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Well, welcome back! Would you look at the time? It is lunchtime, and | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
every day at this time of day we will be delivering our packed lunch, | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
a round-up of what has been going on at the Olympics in bite-sized | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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Low macro, I don't know what to say! Liam Tancock has got 5th, just | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
four chance of a second outside the bronze medal. Hopefully we will | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
inspire some future generations of swimmers. Oh, my goodness me, Gemma | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Spofforth was 5th. The gold medal goes to Ruta Meilutyte or of | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Zone Smith, the 18-year-old from They Alar, plenty to get your teeth | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
into, memorable moments. -- There you are. It is the women's 10 in | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the North Greenwich Arena this afternoon, the women's team final, | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
but before that what can you watch and when can you watch it? If you | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
switch over to BBC Three, you can see Ben Ainslie in action, he is in | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
the sixth of 11 races, trying to get their Olympic gold. Coming up | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
later on the red button, you will be able to see Badminton. Also, we | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
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will an action from Wimbledon later And also, if you fancy a bit of | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
action on the piste, we have got fencing for you on the red button. | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
Well, a lot has been going on already this morning, these are the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
headlines: In the swimming pool this morning, the Australian | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
missile James Magnussen, and world record holder Cesar Cielo made it | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
through to this freestyle semi- finals. There was a big shock for | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Britain's world silver-medallist Ellen Gandy, she failed to qualify | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
for the women's 200m butterfly, but better news for Jemma Lowe, through | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
to the semi-finals, the third- And out on a lake at Eton Dorney, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Alan Campbell was an impressive winner of his heat in the men's | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
single sculls. He wins a semi-final place with a good victory over the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
German. And the lightweight men's four will go in Thursday's final | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
fall in confidence after winning their semi-final. -- full of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
confidence. We are going to stay on the water, and we have been giving | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
you lots of films about how our commentary team got into their | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
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sport and why they love it so, and I first got into conniving really | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
threw my brother. He saw a programme on the television and | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
decided he wanted to have a go. Being the younger sister, I got | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
dragged along. When I got there, I got into it and probably got about | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
half a metre away from the bank had just burst into tears, so it wasn't | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the most successful start to what people would think of as my | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
kennelling career. The canal was only a couple of hundred metres up | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the road, so I used to walk from my house to the canal, but I can | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
remember the older I got, the more embarrassing this became, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
particularly the times when I got to college age. It was not a cool | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
thing to be doing. There were a lot of very competent canoeists in the | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
club who took her under their wing, and they saw her potential very | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
quickly. I think my friends from school thought I was a bit crazy, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
but they were incredibly supportive. They would sit there with umbrellas | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
watching me go round and round in circles, as they would describe, so | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
has time went on they probably thought I was less crazy, but it | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
wasn't something everyone would choose to do. She was a very good | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
all-round athlete anyway, very well co-ordinated, very good runner, so | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
once she got the basics, she got The actual Olympic experience was | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
so much bigger than I had anticipated. We have lots of talks | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
about how it was going to be a different experience, and I did not | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
really believe half of it, it is just another race, I will just turn | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
up and do what I do every time, but it was just incredible, the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
experience. When I first went to the stadium, there was this big | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
stand in front of you, and I remember thinking, oh my goodness, | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
this is all for us! The day that I remember the final, I had a massive | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
rush of butterflies, energy, and just like, my gosh, this is it, the | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
countdown fell so slow. Oh my goodness, I went off the start. I | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
hit 83, I thought, gosh, I have got to keep it together. There was this | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
disastrous part where I missed a gate, and the commentator said any | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
chance of a medal was over. challenge for a medal has | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
disappeared. I ended up in fourth place. The end was nerve-wracking, | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
wasn't it, because of the way the results came in? It was my own | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
mistake, to finish 4th is good, but it is disappointing. It was halfway | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
through that interview that I heard a screaming noise from my physio, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
very high-pitched lady, I looked across, and on the scoreboards it | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
had popped up that I was third. team wanted to have a chat with | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
