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Welcome back to the glorious Olympic Park. This morning we saw | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Lutalo Muhammad qualify for taekwondo. Luke Patience and Stuart | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
Bithell got silver in the 470 class. And then Eton Dorney, Ed McKeever | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
is through to the finals. Now our attention goes to Hyde Park with | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
Daniel Fogg in the 10 kilometre open water swim. Let's join our | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 48 seconds | :01:17. | :02:05. | |
so far. They have about another 50 mostly in open water. Joining us is | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
another swimmer who has medals both in the pool and the open water, | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
getting a fantastic silver medal in Beijing in the open water and a | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
bronze in the 1,500 in Athens. David Davis. This race is the first | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
time I have seen so many changes of pace. Now the pack is stretched | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
right out and there is a big gap. Daniel Fogg has dropped to 13th in | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the second lap. I think he struggled with his position. He was | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
on the outside, behind people. In the third lap he got settled in | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
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clear water. He is now in touch in 6th place. Now we have seen this | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
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amazing burst. Any swimmer at home and watching and once and -- wants | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
to know how to do freestyle, textbook stuff. This is it. Daniel | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Fogg is still in touch, he is obviously still fighting hard. | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
seems like every time that the pack comes together, David is in its. | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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The German doing a bit of backstroke looking to his work. | :03:51. | :04:01. | |
David, what are you going to do if you are any one else here apart | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
from Lily? Do you try and race to get out there, beat him up a little | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
bit, what do you do? Beating him up is against the rules! But make it | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
difficult for him. And get around him. Only two at the front. If the | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
guys behind thing they could swim up alongside him. One of the other | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
girls are man-marked Keri-Anne Payne yesterday. Eva Risztov did | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
that and then in the latter half she went off and did her stuff. I | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
have massive expectations here. But they cannot let him have his own | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
way coming he is in clear water. He is swimming on his friend's -- on | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
his own at the front, they need to test his tactics. I think what ever | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
he tries, he has something to respond? Obviously we are seeing | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the pictures, but we don't know how they feel. It is an accumulative | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
thing. They have done three laps and have 2.5 to go. You can always | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
hit the warned that is the danger. You have to get your pacing | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
absolutely right. You need to have the sprint in the last 8,000 metres. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
If these guys are working hard to stay with the pace, they might be | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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feeling OK now, but they could have over done it. It is a tactical game. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
In open water you see a pack, they swim round at a reasonable pace | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
most of the time and then there is a race at the end. But we have seen | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
a variable amounts of speed. A lot of people have been flipping onto | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
their backs to see who is worth. You don't really do that too much. | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
There has been a lot of tactical fought going into this race. They | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
can tap each other on the feet and annoy each other. A flock of birds | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
going off to the left. We do not know how much energy this has taken, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
and the pack in this position. We will have to wait and see what | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
happens. We just need Daniel Fogg in the top five or six. At this | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
point in the women's race, if you look there there are six winners, | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
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peeled off just waiting to go quicker. Unique to watch out for | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the last few kilometres, because the leading two have a bit of a | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
kick. They will put the hammer down. They are all there. The German | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
looks like he is trying to take the pace on himself. He was 10th at the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
World Championships in Shanghai last year. So qualified | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
automatically for this Olympic 10 kilometre open water swim. Straight | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
ahead of them is the pontoon. It is almost like an obstacle course on a | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
school Sportsday. They want to get it right. It is all about the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
energy you have got an to conserve it for the end of the race will | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
