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Good morning. As you've been hearing, it was a gold rush for | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Great Britain yesterday, who are now sitting pretty in fifth on the | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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medal table. There is plenty to After three Olympic silvers, could | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
today be gold? Also three other of rowing finals at Eton Dorney, | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
including Northern Ireland's Alan Campbell, hoping to grab a medal in | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
the men's singles sculls. The athletics begins today, and we get | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
our first glimpse of Jess Ennis on the track as the heptathlon starts | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
in just over an hour's time. And Larry Godfrey is shooting for not | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
remembered today. A tough last 16 encounter awaits against Malaysia's | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
world number five. That is starting right now, so let's go to Lord's to | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
see Great Britain's sole survivor in artery. Larry Godfrey is the | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
world number 10, from Bristol. He is facing Malaysia's Khairul Anuar | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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be hoping to win to taking into the quarter-final later on. Let's get | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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straight over to the action with last 16. Khairul Anuar Mohamad is | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
against him. 15 arrows divided into five sets. Three arrows percept. | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
Tot up the total, two said. Available per set. First archer to | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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reach six set points goes through advance to the shooting line and | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
then come away in the distance, 70 metres out over the square of Lords, | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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an eight. Larry Godfrey, fourth in It gives them an advantage in the | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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Godfrey. It is a seven, for a total Mohamad. He takes the first two | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
points. He is world ranked number five. He has been a serious | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
competitor on the world circuit for year. -- all year. Their styles are | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
incredibly different. Khairul Anuar Mohamad's is very relaxed, good | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
timing. Larry is very powerful. Which means for him his timing | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
isn't crucial because it can really hold his form together, but the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
better timing that we see Larry using, as in the timing it takes | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
from the string to touch his face to release the more consistent, the | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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better Larry is going to be away from the sun. Khairul Anuar | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Mohamad looks into the sun. But the sun is not out, it's not a factor | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :05:42. | :07:13. | |
with A 10. -- Khairul Anuar Mohamad. We will have to wait until the | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
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the last two years. He Redgrave - that he regained his British number | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
one placing. Hitting silver in the World Cup in often this year. Gold | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
in the team event in the World Cup. He has pulled the team together. He | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
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is bringing his form onto the pitch metres away. It is the whiff of an | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
international football stadium, 10 red London buses. It is a long, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
long wait. I know it doesn't look that far on your TV set. They are | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
shooting at A 10, which has 12.2 centimetres in diameter, a little | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :08:22. | :09:32. | |
bit short of an ACT. -- a little to the right, we really need to | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
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gone up from 25 in the first set, officially. We shall need | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
confirmation from the target end. Fantastic consistent shooting from | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
both of these Archers. Larry came fourth in the ranking event. The | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
only people to beat him were the three Korean men. Korea dominate | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
the sport of archery. He scored a huge 680 points, just one below the | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
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British record, compared to Cairo Ammar Mohammad -- Khairul Anuar | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :10:55. | :12:01. | |
is confirmed. We stand at three set looks the enormous when it fills | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :12:12. | :12:57. | |
the screen, but to Larry it is a moves into a 5-3 lead. -- and eight. | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
If he ties the fifth said.... He will reach six points. Khairul | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
Anuar Mohamad has to win the fifth set and then we go into the very | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
tense one arrow to shoot off. The women's final was decided, the gold | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
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medal was one on one final Arrow lucky to get his shot away. He only | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
had two seconds left on the clock when he released. Archer's only | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
have 20 seconds to draw up and execute their shot, which seems | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
plenty of time, but I noticed the wind had started to swirl when he | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
was on the line. You've got to be lucky. One little gust of wind and | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :14:06. | :15:37. | |
has gone down as an eight with an doesn't matter if Khairul Anuar | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Mohamad, he has already taken the two points. Five set points off. | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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And we have it, first thing in the competitors are really high-class | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
shooters. Carol and one Mohammed is the current Asian champion in the | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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individual and team event. -- Khairul Anuar Mohamad. Larry really | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
needs to get his a role in the 10th. Sometimes we found out that is not | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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good enough, it really has to be at archers hangs on one arrow. Those | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
targets will be replaced. If they have to go for the ruler, they have | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :17:10. | :18:15. | |
to run the ruler over an unruffled through to the quarter-finals, and | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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Britain's last archer left in the a full house, 5,000 spectators here, | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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in front of the pavilion at Lord's, Mohamad, issued that 10 in this | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
stadium, in front of the home crowd was really incredible, so well done | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
indeed, Mohamad. Larry, of course, he will be disappointed not to go | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
through, but he should be proud of the game that he brought to the | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
stadium today. He shot well, good timing, we are really proud of you, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Larry, thank you for representing the country. 15 arrows were not | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
enough, the 16th was everything. It hit the gold, but he knew at that | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
the one arrow that counted it was not going to be enough, the nine | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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was beaten by this 10. Mohamad goes Just one arrow made the difference | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
between being emanated all staying in the competition, malacia goes | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
through. -- Malaysia. He was the last surviving British athlete in | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
the artery competition, and Larry Godfrey is with Sonali Shah. Tough | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
luck, all down to one arrow in the end. That is what archery is about! | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
I woke up this morning feeling good, the same as I did on Monday, I went | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
out and did my best with the feeling that if it was met Bibi, it | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
was meant to be. It was close. was your toughest match on paper. | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Yeah, all the Archers are of a great standard, so what can you do? | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
You have really loved the crowd here, you have been entertaining | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
them not just for the shooting, with your antics, the imitation | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
cover-drive. Do you know, this is the best arena I have ever shot in. | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
The lanes only come round once every four years, it is fun, the | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
crowd have been great. -- the Olympics. It is a great atmosphere, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
I am really happy and thankful for all the public to get behind me, | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
you know. Your third Olympic Games, not the result he would have wanted, | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
but does it rate right at there? Definitely, archery is a funny | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
sport, you have got to believe that you can win it, but anything can | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
happen. I took it down to one arrow and he smashed it, didn't he? | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
certainly enjoyed watching you, thank you. Larry Godfrey, who said | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
artery is a funny spot, a dramatic way to start today. -- archery. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Great Britain are out, but the medals matches will be taking place | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
at 3:20pm this afternoon. Plenty more on offer this morning, live | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
sport including badminton at Wembley, that is on BBC Three, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Indonesia against Denmark in the mixed doubles bronze medal matches. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Meanwhile, down to the last 16 in a beach volleyball, disappoint but | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
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yesterday Paul Great Britain, but a Later on we will have all the | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
build-up to at athletics that is going to be starting in the stadium, | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
the Olympic Stadium behind me. Also we are going to be showing you the | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
build-up to the rowing finals and hearing from Katherine Grainger, | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
but today it is the first sporting action inside the stadium, because | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
the athletics will start, and right at the beginning of the schedule is | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the heptathlon, the gruelling women's events which will take | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
place over the next two days. The star attraction is the one Jessica | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Ennis, so can the poster girl for London 2012 deliver on the bigger | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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What is it like being one of the faces of the Games? Yeah, it is | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
definitely a unique experience. It has been a man here, but really | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
exciting, and it is just crazy, seeing all the campaigns, the | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
things that have been up around the country and in London, but I feel | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
very privileged to be part of the home games in a big way, and I just | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
want to make sure I perform and have a great couple of days out on | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
the track. With privilege comes pressure. For me personally, it is | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
nice pressure. I have said before that it is not so much, I don't | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
know, the negativity that you feel, you feel the positive side of it, | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
people supporting you, everyone is going to be cheering for you and | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
wishing for you to do well. Having the crowd behind you in the stadium | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
really lifts you, so it is a massive advantage for the GB | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
athletes. The girl from the city of steel came to Berlin hunting for | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
gold, and she has done it! He won the world title in Berlin, and | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
there was a peeling that people were putting the London 2012 medal | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
around your neck three years out. Yes! Just one sub-par showing with | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
the Javelin last year and she lost the world title to that Anna Church | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
ever. I think that it changed the way that people look at heptathlon, | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
how difficult it is going to be. Things happen for a reason, you | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
have got to look at the events in that way, and Daegu, although I | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
really wanted to win, I came out on top, in a way it was a blessing in | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
disguise, and it gave me the fuel in my stomach to really keep | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
driving hard and make sure that everything is in the right place | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
for London. Last year, I came away really frustrated with Javelin, | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
knowing that I needed to make some changes in that event, so being | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
able to go back to Sheffield and work with Michel and address those | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
problems, and then come out knowing that I need to get a good throw in | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
to prove to myself and two other people that it is not a major | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
problem, throwing 47 was a brilliant start, so I was really | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
pleased at that. I'm glad I have been able to work on it to make a | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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lot stronger this year. She beat her rivals with a new record four | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
years after a serious foot injury cruel to her -- cruelly robbed her | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
in Beijing. It has been such a long build up, and I know more than | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
anyone that things can go wrong, with what happened in 2008 before | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Beijing, and I just want to make sure that every session goes right | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and that there are no major problems. To actually be here now, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
in the position that I am in, healthy, looking forward to it, I | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
feel really privilege, and I cannot believe how difficult -- different | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
it is four years down the line. Olympic history beckons. Kelly | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
Sotherton was our last heptathlon medallist in 2004. Four years | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
earlier, Denise Lewis heroically hobbled to gold. And in 1972, there | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
was Mary. Come on, Mary, you need the run of your life! Peters, the | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Northern Irish treasure. Now it is for Jessica Ennis to further enrich | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
this tradition, and she is first up. It is nice to be on at the | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
beginning, we fly in a few days before, so it is nice to get it out | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
of the way and then support the team and enjoy watching everybody | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
else compete. I hope to go out on Friday and put some good | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
performances down and see what I can do. Is it one of those things | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