them. I have got a medal somehow! From that point, it was just a | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
roller-coaster. Helen Reeves has got the bronze medal, and the | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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French are relegated into 44 star My five-year-old son is going to be | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
absolutely delighted that we are showing his next sport, about nine | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
miles outside of the Olympic Park is the White Water Centre where | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
spectators are lining the rapids waiting to see if Britain's David | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Florence can get through the semi- finals of the C1 class slalom | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
canoeing. Jonathan Edwards is at the water's edge with Helen, the | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
start of that last film. Helen, it was the double! | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Hello, I was relaying that PCs to Helen through my earpiece, because | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
she has not got an earpiece. You remember hitting Gates 34 star Yes, | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
it is not the one to hit, I could see it with the nose of my boat. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
that was the worst of my errors, it would have been better than what I | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
got. It was always a troublesome course, and that is what happens, | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
there is so much going on, you have to control every step of the way | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
and get to the end on the best possible run. It is a three here, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
but it is finals day, there is a real buzz, you wish you were at | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
there? I wish I could be at the start line with the same for my hat | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
in Athens, but I could not handled it in front of this crowd. That is | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
what we have seen, massive support. Yes, sitting on the start line, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
then names get an ounce, their profile goes up on the screen and | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the crowd goes wild, which must be amazing. -- men names get announced. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Richard Hounslow said it is amazing, when the crowd go up in Rawes, it | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
is fantastic. David Florence had a silver medal four years ago. How | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
excited should we be about his prospects? Very excited. In the | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
heats, he did not have a fantastic time on the first runs, the nerves | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
really got to him, he was the first British competitor down the course, | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
and the Crown would never have known what it was going to do, so | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
it took him a while to get into his stride. He has had two more runs in | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
the C2 class heats, so we will be feeling more confident today, he | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
will know what to expect. There is a lot in it, it will suit him, it | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
is technical, and he is good at controlling the moves. I think the | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
nerves should be in the bag and settled. The course has changed to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
the semi-final, they think it will be a little bit slower, but only | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
one run. 12 go in the semi-final, eight and a final, so there is no | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
room for mistakes. Absolutely, that is what makes it so exciting, it is | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
one run that counts, they will have to get it right. They will have | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
watched the demonstration runs, worked out their options. There are | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
a couple of places where there is an option, and depending on whether | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
you are right-handed or left-handed, that will depend on what you do. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
One of the things they say about canoe slant is that it is an on the | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
day's sport, but only two athletes have won the gold medals. They | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
present a real challenge to him, don't they? They are both | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
incredible, but they are not unbeatable, they have been beaten | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
in World Cups, World Championships, but not in the Olympic Games! It is | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
all about there for the others, and the pressure is on them to recreate | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
what they have done in past Olympic Games. What do you think David's | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
approach will they? As I say, the top eight go through. Is he going | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
to keep something back for the final? No, he will go all out. Only | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
eight go through, so they all have to go out. They cannot afford to be | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
holding back, what if they made a mistake later than the cause? It | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
will be all out, and I guess you may possibly see if somebody does a | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
fantastically accurate to run, they may take it a little bit easier to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the finish line, but I'm not sure that anyone will do that, take that | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
chance. Thanks for the moment. That semi-final goes of very shortly. In | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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case you're not an expert, he is The aim is to negotiate a course | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
marked by slalom gates cleanly and as quickly as possible without | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
touching the polls. For a clean passage, the head of the panel must | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
travel fully between the two polls. Part of the boat must be inside | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
them. If anything touches one of the polls, a two-second penalty is | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
incurred. Capsizing is not penalised. But if you miss a gate, | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
50 seconds will be added to the total time. 82 athletes compete for | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
four gold medals. The numbers are reduced through heats, semi-finals | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
and ultimately the finals. They will perform two runs during the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
heats, with the best one deciding whether they progress for are | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
eliminated. The semi-finalists start with a clear slate and are | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
judged on a single run. The final 10 competitors are right on another | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
