:00:31. > :00:37.Hello. If you are aware this just a few months ago on BBC One, you will
:00:37. > :00:42.have seen the 19th gold medal of these games, won by Alistair
:00:42. > :00:47.Brownlee, with his little brother Jonny in the bronze position. We
:00:47. > :00:51.will be going back to Hyde Park as soon as we can get hold of the boys
:00:51. > :00:56.to chat to them, and for the medal ceremony as well. It seems like
:00:56. > :01:03.every way you look today, there are chances for GB athletes, especially
:01:03. > :01:09.in the velodrome. Now it is the turn of the Sir Chris Hoy to make
:01:09. > :01:16.his considerable presence felt once more. Britain's most decorated an
:01:16. > :01:20.Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy defends his keirin title today. He was in
:01:20. > :01:30.action in the early rounds of a dramatic event this morning. Let's
:01:30. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:44.Chris Hoy. So, right on the inside, trying to maintain the front
:01:44. > :01:54.position, although he is denied that already by a very keen
:01:54. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:03.Trinidadian. The story about water nubby, his home town was caught in
:02:03. > :02:07.the Japanese tsunami last year, and the locals have been relocated
:02:07. > :02:14.throughout the country. His friends and family have come together to
:02:14. > :02:24.watch him at these Olympics. Now, another change, and the New Zealand
:02:24. > :02:34.rider gets the front position. Then it is Philip F Trinidad, and Sir
:02:34. > :02:38.
:02:38. > :02:45.Chris Hoy is 4th. Then a writer at the back is the Russian. The first
:02:45. > :02:53.two go through by right, and the rest will go in the rapper charge.
:02:53. > :03:01.-- the repechage. He was always renowned for riding from the front
:03:01. > :03:05.and controlling the race, but he has also won from the back. That
:03:05. > :03:12.was a fantastic race in Beijing, when he was last, he was last, he
:03:12. > :03:22.was last, and then he won it. the pace is beginning to lift, and
:03:22. > :03:23.
:03:23. > :03:29.the crowd and getting animated here. Philip of Trinidad is coached by
:03:29. > :03:35.Jamie Staff, a former world champion. Sir Chris Hoy makes a
:03:35. > :03:40.move, and he moves right up. As they come to the line this time, it
:03:40. > :03:49.will be two laps to go. And the top two finishers will go through into
:03:49. > :03:53.the next round. He is igniting the Berners early here. Sir Chris Hoy
:03:53. > :04:00.is leading with one lap to go, and the rest are clinging to his coat
:04:00. > :04:05.tails. The acceleration has created a huge gap behind, and it is going
:04:05. > :04:15.to be Sir Chris Hoy who sails through into the next round. The
:04:15. > :04:25.rest were completely blown away. Such confidence there. Philip led
:04:25. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:32.him out. Velde who then from New Zealand was the beneficiary. Nobody
:04:32. > :04:39.could go with him apart from the New Zealander. There was clear
:04:39. > :04:46.daylight between his back wheel and the third finisher. Sir Chris Hoy
:04:46. > :04:50.just blew them away. It is just a time trial from that point. His
:04:50. > :04:59.acceleration was incredible. The rest of the field knew that they
:04:59. > :05:07.wouldn't get on even terms. He is We will be back to see the rest of
:05:07. > :05:11.the keirin very soon. But there is also 20-year-old Laura Trott, a
:05:11. > :05:18.tiny 20 with a Rolls-Royce engine, already a winner in the women's
:05:18. > :05:23.pursuit in these games. The omnium is the discipline designed to
:05:23. > :05:33.identify the best all-round cyclist on the track. First up for her was
:05:33. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:44.straight here in the final heat of the 3,000 metres. This youngster,
:05:44. > :05:49.the current world champion, and let us not forget so far she has had
:05:49. > :05:57.two wins out of the three disciplines. She is up against
:05:57. > :06:00.Sarah hammer. They are both on 12 points each. Hamlet is a four-time
:06:00. > :06:08.world champion on the individual pursuit, so this should be a good
:06:08. > :06:14.scrap. And I can Tenniel, -- tell you, at the world championship,
:06:14. > :06:17.there was just one tenth of a second between them. Every point is
:06:18. > :06:22.going to count, and if they do finish on equal points in this
:06:22. > :06:28.competition, it will be decided on the amassed time from the time
:06:28. > :06:38.events. I remember Laura Trott winning the national individual
:06:38. > :06:40.
:06:40. > :06:48.pursuit in Manchester last year, and she did 3.30 0.09 there.
:06:48. > :06:53.think she might go inside 3.30 based on what we have seen here.
