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Good evening. If you have just been watching on BBC2, you will know | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
that the day has continued to be an extraordinary one. We will try and | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
tell you the whole story. As is customary during the first week, | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
the swimming finals dominate our coverage tonight. One country is | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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dominating the gold rush down at This gentleman is going to become | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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the new Olympic champion. Ryan Lochte wins the 400 medley. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
She has done it with a terrible finish as well. A terrible finish! | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
The gold has gone to the USA, a new Olympic medal -- record. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Franklin gets the gold. Franklin has just done a semi-final of the | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
200 freestyle and she has just won in 58.33. | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
This is a massive victory. He led that relay in a brilliance | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
when. Look at that. He was so tough. The USA win gold in the women's 400 | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
freestyle relay. The crowd are starting to stand up | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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Eight gold medals already for the USA and all the big names are in | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
action tonight. All-American hero Ryan Lochte already has two gold | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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medals at these Games and he can double his tally tonight. Michael | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Phelps tries to win at three successive Olympics. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Rebecca Soni reclaimed the world record yesterday. She goes for gold | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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tonight. Great Britain's women's hockey team | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
are bidding for a third straight win. | :03:51. | :04:01. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :04:01. | :04:56. | |
Scotsman Josh Taylor will need to David Florent and Richard Hounslow | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
qualified as the fastest pair but Britain's other pairing of Tim | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Baillie and Etienne Stott were the slowest of the finalists so they | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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were first to go in the final. -- competing so well over the last | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :05:47. | :06:48. | |
is one of the trickiest parts of the course. Upstream they go. This | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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is looking good for Great Britain. seen so far. Absolutely brilliant. | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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Amazingly, Baillie and Stott led the competition. A great Slovakian | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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medallist. -- David Florence. They are chasing the time by their | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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friends and training partners. are setting up the line. There have | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
du Duc. They will have to maintain this through the most difficult | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
parts of the course. Etienne and 10 just went brilliantly. They lost a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
bit of time there. This is where Baillie and Stott really won it, I | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
think. They set the fastest time so far. They will have lost a lot of | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
time, Florence and Hounslow but possibly not enough to push them | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
below the Hochschorner brothers. Florence and Hounslow have got to | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
keep it together. They are working hard on the exit of Gate 16 and 17. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
They are up on the split. The this would be an incredible performance. | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
They have shown immense promise so far. Everybody in the stadium is | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
cheering. Everybody in the commentary area is screening here | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
for David Florence and Richard Hounslow. They are out in the | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
middle of the course. Two to go. This could be gold and silver for | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Great Britain. Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott lead. Oh, my | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
goodness! They have got a silver medal. They are the Olympic | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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What an incredible achievement. The first ever gold medal in this | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
Olympic sport but also a silver medal as well. It was a gold medal | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
for Baillie and Stott, a magnificent performance. Afterwards, | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
all four of them spoke to Jonathan Edwards. We will come to that in a | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
minute because these were the celebrations. And well might they | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
celebrate. Brilliant stuff from Baillie and Stott. They receive | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
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their gold medals in front of a huge crowd. Vet's hear from them. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
I can hardly put into words what this atmosphere is like. Tell us | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
what that means to you? It was the most difficult start line we have | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
ever sat on. We knew the Times had gone really well but we had to try | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
and really focused on our own run. We put when -- put in a good run. | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
To win an Olympic medal, we are certainly not disappointed. It was | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
fantastic. Sitting on the start- line we knew that Britain had got a | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
gold medal, basically, which on its own was fantastic. We are one team. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
It is all about Team GB. But we wanted to put a result in. We | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
attacked it hard all the way down. It was probably the sprint to the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
finish. That was the difference between a Olympic champions and | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
silver medallists. But it is fantastic. You talk about Olympic | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
champions, next bring them in. I am sorry to shuffle you out of the way. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
This is amazing, Tim Baillie, Etienne Stott, you were the Olympic | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
champions. It is weird. It does not seem quite like that is what is | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
happening. This morning, we did not know what could happen, it could | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
have been a disaster but now it is a complete dream. I do not think so | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
real covers it. It is incredible. I was really happy that we would be | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
in the top six at least and made the final. I thought if we finished | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
4th, that would be a great result, the same as our coach got in Sydney. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
For these boys to finish second and for us to win, I don't know. It has | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
made up for it. There has been huge pressure on the team. The first | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
couple of days did not go very well so to come out and do this shows | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
huge heart. We did all feel the pressure. I felt we needed | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
something to go right. We needed to get boats in the finals. These guys | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
and thus, in our sport, there is nothing taken for granted. To get | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
into the final, that was amazing. Just over a year ago I had surgery | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
on my shoulder and I thought, could that be? That path from then to now, | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
I cannot get round it. Tim, when you finished that run, you look at | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
that time, up what did you think that was good enough for? We had no | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
idea what the Times were on the first runs because we only look at | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
how far off we were from Dave and Richard when we finished. We asked | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
if it was a decent time or not. I was hoping it would be good enough | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
for a medal. You can never tell. It was such a high-quality final. All | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
the boats were really good. The sport is ins -- inconsistent, hard | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
to be consistent. I did not expect that. Two little bits of history. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
First ever Olympic gold medal for clue -- canoe slalom and you beat | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
the Hochschorners. They are great champions, amazing athlete. They | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
are our models. We watch them in the canoe slalom. To beat them, | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
they had a record to beat today and they are amazing athlete. We have | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
managed to beat them but it has taken nothing of their achievements. | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
They are a fantastic crew. They are still the best C2 crew in history. | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
But you are the best C2 Crewe today. Yes, exactly. I am happy about that. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
We all are. We hope to hear from them. They are coming to the studio, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
paddling hard. At the same time as that drama was | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
happening at Lee Valley, Richard Wilson was going for gold in the | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
shooting event. Richard led by three shots going into the final | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
round. Could he win the first shooting medal since Sydney in | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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Peter Wilson started the day well, qualifying with a higher score of | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
143. His nearest rivals, await's Aldeehani, and Russia's and Vassily | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Mosin got off to good start in the final, but Wilson was right up | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
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there with them -- await's lead as the final progressed -- | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Mosin started to call back the lead is a fine of progress, but Wilson | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
stayed ahead. We have 20 shots to go in the men's double trap final. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
So, Peter Wilson has a one-shot lead. A narrowest of leads Paul | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Wilson but his Kuwaiti and Russian opponents were still keeping the | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
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Dahlby got to within two shots of Wilson, who could not afford to | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
miss with his final effort. And he does it! Peter Wilson has done it. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
He has won gold. He sinks to his knees. He has won gold for Great | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Britain, the third gold of the game for the host nations. He held his | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
nerve brilliantly, Peter Wilson, and the crowd here at the Royal | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
Artillery Barracks rise to salute this 25-year-old from Dorset. A | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
Olympic gold in the Men's Double And here he is. Peter Wilson. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
Congratulations. A remarkable performance and you seem so called. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Well done. The us what everyone said, but I was a bag of nerves. | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
But it was a great a -- that is what everyone said. I never would | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
have thought your sport would be brilliant to watch, but I sat there | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
this afternoon and it was enthralling. Such drama. I tried | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
missing just to the end to worry everybody. You must Toulon the | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
bounce and we thought it was all going wrong. -- you missed macro | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
tutu on the bounce. A I thought I would add a bit of spice of life. - | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
- two on the bounce. It went down to one shot for the lead when he | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
went down, so how could you stay that calm under that kind of | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
pressure? It must be going through your head, gold, gold. I tried not | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
put too much emphasis on it. I tried to play it as a standard | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
final. The crowd were amazing and I never experienced anything like it | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
before but I tried to play down as best I could and try to enjoy it | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
and enjoy the moment. If you can't enjoy this moment, why are you | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
doing it? I noticed that you had a line of shooters there, and a few | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
seconds before every time you lined up, I saw you putting your hand up. | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
Can you tell me what you doing? the side of my left index finger | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
and I have marks, just ridges on my hand, but it tells me how high I | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
can hold the gun from the trap house, which is the concrete pad in | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
front of me. I have a mark where I hold my hand and I can take a | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
measure. It means where a borrower underworld, in Dorset or Timbuktu, | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
I have a point of reference where I hold my gun -- whenever I am in the | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
world. You can move across and track -- attack the second. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
lost your funding four years ago, so a remarkable story behind every | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
medal. It was tough. It is never easy for anyone who comes out there | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
that -- to win a gold, but it's very hard to win your -- after you | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
lose your support. I was able to get back on funding shortly after | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the support and got the support of British shooting and the management | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
and coaches. When you say you had a man became help you, not just a man, | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
it was an Arab sheikh. Yes, some friends from Dubai. He was a bit | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
random. He was a friend, so it sounds more crazy then it is, but | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
we compete together and constantly talk about squash. He was an | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
international squash player. We became friends over the years of | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
competing with him and in Beijing I was sent out as part of Ambition | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
2012, which was a phenomenal thing and the great thing to experience. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
I got the opportunity to speak to Ahmed, One 2 One and said it was | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
guaranteed a would lose my funding and would he consider helping me. I | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
said I would quit after Beijing and that was enough. He said he would | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
be delighted to have a chat with me. A few months later I was in Dubai, | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
sitting in his palace, and we were sitting on some coffee and we did | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
some deals over a coffee and a handshake. I saw a lovely embrace | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
with your father to stop you got a medal. He is joining us now, little | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
surprise, from the headquarters of Team GB. Charles, I believe! How | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
emotional was that for you? can't hear anything! He is half | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
death! Let's try and sort that out over the next few seconds. Coming | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
back T U, Peter. -- coming back to you, Peter, you got snowboarding | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
injury and then you went into shooting from that. A friend of | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
mine, who is almost my little brother, he hates it when I said I | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
was a decent cricketer or squads I, and he's called Humphrey Gibbs, but | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
I wasn't very good like him. But I love playing squash and cricket, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
and that is why I love sport and I love the Olympics because it is a | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
great place to be. I dislocated the nerves in my shoulder and it meant | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
I was out of playing any sort of games for about a year and I was no | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
good at chess or tiddlywinks, so sitting down doing nothing was not | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
an option. I began to shoot one handed with my arm in a sling. Then | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
I went from strength to strength, came back to sport and realised I | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
was worse at cricket and squash than I was to begin with and had a | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
go at shooting full-time. I was lucky. I went to Millfield School | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
in Somerset and they have a wide and diverse sports curriculum and I | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
was given the opportunity to shoot there and went from strength to | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
strength. Can you hear us now, Charles? Good news. How emotional | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
was that? It was absolute torture until the point where he won. I | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
would love an explanation as to why he missed that pair. He has already | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
told us that he did it on purpose to keep everyone interested. Well, | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
next time let us know. It must be an unbelievable thrill to wash -- | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
watch your son winning an Olympic gold medal. It is exactly that. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Something you are never ready for, especially in his first Olympics, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
to go into the final with what was only a small advantage and to | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
actually lose the advantage in one pair and then fight back which | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
showed enormous character. I am very, very impressed by what he has | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
done. You can tell him to a man. How proud are you? I am proud | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
enough! No, I am absolutely thrilled. Not just for him, but for | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
all the people who shoot in Great Britain and all the club shooters | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
and up to international level. What he has done is shone a light for | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
all of us, which is invaluable. Thank you for joining us. That is | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
