BBC Two: Day 7: 13.00-13.45 Olympics

What a morning it has been at Eton Dorney, two bronze and a gold. It

is the first day of athletics, and what a great moment, Jess Ennis has

been in action, and it is also the last day of judo, and Karina Bryant

is trying to follow in the footsteps of Gemma Gibbons, won

silver yesterday. She has won her first two bouts in the heavyweight

division, and now she faces a judoka from Kazakhstan for a place

she has never experienced this moment, walking onto the mat in an

Olympic quarter-final, two wins away from a medal. She needs to

keep the focus here. She wants to fight similarly to how she did

third seed, the bronze-medallist from Beijing. Well, she has taken

an early kick to the leg, and the second round in three previous

games. Karina Bryant got a grip over the top, she needs to slow

strangle. The tactics very similar to the ones that they eventually

did for a previous opponent, so a bit of a dry run coming into this.

The 33-year-old is from Camberley in Surrey. A dozen years at the top,

came into these games as that Britain's best hope for a medal.

She has got to watch that, Issanova getting onto her collar and

dragging her down on to their knees. She has got to go and hard with

these grips now. Having a little word with the referee. An

indication on her face that it might have been deliberate from

under the sleeve, she has got control of the grips. If she can

get her hips across, she has got a great hip throw. The Kazakh doing

by the slap to the shops which she long ago in the judo all was a bit

of a house of pain for British player has, has become a house of

joy over the last 24 hours, and they are doing their level best to

underneath by Issanova. She is powerful when she gets on to the

first warning. A warning from the referee to smarten up her act, get

on with it a little bit. She needs to be able to get the grit to get

her attack in, and at the moment the Kazakh destabilising her with

little movement. Into the second half of this quarter-final contest.

Great Britain's Karina Bryant, who for so long has carried the British

black in those strong arms of her as without ever getting the success

that all the hard work perhaps deserved at these Olympic Games.

But she is on the brink of something here, two wins away from

a medal. It is important that she comes forward, really puts the

pressure on. Searching for grip. She gets the leg knocked out again

as she comes forward. That is troubling her. One of the other

issues for a fighter like hair, a British heavyweight, is that it is

so difficult to find proper practice in this competition

because there are so few other around. Yeah, it is, she often

trains with men on the mat to find people strong enough and big enough

to train with. There the Kazakh being warned for kicking. She was

kicking her legs out. That is the that drop. She did well to count

any end, made sure that he went over the top of the head of the

Kazakh and landed on her front. She spent a month in Japan ahead of the

Games to get some weightier can she can do that? She is not

happy, the Kazakh really dropping under her grip. Oh, but he has

conceded a second penalty, and that is costly, because as we can see,

it is part there one are you go down now. -- 1 you go. It is the

Kazakh he was ahead with 40 seconds to go. Karina is searching for a

coming onto her collar. That Amis really blocking out there, she

ditch attempt, yes! She has got it! Karina Bryant with the waza-ari, we

are going to have a check on this, as we often do, to make sure. But

they are off their seats in the ExCeL, and they seem pretty

convinced that was a waza-ari. could be a ippon, but waza-ari.

has been confirmed. She has just Count Karina Bryant into an Olympic

the week?! With all the headlines she has never been closer in Ayr 12

year and in their career to claiming one that no one deserves

more than Great Britain's Karina Bryant. She is into the semi-finals.

She believed in herself, did she? Right until last few seconds of

that contest, she kept going, and she got the score right at the end.