that he will only appreciate after the events? Yeah, I think so, | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
because it is such a busy leader, there is a lot going on, the nerves | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
and adrenalin and everything kicks in. -- lead-up. Definitely after | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
that will be the time you look back and realise how big it was, you | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
know, you go back and see how you felt. It will be amazing to look | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
back on. How amazing Major's depend on the colour of Jessica's medal. | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Bath made just a pen. Whatever happens, it will be the intense | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
couple of days. In Sydney, the poster girl for the heptathlon was | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Denise Lewis, who is here with me now. How do you think that Jess | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
Ennis is going to cope with the expectation that is on her this | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
time? I think she will cope very well, I really do. In the lead-up, | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
there has been so much attention on her, which she has taken in her | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
stride, because at the end of the day she is profiling herself, | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
profiling the event, but when it comes down to what will happen in | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
the Olympic Stadium, she will be very businesslike, and I have a lot | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
of confidence in her and her ability. She has progressed nicely | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
the last couple of years. She has a steely determination that we see | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
are often when the chips are down, and I think it is going to be | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
fantastic. Of all the events happening in the stadium over the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
next few days, the heptathlon is right up there in terms of how | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
gruelling it is, seven different disciplines. Seven different | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
disciplines, two very long days of competition. The girls will have | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
been away from 6am this morning, going through breakfast, | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
visualising what they need to do, and you know, it is how you manage | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
yourself between the events that really makes the difference, | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
keeping your mind focused on the job, but at the same time allowing | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
yourself to switch off and just relax and take the tension out of | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
the body. The first we will see is the 100m hurdles and the high jump, | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
how does she bear in knows? Great events for Jess, she is one of the | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
strongest hurdlers in the field, and she will be going in the last | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
heat. She will want to get up to a good start, get rid of all that | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
nervous tension, but it is a great event for her. She will get such a | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
roar from the crowd, and that will really spur her on. The high jump | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
equally has proven to be one of the best events. She holds the equal | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
record for the high jump, the British record for the high jump, | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
and she will want to make sure that is a good advent for her. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
Psychologically it will really help. The pressure is tricky, because | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
some people think that all she needs to do is turn up and waved to | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
get a gold medal, but there is some really tough competition at there. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Yes, Tatyana Chernova is the reigning world champion from last | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
year in Daegu, who beat Jess, and I think that Falk Jess was a real | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
wake-up call. There's also Nataliya Dobrynska, who was the reigning | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
Olympic champion. She has had its trials and tribulations, lost their | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
coach and husband this year in March. So she has got a point to | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
prove. But I think Jess, she has the edge, there is something about | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
consistency in heptathlon which she has proved time and again that she | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
can deliver. But let's not forget the two other heptathletes that you | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
mentioned earlier, Katarina Johnson-Thompson... Very young, 19. | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
19, and she did an amazing personal best to qualify for the Games, so | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
watch out for her, because she is likely in the next few years to | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
take over Jess's mantle. And Louise Hazel as well, fellow Birchfield | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
Harrier. We will be seen or three inaction very soon. The first event | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
is the 100m hurdles, and it begins within the hour. What about the | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
bigger picture with the athletics team? Charles van Commenee is | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
targeting eight medals, double the total from Beijing, so who are the | :30:40. | :30:50. | |
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Mo Farah takes the gold for Great Britain, and Thompson makes it in | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
second. Greene get the gold! Perri Shakes-Drayton has taken this field | :31:35. | :31:45. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :31:45. | :32:27. | |
Great Britain has found another Just some of the faces you will be | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
seen in action in the next few days, Kiwayu looking out for? Where do we | :32:32. | :32:38. | |
start?! The brats of events, where we could possibly do well, is so | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
great now compared to Beijing. -- the breadth. Robbie Grabarz in the | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
men's high jump has had a remarkable season, breaking the | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
British record, sorry, breaking his own personal record four times. He | :32:51. | :32:57. | |
has a great opportunity to get a medal. There has not been an ideal | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
situation for Phillips Idowu to be in, this row with Charles van | :33:01. | :33:10. | |
Commenee, what you make about that? It is one of those things were two | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
people just collided. Their personalities just clash. Phillips | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
likes to do things his own way. In this instance, we know he has got a | :33:19. | :33:27. | |
slight injury... He's been kind of under the radar a little bit. For | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
me, personally, when an athlete chooses how to prepare for an event | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
like this, I think it has to be his decision on how he'd like to | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
prepare in his run-up to the Olympics. Charles is very | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
headstrong. He sets a very high standard and he expects the | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
athletes to fall in line. And no- nonsense Dutchman. Of Bury. But | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
it's one of those things. We just have to be careful that it doesn't | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
overshadow everything else that's happening. We've got some great | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
athletics to look forward to, and let's hope Phillips is fit and | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
healthy and ready to go. Let's have a look inside the stadium, because | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
the stage is set. This is what it looks like inside. Lots of British | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
interest throughout these athletics events. How important will an early | :34:15. | :34:23. | |
medal before the whole team's morale? It will give them a huge | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
lift. Jess Ennis is a huge figure in that team. It's important she | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
does do well because it will galvanise everyone else to believe | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
that they have their moment and it's a possibility that they could | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
equal her achievements. It's great that one of our senior members is | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
up there. It is a fantastic setting for them. We will have to let you | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
get over there because you need to get there before everything gets | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
under way. High hopes in the Olympic Stadium, and the same goes | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
for Eton Dorney today. That's because the Robling finals include | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
the women's double sculls with Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins. | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
The race is just after midday, and there won't be a dry eye in the | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
house if they won gold in the women's double sculls. And that's | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
just the BBC Presentation Team I'm talking about! After silver medals | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, surely it is time for a London gold | :35:16. | :35:24. | |
for Katherine Grainger. When I started rowing at university, I was | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
really not very good at it at all. I loved it, great fun, but it was | :35:29. | :35:39. | |
never, while, she is destined for I didn't start rowing thinking I | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
would be an Olympic athlete. I just started because it was a great | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
thing to do, very sociable, great bunch of people and I loved it. | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
There were all these constant gold settings and moving on and moving | :35:52. | :36:00. | |
on. I've probably learnt that everyone is capable of so much more | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
than they know. How much people can set the high, ambitious goals, and | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
just going on that journey to achieve them, they will learn so | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
much about themselves and do things that they never thought was | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
possible. We've been in a good place city - that pretty much since | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
we got the boat together. It's very exciting to be in. We've been | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
hugely successful, never been beaten. We are the lead crew to go | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
out and beat. Especially on your home soil, everyone is going to | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
want that. They have always been role-models and people to look up | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
to. I don't think anyone sets out to be that successful person, but | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
in pursuit of excellence in other ways you realise you are then at | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
that standard that to become someone who can show people how it | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
can be done. It is just a great journey to be on. It has been an | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
incredible journey. And hopefully it is one that will have a happy | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
ending. A big moment for Katherine Grainger, and a big day for all the | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
finalists that will be racing in the next couple of hours. Let's see | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
how Eton Dorney is looking this morning. | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
It's looking much as it has done for the past few days, the sun | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
glinting down, shining off the water, the crowds absolutely packed | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
out, its impact since 9am. The first few races of minimal | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
consequence to everyone who's come here to watch. They hope for | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
British gold and may be even more than that. Steve, there is a danger | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
of all of us laugh -- lapsing into hyperbole over the last few hours, | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
but it is an immense favour Catherine get -- Katherine Grainger. | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
Not least that Jessica Ennis has been the poster girl for British | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
athletics, Katherine Grainger has been a poster girl for rowing for a | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
decade. Everybody wants her to win today. It's not just within the | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
sport, it's outside the sport. I was with Denise Lewis back in the | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
studio. She was talking about it. She knows Katherine Grainger very | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
well. What ever sport, this could be the moment for the British team. | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
A fantastic story of all these silver medals. Six times world | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
champion. It is this coming to be the date? And Anna Watkins as well. | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
The performance between the two girls, they take it in terms of | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
trials of who actually wins. There's not that much difference | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
between the two of them when they have to race each other in single | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
sculls. They are outstanding athletes. We will have more chance | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
to talk about Catherine as we get closer to the race. Jeff Ennis is | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
and the monumental pressure, but she was saying it is how you | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
respond to that pressure that determines how successful you are. | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
You can take energy from it and perform as a consequence. Catherine | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
says the same thing. She's taking the positives out of the fact that | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
everybody is looking at that, as opposed to regarding it as an | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
albatross around her neck. Very much so. It's how you cope with | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
that pressure that makes the difference. That is what makes the | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
Olympics so special, is that they have won the last to mark Road | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
World Championships, they have won every time they've gone in double | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
sculls together, but it counts for nothing if they don't win here. | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
There is that expectation of pressure. One little bit of | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
pressure that has been taken of his they are not now the first women's | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
crew to win eight Olympic gold medal. But that is what makes great | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
champions, how you cope with the situation. I used to love it in | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
some ways. Sitting here thinking about it, I'm thinking, how did I | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
used to do that? But it's how you cope with it. You've got to get a | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
good performance out. There is a helluva lot of pressure on. The | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
next couple of hours will be sheer hell for them, but they will | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
remember this day for the rest of their lives. There is an extra buzz | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
around Eton Dorney today, not just because of Kath Grainger and Anna | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
Watkins, because we have four finals. We have the men's quad, who | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
have an outside chance of a metal, the men's pair, who have a | :40:06. | :40:13. | |
reasonable chance of a medal, and then the single sculls at -- this | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
afternoon. Alan's regime is no different to everybody else. It is:, | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
relentless, a commitment to have to make 24/7. Even when it is | :40:24. | :40:34. | |
:40:34. | :40:37. | ||
It is mentally very hard and very tough. I have given up a | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
comfortable Christmas. I've dreamed that final race a 1000 times. I've | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
won it every single one, thankfully. Hopefully the sacrifice as well add | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
up to a gold. You do dream about standing up on that podium. It's at | :40:55. | :41:05. | |
:41:05. | :41:08. | ||
that point you think, I will be I'm quite a bit rocky fan. My | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
favourite film would be Rocky four. That is why this would camp was | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
