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Hello and welcome back to the Olympic park on the second day of | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
the Olympic Games. And there is a pretty lively storm just passing | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
over the Olympic Park. It has been bucketing with rain. It did hold up | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
events temporarily at the dressage. Williams Fox-Pitt will therefore | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
probably be delayed by a few moments. And it will also make life | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
tricky for the women in the road race. 87 miles of road racing today. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
And it was also to keep yesterday for the man. Fabien Cancellara of | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
Switzerland, you may remember this rather nasty crash on dry roads. An | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
X-Ray revealed no broken bones so that is good news for him. But he | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
has just sent a message asking spectators to take a couple of | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
steps back because they reset their lives yesterday. He clearly felt | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
the spectators were too close for comfort. Interesting comments. No | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
such were the problems this morning at the ExCel Arena of where the | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
judo was taking place. And we focus on Sophie cox from Rochdale. She | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
competed for Great Britain in Athens and then went off to | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
Thailand. But this is when she was just a kid. She was the first woman, | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
or girl, to play at Wembley in the rugby league. Extraordinary | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
pictures. And she has now found a career in judo. She went to | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Thailand to teach English for a couple of years and their | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
rediscovered her love of the sport. She had it all to do today in her | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
category. She had a tough draw against the Beijing silver | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
medallist from North Korea. Let us medallist from North Korea. Let us | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
see how she got on. Not many expected to seek Sophie | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
back competing in the Olympics. She quit not long after the Athens | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Games just a little bit disillusioned with the sport. But | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
she has come back to give judo another go. From Rochdale in | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Lancashire. She spent four years teaching English in Thailand. | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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amazing, the comeback she has made. She has got great work ethic. Any | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
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attacks that she makes must be fully committed. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Well you might have expected the gods of the draw to be a little | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
kinder to her. But this is the Beijing and silver medallist. If | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
you're going to make a comeback at the Olympic Games, Harbour Road | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
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beating the silver medallist from Following up with a leg grab. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
returned to the sport two years ago. She said she put herself through | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the pain and sacrifice again for this moment, to be an Olympian | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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again. Nice strong attack. She has been performing well in the last | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
couple of years. She got bronze in Amsterdam. And in the test event | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
here in December. That will have given her confidence as well. She | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
also has two O European silver medals. | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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She is good on the pressure and has come out firing on all cylinders. | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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Trying to wrap up. This women's class, the event that Sharon | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
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McRandal won her Olympic bronze in in Barcelona. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Britain has not won an Olympic medal of any description since | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
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Sydney. The North Korean goes into the lead. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
Sophie just London slightly on her side. -- landing. | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
There are three levels of scoring. It is the lowest level that has | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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gone against Sophie, but she is behind. | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
A minute and a half is a long time in judo. Sophie needs to go forward | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :07:36. | :08:32. | |
in the hope of swinging her opponent over. Time is not Sophie's | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
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friend at the moment. She has to come forward. She has to do | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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something now. We need something to happen. She has won medals since | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
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returning to judo but her return to an Olympics is not going to yield | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
any medals. That was a shame for Sophie. It was just one grip that | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
her opponent managed to get over her. Apart from that it was a very | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
even match. I hope she feels that the comeback was still worthwhile. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
She has been bad for a couple of years. And she did earn her place | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
back on the British Olympic team. But there is bound to be | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
disappointment right now. She has been beaten by the silver medallist | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
from Beijing. But she knows how close she came and also knows that | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
that is that for perhaps another that is that for perhaps another | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
four years. So-so the is empty handed but a | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
good effort in that fight against for North Korean opponent. Colin | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Oakes has beaten and the Australian opponent meanwhile and find some | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
self with the chance of getting into the quarter finals. If he | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
manages to beat his Mongolian manages to beat his Mongolian | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
opponent. Second assignment of the day for | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
Colin Coates of Britain. He beat the Australian in his first match | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
and if he can win this he will beat in the quarter-finals. He will not | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
lack support but he will need it against the Mongolian. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
As well as having 10 letters in his name, the Mongolian also has a | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
bronze medal from Athens. He is a former world champion and a top | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
competitor. But if Colin Coates can do this he will be into the | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
quarter-finals and it will just be about the biggest win of his judo | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
career. It is going to have to be a | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :11:52. | :12:59. | |
looking to get the shoulder. and will be on the edge of her seat. | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
And just listen to the support he is getting. | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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Both fighters completely outside the area. | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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The fight is paused. At the moment both fighters are fighting for the | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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Mongolian's feet are searching for any weakness. The group is changing, | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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the feet are changing. -- the grip. Colin needs to watch | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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that one. The Mongolian has a tattoo of the scorpion on his foot. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
That is appropriate, if you do not want to get caught by a scorpion. | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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minutes of normal time. Colin is trying to keep distance between | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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them. It is important that Colin also gets his attacks in. The first | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
warning for Colin Oates for not attacking enough. He has got to | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
step up the pace now. He does not want to get a second warning. That | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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would give the Mongolian one of the lowest scores. In the eyes of the | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
referee he was not working hard enough or being offensive enough. | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
The Mongolian went very defensive. The winner of this one will be in | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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the quarter-finals. We are 90 get his attacks in first. Since | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Sydney's success has been so far and few between in judo. Is it to | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
come here? Into the final 60 seconds. A lot of those inside the | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
Excel are hoping so. Colin needs to get another attack in. Can he take | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
him on the ground? The Mongolian was pulling backwards. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
Mongolians have come to the forefront of judo in recent times. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
The London gold that they are using for the medals is mined from | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
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Mongolia. Colin is hoping to take the Mongolian over the top. What | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
has it got? He has got the score. Seconds are ticking away. That is | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
just about the biggest moment in British judo for over a decade! | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Colin Oates is into the quarter final. He has beaten the bronze | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
medallist in Athens, a former world champion. Britain's Judah has got | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
something to shout about at last. He did that at the right time. What | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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a brilliant fight. -- British judo. I did not think you would get | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
excited watching British judo players like that. What a moment | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
that was. I am sure that doors are already open in the little village | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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pub. They will now be doing brisk business. There lad, Northop's | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
finest, Colin Oates, it is striding towards an Olympic quarter-finals. | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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Look at their reaction. He manages to take him back. It was in the | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
last two seconds of the contest. He seized his opportunity and he takes | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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We will be back to see that quarter-final bury shortly because | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
we are heading straight away to Greenwich Park. It looked majestic | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
as a backdrop for a venue and it is the three-day eventing. The first | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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In dress size riders and horses perform a pre-set routine of exact | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
movements or figures within an enclosed at 60m by 20-metre arena. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
All competitors perform the same routine in front of a panel of | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
judges. It is designed to show the call for operation between the | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
horse and the rider. Popular figures include the Serpentine, | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
consisting of loops. Half-past where the horse travels diagonally | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
across the arena. In flying changes the horse changes its lead for it. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Cross country is a test of stamina, bravery and endurance. The course | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
is approximately six kilometres in length and contains 28 at 30 | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
obstacles. Falls are incurred four refusals, run outs and exceeding | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
the time allowed. If the rider or horse falls, they are eliminated. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
The final part tests skill, accuracy and agility. It is | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
contested over two rounds. Penalties will also be incurred if | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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the competitors exceed the time because it is really raining and | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
his looks as if it is going to stay that way for this Test. So often | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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horses can react to the rain. Let's hope that Miners Frolic does not. 7, | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
9, 6. I am not sure if one judge was looking out of the box. The 9th | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
is the centre charge and they are the ones who can see the straight | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
the best. We are just hearing there is talk if there was a lot of heavy | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
rain the competition might be suspended. That would be very | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
unfair with what is going on at the moment. At the moment he is coping | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
with the weather and so is Kristina Cook. Just lost a fraction of a bit | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
of rhythm. The judges' box is falling apart. Never mind their | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
box! She is having to fix her hat, she is getting the worst of the | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
conditions. Let's hope the judges are feeling a little bit lenient | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
considering the conditions. Having said that, they do not really need | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
to be. Miners Frolic is looking pretty special at the moment. This | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
is very pleasant. I am now soaked through. So am I, top to bottom. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Too much information. I am sure it Teena is even more weight than we | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
are. -- I am sure Christina is even more weight than we are. This is | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :23:39. | :24:22. | |
complaining. I should be used to weather. Nice position for that | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
canter half past, very good, I like that a lot. Straight on the centre | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
line. She is not letting these weather conditions get to her. The | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Olympics do not happen too often in one's lifetime. You put up with a | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
bit of rain and get on with it. mum was one of our top | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
international show jumpers. And of course her father was one of the | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
National Hunt trainers. He would be very proud of his daughter looking | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
down on this. Another good change and very straight. She is up to 70%. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
So she should be. I would give her 90% for riding in this weather. | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
quite agree. Good boy. Let's not go over the top yet. This is one of | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
the outstanding performances, not just because of the rain, but | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
technically because she is doing it in the rain. She has not done | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
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anything wrong. Well done. That is fantastic! It is looking like 71%. | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Everyone is wet through, but absolutely delighted to be watching | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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the scoreboard. And the crowd had stayed with this despite the very | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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heavy storm. That is where surely the judges have got to be generous. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
Just look at these pictures. Look at that and that shows just how | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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hard it is. That shows her brilliant ride. 42, we are in | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
Let's talk about how difficult it was in the weather. It was more | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
than noise going on around the arena. I have ridden on rainy days | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
in the South Downs. I am used to it. I felt like the wind was coming up | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
like that and I thought, stay focused. It was not perfect. We | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
would have loved to have had the San, British weather for you. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
two marks what you achieved in Hong Kong. Obviously I would have loved | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
to be on a 48. I'm not grumbling with 42. The weather has Thurne | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
that at us. The horse kept his brain and focus really well. We had | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
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some thunder and it came down heavily. Did the reins get slippy? | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
Yes, I am very wet. You I used to riding in the rain. They are event | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
horses. It is not ideal and of course I would love the sunshine on | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
him. In Hong Kong we had the beautiful light. You just have to | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
deal with it. If you are going around cross country it could get | :28:14. | :28:22. | |
slippery. I was going to ask about that. The British team are very | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
experienced and we have fantastic courses. But this is the Olympics | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
and the Olympics throw up difficult things. It is a difficult course | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
and if it gets wet, it will get slippery. We put stance in the | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
horse's' shoes. You do not want to lose a start because it will get | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
slippery and you will lose time, but it will be very exciting for | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
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We will have a better picture once William Fox Pitt appears. We have | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
been following the progress of Cologne Oats after that fantastic | :29:07. | :29:17. | |
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performance. --Colin Oates. He is up against a pretty handy Georgian | :29:21. | :29:30. | |
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up against a pretty handy Georgian against the Georgian. A shake of | :29:41. | :29:51. | |
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the hands from both of them. Colin has to make sure he is very fast | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
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ride from the start of this contest. The Georgian it is very strong with | :30:03. | :30:13. | |
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his hand and leg at the same time. Colin throwing himself onto his own | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
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back. Looking to turn the Georgian onto his back. | :30:33. | :30:42. | |
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He certainly came here with high hopes. He narrowly missed out on a | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
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bronze medal. He is the European beating his Mongolian opponent. | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
Colin does not want to get dominated like this. Oates is good | :31:33. | :31:43. | |
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on the ground. He wants to take control of the upper body, needs to | :31:48. | :31:58. | |
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get his leg through to count. Georgia is a good Judo nation. He | :32:06. | :32:16. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :32:16. | :32:58. | |
has got to watch his arm here. The Georgian looking for the arm lock. | :32:58. | :33:08. | |
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Well done. Nice defence there from Colin Oates. | :33:16. | :33:26. | |
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Two minutes to go. Colin a left- Turning it now into an attack. | :33:53. | :34:03. | |
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Working to roll the Georgian. Plenty of hard work on the floor, | :34:06. | :34:16. | |
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leads to nothing again. Going for the strangle. Looking to | :34:47. | :34:57. | |
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apply pressure. Not quite. He did not take part in the opening | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
ceremony, deciding instead to focus on what he is here for. There is no | :35:18. | :35:28. | |
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overwhelming favourite. Any mistake now, any positive score, might be | :35:32. | :35:42. | |
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decisive. Colin trying to get his leg in front. Again looking again | :35:58. | :36:08. | |
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Next score wins it. Oates did well. Looking for the | :36:43. | :36:53. | |
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ground work again. So close. Family all here to watch, down from | :37:13. | :37:23. | |
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Norfolk. His coach introduced him to the sport when he was 12. Has he | :37:31. | :37:41. | |
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been caught on the ground? Georgian has the grip. He has to | :37:49. | :37:56. | |
get out before 15 seconds. It is not going to happen. He has been | :37:56. | :38:05. | |
counted out and the golden score goals against the Britain. Such a | :38:05. | :38:13. | |
disappointment. Allowed the Georgian to come over into the hold | :38:13. | :38:23. | |
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down. Kate Howey has her head in her hands. She got the medal in | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