A kiss from the coach, Luke Preston, and the sense of satisfaction that

Karina Bryant will be feeling right now is so well deserved. Few have

worked harder than hair over what has been a testing decade for

British judo. Yeah, and she is really giving it everything today,

and this is the score right at the end of the contest, she manages to

get the leg across. She did not have control of the sleeve, but he

still managed to turn it. Brilliant power, look at a height with the

leg. And there is the score, waza- ari, ippon, and up to take her

through, brilliant do you know! -- brilliant judo! We have waited a

long time to see the smile on that And of course we will keep you up

to date with Karina's progress, she is now in the semi-final, so we

will keep everything crossed. Before we crossover to the Olympic

Stadium, back to Eton Dorney. This is Alan Campbell receiving his

bronze medal, just listen to the And you can see exactly what it

means for him, three Olympics, his first match of. He was lucky to

make the final in Beijing after Just look at these pictures! It was

all worth it, Alan, all that hard work, single sculls, such a lonely

existence, pushing yourself to the Well, just look at the crowds here

in the Olympic Park, it is absolutely heaving, and still of

the crowds are in the Olympic Stadium, they are yet to come out,

so imagine what an impact it will have after the morning session, but

it has been a great mourning for track and field, and we can now

cross to Jonathan Edwards to find out what has been going on in the

Olympic Stadium. Thanks very much, Matt, a brilliant

morning, but we are all a bit choked after watching the coverage

from the rowing, it puts it all into context, and for one at the TA,

Jess Ennis, it all started three hours ago with the heptathlon heats,

with the 100m hurdles. Michael, Denise and I have been waiting for

that moment, let's catch up with it now. Colin Jackson, Paul Dickenson

and Steve Cram are your start for Nataliya Dobrynska up.

She is holding it together here, a pretty good performance, just

fading a little bit. 13 points 58, that is a big improvement. I said

you should never write this Lady off. Not that far outside her

personal best, to be honest, so a good start for Nataliya Dobrynska

out. That was an excellent start, I do not think anybody was expecting

very smartly, and she is getting away, Almunia side Ellen Sprunger

are going well, Louise Hazel being caught a little bit. Ellen Sprunger

coming through on the inside. Hanna Melnychenko of the Ukraine, 13.31.

Louise Hazel there, she was leading for a few hurdles, but she began to

fade a little bit as the race went on. Away safely this time, Johnson-

Thompson get a reasonable start Lyudmyla Yosypenko coming through,

Katarina Johnson-Thompson looking better, and it is the Ukrainian who

wins it, 13.25, a following wind, that is interesting. Lilli

Schwarzkopf just beaten by Lyudmyla Yosypenko. A very good European

Championships, the Ukrainian. A good start to their competition,

13.25, the winning time. Katarina Johnson-Thompson equalling her

personal best in fourth place, so a brilliant start for the British

heptathletes. She is a 1 woman athletics team, and this is one of

her favourite events. The Olympic heptathlon, let's hope it stars

Jessica Ennis is being closed down by the Belgian, but she is

beginning to pull away on the inside. This is a tremendous run by

Jessica Ennis, oh, my goodness! Wow! The fastest time ever! By a

heptathletes, any multi- events at late! A new British record, it is

legal, 1.3 metres per second, oh! The power of the crowd carried Jess

Ennis through to that time, and the rest of her competitors must be in

despair, seeing how fast the was one of the fastest of all time

You always hope for the dream start to the heptathlon but I don't think

even Jessica or would have imagined It sets the whole heptathlon up. It

settled the nerves, it's an incredible performance.

To put it into context, Michel Hosseini said that on BBC One, it

was quicker than the time one in Beijing in the individual event.

always knew she was capable of running quickly, but we didn't

expected to be here and now. But what a perfect time to do it.

home Games you produced an incredible performance in Atlanta.

For Jess, in terms of improvement, it was almost that kind of quantum.

Absolutely. It was an incredible time, over two tenths of a second

improvement over her previous best. We said from the beginning, she was

always going to have to have a great day today because this is her

better date. The competition is stiff. She has put a huge gap

between them now. She's put pressure on them. This also bodes

well for her going into the events tomorrow where she's not as good,

because now she doesn't have as much pressure on those. It will

probably help her perform even better in those events. Michael has

mentioned a couple of names there. Dobrynska, the defending Olympic

champion... How did you rate what I was expecting more from Chernova.