born. The real purpose behind it was not only to toughen up Alan | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
physically, but it was to give him that strength in the head, the | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
mental willpower and determination you need in this sport which is so | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
hard, especially for in the final in that last 500m for a guy who | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
really wants it, the guy who can draw on something, be it from Court | :41:34. | :41:42. | |
or from his girlfriend or from some thought, in Alan's case that the be | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
all of those things. He can think, I did that would camp at Christmas, | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
I'm tougher than they are. He can go that extra fruit -- few strokes | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
and that beat them all. This is a rare occurrence, I'm in the kitchen. | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
I'm usually treated like a prince when I'm at home, but I just want | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
to get them out early so they aren't too hard. I've already had | :42:04. | :42:11. | |
porridge this morning. My mum was up at 6am making it. I just cannot | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
keep this lad fed. The supermarket bill has gone through the roof. The | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
whole business of his Christmas training, out on Christmas Day. | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
This year was a pleasure. That was in 12 degrees. Last year it was | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
miners 14, but he is going for this. He is not leaving any Stone | :42:28. | :42:38. | |
:42:38. | :42:43. | ||
He has had glandular fever, he's had operations, he's ridden a bike | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
to tried to beat Chris Hoy but fell off, he had concussion. We dream -- | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
we've been through a lot of trials and tribulations. There is no one | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
more determined and committed than Allen. It was the old man Steve | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
Redgrave holding up the young boy at the championships. I feel like | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
someone has cut my legs off, it really hurts. That's what you call | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
giving your all, isn't it? The gold, what does it mean, what is it | :43:12. | :43:19. | |
worth? For me, part of it will be an apology for all the times I've | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
annoyed bail and cursed at him and been a prima donna and all that. | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
For Jules, any time I've made her feel second-best. For my parents, | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
for the adviser may have squandered. And to friends and family, for the | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
times I've missed. To sponsors as well, for the times I've said, I | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
can't come in and do that event or come in and see you because I've | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
got to do my training. Hopefully, they will accept that gold as an | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
apology and hopefully... And because they will have played a | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
part in winning that gold for me. Regardless of what happens, I want | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
to be able to stand up, be proud and know that I did everything I | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
can do and couldn't have taken another stroke. On a glorious, | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
sunny Friday morning at Eton Dorney, Alan Campbell will be remembering | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
Christmas Day back in Coleraine. Do you know how he does that? On his | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
iPod, which he has with his head bones, he has Christmas songs, even | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
in July and August he is listening to stop the cavalry and things like | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
that. That gets him back into thinking what it was like in | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
Northern Ireland in December. a real character. Globally the hard | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
work will come to fruition today. Realistically his prospects are | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
bat? To win, I wouldn't have thought so. To win a bronze medal, | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
yes, I would be so. Chris Hoy, equalling the number of gold medals | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
yesterday. He is a phenomenon. just equalling, he's got a silver, | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
I've only got a bronze. He is at the top of that list now. He's a | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
great guy, a great competitor. I watched it last night, it was | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
fantastic. Seeing his demotion of what it meant to him - Maxine his | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
demotion of what it meant to him, it was very special. Now to a man | :45:06. | :45:13. | |
who has been the embodiment of the Olympic Games so far. This man has | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
become a cult figure at Eton Dorney. Here he is finishing his last race, | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
finishing in last position, as he has done throughout the week. He | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
has been a real character. Everybody has been enamoured with | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
his engaging personality. I don't know if he gets a ticker-tape | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
reception when he goes back home, but he deserves it because he has | :45:35. | :45:43. | |
been an integral part of the past Steve will be back with you later. | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
It is one of those Olympic days to say that. Top-class action on the | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
lakes, the track and in the pool. Last night in the Aquatics Centre, | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
anyone who thought that Michael Phelps was ready to watch | :45:54. | :46:04. | |
:46:04. | :46:08. | ||
gracefully the changing of the individual medley. A good starting | :46:08. | :46:16. | |
three from Phelps. Lochte second. Lochte looking to make the move on | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
this but he's not. Phelps is very good and determined here. Look at | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
that. If Lochte is going to get this, he's got to go now would make | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
a really big move. But look at felt skull. This is an awesome final. | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
Lochte is coming back but I think it's going to be Phelps. It is | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
Lochte's world record and is still Lochte's world record, but the | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
winner goes to Phelps. Three in a row. The great Michael Phelps has | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
just won his 20th Olympic medal. Finally, he's won an individual | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
gold medal. For I wanted to try and be forced the front half as much as | :46:57. | :47:05. | |
I could. I'm pretty pleased. It's a gold medal. Someone special run you | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
yesterday, didn't they? Yes, the President called me yesterday. It | :47:09. | :47:15. | |
was pretty cool. Somebody called and asked for me. They said, hold | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
pleas for the President of the United States. I was, like, OK! | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
Michael Phelps, the first ever Olympian to reach 20 medals, an | :47:26. | :47:34. | |
At the Aquatics Centre tonight, we will have everything crossed for a | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
first British gold. I imagine Phelps isn't taking many calls at | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
the moment, but I'm glad you made that exception for the President. I | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
misunderstood the way he said it. Somebody called from the White | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
House and said, Mr Phelps, we have the President for you, Will you | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
hold? Straightaway Obama comes through and says, well done. He was | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
immense. Better than I've ever seen him last night in terms of the | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
amount he gave in that race. Yes, it was one of those situations | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
where Ryan Lochte helped him out. Ryan Lochte Hadaway's 30 minutes | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
before. I think locked would have been a handful, but it played into | :48:11. | :48:19. | |
Michael Phelps' hands. Out of all these events, to do the treble, -- | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
to do the treble. He hadn't done it. This meant so much to him. He's | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
given so much time to people simply because he realises this is it, | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
he's not going to raise any any more. We've seen a lovely sight to | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
Michael Phelps, everybody appreciating demand understanding | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
him more. Because he's more Honourable this year and these | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
younger swimmers are coming up, you can't bat quite believe that we've | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
seen it. Tonight, we are focusing on the greatest female British | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
swimmer there's ever been, the greatest British swimmer, Becky | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
Adlington. Two gold medals from Beijing, a bronze from London | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
already. Tonight is the 800m. She's qualified fastest, but only just. | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
We all know and the swimming world, it is her and Lotte Friis together. | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
The two of them are side by side. This is set up for a classic race. | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
I think Becky likes to dominate the race and take it out, Friis will be | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
sat with her. I don't know how it's going to work. One thing but he | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
does do, she's really soft and lovely outside the pool, but you | :49:22. | :49:31. | |
Watching the piece and Katherine Grainger made me think of Becky, | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
you are right, for all the talk of buying shoes honour killing Nas, | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
she has a core of steel. She handles pressure, expectation, what | :49:40. | :49:49. | |
every wants to call it. You hear all these stories, you see the | :49:49. | :49:58. | |
athletes, to take them there, the sacrifices from the family. | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
Athletes need to be selfish to get the best out of themselves, but I | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
know her coach very well, and no- one pushes themselves as hard as | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
she does, morning, Knight, everything is good enough for these | :50:12. | :50:19. | |
moments. -- night. She is such a lovely person but she is a fighter. | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
The other thing that swimming has in common with rowing and cycling, | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
we are not talking about big money. They do not get any gold financial | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
bonus, America does, but none of them are rich, and she lives a very | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
simple life. She is the girl next door from Mansfield, it is not | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
about money. It is not like getting into football because they see the | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
flash cars, people do not get into swimming for that reason. They get | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
into swimming because somebody goes, you know what, you are quite good, | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
and then is determined athlete inside you, the competitor takes | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
over. You go along to a swimming club, and the ones who make it, | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
there is an element of... Mbeki is 6 ft tall, that helps, but you | :51:05. | :51:13. | |
cannot put a natural competitor in someone. -- Becky. Someone needs to | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
have the fight, the fire, the determination to wanted so much | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
more than anybody else, that she has sacrificed so much for this | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
moment. They're so much expectation on air, she will deliver, it is | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
just what Lotte Friis does tonight. -- there is so much expectation on | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
her. I promise you Rebecca Adlington is not doing it just for | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
herself, she desperately wants to do this in the London Games, but | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
gold or silver is a great result. 7:45pm, of course we are cheering | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
her on, but we will accept whatever she can give us, because he will | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
have put everything into it. 50m freestyle heats, tons of them, | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
about 10! People from all sorts of countries, we will be showing you | :52:01. | :52:08. | |
those on BBC Three. We have also got the heats for the 1,500m which | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
is 30 lengths of the pool. And we have got relay heats, or on BBC, | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
Fran Halsall and Amy Smith going in the 50m freestyle for Britain. | :52:20. | :52:30. | |
:52:30. | :52:54. | ||
David Davies at Daniel fog in a 7:45pm tonight for Rebecca | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
Adlington's final, we will all be watching, and do not underestimate | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
how hard it is for a champion Olympic swimmer to defend their | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
title, very difficult indeed. In the sailing, we are approaching the | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
end, Ben Ainslie is hoping for gold. He had an indifferent start down in | :53:11. | :53:21. | |
:53:21. | :53:24. | ||
Weymouth, but yesterday he had a The Dane has sailed quite possibly | :53:24. | :53:28. | |
the best race of all. An incredible comeback, very frustrating for | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
Ainslie. Ainslie beaten by Hogh- Christensen in every race. Race | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
seven, and finally Ben Ainslie had a chance, forcing the Great Dane to | :53:40. | :53:49. | |
attack. Britain versus Denmark, Ainslie has to beat the Danish | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
sailor for the first time at these Olympic Games. O Christensen was | :53:53. | :54:03. | |
:54:03. | :54:03. | ||
Danish sailor, home Christensen has capsized and is on his side. -- O | :54:03. | :54:12. | |
Chris Stimpson. Ben Ainslie seized the opportunity. There it is, Ben | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
Ainslie has beat in the Danish, come on, you can see him, he | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
believes it! But the Dane is a fierce competitor. In the second | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
race of the day, Ainslie was forced to chase them once again. | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
Ainslie has rounded the mark, chasing the Danish sailor. There is | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
an exchange between them. Ben Ainslie is doing a penalty turn. | :54:35. | :54:41. | |
All I can imagine is that he is telling Ainslie, you hit the mark. | :54:41. | :54:48. | |
To us explain a little bit about the altercation of the conversation | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
from the Dutch sailor. Was he saying you had hit the mark? Yes, | :54:53. | :55:00. | |
both him and the Danish guy, basically they teamed up on me. I | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
am seriously unhappy with that. But you know, they made a mistake, I am | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
angry, they don't want to make me angry. From where I was sailing, it | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
looked very much like Ben hit the mark. If he was sure he didn't, he | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
should not have done the penalty turn. I had no choice, because if | :55:17. | :55:23. | |
it goes with protest, two against one, you are going to lose. Despite | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
the paddle people something he believed he had not done, Ainslie | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
took two wins over his rival in just one day. With three races left, | :55:31. | :55:38. | |
there is nothing it. Beware, Great Dane, Ainslie's in animal is | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
awakened. It is that, you know, really bad. I am not happy with | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
that. It has happened to me a lot in the Olympics before. Now I am | :55:49. | :55:57. | |
older and wiser now not to fall for Ben Ainslie is back on the water | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
today, the sailing starts again at midday. Beyond the 16 days of sport, | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
the hope is of a sporting legacy from these games, and one medal | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
winner after another has been talking about who they watched in | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
the past and who inspired them, so if you think that athletics might | :56:13. | :56:23. | |
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be for you, this is the story of Growing up in Jarrow, South | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
Tyneside, was not... I don't know, it did not seem to be the best | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
