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Hello from Olympic Park. Great Britain are a dizzying third place | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
in the medals table. Medals are being added at a rate that is | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
making us feel giddy. This afternoon will be keeping a close | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
eye on at least four Olympic venues, for maybe more. All three of Great | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Britain's women's boxers are in quarter-final action at the ExCeL | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
centre and all three could guarantee at least bronze. Three | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
gymnastics medals already for Britain's men so far. Could it | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
finally be Beth Tweddle's turn? She is on the uneven bars final at | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
2:50pm. Silver on horseback for Britain already, now our show | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
jumpers, led by Nick Skelton, go into this afternoon's show jumping | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
in joint second place. From 4:00pm at the Velodrome, Jason Kenny goes | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
for gold in the individual sprint, he has been in scorching form and | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
is hoping to follow in the wheel marks of Sir Chris Hoy. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
We are zipping back to Eton Dorney Lake, the rowers have made way for | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
the sprint canoeists, flat water, flat out for them. Something that | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Tim Brabants has been achieving since he first took bronze in his | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
kayak in Sydney. Then another bronze and gold for the 35-year-old | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
doctor in the 1,000m sprint. He is attempting to become only the 4th | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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man in Olympic history to defend this may be a stretch too far after | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
his injury problems. Coming back well after last year, when he | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
really was in trouble. He is up against some stiff competition. The | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Canadian is the world champion. The New Zealander alongside him. It is | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the first four to go through and the remaining go into the B final. | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
Only in the A final can you compete for the medals. The Canadian again | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
goes out strongly. He has a comfortable lead at the moment. He | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
is looking player at the front. -- Clear at the front. He drives the | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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paddle through the water. The first four go into the A final. The Dane | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
will be someone to reckon with, he looked very impressive in his heat. | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
He is up alongside Brabants. The Canadian did not fade in the heats | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
at all. Each of these paddlers have their own game plan it that they | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
will be trying to stick to, trying not to react too much to what is | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
happening around them as the race unfolds. Tim Brabants is looking | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
controlled at the moment. Most of the noise as they approached the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
stance will be for Tim Brabants but he is beginning to fade as they | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
come up to the halfway mark. Brabants hangs on to the 4th | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
position at the moment. Others are coming up to threaten. A bit of a | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
separation between the first five and the rest. The Canadian is | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
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there and just four automatic places. Van Koeverden Is clear in | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
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first. The noise begins to swell at Eton Dorney. This is where we will | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
expect a break from Larsson, we expect a quick finish from him. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
Brabants is fading a bit more at the top of your picture. Larsson is | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
making a move now. Brabants is down in 5th at the moment. Those four | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
are looking like the four through to the A final. Tim Brabants' | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Olympic reign may be coming to an end. He is nearest to the crowd at | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
the top of your picture. He will hear the noise, it is mostly for | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
him. Van Koeverden Is looking strong for Canada. Behind them, a | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
fierce race is developing. The first four go through. At the | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
moment, Brabants, it is so close between him and the Bulgarians for | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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close. It certainly was, he really pushed it down the last section. I | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
am not sure, it is going to be very tight. Van Koeverden Was | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
untouchable in first place, coming through fairly easily. His main | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
threat it is in the next semi-final, Max Hoff. Tim Brabants is true, | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
look how close it was. -- is through. I don't think he's going | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
to threaten for a medal in the final, but just to be in the final | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
as the defending champion is quite an achievement, with the injury | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
problems he has had with his Through to the final by the skin of | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
your teeth. It was certainly a tough race. I tried not to raise | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
too hard in the heat because there is such a short time between the | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
heat and the semi-final. Normally you have two days. I kind of blow | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
the cobwebs away in the heat. Unfortunately I drew the outside | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
lane. The cross wind comes across from the right hand side. When I | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
saw I had lane one I knew I would have my work cut out. The roar of | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
the crowd is incredible. I didn't know quite where I was in the race, | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
