word about Becky' | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
stroke rate. I did read from a cold, stroke rate. I did read from a cold, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Bill Furniss, that she is very extraordinary and reasonably unique | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
in that when she wants to upper speed, she doesn't necessarily | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
increase first stroke rate, she seems to lengthen her stroke. Is | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
that unusual? It is not unusual -- uncommon. It's something I tried to | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
do as well. In doing so, being able to increase speed. You will see a | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
slight change in kick when she does it. All the very best. Back to you, | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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Becky in four, Jo Jackson in two. Gold and bronze from Beijing four | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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of the women's 400 freestyle. I've said it a couple of times, but this | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
is a dangerous heat to be in because it's all about time making | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
it through to the final. In theory, all the swimmers from the final | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
heat could go through to the final if they are the fastest in the | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
heats. You don't really know how fast the rest of the field is going | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
to go. The fastest 24 in those last heats. You've got to swim a quick | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
time. Becky has gone out for it, half a second ahead. She looks good. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Even though she's got such a high profile, she's kept a little bit | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
under the radar. Everybody is talking about ABBA athletes, but a | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
body length ahead after 75 metres is pretty impressive. Becky, easy, | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
tiger! Goodness me! You can't stop it. If she wants to go for it, she | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
feels good, why not? She is right on Pellegrini's world record split. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
That world record was outstanding and Pellegrini came back like a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
rocket. She might fall off those splits but this is good. Very good | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
indeed. She has clearly got a race plan to get out there and get out | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
there fast. She took about a body length off the field by 100. The | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
crowd are going nuts. Very loud indeed. Also going reasonably well | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
in lane two macro with Jo Jackson. Jackson is in fourth. Jo needs to | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
continue to move through this field. If she can touch it second and May | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
3rd, that will give her a good chance of getting through to the | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
final. But Becky looks really, really good. She does just need to | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
swim to qualify. If you were Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, you | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
might think about easing back here. This is half way. Keep the pressure | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
applied through to 300 and take a view. She has just dropped off that | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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looks really good. She's probably taken about another metre and a | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
half from the field in that last 100m. Still now going into her legs | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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pace. Adlington over first. 2nd looks like Chloe Sutton of the USA. | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
The Jo Jackson still in the hunt. She needs to start making a move if | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
she is going to get in this final. But Adlington looks wonderful. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Adlington is winning like the Olympic champion she is. She is one | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
of our greatest swimmers ever, and dominating this, her first swim | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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that we've seen. They are seeing somebody at the top of her game. | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
Chloe Sutton coming back on her. I'm thinking Adlington right now | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
will have a few questions in her mind about whether she should keep | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the accelerated arm of. The legs are not for long. She's not looking | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
left, she won't really know where Sutton is just yet. When she does | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
this turned she will, Sue have a quick look either side. -- she will | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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4.03. This is an interesting tactic, she doesn't need to go this fast, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
she really doesn't, but the noise here is absolutely huge. I think | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
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she is easing back slightly on this the women's 400m freestyle. A | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
massive roar from the crowd, absolutely deafening. It is not the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
fastest time we've seen this year. She swam it in a very interesting | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
way. She really went out in that last -- first 100, and then looked | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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in 7th, so she won't be making the was a little bit out of breath. | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
Just don't know how much pressure she applied all the way through. | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
Because if that was all a bit, I'm not sure it's going to be enough to | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
be to Camille Muffat. My feeling is she will have left something in the | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
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tank when she realised she was such of the women's 400m freestyle. She | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
led it from the front. Jo Jackson in 7th. A massive roar from the | :11:40. | :11:49. | |
crowd. Federica Pellegrini has been a world class for the last four | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
years, but only second fastest in to this Olympic Games. There she is. | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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I wonder whether she is going to win, or one, gold, and two, if | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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it like that. One job, make the final. Pellegrini tactic the swum | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the world championships really, really strangely. She went out | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
super slow and was miles behind. I think she turned seven. She then | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
picked it up and went very, very fast. A really bizarre way of | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
swimming, she was miles behind. When she set a world record, when | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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she did her 3.59. Very slow, not slow for the first 100m, but then | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
traditionally bring it back very quickly. It is something she worked | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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hard on. She is sitting in position the first turn. Kylie Palmer is a | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
real workhorse. She's got a lot of spirit. She's in lane five, from | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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Australia. Pellegrini is just Championships and waited until the | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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200-metre mark. Then she picked it leading on the left-hand side of | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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that shot. I still think Pellegrini now. Parma will track her. The two | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
swimmers in the Yellow lanes will probably feed off each other. If | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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she can only see... Balmy leading for France closer to us. Brittany | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
McLean going well. She is the world junior champion on his 400m | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
freestyle. She is starting to come back, Federica Pellegrini, the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
world champion on the 200 and 400. The world record holder in this | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
event. Right in the centre, she is currently in third position but | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
starting to rue -- to move up reasonably comfortably. I Nocher if | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
she will catch the Frenchwoman, though. 100m to go at this turn. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
Over first is Balmy, second, Pellegrini. One second behind. | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
has army poured back 0.4 of a second. She still has a second to | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