place in the world at the time. A lot of unemployment, shipyards | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
closing. Having said that, I think as a kid, you cannot ride through a | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
lot of that and you concentrate on your own little environment, which | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
was great. I run my first race, 400m, for the school. I remember | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
the guy came up to me afterwards, he said, you are not Tabar little | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
runner. He said, you should come down the Athletic Club. That was | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
the first time I met Jimmy Hedley, I came down the club a week later. | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
A lot of kids come to the athletics club, they try it out and then go... | :57:11. | :57:19. | |
For mane, it was the friends I made, the atmosphere. -- me. We used to | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
play football, table tennis, go for a run, it was great fun, like a | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
youth club. I do not know what I thought it was, but it seemed like | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
a fun place to go two nights a week. And then there were girls as well, | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
which always help. I did a lot of my training right up until I was | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
almost a world champion on this here, and he would not get athletes | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
doing that this day's. They would think it was not good enough. -- | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
these days. I ran my first race and came second, and I was kind of book. | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
Jimmy was really good at getting me to realise that this was something | :57:56. | :58:03. | |
I could be quite good at. A lot of times I remember racing here, it | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
was not a proper race. I had been pre-selected for the Olympics in | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
1984, I was injured running up to it, and I needed one race to decide | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
whether I would go to Los Angeles. I had not realised this, because I | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
just turned up and Jimmy had sorted out, but he rang you to come down | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
and help out. Jimmy was on the phone, I can remember about 9 | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
o'clock on Thursday night, can you get some Lansdowne, Steve is doing | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
a time-trial. I said, right, a bit short notice, see what I will do. I | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
made a few phone calls, and every one of the lads said they would | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
take time off work or college and come down at 12 o'clock on Saturday | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
afternoon to come down to try to help Steve, because you were well | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
respected. I am glad I did, because obviously I had a silver medal, and | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
I would not have done otherwise. People do not realise that top- | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
level and Indians, what you are doing behind closed doors, as it | :59:03. | :59:11. | |
were. -- Olympians. People say it must be a great feeling, and it is | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
a great feeling, but it is also great when you are 16 and you break | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
four minutes for the 1,500m for the first time. Stephen Grahm of Jarrow | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
has had the race of his life, and he has not only beaten four minutes, | :59:27. | :59:37. | |
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If he would like to get involved in Olympic sports, go to the website. | :59:43. | :59:48. | |
The fantastic story of Steve Cram, the pinnacle of that career is | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
being in the BBC commentary box! How strong do you think the | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
potential is here to inspire a generation? If they cannot be | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
inspired here, I do not know where they can be. This is a fantastic | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
venue, and the noise has been phenomenal already. I know that has | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
been said at a lot of the venues, but we are hoping that our athletes | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
are going to rise to the occasion here and do very well. I think we | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
will do, I think we were when -- I think we will win lots of medals. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Who knows what the youngsters at home will think, who they will be | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
inspired by. And he's said it was a good way to meet girls! There is | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
that as well. We like to think of athletics as a sport that has | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
something for everybody, fast, slow, endurance, throwing, jumping, boys | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
and girls as well. Do you think there is something especially | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
motivating about seeing a British athlete he does fantastically well? | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Does that have added power? I think it does. I'm not sure that I | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
mentioned how much have an influence Brendan Foster was. He | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
lived half a mile down the road, and when I was 12 or 13, watching | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
him at the Munich and Index on television, running around the | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
world, you think, hang on, he talks the same as I do, he is doing these | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
great things. I think role-models are incredibly important. How much | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
has athletics changed since your time? The basics are the same. You | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
have still got to train hard and have a lot of belief, certainly at | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
this level. There is a lot more help and support around the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
athletes. I have just been with our team in Portugal earlier in the | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
week, and the support systems for them are immense. They are probably | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
as good as anyone else in the world at getting the athletes ready for | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
the big day. But once they get out, it is still the same, you have got | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
to believe in your own ability, believe in the hard work that you | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
have done, go out and executes in a way... They know they have the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
potential to do well, they have just got to deliver and hopefully | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
deliver better than ever before. good to have them out of the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Olympic excitement in Portugal, they have just come back to London. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
They are coming in three days before the competition, so there | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
are still athletes in Portugal who will be watching us and getting | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
nervous today. The idea was to allow them to prepare in an intense | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
environment, which it always is, but in a quiet way, if you like, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
not living in the village, and with the other sports starting before | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
they did, not getting too excited, if you like. They are as good as I | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
have seen the British athletics team in terms of preparation, very | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
relaxed, I am sure they are raring to go, and we are looking forward | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
to seeing them getting going this morning. It is going to be a very | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
busy morning, we will hear lots from you, Steve, thank you very | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
much. Let's take our first trip inside the stadium and see how | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
everything is gearing up. Within half an hour, everything will get | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
under way, so we can join John Arthur Edwards, Michael Johnson and | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Colin Jackson. Let me tell you, the excitement is | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
palpable. We have had the countdown, it is really rocking, we have got a | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
massive morning, Jessica Ennis, Christine Ohuruogu and Dai Greene. | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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So many people have texted me, can't way for athletics to start, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
today is the real start of the Olympic, all of that sort of thing, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
it is incredible. I think we will be in for some great athletic, this | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
is one of the most exciting Olympic athletic sessions I have ever seen, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
I mean there is so many great stories coming in, a lot of talk | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
about the men's 100 metres, the women's 100m is going to be an | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
incredible competition. The heptathlon. One of the great things | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
about this, this Olympics, as far as athletics is concerned, there is | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
less this talk about records, more talk about who is going to win the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
medals. That is what is exciting, the competition between the athlete, | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
when you have got, five or six who can all contend for the medals. It | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
creates great races and a lot of buzz, which we are feeling already. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
We are. Colin, Charles van Commenee said this is the strongest British | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
team for 30 years, would you agree with that? I would. We have so many | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
medal shots and genuine shots which makes it very great find. Remember, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
four years ago, the team were very young, they were getting uses to | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
competition. Now they have gone through their process, they have | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
won medals at European level and world level. Now it is time for the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Olympic games to deliver something special. Amazing atmosphere. Jess | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Ennis will be out in a few minutes type. You know what it is like to | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
come out in front of a home crowd. How do you think she will respond? | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Incredibly well, because she has that type of personality, that is, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
much more conducive to being very focused. She is not a very emotion | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
a, you know, type of person, she is very even in terms of demeanour, I | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
think she will get into a serious focus mind set when she comes out | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
here. She won't be affected by the crowd. We always here about people | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
talking about the home crowd, and the home team, home crowd advantage, | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
there are disadvantages because you walk into the stadium, you are | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
reminded of the grandeur of the situation and how most of the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
people in this stadium will be behind Jess, that is an incredible | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
amount of pressure to put on one self. She will be able to block all | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
of that and focus on the event. She has four events today. She knows | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
she will have to get off to a flying start. Because of that, she | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
knows that today is the day, it is the first day but today is her best | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
day and her best opportunity to win this competition. She has to get a | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
lead going today because she has strong events. She has, hurdles. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Crucial, isn't it. She has to run 13. She does. She will have to get | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
close to her best, in all these first four events, as Michael said, | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
she has to high jump very well, she has to throw the shot put very well | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
and the hurdle, the biggest jeopardy, you are rusty, you | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
haven't done any competition yet, to me this is the most intense | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
competition she will be under. She has a heat where she isn't even the | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
fastest, even though she has a world class personal best. This is | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
what makes it exciting. Let us hope she keep hers head and delivering | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
what we hope for her. The long jump and the javelin are the two where | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
she is shaky. She will have a lot more confidence going into those | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
two event, based on the fact that she has done so well in her other | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
event, she has set personal bests, that takes pressure off. She will | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
never become great at those events and she knows it. It takes a bit of | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
the pressure off knowing she can run a good hurdle race, a great 200 | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
metres tonight that. Will take some of the pressure off. When she is | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
under less pressure, she will compete better tomorrow in the long | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
jump, afterLynn. We are yesterdayy to go for the first track event, in | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
:07:17. | :07:40. | ||
the crowd go crazy. There is the line up for the first event. Three | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
athletes wearing the British colours, Katarina Johnson-Thompson | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
:07:54. | :07:54. | ||
goes in heat number four. And Louise Hazel goes in heat three. | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
Austra Skujyte, Lithuania Olympic silver medallist, back in 2004. And | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
Marcussen, the Norwegian record holder. Wonderful to see the | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
:08:20. | :08:34. | ||
stadium so, so busy and so alive. sprint races where a false start | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
would mean instant disqualification for one athletes. It is back to the | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
old rule of track and field, which means if an athlete is responsible | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
for a second false start, that looked as though it was Marcussen | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
of Norway, there would be a disqualification, but not unusual, | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
in multi-events, Steve, is it, to see a few nervous people. Some non- | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
specialist sprinters getting a false start. I am sure there are a | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
few nerves as well, Paul, even for the experienced athletes, first | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
morning of the Olympic Games, first event. Huge crowd. Maybe excused, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
lane three, don't forget there are nine lanes here, often lane one | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
:09:29. | :09:29. | ||
will be empty. Well that was Marcussen being warned. The line up | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
once more mar kas, Marcussen, Austra Skujyte, Machtig, Yana | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Maksimava, Dadic and Karolina Tyminska. The athlete nearest the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
camera, Karolina Tyminska, should figure in the overall standings at | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
the top of the table, in this heptathlon. She finished seventh in | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
the Olympic games if 2008. She is a brilliant 800 metre runners, that | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
is the last event. They get away and Marcussen gets away well, so | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
does Karolina Tyminska nearest the camera the Polish champion is | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
flying. And all of her time will be converted into points, this is a | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
brilliant performance by Karolina Tyminska. And Yana Maksimava and | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Austra Skujyte crossing the line virtually together. 13 .22. Just a | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
tenth of a second outside of her lifetime best performance for | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Karolina Tyminska. So the Polish champion who is well-known to all | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