I knew I was in touch. I looked across and saw the Bulgarian guide, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
a very tight race but I am really pleased I made the final. I am not | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
in the Beijing shape but glad to be in the final to try to defend the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
title. How far do you think you are from Beijing shape? It is hard to | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
say, the quality of the K1 is insane. The last four International | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
races has had a different winner in every race. Any guy could went, | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Adam is in fantastic form. I am in the final. Anything could happen in | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the final. I am in good shape. Fantastic, having the support that | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
I have had. You mention that lane one was a negative and you talk | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
about the crowd, the upside was that they roared you on every way. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
It is incredible. You hear the Rose talking about it, they said it was | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
an amazing experience. Being in lane one, I could really appreciate | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
it. The noise is phenomenal. Waiting for my name to come up in | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
the 4th spot, that is fantastic, when my name came up. I saw my wife | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
and my daughter... Your wife missed out on Beijing? It was massively | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
expensive to fly out there and they get more nervous than I do when it | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
comes to racing. It is nice to have my family here. Hopefully your | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
family and this crowd can lift you in the final. Good luck. I hope so, | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
His final is on Wednesday. He says he is not in Beijing shape when he | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
won the gold. But a terrific achievement, at the age of 35. He | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
is in the final once again. We have had huge crowds down there and huge | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
crowds here. You never get tired of seeing a stadium at the Olympic | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Games that is chock-a-block at 10 o'clock am. 80,000 people in there. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
And 80,000 people streaming out and going for a bit of a wander around. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
There were 50,000 people in Greenwich Park, it seems a long | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
time ago, when the three-day event team won their silver medal. That | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
was last Tuesday. Since then the dressage event has got under way | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
and yesterday it was the turn of the show jumpers. Qualification to | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
place with the team that medals to be decided today. Nick Skelton has | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
been riding for Great Britain since 1980, these are his six games. We | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
will be showing you how he fared a little bit later on, but let's give | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
you a quick reminder of what is Equestrian jumping. Jumping is | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
contested in an enclosed arena over a course of 500 to 600 metres in | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
length. There are between 12 and 16 obstacles. They must be negotiated | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
in a specific order. A set time is allowed to complete the course. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Scoring is in the form of penalties for a range of indiscretions. If | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
penalty points are equal, competitors will be separated | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
according to the time taken. It doesn't matter how ungainly a horse | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
or rider may appear. Style is not under consideration in the judging | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
of showjumping. The Olympic showjumping medals will be | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
contested over five rounds in total. The first round his qualification, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the individual competition. The second and third round decide the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
medals in the team competition. The 4th and 5th rounds are the final | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
stages of the individual competition. Consistently clean | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
rounds are the most important element in determining the winner, | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
although time is also of the essence and can become the deciding | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
factor. If you would like to get involved | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
in Olympic sports, go to our The situation after the qualifying | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
rounds yesterday looks good. Saudi Arabia, very surprising they are up | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
there in first position, after an there in first position, after an | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
excellent effort from their team. Britain has not won a jumping medal | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
for 28 years but things look good for Nick Skelton and his team, | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
for Nick Skelton and his team, going in the final round this | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
afternoon. Lizzie green what use is in Greenwich. It is looking | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
exciting and promising, but surprised with Saudi Arabia at the | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
top? It was a surprise. It was not a complete surprise because they | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
have been creeping up the rankings. One of the riders came second in | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
the World Championships two years ago. One of the biggest surprises | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
is that they are at the top with just one fault. There are three | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
countries who are not even through, who you would have expected to. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Considering the pedigree of Great Britain's show jumpers, another | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
surprise. What do you put the lack of medal success down to? It is | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
difficult. British showjumping has been in the doldrums since 1984, | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
the last time they won any medal in the showjumping. The last time they | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
won a gold was in 1952. They won a couple of bronze medals at European | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
level. It is down to the horses. The reason that Saudi Arabia are | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
