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All yours. Well, Passing the baton. There could be more gold to come. | :00:03. | :00:13. | |
Yes, Gemma Gibbons charged into the final after a stunk victory over | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
the World Champion, she is guaranteed Britain's first judo | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
medal for 12 year, will it be gold or silver? In the velodrome Chris | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Hoy sets the wheels turning in the hunt for more cycling gold medals | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
in the company of Jason Kenny and Philip hiens in the team sprint. In | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
the women's equivalent Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish have | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
their sights on gold in what promises to be one of the most | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
fiercely competitive events on the track. And we will have the latest | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
sailing news. Ben Ainslie is back on the water trying to find the way | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
past the Great Dane who is dominating the Finn class. Time is | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
running out for the Olympic champion. So to tell you what time | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
you can see this, we are going to the ExCel arena for that final. | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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This is wa you can see on BBC Three These are the pictures, this is | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
where we are going live and that Kayla Harrison, the World Champion | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
of two years ago, from the United States, they haven't won a medal, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
gold medal in judo either, but there is Gemma Gibbons, 7,000 | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
people have been chanting her name. A stunning victory in the semifinal. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
There is Kate Howey who won 12 years ago. She will be cheering. | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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Let us go live and see if it is never won this Olympic gold medal, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
so she has her own reasons, lots of them. Who doesn't want to make | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
history, she said in the build-up to this. Who doesn't? Gemma Gibbons | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
certainly does. Gibbons, who was introduced to the squad by her | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
mother at the Judo Club when she was just six. As long as she can | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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remember she has always wanted to be an Olympian. Her mother who was | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
her biggest fan and inspiration died aged years ago. Gemma got onto | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
the mat after winning her semi- final and said, I love you. This | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
might be for her mum. The Olympic final. The American, Kayla Harrison | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
and the Londoner, Gemma Gibbons, in blue. We just hope she comes out in | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the same form she has been in all day. She improvises so well. She | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
has not let the pressure get out -- get to her. She has been going out | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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want to stop her getting her arms and hit a cross. That is the danger. | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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That is the strong attack from the periods. The darkest imaginable | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
after her coach was sent to jail for 10 years and she did | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
contemplate suicide, but she was rescued from that by the USA coach | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
who looks after her now, Jimmy Pedro. And she has just notched up | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
the first point. Up that was the danger from the American. She gets | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
her hips under, but it is only a yuko. A lot of time left on the | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
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behind because of the first score of the final. Jenner just touching | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
down on her side -- Gemma Gibbons just touching down on her side. She | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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will be needing a waza-ari to be round the back of the American. | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
American coach, Jimmy Pedro, who Kayla Harrison says saved her life. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
Gibbons has already beaten 3 of the world top 10 to get this far. She | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
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house of pain as we look at the last Olympic medallist a Briton, | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
Kate Howey. It was almost written that she should be the coach | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
sitting at this side on the day somebody tried to emulate her, and | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
that somebody is Gemma Gibbons. is going over the top now. Looking | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
for the counter. Did that score? so close, but the Americans stayed | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
on her front. You get the feeling that that throw could work. There | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
has been nobody prouder of Gemma Gibbons than her partner, who has | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
been busy geeing her up in the build-up to this final. He suffered | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
his own Olympic Payne, and he knows the harsh edges of this game. But | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
he is right behind his goal now, as is the nation. -- behind his girl. | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
The referee bringing them back to the start position. 2.38 on the | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
clock, and Gemma Gibbons is pushing forward. She needs to get her hips | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
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in at first. Halfway through this see off her French semi-final | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
opponent. And she has conceded another a yuko, but Kate how we is | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
raising her hand above her head to suggest it did not count. A long | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
break between the first and second techniques there. You can see the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
referee is looking up towards the television officials to see if that | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
should have counted. You cannot tell from that replay. It is the | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
gap between the two attacks. debate is whether there was too | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
long daybreak. And Kayla Harrison was on her knees as she tried the | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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chair umpire has conversed with the referee and decided that the point | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
did not count. The American is still ahead by one of solitary yuko. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Into the final two minutes of this final. A good attack from Gemma | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
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Gibbons, on the grip, and with the morning she was expecting to be | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
playing judo in front of David Cameron and Vladimir Putin, but | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
they are here today. Vladimir Putin is a black belt, and I don't know | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
about David Cameron, but he is rooting for his girl now. 90 | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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falling to her knees. This is the frustrating part of the game. She | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
wants to press the pace and get a move on, but the American is not | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
really letting her do that. American is very good at moving her | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
hips in first. She has a split second to attack and in that moment | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Harrison has pinned her first, and she has done it again. Another yuko | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
scored, so the American leading by two yuko. We know that Gemma | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
Gibbons can come up with the most spectacular, as she threw the most | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
golden of gold and scores in the semi-finals and she will need | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
something similar now. -- of gold and scores. Less than 60 seconds to | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
go, she is sure of silver and a place in the history of British | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
judo. For she will be thinking that she has one minute to go, and what | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
can she do to change it around? And she changed direction or take the | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
fight in another direction or go to the same area of the mat? Can she | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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champion in 2010, the first from the US in over a decade. She is a | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
top level fighter. Of course she is, because she's fighting in an | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Olympic final, but Gemma Gibbons is up there now and what she has done | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
for her career over the last couple of hours, whatever happens here, | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
life will never be the same for Gemma Gibbons. She has 30 seconds | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
left, and these last few seconds are crucial. 30 seconds left to get | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
a gold. Just trying to get round the back. Force Kayla Harrison to | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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her the gold medal. "You are the Olympic champion if you fight | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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smart". One big attack, come on, one more. She will get one more go | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
to try and rest the Olympic title from Kayla Harrison. This is it. | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
Gemma Gibbons has got to do something now. And it's not going | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
to be gold. That is going to go to the USA for the first time in the | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
history of their women's judo team. Spare a thought for Kayla Harrison, | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
for so many reasons, goodness knows how she has managed to get herself | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
into this position. Her life has featured some of the darkest | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
moments anyone could imagine, and she points towards Jimmy Pedro, the | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
coach who got her through those dark periods. So, she gets the gold, | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
but Gemma Gibbons from Great Britain, the 25-year-old from south | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
London, from just across the river, gets an Olympic silver medal. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
safe to say she has deserved a silver. She may have lost a goal, | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
but she has won a silver medal. -- lost a gold. The smiles from the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
American. But the cheers are largely for Gemma Gibbons as she | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
leaves the mat with her hands high above her head. You are the best! I | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
am so proud. Another Olympic judo medal for Great Britain, but a | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
first in 12 years since the coach, Kate how we did her job. There are | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
not many British women who can say they have once judo medals. The | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
lady sitting next to me, Nicola Fairbrother, you have someone else | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
in your exclusive club, and her name is Gemma Gibbons. And a big | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
welcome to the club. I can imagine how she is feeling walking off the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
mat. She has had a fantastic day, but she had come so close to the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
gold and you wish he was just a little bit more. Well, it is silver, | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
and she will be sold with that. Because, for the first time in a | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
dozen year, Britain's Great Britain judo team can make a contribution | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
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to the Team GB medal table all If can regulations to Kayla | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Harrison. Another gold for the United States. -- congratulations | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
to Kayla Harrison. What Fiat Gemma Gibbons Azad, shoulder surgery, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
moving up -- what a year for Gemma Gibbons, having sold a servery and | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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had. Two gold medals and two silvers, and we will see two more | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
decided on the track in cycling. Let's go and join Jake at the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Velodrome. Probably the hottest ticket in town after the success in | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Beijing, not to mention Bradley Wiggins's success yesterday. Can | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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any team be facing higher We can't exist without the right | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
blood pressure. Day by day, cycle by cycle, the rhythm of your heart | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
pumps the blood that keeps your life and make you feel alive. | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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Too little... Too much... Just Pressure can also produce magic. | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
Moments of sheer brilliance. Pressure pays off, or produce his | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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# "Welcome to The Pleasuredome" - And it may be more complicated than | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
blowing up a balloon, but if you deal with the pressure, the rewards | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
are great, as British Cycling found in Beijing in 2008, and this is | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
where the pressure comes from today, the expectant crowd at this | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