She didn't get off to a brilliant start. Second behind Jessica or in

the opening event. But Dobrynska, I thought she was really good. You

can tell a lot from her shape, her form by her hurdles race. She

looked really good. World indoor champion with a world record of

beating Jess, as Chernova did the year before. She will certainly be

an athlete who is in jest's mind, she won't underestimate her. Jess

is not going to take a competition for granted, but he will be more

focused on her own race, executing the way that she knows she needs to.

That is the way she approaches competition. That is why she was

able to come in here to this stadium, first day of athletics, a

huge crowd, sold out, and all cheering loudly as she walked into

the stadium. She was able to focus on what she needed to do, get over

each one of these barriers and get an incredible start, which she was

able to do, and have the best performance here. She will do that

through the next few events. Jess Deering the high jump at the moment.

Also on track is the men's 3,000m go in the second heat. The Ugandan

leader at the moment. Kipruto, the defending Olympic champion, has

cruised through into second place. Yousef Avdeeva in third. Florrie

army is back in third place. A Spaniard moving up through the

field. The first sign we've had from him that he was really in the

race. Four laps to go and it is developing nicely now with the

defending champion looking strong. The defending champion running

nicely on the inside. It has been a fairly sedate opening. 250 for the

first 1,000m. They have to get a fast qualifier from this race, they

would have to speed up in the later stages. Hurdling strongly, running

well between the barriers, as the Olympic champion cruises into

second place. Looking in good form as they approach the water jump.

Now they are strung out, there are less dangers at the water jump.

They you see the different styles. For the Olympic champion, missing

the barrier, going straight into the water. The tall figure, the

impressive Kipruto. The Australian first heat. But Kipruto isn't a bit

bothered by that. Just under three Kipruto looking very comfortable

indeed. He was smiling as they went to the start line. Kipruto this

year, just outside of eight minutes, he is the second fastest man in

history. Just coming on to the shoulder bare his the tall

Frenchman. Heading out into the home straight. When they go through

the finish line this time they will beat two laps to go. The Ugandan

still leaves. It's interesting in a race as low as this, the way they

approach the water jump is fascinating. They slow down and

then accelerate, clear the barrier and tried to run it almost as if

you are on the runway for a field event, a long jump or triple jump.

In the final they won't be able to do that because they will be

stretched and running hard. Just less than two laps to go in the

second qualifying round of the men's steeplechase. The Olympic

is the signal, that's where it puts him in the Olympic favouritism.

Moving out and giving himself room. Acceleration now. A clear run at

the barrier. That is really sensible. This is an interesting

way to run a race. The athlete from Australia, who finished eighth in

the Olympic Games in Beijing, is giving them a run for their money,

as they come down the home straight. They will hear the bell and at this

point, the first Ball to qualified, the three fastest, and I don't

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think that three factors have got very well indeed. Already, Kipruto

is looking around. Just accelerates away. That is a touch of real class.

Kipruto wins it. Looking so outside of eight minutes this year,

but he can run faster. That is a very comfortable qualification for

the man who won the title four happening in the high jump in the

heptathlon. Louise Hazel went out at a fairly early height early on.

It's a busy morning down there. There's a real disappointment for

hurdles but that's not good for her. But all eyes have been very much on

Jess Ennis. Her big rival didn't have a good start, Chernova, the

1.86, another disappointing event for her. The second day is

definitely her best but not a good high jump for the Russian. All of

bit of an anti-climax, but nothing to worry about at the moment for

That's clear. Well done to Fountain. Even the good high jumpers have

been starting to struggle. It was wet earlier on, its stride off now.