Sydney. It is the Georgian who makes his way into the quarter | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
makes his way into the quarter finals. That was so difficult to | :38:43. | :38:50. | |
watch! But it has not finished. Colin will now fight in the | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
repechage. And if he were to win that he would go into a bronze | :38:56. | :39:05. | |
medal fight. So fingers crossed. So nearly tried to deliver the | :39:05. | :39:14. | |
first of the medals! I am confident this afternoon. Four years ago for | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
the women's road race it was raining and four years ago Nicole | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
Cooke delivered the first medal for Britain and also that gold medal. | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
She came out of that terrible Chinese storm and emerged by the | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
Great Wall of China to get that medal. | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
Colin is still in it. After the disappointment of yesterday | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
afternoon, to date we have high hopes for the women and the next | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
couple of hours could deliver the first medal of these games for | :39:51. | :40:01. | |
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Out on the road we have a to Spear attack on a medal places. Nicole | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
Cooke, Beijing's golden girl may launch a breakaway from the group. | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
And if it comes to a close finish all eyes will be on Lizzie | :40:13. | :40:20. | |
Armitstead. And on the water we have David France looking for a | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
semi-final place. It also this afternoon Andy Murray will be keen | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
to lay to rest the ghost of this year's Wimbledon final on centre | :40:33. | :40:39. | |
court a little later on. And if we will join the cycling in around 30 | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
minutes' time. But if you would like to watch it right now just | :40:43. | :40:50. | |
turn over to BBC Three. But here we head to the brand new Lee Valley | :40:50. | :40:58. | |
white water centre. Here is what we can expect from seeing men and | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
women negotiate up to 25 gates in women negotiate up to 25 gates in | :41:02. | :41:09. | |
raging water. The canoe slalom. Three classes of | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
boat are used. The single kayak, the single canoe, and the two-man | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
canoe. In the kayak the athletes are seated and used double-headed | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
paddles. In the canoed they kneel on both knees and use a single | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
blade paddle. The aim is to negotiate a course marked by slalom | :41:31. | :41:37. | |
gates as cleanly and quickly as possible without touching the polls. | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
Part of the boat must be inside the polls. If anything touches one or | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
both of the polls, and to a second penalty is incurred. Capsizing is | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
not penalised but if you missed a gate or pass through incorrectly | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
than 50 seconds is added to the total time. 82 athletes compete for | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
four gold medals. With the numbers reduced through the heats. Also the | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
semi-finals and ultimately the finals. The best of the two runs of | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
the Heath decides whether they progress or or or eliminated. The | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
semi-finalists start with a clean slate and are judged on a single | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
run. The final 10 competitors are ranked on another single run to | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
determine who takes home the gold medal. | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
If you would like to get involved in Olympic sports, go to the | :42:29. | :42:36. | |
website for more information. So we're expecting up to 60,000 | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
people to witness the Olympic slalom canoe events during the | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
Games. And this is where they will do it. The 300 metre course is the | :42:46. | :42:54. | |
ultimate test for the best in the world. David Florence is to go last | :42:54. | :43:02. | |
of all. Jonathan Edwards is there for us. What is the secret here, | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
:43:12. | :43:14. | ||
have you developed a love of Klimt -- of canoe slalom? | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
You spoke about it in your introduction, it is a very tough | :43:17. | :43:27. | |
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course. It has caused a few problems with the early competitors. | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
But there is huge expectation, David Florence was silver medallist | :43:33. | :43:42. | |
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in Beijing. But going before him RB former at the Olympic champions. | :43:49. | :43:56. | |
Well it is equally wet here on the Olympic Park! In some ways you | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
sport was quite similar. David Florence has spoken and said it is | :44:03. | :44:12. | |
all about your form on the day, similar to the triple jump. It just | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
goes to show that it can be all or nothing in this event. That is | :44:17. | :44:27. | |
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absolutely correct. It is very much on the day. One thing that makes it | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
tricky is that the wind is blowing around quite a lot and those gates | :44:33. | :44:42. | |
DoH mould. -- do move. So you're slightly in the lap of the guards. | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
But David Florence has had a consistent season so far. Give us | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
some idea of the atmosphere because the clinic -- the canoe slalom is | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
an Nish sport in many ways. It was usually popular in Beijing. | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
Absolutely. And it is a massive opportunity for the canoeists. This | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
is a specially built stadium. And as you can see over my shoulder, it | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
is a wonderful Abbey Theatre. The athletes will be aware of the | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
crowds around them almost like a stadium. I think they will respond | :45:21. | :45:28. | |
to that. And the GB canoeists have been training here since 2010. So | :45:28. | :45:38. | |
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How do you think David will cope in the next few days? I think he will | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
cope well and I think the whole British team have prepared very | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
well indeed. Their results leading up to this competition have been | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
outstanding. What they have is that home advantage. They will feel that | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
gives them the edge. We are now live with the competitors. The | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
British team have been training with microchips in their canoe so | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
they can work out exactly how much effort there canoeists are putting | :46:11. | :46:21. | |
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lead. It was worth no time penalties at all. It has set a | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
marker for the other athletes to beat. But this looks like a good | :46:48. | :46:58. | |
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run and it is nice and smooth so far. He has to turn the bow down in | :46:59. | :47:06. | |
gate 10 to get it driving again. will get a split time in a moment. | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
There are four seconds of time penalties. It could be a problem | :47:12. | :47:19. | |
for the Japanese competitor. The gates are in quite straight | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
sequences behind each other. We cannot afford to see too many | :47:25. | :47:35. | |
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penalties. 90.83 is the standard. The top 12 will make it through to | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
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the semi-finals in two days time. The standard is very high. At the | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
moment he is in 6th place, so not lying too badly. He picked up a | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
penalty early on in gate four. You wonder if that affects the rhythm. | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
Then another one in 85 or six. But the water is big and waves are | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
continuously threatening to pull the boat speed off the bow and stop | :48:26. | :48:36. | |
:48:36. | :48:48. | ||
see smooth, slow running water. But the first big drop is about two | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
metres. You create huge acceleration on these boats. He is | :48:54. | :49:02. | |
just 20 years old. After the last Olympic Games we thought we might | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
have seen some of the Chinese competitors moving towards the top | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
of the world rankings, but that has not happened yet. But give them | :49:11. | :49:21. | |
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championships just last season. His record says he's quite useful. | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
got himself off to a good start, being a little bit hit by the | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
stopper between three and four. He gets stuck on the eddy line in gate | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
four. He will look to get the nose of the boat driving back downstream | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
before he comes into gate nine, the second upstream gate on the course, | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
but under the first big drop. Already quite a chunk of time | :49:54. | :49:59. | |
behind Savsek. Slovenia said that staggering time about five minutes | :49:59. | :50:08. | |
ago. He danced his boat through the course. We now see this difficult | :50:08. | :50:16. | |
upstream gate, gate 12, where there's almost an s life -- s like | :50:16. | :50:26. | |
:50:26. | :50:40. | ||
is within touch of the Australian and the Russian. He was smoothly | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
into 18. He now needs to keep the rhythm going, keep the nose driving | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
downstream as much as you possibly can. He drives into the back of | :50:49. | :50:59. | |
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you've got a paddle like crazy. Four seconds down on Savsek, but in | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
with a good chance of progressing through to the semi-finals. He is | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
in second place at the moment. That was a fine performance by the | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
Chinese number one. After a couple of early mistakes where he found | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
himself getting caught up on some Eddie lines, he really found his | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
:51:31. | :51:32. | ||
rhythm and got the boat smoothly the remaining travellers, there are | :51:32. | :51:38. | |
five of them, will be ranked inside the world's top 10. This is really | :51:38. | :51:44. | |
getting towards the sharp end of this competition. It includes David | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
Florence and two men who between them have won the last four Olympic | :51:48. | :51:58. | |
:51:58. | :52:11. | ||
was just outside of the metals in Beijing. That was his first Olympic | :52:11. | :52:18. | |
experience. This is his second Olympic competition. He will want | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
to get in amongst the metals. They are a couple of days away, but | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
safely through to the semi-finals would be spot on for the Spaniard. | :52:27. | :52:37. | |
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A great start, making it looks move. -- look smoke. We want to see the | :52:37. | :52:47. | |
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Baller of the boat almost gliding of difficulty there, but tried to | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
spin away and reposition himself. That is a particularly tricky gate. | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
He is, there's a big stopper in between the top pole and bottom | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
pole of Gate 12. They have to decide what will be the best way to | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
get their nose through the gate, and then set it up for the next | :53:19. | :53:26. | |
gate. Look at that split, he is still ahead of Savsek. He's had a | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
rich vein of form this season. Finished fourth in the European | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
Championships. He's not one of these guys who's going to go | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
through his career always finishing fourth. But losing time between | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
gate 20 and 21, found himself horizontal on the course, losing | :53:41. | :53:50. | |
the precious time in the stopper, which could be crucial to him. | :53:50. | :53:57. | |
Elosegi has lost time. He replaces Teng, the Chinese athlete, by | :53:57. | :54:07. | |
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upstream gate. Tight around as we see him lean off the polls. The | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
athletes put their blade into the water and then open up their elbows | :54:18. | :54:26. | |
to get the power on. The stamps are absolutely packed with spectators. | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
I dare say quite a large chunk of them will never have seen slalom | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
canoeing before. But what they are watching now are the world's best. | :54:35. | :54:45. | |
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Actually, some of the best there the world number one, will be | :55:00. | :55:10. | |
:55:10. | :55:12. | ||
coming soon. Tasiadis of Germany. Part of the German team that got a | :55:13. | :55:19. | |
silver medal in the World Championships in 2011. And in the | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
European Championships this year, in axe Burke, one of the most | :55:22. | :55:29. | |
famous courses in Europe. This gentleman was the champion there. | :55:29. | :55:39. | |
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Push is nice and tied in to gate through seven and eight as he rolls | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
the boat across the white water using his core strength from his | :55:44. | :55:52. | |
hips all the way up. Already 0.2 up on our current leader. Tasiadis | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
looking very smooth and powerful as well. That is one of the fastest | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
parts of the course, where you come out of an upstream gate and go | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
haring down the course proof-read downstream gates. I thought he'd | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
touched one of those polls. Two second of time penalties. That may | :56:12. | :56:22. | |
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here. It looks as though he would almost flip over. He really needs | :56:31. | :56:41. | |
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to make sure he can get this couple of digs into the water to | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
bring himself through that last gate, number 22. Down in fifth | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
place. After a very promising start, the German lost quite a lot of time | :57:00. | :57:08. | |
in the last four or five gates. caught the bottom pole of the Gate | :57:08. | :57:18. | |
:57:18. | :57:30. | ||
12, the first of his two second run later on this afternoon. We | :57:30. | :57:40. | |
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highly ranked in the world this year. As importantly for British | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
supporters is the fact that David Florence, silver-medallist from | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
four years ago, he goes last, he will know exactly what he has to do | :57:52. | :58:02. | |
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by then. He is ranked number one in Olympic competition, finished fifth | :58:06. | :58:13. | |
in Beijing. Whereas all of these guys are very competitive, by | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
definition they all know each other extremely well and train together | :58:16. | :58:26. | |
:58:26. | :58:32. | ||
in the past as far as the Czech Republic's team is concerned. Very | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
strong, especially in the upper body, but he will have tremendous | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
leg and core strength as well. looked a bit twitchy on the first | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
few gates but he seems to have got himself into a good rhythm. Trying | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
to keep the boat dry as he enters the first Big drop on the course | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
and into the second upstream gate. He pushes out on to the wave and | :58:54. | :59:04. | |
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This is a flyer, he looks like he's on a good run. If somebody cracks | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
the code in terms of the difficulty of gate 13, they really will have | :59:15. | :59:23. | |
done themselves a lot of favours in terms of time. That is a good lead. | :59:23. | :59:30. | |
Savsek demoted for the time being down the table. He's keeping the | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
run on the boat here really well. He keeps himself inside, but he's | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
picked up a two second penalty. He's going to have to push harder | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
on this last gate. He gets another stroke out, as he's now got to push | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
all the way to the finish line. has lost a bit of time. Two seconds | :59:50. | :59:58. | |
of penalties. He has been relegated down into third place. Elosegi of | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
Spain is still ahead of him. Savsek breathing a sigh of relief, | :00:02. | :00:12. | |
:00:12. | :00:22. | ||
although there is still one run to occasions where the top part of the | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
course has been executed very, very quickly. Guys are having difficulty | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
with the bottom half. It is all about getting each of those 22 | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
gates on that course executed as well as they can. Sometimes they | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
get the top part well and sometimes they get the bottom part well, but | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
it is stringing it all together to make sure it's consistent | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
:00:54. | :01:05. | ||
somebody as a legend in the sport, you have to have real justification, | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
but martyr can is certainly that man. -- Martikan. He became Olympic | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
champion back in 1996. He missed out in 20021004, but then came back | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
with a real bang in Beijing, where he won. Now 33 years old. His arch | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
rival, and one of the supposed rivals for the title of one of the | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
greatest of all time, Estanguet, he is the next competitor. But all | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
eyes on Martikan. So far, he's making it look incredibly easy. He | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
is gliding around, but he is down on the split, just over half a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
second down. Martikan is a man of experience. He knows what he needs | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
to do and sometimes he will just play with it, keep the control on | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the top and then really let it rip on the bottom. He caught the bottom | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
pole there on gate 12. He tries to keep it as straight as possible. | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
:02:18. | :02:35. | ||
has been put down there as a 52nd 20. Into that big stopper. He lost | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
a bit of time there as well. Yes, he's now got to push into gate 22. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
See how quickly he got himself back out. He really has got extreme | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
:02:55. | :02:57. | ||
amounts of skill. With a 52nd with a 50, second penalty, it leaves him | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
a lot to do. The Slovakian officials and coaches and the rest | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
of the team will be taking a very close look at that bit of film | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
there. That could be an historic decision because Martikan has been | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
going very well. He is ranked fourth in the world this year. He | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
has got such vast experience. That is a big shot. He splits it across | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the top of his head here -- there. That is a 50, second penalty. The | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
athletes have to get the whole of their head inside. They can't hit | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
it, it can't go across half their head or even a fraction of it. | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
is a big story, isn't it? certainly is. The Slovaks will have | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the opportunity to protest that, but we will see what happens. He's | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
always got a second run, he is a man of experience. Four years ago | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
in Beijing, a very similar thing happened to Tony Estanguet -- Tony | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Estanguet, of France. He missed out on a chance to win three gold | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
medals in a row. He was the champion in Athens. I am sure this | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
:04:22. | :04:34. | ||
Frenchman, and sure he wants to be himself into a nice with them. He | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
has picked up at two second penalty already. He will have to see if he | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
can make that up later in the course. He certainly seems to be | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
:04:54. | :04:55. | ||
flying at the moment. No problems for him. Trying to stay straight as | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
well, and just having a problem. He is being thrown around, and touched | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
:05:11. | :05:15. | ||
the gate again. He caught that pole, giving himself another penalty and | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
has a lot to do in this section of the cause. Tony Estanguet, three | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
times the world champion, a little bit off the pace in terms of his | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
:05:35. | :05:43. | ||
split, but now just two gates to go. You can see the fast water making | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
it particularly hard to drive to the finish. That is not a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
spectacular performance, but certainly it is a good platform on | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
:06:02. | :06:04. | ||
which to build. He had a good run, negotiating it very well but the | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
penalties were very costly to him. Some of them have picked up | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
penalties here, as we saw Martikan did, and it is difficult to make | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
the decision about what to do. David Florence of Great Britain is | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
:06:33. | :06:33. | ||
the next and final competitor. We are still reeling from the shock | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
missed gate by Michal Martikan. Tony Estanguet, pretty solid in | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
:06:49. | :06:49. | ||
equal second place, and Savsek is still number one. The silver | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
medallist from Beijing, David Florence of Great Britain start his | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
campaign at the Lea Valley Walk to centre next and the crowd can't | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