wonderful Velodrome and after the amazing scenes in the last couple | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
of hours for Team GB, now it is the time for cycling to live up to the | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
expectation it has not had to live with for decades. They have got | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
their sideburns on, the flags are flying and it is time for the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
cyclists to deliver and this is where they will get the chance to | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
do that, this inspiring, �93 million Velodrome where we hope to | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
continue the British medal rush because it has been an amazing | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
afternoon for British success. Alongside me, two men who know | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
about the golden generation of British cycling. Before we go any | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
further, let's just reflect on that road race from a few days ago. How | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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It is OK. Obviously, it was bitterly disappointing. We could | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
have not done anything different. We went in with a plan. On another | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
day it would have worked out. We count on things which were out of | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
our control. That is how it is, that is cycling. It is the most | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
complicated part of cycling, the road race and that is what happens | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
when you go for it. I love the fact when I asked for Mark, what did you | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
do next, he said he got back on the bike and won some races. What about | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
2016? I think there will be the road race but still a while to go. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
There are some things before that. There is the Tour de France to come. | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
And alongside you, Jamie, you know what it feels like to come inside | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
the velodrome, put on side -- put on the G B T shirt and walk away | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
with a medal. What are your thoughts? I play a coaching role | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
and that was a decision I made about 2.5 years ago. I had to look | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
into the future. I would be 39 if I was here competing and I thought I | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
would have my work cut-out so I decided to retire and take up | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
coaching. Mixed emotions. I live in America now with my wife and kids. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
It is great being back here now, near enough my home town Olympics. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
I'm excited to be here. It will be an amazing atmosphere and I am glad | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
to be part of it. I am amazed will land you in here now that you a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
coaching the Americans! It will be a special afternoon for British | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
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Gold for Sir Chris Hoy today and he is officially our greatest ever | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Olympian. His team will defend the sprint title they won in Beijing. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Victoria Pendleton is the most successful British female track | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
cyclist of all time and alongside Jess varnishes and action later on. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
And it is also the start of the team pursuit. Once again, Great | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Britain defending champions but incredible competition from the | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
Australian Quartet. These are the live races we will be | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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Just a reminder that you can follow all the cycling action on the red | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
button. Let's just have a chat about the two women going for | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
action in the team sprints. You are busy writing things down. With the | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
knowledge you have of cycling, Jess Varnish and Victoria Pendleton, | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
what are their chances? They work well together. Vicky is so fast. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
Jess has been working solidly on her starts. Everything she has been | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
doing in training has been out of the starting gate which you | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
typically do not do. She is going after perfection. Some of the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
training, not necessarily on the track, she does a lot of the track, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
they have put a lot of work in. They have some secret up their | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
sleeve so we hope they will be in fighting fawn. I know you have | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
spent many hours on the track, Mark, and a lot of those hours Vicky | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
would have been on the track with you, what would her mindset be? She | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
said this is her last Olympic Games and she would love to go out on a | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
high. The thing about sprint cycling on the track is the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
fraction of the second, the time difference is so minimal. Every | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
little thing is about perfection. And every single start they do, | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
every training effort they do is like an Olympic final. Jamie can | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
talk more about it and made. I can ride for hours on the back. Every | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
single time these athletes are coming to the velodrome, their | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
training and they have to prepare like an Olympic final. It is not | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
even hundredths of a second, it is thousands of a second which | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
separate them. We will find out exactly what happens because the | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
racing has already happened here as far as the qualifying is concerned. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Jess Varnish is one of the newcomers to cycling as far as the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Olympics is concerned. Half of them have never ridden at an Olympic | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Games before so plenty of pressure on plenty of riders. The British | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
pair going the 4th heat. We will join it in the third. We can hand | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
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over to Hugh Porter and Chris the Netherlands. They are racing | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
against France. At the moment, the competition is being led by eight | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Ukraine. France with the quickest start look for the change. Here it | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
comes. Now the Netherlands have gone ahead. It is not quick enough | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
to be in medal contention but it will be the Netherlands which will | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
polish France of here. They come back to the line and there it is, | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
the Netherlands take it. They go into the lead in the competition | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
ahead of France. That two countries in that heat our first and second. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
I like the look of the Netherlands. We have to take into account that | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
was from a standing start. They are travelling at over 60 kilometres | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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per hour once up to speed. A great the Dutch pairing. We wait for the | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
arrival on the track of the next pair. There will be an eruption of | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
applause. I hope the roof is secure because the applause will resonate | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
in the arena. You can hear the applause starting. They have not | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
come on the track. They have caught a glimpse of them down in the | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
middle. We will have some atmosphere here, I can tell you. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
The British record is 32.75 for so it is well within Great Britain's | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
compass to take the lead in the competition here with one more heat | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
to go. The union flags are waving everywhere. I can hardly hear | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
myself speak! Just Varnish could hardly wait to get on to the bike. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
-- Jess Varnish. She wants to get this under way as quickly as | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
possible. This is the biggest responsibility she has that ever | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
had as an athlete. Victoria Pendleton is in fantastic form but | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
it is all down to Jess now. will try and match the fastest | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
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starter in the business. Jess's personal best -- best is a 37.54. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
She is composing herself. Australia versus Great Britain in the | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
penultimate heat. Australia have a personal best of 37.597. This will | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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arena is absolutely deafening. This is only the qualification round as | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
well. The first 125 metres it is Australia leading. Australia are | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
still ahead. Come on, Victoria. Victoria Pendleton trying to get | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
back. As they come back to the finishing line, there it is, Great | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Britain, look at the time! It is a new world record for Jessica | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
Varnish and Victoria Pendleton. The crowd are going ballistic and that | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
his only qualification. A fantastic ride by a Jessica Varnish. She | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
needed to do something special. You could see Victoria Pendleton | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
waiting to get through. She could not hold herself, she came forwards. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
You could see her gripping the bars and grimacing. That was the most | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
important start she had ever done in her life and she delivered. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
the end of the first lap, they were trailing by 0.3 of a second. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Pendleton, look at the form, she wiped away the deficit, brought | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
them home and we have a new world record. It was absolutely fantastic. | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
They could not have hoped for more. They will be really pleased with | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
that. This is Victoria Pendleton's last competition before she retires. | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
She is finishing after these Games. She has certainly come here in good | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
shape and she will do it justice. new world record. It was 35.549, | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
held by Germany. Now the competitors are preparing | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
for the next heat here. This will be China versus Germany. Germany | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
are the current world champions and they were the world record holders | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
until Great Britain just blazed their way around the board in heat | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
four. You have got to come out onto the track now having seen your | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
world record taken away so that could force you under pressure, to | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
say the least. It is a high pressure event. Imagine being one | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
of the starters in this event. You have a single lap of the track to | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
get it right in four years. final heat of the women's team | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
:28:26. | :28:47. | ||
gone away quicker. They are coached by a Frenchman. That was a very | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
quick start. China are holding off the challenge of the world | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
:29:04. | :29:11. | ||
champions, Germany. Look at this, improving all the time, they got | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
the bronze medal in Melbourne but once again, very impressive. The | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
opening lap was the catalyst for setting the new world record. | :29:23. | :29:30. | |
have talked about them being the dark horse. Is the first time where | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
they have brought everything altogether. They must have seen at | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
the World Championships that the potential was there to pull this | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
together and get themselves a world title. They are on track at the | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
moment. Two world records in the space of five minutes. That is | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
staggering. The result of the qualification round, China quickest. | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
:30:02. | :30:11. | ||
They are not 0.7 slower, Great Great Britain certainly were not in | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
the back foot in that qualifier there. The noise went right three | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
when we broke the world record but that is the way it goes in track | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
cycling. You do something amazing but then another teen pop up and | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
break it. China is a dark horse. Yes, definitely a surprise. They | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
look a bit off at the World Championships so definitely a | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
surprise. They have had a good chunk of time where they can work. | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
There has been a good preparation phase, basically. They have | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
obviously been doing their work very well. Team GB will be happy. | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