what is about, the great emotion. It is a wonderful sport. I think | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
the most important thing I could have done by winning is that it | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
brings more attention to shooting, and it is a wonderful sport. I was | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
saying earlier today that I would encourage anyone to take it up. | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
People were asking when when I would stop? I could go until I was | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
50, dad's age. Grey and gold. of you, thanks very much for | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
joining us. Well done again, just a brilliantly thrilling afternoon. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
The spectacular Velodrome made its Olympic debut today with | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
aspirations for Team GB extremely high. Seven goals came away in | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Beijing or limiting each nation to one rider per event and a change in | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
disciplines were certain to make that achievement difficult to match. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
We will start with the women's team sprint. Going for Great Britain, | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish who set a new record but saw him | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
beaten by the Chinese pair minutes later. They were up against Ukraine, | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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to be one of the two fastest teams Jayesh varnish and Victoria Ben | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
Watson. -- Jayesh varnish and Victoria Pendleton. -- Jess Varnish. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
There they go. Britain hoping to replicate their ride in the first | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
round and a great start. Varnish is on fire. She will release Victoria | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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and awesome. 18.954. -- she will release of Victoria Pendleton. This | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
is Victoria Pendleton, back to her imperious best. 32.5674 Great | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Britain. Only just a tad slower than the ride in the first round, | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
so it does show that Great Britain are backing this up. It is looking | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
very much like it could be China versus Great Britain in the clash | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
for gold. What is happening here? The commisaire are looking at the | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
change windows? I was watching the British pair and looking at the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
changeover and Victoria Pendleton was coming through fast and I think | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
they are not allowed to overtake before the first rider completes | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
the lap. They are having a strong discussion in the centre. Dave | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Brailsford not looking happy. means that Great Britain are | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
relegated, as they were clearly in for a ride for the gold and silver | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
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We did not changeover in the right zone on the track. When you are | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
going that speed and Diane Wright on her wheel it is so easy if she | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
moves up slightly, I move but -- and I moved up to her will. We have | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
never had an illegal change before and I've never been concerned about | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
it in the past. It's just one of those things that happens. It is | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
not my fault or her fault, we are both partly to blame. We were | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
probably just a bit too overwhelmed by the excitement and a bit too | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
eager. We should have kept a lid on it a bit more. Such a shame, but | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
putting a brave face on. Now to the men's team sprint final, and four- | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
time gold medal winner Sir Chris Hoy went with Jason Kenny and the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
new lean of man, Philip Hindes were in sensational form to reach the | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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And Great Britain in at the ride off went very quick to record a | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
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world record of 42.9. Listen to the raw -- the roar of the crowd, and | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
they are standing up as they greet Philip Hindes, who blazed his rate | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
round in a 17.2 in the previous round and there is Chris Hoy | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
preparing, and in the middle is Jason Kenny. Kenny and Chris Hoy | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
with medals in their pockets from four years ago and it will be the | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
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formidable trio of France against world, and on the other side of the | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
track is Philip Hindes -- the fastest starter. He has to produce | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
a personal best again if they will stay in contention. This will be a | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
thriller. Away we go. The final of the men's team's brand. And Philip | :28:36. | :28:45. | |
Hindes leads off and has to post another 17.2. France are already | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
behind, and Philip Hindes is really rising to the challenge. Let's have | :28:48. | :28:56. | |
a look. Great Britain are leading. Another 17.2 by Philip Hindes. | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
Jason Kenny, can he storm around on the second lap? France on the back | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
foot. And 0.2 behind. France will never pull his back. Here comes | :29:06. | :29:15. | |
Chris Hoy to the final turn. And the crowd are going absolutely mad. | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
Gold medal for Great Britain and the new world record! 42.6. I don't | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
believe what I have seen here. They are going quicker and quicker, and | :29:25. | :29:35. | |
:29:35. | :29:38. | ||
That will be the British team then. The the applause is that allowed | :29:39. | :29:48. | |
:29:49. | :29:57. | ||
Philip Hindes, Jason Kearney and Philip Hindes, what an occasion, an | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
Olympic champion. Kenny gets his second Olympic gold medal, he was | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
in the team that won in Beijing, and Sir Chris Hoy gets his 5th | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
Olympic gold medal. His voracious appetite for winning a gold medals | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
continues. And at the silver that he won in 2000 in Sydney and he has | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
not quite a record, but a haul of medals from the Olympic Games of | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
six, just one shot of the record by Bradley Wiggins. Great Britain are | :30:31. | :30:41. | |
:30:41. | :30:49. | ||
the Olympic gold medal winners for Please stand for the national | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
anthem of Great Britain. # God save our gracious Queen. | :30:55. | :31:03. | |
# Long live our noble Queen. # God save the Queen. | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
:31:13. | :31:13. | ||
# Send her victorious. # Happy and glorious. | :31:13. | :31:23. | |
:31:23. | :31:43. | ||
# Long to reign over us. What a fantastic night. Are we | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
going to replicate our achievements in Beijing? We have certainly | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
started off right. World records falling all over the place. A | :31:55. | :32:05. | |
:32:05. | :32:06. | ||
sensational atmosphere. And the crowd are really pleased to be here. | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
What a fantastic performance from the three British men, Chris Hoy, | :32:11. | :32:19. | |
Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny. Chris Hoy is led up the constantly | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
changing leader board of most successful British athletes. If you | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
do it in this way where gold medals come first, Chris Hoy edges out | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
Steve Redgrave by virtue of the fact he has a silver whereas Steve | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
Redgrave has a bronze. Bradley Wiggins has the most medals of all. | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
That could change as well. Let's hear from the victorious trio. They | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
are with Jill Douglas. Massive congratulations. What an amazing | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
moment here in the velodrome. Philip, your first Olympics, you | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
have been on this team for a couple of years, what a time to smash your | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
personal best? I cannot believe it. I still cannot believe I am an | :33:04. | :33:11. | |
Olympic champion. It is a dream come true. Especially after what | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
happened with the first race? it to get a restart. My first start | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
was not the greatest. I thought to get a restart. So there was a bit | :33:22. | :33:29. | |
of, you were trying to pull a fast one? Yes, I was trying to get the | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
fastest time and get everything perfect. Well done, amazing to see | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
with that gold medal. Jason, your second gold medal. I suppose you | :33:37. | :33:44. | |
were very careful with that changeover? Yes, after the World | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
Championships went disastrously wrong, it was something we wanted | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
to get absolutely spot on. It was devastating to see it happen to the | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
girls as well. Especially after that we kept everything really | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
tight. We went through the motions, unbelievable. Double Olympic | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
champion. I know, it is frightening. I cannot believe how quick we have | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
gone here today. Phil just went like an absolute rocket and we were | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
trying to keep up with him. It is unbelievable. Just found that half | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
a second in the space of a year and delivered it perfectly. It looks | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
good for the individual sprint. I know the French will be looking at | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
the very carefully. Yes, there are a few guys here, the Germans, | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
French and Aussies who are absolutely flying. It was the | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
quickest competition I have ever seen. There is no reason to believe | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
the sprint will be anything else. And finally to the anchorman, Sir | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
Chris Hoy, I'm not sure what they will do to now, that does your 5th | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
gold medal, the most successful ever British Olympian, there seemed | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
to be some emotion there on the podium there. It was quite | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
overwhelming. We knew it was possible but this did not come out | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
of the blue. We knew we could put together the best possible race on | :35:07. | :35:14. | |
the day but it is easier said than done. We timed it perfectly, we had | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
an excellent training camp and we had the full support behind us. We | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
nailed it. The real question for me was the three rides so close | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
together. I dug deeper than I have ever done before. I knew the | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
importance of what it was. I did not want to let the boys down. It | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
was just immense pride to be able to do it in front of our home crowd | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
here in the UK. It was phenomenal. You can not overstate what it means | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
to us in front of a home crowd. This is a once-in-a-lifetime | :35:45. | :35:55. | |
:35:55. | :35:56. | ||
opportunity. We have enjoyed it and given it our all. You certainly | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
delivered. Let's have a quick look at your gold medal. Thank you very | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
much! I had better let you go. We will see you later in the week. | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
Thanks to everyone back home and all the supporters on Twitter. It | :36:12. | :36:19. | |
has been incredible. Welt said. From one that sports | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
Personality of the Year to the reigning sports Personality of the | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
:36:32. | :36:33. | ||
Year, Mark Cavendish. 8 phenomenal effort. -- a phenomenal effort. I | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
think it bodes well. Yes, the records were going by the teams | :36:38. | :36:45. | |
before and then Britain was beating them. It was incredible. It was | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
unfortunate with the girls getting relegated. Was that the right | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
decision, do you feel? It is hard. It is like offside in football. | :36:54. | :37:02. | |
There is a line. It can be close but it is or it isn't, that is how | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
it works unfortunately. With the Olympic Games, nerves can come into | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
play. It should have been worked with before that but they have got | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
other events. Jess does not so she will be bitterly disappointed. We | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
are off to a great start. brilliant performance from the guys. | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
That was incredible. To do it in a world record time. Young Philip, it | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
is his first Olympics, he was not part of it a few months ago. It | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
would have been so easy to step up and be overwhelmed by it but he | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
stepped up and delivered a blistering first lap. Jason to | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
Cover, Christa Kovac and they were going faster and faster. -- Jason | :37:47. | :37:55. | |
took over and Chris took over. Jason got a gold four years ago and | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
then Sir Chris Hoy or Lord Hoyle whatever he will be called in | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
future. I think they will have to think of more words for him. He is | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
incredible. He is the most successful Olympian we have ever | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
had now, six gold medals and a silver. More to come? Yes, there is | :38:16. | :38:23. | |
his preferred event, the Kieran sprint and I think he will get a | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
6th gold medal. What is it like in the velodrome? It is incredible. | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
The velodrome is a closed roof and the theatre. There are only 6,000 | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
spectators but the noise it generates gives you goose bumps. | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
Especially today, it was something I do not think I will ever feel | :38:43. | :38:51. | |
again. At one stage where you think of entering this side of things? | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
was. It is quite annoying. I had a look at going on the track but you | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
had to win a World Cup in the last two years to do it. I had not | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
because I was concentrating on the road. I was lining up on the road | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
race and one of the French sprinters was on the start line up | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
with us. He could enter the road race to ride the track and the | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
Germans have got someone in the mountain bike. They found a | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
loophole that we missed? It is quite frustrating. But the team | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
today smashed the world record. time to head off to the swimming | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
pool and due to the amount going on at the Olympics, Ian Thorpe will be | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
at the Aquatics Centre with Clare Balding and Mark Foster. | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
We will take good care of him, he will be fine with us. We have a few | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
bricks in action, Fran Halsall is coming up in the final of the 100m | :39:51. | :39:56. | |
freestyle. We will see Michael Phelps twice, Ryan Lochte twice and | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
we will see Chad le Clos in the 100m semi-final. The first event is | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
the 280 breaststroke where we have the defending champion Rebecca Soni. | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
I thought you made a mistake but you did not. We will see Rebecca | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
Soni try to become the first swimmer to successfully defend her | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
title? It is surprising. We are already getting to the end of the | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
meat and no one has been out to defend their Olympic title. If she | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
does not do it, next is Ryan Lochte and then Phelps. Ryan Lochte and | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
Michael Phelps have such a busy night. They will not have a lot of | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
time to recover. South Africa have had a fantastic week already. | :40:40. | :40:48. | |
Chad's dad is a new hero. He is our hero anyway. Interestingly, Chad le | :40:48. | :40:58. | |
:40:58. | :40:58. | ||
Clos has pulled out of I am to concentrate on this. -- the | :40:58. | :41:06. | |
individual medley. There is Rebecca Soni. What I did forget to say it | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
is we will see James Goddard in the final of the 200m individual medley. | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
I apologised to James for that. How would you read this final? It is | :41:17. | :41:26. | |
:41:27. | :41:27. | ||
one of those things, I think it will be very difficult for anyone. | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
I don't know how to pronounce Rebecca Soni's main. It is like a | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
song. She is the defending Olympic champion. There is very little | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
Olympic experience in this field because she is the only one who has | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
won a medal. She will win, it will be a question of how quick she goes | :41:48. | :41:56. | |
and whether she beat the record. have an age range between 20-27. | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
The 27-year-old is Sally Foster from Australia. I think she might | :42:01. | :42:08. | |
be related to mark! And Adrian Moorhouse and Andy Jamieson are the | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
ones trying to make themselves heard above this huge and roaring | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
crowd here. Let's join them for the final of the 200m women's | :42:17. | :42:27. | |
:42:27. | :42:32. | ||
ready to go. That is Rebecca Soni. I thought she was going to be the | :42:32. | :42:41. | |
first woman in history to go under two minutes 20 in the semi-final, | :42:41. | :42:51. | |
:42:51. | :42:56. | ||
six. The defending Olympic champion and world record holder, Rebecca | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
:43:06. | :43:14. | ||
start. On the 100m she lost on the start. It amazes me because she | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
loses maybe half a second on the start. To give away that sort of | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
time, not against the rest of the field but against the world record, | :43:25. | :43:32. | |
here she goes. She is starting to move through the field. The rest of | :43:32. | :43:42. | |
:43:42. | :44:06. | ||
bronze medals. The silver is up for pacing of her own time from last | :44:06. | :44:16. | |
:44:16. | :44:40. | ||
Dragging along his Suzuki in lane she is really swimming well. That | :44:40. | :44:48. | |
line is her in the semi-final. rest of the field are having | :44:48. | :44:55. | |
balsams wins. They are not intimidated at all. -- they are | :44:55. | :45:04. | |
having awesome swimmers. I do not know what will happen down here. | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