:06:53. > :07:01.This is perhaps not her very best discipline, but she is so
:07:01. > :07:07.consistent. Hammer PB is just slightly quicker than Trott's, but
:07:07. > :07:13.they are very evenly matched. Laura Trott is inspired here by the big
:07:13. > :07:21.crowd. Not much to choose between the riders as they come back to the
:07:21. > :07:31.line. Hammer is slightly quicker in the first kilometre. Trott is just
:07:31. > :07:31.
:07:31. > :07:35.0.4 seconds shy at the moment. coach is just calling the schedule
:07:35. > :07:45.to Laura Trott, and he is showing that she is bang on the schedule
:07:45. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:54.they hatched -- set for this right. Don't forget that tonight they have
:07:54. > :08:00.to scratch race and the time trial. Sarah Hammer is going the stronger
:08:00. > :08:06.at the moment. Laura is being asked for a little bit more from the
:08:06. > :08:12.coach. This is not the ride she was hoping for. She is still in it, but
:08:12. > :08:17.maybe 10m now she has given away to the American. Hammer is a real
:08:17. > :08:24.fighter. You can see that in the style. She gives absolutely
:08:24. > :08:31.everything. She was inspired after seeing the riders in the Olympics
:08:31. > :08:38.four years ago, in fact, it was just after the Athens Olympics. But
:08:38. > :08:45.never discount Laura Trott. She is holding her own. An absolute
:08:45. > :08:51.scratch, this is. All the way. 20 years of age, Laura Trott. If
:08:51. > :09:00.Hammill beats her in his pursuit, they will go into the last events
:09:00. > :09:07.with Laura Trott lying one point behind Sarah Hammer. And in that
:09:07. > :09:12.final 500m time trial, Laura Trott should have the advantage. We are
:09:12. > :09:20.getting towards the concluding stages. Sarah Hammer is being --
:09:20. > :09:30.beginning to roll a little. She has given a lot. Come on, Laura Trott!
:09:30. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:40.Can you wipe away this deficit? It is a lot to ask. Here she comes,
:09:40. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:48.and Hammer stops the clock. She goes 3.29, and Trott goes 3.30. We
:09:48. > :09:56.will resume with to the final two events later, and the final
:09:56. > :10:06.situation is that Hammer will be the leader on 13 points, with Trott
:10:06. > :10:07.
:10:07. > :10:12.So, Laura has two more events to come this afternoon, conserving as
:10:12. > :10:18.much energy as she can for the scratch race just after 4pm and the
:10:18. > :10:22.time-trial at around 4.50. If you haven't seen much of the Olympic
:10:22. > :10:27.Games over the last 24 hours, you may have been on the moon, but we
:10:27. > :10:37.have condensed it all into a bite- sized packed lunch bit for you. It
:10:37. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:55.is what we call in television terms Laura Trott is going to Winner!
:10:55. > :10:56.
:10:57. > :11:06.Oh, calamity. Everybody's eyes are glued to the scoreboard. Beth
:11:07. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:21.Kenny has got ahead of the race and he has taken it! Kenny is the
:11:21. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:37.Can our nerves take much more? And Britain have got gold! We are
:11:37. > :11:46.seeing the first British Olympic triathlon champion in the guise of
:11:46. > :11:51.Alistair Brownlee, and still the And Chrissie Wellington has not
:11:51. > :11:54.stopped smiling since he crossed the line! When we look back at
:11:54. > :11:59.Alistair and Jonny, and we are still waiting for the medal
:11:59. > :12:02.ceremony, there has been a bit of a hold up, but he had his Achilles
:12:02. > :12:07.injury only six months ago, and his participation must surely have been
:12:07. > :12:13.in doubt at that point. In that respect, how impressive is his
:12:13. > :12:17.victory? It is incredibly impressive. Not only would it has
:12:17. > :12:22.been physically difficult for him to train, but he would have been
:12:22. > :12:25.riddled with self-doubt in the early part of the season. He did
:12:25. > :12:31.come back with a great finish about a month ago, showing he was back on
:12:31. > :12:35.track. But it is never easy struggling with an injury, both
:12:35. > :12:42.mentally and physically. And that is what makes this raised even more
:12:42. > :12:45.impressive. And also, the margin by which he won. He had time to re --
:12:45. > :12:52.waved to the crowd and stroll across the line, not the exciting
:12:52. > :12:59.sprint finish we had in the women's. Just a quick foot note on this
:13:00. > :13:04.injury. They had a pool installed in their home in order to try to
:13:04. > :13:07.get an aqua jogging situation to try to limit the damage of that
:13:07. > :13:14.Achilles tendon injury. It was quite a palaver in the end, wasn't
:13:14. > :13:19.it? I understand it was. The beauty of triathlon is if you have a
