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A welcome back, it has been another successful day for the British team, | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
three medals won at the rolling, two gold medals and one silver | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
medal, Britain have moved up to third on the medal table. They | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
could be more to come at the Velodrome and later on in the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Olympic Stadium. You can see thousands of people in the Olympic | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Park, and 80,000 lucky ticket holders will be inside the stadium | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
to see Jessica Ennis win the gold medal. She is the overwhelming | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
favourite tough to win it later on this evening. Also there Farah will | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
be going for gold in the 10,000m. We will be heading back to the | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
Velodrome in just a moment to see if the women's team pursuit can be | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
won by 8 GB. Then it is athletics all the way and Dai Greene is in | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
action, also the defending champion, Christine Ohuruogu will be going at | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
8:05pm and maybe medals also in the men's long jump final with Chris | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Tomlinson and Greg Rutherford doing well. Then it is the heptathlon | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
surely after 8:30pm and Jessica Ennis will be in the final of the | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
three heat and Mo Farah at 9:15pm. So much to look forward to. A lot | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
to enjoy right now over on BBC Three. At 7:30pm the men's football | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
quarter-finals, Great Britain trying to get through to the semi- | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
finals against South Korea. That will be live from the the 11th it. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
If this foul of the PC three at the moment that the mixed doubles semi- | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
finals up live on BBC through. It is one set all. They did lead 3-1 | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
in the tie-break but it is one set all. Andy Murray and Laura Robson | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
tried to go through to that all middle final tomorrow. -- gold- | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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medal. Women's hockey, Great Britain a China. Lucy 2-0, they | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
needed a point to guarantee a place in the semi-finals, not good news | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
for Great Britain at the them. We are heading back to the Velodrome | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
at 5:50pm it could be a gold medal for Britain. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Welcome back from the Velodrome where the action is getting | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
exciting in the omnium and later tonight the women's team pursuit. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Neither the event unfolding here all the women's team pursuit | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
actually happened in Beijing because since the last Olympic | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Games they have been huge changes to the Olympic cycling programme. | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
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event at three women's event. Cycling's governing body chose to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
give clarity to the men's and women's events such out have gone | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
the individual pursuit, the points race, and income women's versions | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
of the team sprint, team pursuit and the new event, the omnium. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
There is also no chance for so Kris Boyd to repeat his three goals as | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
another new will to limit dominance was to limit it to one competitor - | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
Cycling have just got 14 events, 42 events in the swimming pool, it | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
seems a big disparity. That is the way it is. You think it | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
is fair enough to bring clarity between the men and women, but cut | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
prices back, it is not nice for the riders. I don't know why it is. It | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
does seem unfair. You have circled on the track for | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
years, and I guess it is a fair comparison to say the individual | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
pursuit is light afforded metres in the athletics, you will not take | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
that out of the Olympics but they took it out of the cycling. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
The pursuit is a Blue Riband event of the Velodrome, it is what | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
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everybody watches. It seems such a shame it has been taken out, and | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
the omnium, the new race, it is to replace a bunch of good races to | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
watch. I am sure the omnium is exciting | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
but you're not too sure about having this in the Olympics. | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
To be honest, when I grow up, it is what you write as a kid, -- or ride. | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
You learn how to sprint, pursuit, racing in budgies, there is an | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
elimination race. It is exciting, a great spectator sport. | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
Imagine losing an Olympic medal on an elimination race. It will be | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
exciting for the fans but the races we are seeing, would be nice to | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
have a medal for each discipline. You get to see the best person | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
overall in the Velodrome but the Olympics is about faster, Higher, | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
stronger. You can probably hear from behind us, it is getting the | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
crowd on their feet because there is a British competitor, Ed Clancy. | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Began watch it uninterrupted on the red button. The fact is, it is here, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
whether it is here to stay we will point out. It is in the Olympics | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
and this is what it is all about. Individual riders will be going | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
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head-to-head in six different The writers must complete every | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
event to continue in the competition. The lowest total after | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
six events wins gold. In the flying lap riders are racing against the | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
clock over 250 metres, the fastest time wins. The points race is an | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
endurance event where they accumulate. By lapping the field. | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
There are opportunities for further points in the sprints. The winner | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
is the rider he gains the most points. In elimination after a mass | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
start the last rider over the line is eliminated every two laps. The | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
two final riders will battle it out in a sprint finish. Individual | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
pursuit involves two riders on the track at one time, the men | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
competing over 4,000m, the women over 3,000 metres. Dividers -- the | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
writers start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch each | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
other. In the scratch race date start in a mass ride. Men cover | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
15,000 metres, and women 10,000m. The first to cross the line is the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
winner. The time trial is an individual race against the clock, | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
and then cover one dozen metres and women 500m, the fastest time wins. | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
If you are right to get involved in a Olympics sports go to the website. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Years ago that is exactly what Mark Cavendish was doing. If this has | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
inspired you go on to the website and perhaps you can go from | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
competing in these kind of events to representing your country at the | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Olympics. So far today we are in the middle of the points raised, we | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
had the flying lap earlier row, there are six events culminating | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
with a time trial tomorrow. Ed Clancy is an endurance racer, and | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
pulled this out in his flying lap. His body type, he is more of a | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
sprinter. He is super-fast. He got a flying lap this morning, 12.5 in | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
a flying lap. Sprinters do do that, he is half the second quicker than | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
second place, incredible. If you take his boat for the last 200m he | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
would have qualified in the top five. Their shows how fast he is. | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
