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The crowd on both sides now have just going mad. They can't smile as | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
they come up to the line. They are allowing themselves to think, we | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
are Olympic champions! Great Britain into the record books. | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Great Britain are the Olympic champions and it could not go to | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
more worthy winners. Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, we stand up | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
and so Luke shook for the British rowing team and for the country. | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
The dead - salute you. Wasn't that just remarkable? | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
We may have had to wait until day 5 but that was well worth the wait. | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
Not just a gold medal but a victory of breathtaking dominance. And now | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
we're off the mark let us hope that a gold medals are like London buses. | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
He is the master of the time trial. The master of the Tour de France. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
Bradley Wiggins rides into the record books! | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
We have waited a long time for this one up and the sad to note it could | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
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easily be two. I hope you have got you're Golden sideburns ready. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Back to the road now and the women's time-trial has just | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
finished. The great hope for Great Britain was Emma Pooley. She is so | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
talented on the road and actually has a P.H. D in soil Engineering! | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
She was silver medallist in 2008 in Beijing. She really is a crime. | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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This does not play to her strength. -- a climber. Sadly she was just in | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
second place in this stage. It has been a dramatic road race. We can't | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
explain what else will be going on there a little later on. -- we can. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Lizzie Armitstead was also competing for Great Britain and | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
would have been desperate to follow up her silver medal from the road | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
race. Kirsten Armstrong was the real star as far as the United | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
States was concerned. She put in an absolutely stunning performance. | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
That was how things got going as far as the women were concerned. | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
Let us hear from bezique arms debt. -- from Lizzie Armitstead. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
This was not your preferred event. How was it for you as much it was | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
really awful. The time trial rests on my team, their mentality and the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
way they train, you have to put yourself through some dark places | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
in your mind to get through that. I saw that it was 10 kilometres to go | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
and I could not believe it. I have never felt such pain. It is very | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
competitive at the moment, very close. It does not look as though | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Emma Pooley has been able to crack this one. It was not really suited | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
for her. She was fantastic in the road race | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
and played a big difference such it would have been good to see her on | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
the podium. But the level at the moment is just incredible. To be | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
successful on a course not suited to you was always going to be a | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Challenge. Well congratulations and a sterling | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
effort. She was never really expected to excel in that time | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
trial. But could Emma Pooley hang on in their? This is what happened | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
on in their? This is what happened in the concluding part of the race. | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
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31 seconds off the pace of the Russian. That is an incredible ride. | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
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She is going to be really happy with that. | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
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We wait now Villumsen. She was silver medallist in Copenhagen 12 | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
months ago. She drives on for the line. The Russian it is still going | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
to beat in the gold medal position. It is going to be close but I | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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reckon if she is going to go silver at this stage. Second for Villumsen. | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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What a finish we are in for it here. She is going to be very nervous now. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
It is a would say the best performance of her career. Is she | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
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going to get a medal? Look at this very narrow section of the course. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
The crowds massive as they wait for the arrival of the two serious | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
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medal contenders still out on the course. Judith's aunt, a top podium | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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finisher - Arndt. She is so versatile. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Armstrong just has a handful of minutes to get the last bit of | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
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effort out. I think that is Marianne Vos. What | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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an incentive that would be to try to pull out pure speed. Armstrong | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
is going to catch the world champion. I'm waiting to see that. | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
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I think it was Marianne Vos. Of course she was caught by Arndt. | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
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So the Russian leading, New Zealand in second place. And this is | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Armstrong sweeping past Marianne Vos. Marianne Vos has been caught | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
with three minutes via Armstrong were just squeezes through. She is | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
just going to take the shortest line around this course. That was a | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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great incentive for her in the closing stages. And it is a quick | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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time for Judith Arndt. Here it comes. She goes into the lead. She | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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has taken at seven seconds off the time. And now the defending | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
champion, Kristen Armstrong. can see the experience now. She has | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
time to pace beautifully over the distance. | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
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And we confirm the medal positions. Villumsen in bronze and must be | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
biting her nails now. She is a fighter and desperately | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
wants this. She looked solid in the road race at the weekend. And it is | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
very good. It looks as if Christen Armstrong is going to maintain her | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
title. And retain the crown as the Olympic champion and win her second | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
Olympic gold medal. Coming up to the line now. Armstrong at of the | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
United States wins the Gold Medal digging 15 seconds off the time of | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
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the German Judith Arndt. Villumsen pushed down to fourth. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
What a ride. Celebrations beginning to unfold. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Your face says it all, a bitter disappointment for you there. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
We always knew the course was never going to be necessarily suited to | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
you. You prefer something with more climbing in it. How hard was it? | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
You always have to push hard. I did that. I do not think I could have | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
gone any faster. In the time-trial you cannot affect | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
anyone else. You just write your best. I'm disappointed. But if | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
someone else is better, good on them and they deserved to win. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Lizzie Armitstead was St UWE Road so well for her in a road race. It | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
is difficult to back it up when you put in that kind of effort. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
I was pleased to be able to help Lizzie Armitstead get the medal and | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
she fully deserves silver. The time-trial on Box Hill would | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
have been better for me. But the support out there is fantastic. I | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
support out there is fantastic. I have never heard so much noise! | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
really feel for her there. She would have been desperate to match | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
or to better that silver from Beijing. But in the end she | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
finished 6th which she was clearly disappointed about. Christopher | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Armstrong from the United States managed to pull it out when it | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
mattered. Emma Pooley disappointed there. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
Nicole Cooke is with me. You'll have grabbed a few minutes. A | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
fantastic win by Armstrong. It is very hard for Emma Pooley, she gave | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
it her absolute everything. It is just one of the worst moments in | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
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sport when that happens. But it was Kristin Armstrong. She started fast, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
steady through the second section and finished strongly. It was an | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
incredible ride and a great continuation of her career. She is | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
now a double Olympic champion. And a thrilling finale for the podium | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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as well. Looking forward to the men's race, | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
and Bradley Wiggins goes in it as the favourite. He is the favourite. | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
He is probably thinking he just cannot wait to get started. He | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
really has a serious chance of getting a gold medal in the time- | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
trial. And Chris Froome may even have snatched an adult as well. It | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
will be interesting to see how they both get on. It is important to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
mention it Chris Froome because he did come second in the Tour de | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
France. Looking up the other rivals, of Fabien Cancellara from | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Switzerland, he broke his collarbone earlier in the year. He | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
went down in the road race and we thought he may have damaged his | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
collarbone again. How strong is he looking? Physically he is probably, | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
he's got the legs but it just depends how he can hold it together | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
and get through the pain. I am sure he will give it absolutely | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
everything. You would not want to count him out but it is not an | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
ideal man up into one of the biggest races. Tony Martin Laird | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
from Germany, he helped the team a little in the road race but he | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
broke his wrist earlier and says he is still in pain. Will he provide a | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
particular Challenge? He is the reigning world champion. And again | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
he is the rider who has not had an amazing season this year. So a | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
little bit of an outsider. But he is a champion and perhaps cannot | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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raise his game on the day. Well we Now hopes are high for British | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
boxing at the games not least because Great Britain can call on | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
the power and presence of Antony Joshua. It is a traditionally sport | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
for Ireland too. We will see one of their rising stars but first here | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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is what it is all about. Boxing. Only amateur boxers and boxers | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
competing in the world series can compete at the Olympic Games. And | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
for the first time in Olympic history, London 2012, we will see | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
female boxers competing. Olympic boxers wear red or blue, all wear a | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
head-guard and vest and use ten ounce gloves. Men's bouts are | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
fought over three, 3 minute rounds while the women's will be over four | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
two minute rounds. One referee will control the bout inside the ring | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
and five judge also score outside the ring. Using an electronic | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
scoring system. To score a point the knuckle area of a glove has to | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
hit the for get area. The person with the most points at the end of | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
the bout wins. If a boxer is knocked down and fails to get up | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
within a ten second count, they automatically loose. If a coach | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
feels their boxer should not continue, they will concede defeat | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
by throwing in the towel at any point except during a count. If you | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
would like to get involved in Olympic sports go to the website. | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Here with go. Time for live boxing, always one of the most popular | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
sport of the popular questions I have had on Twitter for the past | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
couple of weeks is why are the scores no longer displayed on | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
screen? I do understand it makes it hard to follow the fight, it is | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
just to keep the judging fair and impartial which is something that | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
we all want to see. So let us head to the ExCel centre, we are live, | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
if you look, we are about to see one of the Irish superstars, | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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bantamweight fighter John Joe a preliminary contest. And for both | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
of these men it is the second Olympic Games. Youngest Irish boxer | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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in Beijing four years ago. He qualified for London through the | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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contest. In the boxing tournament in the Olympic Games. And this is | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
going to be a tough one for Ireland. The 23-year-old in his second | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
Olympic Games and he has had two world bronze medals in 2009 and the | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
one last year, from Baku earned him the right to be here. His opponent | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
qualified through the world series of boxing division, which is a | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
hybrid division, a kind of hybrid tournament set up by the amateur | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
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international boxing association, nine male boxer, two women, Ireland | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
with five male boxers and the four time woman's champion Katie Taylor. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Even in, hands low, economical style. Came comfortableibly against | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
the Danish boxer in his opening contest, 21-6 and his opponent got | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
rid of his man 15-7. Even in can't afford to fall short. This Kazakh, | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
he is a counter puncher, southpaw, a nightmare opponent to be honest, | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
if you fall short with your attack here, he comes back his counter. He | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
is skilful this Kazakh boxer. He will feint. He wants you to lead | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
wauf the jab and he will counter you with the right hook. It is | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
important that even in is accurate, fast with the feet, gets in with | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
the shots like that one and can't afford to fall short here. In his | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
opening contest even in, the Irishman dominated the centre of | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
the ring. He now is being forced to move round and his opponent is | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
taking centre ring. A different tactic from even in. Fast feet from | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
the Kazakh. Lost in his opening contest four years to a Cuban, | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
whereas even in beat an Algerian boxer and went on to be defeated | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
only by 9-2. The closest contest. It's the right tactic what even in | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
is doing. He is not lunging in and being careless. That was not a bad | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
counter. What he has to do more of is edge closer and feint with his | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
jab, he has to draw the lead of the Kazakh and throw down the pipe. He | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
must draw the opponent on to the shot. Like most southpaws the boxer | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
