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Hello, welcome to an afternoon of gymnastics from the North Greenwich | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Arena. We have had a couple of days off, but today is about the | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
individual apparatus finals. Behind me, we have got the floor and the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
men's pommel horse and the women's fault. It is all about the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
specialists. Louis Smith has been all over the news. Can he do what | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
seems to be the impossible? No British gymnast has ever across any | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
of the gymnastic events got a gold medal at the Olympic Games, | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
including artistic gymnastics, trampoline, rhythmic gymnastics, | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
all of the different events. Over the last few days, British gymnasts | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
have done wonders for British Gymnastics, really putting it on | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the map, not least the men, they got the first team medal the men | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :01:31. | :02:25. | |
the job! Look at the reaction in A massive fruiting. Surely, a | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
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massive score. A very solid from Daniel Purvis. Printed on home, | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
young man. This is down to you. That is just what was needed! | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
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It was just the most unbelievable competition to witness, and to have | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
the privilege of commentating on. There is the strangest atmosphere, | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
everybody is hoping that that bronze-medal can help Louis Smith | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
to was the Olympic Cauldon. It is an emotional time for everybody | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
involved, not least his mother. This could shape up to be the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
biggest day in Louis Smith's life, he is bound to be feeling the | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
nerves. That is your little boy, he could make history today. At the | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
moment, I am feeling really good. But in a little while, I will be | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
really nervous, when I see him in there and it is nearly his turn to | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
get on the pommel horse, I will be feeling it. How are you during his | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
routine? I am really nervous, I feel sorry for the person sitting | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
next to me, because my legs and hands are going! It was really | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
scary. I will be really scared. Does he realise how massive this | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
is? Yes. But I think he probably will not be thinking about that, he | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
will be thinking about going out and doing what he is trained to do. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
He has dreamed about being an Olympic champion ever since he was | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
a little boy. Have you treat about it? Yes. I have seen how hard he | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
has worked and the effort he has put in and the sacrifices he has | :04:52. | :05:02. | |
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made. I just really wanted for him, so badly. He deserves it. I will | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
love him if anything goes wrong still the same. He is a lovely boy. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
But he has worked really hard for this. I really hope he gets it. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Fingers crossed dreams come true by the end of the day. You will do him | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
proud, because he is very particular about how are you appear | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
on camera. He does not like to see me shiny, because of HDTV! | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
How is he feeling? I saw him this morning, he is feeling good, a | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
relaxed. He is looking forward to it. Last Monday took a bit of the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
pressure off, he has been working for this for four years, so he will | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
be nervous, but he will enjoy the experience. How is life with that | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Olympic bronze medal? It is so hard to believe. Every night, you think | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
about that moment when it came up on the scoreboard. It is fantastic, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
there is such a buzz around the team. There are quite a few options | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
for Le Reece Smith, depending what happens with the other competitors. | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
They will have a look. Talk us through the different options. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
starts his routine with a handstand. Then, he goes straight into the | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
other handstands. That is quite a difficult part. Then, a flop | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
sequence, he has been doing this for 10 years. It is quite hard up. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
It is very hard when you are nervous to keep your legs together. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Then, the spindle. This is where he split his legs in Beijing, but it | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
has been solid in the last few years. Hopefully, that will not be | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
a problem today. He has been given the Troubles since he was 10 years | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
old. Finishing off with the dismount. He is in eighth position, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
which is really good, in a final. You can see what work he is going | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
to do, and make a decision on what routine he is going to do. Produce | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
surprised to see him in that emotional state of mind, with all | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
of his tears, and how it affected him? A little bit. One minute, we | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
were happy, the next minute, he burst into tears, but it is the | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
emotion over the years, thereby so much pressure on him. Fair play to | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
him. So much respect to the guy. It is unexpected that he cried, but it | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
shows BOP this means to him. would have helped him if the final | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
was closer to the qualification, because you do not want the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
thoughts to dawn on you. You want to stay relaxed. He listens to | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
reggae to keep calm! As we were getting ready, his music was | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
blasting. The whole of our apartment was shaking. He likes to | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
keep relaxed, that is his normal routine. At the end of the day, it | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