Remarkable for Foreman's. He didn't get to celebrate his gold medal. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Geraint is going to join us from the team PCT. Ed Clancy celebrated | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
by winning the first event. The aim in the omnium is to get to the end | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
of the six events with the fewest points possible and as you can see | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
Ed with just one point. Behind us the points race is unfolding. To | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
the untrained eye it is incredibly confusing but all about winning | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
sprints as the race unfolds. It is consistency. There is a sprint | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
every 10 laps. It is the first four cross the line. They simply add up | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
the points at the end of the race. It is not at the end of the 120 | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
laps the first rider, it is being consistent. There is a little rule | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
that people might lap the field, in the olden days it didn't matter how | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
many points you had, if you Laverty went into the lead, so you could be | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
plus one lap without any points. But now they have changed that, you | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
get 20 bonus points if you lap the field. 5, 3, 2 and 1, if you lap | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
the field you get 20 bonus point. That is described by a nanny was | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
the European champion, a Clancy is doing well. This is what we are | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
expecting from him, use your endurance and printing. He has once | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
breathe rents already -- he has won three sprints already. Where a does | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
fail his endurance, it is about keeping it going. There are other | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
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sprint races to come in this omnium. That is the moment he crossed the | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
line in front to pick up the points. Ed Clancy representing Great | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
Britain in the Omnium. There are 22 laps to go and we can join Chris | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Boardman and Sue Porter. This is a great one to watch as it gets hot | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
tip towards the end. It is one of the most exciting disciplines on | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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the track. There are three more sprints to go. Bobby Lee of the USA | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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comes up to the line. The race is being dominated by a group that | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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gave the field a slip and gained a lap. You get a 20 point bonus. At | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
the moment Ed Clancy is lying 10th. He has picked off three sprints | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
quite cutely. If he finishes 10th in the end in this points raised, | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
his tally will be 11, so it is not a bad start in the opening two | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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events, in six events in all. Lee is also off the front. They are | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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looking to get another lap. This is not a problem for Ed Clancy. What I | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
can tell you and Creswell agree with me, it is a pretty hard Points | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
Race. They have still got the elimination race to come. It is at | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
very demanding discipline, the Omnium. The United States are | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
starting to die. He has been out there for a long time on his own. I | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
do not think he is going to bridge that gap, so he will not gain those | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
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That is their head of the race coming through over the line and it | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
is still Bobby Lee. Bobby Lee has not figured in many springs. He is | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
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below Ed Clancy. But his legs are buckled. He is being overtaken. | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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Clancy is now down into 11th place. The first two points have been | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
claimed on the line. Archibald of New Zealand just about beating | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
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We have got one more sprint to go. These two are persisting, but they | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
are starting to accelerate with the finish inside. Just eight laps | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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Terror well of Spain is very Norman Hansen is also there. Ed | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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Clancy vanishes five points in the concluding sprint. If he could get | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
another five points, it would help him ease his way up. He has read | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
that moved well. He is certainly the strongest sprinter in the group | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
he is in now. Fired more laps to go and one sprint remaining. People | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
find it hard to take on board that he cannot win the race, but it is | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
where he is placed. The final sprint is almost certainly going to | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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The Danish rider is very strong and very deceptive, Norman Hansen. | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
Clancy needs to take a sprint. The final lap. It is Norman Hansen of | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Denmark who has ridden sensationally in this event. He is | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
looking to nail five points and he did that. He is the leader of the | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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We will have to go to countback to decide the overall positions. That | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
has taken Ed Clancy's tally to 18, which will keep him in 11th | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
position. His tally is now 12. We are going to count back now. I | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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think he is still in the lead after two events. Although Norman Hansen | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
with consistency is likely to be challenging as well. He has just | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
won the points raised with 59 points. He was 4th in the time- | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
trials. That makes his tally five. He has got to be the leader. We | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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Unofficially Norman Hansen with a win in the points raised and a very | :18:50. | :18:59. | |
good ride in the time-trial, his tally of points will go up to five. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Unofficially it looks like Norman Hansen could have elevated himself | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
into the lead in the competition. The German is the winner of the | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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Points Race. It is all about the six events and sheer consistency. | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
Two of the six completed and one of the least favourite for Ed Clancy. | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
He is not so keen on the distance races. If it comes down to the | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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single sprint, he has got a good It is looking like the young Dane, | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :20:28. | :21:10. | |
the former world junior champion, Ed Clancy is 5th with 12 points | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
after two events. Apologies for the incorrect graphics. He goes in the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
elimination race at 6:30pm and all this after winning gold in the team | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
pursuit yesterday. He has to get back on the track and ride. You had | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
a lovely night out last night to celebrate the gold medal. How are | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
you feeling? It is still a bit surreal. It is something we have | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
been building up for the last year and all we have been thinking about. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
To finally get here and do it is a great feeling. I do not know what | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
to do now, apart from celebrate. Chat to ours and hang out in here. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
We can have a look back at the moment you crossed the line and the | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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celebrations. An amazing atmosphere, how much did the crowd help? It was | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
unbelievable and when you walked into the stadium, you could feel | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
the buzz of the crowd. Vicky was racing before us and there was an | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
incredible buzz. During the race I could not notice it too much, it | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