doing well is that they have quite a lot of money behind them, they | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
have worked very hard, they have enough cash to keep horses in their | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
country. Britain has already lost a horse to the Saudis. We need owners | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
who are prepared to keep their horses. I think showjumping is one | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
of the others competitions to win an Olympic medal. There are 16 | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
fences out there. 32 in total, this is the second round. Every single | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
one of those fences could be the difference between gold and no | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
medal at all. If you look at that building in the background with the | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
pointy roof, number-one Canary Wharf. They say that to win a medal, | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
to complete the team showjumping here at an Olympic Games, every | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
team will have jumped in total, the height of that building. About 300 | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
metres. A lot of fences and a lot of room for error. It has got | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
bigger, it is already pretty big. Apparently the time will be quite | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
difficult to get, we are set for an exciting final day of showjumping | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
here in Greenwich. How many fences will they have to negotiate? It is | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
13 fences, 16 obstacles. Some of the fences are combinations. Nick | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
Skelton, six Olympics, not counting Moscow when Britain boycotted the | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Games. Ben Maher, Nick and Ben have not had a single fence down. They | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
are on joint first place in the individual competition which | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
concludes on Wednesday. Scott brash is on eight faults, Peter Charles | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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has had eight fences down in each We will be back life for that, | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
enjoy. You may remember that history was made with the start of | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
the women's boxing events at the Games. I noted that women's boxing | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
is actually a demonstration event at the St Louis Games of 1904, when | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
the ladies completed in knickerbockers. How times have | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
changed, thankfully. Nicola Adams starter campaign today. The world | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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silver medallist takes on petrol or Nicola, a two-time world medallist. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
I was 13 years old, and I wasn't nervous at all. I just wanted to | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
get in there. It all started off with Nicola coming down to the gym | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
with me. Was it your intention to take it to a boxing session? No, I | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
didn't even realise they had boxing. She went off and did her own thing. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
I knew she wouldn't get her and, because there were trainers and | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
coaches there. It was something for the kids to do. It is very | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
expensive, all of the equipment, so it hasn't been easy. To do a's -- | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
the days of boxing be Olympic sport for men only are over. Women boxers | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
will be able to compete at the Olympics. I think if women want to | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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I wasn't very interested in women's boxing, I didn't like to see girls | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
getting hit. But I could see the determination in the girls. Within | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
18 months, we had five in the world's top 10 at their weight. In | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
2008, European Championships, we got seven medals. How do you feel | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
about women's boxing now? I love it. She has got this amazing smile, a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
slight frame. She doesn't strike you as someone you would associate | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
with boxing. Exactly. She has flat feet, so she wouldn't be a runner. | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
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There was a time, not so long ago, when it was nearly all over for you. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
I had a really serious back injury. I was in bed for three months, | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
which is frustrating, because I was such a get-up-and-go person. The GB | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
selections were going on, and I couldn't train. I went from being | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
able to do 300 sit-ups a day to not being able to do one. Did you think | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
this was it the you? I thought that a few times. When I started | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
punching a game, I was so slow and a bit overweight. I saw everybody | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
on the GB team, flying up and down. I thought, I can never get back to | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
how I was before. I said to the coaches, am I ready to come back at | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
this level so quickly? And they said, yes, you can do this. She was | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
to become Olympic champion world champion, so she works hard. It is | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
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because of the Nicolas that the I have been boxing for so long, and | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
I have won a lot of tournaments. The European Championships, getting | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
old, and a silver medal at the worlds. I couldn't have asked for a | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
better career. And what would it mean to have an Olympic gold medal | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
about there. I would give that Olympic medal a whole shelf! I knew | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
I was up against it. The five-time world champion. I thought, this is | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
my dream, this is my time, and the bell went and I went out and did | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
the business! Talk me through the moment you knew you had qualified | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
for the Olympics. I can't describe it. All the hard work, the tears, | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
