BBC One: Day 7: 13.45-16.00

:01:33. > :01:37.It is hard to believe it is already a week since the opening ceremony.

:01:37. > :01:41.Around 200,000 people in the Olympic Park are enjoying

:01:41. > :01:46.themselves with the swimming, the cycling and the athletics going on

:01:46. > :01:53.for the next couple of days. The place is packed, but these are not

:01:53. > :01:57.the only venues where gold fever has been breaking out today. After

:01:57. > :02:02.three silver medals, Katherine Grainger finally has a gold medal

:02:02. > :02:06.around her neck. She and Alan Watkins were emphatic winners in

:02:06. > :02:12.the women's doubles gold today. There were two other rowing medals

:02:12. > :02:22.for Great Britain - bronze for Alan Campbell, and bronze for the men's

:02:22. > :02:23.

:02:23. > :02:32.pair of George Nash and William Satch. Jess -- Jessica Ennis has

:02:32. > :02:36.had a brilliant start, leading the field after the first seven events

:02:36. > :02:46.for start German Givens, silver yesterday, and today 32 year-old

:02:46. > :02:49.

:02:49. > :02:54.Karina Bryant is through to the Karina Bryant is through to the

:02:54. > :03:00.heavy weight final. -- semi-final. This is confirmation that Great

:03:00. > :03:07.Britain is in fourth place on the medals table. This is where they

:03:07. > :03:14.were targeting. We will be live to see Karena Bryant in her semi-final

:03:15. > :03:19.in around half an hour, but now we are going to the Olympic Stadium.

:03:19. > :03:24.Johnson-Thompson is going for Great Britain, and this is her attempt in

:03:24. > :03:28.the high jump, the second of the seven events in the heptathlon.

:03:28. > :03:34.Jessica Ennis will be going shortly. Let's get back to the commentary

:03:34. > :03:44.team. A great effort from Johnson- Thompson. Lovely to see the

:03:44. > :03:55.

:03:55. > :04:04.youngsters really beginning to her side. The crowd will be willing

:04:04. > :04:09.her over the bar. One-metre 89 just to put pressure on everybody else.

:04:09. > :04:13.A big disappointment for Jessica Ennis, but it has been a fabulous

:04:13. > :04:20.first session in the Olympic Stadium. That new British record in

:04:20. > :04:28.the hurdles. One-metre 86, her best effort in the high jump, and she

:04:28. > :04:34.will finish this session in the lead in the Olympic heptathlon.

:04:34. > :04:44.Second attempt was so, so close. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, her

:04:44. > :04:58.

:04:58. > :05:04.team-mate, will have made huge was simple. Her best event comes on

:05:04. > :05:13.the second day, when she is a world-class shot putter. She

:05:13. > :05:21.specialised in that event for some time. It is all over in the high

:05:21. > :05:30.jump for Jessica Ennis. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will continue. It

:05:30. > :05:37.has been a long morning for these women. Massive support for these

:05:37. > :05:47.heptathletes. Hyleas Fountain, one of Jessica Ennis's closest rivals

:05:47. > :05:51.

:05:51. > :05:57.in this heptathlon competition at the moment. She is also eliminated.

:05:57. > :06:04.This must be one of the biggest crowds that have ever stayed behind

:06:04. > :06:13.to watch a single event. Heptathlon high-jump being watched by 80,000

:06:13. > :06:23.people. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, brilliant, she will go on to jump

:06:23. > :06:30.higher. Denise, kind of average? Yes, that is a fair assessment.

:06:30. > :06:34.Jessica Ennis will have desperately wanted one metre 89. It keeps heard

:06:34. > :06:40.just above everyone else, but she has had problems with the high jump.

:06:40. > :06:45.It has been an inconsistent event for her in the last year because we

:06:45. > :06:53.know she can jump high, but she has not been able to do that recently

:06:53. > :06:58.in the heptathlon. We are still with a long way to go. Those goals

:06:58. > :07:04.have been out there for two-and-a- half hours, which is a long time.

:07:04. > :07:08.And it is important what she does relative to everybody else, and

:07:08. > :07:12.Chernova and Dobrynska there are a little below par. Yes, which is

:07:12. > :07:17.disappointing because we want to see a contest, but Jessica Ennis is

:07:17. > :07:24.right way she wants to be. Thinking back to the locker of fear and

:07:24. > :07:32.horror at the start of the hurdles on Johnson-Thompson's face, she has

:07:32. > :07:36.really turned it around. Yes, it is great to see her having fun, but

:07:36. > :07:41.now that she sees herself so passing Jessica Ennis in the high

:07:42. > :07:49.jump, she will be taking herself more seriously. She will be looking

:07:49. > :07:54.to try to take this high-jump as far as she possibly can. She will

:07:54. > :07:59.build off that throughout the entire heptathlon. You have to

:07:59. > :08:04.remember, she is still a junior. Everything is very new for her. She

:08:04. > :08:11.has a great coach in Mike Holmes, who has been coaching for a very

:08:11. > :08:20.long time. He coached Steve Smith to his Olympic bronze medal in 1996,

:08:20. > :08:30.so she is in good hands. Let's get back to the heptathlon. This is the

:08:30. > :08:34.

:08:34. > :08:40.Lithuanian champion, former Olympic silver medallist, Skujte. This will

:08:40. > :08:44.rocket her up the leaderboard in terms of points, and we won't know

:08:44. > :08:50.precisely who heads that leaderboard until all of the

:08:50. > :08:56.athletes have finished. Prior to this high jump, we had Hyleas

:08:56. > :09:01.Fountain, the American, just leading Jessica Ennis. Not prior to

:09:01. > :09:06.the high jump, but during the high jump. That leaderboard is yet to be

:09:06. > :09:13.updated. Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the background, I know that she

:09:13. > :09:18.has moved into the top 10. If she could clear one metre 92, not only

:09:18. > :09:23.would it be a lifetime best performance, but it would do her

:09:23. > :09:33.chances of moving into the top six a world of good. Maksimava next,

:09:33. > :09:34.

:09:34. > :09:44.Steve. It took three goes to clear 89. It almost seems that she needs

:09:44. > :09:50.

:09:50. > :09:56.a couple of sighters. Coming back to Hyleas Fountain, you feel that

:09:56. > :10:01.was a significant moment. Maybe it was not a surprise that Jessica

:10:01. > :10:07.Ennis failed at one metre 89, but you really felt Hyleas Fountain

:10:07. > :10:13.would go higher, so that was significant. The crowd really

:10:13. > :10:17.getting behind the youngster. Katarina Johnson-Thompson has only

:10:18. > :10:24.had one personal best, will this be another? Many people have stayed

:10:24. > :10:29.behind here. It has been a dream debut in the Olympic Stadium here,

:10:29. > :10:33.but Katarina Johnson-Thompson, her first attempt at a new lifetime

:10:33. > :10:43.best, and clatters through it. A little wry smile from the British

:10:43. > :10:45.

:10:45. > :10:51.athlete. Two more attempts to go to stay in the competition. Not even

:10:51. > :10:56.sure she managed to take-off on that one. One-metre 89, the new

:10:56. > :11:06.lifetime best. You can't ask any more of an athlete than that.

:11:06. > :11:06.

:11:06. > :11:16.Popping over to see Mike, her coat. He has taken to multi- events very

:11:16. > :11:18.

:11:18. > :11:23.comfortably indeed. You're running is great. Just lean in, and go

:11:23. > :11:33.through it. And believe me, Mike Holmes knows what he is talking

:11:33. > :11:39.about. He coached Steve Smith to an Olympic medal in the high jump,

:11:39. > :11:48.with a height that still stands as a British record. Everybody in this

:11:48. > :11:58.stadium is watching the heptathlon high jump. Here is Maksimava.

:11:58. > :12:24.

:12:24. > :12:31.She had a real go at one me to 92. -- 1.92. It's great to have so many

:12:31. > :12:36.people still watching this. A few people are starting to drift away.

:12:36. > :12:46.80,000 people have to leave this stadium, and then a different

:12:46. > :12:48.

:12:48. > :12:57.80,000 people coming in for the Evening Session. For a wonderful

:12:57. > :13:07.moment beckons for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She has never

:13:07. > :13:12.

:13:12. > :13:19.jumped this in her life before. One attempt to go. She is coming in

:13:19. > :13:29.with so much pace and you can understand the adrenalin pumping.

:13:29. > :13:34.That personal best of one metre 89, having to reassess, but as yet not

:13:34. > :13:44.quite there. It has been a good first morning for Jessica Ennis,

:13:44. > :13:44.

:13:44. > :13:49.and she is speaking to Phillip now. How was it that the very outset?

:13:49. > :13:55.Yes, just stepping into the stadium before the hurdles blew me away, to

:13:55. > :14:05.be honest. The crowd, how they got behind me was amazing. It lifted

:14:05. > :14:07.

:14:07. > :14:12.due to a phenomenal performance, and that would have won the hurdles

:14:12. > :14:18.as a specialised event at the last Olympics, that is how good it was.

:14:18. > :14:24.I knew it was a fast track and it is really good conditions. I still

:14:24. > :14:30.can't believe I ran that time, to be honest. How were the nerves that

:14:30. > :14:37.that point? Nervous, but strangely more calm than previous

:14:37. > :14:47.championships. Stepping into the stadium, the crowd really lifted me.

:14:47. > :14:48.

:14:48. > :14:57.In the high jump you showed great achievements to get ahead of your

:14:57. > :15:07.nearest rival. Yes, it is not too bad. A tremendous start. All the

:15:07. > :15:07.

:15:07. > :15:17.best for the next events today? Thank you.

:15:17. > :15:25.

:15:25. > :15:33.Still one attempts left for wonderfully well. It really lifts

:15:33. > :15:43.the spirits. Let's hope that crowd has a positive impact on one of the

:15:43. > :15:50.

:15:50. > :15:57.youngest members of the British P Well, not to worry, she comes

:15:57. > :16:02.away with a new lifetime best any way. One metre 89. And her name

:16:02. > :16:06.will appear, I am sure on the first page of results when this

:16:06. > :16:16.heptathlon high jump is finished. He will be on the first page. Not

:16:16. > :16:27.

:16:27. > :16:29.too far away from the leader. 19- too far away from the leader. 19-

:16:29. > :16:33.year-old, what a prospect she is. A super performance from Katarina

:16:33. > :16:38.Johnson-Thompson. She is having a ball out there. Isn't she Denise?

:16:38. > :16:42.am thinking whether someone needs to pinch her, she is in the Olympic

:16:42. > :16:48.Stadium. She has 80,000 people clapping for her, willing her over

:16:48. > :16:53.that bar, it is sensational. What did you make of Jess's reaction?

:16:53. > :16:57.was a fair reaction. A heptathletes, they set their benchmark with PB,

:16:57. > :17:03.they are looking to stay close by, even just surpass it, so Jess is

:17:03. > :17:09.right. She will be using what she did before as a barometer to where

:17:09. > :17:13.she is, she is not in bad shape. Your final assessment of this

:17:13. > :17:19.morn's first session? It has been fantastic. The stadium stands are

:17:19. > :17:23.full. No empty seats here, it is the number one sport of the Olympic,

:17:23. > :17:28.this is where it is at. It is early morning, first session, no finals

:17:28. > :17:33.and it is pack and the atmosphere is incredible. Thank you very much.

:17:33. > :17:38.Hazellle we are biased here but it has been fantastic. I am not going

:17:38. > :17:44.to say it's the number one sport but it has been amazing. I am with

:17:44. > :17:50.you. I have just seen Colin Jackson and we were both in agreement, that

:17:50. > :17:53.we have never ever seen a crowd like this in the first day of any

:17:53. > :17:58.major athletics meeting, 80,000 people. It is packed to the rafters.