wait. I spoke to him the other day and he said training had been going | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
well. He has come off the back of a particularly good season, second in | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
:07:19. | :07:23. | ||
the world championships. He's four a bronze medal in those | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
championships in the C1. He will know this cost well - he did quite | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
well in the test event. He has been here for 18 months so he should | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
know it inside out. He looks like he is getting off to a good start, | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
:07:53. | :07:58. | ||
but a little bit caught up between gate seven and gate 8. Two | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
penalties already, he can't afford to make any more mistakes. Just | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
spinning around, and in the middle part of the course finding life a | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
little bit difficult. That upstream gate has made life difficult for a | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
lot of competitors. He now has four penalties, getting caught up in the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
troublesome water. He is losing precious time. Savsek's leading | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
time is very safe so far. David Florence is nine seconds off the | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
pace and he has just got to concentrate now. Two more to go, | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
and hopefully David Florence will be home with no more penalties. | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
:09:00. | :09:02. | ||
has now got to drive past Paul the way to the finish line. 101.60 | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
including the penalties, and that put him down into 13th place. It is | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
only the top 12 that will make it through to the semi-finals. | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
really found himself getting stuck for a start he has found himself a | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
bit wide coming into gate 13, which lost him time. Maybe some nerves in | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
front of the home crowd. We will expect to see a much-improved run | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
later today. Disappointment, not just from the spectators but for | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
the man himself. That was not the start he wanted but you will have | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
another chance later on this afternoon. There is the result of | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
this first heat, the first chance we have really had to have a look | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
at this canoe slalom course at Lea Valley. Savsek, a brilliant | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
:10:14. | :10:25. | ||
That was tough watching that. Not only is David Florence a lovely man, | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
but a great competitor as well. If we are looking for some positives, | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
Martikan, looking for a gold medal, was also in 16th place. Later we | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
can see the second round of heats, the Times will be combined, and | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
then the top 12 will make it through to the semi-finals. After | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
that they only have one run in the semi-finals and the finals. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Sticking with the water, we are going to go 144 miles away to | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Dorset to see what happened this morning because Ben Ainslie was | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
going for yet another Olympic gold medal. Wouldn't it be special if he | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
could pick that up, and you can see the Union flags were flying. He | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
made a promising start a day, finishing second in the first race | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
in the Finn competition behind Christiansen from Denmark. Let's | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
cross to Shirley Robertson. They are on the first leg of the second | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
race, and Ben Ainslie didn't have the best start. He was trapped | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
behind the winner of the first race, but he is in the middle of the pack | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
now moving forward. The man leading this race is Christiansen, who won | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
:12:02. | :12:08. | ||
crawling back into second place. A good result, he will be happy with | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
that. In the past Olympics, he hasn't always started off that well. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Give us an idea of the conditions because we have had some pretty bad | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
weather at the Olympic Park, but it looks like lovely blue skies ahead | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
of you. I dressed in my shorts and now I have every layer on. We have | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
had everything - sunshine, and a big rain cloud, but now the breeze | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
at his back and the sun is shining. I think Ben Ainslie will be happy | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
with this. Here's looking for another solid performers today and | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
the medals will not be decided today. There are 10 races, so it is | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
about not making any mistakes, not getting involved in any protests, | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
just getting good results in the top three. We are watching him now | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
out on the water, and we saw a few moments ago people laying back | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
enjoying themselves. I know Ben Ainslie has no idea what the crowd | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
are chanting, but for you as a former competitor how does it feel | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
to see the support he is getting? The hairs were standing up. Every | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
time Ben Ainslie went round the first mark and just beside the | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
crowds, lots of cheering and Union Jacks. We have never had that | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
before. It makes a difference, it is hard to quantify how much but | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
you are certainly trying your best. And some cheering for you as well, | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
I'm sure. You are looking great, even though you had to put on a few | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
extra layers. You can keep on top of everything that is happening | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
across the BBC. You can press the red button right now and see how | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Ben Ainslie get sawn as he traces his fourth consecutive gold medal. | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
:14:20. | :14:39. | ||
You can see Andy Murray very short As I relax on my sofa, the women's | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
road race is unfolding across sorry. Whilst yesterday the British | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
efforts focused on one rider, Mark Cavendish, today Nicole Cooke and | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Lizzie Armitstead have their sights set on a royal finish in front of | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
:15:03. | :15:13. | ||
champion! For on paper, Lizzie Armitstead is the sprinter of the | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
team. It will be very clear going into the race what our options are, | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
what the strategies are. We weren't going there with one plan, we will | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
have a number of options and see what happens. It is a benefit to | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
have different options. We need to make decisions, and once they have | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
been made they need to be backed 100%. You need to make sacrifices | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
for your team mates, just as they do for you. Are you confident you | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
will be the protected rider? Yes, I am happy with that. She is happy | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
with that and she will hope it happens because there has been an | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
issue in the past between those two, but I'm sure today they will be | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
riding for one rider only, and that is any rider with a Team GB top. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
There is about an hour and 20 minutes to go, they are working | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
hard as always. Luci Martin, Riding for Great Britain, has been dropped | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
from the back. Let's go live and joined Tanni Grey Thompson. Have | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
you recovered from yesterday? I have and there is an amazing | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
atmosphere here. It is packed even though we have a long way to go in | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
the race yet. Let's talk about the chances of Team GB. Ironically, the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
fact that they are seen as less of a threat than Mark Cavendish could | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
work in their favour. The Dutch are trying to control the race. Van | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Dyke has been making consistent attacks on the front to break the | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
park. Marion Ross, the race favourite, has been making some | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
attacks. There have been some punches, some crashers. It has been | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
:17:29. | :17:35. | ||
a dynamic race today. With only a two climbs on Box Hill. The main | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
contenders have been out with punches earlier on, but everybody | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
thinks Marion has the best chance, she is looking very comfortable. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
The fact that we have the best girls from Great Britain means it | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
is looking good for them as well. Marion is certainly the bookie's | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
favourite but she doesn't have the fans behind her. There were an | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
estimated million people along the route yesterday. What kind of | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
reception can't they expect? There are still tens of thousands of | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
people around. Yesterday everyone disappeared and came back for the | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
end, but nobody is moving today so I think the excitement has spurred | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
everyone on to stay. I think the amount of British lives really | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
helped Team GB. The you can see people working hard, and it looks | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
like the British Jersey's Aaron the right place. Here we go, coming up | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
to the final climb and the subsequent race yesterday was where | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
it all unfolded. What will the next 16 minutes offer? Time to join the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
conclusion of the women's race. The first event to bring a gold medal | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
for years ago - could history repeat itself? You are looking at | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
three riders trying to go away from the depleted peloton on the | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
:19:11. | :19:16. | ||
approach to the summit of Box Hill. The pressure is on, believe me. It | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
is a war of attrition right at the front as the riders are trying to | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
:19:29. | :19:35. | ||
Pooley on the previous lap, when Pooley tried to blow the opposition | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
away. Once again, the rest are under pressure and Pooley is about | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
five back. Armitstead and Pooley of Great Britain are right near the | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
front. Vos was left to do that all alone. She created a gap, | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Armitstead went across to it. Absolutely no problem at all. I | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
thought that two would work together but Vos was left alone. No | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
:20:09. | :20:16. | ||
one was willing to help Marianne here that we are not aware of that | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
:20:26. | :20:44. | ||
It's those two who are the strongest of the team. They are | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
trying to keep it strong out but a lot of riders comfortably on the | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
wheel. I think everybody had the psychological boost, knowing that | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
if I get over this one at short climb that I'm in touch on the way | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
back into London and have a shot at the Olympic gold medal. Armitstead | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
is attacking on the right of our screen. Vos sees it straightaway. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
It's Lizzie Armitstead, the Yorkshire lass who is based over | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
there in Belgium who has decided to have a go. She is putting the rest | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
under pressure. Vos is bringing the field back up to them, but it's | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
good to see that Armitstead has got the confidence to really have a | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
crack here. Silver medal-winner in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
and former British national champion. Once again the he's back. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
This has been a compelling and enthralling race with lots of | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
little attacks developing. There's also been many punctures and | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
crashes on the gritty corners. Coming through on the extreme right | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
for Germany was Judith Arndt. As we get another move developing here. I | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
must admit that I think the time for Lizzie Armitstead to contribute | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
was when Vos attacked over the top on the descent. Lots of fresh legs, | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
and now we are going to have lots of people just contributing to make | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
:22:10. | :22:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :22:10. | :22:51. | |
back? If they are, its two bid this has to come back together at | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
the front because of Emma Pooley's work. A lot of attacking here, but | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
so difficult to make a gap on these fast roads. Immediately back | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
together again but Pooley is sitting in second position. The | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
field, they are starting to get their second wind as they eased | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
back. Still a lot of riders here, despite all the attacking. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Australia trying to come through now to get to the front of the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
field, as Pooley continues to turn the screw here and put the rest | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
into the red zone. They've got a sharp left-hander they got to | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
negotiate again, where we saw a crash before. These small, twisting | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
roads are great for people to attack. The opportunist move could | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
be the rider who wins this in the end, somebody who jumps clear. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Remember in the men's race we had those two riders who clipped off in | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
:23:55. | :24:03. | ||
the closing stages, with the gold the for before. Just squeezing | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
through the inside of Pooley was the rider from America. There was | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
almost a crash there, it was Shelley Olds. We have a lone | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
attacker trying to go clear. It's good to see at the end of that | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
corner shop, Nicole Cooke still in touch with this group. Her | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
passionate style will come into its own at the end of this race. That | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
is good news. We thought that Cook had lost contact. -- we thought | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
that Cooke had lost contact. It is the rider from Russia who is on the | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
attack. Zabelinskaya has had one or two probing moves early on in the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
race that didn't come to anything, but she is now trying to go away. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
She's been given a real opportunity here. It is possibly the biggest | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
:25:02. | :25:19. | ||
gap we've seen in this race, as biggest gap we've seen in this race | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
today. They are going to have to bridge across to this soon. You are | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
right. Zabelinskaya is being given her freedom. After all the attacks | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
that we've seen, the field at the moment are sitting up, they are | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
filling the road better to gutter. The urgency seems to be evaporating | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
from the peloton. Zabelinskaya is profiting here big time. This is | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
the opportunity to distance herself from the chasers. Nobody at the | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
moment is limiting the gains of the leader. Can she keep the pace up? | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
It's a long way to go, but she is a handy bike rider. She has won the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
women's version of the stage race in Sirmais overall throughout her | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
career. She is a former world junior time-trial champion on the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
road and a former world junior points race champion. You are | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
looking at him rider with a lot of quality. It is Russia with the lone | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
leader, Zabelinskaya. There is the opportunity to see her mauve when | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
she went away from the front of the peloton. She took an opportunity, | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
she waited and waited, let the big names Tacy each other down. When | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
she sensed it starting to ease, she launched an attack and has been | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
given an opportunity, as they all looked at each other as she pushes | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
out of these lanes. She will only be on the small roads for a little | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
:26:49. | :26:51. | ||
longer before they start to head easier when you have the whole road | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
to use on your own. Pooley has got a gap. She's having a go, she | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
realises the danger. I was going to say, when you are on your own, you | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
can find a good line as approach to being in the wheels and foreign | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
somebody else which could lead you into a dangerous situation. That is | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
a good move because the Americans have been very strong throughout. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
We will wait and see who she's got with her here. It might be Shelley | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
Olds. It is, she's in really good form. Having just won a stage in | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
the women's version of the tour of Italy. We will wait for that | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
confirmation. I know that Stevens is wearing a red helmet. That is a | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
massive gap they've given Emma Pooley. She's a fantastic time | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
trialist. You can see the flurry of activity behind. It is Amber Neben | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
is. Look at the reaction from behind, they don't like it. Now | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
back to the leader, Zabelinskaya, who is in front of the action. | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
Pooley has got no allies because she has already reflected her | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
strengths and skills, and that is why they are pulling her back from | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
behind. Marianne Vos is now having a go. The race is exploding into | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
action. We have a British rider back in third place. They are going | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
to pick up Zabelinskaya. We have four riders clear. That was Cooke | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
back towards the front bed. Armitstead, who seems to have the | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
job of marking Bosc, every move that she makes, it is starting to | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
break up now. There are gaps appearing. This could be a | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
fantastic move. That could have been a fatal mistake on behalf of | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
the remnants of the peloton. Excellent move there. Great Britain | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
have representation. Marianne Vos is the red hot favourite. You | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
wouldn't have got very good odds on betting on forced to win this. But | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
look at the driving power of the Dutch woman on the front now. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Marianne Vos is beginning to turn the screw. This quartet of riders | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
are distancing themselves. If they could bridge up it would be a | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
quality group at the front. I feel sure that it's one that is probably | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
going to stay away until the finish. Will be able to tell in the next | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
few minutes if it's going to stick. But already we have motorbikes | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
between these groups, which indicates there is a reasonable gap. | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
So it is Zabelinskaya, boss, Pooley from Great Britain and we've got | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
:29:43. | :29:47. | ||
keep this away. Lizzie Armitstead with Emma Pooley up the road. Two | :29:47. | :29:57. | |
:29:57. | :30:01. | ||
for Great Britain, that would be a is Zabelinskaya, Marianne Vos, | :30:01. | :30:11. | |
:30:11. | :30:13. | ||
Armitstead and Neben. Pooley has been so prominent but she's just | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
slipped back. I'll slip back and you replace me. This is a great | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
move. Germany on the back foot here. They've seen the danger and now | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
have come to the front. Inevitably, sitting in the wheel of the German | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
is a rider from Holland. She will not in any way contribute to the | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
place. In fact, she will disrupt the rhythm of the chase, which will | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