was more in the background, we have to focus on what we had to do. It | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
was incredible to cross the line with another world record and it | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
was an unbelievable feeling. long did it take you to realise you | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
picked up the world record? We kind of knew because we were going so | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
fast and we had the coach on the line because he notes the pace. It | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
was like Beijing. We went out and it flowed and it was so fast. I | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
needed a bigger dear, I just could not keep up. You mentioned Beijing | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
and this is your second gold medal in the team pursuit. It is a huge, | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
big medal. How does it compare with the one in Beijing? Definitely the | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
pressure and the expectation around cycling as a whole, it has taken | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
off since Beijing with the likes of Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Cycling is so big these days and living up to that was the biggest | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
challenge. To come here and deliver was great. We want full analysis | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
and in-depth discussions about the celebrations last night. How were | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
they? I do not remember much past 1 o'clock. I were Cup in the hotel | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
with my girlfriend and I could not remember how I got there! | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
cannot remember anything past 1 o'clock, but you will probably | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
remember this moment. Was this you in a kebab shop in London last | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
night feeling hungry? I cannot say more than that, can I? I did not | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
take a bag out with me. Maybe you've found one. I hope it was you | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
because you deserve to celebrate like that. What? With a kebab? | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
After the Olympics in Beijing the whole world looked at British | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
cycling and said, we need to take the fight to these guys and | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
Australia are starting to do that. They have brought their form in. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Last year the Australians won the World Championships, but this is | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
about the Olympics. It is a four- year cycle and these guys have been | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
working strongly together. Geraint has been working on that and | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
finally putting bat to good use and changing back to speed on the track | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
and you can see what they have done. And have you spoken to everybody | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
back in Wales? They were here yesterday and it was nice and we | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
were all out last night as well and it was good to celebrate with them. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
You know the photograph opportunity that awaits you when you get back | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
to Cardiff? What is that? You will have your very own golden post box. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
I did not know that. That is it being painted especially for you. | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
That is quite surreal, but it is nice. If ever there was a reason to | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
post a letter, that is it. Will you stay with us, because we have got | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
the women's pursuit? Of course. There have been fantastic. | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
Unbelievable. They have been doing some good times. Paul Manning is | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
their coach and he seems pretty relaxed and topping them up a bit | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
and we can expect good things. have already seen a couple of world | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
records from them. Do you think we will see another one? It is | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
difficult with the two rides close to each other, but I would put some | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
money on it. I am about to hand you back to suit. We want a photograph | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
with that gold medal. We were had the team pursuit in a few minutes. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
Hopefully another gold medal. I can tell you there is some terrific | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
news from Wimbledon because Andy Murray, he will be facing Roger | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Federer tomorrow for the gold medal, he will be in the mixed doubles | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
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final as well. Laura Robson serves at match point. It was a terrific | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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rally to end on and Laura Robson They are pretty the final of the | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
mixed doubles tomorrow. Gold or silver in the singles, her gold in | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
the mixed doubles, what a performance, what seems at | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Wimbledon, such an enthusiastic crowd on Centre Court cheering | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
another British victory. What a day to look forward to. That is | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
tomorrow. Terrific news. If you want to watch on BBC Three you can | :27:41. | :27:51. | |
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watch the Badminton, the women's singles final. That is the singles | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
final, live on BBC Three. Terrific news at Wimbledon. There may be a | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
couple of gold medals for Andy Murray and Laura Robson tomorrow at | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Wimbledon but we are heading back to the Velodrome. Have you had your | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
picture taken? I can confirm I have. We will | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
hopefully increase the atmosphere in the Velodrome. The women's team | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
pursuit, a brand new event to the Olympics, and tonight the world | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
record breaking, ground-breaking trio are going to go for something | :28:25. | :28:35. | |
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We are all from different backgrounds, it Laura has been | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
cycling since the age of eight, myself, for the last six years | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
professionally. There is just a real variation in backgrounds, age, | :28:48. | :28:58. | |
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life experience. We get on really well. It is more of a family vanity. | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
Dani King is more of a sister to me. Lorette is just crazy, we are | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
sharing a room together -- Laura. We have such a laugh, constant chat, | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
never a moment of silence, having fun, absolutely great, she is | :29:16. | :29:24. | |
fantastic. Laura is probably the loudest. Dani King is bubbly, if | :29:24. | :29:31. | |
you are having a bad day she is the best person to have around. Joe is | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
absolutely amazing, a bit shy compared to Laura. We get on so | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
well, she is always there for support. The same with Wendy. She | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
brings experience, nice to have that as well. We are all pretty | :29:44. | :29:54. | |
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There is a great psychological boost to be the his radiance on our | :29:55. | :30:05. | |
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home soil. Great Britain, a new world record. We rode it really | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
well, that is how we got such a great time. I think the world | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
record will be broken, it will have to be. I am so excited. My team- | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
mates are so good, and as a unit we are going to do really well, it | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
just remains to be seen how well. We have got so much trust in each | :30:26. | :30:33. | |
other it just works. We all have to perform at our best on the day and | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
if we went, hats off to us, but if somebody else beats us, has off to | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
them, congratulations. -- hats off. We're just minutes away from seeing | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
Great Britain against the USA in the women's to pursue final, 24 | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
hours ago Geraint Thomas was out there. Jo Rowsell is making sure | :30:56. | :31:03. | |
she is physically ready for this as well as mentally. You are pretty | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
much thinking about the race, thinking about each turn, you | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
breaking down in two stages, each turn you think about delivering it | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
well and worry about your own job and heads the league the other | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
girls do theirs. This there anything left to be discussed? | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
don't think so, all the hard work, the training, has been done. | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
Everybody knows how to ride it, it is just a matter of staying focused | :31:31. | :31:41. | |
:31:41. | :31:41. | ||