is just another routine. The situation is on an incredible scale, | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
there is pressure on, but he has done this so many times, if he can | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
keep focused and treated as another routine, hopefully he will go | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
through. We will talk more as the final get closer, but first, it is | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
the men's floor. Daniel Purvis, very well qualified to talk about | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
this. It is interesting how you can use the area. There are two schools, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the execution and the difficulty, and you can build the difficulty in | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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two ways. Denis Ablyazin uses a different technique from Kai Zou. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Look at the power that Denis Ablyazin can put in. How difficult | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
is it to contain all of that power within that Square? Like you saw | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
them, he is pretty special, he can do seven tumbles in a routine. It | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
is amazing. It is going to be a really good final, a lot of good | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
gymnasts. It is worth a mention that Kristian Thomas was the second | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
reserve. He did a great routine in qualifying. His routine again in | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
the team final was incredible, and he got better in the all-arounder. | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
We have had great for workers. Right across the board, British | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Gymnastics is on a high. What do you put it down to? How are you | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
competing at this level? It is a combination of a lot of things. We | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
have got the right set-up, the coaching is amazing. We have been | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
training together since... I have known them since I was eight years | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
old. We are almost like family. We meet once or twice a month, so we | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
are 18. The whole system, the medical system, the whole of | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
British Gymnastics has improved over the last few years, and that | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
has shown. We are just going down the line-up. Co height Roger Moore | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
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Road, Kai Zou, Denis Ablyazin. This is Flavius Koczi. He is the third | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
highest qualifier. What about the next lap, Alexander Shatilov. He is | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
enormous. I have competed against him, his consistency is amazing. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
Spectacular. He is a bit taller, he looks more graceful. He has a | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
really good chance. Jacob Dalton and Marcel Nguyen. The seventh | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
highest qualifier. Tomas Gonzalez- Sepulveda is worth a mention. A | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
high skill level to get to this Olympic final. We are in for a | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
treat. Cowhide Roger Moore has not looked as polished as normal. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
not his normal consistency, I do not know if it is because of the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Olympic Games. He turned it on for the all-around final. But at the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
same time, I am sure he will perform today. We can hand to the | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
commentary box. I will hot-footed there. We will be there for the | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
first gymnast, the Japanese. The three-times world champion. He is | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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the current world champion on the off. Who better? Hatred poor all- | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
around world champion, the veining floor champion. -- triple world | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
champion. He finished fifth place in Beijing, he will want to do | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
better here. He has some tremendous work. No warm-up, they come | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
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straight out and perform. Will he do a big scale? Very nice, 3 1/2, | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
into a half twist. It is an awful long way round. A great start. Two | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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and a half twists. He is going well. There is a snap that was not there | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
earlier in the week, he has found something special. Twisting his way | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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to a very good routine. The triple Russian. They are very fond of | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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that has not been there so far. One and a half twists. So far, he is | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
very much in control. A triple twist, which is absolutely nailed. | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
A fantastic start. He is back on song. He looks a bit calmer. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Perhaps the weight of the gold was on his shoulders in the all- | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
arounder. You would not have expected, the world champion, | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
unbeaten since the last Olympics, it was considered he would stroll | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
through this, but you are right, he looks like his confidence has come | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
back, something that was lacking in the first couple of competitions. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
commission and performance. The twisting was immaculate. He has got | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
more stuff in the locker as well. This was a very strong bid for a | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
medal. It is interesting, at the World Championships at the end of | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
2011, we saw him giving a multiple somersaults with multiple twists, a | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
double straight with double twist, but here, he has not used any more | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
to pull somersaults, he has built this routine about twisting, and | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
what a fabulous triple twist to finish. This will be the benchmark, | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
it will be a tough Scot to beat. He was the second-highest Wall of Fire. | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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-- second highest qualifier. That beat him, it is this one. He scored | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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15.833 in qualification. A double really is sticking his feet to that | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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carpet. He just rockets round. He beautiful technique. Fantastic! | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Double twisting, double tuck to finish. He has risen to the | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