:13:19. > :13:23.running injury, sometimes you can still swim and bike, say he would
:13:23. > :13:28.definitely have been increasing his swimming training or perhaps even
:13:28. > :13:32.his bike training while he couldn't run. But it is my understanding he
:13:32. > :13:37.had a pool installed in his back garden, it was touch-and-go whether
:13:37. > :13:43.they would get planning permission. So he was able to do some of his
:13:43. > :13:48.running training in the Yorkshire. -- in the water. So, thank you very
:13:48. > :13:52.much, the Yorkshire planning department! Overall, when you look
:13:52. > :13:56.at the crowds and the top of the impact on your sport, it is a
:13:56. > :14:03.growing sport, so many people are doing it at grassroots level. How
:14:03. > :14:10.many participates do you reckon the UK has in this? It is growing
:14:10. > :14:17.exponentially, it is a sport but offers a challenge for all. I have
:14:17. > :14:22.seen 17-year-olds and 70-year-olds taking up the sport. I know we have
:14:22. > :14:26.over 600 triathlon clubs in this country alone, and they provide is
:14:26. > :14:30.amazing cocoon of support for everyone from the novice to the
:14:30. > :14:35.elite to be able to get involved in this great sport, and what better
:14:35. > :14:40.way to be able to showcase it than a gold medal at Hyde Park today.
:14:40. > :14:46.Let's just enjoy those scenes again today. I was saying, just get over
:14:46. > :14:54.the line, don't tantalise us like this! Here comes Alistair, and it
:14:54. > :15:00.was such a dominant performance. went out right from the gun. He has
:15:00. > :15:04.always said, I want to grace -- raised aggressively, I don't like
:15:04. > :15:10.conservative tactics. They worked very hard with Stuart Hayes on the
:15:10. > :15:15.bike, and then just went out hard and from the get go, and I think it
:15:15. > :15:23.shows that to be a successful track athlete you need to be a great all-
:15:23. > :15:27.rounder, and Alistair has shown The victory was partly forged on
:15:27. > :15:33.the Yorkshire Dales, they have resisted temptation to train abroad
:15:33. > :15:36.because they laugh where they live. Absolutely, they live and train in
:15:36. > :15:40.Yorkshire and Leeds, they like being in their home environment.
:15:40. > :15:44.The terrain up there, the weather conditions are incredibly
:15:44. > :15:48.challenging and I think that really serves to their advantage. Nothing
:15:48. > :15:54.deters them, they know they are capable of racing well in all
:15:54. > :15:59.conditions. They breed them tough in Yorkshire. Jessica Ennis will
:15:59. > :16:04.have a gold postbox in Sheffield, there will be another couple.
:16:04. > :16:10.Everybody will be posting their letters in gold postboxes up there!
:16:10. > :16:14.Mental strength is as much an attribute as physical strength,
:16:14. > :16:17.particularly in something as demanding as triathlon. I think the
:16:17. > :16:25.boys today showed they could cope with the pressure of being
:16:25. > :16:30.physically resistant enough to give a dominating performance. You were
:16:30. > :16:35.in the ultra Ironman distance. I just wonder, does it make you have
:16:35. > :16:42.a little urge to do an Olympic discipline one of these days?
:16:42. > :16:46.like to spread my pain out for longer period of time. I decided
:16:46. > :16:53.about four years ago I wanted to focus on the longer course
:16:53. > :16:58.triathlon. I have no regrets about that. But it is phenomenal, to see
:16:58. > :17:03.Great Britain doing so well on the world stage across all distances in
:17:03. > :17:07.triathlon, topped off with this fantastic gold medal today. We're
:17:07. > :17:10.hearing that one of the reasons that this medal ceremony has been
:17:10. > :17:15.delayed is because Jonny looks like he has succumbed to the fatigue, he
:17:15. > :17:22.has been taken off by the medical people in a wheelchair. After the
:17:22. > :17:27.effort that he has expended this afternoon, are you surprised? How
:17:27. > :17:32.did you rate his condition as he crossed the line? He didn't look to
:17:32. > :17:36.be in great difficulty. It may have had something to do with the fact
:17:36. > :17:40.he did have to stop in his tracks for 15 seconds and serve that
:17:41. > :17:48.penalty. His heart rate would have dropped and then elevated very
:17:48. > :17:53.quickly as he started to run again, that may have played a part. These
:17:53. > :17:55.guys are red lining it, for the whole of the two hours, so I am not
:17:55. > :18:00.surprised that some of them may need medical attention towards the
:18:00. > :18:05.end. We will bring you up to date when we have news of Jonny's
:18:05. > :18:09.condition, it did not look too serious and we are hoping it is
:18:09. > :18:14.just perhaps exhaustion at the end of what was a sterling effort from
:18:14. > :18:18.him and his brother. For every high, there is a low in Olympic sport.