Especially Victoria Pendleton. She managed to bridge the gap. Yes, | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
Jess had a good start but it was not the fastest. I think to be able | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
to bring it back like that, it shows the details that have put | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
into it. Every little better of second counts. That was wicked. | :31:11. | :31:18. | |
are talking of 32.5 compared to 32.4, compared to 32.64 Germany who | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
were the world champions and record-holders. Australia will be | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
looking at that now. Germany, that was a surprise. They are hot and | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
cold. They have not seemed to be able to perfect their timings for | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
these championships. They have had some great performances this year. | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
A little bit off the boil. second-fastest for the British | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
women in the women's team sprint. I think we would call that so far, so | :31:47. | :31:57. | |
:31:57. | :32:04. | ||
good. How will the men fare? We sprint getting under way. Use | :32:04. | :32:11. | |
Zealand against Russia. We have a problem fraught New Zealand. Laying | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
off the wheel on purpose, and that has been dropped. They are only | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
allowed to drop back by 15 metres and they are right on the cusp of | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
that. Any more than 15 metres, they are taken out of the race. They | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
might get disqualified here, New Zealand. Let's have a look at the | :32:29. | :32:39. | |
split. Russia leading on 30.24. I must admit the Russians are looking | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
pretty powerful, and they will take this. Here come Russia, and the | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
time is 43.68. That means that Russia are leading the competition, | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
head of China, and New Zealand go third after that right. That was | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
disappointing for the New Zealand 3. They posted 17.5 for the opening | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
lap, and that is world class, so they will be disappointed there. | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
The difficulty with the team sprint event is you need three guys are | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
able to look fill the roles, and possibly the hardest is the second | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
man, because you get no shelter from the start. You are not going | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
fast enough to get the slipstream, but you have to keep up, then they | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
swing away and you have to do the turn. The third man is out there | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
the longest. They have do not let the pace drop off. I am confused | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
why they keep showing this as an Olympic record. Germany set the | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
world record in Colombia in the World Cup to shave the time of | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
Great Britain, and it was faster. don't think we were really | :33:49. | :33:55. | |
expecting the Russians to a format well in this competition. -- to | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
perform that well. We were expecting competition from Germany | :33:59. | :34:09. | |
:34:09. | :34:15. | ||
and France. New Zealand are strong, out onto the track, the world | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
champions ready to start their qualification round in the men's | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
team sprint and they are racing against France. This is a revenge | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
match because this was the final earlier this year in Melbourne, and | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
France were pipped to the gold medal by a blistering concluding | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
250. That pushed up the French nose out of joint to claim the gold | :34:41. | :34:51. | |
:34:51. | :34:51. | ||
medal. The leading time is currently held by Russia on 43.681. | :34:51. | :34:59. | |
China on 43.7, so it will be really interesting this clash. Olympic | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
bronze medal winners in 2000, Australia. But we are looking at a | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
powerful squad from France. They have been world champions 10 times, | :35:09. | :35:16. | |
France, and have won a medal of any colour in it every Olympics. Left | :35:16. | :35:26. | |
:35:26. | :35:38. | ||
Look at this. Australia at the moment just ahead of France in the | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
early stages and that is not the quickest opening 125. Frances Head | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
now -- France have just gone ahead. Can Australia comeback on the final | :35:53. | :36:02. | |
lap? At the final lap has been surrendered, and he is flying down | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
the back straight. Coming back to the line, let's have a look at the | :36:06. | :36:13. | |
time. France take it. 43.097. A very good time by France, as | :36:13. | :36:22. | |
expected, and the time for Australia, 43.377. Well, we | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
expected nothing less from the French trio. An incredibly fast | :36:28. | :36:38. | |
:36:38. | :36:40. | ||
starter, consistent as well. 17.3, a phenomenal opening lap. A team | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
with a lot of experience as well. Disappointed after the World | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
Championships. So some revenge there. Slight revenge, yes. The | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
fast opening lap underpins that victory. That is the quickest | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
opening 250 we have had, and then the good work is carried on and | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
that man who has won silver medals in the world championships carries | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
it on. He is the man with all that energy. This will be a real crunch | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
match, Germany, the world record holders, versus Great Britain, the | :37:16. | :37:25. | |
Olympic champions. We can show you the standings. We are really hoping | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
PS. Philip Hindes has been boasting 17.5 in training. -- we are really | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
hoping here. It is asking a lot of them. A massive responsibility | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
resting on the shoulders of this young man. He has to get them off | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
to a good start or they will not be in the competition. 19 years of age, | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
Philip Hindes. Following the boots of Jamie stat. What a noise in the | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
arena. Deafening as the Great Britain team line-up in the back | :37:58. | :38:05. | |
straight. We were expecting world records to fall in the event. It is | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
a little bit colder in the arena than it was three-quarters of an | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
hour ago. The air-conditioning kicking in. Nicer for us but it | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
does not the edge of the time. Reports from the camp are that the | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
chasing Kenny is in fantastic form. Germany not using their strongest | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
man to do the third lap. That is interesting, because the man came | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
in this competition from been ended -- entered in the mountain bike | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
race. Philip Hindes leading us off, then Jason Kearney and Chris Hoy. | :38:44. | :38:51. | |
Two survivors from Beijing -- Jason Kearney. So the final heat, Germany | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
in the phone straight, the world record holders -- the home straight. | :38:56. | :39:04. | |
And Britain, the Olympic champions. A problem for the British team. | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
Well, it look like a problem with the steering. He went off the track, | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
Philip Hindes. He took no pressure off the pedals, but the front wheel | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
was slipping. It was Philip Hindes, I think. My goodness me. We will | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
have to find out what the problem is. Certainly not the kind of start | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
Great Britain wanted. Let's have a look. Hopefully we can see a replay | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
and maybe get an idea. There was the problem, problem with steering, | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
it looks like. So, we are not sure what has happened there. Dear, oh | :39:43. | :39:52. | |
dear. It looked to me like a failure of the steering. Something | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
:40:02. | :40:04. | ||
restart. Nothing he could do about that. They will find out what the | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
problem was. It is a mechanical problem. Certainly not the start | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
and 19-year-old will be wanting. did snap out of the gate very | :40:18. | :40:28. | |
:40:28. | :40:28. | ||
quickly. He is straight on to the spare bike. Ian Dyer, the British | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
coach, running back to the centre, trying to sort things out. He is | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
not panicking. Straight on to the spare bike to roll around. There is | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
Ian Dyer, trying to find something in there. It looks like another | :40:47. | :40:57. | |
:40:57. | :41:01. | ||
going for a restart. Normally when there is a problem with the start | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
they are often put straight back on the bikes, but with a mechanical | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
issue like that they would be put into the last heat, but it's not | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
possible in this case. But they will give them a little time. The | :41:16. | :41:23. | |
track is being inspected. Doesn't seem to be a problem. The fastest | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
time we have had 43.097. That time posted by France. Let's hope that | :41:30. | :41:40. | |
:41:40. | :41:57. | ||
as us. They cannot quite work it out. From the shots we got, he did | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
very well not to come down heavily. Well, we will have to wait for the | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
autopsy. Let's hope there isn't one! There was clearly a mechanical | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
problem. Spare bikes in the middle for just this eventuality. They are | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
still rolling around, so we will find out what they are actually | :42:19. | :42:27. | |
going to do there. They got out of the gate really nicely. Always some | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
drama in the track racing. They will start to pull the gate to back | :42:31. | :42:41. | |
:42:41. | :42:49. | ||
raced in Germany at junior level. He has aged your passport as his | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
father was a soldier. -- he had a dual passport. He was eligible to | :42:55. | :43:05. | |
:43:05. | :43:16. | ||
Well, a dramatic entrance to British Cycling for Philip Hindes. | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
He made his debut just a few months ago, and making his way back onto | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
the bike. Jamie is alongside me and he has performed the exact role | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
here, the man leading out the team. We will have a look back at what | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
happened, but now it looks like they are gearing up to go again. | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
Real drama in the Velodrome to kick-start the track cycling. Here | :43:39. | :43:49. | |
:43:49. | :43:51. | ||
again, and the good news is that young Philip Hindes, the 19-year- | :43:51. | :44:01. | |
:44:01. | :44:17. | ||
old, that has not fazed him a tall. fastest time, 43.097. Looking for a | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
far staff. The Germans come out of the gate here. Look for the leading | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
time after the opening 125. Here they come. A good start from | :44:29. | :44:37. | |
Germany and they are the fastest, but we will see after the first 250. | :44:37. | :44:43. | |
17.227 for the Germans, and that is unreal. What can the two | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
experienced riders do. The crowd are really getting behind them here | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
and Germany have been pushed back. Terrific riding by Kenny. And now | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
it is all about the treble Olympic gold medallist to put the fastest | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
time down. Here they come. Oh, great Britain are the quickest. | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
43.065. The fastest of the qualifiers and the big man clenches | :45:08. | :45:14. | |
his fist and says, anything you can do, we can do better. What a ride, | :45:14. | :45:21. | |
Chris Hoy! That was incredible. To watch them have problems. I saw | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
this as few years back when we were held in the gate and it destroyed | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
the chances of a medal and my heart was in my mouth watching that. | :45:28. | :45:35. | |
Philip Hindes has posted 17.5 seconds and delivered again. His | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
first time at an event of this magnitude, the most important | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
moment on the track of his young life and he delivered a solid time | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
to get the other two into the race. That was a fantastic piece of | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
riding. And what a tonic for the British team. The women have set a | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
world record and now we have great Britain has the fastest in the | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
men's competition. They will be so pleased with that. They did not | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
know if this would be a medal shot, but look how pleased they are. | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
Fantastic, there. Chris Whalley is delighted with that. -- Chris | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
Gohouri is delighted with that. Look at the muscle development of | :46:15. | :46:25. | |
:46:25. | :46:28. | ||
phenomenal. I reckon that is the 4th fastest time ever, so we have a | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
got a good standard up here. have heard world records are | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
expected to go, but maybe not in the final because they are so close | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
together. Let's confirm the qualifiers. Eight will go through | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
into the first round with Great Britain sitting right there at the | :46:43. | :46:53. | |
:46:53. | :46:59. | ||
top of the qualifiers with a very There is a huge screen here in the | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
arena. It says, make some noise. There was plenty of noise but it | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