the ups and downs, it was all for that moment. I think Nicola has got | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
the brightest smile in boxing. We will see her fighting live later | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
this afternoon on BBC Three. Quite a weekend in the Olympic Stadium, | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
wasn't it? And Golden Globe for the Olympics on Saturday, and a silver | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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lining yesterday in the women's little out of the blocks, but is | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
quickly up. And that is a fast start from the American. And so is | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Christine Ohuruogu, writing this from the beginning. The Russian | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
goes past Sanya Richards-Ross, but Christine Ohuruogu has really | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
attacked this first 200m. DeeDee Trotter is trying to get into this, | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
but Christine Ohuruogu has a chance here. There are five or six of them | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
here. DeeDee Trotter is coming through, and Christine Ohuruogu is | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
coming again. Can she get it this time? Will she make it? Sanya | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Richards-Ross takes the gold. Christine Ohuruogu, a Stirling, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
sterling effort to get the silver. For a moment, I thought it was | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
going to happen all over again, just like four years ago. But Sanya | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
Richards-Ross is a worthy champion. She is a great 400m runner. And of | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
the silver to Christine Ohuruogu. What can you say about Christine? | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Every time, saves her best for the Olympics, for the World | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Championships. Forget all the other races, this is the one that matters | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
to her, and she gets the best out of herself again. Only ever runs | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
under 50 seconds in major finals. A remarkable run for her, but hats | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
off to Sanya Richards-Ross. The overwhelming reaction? I was | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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stunned. I was... I just... I was heartbroken, actually, I really was. | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
To have... To lose your title like that, it was tough. But Sanya is a | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
worthy competitor, and she ran a good race. I have to be happy with | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
what I got. It could have been worse. It looked like it could have | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
been Beijing all over again as you charged down that straight. I know, | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
but I tightened up. I could feel my shoulders lifting. It is really | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
hard to control when you are under fatigue. I thought I had more time, | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
but the line came too soon. I always came here for one thing only, | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
to continue my reign as Olympic Cham -- champion, so I am a bit | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
Well, it was a pugnacious attempted to a title. You said last night | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
your heart broken. 15 hours later, have you revise your assessment? | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
Yes, I did a lap of honour afterwards, and just seeing how | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
proud the people were of May, it kind of brought home that even | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
though I didn't get gold, it was like having your family out there. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
I probably any new a small percentage of them, but it really | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
felt special to have everybody cheering you on regardless of how I | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
thought I did. And on the podium, everyone still waiting behind to | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
watch me receive my medal, and to have them all there was really | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
special. In years to come, people will ask you to do seminars on how | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
to save your best for major championships, and use the rounds | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
to your advantage. How do you do it? It is not something I do. I | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
wish I could run a lot faster and set myself up, but it just never | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
happens. This year was a bit unusual because I lost a lot of | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
ground, so I was in effect starting a game try to learn the 400 rhythm | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
again. The 400 is not just about having speed or endurance, it is | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
about being able to learn your rhythm. I would like to going | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
running faster, but it is never the case. You just have to go into the | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
championship, and I know that once I'm in there and I have three days | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
to work, I invariably work, and it always works out. It does, because | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
the three times you have run under 50 seconds have been in the | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
absolute key moment that you needed to! Yes, and I am glad that I have | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
that skill and I know how to get my body to work and how to be able to | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
operate under that kind of pressure. Looking back on the race, is there | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
anything you would, could, should have done differently? I don't want | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
to come out and say would, could, should. But the top bend, I think I | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
got a little bit lost, I remember just blinking and then seeing the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
whole world in front of me, and I thought, not again. It was almost | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
like a repeat, but I was on the outside. I think being far out in | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
lane eight, it was a lot harder to judge, because you are so far from | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
what is going on. But I think maybe I lost a little bit of focus coming | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
into the top, maybe it was a little bit of apprehension that the race | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
was going to be over soon. I think maybe I could have started my prep | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