The Russian swimmer is coming back like a train. It looks like Rebecca | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
Soni in the centre will take the world record. She is just ahead of | :45:15. | :45:19. | |
that world record. See if we can see the first woman under two | :45:19. | :45:29. | |
:45:29. | :45:35. | ||
brilliant swim. That was definitely her target in the semi-final and | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
she missed it by 1,100 the second. We have never seen that before. The | :45:41. | :45:50. | |
first woman under 2.20 and second and third both went out to 0.20. | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
Suzuki second, so the Japanese getting the silver. And Rebecca | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
Soni, this is just stunning. A wonderful swim. Pumping the air, | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
and that is brilliant. I never thought I would see a woman go | :46:07. | :46:16. | |
below 2.20. Fantastic swimming. You know what, because the rest of the | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
field were so close I wasn't sure she was swimming that well, but she | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
was winning incredibly well. But the rest of them wrote to the | :46:23. | :46:29. | |
challenge. You have to give Suzuki big applause for the guts she | :46:29. | :46:37. | |
showed. So historic barrier goes, the first woman ever. And Suzuki | :46:37. | :46:45. | |
and Efimova, brilliant. I didn't think I would see three making that | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
sort of time. Efimova in the pink cow passed be pleased. Utterly | :46:51. | :46:59. | |
brilliant. -- in the pink cap has to be pleased. She had really lost | :46:59. | :47:06. | |
the 100 metres, but that has surely made up for it. A wonderful gold | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
medal. Rebecca Soni with a new You are the first Olympian to | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
actually defend your title at the Games. I wasn't thinking about any | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
of that. I kept that all out of my mind and just stuck to the race. | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
I'm so excited. You said yesterday you wanted to get under 20, and you | :47:29. | :47:38. | |
did it. I did it. I have been chasing that for years and years. | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
Back when I was in high school, the coach told me I would make 2.18 and | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
I had been keeping that myself as a secret goals, but now I've done | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
that great time. Trying to inspire young people at a home Olympics is | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
one of those things, but even now you are saying your first coach is | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
important to you. Absolutely. He believed in me more than any coach | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
I have ever known. I have had tons of great coaches along the way, but | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
he was someone I looked up to and he really pushed me to keep working | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
harder. Than she very much. Well What a fantastic way to start the | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
evening. That is Rebecca Soni's second world record of the games | :48:23. | :48:30. | |
and she defends her title, going under 2.20 and we move straight on | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
to the of Men's backstroke final. Tyler Clary and Ryan Lochte of the | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
US, Lochte already a winner of the 400 metres individual melody. -- | :48:46. | :48:54. | |
medley. What does he do in terms of this race? Can he devoted all -- | :48:54. | :49:01. | |
give it his all and the same again later? That is a tough question. I | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
would be saying that you have trained to be able to swing | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
multiple races and events, and when you compare the races to what the | :49:11. | :49:18. | |
guys do in training, he should be able to back it up in time. If he | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
gets in a good swim here he will be hyped and ready to go. He comes, | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
the defending champion in the event. Having had no one successfully | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
defend an Olympic title, we could have two one after the other. Teen | :49:33. | :49:42. | |
USA on their feet already. I think the thing is here, it is a case of | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
that Lochte should win the race. If he goes fall out, he will win the | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
race, but how much does he's back and save it for the individual | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
medley. I think you'll do what is needed to win. I think the big race, | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
the 200, later, he will need everything. Will we do lactate | :50:01. | :50:06. | |
testing in training, and you give yourself 30 minutes, even 10 | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
minutes and go again and you did that - learn to deal with the pain. | :50:11. | :50:17. | |
This is one of the most fatiguing races. Use -- used big muscles in | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
your legs that produced the lactic acid. He will be tired, the one she | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
start recovering from that, your body knows how to process it. | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
lens of the pool -- four lengths. How many strokes to they know they | :50:34. | :50:41. | |
have got coming? Everybody has their own stroke break. All eyes on | :50:41. | :50:51. | |
:50:51. | :51:04. | ||
Irie. At the big boys in lane four and five and difficult to see past | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
them. The defending champion is Ryan Lochte, the world champion as | :51:10. | :51:20. | |
:51:20. | :51:21. | ||
well, but not the world record qualifier, but Ryan Lochte, we have | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
not seen him at full bore. We wonder how he will swim this | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
because he has the massive 200 medley came to head with the | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
Michael Phelps threat shortly. think Lochte has to put everything | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
into the race and swimmers if it is his only final tonight. We saw him | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
in the heats and the semis playing around and then he blasted in the | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
last length. But here he should be leading all the way. He will not | :51:48. | :51:58. | |
give Tyler Clary a sniff, to be frank. Clary cannot have the | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
confidence to be on his shoulder, but this is a race for Lochte to | :52:02. | :52:10. | |
lose. Beautiful technique and Kawecki going well in lane number | :52:10. | :52:20. | |
:52:20. | :52:20. | ||
two. Lochte first to the turn. Ryosuke Irie quick to the turn and | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
he has not destroyed the field like he has done on the turns, and Tyler | :52:24. | :52:31. | |
Clary is starting to attack him. This is not over. It is not over | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
and he is looking a bit groggy. He is holding the water well, but | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
coming into the turn he will need a massive one. He has lost a bit of | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
his lead and they will turn close together. Lochte stays and a longer | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
than the rest and comes up and this is going to be very big. I wonder | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
if he can hold this. He did not have the best turn at all. Tyler | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
Clary with a better one of the three. Tyler Clary looking good. | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
Ryosuke Irie coming back. This is going to be really tight. It looks | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
like it will be Tyler Clary or maybe even Ryosuke Irie. I my | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
goodness me, it is Clary, a new Olympic record, and he wins gold, | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
the silver goes to Ryosuke Irie of Japan, and Lochte gets the bronze. | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
Well, Ryan Lochte is not superhuman after all, again. He has won more | :53:28. | :53:34. | |
to recover and it is something that has shaken him. Clary cannot | :53:34. | :53:40. | |
believe it, I think. He was behind on the first hundred. He was on | :53:40. | :53:47. | |
Lochte shoulder and on the last term I thought Lochte looked tired. | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
I am surprised he did not make the big difference there. He will go | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
away, trying have a rest down for the 200 medley and Michael Phelps | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
might be thinking, that is interesting. This is just | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
extraordinary. Don't bet on swimming. It's not a good idea. | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
Unbelievable. Look at that. He did not have the best turn with 25 to | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
go. He was not leading and got caught up. In the end it wasn't | :54:20. | :54:30. | |
:54:30. | :54:30. | ||
actually that close. 53.41 it. 53.9 made by Ryan Lochte E. He lost by | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
half a second. That is huge. will have to regroup. You said it | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
would have to be brutal to win boast finals, but take nothing away | :54:40. | :54:43. | |
from Clary, he paced it fantastically well and not | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
intimidated at all. The thing about the backstroke easy finish and you | :54:47. | :54:56. | |
can see the scoreboard straight If I need to say thank-you to NBC | :54:56. | :54:58. | |
because they are giving me the great American's first. You looked | :54:58. | :55:04. | |
a little surprised at the end. is not really how I planned on the | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
race panning out, but I stuck to my game plan and it worked out this | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
time. I don't even really know what to say right now. You always think | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
about having a result like that, but the first time it happens it is | :55:17. | :55:24. | |
pretty incredible. You can wake me up now! Is your family in the | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
audience? Have they been able to come over? My whole family is here | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
and I imagine there are a lot of tears flowing. I love all of them | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
and I am so happy they are here. Tell us about the nose clip. How | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
important is it you? Everybody else blows air out through their nose, | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
but I find it is it easier to do it under water with this. I am not | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
able to keep water out of my nose as much as everyone else, so that | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
is why I use it. Well good for you, and now you are an Olympic champion. | :55:57. | :56:07. | |
:56:07. | :56:08. | ||
so. He upset stockholder -- and he sets an Olympic record in doing so | :56:08. | :56:18. | |
and he upsets Ryan Lochte. Ryan Lochte made the mistake of saying | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
that Michael Phelps had got there on talent alone. A big cheer behind | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
us, because Lizzie Simmons is coming out for the semi-final of | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
the 200 metres backstroke. She has got her big ear defenders on. But | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
how surprised I either with Tyler Clary and all the talk before and | :56:35. | :56:44. | |
has delivered? It was a different event about Michael. But around the | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
hype, it was around another race, but he does fall into a very elite | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
club where some of the things he can say now people will take more | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
notice of. So well done to him. He surprised us. We thought it was all | :57:01. | :57:07. | |
Lochte. I was going to say it is a good job we do not bet, because we | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
would have lost a lot on that. You peg down some of the swimmers, | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
thinking, they will win that one, they will win that one, but it | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
shows that anything can happen and to retain your title he's really | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
difficult. So when these guys are going for three in a row, it shows | :57:25. | :57:35. | |
Good on Tyler Clary, and now he can savour that. Yeah, the right | :57:35. | :57:42. | |
headlines now. He will be happy he is in the newspapers. Elizabeth | :57:42. | :57:48. | |
diesel will be pretty hot favourite. The top eight times will go through | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
to the final tomorrow. It is not about way you finish in the heat, | :57:51. | :57:57. | |
it is about the time that she said. Let's rejoin Andy. -- the time that | :57:57. | :58:07. | |
:58:07. | :58:17. | ||
of the picture. A great silver medal for her on the medley. The | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
Chinese just flew pastor to take gold. On the left-hand side of the | :58:23. | :58:33. | |
:58:33. | :58:37. | ||
shot, she will be at the top of the needs to control her nerves and | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
control the first 25 metres and pick it up from there. Right at the | :58:42. | :58:52. | |
:58:52. | :58:57. | ||
normally, and a very good start there. And look at that red hat at | :58:57. | :59:04. | |
the top. She needs control it. perfect start from Lizzie. She is | :59:04. | :59:14. | |
:59:14. | :59:19. | ||
leading all the way through now. overwhelmed there, but the crowds | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
are now starting to shout for Lizzie. Great first 50 metres. | :59:24. | :59:31. | |
Great use of the wall and she is outside the rest of the field. She | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
is right on the Green Lane line, almost like she doesn't want to be | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
in the same race. The rest are starting to come back a bit, and | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
she has gone out pretty quick. The first 25 was just under the British | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
record pace set by Gemma Spofforth. It looks like she will be in the | :59:48. | :59:55. | |
hunt. Turning in third, but the top four are close. Great turn again. | :59:56. | :00:02. | |
Very deep, though. Coming up again, same sort of angle. She is right on | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
the line again. It is fascinating to watch, actually, almost like she | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
:00:16. | :00:20. | ||
doesn't want to be in the same race. for the last 50. If you can hold | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
what will now be 4th, or third place just, she will be fined. She | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
is still under water. These terms are fantastic quality. She came out | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
back in third place. Let's see what she has got left in her legs. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
field are coming back at Lizzie. She needs to get going. She is 4th, | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
:00:54. | :01:04. | ||
but may be starting to fall into semi-final heat. Mega in was second. | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
:01:14. | :01:31. | ||
I can only maybe C3 people that will go faster than that. As you | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
have said before, the form book is out of the window. Elizabeth Beisel | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
was very strong, finishing on the wall. Looking at the clock as she | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
finishes, obviously happy with that. That was the best time for her, | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
:02:01. | :02:08. | ||
2.618. The reaction says she has is it fast enough? The guys are | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
just saying, is a fast enough? a little bit disappointed. It was | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
better than this morning. I would have liked a little bit better. | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
Still a decent swim. Experiencing this and being with the crowd, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
thank you to everyone who came to light. Don't count yourself out | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
next -- yet. I will definitely be watching the next one. It could be | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
very good to sneak in tomorrow night but I think I could miss out. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
We will keep our fingers crossed for you. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
I hope she does make it. The swimmers coming out now are for the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
second semi-final and includes Missy Franklin and Kirsty Coventry. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
She is 11 years older than Mr Franklin. It is amazing the age | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
range. Something about Lizzie Simmonds, she is an insomniac, she | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
reads a lot at night because she struggles to sleep. So swimming at | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
night could be better? Yes, I have mentioned this before. In a country | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
which does not have such strength and depth like America, she is not | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
used to be shown herself in the morning. If you are an insomniac | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
and not sleeping in the evening, she will probably have arrested | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
during the day. A huge reception for Missy Franklin. And Kirsty | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Coventry who has been such a star over so many years. What | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
consistency. The consistency as well and for a long time was the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
bridesmaid. She never won the gold at the Olympics but she has done | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
that now and I was very glad to see that. With Kirsty Coventry, she is | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
also the one going for three in a row. She won in 2004 and 2008. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
Stephanie Proud has got and handing -- a standing ovation. The home | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
crowd is very much behind Turtle Stott she was a European junior | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
:04:27. | :04:38. | ||
championship. -- the home crowd is Missy Franklin of the USA. Kirsty | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
:04:48. | :04:50. | ||
Coventry, great to see her back. Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008. | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
Coventry is in lane five, Franklin in lane four. Steph Proud will be | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
:05:07. | :05:24. | ||
Franklin. Not so good for staff proud. She trains with Gemma | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
Spofforth at the University of Florida. Write off the pace in | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
:05:40. | :06:20. | ||
Coventry could repeat from 2004 and Andy's microphone has gone so why | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
will keep going. Missy Franklin in the centre already has two gold | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
medals and a bronze. Coventry is slipping back. Sinead Russell is | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
fantastic here. Stephanie Proud is working hard to get back into the | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
:06:46. | :06:59. | ||
wonder if she's going for the world record. She is really working hard. | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Stephanie Proud is in the hunt. She is starting to catch up with Sinead | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
:07:15. | :07:16. | ||
rustle of Canada. This is great from Steph Proud. She gets the | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
:07:26. | :07:27. | ||
touch in 4th. I think she is out and Lizzie Simmonds is in with that. | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
I think she did. Simmons is in 7th and Steph prowled is a night. Not | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
in, she is out. Lizzie Simmonds talked about thinking that it was | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
not enough, she was not going to make it. Missy Franklin, a good | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
swim but Elizabeth Beisel did a faster time in the first semi. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Franklin dominating this particular final but apart from her, it was | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
:08:10. | :08:31. | ||
second semi-final has been won by Mrs Franklin. The double champion | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
:08:41. | :08:43. | ||
from the last two Olympic Games did you break your leg or | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
something? I dislocated my knee cap at the end of March and then I got | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
pneumonia in May. Guy I am really happy with that and making finals, | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
