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Welcome to Olympic Park if you weren't with us on BBC1 a moment | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
ago, the news is Britain has another gold medal, their 17th at | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
lopped 20 twelve. It was won by the team show jumping team in a | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
thrilling jump off against the Netherlands and there was a bronze | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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for Beth Tweddle in the gymnastics. Las bronze for Nicola Adams in the | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
boxing. She won her quarter finals. So plenty of success and maybe more | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
in the velodrome. Let's rejoin Jake. We're hoping for more success. One | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
newspaper described this place as the medal factory. It may stamp out | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
a new medal. We're going into what could be the final race for the | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
men's sprint. It is Jason Kenny against Gregory Bauge. What would | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
Jason be thinking about now? You can't have two riders who know each | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
other better. Yes I guess it could come down to who is the most | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
composed. I think Kenny has better legs than Bauge just now. We work a | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
lot with the sigh Coll skrist, I did a lot. -- psychologist. You're | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
not thinking about the podium and that medal. He is has -- he has one | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
more race. He will be thinking one lap at a time and get this guy into | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
the position I want him to be. You are not thinking about outcomes. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Wen you do that, it puts pressure on you and you're not thinking what | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the world or Britain is thinking. You're thinking right here and | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
right now. Whether its you against the best in the world on the tour, | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
or whether in here when you're in an undue rans event, how much are | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
you tailoring what you do to your specific opponent? A lot of people | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
do look at the other opponents. But I don't. In unDee rans racing you | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
shouldn't. -- endurance racing. Track sprinting a lot different. I | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
have been one to say I don't understand why you base your | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
tactics around beating somebody else. That is what happened in the | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
road race. I have always been, we will have a plan and if we execute | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
it we should win. You're wondering why the crowd are roaring, still | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
work out who will make it through to the final of women's sprint. The | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
men's sprint is a tiet that will Chris Hoy picked up in the last | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Olympics. How do you think Kenny has dealt with the pressure of | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
being chosen ahead of Chris Hoy. is very laid back and calm. Even in | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
Beijing, I was impressed with him. He wasn't faezed -- fazed. As a | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
senior athlete, you have so much exposure to other events you start | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
the build up emotional baggage. With Jason there is not that. He | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
just shows up and rides his bike. He is very well compose and can get | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
together and focus on what he needs to do. I don't think he worries | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
about kwhra people say. Can I tell you a story about him in Beijing. | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
We threw home and he lent me one of his medals so I could get an | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
upgrade on the flight! Well they come in handy. So it is Kenny | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
against Bauge. We have spoken about Bauge, now Bauge, he is a multiple | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
world champion. He has the making of Kenny in this second heat? | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
here today, don't think so. It will be close, but GB are good at | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
perfecting what we call the taper, that final phase of training. They | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
just seem, we always seem to get the edge. At the World Championship | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
in the team sprint, France was half a second quicker than us. With | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
turned that around half a second for the Olympics and it is | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
reflected here with other performances by GB. Even myself I | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
didn't predict anywhere near the performances that we have seen from | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Britain. So whatever they do and put in the water, it works. They | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
have done well. To make it clear, the main course here is Jason Kenny | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
against Gregory Bauge for the gold medal in the men's sprint. But | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
before that, we will give you starter. This will be interesting. | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
Phillip is taking on the Australia Perkins. A gutsy performance from | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Phillip in the first heat. Can he do something? I think so it was | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
kind of close. He is being himself. He is brave. He is and again he is | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
very talented. Some people have it and some people get it. Sprinting | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
is very hard to learn and you either get it or you don't. Njisane | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
got it and he is only 21 and he will develop and get better and | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
faster. This is the fight for the bronze. The riders are preparing | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
themselves. Now it is all about man versus man. In a moment Jason Kenny | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
will go for gold. But first we will tpwiend out who will get the bronze. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
So over to your commentators. Top top Njisane Phillip with a problem. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
He has got to win this to take it He has got to win this to take it | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
to a decider. Let's hope his coaching will reflect and he is not | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
carrying a legacy of doubt, having been beaten by the Australian in | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
race one. Best performance by far from the rider from Trinidad. He | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
has mixed wit the best here and shown he is a worthy finalist. Per | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
-- Perkins, very strong in that last round. He needs to try and | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