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single run to determine who takes OK, just a reminder that David goes | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
8th of 12. All he has to do is get into the final. Anyway, your | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
commentators are Paul Dickenson and Dan out of breath Helen Reeves | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
after running up to the commentary We are jet getting a bird's-eye | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
view of the course at the moment. It has been increased by one extra | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
gate, but that does not really tell the story. Helen Reeves has rushed | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
back to the commentary box, and she can explain a little bit more about | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
physically demanding during the heats, but I think the competitors | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
are going to be surprised once they go down the course this afternoon, | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
to realise just how technically demanding it is going to be, Helen. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Absolutely, the cause has increased in difficulty, and I think also | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
physically it will be quite a challenge. We have seen there are | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
now six upstream gates that are in the eddies. So it is going to be | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
quite a technical challenge for them to decide what to do, and it | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
will slow the boat down, so I would expect to see slower times than we | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
saw in the heats. Helen is still a little bit out of breath! But never | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
mind. Here is the start list. On the second page, we will get David | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
Florence of Great Britain. The French and starting at number six, | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
former double Olympic champion. -- the Frenchman. Then we have got | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
some real class, one of the fastest men in the heats, the man from | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
Slovenia, and last to go, the amazing man himself Mikhail | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Martikan of Slovakia, double Olympic champion from Atlanta, when | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
he was just 17 years old. As the first man that we are going to say | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
this afternoon, just to remind you, it is only the top eight that go | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
through, and there is only one run allowed in the semi-final. The | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Australian has done incredibly well to make his team and to make the | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
semi-final, ranked only 40th in the world. He qualified for the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Australian team at his fourth attempt, so we must be on a bit of | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
a high, Helen. Absolutely, and he has got quite a smooth start, but | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
he has picked up a penalty already, and he will want to be accurate, he | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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does not want to pick up any more downstream is in the eddies, so | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
they have to push around and get out into the flow and across the | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
river. They go from one very difficult portion of the course to | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
another. After that early penalty, the Australian is going pretty well | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :16:13. | :16:55. | |
course, having to come across the will be the target for David | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
Florence and everybody else. The clock stops to include his two- | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
second Panel two point. He can be very proud of what he has achieved. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
-- penalty point. A very good effort but can everybody else beat | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
him? Very smooth put on the first gate he took a touch very early on | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
which would have put him on the back foot. He had to make sure he | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
did not make any errors further down the course. Huge support for | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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the Australians. They have set the standard. 300 metres back up the | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
course, our first glimpse this afternoon of the Chinese athlete. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
People were surprised when this man made the semi-final but he is a | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
double Asian champion. He also won a gold medal in the Asian Games a | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
couple of years ago. He finished 6th at last year's World | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Championships, Seve has shown form in recent years. -- so he has shown. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
I saw him warming up in, water and he looked technically proficient | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
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the final for the first time in his life. He is keeping the boat nice | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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A right handed paddler. Going for another 10 seems to be done | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
backwards because it gives you an entry to the next gate. 13 is | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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proving to be difficult. Can he as possible to stop it slowing him | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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the Australian. That was a good time by the Australian. A nervous | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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20 minutes before the Chinese wise he seemed to be lacking. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
and he decided to do it two spins on the course and the Australian | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
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only did one. The next two paddlers will be on the left-hand side so it | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
is interesting to see what they do at 9, 10, 11 and also 18. Five more | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
athletes before we see the appearance of the Beijing Olympics | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
silver medallist David Florence. And two before him goes the double | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
Olympic champion from Sydney in 2000 and Athens, 2004, Tony | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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four years ago. He looked very good in the heats. He made it to the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
semi-final quite comfortably. Not accumulating too many penalties on | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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penalty. That will do him some damage for sure. He came second at | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