was not cheers, it was gasps when this happened for Great Britain. | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
Alongside me is Jamie Staff. Just explain what you think happened | :47:12. | :47:19. | |
here too young Philip Heinz. basically is slightly waited to one | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
side. It is like a domino effect. He did the perfect thing there. As | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
a bike ride that he might have been able to get back on the bike and | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
start writing again that he would have been so far behind Jason and | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
Chris. He did the right thing. He fell off so he got a restart. It | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
was probably part nerves so I am sure. If it probably was, he is | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
only a teenager and has only been involved in the British set-up for | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
a few months. Mark, you have ridden in the team pursuit for years. What | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
with the feeling have been like from Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy when | :47:54. | :48:01. | |
they were looking at Philip? It is all about trust, isn't it? It is | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
all about believing in yourself. You can do everything to get your | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
fitness up but you have to have the trust in the other guys. It is | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
about trusting everyone else. Those four getting everything right on | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
the day. It is a big thing and big pressure. It is not just yourself | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
you are worrying about, it is everyone else. To then turn that | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
round against a German team who have said the team at the sprint is | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
our priority and to allow that time, or to performance from Team GB? | :48:34. | :48:40. | |
was amazing. He did a 17.5 which is on par. Anything above that would | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
have been fantastic. I know Jason is in the form of his life will | :48:46. | :48:55. | |
Stott they clawed back into second place I believe after that lap. It | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
was an amazing ride. We are not counting any chickens but it has | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
been an incredible day so far. You can see the action continues thick | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
and fast and it it is time for the first round in the women's sprint. | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
The aim is that the two fastest make it through to the gold medal | :49:12. | :49:22. | |
:49:22. | :49:33. | ||
race, the second two fastest will world record set by Great Britain. | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
The Tube teams settle down to the challenge. At the moment, Australia | :49:38. | :49:48. | |
:49:48. | :49:49. | ||
have the quickest start -- the two teams settled down. And Nurburg | :49:49. | :49:59. | |
trademark start by Anna Mears. -- another trademark start. It is | :49:59. | :50:09. | |
:50:09. | :50:45. | ||
an event which lasts just two laps of the track. | :50:45. | :50:52. | |
This brings onto the track the team of France. They will be racing | :50:52. | :51:02. | |
:51:02. | :51:18. | ||
against Germany who why the current record taken away from them by | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
Great Britain. In the back straight it is the team of France. France | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
have got some work to do here because Germany where the third | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
quickest in the time-trial round. Germany have got away more sweetly | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
with good style away from the starting blocks. France will never | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
pull that back now. So Germany blazing their way round here to | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
assure victory. They will wait and see who they ride against in the | :51:52. | :52:02. | |
:52:02. | :52:21. | ||
and France is one second, that is a massive window of advantage in two | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
lapse. The French pair will be very disappointed with that right. They | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
expected to be challenging hard in this event. It shows how closely | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
fought it is between four different countries here. The Germans are | :52:39. | :52:49. | |
:52:49. | :53:05. | ||
world champions. They are very heat. This is going to be between | :53:05. | :53:15. | |
:53:15. | :53:37. | ||
Great Britain who are already out here against Ukraine. The world | :53:37. | :53:47. | |
:53:47. | :54:07. | ||
record was set by China. Two world the right that they did in the | :54:07. | :54:14. | |
first round. It was a quick start. Jessie varnish is on fire here. -- | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
just varnish is on fire here. They are beating Ukraine at the moment | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
for a start this is Victoria Pendleton back to her imperious | :54:26. | :54:36. | |
:54:36. | :54:49. | ||
last dried. They are coming thick and fast. This one is about | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
advancing in the competition. World records are nice to have but most | :54:53. | :55:02. | |
important is getting through to the final. A sterling effort here from | :55:02. | :55:10. | |
Jessica Varnish. She is a member of the Halesowen cycling club and I | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
know they have a big screen rig up there in the clubhouse and it will | :55:15. | :55:25. | |
:55:25. | :55:46. | ||
be full to capacity as they roar to race for gold. We just wait for | :55:46. | :55:56. | |
:55:56. | :55:56. | ||
official confirmation of that. nearest to them is Australia. We | :55:57. | :56:03. | |
have China in the next heat. Venezuela are a country mile Shier | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
of the time of Great Britain. It looks like it could be China versus | :56:08. | :56:17. | |
Great Britain in the class for gold. We will see that in a moment. We | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
can guarantee that the British team will be in the final. What is | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
happening here? I actually was looking at the British pair and | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
watching the changeover. Vicky Pendleton was coming through very | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
fast. They are not allowed to overtake the for the first rider | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
has completed the lap. They are having a strong discussion in the | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
centre. There is David Brailsford. I sincerely hope they will not | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
disqualified somebody for not being in the window of change. They did | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
this in the world championships and it ruined the competition. They are | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
trying to make it fair for everybody but the rules are the | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
riders know where the points of change are. It is a very difficult | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
thing to do at high speed. Dave Brailsford is not looking very | :57:06. | :57:15. | |
happy there. He is not looking happy. They are going away for a | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
discussion. You can see clearly with hand gestures in the middle. | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
Would it be a disqualification Corey relegation? Have to wait and | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
see. Dave Brailsford has been asked to back off and let them have a | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
discussion. Everybody in the arena here is wondering what is going on. | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
Next move the competition on. We are 15 seconds away from the final | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
heat. This is between China who why the new world record holders | :57:49. | :57:59. | |
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against Venezuela. They are almost two seconds slower than China. We | :58:02. | :58:12. | |
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1.1 second up. China are blazing their way around the boards here | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
where they will be riding against Great Britain if they are not | :58:32. | :58:40. | |
disqualified. Chris, that is a another new world record by China. | :58:40. | :58:49. | |
That is is amazing. They are unbelievable. I think that goes | :58:49. | :58:55. | |
down to the fantastic start. We did say they were the dark horse. They | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
have really managed to put it together. A fantastic start out of | :59:00. | :59:10. | |
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the gate. It is a fantastic pairing. They have been around for a while. | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
They were third in the world championships earlier this year and | :59:15. | :59:18. | |
the year before. They have always been knocking on the door and we | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
both had a discussion in the hotel the other day to say, let's watch | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
China, they are improving all the time. That is the coach of the | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
Chinese. He must be elated with the performances. And subject to no | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
relegation here for the British, the final for the gold and silver | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
should be between China and Great Britain. There is no announcement | :59:41. | :59:47. | |
yet. Days Brailsford is still down there having discussions. What will | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
happen in the arena if they are disqualified? I am just listening | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
to the announcers as well. Dave Brailsford has planted himself in | :59:57. | :00:04. | |
the judge's compound waiting to see what the outcome is. It will be | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
:00:14. | :00:15. | ||
such a shame if the British pair did not get to ride in this final. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Something is being announced but I cannot quite catch what the message | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
is. We will be issued with a -- an official communique if they are | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
taken out of the competition. It would be nice if we could see some | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
:00:43. | :00:43. | ||
images of the incident that they are discussing. Still deliberating. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
We know there is still a possibility here. Looking at the | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
body language in the centre, it does not look to be good -- | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
necessarily going the British team's way. He looks to be trying | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
to gently influence the outcome. That is his job to look after his | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
own troops, to fight for them. The discussion looks like an | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
explanation to me. We remember this, Sir from New Delhi. He was a pretty | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
sharp with some of his decisions. They did say when they took out the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
British trio for an infringement in the changeovers then that they were | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
not going to do anything. They are saying gold medal final, that | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
cannot possibly be right. Unless more than one squad has been | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
disqualified? It is getting very complicated here. Our scoreboards | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
are not Updating at the moment. They are showing but everybody | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
qualified. We have Australia, Germany, Great Britain and China | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
and subject to that gentleman there if deciding there was an | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
irregularity with a ride by the British, it should be Australia | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
Germany for bronze and Great Britain versus Trina for gold. -- | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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verses China. We go back now to the the British cycling team at the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
moment, Dave Brailsford, he is having in-depth discussions. Behind | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
having in-depth discussions. Behind us, the racing continues. Give us | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
an idea of what may have been the issue. We saw an issue in the | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
changeover in the world championship with Philip Hindes, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
how hard is it to get it right? don't know in the team sprint, I | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
have never done it. We don't actually know what is going on | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
right now. It is such a fine line. You are talking about these minute | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
:03:26. | :03:29. | ||
metres and seconds. James will explain it better. There is 15 | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
metres its side of the pursuit line. The rider behind the front of his | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
:03:45. | :03:46. | ||
will, that cannot pass the guy in front. -- of his wheel. At the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
World Championships there were a number of disqualifications. We are | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
assuming it may be that at the moment. It could be an equipment | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
issue, I really don't know, I don't want to speculate too much. The | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
fact we saw some of those graphics on the screen, it is not instilling | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
us with confidence at the moment. Very little clarity at the moment. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Just to be totally clear, we are expecting Great Britain against | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
China to ride for the gold medal, and Australia and Germany to ride | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
for the bronze. Can you shed any more light on it? They've | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Brailsford is talking to be, says. The, CS said they would use | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
discretion when it came to issues like this. It seems to be that Jess | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Varnish pulled off outside of the box, and Victoria Pendleton went | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
through. Similar to what happened to Philip Hindes in Melbourne. That | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
is the understanding of the British team and David Brailsford is | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
explaining that there should be some discretion, but rules are | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
rules and if they have taken over at the wrong point, there is little | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
they can do. At the moment, they are hoping that the judges might | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
use their discretion -- discretion in favour of Great Britain. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