-- it has dried off now. The American very much rising to the

and closer to her lifetime best of 1.88. She was 15th after the

leaderboard but not quite. She is learning all the time how to handle

herself in these sort of major Olympic experience. She didn't

quite get the take-off right there. Like Jessica Ennis, she will have

goodness! Within a split second the whole crowd thought she'd cleared

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this stadium would have given her clearing this height. Doesn't want

to lose ground on the other campaign to retain his title after

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they're all clapping for you! Can me? Yes, it was, and she responded

Johnson-Thompson. -- by young. big smile. If anybody wants this

the Olympic title, they are going to have to produce something

remarkable, because Jess Ennis is heat of this steeplechase, that is

the start list, they are just getting under way, and it contains

the name are the Stuart Stokes and Ezekiel Kemboi, the former Olympic

champion and the current world champion. All of that excitement, I

wonder whether those cheers might just lift Stuart Stokes to

something here. I was chatting to him last week, and he was saying, I

feel so privileged to be part of the team, he was picked on a B

standard, he said, maybe I deserve it for all of the years I have been

fighting to get the chance to be at an event like this. He was not

there for years ago, he is a great guy, a very popular man in the team,

Stuart Stokes, so he is going to enjoy this, whatever happens.

he will have been privileged to stand on the start-line, to hear

the roar from the high jump in heptathlon, and he is a great lad,

Stuart, he should have been selected in 2008. He almost gave up

the sport but came back and decided to dedicate the last two years to

qualify for the Olympic Games. He has qualified, and now he is going

to enjoy it. He is a full-time teacher in Chorley. He gets up at

4am, trains at 5am, and then again after school in the evening, but

there is nobody who applies himself added to the steeplechase than

Stuart Stokes. I would love to see him run well. If you are as close

to his personal best, he will have a chance of being one of the

fastest losers, but he has got a tough field ahead of him. But it is

great to see him here, there will be no prouder athlete in the

Olympic arena running for Great Britain today, Stuart Stokes.

looking at Ezekiel Kemboi, the only man behind Stuart Stokes is the

current world champion and former Olympic champion. Have I missed

something? Did he fall? He is right at the back of the field. Now, I'm

assuming there's nothing wrong with them, he has another ability to

give plenty of these people a head start, but he would not do that,

they are running a decent pace. What is going on? Did I miss

something? Well, we were looking at the pack, I did not see him hit a

hurdle. Interestingly, he has come into the Games with a real issue

hanging over his head anyway. He has been charged in court in Kenya

with assault, a Stanning. E as at the tasers then did so that he

could come to the Olympic Games. -- he has had the case suspended.

Moving up close to Stuart Stokes, the two of them are quite detached,

Ezekiel Kemboi, well, we can have a look through the V T T C of E did

anything wrong. Moving closer to the packed there, the signs are not

looking good for Ezekiel Kemboi. do not think he did hit any

barriers, I think he just started slowly and was maybe a little

surprise that the early pace. It is not passed by his standards. It

just seems as though he is in a little bit of no-man's-land. It is

all right running at the back of the pack, but he would not normally

give them that sort of lead. The immediately goes to the back, like

it is a choice, a decision. Really strange. That it is not unusual.