the World Cup competition at the new course in Cardiff. David | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
Florence really did like that course. He won in two classes. This | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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lack of concentration going over the drop. He entered the Eddie | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
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quite high and the bow out popped finals, two seconds is not too bad | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
but four can make all the difference. He is outside the time | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
set by Australia. That puts him in third place and three men have | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
competed so far. The Russia not too happy. His chances of going through | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
to the final of pretty slim. will be hoping that some other | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
athletes make some mistakes. Two seconds of penalties will cost him | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
quite hard, I think. He spins at gate 10, which is why he picked up | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
one of the penalties. They are not long strokes, but they are | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
significant. He crashed into the second penalty, coming off the fast | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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water. Those four penalties very impressive in at the heats. He | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
finished 5th in the final four years ago in Beijing. Bronze | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
medallist at the World Championships a good few years ago | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
now, but he was the overall World Cup winner last year. We have seen | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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him fly down the course during the he caught the poll and picked up at | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :24:45. | :25:32. | |
his second penalty. He needs to one at 18. The advantage that he | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
had over the Australian 20 seconds ago is almost gone with that his | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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The Czech Republic finish at 104.37, below the Australian time, so he | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
goes into the lead. If my arithmetic is right, he cannot | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
finish lower than 8th now. It was a quick run, the fastest of the day | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
so far. Callas at times, with that first penalty on number five. -- | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
careless. We want to see them staying as close to the polls as | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
possible. They need to know where they are and not get off-track. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
everybody else beats his time he can finish in 9th, forgive me, so | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
not guaranteed a place in the final. Not as good as his heats, but this | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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is a different course. The Czech silver medallist last year. A | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
currently ranks 24 and he appears to be competing above his fighting | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :27:19. | :29:11. | |
Czech Republic athlete is through to the final, still in first place. | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
This man finds himself in a possible elimination situation. | :29:18. | :29:28. | |
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Here he is tight on at the post, and eclipse it with his paddle. -- | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
he clips it. Trying to find a nice rhythm. You want to see the nose | :29:40. | :29:50. | |
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coming up and under the posts and years, this man was the defending | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
Olympic champion. He won twice in a row, in Sydney and 2000, and Athens | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
2004. But he totally blew it in the Olympic semi-final of 2008 in | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
Beijing. What is Tony Estanguet of France going to do this time? He is | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
one of the all-time greats. Again I saw this guy warming up three- | :30:21. | :30:31. | |
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quarters of an hour ago, looking Florence of Great Britain has to | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
aspire to if he is going to win the gold medal. The medals are some way | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
away at the moment, the jobber in and is to make sure he qualifies | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
for the final. Tony Estanguet has dropped a little bit of time on the | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
leader, just drifting across to 19. He dropped off between the | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
downstream and upstream gate. But he did have a bit of time on his | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
hands, he needs to get out quickly and get the most tracking to drive | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
all the way to the finish. The time looks good, and he is without | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
penalties at the moment, looking good for France and Tony Estanguet. | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
Comfortably in first place. So he has not made the same errors that | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
he made four years ago in Beijing, and once again the great man is in | :32:01. | :32:09. | |
the Olympic final. The really showed his class at there, looking | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
smooth and controlled in the top section. He lost a little bit of | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
time on the bottom sections, but the top section was so smoothly | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
executed that he had a little bit of time to play with. Another man | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
in this field, Michal Martikan has won the Olympic title twice, so | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
this is a real sheet out, hopefully not just between Nos two, but to | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
have the mantle of the Best c one paddle of all time, it could be | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
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time before the other guy's got to grips with the course and went | :33:07. | :33:17. | |
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the place as he heads towards 13. Not as smooth as he was in the | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
heats. This is a totally different course, but nevertheless he has | :33:58. | :34:08. | |
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lost that fluidity, the rhythm, and one side of the course to the other, | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
it is challenging, technical and physically very demanding. He is | :34:21. | :34:31. | |
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3.80 down on the split at the go very tight to the right-hand | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
pole on a 19. It seems to be pushing them right across the | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
course very quickly indeed. Staying close to one of the polls but not | :34:45. | :34:52. | |