:18:18. > :18:22.Before we get to the heights of that medal ceremony, I have to
:18:22. > :18:27.bring the up-to-date with the low. Phillips Idowu is out of the triple
:18:27. > :18:32.jump competition. One of Britain's leading contenders for gold failed
:18:32. > :18:36.to qualify for the final. The 33- year-old from Hackney, the former
:18:36. > :18:40.world and Olympic silver medallists last time, he hasn't competed
:18:40. > :18:46.throughout June and July. He couldn't go beyond the qualifying
:18:46. > :18:55.mark of 17.10 in any of his Three Johns, it was not there for him
:18:55. > :19:00.today and I feel for the big man -- any of his three jumps. Phillips
:19:00. > :19:06.Idowu is with us now. First of all, how are you physically? How were
:19:06. > :19:09.you feeling this morning going into the competition? I felt OK. I
:19:09. > :19:16.managed to get out and see my physio and get some treatment
:19:16. > :19:20.before today's competition. I have gone in pain free, which is nice. I
:19:20. > :19:24.felt I could have possibly qualified automatically, I knew I
:19:24. > :19:28.was going to be a bit rusty because it has been a while since I have
:19:28. > :19:32.competed. The conditions were a bit difficult with the wind and I
:19:32. > :19:36.expected that, I have watched a few of the guys compete in the
:19:36. > :19:42.horizontal jump, I knew that may be a factor. That wasn't me out there
:19:42. > :19:48.today. I have competed for 12 years. I can't remember a time when I have
:19:48. > :19:52.performed that badly. We know you can do that distance in your sleep
:19:52. > :19:56.but the build-up hasn't been ideal, can you explain how bad the injury
:19:56. > :20:04.problems have been throughout the year? There are questions over how
:20:04. > :20:08.bad it was. I am guessing I will most likely need surgery at the end
:20:08. > :20:12.of this season. I think I will probably call it a day, wrap up the
:20:12. > :20:19.season. The goal was to come here and battle for the Olympic gold
:20:19. > :20:23.medal. Now it is not to be. I have to go home, reassess, spent some
:20:23. > :20:28.time with the family and the kids and try not to be so down about my
:20:28. > :20:33.performance. It is over now, there is nothing I can do, I am not going
:20:33. > :20:38.to be in the final, it is a shame, the crowd have been great. I have
:20:38. > :20:44.seen them give the British athlete so much support through this week.
:20:44. > :20:49.I am upset that I let them down. All year, I have been attacked as a
:20:49. > :20:57.medal favourite and now I don't even get a chance to do what I have
:20:57. > :21:06.done year-on-year -- I have been What kind of surgery would it be
:21:06. > :21:13.that you need? I am not sure. I have a problem with my right leg. I
:21:13. > :21:17.can't say specifically. In all the build-up, there has been a few Rory
:21:17. > :21:21.about you maybe not being in touch with your coach -- there has been a
:21:21. > :21:27.few raw about to maybe not being in touch with your coach. Can you tell
:21:27. > :21:32.us your verdict straight from the horse's mouth. I have been
:21:32. > :21:36.travelling from Birmingham to London to see my physio, working
:21:36. > :21:42.with my coach, I have been up and down for a while. After withdrawing
:21:42. > :21:48.from Crystal Palace, I was back in Birmingham. I had a nerve pain
:21:48. > :21:52.shooting down my hip, into the back of my knee. After Crystal Palace, I
:21:52. > :21:56.went back to Birmingham, started a couple of training sessions, which
:21:56. > :22:00.went well. I did a weights session which was strong, the running
:22:00. > :22:04.session didn't go as well, I had to pull up. Pulling up from that
:22:04. > :22:08.session, I made a decision to come back to London and see my physio
:22:08. > :22:13.and see what the problem was. With the work over there we, we decided
:22:13. > :22:19.it was best for me to stay in the UK. -- over that week. I could not
:22:19. > :22:22.get rid of a neural sensation. On a day-to-day basis, warming up and
:22:22. > :22:26.training and getting ready to do technical sessions, I had to have
:22:26. > :22:30.someone on hand who was able to help me through that issue. He was
:22:30. > :22:35.there, my physio was great and with me at every session and things were
:22:35. > :22:39.going well. We had some great sprint and technical sessions.