Often the Kenyan athletes slip into the back and give away from trouble,

but he is now moving closer, getting closer to the pack. I do

not know why he is doing it like this, but we will find out. He is

making it hard for insulted -- hard for himself. He is moving to get

closer, but he has had to work hard for a couple of laps to get himself

in contention. The lead is still held by Donald Cabral of the United

States. Now he is much closer, the top four to go through, as Brendan

was saying, and with everything that is going on in his life

outside of the track, it might not be so easy for him to concentrate

on the job at hand when he is to the fore. Steve, he is also

making it harder for an assault by running down the inside and now the

outside. -- harder for himself. He has had a troubled time in the run-

up to the Games, the selection was difficult, then the court case over

his head, then huge controversy about their training camp in

Bristol, which has been irritating the Kenyan athletes. But now you

could almost say, as they come into the thinning straight, or it will

move to three laps to go, and Ezekiel Kemboi... The defending

Olympic champion has one more attempts to achieve 1.86, and she

gave it everything, but he has been eliminated. Three laps to go in the

men's steeplechase, and we have already had an amazing run by

Ezekiel Kemboi, the former a Olympic champion, working his way

from the back of the field, working through gradually, and he is now

into a qualifying position. We cannot understand why he has run

this way, it is unusual for him, the likes to be at the front, but

he does not look troubled, he is back in a race, and the leg

champion has done a good job. -- the Olympic champion. Well, 2.50

through the second kilometre, so it is slow, and there will be a couple

of athletes from the first heat who will be happy with that. There are

enough people in this to make it quick over the last couple of laps,

but Donald Cabral of the United States has been there from the

start, happy to lead. Roba Gari is in second place. The Algerian is in

third place, then Ezekiel Kemboi, the world champion. Hamid Ezzine of

Morocco is in 5th place. The big figure, Lucas Kaczynski, is

starting to struggle off the back of that group in the white with the

red shorts, second from the back. There he is, he has actually

stepped off, Victor Garcia. They are starting to move down the back

straight. You can see in a light blue of mulled over, Ion Luchianov,

trying to get a better position. -- Moldova are. Roba Gari almost at

the start in its stride. Ezekiel Kemboi is pushing and shoving,

trying to move through on the inside. Well, he has made it hard

for himself all the way, and there could be an inquiry if that was

close, the cars became very close to putting his foot and the inside

of the track. -- because he came very close. This is Ezekiel Kemboi

in second place. He has run a strange race, and now the bell. All

he has to do now is run hard and he will be into the final, where he

deserves to be as the former Olympic champion. I am looking down

the field, Stuart Stokes. Let's just brake for a second because

Jess Ennis is going in a high jump. A new target for Jess Ennis, 1.89.

If the crowd have got anything to Kemboi hits the front, Roba Gari is

in second place. The Moroccan is right there as well, the top four

go through. He has been all over the place, he worked hard to catch

them up, he has been stepping aside, but he is good enough to do all of

that and still win. Ezekiel Kemboi wins, I do not know where he is

going now, I have not got a clue! Roba Gari and Hamid Ezzine call

five, and that is a strange, strange run. -- co-op 5. He has

probably got a lot going on in his head with the charges that are

against him. Stuart Stokes, well done, Stuart. He is not as fit as

he would like to be, 35 years of age, his better days behind them,

but is the Olympic experience, at least he got the chance to run.

Tough, tough, tough out there, but he will have enjoyed the crowd, I

am sure. So far so good for Jess Ennis, two more attempts at 1.89.

Earlier this morning we saw Dai Greene go in the 400m hurdles,

Michael, a difficult draw in lane one, but he coped pretty well.

coped pretty well, he at and easy heat, so he was not pressed in Ms

race. He was able to conserve a lot of energy for tomorrow's semi-final,

tomorrow night, so he has got a little bit more than 24 hours to

get ready for that race. He will feel very good about his attempt,

able to conserve some energy and get ready for that semi-final.

Great for him to get through, a bad draw, but easy for him in terms of

the competition that he had to contend with. He will not have to

worry about the main one any more. Defending Olympic champion

Christine Ohuruogu in the first round of the women's 400m, apart

from a little mistake at the end, Denise, she looked pretty

comfortable. I would say she ran a decent race. She has not got much

running in her legs from previous injuries, not racing much, but she

dealt with this very well. You see her nerve and through, asserting

their authority on the race. -- you see her moving through. As you say,

she made a little mistake at the end, which will cost her a decent

lane go in forward to the next round, but all in all she did OK.

It was a good qualification, she tends to be a little bit mistake

prone. She usually makes one as a third championship, hopefully that

was it and she will learn from that and be able to go through these

next few rounds, solid races, get us up into the final where anything

can happen. A Mike Carr, Denise, thank you for this morning. --

Michael. Matt, up at do you on total of 18 medals, all very nice

As Jonathan said earlier, BBC One will keep you up to date with all

of Jessica Ennis's high jumps, and she has got two more events today,

the shot put and the 200m, which will be in the evening session. We

are also keeping you updated with Karina Bryant's progress, medals

will be given by the end of the day in the judo, and that his own on

BBC Three. The semi-finals of the men's tennis, Roger Federer is on

court against Juan Martin del Potro as we speak, Andy Murray will the

Hon Sue and against Novak Djokovic. You can see all of that over on BBC

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