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stop this point is critical. These Swimming Club. It is �20 a year. It | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
you fancy it, come down and have an ice Saturday morning swim. Then | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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there is the Peter Pan race on off. You don't want to be drinking | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
your drink on your back end and somebody gives you a bash with her | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
hand. There was a story about a great swimmer whose coach put out | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
the drinks for his summer and she missed it. He was so annoyed, he | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
pulled the pole back in, took the drink out of the net, and then just | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
through the drink. And then it hit another swimmer. And so the coach's | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Greeks when there was given a red card and disqualified straight away. | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
Mark Perry, who has done a super job with the British open water | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
swim ing. Just picking up on that, accessibility, the Serpentine Club | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
here, this is a nice location. Where I live, and my friends | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
throughout the country had various Inland Waterways way you can swim. | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
Also the coast. It is active and thriving, coastal swimming. I did | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
my torch relay in Felixstowe and now has invited to swim with them | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
there. It is active, just get on the internet and have a look, find | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
a club. It is not back cold when you work a wetsuit. They do give | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
you a good range of movement. do talk a lot about the legacy of | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
the Olympic Games. I am sure this is one sport that will take off in | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Britain. We are an island nation and there is plenty of water around | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
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us. Lots of events and more coming on every year. Notts of the | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
swimming pool swimmers -- lots of the swimming pools winners are | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
having a go. But the legacy is something London sold itself on, | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
and one of the reasons we one a bit. Several different things will | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
happen. The interesting Negussie, your high school has done well from | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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the Olympics? Yes, my old school I went to in Yorkshire. Both Brownlee | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
brothers went as well. It is a massive sports school, and a great | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
education establishment. It is a place that encourages a mix, the | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
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rounded person. I might have been the exception, but they do have | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
some intelligent people as well. The college is taking one of the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
training pools from the Olympic Park. They are going to dismantle | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
it and put it back together at Kelley College. They will take a | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
new 50-metre pool. And they're working with the local authority | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
and it will be a fantastic opportunity. Schools winning in | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
Britain, school sports in Britain, we have got to get rid of this non- | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
competitive, we cannot have competitive sports! Come on, life | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
is competitive and not having competition in sports in schools is | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
ridiculous. Kelley College is leading the way. There are many | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
places now. This idea of inspiration. As a child you can | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
watch something and get excited by it. Is it something you can do? I | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
think the Olympic Association, Team GB put out a statement yesterday to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
encourage the Government. So they have had conversations on how to | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
take a catalytic thing, you like the idea of something, put it into | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
practice and make sure the pathways the children who want to do it, not | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
just access it, but take it into clubs, learn techniques and be | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
coached. The school club link is significant. Anyway, back to the | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
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race. It is still strong out. -- Ironman competitor and prefers | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
swimming in the seat will stop we did not think he would do well here. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
But to be in a medal position he will have to be on the front. | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
looks like Andreas watch Burger of Germany is forcing the pace. Going | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
with him is the Canadian without a hat. And still tracking, we are now | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
in third place, I wonder if Millie is taking a rest. Doesn't look | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
quite as smooth as he has done. The bald head of Richard wind Burger, | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
who won the test event. But the German is leading. He is looking | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
pretty good at the moment. Trying to get on his feet is the Canadian. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