go. Balmy swimming really nicely there. She is top right of your | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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There was a second between them with 100 metres to go, and Bolney - | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
- barmy as God, that's not very impressive. She needs to touch a | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
least second to give herself a charter get in the final, but she | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
looks like she's going backwards -- a chance to get in the final. But | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
in the centre, she doesn't look good, if she is touchdown by | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
McLean... And she is. That is a real shock. Having said that, | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Rebecca Adlington one that in a 4.05, so all of them faster than | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
Rebecca. If she is in trouble, then Adlington is in trouble. You're | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
right, that was a fast race. Adlington is in 4th place on times | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
at the moment, but I do nothing there are four or -- but I don't | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
think there are four or five who could do better. We actually need | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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five people to beat her. She will be all right. Hold tight, Andrew. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
We are looking at the next French woman, and that would have put her | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
5th in the world this year with that time. That is a good swim in | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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and Rebecca Adlington lying in 4th, so only four of these women are | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
allowed to beat her! She has been utterly stunning in the 400 metres | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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about. She has had a dominating year. Coming into the competition | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
over a second faster than everyone else. She swam 800 metres in Paris, | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
at the Paris Open and was playing around a little bit on the first | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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400 metres and then swam it in 4.04. She did and 8.23, which puts her at | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
six the best in the world at the 800 but she was trying to see if | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
she could do negative splitting, which means finishing the race | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
better in the second half than the first. Then, in June, in Monaco she | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
did for 0.03, and she did 57.1 for the last hundred. She has almost | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
been playing around in the year to make sure she is in the best | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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position to win the gold medal. Schmitt is a strong swimmer. She | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
has taken a year of university to be coached by Michael Phelps's | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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coach. Schmitt over first. Expect the Danish swimmer to maybe | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
comeback in the second half. She looks a little bit flashy and that | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
pink suit on the left-hand side. A straight arm stroke and really | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
smacking her arms in, and working hard. Schmitt comfortable at the | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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moment. The that is a halfway turn. The rest of the field, there are | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
five swimmers who are looking pretty good. Six actually looking | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
pretty good, and Rebecca at Clinton's time of 4.05 might be | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
getting into the final, but it could be tight. -- Rebecca | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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Schmitt turning in great pace. Muffat coming through Third. I | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
imagine that yellow line will move away further from the swimmers. She | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
has been working a lot on this. I imagine she will definitely try to | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
win the race. But now she has five swimmers of -- who are capable of | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
going under 4.05. They are still on at that pace. So that would make | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Rebecca Adlington 9th. We have to be careful, well, we don't need to | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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be careful, we just have to urge them to slow down. That is the best | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
place to race anyone has won here. She looks tired, but she can | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
certainly come back. On the left- hand side in it lay in at number | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
seven is Costa of Spain. We may be OK. Lauren Boyle has just come | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
through the field like a train. is a big stretch. I think we are OK. | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
Let me see, 5th is before 0.06. Thank goodness for that. -- 4.06. | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
Oh my word, thank goodness for that, Rebecca is eight into the final. | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
Interesting pacing from the winner. An interesting swim in this race. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
I'm not sure if it is the right way to do it, but she has played with | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
her pacing all the way through the year and that 800 metres where she | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
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went for 0.05 at the end, that is ridiculous. Then a stretch. -- 4.05. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Two minutes and two seconds basically her split. No, not | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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right. I think I have. The confirmation of the finalists is | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
just about to come up. Let's see who is No. 8. Thank goodness for | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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The final is tonight, just after 8:15pm, but that is a major reality | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
check because it would be a huge achievement for Rebecca Adlington | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
winning a medal tonight, because gold looks unlikely. It was always | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
going to be a tough field and tough for her to get to the final. You | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
think Michael Phelps is comfortable, but he ended up eight. She did look | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
comfortable and did not have to push it too much. But she can get | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
on and do her own thing. We have the two outside burners and the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
ones in the middle will fight it out. We she got out of the pool, | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
despite winning their heat, she went straight into the cool down | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Paul and she will now focus on one thing only, the final tonight. She | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
is the defending champion. It was a shock when she won four years ago | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
and it would be a shock if she won tonight, but she is there, in the | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
We were discussing the situation, because we were quite tense in the | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
studio about whether she would get through. We talk about a reality | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
check, and I think we just have one. We have. I have spoken about trying | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
to manage expectations around athletes. She backed off in the | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
last 100 metres, let's know that. She definitely did. I actually | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
think that lane might suit her. She can swim her own race, she is out | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
there and she does not have to worry about the wash from the other | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
girls. We know she has a strong back and and she can be out there, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
alone, and no one will know what she's doing and not have the worry | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
about her coming over the top. underlines the point from Hannah | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Miley in that the heats in the Olympics have become a total | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
bunfight as the quality from the rest of the world has increased. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
discussed this with some of the senior swimmers, and these young | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
kids out there, they go out in the heats and it ruins us for having a | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
comfortable swim to get into the final or the semi-final. And that | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
means that training for two big races in one day it becomes all the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
more difficult. It really does. Looking at the swimmers to do | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
multiple events across the Games, that makes it an even tougher | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
struggle. We should really applaud them when they win at multiple gold | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