help Marianne Vos stay clear. This is very good. A rich mix of | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
different countries. Not working too well together yet. Just | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
starting to get organised now. They've been given a chance to take | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
a breather and re-establish themselves in this group. If they | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
work well together, they will be high, because the pressure has been | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
on for a while. The teams having been able to reform, so the German | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
team have spotted the danger but one person alone is not going to | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
pull back a good working group of four, certainly a group of four of | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
this quality. I think that is Shelley Olds in that group and not | :31:13. | :31:23. | |
:31:23. | :31:30. | ||
Neben. Shelley Olds is in very good the case. It is Shelley Olds. | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
think that is better for the Americans, because she's come into | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
this race having completed the women's version of the Tour of | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
Italy, where she nailed stage six. She's a bit of a sprinter as well. | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
The leading group again is a Zabelinskaya of Russia, Armitstead | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
of Great Britain. Number 18, Shelley Olds of USA. Number eight, | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
the molten hot favourite right at the back, Maryam boss of the | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
Netherlands. They are fully committed to this now. They have | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
just 12 seconds lead and less than an hour of racing to go. It is | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
Germany behind who have been caught out. They are desperately trying to | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
get back on terms. But the quality of this group, and you can see how | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
committed they are, it's going to be a very difficult for some to | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
bring back. This could well be the defining moment, the moment of | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
selection. Just look at Marianne Vos. She's so eager to get on with | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
this. The world Cyclo Cross champion, she won that back in the | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
end of January. She has been the Cyclo Cross champion on many | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
occasions. She has been the world road champion many times, second in | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
the world road championships. She comes into this having finished 6th | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
in the Olympic Games in this road race in Beijing. But she is a gold | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
medal winner from the Beijing Olympics when she won the points | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
raised on the track. The roads are dry, that gives them the | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
opportunity to swing into the corner at all tempo. Can Lizzie | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
Armitstead do what they call Cook did four years ago and take the top | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
spot here in the women's road race? She saw the time to go, it wasn't | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
on the climb. The opportunity came over the top. A desperate chase | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
behind by the Germans and Italians. They are getting organised as well. | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
They know they've got minutes to get back on terms. Any hesitation | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
and those four will slip away. That's what happened yesterday in | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
the men's race. That hesitation allowed a gap of a minute to go and | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
suddenly there wasn't enough road to pull it back. 16 seconds now the | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
gap. It is a nice gap which has been engineered. It is an | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
economical working group at the front. What happens when you just | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
got two countries that are conscious of the fact the medals | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
are slipping away? That is Italy and Germany doing the chasing | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
behind. Team-mates of these riders will get involved in disrupting | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
that rhythm. That is whether four will profit from it. They can take | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
the corner as quickly as well. and Armitstead are both on the same | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
professional team, so they know which other well. There's | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
definitely an incentive to work together, but it is being hardboard | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
behind to pull them back on terms. It is going to be touch and go | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
whether they managed to do it. Judith Arndt herself contributing | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
to the chase. She knows she has to work if she wants to have a shot at | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
a metal. And she's not a sprinter, so sure have to work out a system | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
of trying to jump clear at the end. She's not a pure sprinter, she's | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
got the power but this is total commitment now. Look at the riding | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
style of Marianne Vos, right on the nose of the saddle. When riders are | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
there, totally committed in that position, you know the tempo is | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
absolutely at its limit. There's the rider that caused the damage | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
:35:05. | :35:11. | ||
originally bred at the front, the they have SPAR European Cross | :35:11. | :35:18. | |
Country Championships the time trial. Great Britain have had a | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
victory as well, but the USA are looking for their first winner | :35:24. | :35:31. | |
since 1984 when collie carpenter Spotakova. There are only two of | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
the Germans working now. Germany lost the chance yesterday by not | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
contributing well, the British team not taking that chance. I think | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
this group will stay away from Great Britain in the remnants of | :35:48. | :35:55. | |
this peloton. We have Nicole Cooke and Emma Pooley waiting in the | :35:55. | :36:03. | |
wings to counter anything. These four are profiting so any hesitant | :36:03. | :36:13. | |
:36:13. | :36:14. | ||
that creeps into the minds of the peloton and due to the disruption | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
of the team bike, they will get away. It is still bitterly at the | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
front having a go, Sweden sitting second. I can only assume that is | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
Johansson, the silver medal winner from Beijing. It is going up, 22 | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
seconds now. It is beginning to stretch out. The rain is battling | :36:39. | :36:46. | |
down now on these riders, as we get a shot of Nicole Cooke on the | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
wheels. She can't attack now, she has a team made up the road. We | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
thought this might be her job at this point in the race but Lizzie | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
Armitstead has taken it on instead. The Dutch and British teams | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
policing this move now, not many people coming to the front. They | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
have got to get a trace organised soon. If they get over half the | :37:11. | :37:20. | |
minute, the morale of the peloton will go down and it could be over. | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
This is the time gap, 20 seconds. That is the kind of news they want | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
to receive. They can see their hard work is beginning to pay off here. | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
That move right up the summit of the climb taken not by the rest of | :37:37. | :37:47. | |
the chasers certainly paying off. It is 22 seconds, so it is far from | :37:47. | :37:53. | |
over but the peloton now know they are on the back foot. They have | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
really got to keep a persistent chase behind, really consistent. | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
Any hesitation, these four riding well together now, three of them | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
would get a medal now and they know it is worth the commitment and the | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
effort. They won't start thinking about the finish until the last few | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
kilometres. The Canadians having a discussion, deciding what to do | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
about this. Should we contribute to this chasing? All the time, the | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
kilometres ticking by. They have got to contribute or lose the | :38:33. | :38:41. | |
chance of a medal. 22 seconds now, so it is touch and go. The gap is | :38:41. | :38:49. | |
testament to the monumental effort from the four at the front. We | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
really are at a juicy stage in this competition. It inspires you when | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
you see the effort made by these four and Great Britain in with a | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
chance of nailing a place on the podium. Lizzie Armitstead is a | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
great sprinter and Marianne Vos will know that. They are in a suit | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
her position. Emma Pooley will not contribute to the pace, and neither | :39:15. | :39:22. | |
with Judith Arndt at the front, the world time trial champion. Those | :39:22. | :39:28. | |
three now are going away from the head of the peloton. The Italian, | :39:28. | :39:37. | |
who was doing the chasing, is now on the back foot. Again, they are | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
making this mistake, just one rider trying to pull this back. There are | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
:39:53. | :39:54. | ||
four quality riders further up the road. 19 seconds, the gap now. Some | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
serious inroads being made, but one rider will not pull them back. | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
than it is possibly the one rider who could do the damage here. Being | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
the time-trial champion, she can keep the pace very high. -- Judith | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
:40:22. | :40:23. | ||
Arndt. It has gone back to 21 seconds, this really is an | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
unbelievable chase here, spellbinding. I think we are seeing | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
fluctuations in the G Ps system, curves in the road, because the | :40:32. | :40:42. | |
:40:42. | :40:48. | ||
pace is consistent here, not letting off. I don't think the | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
motorbikes should be there, there was some of that yesterday when the | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
riders were gesticulating, telling them to get out of the way. | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
Germans getting a bit of help there, Judith Arndt doing a lot of the | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
work on her own and she has some help here. I don't think they have | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
the power to close this down because they have some sprinters | :41:13. | :41:20. | |
who do not want to get involved in a chase of this severity. 22 | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
seconds is a nice gap to have because they are approaching the | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
flat fast roads which will lead them back to the Mall. Marianne Vos | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
at the front with a workmanlike style, really eager to keep the | :41:34. | :41:42. | |
pace going. They are working well together but we have fresh legs | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
behind coming to help the chase, but it is not consistent. It is in | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
the balance now, this will be decided over the next few | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
kilometres as they go on their way back to London these roads will be | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
getting bigger. These riders have the opportunity of carving | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
themselves a place into sporting immortality by nailing the top | :42:06. | :42:14. | |
podium position in this women's road race. 140 kilometres, 66 | :42:14. | :42:24. | |
:42:24. | :42:25. | ||
riders, but the field really has split. The Russia and at the front | :42:25. | :42:33. | |
is really eager to keep the pressure on. I think the pressure | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
is starting to tell on Lizzie Armitstead. All of them totally | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
committed, driving as hard as they can. For this short time, they are | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
on the same team, working together. The gap is supposedly coming down, | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
but we can't see much in this torrential rain. 12 seconds, that | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
is very close. Can you see anything from behind the motorbikes? The | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
trace his Dillon, the Germans are still pulling everyone along. They | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
have the confidence to think they can bridge the gap and it is | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
Germany working tirelessly here. This is the problem, they just did | :43:14. | :43:24. | |
:43:24. | :43:31. | ||
so much work to pull back the gap and it is yo you yo-yoing all the | :43:31. | :43:38. | |
time. You have got to start asking the questions, who has managed to | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
save the most strength from the peloton behind because those at the | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
front will have given the most. It's it is all over the place now. | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
We had just got to believe in the rider's we have got. We have top | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
four riders, Judith Arndt is a fantastic athlete to have at your | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
service, one of the best time trial was in the world. They will have to | :44:03. | :44:13. | |
be so careful on LEAs spends now. With those time checks a 27 seconds, | :44:13. | :44:22. | |
it is like Judith Arndt tracing the four down. We have got a favour the | :44:22. | :44:28. | |
four to stay away. They do some turning, then they stop. That is | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
the problem, they have not got big teams, just a maximum of four | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
riders sono individual country can pull this back. The need an | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
amalgamation. It will be very difficult for them to come back. | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
The gap is actually 26 seconds so they will not need much now. We are | :44:50. | :44:57. | |
not going on these captions we are getting at the moment, we believe | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
they are having some G Ps problems. The closing stages of this race RN | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
crusted with and for Rawling action, spellbinding action, to decide | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
where the medals will go and we have four different countries | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
hanging on to the lead which we estimate at just over 20 seconds. | :45:18. | :45:27. | |
That is a handy working cushion and the chasing pack will have to do | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
something special. And now they are getting themselves organised. We | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
have five different riders representing different nations | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
starting to get together. We have Teutenberg at the front staying out | :45:41. | :45:50. | |
of trouble. Judith Arndt has needed some company, she has got it now. | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
If they work consistently together, they could do some damage but they | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
have a very short amount of time to get back on terms because the | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
kilometres are ticking away. They know they are in with a great | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
chance of getting a podium position. Lizzie Armitstead looks very good | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
to me. We have lost a rider, that is not good to the group, and it | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
looks like Shelley Olds of the USA has gone. When did that happen? We | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
didn't see her go. She is back with the group now, by the look of it. | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
What happened? She is right at the back of the group. We didn't see | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
what the incident was, but there have been a lot of different | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
punctures in this race. You can see her wheels are different so it is | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
highly likely she has suffered a puncture. This could be devastating, | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
she was really contributing and they have now lost one quarter of | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
their workforce. One of the members of the leading group, Shelley Olds, | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
has gone. We didn't see it, but it doesn't mean the three riders are | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
all medal-winners if they can stay away. Which way will the colours | :47:09. | :47:17. | |
go? Lizzie Armitstead, Marianne Vos. Who is that? Johansson, one of the | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
big favourites. She is a strong rider to take out of the group at | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
the back which was helping with the chasing. Her team was helping with | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
the chasing and the pressure will not let off now. I don't know | :47:30. | :47:35. | |
whether individually she can get on terms with the main group, let | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
alone the three at the front. Everyone in this breakaway now is | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
guaranteed a medal if they stay away, and that is some motivation. | :47:45. | :47:51. | |
I just said that, but where will the commas go? I don't know too | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
much about the sprinting skills. I know a lot about Marianne Vos and | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
Lizzie Armitstead, and Lizzie Armitstead on her day could really | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
put Marianne Vos under pressure. It just depends on how they approached | :48:06. | :48:14. | |
the line. This is a really big trio of talent setting themselves up for | :48:14. | :48:23. | |
the medals. Italy holding their own, this group of three riders. That | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
half the minute has become more interesting, and suddenly Johansson | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
has a problem with the rear brake which requires some help. That | :48:32. | :48:41. | |
really is naughty, that is actually being pushed. They are heading | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
towards Hampton Court and they will be assembling here on Wednesday | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
when they tackle the time-trial. Just got a glimpse of Teutenberg of | :48:49. | :48:54. | |
Germany, and the sprinter, and she will be thinking to herself that | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
she is sprinting for fourth place here, one shy of the podium, and | :48:58. | :49:05. | |
that is not exactly what she wanted. She can do nothing now. She is in a | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
similar position to Mark Cavendish yesterday. She just have to trust | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
the team to control the race. These three are motivated now, and of | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
course we have Nicole Cooke and M are poorly held in reserve should | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
this not work, but it is looking more and more likely and we are | :49:24. | :49:34. | |
:49:34. | :49:35. | ||
seeing some distance growing little bit. 20 kilometres remaining, | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
they need all three of them to work together. It looks as though Olga | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
Zabelinskaya is running out of steam. That will play into the | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
advantage of the group behind, because there are more workers | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
behind if she becomes a passenger and she has to sit on the back. The | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
workload is: To be raised by a third, and it means it is Lizzie | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
Armitstead and Marianne Vos are trying to stay clear for the medals. | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
The Russian is struggling, that is not good. But she is coming through. | :50:11. | :50:18. | |
Perhaps it was only a little falter, they need all of them to contribute. | :50:18. | :50:27. | |
The gap is growing. Slowly, slowly moving further up the road. These | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
riders are utterly committed, this is their shot. Lizzie Armitstead | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
getting some food, it is important to keep on top of the fuel supply. | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
Olga Zabelinskaya will do everything she can. She is at | :50:43. | :50:52. | |
classed by the other two. I think Lizzie Armitstead showed the form | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
that she has got, the sprint will be close between her and Marianne | :50:56. | :51:04. | |
Vos. They are in the form of their lives. We are hedging our bets on | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
the form of Olga Zabelinskaya. She is not always in the leading | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
positions, but she is making a real fist of it. Now, she is | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
contributing well to the workload. Look at the position of Marianne | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
Vos, she is such a talent. Can Lizzie Armitstead do what Nicole | :51:22. | :51:30. | |
Cooke did for Mark Ridgers ago? They are looking good. We think the | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
gap might be more than that. We will get some confirmation for due | :51:34. | :51:41. | |
in a seconder. We have got our own timing. We believe the gap is now | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
40 seconds. I do not think they will get caught. They are punching | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
well above their weight, inspired by the fact that they know they | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
have got a medal from the Olympic Games. Italy still on the front, | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
tapping out the rhythm to try and ruin the chances of the three ahead. | :52:01. | :52:07. | |
The praise of Italians at the front, the flick of the elbow, keep the | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
pace-stop we need more than three riders if they want to print this | :52:12. | :52:19. | |
race back. They have an influx of fresh legs. When Emma Johansson had | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
a puncture, they lost some important support. But these three | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
are consistent, they have got time to dodo. They might get some fresh | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
legs and close the gap. The three are consistently pushing on all the | :52:34. | :52:42. | |
way as they come back across the Thames. There is Hampton court | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
Palace, what a glorious shot. A hugely impressive message that they | :52:48. | :52:56. | |
are sending. Lizzie Armitstead injecting more pace. She has put | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
the Russian under pressure. I think she will do better to keep the pace | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