:22:39. > :22:43.Coming off for approaches is a whole different kettle of fish. --
:22:44. > :22:48.the full approaches. My timing was not there. I felt that my hot and
:22:48. > :22:55.must it was great, I felt I had a decent hot and step but I could not
:22:55. > :23:02.get the final phase. He issued a statement saying you didn't want to
:23:02. > :23:06.detract from what was going on here and what we saw on Saturday. I will
:23:06. > :23:09.I have wanted is for everybody to be positive to the Games, because
:23:09. > :23:12.in the lead-up, everybody was sceptical as to how well they were
:23:12. > :23:16.going to go down. I knew that London would put on a great games,
:23:16. > :23:24.this is my home town. The first week, we had some great
:23:24. > :23:29.performances, people won gold medals. I was excited. In my second
:23:29. > :23:34.week, we had a great chance, setting up for gold medal on the
:23:34. > :23:41.track. Followed up by Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah. Hopefully
:23:41. > :23:45.now the rest of the team will come out and pick up gold medals.
:23:45. > :23:50.can't bargain for the injury and it is the sadness of it all. I have
:23:50. > :23:53.been lucky over the last four and five years, I have been able to
:23:54. > :23:58.compete at my best at the major championships, which is what you
:23:58. > :24:03.want to do. I have always managed to come away with a silver medal.
:24:03. > :24:07.This year I can definitely say I am not at my best. I was hoping, even
:24:07. > :24:11.not being at my best, I would be able to produce something. It
:24:11. > :24:15.wasn't to be. Thanks for your honesty. Nice to talk to you.
:24:15. > :24:20.you, I want to thank everyone who has supported me this year and for
:24:20. > :24:24.the whole of my career. It is much appreciated. He desperately wanted
:24:24. > :24:28.to be Olympic champion, our heart goes out to him. Alistair Brownlee
:24:28. > :24:32.is now talking to Sonali Shah. While Jonny is recovering, we
:24:32. > :24:36.thought we would grab Alistair while he was standing around making
:24:36. > :24:39.jokes. Congratulations, you are Olympic champion. Thank you very
:24:39. > :24:43.much, it feels a bit and a woman because Jonny has collapsed and he
:24:43. > :24:46.is not feeling too good. -- it feels a bit underwhelming. I felt
:24:46. > :24:51.in control of the race from the start. I don't think I have come
:24:51. > :24:56.across anything like the crowds and I never will again, my ears are
:24:56. > :25:03.still ringing from that noise and it was amazing. Not just Britain's
:25:03. > :25:06.first ever triathlon level, it was a gold, and it is Team GB's 19th
:25:06. > :25:11.gold medal of these games. You must be so proud. Massively proud, it
:25:11. > :25:16.has been talked about so much that Great Britain have not won a medal
:25:16. > :25:22.in triathlon, the pressure was stacked up. So much folklore was
:25:22. > :25:27.put to bed today and that is great. To get two British brothers on the
:25:27. > :25:32.podium is absolutely... You couldn't ask for any more. With
:25:32. > :25:37.debts due, we were a team of three. -- with Stuart, we were a team of
:25:37. > :25:40.three. We worked out a great plan and executed it really well. We are
:25:40. > :25:43.used to seeing you win but I don't think we have ever seen your face
:25:43. > :25:48.looking like that as you have crossed the finish line, it look
:25:48. > :25:51.like a huge sense of relief, almost. I was relieved to finish, you
:25:51. > :25:57.almost -- usually are in a triathlon, you are quite tired at
:25:57. > :26:01.the end! As much as I tried to say that the Olympics is like any other
:26:01. > :26:05.race, it is not. I have been watching the sport for the last 10
:26:05. > :26:10.days. I woke up this morning and I wasn't nervous, I was like a kid at
:26:10. > :26:15.Christmas. I was so excited to get out and race. It is great to come
:26:15. > :26:18.out and race and I got the result I wanted. Jonny was up there with you,
:26:18. > :26:23.getting bronze after having to take the penalty, you must be proud of
:26:23. > :26:28.him as well. Massively. We knew there was a penalty in the back, I
:26:28. > :26:32.said not to worry, you can easily get on the podium with a 15 second
:26:32. > :26:38.penalty. In the first that I ran hard to try to get Jonny as far as
:26:38. > :26:41.the others. Gomez was having a great race so there was not much we
:26:41. > :26:45.could do about that. I have never been a fan of these penalties. I
:26:45. > :26:49.think they are ruining the support of triathlon. It is not about
:26:49. > :26:54.giving people penalties, it is not about official decisions. Jonny
:26:54. > :26:59.didn't know what he had done until halfway around the bike. I would
:26:59. > :27:03.like to ask you how Jonny is. fine. Triathlon is a tough sport
:27:03. > :27:08.and we have both been in that position. It was deceptively hard
:27:08. > :27:14.to date. With this humid, muggy day, it dehydrates you and he was
:27:14. > :27:18.probably on the age at the finish, like you are normally. -- on the
:27:18. > :27:24.edge at the finish. We were led to collect your medal, thank you.