control the Australian. But Perkins has so much experience. It is hard | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
to know what he can do. Roger Gibbon was their great sprinter in | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
the 60s. This man is a successor to those riders. Australia have won | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
gold medal in the competition with Ryan A by a -- with Ryan Baillie in | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Athens. Can Perkins get a bronze here? They're not hanging around | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
and Njisane Phillip looks like he wants to get on with this. And he | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
caught hip napping there and Perkins saw the door open and the | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Australian has gone down the inside and committed himself. The man from | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
Trinidad was caught. That gap won't be closed. Njisane cannot do it. | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
Perkins salutes the crowd and the bronze is his. And in a quick time. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Njisane Phillip has tired a bit as the competition has gone on. | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Consistency is a big part of it. Perkins rode well there. Totally | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
commuted -- committed with three quarters of a lap to go. Even then | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
he looked back and he wasn't going to let himself be used as a carrot. | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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It was a great ride. Jason Kenny I can tell you is already out, being | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
strapped in. Just in the well of the track, ready for race two. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Bauge as well. So they will will be coming up to take their positions | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
on the line as we just, that was where the victory was underpinned. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
The door opened and Perkins went for it and there was no man Njisane | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
Phillip could close that gap down. The applause is ringing out now. As | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
out on to the track come the two gladiators who will fight this out | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
in race two. Bauge with a mountain to climb, because Kenny is brimming | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
with confidence and he won race one comfortably. They will have to with | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
wait for Shane Perkins to go. On the other side of the track, he is | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
celebrating. Kenny, yes, he can win. Having seen him in the first race, | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
I think that I'm inclined to agree. There is the face of Bauge. He must | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
be thinking what a cheek to intrude on my turf, I'm the triple world | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
champion. But he knows he is racing against a terrier, 24-year-old | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Kenny from Bolton.Less looking to continue the gold rush and the | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
crowd, it is absolutely packed to capacity and on the banking | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
everyone is standing to get a good view. I was going to say standing | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
room only. But there is no standing room left. It has beeny night. But | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
somehow we have more people here tonight. This is it. Doubt is not | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
an option and they cannot have any doubt in their minds now. Kenny | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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leading it off. If he can win this it is two strait and he is the | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
Olympic champion. This is what makes the nerves jangle, believe me. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Conditiony just keeping an eye out on -- Kenny just keeping an eye out | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
on Bauge, this big Frenchman. certainly not out of it. He is | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
still in fantastic form here. Kenny knows it. He will take some | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
controlling. But that last round, I was surprised at the pace of Jason | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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Kenny. Completed the final 200 metres at 70 kilometres an hour. | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
Listen to the crowd. Skhr the coach just shouting something to Keny -- | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
to Keny I -- shouting something to Kenny. Now into the back straight. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
One and a half laps to go. Will Kenny take Bauge on from the front. | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
Is his confidence that much? But a lap and Kenny with one lap to go. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Standing between him and the gold. Bauge trying to come up. He is not | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
going to do it. Kenny has got the head of race and Bauge won't take | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
it. Hen erKenny is the champion and wins the gold and he won it in | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
style with fantastic confidence. So lack at this, the celebrations | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
unfolding and Bauge had no answer at all to Jason Kenny. Silver in | :12:03. | :12:13. | |
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Beijing, gold in London, what a handing over of the mantle. He is a | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
triple Olympic gold medallist. That is his second gold medal here. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
Great Britain continue to hoover up the golds. A brilliant performance | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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by Kenny. He salutes the crowd as he rolls around. But he rode with | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
so much confidence. Here is a chance to see the images. Fan it is | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
aically - fantastically powerful. Bauge had nothing. He had tired | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
through competition and that is one thing you have got to be able to | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
sprint time after time. Kenny just looks as sharp as he did when they | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
came in. He knew he had got it there with 100 metres to go. There | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
is the coach going wild! So Kenny moves and carves his name into | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
sporting mystery. He becomes the second British man to win the gold | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
medal in the Olympic games for the sprint. The first Sir Chris Hoy in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Beijing. The second Jason Kenny. Here he is and the celebrations now | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
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begin to unfold. The sixth gold for the GB cycling team. Is they're | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
following on from Beijing. They said it wouldn't be possible to | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
replicate that kind of performance. Well Keir think British team wasn't | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
listening. -- well clearly the British team wasn't listening. | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