I am pretty excited. It would be so lovely seeing you defend a title. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
am still going to try my best. I think it will be a lot harder than | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
I wanted it to be. Life throws challenges that he and it is my 4th | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Olympics so I am enjoying being here and swimming with these | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
awesome ladies. You are an amazing athlete, it is tough when they are | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
11 years older. Yes, I think they recover a little quicker than I did | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
but it is still really good! They it may bring Steph in. It was | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
almost either you or Lizzie to get into the final spot. It is great | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
that you are here. This is your chance to be in a home Olympics. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Yes, I have just got to put everything into perspective. It is | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
so hard. 4th is probably worst. least I can come back tomorrow and | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
cheer on everybody. Thank you to talk to us and I am really glad to | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
Oh, poor Stephane proud, that is awful. Unless somebody pulls out, | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
:10:20. | :10:23. | ||
she will not make it into I would not mind seeing the | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
qualifiers for the 200m breaststroke final. Kirsty Coventry, | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
one of the rare things she does is go to the opening ceremony which is | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
very rare for swimmers and she carried the flag for Zimbabwe here. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
What we saw here, none of the swimmers from the British team went. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
On the first couple of days they generally say do not go. Sometimes | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
it is sensible. Kirsty Coventry in 2008 carried the flag round. I | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
remember I carried the flag. I said, what are you doing here, at the | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Games begin tomorrow and she said the games do not begin until I walk. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
She loves the Olympic Games. Don't rule Kirsty commentary out of a | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
:11:19. | :11:22. | ||
medal. Elizabeth Beisel will be fastest but Paul Stephanie Proud | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
:11:32. | :11:53. | ||
start. The white hat of Brazil, the defending champion going well. | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
:12:03. | :12:26. | ||
Colin James, the 6 ft 5 giant of an freestyle. George Bovell of | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
:12:36. | :12:58. | ||
Trinidad, a giant 6 ft 5, fastest 58 swimmers started out in that and | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
it has the broadest range of countries represented as well. It | :13:02. | :13:12. | |
:13:12. | :13:15. | ||
was your event, Mark, can you pick a winner? It is a blanket. Carwyn | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
Jones, it is one of those events where the stroke, event and finish. | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
That was about the speed and Ryan log to is about recovery. There he | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
is in the diving pool gently warming down. -- and Ryan Lochte. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
He will be back shortly for the final of the men's 200m individual | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
medley. A lovely shot. We have not seen that, seeing somebody do extra | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
laps to get the recovery. Ryan Lochte is doing it in the diving | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
pool. Absolutely. We will be back here later. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Thank you. I have canoe slalom heroes with us, Etienne Stott and | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
Tim Baillie, many congratulations, a brilliant performance. Can you | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
believe it has happened? No. Saying it is unbelievable a hundred times | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
will not do it justice. It is just a dream. What can you say? Tim, | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
describe your emotions to us? totally surreal, really. I'm just | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
basking in the glow a little bit. It is really nice. It has not | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
really sunk in yet. It is Britain's first ever gold medal in canoeing, | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
you are proudly showing them off, quite right, too. You were not even | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
be fancied pairing because the other guys qualified fastest, David | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Florence and Richard Hounslow. You went first because you wear the | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
slowest qualifiers? Yes, we had not had the best run in the semi-final | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
but we managed to get in and spent time looking at the video to see | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
where we wanted to improve our time and we just got out there and had a | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
go at it. It is an incredible event, isn't it? When you are going | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
upstream, it looks incredibly tough. This, the upstream gates are in the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
slack water so some people feel you are paddling against the water, you | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
actually trying to paddle with the water. You are harnessing the power | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
:15:38. | :15:41. | ||
of the river at all points and it Is it a contrast in workload from | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
the front and the back? You get a different view from the front, but | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
from the back you get more control, say you have to do the same thing | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
at the same time. Are you shouting at each other at that stage? A we | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
don't communicate in the run. The reason we trained together is so we | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
have the same way of looking at everything. We plan very carefully | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
before we start, and once we are going we haven't got the spare air | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
to be talking. If we have a big mistake, then we might say | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
something to switch to the other plan, but normally it is just all | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
guns blazing. And they're all sorts of people watching. Great crowds | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
there as well. Could you hear them as you were going? Yes, he was | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
amazing. Whenever there was a British boat on the Starline you | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
could hear it from miles away. -- the start line. Lots of support | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
from people, friends and family, and it was great so many people | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
were there to share it. It is an achievement for the sport as a | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
whole. So, you set the time at the start, going first, and you must | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
have felt you had done well. Then you sit back and have to watch the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
other five teams going. I know it is not very sporting, but you must | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
hope they make some mistakes. People say that, and there is a | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
part of the that does that, but the way we set the race up was to go | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
out and give it our best. To absolutely hit the run as hard as | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
we could. In the end the run started to look as though it was | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
the 6th best, then the 5th, then the 4th and by the end it was the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
best, and how did that happen? We were really very happy to be in | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
that place and raced so hard. of messages of support and | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
congratulations. David Florence They were the last team to go, and | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
it must be slightly mixed emotions for all four of you. I think so. We | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
would prefer to win, but the chance of us getting first and second was | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
amazing, and we had done our best, and if they did better than they | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
deserved to win and it would have been fair enough and we would have | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
been happy with the silver. When we made it to the final, we thought we | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
would be at least six, and we just kept ticking our way up. Because it | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
is not a head to head, as such, the rivalries is more like a | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
camaraderie because it is every one against the course. You also be the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
twins who have been invincible in this Olympic event. 4th they are | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
the model crew. We watched them all the time, they are the reference | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
point of our sport. It was a great shot they were going for to get | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
another title, but somehow we managed to get in the way. You said | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
your greatest achievement was being Bedfordshire Sports personality of | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
the year it before now, and I think you might have matched it. It is | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
one of the achievements I put on my CV! It is a crazy things we have | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
done today. It is a massive thing for our sport and for ourselves, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
and hopefully we have helped Great Britain out a little bit. One of | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
you said that you came out as the same guys going into the event, but | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
a few hours after, are you? For a exactly. The things I do for the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
next couple of days are a bit different, but the stuff we are | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
looking forward to doing, and getting into over the next few | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
weeks is the same. With your gold medals are sure you'll be a | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
contender for the team award for Sports personality of the year. | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
Thanks for coming. Brilliant stuff. Back to Clare, Mark and Ian at the | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
To congratulate shins to the guys, but we were discussing the quick | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
turnaround for the guys. Ryan Lochte got straight into the diving | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Lochte got straight into the diving pool because he is in the final of | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
this and so is James Goddard of Great Britain, he will be the first | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
to walk out in a second or two, trying to win his first medal at a | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
world or Olympic event. A huge noise for James. And he is really | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
enjoying this. 29 years old now. A Commonwealth Games double gold | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
medallist in Delhi. You are making fun of his rucksack. I just thought | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
it looked like he was going to school! He finished 4th in the 2004 | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
Olympic Games and six in 2008 and it would be amazing if he could win | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
a medal in this race because it is packed full of superstars. And you | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
:20:47. | :20:57. | ||
dinner with last night. He now has 19 Olympic medals to his name, 15 | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
of them gold and he is trying to win this 200 metres individual | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
medley for the third time in a row. Ryan Lochte coming out still wet, | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
you can see it through his T-shirt, because he has had not time to dry | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
off. What was your quickest turnaround between finals? Eight | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
minutes. He has had nearly 28. is saying he has had it easy. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
not say that at all. But have you got enough time to get your head | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
right? It is telling yourself to calm down but you have to be up for | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
the final. This guy could be a danger, Tiago Ferreira. -- Thiago | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
Pereira. The field is stacked. I would say that these guys are going | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
in fresh and I might give it to Lochte, with the disappointment of | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
the 200 backstroke, Michael Phelps will have been sat there thinking | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
they are rested and ready. If they are going to get in, they will get | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
him now. This guy, Markus Deibler get Sir -- Markus Deibler gets a | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
place in the final. One qualifier decided to focus on the 200 | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
butterfly, which could be bad news for Michael Phelps because he has | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
already beaten him in the 100 butterfly. Now he is taking him on. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
But can Michael Phelps win this for his third Olympic Games in a row? | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Can Ryan Lochte get a goal? Can James Goddard get a medal? All | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
:22:42. | :22:46. | ||
questions that will be answered in absolute shocker on his 400 medley. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
He raced Michael Phelps and they went a bit too slow. Phelps just | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
made the finals and Laszlo jaded not. He should be an angry man here. | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
-- Laszlo Cseh 8 did not. This is his last chance. He is in No. 5. He | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
could be dangerous. Lochte Int four, the double defending champion, | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
:23:18. | :23:24. | ||
metres individual medley and a good start from Michael Phelps. Tactics | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
will be interesting because Phelps has the fastest flight but after | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
that it is interesting. Lochte has the best backed strike. Goddard are | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
doing quite well on the fly. And usually he has a blue cap rather | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
than the red ones the British have been wearing. I think he is a | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Manchester City fan. Lochte needs to make a move on the back straight. | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
There has been a lot of analysis of the splits from the coaches and | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Lochte looking to make a move, but he is not. Phelps is very, very | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
determined here. Look at that. Big, strong arm course. Gone are not out | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
of it but Lochte the best breaststroke a -- Goddard not out | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
of it. Michael Phelps has worked his legs massively hard. First on | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
the turn, then second was Thiago Pereira. But if Lochte is going to | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
get this he has to go now. He needs to make a big move. Goddard right | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
at the top and he is in 4th or 5th. The rest of the field in the centre | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
coming back at Phelps. But look at Phelps go. If I cannot see him | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
losing this. Phelps is really, really determined. Just off world | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
record pace. Lochte had a good. I wonder if he has enough energy. | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
Surely he will go for the gold. Phelps has to hang on. Lochte looks | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
like he's coming back. He is right on the world record. This is an | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
awesome final. Michael Phelps may get it back, but Lochte are not | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
giving up. He is coming back, but I think it will be Phelps. It is | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Lochte's world record, and it still is, but gold to Phelps. Finally he | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
wins gold. Three in a row. Well, we spent a long time talking about it, | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
but the great Michael Phelps has just won his 20th Olympic medal. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
And finally he has won it, and individual gold medal, and look at | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
his face. The relief after he won Finally he has won an individual | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
one, three titles in a row. Athens, gold, Beijing, gold, and the way he | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
attacked the he did not want to give it up. He said after his last | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
leg in the McFly, once he had broken through most of the medals | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
ever it was like the weight of the world was off his shoulders and | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
this was the race he desperately wanted to win. He looks like he | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
committed everything he had got. That is a big gold medal for | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Michael Phelps, showing the class that he has. Committed, determined. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
He is not finished there, but he is now. To get three gold medals like | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
:26:35. | :26:42. | ||
this, and other historical landmark. individual gold at London 2012. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
it is goals to Michael Phelps in very nearly world record pace. -- | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
:26:57. | :27:01. | ||
If I am so pleased. He is utterly James, you had to go for that, boom | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
or bust? Yes, I did have to go for it. I paid for it down the back 100 | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
metres. A fantastic experience and to be at this Olympic Games is a | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
treat. Not the most perfect of preparations. A bit of a tough year | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
with the training and all sorts of situations at home. But this is | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
hopefully not the end of you, James. You been around a long time. I just | :27:27. | :27:37. | |
:27:37. | :27:38. | ||
need to go back and evaluate. not know it Eike -- how I have not | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
gone as quick. I have been training great, but I just don't know why. | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
Do you wish you had Swanage differently? A no, I had to go for | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
it. It was kind of the only way. I spoke to my coach and we said, | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
let's just go for it, and that is what I did. EV will always be proud | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
A shame for Goddard. We may see him at the Commonwealth Games in | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
Glasgow. Reaction from you, Ian, to Michael Phelps winning his 16th | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
gold medal and his 20th in total. It is extraordinary. The first man | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
in the world to be able to defend his Olympic title twice, so the | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
three consecutive Olympic golds in this event for Michael Phelps. | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
Bravo. The first one to defend a title was Rebecca Sony, but to do | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
it twice is an incredible achievement -- Rebecca Soni. I am | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
glad that he has swam well and it is now that Michael Fox can relax a | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