fact they have discretion to use is probably good news at this point. I | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
think we can have a look at the changeover and maybe you can talk | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
changeover and maybe you can talk changeover and maybe you can talk | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
us through it and explain if you see any issues, from your knowledge | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
of riding and coaching. Unfortunately, the shot is not that | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
wide. Victoria was well under Jess which leads me to think she was | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
already passed her back wheel prior to the past point. We are still | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
really speculating. We would need some still photography. I am sure | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
somebody got the shot we are somebody got the shot we are | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
looking for, give me an idea of the protocol, is it and -- down to Dave | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Brailsford to fight for Team GB? is a tough call, normally what the | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
judges say will stick, I have had my fair argument and they don't | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
budge. If this is the case and someone has made that call, it is | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
up to the judge and normally that stance. There is not normally... I | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
was the victim of that in 2000 done for, disqualified by the judges' | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
decision and there it is no recall, unfortunately. Let's focus on what | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
was good about that race. It was an impressive start from Jess Varnish, | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
but Victoria Pendleton go much going even quicker. She was a | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
little bit slow on the first lap, Victoria picked up a speed. It was | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
a solid ride, a very good ride. I thought technically it looked very | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
smooth and very fast. As things pan out, it will put them up to the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
gold medal, so fingers crossed. There is some breaking news, I | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
think, can you explain what you know? No, doesn't seem that we can | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
hear from jail at the moment. -- from the jail at the moment. But it | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
does seem that we are not getting disqualified. We would try to shed | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
some light as things progress. I am being told that she is there, what | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
do you know? Sorry. Initially, we did think that Great Britain were | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
going to be allowed to ride. I have just looked across at Dave | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Brailsford and set up or down, and this is what he did. We haven't had | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
the official disqualification, but that suggests we will not see | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Jessica or Victoria ride in the final. We are given use they are in, | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
then that they are out. I think it conveys how confusing it is up here | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
in the Velodrome at the moment. It is difficult, there is not much | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
news coming through. Sue, we are going to try to get the bottom of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
what is going on, all of us have our fingers crossed that Victoria | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Pendleton and Jess Varnish get to race for the gold medal. As soon as | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
that is clarified, we will be right but. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Thank you very much. I think it probably isn't going to be great | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
news. Britain's men will hopefully be going for a gold later on. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Elsewhere as far as the Olympics is concerned, there has been so much | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
to celebrate as far as the British team is concerned. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Dorset marksman Pippa Wilson held his nerve to take gold for Britain | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
:08:52. | :08:53. | ||
in the men's double trap. -- Peter. It was a British one-two for David | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Florence and Richard Hounslow getting silver. There was another | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
medal on the water when Britain's lightweight men's four own silver | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
with a thrilling final at Eton Dorney. And Gemma Gibbons landed a | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
superb silver in judo, it is men's first medal for 12 years. -- | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Britain's first medal. Commiserations, but you are an | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Olympic silver medallist, how does that sound? It doesn't really seem | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
real at the minute, but amazing. could see in your face you really | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
wanted to go for the gold, this crowd wanted to help you over the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
line, where did you find the strength? The crowd were amazing, I | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
couldn't have done it without them. I wish I could have got the gold | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
but unfortunately it was not to be. What has it taken for you to get | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
here? A lot of hard work. Dedication. Surrey... Don't be | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
sorry. You have done your mum proud and this country proud. What do you | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
think this does for GB Judea, you have been a hero to these guys? | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
hope it does a lot for Great Britain judo. We have not had a | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
medal until today but are great -- guys are training so hard. We'll | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
deserve medals and they were unlucky to have a horrible draws | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
first time around. The whole of the Scott -- what are training so hard | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
and the other guys deserve more than what they got. I hope we can | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
get more and more great results because the team are worthy of it. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
You are an Olympic silver medallist, congratulations. Tears of | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
disappointment but she has so much to be proud of. 7,000 people on | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
their feet, chanting, Gemma, Gemma. Britain's first medal for 12 years. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
She has done her mother and herself proud. This is a moment that I hope | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
she will appreciate far more when she realises what she has achieved. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
An Olympic silver medal to add to Britain's tally, well done to Gemma | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
Gibbons at the XL centre. -- ExCel centre. It is not the only medal | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
that Britain has received this afternoon. We are going to head | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
about 30 miles north and joined Paul Dickenson for a gold and | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
To achieve their medals here today, they had to be the very best in the | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
world, not just this year but in any year. Pavel and Peter | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Hochschorner from Slovakia, it three times in the past they have | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
come away with the Olympic gold medal. This time, their only win a | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
bronze. They certainly are the best the world has ever seen. But on | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
this occasion, they were beaten not just by one British crew, but by | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
:12:23. | :12:30. | ||
They certainly will go down in the history books as the greatest sea | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
to perform as ever. But what about the performances over the last few | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
days of David Florence on the left- hand side and Richard Hounslow. A | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
wonderful moment for these two young men. What a comeback after a | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
disappointing first half of the week, to come back and get this all | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the medals. They were absolutely delighted when they cross the | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
finish line, and so they should be. We had gold and bronze in the men's | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
cycling time trial yesterday. The canoe slalom team have gone one | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
better. We have got Cilla, but we have got gold as well. -- we have | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
:13:28. | :13:33. | ||
On the right hand side, Etienne Stott, along with Tim Bayley. The B | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
two Olympic champions in canoe slalom -- the C two Olympic | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
champions. 12,000 people going wild in celebration, a double | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
:13:54. | :13:54. | ||
celebration of British expertise in this remarkable sport. A magical | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
moment for the sport, and fought these young men. Absolutely. Our | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
first gold medal. They missed out four years ago, to be on the top of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
the podium at the Olympic Games, I don't think they can quite believe | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
:14:18. | :14:19. | ||
it and we are so excited to have Please stand for the national | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
:14:29. | :14:55. | ||
# God save our gracious Queen # Long live our noble Queen | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
# God save the Queen # Send her victorious | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
# Happy and glorious # Long to reign over us | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
:15:09. | :15:15. | ||
# God save the Queen. The greatest moment in British | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
canoe slalom history, the moment when two crews climbed the medal | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
rostrum in the Olympic Games. Silver going to David Florence and | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Richard Hounslow. The champions, the gold medallists, Etienne Stott | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
and Tim Bayley, brilliant. SUE BARKER: They really were | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
brilliant, amazing scenes at Lee Valley. It is nice to hear the | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
national anthem, so why don't we hear it one more time, as we had | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
over to the shooting, where Peter held his nerve to win Britain | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
It is gold for will some of Great Britain, qualified with hundred and | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
43, shot 45 in the finals, he won by two, the father son from Dorset, | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
winning gold for Great Britain, following -- farmer's son from | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Dorset. He will hope to have his funding restored. The funding for | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
:16:26. | :16:27. | ||
shooting was slashed in Great Britain for after Beijing, even | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
though Wilson was too young. The youngest finalist by 13 years, six | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
feet seven inches tall. The farmer's son from Dorset. He has | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
taken the gold medal for Great Britain. A triumph for him and his | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
coach, Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum. He has been with him since the funding | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
was removed, and now we will have the national anthem of Great | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
:17:05. | :17:05. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 69 seconds | :17:05. | :18:14. | |
Pippa Wilson her, the farmer's son from Dorset, has one gold. | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
Britain now has four gold medals, six silver and four bronze and we | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
are at 5th place in the medal table. We were hoping to add to that tally | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
at the Velodrome but it is not good news from the Valegro. What is the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
latest? Thank you very much and what have - | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
- and what after what has been a good day for Team GB, the good news | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
does not continue. Jess Varnish and Vicky Pendleton posted a stunning | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
time, that would have put them through to raise for the gold medal | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
against China but then questions were being asked and we saw days | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Brailsford in the centre discussing what was happening and what could | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
potentially see them not race in that final and I am afraid to say | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
they will not be riding for a gold medal. Victoria Pendleton has been | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
speaking to Jill Douglas to explain why. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Victoria, one minute, elation, the next minute, despair. What | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
happened? Well, it was just we did not change over in the right zone | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
on the track. It is really hard at that speed and I am focusing on | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Jess Varnish's wheel. It is so we see if she moves up slightly, I | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
just go, that is what happened. We never really had any legal change | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
before so it is not something we have been too concerned about in | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
the past but it is one of those things that happens. It is not | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Jessica Varnish's fault, it is not my fault, it is both of us partly | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
to blame. We were overwhelmed and excited and to and bit too eager. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
We should have kept a lid on it a bit more, I think. I can't imagine | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
how many times you have rehearsed for this moment hands the number of | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
times you have trained for this. For this to happen, how can it be | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