consistent. You need to stay together. We know our cheques are | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
accurate, 40 seconds, that is fantastic news. It will be morale- | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
sapping for the peloton behind. They are losing more ground. Olga | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
Zabelinskaya it is not doing much. Shelley Olds was doing all she | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
could earlier, every little bit counts. But these three have a | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
different situation, when you are committed, guaranteed a medal. | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
at the sinuous line that was formed, that tells you that the pressure is | :53:42. | :53:50. | |
fully on at the front. Germany carving out the pace, with Judith | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
Arndt looking after the interests of Ina Teutenberg. They chase like | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
this will be very telling, because if they bridge, Ina Teutenberg will | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
have nobody to lead her out, because Judith Arndt will surely be | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
spent. The gap has confirmed at 36 seconds. The disparity in the | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
abilities of the front trio is the problem. They need three bodies. | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
Marianne Vos and Lizzie Armitstead are clearly superior, and that is | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
causing a problem. Olga Zabelinskaya will do all she can, | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
let's hope it is enough. They had eaten more time. They are both in | :54:31. | :54:40. | |
imperious form. We are observing weakness bringing it -- coming into | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
the effort of Olga Zabelinskaya. You get the feeling she is still | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
trying to help the other two, but if she weakens more, she could get | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
dropped away and get picked up by the peloton, which will leave the | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
two at the front to do the work. It is planed nicely into the hands of | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
the front three at the moment. are getting organised behind, we | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
have got America and Emma Johansson's team, the Germans, the | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
whole group starting to work. Emma Pooley sitting on the back, waiting | :55:16. | :55:22. | |
to see what happens. No need to worry about placings. She can get | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
maximum shelter if she wants to. There is a wider near the back, | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
that she came to the front, but would help the others. It is Linda | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
Melanie Villumsen. If Nicole Cooke can get amongst the front riders | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
and start to disrupt the rhythm, that would play very nicely into | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
the hands of Lizzie Armitstead. is getting herself behind the | :55:46. | :55:54. | |
chases, but we have a consistent five or six riders going through. | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
Judith Arndt and Kristin Armstrong are amongst them, that is a strong | :55:57. | :56:01. | |
group. At the front, they are starting to feel the pressure and | :56:01. | :56:11. | |
crack a little bit. 20 riders left? 20, maximum. Kristin Armstrong has | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
come to different, she has one of the best time trials in the | :56:15. | :56:22. | |
business, a former world champion. With Judith Arndt, two specialists | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
against the clock, bake or the wrong two to chase down the front | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
three. But they are determined. They have got the bit between their | :56:30. | :56:40. | |
:56:40. | :56:40. | ||
teeth. It is touch and go, we have a nail-biting situation. Kristin | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
Armstrong to ring a massive amount of work. Still up there, Noemi | :56:45. | :56:52. | |
Cantele of Italy. They will be given the incentive that the death | :56:52. | :56:58. | |
is coming down. They are piling on the pressure, they have just got a | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
few minutes to de rigueur. The gap is still over 30 seconds on my | :57:04. | :57:09. | |
watch. I have taken a mark on the other side of this building. The | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
front three of still holding their own, I reckon the cat is 34 seconds. | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
-- gap. These twists of going to make the difference, that will | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
really help these three. Lizzie Armitstead really is absolutely | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
flying. She is quite close to the motorbike, she could profit from | :57:31. | :57:39. | |
that. Olga Zabelinskaya is second. The work and the damage is being | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
done by Kristin Armstrong by the USA, she is beginning to turn the | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
screw. All the American team are near the front, so the rider that | :57:50. | :57:59. | |
was in the break, Shelley Olds, she is still there. If the gap is 39 | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
seconds, they have gone up a bit. But we will not rely on that, we | :58:03. | :58:10. | |
will do our own times. These calamitous cannot count down fast | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
enough for the front three, all of them are guaranteed a medal -- | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
these kilometres cannot count down fast enough. I did not want to call | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
:58:31. | :58:33. | ||
the sprint. These three are totally committed. Each one of them has got | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
a medal guaranteed if they can get to the line ahead of the chasing | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
peloton. Where the colours will go, we have to wait and see, but they | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
are impressive, they are working consistently. It was a difficult | :58:46. | :58:54. | |
move to get going, it happened on the descent. They will soon be | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
heading through Richmond Park. From there, it is not far to get back | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
into the city. It is not a good time, because when they are into | :59:04. | :59:07. | |
Richmond Park, it will be possible for the chasing group to see the | :59:07. | :59:13. | |
leaders. Lizzie Armitstead said they need to know what is happening | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
behind. They are not getting the information. Normally, they would | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
have radios. They can get all of this information from the cars | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
behind. They are not getting anything a tall, very frustrating. | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
It was the same situation for the men. We can use our own stopwatches | :59:35. | :59:43. | |
to gauge the difference. They need to get the white board up there on | :59:43. | :59:47. | |
the motorbike to tell the leaders what the advantage is, because they | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
are blind, they do not know what it is. Another American comes up to | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
the front, Judith Arndt is always there in the next. We come up to | :59:58. | :00:04. | |
Richmond Park. It is touch and go. It is a nail-biter in the closing | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
stages. The crowd are crouching against the barriers, they will | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
recognise the co-owners of the British rider, and the cacophony of | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
applause for Lizzie Armitstead, she is trying to ride away from the | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
rest. We enter Richmond Park for the second time, the finish is | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
getting ever nearer. That time, 40 seconds, is not too far off, I will | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
give you a cheque in a minute. The gap is getting bigger. More people | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
are contributing behind, but they are not of the class of dividers we | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
saw before. Olga Zabelinskaya it is struggling at, and that is breaking | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
up the momentum. They are still hammering away with the challenge | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
of keeping the group behind away from getting up to them. Looked at | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Marianne Vos, she is looking good. She would love to get a time check, | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
I cannot understand why they are not being told. Marianne Vos and | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Lizzie Armitstead need to be on each other. They are separated by | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Olga Zabelinskaya at the moment. If they could get together, it would | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
help the Russian to contribute. She did just do what she could. The | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
peloton of getting a time check, but we cannot see that. They are | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
frustrated by that. They have sent a message to the peloton of seismic | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
proportions. Fake or full of riding, and if they want to be pulled back, | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
the peloton has to do something impressive. If that time is right, | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
they are getting away marginally. It is there or thereabouts. We can | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
be sure within five or six seconds. The peloton on not making any | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
inroads at the moment. The danger for the front group is if they | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
start to look at each other in the closing kilometres. They have got a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
big margin, but that could be eroded if they play cat-and-mouse | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
too early. It is a gallant effort by the three at the front. They are | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
trying to hold off the field. They are starting to punch a little, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
which indicates the sting is carried out of the chase. They will | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
not manage it, the kilometres are ticking down. It really is a nail- | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
biter. 10 miles, you could not have written a better script. The | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
Patriot isn't is beginning to spill over. -- page it is a map. They | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
will know that Lizzie Armitstead is approaching, they are getting the | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
commentary feed on the screens. She will get eight huge lift, these are | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
great moments for the Yorkshire lass. One of the reasons you see | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
Olga Zabelinskaya suffering a bit, going through Richmond Park, it | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
undulates a little bit. That was nothing to them before, but now, | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
they are starting to feel the fatigue, the pressure has been on | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
for two and was, and we saw Lizzie Armitstead making sure she had a | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
gel, keeping on top of the feeding. That is professional, you are | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
keeping on the pressure on the pedals, and if you forget something | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
like that, it can destroy your race. This is a weather and road. It does | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
undulate. Nicole Cooke on the left, she is getting behind the chasers. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
It does not persuade anybody else from helping out. Everybody working | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
hard, they have got six or seven riders, they are not making any | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
inroads. Looking at Nicole Cooke makes me realise, she was delayed | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
with a problem earlier. Kristin Armstrong is slipping back. Come on, | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Lizzie Armitstead says. She is gesticulating at the others. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Marianne Vos was looking back in concerned. Lizzie Armitstead fall | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
:04:42. | :04:49. | ||
and better in fact towards the end of this race. Marianne Vos always | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
tends to miss out on the big ones, that could happen again. The final | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
kilometres unfolding in the race. It is a carbon copy of the race in | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Beijing. That was a thriller when Nicole Cooke got the gold ahead of | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Johansson, but the weather was exactly the same as well. It was | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
peppering down, just as it is now. They are round the corner safely, | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
now they can lie in off-again. saw some gaps starting to appear. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
They are being very careful around the corners, and right they should | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
be as well. They have everything to lose and this margin is very good | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
indeed. It would need something terrible to go wrong not to | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
maintain this now. They are consistently working together, | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
knowing that a medal could be theirs. I am pleased to say that it | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
looks like Zabelinskaya has got over the Hickok which we thought | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
earlier on meant she had run out of steam. She is actually | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
contributing... Look at the Canadian on the corner, she almost | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
went down. She just about rectified the problem. We have a problem, I | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
think that was another one of the Canadians. There is another attack | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
on the front from the USA. We can tell you for sure the lead has | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
extended to 50 seconds now, which ironically is about the same | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
distance the front group had in the men's race yesterday and they made | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
it all the way to the line. These three are in fantastic shape now. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
bet that gave her an adrenalin rush. She just about managed to stay | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
upright. Who will win this contest? We have two cracking sprinters, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
with Lizzie Armitstead and Marianne Vos. We don't know too much about | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the sprinting ability of Zabelinskaya. The motorbike getting | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
very close. Normally the judges would be much more on top of things | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
like that. It is not ideal for them to get help from passing traffic. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
The slipstream makes a big difference, really helps out. It is | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
like having someone else in the group for a few seconds, but these | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
three we can safely say have done the work themselves. They have not | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
faltered at all. We have seen some big names chasing behind. We have | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
seen Judith Arndt on the front, but to no avail and these three have | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
make the gap bigger and bigger. have got to ask yourself the | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
question, if they do maintain the lead, success is getting what you | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
want but happiness is likely what you get so they are all in with a | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
chance of getting the medals, but which way will the colours go? | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
buffer it is looking more and more healthy, as we get a shot of them | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
are poorly at the back. I think she wants some information from the car, | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
she wants to know what is going on at the front, but there is nothing | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
:08:38. | :08:43. | ||
she can do a -- apart from police the moves. A few seconds game can | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
help them. This will be the last time she feeds between now and the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
dinner table tonight, and will it be a celebration meal? They know | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
they are in with an opportunity of having a crack at the medals. They | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
can see the kilometres slipping away, getting nearer to the finish. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Look at Lizzie Armitstead getting great support from the roadside. A | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
terrific display of even work here, three riders like a team time trial. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
They have the order better now as well. Zabelinskaya is looking | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
better towards the end of the race. She will contribute when she can | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
but she is not getting the change in pace as she was before. She was | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
splitting up these two strong riders. The road is covered in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
water, torrential rain has not stopped for the last half-hour. | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
They are called in a bullish mood as they continued to pour on the | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
coals. Lizzie Armitstead is totally inspired by the occasion. Italy | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
once again coming to the front but I feel their chances are beginning | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
to evaporate. You can see it in their faces. There doesn't seem | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
that passion to bring this back. A lot of these countries have only | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
one rider, and you would have thought they would start to work | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
through to give themselves at least an opportunity of getting a medal. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
There is nothing the sprinter can do, it is in the hands of her team- | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
mates. I think the heart is going out of this chase now. I think that | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
is a good show it. 27 years of age, Teutenberg, a long career she has | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
had an she must be thinking she was in with a chance here. I was just | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
wondering if there would be a danger on that corner, but this is | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
a real wide sweeping arc as they make their way to the finish. | :10:50. | :11:00. | |
they are starting to just six miles of racing to go, when these three | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
might start to think about attacking each other. Almost | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
certainly the attack will come from Marianne Vos or Lizzie Armitstead. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Ones that start, the working will stop and the gap will be eroded. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
They need to start thinking about that when there is only three | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
kilometres to go. I don't want to start thinking about that because | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
the bunch is pouring down on them. Pity is the very handsome cushion | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
of advantage for the three ahead but I don't want to see them | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
attacking each other until the final kilometre, then they will be | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
safe. Still a sizable group here but only a few passengers | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
contributing to the pace. They had those time checks and it showed | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
them their work has been for nothing. These three have taken | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
more time out of them and the morale will have dropped in the | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
peloton. These three are going to find more of that courage as they | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
ask more of themselves, but their ideas are turning very efficiently | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
and I am pleased to say Zabelinskaya looks as if she has | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
got over that he cupped hand they are motoring on nearer and nearer | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
:12:33. | :12:40. | ||
to the finish. -- got over that hiccup. Nine kilometres remaining, | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
about 12 minutes, and we have a British rider poised, possibly, to | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
take a gold medal. Marianne Vos is some serious competition. They will | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
be going over Putney Bridge for the final time, the final crossing over | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
the Thames before they start to go on to Fulham Road and then the | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
conclusion on to the finish. They are still working flat out here. | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
:13:21. | :13:22. | ||
The break developed through Zabelinskaya. One of the Finnish | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
riders is trying to bridge the gap on her Rome, she will not make it | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
on her own. There was an incredible reaction from Shelley Olds, who | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
went along with Marianne Vos and Lizzie Armitstead, and that his -- | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
is how the break happened. Somebody will attack, then they will get | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
caught, and it will slow again so that really is playing into the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
hands of these three. One of the most thrilling of the women's | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
contests for the gold medal that I have seen and it's certainly is | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
going to go right down to the wire. The chase, they have not given up, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
but we are looking at the possibility of Great Britain | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
replicating the gold medal position of four years ago with Lizzie | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Armitstead. The Dutch have won this twice. We have a problem, one of | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
the Russians has had to stop. She will never get back. She crashed. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
Dear, oh dear. How did she do that? She touched the wheel in the middle | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
of the bunch. With the wet road surface, she will not have suffered | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
too badly. She will live to fight another day, but her race is over | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
now. Marianne Vos is trying to become the third woman from Holland | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
:15:04. | :15:14. | ||
to win this title. There has never been a win by Russia. America | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
continued the chase from behind, and the kilometres are slipping | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
away. We are getting to the business end of the contest. Nine | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
minutes of racing remaining. Will they be working all the way to the | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