:17:58. > :18:02.When you look round, you get a real hint of the spirit that there is

:18:02. > :18:06.here, in London. It has been a wonderful time so far. If it is

:18:06. > :18:12.live sport that you want, and 200,000 people certainly do, you

:18:12. > :18:15.can watch it, and this is where, we have men's and women's singles

:18:15. > :18:19.going on on BBC Three. That is Roger Federer in a bit of

:18:19. > :18:23.difficulty. Now, he looks like he might be on the way to taking the

:18:23. > :18:27.might be on the way to taking the second set. He has lost the first

:18:27. > :18:33.set against Juan Martin Del Potro and only three sets so he has work

:18:33. > :18:38.to do here. If you want to keep watching that, then Andrew Castle

:18:38. > :18:42.is on parade at Wimbledon. We have the mixed doubles gold medal match

:18:42. > :18:46.in a while. We have the Men's Singles going on there. That is all

:18:46. > :18:50.the badminton at Wembley for you today. Quite a few closing stages

:18:50. > :18:55.of the events there. And there is boxing from the ExCel Centre, we

:18:55. > :18:59.are down to the last 16 in the men's Fly. Britain's European

:19:00. > :19:03.champion, Freddie Evan, a Welshman in action in the welterweight

:19:03. > :19:08.division later today. We will drop into that one in a little while. So,

:19:09. > :19:14.it is all getting tasty round the venues and it is getting tasty at

:19:14. > :19:17.Weymouth as the sailing coming to a boil with the first of the medal

:19:17. > :19:21.reaches approaching on Sunday. Tempers are coming to the boil too.

:19:21. > :19:26.Shirley Robertson is there for us. Ben Ainslie's Finn class really

:19:26. > :19:30.heating up. He has had one race almost today what is the latest?

:19:30. > :19:36.How tetchy is that event becoming now? I know, you can feel the

:19:36. > :19:39.intensity, and yesterday, when they hit the shore in the mix, lots of

:19:39. > :19:43.arrangey bargey Ben complaining about them ganging up on him. The

:19:43. > :19:47.heat is on. In his first race he got beaten by the Dane by one point,

:19:47. > :19:51.so he is four points behind now. Which isn't a great deal but it

:19:51. > :19:54.means this race, that is just about to start, it is the tenth race, the

:19:54. > :20:00.final race before the medal race, is crucial. Ben will want to limit

:20:00. > :20:05.those, that points difference, going into big Sunday. Race ten is

:20:05. > :20:09.about to start, and our commentators is Richard Simmons and

:20:09. > :20:14.Lee mechanic mill listen lead us through it. What we will do is talk

:20:15. > :20:18.you through this, but it is all about Ben Ainslie versus the Dane.

:20:18. > :20:22.The start line is between those two orange mast, exactly between them,

:20:22. > :20:26.you have to be lined up there, you have to be to the right of that

:20:26. > :20:30.line before the start, but it is all about starting right on the

:20:30. > :20:34.line with speed, and which end you decide, well, that depends which

:20:34. > :20:37.way you want to go up the racecourse, but there is a sting in

:20:37. > :20:41.the tail, because the tide is trying to push the boats up from

:20:41. > :20:46.right to left, you get there too early you are pushed over the line,

:20:46. > :20:51.you have to recross it. Something that beansly will want to avoid. It

:20:51. > :20:55.has become a real head-to-head -- Ben a Ainsley, it has become a

:20:55. > :20:58.head-to-head between Britain and Denmark. There is a Danish sailor

:20:59. > :21:08.close to him, Ben Ainslie, the atmosphere between them is not good

:21:08. > :21:13.at the moment. 40 seconds to the start. Only the top ten will head

:21:13. > :21:18.into Sunday's final. At the moment Ainsley is trailing the Danish

:21:18. > :21:22.sailor. He is in theed in middle of the pack. We can see New Zealand,

:21:22. > :21:26.we can see Yousaf Raza Gilani A who are fighting for their life here.

:21:26. > :21:31.We are looking for flag. Ben Ainslie trying to get his nose out

:21:31. > :21:35.in front. Important to get off the line, clearly, without other boats

:21:35. > :21:40.taking your wind. So he will not want boats to his left. This is the

:21:40. > :21:44.line up to the start. Two seconds and that is the start and Ben

:21:44. > :21:48.Ainslie is in the front row. Ainsley looking to the right,

:21:48. > :21:52.looking for the flag and Ainsley is in that pack with the Danish sailor,

:21:52. > :21:56.that is no surprise because he will not want to be far away from him.

:21:56. > :22:00.In the commentary box with me Lee McMillan, he has competed for the

:22:00. > :22:04.British team in a couple of games. We have seen the Danish sailor tack

:22:04. > :22:09.off. He did not have a good start. That is significant to, see the

:22:09. > :22:12.Danish just tacking out after the start, it means he didn't get on

:22:12. > :22:17.the front row. He got spat out the back, that means that boats were

:22:17. > :22:21.taking his air, he has dirty air, the boat goes slow and he had to

:22:21. > :22:26.tack out to try and find a new bit of race track. At the moment it is

:22:26. > :22:31.an early stage but that blue line is the gain line that shows who is

:22:31. > :22:35.leading. It shows that Ben Ainslie is in second. The Danish sailor was

:22:35. > :22:39.getting the wind taken from his sails, so he tacked, turned and

:22:39. > :22:46.tries to get out in clear sea, he is coming across the racecourse,

:22:46. > :22:51.and these are the early stages, if you are just joined us on the Finn

:22:51. > :22:55.race. That man Big Ben and that competition, Big Ben against the

:22:55. > :22:58.Great Dane. It's the battle of the bay, and this is the battle for

:22:58. > :23:03.gold, which will be decided in the medal race and that is coming up on

:23:03. > :23:07.Sunday. They are heading up wind now and Ben Ainslie is in the

:23:07. > :23:17.middle of the course. When you see a wind swing on the early stage,

:23:17. > :23:19.

:23:19. > :23:23.you can see the it change to one side of the course or others..

:23:23. > :23:30.was a nice start from Ben Ainslie. It is one of the best starts we

:23:30. > :23:34.have seen from Ben at the crunch time in this event. We talked about

:23:35. > :23:37.the tide like a conveyor belt but Shirley you on the water, you have

:23:38. > :23:42.a couple of Olympic Golds, how would that affect your race if you

:23:42. > :23:47.were out there sailing? We are a long way nowt the bay, so the tide

:23:47. > :23:52.is very strong you have to go to the left hand side of the course,

:23:52. > :23:55.it is a more favourable tide. So significant that the Great Dane got

:23:55. > :23:59.bounced to the wrong side of the field of play. And right in the

:23:59. > :24:04.correct side of the field of play, according to the lady with a couple

:24:04. > :24:09.of gold medals to her name is Ben Ainslie. There he is, the Union

:24:09. > :24:13.flag, if you see a Union flag it will be berpbgs only one nation per

:24:13. > :24:20.class. The breeze now has increased a little. It dropped this morning,

:24:20. > :24:23.not as wild as the conditions were yesterday, but 12-14 knots out on

:24:23. > :24:28.the racecourse, so Ben Ainslie heading to the left hand side where

:24:28. > :24:31.the conveyor belt like tide is sliding him up to the top mark. We

:24:31. > :24:36.are seeing he is in first position. The Dutch sailor is second, but

:24:36. > :24:41.look down there, where is the Danish sailor. Seventh at the

:24:41. > :24:44.moment. There he is, Christiansen. Last night there was a real bit of

:24:45. > :24:50.edge because Ben Ainslie was forced or felt force dod a penalty turn

:24:50. > :24:53.for hitting a mark he felt he didn't go close to. During the race,

:24:53. > :24:59.the Danish sailor Christiansen, the Dutch sailor said "You have hit the

:24:59. > :25:03.mark, you have hit the mark." Ainsley didn't feel he hit the mark

:25:03. > :25:07.but did a penalty turn in case the two nations took him to the protest

:25:07. > :25:14.room and two against one may persuade the juryry to penalise him.

:25:14. > :25:18.Could have thrown him out the racement. But he was sure, but he

:25:18. > :25:22.was livid. He is turning that ayetion into speed. This is the

:25:23. > :25:26.Danish sailor who is way out on the right hand side of the course, the

:25:26. > :25:31.side that Shirley Robertson was saying isn't favourable in her view

:25:31. > :25:36.because of the strong current. It is better current pushing from you

:25:36. > :25:40.right the left there is Great Britain, middle of the track, nose

:25:40. > :25:45.out ahead. Ben Ainslie, he is in as good a position on the first leg of

:25:45. > :25:48.race as we have seen him in any race here at London 2012. This is a

:25:48. > :25:55.fantastic start from Ben. He has such a good start, like he said,

:25:55. > :25:59.one of the best we have seen him have, he wants to convert this, as

:25:59. > :26:03.Shirley has been talking about the left hand side of the beat. As you

:26:03. > :26:07.stand behind the boat you look up to the wind, you have to pick one

:26:07. > :26:10.side or the other, you have to tack up wind and the left has been

:26:10. > :26:17.showing to have really good form, so the sailors have been fighting

:26:17. > :26:20.for the left a lot. Ainsley working his boat through the waves. Tiny

:26:20. > :26:26.chop by yesterday's standards. Using his body weight. He is one of

:26:26. > :26:32.the oldest sailors. His bolt is one of the olders ones, in 2004 this

:26:32. > :26:36.but a boat he won Olympic Gold. It went to the national Maritime

:26:36. > :26:41.Museum in Falmouth. Then he hauled it out. He said I still that is

:26:41. > :26:46.faster than any boat I can find. He is still sailing that boat. He won

:26:46. > :26:51.gold in Beijing. He said new equip. Ehas developed new equipment. This

:26:51. > :26:56.is his beloved Rita. The boat that has taken him to glory so many time,

:26:56. > :27:00.the boat he decided to sail in these games, and this Olympic,

:27:00. > :27:04.Ainsley has been playing second fiddle to a Danish man who has

:27:04. > :27:09.found an extra gear. At the and there is still time because it is

:27:09. > :27:15.medal race on Sunday, with the top ten qualify, and you take all the

:27:15. > :27:19.points, from the races up until Sunday, but you cannot count your

:27:19. > :27:22.worst result is your best nine you take them into Sunday's medal race

:27:22. > :27:26.which is a double pointer. If you are far enough ahead, you don't

:27:26. > :27:31.have to win the medal race, it is just a total points score. So what

:27:31. > :27:35.Ainsley is trying do is go into that medal race with a points

:27:35. > :27:38.advantage, over Christiansen and every time that Ben Ainslie has

:27:38. > :27:44.taken someone on in a head to head in a medal race, he has forced his

:27:44. > :27:54.way to the top, he has been brute - - brutal in execution and clinical

:27:54. > :27:56.

:27:56. > :28:00.in effectiveness to go back to view, and interestingly, after the

:28:00. > :28:03.start he didn't have a good start. He tacked out to the right, but he

:28:03. > :28:07.is following Ben to the left hand side of the track, so everyone is

:28:07. > :28:11.on starboard, that means the wind is coming from the right hand side.

:28:11. > :28:15.It is like a drag race. They like the left hand side of the track,

:28:15. > :28:19.they are all going as far as they - - fast as they can into that side.

:28:19. > :28:23.That side of the course, to try and get the biggest advantage as

:28:23. > :28:26.possible. This is Christiansen, the man who was a director in the music

:28:26. > :28:29.business, the man who, after missing a medal in skpwraing

:28:29. > :28:34.decided to take a break from sailing, and he came back and found

:28:34. > :28:38.out that he did think he had the speed, and then in 2011 in November

:28:38. > :28:42.he said full-time. I am going for I he has a couple of Wham! Ships

:28:42. > :28:46.behind him, at the moment, he is eyeing Olympic Gold. That is what

:28:46. > :28:52.that yellow circle on the sail is as we look at the fleet, sailing in

:28:52. > :28:55.from the right hand side of the course. The Spanish sailor is worth

:28:55. > :29:00.a mention. The silver medallist from Athens is in danger of missing

:29:00. > :29:04.the cut. Only ten boat also qualify for the Sunday's medal race, the

:29:04. > :29:08.rest of them can pack up their Olympic bags and head for home.