medals. But Coralie barmy was a stand-out, she looked beautiful, as | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
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Moving on, when you watch the sun a round-the-world yachtsman, which | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
she is not, sailing is in the blood, but Ben Ainslie has lived and | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
breathed the sport since his first appearance in 1996. 0 the next 10 | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
days his ambition is to become the greatest sailor in the next -- | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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history of the Olympics -- over the And there he is. The sailing | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
regatta starts in about two minutes in a Weymouth. The favourite for | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
gold in the men's Finn is the aforementioned Ben Ainslie. He has | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
already been hailed by the President of the Olympic Committee | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
as the greatest ever Olympian. Shirley Robertson has two gold | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
medals of her own will be our guide in Weymouth over the next 10 days. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
First of all, we saw you at the opening ceremony. They you are, | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
your home from home, on the water. -- they you are. We saw you handing | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
over that torch, a magical experience, I am sure. I am still | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
tingling. For younger Callum, for I handed it to, what a moment. I | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
don't think he really got it until he actually did it. Definitely a | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
star for the future. They you are, wind in your hair, that is what we | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
like to see -- their you are. Can you give us some context on Ben's | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
achievements? Where does it put him in the pantheon of sailing and what | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
might achieve in the next few days? Team GB have said this medal is the | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
dead certainty but I'm sure Ben Ainslie doesn't see it like that as | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
sport does not work out like that, as we have seen over the last day | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
or two. He is a phenomenally competitive sailor but he has had a | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
battle to get here. Domestically, that was his biggest challenge. We | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
are strong in this class and it was a tough year for him. He did have a | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
back-up, but he is in great shape and very confident last night when | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
I spoke to him. Also today there are Super conditions. He was one of | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
the first men are out and we saw him warming up and getting used to | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
them in Weymouth. Lots of crowds and lots of boats out and lots of | :28:56. | :29:06. | |
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people out to support him. And amazing place to watch the sailing. | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
This is the very first time for any Olympic regatta that they've made | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
tickets available. 4500 people here. It is the sailing equivalent of | :29:17. | :29:27. | |
Henman Hill. Send us an e-mail if We bumped into Stephen Park here. | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
He's getting a round of applause. He is in charge of the sailing team. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
I would imagine Ben is just relieved, his race is just starting, | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
I imagine he is believed to be underweight. Yes, very relieved. A | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
little bit of pre-match nerves this morning. Just keen to get on with | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
the main event. It looks like he's had a cracking start at the right- | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
hand end of the line. Finally the Olympics are here, and isn't it | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
great to see some many people - the weather is out, it's fantastic! | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
There are more than a few people who want Ben Ainslie to win this | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
Olympic regatta. He has made a good start. Nice, | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
safe start. We've not always seen that from Ben Ainslie at the | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
Olympic regattas Bo Storm normally he has a bad start and passed a | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
fight for that gold medal. I think today he just wants to be | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
conservative and get a good couple of scores. There are 10 races to go | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
and then that medal race next I think we will stay with this for | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
the first five minutes. If you want to see this from start to finish, | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
there are 10 races over the next few days for Ben and his mates in | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
the Finn class, as Barrar for many others in the other sailing classes, | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
you can do on the hour live streams. But Richard Simmonds, my goodness, | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
I hardly get to talk to him. Every four years, and he's there for us | :30:56. | :31:05. | |
he's got into the right-hand side of the course. The crowd will love | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
that because he's heading right towards them. Absolutely, he is | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
heading over to the hill. We've got a grade on board a shot of him | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
working the boat. We start to get a glimpse of the technique that he's | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
developed for the class. The rest of the fleet carrying on to the | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
other side. Let's see who it was that went back and had to we | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
crossed the line. Supporters from Ukraine will be somewhat | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
disappointed. Alexei was forced to cross the line again, he jumped the | :31:41. | :31:51. | |
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towards the nose, towards the crowd. moving, working the boats up very | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
small waves. I can't see any other boats. This is the view from the | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
back of Ben Ainslie's boat. Working that rudder, it's like steering | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
round every bump in a car. So easy just to keep that rudder still. | :32:26. | :32:32. | |
He's got his body weight way out the side of the boat. It's all | :32:32. | :32:42. | |
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about keeping the boat flat. The Danish sailor coming across. Ben | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
Ainslie is headed to the other side towards the crowd. But it was a | :32:48. | :32:56. | |
good start for Ben Ainslie. The Austrian and the Croatian here. The | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
Croatian sailing is squeezing over towards... The wind is not quite as | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
strong as at the beginning. We are looking for a picture of Ben | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
Ainslie, who had a good start to this race. The British sailor | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
heading for targeting gold number four has started well, but these | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
are the early stages of an 11 race competition. This animation shows | :33:19. | :33:29. | |
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us his advantage Austria at the pack. And when you are in the pack, | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
other boats are taking your wind. The wind coming from the left of | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
screen. Ben Ainslie is now absolutely floating in the pack, | :33:41. | :33:51. | |
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technique is about keeping the boat absolutely flat. The breeze is | :34:00. | :34:09. | |
about 20 kilometres an hour. A breeze that would cool you down. | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
saw Ben tack off to the right of the course there. Somehow he got | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
swamped a little bit. He is struggling to get his own position | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
in this course, where he can make his own decisions and not get | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
dictated by the boats around him. Obviously everyone knows who then | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
is, so they want to pin him down a little bit. He is struggling out -- | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
to get out into the Frontier, but I'm sure we will see him coming | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
back. The Dane has won the championship twice and he is opting | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
to the other side of the course. The sailor from the Netherlands had | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
a real fight with Ben Ainslie at the championships. The animations | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
say it is looking very good for Denmark. Yesterday they had a | :34:57. | :35:03. | |
practice race. The Danish sailor nearly gave up after the Olympics, | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
he came back but he is an absolute prat to Ben Ainslie. He is one of | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
10 boat that could win a medal here. You mentioned the pact has raised | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