of the British athletes gets away to a good start. Very good start | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
indeed, considering the false start, she was well out of the block,, you | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
were saying these 100 hurdles are seeded. Karolina Tyminska maybe | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
could have been in a couple of races higher. A personal best going | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
back, not far off that, and Austra Skujyte struggling a bit. A | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
disappointing start for her, hitting that last hurdle. So we are | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
hitting that last hurdle. So we are off and running here. Jess Ennis | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
coming up in heat fivement one person who knows about winning | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Olympic Gold is Denise Lewis, she has been analysing what it will | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
:11:17. | :11:22. | ||
take for Jess Ennis to take the -- Jess Ennis has never had a chance | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
to prove herself on the biggest stage. A fractured foot meant she | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
couldn't compete in Beijing and in intervening yearss she has had to | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
work hard to attain world indoor and outdoor success. So, can she | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
pull it off? Here is our guide to our strengths and weaknesses. In | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
May, Jess beat my British heptathlon record in Austria. And, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
made some significant improvements to some events that will make the | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
difference here in London. In the 200m she set a new personal best of | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
22.88, compare that with her season east best times over the past three | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
year and you can see she has knocked nearly half a second off | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
since 2009. That time is looking good when compared with the PBs of | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
her two main competitors, Tatyana Chernova, who is nearly three- | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
quarters of a second slower and Natalia Dobrynska, who is almost a | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
second and a-and-a-half behind her pace P The 200m looks a safe bet | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
but the javelin is where she will have to be at her best. She is 5' 5 | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
in height compared with Tatyana Chernova and Natalia Dobrynska who | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
are taller. In Austria Jess through a Berneal best of 47.11. A good | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
through considering she only posted 39.95 in Daegu which cost her the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
gold medal. It is unlikely she will beat Natalia Dobrynska and Tatyana | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Chernova here. Their personal bests dwarf hers, especially Tatyana | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Chernova, who excels in this event. Her best throw is over seven metres | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
further. So Jess needs to stay as close as possible to her | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
competitors, in the javelin, and the long jump. Again, in Austria | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
she posted her best ever jump of 6.51 but that was still way off the | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
other two. Tatyana Chernova leads the way with 6.82, although she | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
only managed 6.05 at the Russian championships. It is important to | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
remember that Jess does excel in the high jump, hurdles and the 200 | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
meters and if she match hers personal best in the long jump and | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
:13:50. | :14:00. | ||
javelin it maybe enough to secure first 100m hurdles. Karolina | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
:14:10. | :14:19. | ||
have a non-starter on the inside, that is Margaret Simpson, former | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
:14:29. | :14:38. | ||
bronze medallist at the World defending Olympic champion. Tragedy | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
struck her when her husband and coach died earlier in the year, but, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
by all accounts starting to get back-in to pretty good form, and | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
:14:56. | :14:57. | ||
she should not be written off. Eliska Klucinova. Pretty good | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
javelin thrower. This nail thing is very popular, we are getting the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
flag nail paints. They are available all over the village. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Your national flag very popular. Broersen, there is a Dutch high | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
jump champion. Car poe have a. Not one of her bests, dipped under 14 | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
:15:31. | :15:38. | ||
seconds this year. The French number two. Natalia Dobrynska, has | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
had a lot to contend with, but she is a redoubtable competitor. Very | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
strong. She doesn't always join the hurdle, she has a best of 13.4 but | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
this year only one 13.9. Conditions really good. Conducive to the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
athletes running quick, which has to be good news for Jess Ennis, | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
:16:15. | :16:33. | ||
this is the event she wants to kick four. They get away safely. Natalia | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Dobrynska, say it reasonable start, she is leading this one. Broersen | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
going with her from Netherlands. Natalia Dobrynska holds it together | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
here, say it good performance, fading a bit. She gets it from | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Broersen. 13.58. That is a big improvement, and I said you should | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
never write this lady off. Wasn't that far outside her personal best | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
to be Monday nest, so that is a good start for her. Colin? That was | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
an excellent start by Natalia Dobrynska, I don't think anybody | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
was expecting that. She has gone four tenths of a second faster than | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
se has run all season, all her opponents will be watching her | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
carefully. He is in lane two for us. She gets away to a really good | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
explosive start. Of course, she is the power athlete. Her second day | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
is very strong indeed. But this is an exceptional performance for her. | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
And she obviously wants to hang on to this title. Out the block, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
drives hard into the first hurdle. Gets up right very well indeed. | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
What she does then, is focus on the barrier, she keeps her head level, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
flat and straight. She makes room beautifully for the barriers, as | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
far as I am concerned this is a very good strong powerful start for | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Natalia Dobrynska. Everybody is sur pruesed with this, the wind speed, | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
:18:09. | :18:18. | ||
well within the allowable limit. A aggressive out of the blocks. You | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
can see how her head level stays the same. She runs into the line, | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
and I think she will be happy with that. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
The defending Olympic champion of Poland, traditional linear | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
:18:47. | :18:49. | ||
technique. And over that qualifier in line, said at 20 metres 65. A | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
very steady start for him. We have just seen two rotational throws, | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
but this is the technique that won the Olympic title for many years. | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
This man won the Olympic title in Beijing four years ago. A solid | :19:14. | :19:23. | |
start. These guys know each other very well, and that is 21 metres | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
and three centimetres, the longest throw we have seen this morning. | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
very good run from the Dobrynska, that is a good start to the defence | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
:19:46. | :20:04. | ||
heptathlete from Birchfield Harriers, going in heat No. 3, | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
:20:14. | :20:19. | ||
running in lane five. Jennifer Oeser running next to her, very | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
tall, a pretty good high jumper. Louise Hazel has come from a long | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
line of tremendous multi-eventer as from Birchfield Harriers. Denise | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
:20:40. | :21:05. | ||
Lewis, Kelly Sotherton, Judy through these heats, will get | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
tougher. Louise Hazel, a season's best of 13.421. A Commonwealth | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
Games gold medallist in New Delhi. Totally focusing on the turn | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
:21:33. | :21:35. | ||
barriers that lay ahead of her. Goodness only knows what the | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
reception of Jessica Ennis will be like. That was staggering on this | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
:21:51. | :21:54. | ||
first of track and field athletics. Jennifer Oeser of Germany, the | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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season's best of 13.4 this season. Grabuste, European Under 23 | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
:22:22. | :22:34. | ||
champion. Louise Hazel, anxious to get off to a confident start here. | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
:22:44. | :22:52. | ||
On paper, her season's best is the best of any of these athletes, 13. | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
:23:02. | :23:03. | ||
22, the best time of Tyminska would be worth 1000 points. Louise Hazel | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
into the set position very smartly, and she and Samuel Cern are getting | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
:23:19. | :23:25. | ||
away nicely. Louise Hazel has just been caught a little bit, Sprunger | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
coming through on the inside. She was leading, but she started to | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
fade a little bit as the race went on. Interesting to see what her | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
time is, Colin? I think everyone will be interested, especially | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
herself. It was a competent run by the winner, ultimately. A time of | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
13.31. Following the trail led through as she moves away, the | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
Ukrainian. Set a time just outside her personal best so it is a great | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
start, but Louise just fading into fourth place. I think she will be a | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
little bit disappointed with that. Another great angle - you can see | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
how the ladies explode off the blocks and work hard into the | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
barrier. It is early morning for these ladies to be out there | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
hurdling. They know what they have to do but sometimes it can be | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
difficult for different athlete. Head-on with Louise Hazel. Remember, | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
she is a competent hurdler, fourth in the UK Championships so she | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
:24:49. | :24:51. | ||
knows the event very well indeed. There was a massive roar that came | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
from the crowd as she appeared on the track, I hope that didn't put | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
:25:05. | :25:18. | ||
her off. A season's best and personal best for Melnychenko. That | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
gives Louise Hazel 1053 points, the best time she has run this year. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Louise Hazel has the honour of being the first British athlete on | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
the track here in 2012. Am delighted to say Denise Lewis has | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
brought some much-needed glamour to the studio. The nervous Denise | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Lewis, I think it is fair to say? didn't sleep a wink. I have waited | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
:25:58. | :25:59. | ||
for this day. It is so exciting to see three British heptathletes. It | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
is so exciting, a great day and hopefully Jessica Ennis will have a | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
great hurdles. A very dispassionate analysis we saw on the videotape, | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
it is different when you step into the stadium. This place will erupt. | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
Everyone knows what this day means to Jessica, her friends, her family. | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
The British supporters want to see her doing well so the roof will | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
literally be blown off. There is nothing you can really do to | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
prepare yourself, Michael. The journey into the unknown. If I | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
think you can actually. Jessica will have that attitude... You know, | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
there has been so much talk about her. There will be all of this | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
support and an athlete can prepare themselves for that. You know what, | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
I have got to come in here and not let that affect me, not even | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
attempt to soak that in. I have got to be focused on the events I am | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
going to take part in and focus on the execution, and spend that time | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
visualising myself executing to perfection. That is what Jessica | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
will be focused on. On the other hand, Louise Hazel is the type of | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
athlete who will soak that all and perform well because of that | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
because that is the type of personality she has. An athlete | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
will perform depending on how best they respond to the pressure and | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
the crowd. Next, a big moment for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Paul | :27:47. | :27:56. | |
Dickenson describing this one. The fourth heat, and the line-up | :27:56. | :28:06. | |
:28:06. | :28:11. | ||
looks like this. Katarina Johnson- Thompson, the 19 year-old former | :28:11. | :28:21. | |
:28:21. | :28:25. | ||
Great Britain in ninth May. -- in lane nine. She has already had a | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
stellar junior career and who knows what the future holds for her. The | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
world junior champion in the long jump. Full of talent, ability, and | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
confidence. She has a lovely character and I think she is made | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
for this sort of Arena. Unbelievable. It makes their hairs | :28:50. | :29:00. | |
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stand on the back of your neck. Then a moment of quiet just to | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
:29:11. | :29:17. | ||
focus on the job at hand. Katarina Johnson-Thompson's best is 13.48. | :29:17. | :29:27. | |
:29:27. | :29:35. | ||
Ukrainian in main five picked up a medal in Helsinki. -- in lane five. | :29:35. | :29:45. | |
:29:45. | :29:46. | ||
That is a false start. It looked like the Estonian in lane six. Get | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
used to this on the first morning, because we have the preliminary | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
round of the women's 100m which will certainly see a lot if | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
inexperience athletes. In that event they will not be allowed to | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
have a false start, it is a straightforward disqualification. | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
:30:16. | :30:21. | ||
Not in the heptathlon though, it will be a warning. She looks a | :30:21. | :30:31. | |
:30:31. | :30:34. | ||
little nervous, but so you should be. 19 years old. This experience | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
will stand her in such good stead for the future, but she wants to | :30:39. | :30:49. | |
:30:49. | :31:09. | ||
Thompson get a reasonable start. She is now going a little bit | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
better, and it will be close on the line. It is the Ukrainian who wins | :31:14. | :31:24. | |
it. She had a very good European Championships, the Ukrainian. It is | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
a decent start from Johnson- Thompson, might be a little bit | :31:28. | :31:36. | |
down on her personal best. Very tight on the line, just one | :31:36. | :31:46. | |
:31:46. | :31:50. | ||
hundredth between first and second. Yosypenko, a big new personal best. | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