:29:08. > :29:12.Great Britain are in a good position, also good is their not

:29:12. > :29:18.way out on one side of the course, because that can be dangerous going

:29:18. > :29:24.out on your own, as we can see... Yes, you see the fleet is spreading

:29:24. > :29:27.out quite a lot here, so the opportunity has the opportunities

:29:27. > :29:31.become big, the wind changes direction, it can swing left or

:29:31. > :29:35.right and as that happens the advantage can change from one side

:29:35. > :29:40.to the other. You have to be careful not to be too extreme with

:29:40. > :29:46.your plan. That is the leader on the right hand side, could be the

:29:46. > :29:49.Netherlands, the man who has had the last best three results. He is

:29:49. > :29:55.a man with a big character who is starting to deliver and is fighting

:29:55. > :29:59.it out for medals. A good start for Ainsley. Big Ben is beating the

:29:59. > :30:03.Great Dane. Let us remind you are we are on the points score. The

:30:03. > :30:09.Danish sailor is on 23. Ben Ainslie who has beaten him in two race but

:30:09. > :30:13.has lost against him in seven, is chasing, but close, 27, others to

:30:13. > :30:18.look out for Croatia, the Netherlands and France, close

:30:18. > :30:23.between second and fifth. 13 points in it. But we are expecting the

:30:23. > :30:28.Duel at the top of the table to deliver one of those two the gold

:30:28. > :30:33.on Sunday. Netherlands, bottom of your screen there, left hand side,

:30:33. > :30:37.breeze is getting slightly, slightly stronger. They have the

:30:37. > :30:42.advantage on the left hand side. If it gets windier, Ben Ainslie hasn't

:30:42. > :30:46.got the body weight of some of the sailors in this fleet. So for him

:30:46. > :30:50.keeping it up right. Having the same leverage, sometimes a bit more

:30:50. > :30:55.of a struggle. We are look at him now, if you look at the body,

:30:55. > :30:58.talking, he is trying to work the boat over the waves. He can see his

:30:58. > :31:02.feet in the middle of the boat. They are locked in. They have a

:31:02. > :31:06.strap over the top. So that is locked into the boat. He is leaning

:31:06. > :31:10.right out, all of his leg muscles really working hard, holding the

:31:10. > :31:14.rest of his body, and really locked in position, into the boat. You

:31:14. > :31:18.will see him rocking back, flicking back, and every time he does that,

:31:18. > :31:24.it just pumps the sail, pumps the boat and punches it through the

:31:24. > :31:30.wave. This is Ainsley, the support for him is growing week-by-week, I

:31:30. > :31:35.saw on his Facebook page where he shares his latest update, the whole

:31:35. > :31:39.of the harn Quinn teams are wearing red and green sock, the support of

:31:39. > :31:43.Ben Ainslie, that is the support that seems to be growing, the

:31:43. > :31:47.support is on the nose on Sunday will be there. Ainsley has huge

:31:47. > :31:52.support. His profile in Britain changed so much when he was given

:31:53. > :31:55.the honour of carrying the Olympic torch, the day after he won the

:31:55. > :32:01.2012 World Championships. These animation show you the picture, the

:32:01. > :32:07.mark is off on the left there, as we look at Christiansen, he is some

:32:07. > :32:12.distance away from Ben Ainslie. The Spanish sailor heads out to the

:32:12. > :32:17.right hand side of the racecourse. Ainsley has just tacked in front of

:32:17. > :32:21.the Dutch sailor, one of the two sailors, that Ainsley referred to,

:32:21. > :32:28.really upset him yesterday. He said Denmark and Netherlands you better

:32:28. > :32:33.watch out. Head-to-head now. Ainsley and Netherlands. And now he

:32:33. > :32:37.is working his boat really trying to get the advantage over the Dutch

:32:37. > :32:42.sailor. He will be trying to point as far as he can to his left to get

:32:42. > :32:46.closer to that top mark. But if you get too close to the wind you don't

:32:46. > :32:56.use it most effectively and you slow down. The technique between

:32:56. > :33:06.

:33:06. > :33:15.the two sailors. Ainsley working ahead, his wind were the first Ben

:33:15. > :33:21.Ainslie, and he will slow down. is one of the smaller guys in the

:33:21. > :33:26.Finn fleet, and he had to work so hard to get his strength up to be

:33:26. > :33:32.comparable with the men he is racing against. He has had to put

:33:32. > :33:37.on at least 15 kilos since the days of laser. We had a wonderful

:33:37. > :33:41.picture of him earlier, how much harder his body is having to work

:33:41. > :33:48.to make up for the disadvantage. It is hard physical work for Ben, but

:33:48. > :33:56.he is doing it in a serious breach. He spent so much of his earlier

:33:56. > :34:01.life in Falmouth, Cornwall. There is nothing in it, as we saw,

:34:01. > :34:06.between the competitor from the Netherlands and Ben Ainslie.

:34:06. > :34:12.Earlier in the year he convincingly beat the Danish sailor in his home

:34:12. > :34:17.town of farmer. He was born in Macclesfield, spotted as a young

:34:17. > :34:24.talent, and went on to thrive and win a world championships as a

:34:24. > :34:30.junior. As a fresh-faced, shying 19 year-old he arrived on the Olympic

:34:30. > :34:35.scene in 1996 and so nearly won gold. Four years later, he came

:34:35. > :34:40.back to Sydney, where he had another epic duel with a Brazilian,

:34:40. > :34:46.almost a boxing match on water it was so aggressive. The young sailor

:34:46. > :34:51.came out on top and since then he has won a medal at the Olympic

:34:51. > :34:57.Games every time since 2000 and there is only one colour that Ben

:34:57. > :35:02.Ainslie wants. Three gold medals, and another one here. He will

:35:02. > :35:12.become truly world class because the current greatest-ever Olympic

:35:12. > :35:41.

:35:41. > :35:47.Kristian sent out to the right hand side. -- Hogh-Christensen.

:35:47. > :35:50.can't move in the bad wind for too long to may have to find your own

:35:50. > :35:58.nice bit of water before you can start building your strategy for

:35:58. > :36:03.the race. His strategy is to go left. You have to have a good start

:36:03. > :36:07.and that is what we saw from Ben, a brilliant start. It is one of the

:36:07. > :36:13.few times we have seen him not really battling to get his own

:36:13. > :36:23.space. On the left-hand side can be you can see Ben Ainslie has lost a

:36:23. > :36:29.little bit of ground to the man from the Netherlands. The Dutch

:36:29. > :36:34.sailor has gained a bit. Yes, he had the advantage he was leading

:36:34. > :36:38.into the left so he was further down the line, further to the left

:36:38. > :36:47.as we saw it earlier on, and that meant he could sail faster into the

:36:47. > :36:53.left. Often been sailing, if you are first into the favouring corner,

:36:53. > :36:57.then the advantage can go to you but we have seen some fantastic

:36:57. > :37:03.comebacks from Ben so far. He has struggled off the start line a

:37:03. > :37:09.couple of times, but really come into the fleet. Being up here will

:37:09. > :37:14.really playing to his hands as he starts to fly down wind. These

:37:14. > :37:18.pictures can be deceptive but we can see the Danish sailor on the

:37:18. > :37:22.back four - that is the wrong thing to say in the early stages, but he

:37:23. > :37:32.had a struggle at the start and went to the side of the course that

:37:33. > :37:36.

:37:36. > :37:44.was less favourable. when the wind is from the right, you have right

:37:44. > :37:54.of way, as if you're standing behind the boat, and Hogh-

:37:54. > :37:55.

:37:55. > :38:05.Christensen has right of way over the key week on the other side. --

:38:05. > :38:23.

:38:23. > :38:33.and Ben Ainslie has attacked for the mark. That line known as the

:38:33. > :38:34.

:38:34. > :38:41.Labour line is a separation between the competitors. It seems the man

:38:41. > :38:48.from the Netherlands has gained. As the breeze increases, Ben Ainslie

:38:48. > :38:55.plans to take on how many birds behind? Canada, Greece and Spain.

:38:55. > :39:01.Three boats behind, and Hogh- Christensen, the Danish sailor, has

:39:01. > :39:07.already started the claw back. Eyes focused on the man he made so angry

:39:07. > :39:13.yesterday. He wound Ben Ainslie up. Ben Ainslie came to Rob Walker last

:39:14. > :39:18.night and he had something in his eyes. He is turning the anger and

:39:18. > :39:25.frustration into speed. He is in second place, Denmark in sixth

:39:25. > :39:30.place. He must be delighted. Yes, this is a fantastic way to finish

:39:30. > :39:35.off the series before you go into the medalled race. Ben Ainslie has

:39:36. > :39:45.got himself into a really strong position. We are going across the

:39:45. > :39:53.wind and the boat's really start to fly now. He will be wanting to reel

:39:53. > :39:59.in the Dutch guy, and I am sure he will do it on the downward leg.

:39:59. > :40:04.Ainslie now, we are looking straight at him. Fighting at the

:40:04. > :40:09.front of the fleet. He had a super start, using the conveyor-belt of

:40:09. > :40:19.tied under his boat to slide him up wind ahead of the Danish sailor. He

:40:19. > :40:22.

:40:22. > :40:29.is now in second position, the Netherlands in the lead. Eight

:40:29. > :40:34.knots, I know it doesn't sound fast, but it is when you are on the water.

:40:34. > :40:44.Ben Ainslie is on the attack, pumping the sale to make it go

:40:44. > :40:46.

:40:46. > :40:50.faster downwind. Ben Ainslie looking to go in there, and

:40:50. > :40:57.wouldn't it be fantastic from a British perspective if he could go

:40:57. > :41:06.into the medal race leading. Charging down wind now, a great

:41:06. > :41:12.technique. He is pumping his arm into his chest, and that is

:41:12. > :41:19.attached by one roped onto the boom. Every time he does that, he

:41:19. > :41:23.accelerates, and you can see how effective that is now. Look at this,

:41:23. > :41:33.Ben Ainslie, the man with the reputation for making mincemeat of

:41:33. > :41:35.

:41:35. > :41:41.people as he charges behind them turns his race around. The man with

:41:41. > :41:45.so much expectation on his shoulders. If it stays like this,

:41:45. > :41:52.Ben Ainslie for the first time at more than 2012 is in gold medal

:41:52. > :42:01.position. If he stays like this, he will become the greatest British

:42:01. > :42:08.sailor of all time. He has made his mark, and his Danish competitor,

:42:08. > :42:14.the man who made him angry yesterday, is on the charge. Ben

:42:14. > :42:21.Ainslie, when he finds that extra gear, when he gets angry - you saw

:42:21. > :42:28.it in 2004 - he went into his own shell and on the water he came out

:42:28. > :42:38.a different man. I really feel this is what we are seeing here. He is

:42:38. > :42:41.

:42:42. > :42:46.pumping the sail. His parents have been so supportive. Ben Ainslie is

:42:46. > :42:51.in the gold medal position at the moment for the first time at London

:42:51. > :42:57.2012. Hogh-Christensen is chasing the battle in the bay, it couldn't

:42:57. > :43:05.be more exciting. What an afternoon in Weymouth and Portland.

:43:06. > :43:10.Great excitement here. The men and the women are both in great place,

:43:10. > :43:14.but the Ben Ainslie race, what a battle that will be and what to

:43:14. > :43:20.build up for Sunday. A battle between the Great Dane and Ben

:43:20. > :43:26.Ainslie. I wouldn't want to be in that battle. He is a man used to

:43:26. > :43:31.winning races, used to be eating people on one-on-one. It will be a

:43:31. > :43:41.very exciting day. Iain Percy also doing very well and winning the

:43:41. > :43:42.

:43:42. > :43:47.star races. Great news for Team GB We will be back at Weymouth for the

:43:47. > :43:51.closing stages of that race, but look at this - 80,000 people

:43:51. > :43:57.spilling out of the Olympic Stadium after watching the heptathlon, and

:43:57. > :44:02.all of them trying to get something to eat. Note to self, bring a

:44:02. > :44:07.packed lunch if you are coming. Everyone will be delighted that the

:44:07. > :44:12.progress in the heptathlon because I can't confirm Jessica Ennis leads

:44:12. > :44:18.the competition after two event by 25 points, ahead of Hyleas Fountain

:44:18. > :44:28.of the United States. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the teenager from

:44:28. > :44:35.