Bauge bemused by the speed of Kenny. He is on record as having ridden | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
the fastest second lap ever in the team sprint. Here, my goodness me, | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Ken Yip at his best. I remember comebt Taiting on him when he was a | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
world junior champion. Now he has got three Olympics golds. It was a | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
huge margin on the line. Yes at this level. I thought he would have | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
to fight hard with Bauge, but well, in the end he dominated. There we | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
are. They acknowledge each other's sporting ability. And Gregory Bauge | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
knows that he met a better man here in London. Celebrations will go on | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
long into the night here. Every time they leave the arena, the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
masses of crowds are all carrying the flags and celebrating and the | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
talk as you leave as well in the station is all about the cycling | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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achievements. But Jason Kenny is talking with his legs. Clearly was | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
talking with his legs. Clearly was looking a bit hot. | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
Another gold medal for Team GB, the sixth gold medal for cycling. Jason | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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Huge congratulation. That was a spectacular piece of sprinting. So | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
much expectation coming into this - how does it feel to deliver? It is | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
amazing. Like you say, I hadn't even thought about it until the | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
final round, and then it suddenly dawned on me. Knowing you have | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
someone on the sideline who definitely would not give that | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
second sprint away. I was really pleased to deliver for the team. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
silver medal in Beijing, then after that ride Chris Hoy said this is | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
the man who will win in London, and he also predicted he would set such | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
a fast qualifier. Is he Mystic Meg? I am beginning to wonder. He is | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
losing his touch on Usain Bolt, didn't give him a fast enough time. | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
You look like you are in the form of your life. We always looked | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Gregory Bauge would be the man to beat but you didn't even need to | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
take him to a third ride. We were really close once again, but in the | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
world championships he has been a slightly faster rider for start of | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
their I qualified, or three days ago I qualified quicker so I am | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
pleased with that. I like racing against Gregory Bauge, it is always | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
an exciting race so I am really pleased. I will let you go and | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
collect your third gold medal. Congratulations to Jason Kenny, the | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
third gold medal of his career. Jamie, you shed the team sprint | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
with him four years ago - your emotions watching that unfolding? | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
He deserves it. Just looking at his character, when you see him being | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
interviewed he is quite laid-back, but when he puts the helmet on he | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
turns into a different person and it is also under siege. He is a | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
fighter on that track, and he will not give anything away. The time | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
trial gives a lot away. Even two tenths difference between you and | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
your opponents shows what is ahead and he was clearly faster. Gregory | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
Bauge threw everything he had. you really believe he didn't think | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
about becoming the Olympic champion until just before he got on the | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
bike? I don't know, I actually believe him to be fair. You can | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
imagine how much energy it took out of him just fighting for his | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
position with Chris. If you start thinking about an event after the | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
one you are going for any way - he had to do the team sprint - it will | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
compromise that. You have to shift your focus, and the more nervous | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
energy you have, the more you are thinking about it, the more energy | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
you are losing. You have to shut off your emotions. We talked about | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
the fact British cycling were back into a corner after their dominance | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
in Beijing, the rules changed so you could only have one rider in | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
each competition, and as we take a look at this final ride it is worth | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
pointing out to people that it came down to the two best sprinters in | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the world. Gregory Bauge is so good at this event. If it had been the | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
old rules, you would have seen Chris and Jason at it again, and he | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
really deserves it. Gregory Bauge has been around quite a while, | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
probably six or seven years at this level so he is very experienced and | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
strong. Team GB just has a way of performing on the day. Already, | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
other nations, Germany have started asking questions about where this | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
has come from because we are dominating once again. We have | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
picked up a medal in everything except one event in the Velodrome | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
and it was not expected because Great Britain slipped back in the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
intervening years since Beijing but it is about having form at the | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
right time. That's right, looking at the endurance rides we came back | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
and it was close even at the World Championships this year. We came to | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
the Olympic Games here in London and they have hit it on the head. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
They saved everything they can - all the equipment and everything | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
has been saved to use here and they have performed. We know that Great | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Britain have superbly equipment, and Chris Boardman makes sure they | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