They have to make sure they go through this timing bridge. Four | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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laps done. Two to go and it is a 1.67 kilometres. That is each loop. | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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The German first and the Canadian second. Talking about carrying the | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
torch, the first person to hold the Olympic torch the 2012 was the | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
Greek summer. In Athens, he was the guy who got it and started running. | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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The field is starting to get strung out, and Richard Weinberger it is | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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chasing Waschburger of Germany who is leading. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Two laps to go. Yesterday, after the women's race was over, I | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
witnessed something that genuinely made me cry. That was David Carry, | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
due to marry Keri-Anne Payne, finding her, holding her tight, and | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
say the things that somebody who loves you says, when you have | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
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It was really touching, you know what she has been through. | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
To do that race, it is so gruelling, emotional. You can see today, it is | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
not just a case of, you have your own space, and you swim along. It | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
is 10k of fighting. I had done it as well. It is so different to the | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
expense I feel when I am swimming, it is totally alien to that. The | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
only similarity I can glean is the feelings that my parents get when | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
they watch me swim, that is what I was feeling for Keri-Anne. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
wonderful view that he was right there. It was really good to see | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
him, I just needed somebody I didn't needs -- and into feel-bad | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
sobbing. To have someone who would say, don't worry about it, it's | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
still the same, I'm still going to marry you. I have to say, if you | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
had said, I am not going to marry you now! You have the rest of your | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
life to plan together now. This gives you a natural break from | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
swimming. Do you know long turn? Ticking in the back of my head, it | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
is the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, it is such a draw, I love competing | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
for Scotland. It seems really good. I have also got other things to | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
think about. General life to get on with, enjoys spending time with | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Keri-Anne. What I want to do now is enjoy the Olympics, it's not | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
something you get very often. To experience it as a sports fan. To | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
be part of this incredible event. It epitomises the whole Olympic | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
spirit, seeing so many happy people, families coming together. Keri-Anne, | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
you have done so much to promote swimming amongst youngsters. And | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
you're broadcasting is top class. We don't really know what is going | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
to happen, no one can make a decision until we see where things | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
are going, the World Championships. At the moment, I am looking forward | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
to training, after a break, the wedding. We have lots to look | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
forward to before making any decision. Have a wonderful wedding, | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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bring that pace up. That is a faster speed than before. We think | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
this stringing out will be definitive. Some of the guys in the | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
middle will be working very hard to stay on the pace. The question is, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
of the leading five, are they prepared to keep it going to break | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
away. Once the break away starts, there are three medals for grabs, | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
it gets interesting. What is fascinating is Waschburger of | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
Germany, 25, doesn't have form in open water. He was 10th in the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
World Championships. He doesn't have a string of medals on the | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
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world circuit. European Chadli ships, 17 in the 10k. -- European | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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Championships. 10k, what makes you want to do that? Medals! There is | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
one lady, I do think she has tried to do the seven great crossings | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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around the world, something amazing. They are starting to string out. | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
There was a pack of seven bunched together. Waschburger of Germany is | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
pushing the pace. He is around first. Mellouli was looking a bit | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
ragged, but he is back to looking fairly comfortable. If they string | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