:44:35. > :44:45.likes of Dobrynska, the defending champion, and Chernova of Russia in

:44:45. > :44:46.

:44:46. > :44:50.16th place. The shop-bought is at 7 o'clock tonight, and another event

:44:50. > :44:57.which will then Rapple 11 hours of competition for them on the opening

:44:57. > :45:01.day. We are winding ourselves up for more judo, you remember jemmied

:45:01. > :45:11.Givens taking the medal yesterday. It is a fantastically complex sport

:45:11. > :45:11.

:45:11. > :45:21.- let's give you the guide to what is going on. Judo. The plane area

:45:21. > :45:23.

:45:23. > :45:31.is called the tartare me. It is surrounded by a safety area. The

:45:31. > :45:41.referee stays in the combat area throughout the contest. During a

:45:41. > :45:43.

:45:43. > :45:47.contest, a variety of techniques ippon which secures immediate

:45:47. > :45:53.victory. This can be achieved by throwing your opponent on their

:45:53. > :46:01.back, holding them down, gaining submission or with an arm-lock or a

:46:01. > :46:08.strangle. Waza-ari is award whend a move culminates in an opponent

:46:08. > :46:11.being thrown on their back without the force or control of an ippon. A

:46:11. > :46:21.yuko is awarded for a throw when the opponent does not land on their

:46:21. > :46:32.

:46:32. > :46:36.Gemma Gibbons did yesterday. But now it is the turn of Karina Bryant.

:46:37. > :46:42.This is her fourth Olympic game, she has never got any further than

:46:42. > :46:46.the quarterfinal, that was eight years ago, here she is in her first

:46:46. > :46:51.Olympic semifinal. And as we fly our way over to ExCel Centre, let

:46:51. > :46:55.us show you the journey we will be taking as we get there. What a

:46:55. > :47:03.moment for this heavyweight, she has been a stall wart of British

:47:03. > :47:13.judo over the last 12 years or so and she has an almighty battle

:47:13. > :47:29.

:47:29. > :47:34.against suggest Moto from Japan. -- the heart of what used to be the

:47:35. > :47:44.old Docklands where all the produce of the empire used to come ashore.

:47:44. > :47:51.Perhaps gold and silver and bronze. It is up for grabs now. This is

:47:51. > :47:58.Sugimoto. The Japanese who stands between Great Britain's Karina

:47:58. > :48:02.Bryant and a place in the final. Olympic veteran now, marked her

:48:02. > :48:10.games debut in Sydney when she was just 21. She has been waiting for

:48:10. > :48:14.this moment for a dozen years. The world champion is Sugimoto. So the

:48:14. > :48:20.climbs don't get much steeper than this, Karina for gold suggests the

:48:20. > :48:24.flag. Japanese won't necessarily agree with that from the country

:48:24. > :48:28.that gave us the sport. The one that dominated the Olympic judo

:48:28. > :48:34.competition since its debut appropriately enough in Tokyo. In

:48:34. > :48:41.1964. They have not been in the best form here so far, the Japanese

:48:41. > :48:46.squad. But, Sugimoto has been in fine form, she really has. Out of

:48:46. > :48:51.all the Japanese she has come out fighting and he is looking good.

:48:51. > :48:57.Karina Bryant fighting well. Totally focused on the job in hand.

:48:57. > :49:04.So here with go, Olympic heavyweight semifinal. In the white

:49:04. > :49:08.Sugimoto, the World Champion, from Japan, in the blue. Great Britain's

:49:08. > :49:18.Karina Bryant. It is vital Karina doesn't skip with the Japanese

:49:18. > :49:40.

:49:40. > :49:50.fighter. She is very fast. Karina we can see. That is the best part

:49:50. > :49:51.

:49:51. > :49:57.of seven inches. 5'5 plays six foot. The taller Briton. She is three

:49:57. > :50:07.kilos kwhrever at round 16 stones. Karina going over the top for the

:50:07. > :50:16.

:50:16. > :50:19.home supporters about half an hour ago to get them going again. Karina

:50:19. > :50:23.Bryant would have heard the ovation for Britain's silver medallist

:50:23. > :50:27.yesterday, and in some way it would have taken the pressure off her,

:50:27. > :50:32.because pretty much for last years she has carryed the hopes of the

:50:32. > :50:39.home nation, she has often been the Britain as looked to to deliver

:50:39. > :50:46.medals and it has often proved too much for her. Because she has

:50:46. > :50:51.fought on the last day, it puts enormous pressure on you. Karina

:50:51. > :50:58.Bryant doing well to evade the deadly right foot of a Japanese

:50:59. > :51:04.that was coming in looking to do untold mischief. The best part of

:51:04. > :51:09.two minutes. It is scoreless. Judo contests scheduled to last five.

:51:09. > :51:15.Ippon, waza-ari and yuko in descending order of importance, if

:51:15. > :51:25.you get ippon,... Bryant has got a good counter, she is waiting now,

:51:25. > :51:46.

:51:46. > :51:51.for the Japanese to put in an move a lot. Into the second half of

:51:51. > :52:01.this Olympic semifinal. Karina Bryant in the blue. Sugimoto the

:52:01. > :52:10.

:52:10. > :52:15.World Champion from Japan in the the mate called, breaking the

:52:15. > :52:19.action just before that throw from Sugimoto. One thing I suspect she

:52:19. > :52:23.didn't have to do was put out an appeal on the internet for cash to

:52:23. > :52:27.buy a car, which is what Karina Bryant had to do. Her old banger

:52:27. > :52:31.finally packed up. She was relying on friend to get to and from

:52:31. > :52:38.training so she set up a fundraising website to try and

:52:38. > :52:48.raise a few quid to get a new one, or at least one that worked. It is

:52:48. > :53:01.

:53:01. > :53:07.to the face. Doing well to stay off her back there and avoid the score.

:53:07. > :53:12.There is the passivety warning for Karina for not attack, now she has

:53:12. > :53:16.to get the attacks in. A second penalty and she will concede the UK

:53:16. > :53:23.owe and she will fall behind as we bear down on the last minute of

:53:23. > :53:31.this women's heavyweight semifinal. That right leg continues to be a

:53:31. > :53:36.Japanese menace. Karina dominating now with the grips. Looking to get

:53:36. > :53:46.her hips across. Can only go when the technique is on, she has to

:53:46. > :53:48.

:53:48. > :53:55.significant 45 seconds of Karina Bryant's life. She is waiting there

:53:56. > :54:04.for the pick up. She can't grab the leg until your opponent attack, you

:54:04. > :54:09.can't grab a direct leg. She has cob seeded the warning we feared. -

:54:09. > :54:18.- conceded. The Japanese fighter moves ahead with 30 seconds to go.

:54:18. > :54:25.Two penalties. Karina Bryant got to go forward into the last 22 seconds.

:54:25. > :54:34.Got to put pressure. Looking for, good attempt, took Sugimoto down on

:54:34. > :54:44.to her knee, this last 90 seconds. There is a penalty to the Japanese

:54:44. > :54:47.

:54:48. > :54:52.fighter for blocking out. Time stops with nine seconds to go. 12

:54:52. > :54:57.years to get to this point. Nine seconds, to rescue a place in the

:54:57. > :55:07.Olympic final. She did it glerl the closing seconds, can she do it

:55:07. > :55:09.again? -- earlier. No. It is to be the nation who with the Chinese

:55:09. > :55:14.have dominated this women's heavyweight division, who have a

:55:14. > :55:23.representative in the final, it will be Sugimoto, but all not lost

:55:23. > :55:26.for Karina Bryant. She will go into the play-off for the bronze medal.

:55:26. > :55:30.She may well still have something very significant to takeaway from

:55:30. > :55:34.her efforts at these games. It was lovely to see the two of them

:55:34. > :55:40.coming together. It is the honour of the sport. At the end of it

:55:40. > :55:44.Sugimoto has won, Bryant has lost, but they are mates at the end of it.

:55:44. > :55:46.You have to respect her opponent and that is great to see, even

:55:46. > :55:51.though she must be bitterly disappointed with that, she still

:55:51. > :55:57.has the bronze coming up and has to be focused on that. Ultimately the

:55:57. > :56:07.Japanese was an immovable object. Karina Bryant needs to refocus,

:56:07. > :56:07.

:56:07. > :56:14.because she is moving towards a the defeat of the Chinese defending

:56:14. > :56:20.champion, so Sugimoto will go into the final against the cue ban Ortiz

:56:20. > :56:30.as the favourite, having seen off Karina Bryant here. Yes, and here

:56:30. > :56:34.is the foot sweep, lovely timing on that. The Japanese fighter very

:56:34. > :56:37.stylish judoka. So a silver medal for Great Britain yesterday, still

:56:37. > :56:45.hopes of a bronze today, but it will be a Japanese fighter going

:56:45. > :56:50.will be a Japanese fighter going for gold. Yes Sugimoto very

:56:50. > :56:55.impressive but as cien that was saying she will be -- Karina, she

:56:55. > :56:59.will be going against the Ukraine, who won the repechage so she still

:56:59. > :57:03.has a chance to go for bronze, that will be round half an hour's time,

:57:03. > :57:06.quarter past three. But there have been a couple of significant

:57:06. > :57:13.moments already, not least for Karina in the judo, but for other

:57:13. > :57:18.nations too. Look at this. This is nations too. Look at this. This is

:57:19. > :57:23.a first for Saudi Arabian sport. She is the first woman to compete.

:57:23. > :57:28.16-year-old. She had been in the spotlight before her event because

:57:28. > :57:34.judo officials said she couldn't wear her headscarf. She wore a

:57:34. > :57:38.tight fitting black cap as a compromise, she lost, but very many

:57:38. > :57:48.congratulations to the 16-year-old trailblazer today. And on a lighter

:57:48. > :57:50.

:57:50. > :57:59.note or maybe not this is 34-and-a- half stones worth of Guam judoka.

:57:59. > :58:03.He beat his opponent who weighed 21 stones. But the big fella came to

:58:03. > :58:09.griefment -- grief. Very interesting scenes down there at

:58:09. > :58:12.ExCel Centre, it takes all shapes and sizes. We have been following

:58:12. > :58:17.vents at Weymouth and the all- important tenth race for Ben

:58:17. > :58:23.Ainslie in his Finn class, we left it with Ben leading the waves as it

:58:23. > :58:29.were. We will head back to get the latest from Shirley. It is good

:58:29. > :58:32.news. I am following the Starace, and they are leading that, they are

:58:32. > :58:39.extending their lead in the gold medal position. Great new there's.

:58:39. > :58:44.Back to commentary of Ben Ainslie and his battle with the Dane. What

:58:44. > :58:49.a battle it is because Ben Ainslie, the news is good. He is leading, he

:58:49. > :58:53.is extending. He is round 150 metres ahead of second place boat,

:58:53. > :58:57.from a British perspective I don't need to tell you, it is him. Hogh-

:58:57. > :59:02.Christensen. Denmark, hard to shake him off his tail. But it is an

:59:02. > :59:10.opportunity now, for Ainsley to at least put another point on him.