from Caz -- Kazakhstan is waiting for him to come to him. He is | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
hoping to get that left counter across. Even in has sin ter ring. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Even in. Not much in this Not at all. The Kazakh nearly lost his | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
balance. Even in has moved away and is that going to make a difference | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
he has won it by 5-2, the Irishman. Even he will be delighted with that | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
in the corner with Billy wash, they will be chuffed about that. What a | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
good opening round. -- Billy Walsh: That is a great score for Nevin. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Now tactics will change from the Kazakh, he may come on his front | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
foot more. That may suit Nevin. He has to stay nice and tight. But to | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
be three points up, you don't see that very often in this tournament | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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so far, so they will be really advantage at the start of this | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
second round, in favour of the man in red, the Irishman John Joe Nevin. | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
Seeded number five, world rated number four in the most recent | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
rankings. Certainly because of that, would have been favourite for this | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
contest, but the man he is up against has been round the block a | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
time or two and he knows he's will have to put the foot on the gas and | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
force the pace. That means will come forward and Nevin, he is a | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
good counter puncture, that might suit him. Great right hand by the | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Irishman. It will suit him more, what he has to do is keep, just | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
that is good. I was going to say kept the left hooks go, he has to | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
keep his nerve. It will be a test of character. Hold his nerve, bring | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
him on to the shots. The Kazakh is going to come forward, which he is | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
doing. He is confident. He should walk on to the punches. They have | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
anticipated and Nevin is moving away and getting that right hand | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
across into the middle. This is good work by the Irishman, lovely | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
change of direction. He is boxing especially Nevin at the moment. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
key to his timing, he is starting to counter attack and as his | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
opponent is coming forward Nevin is starting to beat him to the punch. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
A good tactic. The, I don't agree with that, Nevin is boxing on the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
back foot and the referee says you have to come forward, I don't agree. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
I think he is boxing the perfect fight, the Irishman. If you go | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
beyond a certain period of time without trying to throw a punch the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
referee can have a word with you, for passivety. I didn't think he | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
was going to be passive. That wasn't passive. That was on the | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
squashed nose of the Kazakh. Coming up to the end of two minute, the | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
second round, if anything, I reconNevin has extended this lead. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
He has boxed cleverly, single qal - - quality shots the Jungs can't | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
miss. Five with a key pad with red and blue button, if they press | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
three within a minute, or a second I should say, sometimes we think it | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
looks like a minute! Press the button and the score is reported. | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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No running score up the top left hand corner any more. At the moment, | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
the hand that will be raised and the name that will be read out is | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
that of John Joe Nevin from Ireland. He has outworked his opponent in | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
this second round. He has turned the tables. Normally this Kazakh | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
boxer aims to frustrate the opponents what is happening is | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Nevin is doing that, he is bringing him on to shots. The Kazakh cannot | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
close the gap down and he is walking on to punches. Right hand | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
is crucial and the timing with that punch almost also. But the Kazakh | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
has to get Klose to Nevin but the Irishman is not letting him do that. | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
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referee. 10-5 to Ireland with three minutes to go. 5-2, 5-3. We thought | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
the second round was more in favour than Nevin's favour but he is five | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
points up and surely he is not going to lose this one. Good shot | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
by the Kazakh but a great shot to the body be the Irishman. He is box | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
especially, brings him on the a short right upper cut. Beat on to | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
the punch. That was a typical counter attack. Nevin quickened the | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
feet up and beat him to the punch. There is that right hand again | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
there. Similar tactic, his timing is perfect up to now, Nevin. | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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Difficult to pull that back for the attention to the coaches in the | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
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corner. Four years ago in Beijing, the man in red representing Ireland | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
here in London 2012. He is under three minutes away from going one | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
better. Got here because the, got to the semifinals of the World | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
Championships last year, and went out very very narrowly to England's | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
Luke Campbell. It was 12-12. Very close round and as it turned out | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
Campbell through a greater volume of punches. --. Threw. Nevin has to | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
be content with a second world bronze. Under pressure but he is a | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
good man at finding distance when he has to find that reverse gear. | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
He has turned into the outout-and- out counter puncher. He is bringing | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
his opponent on to the shots. It is important he stays concentrated and | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
his Rigg ring position is so important. He doesn't need to be on | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
the rope, if he is, that will allow the Kazakh to land come pi basing | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
mun -- punches. Got stay centre, keep calm, keep a cool head and | :28:34. | :28:44. | |
:28:44. | :28:45. | ||
keep bringing him on the that right hand. Good boxing. The stkpwhrvings | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
Again he gets on with the right hand. The referee has been harsh on | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
Nevin, he is getting out of the way and the referee has been | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
interpreting that as a lack of willingness to box, but that is not | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
the case, he has been clever. the one who is winning the contest, | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
so I haven't agreed with the referee when he has stopped him | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
from moving back. I know you can't run away, but you certainly, he | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
certainly has been landing the better shot. Look at that. He is | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
moving away and then sneaks the shot there. The Kazakh was not | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
aware of that. It is very good boxing on the back foot from this | :29:22. | :29:31. | |
Irishman. Just about a minute remaining, can the Kazakh, he has | :29:31. | :29:39. | |
been outworked and outpunched and outthought by the Irishman, the man. | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
They will be devastated the Kazakhs because they really rate this fella. | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
I have seen him train and spar many times, this Kazakh, and he is very | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
good indeed. But, Ireland's Nevin here has his number. Less than a | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
minute. Oh. Lovely switch of direction by nevirpbgs just threw | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
out that right hand and flicked in a left. He has been frustrating | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
since about the start of the second round, he has been frustrating the | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
Kazakh all the way through. I think he was hurt with a shot there. | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
:30:25. | :30:39. | ||
There was no need to stand as long combinations off. Nevin got in with | :30:39. | :30:49. | |
:30:49. | :30:58. | ||
a good right hand. Abutalipov should have been able to step back | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
:31:08. | :31:16. | ||
but he hasn't done it. Just a few seconds to go. Nevin hanging on. | :31:16. | :31:23. | |
The referee said no to that one. An odd decision. | :31:23. | :31:31. | |
And look at that, he knows he has won it. That is a tremendous | :31:31. | :31:40. | |
performance from Nevin. Abutalipov would have been favourite to win | :31:40. | :31:50. | |
:31:50. | :31:52. | ||
this. He brought him on to the shops. He was caught at time of 2 | :31:52. | :32:01. | |
in that last round. But he has box like a veteran. He frustrated his | :32:01. | :32:10. | |
opponent, a tremendous display. The movement from the waist and was | :32:10. | :32:20. | |
:32:20. | :32:26. | ||
superb. There is that a sharp jab. Well here we go. The winner by a | :32:26. | :32:36. | |
:32:36. | :32:37. | ||
score of 15 points to 10 is the red corner, representing Ireland. | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
:32:47. | :32:50. | ||
John Joe Nevin There he has won it comfortably against a Bury good | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
comfortably against a Bury good opponent. -- very good. | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
What a fantastic performance. He only made it through to this stage | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
in Beijing before being knocked out. He is getting closer to a medal for | :33:08. | :33:15. | |
it Ireland. In just about half-an- hour we have the men's time trial. | :33:15. | :33:23. | |
But before that time for some canoe slalom. Richard Hounslow could have | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
been working at these Games as a security guard as part of the | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
British military. He had applied to join the armed forces but the last | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
change of mind saw him become a change of mind saw him become a | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
:33:50. | :34:02. | ||
He and David Florence will be riding in a the C2 final later in | :34:03. | :34:12. | |
:34:13. | :34:23. | ||
the week. He really has been coming on strong. His best run came on the | :34:23. | :34:31. | |
second run in the heats. That was good enough for 11th place. Now he | :34:31. | :34:41. | |
:34:41. | :34:41. | ||
is aiming to make the final for the first time. A little bit wide in | :34:41. | :34:51. | |
:34:51. | :34:54. | ||
the spin gate. He pushes the boat back out towards Gate 14. Richard | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
Hounslow being roared on by this massive crowd. He knows the course | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
quite well. He has not experienced this actual course before but he | :35:06. | :35:16. | |
:35:16. | :35:16. | ||
knows the way the water reactor. That was a mile -- a remarkable run | :35:16. | :35:24. | |
it earlier. He has to maintain his concentration. He has to pick up | :35:24. | :35:33. | |
the speed on this last section and give nothing away. | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
:35:43. | :35:44. | ||
Push hard all the way to the finish. The crowd is enough to push him all | :35:44. | :35:54. | |
:35:54. | :35:59. | ||
the way to the down in fourth place. It looks as if he was questioning | :35:59. | :36:09. | |
:36:09. | :36:13. | ||
something there. I am not quite sure I saw the two second penalty | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
sure I saw the two second penalty either. | :36:17. | :36:24. | |
Such a difficult looking sport. You could see the confusion on his face. | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
Not agreeing with what the judges saw. But that left him sitting in | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
10th position with two to go. Clinging on to a chance to make it | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
Clinging on to a chance to make it into the final. | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
There will be his own determination in the Spanish team to try to make | :36:44. | :36:54. | |
:36:54. | :36:58. | ||
amends and bring a muddle home. Hernanz's job now to make it | :36:58. | :37:08. | |
:37:08. | :37:14. | ||
through to the final. At the moment he is going well. No penalties so | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
far for at the Spaniard. He is looking lively but just dropped a | :37:19. | :37:28. | |
little bit on gate number nine. He wants to jump over at the little | :37:28. | :37:38. | |
:37:38. | :37:48. | ||
stopper on the way. He is back out into the flow. Just got down to 13. | :37:48. | :37:57. | |
He is looking stronger and technically very good at the moment. | :37:57. | :38:06. | |
This is a very good performance from the Spaniard. | :38:06. | :38:16. | |
:38:16. | :38:18. | ||
He just rides across and does not get stuck in the stopper. This is | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
bad news for British supporters because it will mean the | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
elimination of Richard Hounslow. He flies through the finish but lost | :38:28. | :38:34. | |
some time in the last couple of gates. | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
I wonder if he was just using it off a little so he can't really | :38:40. | :38:50. | |
:38:50. | :39:07. | ||
attack it in the final. -- he can. It was a well executed run. Kept | :39:07. | :39:14. | |
himself as tight to the poles as he could. Just making sure it kept | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
running, not taking too big a hit. We should Hounslow will feel | :39:21. | :39:31. | |
:39:31. | :39:54. | ||
disappointment I am sure. -- the third round. What will the | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
different Configuration mean this time to the German? | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
So far, so good. He is putting in at a strong | :40:07. | :40:17. | |
:40:17. | :40:26. | ||
performance. A little bit of lost time there are around 89. | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
:40:36. | :40:44. | ||
-- gate nine. Aigner's concentration is A1 at the moment. | :40:44. | :40:54. | |
:40:54. | :40:58. | ||
He is totally alert. This is a similar situation to the he the | :40:58. | :41:05. | |
other day. A modest start but blasting the rest of the course. | :41:05. | :41:14. | |
Does he want to finish as number one? This is a superb performance | :41:14. | :41:24. | |
:41:24. | :41:29. | ||
from the German. He will be outside the time set by Kauzer. You have to | :41:29. | :41:39. | |
:41:39. | :41:46. | ||
question his commitment in the last question his commitment in the last | :41:46. | :41:55. | |
four or five gates. Richard, you did not make it. Just | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
sum up how you're feeling? Very disappointed. I did not even | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
realise I had hit the gate but even without that her loyalty I would | :42:06. | :42:14. | |
not have got through. It feels like an opportunity missed. I have not | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
put down at the performance that I know I can. Looking back at the | :42:18. | :42:28. | |
:42:28. | :42:29. | ||
results, it was not difficult to make the finals. I am just gutted. | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
Genuinely heartbreaking to have to speak to you in the circumstances. | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
It was the same width David Florence yesterday. Any sense of | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
the pressure of the home crowd, it has been a pressure cooker and | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
perhaps too much? It is difficult to say. It is hard to put your | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
finger on it. The nature of the sport is unpredictable. The top | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
guys put it in time and time again. When you are on the start blocks | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
and you hear the crowd cheering it is pretty intense. But I was | :43:06. | :43:16. | |
:43:16. | :43:23. | ||
enjoying it. Making the finals, it was there for me but anything can | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
happen at once you reach the finals. You have the chance to redeem | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
yourself tomorrow. Definitely. You do not want to be relying on | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
another category. This whole doubling up thing that day that and | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
I do, it is great that if you do not do well in once you can do well | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
in the other but still it is hard to come away from the competition | :43:52. | :44:01. | |
feeling fully satisfied. It is something that very few people have | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
done. David and I have put everything into it in the past four | :44:05. | :44:15. | |
:44:15. | :44:18. | ||
years. Like you say, we still have the C2. Jonathan Edwards is still | :44:18. | :44:26. | |
there. I would not like to say you are a bad luck charm! It has been | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
horrible. As said it today that yesterday and to Richard today, | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
this is where they have trained and to see their hopes and dreams | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
shattered in front of their eyes and then to speak to them and see | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
that look in their eyes of just how disappointed they are, without any | :44:45. | :44:51. | |
answers to where it went wrong, it has been horrible. So where has it | :44:51. | :44:59. | |
gone wrong? Was that the pressure from the crowd? The whole home | :45:00. | :45:09. | |
advantage for home disadvantage is an interesting debate. It is | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
interesting that the venues where you would expect to have a home | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
advantage, here at the Lee Valley and white water centre and also | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
down in Weymouth where Ben Ainslie is struggling, you would think it | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
would give the British competitors an advantage but it seems to have | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
almost gone the other way. I think it is that expectation. And that | :45:29. | :45:37. | |
whole other dynamic of funding. Everything that has gone in to make | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
these Attlee's success what may also play on their mind. -- | :45:41. | :45:50. | |
Training these guys and guilting this place worthy for a World | :45:50. | :45:55. | |
Championship, which is what it will hope host, and I guess that does | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
play on their minds? It must. The important thing to mention about | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