and delivering. The techniques, the tactics, you think the coach is | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
saying every lap is one-tenth of a second every lap feedback so you | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
have to know it down to a tenth of a second how you will ride the 16 | :31:50. | :31:59. | |
laps, or in the case of the women, 12 laps. We can see them gearing up | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
for this. It is worth mentioning Wendy, she was a silver medallists | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
in Beijing. Such is the ferocious power of these three she doesn't | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
get a look-in. It is similar to Andy Tennant as far as the men's | :32:11. | :32:17. | |
team pursuit team, very much part of the team, and imported Kohl but | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
they don't get the chance to ride when it matters. It was unfortunate | :32:22. | :32:30. | |
that he missed out but that is the way it goes. He was a key member, | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
for morale, the training sessions. When I was a bit ill last week I | :32:36. | :32:43. | |
set out and he stepped in and did a great job. It is definitely a whole | :32:43. | :32:50. | |
squad of people, not just those racing on the track. Four years ago | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
in Beijing there wasn't even this event, when they brought this team | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
together and they started training and working towards Olympic glory, | :32:57. | :33:06. | |
how involved were you? With women? Did they can see for support and | :33:06. | :33:14. | |
advice -- do they come to you? talked to us quite a bit, but they | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
have got one of the best coaches, he only won four years ago, still | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
fresh, he knows what to do. Dull staff, the whole system has looked | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
after them really well. All they have got to worry about is getting | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
on the bike and pedalling. Paul has done a great job with the team. | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
Lots of questions coming in on Twitter, asking why one rider start | :33:39. | :33:48. | |
in the gate and the other two don't. Another one of my fact files. The | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
person on the lowest part of the track starts, the other riders | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
cannot start until they do. It is the start gate and automatically | :33:57. | :34:07. | |
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releases the bike. If a rider tries to go before that it is detrimental, | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
it will affect them. If they go after, they will fall off, and it | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
means they cannot jump the start. It is not so important for the guys | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
above because they cannot start to will the person on the bottom | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
starts. You could have a gate, you could have four days but to get | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
that off the track in time before the other team has got round would | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
be complicated. Perfect for, another wonderful explanation. What | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
of people looking for? What is the perfect race? Pretty much getting | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
up to their speed you can sustain for the 12 laps, 16 laps, and flat | :34:46. | :34:56. | |
:34:56. | :34:56. | ||
lining it. It is all about keeping that speed as high as possible. | :34:56. | :35:01. | |
This house without possible. That is what Marquez been explaining, | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
one writer starting in the gate, two of them starting further up the | :35:04. | :35:14. | |
:35:14. | :35:19. | ||
New Zealand. The team of New Zealand is Laura Ellis, Jamie | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
Neilsen and Alison Jacques. For the Netherlands it is Vera Koedooder, | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
Amy Pieters and Ellen Van Dyke. In the previous round the New | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
Zealand's, 3.18 0.514. The Netherlands will have to find | :35:38. | :35:47. | |
somebody here if they are going to challenge to New Zealand team. | :35:47. | :35:56. | |
Alison shanks got them off to a solid start, already in the lead. | :35:56. | :36:04. | |
Moving away. Benevolence settling down to the task in hand, -- the | :36:04. | :36:12. | |
Netherlands. Alison shanks is a powerful rider. She could play | :36:12. | :36:19. | |
quite a significant part in this contest. They are already one | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
second in the lead. You can see a little bit of daylight, it has cost | :36:22. | :36:31. | |
them. The first two kilometres bit, New Zealand are there. -- kilometre | :36:31. | :36:39. | |
split. Ever-so-slightly faster than their opening kilometre in the last | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
round. They are going ahead of their schedule. Slightly quicker | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
than they were perhaps expecting to go. Let's hope they haven't gone | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
out too fast. Nearly two seconds in the lead now. Pretty soon they will | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
be able to see the back of the team from the Netherlands, that is a | :36:58. | :37:08. | |
:37:08. | :37:12. | ||
great incentive. They will start to get some assistance. The contest | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
continues here. It is New Zealand profiting from a good start and | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
they certainly have got the Netherlands now. At I cannot see | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
them pegging them back. kilometre remaining in this race. | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
They are pretty much in the same straight, disaster for New Zealand | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
to lose this, they have got to keep it together. They have got room to | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
:37:51. | :37:57. | ||
spare. 2:16 we five. The perfect spur for the three from New Zealand | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
to try and raise their game in the closing stages. A lot of this about | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
backing up, it being able to ride as fast again in the next race. The | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
Netherlands haven't managed to do that. We are really into the final | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
stages now. New Zealand are going to win this. It means they will | :38:23. | :38:31. | |
finish 5th overall in the competition. Here they come. New | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
Zealand coming up to the line now, let's have a look at the time. That | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
brings them the clash against the Netherlands. The New Zealanders | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
finished 5th overall in this Olympic Games team pursuit | :38:49. | :38:59. | |
:38:59. | :39:03. | ||
images of the starting effort of the Dutch. The bike securely | :39:03. | :39:11. | |
clamped, only releases when the time on the clock runs out. A false | :39:11. | :39:21. | |
:39:21. | :39:23. | ||
start if a right to start before this. -- rider. Two more rides to | :39:23. | :39:32. | |
go. The bronze and the contest for the Olympic title. The Australia | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
just preparing. Getting shots of the British riders. Dani King who | :39:38. | :39:48. | |
:39:48. | :39:49. | ||
is just circus in -- circling in the middle. Joanna Rowsell up there | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
as well. They were just relax before they get called to the line. | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
This is to ride off for the bronze medal, in Australia starting in the | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
home straight. Edmondson, Melissa Hoskins, Josephine Tomich. The | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
opponents in the back straight will be the team from Canada, they have | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
been riding very well, the Canadian trio. There will be Tara Whitton, | :40:15. | :40:25. | |
:40:25. | :40:26. | ||
Gillian Carleton, and Jasmin Glaesser. Australia in the previous | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
:40:36. | :40:43. | ||
round went three with 16 with nine, starting in the home straight. On | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
the right of a screen starting in the back straight, the team from | :40:46. | :40:54. | |
Canada. This is the ride for the bronze medal. The riders but all | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
their weight back and they get the timing exactly right. If you get | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
that wrong it can cost you a lot. It is worth all the training to get | :41:03. | :41:11. | |
it right. You have your momentum moving forward when the gate opens. | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
Canada have started quicker, work for Australia to close the Dow. | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
Still a long way to go. Waiting for the first kilometre at Split. The | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
time doesn't matter, it is all about beating your opponent. It is | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
still cannot get looking good at this stage. The Australians very | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
technically good on the track, great changes, plenty of height, | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
takes a lot of confidence to do that. They look like a well-drilled | :41:39. | :41:49. | |
:41:49. | :42:05. | ||
unit. The Canadians not bad. and went ahead. Canada, 0.18 behind. | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
These are the team as the British thought would be a threat coming | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
into the competition. Australia will be looking to salvage | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
something. They hope to be vying for a gold medal. It is very close | :42:21. | :42:28. | |
between these two teams. As we expected. We knew it was going to | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
be a good fight and that is exactly how it is proving to be. Now Canada | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