for the home straight a lot earlier, which are neglected to do. That | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
might have got me my gold. Everybody was delighted with silver, | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
and the way you ran it was huge. Yes, me and my coach went back | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
afterwards, and they think we can say that I'm happy with it. There | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
is always more I am learning about the four, and there is always more | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
I am learning, so there is always more to do. The whole atmosphere of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the Olympics, which has overwhelmed many people so far, didn't really | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
hit you until you stood on the podium itself. You looked | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
overwhelmed at that point. What was going through your mind? A think | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
that was the first time I allowed it to sink in. All the other times | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
I was competing, I had to just focus on what I had to do. I knew | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
if I got too emotionally wrapped up, it would be to my detriment. Other | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
people can handle that, but I don't handle the excitement very well in | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
terms of not allowing it to affect my performance, so I was just | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
trying really hard to focus on my job. There was only the first few | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
days, I had loads of time afterwards to soak up the | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
atmosphere. And had you wanted to, you could have jogged home. You're | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
from about a mile away! Yes, I spoke to my mum and dad, and they | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
walked home from the stadium. Which is quite funny. It is really weird. | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
I am just so proud of the whole thing. And this is always going to | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
be my area, it is where I was born and raised. In which case, you look | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
at what is here, and you have seen this develop over the last seven | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
years. What is it doing to your community, and what you hope it | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
will do? I hope ultimately that we will continue with the spirit of | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
the Olympics. If it is something that people can use to pull them | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
together and to continue to move the community for what, I think | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
that is great. It is great to have that, especially for the youngsters | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
that grow up here and can go back to school in September and say, I | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
was at the stadium. And they experience all this, this is just | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
something that I don't think any of us could have imagined would happen | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
when we were growing up. I really couldn't have seen this happening | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
as a child growing up, never. it is not finished. 4x400m. Yes, I | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
have got one day off, and then I get back into training tomorrow, | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
hopefully I will meet up with the girls, and it looks good. From what | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
we saw yesterday in the final, I think we really have a good chance. | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
I just want to finish by taking you back to about a year ago. When you | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
qualified, you came off the track and you told everybody, I am broken. | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
And 12 months on, a silver medal at the Olympic Games. How did you fix | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
it? And what are you going to do now? Coming back from debut was one | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
of the biggest shocks I have ever had. It wasn't so much the | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
disqualification, but how the wind. It was one of the hardest years I | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
have ever had. With the injury, and then Crystal Palace where I | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
finished last, and then me and my coach had three weeks to try to | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
turn it round, and we trained until the last moment, managed to get a | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
400m run out of me, and then to know that we did all that work and | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
get disqualified in the first round, it just compounded about fortune on | :29:20. | :29:28. | |
top of bad fortune. But I went back to work, and I love what I do, so | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
going back to training was never a problem. It was just a matter of | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
believing in what I have and believing in my face and keeping | :29:37. | :29:46. | |
everything together. -- believing in my faith it is an amazing | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
comeback story. Before you go, can we have a look at this? I should go | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
and get my Beijing one from home as well. Yes, you could just go | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
clinking around the park. Yes, this is like gold to me. It is like gold | :30:05. | :30:15. | |
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to ask, too. Lovely to see you, It is getting tense and twitchy in | :30:19. | :30:29. | |
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the traditional indoor version of The key moves within a phase of | :30:32. | :30:41. | |
play are the surf, the pass, the set, the spike, the block and the | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
dig. There are two main types of serve. The jump serve is an | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
overhand smash that generates power. The float serve is hit without spin, | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
making the flight of the ball unpredictable and hard to read for | :30:59. | :31:06. | |
the opponents. The pass is used by the player receiving the ball from | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
a service, and is an attempt to pass the ball to the team's setter. | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
The set is where the player positions the ball, enabling their | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
team to attack. The spike, also known as the smash, involves | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
players hitting the ball over wrong, in an attempt to finish a rally and | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
win a point. The block is -- involves fund -- front court | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
players attempting to block the ball at the net, in order to win a | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