the money spent here, I think �13 million is it will be a legacy | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
venue and regardless, I guess or not of the success of the paddlers | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
here, this will continue and do very very well indeed. Nonetheless, | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
this idea of creating a kind of participation legacy from the game, | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
this will sit heavily on the shoulders of the pad lefrs, | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
obviously their funding for the following year, going to Rio, rests | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
on the performances here, so there is lots of different factors, it is | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
not just the hopes and dreams of individual involved. Having spoke | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
to David and Richard, are you confident that tomorrow n the C2 | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
you won't make it a hat-trick of negative interviews? I wouldn't say | :46:41. | :46:46. | |
I was hugely confident. I don't think either of them have responded | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
brilliantly to the pressure. On a positive note Lizzie Neave | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
qualified second a couple of days ago, and I think the opposite thing | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
happened for her, I think she, she improved her performance level. She | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
rose to the occasion, so high hopes for her. Fingers crossed for her | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
and the men. Thank you for joining us and if you would like to | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
continue seeing the final in the men's K1 you can see that on the | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
red button. That goes about 3.05. There is plenty of sport happening | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
today. On BBC Three right now you can see live table tennis. China so | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
dominant in this sport, over the years. You can press the red button | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
for different sporting venues, and sports as well. Last night wasn't | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
it fantastic. Great Britain's women up against Brazil. Brazil of course | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
have never won a gold at the Olympic Games. Here they are taking | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
on New Zealand. They the are at St James's Park at the moment. You can | :47:40. | :47:47. | |
press the red button, and at Wembley it has been difficult, for | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
the badminton, plenty of disqualifications after that | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
controversy. A difficult 24-hours for the sport, all four pairs | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
disqal past couple of hours who were involved in the controversial | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
attempt to lose the match yesterday. You can see China and Korea taking | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
each other on. One all and four all so it is looking exciting. At the | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
start of the show we saw them cross the line but in is just how | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
dominant a display the British women delivered earlier in the | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
:48:24. | :48:25. | ||
women's pair. The commentary comes a remarkable story is now under way. | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
Seven minutes away from Olympic history. We have Great Britain's | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
Helen Glover, Stan in lane three, alongside them -- Heather Stanning, | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
Australia, Kate Hornsey. They are in five. Already now, Great Britain | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
have jumped out of the starting gate, Romania in one, Romania are | :48:45. | :48:52. | |
the defending Olympic champions, we have five time Olympic champion in | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
the bow seat. Great Britain, they mean business. It is game on. | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
Germans have gone out fast as well. Closest to us in lane six. They | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
have the early lead but I don't expect them to hold that. Look out, | :49:05. | :49:10. | |
they are already stretching out, Great Britain, looking fine. They | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
have settling into a rhythm. Middle of the race rhythm. Quick look | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
across there and already they have moved out in front. They have the | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
Olympic, twice Olympic champions from Romania up in lane one, who | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
are now back in fourth place. But Great Britain doing what they have | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
done for the last two years, just looking fantastic, what they have | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
done, look at that, already a length. What they do so well and | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
what they have learned in the last winter was to be flexible. To be | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
able to respond to the attack that comes at the end and which caught | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
them out last year at the World Championships, when New Zealand | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
attacked them at the end. But in is fantastic. Look at them. -- but | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
this is fantastic. An exceptional start from Helen Glover and Heather | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
Stanning. Helen Glover from Minerva Bath rowing club. They are storming | :49:59. | :50:07. | |
away in the first quarter, it is absolutely wonderful to see. So 500, | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
the crowd down here have gone mad. They are now clear, there is clear | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
water on Great Britain as they head towards the record book, but right | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
now they will be, that will all be irrelevant to them. It is about | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
dictating and executing their plan. We thought it was important to show | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
you the way that the women started their race, incredibly dominant. | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
And the pattern continued. A length clear by 500 metres but being | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
chased by Australia and New Zealand. However the pace from the British | :50:38. | :50:46. | |
woman was relentless. Being spurred on by the crowd. Heather and Helen | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
entered the final 250 metre, the Grandstand erupted. At one point it | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
looked like they were trying to muster a smile, as was predictable | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
by this point, the gold was theirs. Look at the emotion. Let us flare | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
the first gold medallists after they finally recovered, and managed | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
they finally recovered, and managed to get out of the boat.. Helen, | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
Heather, well done. Thank you. Fantastic performance. You know... | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
I don't need to ask you any questions. Tell us, tell us what is | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
happening in that body of yours at the moment? I don't know. It wants | :51:23. | :51:29. | |
to go into shut down but it can't. It is too excited. I am shattered | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
and ecstatic at the same time. I want to collapse but I am so | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
overjoyed. I want to jump round. I don't know. Probably talking | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
rubbish. Matthew and Steve are watching on the screen, and you | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
smiled, with 250 to go. They were saying "Don't smile, you haven't | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
won it yet.". That is probably a grimace. I remember thinking never | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
think we have got this. Then we got through the orange buoys and I | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
thought we have got this. A serious rowing question to start with, you | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
decided if we get out early nobody is going to catch us, that is what | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
you did. Yes we could see from the race we have done this season, we | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
got ahead and pushed on the margin and that is what we wanted to do. | :52:12. | :52:17. | |
We didn't want to give anything back. We wanted to keep the same | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
margin in all the World Cup up to now. Had Helen keep going in my ear, | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
she was going go on, give us more. I can see them, they are behind us. | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
We have a message from you from some of your colleagues from | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
Afghanistan. If you put the head phones on. Here is what they have | :52:34. | :52:44. | |
:52:44. | :52:50. | ||
Brilliant. Brief and to the point. What is your message to them? | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
Thanks very much guys, for all the support. I know you a long way away, | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
but you have been supporting me and it means so much. I am proud to be | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
associated with you, and well done keep doing what you are doing and I | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
will see you soon. Four years ago you watched the agents in Beijing, | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
you could never imagine four years on you would be in this position, | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
who knows how many people are watching you who have never rowed | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
and thinking that could be me in Rio. If I can do it take the chance, | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
not just in rowing, if you work hard and try your best, anyone can | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
do anything. Enjoy the anthem. will do. Congratulations to our | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
first gold medallist in rowing and our first medallists here at London | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
2012. Wasn't that wonderfulful what you didn't hear but a lovely | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
message from her colleagues who are working away in the armed forces, | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
she has take an career break to purr pursue her rogue, she is now | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
an Olympic gold medallist, wasn't it lovely seeing Helen's reaction, | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
he kept rile -- realising that she really was an Olympic champion. | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
Remarkable reactions, then you heard John say enjoy the National | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
Anthem and they did get the chance to pick up their medals. Please | :54:05. | :54:14. | |
:54:15. | :54:31. | ||
stand for the National Anthem of NATIONAL AB THEM OF GREAT BRITAIN - | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
:54:41. | :54:54. | ||
30,000 people here at Dorronsoro joining in with the National Anthem. | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
As the whole country is on its feet. Eton dorn you we salute you Helen | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
Glover and Heather Stanning, Olympic champions here at Eton | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
Dorney. And yes, the tears continued to flow. How wonderful to | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
see that flag. How great to hear that anthem. This is what it means | :55:14. | :55:23. | |
:55:24. | :55:26. | ||
for the medal table. China and the It puts us 14th at the moment. | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
There you go. The moment it happened. The medals going round | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
the neck, the smiles on the faces and I wouldn't be surprised if the | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
tears continue to flow. There are a few celebrations down at Eton | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
Dorney for the next little while. Now, to the moment that we have | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
been waiting for this afternoon. A chance for Bradley Wiggins to | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
achieve more than just an Olympic medal. Success would see him not | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
only top off the greatest sporting year of his life he would become | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
Great Britain's most decorated athlete.. Excuse me I will speak in | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
English for a bit. We are just going to draw the raffle numbers | :56:05. | :56:12. | |
now! I didn't even have a drink inside me with when I did that. | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
is so formal that stuff, you have the President of France with me. It | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
wasn't about that, really, that is why I turned to the fan, all those | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
people had come and it is about them. They are the ones that | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
support you. I would love to have bought them all a drink. It was | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
brilliant. That is what it is about. So, yeah, maybe as disrespectful as | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
it was to the sponsors and all the prawn sandwiches in front of me, I | :56:39. | :56:47. | |
felt it was much more appropriate to give time to them. Country has | :56:47. | :56:54. | |
gone Wigtastic, people are sporting sideburns, mod T-shirt, riding | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
Vespas. It is good it has that effect. A bit strange for me, but, | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
you know, I do it to be individual, and so, but it is good. The biggest | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
name in cycling, you are the winner of the Tour de France? Am I | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
officially bigger than Cav now? I haven't done a Head and Shoulders | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
ad though. Just the scale of the win, and the reaction in this | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
country, do you pinch yourself? was a bit overwhelming. I was used | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
to seeing that happen to Open other people, Chris, Chris Hoy, when he | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
came back from Beijing. I don't think any of us appreciate what | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
cycling is going through at the moment. You so concentrate on | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
performance, we are down-to-earth by the nature of the sport. We | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
don't fully appreciate what it is doing for the profile of the sport. | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
To win the Tour de France takes an incredible effort. What sacrifices | :57:50. | :57:56. | |
do you have to make to get where you are? A lot. I mean, apart from | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
the training, physical side that everyone does, six tweefbs year I | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
have to live on a mountain in Tenerife, miss children's birthday, | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
kids break up for the Easter holidays and you are leaving that | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
day and they don't know where you are for two week, sleep in the | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
spare bedroom in a tent for weeks on end. Having a family and being a | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
father and husband, and all that isn't conducive to trying to win | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
the Tour de France. The two just don't go together, but, you know, | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
if you have a supportive family like I have you can do. I don't | :58:31. | :58:39. | |
know how long I can do it for. I couldn't do six like Lance did. | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
This is your fourth Olympic, you have won six medals. You are | :58:44. | :58:50. | |
steeped in Olympic history, what do they mean "no" you? It is like | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
something you come back to, you don't miss them, so to come back | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
here, same people, same staff, you know and it is good that, every | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
four years I get a bit older and more successful, so from this 19- | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
year-old lad in Sydney, right through, you haven't changed a bit. | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
I am looking forward to going out there and trying to win my fourth | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
gold in the time trials, so it is going to be amazing. Someone | :59:18. | :59:21. | |
mentioned to me the other day, which I didn't give a thought to, I | :59:21. | :59:26. | |
am unbeaten in time trials this year, soy thought, well, I never | :59:26. | :59:32. | |
give it a thought, you know, so that is quite nice statistic to | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
have going into the Olympic time trial. Each one brings the best | :59:36. | :59:42. | |
adds you have to be at your best, I think I'm at the best at the moment. | :59:42. | :59:47. | |
Well I just won the Tour so I must be. Have a safe journey home and | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
don't get too drunk. He might do that tonight if he manages to pick | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
up the gold today. What a year, today is his big moment in the | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
Olympic game, come on Britain. A. Not the only one that should be | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
wearing these, my only piece of advice, don't use super glue. He | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
was thank to the team's evident to achieve his dreams and win that | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
yellow jersey three weeks' ago, despite his own best efforts as | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
part of the team he waipblz to launch Mark Cavendish to gold. | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
:00:28. | :00:36. | ||
Today the man with the sideburn, it It is across this the 44 kilometre | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
course that Bradley Wiggins will look to push him self quicker than | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
anyone else. It starts off at Hampton Court and looks back | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
towards Kingston. It is fast, flat and Bradley Wiggins is unbeaten in | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
this discipline in the past year. He has demolished all challengers. | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
Chris Froome is less suited to this course. But he is still in with the | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
chance of a muddle. Fabien Cancellara of Switzerland and Tony | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
Martin of Germany the other chances of medal places. But they are both | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
carrying injuries. Bradley Wiggins, the man with the sideburns, have | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
now it is his chance to manage to secure a gold medal on that course. | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
Over to Hampton Court Palace for Over to Hampton Court Palace for | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
Bradley Wiggins's big moment. Edvald Boason-Hagen of Norway | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
:02:07. | :02:07. | ||
stance. And still all the big favourites to come. From the early | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
:02:17. | :02:22. | ||
starters, the fastest time is the Brazilian rider. In fact that has | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
:02:32. | :02:52. | ||
just been beaten by the Japanese Norwegian now, Edvald Boason-Hagen. | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
:03:02. | :03:10. | ||
Such a talented rider. He supported Bradley Wiggins this year in the | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
:03:20. | :03:45. | ||
rider from Lithuania. The quickest time we have had at the first stage | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
:03:55. | :04:20. | ||