it out, going one by one, two metres per person, you could find | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
yourself an awful long way back. Dan Fogg, two thirds of the way | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
down the pack, he found this lap difficult. Mellouli, to the left, | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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he has to start -- he has decided to take the lead. Thomas Lurz there. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
I got the impression then that Mellouli will be making a little | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
burst. Spyridou Gianniotis is also there, some of the great names, in | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
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the leading group. This goes at a metres to go. It is about half an | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
hour of swimming still to go, probably slightly more. Still, it | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
is an awful long way. If you think of the whole 10k race, they're | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
coming to the end of it, past three quarters. There is a massive | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
overhead camera which runs almost the full length of the Serpentine, | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
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extraordinary. Mellouli, he has covered that break. Now taking over. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Is that the last we have seen of Waschburger. He got caught going | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
around the buoy. That looks like Thomas Lurz. David? I was really | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
surprised with Waschburger. We have not talked about him much. He put a | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
big break on in the last two laps. I don't know whether he did that to | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
help Thomas Lurz, it has spread this pack out, a long line of | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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swimmers. In the instant areas, the buoys and feeding stations -- | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
incident areas. We saw pictures of Dan Fogg, looking up an awful lot | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
more. That is a sign of feeling tired or, failing to respond to the | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
pace. Your body keeps looking up, where am I going? Disorientation. | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
Maybe he is finding it difficult. He dropped from six, to 22, at the | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
last time check. The Russian, disqualified in the Olympic Games, | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
he has qualified here. He was at 10th at the last time check, | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
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someone still to watch out for. This last lap will be exciting. | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
Thank you, David, maybe 150 metres. It has started to become very | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
important, the feeding station. Mellouli is trying to break again, | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
every time he has done it, they have strong out. When he tries to | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
apply the pressure, they cannot live with him. But, one person, | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
every single time, he continues to track him, Thomas Lurz. The three | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of us were having a chat half an hour before this, and talking about | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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the editor of eight domestique in cycling, who does the work for you. | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
-- the idea of a domestique in cycling. Waschburger, reveals he | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
cannot get a medal, maybe a deal has been done. | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
Thomas Lurz has every medal in his pocket, apart from this one. | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
Mellouli is challenging. Thomas Lurz has an Olympic medal, but not | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
gold. We saw Mellouli a couple of laps ago, he made a big move in | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
this straight down to the feeding station. He seemed to do it so he | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
could take some food and drink, and still come out, in the leading pack. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
I wonder if he will do the same sort of thing. He does work awfully | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
hard to make sure he is reading into the feeding station, | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
interesting tactic. It looks like he is going very wide. If you are | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
in the pack, do you follow Mellouli and go to the right, now to the | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
left. Or, do you go to the right. Hardly any of them doing it. That | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
is really interesting. You saw a few people building up, he is not | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
feeding. I planned to. But if I do, I will miss the pace. A couple of | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
them decided they would maybe feed, and didn't. Added think anybody has | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
taken a feed. The top of Group, the top four, have opened up a gap. | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
That was a moment maybe where the break was made. | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
Mellouli has gone. There is clear Lurz. Thomas Lurz is working very | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
hard to get back. Look at that, a gap of maybe three metres between | :27:35. | :27:44. | |
Mellouli. Let us see around this buoy. Not an awful lot of turn on | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
this one, a slight redirection. Mellouli around it first, Thomas | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
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Lurz second. Thomas Lurz is working very hard, Andy. There is the pack | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
coming around. The world champion from Shanghai last year. Three- | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