challenge. I think he has got more difficulty as well. This will be | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
very interesting. It will be close. And he is such a sparky little | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
character. China won the team, but they did not have a gymnast qualify | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
for the all-around. They have had eight he medal, but they have not | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
had any individual medals. He was rocking on his heels a little bit, | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
but he disguised it very nicely. What sets this routine apart is he | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
shows a difference of more than one type of skill. He twists, but he | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
also does very difficult multiple somersaults. That for me makes it a | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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more interesting routine Dan Kohei Uchimura's. In my book he is the | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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better floor worker on this day. is a huge score. They agreed with | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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us. They gave him those extra as Kai Zou, two point nine. He is | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
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incredibly explicit. That big step forward will be very costly. That | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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was fantastic. He is so dynamic as is right up there. Massive work and | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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he keeps it going. He is working so fast and he crams another tumble in. | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
He is a really exciting gymnast, I enjoy his work a lot. It is | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
remarkably entertaining to watch. They are a very different styles. | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
In terms of energy it was unbelievable how much he got into | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
that routine with some superb work. It is more exciting than the other | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
two, because he packs so much in, but it was not as accurate. That is | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
the interesting thing of why this new scoring came in. People wanted | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
this to be given more value and that is why you are seeing scores | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
out of 16. He has gone for difficulty and it was exciting. | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
is exciting, but the judging system did that more than a towards. The | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
deduction for a step out ways the points for difficulty. I do not | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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know where he has got that energy from. He is a very exciting gymnast. | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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Down on execution. When it is tied, it goes on execution. But he went | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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for broke. Flavius Koczi is a good twister. Another big twisting | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
tumble, but it is crucial to break out of the twist at the right | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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moment. Shows good balance on the fingers. Lovely extension through | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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front with a half turn. They wrap these twists in so early. That gave | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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himself a bit of a breather. Eight triple twist and he does it so | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
easily. That is so full of complex twisting and tumbling, but no | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
multiple somersaults, and that shows a slight lack of versatility. | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
He is a twisting genius. He will be on the bald a little bit later, but | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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not here today. -- vault. Again, not as accurate, but he loves to | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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twist. He really went for that. Look at the effort, keep your head | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
spinning and hope that your shoulders and hips follow and on | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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this occasion they did. difficulty was 6.7 and his routine | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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will be marked out of 16.7. And he scores 15.1. That puts him into 4th. | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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Quite low on execution. The 5th gymnast is from Israel, Alexander | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
Shatilov, 25 years old. The first Israeli gymnast ever to make the | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
Olympics. And look at the way he handles this. Beautifully done at | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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harp twists out. He is a poor man and he relies on twisting. -- tall | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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That was complex. A full twist in the double. A full twist doubled to | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
finish. What do we think? What a story it could be. He needs over | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
15.8 to get into that top three. And it is a pretty exclusive club. | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
A really wonderful group of routines. A different technique. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
That was into a double pike with two twists in, a different | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
technique to many of the other gymnasts, but he is much taller and | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
he has to adapt the gymnastics to suit him. But he had one deduction. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
The judges like to see the front of the Test up on the landing and see | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
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the front of the leotard and see the emblem on the leotard. There | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
was another landing that was low as he came in. He showed the effort in | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
making those rotations. A really big effort for a big man. He had a | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
bronze at the World Championships on the floor last year. He is | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
certainly capable. It is just the difficulty of the gymnasts that | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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went before it was so high. That is quite remarkable. There is the | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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leader. Three gymnasts to go. This lad can entertain on floor, Jacob | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