Jack Bauer, who may just have settled down after that near miss | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
:04:30. | :04:37. | ||
with the fence! This is Denis Menchov. He has always been there | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
for at thereabouts. He slowly slipped backwards this year at the | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
:04:54. | :04:54. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 95 seconds | :04:54. | :06:30. | |
year, finishing second overall in the Paris to Nice. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
That is the face of a man who is here to suffer. Very focused on the | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
:06:46. | :06:57. | ||
into a southerly direction. Most of this course is well sheltered and | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
should not cause too much of a problem for them. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
The bend in the first 300 metres of the race is probably the most | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
:07:22. | :07:30. | ||
difficult. A good start by the Dane, going to | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
:07:40. | :08:09. | ||
the top of the leader board. all-rounders. There is a lot of | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
road there and I'm surprised that they are not using it all. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
The conditions now are improving. There is a winter getting a but it | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
:08:32. | :08:34. | ||
is a warm and the sun is out. Chris Froome just warming up. He was | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
recently second in the Tour de France. And had a very good time | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
:08:51. | :08:51. | ||
trial as well. Gustave Larsson had been one of these strange helmets. | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
He got the silver medal in the time-trials in Beijing. So he is | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
:09:08. | :09:08. | ||
very good against the clock. I'm struggling to see what the | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
:09:18. | :09:57. | ||
bridge through that corridor of faces. He has been a bit quiet. He | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
had a superb performance in China but not much sense. | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
:10:15. | :10:23. | ||
He won the national championships. And a stage back in Paris-Nice. | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
:10:33. | :10:33. | ||
Michael Rogers, a really good time trial there. 32 years of age. From | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
:10:43. | :10:51. | ||
Australia. He completed the Tour de France in the 23rd place. He was a | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
time-trial specialist but then he started to climb mountains. He has | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
got fantastic form. He has been very much in support of his team | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
for the past month so it will be interesting to see what he can do | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
now he is off the leash in a discipline that he knows well. He | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
is in great shape but just has not had a chance yet of this year to | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
:11:28. | :11:36. | ||
use it for himself. He is one of several racing brothers. This is | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
going to be his last Olympic Games so he will be keen to make the most | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
of that opportunity. He is the youngest of three brothers. His | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
older brother represented the Australia many times as well. So he | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
:12:02. | :12:14. | ||
would like to go out on a high is possible. Bak has still posted the | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
:12:24. | :12:40. | ||
quickest time. Grabsch, 37 years of age. Second in their national | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
:12:50. | :13:04. | ||
Championship this year. No mean as quickly as you can on a normal | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
road bike. He is an experienced man in his discipline. He knows there | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
:13:20. | :13:21. | ||
is 50 minutes of racing ahead. Energy is expensive. | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
:13:31. | :13:34. | ||
Eight more competitors to take the start. Sylvain Chavanel is the next | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
:13:44. | :13:52. | ||
of those. Sylvain Chavanel posted some | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
fantastic time trials this year. Third in the opening prologue of | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
the Tour de France. 5th in the final time-trial. So you would | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
expect to see him in the top eight or the top five today. But he is | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
:14:23. | :14:38. | ||
against some serious specialists. Brajkovic coming up now. He goes | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
:14:48. | :15:00. | ||
ahead, slicing 2.56 seconds off from Great Britain. We first saw | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
:15:10. | :15:11. | ||
him riding in the Commonwealth Games in Australia. He is a good | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
:15:21. | :15:26. | ||
rider. Second last year in the Tour of Spain. I think he could win the | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
:15:36. | :15:41. | ||
the professional teams in cycling can be signed for the first time | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
today. So well -- there will be lots coming out on the news wires | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
:15:57. | :16:01. | ||
tonight. His form is such that you cannot discount him. Here's the man, | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
the man of the moment, Bradley Wiggins, the winner of the Tour de | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
France, in the form of his life. He is poised to move into sporting | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
immortality. If he wins a medal today, no matter what colour, he | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
will have got more medals in the Olympic Games than at any other | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
British competitor. But that will not be on his mind, it will be all | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
about trying to win. We had a glimpse of the sports scientist who | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
:16:43. | :16:44. | ||
has been instrumental with Team Sky and the success of Brad Wiggins. | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
Next to go, the national champion of Italy. He used to be on the same | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
:17:04. | :17:17. | ||
end of the contest. Five more to go after this. He beat Geraint Thomas | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
:17:27. | :17:28. | ||
into second place in the Shearer did earlier this year. -- Giro | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
:17:38. | :17:49. | ||
d'Italia. He will be happy with that time. Great ride by Gilbert. | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
:17:59. | :17:59. | ||
Same time as Brajkovic. Now, a man in form, Sanchez, from Spain. He | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
won a stage in the Tour de France, stage 14, and he got third in the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
final Time Trial in the Tour the France. I feel he has a possibility | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
of a podium position. Yes, I think so, and so does he. Oh, he has had | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
a problem, something has broken! He is looking down. He has just broken | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
his chain! Can he get another bike? They are getting it off the roof. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
But starting your day by losing what will be 25 seconds. He has | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
hurt his knee as well. He will get a lot of support from the crowd, | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
but doing that at the start, for somebody who's potentially going to | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
get a medal, what a devastating start. I reckon he lost between 20 | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
and 25 seconds, not to mention the effect on his morale. Well, | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
desperately bad luck for Sanchez. You cannot believe it, can you? | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
caught the team out as well, you do not expect mechanical failure | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
within the first two metres of the race. We will keep an eye on that, | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
see whether he is within 30 seconds of a muddle. Here's a man who we | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
have been talking about as a possible dark horse today, 22-year- | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
old Taylor Phinney. He is so talented. He rode on the track | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
actually in Beijing. He earned prologue in Italy, but he has not | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
raced since. He went back to Colorado to put the final | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
preparations to his fall. He is a former world Time Trial champion. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
It comes from a great pedigree. His mother was the Olympic gold medal- | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
winner in Los Angeles on the road. His father also has a great | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
pedigree. He could be a dark horse. Yes, he has been out of sight for | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
quite a few months, since Italy. We have not got much information about | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
him since then, but we do know that he has been preparing specifically | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
for this. He likes the flatter courses, as this man does not, | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Chris Froome. He would much prefer the mountains. But his form is such | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
at the moment that he may be able to overcome that problem. He has | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
:20:46. | :20:46. | ||
got one of the asymmetric bar chain rings, favoured by Bradley Wiggins. | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
Now, the world champion, Tony Martin. A 27-year-old German. He | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
had a crash on the first stage of the Tour de France, which | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
:21:08. | :21:09. | ||
eventually forced him to retire. He will be wearing a brace on his arm | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
:21:20. | :21:22. | ||
under his top there. You can never discount this talented German. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: Having those problems in the Tour de France, and | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
earlier in the year as well, we have got to put him down as unknown. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
The pedigree is there, the background is there, but we do not | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
know what to expect. He certainly looks in good shape to me. In the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Time Trial, if you have a wrist injury, most of your weight is | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
taken on the elbow, so you can train quite effectively for this, | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
and some riders have even done so with a broken collarbone, as | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
demonstrated by Armstrong just a few hours ago. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
HUGH PORTER: now, we are waiting for Bradley Wiggins, the man of the | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
moment, to come into the starting house. Here comes Castroviejo, from | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
:22:19. | :22:24. | ||
Spain. His time at that point makes him the quickest, he has gone 20 | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
seconds faster than Brajkovic. Now, then, a face of concentration, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Bradley Wiggins, the man who has just won the Tour de France. He is | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
teeing himself up for a tilt at the gold medal here. As I said earlier, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
if he wins a medal of any colour, he will become the most decorated | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
British Olympian of all time, with seven medals to his credit. Wiggins | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
gets under way! Unbeaten in the Time Trial this year, that's not | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
counting prologues, the short ones. But Bradley Wiggins is on his way. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
What an opportunity for him. London at heart, although he lives in the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
north-west now. But he considers this to be a once-in-a-lifetime | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
opportunity. There is plenty of pressure for him to perform, both | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
for himself, and for the thousands and thousands of people lining the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
route today. But if anybody can deal with pressure, it is Brad | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Wiggins. He certainly can. Second in the World Championships last | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
:23:35. | :23:48. | ||
Chris Froome is settling down to the challenge ahead. It is a great | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
course for those that can concentrate. It is a very internal | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
race. We saw him just going through the checkpoint. I think I saw it | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
flashing up as five seconds ahead. One man to go, and here he is, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
Fabien Cancellara, the defending champion. He is a sensational time- | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
trialler. He won the Olympic title in Beijing, beating Larsson by 33 | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
seconds. There was some speculation about him not riding today. He has | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
got heavy bruising on his shoulder having come off during the road | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
race a few days ago. We will see whether it has affected him. But on | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
his day, almost unbeatable. It is a fantastic course for him as well. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
He likes a flat course. No problem for him at all. It was very much | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
out of character, that crash at the weekend, he simply miscalculated | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the corner, locked up his wheels, and went down hard into that | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
barrier. But just like Tony Martin, he is an unknown today. You would | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
say he would be one of the two favourites, but very much unknown, | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
after that crash. Personally, I think if he is here, he will be one | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
of the main contenders. He would not have started if he was not | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
confident he could do it. There is Brad Wiggins, the man who has won | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
three gold medals in a Olympic Games on the track. Two British | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
riders who really performed magnificently in the recent Tour de | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
France, finishing first and second in the end. Chris Froome, looking | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
good, holding that nice, compact style. This is Tony Martin. It is | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
all about these final six competitors. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: These first checkpoints are going to be | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
fascinating to see. Some of them might have gone off too quickly, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
especially the early riders, but these latter riders are all much | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
more experienced. The first split will give us a very good idea of | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
:26:09. | :26:09. | ||
who will be in contention for a medal. As we come back to Chris | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
Froome, originally from Kenya, now, of course, part of the British set- | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
up. It will be interesting to see whether he does consider a transfer | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
between teams in the professional game, with that deadline for | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
transfers being today, as we were saying. Coming up to the checkpoint | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
here, Boasson Hagen, and he is 17 seconds shy of the time of the | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
leader, Castroviejo. It is Chris Froome who leads at the first split, | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
actually. He is six seconds ahead of Larsson at the moment. But now, | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
we will start to get the times of Sanchez and Phinney, those will be | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
the next interesting ones. We can just keep a look out here for the | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
late starters, at the 7.3 kilometres point. We are very keen | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
to see how evenly matched people like the man we are looking at now, | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
Cancellara, Wiggins and Martin are. The early splits will I feel give | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
:27:24. | :27:34. | ||
us an idea of the kind of ride after a week, but he pulled out | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
because his wife gave birth to their second daughter. As the next | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
finisher comes in, Lahsaini, from Morocco. He is one of the early | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
starters, but that time of course is going to crumble. That's the | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
:28:04. | :28:06. | ||
first rider in. So, Castroviejo has caught Hesjedal. That is a surprise. | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
I thought Hesjedal would perform better than that at this Olympic | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
Time Trial. Look at the crouching style of the Spaniard, really low | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
:28:26. | :28:33. | ||
down, turning a very big gear as he waiting for his time split. Let me | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
just tell you, Taylor Phinney has gone through one second faster than | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
Chris Froome at 7.3 kilometres. So, the man we said could be a dark | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
horse, Phinney, has not disappointed at this early stage. | :28:49. | :28:57. | |
He is the fastest at 7.3 kilometres. That's a good ride by the man from | :28:57. | :29:06. | |
Venezuela, coming in now. I think the winning time might be inside | :29:06. | :29:15. | |
the 50 three-minute mark today. We're still looking at Chris Froome, | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
but of course, behind him, we have got Sanchez. Sanchez will be out of | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
it, because he had that disastrous start with the broken chain. We're | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
waiting for the times now of Martin, Wiggins and Cancellara. Look at the | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
crowd. What a fantastic experience to have, to ride on British roads | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
with that many Union Jacks flying in front of you. It is quite | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
fantastic. Time coming in for Tony Martin, the world champion, he has | :29:49. | :29:57. | |
gone through 7.3 kilometres in 8.22, nine seconds faster than Phinney. | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
And we have got Wiggins and Cancellara still to go through that | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
first split. Martin, the world champion, my goodness me, he looks | :30:07. | :30:17. | |
:30:17. | :30:17. | ||
good. It was a puncture in the opening prologue which stopped him | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
contesting back, but apart from that, he was on a par with Fabian | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
Cancellara. Martin is a prodigious talent, we saw that when he won the | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