explained? It is just one of those things, really. Now and again, | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
rubbish things happen and this is one of those days. On the whole we | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
have had an excellent run. We were pleased with our time. We hoped to | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
go about faster, with a gear change in the final, we wanted a gold and | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
silver ride. The only positive I can take is that my form is really | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
good. That is my fastest lap, I backed it up with a second ride. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
All I can do is keep my head down, focus on tomorrow and the sprint | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
competition the day after that and give it everything I have got. | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Jess Varnish, but his herd Games over. You can at least get back on | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
the bike. It is not quite per Games over, she has many more Olympic | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Games to go to. It is an amazing opportunity for her, and experience | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
of the Games environment. I am sure she will go into Rio and smash it. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
I hope so, thank you, Victoria. Thank you. | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
I imagine Rio feels a long wait a weight for Jess Varnish. Full | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
credit to Victoria Pendleton for being honest and saying it may have | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
been my fault and she is the senior member of that team. Yes, the way | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
she said you get carried away in the moment and you are focusing on | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
your lap. You have to have perspective. You are travelling at | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
close to 50 miles an hour on a track coming out of the turn, you | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
cannot see the markers on the floor. You are looking at the Ryder in | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
front of you. I have had this argument before. It is hard to see | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
that and judge it. By the nature of turns and the centre of gravity, | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
you gain speed going through the turn. She has come out of that last | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
turn being Capita -- being catapulted out of the turn and it | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
can be hard to control. Having said that, this is why they are here. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
They should be perfection at the Olympic Games. We can make excuses, | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
but I feel for Jessica Varnish. This was her only event here. There | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
is another four years, a long time to wait. Mark, despite it being | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
different circumstances, I am sure you can relate to how Jessica is | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
stealing because four years ago in Beijing every cyclist on the track | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
left for the medal apart from yourself. What would your message | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
be to her? To focus on Rio? said it there, she will have to | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
question, she will feel left out. But you come back and make it right. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
She will not come back and right this time but yes, it is a shame. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
She is a great goal. How hard did you find it? It was pretty hard. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
I've found it hard, the questions getting asked. Every single person, | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
what is it like to be on the track side without a medal? That was the | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
continual reminder, I would probably have forgotten about it. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
It is the Olympic Games, the biggest thing. It it is the biggest | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
thing in the world, to aspire to, four years of work, to be lost in a | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
fraction of a second. The real frustration here is they had the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
speed, they made it through to the gold Red Bull -- the gold medal | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
race. Victoria was looking on gold medal for. She is going to race in | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the women's sprint and the Keirin as well. They need to stay strong. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Yes, she looked emotional on the screen. I am sure she will leave | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
here and be disappointed, in herself, and there will be a bunch | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
of emotions going through. Hopefully she can pick herself up. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
She has other events. I think she will be fine. There is a team | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
around her to pick her up. She knows how to do this now. It is a | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
process we go through. Being a sportsman. Real frustration in the | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Velodrome. The men's team spent, they put in a fantastic performance. | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
We will see how they fare later. The men's team pursuit, qualifying | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
today, you can keep across the cycling live by pressing the red | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
button and you can crossed -- you can watch race after race with | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
commentary. It is not just about having the best equipment in the | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
world, it is making sure that when you get to a major competition, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
mentally, you are right. As far as the bike is concerned, it helps to | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
have decent technology it under 20 years ago a bloke from the rural | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
was busy revolutionising the world of cycling. Bolstering formidable | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
athletic talent with technology. Olympic gold and yellow jerseys | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
followed, before turning his attention to designing equipment | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
for the next generation. They were the secret squirrel Club. | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Lovely to see Chris Boardman. This is the modern version of his helmet, | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
this is the key Pendleton's for this Olympic Games. I know about | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
aerodynamics. It is back-to-front! How much of a real effect does this | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
kind of thing had. Surprisingly, 80% of the energy that are right | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
expense is simply pushing air out of the way, so aerodynamics is | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
massive in the sport, particularly on track. Riders are totally | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
involved in the process. They understand the value of | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
aerodynamics and they all have been to the wind tunnel, they have | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
looked and tweaked their position. A tiny change to their elbow can | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
mean more than changing the entire bike. We are having an incredible | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
small head -- I have an incredibly small head. I can fit into a bitter | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Pendleton's helmet. I will be mobbed for autograph. It is like? | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
Yes, the shape is really important because of aerodynamics. The inside | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
is called. Rather than using foam, it is hard to take you seriously | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
with that helmet on. Rather than you used foam -- rather than use | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
them, they use aluminium honeycomb. It is good at absorbing the impact | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
and deceleration and it is Super light. This is Pendleton's sprint | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
:26:29. | :26:32. | ||
bike. What gets you particularly shapes and it has the right shapes | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
with tubes and handlebars. It gets aerodynamic. One of the new bits on | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
this year's bike is these cracks, these carbon-fibre cranks. They are | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
made with 180 separate pieces of carbon fibre, laid it on to a | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
special metal. The whole thing goes into the mauled. It turned to | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
liquid at 50 degrees, runs out and they are hollow. They took one side | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
and hung the equivalent of a lift full of people on it and it still | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
did not break. Let's talk materials and fabric. There is still in the | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
tyres? Yes. Why? It holds a lot of pressure. There are three | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
atmospheres, these hold 14, even more for race days. What about the | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
riders and what they wear. It did look like they were wearing rubber | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
in Beijing, then there was a rumour that after the Games the suits were | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
banned and they were shredded by They were using a rubberised | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
material, in Beijing, they did not want people to change shape with | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
materials. They were not shredded. They were not shredded, they are | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
sitting in a box in a store room somewhere. This time around, they | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
are made of more conventional micro material. There is another group of | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
British cycling called the marginals Games team headed by Matt | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Parker, looking at the physiological side of it. One of | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
the things they have come up with, I can't believe people have not | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
done it before, is hot pants. We are seeing people warming up, the | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
gay they get the pumps on them, it keeps muscles warmed and told the | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
moment that they get onto the track. The UCI, the governing body, were | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
hacked off after Beijing? There was a lot of press about the technology | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
and because of the medals, people thought they have won nearly | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
everything, so the you see I is seeing everything we I using. All | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
this work at the Secret squirrel Club, they have been involved in | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
the development sand they are happy now. This stuff none must now be | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
for sale. You can go to the UK Sport website can purchase more of | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
these if you wanted to. What would it cost me? Less than �20,000 for | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
that piece of hi-tech kit. exactly this, Victoria Pendleton's | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
sprint bike, �20,000. And your consultancy, around a hundred | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
grand? We can talk about it later. Chris Boardman is very expensive to | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
hire. We can talk about what it is like to have that equipment and you. | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
You can't talk about the specifics but we know you had a special bike | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
for the road race here at these Games. How much added confidence do | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
you get on the start line, when you know about the thought that has | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
gone and you regret that? further the race, the more Games | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
you will get. It is as easier -- as easy as that. If you can see the | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
numbers on a spreadsheet, you can multiply it by to run 50 kilometres, | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
it is incredible to see. It is not just about aerodynamics. I put out | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
not as much as the track sprinters, but I have a lot of power. The bike | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
can be lighter and aerodynamic but you need to have confidence in it. | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
Did you can have aerodynamics and stiffness and wait, it gives you | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
massive confidence that you are not wasting energy on every little bit. | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Is it something you used to enjoy? Chris clearly loves the science of | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
cycling. He says the riders are so involved, he said remarkably that | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
if the Ryder does not like a certain think they have designed, | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
it does not go on the bike because you guys make that final decision? | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
You have to believe it what you are using. I had faith in the frames | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
and the parts and to this day that frame, quite a few years old now, | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
no one has come close to replicating that, or anything of | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
that quality. Like Mark said, it is pretty light and so stiff and you | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
do notice the level, I do put out more power than you. You are | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
putting out so much power. That is the equivalent of a high- | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
performance race car, a lot of force on the bottom bracket ten did | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
it is swaying, it is lost energy. As we saw, thousandth of a second, | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
so marginal Games. They nickname themselves the Secret squirrel Club. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
Do you get excited when the guys from the high Performance team say | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
they have something to discuss, do you think this could be it? They | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
were promising these tricks four years ago, I am glad to see them | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
here but it has taken quite a while. It is exciting, as a mature athlete | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