yesterday. We saw the left-hand side of the course come good. It | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
was favoured that way. That is not where Ben is today. It's | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
interesting to see he thought the other side was good yesterday and | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
that's why he's gone that way. look at the crowd, that is new for | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
sailing. A partisan crowd. There was a lot of cheering and flags for | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
Ben Ainslie. They are wanted to see him pop out of that pack. Another | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
boat went to the other side of the course, that is from Finland. The | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
finish sailor is coming over all by himself. It is always a risk in | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
sailing when you go out to one side of the course alone. The other pack | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
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could get the advantage and you are looking at now. A man who has won a | :36:10. | :36:20. | |
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the beach in the background. It looks like Ben Ainslie might be in | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
the top 10 but he's absolutely struggling. It may be dramatic to | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
say that but he's not dominating the early stages. He tends not to | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
at the Olympic Games in the first day, but he didn't want to have a | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
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slow start. The race is expected to wasn't the top of the form guide of | :36:49. | :36:56. | |
the cultures I was talking to, nor was the Austrian. -- the coaches I | :36:56. | :37:06. | |
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right-hand side of the course. We always imagine ourselves standing | :37:07. | :37:14. | |
behind these boats looking up the course. Yes, we've it certainly | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
seen then a struggling in the pack there. -- then. The thing about | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
sailing in general, there's a lot of variables. It's very easy for | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
the fleet to have a bad race. That's why we race over such a long | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
series. You've got to average it out. That is what Ben Ainslie has | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
done so excellently well in over the years. But we are going to see | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
him go downwind, and that is where he really comes into his own. He's | :37:41. | :37:49. | |
got exceptional technique. We saw on the Mini boat that the flag was | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
flying. What that means in the Finn class is that he'll be able to work | :37:53. | :38:03. | |
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Ainslie wanted a safe start and was clean off the start line, but he is | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
struggling a bit. The quality of this fleet is the hype. They are | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
tremendous athletes and very physical. One thing he is good that | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
is downwind sailing. He just seems to be faster than anyone else. He | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
is very physical with the boat. I hope to see him make a bit of an | :38:26. | :38:33. | |
impression on the next leg as they It all looks absolutely beautiful | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
down their in Weymouth, terrific conditions for the start of the | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
Olympic regatta. We have some swimming to wrap up for you. It's | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
the men's 4x100m freestyle heats. Phelps and Lochte for the US team | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
up for this one. They are going to go in heat two, along with old | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
rivals the Aussies, who are looking to win gold here for the first time | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
since a certain Mr Ian Thorpe and company did 12 years ago, after the | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
USA had threatened to smash you like guitars. Q air guitar | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
celebrations. Can you still do it? I've forgotten how to do that. You | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
are more than welcome to do it. think I will pass. In heat one, | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
Great Britain are going alongside France, who could push both of | :39:18. | :39:28. | |
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of two pleads for the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. -- two heats. | :39:33. | :39:42. | |
South Africa were Olympic champions back in Athens. That was a big | :39:43. | :39:52. | |
shock. And very excited for them I was as well. Team GB. We need a | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
really big lead to start with from Simon Burnett. He's got great | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
experience and has been training in the States for many years. He has | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
been training in Tucson, Arizona. It is beautiful weather pretty much | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
all year round, you can train outdoors. Fantastic. Team GB have | :40:17. | :40:27. | |
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the red hats. This is an interesting one. Venezuela in one, | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
Brazil in two, South Africa in three. France in the centre in four. | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
Italy, 5, Great Britain, six, Canada, seven. It is the South | :40:41. | :40:51. | |
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Canada has gone off very fast indeed. He was world champion on | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
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the 100m freestyle. He got off either side of Burnett will start | :41:40. | :41:50. | |
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This is a difficult position to be in. It is not a great to swim for | :41:55. | :42:05. | |
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that's an interesting decision. will be a long rest because he | :42:10. | :42:19. | |
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He's really pulling back. He's trying to get on to the waste of | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
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the Italian. Getting back into South Africa third. Great Britain | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
back into 6th position, they've made up one place. That split from | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
grand turnout was very good indeed. It was a 48 point, much better. | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
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James Disney-May now going for up a place. We are two tenths of a | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
second behind fourth. We do need to try and finish in fourth if we can. | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
If we are 5th, only three teams from the second heat can beat us. | :43:49. | :43:59. | |
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We are getting a massive wave from moment leading. Team France with | :44:11. | :44:21. | |
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our fastest guy, I'm afraid he's going to have a very long rest. I | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
think it might be four years before he gets to do another Olympic | :44:42. | :44:52. | |
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the guys there. He was literally behind the wave after the first leg, | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
and those poor guys in two, three and four would have been bashed | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
about all of the place. Really try to get -- tried to get back in to | :45:08. | :45:16. | |
it, but that would have really impacted on that swim. 3.12 in | :45:16. | :45:26. | |
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Beijing when they made the final. job, those are fast times. Italy | :45:31. | :45:38. | |
should be through as well. Great Britain, well, what they were doing | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
resting him, I don't know. It will be an interesting question to ask | :45:43. | :45:53. | |
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these guys, the big guns. Russia, fastest Australian. They have not | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
rested their best guide. James Magnusson, the fastest guy in the | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
team -- their fastest guy. Very sensible. He has walked past you in | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
a white top, I was going to say, but they all are! He's down there | :46:27. | :46:36. | |
in the white top! I'll narrow it down, he's in the middle. Team | :46:36. | :46:46. | |
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I've been following him on Twitter, he's hilarious. Matt Grieve is | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
going second for the USA. By that is interesting. He's just done the | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
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backstroke. I bet your estate swim him in the heats, but taken at the | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
final, but he would get a medal because he has helped the team get | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
through, so I reckon they will take him out of the final. Just to be | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
clear, he swam the 100 metres backstroke, the fastest qualifier | :47:37. | :47:44. | |
in that, and he is likely to win it, so to seek him on the second leg -- | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
taking on the second leg, that is interesting. Right now, the | :47:47. | :47:53. | |
Russians doing what they do best, blasting out. A scrappy stroke on | :47:53. | :48:01. | |
the right. Pretty hectic, though. It is getting very choppy. Almost a | :48:01. | :48:08. | |