times Olympian as well, Sydney, Athens. His best result was 5th in | :28:13. | :28:21. | |
Athens. In the 1,500m. 400 as well. Spyridou Gianniotis is a very | :28:21. | :28:31. | |
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race. When Risztov started to push the pace and tried to make it a war | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
of attrition, to keep it moving and moving. The bridge which divides | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
Kensington Gardens, and the Long Water of the Serpentine. In a | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
couple of laps, they will do this next buoy. There will be a streak | :29:21. | :29:30. | |
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sprint into the finish. -- straight this time. They have about 400m to | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
go straight and now and then one lap to go. That is why Mellouli has | :29:49. | :29:59. | |
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put his hammer down. He has changed about a second faster than the rest | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
of the field. They cannot live with it. Key has been sitting around the | :30:06. | :30:15. | |
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field. It took too much energy to stay up with him. Lurz will be | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
working his socks off to stay up with him. It is growing by the | :30:22. | :30:32. | |
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centimetre. And that is Gianniotis in third, I think. The Greek world | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
champion. Been 4th it is still the Canadian, Weinberger. This is what | :30:39. | :30:49. | |
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happens when you push the pace nice you have as few people in the final | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
sprint as possible. If those guys stay together there will be four | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
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men going for three medals. Mellouli, Lurz, Weinberger, and | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
Gianniotis. Mellouli knows exactly what he has done. He has probably | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
gone with about 3,000 metres to go. It is very unusual. Mellouli has | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
Gun earlier than he has done in any previous race. He won the qualifier | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
in Portugal in June of this year. 9th June, he just a couple of | :31:40. | :31:47. | |
months ago. He was first, Weinberger was second. Lurz didn't | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
do it because he had already qualified, and neither did | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
Gianniotis because he had already qualified. From last year's World | :31:57. | :32:07. | |
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Championships you have got a fascinating race coming up to one | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
lap to go. Mellouli is taking them in. 1.6 and a bit kilometres still | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
to go. Mellouli, there was maybe two metres, I think Lurz may have | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
:32:32. | :32:42. | ||
just real that in a tiny bit. -- not been dropped yet. This is | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
fascinating. My thought when Mellouli was going to go come I | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
thought he would go in decisive fashion and that would be the end | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
of that. But he has not done that, Lurz is covering. And also covering | :32:57. | :33:04. | |
him a very well indeed is Richard Weinberger from Canada. There is | :33:05. | :33:14. | |
one out on his own, and that it might be Waschburger. Waschburger | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
is finding himself caught in the middle. Daniel Fogg has done quite | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
well, he is in 15th place. He is still in there for start he won't | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
get into the medals, it will be so hard to bridge the gap. Mellouli is | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
opening a decisive lead. It looks like the other three will be | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
swimming with each other in a minute. As they have entered their | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
final lap in his men's 10,000m opal water swim at the Olympic Games, | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
fantastic crowds all the way around the edge of the Serpentine. | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
And amongst those crowds, with a silver medal, Michael Jamieson, and | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
Rebecca Adlington, and it makes you the most successful British swimmer. | :34:01. | :34:11. | |
:34:11. | :34:14. | ||
There will always be a little hint of a disappointment. I did expect | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
more with my time. It wasn't how I wanted it to go, but looking back | :34:20. | :34:26. | |
it has been incredible. The crowd and support has been amazing. We | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
couldn't ask for any more support with what we have been given. | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
Beijing was amazing. Maybe it would have been nice to do it the other | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
way around. But I have had an amazing career so far. If somebody | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
said to me, you have will get a four Olympic medals, I would have | :34:46. | :34:55. | |
has has been a dream come true. Michael, a silver medal. Would you | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
have had that reaction if somebody said to you you will get a silver | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
medal at a London Games? It has been a perfect week. I have enjoyed | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
it. The result is better than I hoped it would be. I was always the | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
outside tip at best. I have had a great week and I have been trying | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
to soak it up this week. What does it make you want to do now, it is | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
the Commonwealth Games in your sights, Rio in your site? I hope so, | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
Glasgow in two years will be a homecoming. The pool were the | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