:59:10. > :59:14.They are heading up wind for the second time. We are watching Ben

:59:14. > :59:19.Ainslie now. Smooth, comfortable sailing, he is just making his way

:59:19. > :59:23.into the top leg, again looking back, where is the Dane? He is

:59:24. > :59:30.caught up in second. Nothing I can do, really. Except stay here and

:59:30. > :59:37.hope the others can do a job for me. Overtake him. Well, let us just

:59:37. > :59:43.leave Ben Ainslie for a moment, where Rob Walker has over action,

:59:43. > :59:49.how is it going on the 470s? It is double good news for Great Britain,

:59:49. > :59:53.because the men and women are both leading. Excellent news for sacks

:59:53. > :59:57.ka Clark and nan mills. They had a disappointment in the first race,

:59:57. > :00:02.they ended up in sixth place because they took a personality

:00:02. > :00:06.turn before the start line, but here they are, now, coming into the

:00:06. > :00:10.finish, a huge lead and this is more like it. They came into the

:00:10. > :00:14.regatta, as one of the favourites for gold, a long way to go here,

:00:15. > :00:19.but there was huge expectation and a lot of attention on this duo,

:00:19. > :00:22.they have gelled quickly, they have only been together for 18 months

:00:22. > :00:28.and we expected big things so a mistakes from them in the first

:00:28. > :00:36.race, but this is much, much better, Hannah and Saskia, winning the

:00:36. > :00:40.second race of the day, excellent stuff. Great news there, for the

:00:40. > :00:46.470 women. First outing today. They can celebrate. We will have a

:00:46. > :00:54.breather. Now we go straight back to Ben Ainslie. Heading up wind for

:00:54. > :01:04.the second time. Three classes, Iain Percy is leading, last race

:01:04. > :01:08.

:01:08. > :01:14.before his medal race on Sunday. think he is starting to play with

:01:14. > :01:19.the Danish sailor. The ice is a moment I have never seen outside a

:01:19. > :01:23.medal race at the Olympic Games. Ben Ainslie has got far out in

:01:23. > :01:29.front and he is going to go for the Danish sailor and try to push him

:01:29. > :01:34.down the fleet. Last night in an interview that has been widely

:01:34. > :01:42.watched, he said "he made me angry, he shouldn't have done that. I am

:01:42. > :01:47.going to go for him", words similar to that. Now he is looking behind.

:01:47. > :01:54.It took us a moment to work out what was happening. He is looking

:01:54. > :01:59.at the Danish sailor and thinking I am sure of going on the attack.

:01:59. > :02:04.These are extraordinary moments in the Olympic sailing world. Ben

:02:04. > :02:09.Ainslie is thinking what to do. At the moment he will be in second

:02:10. > :02:16.place overall. Will he go on the attack? Is he protecting his

:02:16. > :02:20.position? He has had a big lead thought of this point in this race

:02:20. > :02:26.and I'm certain that he has just been thinking Hogh-Christensen is

:02:26. > :02:31.in second place, that is not good enough. I want to put a boat

:02:31. > :02:37.between myself and Hogh-Christensen so he has slowed down. It will be

:02:37. > :02:41.more of a match race scenario. He will try to give him some dirty air,

:02:41. > :02:47.try to push him back further through the fleet. He might even

:02:47. > :02:54.try to get a penalty on the sailor so it is of significance situation

:02:54. > :03:01.here. We are seeing something I have never seen in the Olympic

:03:01. > :03:05.competition prior to the medals race. Ben Ainslie leading by 150

:03:05. > :03:09.metres appears to have slowed down. You heard the words of Lee

:03:09. > :03:15.Macmillan who has competed in the Olympic Games twice, and we could

:03:15. > :03:19.be looking at Ben Ainslie about to go on the attack. The battle has

:03:19. > :03:29.been raging between himself and the great Dane, but after this race we

:03:29. > :03:34.will head into the medals race on Sunday. If Ben Ainslie stays ahead

:03:34. > :03:38.and the great Dane has a chance, Ben Ainslie could get into the

:03:38. > :03:43.final leading in gold medal position, defending a lead instead

:03:43. > :03:48.of attacking the gold medal potential winner of Denmark. That

:03:48. > :03:52.could be what he is doing. Certainly the thoughts of Lee

:03:52. > :03:58.Macmillan as he slowed himself down, and what will be going through the

:03:58. > :04:04.mind of the Danish sailor? Sailing along, and suddenly this man starts

:04:04. > :04:12.to slow down. We have seen Hogh- Christensen, he has been very

:04:13. > :04:18.focused so far, not to affected by the pressure on him. You can see

:04:18. > :04:23.the wind is probably coming directly from Ben to the Danish

:04:23. > :04:28.sailor so he will be wanting to slow him down. He will want to get

:04:28. > :04:33.him behind the Dutch sailor. Hogh- Christensen will be thinking of his

:04:33. > :04:38.own game here, focused on non- being too affected by Ben, probably

:04:38. > :04:43.trying to stay out of his way and not get involved in a situation

:04:43. > :04:48.that Ben will create. It is significant, from where the first

:04:48. > :04:53.time before a medals race I have seen someone slowing-down and

:04:53. > :04:59.waiting for the fleet to catch up. These are extraordinary pictures.

:04:59. > :05:04.If saving is not your game, forget about the sport, it is about the

:05:04. > :05:09.Battle of the personalities. Hogh- Christensen sailing up towards a

:05:09. > :05:17.man who is acting not in the normal way in a sailing competition. Not

:05:17. > :05:23.just looking forward. What is he thinking? This was a moment when we

:05:23. > :05:32.were caught a little by surprise. Ben Ainslie here, looking back,

:05:32. > :05:42.slowing down, looking around. A little confusing. Looking back at

:05:42. > :05:52.

:05:52. > :05:57.the Danish sailor and thinking race. Not pushing hard leaning into

:05:57. > :06:03.the boat, not hanging out the side of the boat. Looking back towards

:06:03. > :06:07.the Danish sailor. The big risk if he goes for the Danish sailor,

:06:07. > :06:16.because if he does there is always the potential that things could go

:06:16. > :06:20.wrong. Another look back at the Danish sailor. This is the moment,

:06:20. > :06:25.a different sort of sailing. What do you seek in the body language?

:06:25. > :06:30.We are so used to seeing him looking forward, punching the boat

:06:30. > :06:35.and being aggressive. This is very different, he is still, and looking

:06:35. > :06:39.back. The whole time he has been thinking about what to do. That was

:06:39. > :06:48.a little earlier on this leg, and this is what has happened since.

:06:48. > :06:53.Ben Ainslie has attacked. This is the 3D animation putting that

:06:53. > :06:58.perspective on the situation behind. He will be also looking to see if

:06:58. > :07:08.anyone else can do the job for him because the Danish sailor is

:07:08. > :07:08.

:07:08. > :07:11.engaged in a battle of his own with a sailor from the Netherlands. Ben

:07:11. > :07:17.Ainslie thought they had got together to attack him yesterday,

:07:17. > :07:22.that is what he was upset about. Ben Ainslie attacks. I don't think

:07:22. > :07:27.we could have forecast for this. There has been so much talk in the

:07:27. > :07:33.wider sporting world, the man who was given the Olympic torch for the

:07:34. > :07:38.first time in Great Britain, he carried that after his 2012

:07:38. > :07:44.championship win, the man with more expectation than pretty much any

:07:44. > :07:48.other British athlete, the man having a head to head from Hogh-

:07:48. > :07:55.Christensen of Denmark. He watched the interview last night, you heard

:07:56. > :08:00.that Ben Ainslie is angry, furious with what he did. He felt the man

:08:00. > :08:10.from Denmark and the man from the Netherlands were saying he had hit

:08:10. > :08:21.

:08:21. > :08:26.the mark. Heeded the penalty turn Fascinating, and hard to call.

:08:26. > :08:33.and he has got the cover on the Danish sailor, but Hogh-Christensen

:08:33. > :08:40.is doing exactly the same so every time Ben slows down, Hogh-

:08:41. > :08:46.Christensen does the same. Here still and a strong position to be

:08:46. > :08:56.able to do the same to the Dutch sailor every time, and they are

:08:56. > :08:57.

:08:58. > :09:04.running out of room on this up wind leg. He will be hoping that, if he

:09:04. > :09:09.can slow these two down, others could overtake. Shirley, this is

:09:09. > :09:16.pretty extraordinary. It is. Ben is definitely trying to get some votes

:09:16. > :09:20.in between. From Ben Ainslie, there is no point being miles ahead. You

:09:20. > :09:30.only need to win by centimetres so he is using his advantage to slow

:09:30. > :09:32.

:09:32. > :09:38.the Danish competitor down, trying to limit the points for him. From

:09:38. > :09:43.where you are standing out there, is Ben Ainslie affecting them yet?

:09:43. > :09:50.I think he did. When you spoke about it in commentary, it was

:09:50. > :09:54.affecting him. He was getting tangled up, and now he is sailing

:09:54. > :10:02.along, keeping an eye on what is happening behind. I wouldn't be

:10:03. > :10:07.surprised to see him going back, giving him some bad air. Have you

:10:07. > :10:13.ever seen this in a race at the Olympic Games before the medal race

:10:13. > :10:19.decider? I think as you start to get to the medalled race, you know

:10:20. > :10:24.who you are racing, it is no longer the entire fleet. I have seen those

:10:24. > :10:30.starting to keep an eye on each other. We saw a little bit of it in

:10:30. > :10:36.the star class. You know who we will be up against for the medals.

:10:36. > :10:40.The thing with Ben is, he is intimidating and terrifying and the

:10:40. > :10:45.Danish sailor knows that he is coming for him. I think I would be

:10:45. > :10:51.feeling pretty nervous if I was him. When we saw those pictures of him

:10:51. > :10:56.slowing down, we saw Ben Ainslie heading back, this is something

:10:56. > :11:02.quite special. We saw the battle between Brazil and Great Britain in

:11:02. > :11:07.the star class, but here it feels rather different, doesn't it?

:11:07. > :11:11.there is definitely a grudge match that has been developing over the

:11:11. > :11:16.last six days and there is a significant battle happening in

:11:16. > :11:22.this race as Ben Ainslie looks back once more. It looks like it has

:11:22. > :11:28.worked so far. The Dutch sailor has got through, as we look at this

:11:28. > :11:38.graphic, but has Ben Ainslie done enough? He is clearly up in front

:11:38. > :11:40.

:11:40. > :11:45.at this point. If the fleet was more closely bunched, Ben Ainslie

:11:45. > :11:51.might fail it is easier to make the move, but he has to hold a man back

:11:51. > :11:58.who he knows is very fast and then put some votes behind him. There is

:11:58. > :12:04.not a pack of boats behind and that is what is very hard. Like you say,

:12:04. > :12:07.it is unusual to see the Finn fleet spread out like this and it does

:12:07. > :12:16.mean there is very little opportunity. There is only one boat

:12:16. > :12:24.in contention at this point for him to get him back. The difficulty is

:12:24. > :12:34.that he is in this downwind. If you have just joined us, where watching

:12:34. > :12:40.

:12:40. > :12:45.Ben Ainslie leading in the Finn class and hears -- he is in the

:12:45. > :12:55.lead. The man from the Netherlands is overtaking Hogh-Christensen,

:12:55. > :12:58.

:12:58. > :13:04.that is another point gained. Shirley Robertson, I want to put

:13:04. > :13:09.you in Ben Ainslie's boat - what would you do now? What would I do

:13:09. > :13:15.now? I think I would keep an eye on what is happening behind him. He

:13:15. > :13:20.has done a great job, getting the Dutch man in between, and that one

:13:20. > :13:26.point could be vital going into the medal race on Sunday. Ben is a long

:13:26. > :13:31.way ahead. He stopped and waited, and he is still a good minute ahead

:13:31. > :13:36.of everyone so he has options. I would be looking behind, seeing if

:13:36. > :13:45.there were any other opportunities. For it would close the gap,

:13:45. > :13:50.wouldn't it, Lee? What would you do now? What I think he did

:13:50. > :13:57.effectively, he managed to get the wind, take the wind from the Danish

:13:57. > :14:06.sailor by sailing on the same part of the water. Exactly, so what we

:14:06. > :14:12.saw, we are travelling up wind so the wind was coming from above them,

:14:12. > :14:17.so he put his boat between the Danish sailor and the wind. That

:14:17. > :14:21.means he has less wind, and that makes use lower so he was

:14:21. > :14:31.constantly slowing him down and staying between him and the wind at

:14:31. > :14:32.