Dalton. He is the USA floor champion. He got into the final at | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
the world championships last year. USA were very disappointed with | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
their performance in the team final. He will be desperate to get some | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
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medals here. I loved that tumble. He has got very nice lines. And he | :28:00. | :28:10. | |
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holds his body beautifully straight. He just did not absorb that landing. | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
After all that explosive work he has to calm himself down. A | :28:19. | :28:29. | |
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beautiful extension right through twisting front. He had no landing | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
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penalties. A triple twist, a beautiful landing. That was a | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
really excellent floor routine. Lots of variety and control, but | :28:57. | :29:05. | |
there was one step in it that will be costly. To get into the top | :29:05. | :29:15. | |
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three for a bronze you need 15.8. fabulous floor worker. The half | :29:19. | :29:29. | |
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turn is very difficult to do. On that occasion he bounced back, but | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
stayed in control, very good awareness. That will be expensive | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
at this level. One of the nicest techniques we have seen on the | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
triple. A lot of them wrap it in very early, which makes it | :29:48. | :29:56. | |
efficient, but very scrappy. this one had so much time. That was | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
one of the best triples I have seen in this competition. He qualified | :30:03. | :30:11. | |
with the fourth-highest score. This is a good floor final. Exciting | :30:11. | :30:21. | |
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unbelievable. Denis Ablyazin, 20 years or, what does the future hold | :30:31. | :30:41. | |
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for him? He is also in giving us final as well as the fault. We have | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
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had two scores the St out of the four. Marcel Nguyen. This is a | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
first for him, I have never seen him in a major flaw final. He got | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
the all round silver. This is the first time for him in a major flaw | :31:09. | :31:19. | |
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final. He has to settle there. The pace is the difference at this | :31:19. | :31:28. | |
higher level of competition. But he is a super gymnast, all round is | :31:28. | :31:38. | |
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his forte and the parallel bars, but he is making a good show of it. | :31:38. | :31:48. | |
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beautiful style. He is of fairly was on his feet, but he took a step | :32:17. | :32:27. | |
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forward on the disband. But he gave it the best shot. It is so | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
difficult when you see the deduction come, you know they will | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
not threaten the top three. It will be difficult for anybody to catch | :32:36. | :32:46. | |
Kai Zou. Marcel and when is one of the few gymnasts that has done the | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
qualification, the team final, the individual all-around. This is his | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
fourth competition of this championships. In the individual or | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
a round, he excelled to take a medal. He looked weary today. Some | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
of these gymnasts only competed in qualification. They did their | :33:07. | :33:14. | |
qualifying and they have had a rest, and this is their first, or second | :33:14. | :33:23. | |
appearance. This looked tired. double twist at the start. You can | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
forgive him, but he was a little bit jaded. He has had a fabulous | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
championships. The German team have been a bit up-and-down, but he has | :33:32. | :33:42. | |
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held them together. He has emerged from the German team as their most | :33:44. | :33:51. | |
consistent, sparkling performance. Kohei Uchimura is smiling, the | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
relaxation is there. Kohei Uchimura and the qualified for one final, | :33:57. | :34:05. | |
that is the problem if you do not work well. But others belted in on | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
the first day and they have made a couple of finals. His coach, he | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
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should have been world champion in third place is because of the | :34:34. | :34:43. | |
difference in executions call between him and Kohei Uchimura. | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
Tomas Gonzalez-Sepulveda. He has made the world for final twice. He | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
is a powerful lad. A real superstar. They look anxiously, they know that | :34:58. | :35:08. | |
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he could upset the standings. Snooze. -- smooth. Everything looks | :35:14. | :35:22. | |
easy, great precision. He is showing us how supple and strong he | :35:22. | :35:31. | |
is. How much control. Neatly choreographed, not too long in the | :35:31. | :35:41. | |
corners. Very nice. He did not get the feeling of the floor hitting | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
him that time. Not quite so wonderful on the next one, but not | :35:46. | :35:54. | |
a big deduction. He has kept moving throughout the exercise. This is | :35:54. | :36:02. | |
very important. A triple twist, he held back a bit. He did not get all | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
the way around? There will be a bit of a deduction, which is a great | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
shame. What a story for Kai Zou, he came here to retain his title, and | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
he has done it. He has. But Tomas Gonzalez-Sepulveda is a good | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
gymnast, and it took that final tumble to put him out of contention. | :36:23. | :36:30. | |
He was looking so good. He had a skip to the side earlier on. Won | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
eight of a twist lacking. That gave the judges' room for another | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
reduction. Tomas Gonzalez-Sepulveda will not break in if the two judges | :36:40. | :36:49. | |
do their job. But he is so impressive on the floor. Strong, he | :36:49. | :36:56. | |
pulls hard from the flick. Double twisting, a good opener. A tiny | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
shuffle of the feet, but he was pretty good all the way through. He | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
would have put your money on him breaking into the medals. But he | :37:04. | :37:12. | |
did not come around. The left leg stop at the twist being completed. | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
A strange selection of skills, he is so naturally able to tumble the | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
vocational skills, I would have expected him to finish with a | :37:22. | :37:31. | |
double somersault. The judges are not feeling it is as cut and dried | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
as all that. A great moment for a gymnast from Chile to be here, | :37:38. | :37:47. | |