swimming will be taking place is where I swam when I was five or six | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
years of age. The Scots have such a strong breaststroke contingent now. | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
Making the team will be hard enough. I will be delighted to be there. | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
For years is a long time until Rio. But now I would love to be there as | :35:53. | :36:03. | |
:36:03. | :36:06. | ||
duties at Keri-Anne and David's wedding coming up and then you have | :36:06. | :36:14. | |
a cycle ride? Keri-Anne's wedding, I cannot wait for that, and her hen | :36:14. | :36:22. | |
do. Are you organising that? her sister is. We have been passing | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
ideas back and forth. I have some cycle training, something different. | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
I have not been on a bike in 10 years. It will be keeping fit and | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
it is the charity, which is the reason we are doing it. I love to | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
go back to the guys who really need it. I know you mentioned you would | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
like to do Strictly Come Dancing, if the offer comes, maybe it | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
already has, what the cycle ride rule you out? Yes it would come | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
about raising money for charity, it is more important. Obviously a | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
would love to do strictly, it has been my dream, to learn how to | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
dance, but the charity work is more important and that I cried | :37:06. | :37:16. | |
:37:16. | :37:20. | ||
definitely comes first. Brilliant sure he goes around the right side | :37:20. | :37:27. | |
of this buoy. If he goes alongside, it is a straight red card and you | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
are out. -- the wrong side. He has to go round the far side of it. He | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
is looking up. He did a big correction. He has to be careful | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
coming into the finish. Doing the same loop all the time, he doesn't | :37:46. | :37:56. | |
:37:56. | :37:56. | ||
want to go wrong. This is the final turn. Short distance between those | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
sausage-shaped things! Technical turn. This is the east end of the | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
leg. They have to go all the way to the West end. About three-quarters | :38:09. | :38:19. | |
:38:19. | :38:29. | ||
go. For Mellouli that should be pretty good, about 1,500m for start | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
he knows it very well. The Olympic champion in Beijing in the pool on | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
1,500. And I wonder if he knows how far ahead he is? That is the bottom | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
:38:52. | :38:56. | ||
end. He hasn't dropped them as much as I thought he would. Lurz is | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
still there. Gianniotis has caught up with Weinberger. It is not over. | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
Gianniotis looks as though he has got some energy. Both Lurz and | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
Laura Bechtolsheimer have some scrappy strokes, compared to the | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
guys in first and second place. Sihine is looking to see if he | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
wants to bridge the gap. He is on the feat of Weinberger. I think he | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
is giving them a little tap, which is very annoying. And he is | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
crawling up the body. The referee is looking very carefully at what | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
is going on. If he sees something on towards, in his opinion, he will | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
get the yellow-card out. David Davis, we have seen some people get | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
red cards, and yellow-card in the final lap of these major | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
championships? As it gets to the closing stages, people want to be | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
in the right position. There is four of them now, one leading and | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
three in the chasing group. It is a decisive split. The three behind | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
Mellouli are working hard. He is not kicking too hard, there is not | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
much splash. He still has another gear to go. But the guys behind him, | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
we are seeing a lot of splash just to stay in touch. It will be a | :40:28. | :40:36. | |
fight for the lower medals. They have always been the main players. | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
One kilometre to go. 1,000m. 9,000 metres have gone. Look at the | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
battle for silver and bronze. I think that is Mellouli leading. He | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
has about a ten-metre lead, still. On the left, his Gianniotis. And | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
Weinberger is on the right. Lurz is still there, I thought he had gone, | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
but he is on the feat of Weinberger. I don't think they can catch | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
Mellouli now. It is about 20 ends of an Olympic pool. I think this is | :41:16. | :41:26. | |
good night, he is going to his legs. I think David is correct, this is | :41:26. | :41:36. | |
:41:36. | :41:38. | ||
the ear to go. Mellouli, maybe in putting in two beats, I think | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
you're right. The second group won't catch him on this now. It | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
will be a real scrap the the silver. Just at the bottom of your screen | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
by the boat, Mellouli on the right and then those three of those guys | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
are only going to get two medals. Gianniotis is looking for the | :42:00. | :42:10. | |
freshest. Maybe the clever tactics is Lurz. He needs to make sure he | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
will be climbing up shortly. With about 800m to go, they have some | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