line? They have lost some of that advantage. 38 seconds now, that has | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
closed the gap, but is it enough? They have to keep the pressure on | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
if they want to keep in contention. It will not be easy, but I think | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
:15:58. | :16:01. | ||
that time for to -- the time on the caption is not correct, we are | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
keeping our own time here. They have had some of their advantage | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
:16:16. | :16:16. | ||
nibbled away. If it starts early, that will not help. They will know | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
that. They don't know if they had time, they have not seen the time | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
checks, but they have got to go all the way to the last few kilometres | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
before they start seeing which medals they will get. It is nail- | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
biting to say the least, just over three miles, and we are seeing 50 | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
seconds but we are timing ourselves here in the commentary box and we | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
think that is rather generous. We think it is something more like 38, | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
40, but it is a handsome margin. That is a problem for Emma Pooley. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Emma Pooley of Great Britain, who has been so aggressive throughout | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
the race, has picked up a problem. It may well be a puncture. That | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
means Nicole Cooke is isolated as the only other British survivor in | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
what is left of the peloton. Crouching down, keeping the tempo | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
high. The you can see they are riding hard to now but they have | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
backed off ever-so-slightly. They are starting to think about the | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
:17:41. | :17:44. | ||
finish. The Belgium here, another good rider. We can see Emma Pooley | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
getting back on her bike but it is too late now. She helped Lizzie | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Armitstead get into this position, and that is everything the British | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
team could ask for. This is exactly the person they wanted to bring to | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
the sprint finish. Soon into Knightsbridge before they get to | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
constitution Hill and the concluding approach into the red | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
tarmac in the Mall. They are being advised of the action so they know | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
:18:34. | :18:36. | ||
there is a British rider in contention for a medal here. It | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
there has been severe action, and heaps of attacks that we have been | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
able to commentate on. It concerns a lot of the other races I have | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
seen over the season. Zabelinskaya contradicting valiantly. She has | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
been in trouble a couple of times on this breakaway, all the way back | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
from the lanes of sorry. There has been an hour they have spent, | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
toiling away, Zabelinskaya doing all she can. She is assured of a | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
medal now, barring any mishap. We think the time gaps are starting to | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
become more accurate now and the gap is starting to creep up. There | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
has been a flurry of speed, then that eases whilst they look at each | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
:19:41. | :19:45. | ||
he's back, that does not counter the consistent workload of the | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
three. A well or old engine, the legs going up-and-down like pistons. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
They know they are definitely in for a podium position. Another | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
spirited effort from behind, as the riders try to pull back the three, | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
but I think their efforts are in favour. The Russian takes her a | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
last drink of the race. The race is getting closer and closer. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
cameras could do with stained with these three, because we might start | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
to see some attacks. I am sure it will come from Lizzie Armitstead or | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Marianne Vos. I do not know if she will have the confidence to leave | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
it to a sprint, but they might attack before they get to the line. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Judith Arndt coming to different, she has pulled the peloton I longed. | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
She would have done better to have stayed in the wheels are a bit and | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
tried to jump clear up and instigate a splinter attack. She is | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
pulling the peloton on all the time. That has not achieved the target of | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
pulling back to the front three. We are getting towards the end. Less | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
than three kilometres to go. They are getting some time checks from a | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
:21:13. | :21:13. | ||
motorbike. Somebody has just decided they need some information. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
The last 2.5 kilometres of this race. They will have to be so | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
vigilant, they have worked so hard for this opportunity. Lizzie | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Armitstead has to watch Marianne Vos. They are going to start to | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
think about going for the winner. Positioning is so important. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
Whether or not Marianne Vos will be pleased to lead, I do not know. I | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
am sure Lizzie Armitstead will want to come from behind. Olga | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Zabelinskaya is indifferent. It looks like Marianne Vos wants to | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
keep the Russian at the front. We are getting closer to the finish. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
Lockout for the red kite, that is the pennant that will tell us there | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
is only one kilometre to go. This is age huge effort from the Russian, | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
Marianne Vos does not want to come through. Olga Zabelinskaya says, a | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
bronze medal, that is all I am going to get any way. She eased off | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
the pace a little bit, but she is still riding. They have lost a few | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
seconds. They cannot mess about, because the group behind are still | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
working to try to pull them back. Lizzie Armitstead is taking a turn | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
at the back. Do not do it for too long, otherwise the group will | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
close you down. Marianne Vos has taken the sting out of the pace, | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
she is not governed as quickly as she was before. This is clever from | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Lizzie Armitstead. She is out of sight of Marianne Vos. Olga | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Zabelinskaya is going early, I cannot believe it! She is trying to | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
jump clear. It was a forlorn effort, it was more of an acceleration. She | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
has not got the sharpness of speed of the other two. Lizzie Armitstead | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
is playing a dangerous game, she is bluffing Marianne Vos. She wants to | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
stay at the back and have the advantage of surprise for a sprint | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
finish. She started early, it is nail-biting. It is quite scary. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
They are round the corner safely. They will see the kite soon. Under | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
1000 metres, just over, remaining. The red kite, one kilometre to go. | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Who will be the Olympic champion? Olga Zabelinskaya is at the front, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Marianne Vos in second, Lizzie Armitstead in the best position for | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
the element of surprise, in third place. This will be a charge for | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the line. The crowd are getting behind them. In a matter of seconds, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
they will see who wins the gold medal. Lizzie Armitstead positioned | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
herself on the wheel of Marianne Vos, one of the fastest women in | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
the world. Has she got the form today? I think she is the fastest | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
finisher in the business. Look for the attack of Marianne Vos. Can | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
Lizzie Armitstead spring a surprise? You can see the remnants | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
of the peloton in the distance. They will not get up to the free. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
They are closing in to the approach. They are on the red carpet of... On | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
The Mall. It is still Olga Zabelinskaya in different. The line | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
is getting nearer. It is still Olga Zabelinskaya. Marianne Vos is | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
leading. Can Lizzie Armitstead challenge? Lizzie Armitstead is | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
trying to get alongside. Both riders are looking for the liner. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Marianne Vos takes the gold medal, Lizzie Armitstead takes the silver | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
medal, Olga Zabelinskaya takes the bronze medal. Will we see a sprint | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
for fourth place? Marianne Vos won the gold medal in Beijing for the | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
points on the track. This is the sprint for fourth place. It looks | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
like Ina Teutenberg. Ina Teutenberg comes up to the line for fourth | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
place. A cracking finish. Those three gave the rest of the slip and | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
they held the chasing group at bay. In the final sprint, Lizzie | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Armitstead tried hard, but she could not quite get up to the | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Flying Dutch woman, Marianne Vos. It is a great performance from the | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Yorkshire woman. Lizzie Armitstead gets the silver medal. What a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
courageous ride by the Russian, Olga Zabelinskaya. That was an | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
absorbing race, compelling action. That was fantastic. Marianne Vos | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
has desperately wanted that result for so long, she has had a very | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
good season. Lizzie Armitstead did everything right, she worked when | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
she had to, it was a fantastic race, but she did not have the speed. Ina | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Teutenberg took the race for fourth place, she looked dejected. Nicole | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
Cooke was trailing in that group. For every sporting, all of the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
athletes from the different countries acknowledging the efforts | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
of the riders that have claimed the medals. Their race against each | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
other on the road circuit, they know each other's strengths and | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
weaknesses. Marianne Vos, the Olympic champion. We are bringing | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
in some of the back markers. Emma Pooley had that problem in the | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
concluding kilometres. She is looking to see who have got the | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
medals. A big smile, she is aware that her team-mate, Lizzie | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
Armitstead, has secured the silver medal. It was a great ride. It was | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
beautiful. By far the best race of her career. She might not have won, | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
but she rode fantastically. I did notice, she was trying to get a | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
last bit of food, she dropped it, so that might have been a problem. | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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Huge congratulations, such a thrill to see you coming up and taking a | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
silver medal. How good does that feel? I do not know, it is really | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
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strange. I do not know, I am a bit shocked. Thank you, and there! | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
awesome performance from your team- mates. Yes, and they did what was | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
asked. I am so glad I committed to the break. I did not know whether I | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
should. I am happy, I should have jumped earlier, but never mind. | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
could not have done well. We saw the effort you put him, he rode | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
hard in the break. Yes, I saw in the men's race, the fast roads | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
coming in, but once you have got a committed group, it is hard for the | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
ones in the back, so I went with it. Of course, you stuck right on her | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
tail, she is a fantastic competitor. She was the one to watch, and I | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
knew that. I was following her around. We got in a break early, | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
but I thought it was too early, so I played the tactic and I waited. | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
There was great support, I saw your grandmother, what has it felt like | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
to have that kind of support? the most special thing I have ever | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
experienced. It was crazy, it was so inspiring. I could not feel my | :29:19. | :29:28. | |
legs. Many congratulations. Thank you! | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
Congratulations, Lizzie Armitstead. The first medal for Great Britain. | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
She did not have what was needed to take Marianne Vos to was the line, | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
but Marianne Vos was the favourite, she is a wonderful all-rounder. She | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
won a medal four years ago on the track. She held off Lizzie | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
Armitstead. She said she should have gone earlier, but she did | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
wonderfully well. Congratulations to Lizzie Armitstead, wonderful | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
scenes here. Even though it is raining, everybody was gathered | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
around the big screen. Just a wonderful emotional moment. Exactly | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
40 years ago, the first medal in Beijing came in this race, the same | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
thing happened four years later, and it was raining then as well. I | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
am sure that has not dampened the spirits on The Mall. Let's talk | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
about what the emotions were like down there. It was absolutely | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
incredible, when they went through the one kilometre mark, you could | :30:36. | :30:43. | |
here huge cheering and everybody willing her on. For her, a superb | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
tactical race. She did the right thing by sitting on the wheel and | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
waiting for her to go. Give us an idea of how Lizzie Armitstead's | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
life will change. She is only 23, she did not own a bike until she | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
was 16. It will change in terms of people stopping her in the street | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
and wanting to talk to her. I have been tracking her on Twitter, | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
watching her father was go up by hundreds, the further she got into | :31:12. | :31:20. | |
the race -- perform was go up. For cycling, they have laid down a | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
medal, and it will give the rest of the team confidence. It feels we | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
have got started. Marianne Vos making sure she kept hold of the | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
gold medal. Any disappointment that it was not the gold medal? Lots of | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
people would have loved it, but in reality, Marianne Vos was the | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
favourite. She was the strongest. She had a very strong team around | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
her, Ellen van Dijk was making a tax to try to make sure that she | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
got into a good position. It was the result that was expected, but | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Lizzie Armitstead could not have done well. We still have plenty of | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
cycling to come, the time trials, high hopes for that, and we have | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
not even got going in the velodrome. Develop drome is where we are | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
looking to get a stack of medals. - - feather trim. It will be | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
interesting to see if Bradley Wiggins has got his legs in good | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
shape, but it is another day. What would be good if we could have some | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
sort of control over the weather. It was miserable today. In the | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
final, to, thunder and lightning, and you could barely see. -- in the | :32:35. | :32:44. | |
final kilometre. What made the difference? Marianne Vos got up | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
early to make sure that she cycled the last kilometre before there was | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
any traffic on the streets of London, perhaps that was what made | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
the difference, but it is a gold medal can -- gold medal, | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
congratulations to her. Many congratulations, how does it | :33:03. | :33:12. | |
feel? I was a little nervous, but we gave everything in the breakaway. | :33:12. | :33:22. | |
Amazing crowds. It is The Mall, it is a wall of noise. It is a sprint | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
until the line. Lizzie did a good job on the break. She had a good | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
sprint. But I am really happy. have had an amazing season, and | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
over the years, you have got the full house, you have been a Olympic | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
champion on the track, but how special is this? After Beijing, | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
this is what I have had in mind for four years. Now it has happened, it | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
is incredible. Congratulations. Well done, and | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
congratulations should go to Olga Zabelinskaya, heavily involved, she | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
led the initial break away, and she picked up a bronze medal. Let's | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
hear from the British coach. Congratulations, an amazing | :34:10. | :34:20. | |
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performance. She could not have It was a perfect race. Credit to | :34:21. | :34:27. | |
her, it was a magnificent race by the Lizzie Armitstead. She deserves | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
it, she has worked so hard over so many years. I am very happy for her. | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
To see the British cycling team report their first medal of the | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
Games, it must be very special for the whole team. Absolutely. | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
Yesterday didn't quite work out so we wanted to bounce back today and | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
that is exactly what the team did. Credit to them. Everybody played | :34:55. | :35:02. | |
their part. We thought it might come down to a bunch sprint, but | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
they adapted to the situation on the road. The nature of the women's | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
race is very different from the men's race. Mark was our plan | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
yesterday. There were various ways it could pan out. She took the | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
initiative and it panned out. You have got to take constant decisions | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
about the outcome and that is what she did today. Or against a great | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
champion in Marianne Vos. I don't think anybody can beat her in this | :35:32. | :35:40. | |
race. She was phenomenal today, very strong. Credit to her. They | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
did it in torrential rain, in tough circumstances and you have just got | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
to be pleased for them. Well done. The brains behind the brilliance of | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
British cycling, but it is not just about riding on neurone, you need | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
your team mate despite the fact that Lizzie Armitstead spent much | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
of that race riding on her own. Let's hear from Nicole Cooke, who | :36:07. | :36:17. | |
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was part of that brilliant effort. Nicole, here we are. No gold medal | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
for you today, but the silver medal for the team. How does that feel? | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
It feels great. We came in here with a serious chance than we did | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
it so it is really great. Lizzie Armitstead did a brilliant ride. We | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
were backing her, but she didn't need it. We have continued our | :36:39. | :36:46. | |
success. It was that decisive break at Box Hill. At one point you | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
seemed to be off the pack. Was that mechanical? I just missed going | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
around the corner, which was pretty stupid, but I got back, drama over. | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
The yesterday when the break when to way, the British fans hoping it | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
would come back. A very different emotion here. What was happening in | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
the chasing group? We knew we didn't have all-out sprinters so we | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
were the opposite of the men's strategy for yesterday. Emma Pooley | :37:20. | :37:28. | |
and myself were at the front marking the riders chasing. We saw | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
the Germans working, and that is how it is. You are there waiting | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