keep one step ahead of the opposition, but this was as much | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
about stunning riding on a bike as much as the equipment. Absolutely, | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
it is probably frustrating because some of this equipment has not been | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
out of the cupboard for four years, like these wheels. There has been | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
some development recently with new handlebars, New cranks. We are | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
talking about such minuscule gaining here, but it can help. If | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Jason can get on to that line knowing he has the best bike in the | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
world, even if maybe it isn't, he thinks that. The equipment, the | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
helmet, the clothing, you have so much confidence. Chris Hoy has been | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
nicknamed Mystic Meg, and he said four years ago Jason Kenny would | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
win this medal. His Olympic experience is far from over. Here's | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
24 years old, he was 20 in Beijing. A lot of the guys here, they were | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
younger than 27 but looking at Chris Hoy, you look at how many | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
Olympics he has done and Jason can carry on and do that, I'm sure. | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
you think this is the sweetest gold medal for him so far? I think so. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
He will be proud of that. Gregory Bauge said he would rather race | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Chris because he is a true champion so I know there was a bit of | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
vengeance. Come on, he has three gold medals. You can't claim he is | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
not a real-world champion. It is maybe a slightly bitter Gregory | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
Bauge talking their because Great Britain have won a gold medal once | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
again. This is dominance. We have had seven events and Great Britain | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
have picked up medals in six of them, five gold medals and one | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
bronze. It is far from over yet. We still have Chris Hoy to go in the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
keirin, Victoria Pendleton in the sprint, and the omnium with Laura | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
Trott. If you are fresh to track cycling, the omnium is all about | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
having six events and being consistent as possible. At the end | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
of those events, having the fewest number of points. Laura Trott | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
dropped behind Sarah Hammer of the USA, so this is the elimination. It | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
is a real crowd-pleaser. For those new to this, what is it about? | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
elimination race is as simple as it is an elimination race. He will | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
have already done that joke once. Every two laps is a sprint, and the | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
last person gets taken out of the race. They keep whittling them down | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
until there are two girls left and they sprint for the wind. May have | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
a little box on their handlebars that will light up when they are | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
out of the race. It used to be in the old days it was a bit confusing, | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
people wouldn't go out, and it affected the result but now they | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
Arabic more on it. It is as simple as that. What now expecting from | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
Laura Trott? She is good at this event so she enjoys it. She is | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
light, she has good acceleration, so I think she will be fine. I | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
would be surprised if she was not would be surprised if she was not | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
left in the top three at the end of this race. On her way to becoming | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
the world omnium champion. We have seen so much excitement in the | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Velodrome, but even after picking up the gold medal for Jason Kenny, | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
I think there is more to come. Keep an eye out for Laura Trott. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
She is a real crowd-pleaser and she excels in the elimination race. You | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
have to concentrate on the back of the race and not the front because | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
it is the last rider over the line that is eliminated. The place not | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
to ride in the event is at the back because you are expending too much | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
energy. The place to ride is like Tara Whitten at the front. Gonzalez | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
of Venezuela has the red light flashing, and that tells her that | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
she is eliminated. Up they have only 30 seconds of riding between | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
these eliminations and that is why it is fast. It is really hard for | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
the riders at the back. They have got to come a long way round. The | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
rider at the back is clearly carrying fatigue in her legs after | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
the points race. I reckon she just about survive because it looked | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
:26:16. | :26:17. | ||
like Williams, No. 14, on that occasion. Williams is the | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
representative from Colombia, 34 years of age. Laura Trott in the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
middle of the field can write this from the back or the front. She has | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
very good tactical awareness. She really gave a fright at the World | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Championships. She did. This time on the line, it looked very much to | :26:42. | :26:51. | |
:26:52. | :26:54. | ||
me like Lee of China. She is out. We see a bunch of bodies, Laura | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
Trott sees opportunities to move forward. She is in a comfortable | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
position now. She went through gaps in Melbourne that were not there, | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
and we were holding our breath. Sharakova is sitting at the back at | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
the moment, and Laura Trott is comfortably in the wheels. The | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Colombian that I feel should have been eliminated... His showing on | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
our images that she was but the judges have got 10 seconds to make | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
a call. This happened in the race with Ed Clancy, and they made a | :27:32. | :27:41. | |
couple of errors that affected the medals table. The Polish Rider it | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
is still sitting at the back and she surely can't last much longer | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