:27:24. > :27:27.Congratulations again. A phenomenal win. Thank you very much.
:27:27. > :27:30.wonderfully honest assessment from wonderfully honest assessment from
:27:30. > :27:35.Alistair Brownlee. Great Britain's first medallist, and now two
:27:35. > :27:40.medallists in triathlon. It now confirms 19 gold medals. That was
:27:40. > :27:47.the situation on the last Sunday of the game's four years ago. We are
:27:47. > :27:50.on the Tuesday with 19 gold medals. 43 medals in total. Plenty of time
:27:50. > :27:53.43 medals in total. Plenty of time to smash all records in the Olympic
:27:53. > :28:01.terms for the greatest team, that is what they have been marking it
:28:01. > :28:06.That is the situation, it has been a very busy day in Hyde Park.
:28:06. > :28:10.Hundreds of thousands of people there, 80,000 in the Olympic
:28:10. > :28:15.Stadium, where Jamaica's most famous export, Usain Bolt, has been
:28:15. > :28:25.stretching those long legs again at the start of his defence of the 200
:28:25. > :28:46.
:28:46. > :28:50.metres title. The opening heats Bolt, running a fairly hard bend.
:28:50. > :28:57.Young inside him, and now he can already start to relax a little bit,
:28:57. > :29:04.looking around, taking in the cheers and the applause. He might
:29:04. > :29:08.have just got pipped, Young, by da Silva. A bit of a following wind
:29:08. > :29:12.and it might have blown a few cobwebs away. It is good for him to
:29:12. > :29:15.get back on the track. The first round of the 200 is probably the
:29:15. > :29:19.most difficult thing that Usain Bolt has to do in the whole of the
:29:19. > :29:22.Olympic programme, after the excitement of the 100, to come back
:29:22. > :29:32.on the track and get that one out of the way, but he is safely
:29:32. > :29:40.
:29:40. > :29:47.Bolt. Let's just look at the other places here. Isaiah young just
:29:47. > :29:55.ahead of Alex Wilson. How good his life for you right
:29:55. > :30:02.now? Again a great reception from the crowd. Yes, the crowd is always
:30:02. > :30:06.wonderful, they play a very important role in my running.
:30:06. > :30:13.most difficult thing fear is everything that goes on after
:30:13. > :30:19.winning a gold medal, hours in the public eye, you have to do so much
:30:19. > :30:23.and then come back and do this. did try to enjoy it. Well done, see
:30:24. > :30:33.you next time. Not the toughest of heats for
:30:33. > :30:43.Christian. He is in lane four. How rare of Mexico is there in lane
:30:43. > :30:54.
:30:54. > :31:00.Malcolm. That is important. And he just has about a metre on Christian
:31:00. > :31:10.Malcolm, Mitchell does. He has run a good heat. Into the top three
:31:10. > :31:22.
:31:22. > :31:32.safely. Mitchell, Malcolm, very the top three. Mitchell wins it.
:31:32. > :31:36.
:31:36. > :31:41.enjoyed getting up early this morning.
:31:41. > :31:46.It is not your favourite, the early start. But she took care of
:31:46. > :31:51.business. You know I don't like the early mornings, but it is always
:31:51. > :31:55.good to get the first one out of the way. It is overwhelming being
:31:55. > :32:00.in a stadium with so many people supporting you, but I am glad to
:32:00. > :32:06.get that out of the way and get ready for the semi-final tomorrow.
:32:06. > :32:09.I notice there isn't a Welsh flag here for you today. You have been
:32:10. > :32:15.do -- you have been through this so many times, and yet still the
:32:15. > :32:21.nerves were there. I love athletics, I love what I do, and I will do it
:32:21. > :32:25.as long as my body holds out. you need to go faster next, what is
:32:25. > :32:35.in your legs? Training is going well, and I have got a quicker run
:32:35. > :32:58.