world title in Copenhagen last year. He came home with a brilliant | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
victory, one minute 15 seconds faster than Wiggins. But he has had | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
his problems, as I said, breaking that bone in the wrist, but for the | :30:44. | :30:54. | |
:30:54. | :31:05. | ||
moment, for me, he is looking very and Cancellara. The latest time by | :31:05. | :31:12. | |
the Venezuelan. Confirmed for you. No, it was 57.41. As go back to | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
:31:22. | :31:23. | ||
Froome. Such a fantastic climber is Chris Froome, and future Tour de | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
France winner, we think. Sweeping down here, Western Green Road. The | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
smooth surface, he is happy with that. It has come through Bradley | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
Wiggins at the 7.3 kilometre split as gone through five secondss off | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
the pace of Tony Martin, so five seconds shy of the World Champions | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
time. Only one more rider to come through that and that of course is | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
Fabian Cancellara, it is early days they are early indication. I think | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Bradley Wiggins is going to be OK with that, he is very much in touch | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
at seven kilometre, everybody is panning out the starting style. | :32:02. | :32:08. | |
Depend whether they are starting to come out carefully and pace it over | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
the distance, Wiggins has start ed too fast in Spain, he paid the | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
price, he learned you have to be careful at the start, so we will | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
get a better indication when they get to the 18 kilometre mark. | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
are waiting for Cancellara's split time. So, this is Bradley Wiggins, | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
nice compact style, a man of course, that can ride 4.15 for 4,000 metres | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
in the individual pursuit. He was a member of that well drill yued nit | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
that clinched the medal in Beijing, don't go too far over Bradley! We | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
almost saw the American crash there. He is not taking any chances there | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
at all. There is something of an ungainly style, a bit, well just a | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
slight frame, struggles to get all the power down on to the road. As | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
we switch back to Bradley Wiggins, doesn't look in any kind of | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
difficulty at the moment, that smooth style, karktris -- | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
characteristic of Bradley Wiggins. Confirm the time at the first split | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
of Cancellara, it is eight minutes 28 seconds which is one second | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
slower than Wiggins but six seconds slower than Tony Martin of Germany. | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
So the three big players are already dualling out there on the | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
road and Phinney in touch on 8.31 and Froome is there on 8.32. As our | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
next fin esh -- fin Iisher Beppu, an average speed of 47.4. We can | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
see that creep up towards possibly surface the 50 kilometres an hour | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
mark before we get to the end of this event. Look at Wiggins, he | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
will be wear of what is going on throughout with his main opponent | :33:53. | :33:59. | |
and the Tour de France winner really has enjoy add euphoric | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
greeting into the start area. But those times in that first split, | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
7.3 kilometres, very interesting. What a compact punchy style here of | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
Castroviejo of Spain. He is having a great ride. As he takes a drink, | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
he really has started the race incredibly fast. As we go back to | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
Michael Rogers here, as he approached the checkpoint. We were | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
unsure of what he was going to do, well, it is certainly respectable. | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
At best here he will post the fastest time by far. He is going to | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
go quicker than Castroviejo. So, the triple World Champion Rogers, | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
faithful servant to Wiggins in the Tour de France, she going to go to | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
the top of the leaderboard. Lots more big names still to come. But | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
Rogers still looking good. Let us look at the split. It is 24.02. | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
Takes 18 seconds off the time of Castroviejo. Technical first | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
section is be lying of the average speeds. Very fast run in today. | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
lean is Bradley Wiggins. He has lost a lot of weight which has | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
enabled him to be able to climb the mountains well, and he has had | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
bootcamps over there on the vom can nick mountain in Tenerife where he | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
has been doing has training, continually powering away up that | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
steep mountain. You get fairly lean in the month of July when you are | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
using up thousands of calories. There is an aerodynamic component | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
because your sill weth is reduced by a few millimetres all the way | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
round, not to mention the weight as well, which is beneficial. Hampton | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
Court roadway now. The next split time will be interesting. The next | :35:49. | :35:56. | |
is Grabsch, a former World Champion, as the next finish coming in, this | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
is Basayev. He is a minute slow of the leader at this stage, which is | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
still Beppu, the Japanese rider, so Beppu still leading. It looks like | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
the people who came in are the favourites, are delivering. That | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
cans lar, Wiggins, Martin the people we thought would be in play. | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
Here comes Grabsch, the 37-year-old German. 24.09 so the time of | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
Michael Rogers is out of reach here. Let us see how far shy he is of the | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
Australian at this point. There it s14 seconds fob Grabsch. Second at | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
this point then. For the former World Champion from Germany. So | :36:40. | :36:48. | |
Beppu still leading, 55.40. And second at 55.50 is Nazaret from | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
Brazil. Third from Kazakhstan, his time will be, how long will it be | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
up there, we will have to see. That is Basayev. This is Cancellara, he | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
is rolling on that saddle. For wand on the peak as we confirm the | :37:03. | :37:09. | |
position after 7.3 kilometres. Tight. Just under five seconds. | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
Wiggins trails with Cancellara third, just under six. What a | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
contest we have got here. It is going to go all the way, this one. | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
Five seconds, everybody is still in touch. Taylor Phinney nine second, | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
it is stretching out, a lot to give away on a flat course but still | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
possible for him to nudge on the the podium from that distance away, | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
from the top three. After that, well, I don't think they are going | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
to be able to make up that distance unless somebody has an issue as we | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
switch back to Michael Rogers. Looking good, isn't he, Michael | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
Rogers, as I said earlier, came from a track background, and one | :37:48. | :37:56. | |
medals at the Commonwealth games in 1998, but he was a member as well | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
of the well drilled team pursuit squad of Australia. He has got some | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
superb road wins to his credit, he won the tour of California, tour of | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
Germany, he has been right up there, superb man to have has a domestic | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
in the team. I think he has enjoyed the lesser responsibility, as we | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
get our first shot coming up to the necks check with Froome. The man | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
that started ahead of him, Chavanel was the man who started a minute- | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
and-a-half ahead of Froome. Let us look at the split. Very very quick. | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
It is going to go inside the time of Rogers. You can see the time | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
confirmed. Here comes Froome. Let us have a look. He is on form, | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
isn't he, this man. The runner up in the Tour de France, Chris Froome | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
looking very very good indeed. Softly spoken, it be lies his | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
athletic delivery on that bike. Is he going to be half a minute | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
quicker? He is not going to be far off it. Here he comes, 24 seconds | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
faster than Rogers. At the second point of 18 com ters. He is on a | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
ride. That is a huge chunk of time so we can expect the main riders to | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
come through, perhaps another kilometre an hour faster than that | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
as we see the style of Froome, coming round this corner, he | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
settled into this race now. This is the interesting checkpoint for me | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
this is the one we are interest interested in. The first one you | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
need to stay in touch but the 18 kilometre mark will define who it | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
is who is vying for a podium place. Young Phinney, even if he doesn't | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
medal today, he has a tremendous future ahead of him, has Phinney, | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
and he looks good on the bike. has his work to do here, nine | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
seconds down at that first check, it is quite a chunk on this flat | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
course but he is only a couple of seconds away from getting on to the | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
podium. Well, that is an interesting thing, I didn't think | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
there was any descent on this course that warranted tucking down | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
to make himself as small as possible. Is this Sanchez again? | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
Looks like he has had more trouble? We were talking about him as being | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
a possible contender. Yes, there he is delayed and stopped again. He | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
has had a puncture. Is it a back wheel change It's a rear wheel | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
change. I think the day over for him. What turbl luck. He has come | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
with great form after that Tour de France. That is a disaster. It must | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
be hard to keep the motorration to keep going. We had him flagged up a | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
as medal contender and he would have been had he not had these | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
problems. Pinotti, another brilliant season time trialler, but | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
his time of 23.55 is not going to put Froome under any pressure at | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
all here comes Pinotti. That underlines the quality of the ride | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
by Froome. 26 seconds slower Chris, in 18 kilometre, you can analyse | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
from that, that Froome is on a flyer. Well, he is certainly | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
setting the the mark, isn't he. Taylor Phinney, we are waiting to | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
see what he is going to do, Because he will be next. He has prepared | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
for this vent for the past few months. We haven't seen anything of | :41:16. | :41:23. | |
him in competition, it has been all about this Olympic time trial. | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
did all that preparation as we come back now to Bradley Wiggins. Such | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
an official style. I doesn't look like he is trying hard. His muscles | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
are contracting in equality. There is no movement in his back pocket | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
he was carrying a radio, so he is getting time checks all the way | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
round. The British team has set up time checks on route. Even though | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
he is in front of Cancellara his time checks won't be any more than | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
that minute-and-a-half difference. You see how cautiously he went | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
round that turn, Cancellara playing on his mind, the crash from the | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
road race, as we look at the running time here of Bak of Denmark. | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
Who is going to be the next to finish. The leading time, sorry Bak, | :42:11. | :42:18. | |
you can see the leading time. This is Boom coming in and Boom's time, | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
56.53 so it hasn't disturbed the leading poss, they are still intact. | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
-- positions we are waiting to see whether yun Phinney can challenge | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
for the top position at the 18 kilometre point. -- young Phinney. | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
Well, it is all about that check, and for me, as I pensioned, it does | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
define who is going to be challenging for a medal. Two or | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
three minutes from now we will see Tony Martin coming through that | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
checkpoint. He clearly is, you can see by the muscle definition, it | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
all ind case he is on form, he has got over the cashes and focused on | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
this opportunity, this Olympic time trial and on a course that suits | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
him very well. Martin motoring along as we get back to Phinney, | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
who is just ploughing this furrow down the middle of the road. He has | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
his own private carpet of Tarmac ahead of him. The open clear road. | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
It's the race of truth. That call it that in France. It is you versus | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
the distance, the one-and-a-half minute window between yourself and | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
your opponents, so you can be cheated or knocked off or | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
outsprinted. Here comes Phinney, up to the 18.4 kilometre point. Now | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
the quickest time we have had so far there, is Froome on 23.38, | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
shown on the screen. And he is not going the beat Froome. So fin qi | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
knows he is in a battle -- Phinney knows he is in a battle. So Phinney | :43:49. | :43:56. | |
is there in 23.59. That is 21.5 seconds Chloe slower than the | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
British rider. Well, you will notice with the camera shots we | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
only get front shots, because none of these vehicles are allowed to go | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
in front of the riders because that gives them an unfair advantage, | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
they can slip stream. Even the motorbike cameras have to be at | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
least half a length behind the riders. There has been another | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
catch here, another catch has taken place. Sanchez. Sanchez who | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
suffered the problems. There has been another catch. I think it's | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
going to happen now. Sanchez is going to get picked up. Martin is | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
going to go faster. Sorry Chris, that is the carrot he want, he can | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
see Sanchez ahead of him. Let us look at the split time. Here it | :44:39. | :44:45. | |
come, so fastest now, 12 seconds quicker than Froome. Is Tony Martin, | :44:45. | :44:53. | |
the World Champion, he splits there on 18.4 kilometre, 23.25. He has | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
only taken two sofrpbdz the distance. That is, shows that | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
Froome has got the distance, because of that Tour de France | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
endurance, the extra ground work he has put in there, he is going very | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
well, so has Martin gone off a little bit quickly here? Jack Bauer | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
coming in for New Zealand. He had some good splits earlier on, so let | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
us confirm his finishing position, Bauer. Just come in, and he is | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
third at the moment. With a time of 54 minutes 54 seconds. So, he | :45:27. | :45:34. | |
hasn't taken the lead away from the previous pacesetter. Which is | :45:34. | :45:44. | |
:45:44. | :45:51. | ||
at the time on the right! Wiggins looks to me as though he has done a | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
lot of good work in this second section. There's the time to beat... | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
Here comes Bradley Wiggins! Wiggins is going to go into the lead. Look | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
at that! 11 seconds faster than Martin. He is the leader. | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: We did say that after his experiences of last year | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
in the Tour of Spain, he does not start too quickly. He knows that | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
this race is only about getting over the finishing line. He has got | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
the courage of his convictions, to start steady and to measure his | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
efforts across the whole distance. So, at the 18.4 kilometre point, | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
Wiggins is leading. 11 seconds back, in silver medal position, is Tony | :46:38. | :46:46. | |
Martin. Third at the moment is Froome. We are still awaiting the | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
arrival of Fabien Cancellara. But Cancellara was down at the first | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
split, at 7.3 kilometres. Wiggins, at the moment, is on track | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