bit. And this is the last time we will see Michael Phelps swimming | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
competitively. He was heaving at the end. He had put everything his | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
body had been to the race and it paid off. With every race, his | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
favourite event, he didn't win it. And coming into this, if Lochte had | :29:05. | :29:13. | |
been fresh, who knows? The answer is Phelps, and he still has his | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
semi-final to come and there will be more from the guys. If you would | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
like to watch basketball on BBC Three, the British men are in | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
action, playing Spain. And for or Dr Who fans, you will be looking | :29:28. | :29:38. | |
:29:38. | :29:50. | ||
So how much trouble are we in? You've got me. What are you waiting | :29:50. | :30:00. | |
:30:00. | :30:13. | ||
We are very cross with you! Masters, the Daleks, all the people | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
died because of my mercy. This is what happens when you travel alone | :30:18. | :30:28. | |
:30:28. | :30:56. | ||
for too long. Don't be scared. Who killed all of the Daleks? | :30:56. | :31:06. | |
:31:06. | :31:12. | ||
Let go back in time. In judo it had been a disappointing week for Team | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
GB with no one progressing beyond the quarter-finals until today. The | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
pressure was on for Gemma Gibbons, 25-year-old local London and | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
girlfriend of Euan Burton who was so disappointed after his defeat | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
yesterday. Could Gemma deliver a second judo medal since her coach | :31:32. | :31:42. | |
:31:42. | :31:54. | ||
Kate Howey 12 years ago? She won a smashed the Portuguese to the floor | :31:54. | :32:01. | |
with an ippon. And she has brought the ExCel centre alive. All she has | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
ever wanted to be is an Olympian. She never dreamt she would mark her | :32:06. | :32:13. | |
debut with an ippon against one of the better players in the world. | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
Gemma Gibbons. The mountain has just got a bit steeper. The | :32:18. | :32:26. | |
Mongolian mountain might be a tougher one to Crest. She has | :32:26. | :32:35. | |
turned it. And German Gibbons is ahead with the yuko. She has done | :32:35. | :32:43. | |
it -- Gemma Gibbons. She has only gone and booked a place in the | :32:43. | :32:53. | |
:32:53. | :32:59. | ||
semi-final. She is nearly there. mum is her biggest inspiration. She | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
died eight years ago. Some way she is watching her daughter fight at | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
:33:13. | :33:24. | ||
the London Olympics. -- somewhere. year bridge has been bridged in | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
glorious fashion. The tears of an Olympic finalist. Gemma Gibbons | :33:30. | :33:39. | |
will win a medal. The Olympic final. The American Kayla Harrison, the | :33:39. | :33:49. | |
:33:49. | :33:51. | ||
Londoner Gemma Gibbons. She has just notched up the first point. | :33:51. | :34:01. | |
She has a split second to attack. Another yuko scored. The American | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
is now a leading by two yukos. Gemma Gibbons has got to do | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
something now. And it is not going to be gold. That will go to the USA. | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
For the first time in the history of their women's judo team. | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
still hasn't sunk in. It feels a bit like a dream but amazing at the | :34:24. | :34:34. | |
And here she is. You were ranked 42 in the world, you were injured for | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
six months, you could not have dreamt of doing that. Kate Howey is | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
alongside you. Were you surprised by your achievements? They | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
obviously thought I could do something which is why I carried on | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
training full-time but I am pretty surprised at how well I have done | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
today. I was hoping obviously to win a couple of matches and get in | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
the top seven but I have exceeded all my own expectations today. | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
crowd really got behind you, the atmosphere seemed amazing, even on | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
television. Yes, the crowd were phenomenal, each and every fight | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
they got behind me and kept me going. There were some pretty tough | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
fights out there and hearing them in the background spurred me on. | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
Kate, you were the last woman to win a medal 12 years ago, are you | :35:19. | :35:28. | |
proud? Unbelievably proud. I wanted to get help when -- help people win | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
Olympic medals. To sit here 12 years on with somebody who I have | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
been with since they were 16 or 17 years old is phenomenal. It is such | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
an immense emotion. That is why I started to cry. Is it nerve- | :35:42. | :35:47. | |
racking? Yes, terrible. I said, at least when you worry fighter, you | :35:47. | :35:53. | |
were in control. When you're on the side watching, I want to jump out | :35:53. | :35:59. | |
and help but full credit to Gemma. Absolutely fantastic. There are a | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
couple of special messages and tweets which are coming through all | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
the time. Lots of goodwill messages. This was early on. Some great | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
moments, this was the only round. You turned things around. Yes, I | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
managed with the support of the crowd to turn a contest which | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
wasn't going my way around. when you won that semi-final, you | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
looked up to the sky, was that a message to your mum? I said, I love | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
you, mum. She did everything tell me succeed in judo and I do not | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
good chance to say thank you so that was mine away. An amazing | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
emotion. You did yourself proud and everybody proud. A thanks. When you | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
were in there and you have got to the final, it is such a massive | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
advantage because they can hang on, you were desperately trying to get | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
another ippon like you had got in the semi-finals. I gave it | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
everything and unfortunately it was not enough this time. I tried my | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
best and a good day all round. you look at the screen you will see | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
lots of different messages going through from athletes at the | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
Olympics. Zoe Smith, the weightlifter says you are | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
incredible. I was sat in the BBC room, there were 100 people | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
absolutely glued to the TV and cheering the one. There was no | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
bigger cheer than when you got the ippon in the semi-final, it was a | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
magical moment. We were all on our feet for a throw in judo. Who would | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
have thought?! That is the thing. Judo is not a big sport in Britain | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
and I hope this metal today can change that. That message is from | :37:45. | :37:53. | |
your boyfriend. He says, I am so proud of my girl. You were watching | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
him in the first round. He broke down in the interview after he lost | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
because he was so upset. Yes, obviously really hard for him. It | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
is probably one of his last Olympic Games and he is one of the best | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
people out there. Going out and not realising his dream, it was really | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
disappointing for him and everyone who loves him. That was pretty hard. | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
It is brutal, Sport. Four years is the big moment and it can turn, | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
especially in judo, one little flip and it is all over. One minute you | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
can be in the lead and then something has happened under a flat | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
on your back and you have lost it. Sometimes it can be four years of | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
work for ten seconds on a judo mat. What does this mean for British | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
judo? I think for the next generation that is coming through, | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
it is a massive boost for British judo. There has been a 12 year wait | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
for a metal so to get the youngsters in and for an idle to be | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
looked at, just to get everybody engrossed in it. She has done the | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
job. The whole thing has lifted the mood, the team is starting to win | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
medals, is that noticeable within the village? I have not been there | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
at all today. I have not been back. When GB got their first gold, I | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
think the mood did lift a little and everyone thinks, we can do this | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
now and everyone is getting behind each other. You are a London girl | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
so an Olympics in your home town and a silver medal does not get | :39:28. | :39:35. | |
much better? Only one better and it is pretty fantastic. It was totally | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
impressive and you did your country proud, you really did. Well done. | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
Thank you. We can go back to the swimming. Fran Halsall is coming up. | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
We can join Clare Balding, Ian and Mark. | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
Lots of people are asking what is the temperature of the swimming | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
:40:03. | :40:06. | ||
pool and is it heated? 25.7 to 26 degrees. They have a swimming -- | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
they have the public pool warmer because people swim slower so they | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
have that at 30 degrees. If you were a public swimmer, you would | :40:14. | :40:23. | |
think that Paul was cold. -- that swimming pool. | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
The only unheated swimming is in the open-water swimming which will | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
be next week. That will beat in the Serpentine. I would not be able to | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
do that because I would not know where to go. We have seen Ryan | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
Lochte twice, it did not pay off for him, only a bronze and silver | :40:41. | :40:48. | |
where he expected to win two golds. Is that bad luck or bad planning? | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
What we do not know is how strong the races will be. Ryan Lochte | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
would have thought he could come into this, recover from the semi- | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
finals and do all of these things and have good shots that all of | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
these races. It may have been a mistake. Having hindsight on your | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
side, to be spread across so many races. But it also could be the | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
fact that he knew Michael Phelps was the main one, he might have | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
concentrated more on the medley than his backstroke. Lochte's loss | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
was Tyler Clary's game. He has just picked up his metal. And also | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
Michael Phelps' game. He keeps extending his record-breaking | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
achievements. He has gone far beyond what anyone has done before | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
and what anyone is likely to do again. It has been phenomenal | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
watching Michael Phelps at his last Olympic Games. We move on to the | :41:43. | :41:51. | |
100m freestyle. We have the 6 ft 1 metre tall Missy Franklin. She has | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
a wingspan bigger than her height. Is your wingspan bigger than your | :41:55. | :42:05. | |
height? I have arms, not wings! You-know-what I mean. She is only | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
17, she has been lovely through these games. It may be taking its | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
toll. The smile when she walks out but it drops quite quickly. A | :42:16. | :42:24. | |
little bit different when we first saw her. Ranomi Kromowidjojo has a | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
good chance for the Netherlands. This is the event in which Dawn | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
Fraser won back to back medals in 1956, 1960 and 1964, one of the | :42:36. | :42:46. | |
:42:46. | :42:51. | ||
After Yi Tang you will see Fran Halsall who says her disadvantage | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
in this is she is very slight. There is not a lot of her. She is | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
no where near the others in height. But she is pretty laid back and | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
pretty cool and she will enjoy this. The beauty of Fran is she loves the | :43:06. | :43:14. | |
crowd, she loves the noise. She is a showgirl. She is crab-like across | :43:14. | :43:22. | |
the surface of the water. Are it is at skimming a rock across the pond. | :43:22. | :43:32. | |
:43:32. | :43:42. | ||
But very fast turnover. She is very three for the USA. They are the | :43:42. | :43:50. | |
fastest women in the world. Ranomi Kromowidjojo has recovered from | :43:50. | :43:57. | |
viral meningitis. Fran Halsall has looked very good. Used the crowd, | :43:58. | :44:07. | |
:44:08. | :44:10. | ||
Fran, use the crowd. The medals could come from either side. Fran | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
and just occur in 7 and 8 are strong. It is one of those final | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
switch is too tough to call. She could get a medal. She will need | :44:19. | :44:29. | |
:44:29. | :44:38. | ||
middle by Ranomi Kromowidjojo. But also very quick, Jeanette Ottesen | :44:39. | :44:48. | |
Gray from Denmark. It is a good position for Halsall. She needs to | :44:48. | :44:58. | |
:44:58. | :45:09. | ||
but she is in a decent place at the moment. She could win this. The | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
fastest woman in the world is Ranomi Kromowidjojo from the | :45:13. | :45:23. | |
:45:23. | :45:35. | ||
Netherlands in the centre. Come on, Adrian. I didn't know she could get | :45:35. | :45:42. | |
through it. At 75 metres she had put herself in a great position, | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
but Kromowidjojo still too strong. A very strong girl. He the two | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
world champions we saw at the top of the race, they took out the race. | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
Kromowidjojo coming out of the Turn second, breathing over to the left, | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
but she would have known where they were. A good, straight arm. Taking | :46:06. | :46:16. | |
:46:16. | :46:17. | ||
the extra stroke. The favourite takes the gold. At the top of your | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
picture, Kromowidjojo. That was bizarre. She got there and stopped | :46:22. | :46:32. | |
:46:32. | :46:32. | ||
and just touched them. Well, that is what it means. The Olympic | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
champion, Ranomi Kromowidjojo. Herasimenia in silver. Yi Tang in | :46:37. | :46:47. | |
:46:47. | :46:48. | ||
bronze. And in 6th, Fran Halsall. great silver in a lane one for | :46:48. | :46:56. | |
Herasimenia. She used to speed, she has great speed. Kromowidjojo and | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
coping with the pressure. A pretty partisan crowd. But she managed to | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
:47:11. | :47:12. | ||
I know you gave that everything you have got, and it is also close. | :47:12. | :47:19. | |
Like you say, just didn't have it today. One of those things, isn't | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
it? Can't change it now, but I gave it my best shot. That's all I can | :47:24. | :47:30. | |
do. Quite a lot of races at the Olympics that don't go to form. | :47:30. | :47:35. | |
Look at the guys racing, Lochte and Phelps, just racing. It is just | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
racing. I knew I needed to put in a good race tonight and the time just | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
was not there. Not really much more right can say. Police I still have | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
the 50 metres to come. -- at least I still have the 50 metres to come. | :47:52. | :48:00. | |
For you go and get your swim down, Paul Fran Halsall. Anything you | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
could say to her that would make her feel better? She sounds so | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
broken. It is devastating. World silver medallist last year, and | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
that was not fast. 53.0 was not that tough, but she knows she could | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
have come away with a medal at 53.3 and it shows how disappointing it | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
is. It is one of those things. You have to get it right at the right | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
time. Michael Jamieson is the only swimmer who has set a new personal | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
before as a member of Team GB. We will be back in the Paul it later, | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
but that was the first non-American gold medal, so the Dutch have a | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
chance to celebrate -- back in the swimming pool. The athletics * | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
tomorrow and every Olympic Games tends to have one athlete above all | :48:52. | :49:02. | |
of us who becomes the focus of the host nation's hoax. -- hopes. | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
the opportunity of a lifetime. To compete at a home Olympics should | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
be an experience to enjoy, to treasure. Book for just a handful | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
of athletes the honour has been accompanied by an indescribable | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
burden, because they are the face of the Games. This phenomenon is | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
about timing and a talent burning at its brightest, fuelled by craft | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
and dedication. The embers of expectations stoked by the public | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
hopes and dreams become a roaring inferno fed by the media consumed | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
worldwide. Everywhere you look, every way you turn, you will see | :49:40. | :49:49. | |
the face of the Games. The first Olympian subjected to such scrutiny | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
was Carl Lewis in Los Angeles in 1984. Equalling Jesse Owens's four | :49:55. | :50:02. | |
gold medals and a games catapult at him to a sporting great. -- at | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
eight games catapulted him to a sporting great. At Atlanta, he was | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
me. Could I be the first man to win both the 204 hundred at an | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
Olympics? People predict, they assume, of course he will do it -- | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
the 204 hundred metres. But those guys at the start line are not | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
making up the numbers. No one else is going to run it for you. People | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
talk about getting into the zone, tunnel vision. You are out of that | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
finish line, crystal-clear, surroundings irrelevant. The crowd | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
may scream and sheer, but we hear nothing but the Bank of the gun. -- | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
the band of the gun. In Sydney 12 years ago, Cathy Freeman was | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
representing the past, present and future. Lighting the flame in the | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
opening ceremony was an ordeal in itself. It took guts to step away | :50:58. | :51:05. | |
from those vital preparations just days before the competition started. | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