point for their team. The dig is a defensive move, and is used when | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
players receive the ball after a spike. Athletes will do whatever it | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
takes to keep the ball off the floor, sometimes in spectacular | :31:54. | :32:04. | |
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We are offering the men's competition now, Russia against | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
Serbia, who need to win this final group game to progress to the | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
middle stages. Serbia have never won a medal in their history, they | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
thought Novak Djokovic would be the man yesterday but he was not to be | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
at Wimbledon. Russia won the first two sets. It is 19-18 and | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
commentary comes from Jonathan commentary comes from Jonathan | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
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serve, which completely went off the top. It almost disappeared | :32:51. | :33:01. | |
:33:01. | :33:26. | ||
stage left. He looks like he was change -- take a bow. The was it an | :33:26. | :33:36. | |
:33:36. | :33:55. | ||
ace? It was, what a great serve. needed to be playing all day, wipe | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
it off the top of the block. These are good serves. It is so easy to | :34:01. | :34:11. | |
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say it. Again, testing those in the mountainous one. Both of the | :34:25. | :34:35. | |
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players, nice and tight together. In the end to, it was killed. | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
going crosscourt the whole time. His approach was crosscourt, is | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
facing crosscourt, I am not sure why. At the last moment, the | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
Russian blocker dropped his hands to the right to try to take the | :35:17. | :35:27. | |
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shot away. It had already gone too he was trying to do a familiar | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
:36:16. | :36:22. | ||
ball coming towards him and the Russian blogger getting up there. - | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
- the Russian blocker. That was way along. The Russians are quite happy | :36:32. | :36:41. | |
to just trade points. Another step closer. Three more and it is match | :36:41. | :36:51. | |
:36:51. | :36:51. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :36:51. | :37:32. | |
Russia, dig, said, Spike, take that they were doing, they had | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
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The big man. -- he stirs himself. We have not seen the number 18 at | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
all. I believe he has only played in one game so far. It could be | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
that Russia are keeping their cards close to their chest. It is a treat | :38:12. | :38:20. | |
to watch him, he is really natural and sharp. That so much point. -- | :38:20. | :38:29. | |
that his match point. We have played for 69 minutes. Russia, a | :38:29. | :38:35. | |
number two in the world, the bronze medallists four years ago, are | :38:36. | :38:45. | |
:38:46. | :38:50. | ||
They have been a different proposition since the number two | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
has come on. There has been freedom and enjoyment about his play. | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
doesn't have anything to prove, because the team is normally | :38:59. | :39:09. | |
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struggling when he is brought on, He started with the first serve, he | :39:41. | :39:49. | |
has finished with the final shot. It is 3-0 to Russia. Serbia are out | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
of the Olympic Games. Because they needed to win to pressure Germany. | :39:56. | :40:05. | |
But Russia stride on. While we wait to watch the USA against Tunisia, | :40:05. | :40:15. | |
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nonsense, no messing. In particular, the performance of the knee high | :40:31. | :40:41. | |
:40:41. | :40:52. | ||
laugh, 86% efficiency with his to the camera and the crowd. The | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
big man did the damage in the first set, and then left. There is | :40:56. | :41:06. | |
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and they go out. The European Serbia are out. Great Britain's | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
volley ball as also know they are going out but they have one last | :41:22. | :41:29. | |
game against Argentina at 4:45pm. You cannot catch up with that and | :41:29. | :41:39. | |
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The BBC is covering the 2012 Olympics like never before. Whether | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
it's on TV, online, on the radio or through your mobile. We'll make | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
sure you never miss a moment of these historic Games. On BBC One, | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
we'll be broadcasting from Breakfast right through until one | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
in the morning. Whilst BBC Three will be showing live action | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
uninterrupted from nine in the morning to 11 o'clock at night. | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
We'll also be showing more sports on the red button. Just click to | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
see what's available. And the BBC websites will cover up to 24 live | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
streams of every event. Go to bbc.co.uk/sport to see our new | :42:11. | :42:17. | |
interactive sport player. We'll have every session of every sport | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
every day live. On the website, you'll find a page for every | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
athlete, sport, venue and country as well as all the news as it | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
happens. If you're on the move, you can access the latest news through | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
our new Olympic app or on the BBC mobile website. And you can listen | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
to all the live coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live | :42:37. | :42:47. | |
:42:47. | :42:52. | ||
Olympics Extra, the new Olympics station. And if you've got a 3D TV | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
and you want to see the Games in 3D, you can. We'll broadcast daily | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
highlights on the BBC HD Channel as well as live coverage of the | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
ceremonies and the 100m final. London 2012 on the BBC. We've got | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
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You can go to Weymouth and Portland now. The end of the women's medal | :43:15. | :43:24. | |
race in the Laser class. Bennett will be the laser for men. Paul | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
Goodison has had problems with his back -- then it will be the laser. | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
Paul Goodison will not be defending his title. At 2:50pm it is the time | :43:37. | :43:43. | |
for Beth Tweddle on the uneven bars. She has won everything, it is the | :43:43. | :43:48. |