to deliver that gold medal. He is riding incredibly well. Fabien | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
Cancellara, I think, is the only person who can upset this now, and | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
he was already on the back foot after that first check. We look now | :47:08. | :47:18. | |
:47:18. | :47:19. | ||
at Martyn. Actually it is not, it is Sanchez. Yes, Sanchez of Spain, | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
who has had a shocking day, breaking his chain, and it looked | :47:24. | :47:30. | |
like a puncher as well. As Froome continues the good work. The | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
British riders at the moment in first and third, with the world | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
champion between them. Here comes Cancellara, Spartacus himself, four | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
times the world champion, defending Olympic champion. He is away, he is | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
out to be! He is not going to threaten Wiggins Jiyai Shin that | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
underlines the sheer class and talent of the Tour the France | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
winner. Cancellara is not going to be in the medals with this, I don't | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
think. Coming up to the line now... Here is the split... Fourth at the | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
moment, 30 seconds slower than Brad Wiggins. Well, we said this was the | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
time check which was going to define who was fighting for the | :48:13. | :48:20. | |
podium positions. And it has turned out to be the case, Fabien | :48:20. | :48:30. | |
:48:30. | :48:32. | ||
Cancellara would appear to be out of it now. So, really, it is Froome, | :48:32. | :48:41. | |
Wiggins and Martin. This is Rodgers, and he has certainly got his race | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
face on. As we go back to the silky smooth style of Bradley Wiggins. | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
This is another stellar performance from him. This year, he has won the | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
Paris-Nice, the Tour de France, amongst others. It is just | :48:54. | :49:03. | |
unbelievable. Every time he turns out, he is a winner. | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: He has got a pedigree which says he will always | :49:07. | :49:15. | |
be podium competitive. Fabien Cancellara is still in contention | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
for a medal, but I feel that the gold medal will be contested | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
between Tony Martin and Brad Wiggins. So, 11 seconds between the | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
two of them at the 18.4 kilometre point. So, they are through a | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
halfway point. It is the world champion, Tony Martin, versus the | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
winner of the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins. They were first | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
and second in the World Championships last year in | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
Copenhagen, when Tony Martin beat Wiggins by one minute 15 seconds. | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
That's not going to be the case today. Here's Vinokurov, who earned | :49:50. | :50:00. | |
:50:00. | :50:05. | ||
road race just a few days ago. And it is sixth position for him. | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
think he can be relatively happy, already having a gold medal in his | :50:08. | :50:16. | |
pocket. As we go back to Froome. The high street here absolutely | :50:16. | :50:26. | |
:50:26. | :50:26. | ||
packed to capacity. This is where he actually pulled up on the road | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
race, so he will have memories of this. Well, he is not pulling up | :50:30. | :50:38. | |
now. He certainly isn't. Brad Wiggins, in that aerodynamic | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
position, the legs pumping so efficiently. That caption is wrong, | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
I think that is actually Froome. They both have similar styles. | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
are very gangly, Chris Froome walking a bit more from side to | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
side, to get that effort alt. He prefers the mountains, but I tell | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
you what, he is making a good job of discourse, considering it is not | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
ideal for him. We are waiting anxiously for the third time split, | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
which will be so important, that comes at 29.9 kilometres. After | :51:12. | :51:21. | |
that, they will be on the run to the finish. That's Wiggins. He has | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
got his main competitors in front of him now. He had Cancellara | :51:25. | :51:35. | |
behind him, of course, but I think to all intents and purposes, he is | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
out of it now, so Brad Wiggins has got everybody in front of him, | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
which gives him the ability to measure his effort, by getting lots | :51:42. | :51:52. | |
:51:52. | :52:10. | ||
Denmark. As we go back to the world champion, Tony Martin, with his | :52:10. | :52:18. | |
silky smooth style. Very, very good style, for people who are watching | :52:18. | :52:26. | |
these fellas, they can learn a lot from the way they sit on the bike. | :52:26. | :52:36. | |
The next split will be at 29.9 kilometres. The fastest we have had | :52:36. | :52:46. | |
:52:46. | :53:04. | ||
through their at the moment is Froome has registered a 35.25. | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
That's at the 29.9 kilometre point. So, Froome, no indication of | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
fatigue, he continues to power his weigh. He dearly wants an Olympic | :53:15. | :53:24. | |
medal, and the way he is going, he is going to get one. All of the | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
winners in this race are going to come from the Tour de France, that | :53:27. | :53:37. | |
:53:37. | :53:44. | ||
is the best possible preparation specialist from Italy, Pinotti. He | :53:44. | :53:53. | |
is a faithful contender when he comes to this, 36 years of age. | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
Good style from him, but I have to say, he has been outclassed today | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
by these riders. Can we make it two British medals on the podium? That | :54:04. | :54:14. | |
:54:14. | :54:16. | ||
really would be something. I think they are capable of doing it. As we | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
:54:26. | :54:28. | ||
so which back to Tony Martin. the guy that can split them up. | :54:28. | :54:36. | |
are still waiting for the arrival of Phinney. Cancellara does not | :54:36. | :54:43. | |
look as though he has got it today. Here comes the next rider into the | :54:43. | :54:53. | |
:54:53. | :54:53. | ||
finish, Oliveira, from Portugal. He is not going to threaten the top | :54:53. | :55:03. | |
:55:03. | :55:18. | ||
four. Here he comes, and that puts split time for the serious | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
contenders. Bradley Wiggins continues, in his wonderful style. | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
He has been in imperious form. CHRIS BOARDMAN: He will know that | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
he has just got to keep on top of it now. Once you get this far in, | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
in the Time Trial, it becomes all about your aerobic efficiency. He | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
will be getting constant time checks, so all he has got to do is | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
to keep it going, do not take any unnecessary risks, do not push it | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
too hard. And he knows how to control himself. He is on course | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
for a gold medal. Now, what has the young American done during the last | :55:58. | :56:08. | |
section? We wait to see. Phinney comes through on 36.13. He is 48 | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
seconds off the pace, so he is losing time. Here's a man who is | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
not. That's right. It is Tony Martin, the world champion. It is | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
almost feasible here for him to close down on Phinney. If he sees | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
him in front of him, that would help him. 19 seconds faster. So, at | :56:28. | :56:36. | |
29.9 kilometres, Chris Froome is in second. We are still waiting for | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
Wiggins and Cancellara. Cancellara, I feel, is out of this. It is only | :56:42. | :56:50. | |
Wiggins who can pressurise Tony Martin. I think we are looking at | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
the final podium places here, Bradley Wiggins heading for gold, | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
Tony Martin splitting the two British riders, and Chris Froome | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
:57:07. | :57:17. | ||
and the first of the two will be Brad Wiggins. We are waiting to see | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
his time at 29.9 kilometres... At the previous time split, he was | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
ahead of Tony Martin. What will he be here? This is impressive, Chris | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
Boardman... He is quick, but not really pushing it out that much. 22 | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
seconds, the difference, between Wiggins and Tony Martin. He has got | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
that lead, but it is certainly not a comfortable buffer. He cannot | :57:42. | :57:48. | |
afford to make any mistakes on this final leg. So, Bradley Wiggins is | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
leading Tony Martin by 22 seconds at that final split. Is that window | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
of advantage going to be enough to give Wiggins his fourth gold medal | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
and his seventh Olympic medal? Remember, whatever middle he wins | :58:01. | :58:07. | |
today will make him the greatest British Olympian ever. It would | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
take his tally up to seven. He looks like a man who's really going | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
about the job with clinical efficiency. What an incredible | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
experience, to be riding on the roads of London, surrounded by | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
hundreds of thousands of British fans. It is the opportunity of a | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
lifetime, and he is making the most of it. Under the trees he comes, | :58:30. | :58:36. | |
Bradley Wiggins, just eating away the final kilometres. This is | :58:36. | :58:46. | |
Cancellara. We wait to see how his time will be shaping up. We are not | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
seeing him on our long shot yet, so he is still a fair way from that | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
time check. I don't think Cancellara is going to upset things | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
here. It is Chris Froome we want to see? Can he disturbed that position | :59:00. | :59:10. | |
:59:10. | :59:12. | ||
for bronze medal? Back to Chris Froome now, eating up the | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
concluding kilometres of this Time Trial. And this is Bradley Wiggins, | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
coming up to Sanchez, of Spain. It has been a disastrous day for | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
censures, breaking his chain, then having a puncture. Bradley Wiggins | :59:27. | :59:37. | |
sweeps past him. A little bonus there for Bradley Wiggins. Sanchez | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
just riding back to the changing rooms, I think, that must be so | :59:41. | :59:50. | |
:59:51. | :59:59. | ||
disarming, breaking his chain, then certainly gone off the boil. | :59:59. | :00:02. | |
seemed to fade during the Tour de France as well. He has certainly | :00:02. | :00:12. | |
not been in good form. Fabien Cancellara there, I don't think he | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
:00:22. | :00:23. | ||
is going to disturb the podium. He will not dislodge anybody ahead of | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
him, with 14 kilometres to go. So, Bradley Wiggins is quickest at that | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
final checkpoint. Second, Tony Martin, the world champion. Third, | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
:00:46. | :00:51. | ||
Wiggins has tad to deal with the pressure of being the favourite in | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
this event. But Chris Froome he wants to get himself on the podium. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
At the moment I think he has a significant buffer there, he is | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
going to manage that, so the medals will be decided among the three and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
at the moment, it looks like a distinct and sizeable gap between | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
them. That is likely to be the order we see them come across the | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
finish line and stand on the podium. The nearest challenge to Froome | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Chavanel, and he was 18 seconds slower, and then Cancellara was a | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
bit slower than that, so it looks as though it will be Chavanel that | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
could be the nearest challenger to him. Chavanel was 20 seconds at the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
last time check. He has come back massively, massively through this | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
last ten kilometre mark. Chavanel then, we still with still | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
power in the tank. Froome will have to be on his best. I am not sure we | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
need to check that. He has gone from being two-and-a-half minute | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
back, to one minute back, he is coming forward at a tremendous rate, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
if that is the case. I think that could be a technical error. Let us | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
hope Froome has something in the tank. This man looks as though he | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
is full to the top. That is Wiggins. He doesn't need to dig feep for | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
anything more. He is fluid. So impressive. Flying along here, he | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
has wings on his wheels has Bradley Wiggins as he knows he has this | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
gold medal now, in front of him, waiting for him. Kingston ahead of | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
him and the River Thames on the left. He hasn't got time to admire | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
this scenic location, he just has one thing on his mind, and that is | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
of course to be on the top position of the podium. You have the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
positions confirmed there then, through that 30 kilometre split. It | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
was Wiggins leading by 22 seconds from Tony Martin and bronze medal | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
being held by Chris Froome on 35 minutes, 25 seconds. We missed a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
shot of Martin, he was driving it through the corner, pushing it | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
right to the edge of the barriers, and, well, he needs do that if he | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
wants to catch Bradley Wiggins. Wiggins has enough room to not take | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
desperate risks, he has to stay safe. Don't overcook it, we have | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
that gold medal within his sights. This is Michael Rogers of Australia. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Rogers now, with a finishing line in his sights, it will be a | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
respectable time for Roger, the leader is still Castroviejo of | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
Spain, on 53.29. He will go ahead of him. 50 metres to go. He will be | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
the new leader. Good ride then by Michael Rogers the triple World | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
Champion. Rogers goes into the lead. 52 minutes 51. Castroviejo slips | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
down into second on 53.29. These the men we are waiting for and | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
particularly Bradley Wiggins. Just coming up to Kingston bridge here, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Bradley Wiggins out of the saddle momentarily, just stretching a bit, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
when you are locked into that position, the fatigue in the bottom | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
of the back builds up. He has done a lot of training to,cope with that. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Showing he can do it, state stay in that position, just a few weeks ago | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
in the Tour de France, to where he effectively won that race in the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
final time trial. It was his last test as we come back to Chris | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Froome, the second best rider on that occasion, who is also heading | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
for a podium spot here if he keeps it together. The man splitting them | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
apart, Tony Martin of Germany, the classy time triallist, the world | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
time trial champion at the moment. She powering his way to the finish. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
So Tony Martin, a World Champion from Copenhagen last year, as I | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
mentionederier in commentary, had a very big winning cushion of 1 | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
minute 15 seconds over Wiggins. Cancellara third on that occasion. | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
There is the confirmation of that position at 29.9 kilometres, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
comfortably in the lead is Bradley Wiggins, but it is all about his | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
concluding 14 kilometres now. Back to Wiggins as we previously saw | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Froome. Bradley Wiggins eating up the kilometres now, moving closer | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
and closer to that Olympic gold medal, in his home town of London. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Moving into sporting immortality as we see the finishing effort here of | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Bert Grabsch. This is Grabsch coming in. The 37-year-old German, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
a former World Champion, not going to beat Michael Rogers, he goes | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
second at the moment. The first four are Rogers, from Grabsch, from | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Castroviejo and Brajkovic of Slovenia, as we come back again to | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Bradley Wiggins, the crowd giving him tremendous support here. Look | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
at this, lined all the way. Absolutely all the way two or three | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
deep over the whole of this circuit. Flags waving, he has tremendous | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
support as we come back again to the World Champion Tony Martin. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
Strange style he looks perched almost on that saddle. It is | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
curious, it has changed a little since the World Championship as | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
well. Cancellara carrying the injuries, had to abandon the Tour | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
de France half way through, decided to go home and see the birth of his | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
child there. 500 meeters to go then for Chris Froome. The leading time | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
is 52 metre -- my opinions. As Froome takes the right-hander. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Cautious Chris. He is cautious and he lines up now for the run, a bit | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
of a sprint, as he can see the line ahead. He knows he's is in with a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