water polo strokes. A very tight takeover at five for the USA. The | :48:08. | :48:18. | |
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lead-off leg from Russia, 48.1. Not the 100 backstroke helping his team | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
to qualify for the final. For those of you who don't watch swimming | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
that often, people do train all of the strokes, so he won't be shabby. | :48:47. | :48:57. | |
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In fact he's very good! Could take trials, but then he withdrew. That | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
was going to be his 8th race, but he decided to only swim seven, what | :49:12. | :49:21. | |
an incredible guy. So, Russia, in three. A fantastic turn from the | :49:21. | :49:31. | |
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Americans again. He will be handing over to Jason Lee's act. Coming | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
back are Australia in four, and we are about to see the world | :49:35. | :49:43. | |
champions, so this will be an interesting last leg. Germany now | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
in 4th. Here is the first time we will see James Magnusson of | :49:48. | :49:54. | |
Australia, currently in second, at the bottom of the shot. Magnus is | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
breathing to the left. He is in the second of the yellow lines. Coming | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
in between the Russians and Americans. It will be a line-up of | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
four off the turn. Australia in second. All of these four teams | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
should qualify easily. Magnusson, to the right. He does not like | :50:13. | :50:23. | |
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losing races. The USA swimmer is absolutely flying, and Magnusson | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
next to him is the world champion. Fantastic to see it. Australia | :50:28. | :50:38. | |
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winning it. Faster than the first indeed. 47.2, the split from | :50:49. | :50:57. | |
Magnusson. Not bad for a beginner! You would expect him to do that in | :50:57. | :51:03. | |
the individual, 47.2. Quite a few swimmers are starting at the back | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
of the block to get some momentum and then diving in. But it's not | :51:07. | :51:16. | |
easy time it right when you do that. Beautiful takeover. I love it. | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
fantastic swim from the American. He is the guy who saved the 8th | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
gold medal prospects for Michael Phelps and that last leg. Look at | :51:26. | :51:34. | |
Magnusson looking over. What are you doing? That is interesting. | :51:34. | :51:41. | |
They are sledging. A Yes, we saw that! Australia winning the second | :51:41. | :51:51. | |
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heat. America will be in the number five, and Russia in three. That | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
will be interesting. Those three are the fastest qualifiers in the | :51:55. | :52:05. | |
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final. Germany will be in the final Britain, well, 2.3 seconds behind. | :52:23. | :52:33. | |
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Always tasty the rivalry between the US and Australia, but how is it | :52:35. | :52:44. | |
these days? It is a hot rivalry in this race, and I did like watching | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
that. Australia actually placed the two fastest swimmers in the heat of | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
this morning. We have another two athletes who have qualified for the | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
event that we could put in for the final. But this is very close. | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
Great swimmer by the Russians and the Americans were strong. The | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
French team is well placed. This is going to be a very tight race | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
against four nations. The US are looking stronger than I expected. | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
It is going to be a battle. James Magnusson is a very confident | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
character. He said that this relay team that he will head his bullet | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
proof. That is tough talk. It might be good for James to say that but | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
it might not help the other three guys. That is James's character. At | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
the moment he is producing the kind of results where he is able to do | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
things and say things and make sweeping remarks like that. He is a | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
brilliant sprint freestyle or. And I hope he produces it at an Olympic | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
Games, which she is capable of. I think we have to see a taste of | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
that perceiving -- which he is capable of. Australia will | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
presumably grind to a halt. Sport in Australia is one thing we wake | :54:04. | :54:07. | |
up for. It doesn't matter what time it is, Australia will be watching | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
the race. Bleary eyed, no doubt. Ian, thanks for talking to us again. | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
We now turn our attention to cycling, out on the roads. | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
Yesterday did not go to plan for Mark Cavendish and the Great | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
Britain team, obviously. And is there a danger that the rest of the | :54:25. | :54:32. | |
world will, as they put it, ganged up on us again? Nicole Cooke is | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
defending her title and Lizzie Armitstead is primed for a sprint | :54:36. | :54:46. | |
finish. Tony Gray Thomson is down We are all expecting quite a | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
different race today. There has been a little break away from | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
Fernando Silva from Brazil, but she doesn't look very comfortable in | :54:54. | :54:59. | |
the saddle. The peloton just waiting to catch up. I am joined by | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
Jill Douglas who was a reporter yesterday. There has been a lot of | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
talk coming into the race about the rivalry in the British team and | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
what the team tactics will be. How do you think that will play out for | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
the girls? They were tight-lipped during the week when I asked about | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
who would be the protected rider and the team leader. I think they | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
will have some meetings this week to discuss that strategy. But they | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
will have to be very pragmatic and the race. If it is a bunch sprint, | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
we accept Lizzie Armitstead is the stronger sprinter, but not the | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
strongest in the peloton. I think they hope it is an aggressive race | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
at a reasonable pace, and therefore it could be that Nicole Cooke could | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
get on to the right side of a break and it could be a race that suits | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
her. I think there are more questions in the race, as opposed | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
yesterday when we saw Great Britain up riding for the sprint finish, | :55:57. | :56:01. | |
with just one plan. But in this situation there are three plans. | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
That is why Chris Newton has a canny job as the team coach. He is | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
in the car today with Shane Sutton and Dave Brailsford. They will be | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
trying to interpret and feed the information to the girls. On paper, | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
Marianne Vos seems to be the strongest. Do you think the Dutch | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
team will control the peloton today? The usual suspects. The | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
Dutch team, the Italians, the Germans, and Great Britain. | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
Everybody will be realising the depth of talent in that team, and | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
do not forget Lucy Martin who has been riding of Lizzie Armitstead | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
and doing a fantastic job. They will be watching each other | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
carefully, but Marianne Vos is a big favourite. But I think the | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
Italians will also be looking to get up there. It is actually a | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
really fascinating race. It could be really exciting. As a spectacle, | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
it might be similar to what we saw in the world championships. Quite a | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
canny race, but the last few kilometres could get very likely. | :57:05. | :57:13. | |
Thank you, Gill. We will let you The race will be coming down into | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
London at around 4pm. It is available on the other outlets if | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
you want to concentrate on it. We are going back to Eton Dorney, the | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
last of the races today, the women's eight. I know the USA have | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
been dominant in this rate over the last few years. -- in this race. Is | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
that with the same group of women or have they chopped and changed? | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
They have been a few changes. They tried taking the two strongest | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