work to do. I do think Mellouli looks good, but the has not | :42:23. | :42:29. | |
completely drop them. He does look good and when he was in the pool, | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
his last 400m was very strong. He came back on the field. I wouldn't | :42:34. | :42:44. | |
:42:44. | :42:45. | ||
be surprised if he is built for this. He has put on a couple of kg | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
to make sure he can take the colder water. That is what a couple of the | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
women did. He had a great swim in the pool. Not as great as he can do | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
in the pool, and I think everything has been geared up to this. | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
Everything has been geared up to give Mellouli the best chance for | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
some he has been travelling around experiencing open-water swimming. | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
He has the turn of speed. Coming into this, he was talked about as | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
the one to watch, the one to beat and the one who will take this | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
sport on to another level. Again we are seeing somebody he won't let | :43:22. | :43:31. | |
this go. There are some wonderful swimmers in there, Great experience. | :43:31. | :43:37. | |
They will be doing all sorts of things trying to gain advantage | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
over each other, positioning wise. The referee boat is tracking those | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
:43:52. | :43:54. | ||
guys. Just to check it is all right. So, Mellouli has passed the middle, | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
pink buoy and coming to where the feeding station is. But they won't | :43:58. | :44:08. | |
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be going into there. All coaches alongside. They are all on the pink | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
pontoon. They will be encouraging as much as they can. I think that | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
is Lurz in the white cap just behind Mellouli. It looks quite | :44:23. | :44:31. | |
close, but it is still about 12, 13 metres. The gap is slowly | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
increasing between Mellouli of Tunisia. He looks very good indeed. | :44:35. | :44:44. | |
The chasing pack have some serious work to do. They do have a bit of a | :44:44. | :44:51. | |
fight going on, it looks like it might be Lurz. It might be Lurz on | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
the chasing pack. Gianniotis it is in there, and so is Weinberger of | :44:57. | :45:06. | |
Canada. His Mellouli going to create some history? He has already | :45:06. | :45:16. | |
:45:16. | :45:18. | ||
won a bronze medal freestyle in the pool. He is absolutely going now. | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
He has two turns to go. Us to swim along the end of the late, along | :45:23. | :45:33. | |
:45:33. | :45:46. | ||
Gianniotis, maybe in the third place, with wine Berger -- Richard | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
Weinberger of Canada. I had thought Thomas Lurz would make him move, | :45:51. | :46:01. | |
:46:01. | :46:02. | ||
but he did not come up with it. In that chasing pack, Dan Fogg. I | :46:02. | :46:09. | |
cannot see Mellouli losing this, having a fantastic swim. He still | :46:09. | :46:19. | |
:46:19. | :46:20. | ||
hasn't done the kick we know he can It will be fantastic to see Dan | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
Fogg finish in the top 10. Got under 15 minutes this year for the | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
first time. Made the Olympic final, to getting the top 10 would be a | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
good year for Dan Fogg. We are looking here, but somebody I think | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
he has made a wonderful transition from swimming pool to open water, | :46:43. | :46:53. | |
:46:53. | :47:05. | ||
righthand side. He does not have far to go, maybe 500 metres. Hasn't | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
he swum well? He has kept on pushing the pace, adding a little | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
bit more pressure, then letting the field come back, then put in on the | :47:15. | :47:23. | |
pressure. He has a 25-metre lead. Mellouli from Tunisia, he trains in | :47:23. | :47:32. | |
a Saturdays. A big scrap for silver and bronze medal. That will be | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
really tight. Thomas Lurz is in there, Spyridou Gianniotis, and | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
Richard Weinberger who has worked so hard. | :47:41. | :47:48. | |
The following pack has strung out again. Mellouli is coming to | :47:48. | :47:58. | |
:47:58. | :48:04. | ||
victory. In the chasing pack, they have strung out. That is Thomas | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
:48:14. | :48:18. | ||
Lurz in the silver cap. Richard Weinberger to the left of him. | :48:18. | :48:24. | |
Spyridou Gianniotis, falling off the pace. We are looking at a | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
Tunisian Olympic champion. The ace is incredible. He swam in | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
the pool in the 1500m freestyle. And he has come into the Serpentine, | :48:34. | :48:44. | |
:48:44. | :48:57. | ||
to swim the 10 -- 10k open water. Thomas Lurz, not dropping back. In | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
their position is one burgher of candour. But, nobody will catch | :49:02. | :49:09. | |
this man. At the moment, Mellouli will take a fantastic gold medal, | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
10,000 metres in the Serpentine. has executed it perfectly. A | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
wonderful swimmer. I think there is going to be a cracking battle for | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
second. Thomas Lurz will not want to give it away. They are fighting | :49:30. | :49:38. | |
back. He has some work to do, Mellouli. He doesn't get caught on | :49:38. | :49:48. | |
:49:48. | :49:51. | ||
the lane lined -- mustn't get caught on the lane line. Mellouli | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
is creating history. A silver medal battle, it looks like Thomas Lurz | :49:56. | :50:03. | |
will get it. The gold will go to Mellouli of Tunisia. He won the | :50:03. | :50:13. | |
:50:13. | :50:29. | ||
gold fabric in Beijing in the 1500m world champion, Spyridou Gianniotis | :50:29. | :50:38. | |