I was pretty interested in it. I would like to learn more about it | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
and take it back to the US, give them tips here and there. No one | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
can come close to what they are manufacturing. What they have done | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
is got this equipment to rule it out for these Olympic Games, no one | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
knows what they have at their disposal? You saw the controversy | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
in Beijing, from the rumours from the press, the teams, the UCI, | :32:03. | :32:11. | |
wanted to say what they want. That is why things have been said, so we | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
they can make this from the Olympics and on the nearside, the | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
UCI will Bennett, so it is a good thing to keep it out and it gives | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
you an added incentive. If these guys are winning and second at the | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
World Championships, they know they have the extra few seconds for the | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
Olympic Games, it is confidence and hopefully faster times. OK, it is | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
nice to know the Beijing since were not shredded afterwards come as | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
though you might get yours back one day. We have spoken about the | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
sprinters and the endurance riders are getting the same equipment are | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
these Olympic Games. Before long, you will see the team pursuit has a | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
contract as they start their bid for glory at these Games. There | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
have been changes to the team but they are still confident they have | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
Pursuit, there is something about it, you are in it together, there | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
are four of you together, training, you have been living out of it | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
other's pockets since November. We have been with each other more than | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
our own girlfriends. You go through so much together. The whole journey, | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
all the way to that one day where you have got to perform at your | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
best. All of you getting to your physical peak, it is a big ask. | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
That is the challenge and what makes it so unique and so great to | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
be a part of. When you have a right, like at the worlds, or you get the | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
Rock were caught, it is almost effortless. -- or you get the world | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
record. You are in this zone. You can hear the noise around two but | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
you're looking at the wheel and just thinking about turning added | :33:48. | :33:58. | |
almost happens in slow motion. -- and it almost happens. You feel the | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
crowd, what is going on around you, it is a strange feeling, you have | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
to give it everything. Here come Great Britain! Great Britain are | :34:08. | :34:18. | |
:34:18. | :34:18. | ||
the world champions. A new world Training has been going well and we | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
are all buzzing. I really want to win gold. It is all about the team | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
pursuit. I want to come away with a gold medal and I think the best | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
chance is with the team pursuit, I am going to focus on that. The Home | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
Olympics is massive, I think a world record will go, and we are | :34:37. | :34:47. | |
:34:47. | :34:48. | ||
capable of it. It is going to be Jamie is continuing to study the | :34:48. | :34:55. | |
form. Team GB are on fire in this event. You can talk about this now. | :34:55. | :35:01. | |
No more saying that Jamie is the expert, what do you expect from the | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
British boys? I am expecting them to smash it. Four of the strongest | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
guys in the world, the best team pursuit in the world, Ed Clancy | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
with Darren Thomas. They are going to come here, they are on form. -- | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
Geraint Thomas. I really think they're going to break the world | :35:24. | :35:31. | |
record. Australia will be something of a wounded animal, because GB | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
went to their backyard and grab themselves a gold medal and the | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
Aussies describe that as a serious kick in the teeth. It might make it | :35:38. | :35:46. | |
a bit tasty. Fingers crossed that GB go out there and win, I have all | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
faith in the boys, I have seen them myself, they are in good form and | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
ready to go. With this equipment, it adds the extra bit of confidence, | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
getting on the line with the bikes, knowing that the bikes and | :36:00. | :36:08. | |
equipment is the best in the world. They will go out and fly. Two of | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
them cried for professional teams. That -- ride for professional teams. | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
That is their day job and they have been missing that to concentrate on | :36:17. | :36:26. | |
this. Being in a professional team gives you a massive boost. Talking | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
of a boost, how much will they have been inspired by what they saw of | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
Bradley Wiggins. He is a former team-mate of two of these guys. | :36:34. | :36:41. | |
think every athlete would be. In the team pursuit, he is | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
concentrating on the road. These guys have grown, they have bonded. | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
They have been growing up since Athens, really. They will go out | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
and hopefully do the business. you find that in 2008, as soon as | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
something incredible happened out of the village, it feeds back into | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
the village and the athletes feed off that. Absolutely. I remember | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
when Nicole won, even commented to someone that the floodgates have | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
opened. Even though I never see the road racing, it is the confidence | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
that we are on form and the coaches have got it right, and here we go. | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
It didn't work for me! Poor old Mark Cavendish! We tried not to | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
remind you of it. It Spain and Denmark are going wheel to wheel, | :37:36. | :37:46. | |
:37:46. | :37:54. | ||
the qualification round. Here comes buying. That puts Spain into the | :37:54. | :38:04. | |
:38:04. | :38:06. | ||
second position. Still leading the competition, Denmark. A nice ride | :38:06. | :38:16. | |
:38:16. | :38:22. | ||
by Denmark, they got the silver Zealand will be next and then it | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
will be Great Britain. We are moving towards the serious end of | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
the competition. New Zealand is expected to post a strong time now | :38:31. | :38:41. | |
:38:41. | :38:56. | ||
come out, New Zealand. New Zealand rode very well in Beijing, got | :38:56. | :39:06. | |
:39:06. | :39:09. | ||
themselves a bronze medal. They stopped the clock on 3.50 7.776 so | :39:09. | :39:19. | |
:39:19. | :39:32. | ||
they have the ability to go quicker so was Ryan. And Bewley, so just | :39:32. | :39:42. | |
:39:42. | :39:45. | ||
one change, Gough has come in to replace Rolston. We are expecting | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
the next four teams to become the fastest in this competition. It is | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
only a question of what order. New Zealand have a strong pedigree in | :39:55. | :40:03. | |
this event. We are expecting four sub four minute rides in the next | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
few minutes. New Zealand were third in the world championships earlier | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
this year. They are going to go quicker than Denmark, who are | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
fellow leaders. The way the competition is beginning to unfold, | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
it is looking very much like we could end up with the medal | :40:23. | :40:31. | |
contenders as Australia, Denmark, New Zealand and Great Britain. And | :40:31. | :40:38. | |
of course, we have also got Russia in there as well. Ryan got them off | :40:38. | :40:45. | |
to a good start, or a lap and a quarter turn to get it up to speed. | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
He Bewley has taken on the speed. He will be injecting more space | :40:50. | :40:56. | |
into the foursome. A good start. The Kiwis, with the bit between | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
their teeth in the opening four laps. Just look at the quality of | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
the team pursuit. They always hold the black line, as though they are | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
on a rail, then they swing high to drop back into the pace of the rest | :41:11. | :41:19. | |
of the team. That is the fastest first four laps we have had. They | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
are riding harder now, we can see they know how important the opening | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
kilometre was. They have got themselves up to speed. Now they | :41:28. | :41:37. | |
will start to possibly write some longer turns. Bewley swings of the | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
front. The national record is 55.2, they are right on that. The way | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
they are going, they could beat it, they said that when they won the | :41:48. | :41:57. | |
oceanic Games in 2011. They trained at the only indoor track in New | :41:57. | :42:05. | |
Zealand, right on the southern tip of the law island. The -- Block | :42:05. | :42:15. | |
:42:15. | :42:26. | ||
turn, stir it -- Gough just put in a single lap turn. I think he is | :42:26. | :42:36. | |
going to do a two lap turn here, that is a big turn at these speeds. | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
Sergent rides on the professional scene. He wasn't at the World | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
Championships but he is here now and it has made a big difference. | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
They are looking good at the moment. The 4th man is losing the pace | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
slightly. I don't think Ryan is having a good ride, he has just | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
done half a lap in this competition, that is not good at all. It will | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
cost you nearly a tenth of a second every time you make a change. You | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
will want to make as few as you possibly can. We have seen them | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
post brilliant rides in the three, as before. And then they have just | :43:09. | :43:19. | |
:43:19. | :43:20. | ||
disintegrated. High if they can maintain this, it could be | :43:20. | :43:27. | |
something like 3.56. They are pushing themselves very hard. They | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
have to do that. There is some real disparity between the abilities in | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
here and you have to be careful. You can use that to help or it can | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
do a lot of damage to the weaker members of the team, when you need | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
three to finish. Getting towards the closing stages of the | :43:44. | :43:53. | |
:43:54. | :43:57. | ||
qualification round. 3.58 0.2 is There will be looking to try to | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
eclipse the time of Denmark. I think they could just about shade | :44:00. | :44:10. | |
:44:10. | :44:11. | ||
it. Coming up to the line. 3.57 0.6. Nearly three-quarters of a second | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
than Denmark. That cost them a lot. The problems they had, about a | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
kilometre and a half to go. Just about held it together, a fantastic | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
ride by Sergent. He is clearly on form. A huge chunk of the | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
pacemaking, and saw them to the finish, as well. In terms of | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
technique, very well drilled. About the team pursuit, it is learning to | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
live on the edge and manage the problems as you go along. They did | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
that well. It takes a lot of courage to throw in a half a lap | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
turn and not do what is written down on a piece of paper, do what | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
is best for the team. The noise is building in the arena. That is | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
because the British quartet are now coming out onto the track, to | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
settle on their bikes, ready for the qualification round. This is | :45:09. | :45:16. | |
going to be something special. Ed Clancy will lead off, Steven Burke, | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
Peter Kenny at third wheel and 4th could the Geraint Thomas. He has | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
been a little off-colour on the final build up. I am told he is | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
back to something like his best. Great Britain will be the next | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
:45:39. | :45:45. | ||
champions. They will be led away by Ed Clancy, the fastest data in the | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
world. He is their secret weapon, not very it secret -- fastest | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
starter in the world. There he is, from Huddersfield original. The | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
Yorkshireman gets the team under way. They hold the world record. | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
There has been a lot of talk about them lowering that world record | :46:04. | :46:11. | |
today. This is a very nice start. The polished unit of Great Britain, | :46:11. | :46:17. | |
coming around to complete the first lap. The already well up on | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
schedule. He we can watch him stepping along the line, to | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
indicate. He did say they wanted to be 0.1 of a second up on the | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
schedule all the way through, which would put them on world record pace. | :46:33. | :46:39. | |
He has stepped three times, they are well on course for a fast time. | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
Almost a second up on Denmark, this is going to be some ride. Let's | :46:43. | :46:53. | |
:46:53. | :46:57. | ||
formidable here, as the first kilometre or is almost completed. | :46:57. | :47:04. | |
Watch the clock for the split up. They are well inside the world | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