because her legs must be burning from the last race. The crowd are | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
getting quite emanated here. I think she survived. -- other crowd | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
are getting quite animated. She has still riding this race. Williams | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
has been eliminated twice and she is stubbornly ignoring the line | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
flashing that she should leave the race. This can cause a problem. | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
one rider thinks they have another one behind them so they are saved, | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
that could really alter things here. The Polish Rider is again at the | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
back, and Garcia of Cuba is beside her. Number 14 retired of her own | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
volition - oh, that was Williams. Yes, she eventually understood that. | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
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Number 20 is eliminated again, Sanchez of France. Laura Trott in a | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
great position in third place. Sarah Hammer on the front. She | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
likes to roam around almost like an individual pursuit on the front. | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
Surely the Polish Rider will not survive again this time? I think it | :29:10. | :29:20. | |
:29:20. | :29:24. | ||
was the Spaniard, Olaberria Dorronso. Tara Whitten riding a | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
perfect elimination race, just sitting on the inside, keeping the | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
field on her shoulder. The New Zealand rider comes to the front, | :29:34. | :29:44. | |
:29:44. | :29:46. | ||
and the Polish Rider inevitably moving away from the back. So aware | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
of what is going on behind her. she make it that time? Number 30 is | :29:52. | :30:01. | |
out. Yes, she did! Laura Trott is now moving to the back, and she | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
nearly gave us a heart attack, watching at the World Championship, | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
:30:16. | :30:22. | ||
but we realised it was actually her eliminated, Wojtyra. Every | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
confidence there. She just makes her own holes hen she needs to. No | :30:27. | :30:35. | |
panic, just eases through. She is not a big rider. Just 20 years of | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
age and is a product from the Go Ride scheme, where the kids gain | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
confidence in bike control. She is at the back again. Come on, Laura, | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
you have got to find a way. Don't go underneath. Is she going to do | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
it. No? Yes! She wins through again. It was Garcia. I think she does it | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
to us on purpose. Now she is on the front. Did that door open or not. | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
She has found her way through. Oh dear! Trott's gone through is now | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
on the front. That was Garcia that was eliminated. Seven laps | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
remaining now. Edmondson on the outside trying to move around. It | :31:22. | :31:30. | |
is getting quicker. Trott having to sit there. Edmondson is one of the | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
big danger. I think Whitten's gone. The Canadian. And joint leader in | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
the competition. That is a real scalp. That is great for Laura | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
Trott. There is the back wheel of Whitten. Whitten's gone out early | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
and Laura Trott with profit from that. She is holding the field at | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
bay. Whitten was fourth in this at the World Championships. D'Hoore of | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
Belgium coming through. Whitten has been a world champion twice as well. | :32:04. | :32:14. | |
:32:14. | :32:14. | ||
Here is Laura. Well done. Kiesanowski is out this time. | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
Hammer comes to the front. She is the other danger rider for Laura | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
Trott. Ed monthson coming right under neath her. You have to be | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
careful doing that with the judges. Six riders left and at the back it | :32:31. | :32:41. | |
:32:41. | :32:43. | ||
is the Russian. Roman -- Romanyuta is there. And there is D'Hoore. | :32:43. | :32:50. | |
Here is Romanyuta. On the line that was close. Was it Wild or | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
Romanyuta? I think it was the Belgian. Number seven it was. | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
D'Hoore is out. And the field is thinning out. Laura Trott still in | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
there. She has mved to the back of the field. She is in a great | :33:05. | :33:12. | |
position. Loves this repeated sprints. Let's look at this one. At | :33:12. | :33:19. | |
the back is Hammer. Cowl put her in a box here. Come on Laura, move | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
around and Sara Hammer is in the hot seat. If Hammer goes out that | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
will be to the advantage of Trott. Or Wild I think. Wild of | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
Netherlands. It was Wild. But trot was in a dangerous position. That | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
was a very strong ride from her in second. This is a dangerous lap for | :33:46. | :33:54. | |
what you ra Trott. Hammer was driven by fear. Ed monthson is on | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
the front. They're beginning to wind it up. Laura, you have got to | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
find speed. Don't get put in a box. You have got to come outside. She | :34:03. | :34:10. | |
does. Good riding there. The elimination was the Russian Roman | :34:10. | :34:18. | |
Nuta. I thought we had called her out before. These three riders | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
could rest tonight well clear of the rest after the first three | :34:23. | :34:33. | |
disciplines. Here they come. Edmondson and then Hammer. And then | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
it is Laura Trott. And you have to move up now. Don't let Ed monthson | :34:39. | :34:48. | |
take this. Here is Laura Trott. It is a big sprint. Oh Laura Trott yes, | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
Edmondson beaten there. If Laura Trott would win this, she has won | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
two of the Three disciplines. A straight up sprint between these | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
two now. She is showing she is one of the riders on form. I will give | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
to it Laura Trott. They're riding it like a spript competition. It is | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
almost like the event has changed. If Laura Trott wins this her points | :35:15. | :35:22. | |
will be 12 and Hammer's will be less. Trott has got it. She comes | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
over the top and she will win the race. The third event in the omnium. | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
Great riding, Laura. She gets a point to that to add to her tally, | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
so she has 12 and Hammer finishing second, she gets two and she has 12. | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
But Trott has won two of the three events, so she is the leader. | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