serious chance of a medal. This is Chris Froome, now taking the left- | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
hander, and the crowd are roaring him on, the line is getting ever | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
nearer, the time the beat, 52 minutes 51. Here comes Froome. The | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
runner up in the Tour de France goes into the lead. His finishing | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
team 51.57. Chris Froome is leading the time trial. An average speed of | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
nearly 51 kilometres an hour, that is incredibly fast on these London | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
roads. 12 technical bends to negotiate, a rolling course, that | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
really is a strong time. I think only Martin and Wiggins are going | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
to top it today. You are right. Here is Fabian Cancellara and we | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
switch back to the World Champion Tony Martin. Eating up the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
concludingkphs of the this test against the clock. We can't match | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the rung time against wi, but Martin was trailing Wiggins by 22 | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
second, at the 29 kilometre point. There we are. It is all over for | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Chris Froome. He just needs to look at the big screen now, and he | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
wonders if it is going to be silver or bronze for Martin. For Chris | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Froome I should say. This is the only person that can deprive him on | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
that podium spot. Him and Chavanel if the checks prove to be correct, | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
but I think Cancellara is going to have to fight another day. Hasn't | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
had the ideal build up to this race, and I think he is out of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
running and it is very rare we see that for the Swiss rider. I don't | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
think the crash helped him in the road race, overrunning that corner | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and colliding with the barrier, but his hasn't been quite the time | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
trialler he used to be since last year when he was forced down into | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
third spot. He had a crash there but he lost that fluid style. A man | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
who hasn't lost any fluidity at all is wigs which, look at this. He is | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
poetry in potion. -- motion, he sits there and spins that gear | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
effortlessly. Of all the riders we have seen, nobody is as smooth as | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Bradley Wiggins, his body hardly move, his style is so efficient. I | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
must admit I am stood next to him when he has been warming up and you | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
here the noise change as he starts to accelerate to do a sprint for | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
warm up and you can, you can't see any change in his body movement at | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
all. So, you can see Wiggins is coming in fantastically quickly to | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
this finish. Tony Martin, Tony Martin is doing a solid ride here, | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
he was unknown coming into this race, Michael Rogers takes his | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
place in the holding pen there, on those fantastic seats. Billy No | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
Mates at the moment! He will get some company. Here is Pinotti. He | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
comes in and goes second in 52.69. Just over a minute shy of Froome. | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
He has pushed Rogers down into third. We are waiting for the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
arrival now of Phinney, Martin, Wiggins and Cancellara. Phinney | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
hasn't delivered the way we thought he would, but this man certainly | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
has. Well, Chavanel has just come in with a finishing time of 56, so | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
I think we can confirm that was a problem with timing, two ride irs | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
cross the timing strip at the same time sometimes it confuses the | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Copts, that makes more sense to me. Cancellara is up there, as the top | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
four on this, in this race at the moment. Is that Phinney ahead if it | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
is it means that Tony Martin is going to catch Phinney for one-and- | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
a-half minutes and that could help him in the closing stages here, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
because that could make him go even quicker in the approach to the line, | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
and we are not far away from the finish now. We can see it is a head | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
wind down here, we can see from the flag, Tony Martin choosing to go | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
down the middle of the road here, just locked in concentration, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Phinney fantastic motivation for him, the American went out very | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
quick at the start, and thought he was in contention, what he has done | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
is drive too quickly at as Bradley Wiggins turns into the park. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
kilometres to go for Bradley Wiggins. Is it going to be gold | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
four for Wiggins and is it going to be the seventh medal for him? | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
think he can see Tony Martin down the road what a massive incentive. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
It would be. One-and-a-half minutes Martin start ahead of wigs. Here is | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Cancellara, not his day today. Cancellara has had a sensational | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
career as a time trialler, as we come back to Tony Martin. Look at | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
the crowd. I thought he was going to go on the grass there for a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
moment. Martin goes well, these are the concluding stages of the men's | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
time trial. Froome is leading. 51.47. Pinotti second, Michael | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Rogers third. But that is all going to change, believe me. Froome is | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
going to get squeezed down, but he could still hang on to the bronze | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
medal position. The finish is nearly here for Bradley Wiggins, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
the winner of the Tour de France, as he ploughs his way through, the | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
corridor of faces here, to the cacophony of applause, Wiggins on a | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
gold medal winning ride here as we come back to Tony Martin as he | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
takes the right-hander and he is now almost at the end of his test | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
against the clock. 300 metres to gore Martin. We saw Bradley Wiggins | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
coming under the kilometre mark which means he's is 700 metres | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
behind the German, 700 metres away from the man who is he is going to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
take the gold medal from. Good finish from Phinney. Here comes | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Tony Martin now, driving for the line. Martin Finnishs now, and let | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
us have a look at thatment good ride by Martin, 51.21. He is in the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
gold medal position, Chris Froome is in silver, and Taylor Phinney is | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
lying in the third position, on 52.38. Which are waiting for the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
arrival of Bradley Wiggins, who comes up to take the right-hander | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
now. And it is looking very much to me as though Taylor Phinney is | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
going to get pushed down to fourth. That would be the same finishing | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
position as he achieved in the road race, here comes Wiggins now, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Bradley Wiggins, the winner of the Tour de France, the holder of three | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
gold medals, in the Olympic Games, he has got six medals to his credit | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
and it is looking like it is going to be gold today. Here comes | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Bradley Wiggins up to the line. Have a look at the time. Here he | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
comes, Wiggins goes into the lead. 50 mince and 39. This is going to | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
be a golden gold ride for Wiggins. Cancellara cannot deny Wiggins the | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Vicly the and the crowd are already going ballistic. Bradley Wiggins | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
has crossed the line to go into the lead, 50 minutes and 39 seconds, | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
Martins second. 51 minutes 21 and Chris Froome lying third. 51 and 47. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
One more man to come in. Fabian Cancellara the defending Olympic | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
champion, as they circle and wind down at the back. Martin, Phinney | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
and Wiggins, what a ride that has been. I am not sure that Bradley | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Wiggins has achieved here. He knows Cancellara has still to come in. We | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
know that nobody is going to topple him here has taken that Olympic | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
title in London. He is free- wheeling back, we wait for the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
arrival of dance ar -- Cancellara. He doesn't look out of breath. He | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
is going to take a drink, a a couple of quick comments as we wait | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
for the arrival of Cancellara. And Wiggins now can rest, and that gold | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
medal is his, well, there is Tony Martin, that is the effort that has | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
been taken out of the German, who is going to get the Silver Medal. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Chris Froome the bronze, and we are waiting for news on Fabian | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Cancellara. He is more than two kilometres, remember, behind | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Bradley Wiggins, because he started one-and-a-half minutes behind him, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
and he is also lost time. There is Chris Froome, at the moment, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
sitting in the bronze medal position, Bradley Wiggins hasn't | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
joined him, and neither has Tony Martin, they are just here relaxing, | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
and getting their energy back. So, Cancellara will be just taking the | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
turns now, to line up for the run to the line, as Wiggins is glailted. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
It was an incredible ride -- congratulated, it was an incredible | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
ride by Wiggins and three gold medals to his credit, three in the | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
pursuit and one in the team pursuit. He doesn't look out of breath to me | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
:15:43. | :15:50. | ||
moment by something. It is a very emotional time. He has given up an | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
awful lot for this and he does not want to take any chances. He just | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
does not dare believe it until everybody is over the line. He has | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
not started celebrating, but he made do when this man crosses the | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
:16:14. | :16:20. | ||
line. I think he said, have I got the best time? He is not sure. He | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
is going to go ballistic with celebration. There he is relaxing, | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
leaning against the fence, waiting for their news. This is Fabian | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
Cancellara, but it is all in vain. Here he comes. You can see his | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
running time. It will be a huge ovation because he is such a | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
popular athlete. There it is, the final run to the line. He is the | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
concluding athlete in the time- trial. He is getting an ovation, | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
but he could be three minutes off the pace. He is sprinting for the | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
line-out. He finishes the day in 7th position. Bradley Wiggins is | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
the Olympic champion. It is his 4th gold medal and the 7th medal in the | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Olympic Games will stop he is the greatest British achieve for of all | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
times when it comes to medals won by a Olympians. He embraces Tony | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
Martin the world champion. Bradley Wiggins, the gold medal, Tony | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Martin gets the silver and Christopher Froome gets the bronze. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
What a polished performance by a man who is in the form of his life. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
Yes. There is Christopher Froome all on his own. And that is the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
effort. He is clutching that injured shoulder. He has obviously | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
been in a lot of pain. He wanted to write this, it was an opportunity | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
and a great course for him. But his build up was not that great and it | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
was topped off by that uncharacteristic crash. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
trademark sideburns as he gives a wave to the crowd. His Olympic | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
tally now becomes 7th. He has won more medals than any other British | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
competitor in the history of the Olympic Games. Four gold medals, | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
one silver and two bronze. It all started off in 2000 when he won a | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
bronze in the team pursuit. He has had a silver in the team pursuit | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
and four gold medals. I would like to say he becomes the second man to | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
win a medal in this individual time-trial. Chris Boardman got a | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
bronze back in 1996 in Atlanta. There we are, Bradley, it is made | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
for you. Unprecedented, the greatest British cyclist ever. I | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
have no hesitation in saying that. Definitely one of the greatest | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
British sports people ever. could not agree more a. He has won | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
the ultimate challenge on the planet, the Tour de France. Is | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
there anything he cannot win? He surely must be given every accolade | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
in the book. This year has been the year for Bradley Wiggins. Look at | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
the crowd and they love it. And what a character. What about his | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
speech when he won the Tour de France. I am going to draw the | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
:20:08. | :20:15. | ||
raffle ticket now! Tim Kerrison is one of the instrumental coaches who | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
helped him. He is taking time to say hello to everybody, enjoying | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
this moment. Yes, wonderful scenes and he looks so relax. Who is he | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
looking for? His wife could be here and his children. 50 minutes and 39 | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
seconds, a winning margin of 42 seconds. Let's listen to the roar | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
:20:53. | :20:57. | ||
of the fans. He is still searching for somebody. Is it his family? | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
They are all coming up to the podium area to received this man. | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
Has he found them? Who is he looking for? They are all autograph | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
hunting. He is looking for his family. What a ride, fantastic, | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
unbelievable stuff. He runs races on the track. He won the European | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
Championship, he was a world junior champion in the 90s. We go back to | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
Fabian Cancellara who is clearly in a lot of distress. But, Bradley, | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
what a rider you are. You have given us some moments and you have | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
added another memorable occasion to them here. He arrives back to where | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
he started from originally 44 kilometres ago. And in this | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
glorious setting here. I am pleased to say that the weather is shining | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
brightly and that is exactly what we want for the medal presentation. | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
Is this is why? Yes, it is. At least I hope so. His children are | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
:22:33. | :22:39. | ||
there as well. A terrific family moment for him. It is a very | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
emotional time for the children as well. They are not quite sure what | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
:22:53. | :22:55. | ||
is going on. In a few years' time they will look back on this. There | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
is Chris Froome. Let's not forget Chris Froome. He is like a nearly | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
man. But what a rider. I am sure he will get his day. With that quality | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
he will have the opportunity in the future. But not this year. This | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
year belongs to Bradley Wiggins. Those are tell-tale signs of the | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
:23:30. | :23:32. | ||
crash of Fabian Cancellara. I think I want to grow my serve up -- | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
sideburns again. Some people have stick-on sideburns, actually. I | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
:23:47. | :23:52. | ||
hope he has patented them! Luckily they fit underneath the Helmut! I | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
think it is going to take us a long time in the sport of cycling to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
realise what exactly has happened over the past month with the Tour | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
de France and the multiple stage wins and to win the Olympic gold | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
medal in the time-trial as well. All of these things together are | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
going to change the face of the sport in this country and hopefully | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
popularise it as a simple mode of transport as well. Already it is | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