girls out and putting them in the pairs to see if they could do that | :57:44. | :57:50. | |
as well as winning the women's eight. The Women's Day nearly got | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
beaten by Canada then, so they brought everybody out and they were | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
really try to make a statement but they are back and that nobody will | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
touch them in the event. Talking about pears, the men's double scull, | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
the lightweight, if people can see Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, if | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
they were not back to their best, they were close to it. The a | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
certainly put a marker down. -- they certainly. It probably her | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
them to do it, but they wanted to show the 1,000 cere, and for their | :58:18. | :58:23. | |
own minds, after the bad results they have an indifferent season but | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
they are back and fighting for a gold medal. If they were impressive, | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
their female counterparts were supremely confident and impressive | :58:32. | :58:41. | |
in their heat. And they spoke to us We will talk about the end in a | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
moment, but what was the start like? It was actually quite calm. | :58:45. | :58:52. | |
We both racier a lot. We have practised the warm-up in the trials | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
and the start is almost the calmest place because you are quiet and | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
focusing on the first strokes and getting ready to go. When she had | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
the first few strokes it seemed to go like clockwork. -- once you had. | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
We had some really good training and we knew all we had to do is | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
deliver what we did in training and use the excitement of being in | :59:12. | :59:17. | |
front of a home crowd to add a bit of a buzz to that. So then it was | :59:17. | :59:26. | |
just following the plan that we When we spoke in Italy last week, | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
you said you were trying not to be childishly excited about the whole | :59:29. | :59:33. | |
thing. How did you feel at the start, were you able to banish that | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
from your thoughts? I was quite surprised that I did but actually, | :59:37. | :59:44. | |
it was just like we were at Eton Dornie. You are. It looks a lot | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
different because of the grandstands but at the start it | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
felt like we were at trials. I think that is a real advantage, | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
that we've done so many high- pressure races here before it. It | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
was just like another race. Maybe that is the definition of home | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
advantage. Yes. There's a lot of definitions in terms of when we | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
arrived the other day, seeing all the volunteers and seeing how | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
friendly they are also a lot of them have been told not to say | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
anything but they are almost bursting with excitement to say, | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
good luck. Everyone makes you feel really comfortable. Then it's all | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
about delivering your performance that you practised day-in day-out. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Steve? Rumour has it training has gone very well. That obviously | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
shows. You both have quite a lot of confidence. Are you happy with | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
what's going to go on for the next few races? That was incredible. To | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
get the first race out of the legs and just to have a practice. I've | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
never done anything like what it was like at the end when we crossed | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
the line, it was amazing. I think we've got to bear in mind that is | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
just a heat, but I'm happy we started off well. Yes, training has | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
been going really well for us. We made massive steps on and did some | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
really good pieces. All we needed to do today was put out what we've | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
done in training. I think we did to an extent, but we can find a bit | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
more in the next race. Excellent. You're talking about what it is | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
like you know me, there's not normally 35,000 people here when | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
you're doing training. It's pretty special. Yes, it's just so loud | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
when you cross the finish! It's a big wall of sound. If you could | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
bottle that sound when you cross the finish line and sell it, I'd be | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
a millionaire. If will be a lot louder with every passing day and | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
race you are involved in. We look forward to talking to you after the | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
next one. Only three British crews involved in action today. We've | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
spoken about two of them, and they were both victorious. The third one | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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were the women's eight. Here's how quick and fast in lane two macro. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Alongside them, the noise, speed and brashness of the USA. They are | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
allowed to be that. They are the Olympic and world champions. They | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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four. Do the right of your picture, in lane three, the Americans have | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
already jumped out and lead by a quarter of a length. Olympic | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
champions in Beijing. They haven't really lost a race since winning in | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
Beijing. Romania were on the way down. The United States have been | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
just as dominant. Very powerful. Great Britain have reorganised | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
their crew. They had lots of injury in their boat. Some of the injured | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
people have come back into the boat. Victoria Thornley has gone into | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
struck from the quad, where she was rolling earlier on in the season. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Annabel Vernon, she is in at six. A sculler who has changed into rowing | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
as well. This is incredible from the Olympic and world champions. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
They have taken a length out of Great Britain as they go through | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
the 500 mark. We would expect the US to push on again hard in the | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
:03:51. | :03:58. | ||
British group. Vicky Thornley has come back into the stroke seat. She | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
was in that stroke seat last year when Great Britain won bronze. | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
Looking there at Mary Whipple, the coxswain of the American boat. They | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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did have Erin Cafaro at their bow. They found in Lucerne that they | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
only sneaked into win ahead of Canada. They thought, well, we are | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
not going to win the pair. We will bring Allah two strongest athletes | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
back into the eight to try and make sure that Canada doesn't catch us | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
on the line at the Olympics. And my goodness, they are an extremely | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
good crew. I said the United States would move on in the second 500. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The Aussies were on their coat- tails. They have not been able to | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
live with the speed of the Americans. They want to make a big | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
statement. They are doing exactly that. Just one group to go through | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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down, 1000 de Gaulle in the opening heat of the women's eight. The USA, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
the Olympic and world champions, have been devastating. They have | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
moved out. They were clear of Great Britain at the 500 metres mark. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Only Australia had the overlap at that point macro. They've had a | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
magnificent second 500. They've dropped Australia through that. | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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They are now a way clear. They are against Australia. But out front, | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
magnificent, the USA. There are two races going on here. The race is on | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
for the second place. Great Britain have had a good second 500 and move | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