about consis tenty si. -- consistency. She is actually | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
giggling as she goes around. She loves this event. She has won the | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
test event, the World Championships and now she is leading at the | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
midway point here in the Olympic Games. Laura Trott, you are a joy | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
to watch. This for me is her speciality. She loves it. Just | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
think, she will go to bed tonight and will be full of confidence. | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
Tomorrow she will come out for the individual pursuit and she is good | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
at that. Hammer has been a four- time world champion. But trot with | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
the ride a good 3,000 as well. she was third at the World | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
Championships. But the gap was less than a tenth of a second then. We | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
expect a strong ride. But that was a dominant sprint. Laura Trott, | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
here she goes, phenomenal. She was marooned at the back on several | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
occasions. But well I don't know, with confidence she found herself | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
through the wheels and put herself on the front. That young youthful | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
face belies her strength and confidence. Laura Trott wins her | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
second discipline. What a start. A nice wave to the crowd, who love | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
her. She is such an entertainer. Hammer's pleased as well. She has | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
had a good opening day. It is about consistency as well and that is | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
what Hammer is about. Whitten will ride strongly tomorrow. But she had | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
:37:42. | :37:45. | ||
a shocker there. She was eighth. Already these riders will down the | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
field here. Remember in the omnium, it is all about scoring the least | :37:52. | :38:02. | |
points at the end of the six competitions. Now then I think | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
Laura's arrived with Jill. Let's hear what she has to say. Wh a | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
fantastic day at the office. That had the crowd on their feet. | :38:14. | :38:23. | |
are they boog. That is not me is it? No not you. "O'I don't think. I | :38:24. | :38:33. | |
:38:34. | :38:34. | ||
think. We're just checking why ther booing. Oh. No unseems to know. You | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
had a lovely smile on your face. Yes, I enjoyed it. I don't know | :38:41. | :38:48. | |
what they're booing for. I don't know if I have been relegated. | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
will have to go with the result. You looked strong. Yes I feel | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
strong. I did a lot of work for the race. I can only hope for better | :38:59. | :39:09. | |
:39:09. | :39:13. | ||
Some confusion, we saw something that would lead to her being | :39:13. | :39:21. | |
demoted. No she rode that perfectly. And she managed to break Sarah | :39:21. | :39:28. | |
Hammer on the last sprint. She rode it perfectly. She was a joy to | :39:28. | :39:35. | |
watch. It was exciting. Good bumps. She came from the back and took it | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
up to the front. Where ever she wanted to be, she was in control. | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
That was a beautiful race to watch. A couple of close moments. There | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
were, but that is about thrilling the crowd. I think she is doing it | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
for the crowd. This is that final sprint. She showed us strength in | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
her legs. She has already picked up a gold at the games and she is | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
still working hard. Sarah Hammer was five or ten laps before this, | :40:04. | :40:12. | |
you could see a lot of girls were labouring. I thought Laura was. | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
she was playing with you. She was. It is good way to do it to pick off | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
the weaker riders at the start. You're not fighting for position | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
and you get to the stronger riders at the finish and then you have to | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
position yourself. But at the start you can pick them off one by one. | :40:33. | :40:39. | |
Give us an idea how tough it is. I saw a quote where she said she | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
likes it she rides so hard she tastes the pain in her mouth. How | :40:44. | :40:52. | |
tough is that? It is horrible. It is a horrible vent. It builds up, | :40:53. | :41:00. | |
but the speed gets slower and slower. And you're sprinty 30 | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
seconds. You don't want to hear that bell. But this is about | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
consistency and not just your performance and Whitten of Canada | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
struggling. Yes a big disappointment for Whitten. Nowhere | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
near where she wanted to finish. That will push her down the tables. | :41:18. | :41:26. | |
Still got the top three here. We're aiming for consistency and you need | :41:26. | :41:36. | |
:41:36. | :41:38. | ||
to finish top four or five to way these girls are setting off. So we | :41:38. | :41:48. | |
:41:48. | :41:58. | ||
are half way through. It finishes It is all about finishing the with | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
the fewest points. Soon we will be live again and we will stand and | :42:03. | :42:10. | |
hear the national anthem. We're not becoming overconfident. There is | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
still a lot of medals up for grabs. And Laura Trott continues her quest | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
for a medal. But we will see yoi shortly for that gold to be awarded | :42:22. | :42:32. | |
to Jason Kenny. Sue. We will look for erforward to that. Jason Kenny | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
winning Britain's 18th gold medal. If you're just come home. Here are | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
If you're just come home. Here are the headlines. It was a stunning | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
fifth gold for Britain as Jason Kenny beat Gregory Bauge to win | :42:52. | :43:02. | |
:43:02. | :43:04. | ||
sprint gold. And Britain has it first jumping gold in 60 years. | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
Beth Tweddle is the first British woman to win an Olympic gymnastics | :43:11. | :43:18. | |
with a bronze t. And British boxer Nicola Adams is assured of at least | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
a bronze after winning her quarter- final. So it has been an amazing | :43:25. | :43:32. | |
day and wonderful news for berth Tweddle, she has won world and | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
European title, she has won her first Olympic medal. But now back | :43:37. | :43:44. | |
to the velodrome and another victorious bri on the will stand on | :43:44. | :43:54. | |
:43:54. | :43:54. | ||
the podium. And well done to berth. Gymnastics are on a high. -- well | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
done to Beth. Chris Boardman and Hugh Porter have been watching. | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
Chris I have started to see in the papers, people are questioning how | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