It required an appreciation of the bigger picture, of what hosting the | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
Olympics meant for the nation. Right now I want to go home and | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
have a cry, to be honest. In the face of the Games does not | :51:23. | :51:33. | |
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guarantee triumph. Four years ago in Beijing the greatest withdrew | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
after aggravating an old injury. is almost in tears. Why see even | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
fit to compete? You cannot underestimate the pressure that | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
comes with 1 billion fans urging you to race for them. So who is the | :51:50. | :51:59. | |
face of London 2012? Step forward Jessica Ennis. Hopes of home gold | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
are higher than we have ever known. It is a lot to take. The pressure | :52:03. | :52:10. | |
cooker of expectation. Her talent is burning bright, fuelled by hard | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
graft and dedication. The embers of expectation, stoked by the British | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
public's hopes and dreams, have become a roaring inferno fanned by | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
the media consumed world wide. This quiet girl from Sheffield has it | :52:26. | :52:34. | |
all, except one thing. Her dream, her nation's dream, home and | :52:34. | :52:44. | |
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This is where it all unfold over the next week or so. The nation's | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
expectations or on the shoulders of a young girl. Someone who knows | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
what that pressure is like is Denise Lewis, who won this event, | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
Jessica Ennis's event 12 years ago. You know exactly what it takes, | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
Denise. Has she got what it takes? I know what it takes to win and | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
Jessica absolutely has that. But can she cope with the pressure? I | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
think she can. I really do. I think she brings a unique quality to the | :53:19. | :53:27. | |
event. She is calm, she has focused, she is driven and I think one of | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
the prerequisites for a great games is a healthy body, and she has that | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
as well. I hope she wasn't watching it because it put goose bumps down | :53:37. | :53:43. | |
the back of my neck, but that might be Michael Johnson's voice. But the | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
expectancy is large and the nation is willing her to do well, and | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
sometimes that can be a hard thing to handle. As I said, Jessica has a | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
great team around her. She is very focused, driven and has been away | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
preparing in Portugal, so she has removed herself from this pressure | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
cooker. She is back now, she flew in yesterday. Judging from the | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
people I have spoken to they said she seems really relaxed. And I | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
think that in itself says a lot about her. She missed Beijing and | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
that hurt her badly, so she knows what it means, to be at the Olympic | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
Games and be in with a shot of delivering her best performance. I | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
feel confident, based on what I've seen. She has been in good form. | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
She broke your record, quite recently. She broke the British | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
record in May and what pleased me about that record was that the | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
events that caused her the most problems like the javelin, which | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
was a tricky event for her, which cost her the gold medal last year | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
in Daegu, she got a personal best. The long jumper can be inconsistent | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
but she got a personal best as well, 6.51, which puts their right up | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
there. Her second day was always a bit dodgy, but now she is in with a | :55:07. | :55:12. | |
shot. She will certainly have the nation's support and we wish her | :55:12. | :55:22. | |
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well. She starts tomorrow morning Olympics here in London to the | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
undoubted international face of these games and the games before | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
and the one before, Michael Phelps, collecting his gold medal for the | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
His body was heaving after that. He gave everything, and this is the | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
16th time he has stood on a podium with a gold medal around his neck | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
and heard the American national anthem played in his honour. At the | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
Aquatics Centre here in London are on their feet to salute the | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
greatest Olympian ever, 20 medals in all, 16 of them gold, and he | :56:01. | :56:07. | |
still looks as though he cannot quite believe it. 27 years old, his | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
final ever competition. And the final attempts he has to extend his | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
:56:24. | :56:24. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :56:24. | :57:27. | |
And the question every swimmer, every Olympian, will ask themselves, | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
is how does he do that? Ian Thorpe, you know him well. You can | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
appreciate the achievement more than anyone. How does he do it? | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
is not an easy question. It's a really difficult question and I | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
cannot wrap it up. He simply does it by being better than everyone | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
else. If anyone knows how to back up from a race, it is Michael | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
Phelps. He knew what Lochte was coming up against him, but he | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
wanted this from the first day. In the shorter events, he will be | :57:59. | :58:07. | |
stronger and he's on form. I would love to back him on his humour in | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
the press conference, and also his generosity, and also showing Chad | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
le Clos round, and seeing his historical understanding of what | :58:16. | :58:23. | |
he's doing. You saw the human side. With Chad le Clos you saw the human | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
side of Michael Phelps. When he won eight everybody saw the amazing man, | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
but like a robot, the then you saw that human side. That touched | :58:32. | :58:38. | |
everybody. I think Michael has prepared in this games to show | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
another side of himself. He may have felt it was some sort of four | :58:42. | :58:49. | |
before this competition and it was the sort of facade coming up, but | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
it was a different Michael Phelps. He could have made his programme | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
easier and he has taken out one event, but he is about to come and | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
swim the semi-final of the 100 metre butterfly. The fact you have | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
said it, it is his last race. Does he appreciate it more question | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
whereas in Beijing he knew he was going to London. The last hundred | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
metres ever, he has ticked the box. He never has the opportunity to do | :59:19. | :59:23. | |
it again. It is pretty incredible to think about it that way. Knowing | :59:23. | :59:31. | |
what he has coming up, he will be a enjoying this. You had dinner with | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
his mother last night. Do they have any idea about what he might do in | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
that life after swimming? A I do not know if I should be talking | :59:40. | :59:47. | |
about dear old Mrs Phelps. Michael has a great family around him. They | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
are great supporters, and I think his mother is his biggest supporter | :59:51. | :59:58. | |
out of everyone. She is really his litmus test to see what it is for | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
him. Michael has established a charity and then a number of | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
different things, so he knows how to transition away from the sport. | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
I do not know if the sport is ready to transition away from Michael | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Phelps. You have gone away from the sport and comeback, so could you | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
see any thing? Would you give him If he asks for advice, you keep | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
straining straight after this competition for about three months. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Settle into what is going to be a normal exercise routine, rather | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
than just stopping. Because your body goes through changes from | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
being an elite athlete that has processing different things and | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
knowing its adrenalin, all of these things, and it changes into a more | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
normal body. It is important to get some training in at that stage as | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
that trade -- us that change goes through. It is good for your mind | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
to think about the next phase. feel watching Phelps that he is | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
still a child. I mean it in a complementary way. He is 27, but he | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
stands there and you can see the teenager in her. He looks like a | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
boy. There is an element of that. Any athlete, when you come to | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
retire, it is like you are too old to do it any more. Is he a young | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
because he is in a sport and childlike in that sport? When you | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
come out of the sport, you go into the real world. What will he do | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
next? Who knows, it is a new chapter. We see the 15-year-old, I | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
think it was come from the Sydney Games. That is why we see him as a | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
:01:46. | :01:47. | ||
child. When he is up there, he we have witnessed this, the great | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
American swimmer. He delivered more than we expected. What is that | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
child Magnus, the competitive person in you. You want to keep | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
going, having fun. He is about to walk out, now, and he has the big | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
ear defenders on. He is covering his face because you said he was a | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
child! Do you know what music he listens to? He is into classical | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
:02:26. | :02:30. | ||
music. It isn't, it is hip hop! Imagine, it is really funny. Adrian | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Moorhouse and ended -- and Andy Jameson have been enjoying that | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
action. You wonder what Phelps can do now. He has to qualify and he | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
probably will. I think you are right, he just has | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
to qualify and I think he probably will. He is utterly stunning. He | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
has gone 49.84 or 100m Butterfly and that would have made hour | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
freestyle metre dash relay team. It would have beaten one of the guys | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
in the freestyle relay here. It is incredible. He has a job to do. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
This might be one of the slower off the semi-finals. That is that a | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
record set in Rome. He has a job to do. He cannot be sluggish down the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
first 50 metres. They will leave him behind. It is not 200 metres. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
There are not four lengths to make it through the field. If you | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
remember how he has won his heat. Last after the first legs? Last | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
after 50 metres and first after 100 metres. Extraordinary. Sirnak in | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
:03:45. | :03:45. | ||
five -- Czerniak in five. 20 medals at the Olympics. You would not bet | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
him past getting another one in this and in the medley relay, so we | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
are may be looking at 22 medals for him. A very good start in three. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Phelps is going quicker than the first 50 metres but he did in the | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
heat. That is good for 50 metres. Set a personal best time in the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
heats to qualify for these semi- finals. He is on form, turning | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
first by half a second. Starke, his compatriot, in lane eight. This is | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
strong, really good. Phelps is not messing around at all. He knows he | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
is going to sleep tonight. He is going to give it everything. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
looks like he is working very hard indeed. It is fascinating. He went | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
:04:40. | :04:41. | ||
for it at the turn. 50.86. That is fast. The first guy to hit 50 and | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
that is pretty impressive, pretty impressive from Michael Phelps, to | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
win the first semi-final of the men's 100m fly. He is shaking his | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
head a little bit, that will do. See you later. That is outstanding! | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
Off the back of that 200m medley. Crikey. Impressive. Tonight, he | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
swam like the old Michael Phelps, he has committed himself. He let | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
Deibler take it out. I think he got a shock when he looked hundred saw | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
:05:28. | :05:31. | ||
Deibler way ahead. I know, but Phelps dug in. | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
Michael Phelps wins the first semi- You have had a pretty good night, | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
haven't you? Tired. I bet you are. You can come here with a number of | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
things you wanted to achieve, but one of them you did tonight, the | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
triple? That was called. I knew that beating Ryan would be tough | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
and coming of the 200 metres back, it is a hard double. I wanted to | :06:03. | :06:12. | |
try to force it as much as I could. It is a gold medal. Pretty pleased. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Someone special menu, yesterday, didn't they? Yes, the President | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
called me yesterday. It was pretty cool. Somebody called and asked for | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
me and they said, hold, please, for the President of the United States. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
I was like, OK! It was kind of cool. He said everyone is supporting me | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
and everyone at home was rooting for me, so that was very special. | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
He wanted me to say hi to his -- to my mum. And he tweeted you? Yes, | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
Brian and I have been treating. It has been fun. -- tweeting. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
That is one of the reasons we persuaded you to join Twitter so | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
you can get tweets from cool people. He gets the call from a Obama and | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
it is Hull, please. He had to hold, I don't understand? Was Obama was | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
put on hold for Michael Phelps. they understand it. The big | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
:07:23. | :07:36. | ||
question is in this race, could we the BBC, because's dad. His son. | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
Chad, 20, he will want to book down a marker in this. He could be the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
nuclear -- the new kid on the block. You would expect this semi-final, | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
would you not, to be between Cavic and Le Clos. It will be between | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
those. Cavic goes out fast on the first length. The beauty of this, | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
when you walk out for final, when you stand behind the blog can see | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
you would read -- your world record on the screen at the end and | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
everyone knows you have done it, it gives you confident. It is when | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
they announced, that is the big deal. And world record-holder, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
defending Olympic champion. Michael Phelps has that a lot of the time. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
The last race of the night is the second men's 100-metre butterfly. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Here is the green hat off chad a class of South Africa, the gold | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
medallist of the 200 metres flight -- Le Clos. What a fantastic | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
swimmer that was. Dunford is closest to us, the Commonwealth | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
champion on 50m life. Cavic, in third, he touched the wall but did | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
not stop the clock and Dodds got it. -- Phelps got it. The Green Hat in | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
the centre is chad Le Clos of South Africa and the pink suit is Cavic | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
off Sobir. A similar thing happened in the heats. Cavic is on world | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
:09:35. | :09:44. | ||
will come through. He is out, just outside world record pace. I am not | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
sure he has done enough to come back quick enough. Cavic has some | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
work to do if he is going to make the final. The rest of the field | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
will come back at him. Le Clos gets it. He gets a touch and wins the | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
second semi-final. Second, McGill, third, Cavic. That was mightily | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
close. It was close, slower than the first semi-final. Le Clos is a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
great 200 metres champion but he is going to have to work harder and I | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
am not sure he has enough sprint in it. I don't think swimming like | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
that will get him to beat Michael Phelps in the 100 metres. Cavic | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
went out for it and did not hold on, so he is struggling. It is a bit | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
like Liam Tancock, a brilliant 50 metres, but can't hold on at the | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
end. The rest of the field just eating away, eating up the water, | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
who ring him in. Cavic, or the finish, look at that. Actually make | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
-- lane six, McGill, went in first. Le Clos takes an extra stroke and | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
gets the race. Good swimmers. You would just just road so that when | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
your hands come, it is possible to do -- you adjust your stroke. Le | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
Clos is happy and wins the second semi-final of the men's 100m five. | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
-- butterflies. The first three are through to the semi-final. It looks | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
like Michael Phelps will go in half You are slimmer than you were four | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