for the race to develop, and all we could do was to save our energy and | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
be ready if it did come back. Then it would be over to us and we would | :37:45. | :37:54. | |
have taken the attack. Well done today. | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
She was primed, but it wasn't to be. Well done. Am afraid to say I am | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
going to have to puncture the moods like you with some less positive | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
mood. A statement has been released by Paula Radcliffe, a long | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
statement, but the main point is that she will not be competing. She | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
said "from the day it was announced London have won the Olympic bid, it | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
was a major goal in my life. I have been through the mail emotionally | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
and physically the last few weeks, and tried every direction and | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
avenue available to heal myself. Already London is showing the world | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
that the Olympic Games will be one hell of a show. For the details on | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
my foot, the joint is degenerative and badly damaged, the same joint I | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
was told in 1994 that I would never run on again. They will recover, | :39:00. | :39:10. | |
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unfortunately though it is not This is a special moment, Olympic | :39:20. | :39:30. | |
:39:30. | :39:30. | ||
glory and Olympic history. This was the first American athlete to win a | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
medal in individual events that five consecutive Olympics. Let's | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
hope she enjoys the celebration a little more than four years ago | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
because in Beijing she had heard on stolen after winning the medal. | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
Let's catch up with what else has been happening. It has been wet in | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
London for the cycling, probably as wet as it is for Ben Ainslie. | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
Shirley Robertson was watching. It has been pretty wet here. Ben | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
finished the day with two seconds but it has been the same man ahead | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
of him in both races. Danish man Kristian Cern. I spoke to Ben | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
briefly after the second race and he was pretty happy. It was a great | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
start, very consistent, and that is exactly what he was hoping for. | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
Behind me, they are coming up for the first rounding on their second | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
race. It certainly put the fire in the belly of Iain Percy and Andrew | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
Simpson, currently in second place. I am keen to see where they finish | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
when they come around the top mark. Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, I | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
imagine they have plenty of support behind them, being defending | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
behind them, being defending Olympic champions. Yes, and they | :40:55. | :41:02. | |
are both really popular within the team. Following the youngsters go | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
to Iain Percy for advice. They are very experienced, and of course | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
great friends. They will be disappointed with the start in the | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
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first race. You always want to come out and get one. They led the fleet | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
away and I think they will be second. I will let everybody know | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
that if they would like to join you, they can do so via the red button | :41:34. | :41:44. | |
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This afternoon, we didn't miss the big moment, the great moment for | :41:45. | :41:55. | |
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Great Britain. Exactly as it was in table with eight medals so far, | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
including five gold medals, but we are in 11th place and I think we | :42:09. | :42:19. | |
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will win plenty more. This is what has been happening today, on day 2. | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
Congratulations to Lizzie Armitstead, she got the medalled | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
charged under way for Great Britain, taking silver in the women's road | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
race. Defending Olympic champion Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter won of | :42:34. | :42:41. | |
their race ahead of New Zealand to make the semi-finals. Paula | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
Radcliffe Spotakova dream of competing is over after a foot | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
injury forced her to withdraw from the women's marathon. Rebecca | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
Adlington will defend her 400m freestyle crown in the Aquatics | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
Centre, but she was the slowest qualifier for the final. That | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
happens at 8:15pm, I suggest you don't miss it. | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
Two gold medals in one Olympic Games... Rebecca Adlington, you are | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
absolutely brilliant. I had coached over 30 years and I had never | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
coached anyone with the drive that Rebecca has got. I have definitely | :43:25. | :43:33. | |
learnt more from my not so good swims than I have from my best ones. | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
She has the ability to push herself to the limit day-in, day-out. | :43:39. | :43:46. | |
athlete, you want to keep improving, you want to get faster. Anybody can | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
do absolutely anything at the Olympics. Nobody expected me to do | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
what I did at Beijing. There will be upsets, highways, everything. | :43:59. | :44:07. | |
That is a whole point of the Olympics. I hope we see her smile | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
this evening. She made it clear she wanted to enjoy herself after | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
Beijing. She is back in form, she had a wonderful world meet. Let's | :44:17. | :44:26. | |
hope she can pick up her medal. 8:15pm on BBC One. I will be on BBC | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
Three because it is the men's team taking on the United Emirates so | :44:32. | :44:42. | |
:44:42. | :44:55. | ||
plenty going on, and plenty of ways moment of these historic Games. We | :44:55. | :45:05. | |
will be broadcasting from 11am. We'll be showing more sport on the | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
red button. Just click to see what is available. The BBC website will | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
cover up to 24 live streams. Go to the website to see the new | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
interactive sports player. We will have every session of every sport, | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
every day, live. You will see a page for every athlete, sport, | :45:27. | :45:34. | |
venue, and country. If you are on the move, you can access the latest | :45:34. | :45:40. | |
news on the BBC mobile website, and you can listen to the live coverage | :45:40. | :45:50. | |
:45:50. | :45:51. | ||
on BBC Radio 5 Live, and then you'll Olympics station for 5 Live. | :45:51. | :45:59. | |
We will broadcast daily highlights on the BBC HD Channel. London 2012 | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
on the BBC. We have got the Olympic Games covered. There is only one | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
person to watch for the next few hours, Sue Barker, who has turned | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
up wearing black and white. At least you have silver buttons. | :46:17. | :46:25. | |
was terrific, wasn't it? Were you watching? Yes, we were screaming. | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
It was so exciting, and it will take the pressure off in a way | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
because after yesterday and Mark Cavendish are not getting a medal, | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
everybody wanted a medal for the British team. To go back to the | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
Olympic village, it is a feel-good factor. It says we have a lot of | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
strength and depth in the cycling. We didn't get a medal yesterday, | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
but we did today, and British cycling went into schools, finding | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
young talent. They decided to take that talent and turn them into | :47:00. | :47:10. | |
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global superstars and that system has worked. Lizzio -- Lizzie | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
Armitstead is a great talent. This venue is great for the sport, | :47:17. | :47:25. | |
isn't it? I hope you have a bicycle and a helmet. I do, but I don't go | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
up many hills. I'd just go around the country lanes. It is absolutely | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
terrific for Lizzie Armitstead and for the cycling team. I know you | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
will be head of cycling down at the Velodrome. Be sure that we have the | :47:41. | :47:48. | |
time trial as well so we will see Bradley Wiggins, and others in the | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
time-trial. I hope you deliver some more medals later. We will be | :47:53. | :48:00. | |
trying our best. Time for Jake to say goodbye. I am taking over and | :48:00. | :48:06. | |
this is what is coming up in the next few hours. First we have | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :48:16. | :48:59. | |
synchronised diving. We move to BBC at 4:12pm. First, we are heading to | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
the Aquatics Centre, where 17-year- old Rebecca Gallantree, and Alicia | :49:03. | :49:09. | |
Blagg, who is just 15, are representing Great Britain in the | :49:09. | :49:19. | |
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for the men, and two for the women. The three-metre springboard. And | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
ten-metre platform. Unlike the individual event, there are no | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
preliminaries or semi-finals. The competition will be completed in | :49:36. | :49:43. | |
one final round, contested by eight teams. The synchronised springboard | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
diving, two adjacent boards are used, one for each diver. Each | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
board stands three metres above the pool's surface. Measuring 4.8 | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
metres long and 50 centimetres wide. From the diving tower competitors | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
will dive side by side from the same ten-metre platform. This is | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
equivalent to the height of two double-decker buses. This surface | :50:09. | :50:17. | |
is six metres long and three metres wide. During the course of a dive | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
from the platform, divers can reach speeds of up to 40 mph before they | :50:21. | :50:29. | |
hit the water. If you would like to get involved in Olympic sports, go | :50:29. | :50:39. | |
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studio to the Aquatics Centre. This is the first diving gold to be one. | :50:46. | :50:52. | |
The overwhelming favourites are the Chinese pair, Wu and He, who are | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
unbeaten in two years. China won seven of the eight diving golds in | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
Beijing and field a very strong team here. There are the Brits. | :51:01. | :51:07. | |
Plenty of support for them. Let's talk -- Let's Join our commentators, | :51:07. | :51:17. | |
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Italian pair. Always tricky opening up a contest, the first dive. | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
Unlike the World Championships, there's no preliminaries to get rid | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
of the heebie-jeebies, but the Italian girls looking pretty | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
steadfast. Maybe Francesca closest to us hitting the water a fraction | :51:40. | :51:50. | |
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ahead of Cagnotto. It's a good are doing well in that pool so far, | :52:07. | :52:17. | |
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can they replicate that with the pair. That is the magic of | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
synchronised diving. We are not telepathic. We do use counting or | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
various signals in order to take off. Touching the toes at the same | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
time, arms moved back to the water. Please remember, the judges do not | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
get to see this. The marks are already into the computer and will | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
be appearing on your screen shortly. The Australian coaches like it. I'm | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
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sure the girls will be pleased with limited degree of difficulty. So | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
important that you are not trying too hard. The judge awarded the | :53:37. | :53:47. | |
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marks for Chris Ball, aesthetic That takes their total to the | :53:58. | :54:08. | |
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Blagg and Rebecca Gallantree. They the home favourites. That is Alicia | :54:32. | :54:41. | |
Blagg's mum there. Let's see how they did. It is very good synchro. | :54:41. | :54:51. | |
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Rebecca hitting the water the Chinese, but that's a solid | :54:58. | :55:08. | |
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start for the British pair. For two support here for them. They are | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
rocking and rolling in the pool. The jump team probably aren't | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
anywhere near as strong as the swim team, but they are opening their | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :55:46. | :56:30. | |
will be looking to get their first diving medal. This is a strong | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
event for them. Emilie Heymans in her fourth Olympic Games, medals in | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
the previous three. Jennifer Abel, 10 years younger than Emilie | :56:41. | :56:51. | |
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Heymans. That's a nice start for agree with me there was a bit of a | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
mismatch coming into the her doorstep there. It looked like they | :57:18. | :57:28. | |
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would be well out of time but ended ended up bouquet but I'm not sure | :57:30. | :57:40. | |
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what to make of that. -- ended up The judges are looking for the | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
divers to be completely in line. I'm sure the replay will show that | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
one of the divers were slightly further away from the diving board, | :58:22. | :58:32. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :58:32. | :59:52. | |
synchronised three-metre macro -- They are certainly going to be in | :59:53. | :00:02. | |
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of the dive beautifully. Cagnotto's father competed years ago and won a | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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from his synchronisation point of view. Throwing up a bit too much | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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spread the air they are taking down with them with their hands in order | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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to get the suction. The execution An interesting choice of dive. It's | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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a bit more complicated than some of seen from this Chinese pair. That | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
means it gives the other pairs a chance to stay with them. All | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
changes will happen from round three when they are limited degree | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
of difficulty rounds kick in. does open the door slightly for the | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
:02:21. | :02:35. | ||
good entry into the water. I think Rebecca Gallantree just Ben's at | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the hip as she enters the water, giving the impression she wasn't | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
vertical. Until their hands touched the water, this had nine written | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
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all over it. Synchronisation is training. They are certainly | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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holding the kind of form they were about consistency. Some funny arm | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
movements but there we go. Up over the top. I think they will get some | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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nines for that one. They do, they there. Bob Barber looking at me | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
quizzically. I'm not sure how they were approaching the end of the | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
diving board. As we can see on the replay, into the pike shape, | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
marginally out of time. The entry to the water has good alignment. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Jennifer moving very close towards Emilie Heymans. Trying to hold | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
hands, almost. One of heart -- well done, Jennifer, you did well to | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
hold that. That could have been a lot worse. The Canadians still in | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
it. Can I call it a scruffy die if? -- a scruffy dive? He didn't look | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
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water to make sure they do not slip when they are up in the shapes. | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
There is a half twist. Into the pike position. The Malaysia and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
probably a bit off the pace. I wouldn't be surprised if they are | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
towards the bottom of the field -- the Malaysians. Looking back at the | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
scoreboard they will see what you see on your screen. A bit of a | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
shake of the head. Not quite going how they planned. These girls need | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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hurdle step seemed to be out of time. Managing to get it together | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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in the end. Let's look at the synchronisation. -- eat maybe. They | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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will be towards the bottom of the round. Australia surprisingly a | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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long way down, but three more difficult. The difficulty goes up | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
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to 3.0. The third round dive of the starts. That is a fantastic opening | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
optional dive. This is where the big guns come out, and in the | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
female springboard event, that means two and a half pikes, a 3.0. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Beautiful entry into the water, finishing lower than you would hope, | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
a little bit arching. But the entry into the water is good and the | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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lift them up the table a little bit. The Australians with their big dive | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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and that probably won't help. Standing backwards, but having to | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
spin forwards towards the diving board is dangerous because your | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
toes can come a little bit closer. I'm pleased to say they both | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
cleared the board. Going over the vertical as she goes in and the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
synchronisation is very good. I don't think they will get more than | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
:09:29. | :09:40. | ||
eight and a need to do better than going for her third title in the | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
:09:50. | :09:59. | ||
dominance. A bit of flag-waving from their team-mates. The replay | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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will show just how good this level and synchronising | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
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favourites. The first of their really big guys for Alyssia black | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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and Rebecca Gallantree. -- really programme, and that might have let | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
them down. It was the reserve of two and a half which means landing | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
on the end of the board, jumping up and away from the board and | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
spinning backwards towards it. The girl in beautiful synchronisation. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Rebecca just letting go of the shape a bit early and landing short | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
of the vertical. It is a shame, because the synchronisation is good. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Tom Daley showing with his expression what I am telling you. | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
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And the marks will indicate all of couple of places and actually might | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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mean them dropping to the bottom of will certainly be in the hunt if | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
they carry on with this consistent performance. I was watching them in | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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training and I have been impressed. synchro which will put them in with | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
the front-runners. Up above the Italians and Australians and into | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
second go Kelci Bryant and Abigail Johnston. Now the Canadian pair are | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
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absolutely nailed her back to and a half pikes. Emilie Heymans was good. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Let's look on the replay. I was distracted by the execution from | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Jennifer which was exceptional. Synchronisation a little bit off, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
spinning out different sides. Entering the water OK so the judges | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
might go with them. They might get 7.5 or eight for synchro and the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
:13:21. | :13:55. | ||
entry into the water with both divers over rotating. Heating the | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
water vertically is what the judges are looking for, but as you see, | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
over a rotating. The Sheens hitting the water -- their shins hitting | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
the water. Not enough to get your surfboards out with a little tired, | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
but there you go. Quite far behind when the marks,. Now there really | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