are beginning to turn the screw again. They have gone ahead. They | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
are neck and neck at the moment. Australia took the steadier start, | :42:45. | :42:54. | |
that will help them in the latter stages. Canada just trailing. | :42:54. | :43:04. | |
:43:04. | :43:19. | ||
second kilometres split coming up. They are leading by a 0.01. They | :43:19. | :43:29. | |
:43:29. | :43:32. | ||
have just done a monster upturn. It has given Canada the advantage, but | :43:32. | :43:40. | |
it is not over. Australia are not lying down. Just one mistake and it | :43:40. | :43:46. | |
could all be over. It is going to come down to a sprint finish. | :43:46. | :43:54. | |
coach for the Australians is urging his riders to find a little more. | :43:54. | :44:02. | |
We are into the closing laps. It is an nail-biter. It looks like Canada | :44:03. | :44:10. | |
well when the bronze medal. It was so close, on the line. Canada get | :44:10. | :44:19. | |
the bronze medal. What a scrap. They pulled back three-tenths of a | :44:19. | :44:29. | |
:44:29. | :44:30. | ||
second in the final lap. The team from Canada are delighted with that | :44:30. | :44:40. | |
:44:40. | :44:41. | ||
performance. Another 3.17 ride by Canada. Sheer consistency it. The | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
coach for the Canadian team is delighted by that. Australia were | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
the silver medal winners in the world championships earlier in the | :44:50. | :44:57. | |
year. But to come away with a medal you have to put the disappointments | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
behind you and focus with what you have to do. A very good ride by | :45:03. | :45:11. | |
Canada. Australia just a little bit up and down in their pacemaking. A | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
fantastic surge for the line, just left a little bit too late. Nice | :45:17. | :45:25. | |
finishing technique as well. Just listen to the noise here. It is | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
building and building because Great Britain are coming out onto the | :45:30. | :45:36. | |
track. People are on their feet and the flowers are waving and we have | :45:36. | :45:42. | |
not even started. That was the result of the bronze medal right. | :45:42. | :45:51. | |
We now set up the final for the gold and the silver medals. The | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
team is Dani Kane, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell. Joanna Rowsell will | :45:57. | :46:05. | |
get them under way. It would appear to me that they are recognising the | :46:06. | :46:15. | |
:46:16. | :46:22. | ||
situation, cosmetic the, as you set another world record of 3.1 | :46:22. | :46:32. | |
:46:32. | :46:39. | ||
4.682. The Canadians are certainly on form as well. This is the final | :46:39. | :46:49. | |
:46:49. | :46:50. | ||
of the women's 3000 metres team pursuit. The USA have got a good | :46:50. | :46:59. | |
formula. But they are two seconds in areas of the British on paper. | :46:59. | :47:06. | |
Already they have lost 0.7 of a second. An incredible start by | :47:06. | :47:16. | |
:47:16. | :47:16. | ||
Joanna Rowsell. What could happen is if the USA start to fall behind, | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
the Individual Pursuit champion could go to the front and assert | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
her power and it could break up their formation. She is using that | :47:26. | :47:36. | |
:47:36. | :47:41. | ||
power. They are spreading the work. The British squad are ahead and the | :47:41. | :47:49. | |
United States are holding them. Great Britain are not as quick as | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
:47:59. | :48:00. | ||
their world record, but they have put the United States 0.78 behind. | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
Paul Manning is calling them the same schedule, so they are not | :48:05. | :48:11. | |
after a world record. They are going to go just to try and get the | :48:11. | :48:20. | |
gold medal. They really are moving. Little Laura Trott swings up to | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
allow her team-mates to go through. This is a phenomenal ride by Great | :48:24. | :48:31. | |
Britain. They have got a solid lead of two seconds. They do not need to | :48:31. | :48:41. | |
do anything clever. They have spread it more evenly between them. | :48:41. | :48:49. | |
They can almost see the tail end of the American team. They are flying. | :48:49. | :48:55. | |
They have got 2.3 seconds advantage over the USA. What a fantastic | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
sensation this must be in London in front of a home crowd. They can see | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
the opposition in front of them. They are so close to getting a | :49:05. | :49:12. | |
medal. Now they have got the ideal scenario because they can see the | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
Americans. There are now pursuing their quarry. This is the ideal | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
weight to tidy up the team pursuit. They could set another world record. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
They are absolutely flyer and the crowd are getting behind them. You | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
can see the gap. The final 250 metres and Great Britain are the | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
world champions and they are now going to become the Olympic | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
champions or stop they are on fire. Here they come, take a look at | :49:46. | :49:52. | |
their finishing time. Great Britain when the Olympic title and the gold | :49:52. | :49:58. | |
medal and another world record. That means they have ridden the | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
last six events and consecutive league they have posted six world | :50:01. | :50:07. | |
records or stop Dani Kane, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell are the | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
Olympic champions. They have done exactly what the men did. If they | :50:13. | :50:22. | |
go any faster they will need parachutes to show -- slowed down. | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
To break a world record after such a short gap between the rounds is | :50:27. | :50:37. | |
:50:37. | :50:40. | ||
incredible. There we are, the celebrations. That is Laura Trott's | :50:40. | :50:50. | |
:50:50. | :50:51. | ||
Sestak. I remember where the little kids used to ride around the cones | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
to see if they had talent. This little last came from that. She is | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
the Omnium world champion. She will be riding in back later. It is a | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
privilege to be in an arena like this. There is Dani Kane. They are | :51:10. | :51:20. | |
:51:20. | :51:21. | ||
loving it. Milk the moment. What a fantastic experience to have. They | :51:21. | :51:27. | |
have worked so hard for this. They have been so strong. The tears are | :51:27. | :51:35. | |
beginning to appear now, it tears of celebration. Yes, you are an | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
Olympic champion and a world champion as well. You would not bet | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
against a Laura Trott winning two gold medals at these championships. | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
There is Mark Cavendish, a very sportingly acknowledging the | :51:51. | :51:59. | |
performance. And also Geraint Thomas. I wondered where Joanna | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
:52:09. | :52:12. | ||
Rowsell was. Enjoy the moment. What a ride. Analytically, assess it. | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
They're really pressurised the world record and they went under it. | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
They changed the length of that turns and spread the workload | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
around a bit differently. This time they had the advantage of being | :52:27. | :52:33. | |
able to see the team and get some advantage from the slipstream. That | :52:33. | :52:40. | |
visual incentive is what made the difference. 5.67 seconds is the | :52:40. | :52:50. | |
:52:50. | :52:55. | ||
winning margin. These celebrations could go on for a long time. The | :52:55. | :53:04. | |
crowd love it. Look who is there. They are all here watching it. The | :53:04. | :53:14. | |
popularity of cycling is staggering. The number of cyclists is edging up | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
to 55,000. Paul McCartney enjoying the moment with the British flag. | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
We have had royalty, pop stars, politicians, everybody wants to be | :53:25. | :53:31. | |
in the Velodrome. They all want to be part of the cycling action. That | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
was an enthralling event. That transcends the previous calls I | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
have made on these three and that is some statement. Consistent every | :53:45. | :53:52. | |
time. They were nearly three- quarters of a second in the league | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
with en two laps and that must be devastating for the other team. | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
Once they have established that, that is it. That is a huge margin. | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
Forget the schedule, go on, girls, just chase them down. It would be | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
nice to hear what the winning side has to say. They are going towards | :54:17. | :54:26. | |
at Jill Douglas. That is Laura Trott. Many congratulations. The | :54:26. | :54:31. | |
first words used said where, we did it. How do you like the sound of | :54:31. | :54:37. | |
that? World and now Olympic champions? It is mad, I cannot | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
believe it. It has been my dream since I was eight and we have just | :54:42. | :54:49. | |
gone and done it. You said before this was not 18, it is a family. | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
is, we are like sisters and I could not have done it without them. It | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
is amazing. A you talked about getting up to speed and you | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
experienced the wall of noise and it was better than that. He it | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
really was. They were just shirting so loud it spurred us on the last | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
kilometre it will stop six world records in the last six competitive | :55:14. | :55:22. | |
riots. Really amazing. I do not think we expected it. I think we | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