:14:32. > :14:39.every opportunity. If you are writing the script for a sporting

:14:39. > :14:45.contest, a battle between one and two, the story this week has been

:14:45. > :14:49.about Great Britain - the man going to be the greatest ever British

:14:49. > :14:56.Olympic sailor. The story has been Denmark Great Britain throughout

:14:56. > :15:02.the week, advantage Denmark. Hogh- Christensen has been leading. Their

:15:02. > :15:06.intention on the water over spills and Denmark and the Netherlands,

:15:06. > :15:11.two Ben Ainslie's perspective, teamed up and went against him

:15:11. > :15:16.yesterday, and now we have Denmark and the Netherlands with the wind

:15:16. > :15:20.behind, chasing Ben Ainslie. Ben Ainslie would dearly love to have

:15:20. > :15:27.more votes between him and the Danish sailor. He has closed down

:15:27. > :15:32.with a lead of about 150 metres. With the wind coming behind, little

:15:32. > :15:42.the can do except hope that the man from the Netherlands stays ahead of

:15:42. > :15:47.the Danish sailor. There is such huge hit significance here as well.

:15:47. > :15:52.If Hogh-Christensen finishes third and Ben wins this race, all he has

:15:52. > :15:56.to do in the medal race is beat Hogh-Christensen to beat him

:15:56. > :16:00.overall. The difference between Hogh-Christensen being third and

:16:00. > :16:05.second in this race is the difference of having to beat him or

:16:05. > :16:08.having to put a boat between himself and Hogh-Christensen to get

:16:08. > :16:18.the gold medal. The difference here is absolutely everything in terms

:16:18. > :16:20.

:16:20. > :16:24.of strategy going into the medal to head back, you're not going to

:16:24. > :16:28.go back. The significance of the pictures will tell the story of

:16:28. > :16:38.this race, will be where is the Danish sailor. Can the Danish

:16:38. > :16:38.

:16:38. > :16:44.sailor overhauled the man from the Netherlands? The moment, 148 metres

:16:44. > :16:49.of Ben, about 25 metres behind. This is the battle that will make

:16:49. > :16:55.such a difference to the strategy going into the medal race. The

:16:55. > :17:02.Netherlands, and the Danish sailor now. It will totally changed his

:17:02. > :17:06.tactics going into the medal race if he can sail past. Hard on this

:17:06. > :17:13.perspective, we will look at the animations in a moment. That will

:17:13. > :17:17.show you who has got the advantage. The Netherlands competitor is in

:17:17. > :17:21.contention for a medal. There is every reason for him to be battling

:17:21. > :17:26.here. At the moment it is likely to be bronze. Now, what these sailors

:17:26. > :17:31.are doing, heading downwind. The reason they are so far away is

:17:31. > :17:37.eight are using the waves up to zigzag. When they get a little surf,

:17:37. > :17:42.they get on top of the wave and accelerate. Ainslie up ahead. If

:17:42. > :17:49.you are joining this race, Ben Ainslie is leading. He slowed down

:17:49. > :17:57.to try and slow the Danish sailor, who was second back into third

:17:57. > :18:06.place. He has done that at the moment. Well, Ben Ainslie's tactics

:18:06. > :18:11.were planned Prix race. -- before the race. This is the points

:18:11. > :18:21.standing going into this race. This tells you what Ben Ainslie has to

:18:21. > :18:27.

:18:27. > :18:30.do. This has happened as the Danish man comes third, Ben Ainslie, 28

:18:30. > :18:36.points and the Netherlands competitor, 32. It becomes a much

:18:36. > :18:40.race in the final. If Jonas Hoegh- Christensen finishes second, Ben

:18:40. > :18:47.will have to try to bring the boat between him and Jonas Hoegh-

:18:47. > :18:51.Christensen to get gold, but if the Dutch soldier -- sailor beats him,

:18:51. > :18:56.and it is staying that way, it is of huge significance. It means what

:18:56. > :19:01.Ben did on that beat is everything going into the medal race. It is

:19:01. > :19:07.very clever Seyerling and something I think only Ben can really do.

:19:07. > :19:13.Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, if he can get back into second place, he will

:19:13. > :19:18.go in with the advantage into the medal race. At the moment he will

:19:18. > :19:25.have Ben Ainslie, his job to try and push him down the fleet. There

:19:25. > :19:29.are no more discards. That plays into it of course. And you have to

:19:29. > :19:33.count your medal race score. Well, we have seen epic battles in the

:19:34. > :19:40.medal race of Ben Ainslie. One of the moments of the 2000 Games, you

:19:40. > :19:46.may remember it, was won the 24- year-old from Great Britain, a big

:19:46. > :19:51.job to do against a Brazilian and he may have been a lot -- a lot

:19:52. > :19:59.younger but he was clinical in his execution. He literally did

:19:59. > :20:03.everything, aggressive sailing. But within the rules. So often these

:20:03. > :20:07.medal races turn into a head to head at the top of the fleet.

:20:07. > :20:11.Depending on the results today, but expect to see another battle at the

:20:11. > :20:17.top of the fleet. At the moment the Netherlands are up and defending

:20:17. > :20:22.their position. Denmark are third. You will see Ben Ainslie crossed

:20:22. > :20:27.the line. You will see him stop. You will see him watch. You say

:20:27. > :20:31.that, I was just thinking, I would not be surprised, once again Ben

:20:31. > :20:35.has worked a big lead. The last opportunity for him to affect this

:20:35. > :20:38.race is as we come round the mark and reach across the wind to the

:20:39. > :20:43.finish and it is quite a safe position that, reaching places can

:20:43. > :20:47.change but it is a lot save -- say for downwind. There is more

:20:47. > :20:53.opportunities to get away from competitors and find your own patch

:20:53. > :20:57.of water and look for different wind. The boats have to go around

:20:57. > :21:02.the mark before they take they last reached to the finish. Maybe we

:21:02. > :21:07.will see Ben slow down again there, just to watch these two sailors,

:21:07. > :21:11.the Dutch and Jonas Hoegh- Christensen come down to the bottom

:21:11. > :21:15.mark to make sure his work is done and he does not get back involved

:21:15. > :21:20.to get the Danish sailor pushed back once again. The critical point

:21:20. > :21:24.will be down there and the wind is coming across. At the moment it is

:21:24. > :21:29.directly behind. It is coming from his left as he bounced that mark.

:21:29. > :21:33.What he will be trying to do there is get the wind from his sale to

:21:33. > :21:37.slow down the Danish sailor, if he is in second, if he decides to do

:21:37. > :21:47.that. But the man from the Nolan -- from the Netherlands at the moment

:21:47. > :21:50.is doing enough. Ms Lee may be more aggressive in this if there were

:21:50. > :21:56.more boats around but at the moment these three are a long way from the

:21:56. > :22:01.rest of the pack -- Lenzly. We are looking at Ben Ainslie leading.

:22:01. > :22:05.Today has been good for Ben Ainslie. The second race, the first race he

:22:05. > :22:12.is one point behind. He got in the lead today. The Danish sailor

:22:12. > :22:20.worked his way through from six. A quick look back, making sure that

:22:20. > :22:24.Denmark is behind Holland. The Netherlands. He is working downwind,

:22:24. > :22:27.not trying to squeeze an extra ounce of speed. He is not pushing

:22:28. > :22:31.as hard. He is looking to be comfortable. This is what I was

:22:31. > :22:37.talking about. He is fully aware of the situation, he has it planned

:22:37. > :22:42.out. I can only assume the only reason for him to look back is to

:22:42. > :22:46.decide if he needs to get back involved, if he needs to take the

:22:46. > :22:55.race back for the Danish sailor. The this is the last mark. He will

:22:55. > :23:01.turn left at this mark. Here we have Denmark. If the Netherlands

:23:01. > :23:06.are in second, expect to see Ben Ainslie sailed towards the finish.

:23:06. > :23:09.If he is not, expect to see him stay. He will stay far enough ahead

:23:10. > :23:14.to be comfortable to read -- to win the race. He will not put that at

:23:14. > :23:18.risk. There he goes again. Expect him to spend a lot of time over the

:23:18. > :23:23.next a few minutes to the end of this race with intuition keeping

:23:23. > :23:31.the boat going forward, but his mind looking back. There you are,

:23:31. > :23:40.get round, head into the wind. Head towards the finish. He is looking

:23:40. > :23:44.for his head turned. That is what I am looking for, looking behind. The

:23:44. > :23:51.Netherlands are ahead of Denmark. Is it Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, the

:23:51. > :23:56.man who has been dominating this fleet, dominating Ben Ainslie, and

:23:56. > :24:00.now the man he was so furious with yesterday from the Netherlands is

:24:01. > :24:04.the man who Ben Ainslie is relying on. The irony of that. This is what

:24:04. > :24:10.Ben would be looking out for, looking back, making sure the Dutch

:24:10. > :24:14.sailor is in front of the Danish sailor here and it is critical for

:24:14. > :24:19.Ben that it stays this way round. Ben Ainslie is heading towards the

:24:19. > :24:25.finish. Not looking back. We are looking at the animations. Ben

:24:25. > :24:33.Ainslie is going on now to win this race. I am expecting him to slow

:24:33. > :24:37.down and be looking back. Well, Britain, Ben Ainslie, that is a big

:24:37. > :24:40.moment, a huge moment. The final race going into the medal race and

:24:40. > :24:45.he has beaten the Danish sailor again. It is much closer at the

:24:45. > :24:53.front, but is he going into that race just to beat the Dane? Make

:24:53. > :24:58.the Danish sailor get gold. The man that Ben Ainslie was furious with

:24:58. > :25:04.is now his friend because he has overtaken the Danish sailor and his

:25:04. > :25:08.friend, as far as positions are concerned. Denmark are heading in

:25:08. > :25:16.4-2. This is a race we saw Ben Ainslie leads from the beginning in

:25:16. > :25:21.a day that was crucial for him and it is now the Dutch sailor looking

:25:21. > :25:26.back, heading towards the finish. Ben Ainslie has won the race. Ben

:25:26. > :25:29.Ainslie is reeling the man from Denmark in right where it matters

:25:29. > :25:33.as the man from the Netherlands finishes second and that could not

:25:33. > :25:37.be more significant or better for Britain, looking for gold in the

:25:37. > :25:42.Finn class, the battle of the bait is heading closer to shore on

:25:42. > :25:46.Sunday. The man from Denmark, who has held the advance, is going to

:25:46. > :25:56.square up to Ben Ainslie on Sunday for an intense match. There is more

:25:56. > :25:57.

:25:57. > :26:02.than rivalry between them. This is What an exciting race that Wall's.

:26:02. > :26:07.How important that move was for Ben Ainslie. He waited, he slowed down,

:26:07. > :26:12.he affected the great Dane so that the Netherlands could get in front.

:26:12. > :26:17.Now that means that when they go into the big match, the medal race

:26:17. > :26:22.on big Sunday, but all Ben has to do is beat the day to win that gold

:26:22. > :26:28.medal. What a extraordinary grace from Ben

:26:28. > :26:32.Ainslie. I am sure you, like me, was thinking back to 2000, when he

:26:32. > :26:36.had to beat the Brazilian and he kept in at the back of the fleet.

:26:36. > :26:40.These are hard-nosed tactics, entirely legal. What do you make of

:26:40. > :26:45.it all? I don't think you have seen anything yet. Wait until you see

:26:45. > :26:49.Sunday. If I was the great day I would be quaking in my boots. He is

:26:49. > :26:54.a fantastic match racer. He uses tactics well. I have not seen him

:26:54. > :26:58.lose a medal race. He is America's Cup sailor as well. When he has the

:26:58. > :27:03.bit between his teeth he is hard to beat. The Danish sailor is going to

:27:03. > :27:08.be going into Sunday very nervous. I am sure he will. He is behind you

:27:08. > :27:14.at the moment. I would not get any his wake, the sort of mood he is in

:27:14. > :27:18.at the moment! Thank you very much. Cheers. You know that expression

:27:18. > :27:22.always the bridesmaid, never the bride? It is something Katherine

:27:22. > :27:26.Grainger was all too familiar with after three consecutive silver

:27:26. > :27:34.medals and near-misses in the Olympics in various boats but the

:27:34. > :27:38.36-year-old, together with Anna produce a happy ending and they

:27:38. > :27:42.have done. The most sought-after, harder and gold off any athletes

:27:42. > :27:46.and the British team, it has been a long time in the making. They have

:27:46. > :27:54.had time to calm down and let it soak in and they have been speaking

:27:54. > :27:59.to John and Steve at Eton Dorney Here we are, however long it is

:27:59. > :28:06.after the event, How are you feeling inside now? I don't even

:28:06. > :28:10.have words, unusually. Still just ecstatic, so pleased. The smile has

:28:10. > :28:14.not stopped. We said during the commentary, I don't think any

:28:14. > :28:17.others have anybody seen so happy with the gold medal, of the

:28:17. > :28:26.hundreds and hundreds of people in the disciplines of Sport, we have

:28:26. > :28:34.never seen anybody so fulfilled, like a thunderbolt had hit you and

:28:34. > :28:39.what is the? You tell me. The is, finally. I think the whole nation

:28:39. > :28:43.heaved a sigh of relief that it is done. We have not got to hear that

:28:43. > :28:51.woman again talking about getting the gold medal. What are we going

:28:51. > :28:58.to talk about now? It is done. it done? You walked into that one!