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dominant and looking for another a length and a bit clear of | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
Australia, who are being hounded now by Great Britain. We are into | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
the last 500 metres in this. They have driven Harden pulled away ever | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
since. The USA are clear by a country mile. The Aussies in lane | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
four went with them to the halfway mark but they are now suffering. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
The British are pushing on hard. The British crew will come through. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
They are into this tunnel of complete noise on either side of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
the course here. Only one will go through to the final. That is | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
clearly going to be the USA. But it's all about pride here in his | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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opening heat. It is all about Great Great Britain. They have upped | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
their rates a little bit. These crews will end up going back into | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
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the repechage, but no one will The Aussies are going to hold on, | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
only just. Look at how brilliant the Olympic and world champions are. | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
The United States of America over the line. They have demolished this | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
field. In second place, the Aussies are through. And the British come | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
through in third. It was a valiant middle 1000 by Great Britain. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
There's more to come from this group. They will have to show that | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
when they next get out on to the start line for the repechage. My | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
word! The Australians, have we seen a crew so dominant as the USA over | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
:08:56. | :09:08. | ||
Romania, who used to dominate this women's event and dominate women's | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
rowing for many years, multi times Olympic and world champions. Well, | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
the baton has been passed on to the United States of America. Romania, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
fourth in the world championships last year, they were second in | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
Munich earlier this year. Still a force to be contended with. Canada | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
are the likely winners here. Canadians gone out strong, the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Canadians are the world silver- medallists from 2011. They were | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
first in Munich and came second at Lucerne. They were beaten on that | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
occasion by the United States of America, but it wasn't that large a | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
:09:58. | :10:00. | ||
gap between the two. We expect them to have moved on. The coach of the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Canadian crew has been around for years, coached many a Canadian | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
group to an Olympic and world medal. The Canadians stretching into their | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
race pace. The Romanians have a good steak now, they move well into | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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point of view, Holland have a history of pulling out medals as | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
well. Second in 2008 behind the Americans, not this crew. They've | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
got a strong Olympic pedigree. Dutch are good, rangy athletes. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Very relaxed, very nice rowers but very easy, fluid and tall, long | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
levers. I always loved watching Lesley Thomson, the cox of the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Canadian group. She always sits upright, she's been sat upright | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
like that for years. Her poise and confidence. When I was in the boat | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
at the up-and-down, screaming and yelling. I would love to be able to | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
:11:35. | :11:35. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 62 seconds | :11:35. | :12:37. | |
sit as calm and cool as she does are probably the closest rivals to | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
the USA, the champions. But there isn't quite the same dynamism about | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
it. That impact. You just feel that the power and focus of the American | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
crew was just that much more aggressive, more exciting. Lesley | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
Thomas and his 51 years of age, the coxswain of the Canadian group. -- | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
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for the energy they are expanding, we'd have thought they'd be clear | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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quarter of this second heat of the women's eight. The Romanians have | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
an overlap. It will be a big job on their hands if they are going to | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
catch Canada. Only one of these three crews going through to the | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
final, everybody else to the repechage. It is worth throwing, | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
from a Romanian point of view, it's worth throwing everything at it | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
with this overlap. But they are not having any impression whatsoever. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
The Canadians, one length just shy of. Into the grandstands. The | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
Canadian team well-supported here. On the far side, the Netherlands | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
:14:29. | :14:29. | ||
are starting to spend up. Romania kick on. The Canadians holding out | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
to their three-quarters of a length lead. Canada looking completely in | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
control. You always know that the Romanians were going to attack, but | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
they don't have the class that they used to have 10 to 15 years ago. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
They are building a new group of athletes. But they are good. They | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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will certainly be handing down for all they needed to qualify. They | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
will have a bigger race on their hands in the final. The Romanians | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
will be in second. They are coming back but they are running out of | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
water. Canada, first, and through to the final. Romania, second. The | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
:15:23. | :15:24. | ||
Netherlands in third place. Those The that is the end of the second | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
day at Eton Dorney, but you can see a gaggle of individuals here. Zac | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Purchase's that is here, and he is a fashion icon, as you can see. Is | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
it right you will have a pair of trousers to the final on Saturday? | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
That is what you are asking me to wear. He was supposed to say, yes | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
of course. We had some pretty good training the last few months and we | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
were looking forward to coming out and putting together some good | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
stuff. And that is a good start for us. Some more things to add and we | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
are looking forward to Thursday. But bit nervous at the start given | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
the performances in Munich and Lucerne? That isn't what we plan | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
when they wanted to execute the Olympic season, but we have worked | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
really hard to an get ready in the last six weeks. It was awesome, we | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
loved it. We came here to race hard and fast, and we showed it in the | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
heats, but there is a lot more to come. Steve was impressed. Very | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
impressed. The positions you finish in the last two regattas was not a | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
position we wanted. When you saw the draw and you got the Kiwis, way | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
you please, or disappointed? I think I know what the answer will | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
be now we know the result, but going into it? I spoke to John a | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
couple of weeks ago and we wanted a top crew out there to show what we | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
can do. That is what we wanted. We had an inkling we would get | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
somebody fast, but what a better way to start than against the World | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Cup winners and the silver- medallists from last year? A great | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
start, but more to do. You didn't have to win the race, but we got | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
the impression that 500 metres from the end, whatever, we are going to | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