Let's have a look at this. stores are very interesting race | :31:55. | :32:04. | |
because people exploded out of the blocks. Mistakes, they clipped them, | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
but overall the Ukrainian held her head together and took the dip | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
:32:19. | :32:19. | ||
right at the end. This young lady has a massive, massive future it | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
indeed. We mentioned this clearly right at the top that we thought | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
Jessica was great as a junior, but Johnson-Thompson is an exceptional | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
junior athlete and she will only get better and better. A very | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
competent hurdler, a beautiful room, and she ends up with a personal | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
best - 13.48. She will be pleased with that. What a start that would | :32:48. | :32:58. | |
:32:58. | :33:03. | ||
be for Jessica Ennis, of course. perfect in the stadium. Jess | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
looking very sharp. But all of her main rival, well all of her main | :33:08. | :33:16. | |
rivals bar one, I think, are in this particular heat. You saw | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
Karolina Tyminska, to be fair Jennifer Oeser the German as well. | :33:20. | :33:29. | |
In this final heat of heptathlon we have Fountain. Number one American. | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
We have Jessica Zelinka, the fastest hurdler on display here | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
this morning. Canadian who has entered in the sprint hurdles but | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
she has had one or two injury problem, we will be going on the | :33:42. | :33:52. | |
:33:52. | :33:52. | ||
inside. Former European champion Nana Djimou Ida, from France. | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
Jessica's nearest rival in heptathlon terms Tatyana Chernova, | :33:56. | :34:05. | |
the Russian. Only three men have so far gone beyond the qualifying line. | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
Three of the biggest names, what can Colin Myerscough do here? Giant | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
of a man, doesn't always produce his best in major championships | :34:16. | :34:26. | |
:34:26. | :34:27. | ||
though and not on this occasion either. Well, he doesn't portray | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
much emotion, Colin Myerscough. But he may well just to find something | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
a little bit extra here. So far, 12 best throw also go through to the | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
final, if there aren't 12 beyond that qualifying line, which at the | :34:44. | :34:53. | |
minute that is not looking likely, he prove. That is not good at all. | :34:53. | :35:01. | |
18.75 and then 18.95. So much expectation on the slender | :35:01. | :35:10. | |
shoulders of Jessica Ennis from the city of Sheffield club. Here is the | :35:10. | :35:20. | |
:35:20. | :35:38. | ||
start list for the final heat of Zelinka. She won the Canadian | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
individual hurdles title this years beating some superb opposition, | :35:44. | :35:51. | |
12.68. Lifetime best set this year. Nana Djimou Ida. She is a 13.11 | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
performer, had a birthday yesterday. And she is a former European | :35:55. | :36:05. | |
:36:05. | :36:08. | ||
outdoor champion. Brianne Theisen. Number two Canadian. Number two to | :36:08. | :36:18. | |
Jessica Zelinka. Uhunoma Osazuwa. The Nigerian record holder. Does | :36:18. | :36:26. | |
most of her training and competing in the United States. A very tall | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
figure of Tatyana Chernova. World World Champion and Olympic bronze | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
:36:39. | :36:43. | ||
hamstring injury in the European Championships last year but she is | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
a useful all rounder. But the biggest cheer of all will be | :36:48. | :36:58. | |
:36:58. | :37:04. | ||
reserved for this lady. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Jessica Ennis has got | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
the potential to set this stadium alight. Hyleas Fountain, 12.86, | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
lifetime best, and the Olympic silver medallist four years ago, so | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
set a personal best in the hurdles, actually in that Bird's Nest | :37:21. | :37:31. | |
:37:31. | :37:42. | ||
Stadium. But for Jess Ennis, her and this is one of her favourite | :37:42. | :37:52. | |
:37:52. | :38:08. | ||
hopes it stars Jess Ennis of Great Jessica Ennis has been closed down | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
by Sara Aerts. Now she is beginning to pull away on the inside. Jessica | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
Zelinka is going well this is a tremendous run, by Jessica Ennis. | :38:16. | :38:26. | |
:38:26. | :38:29. | ||
Oh my goodness. Wow! The fastest time ever. By a he want Leith any | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
multi-eventer, a new British record. It is legal. 1.3 metres a second. | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
Oh! The power of the crowd carried Jess Ennis through to that time. | :38:42. | :38:48. | |
And the rest of her come pelt fors must be in despair, seeing how fast | :38:48. | :38:56. | |
the British athlete has just run. - - competitors. My goodness, Colin. | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
That is an understatement. She drove out the blocks, she has a | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
real understanding of this. runs a lot on the circuit. She | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
knows the distance, what it is like getting close to the barrier, she | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
no what it is like to compete against the best, that time of | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
12.54 second would put her in the piedge. I tell you what Colin, the | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
greatest heptathlete in history the world record holder and the Olympic | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
record holder is in the stadium and even she would have been very very | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
impressed with that run. G It was incredible. It was more than | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
outstanding. You are talking about she setting a British record during | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
a heptathlon event. She was strong, she was aggressive, she was focused. | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
She was fast, she was deliberate in every movement over those barrier, | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
and this is what happens when you get all those elements right. Fast | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
time, a British record, and of course, sets her up beautifully for | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
this Olympic title. Wonderful wonderful Jess Ennis, watch this. | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
Explodes out the block, she knows as he comes into the straights, he | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
is not the fastest on paper, she knows there are women who have run | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
quicker but no messing about. She grabs the lead, and about half way, | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
and believes in herself, she pushes on and drives to that line and gets | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
rewarded with a phenomenal, and I can't underestimate when I say a | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
:40:39. | :40:39. | ||
phenomenal personal best. Look at that. Two hundredths of a second | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
off the national record set by Tiffany Porter. Jessica Zelinka was | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
one of the fastest of all time. Hyleas Fountain the Olympic silver | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
medallist, and where is Tatyana Chernova, she is down in eighth | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
place. That is almost a full second behind Jessica Ennis what a start | :40:59. | :41:09. | |
:41:09. | :41:13. | ||
start, this is the result of the previous heat. Yosypenko, good | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
beginning for her competition. Katarina Johnson-Thompson as we | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
mentioned earlier equaling her personal best in fourth place so a | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
brilliant start for the British heptathletes. There is still a buzz | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
going round this stadium, because of what has happened here over the | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
last five minutes. If Jess Ennis can continue in that sort of form, | :41:37. | :41:46. | |
nobody will touch her for the gold medal. Early days yet. But what a | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
start by the Briton. Jessica Ennis leads. That is a huge, huge points | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
total for Jess. Jess number two, Jessica Zelinka from Canada. | :41:59. | :42:06. | |
Tatyana Chernova is well done the Tatyana Chernova is well done the | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
table. -- down the table. Steve Cram has calmed down. -- Steve | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
Cram's calm down might fall on deaf ears in the studio. That was | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
incredible. We talked about pressure, an event like hurdles is | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
so conducive to having that energy, you can use it, it translates in, | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
your attack out of the block, and I am just blown away by that time. We | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
knew Jessica had more in her, we have felt she has underperformed in | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
hurdles what a day, what a day to show the world just exactly what | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
she is capable of. Great start. Fantastic start. A fantastic start. | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
And what an incredible time Mike. I mean, two tenth faster than | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
anything we could have thought. More than two tenths off her | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
personal best. She is ready to go, understanding what is ahead of her, | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
knowing she would have to got off to a great start this is incredible. | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
This is the most solid race I have serve seen run, she got a little | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
competition but she responded incredibly well, a solid race from | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
start to finish. A great, unbelievable start from her here | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
and just really crisp, solid over each barrier. The start that she | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
needed to get this going, as I said before, today is the day for her, | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
she has to get a huge lead. She has put incredible pressure on the rest | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
of the girls. We know she has been desperately trying to get that | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
first foot down out of block, to maximum effect. So far we haven't | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
quite seen it. But daid she delivered it. She has had a | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
fantastic training camp. Everyone has gone as well as can be expected | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
and she has turned up here in shape. First class hurdling technique, | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
great solid mind, you know, the mind she must have, to be able to | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
deliver that on day like this is sensational. Only one event of | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
seven. What advice do you give her now, she has done something which I | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
am sure has shocked her. That is the challenge for all the | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
heptathletes, almost to leave the baggage behind. Whether it has been | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
fantastic or bad, you have to leave it behind. You have to refocus for | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
the high jump and use the energy of the crowd for that event. Michael, | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
she does need to calm down a bit as Crammy said. Get it into context. | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
The celebrations can come after if she gets the gold medalment Jess | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
will handle it well. She will go on to the next event. What she will do | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
is take that as a huge positive. Now she has a huge lead already | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
after one event. I think she will take that into the next event, | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
understanding this was a great performance, she will want the keep | :44:55. | :44:57. | |
that lead, especially to the end of today, because tomorrow is going to | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
be a bit more of a challenge. a start, now back to the | :45:02. | :45:11. | |
:45:12. | :45:17. | ||
triple jump qualifying has starreded. A terrific start for the | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
British number one. 14 metres 40 is what is required to take them | :45:22. | :45:31. | |
through to the final on Sunday. Nobody has got to grips with the | :45:31. | :45:41. | |
:45:41. | :45:48. | ||
conditions yet. Leading jump so far the Ukraine and she has the leading | :45:48. | :45:57. | |
jump so far. Yamile Aldama, she is in the final. Plenty more tho come | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
from the stadium. What an amazing start, but for the moment it is | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
start, but for the moment it is back to Michelle in the studio. | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
Thank you very much. Yamile Aldama nearly 40 years old, mother of two | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
and what a great performance from Jessica Ennis, now we see why she | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
has become known as the Golden Girl of British athletic, she delivered | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
that event, the 100m hurdle is one of her favourite events, what a way | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
to go on to the next bit of the the heptathlon. It looked perfect in | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
the stadium this morning, not just the sport but the conditions. Let | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
us see what it is like at Eton Dorney, because we have a crucial | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
couple of hours in the rowing coming up. So let us join John and | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
Steve. The sun they have got in the stadium has deserted us here. These | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
are shots from a few moment ago, now we have cloud cover and strong | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
cross winds, as you can see, which has meant at the draw for the lane | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
draw, for the finals that is coming up, including Katherine Grainger | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
and Anna Watkins in the women's double scull has been redrawn. I | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
have David Tainer with me. What are the conditions like? How bad is | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
that wind? It is pretty strong. It is blowing diagonally across the | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
course, and so you have half a head wind and half a cross wind. The | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
side of the course we are stood on now, is likely to be favoured, | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
sheltered from the wind and with less waves as well. This was the | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
issue yesterday, that caused a lot of controversy with the men's | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
lightweight four who felt they had a bit of a rough deal. Is this the | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
organising body bolting the door after the horse has gone. Yesterday | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
was different. The wind was more directly across and fluctuating | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
between the tail and head wine. Do you put them on this side for a | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
head wind or the other for a tail wind? That is the dilemma, what | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
they should have done is say we don't know what it is going to be, | :47:53. | :47:59. | |
it is unfair. So we will delay racing, today it is a bit more of | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
head wind so it is more oven it is this side, it is not fluctuating as | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
much so that is why they feel they can allocate the lanes from that | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
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They have delayed racing by half- an-hour, so many of the races are | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
on in half-an-hour behind schedule but we think the main finals will | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
be on time. David, we will speak more in the second but let's go | :48:28. | :48:35. | |
over to Matthew Pinsent. I have the lane drawer. The finals are | :48:35. | :48:45. | |
:48:45. | :49:01. | ||
unchanged. 11:30am, the men -- men's quad. That moves from here | :49:01. | :49:11. | |
over to lane two. The men's pair goes into lane five, a big | :49:11. | :49:17. | |
improvement from them. The women's double moves into lane five, so one | :49:17. | :49:24. | |
closer to their main opposition. The best lane will be Australia. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
Men's single, Alan Campbell, goes the wrong way into lane three so | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
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they are definitely accepting the quickest lanes are on this side. | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
Matthew was going through the redraws. Alan Campbell will be | :49:48. | :49:54. | |