:24:31. | :24:33. | ||
being reflected with over 50,000... Here are a few images for you of | :24:33. | :24:43. | |
Bradley Wiggins. Look at these wonderful scenes. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Congratulations, Bradley Wiggins, Olympic champion in the men's time | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
trial. We asked the question if a gold medal would be like a London | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
bus. And so it proved, you get two at once. A gold medal in the rowing | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
:25:13. | :25:13. | ||
this morning. What an apt time for that time trial to finish. Bradley | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Wiggins is truly a part of Olympic royalty now. Tony Martin is the | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
world time-trial champion. It was only last year that Tony Martin | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
beat Bradley Wiggins. We must say congratulations to Chris Froome, | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
his first Olympic Games. A bronze medal in the time-trial. This is | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
what it means as far as the most successful British athletes are | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
concerned. Steve is there because he has won the most number of gold | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
medals, but Bradley Wiggins is in second. Two medals in 2008 and | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
three in 2004. Also a bronze medal in the year 2000 as well. Keep your | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
:26:11. | :26:12. | ||
eyes on Christopher Hoy. He could Truly remarkable scenes. It was | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
also pretty special at the Olympic Park as well. This is what happens | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
when the victory was confirmed for Bradley Wiggins. This is it, it is | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
official. He has won himself a gold and everybody here is having the | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
time of their lives. Everybody has been waiting to see Bradley | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
confirmed as that gold winner. Did you see that? Yes, we did. Are you | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
big fans? Very much so. What did you think of that? Absolutely | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
fantastic, it will be good for British cycling. Did you think this | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
many people would come to see cycling? No, not at all, but I am | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
glad they have come. Have you come to see many things? Will have got | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
tickets for the swimming tonight. Everybody says I should grow | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
sideburns. Is that a good idea? think they will suit you. Some nice | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
red ones will suit you. Like Phillips Idowu were. I think it is | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
best that we leave it there. Stop it. Everybody is having a fantastic | :27:30. | :27:38. | |
time. More medals for Team GB. I think that sums up the incredible | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
atmosphere in the Olympic Park as news about these gold medals | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
filters through. It may have been away from the park, but it does not | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
mean that people here are unaware of what is happening. Joe Douglas | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
is at Hampton court now. You have followed Bradley's Korea for so | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
many years, and what a special day for you. It is a special day for | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
everybody, but particularly for everybody on the course. Obviously | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
it is a privilege to ask the questions, but for the fans on the | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
road, this is for them and for that team and for all the people who | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
have worked so hard. And he was here at the finish to see his | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
children and his wife and to see them celebrating with Ms is | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
remarkable. He has built up through the spring all those wonderful | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
successes in the lead-up to the Tour de France. 10 days ago he it | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
was on the top step off the podium in Paris and here he is 10 days | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
later, one of our most decorated athletes in the Olympics. It is | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
also worth mentioning the bridesmaid. Chris Froome has been | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
the bridesmaid for most of the summer, but this has been a | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
fantastic Olympic experience for him. Of course and he is a man we | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
will see a lot of in the coming years. Also at Tony Martin coming | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
here off the back of injuries and he has come away with a silver | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
medal. And Fabian Cancellara, what a champion. He is just rolling in. | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
He has come here to defend his Olympic title despite a huge crash | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
in the spring. He broke his collarbone. He came back and | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
crashed here during the Olympic road race. Now he has come back to | :29:34. | :29:41. | |
defend that. He is a wonderful champion. Well done Fabian | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
Cancellara. Enjoy the sunshine and the moment. This is what it means | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
for the medal table as part as Great Britain are concerned. It has | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
:30:02. | :30:15. | ||
In 1996 a certain man won a bronze medal in the time-trial and that | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
was Chris Boardman. Chris, your emotions watching. Something of a | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
continuation from the Tour de France. A certain amount of stunned | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
shock. It is so big what is happening now. It would take us a | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
long time to realise the implications and what it means. It | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
was a sight I thought I would never see, a British rider winning the | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
Tour de France and then riding in the streets of London to win a gold | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
:30:55. | :30:57. | ||
At the end, that wonderful shot of him almost not out of breath, he | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
makes it look so easy. Style, yes, but easy, no. What you see is an | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
incredibly efficient athlete. Endurance athletes have always been | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
the same, in a sense, in so far as they recover incredibly quickly. | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
Sprinters, just coming off the track, they will still be breathing | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
hard for 10 minutes. But Bradley has just done more than 3,000 | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
kilometres in France, so riding around London for an hour, he can | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
cope with that. You have followed Froome all over the place as well, | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
what about him? He is a man for the future, a contender for the Tour | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
the France, no doubt about it. This is not used to rain, he would much | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
prefer Healy course. But he is so strong at the moment, they finished | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
in a deserving order, I would say. I have no doubt that Chris Froome | :31:51. | :31:59. | |
will have his day. Poor old Sanchez, it goes to show how much are these | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
guys are on the edge all the time, with all the problems that he had. | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
These things do happen, and it is a technical sport, as we were talking | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
about yesterday. But what a shame. This guy was in superb form, and to | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
break your chain - it happens very rarely, I think it happened to me | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
once in my entire career. For that to happen on the start line of the | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
Tour de France, and even then, he tried to get on with it. It took | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
his team by surprise as well, you do not expect mechanical problems | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
in the first two metres. After that puncture as well, it was all over. | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
From this beautiful picture, tomorrow, you're going to be in an | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
equally lovely place, in the velodrome, and of course, this man, | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
Bradley Wiggins, has moved away from the velodrome to focus on the | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
road, but we could be talking about more cycling history there, could | :32:54. | :33:02. | |
we not? To see Chris Hoy, if he could get another gold medal, that | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
would be fantastic. But we have got both men's and women's team sprint | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
tomorrow, which will be fantastic, and also the start of the team | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
pursuit, where I think possibly, we might see a world record. | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
remember cycling up Box Hill with you before the Games even started, | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
and I ask you how it compared with days gone by, and you said, in the | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
early 1990s, you were just about it this far was cycling was concerned | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
- how does it compare these days? The scale of it has increased | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
dramatically. It was just a small group of people, including myself, | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
at UK Sport. But now, the strength in depth of UK cycling is | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
incredible. There is a huge fight just to get into one of the teams | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
for the Olympic Games, which shows it is not just the talent that we | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
have already got, there's more behind it as well. Some clever a | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
member of the crowd had a very clever sign there. Very sharp | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
indeed. We will be back for the medal ceremony. Now, time to join | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, who is also down at Hampton court. She is | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
with Nicole Cooke, who picked up a medal in Beijing four years ago. | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
What a moment... It has been amazing. As the guys went through | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
the time checks there was a huge cheer, but nothing compared to what | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
it was like when Brad Wiggins crossed the finishing line. It has | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
been an amazing day. Yes, the Men's Time Trial had everything. There | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
was the drama at the start, Sanchez breaking his chain, then the | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
tension just went through the roof, as we were going through the time | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
checks, and it looked like there was a serious chance of both Chris | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
Froome and Bradley getting into the top three. And then when it | :34:51. | :34:59. | |
actually happened, it was incredible. I think the atmosphere | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
here has just been incredible, and for me, it just that sets the team | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
off - what do you think the atmosphere will be like back in the | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
:35:18. | :35:20. | ||
village? Oh, everyone has been waiting for a day like today. There | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
has been a lot of anticipation. Yesterday, everyone was talking | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
about what might happen. I'm sure from now on, it will just take off. | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
You have been on the podium, in Beijing, at the Olympics - what | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
will mean the most to Brad Wiggins, winning the gold medal, or becoming | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
the best Olympian ever? I think the way he won this muddle today, it | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
was an individual gold, he did it by himself, on the bike, I think | :35:50. | :35:58. | |
that will mean a lot to him. But when he reflects on everything he | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
has achieved, I'm sure he will be very proud of all of those medals, | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
and everyone will have its own story. Thank you very much. We will | :36:07. | :36:14. | |
let you go and congratulate the boys. And you can see here, Bradley | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
Wiggins, lining up to go and collect that gold medal. Just | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
behind him, Chris Froome, with a well-earned bottle of water. We can | :36:23. | :36:30. | |
hand you back to Chris Boardman and Sue Porter, for the medal ceremony. | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
HUGH PORTER: What a moment this is going to be, the medal ceremony, | :36:36. | :36:43. | |
here at Hampton Court Palace, for the Men's Time Trial. It is going | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
to be a very British affair, with two men standing on the podium to | :36:47. | :36:57. | |
:36:57. | :36:58. | ||
collect their medals. The Mancini going to present the gold medal | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
will be the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. He | :37:01. | :37:09. | |
was a member of the fencing team in 1976, and he was also a member of a | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
World Championship winning team in the same year, as well as the | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
:37:22. | :37:25. | ||
following year. Bradley Wiggins' voracious appetite for winning | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
medals in the Olympic Games continues. That is his seventh | :37:28. | :37:35. | |
medal, and his fourth gold medal. No other British Olympian has ever | :37:35. | :37:45. | |
:37:45. | :37:45. | ||
won seven medals. He is the ultimate achiever. | :37:45. | :37:53. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: It is a real contrast, looking at the scene now, | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
after we have just seen hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
It is difficult to believe that they are going to present the gold | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
medal, and there's nobody there. Well, at the moment, everybody is | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
lining up for the ceremony. It is what we have been talking about for | :38:12. | :38:22. | |
quite some time. We almost feel like we're urging sing everybody. | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
Everybody was saying, barring incident, it was going to be | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
Bradley Wiggins' gold medal. will be back in a few moments, when | :38:31. | :38:41. | |
:38:41. | :38:41. | ||
the medal ceremony is actually about to take place. | :38:41. | :38:51. | |
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Let's summarise what has been Bradley Wiggins' stellar year just | :38:55. | :39:05. | |
gets better and better. He wins his seventh Olympic medal. Helen Glover | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
and Heather Stanning created history by winning the first gold | :39:10. | :39:18. | |
medal for the team at London 2012. And Great Britain also took bronze | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
in the Men's Eight in a thrilling race at Eton Dorney. At one point | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
it looked like they might have upset the favourites, Germany. And | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
eight badminton players have been disqualified from the Games fraud | :39:30. | :39:38. | |
not using their best efforts to win. News on that appeal coming up | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
shortly. But right a now, as you can see, the medal ceremony is | :39:44. | :39:54. | |
about to happen. HUGH PORTER: It is a moment to | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
savour. There is the vice-president of the International Olympic | :40:02. | :40:11. | |
Committee. Himself, an achiever, in his time, in fencing, in 1976. | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
Bradley Wiggins, who has once again delivered. The man who will deliver | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
the flowers, the president of the governing body for cycling. It is a | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
glorious setting here, at Hampton court. Magnificent weather for the | :40:32. | :40:42. | |
presentation. The winner of the bronze medal, representing Great | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
Britain, is Chris Froome. Another superb performance by him, the man | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
who was a runner-up in the Tour de France. A tremendous ovation he is | :40:52. | :41:02. | |
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receiving. A man I feel sure will be standing on the top spot of the | :41:07. | :41:17. | |
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podium within the next few seasons. And the winner of the silver medal, | :41:28. | :41:35. | |
it is the current world champion, Tony Martin, representing Germany. | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
CHRIS BOARDMAN: He looked happy with his performance today. I don't | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
think he thought he was in with a chance of a victory. He was happy | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
with the silver medal, I think, on this occasion, after the issues he | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
has had with broken bones. He rode courageously, but the window of | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
advantage for Wiggins was 42 seconds, and Tony Martin just did | :41:56. | :42:06. | |
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The Olympic champion and gold medal-winner, representing Great | :42:17. | :42:25. | |
Britain, Bradley Wiggins! His voracious appetite for Olympic | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
medals continues, and this gold medal is his seventh in the Olympic | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
competition. Nobody in the history of the Olympic Games from Great | :42:36. | :42:45. | |
Britain has earners many medals as Brad Wiggins. Sheer class, Brad | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
Wiggins. Masterclass, the personification of dominance, | :42:50. | :43:00. | |
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nobody could compete with him. The crowd chant, Wiggo, and he is | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
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conducting them! What a character! Please stand for the national | :43:13. | :43:23. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 95 seconds | :43:23. | :44:18. | |
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF GREAT JAKE HUMPHREY: Congratulations to | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
Brad Wiggins and Chris Froome, two tremendous performances from them, | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
and Tony Martin, the world Time Trial champion, also amongst the | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
medals. Sue Barker joins me now. The cheer in the studio here was | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
quite something, wasn't it? It was absolutely fantastic. Great for | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
Brad Wiggins, he is so calm under pressure. Looking at those | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
fantastic scenes, those crowds did not have to buy a ticket for that, | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
but they were part of this whole the Olympic experience. The sun | :44:47. | :44:52. |