touching it, that was important. 4th one zero 4.04, he is in second | :34:52. | :35:02. | |
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place, but Tony Estanguet is the is through to the final as part of | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
the top two at the moment. -- safe to save. Next that is David | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
Florence, as we watch the replay of the Spaniard. He is number eight | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
down this course. He has the number four next to his name, as the crowd | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
goes absolutely wild, he has just been introduced. If the finish is | :35:30. | :35:40. | |
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no worse than 4th, is definitely Beijing. The man who wanted to be | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
an astronaut when he was a little bit younger, he was turned down by | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
the European Space Agency, so he has put all his efforts into | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
becoming one of the best paddlers in the world. Not only in this | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
category but in the C2 class with Richard Hounslow, and both of those | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
are safely through to the semi- final of that competition. David | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
Florence gets his campaign for a Olympic glory under way here in | :36:10. | :36:20. | |
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moment, just the thing around gate France, looking good for Great | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
Britain as well as for David Florence. He would love to go one | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
better than he did in China four years ago. So far, it is all going | :36:51. | :37:01. | |
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entry, losing a fraction of time, the Class C Frenchman at the moment. | :37:25. | :37:32. | |
That is two seconds, he last ball of his momentum. We know how tricky | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
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19 can be. Come on, keep it heads down, pumping those arms! Is | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
in 6th place and potentially may not make the final. -- he is. It | :38:03. | :38:12. | |
was all going so, so well and tilth that one big mistake in gate 18. -- | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
until. He lost all of his momentum and got stuck. It is not just about | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
picking up penalties, as is said, it is about making sure that the | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
run on the boat is maintained so that we do not lose the speed and | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
have to regain it. He will be disappointed with the mistakes. He | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
became unravelled towards the end, so we will have to wait and see | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
what happens. The needs at least two of the remaining four | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
competitors to produce worse results than his, and of course | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
when you have got the double Olympic champion in there and the | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
bronze-medallists from the European champion, the Japanese is looking | :38:54. | :39:01. | |
very smooth, and a German, a former European champion, oh, it is down | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
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His fortunes were mixed in the heats, brilliant first-round, and | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
he had to rely on that to make sure that he made it through to this | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
stage of the competition, but everybody's eyes now will be on the | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
results bought. There are a couple of pawns down the course, and at | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
the moment they are showing David Florence in 6th place, and his | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
total score, 106.16, that is crucial as far as British | :39:47. | :39:57. | |
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has been able to find his rhythm and has not picked up any penalties | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
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will not bother the former Olympic champion, but it will bother David | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
Florence and the British supporters. This is a very tidy run indeed by | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
the German. The really seems to have got himself in a good blaze. | :40:39. | :40:49. | |
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The drives nicely out of 21, raising down the side, he has done | :40:54. | :41:02. | |
it emphatically. A superb performance, and he has put himself | :41:02. | :41:11. | |
in the frame to be one of the favourites to lift the title. | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
looked like he got after a shaky start at the beginning, where he | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
got his nose caught, but he found his rhythm on the latter part of | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
the course, and he just gained speed throughout. And that means | :41:23. | :41:32. | |
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that David Florence is down in 7th Pushing David Florence, as Paul | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
Dickenson said, down into 7th, it is going to be a very anxious wait. | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
98.94, well, if you want to see more from the White Water Centre, | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
you cannot over on BBC One. But what is going on this afternoon? | :41:55. | :42:04. | |
This is what is coming up. 10m synchro platform, we saw Tom Daley | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
and Pete Waterfield yesterday, but today it is the turn of Tonia Couch | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
and Sarah Barrow. If you enjoyed the gymnastics yesterday, the women | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
:42:25. | :42:26. | ||
will be in action today. What can And tonight Michael Phelps goes in | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
his signature event, the 200m butterfly, and with the Relate as | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
well, he could become the most decorated and Indian ever. -- the | :42:36. | :42:44. | |
relay. Also, Andy Murray there just warming up. He is playing Jarkko | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
Nieminen are thin lens, the second round for Andy Murray. -- of | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
Finland. You can see all of that action on BBC Three. Well, just | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
before we go, time for a few little tweets. Let's see who has been | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
saying what, Nick Woodbridge, the modern pentathlon, nerves of steel | :43:04. | :43:14. | |
from Tina Cook, also an avenging job. Mike Tindall, Team GB medal, | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
getting, you beauty. And what a match it was in the volleyball last | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
night, Great Britain against Algeria, lots of tweets from the | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
team there, it finished after midnight with everybody saying how | :43:26. | :43:36. | |
incredible it was. So the individual final on BBC One at | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
2:30pm, time for just start at oil well, no, we will stop there, but | :43:40. | :43:46. |