record pace. Kennaugh and Thomas are expected to do one-and-a-half | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
laps all the way through this race now and it is going to be down to | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
them. Ed Clancy has done his part, put them on a fantastic start. | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
Steven Burke has got them off to a flying first kilometre. A terrific | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
piece of riding here. Three of this squad were members of, two of this | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
squad, I should say, were riding in the Beijing team that won the gold | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
medal, Graham Thomas and Ed Clancy. They are coming back to their | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
starting station and there is no hint of fatigue year. A brilliant | :47:45. | :47:53. | |
display of effort as the squad come down towards the line again for the | :47:53. | :48:00. | |
midway split. Let's look at this, very, very quick indeed. They are | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
0.2 inside the world record. It is going to be close. They have | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
settled now, slightly ahead of their own schedule. Still stepping | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
up to indicate they are ahead of the schedule they have set and that | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
schedule was for a world record. 2.1 seconds faster than the | :48:18. | :48:25. | |
competition leaders, New Zealand, who went 3.57. They come through | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
the finishing straight. The crowd are loving it. Five laps to go the | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
next time they come around. Thomas putting in a massive turn. It is so | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
important that everyone does their separate part in this race. Thomas | :48:39. | :48:48. | |
still on the French now. They have so much horsepower. Thomas has | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
completed the four -- the Tour de France, former national road | :48:51. | :48:59. | |
champion, he is so versatile. They are just off world record pace, but | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
they are easily the quickest. Clancy taking them to do a lap and | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
have turned there, that is his last big turn of the race. It is down to | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
Stephen ten -- down to Steven Burke, to do his final turn, be -- before | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
handing over to Peter Kennaugh. had problems but he has dismissed | :49:19. | :49:27. | |
them. They are loving it, the crowd! Look at this, 4.6 seconds | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
faster than the leaders, New Zealand. This is sending a serious | :49:30. | :49:38. | |
message to Australia, who are still to come. 250m to go. What are they | :49:38. | :49:45. | |
going to stop the clock at? It is down to the three survivors. Here | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
they come. Lining up for the blanket finish, what will they | :49:49. | :49:59. | |
record? Look at this, a new world record! Great Britain have shown | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
the rest of the opposition that they mean business. What a terrific | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
piece of team pursuit think! -- a terrific team pursuit! A world | :50:11. | :50:17. | |
record, what a display of clinical efficiency. It is more amazing, I | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
had a discussion with Dan Hunt. He said, here is the schedule, wrote | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
it on a piece of paper the length of turn that each rider would do | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
and I said, had they done terms of that length before? He said, no, | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
not when it has worked. This is a massive, massive gamble from them. | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
They really wanted to go out there and break the world record. They | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
have done it, they can't ask for more. Eight tensed sliced off the | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
world record. A huge margin. This is one team on the track. When | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
there is another team on the track, they do get an aerodynamic benefits, | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
so we could expect in a match situation to see the time come down | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
further. A hugely impressive performance and the alarm bells are | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
ringing for the final two teams to go, Russia and Australia. I do not | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
think they will make any changes. If they are so confident and they | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
can ride like that, they will keep the same squad. That was another | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
part of the discussion of I was having. I said, will you put Andy | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
Tennant into the team? He is on fantastic form. He said, I will | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
wait to see how it goes in the opening round, so it was that fluid. | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
I can't see a reason to change the team, which is desperately sad for | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
Andy Tennant. That is the worst scenario, to be the 5th man. We | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
will have to wait and see if there are any changes, we will let you | :51:42. | :51:52. | |
:51:52. | :52:01. | ||
It is going to be... Away we go, the penultimate country starting | :52:01. | :52:11. | |
:52:11. | :52:18. | ||
are just seen a team post a world record of that significance. Russia | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
were 4th in the world championships earlier this year in Melbourne, | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
under four minutes, but they are not in the class of the British. | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
a test event here they did not bring their best team and they are | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
the dark horse in this competition. A lot of it is expected of Russia. | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
I will be interested to see what they can post. We don't have a lot | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
of information. They are nearly a second down on the British four at | :52:43. | :52:53. | |
:52:53. | :52:58. | ||
the moment but it is early stages the world, got the British team off | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
to a fantastic start. The Russians are holding the British team, they | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
are making inroads, starting to come back on that time. It is 0.7. | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
Rumours were correct, Russia have come here with at crack squad. | :53:13. | :53:21. | |
have a very good coach, a world famous coach. He formerly worked | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
with the British team, so he knows how they will prepare. He will have | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
brought this team on. Only the second team to have posted this | :53:34. | :53:40. | |
sort of time. They are nibbling away, 0.5 of a second behind, | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
swinging between 0.5 and 0.7. There is a disparity within their team, | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
that shows. Good riding by the Russian quartet. Years ago, they | :53:50. | :53:57. | |
were the team to beat. The Olympics in 1988, they won the gold medal, | :53:57. | :54:06. | |
they lost the way. They have a weak man in their team. They lost a huge | :54:06. | :54:15. | |
chunk of time. They lost 1.77 seconds, in a single term. They are | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
slower than Great Britain. They were quicker than New Zealand at | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
the 2,000-metre mark. A respectable ride by the Russians, the final | :54:25. | :54:34. | |
team to go. You have to take risks in this competition if you want to | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
medal. There is no possibility of easing your way in. The first | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
kilometre is crucial. Now is the time you start paying the price. | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
Nowhere to hide, you have to get it spot-on. One rider has dropped | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
already. He has dropped off. Very early to drop out of the | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
competition. A lot of work left for the three. They will see four laps | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
to go, one kilometre remaining and that could cost them dearly. Such a | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
promising start, as fast as the British team once they had got up | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
to pace but really started to pay the price admit distance, nearly | :55:09. | :55:15. | |
four seconds in arrears now. So the promising good start is beginning | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
to evaporate, although they are only just slower than New Zealand. | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
Maybe they will pressurise Denmark. It is going to be between Denmark | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
and Russia for the third quickest time. Two laps to go. I don't think | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
they will go quick enough for these three. It is a terrible sound do | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
here, when you hear somebody shout three and you are suffering. I have | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
been in teams when I wanted to bail out and somebody bailed out first. | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
The third man is struggling to stay in contention. The times taken on | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
the third rider to finish and that gap could be costly. He could make | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
a tremendous difference with the time. Here they come, back up to | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
the line. Let's look at the finishing time for Russia. Inside | :56:01. | :56:08. | |
Sport minutes. -- four minutes. They are the 4th quickest -- | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
quickest squad at the moment. One more heat to go. That will bring | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
onto the track the team of Australia. The bikes are appearing | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
at the start of the track, the starting game -- gate is out while | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
we watch some replace. We watch images of the technique of the | :56:29. | :56:39. | |
:56:39. | :56:43. | ||
Russian quartet. They are the 4th For the first time at these Olympic | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
Games, the roof is lifted off the Velodrome. There were a few empty | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
seats when we turned up, which we was slightly concerned about, but | :56:51. | :56:56. | |
they have been filled and all 6,000 people were on their feet for the | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
men's team pursuit, they broke the world record. What an incredible | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
performance? Incredible, they looked so smooth. We saw Ed Clancy. | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
That is crazy, his opening lap. I did not do anything like that. An | :57:12. | :57:18. | |
incredible feat to be able to do that. They stayed so smooth, | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
consistently kept going at the time and you knew it was going to be | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
there and I think they have more to come. I truly believe they have | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
more to come. They really have to keep a little back but I believe | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
they can go quicker. They are asking for silence in the Velodrome. | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
There was not silence five minutes ago when GB were on the track and | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
Mark says there is more to come. They are five seconds ahead of the | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
nearest challengers, New Zealand. Remarkable? Yes, we will see | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
Australia here soon. They will be the closest competitors. In about | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
four minutes we will know. They looked sharp, super-smooth, they | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
went out there and executed extremely well. They get plenty of | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
rest in between rides. There could be more to come. Please don't throw | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
cushions at your television, you will see the Australian attempt in | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
fall in a few moments on BBC Two. We have to leave the action on BBC | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
One in a moment before the news. Four people who do not join us on | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
BBC Two, our first afternoon in the Velodrome has been mixed. Really | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
disappointing for the women in the team spent. As far as the men are | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
concerned, they are on form. think it will be good, a lot of | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
medals will be seen. We are pushing the Australians. I think we will | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
see a lot of medals today. those people thinking about going | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
to BBC Two, come on, it is the men's team sprint final and we hope | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
GB have has shout at the gold medal. I am printer -- pretty confident. | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
They are going to put on a good show for stab all smiles here, | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
plenty of confidence as well. can press the red button to see as | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
much cycling as you like, otherwise we will be on BBC Two in a few | :59:04. | :59:07. | |
moments and trust me, you will not miss a thing as the men's team | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
sprinters go looking for gold. Seat you shortly. | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
We will catch up with anything, I promise. We have to make way on BBC | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
One for the Six O'Clock News come as though we are moving to BBC Two. | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
They are confident the men will bring another medal but they have | :59:24. | :59:34. | |
:59:34. | :59:35. | ||
been many medals for Britain today. held his nerve to win the men's | :59:35. | :59:42. | |
double trap. -- Pippa Wilson. Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott won the | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
gold in the canoe double slalom, British want to who with David | :59:46. | :59:50. | |
Florence and Hounslow getting silver. There was another medal on | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
the water when the lightweight men's four and silver after a | :59:54. | :59:59. | |
thrilling fight lap Eton Dorney. It was so close. And Gemma Gibbons | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
landed a superb silver in the women's half heavyweight event. | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
Britain's first judo medal for 12 That is it. Coming upon one, Gary | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
will be here at 7pm. Another four gold medals decided in the pool. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Fran Halsall will be going in the women's 100 freestyle. She | :00:21. | :00:25. |