years ago. Slimmer? Yes, slimmer. don't know, maybe it is possible. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Without the suits we needed to make some changes. I will never be as | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
good looking as this guy, for example, but everybody has got | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
there could... Still a comedian, that is good. Tell me about your | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
back. You had a bad back injury. Is it sorted out? I have to deal with | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
it every single day of my life. I have to do call work every day to | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
keep it going. I am lucky to be here. This is something that has | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
never been done before. Literally never been done before. Hopefully, | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
if I achieve a medal tomorrow, I will be the first guide to win an | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Olympic medal after such an operation. -- the first person to | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
win an Olympic medal. I feel like I have had a second chance, here I am. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
That will be good for me, the end of my career after 19 years. It has | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
been a good run. A hell of a career. Have you grown your fingernails? | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
am going to let them go until tomorrow but just to be here, it | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
has not been done before and I am happy to be here. We keep talking | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
about a rematch against Phelps but it seems like he is out of my | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
league and I am just hoping for any medal. It does not matter, any | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
medal will be good enough. Good luck to you. Thank you. | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Cavic, good fun to hear from him but he will be up against it was Le | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Clos as well. He really was. Did you saw Le Clos, the same thing in | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the two would have metres butterfly. He looked to the side and head down | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
the middle. Looked to you, looked to you, thank you to you both. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Another stunning night in the pool. Phelps was unbelievable, taking the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
200-metre individual medley for the third time to with his 16th gold | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
:13:44. | :13:49. | ||
Adlington defence her 800 metres title at 7:45pm. You might have to | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
forgive mark and I have you get It Adlington gets it, it will be | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
great for team beat a cheat -- Great but Team GB. Be as excited as | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
you like. You should see what happened earlier. He tried to knock | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
him off. A divided, I did not mean to. He has he read he is going to | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
help. He will help Rebecca to defend her title. We will bring it | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
to you like. Cent you for your insights and humour. We are having | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
a ball. We hope we will be back for more a bit tomorrow night. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Having a ball everywhere. What a phenomenal athlete, Michael Phelps. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Isn't he something else? It has been a busy night so a couple of | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
changes to our schedule. The women's gymnastics will be on BBC | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Two at 10pm. Before then, boxing with Josh Taylor in action. First, | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
another of Britain's great hopes for the Games, Mo Farah. His first | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
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finalists the 10,000 metres on His mission, should he choose to | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
excepted, is to complete the five and 10 golden double. In an age of | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
African domination he has seen what seemed improbable probable. Be | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
under no illusion about the enormity of his mission. African | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
nations have swept the medals in the last five Olympics over 10,000 | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
metres, taking gold in the last six. Over 5,000 metres, the African | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
countries have swept the medals table and the last four games. The | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
training came with the assignment, know the enemy, follow their ways. | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
We know this guy's a world record holder. But if he can do it, why | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
can't I do it? Reaching such a realisation, finding that the lead, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
was used in the making. It began with the 2006 failure against a | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
European. Mo Farah or just run out of it, takes the silver. Just to | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
get the goal snatched off you're the last moment is hard to take, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
but to give you a determination to train hard and get ready for next | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
year. The next harsh life election in the mission came at the Beijing | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
Olympics. He was not the easiest time in my life. As an athlete, you | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
know you can do better but you just didn't. It is hard to deal with | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
yourself, let alone what everyone else thinks. Something you work so | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
hard for, or you didn't do it. I learnt a lot from it and came back | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
stronger. Mo Farah takes the gold for Great Britain for the first | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Lessons learned, it clicked at the European Championships with a | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
double gold. Look at this from Mo Farah, he's destroying them. We | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
witnessed the wide-eyed wonder. country fell for his charm, honesty, | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
and that smile. Did you dream of these kind of moments? All more | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
dreaming of being at home playing Arsenal? For I dreamt of that a lot | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
playing football as a youngster but you learn to make decisions and | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
know what you are capable of. Football was just not my thing. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Even though I thought I was the best that football I didn't have | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
enough to back it up. Behind the winning smile, he knew it was not | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
mission accomplished. So here routed his family to live in the | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
user -- the United States. -- he uprooted his family. You want to | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
hit over a hundred miles per week, so you are stiff, you ache, but | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
what drives me in the morning is thinking about the positions and | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
training twice as hard. If I am going to have any chance of beating | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
them, I must train. The impact was seismic at the World Championships | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
in South Korea. He was on a double mission there as well and was | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
chased down in the 10,000 metres but rebounded superbly for gold in | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
the 5,000 metres. It gave me good confident. I was disappointed in | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
the 10,000, but I had to take that to the 5,000 and get ready. I | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
wanted to win more than anybody else. It is gold this time for Mo | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Farah! This time he got it right. This time he found the strength to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
hold on. What a performance. just shows if you really focus and | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
work for it, you can do it. With that attitude ditties Olympic | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
Commission accepted. Mo Farah is quite something, and here is Steve | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
Cram with us. He is a wonderful athlete. What do you think his | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
chances are? He has a great chance that the 10,000. I think that is | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
his best chance. I think he has a good chance in bows, but the 10th, | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the straight final, that is the race he should have won last year | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
and did it the other way round. The Ethiopian who beat him is not there, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
but the Kenyan is there to try and win his third 10,000 metre title. | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
But it is a different one to the one who won in 2008, but he is the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
boss man. Even the Kenyans and Ethiopians look to him. If the race | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
goes in the wake in which Olympic finals and World Championship | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
finals have gone recently, he can win. The only issue is whether or | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
not the Kenyans and Ethiopians kind of get together and decide to make | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
it hard for him at the beginning. Like we saw in the cycling. We know | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
he can handle the pressure, we saw him in a Cube, and he beat that, | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
but this is really something to handle. Finding out if athletes can | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
cope in front of the home crowd. has been waiting for this. Jessica | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Eneas is the face of the Games, and I think those two, people in the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
team have looked up to them -- Jessica Eneas. He has been around | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
the team for a long time. It is his moment. He is more than ready for | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
this. He has been quietly training away, coming in pretty late into | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
this. He is not staying in the village and staying near by. His | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
preparations have been quiet but absolutely nailed on, which is why | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
I think you will do well. This place will come alive on Saturday. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
My research tells me it is 90 now wait since a British man won a | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
longer distance gold, it was a vegetarian Jonas -- 90 now wait | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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since a British man won. -- 1908. The stadium looks a real picture. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
They have cleared it inside. We now know that all of that amazing | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
opening ceremony equipment is gone. It is looking great. I was in there | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
today, Denise and I was saying how jealous we are. When you walk out | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
there you will have nearly 80,000 people there and it will be such an | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
uplifting experience. It is a great venue and we will see some | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
fantastic athletics. Yes, Usain Bolt will be the big star there, | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
but I think Great Britain are going to have a fantastic game. There has | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
been a target of eight medals. Is that realistic? We did brilliantly | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
in Beijing, but not necessarily in athletics. We did have Christine as | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
an individual this time. You have GS, Mo Farah, Dai Greene may be | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Phillips, we are not sure, and then behind them you have other | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
experience athletes like Christine Aldama, and the new kids on the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
blocks, Greg Rutherford in the long jump, lots of people in the top two | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
or three or four, and those on medal chances, not even talking | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
about the relays. I think Charles can say eight medals can say is | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
realistic. A we will leave it on that confident note. We have boxing | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
now, and a tough challenge for Josh Taylor. He faced Valentino, a | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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bronze medallist from the world three-minute rounds in the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
lightweight division between the man representing Italy, wearing red, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Domenico Valentino, competing in his third Olympics as Josh Taylor | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
gets through with a left hand to the body. His opponent, wearing | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
blue, representing Great Britain. Josh Taylor, competing in his | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
second contest in the 2012 Olympic Games. He boxed superbly well to | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
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It is the first contest the No. 3 seed Valentino has fought. Josh is | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
up against it tonight, but there is nothing he cannot handle here. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Scotland have produced some great light weights at the Olympic Games. | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
The last one was charlie Kane in my Olympics in 1988, and in 1984 there | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
was Alex Dickson, and the great Dick MacTaggart to one gold in 1956 | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
in Albert and then got a bronze in Rome four years later. A trout -- | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
crowd tradition for Olympic boxers -- a proud tradition. Josh Taylor | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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entered the contest with Dick Terry Spinks doubling up with | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
MacTaggart to take Olympic gold as well. He repeated that return to | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
the podium in 60 in Rome. And then in Tokyo in 1964, a three-time | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Olympian, no hardware that time, but terrific representation for the | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
man who stayed amateur throughout his terrific career. He endorses | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
Josh Taylor and Sears -- says he sees traces of himself. Valentino | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
with a hard left to the body and the combination to the head. That | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
is high praise, and huge encouragement for Taylor, who has | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
been studying a library of Dick MacTaggart contests in an effort to | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
reach the same lofty heights as the legendary Scotsman. Taylor not | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
doing too bad. That was OK. He is not lunging in, which is good. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Valentino was sitting back a bit. He is doing this because if he | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
leads and falls short, Taylor will come back, as a southpaw and catch | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
him on the counter. Valentino can switch to orthodox, but his best | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
position is as a southpaw. He sits back well. He has to draw the man | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
on to him, but the Italian is cagey. Very experienced, he disability, | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
allied with that experience as well. -- keeps of ability. As we approach | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
the Bell, a competitive round in the light-welterweight division. It | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
is really, -- it is really close. But Taylor finds himself trailing | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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by just one. It is 4-3 in favour of Meet him as he comes. Two straight | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
shots. Good coaching, or telling to hit him as he comes. Punch down the | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
middle. He will also have to lead off in terms of a faint to draw his | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
opponent on to him. Josh Taylor going forward with the jab. What I | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
would like to see him to his maybe Fein to the attack, draw in the | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
Italian, and go back to the counter. He does not need to go on the front | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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court -- front foot, he has to draw The bell sounds to begin the second | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
round, in the round of 16 in the light weight division. Josh Taylor | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
just been instructed to listen for instructions when the referee | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
issues his instructions. They will be communicated by way of | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
gesticulation. Taylor guilty of hitting after instruction on that | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
occasion. But the boxers have settled back to the business and | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
after 32nd. A little mistake from Valentino, but he got away with it. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Taylor should have been quicker going back at him. If the Italian | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
is going to come forward to have to meet him with a fast counter. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
Taylor just failing to hit the target. Taylor, Scotland's sole | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
representative on his British boxing team, comprised of seven men | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
and three women. They are chanting Taylor's name around the arena. And | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
the man in red, Domenico Valentino, he knows what it is like to stand | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
on top of the podium in front of your home town fans, because he won | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
the World Championship in Milan in 2009 when marvelous Marvin handler | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
was in attendance, and he boxed brilliantly after coming up with a | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
silver medal losing to Frankie Gavin in 2007 when Gavin from | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
Birmingham made history by becoming the first Englishman to win, indeed | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
the first Briton to win a world amateur boxing title. What is | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
really important for Taylor is the jab, the leading hand. He has to | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
work with it and bring him on. If the Italian does not come forward, | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
then beat him to the punch with a straight jab, nice and long range. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Then adjust the feat when the Italian comes three. He has to | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
bring him back to the shops. He can do it as long as he adjusts the FT | :28:38. | :28:48. | |
-- bring him back to the shops. of the shots. Into the final minute. | :28:48. | :28:56. | |
Valentino, a strong blow to the sternum. That left hook was a | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
clumsy effort from Valentino. The referee is separating the two | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
boxers before instructing them. Worth pointing out that Taylor | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
secured his Olympic qualification by finishing in third place in the | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
European qualification tournament in Turkey. It was just the top four | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
making it through to the Olympics, where as Valentino secured it at | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
the first time of asking. A low blow, but Taylor does not complain. | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