:32:58. > :33:04.than this morning in my legs. We very powerful Jamaican. A very good
:33:04. > :33:14.bend the Yohan Blake. The Chinese athlete is also going well, fading
:33:14. > :33:14.
:33:14. > :33:23.a little now. De Barreiros of Brazil is just coming through. Very
:33:23. > :33:29.similar times, all of these heats. Blake could afford to ease off a
:33:29. > :33:39.little, and looks comfortable at the end. It is all looking good for
:33:39. > :33:41.
:33:41. > :33:46.the semi-finals. The top three go through to the semi-finals tomorrow.
:33:46. > :33:54.Johan, you had a little grimaces you came through there. My foot
:33:54. > :33:57.caught. But I am good. What with the whole 100m experience, and
:33:57. > :34:05.winning at a medal, what has it taught you about these situations
:34:05. > :34:12.at your first Olympics. The 100m taught me a lot, my first medal for
:34:12. > :34:19.the Olympics, great. Am feeling every day confident. Usain Bolt
:34:19. > :34:23.says he loves the 200m, it is his favourite event. I love it, too.
:34:23. > :34:33.saw you with a very impressive performance there. Speak your next
:34:33. > :34:55.
:34:55. > :35:02.time. slow out of the blocks. Martina is
:35:02. > :35:09.out in lane nine. James Ellington has some work to do here. He is
:35:09. > :35:15.going backwards. Martina comes through, and there are the three
:35:15. > :35:20.qualifiers. It is only 20.58. So what went wrong with James
:35:20. > :35:23.Ellington? If you come to the Olympic Games in round one, you
:35:23. > :35:31.have to have a chance to qualify, you have to bring your best game
:35:31. > :35:39.here. If he had even run a season's best, he would have been all right.
:35:39. > :35:49.He was way off, not even close there. There was a following wind,
:35:49. > :35:56.
:35:56. > :36:01.goes through as a fastest loser from that heat. 21.23. Are you
:36:01. > :36:06.disappointed? I don't know what to say. That is the slowest race I
:36:06. > :36:13.have done all year. I felt good in warm-up. Everything was going all
:36:13. > :36:18.right in warm-up. I just came off the bend and I had no gas left.
:36:18. > :36:28.don't have any particular problems? No, training is going well in
:36:28. > :36:29.
:36:29. > :36:36.Portugal, nothing major. I am just gutted, man. I just feel like I
:36:36. > :36:42.have taken someone's place and let the team down. Can you even begin
:36:42. > :36:52.to explain it? Is it the occasion? I haven't got a clue. I rise to the
:36:52. > :36:54.
:36:54. > :37:03.occasion, so I have not got a clue. Thanks for talking to us.
:37:03. > :37:10.These will be the qualifiers for the semi-finals, Bowled through,
:37:10. > :37:16.Blake through, Mitchell went through. And as we move further
:37:16. > :37:26.down, Martina there, and Christian Malcolm, his 4th Olympic Games,
:37:26. > :37:28.
:37:29. > :37:35.That is some going, 4th Olympic Games and through to his semi-final.
:37:35. > :37:38.The triathlon medal ceremony is going to be delayed by half an hour
:37:39. > :37:45.while Jonny Brownlee receives medical treatment. He is OK, but it
:37:45. > :37:51.is causing a delay. Jonny is going to take a further
:37:51. > :37:56.but have raced -- rest just to make sure of that he is OK. We have to
:37:56. > :38:01.his coach here. Coach to both brothers. It was an amazing race.
:38:01. > :38:05.It was a fantastic occasion for triathlon and for Jonny and
:38:05. > :38:11.Alistair. And hopefully internationally, as well. The boys
:38:11. > :38:17.were fantastic today. What is your assessment of the race? Is it as
:38:17. > :38:22.you would have planned it? No, it never goes to plan. But we had the
:38:22. > :38:28.insurance of Stuart Hayes in there to help in the pack, and that was
:38:28. > :38:32.fantastic. It made a huge competition. There weren't too many
:38:32. > :38:36.surprises apart from the fact that Jonny, for the first time that I
:38:36. > :38:40.can remember, got a penalty, and that changed the whole scenario.
:38:40. > :38:46.You must be very proud that he still managed to get bronze with
:38:46. > :38:49.that penalty? Fantastic effort by a young man at his first Olympics. To
:38:49. > :38:56.achieve a bronze in your first Olympics without being penalised
:38:56. > :39:02.would be fantastic, and he really Guardian. He showed a great deal of
:39:02. > :39:10.intelligence as to when he took it. So congratulations to him. Is that
:39:10. > :39:15.something that you had talked about, or is it something a traffic has to
:39:15. > :39:20.assess in the race itself? You are right, it is in the race itself,
:39:21. > :39:26.because 15 seconds is a huge advantage, or a huge disadvantage.