:28:58. > :29:03.That was the jab, the punch back. Do you know what, the whole journey

:29:03. > :29:07.has been until this point today and we have not thought about it and I

:29:07. > :29:13.am going to enjoy the moment. is a political answer, there is a

:29:13. > :29:17.career for you. Anna Watkins, you have been a bit-part player, but

:29:17. > :29:23.you were 50%, every bit as important. How is this moment for

:29:23. > :29:27.you? It has started to sink in, going past the crowd and getting

:29:27. > :29:31.away from everybody has let us finally so Cup this amazing

:29:31. > :29:35.atmosphere that has been building around this lake and we have been

:29:35. > :29:40.trying to keep our heads calm and focus on our own boat and finally

:29:40. > :29:46.we can release ourselves from that and appreciate where we are and the

:29:46. > :29:50.day we are in, what we have in our boat had to show the rest about --

:29:50. > :29:54.and to show the rest of the world what we have got in our boat. I am

:29:54. > :29:58.so proud of us. We have known we can do it for a long time but it is

:29:58. > :30:02.not the same as doing it. Today was the biggest challenge. I could not

:30:02. > :30:07.contemplate how awful it would have been if we had not won. How were

:30:07. > :30:12.you when you were cut this morning? Really nervous. You don't want to

:30:12. > :30:19.be nervous but there is nothing you can do. We try to keep breathing

:30:19. > :30:24.and stay calm hope I did not feel sick after my breakfast. Class C.

:30:24. > :30:28.When you got on the water, people say it is the moment the whistle

:30:28. > :30:38.goes and you kick the ball, was it the same or the water? We are happy

:30:38. > :30:39.

:30:39. > :30:46.here, I know what to do, let's go The nerves don't go completely, but

:30:46. > :30:51.it is when we feel the best, when we are in our boat. You get a sense

:30:51. > :30:56.in the warm-up if it is as good as it needs to be, and it was. There

:30:56. > :31:01.is a lot of adrenalin coursing through you at the start up. It

:31:01. > :31:07.brings the best out of us and the boat. A couple of questions about

:31:08. > :31:12.the race, at the halfway point, you were in command. Did any doubt

:31:12. > :31:17.creep into your mind the Australians might come back?

:31:17. > :31:22.only point in the race where we have to be decisive was in the

:31:22. > :31:27.second 500. The Australians got up better than they did in the heat.

:31:27. > :31:33.When they were very much in touch with us. If they had managed to do

:31:33. > :31:39.a big push the then we would have had a struggle on our hands. We

:31:39. > :31:43.were very decisive when we moved away and I thought, there is no way

:31:43. > :31:50.this is not going to be our day. The do you go along with that?

:31:50. > :31:57.Absolutely. There was a sense that nobody was going to take this from

:31:57. > :32:04.us. It is our day, our time and crowd. It was our moment and we

:32:04. > :32:11.took it. Have you had any champagne yet? Not yet, but it is coming.

:32:11. > :32:20.Somebody has got to go for a drug test. He is the best champagne

:32:20. > :32:28.Popper Between the two of you? Everything is so competitive.

:32:28. > :32:35.look at these glasses. They don't have any bottoms to them. They are

:32:35. > :32:45.plastic. And it is a �4.99 bottle of champagne, but don't worry about

:32:45. > :32:46.

:32:46. > :32:54.it. Don't to want to waste it. are going to toast, don't spill it

:32:54. > :32:59.over the top. We are going to toast...

:32:59. > :33:04.Well deserved. I think the headlines will say Catherine the

:33:04. > :33:10.Great tomorrow. Anna Watkins is no longer a lady in waiting any more.

:33:10. > :33:17.There is so much going on around the Olympics situation. If we go

:33:17. > :33:21.over to Wimbledon, this is key. It is seven Games apiece in the semi

:33:21. > :33:26.is seven Games apiece in the semi final between one Martin Del Potro

:33:26. > :33:33.from Argentina and Roger Federer. Roger Federer won the tie-break to

:33:33. > :33:42.get back into this match. He was in big trouble. This is happening live

:33:42. > :33:49.on BBC Three. The man who ruled Wimbledon earlier on is having his

:33:49. > :33:51.work cut out. He has never won an work cut out. He has never won an

:33:51. > :33:57.Olympic gold medal in the singles. He won in the doubles last time

:33:57. > :34:02.around. BBC Three is the place to go and Andy Murray will be on in

:34:02. > :34:12.his semi-final against Novak Djokovic on Centre court. There are

:34:12. > :34:19.

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:35:36. > :35:42.London 2012 on the BBC. We've got the Olympic Games covered.

:35:42. > :35:52.We have indeed. John Inverdale talked about the sense of

:35:52. > :35:56.

:35:56. > :36:06.fulfilment talk by Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins. Carina

:36:06. > :36:09.

:36:09. > :36:19.is also in her 4th Olympic games. She now has a chance to fight for

:36:19. > :36:20.

:36:20. > :36:25.the bronze. She is facing a 21- year-old from the Ukraine. Our

:36:25. > :36:35.fingers are crossed for the silver medal for Gemma Gibbons at the s

:36:35. > :36:37.

:36:37. > :36:47.Today. Karina Bryant it is a 31- year-old from London. We go back to

:36:47. > :36:57.

:36:57. > :37:04.dozen contest in the judo competition. The first of the

:37:04. > :37:14.bronze medal contests against the Ukraine and Great Britain's Karina

:37:14. > :37:16.

:37:16. > :37:22.Bryant. This is how the Ukrainian got here. She lost her quarter-

:37:22. > :37:31.final to the defending champion, who was the defending champion.

:37:31. > :37:37.Karina Bryant has it within her to take the bronze. It is the

:37:37. > :37:43.Ukrainian who leads the march to the match. Karina Bryant's march to

:37:43. > :37:46.an Olympic judo match with an Olympic medal dangling above it has

:37:46. > :37:56.taken a dozen years false start she has never done herself justice in

:37:56. > :38:02.an Olympics. This is her 4th Games and it may be her last. Here she is,

:38:02. > :38:09.finally showing the world what she shows the world most Gisin between

:38:09. > :38:16.the Olympics. She is fighting so well today. She just seems so

:38:16. > :38:20.focused. Karina Bryant, R best heavyweight of all time. She is

:38:20. > :38:26.consistently up first winning the World medals and European medals.

:38:26. > :38:32.Let's hope she can get the Olympic one. This time yesterday it would

:38:32. > :38:40.have been 12 years since Great Britain's last Olympic medal. Today

:38:40. > :38:50.it has been 24 hours. The Ukrainian has won a pile of World Cup medals

:38:50. > :38:52.

:38:52. > :39:01.over the past few years. Nothing ever at the biggest championships.

:39:01. > :39:06.She has rolled Carina over onto her back. It is a powerful start for

:39:06. > :39:12.the Ukrainian. Corrina caught up in the grip and she has got her arm

:39:12. > :39:22.trapped so she cannot do anything about that. She is the best part of

:39:22. > :39:22.

:39:22. > :39:28.20 stones, 125 kg. The Ukrainian. Karina Bryant it is 16 stones. She

:39:28. > :39:34.has to try and equal out the way different somehow. She needs to up

:39:34. > :39:42.the pace of this fight. She needs to get the attack great higher and

:39:42. > :39:52.get her opponent moving. Olympic veteran marked her Olympics

:39:52. > :40:04.

:40:04. > :40:09.debut in Sydney, she was only 21 the arm up? She is applying the

:40:09. > :40:14.leverage to the elbow. She got to roll over but the Ukrainian rolling

:40:14. > :40:19.out. You try and hold down somebody you is the best part of 20 stones

:40:19. > :40:24.and see how long you last. That is the challenge for Karina Bryant.

:40:24. > :40:28.One of the issues is the business of finding opponents who are as big

:40:28. > :40:38.as her in this country. Machine is in a small group of heavyweights

:40:38. > :40:47.over here? -- she is in a small group. She does end up sparring

:40:47. > :40:53.with the men. Karina Bryant and leading to up the pace. She has to

:40:53. > :41:00.force the pressure and get the Ukrainian to make a mistake. She

:41:00. > :41:10.got the counter! It has even the this caused up. She waited so well

:41:10. > :41:19.

:41:19. > :41:25.for the counter. She is level. She could not begin until she did that.

:41:25. > :41:35.But in getting there leg out, the Ukrainian dislodged herself.

:41:35. > :41:37.

:41:37. > :41:44.Fantastic counter. It is all even. Karina Bryant or one has 7th medal

:41:44. > :41:54.in the spring. I dare say she would swap them all for the one on offer

:41:54. > :42:01.

:42:01. > :42:08.here. An Olympic bronze in London. into a position to fight here in

:42:08. > :42:12.the Games. She must six months last year with a neck injury. She has

:42:12. > :42:20.really come into these Games on form, winning a bronze in the

:42:20. > :42:26.Europeans in May this year. She has to watch getting caught on the leg.

:42:26. > :42:32.The Ukrainian is back in front. can see Karina Bryant at waiting

:42:32. > :42:37.for the counter. She is letting the Ukrainian come on with the grip in

:42:37. > :42:42.the hope of turning her, like she did earlier. So this bronze-medal

:42:42. > :42:52.match, the women's heavyweights on the final day of the judo inside

:42:52. > :43:08.

:43:08. > :43:18.the ExCel. She has got the rotation. It is an Ippon! Karina Bryant has

:43:18. > :43:18.

:43:18. > :43:27.got an Olympic bronze medal. Yesterday, they have none. Today

:43:27. > :43:36.they have got themselves two. The contest is concluded. Karina Bryant,

:43:36. > :43:42.who has been on the longest of Olympic journeys. She now has a

:43:42. > :43:48.Olympic medal work to show for all the hard work. Sympathy for the

:43:48. > :43:58.Ukrainian, but Karina Bryant deserves this. She waited her

:43:58. > :43:59.

:43:59. > :44:06.moment. She allowed the Ukrainian to come on and did the counter

:44:07. > :44:12.twice. For so long she has been the figurehead of the British team, all

:44:12. > :44:18.of them down there to watch. For so long she has kept the flag flying

:44:18. > :44:28.in years when it has not been easy. There have been dark times for

:44:28. > :44:29.

:44:29. > :44:34.British judo, and so often Karina Bryant has been the shining light.

:44:34. > :44:39.Her team mates hugging and Olympic bronze-medallist. She deserves this

:44:39. > :44:48.medal probably more than any one. She has come through the

:44:48. > :44:54.disappointment of the last Games, and now it has all been worthwhile.

:44:54. > :45:02.The 33-year-old from Camberley. I'm not sure we will see her in Rio,

:45:02. > :45:08.she will be 37. This might be an appropriate time to say farewell to

:45:08. > :45:14.the Olympic games. This might be her final Olympic moment. And if it

:45:15. > :45:20.is, it is the best of moments to say farewell. She is pressurising,

:45:20. > :45:30.fighting against it, but she puts the lead over and gets the turn.

:45:30. > :45:32.