expected it here in one of the rounds, but not in every single | :55:25. | :55:35. | |
:55:35. | :55:38. | ||
ride. Go and collect your medals, I imagine the smiles and the | :55:38. | :55:45. | |
giggles will last for an off a long time. The Fab Three. A remarkable | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
performance. Your thoughts? Incredible, it is the first team | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
pursuit I have watched in a long time. It was just amazing to see it | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
unfold. The atmosphere again is crazy, it is doing my head in, to | :56:00. | :56:10. | |
:56:10. | :56:18. | ||
be honest. Unbelievable, over the Three kilometres, only 12 laps of | :56:18. | :56:25. | |
the trap, they went out, they went the fastest ever the first, to but | :56:25. | :56:31. | |
they kept building. It was incredible. Once you get the other | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
team in sight you will gain more and more. To back that up, it was | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
fantastic. What a start from Jo Rowsell. To go a second quicker | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
your -- then your opponent, that is laying down a marker. A big | :56:46. | :56:52. | |
advantage. Having somebody that can start that fast and be able to soak | :56:52. | :56:58. | |
it up, and keep going all the way to the end, is a massive advantage. | :56:58. | :57:05. | |
She set the goals it really well. - - girls. It is about making sure | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
the tactics work. We saw quite a big change compared to the last | :57:10. | :57:17. | |
round where they were doing much shorter terms. The women do one, to | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
less but they have won riderless. For the many star with four, the | :57:22. | :57:28. | |
women only start with three. You cannot sacrifice somebody, they | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
simply get harder for a shot a rout of time. They have to analyse and | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
set out the tactics. He won the gold medal last night, how good | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
does it feel when it is working like this? It is just a unit. | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
Everybody is thinking the same, you are all on the same page and it | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
just flows. The faster you go, sometimes the easier it gets, | :57:55. | :58:02. | |
smooth things out, an incredible feeling. Paul Wood walking a month, | :58:02. | :58:12. | |
:58:12. | :58:12. | ||
they were on schedule all the way. They have a schedule am not sure | :58:12. | :58:20. | |
what lap splits they would be doing, and he will walk one step away so | :58:20. | :58:29. | |
they know they are a 10th up on schedule. It is pretty precise. | :58:29. | :58:35. | |
That is what all hard work and ours goes to. You can see how much they | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
work together. When they have seen the families they get together, | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
they want to celebrate, it is beautiful. I was nearly crying, | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
good job the camera wasn't on me. There is Paul who knows what it | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
takes to win an Olympic medal and there is Dani King, fist in the air, | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
a huge smile. Is that the moment when it starts to sink in, when you | :58:55. | :59:04. | |
get the chance to celebrate with your parents? It is great having | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
your family there, especially the girls, they are emotional | :59:08. | :59:18. | |
characters. That support for them is amazing, as it is for us. You | :59:18. | :59:24. | |
cross the line, it is strange, it is euphoria, you are happy and | :59:24. | :59:29. | |
excited but at the same time it is weird, is still hasn't sunk in now, | :59:29. | :59:33. | |
to be honest. All the year has been building to that one day and | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
suddenly it is so that you have achieved it, but it takes a while | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
to sink in. You'd better watch out because they are getting quicker | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
and quicker, they will start being the start of the track before long. | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
Ingesting this dynamic and folding. It is not just in here where people | :59:47. | :59:56. | |
are on their feet, there are two and this remarkable new world | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
record and outside. The action is unfolding in the main Olympic | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
Stadium. Hundreds of thousands of people out there. This is what | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
happened to them that the girls crossed the line, picked up the | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
gold medal, broke the world record, you can see the fans watching the | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
big screen, flags in the air. When these Olympic Games for one in 2005 | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
:00:27. | :00:27. | ||
these were shot we dreamt about. were sat in our hotel, we all | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
crowded round a little TV, and to imagine this, imagine our country | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
hosting the Olympics, it is not even once in a lifetime, once in | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
many generations, to bring it to the city, this country, see the him | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
out of people supporting it, it is just beautiful. -- it see the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
amount of people. Every athlete wants to represent this country, | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Dick Brown. We will see the medals being awarded in just a moment. | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
This is just having a snapshot into your lives, where all the effort, | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
all the hard work peeks at this moment. Give us an insight into the | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
effort for the past few years and the girls as well, this remarkable | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
effort to achieve the greatest thing. November we were in a hotel | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
in Manchester, A&E live half-an- hour down the road but we all had | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
:01:33. | :01:35. | ||
to go there, I spent nine months on the road. We were not allowed to go | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
to a Ariana concert. It has been a long year. It was intense. They | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
were on our backs all the way through. To sit here now with this | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
around my neck makes it all worthwhile. We were up at eight in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the morning, two or three times a week, training in the cold and rain | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
in Manchester. Definitely a lot of hard work and easy to forget all | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
that and look at the here and now and when we are going fast but it | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
is good to look back and realise what we have gone through, it has | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
been a long journey. It is worth it though. Definitely. What an amazing | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
day, four gold medals won in this Velodrome. The British love affair | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
with cycling continues. The love affair of this venue, the | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Velodrome, if you have got a ticket you're in for an absolute treat. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Still two days to go and surely more gold medals to come. You can | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
see there are loads of people at the Olympic Park heading into the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
stadium, many in front of the big screen because Jessica Ennis and Mo | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Farah are both going for gold later this evening. We are guaranteed | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
medals tomorrow at Wimbledon with Andy Murray facing Roger Federer in | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
the men's singles final and Andy Murray back on court with Flora | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Robson for the mixed doubles final, because earlier Laura Robson | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
finished it off in style, defeating Sabine Lisicki and Christopher Kas | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
to go through to the mixed doubles final, wonderful scenes at | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Wimbledon. They will face Azarenka and Max Mirnyi or Lisa Raymond and | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Mike O'Brien of the United States. Andy Murray was in tears yesterday | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
when he beat Novak Djokovic. He is into the final of the men's singles | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
and now the mixed doubles final, wonderful scenes on Centre Court | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
today. And after the match they spoke to Jonathan Leverenz. -- over | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
end. What a day. Well done, fantastic. I don't think I have | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
ever been that nervous here at Wimbledon before. Are you feeling | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
that? You are probably not nervous. It is just different. Playing | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
doubles. It is a different sort of pressure but we played really well | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
when it mattered, at the end of the tie-breaks, those nerves there, but | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
we played really good stuff at the end, we deserved to win the match | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
and I am happy we did because if it had gone the other way it would | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
have been really disappointing. person who did pay particularly | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
well is next tee -- play. This must feel, he has already got his medal, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