papers, people are questioning how Britain have found this form. | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
have seen it before. I saw it in Beijing, there was a lot of success | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
and everyone was looking for a reason. In London it is called | :44:19. | :44:29. | |
peaking. It is to do with excellent they have done right. I heard talk | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
of the French saying they have special wheels in bags. They put | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
them in bags to keep them clean. It is the same wheels they used in | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
Athens. The main thing about the wheels is they're round. And now | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
another gold for Britain. For someone who has loved this sport, | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
what have the last few years been like? I consider I'm a lucky person | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
to sit here. I mean, I cannot believe ity time I come to an | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
Olympic games, all the performance ps beat what I have seen before. | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
Jason Kenny, I have always believed he would one day be the best | :45:08. | :45:15. | |
sprinter in the world. I just hope that we can continue as we're doing. | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
It is astonishing the gold rush, we are going to equal the performances | :45:21. | :45:31. | |
:45:31. | :45:32. | ||
They will let you take it away. A great big smile on the face of | :45:32. | :45:39. | |
Jason Kenny, he is the Olympic champion in the men's sprint. | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
This is the presentation of the medals for the men's sprint. The | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
winner of the bronze medal representing Australia is Shane | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
Perkins. He was a gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games in this | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
discipline, but it is silver he was after and he didn't make it through. | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
He settles for a bronze medal. His father was a bronze medal-winner in | :46:03. | :46:11. | |
the sprint in the Commonwealth Games the number of years ago. And | :46:11. | :46:18. | |
the winner of the silver medal is Gregory Bauge from France. Two | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
silver medals for him in the Olympic Games here in London. He | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
got himself a silver in the team sprint, and now he has a silver in | :46:30. | :46:40. | |
:46:40. | :46:54. | ||
The Olympic champion and gold medal-winner, representing Great | :46:54. | :47:04. | |
:47:04. | :47:04. | ||
Britain, Jason Kenny! A silver medal-winner in Beijing takes the | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
next step on the podium here, the top spot. He is the Olympic | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
champion for the sprint and that is his second gold medal here in | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
London. His tally of medals in the Olympic competition now moves to | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
:47:29. | :47:30. | ||
three. The battle he has had with Chris Hoy to get him here, I think | :47:30. | :47:40. | |
:47:40. | :48:16. | ||
that is what has made him. So emotional. The whole audience on | :48:16. | :48:23. | |
their feet singing the national anthem. Jason Kenny, such a | :48:23. | :48:33. | |
:48:33. | :48:34. | ||
likeable quiet feller. Comes from Bolton, and there will be a few | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
celebrations there. Jason Kenny, Olympic champion and golden medal | :48:42. | :48:51. | |
winner. A silver going to Gregory Bauge of France and the bronze | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
medal going to Shane Perkins of Australia. We have just seen | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
confidence brimming over from Laura Trott so we could still win many, | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
many more medals on the final day. We can look forward to Chris Hoy in | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
the keirin. What a shot that is. Well done, you are the Olympic | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
champion. How sweet that will feel to him. | :49:19. | :49:25. | |
Three times he has now been crowned the Olympic champion, but that is | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
the first medal that represents a victory in the solo event. There | :49:29. | :49:36. | |
was so much talk about whether Richard B Jason Kenny or Chris Hoy | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
riding, and they chose Jason Kenny - he didn't disappoint. The | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
continuing success of Great Britain, and to his worth picking up on the | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
discussion about other countries starting to question how Great | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
Britain have picked up their form just up the right time for 2012. | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
You work with the American sprinters. Are you looking at what | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
Great Britain are doing? Are other things going on you are not aware | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
of? I know what they have done. I was part of it, and I am trying to | :50:09. | :50:17. | |
apply that to the USA team. We have made big advances. What they have | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
done back home, it is a big undertaking and it is a lot of | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
commitment from everyone. A lot of staff members don't see their | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
family is four weeks. It is huge commitment and drive, so many | :50:31. | :50:38. | |
different things. Obviously the equipment helps, but you can't take | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
anything away from these athletes. I know you had a special road race | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
bike for the Olympics and that is all to do with the Secret squirrel | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
Club, but congratulations for everything you have done. We will | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
see you here tomorrow in the Velodrome when there are another | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
three big medals up for grabs. The boys were talking about peaking | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
at the right time, what makes a champion. It is power and | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
athleticism, but also about mental toughness and believe, and that is | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
exactly what Dai Greene needs tonight in the 400m hurdles because | :51:17. | :51:24. | |
he only scraped in as one of the fastest qualifiers. How much his | :51:24. | :51:34. | |
:51:34. | :51:34. | ||
talent, and how much is in the mind? We have been exploring. | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
The ice is a place in the Olympic Park that very few people get to | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
see. It is a dressing room very much like any other, but it is in | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
places like this, the knocks and crannies of Olympic venues that | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
gold medals will be won and lost. This is the inner sanctum, where | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
the last few crucial moments are spent before stepping out into the | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
megawatt lighting of the competition arena a few yards down | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
the corridor. It is here athletes perform highly secret routines | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
designed to take them into the zone. Here you will see some truly | :52:15. | :52:23. | |