:45:32. > :45:38.Gutsy judo, going for it. -- get their leg over. It is becoming a

:45:38. > :45:44.familiar sight for British judo. It will be a long time before they

:45:44. > :45:50.tire of it. Do we need to say it? 12 years they have waited for a

:45:50. > :45:58.medal. Since Kate Howey in Sydney, Gemma Gibbons yesterday ended the

:45:58. > :46:02.drought. And now look at this, Karina Bryant with a bronze to go

:46:02. > :46:12.with yesterday's silver. Hard to believe the British Judo in this

:46:12. > :46:18.

:46:18. > :46:28.Well, the Liberals has been a long time in the making for Karina

:46:28. > :46:29.

:46:29. > :46:33.Bryant -- DEC bronze has been a Bryant and British judo, because

:46:33. > :46:38.that doubles the target that was set for them coming into the Games.

:46:38. > :46:43.Britain are still in 4th place but just consolidating their position.

:46:43. > :46:51.They have the 7th bronze medal and we will hear from Karina Bryant as

:46:51. > :46:56.soon as Helen Skelton can get to We are going to look at equestrian

:46:56. > :47:00.events now. Great Britain's three- day event has have done their bit

:47:00. > :47:06.with a silver medal and now it is the turn of the pure dressage

:47:06. > :47:11.riders. I am not sure, and I am not sure you are as well, if you know

:47:11. > :47:14.your dressage moves, but we will shortly find out. This is a real

:47:14. > :47:18.test, a mesmerising test of horse and rider as well. Great Britain

:47:18. > :47:24.has never won a medal in a list -- in Olympic history in the pure

:47:24. > :47:28.dressage events and they have good chances. This was the situation

:47:28. > :47:33.yesterday. It is Carl Hester, the world number two, who hails from

:47:33. > :47:42.Sark. He took the lead in the competition in the individual on

:47:42. > :47:45.every competitor has to complete and then they complete on Tuesday,

:47:45. > :47:51.in the Grand Prix special, which is a more difficult Test against set

:47:51. > :47:56.moves. The top qualifiers go through to the freestyle section,

:47:56. > :47:59.which is set to music next Thursday. Laura Bechtolsheimer and her horse

:47:59. > :48:03.took second place in the individual standings, although the 27-year-old

:48:03. > :48:08.Laura, who is completing -- competing in her second Olympics,

:48:08. > :48:13.said she was gutted. It was her lowest score in years, she was not

:48:13. > :48:17.expecting it. Great Britain were in first place overnight in the team

:48:17. > :48:21.standings, thanks to their collective efforts, with Charlotte

:48:21. > :48:27.Dujardin coming today on board Valegro. She set a world record and

:48:27. > :48:37.the Grand Prix special event and she trains out of Carl Hester's

:48:37. > :48:47.

:48:47. > :48:57.year-old Charlotte Dujardin. She needs to get near 80%. In fact, at

:48:57. > :49:08.

:49:08. > :49:10.88.02 %, she got a world record. racking moment, for you, Judy,

:49:10. > :49:16.because you and Carl Hester have been involved in this young lady's

:49:16. > :49:20.to the limit. Yes, she came to me as a 16-year-old young lady out of

:49:21. > :49:28.the showing world with a very determined glint in her eye, wanted

:49:28. > :49:35.to do well in the world of dressage and, my gosh, walked, there she had

:49:35. > :49:44.a loss of contact. This horse is ahead shaker and sometimes has a

:49:44. > :49:48.glitch with his contact but it will not upset her. It will give her a

:49:48. > :49:56.wake-up call. Take us through these movements. A good half past, a good

:49:56. > :50:00.start, a good bend. Travelling very well. Now she has to collect him in

:50:00. > :50:10.this corner, getting on his hind legs to make a good hold and rein

:50:10. > :50:14.

:50:15. > :50:19.controlled. Really mature riding. She gives the horse every chance to

:50:19. > :50:24.draw breath and take his time. She does not rush. This is one of this

:50:24. > :50:31.horse's highlights. He has many highlights. He does fabulous

:50:31. > :50:41.extended trot so antique she did that very well. Active, good, keep

:50:41. > :50:42.

:50:42. > :50:50.bad bounce, that spring. Beautiful. Absolutely stunningly beautiful. A

:50:50. > :50:56.little bit early, you can see the marker coming up now, but smooth,

:50:56. > :51:03.harmonious and well done. No loss of rhythm at all through that turn,

:51:03. > :51:10.and now we come into the extended walk. This is not his good point,

:51:10. > :51:14.the extended walk, but he can do it well enough. Total us, the horse

:51:14. > :51:19.that reached the bar in the dressage world, some three or four

:51:19. > :51:29.years ago, but this horse being talked of in terms of raising the

:51:29. > :51:33.

:51:33. > :51:39.bar still higher. That is what but also collected. This is a

:51:39. > :51:42.collected walk. It is an important mark. The horse is content to get

:51:42. > :51:49.upset and anticipate the next movement but she has kept him very

:51:49. > :51:58.steady indeed. It could have been a stronger transition, more powerful,

:51:59. > :52:05.but it is easy from sitting here. That is good. Those marks at the

:52:05. > :52:10.moment, Judy, around the 82.89 %. Yes, she dropped down a bit after

:52:10. > :52:15.the extended walk, which we expected. But she had room to. This

:52:15. > :52:21.is a difficult transition into canter. He ran a little bit into it,

:52:21. > :52:25.was not perfect, but it will do. Perfect is at ten, but and eight or

:52:25. > :52:35.nine will do. Nightmare as we have to change is coming up. Keep your

:52:35. > :52:49.

:52:49. > :52:52.concentration, Charlotte, keep your pat to say thank you for that. His

:52:52. > :52:59.nickname is Blueberry in the stadium. -- in a stable. Look at

:52:59. > :53:03.the crowd. An extended canter. This is where Carl Hester and Laura

:53:03. > :53:13.Bechtolsheimer made the mistake. Don't let it happen. Good girl.

:53:13. > :53:14.

:53:14. > :53:24.Well done. Now she comes to the zigzag. 82.76 of a marks at the

:53:24. > :53:35.

:53:35. > :53:45.either side. Lovely changes. OK, one-time changes now, bring him

:53:45. > :53:53.

:53:53. > :54:03.beautiful. Let's hope the judges think the same. The last couple of

:54:03. > :54:09.

:54:09. > :54:14.difficult movements, the canter time. Come out, well done, good.

:54:14. > :54:24.Now a change, now bring him back again, keep him collected, make him

:54:24. > :54:33.

:54:33. > :54:38.80%. She will come up a bit now, I think. -- still on the 82%. The

:54:38. > :54:48.leader is from Germany. What a transition, what power, what risk-

:54:48. > :54:49.

:54:49. > :54:59.taking. Flamboyance of youth, Mike! Let's keep it up. Right, this last

:54:59. > :55:05.

:55:05. > :55:11.line, this should really bring the hands steady, bringing him back now,

:55:11. > :55:19.a good condition. Keep going, keep going. Keep going. Keep going, but

:55:19. > :55:25.-- keep going and now come out. Good. And straight. Straight, good.

:55:25. > :55:30.This is unbelievable. She has done the most fantastic job. 26 years

:55:30. > :55:39.old, coming to the halt. A stand still. Good boy. She maintains the

:55:39. > :55:45.hold. This young lady moves to Carl Hester as a stable rider and now

:55:45. > :55:54.she stands on the edge of a possible Olympic medal, both team

:55:54. > :55:57.and individual. That was a sensational Test. She was a show

:55:57. > :56:02.pony rider when she started. She won title after title with that,

:56:02. > :56:07.actually when she was a child was helped by its Tim Stockdale's wife,

:56:07. > :56:13.Laura, and then moved to Judy Harvey, then Carl Hester. What

:56:13. > :56:21.about the score for that, Judy? It is looking around 82%, 83%. Would

:56:21. > :56:25.you be happy with that? She did a fantastic job, Mike. What guts.

:56:25. > :56:28.Looking at those movements again, let's remind you this is the third

:56:28. > :56:33.rider from Britain. Germany took the lead with the second rider and

:56:33. > :56:38.they have one to come, but this score is one that really could set

:56:38. > :56:45.the Germans a real challenge. But when we finish today we are only

:56:45. > :56:51.halfway through the team test. There is one more to come next week.

:56:51. > :56:56.I think we should go back to the old rules. What Judy means there is

:56:56. > :57:00.the medals would be decided after this competition. Well, we will see,

:57:00. > :57:05.because it is going to be nip and tuck with the Germans. There is

:57:05. > :57:14.Germany and Holland to come, two very strong nations. Remember,

:57:14. > :57:23.Germany has not been beaten in an Olympic team competition since 1976.

:57:23. > :57:33.83.78 %, that is confirmed. That Mark puts Charlotte out ahead of

:57:33. > :57:34.

:57:34. > :57:38.That is an Olympic record for Charlotte Dujardin, an absolutely

:57:38. > :57:42.super test of horse and rider. I am no equestrian expert but it is

:57:42. > :57:46.great teamwork to watch. It means that Great Britain's team go into

:57:46. > :57:50.the Grand Prix Special on Tuesday leading the standings. Incidentally,

:57:50. > :57:57.Richard Davison on Artemis was also performing today in the individual

:57:57. > :58:01.event. He does not go in the team. His score of 72.796 is likely to

:58:01. > :58:05.see him qualify for the next stage as well, so going very well down at

:58:05. > :58:11.Greenwich. All going very well at ExCel as we saw with Karina

:58:11. > :58:18.Bryant's ippon, securing her first medal in four Olympics. She was

:58:18. > :58:21.giving away four stones to her Ukrainian opponent. Karina Bryant

:58:21. > :58:25.is a bronze medallist at last and Helen Skelton has managed catch up

:58:25. > :58:30.with her. Congratulations, you must beat

:58:30. > :58:35.ecstatic? Over the moon, lost for words for once. It has been an

:58:35. > :58:41.emotionally and physically draining day for you, hasn't it? Yes, very

:58:41. > :58:45.very emotional. I tried to keep my head together, really. It is my 4th

:58:45. > :58:51.Games. I wanted to do myself justice. I feel I have done that

:58:51. > :58:57.today. This feels like a gold medal. Is it definitely the 4th and last?

:58:57. > :59:02.I don't know. I quite enjoyed it today so, so who knows. Excellent

:59:02. > :59:07.athletic skills. He was that you had? My Big Brother. This is my

:59:07. > :59:12.family in this corner. I will see them shortly. I can't believe that

:59:12. > :59:16.guy tried to stop you seeing your family, do can take him! He is the

:59:16. > :59:21.boss, so I had better not. Huge congratulations. Thank you very

:59:21. > :59:25.much. I would let her get her medal first before she tries that. We

:59:25. > :59:29.have seen a very good start in the women's heptathlon for Jessica

:59:29. > :59:33.Ennis, who is leading the standings after two events today. They will

:59:33. > :59:37.be back in the Olympic Stadium at 7pm for the shot put and the 200

:59:37. > :59:42.metres to come. We have seen the stadium packed to the rafters in

:59:42. > :59:44.the morning heats for the athletics events and the noise generated for

:59:44. > :59:50.Jessica Ennis and Dai Greene and Christine Ohuruogu was pretty

:59:50. > :59:55.special. But you can bet that the decibel level will ratchet up this

:59:55. > :59:59.evening in the pool at about 7:45pm, when Mansfield's most famous export,

:59:59. > :00:02.Becky Adlington, attempts to become the first British swimmer ever to

:00:02. > :00:12.successfully defend an Olympic title. Standing in her way, her

:00:12. > :00:38.

:00:38. > :00:44.You have the most amazing friendship and rivalry? She is

:00:44. > :00:49.amazing. We have been racing each other since 2004. We have been

:00:49. > :00:53.through the junior seen together and one year I will win, the next

:00:53. > :01:00.she will win. I hope it doesn't mean she will win this year because

:01:00. > :01:08.I won last! She works hard, so do I. It is about who will get the finish.

:01:08. > :01:15.He will get the finished tonight? Sue Barker, huge night in the