got going today and the scores are for sore eyes. -- they never really | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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spectacular, but that will keep them where they were after the | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
first two rounds and maybe move them up a place. Swinging the arms, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
bending the knees, reaching up, looking for the elevation to swing | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
into the back road -- backward at 2.5. A bit of splash from both live | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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eyes. Doesn't really do them a good deal of good in terms of moving | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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position. Not really in medal contention. So, we are three-fifths | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
of the way through. China leading, but changes behind them. Great | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Britain's challenge may have faltered somewhat with their third- | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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women's synchronised three-metre normally finish on this and have | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
had difficulty in training and electing to put it in earlier in | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
their programme. Landing on the end of the board, a little bit back | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
from the end and not very much spring. She was struggling a bit to | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
get there dive been in the allotted time. There is the twist, into the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
water. It is a bit here and there but it will keep them in contention. | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
The synchro marks will be the telling score. In terms of a medal | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
prospect, that might be the end of it. That was not terribly well | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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executed. The Australians also have synchronisation was super. The | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
execution, and this is why it is worth 3.1, was a little bit of. | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
Charlene glans short of vertical. 1, 2, 3. Charlene just short of | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
vertical and I think she will get penalised. Look at this super slow- | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
motion. Look at the expression on the divers face. This is a tough | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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goodness, made. The Italians are opening the door slightly. The | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Chinese showing they really are a cut above, landing on the edge of | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
the board, in perfect unison. That has got nine written all over it. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
That could go close to 80 points. Let's see what the judges say. But | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
for me, that is the died of the contest thus far. I could not see | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
much wrong with that. Nines on the right, and 9.5 even once. The | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
synchro judges loved it to bits, which is why China have eight | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
:18:58. | :18:58. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :18:58. | :19:43. | |
away from the diving board than in due course. The early stages of | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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have them in my top three but I might have to revisit my top three. | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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judges have got to give them a eights plus for that. Execution a | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
little bit off, but if they are near the 70 point Mark, that will | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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important. They were a little bit off the pace. Emilie Heymans, her | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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fourth Olympic Games. Three medals rotation. A little bit out on the | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
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they have to judge on what they see Beautiful entry in the water. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
They've certainly dug into the bottom of their diving toy box and | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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it's taken a while for them to warm-up, hasn't it? A little | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
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running away from a fire then as they made their way down the diving | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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contention, but that is one of Finishing a bit low on to the water | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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more in terms of the competitors, here we are with the fourth round | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
standings. Not much between two and five. The Australians have a chance | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
:23:46. | :23:52. | ||
to sneak back in there. Great Women's synchronised threem | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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responded with a big enough dive? The synchronisation was good, | :24:28. | :24:38. | |
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the diving score. It hasn't come up as yet. We might have a little | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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on. It is normally their best dive but I'm pretty sure they will be | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
disappointed with their overall performance to date. Good | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
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synchronisation but both over from really go with that. Squeezing in a | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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valiant effort, but they were a calculations to be done that the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
new scoring system, I think the computer might be struggling a | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
little bit. That puts Australia into second place behind the | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :26:27. | :27:24. | |
room for anyone to get anywhere gone 9.5. They know the job is well | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
and truly done. They take their total up to three of the and 46.20. | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
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her final dive. -- Pellissier. There's nothing you can do, there's | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
no magic rewind button. The take- off is good, squeezing into the | :28:21. | :28:31. | |
:28:31. | :28:33. | ||
Pike shape. Rebecca's dive is a of your Pike shape. Frustrating, | :28:33. | :28:43. | |
:28:43. | :28:46. | ||
but a valiant effort for the girls mediocre jump. It will probably | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
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mean they are battling it out with going to be the US on the podium. I | :29:29. | :29:39. | |
:29:39. | :29:58. | ||
didn't see it coming. They have They will definitely be in front of | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
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moment, but it is not yet cast in silver. We have Jennifer Abel and | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
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responded? They are a bit off their game today. That's going to be | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
close. It may be good enough to take out the Italians, but is it | :30:47. | :30:57. | |
:30:57. | :31:15. | ||
Yes, they have snuck into third place and put the Italians down to | :31:15. | :31:25. | |
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four. They've done it by just over office. Not in the kind of form | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
that got them the qualification for this top eight only straight | :32:04. | :32:14. | |
:32:14. | :32:14. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :32:14. | :33:08. | |
their best, and they didn't really way back from the end of the diving | :33:08. | :33:18. | |
:33:18. | :33:45. | ||
board. There isn't much spring on through them do not count towards | :33:45. | :33:51. | |
their total score. May be a bonus medal for the USA here. Look how | :33:51. | :33:59. | |
excited they are. The American team at the very, very happy. They did | :33:59. | :34:06. | |
finish some 25 points behind China, but they did finish five points | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
ahead of Canada. There is always the USA and Canada rivalry, | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
antedate the Americans got the measure of the maple leaf. Emilie | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
Heymans, her 4th Olympic medal at her 4th Olympic Games. That is | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
incredible. The first woman in the history of the sport of diving off | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
to ever do that. China won all but one gold medal in Beijing. Matthew | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
Mitcham stopping that run of four years ago. And they are off and | :34:34. | :34:44. | |
:34:44. | :34:53. | ||
running again. Wu Minxia and He Zi A good performance from the | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
youngsters, finishing second. I am sure they will learn from the | :34:56. | :35:03. | |
experience. Let's hear from them. Aged just 15, Alicia Blagg is one | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
of the youngest members of Team GB, in fact the youngest member of the | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
diving squad. Many congratulations to you both. What was going through | :35:10. | :35:16. | |
your mind as you step on the board? It was overwhelming. The crowd in | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
here is incredible. They were behind us all away and it has been | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
the most amazing experience of my life. Tha I enjoyed every minute of | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
it. Even though it didn't go right, that will never happen again and | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
I'm just proud to be here. You were in 4th place after the second round. | :35:36. | :35:43. | |
Oh, I dunno! I didn't know. Your mum sends you a text, to say you | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
were in the team, did she come here today? Yeah so, I got that text at | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
school and it was incredible. Can you sum up the experience? Mind- | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
blowing. Incredible. I don't even have the words to say how amazing | :35:57. | :36:06. | |
it was. Thank you to everyone, all my family and friends. Rebecca, you | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
know her well because you spotted her during a school trip. We got | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
her from a talent identification scheme. I was part of the team that | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
picked her up, so that is pretty cool. You got a big cheer as you | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
step on the board and also as you came to do the interview. Some of | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
what it was like before month in front of a home crowd. -- sum up | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
what it was like. Absolutely incredible. Mind-blowing. It was | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
feeling so great to have everybody support, so thank you so much. | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
bet you what pinching yourself that you have competed with some of the | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
best in the world. It is hard to believe. All over now, we are | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
finished, and I'm upset the we finish there. We just enjoy the | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
games? Yes, I will see as many sports as I can. Rebecca you have | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
the individual on Tuesday to concentrate on. I am really looking | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
forward to it. It should be great. A you have made the whole of Leeds | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
and a whole of the UK at -- today. Your boyfriend said it was the | :37:10. | :37:20. | |
:37:20. | :37:20. | ||
They have a lot to be proud of. The first goal for China in the diving, | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
their 6th overall, and they top the table ahead of the US and Italy. | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
China could get another because they are favourite in the men's 10 | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
metres synchro final, which will be the first glimpse of Tom Daley. All | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
eyes will be on the 18-year-old who has been one of the poster boys of | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
the Games. He competes alongside Pete Waterfield who won a silver | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
eight years ago. These two need to match each other, but they are an | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
odd couple. An age difference of 13 years, three difference in height | :37:50. | :38:00. | |
:38:00. | :38:08. | ||
and a train 150 miles apart. But it When I was 10 I watched the first | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
Olympic Games eyesore, and I saw them of winning a silver medal in | :38:13. | :38:23. | |
:38:23. | :38:24. | ||
Athens, and then I wanted to go to Tom in Beijing was with a different | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
partner and he was quite young men, and still developing. He wasn't | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
quite strong enough to dive next to me at the time. Then he grew, got a | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
lot stronger and when we got together it worked kind of straight | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
away. I was really nervous last time I was diving with Pete. It was | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
one of those things where I really wanted it to work and be something | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
special, and then to go into London 2012 and to compete with Pete is | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
pretty surreal. The only difference is the age gap. He is bigger than | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
me, but most people are, to be honest. Outside of the swimming | :39:01. | :39:07. | |
pool, we were always together, whereas Tom was a bit younger and I | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
do not want to see cramp his style. Everybody says that Tom Daley can | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
draw a lot from me and learn, but when they say that I say, do you | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
know what, I learned a lot from Tom. We have been coming home with more | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
medals, personal best, British records, so Pete is definitely the | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
right person for me to be diving with and I think we are the right | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
team to beat diving in the London Olympic Games. Obviously China are | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
the top diving nation in any discipline. It is one of those | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
things where everyone is out to get China and it is almost like silver | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
is gold, but the degree of difficulty we have is high in | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
comparison with some of the other teams. It is just about going out | :39:51. | :39:56. | |
there and doing well. To come home with a medal in London 2012 would | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
not only be amazing but would put the icing on the cake for a pretty | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
successful career that I have had. It is such a great opportunity to | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
go out and died in front of a home crowd. If you dive well and get a | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
medal, that is the biggest reward for any athlete but we have done so | :40:15. | :40:23. | |
far. And we wish them well. Tom and Pete will be diving live on BBC One | :40:23. | :40:32. | |
Hopefully it will be another medal tomorrow, because we received a | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
medal today. Lizzie Armitstead became Britain's first medallist of | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
the game. She won the silver medal in a dramatic road race, just | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
missing out on gold, losing to Marianne Vos, the pre-race | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
favourite. A few months ago she proudly stepped onto the podium to | :40:47. | :40:57. | |
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receive the medal. Let's enjoy the their sporting life. The moment | :40:58. | :41:08. | |
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might co-commentator Chris Boardman enjoyed in Barcelona. The winner of | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
:41:20. | :41:26. | ||
President of the you see I. worked hard for that. She struggled | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
at., but she did not let go. She contributed everything she had. It | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
was a valiant effort. No way was she going to be able to contribute | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
that in the spring, that was going to between this lady, Lizzie | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
Armitstead and Marianne Vos. winner of the silver medal, | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
representing Great Britain, Lizzie Armitstead! She gets a huge ovation. | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
And that male, the first medal to be won by a British competitor in | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
London, could be the catalyst -- that medal could be the catalyst | :42:00. | :42:10. | |
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young at Yorkshire lass. But the gold medal winner and Olympic | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
champion, representing the Netherlands, is Marianne Vos. She | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
had the gold medal on the road here and can add it to the one she had | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
on the track in Beijing. One of the most talented female road riders on | :42:37. | :42:44. | |
the planet, and in all disciplines. For the Olympic champion, Marianne | :42:44. | :42:54. | |
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Well done to Lizzie Armitstead, the first British medallist of the game. | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
But Tweddle has twice in a world champion, but it was heartbreak for | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
her when she made the slight error on the landing from the bars and it | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
cost her a bronze. She is back the she and she was qualifying earlier | :43:08. | :43:18. | |
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today. Let's see her routine in the hand side of the North Greenwich | :43:22. | :43:32. | |
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arena for Great Britain's best the very difficult combination. The | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
half turn. She goes for the difficult combination. One last | :43:50. | :43:58. | |
little bit to go. In we come. The big dismount. Double, double. | :43:58. | :44:06. | |
Fantastic work! What about that! She now has the champion to go for | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
Olympic glory. Well, that was absolutely fascinating. It was | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
mesmerising. It was incredible. She mesmerising. It was incredible. She | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
We have to start with your performance on the uneven bars. You | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
lifted the roof of the arena. How did that feel? It was amazing. The | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
past few weeks has been really hard because of the pressure. You want | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
to go in thinking you have no pressure but at the end of the day | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
I would have walked out here disappointed had I not gone clean. | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
When I landed I thought, thank God for that! He you blew everybody | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
else away so far with what we have seen. Just how thrilling was | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
landing about and taking in the crowd afterwards? It was the best | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
feeling in the world. I cannot even put it into words. I'm speechless. | :44:56. | :45:02. | |
I don't know what to say. I've never been short for words usually. | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
The rest of the team, one or two wobbles here and there, but how | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
would you characterise the performance overall, second at the | :45:08. | :45:16. | |
moment? It was amazing. It is hard. It is a home crowd at the Olympics, | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
that added pressure and some mistakes but we call ourselves | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
together and we stepped up the mark. I think on the bars, the team | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
couldn't have done any more. Probably our highest total ever as | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
a team, so you can't ask any more than that. Rebecca, coming into | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
this is the youngest member of Team GB, you went out their first up, | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
what was going through your head? Both we have been ready for the | :45:40. | :45:48. | |
competition for weeks. It was a bit shaky going first, but we were | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
ready for it and we pulled out a good score in the end. Looking good | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
in terms of the all-round final. How proud of your performance today | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
are you? I thought I would do my best and see what happens, and if I | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
make the final, great, if not, it happens. But I'm really happy that | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
I'm in there. Did you watch the men yesterday and takes an inspiration? | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
No, we had to train. We were thinking about some of the added | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
pressure, but we shouldered it. do have to say the American team | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
went around here and absolutely worse Super on so many pieces. | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
Something like 11 points clear. What you do when you look at the | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
scoreboard and see that? We knew they were like that. We don't have | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
a chance of catching them if they have something like 10 falls, that | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
would be the anyway. They have hid the routines every day and I have | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
only seen one mistake in a hole with -- they have hit their | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
routines. They are here for the title. We have two different | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
targets, and we are pleased with our performance. The quickly, you | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
have to be confident of getting something out of the final after | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
that. I have another week to calm down. We have the team final, | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
Oakley, and then we can support the other girls in the all round and | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
see what happens next week -- the team final, obviously. It is the | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
icing on the cake just to make the final now. Well done to you both | :47:15. | :47:25. | |
:47:25. | :47:25. | ||
and good news from Wimbledon. Having lost in the doubles, Andy | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
Murray came through his singles and a tough first round match against | :47:31. | :47:37. | |
Stanislas Wawrinka. But comfortably through in straight sets in front | :47:37. | :47:45. | |
Heather Watson and Flora Robson are in action later and we will also | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
show you Maria Sharapova -- Flora Robson. We are moving over to BBC | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
Two now. Here on the BBC want you can see highlights of the Hungarian | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
Grand Prix. Plenty more coverage from the Olympics to come and we | :47:58. | :48:01. |