bizarre things. Some athletes in half trances pacing, others with | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
their eyes closed visualising optimum performance. Some athletes | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
en that bizarre superstitions, others offer a silent prayers. In | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
many ways this is one of the most surreal places in sport, but also | :52:37. | :52:45. | |
perhaps one of the most fascinating. Often the final few moments before | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
competition are solitary. You are alone with your thoughts or perhaps | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
your demons, but in many sports solitude is impossible. You are | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
required to spend those final moments up close with your | :52:58. | :53:05. | |
competitors and it is here in the call room that the mind games going | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
to overdrive. From my perspective, these were the guys standing in my | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
way of achieving my objective of a gold medal. I never thought it was | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
personal. I never thought they were trying to destroy my dreams, they | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
were simply trying to win. I did not own winning, I simply wanted to | :53:25. | :53:30. | |
not own winning, I simply wanted to win. Champion athlete, gold-medal | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
athletes, the gold medal mindset if you like, that type of athletes | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
will not see pressure as a problem. They will perceive it as a | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
privilege. I quite enjoyed it actually because the pressure is so | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
high at that point, all other things being equal, so the person | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
who handles that pressure best will have the best performers. There was | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
one competitor, he asked us to pray together. I am not going to pray | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
with you. Most of the guys did that. I am going to battle. There brutal | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
irony is that however good you are, how many sacrifices you have made, | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
it counts for nothing if you can't deliver when it really matters. | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
Four years of preparation for just a few defining moments of action. | :54:22. | :54:32. | |
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This in many ways is the ultimate sliding Doors moment. The key | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
question is do the psychological rituals that athletes used in the | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
dressing room, and continue to use in the arena, actually work? In | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
short, what do we really know about the dark art of performance | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
psychology? You are already under tremendous pressure and the | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
significance of the moment, and this is what you have been training | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
for for so long, a dream come true to be there, and now you're just | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
that close. You will always have an internal voice saying this is | :55:06. | :55:16. | |
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dangerous, run away. A psychologist will always say you control the | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
controllables. You can only control how you perform. You narrowing down | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
to something incredibly simple. Sort of ironic now as I have lost | :55:31. | :55:37. | |
my faith, but my faith gave me perspective. It allowed me to | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
disassociate myself from the outcome. You have to do the best | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
you can and let the chips fall as they may. I can only be as good as | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
I can be, and when I crossed the line, I will see where that got me. | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
Performance psychology is to a large extent about the elimination | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
of doubt. In many circumstances doubt is a sensible thing. If | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
someone is trying to sell you an insurance policy, it makes sense to | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
doubt whether what they are saying is true, but in sport doubt is | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
catastrophic. If you do not believe, you are almost certain to fail. | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
That is why visualising a good performance can help eliminate | :56:20. | :56:28. | |
doubt. Superstitions provide reassurance and boost self- belief. | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
Sue position is an interesting phenomenon, particularly in sports | :56:32. | :56:41. | |
psychology because thoughts become things, and what we think there -- | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
what we think affects the way we feel. Does similar kind of thing | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
happens in the field of medicine. The sugar pill with no Pharmacology | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
whatsoever can have incredible effect, reducing pain and anxiety, | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
even eliminating nausea so long as you believe it works. As Jonathan | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
Edwards put it, in a different context, any belief can have | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
astonishingly powerful effects providing it is held with | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
sufficient conviction. Maybe that is the key. You need to find | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
something that works for you. Every athlete is an individual. You can | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
take out the sports psychology book and say Michael Johnson did this, | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
Carl Lewis did this, and go on and on, but none of them are who you | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
are and you have to find your own way. Delivering under pressure is a | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
rather brutal thing, but also profoundly subjective one. Many | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
athletes are overcome with nerves, others are afflicted with terrible | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
self-doubt. Is there any wonder they reach for that particular | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
ritual that makes sense to them? That provides reassurance and | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
control. Prayer, superstition, visualisation, take your pick. That | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
minute difference between victory and defeat on the biggest stage is | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
often to be found not in scale or effort, but in the recesses of the | :58:11. | :58:20. | |
mind. Fascinating piece by Matthew, but | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
the British athletes have certainly got the mindset right here so far. | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
A team gold medals, only one medal behind their total in Beijing with | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
still six days to go. Will there be another gold medal tonight? Maybe | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
because Dai Greene does in the final of the 400m hurdles. If he | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
does believe, he could win another gold medal. That is what we are | :58:45. | :58:54. |