Valentino made it at the first time of asking but lost to the eventual | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
gold medallist in the semis. Taylor has to do better. He has two * | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
leading off the right jab and bringing him on to the shops -- | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
start pleading not. The Italian will not feel that good. He will | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
feel nervous and he is walking in recklessly and he should be | :29:45. | :29:55. | |
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It remains just the one point advantage. And even round of boxing, | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
but it is still Valentino with his nose in front. The score is eight- | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
seven in favour of the man from Italy. Taylor getting caught, but | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
so much in the contest. Only a point in this. Only beaten to the | :30:12. | :30:21. | |
punch, but you can see Valentina This is his first contest. He will | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
feel a bit nervous. He is scoring well here. Josh Taylor could win | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
this contest. He could beat the world number one here, it is there | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
:30:43. | :30:55. | ||
for the taking. Lee Pullan will be A rousing reception given to both | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
boxers for the third and final three-minute round in the men's -- | :31:00. | :31:10. | |
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in the men's 60 kg category. It is Josh Taylor, first as Domenico | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
Valentino, the world champion from Milan, 2009. The crowd are | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
beginning to encourage and inspire Josh Taylor. He was attacked with a | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
sharp combination there. Valentino upped the tempo. He knows there is | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
only a point in it. It is too close for comfort for the Italian. Josh | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
Taylor, this is better, keeping it in range. Keeping the lid man on | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
the back foot, good stuff. Josh Taylor has enjoyed success at this | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
arena when he won the Olympic test event at the back end of last year. | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
That was at 64 kg. Such was his dominant performance that his coach | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
convinced him to drop down to 60. He scores with a good left hand. He | :31:58. | :32:06. | |
took the qualification place available. It is important that | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
Josh up the tempo because Valentino will feel the pace more than Josh | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
Taylor. This is his first contest. What he has got to do now, Josh, he | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
has to up the tempo, go through the gears. Believe you me, he could win | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
the contest. An effective right hand from Valentino on that | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
occasion. Look at that for a rapier-like jab from Valentino. A | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
one-two combination got through. As we approach the second half, it | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
brings about a good response from Taylor, who got through with a | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
decent left cross. The Valentino is hanging on on the inside. He is | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
counting down the clock. Clever tactics from the world number one | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
there. Hugely experienced as he got through with a good right cross | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
once again which followed a left jab, Valentino. He is using the | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
ring effectively. Taylor is dominating the centre ring. It is | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
an untidy tangle of the two boxers tumble to the canvas. We need a | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
straight 1-2 down the middle. That is the order of the day. That was | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
better. He has beaten his opponent to the punch there with a straight | :33:20. | :33:27. | |
shot. Inside the final minute. These final seconds are going to be | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
absolutely crucial for both boxers. Using off a experience acquired | :33:34. | :33:36. | |
through so many international tournaments over the years, the | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
final -- the five time Italian champion giving his experience. He | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
senses he has in front. He was leading by one point by eight-seven | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
and he was hanging on where possible just to use the tactics | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
again. That his experience. Taylor will have to work hard. Come on, | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
referee, you must break these boxers up. That is what he is doing, | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
Valentino. He is ticking down the clock. The Italian is tired. Taylor | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
is going to have to continue to press and use effective, | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
intelligent aggression to land some significant scoring blows as the | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
clock is counting down. He will have to box until the final bell. | :34:21. | :34:28. | |
Valentino initiates another clinch in the closing seconds. So, the | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
bell sounds to signal the end. Taylor feels he has done enough. He | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
raises his fist in celebration, but Valentino does the same thing as he | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
returns to the Olympic several medallist in the super-heavyweight | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
division, who is coaching the Italians out -- the Italian side. | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
Some good work hear from Valentino. Long-range shots, a clever man has | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
the last -- as the lamps the shot. He creates the gap again. A | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
straight one to down the middle. Valentino, good performance in the | :35:05. | :35:13. | |
last round, the corner getting very excited about there one-twos here's | :35:13. | :35:20. | |
throwing. It is close. UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
a score of 15-ten in the red corner, representing Italy, Domenico | :35:27. | :35:34. | |
Valentino. So in his third Olympic Games, Domenico Valentino is | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
through to the quarter-finals, but what a spirited effort from Great | :35:39. | :35:47. | |
A shame for Josh Taylor come our first boxer to lose at this | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
Olympics. You can see how Anthony Ogogo FED later here on BBC One. | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
Team GB's women's hockey team have made a promising start. They won | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
their first two matches. They are now up against Belgium, watched | :36:02. | :36:12. | |
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here in the Olympic Park by Mel the crucial match. The balance will | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
change by the end of play today. We will have a pretty good idea who is | :36:18. | :36:28. | |
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later on. It is good to get an early shot in there by Alex Thomson. | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
The goalkeeper has been one of the outstanding performance in the | :36:49. | :36:59. | |
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got her head up and made the past. The goalkeeper was out very fast to | :37:23. | :37:33. | |
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smother any opportunity for Nicola go right, which was the correct | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
decision because most of the Belgian players went with the | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
runners. She jabbed the ball away, as she was winding up to take a | :38:17. | :38:27. | |
:38:27. | :38:53. | ||
It is Ashleigh Ball, who breaks the deadlock. Great play by Sarah | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
Thomas initially. Good to see the GB forwards trying to get in there, | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
clearly Rogers picks up a rebound at stays very cool, car and plays | :39:03. | :39:11. | |
the ball back at a 90 degree angle on to Ashleigh Ball's forehand. 1-0, | :39:11. | :39:21. | |
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Laura Bartlett. She makes it 2-0. A number of different story it -- | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
there were a number of difference Corus for Great Britain, it is | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
growing. Great skill, she drove into the circle, due in the two | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
Belgian defenders. I thought Laura Bartlett might have turned the | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
wrong way. She went on to her reverse stick but she proved me | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
wrong. The goalkeeper will be slightly disappointed, very | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
disappointed I would imagine come on the basis of how she is playing | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
in this tournament. It is good to see the pressure count for | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
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something and Great Britain have fascinating, going back on that | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
goal, when the play in position looks as if she has pushed it too | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
far. She drew the goalkeeper and as a result the goalkeeper was to | :40:42. | :40:52. | |
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close on the post and was not able great piece of skill, out wide, to | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
set up that opportunity. She did the right thing in firing the ball | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
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It is a great pass up by Christa Cullen. Alex dance and make the | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
right decision. She wound up for the reversing shot and realised the | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
defender was closing her down. The speed to she went from that to | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
lifting the ball over the defender's stick, drew the foul and | :41:45. | :41:55. | |
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Twigg which meant that Laura Unsworth could not make a clean | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
trapped on top of the circle for Christa Cullen to come in and flick | :42:11. | :42:21. | |
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the shot. She had to stop it and at the back, pounced upon very | :42:31. | :42:41. | |
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quickly by Belgium. -- Laura the ball peels away from the first | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
defendant tries to take the shot, what she is saying is the No. Seven | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
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reaction of the crowd. They are getting a lot of delight out of | :43:32. | :43:39. | |
this. That is -- that has had flown by Christa Cullen. Her first | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
movement is to take the ball into her body and create the space and | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
the angle. To be able to open up that bottom left-hand corner of the | :43:47. | :43:55. | |
goalkeeper, so the right hand side A terrific effort. Let's bring you | :43:55. | :44:05. | |
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up to speed on a terrific day for British record 5th gold medal, | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
winning the men's team sprint with Philip Hindes Sant Jason Kenny. It | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
was a world record time. Great Britain were the first ever goal as | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
well as silver in canoe slalom, with Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
finishing ahead of their team-mates, David Florence and Richard Hounslow, | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
in the canoe double. Shooter Peter Wilson kept his nerve to win gold | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
in the double trap. The 25-year-old from Dorset was ahead throughout | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
the final and won by two shots. Local gold Gemma Gibbons and | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
Britain's first judo medal for 12 years, beating the world champion | :44:46. | :44:54. | |
on her way to a brilliant silver medal. Great Britain's lightweight | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
men's 41 a rowing silver as South Africa beat them to gold by a | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
quarter of a second at Eton Dorney. And Andy Murray is through to the | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
semi-finals of the men's singles. He beat Nicolas Almagro and now | :45:08. | :45:13. | |
plays Djokovic. He wants to win with Laura Webb -- with Laura | :45:13. | :45:23. | |
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But we join it with Spain leading in the final quarter in the | :45:27. | :45:37. | |
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to play, and Great Britain down by eight and shooting from the foul | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
line. Great Britain have been in this situation before. They have | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
been here with five minutes left, just about, in the game, in a | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
winnable circumstance. The last three or four times we have seen | :45:59. | :46:07. | |
them, they have lost their focus giving their game away to the | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
opponent, and Oakley that experience is singing in. -- | :46:12. | :46:22. | |
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hopefully that experience is just can't be as intense as he | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
needs to be, because he knows he only has one foul to play with, and | :46:32. | :46:41. | |
he is then it out. Going to the hook, and getting it in. He did not | :46:41. | :46:48. | |
want to come out. A great move, feigning a way, then spinning away | :46:48. | :46:58. | |
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can do about it. Spins around, put it away behind his head, that is | :47:06. | :47:16. | |
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hard to block. Freeland for the three. He hits it! 68-63. He has | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
hit some big shots in the game. Now it is a question of Team GB playing | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
the kind of defence to take them home. You see how much she was | :47:29. | :47:35. | |
giving him, and he is trying to pump him -- he was giving him. | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
is interesting. The referee having a word on the baseline saying, that | :47:39. | :47:47. | |
is close to being a foul. Just picking up an off-the-ball foul, | :47:47. | :47:57. | |
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Freeland. Archibald replaces him. Chris think it is a afraid to be | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
able to play the kind of defence he needs to. You see a different kind | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
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Mrs. -- Calderon from the foul line. He misses. The crowd roaring as the | :48:19. | :48:29. | |
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knocked down. But he will be called for the foul. That will be four on | :48:58. | :49:08. | |
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A good call. A little confusion on wrapper when you are putting at the | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
Ryder Cup, but she can make Court of the noise you like when it is a | :49:33. | :49:43. | |
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foul shot. -- you can make all the exactly three minutes in the game. | :49:46. | :49:53. | |
A huge offensive set. Let's see if it is another isolation. They ran a | :49:53. | :50:00. | |
double pink to get the ball. That was the shot they wanted. It went | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
through Archibald's hands. Spain ran at two players, so he had no | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
choice but to pass a top. A smart decision and that was the shot he | :50:11. | :50:20. | |
had been hitting all day. against 65. Spain have the ball in | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
the hands of their best player. Nearly went out of bounds. | :50:28. | :50:38. | |
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to replace him with Archibald, because that would have been the | :50:41. | :50:51. | |
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earn that foul. Spain just wanting to slow the game down at this point. | :50:52. | :51:01. | |
Get those points while the clock is stopped. Each defensive set for GB | :51:01. | :51:07. | |
is so important. But, clearly, not able to stop Spain at crunch time. | :51:08. | :51:17. | |
Each time they have come back. A bigamist there. Spain have opted | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
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Freeland on the baseline. Hits! That is a big shot. That is a big | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
shot at this stage. Especially coming off the last to miss. Great | :51:46. | :51:56. | |
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confidence, and again, and dengue for three. Freeland with the | :52:02. | :52:12. | |
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Interestingly, Spain, stain in the game. No time out. -- staying in | :52:24. | :52:34. | |
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break down the we have been talking about from the Team GB, at crucial | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
moments. They bring themselves to the brink of success, and at | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
crucial moments, just absent minded, but also the past was low, one | :53:13. | :53:23. | |
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handed, leisurely. That was going After a number of time-outs we can | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
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Freeland got the past. Rankin commits a foul. They didn't have a | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
choice. In previous games we had seen Britain allowed massive | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
amounts of time and at this stage of the game that could be 10 | :53:53. | :54:03. | |
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Calderon is out on the line to try free-throw percentage down the line. | :54:25. | :54:32. | |
All of the other quarters shooting 63%. But in this one, 80% from the | :54:32. | :54:42. | |
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line. You have to like that crunch will be talking on the Spanish side | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
about how they box out and wrap the basketball up for a three? That is | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
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leave him standing there longer than he is accustomed to. In the | :55:17. | :55:27. | |
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end Johnson came in for Calderon to they expected to be this nervous. | :55:27. | :55:37. | |
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That is a huge shot because he makes it 79-75. Back to a two | :55:51. | :56:00. | |
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possession game again. They have to three is good! 79-78. What are they | :56:08. | :56:18. | |
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doing? He gets the pass away. Did only chance they had was to seal | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
the ball or get a foul, and they could and foul. Once again the | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
story is they are doing so much right, but at this level, 95%, 98%, | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
99%, is not good enough, including executing at the last second. | :56:47. | :56:56. | |
the world's number three team has fallen just short, losing to the | :56:56. | :57:03. | |
Number Two team in the world, 79-78. A tough way to lose, and at some | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
point you have to overcome the disappointment at a loss and | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
getting frustrated and start working together -- win these games. | :57:14. | :57:23. | |
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It has to become good enough or not A big round of applause for the | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
Great Britain team from this packed house here at the Olympic | :57:34. | :57:44. | |
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in the unforced errors early on, the mist free throws early on, and | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
the inability to make those solid decisions down the end. Everybody | :58:00. | :58:07. | |
needs to know and be on the same So close for the men's basketball | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
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team, and it really was a major have it all to do. As for the | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
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overall medals table, we are the way alongside the United States, | :58:38. | :58:48. | |
Over on BBC Three you can see the live men's volleyball, Great | :58:48. | :58:56. |