win it. The most important thing was to put into practice what we | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
did in training. To be honest, the result was not the be-all and end- | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
all. We want to win the final and it's not important to win the heat, | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
massively, but we wanted to put out a race that we were happy with it. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
We have done that and we can step on and look forward to the semi- | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
final. Have the nerve has been banished? Happy that the boys are | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
in good shape? After a dodgy season we were anxious that there is no | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
one more determined and if they want something, they will do it, so | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
fingers crossed. It is interesting talking about this. At least these | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
guys can influence things. They are on the water, but it is so hard for | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
parents and friends. Is there a sense of camaraderie among store of | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
the beleaguered Poms And Dance -- mums and dads? The team supporting | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
us in the stands is brilliant and you can see the stress going around | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
the parents as their children before. I had my turn today. The | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
lightweight parents are very supporting -- supportive and the | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
whole team is brilliant. I am looking forward your outfit at the | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
weekend, make. I'm not! We look forward to seeing you guys on the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
water on Thursday as well. That is it from Eton Dorney, and we have a | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
good moment to hand back because there are forks of lightning coming. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
No oh, it is just fireworks. will have a head full of fireworks | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
after the other night. And now that something we in a presentation role | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
get a chance to say very rarely, once every four years. Now time for | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
a bit of fencing. I actually went to the fencing in Beijing in my | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
quest to view every Olympic sport for myself and it was dramatic and | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
theatrical and a really great to watch, but it time -- at times it | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
Fencing. There are three categories of weapon in the sport of fencing. | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
The epee, the foil and the sabre. Each has different characteristics | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
and rules of engagement. The epee: it is a thrusting weapon, and only | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the point may be used to score a hit. The target area can be any | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
part of the body which produces tactical contests that generally | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
last longer than any of the other weapons. Pepe is the only category | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
in which fencers can score points simultaneously as a result of a | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
double attack. The foil is also a thrusting weapon. But the target | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
area is confined to the trunk of the body, front and back. It does | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
not include the arms and the their head. To win a point, a right of | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
way must be established with a correctly executed attack or by | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
:20:27. | :20:27. | ||
parrying an attack and hitting with The sabre: the sabre is a cutting | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
and thrusting weapon. So the matches are often decided very | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
quickly. Fencers can use the tip, the edge and to the back of the | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
blade to hit a target area anywhere above the waist, except for the | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
One that moved to watch out for is the spectacular if Lunch -- one | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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Now we are geared up, and by the way that is the first time we have | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
had that word on the BBC, and it is time for the sabre. Apparently | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
slashing and thrusting is advisable in this one. Say no more. James | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
will be doing that for us, the 21- year-old from Truro, the only | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
British entry in the sabre event and is up against a very good | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
opponent from Belarus. This time Grier -- Graham Bell is leading the | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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through this fight. And the period to make sure the equipment | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
is working. Any change of tactics for James? He was have to work the | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
distance. There we go. Very nice. He has got him on the way forward. | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
There we go. So much of fencing is a game of bluff and double-bluff. | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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It is about working out your so it is funny bone's attack. And | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
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James hits with the continuation of then the referee will not give a | :22:39. | :22:49. | |
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went for the second and he has given that. James has called for a | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
video review here. Unfortunately, for him, that stayed with the | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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referee. For 10-5. The counter- attack. A block out from James. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
That has worked for him twice in this period. If you are new to | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
fencing, we go up to 15. 10-6. It is not all over. No, you can get | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
this back in at the sabre because it is so fast that you cannot | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
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review. It is whether the referee considers that he started before he | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
went. It was not clear from the slow motion. We will need to see | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 62 seconds | :24:16. | :25:00. | |
just two points away for making it into the round of 32, the | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
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Belorussian. That one goes to James. Is it? Yes. 13-made. -- 13-eight. | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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Together. He will not call upon. No mistakes can be afforded now. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
referee will have to look at that one because he thinks it's his. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
think he starts just ahead. But the referee went and had a look at the | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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video, a good look at this one. The attack is good. The crowd are | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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wrist again. Coming in from far out, tapped him on the wrist, get out of | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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the way. The next. Will see the Belorussian athlete through. Watch | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
the back line! The attack has gone through, and the Belorussian goes | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
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certainly came out fired up and have the sport the crowd. He | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
certainly put on his best effort, but the Belorussian perhaps a | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
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Only 21 years of age, and well played to James. Hopefully that is | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
the first of many international experiences. We are shortly heading | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
to the news, but this is what is on around the out but for us. Live on | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
BBC Three, uninterrupted coverage of the 87 miles of the women's | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
peloton. And plenty of judo on the mats. Two categories in action | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
today, and two gold medals of the 14 available through the Olympic | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
sports will be decided as the afternoon progresses. And then, in | :27:20. | :27:29. | |
sailing, that is the situation. Ben Ainslie in second right now. But | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
the men's star, Ian Simpson and Andrew Percy will be there. And | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Lucy MacGregor will be skippering her crew in the women's Elliott 6m. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
That is the situation and plenty more to come after a break for the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
news. But look at this, it is dramatic, and the omens look good. | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
Four years ago a tremendous thunderstorm heralded Great | :27:50. | :27:54. |