disappointed to have been moved into lane three, would you agree | :49:54. | :50:00. | |
with that? He will be. He was second in the semi-final, so he has | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
come the wrong side of that, if you like. On the previous draw he could | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
have been in lane two, which he would have been less happy with. | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
purely technical terms, it is a bit like Horseracing being drawn on the | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
wrong side of the course. On one side of the course you have no | :50:22. | :50:29. | |
chance, on the other side you have. What margins are we talking about? | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
From one lane to the next you are talking about probably a couple of | :50:34. | :50:43. | |
feet difference. From lane one to lane six, you are probably talking | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
about a length difference. The ones who have qualified best and next to | :50:48. | :50:55. | |
each other, so likely there is not much difference from one lane to | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
another, but it is how you approach it mentally which is the problem. | :50:59. | :51:08. | |
Some people will think "o god, I am in the wrong lane". He can't see | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
this as a disadvantage. He has got to think about trying harder, if he | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
can, because you know what he is like! If you feel like you have the | :51:19. | :51:29. | |
:51:29. | :51:30. | ||
disadvantage, you will go slower because of it. Does it affect | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watson? I am certain it will not faze them | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
in any way. They will be pleased that if people feel it is less fair | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
on the other side and they are in the right place, they will be fine. | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
At the end of the day, it is an outdoor sport. I believe they make | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
the right judgement and am sure they will be positive whatever lane | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
they are in. How were they at breakfast this morning? I was out | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
jogging when I have my breakfast so I didn't see them but they were in | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
a great place last night when I saw them. They will be good to go, no- | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
holds-barred and determined to win the gold medal. Were you will be | :52:18. | :52:25. | |
back with you in... I always look at the clock on the boat house, it | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
is so big - we will be back with you in about 30 minutes. | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
Don't forget, there was another one of the early lunch times required | :52:38. | :52:46. | |
because the race is at 10 past 12. We are concentrating on athletics | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
at the moment because it has been a fantastic start of the day inside | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
the stadium. Let's get back in there. What a great start, Jonathan, | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
from Jessica Ennis. That time was the same as the gold medal-winning | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
performance in Beijing in the 100m women's hurdles. | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
We are amazed here. As you say, that statistic from Beijing, and I | :53:12. | :53:19. | |
don't think any of us can't quite believe what she did. It was beyond | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
the stuff of dreams really, in terms of the start for the golden | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
girl of these Olympic Games. Absolutely, and I couldn't agree | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
more. To come here and deliver a performance of that colour other, | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
it just puts it into perspective why she is so popular and why we | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
have every confidence that she can deliver in this stadium because she | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
has to have nerves of steel to be able to cope with everything that | :53:48. | :53:56. | |
has been put in front of her. It was an excellent performance. | :53:56. | :54:05. | |
happens now? High jump at 11:15am, although Jessica will not come in | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
until a little later than that, but it is a quick turnaround, isn't it? | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
Yes, any baggage has to be put to bed. She doesn't want to carry that | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
excitement into the high jump. She needs to refocus, think of the | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
technical aspects and what she needs to do for that event. It is | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
one of her best events, and what she wants to do is to lay down a | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
big offer between herself and her next competitiveness and Chernova | :54:34. | :54:40. | |
did not look good at all, as we saw. Dobrynska or started reasonably | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
well, but they will have looked at that and thought... What would they | :54:45. | :54:52. | |
have thought? Pack our shoes and let's go home. It is disheartening. | :54:52. | :55:02. | |
:55:02. | :55:04. | ||
Both of those competitors are tough. They will be focusing on their own | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
personal bests. A word about Katarina Johnson-Thompson, she | :55:09. | :55:15. | |
looked a bit nervous, didn't she? Before she looked nervous, she | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
looked overwhelmed. Her reaction to the crowd was really cute, but then | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
she almost went into, oh, I need to get focused here. It is great for | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
her to get that type of support. She is trying to come here and have | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
her best performance, whatever that may be. She will be happy as long | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
as she can walk away feeling like she did a great performance. At the | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
other great performance was in the women's triple jump and it is an | :55:49. | :55:59. | |
amazing story. It is a heart- warming story. Jamil Has been | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
through so much and she has been desperate to have an opportunity | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
like this, to compete in the stadium and qualifying comfortably | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
on her first jump. We have not spoken much about her in the lead- | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
up to these games, but she is someone to watch. She was world | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
indoor champion. She jumped way further than she had done for a lot | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
of years. I think many people thought her career was petering out. | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
She jumped 14.89 I think to win those world indoors. She has done | :56:33. | :56:39. | |
the business, got the qualifying out of the way. She made automatic | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
qualification with her first jump, and afterwards she spoke to Phil | :56:43. | :56:49. | |
Jones. A fantastic for four months, the crowd amazing. | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
How was the experience? This is my fifth Olympic Games and I have | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
never experienced this crowd in the qualifying round. It is amazing. | :57:01. | :57:09. | |
Normally it is not empty, but not like this. It is great. And euros | :57:09. | :57:18. | |
to the occasion. A fine jump, and a safe jumper. Yes, I was not running | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
as fast. I was a bit concerned because we had head wind, and the | :57:23. | :57:30. | |
wind was changing, so I wanted to make sure. Are you feeling good? | :57:30. | :57:39. | |
Yes, absolutely. And you also ran a fourth placed finish at the | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
Olympics, a fifth place, now something better I hope? Well, we | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
have to change that. We are going out on the track now for the | :57:49. | :57:58. | |
women's 100m first round. The first ever female athlete from Qatar, a | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
bit of history now. Yes, just 17 bit of history now. Yes, just 17 | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
years old and what an honour for her and her country. These | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
preliminary rounds before the big guns, out, getting them to qualify | :58:13. | :58:23. | |
:58:23. | :58:28. | ||
for this evening. Just six teenagers in here. One of the | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
athlete has pulled a hamstring, that is a tragic situation for her. | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
Winning the race in 11 point 87. After being given the opportunity | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
to come here and represent her country, it is a sad way for that | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
to end. She did look rather nervous on the start line. She may be new | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
she was carrying an injury coming into this and you could understand | :58:56. | :59:06. | |
:59:06. | :59:06. | ||
why she would want to at least give it a try. The tears now come for | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
the youngster. What a pity. You could see from the start whatever | :59:11. | :59:21. | |
:59:21. | :59:23. | ||
injury she has been carrying, she wanted to give it a go and why not. | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
Qatar athletics is growing and building, and they have been | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
bidding for various championships including the World Championships | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
and the Olympic Games. Obviously trying to encourage their female | :59:36. | :59:45. | |
athletes to take part. A sad sight to see. Our Prime Minister has got | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
a couple of great guest alongside him - Sally Gunnell. I saw her | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
earlier in the week, and she was looking forward to the athletics of | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
course. She is looking forward to Perri Shakes-Drayton and her | :59:59. | :00:09. | |
:00:09. | :00:37. | ||
attempt. Everyone is looking It cost Jessica Ennis, Katarina | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Johnson-Thompson, but it has not been going very well so far in the | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
:00:52. | :00:53. | ||
shot put. Carl Myerscough did not have a good first two rounds. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Plenty of British support for him, who was off balance on that one. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Needed to go beyond 20 metres at least, as he walked out on that | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
:01:14. | :01:15. | ||
third qualifying round. We will have no presence in the men's shot | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
:01:25. | :01:35. | ||
put final, which takes place this put is the next event for her. What | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
the start for both of those athletes, and I am sure we will | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
enjoy the experience of watching how she copes with the pressure. So | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
far, so good. Just finding some shade. It is quite warm in the | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
:02:03. | :02:06. | ||
arena this morning. The men's shot put qualifying has already finished. | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
:02:16. | :02:16. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 91 seconds | :02:16. | :03:02. | |
Reese Hoffa, who we saw earlier so full for the first morning of an | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
athletics programme. There is the line up for the heat four of the | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
:03:19. | :03:35. | ||
we have a record for -- athlete is Wisil of papaya new gippy. There is | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
:03:45. | :03:48. | ||
she is. 11.49. -- guinea. That is a life, once in 2010 and once in this | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
year as well. Alatoa there, 23 - year-old. Don't have any figures on | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
her whatsoever. The slowest athlete in the field, who we do have | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
figures for, Gezah, of Libya, just one lane outside of Alatoa, she is | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
:04:21. | :04:27. | ||
will make it through the first round this evening. Very slow start | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
from some of athletes. Colley is going well. Look at this Wisil, | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
racing away, so the second qualifying position goes to Colley | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
of Gambia. Winning time 11.59, just a tenth of a second outside of a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
lifetime best. Any lessons to be learned for some of these athletes? | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
It is, loads of lessons they are picking up from here. Just running | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
in this stadium, a capacity crowd, most of these athletes would have | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
never experienced that in their life, I am hopely are enjoying it. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Wisil didn't get the best of the starts. She kept powering away from | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
the field once she started. It was a nice performance from her. 11.6 | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
:05:27. | :05:31. | ||
the winning time. She will be excellent first attempt, going | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
through, straight away. Not having to worry about qualifying in the | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
top 12 position. Got well over the distance required. That is an | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
excellent performance from Kimberley Williams from Jamaica. | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
That is the green light. 14.40 or mo gets you straight into the final. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
That is very much into her sort of personal best territory. He is a | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
14.52 at best. That is a good -- she. That is a good really first | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
:06:12. | :06:12. | ||
round effort for Williams. Jamaica the most expensed of Trisha Smith | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
as well. She joins Yamile Aldama. 14.53. That is a new personal best | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
by a centimetres, that is a little surprising, but well done to her. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
But we saw Colin Myerscough finishing in 29th place in the shot | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
put. Now he is downstairs with Phil put. Now he is downstairs with Phil | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
Jones. I know you had set ou a lot of Olympics and waiting for in bun | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
able to seize it this morning. Obviously a massive disappointment. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
I felt great out there. The crowd was amazing, I have never probably | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
felt better going into a competition, but each throw I maybe | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
tried a little too hard. I didn't connect with each one, something | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
slightly went wrong and I didn't get one good one out I was capable, | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
and you know, no words to describe the dispointment, but it was | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
fantastic to be here. Amazing experience, you know, to compete | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
here. You know, what can I say? is packed for a morning session. We | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
have never experienced anything like it. Were the nefs greater than | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
yuebl for you? -- nerves? Yes, the adrenaline is enormous I think that | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
was, I didn't just quite relax enough and get it to click, you | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
know, I probably just tried a bit too hard and it didn't come off. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
know how tough it was for do you get here to go from the European | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Championships in Estonia, were you trying to tap into that kind of | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
energy? Yes, the energy was there, the power was there, so it is | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
frustrating, you know, I felt like, I had something big in me, but I | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
didn't, it didn't click. Thank you for talking to us. Disappointment | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
there for Colin Myerscough. There is uninterrupted coverage on the | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
red button. We are going to take a short break. For a moment, back to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
you. What an exciting start to the morning. One of the athletics | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
highlights later on will be more of the heptathlon, Jessica Ennis will | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
be in the high jump later on. The heats get under way in the next | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
couple of minutes, ten minutes or so. Because she traditionally does | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
well she will go a bit later on. Overon BBC Three there is live | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
swimming for you right now, with Beijing bronze medallist David | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
Davis, he is about to go in the 1500 metres heat. Now, some | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Morrowing and we have seen some famous fai -- faces, no shortage of | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