he has got everything, but for you this is fantastic. It has been | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
incredible. Just to be playing the singles I was pretty happy with | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
that, and before that I thought I was playing doubles and now I am in | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
all three. We are guaranteed a medal, I couldn't ask for anything | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
else. What a feeling to be able to serve it out and hold those big | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
service points at the end of both matches. Yes, for once my serve | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
went in when it mattered. I went for it and we played really well at | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the end of the tie-break in both matches. What were you saying to | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
calm the nerves that Laura understandably must have been | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
feeling. I was just trying to tell her to take her time, when we won | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
the points, says some words she has probably not heard before, but that | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
may be settled us down, relax this. I just really wanted to win, both | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
of us did. A very emotional end to the match but she said great on the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
last two point and gave me a chance to try to take control and that is | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
what we needed to do. Not your average day preparing for a five- | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
set final against Roger Federer. will see, it has been different to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
what I would usually do but I enjoyed today, I have enjoyed the | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
whole event and tomorrow is pretty much the perfect end to the | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
tournament for me. Try and win both. Fantastic. From your point of view | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
I sense really into the whole Olympic fever, how inspired have | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
you been with everything going on the last few days? You have got | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
there just to add to that. I have been watching everything, just | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
before we went on this morning I watched the guys win the rolling. | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
Have elite we will be able to add to that tomorrow. -- rolling. -- | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
rowing. Busy day tomorrow. We are about to hear the national anthem | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
for the 4th time. Let's go back to Hugh Porter. | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
We are looking at the Teme of Canada here. That is Jasmin | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Glaesser, Gillian Carleton and Carole Whitty and who wrote | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
:06:55. | :07:00. | ||
courageously to win the bronze They beat a Australia, they got the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
better of them in the closing stages. Winners of the bronze medal, | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
:07:16. | :07:16. | ||
the team from Canada. That bronze- medal ride off was so fast it was | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
quicker than the United States who got the silver. That just | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
underlines what a fierce contest it was. The winners of the silver- | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
medal art USA and first to get a medal is Sarah Hammer, a four-times | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
:07:40. | :07:47. | ||
world individual pursuit champion, and go into his dog see which -- | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
:07:57. | :08:01. | ||
They have got to be happy with that right. With everything they could, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
there was no way they were going to be the Brits today. The Olympic | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
champions and gold medal winners are the team from Great Britain. In | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
a new world record. They have broken the world record in the last | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
six races that they have taken place in. Dani King first to get | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
:08:35. | :08:37. | ||
her gold medal. And now Laura Trott. And Joanna Rowsell. She plays her | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
way out of the gate, but in the Great Britain team ahead. The world | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
:08:53. | :09:08. | ||
champions and now they are the Ladies and gentlemen, we deeply | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
stand for the national anthem of Great Britain. -- would you please | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
stand. # God save our gracious Queen! | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
# Long live our noble Queen! # God save the Queen! | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
:09:38. | :09:38. | ||
# Send her victorious. # Happy and glorious. | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
:09:48. | :10:04. | ||
# Long to reign over us. CHEERING. Ladies and gentlemen, the | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
Olympic medallists. Wonderful moments, these. The crowd are | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
energised by these performances. There are five more gold medals to | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
be decided. Great Britain are in with a serious chance in all five. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
We have been looking at that while the presentation has been going on. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Five gold medals so far, five more possible, everybody said Beijing, a | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
gold medals, not possible. There is an outside chance, there would be | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
unbelievable. The mud of conversations I have had, people | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
are saying make the most of it. There are still other disciplines | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
as well. We have got Shanaze Reade in the BMX who is one of the | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
:11:11. | :11:15. | ||
greatest BMX riders in the world. Play a Beatles song and having one | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
of the Beatles hear singing it to you, you cannot get any better it | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
:11:29. | :11:41. | ||
than that! Three very, very happily -- happy ladies. Wonderful Saints | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
in the Velodrome. Eight British singing star and three British | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
Cycling stars. Congratulated us to all of them up from us. Danielle | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell. It is important for these | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
three ladies to savour this moment. Building up to the Olympics for | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
four years and they have been working. They have spent so much | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
time away from their families. It has paid off. Laura Trott has still | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
got one more event, she is the world champion in the Omnium. | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
McCartney is enjoying it. You have got your hands on your | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
gold medals and we could say what that meant to you. Absolutely | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
everything. I am just ecstatic it feels amazing, I cannot believe we | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
have done it. And the crowd joining in and Sir Paul McCartney leading | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
the crowd, singing, but he is not the start of the show, your girls | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
have had the stadium rocking like a football stadium. Yes, look at us. | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
I cannot believe we did it. You can believe it because you have been | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
dreaming about this. When did you realise it had become a reality? | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
The last couple of laps we saw them, but you cannot believe it and tell | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
you here began at the end. But I believed in us from the start. I | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
knew we could do it will start just 12 laps of the track as fast as we | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
could. It is all about this gold medal. We know how deep you have to | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
go to get a performance like this. Often you are unwell after you come | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
off the bike, but no problems today. It was the last thing I was | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
thinking about, that was it, we just celebrated, I could not think | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
about anything else. Can you even begin to think about the Omnium at | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
:14:07. | :14:10. | ||
this stage? Now, I'd just keep thinking I am an Olympic champion. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
How wonderful, such joy. Mark and diet are struggling not to make use | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
of these. The atmosphere it is special. You have trained for this | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
event and you have been an endurance rider and you know the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
effort that has gone into this and you know why they are so happy and | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
so proud of themselves. It is hours and hours of drills in a Velodrome | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
and a gymnasium from seven in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Just hours and hours and hours and the same thing getting it | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
repetitively perfect and right and exactly how you want it to go on | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