of Greece. So sad one of those four men had to be out of the medals. | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
I am not sure if that is Dan Fogg. Coming in, in 5th place. A | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
fantastic swimmer, how has he done that? He has done 1,500 in the pool | :50:52. | :50:59. | |
as well. 8th in the pool in the 1,500. That is a brilliant swim | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
from Dan Fogg, the future of British distance soaring, looking | :51:04. | :51:14. | |
:51:14. | :51:16. | ||
very good indeed. Well done. -- distance swimming. | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
What a great swim from Dan Fogg, to come through, destroying that big | :51:23. | :51:33. | |
:51:33. | :51:35. | ||
pack in that last 1,500, his best ever position. Mellouli, just | :51:35. | :51:42. | |
rolling on to his back. First Olympic gold medal for Tunisia in | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
open water. He got a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics in the pool, | :51:49. | :51:58. | |
in the 1,500m. Dan Fogg, what a finish. I have never seen him | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
finished so well. Very impressive. To have anything left after the | :52:04. | :52:14. | |
:52:14. | :52:18. | ||
1500m freestyle. Then, to come here. There he is, so pumped up. What | :52:18. | :52:25. | |
does it mean to him. Bronze medal in the pool in the 1,500, now a | :52:25. | :52:35. | |
:52:35. | :52:52. | ||
stand up and salute this man. He is trying to work up the crowd. | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
Mellouli is walking around. Pumping his fist at anyone who will look at | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
:53:07. | :53:10. | ||
him. Coming in now, not the last swimmer. Schulte is still half a | :53:10. | :53:20. | |
:53:20. | :53:25. | ||
lap a way. -- away. That is the Kazakhstan's swimmer. | :53:25. | :53:34. | |
What a sensational race. A really fantastic swimmer. Still no gold | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
medal for Thomas Lurz. The bronze medal, very well earned, or Richard | :53:40. | :53:50. | |
:53:50. | :53:54. | ||
David Davies and I, lost in admiration for Mellouli. He has | :53:54. | :54:00. | |
made history, the first to win a pool and open water medal in the | :54:00. | :54:06. | |
same Games. He has destroyed a very good field. A massive gap, it is | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
normally a tight finish. Amazing all the way through. Dan Fogg, 5th | :54:12. | :54:20. | |
is his best. He a great performance. On the third lap, he was down to 20. | :54:20. | :54:29. | |
He finished strongly. He ended up in 5th place. He has had a | :54:29. | :54:37. | |
fantastic Games. What about Thomas Lurz, such an experienced open | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
water swimmer? He will be the people's choice, he has been around | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
for a long time. A very hard worker, a great ambassador for the sport. A | :54:48. | :54:55. | |
bronze in Beijing, silver here today. At any stage, did you think, | :54:55. | :55:04. | |
I wish I was in there? Only to cool off! You need to be in great | :55:04. | :55:11. | |
condition, Mellouli showed that today. He beat Thomas Lurz by a | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
good five-10 seconds. He has mood of this sport on massively. I was | :55:16. | :55:26. | |
glad to watch today. We're waiting for the swimmers to pass by. The | :55:26. | :55:32. | |
sun is beating down on us. It feels like we are in Rome. He is making | :55:32. | :55:40. | |
his way over now. Taking on plenty of fluids. A word for Spyridou | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
Gianniotis of Greece had finished 4th. Born in Liverpool. We are very | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
pleased for him. Dan Fogg, congratulations, a stunning swim, | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
and how on earth you came back into it on the last lap. We don't even | :55:57. | :56:07. | |
:56:07. | :56:09. | ||
know where I came. 5th. I am really pleased with that. I was picking | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
off a person at a time. I was surprised I had quite a bit left, I | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
was feeling repeat in the middle. The pace picked up on the last two | :56:20. | :56:30. | |
laps. It was amazing to watch. You got a good start. Some people were | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
left. Mid-race, you slipped back as far back as 22. Suddenly, you're | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
there on the last lap. I was happy with my first lap, it felt easy, I | :56:42. | :56:51. | |
was at the feet of Mellouli. Then, people were fighting quite a lot, | :56:51. | :56:57. | |
bunched together. It was a case of fighting to the front. Keri-Anne | :56:57. | :57:01. | |
said in the last lap, she was feeling horrible but she listened | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
to the crowd and went for it. Coming down the back straight, I | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
was a matter of metres away from people screaming, and it really | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
made a difference. In a race so tough and hard like this. I just | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
wish I was closer towards the end to be in the race. But I am happy | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
to get up to 5th. You did a great job, well done. | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
Dan Fogg, he gets a hug from the last Olympic silver-medallist, | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
David Davies. That was stunning not just for the quality of sport, but | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
for the setting, and how much it has done for the sport of swimming. | :57:41. | :57:48. | |
This is central London, these crowds, a fantastic place. | :57:48. | :57:55. | |
Congratulations to Mellouli, for Tunisia. | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
We have more news from the water, from Weymouth. What a result, | :58:01. | :58:09. | |
silver medal for Great Britain, Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills, in | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
the 470 class, the second silver medal of the day. The men and the | :58:15. | :58:22. | |
woman. They were just pipped by New Zealand who won the gold medal. | :58:22. | :58:30. | |
Huge congratulations. We have boxing with Luke Campbell | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
in the men's semi-finals of the men's bantamweight. Just to the | :58:35. | :58:44. | |
right, behind the Velodrome, the BMX Track. You can see action from | :58:44. | :58:50. |