celebrating royalty today, but as Eton Dorney, there is a doctor in | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
the house, who has new found love of life on the water. Why don't we | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
give it a quick burst to start off with? Blow the cobwebs away. Fine. | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
:09:17. | :09:33. | ||
Of all the thousands of rowing fans who have come to Dorney today, I | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
think it is fair to say that Matt Smith and Sam Haul perhaps among | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
the most passionate. Come on guy, or should I say Bert and Dickie. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
are among the most passionate. have a lot of excitement to see how | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
it should really be done, after our... Butchering it. The reviews | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
from the rowing fans of your efforts. Pitiful. I wasn't going to | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
be that harsh. It was, even the boys down at leerpbd, trying to | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
scull in hose old boats was a blooming nightmare. You did well | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
there, language! It is harder than it look, I can say that. I thought | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
rowing was about stamina and strength, but there is technique | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
and balance, and we had about five days to try and emulate Olympic | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
champions, which as I am sure you will know probably not quite enough | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
time. Deeply unconvincing. Deeply. What I said is it's a lot easier to | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
teach A&E actors to row than to teach rowers to act. We may have | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
disproved that theory. I think the rowing community would disagree. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
What are you looking forward to today? The double sculling pair, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Katherine Grainger and the single as well, because... Alan Campbell. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
We had brief times in single sculls and both of us made it about 20 | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
feet before we fell in, so I am very impressed to see how anyone | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
can row a single scull down a 2,000 metre course without falling in, | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
let alone at the pace. Are you ready for the Dorney roar? I am | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
excited. It is strange. I don't know what to expect. Because it is | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
such an unknown enty in an him pib final to me. Once in a lifetime. So | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
yeah. A lot of noise. A lot of noise. Hopefully that should be | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
something we can contribute to at least. Enjoy the day. Bert and | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Dickie! We will take you to dorn in a moment, because the first of the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
rogue finals four in all are happening, including that one | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
involving Katherine Grainger. This is the day that the stadium has | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
really come into its own. We have seen it burst into life. It is | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
packed in there and they have had good reason to cheer. We have seen | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
fantastic form from Jessica Ennis and lots more to come. What is next | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Jonathan? It is Dai Greene in the 400m hurtles. We will have an | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Olympic Stadium roar for him. He is the World Champion, I think he | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
comes to London with one thing on his mind. Pride myself on hard work. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
Green will rise first time. Strong survival at the end. Doing | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
:12:37. | :12:37. | ||
everything I can to come away with the gold medal. I have to set my | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
standards high. Dai Greene takes Britain's first gold of the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
championships P The vast majority of people will be cheering for any | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
British athlete in there. It will be a scenario no-one has | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
experienced before. It is going to be superb, it s and I think all the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
athletes are excited and they see it as a an opportunity, not | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
something that is, you know, nerve- wracking or daunting, it is a | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
massive opportunity for all athletes. As for you and your own | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
personal preparations, you have had a tremendous last few race, you | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
pleased where you are at? Yes, run very well on my last two outings, I | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
have. I feel I have more to give. I seem to be moving forward, and I am | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
fitter and stronger than three or four weeks' ago, I am eager to get | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
on with thing, I will find my rhythm in three or four days. I | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
pride myself on my hard work, I do. It shows, it does, when you have | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
those rounds, the strong survive at the end and it was the case in day | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
-- Daegu. Here is the chance for Green to seize the moment. Green | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
wins for Britain P Hopefully it will be a similar result in London, | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
I certainly feel as though there is nothing else I could have done to | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
prepare, so that makes me happy. You when you look back on the year, | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
you kept quiet about the knee problem you had and the surgery. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
How much of a worry was that and how pleased were you with the way | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
you were able to rebound from it? It was difficult at the time, it | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
was. Not being able to train when you wanted to. Having to start two- | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
and-a-half months later. It was a similar tame frame I had last year | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
from the Commonwealths to the start of the season. I knew if I could | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
get into shape. Everything had to go well, it did. I couldn't allow | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
for another lay off. There was a lot of pressure on the support | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
staff. They did a fantastic job with me. I believed I could get | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
there, but you know, you do have some harder days and the days when | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
your knees hurt. It can be difficult, but it helps build your | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
character as well, and I am happy to come through it and I have run a | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
person al best in the last few week, if you had given me that a few | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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moneys ago I would have taken your hand off. There is the matter of | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
his puert Raikkonen rivalry friend, my enemy I call you out. You, you | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
there with the bad thorn in your side. You there my friend with the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
winning air. Dai hasn't defeated Coulson all summer long but he is | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
getting nearer. He has run especially all season. He hasn't | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
improved too much but he hasn't dropped off. He has found a level | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
and he is consistent. I know he will have noticed I have been | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
chipping away at him, getting closer, but in the last few World | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Championships he has picked up a couple of silvers. I know he will | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
be desperate to get the gold in London. I will be able to do my | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
best. I have a lot of respect for him. Hopefully I can turn the | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
tables on him. You want that gold again? Yes, in the winter you don't | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
think I am going to run thup hill to get that blons. Being World | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Champion last year I have to set my standards high. I am number two in | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
the world this year at the moment, I am doing everything I can to come | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
away with a gold medal. That has been my aim. You will have to ask | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
me later on if I am happy. One thing is you are guaranteed you | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
will get everything on the track he will produce when it matters. I | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
don't think there is any real concern he won't respond. He will | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
respond. I think he will have a great merfor -- performance, I | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
think he will have his personal best. His problem will be Coulson. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Disclaimer, I represent Coulson. You have a vested interest. But he | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
has been so consistent over the last few year, silver medallist in | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Berlin, last year behind Dai. This year, I think the biggest problem | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
for Dai is going to be that he ran his personal best and lost to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Coulson, that is tough when you have your personal best, because | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
then you are saying what do I have to do? On the other hand he is such | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
a tough competitor, he trains hard, he has unbelievable confidence. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Believes he can compete against anyone he won't be intimidated by | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Coulson, he will come out focused today, ready to go and work on his | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
race through each round. He will be in the mix in the finals but the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
hurdles is one of the toughest events in athletics right now. | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
Entered in the 400 hurdles is Angelo Taylor. Two times World | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Champion Clement. The South African. Commonwealth Games champion. Gordon | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
from Trinidad. There is so many great athletes. So many champions | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
in this race, that it will be tough just to get a medal. OK. You | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
represent Coulson as you said. Give me an objective answer. He hasn't | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
won a big title before, how well will he respond to the pressure? | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
will respond really well, because he, he has been so close so many | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
time, he has been silver medallist two times, and now he has been | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
undediabetes -- defeated this year. He has beaten everybody. So he is | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
very confident. It is funy I saw a little Jedi mind trick I was trying | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
to play, Coulson has the pressure on him, I don't have the pressure, | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
his country, no-one has won an Olympic gold medal, so he has that | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
pressure, I was thinking "That is pretty good." At the end of the day | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
both guys will feel the pressure because they want to win. I think | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
that Coulson is in a great position, because he is, you know, he has won | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
everything, he has beaten everybody, he comes in here with a tremendous | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
amount of confidence but nobody is going to give him anything. We are | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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talking about those two guys, but That is coming up on BBC Three, but | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
for the moment, back to you, Michelle. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
We haven't shown you swimming yet today and to his time to show you a | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
glimpse of what is happening in the aquatic centre right now because | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
David Davies is going in the 1,500m so let's see how that is going for | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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medals and he is amongst the best. He will be shooting for the gold, | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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but not many people in the swimming fraternity can see be on him. | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
turning third, and he looks tired. If he tires any more, that will be | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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very useful. two lengths to go in this 1,500m freestyle. Ryan | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
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Cochrane now about 15 metres ahead, and it looks like Great Britain's | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
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Dan Fogg is on pace. He tried the 100m last year, didn't do it, just | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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stick to what you are good at - the 200m, the 400m. Park is coming back | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
very fast indeed. Look at that! Park of Korea finishing in second | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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place, and his time is 14:56.89. What a great swim. Surely six | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
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people won't beat him in the next heat. Dan Fogg lying In a very good | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
place indeed. Rapping on David Davies' career is quite important | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
because I imagine that will be his last race. He has had a fantastic | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
career. All way through Athens, to hear, three Olympic Games, and he | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
should be very proud of what he has achieved. He has been inspirational. | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
Ryan Cochrane winning the men's 1,500m freestyle. David Davies, if | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
that is his last swim, he has been an inspiration for British swimmers. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
To watch more swimming, press the red button. We can hear from David | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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Coming up in just a moment. David, no one has worked harder | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
than you over the last 12 years. This is such a tough race, isn't | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
it? Yes, I feel like an old man now, the kids have moved it on. I do the | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
hardest events in the programme and I have from we tried a bit too hard | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
over the last four years. I have given everything I had, and to his | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
great to be here. I would love to be in the final but I can on this | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
to say I have given it everything. Tell us about your London | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
experience because you have obviously been to two previously. | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
How does it compare? The biggest factor is the crowd. The venues are | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
brilliant, the villages brilliant. It has been fantastic so far and | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
hopefully we will have more medals. What does the future hold for David | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Davies now? I think that is probably my last race. I would like | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
to have gone out on a better note, but this is my third Olympics. If | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
someone had said to me when I was a boy you will win two Olympic medals | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
and a Commonwealth medals, I would have been very pleased. Whether I | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
carried on is another thing. have a lot of fans in here who are | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
very proud of you, so well done. These swimmers have been so | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
incredibly articulate in these interviews, one after another. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
get straight out the pool, amazing. They have really risen to the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
occasion. There has been drama at the archery, and a fantastic | :25:11. | :25:15. |