:39:26. > :39:33.He had to be very careful about when he took it. We were giving
:39:33. > :39:38.information to him about how far he was behind as best we could, and
:39:38. > :39:42.how far ahead of the next group. It was his judgment call in the end,
:39:42. > :39:48.and he showed great judgment. you think that penalty at all could
:39:48. > :39:54.have contributed to Jonny not feeling well after the race? It is
:39:54. > :40:00.difficult to say. He is whether the medics. He is OK, but he has to sit
:40:00. > :40:05.down rather than stand up. Until I talked to him, I won't know. This
:40:05. > :40:12.sport demands 100% of you every time you compete, and if you get a
:40:12. > :40:15.penalty, it is 101%, if there is such a thing. We saw Alistair
:40:15. > :40:21.collapse like that a couple of years ago here, but we haven't
:40:21. > :40:25.really seen that from Jonny. When we spoke to Alistair and his look
:40:25. > :40:31.of relief when he crossed the line, he said, it wasn't the gold medal,
:40:31. > :40:35.I was just glad to finish. It takes it out of them. Yes, and the
:40:35. > :40:40.climate conditions can affect you as well, so if it is humid and
:40:40. > :40:48.overcast, you can't see that, but that can where people than if they
:40:48. > :40:55.are not careful. We have been up a mountain, in heat Chambers, in cold,
:40:55. > :40:59.in all climatic conditions. We had a wet suits win today and it was a
:40:59. > :41:04.warm day, and last year we didn't have a wet suit swim and I got
:41:04. > :41:08.hyperthermia out on the course because it poured with rain. The
:41:08. > :41:15.triathlon is arduous, but the Brownlee boys and Stewart were
:41:15. > :41:21.fantastic. You have two medals, and gold and a bronze, congratulations.
:41:21. > :41:25.Thank you very much, and then you everybody's support today.
:41:25. > :41:28.Malcolm Brown, the coach of the British triathlon team. When we
:41:28. > :41:33.heard from Alistair earlier on, he was saying he was like a kid at
:41:33. > :41:36.Christmas, he couldn't wait to race. But he also made a serious point
:41:37. > :41:41.about the penalties, that he felt they were ruining the sport. What
:41:41. > :41:46.is your view on that? I don't want to interpret what he
:41:46. > :41:49.meant. Any sport, including triathlon, needs rules and
:41:49. > :41:54.regulations, and we as athletes need to be aware of them and abide
:41:54. > :41:59.by them and know the consequences. Perhaps what he was alluding to is
:41:59. > :42:05.that you have to take that time penalty during the race itself,
:42:05. > :42:09.rather than maybe it being deducted, or added to your finish time. And
:42:09. > :42:14.the fact that you have to take the penalty and standstill for 15
:42:14. > :42:18.seconds, means that your heart rate, which is very high, suddenly drops,
:42:18. > :42:23.and then as soon as you leave to go on the run again, it escalates, and
:42:23. > :42:27.that can cause a spike in the heart rate, could perhaps be dangerous.
:42:27. > :42:31.That could be what he was alluding to. So you would like to see them
:42:31. > :42:36.cross the line and have the 15 seconds deducted from your own all-
:42:36. > :42:41.time score there and then? perhaps that might be another way
:42:41. > :42:46.of addressing the situation, but as Malcolm Brown said, triathlon is
:42:46. > :42:52.incredibly mentally and physically demanding. I am not surprised to
:42:52. > :42:57.see any athlete collapsing at the finish line. It is quite common.
:42:57. > :43:02.You give all of your heart, all of your soul to that race, so penalty
:43:02. > :43:08.or no party, often you do see athletes reaching the absolute
:43:08. > :43:12.threshold in the race. You do Ironman, nine hours on your feet, a
:43:12. > :43:17.bike and in the water. Have you experienced anything like that?
:43:17. > :43:20.my last World Championship victory, I crossed the finish line
:43:20. > :43:26.physically and emotionally spent, and that was the only time I have
:43:26. > :43:31.ever had to receive medical attention after the race. The world
:43:31. > :43:36.championships for me, held in Hawaii, in 100 degree heat and
:43:36. > :43:40.intense humidity to cope with. look good on it to me. It has been
:43:40. > :43:46.a pleasure having you in the studio to share this great day for
:43:46. > :43:50.triathlon, thank you. We are changing channels once again.