the day. But making sure that when you get into that one day you put | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
everything you have learnt into practice. They did that and that is | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
why they can be so happy. A It is amazing just to watch it. It really | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
is, I had goose bumps. We have almost forgotten the cycling | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
continues. We heard Laura talking about the fact she has to go | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
straight into the Omnium and that continues today for Ed Clancy. The | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
cycling keeps on coming. The at is what is so nice about track racing | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
will stop it is like being in the stadium for the track and field. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
You have had 1 million people out on the roads on Saturday, but this | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
is more like a gladiatorial sport, at where you can see the athletes | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
in every single part of the race and that is why the big crowds are | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
here. The if you have got a bike and a helmet, grab them and go out | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
for a ride. You will see the continuation of the Omnium on BBC | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Three. It is one of the most dramatic and spectator friendly | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
sports. I am going to hand back to you. It was a wonderful evening | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
last night with Victoria Pendleton, but the mention here today might | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
have just topped off the lot. What a lovely interview. Danielle | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
King, Laura Trott, and Joanna Rowsell, the world champions and | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
the Olympic gold. We are hoping for more success down | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
at Weymouth with Ben Ainslie and Andrew Simpson. They had a day off | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
today, but it has still been very busy doubt at Weymouth. Iain Percy | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
and Anders Hansen are in the Star class and Ben Ainslie in the end of | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
last had a day off. Time to think about their strategy before they | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
battle for gold tomorrow. The FA when seven men and women are hotly | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
tipped to win a medal next week. The windsurfers were also out. Paul | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Goodison has been struggling and today it was make or break. If he | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
was going to keep his medal hopes alive, today he had to deliver. | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Today was the last day for the Laser sailors to make their mark in | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
qualifying for the all-important medal races. Some sailors will be | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
packing their bags and heading home, but the rest will be continuing on | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
their quest for a podium position. Beijing gold medallist Paul | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Goodison has been rest -- wrestling with a back injury. Today he | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
qualified for the medal race final, but he will not be on the podium. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
The Australians are already guaranteed a silver, but for him it | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
has not been his wake. Alison Young has plenty to be proud about with a | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
string of second places and a good medal race could see her inside the | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
top five. But she has too many points for a podium finish. Today | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
the women's match-racing team secured their place in the quarter- | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
finals. Britain so nearly beat the Americans, but it does not matter | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
because they are in the quarter- finals and it is a knockout | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
competitions. Is it a relief to get through the round-robin stage? | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
there is a massive relief and we are all feeling it now. But we | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
start again on Tuesday and today it is a rest day. We have got to move | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
forward. In the women's windsurfing Bryony Shaw is currently 7th | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
overall. A Spanish sailor Leeds. In the men's division there is a | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
runaway leader. He is from the Netherlands and is looking hard to | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
catch. But Nick Dempsey is looking good to finish on the podium. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Great news for Britain, Nick Dempsey has finished in third place. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
I am still in it and I'm sailing well. It is good to be up there, | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
but that gold medal is getting further and further away. I need a | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
special day tomorrow or we will be racing for second. British sailors | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
in two other classes are also in silver medal position. There is | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
something going on in the boat. It is a worry. They have not been able | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
to go full speed. They have not been able to trim the spinnaker. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
The Italians are focused on speed and the British team are focused on | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
something inside the boat. They have lost a lot of ground. It has | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
cost them two places. But they lie second, just two points off the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
lead and they must have confidence about the remaining races. | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
You were in the lead in the second race, but what happened? We had a | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
clear failure. It is something we checked every day, but it came | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
undone and we wasted a lot of time trying to fix it. To come away with | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
a six was excellent damage- limitation. Exactly, that is what | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
it is about. We had to grind out a result as best we could and we did | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
that. We are still in the hunt. Things are still looking good for | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
:20:59. | :20:59. | ||
the men. Tomorrow there is potential for a double gold. | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Joining me is the Olympic team manager Stephen Park. Plenty to | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
look forward to next week and tomorrow. What are you expecting to | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
see tomorrow from Iain Percy and Ben Ainslie? From them we will see | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
them in a relatively conservative race. They have got an eight. Read | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
-- lead. As long as they are close to the Brazilians, they will come | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
away with their gold medal. They will probably be trying to keep | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
their noses clean. With Ben Ainslie, it is going to be a head to head. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Yes, first over the water it well when the gold medal on the Saturday. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
There is an option for the Dutch to play a part, but he is a good few | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
points behind. It will be a battle in that class and we will see some | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
entertainment in the run-up to the race in the pre-start. It will be | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
an incredible battle to watch tomorrow. There were huge crowds, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
but my telephone has not stopped with people wanting to come and see | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
that battle. Yes, the crowds have been fantastic. The noise and the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
atmosphere for our sport have been impressive. Ben is driven to win | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
that gold medal. If I was the Dane I would be shaking in my boots. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
would be. What have they done today? We have not seen them around | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
the venue bulls star of they have been around a little bit, you might | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
not have been looking closely enough. There was a full check over | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
the equipment and they have been looking closely at the weather and | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
the tide for tomorrow and review their own notes. They are also | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
making sure they are fully recovered, refuelling, so they are | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
on top of their game tomorrow. with Team GB lying third on the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
medal table there is every expectation sailing will act two | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
goals. We certainly hope so. Can Ben | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Ainslie become the most successful sailor in Olympic history? What | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
about the cycling. The British team were wondering whether they could | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
equal Beijing. They have already got four medals. | :23:25. | :23:31. |