fighting it out. The gymnasts are anxiously looking on. Nobody is | :37:47. | :37:57. | |
:37:57. | :37:58. | ||
sure until they see it in writing. Tomas Gonzalez-Sepulveda with a 6.5 | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
difficulty, he is just outside the medals. Again, the Olympic champion, | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
Kai Zou. A tremendous performance, and he pulled out something special | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
today. It is quite a feat to be a double Olympic champion in | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
gymnastics on the same piece of apparatus. Four years is a long | :38:18. | :38:28. | |
time. Absolutely. He was the baby on the team back in Beijing. Kohei | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
Uchimura gets a silver medal to go with his silver medal in the team | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
competition. It is good to see him back on song. But I love this guy, | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
Denis Ablyazin. Give him a gold medal for energy. Indeed. He looks | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
delighted with a bronze medal. He was 0.4 down on that routine in | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
qualification. He has pulled it out of the back. Russia's first medal | :38:55. | :39:02. | |
in the men's gymnastics. They fell away in the team competition. They | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
did not pose a strong thread in the individual or the round. It is | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
their first medal, and very significant. That was a great final. | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
It was. That is the first of the three finals. Great Britain's Louis | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
Smith will be out here very shortly on the pommel horse. It makes us | :39:22. | :39:28. | |
all feel nervous! All of these gymnasts have come out, it is just | :39:28. | :39:37. | |
one piece of apparatus, and all eyes are on them. There is a lot of | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
gymnastics going on beforehand, and you do not feel so exposed. It is | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
unbelievable, how well the gymnasts are performing. This is the | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
showcase, these are the guys that come through as the specialists, | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
but a lot of them are all-arounders. When you come into this arena, you | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
want to show off in the best possible way. They did that. That | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
was a great final. It is heaving in here. From the bottom, all the way | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
to the rafters. There are the three medallists, Kohei Uchimura takes | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
the silver medal. That is a great reaction from Denis Ablyazin, he is | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
delighted, and he is part of the new wave of Russians, more relaxed | :40:20. | :40:28. | |
and friendly. Kai Zou has done it again. Everybody love in this arena. | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
Having chatted to a few people who have come to watch for the first | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
time, one of the things they have said, there is so much current one, | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
you do not know where to watch. They will enjoy this one piece at a | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
time, because they can focus their whole attention on it. Kai Zou | :40:50. | :41:00. | |
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retains his Olympic title on the floor. He looks a lot more relaxed, | :41:01. | :41:10. | |
Kohei Uchimura. Absolutely. Three consecutive world titles, you are | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
entitled to be relaxed! It was amazing, how effective he was by | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
the pressure. You would not have expected it. He comes over as they | :41:19. | :41:26. | |
called Guy, nothing ruffles him, and he had been so dominant, it had | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
not looked as though anybody was close to him, but there was a big | :41:31. | :41:40. | |
burden to carry. The point on how much it Denis Ablyazin is | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
celebrating, it is a different style of gymnastics. Yes, it is | :41:43. | :41:53. | |
:41:53. | :42:15. | ||
another look at the spinning genius that is Kai Zou. There he goes. | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
Phenomenal awareness. He pulled something extra out today. A super | :42:19. | :42:28. | |
landing. The very difficult skills. He rotates really well. Two-and-a- | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
half twists, easily done. He has found something as well. They all | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
did today. In qualification, it seems like a long time ago, we were | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
really disappointed by the Chinese, it did not seem to be there. And | :42:51. | :43:01. | |
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suddenly, in the finals, band. have nobody in the order round, he | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
did not even get in the top 24. It was not a convincing Chinese | :43:06. | :43:15. | |
performance. The first date is the qualification for here. Even though | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
they won the second competition, they had lost their opportunity for | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
some of the finals. That is typical of China, you can read nothing. | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
They went into the team final, and I had thought, well they even get a | :43:30. | :43:39. | |
bronze medal? To do what they did... You can see that Kai Zou carried | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
that on. He saved his best for when it really mattered. The Olympic | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
champion. He will be looking to retain the title. This is the first | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
of three finals this afternoon. The next is the women's floor. There | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
are some real characters in this. We have got to talk about Oksana | :44:00. | :44:10. | |
:44:10. | :44:12. | ||
Chusovitina. Her first Olympics in 1992, she phenomenal. Here she is | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
in 1992. Look at her there! She has not changed a bit! Different | :44:17. | :44:26. | |
haircut! A different type of fault! Very different. I first saw her in | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
1991, when she emerged in the world championship. It is a super style, | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
she holds her body shape. But to still be there are over 20 years of | :44:37. | :44:44. | |
competing, that is phenomenal. a wonderful, inspiring story. She | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
originally competed for Uzbekistan, then moved to Germany because her | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
son got leukaemia and she moved for the treatment, and now she is part | :44:52. | :45:00. | |
of the Uzbekistan coaching team. is a great story. Could she get a | :45:00. | :45:10. | |
:45:10. | :45:10. | ||
medal? It would be Super, but there are some great falters. There are. | :45:10. | :45:20. | |
:45:20. | :45:22. | ||
But I do think she could, actually. Kyle Amor Rowney. This is probably | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
the best that you have seen. -- McKayla Maroney. You can be sure | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
that all of the coaches around the world have this on their slow- | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
motion, analysing how she achieves it. It is unbelievable, she is so | :45:36. | :45:46. | |
:45:46. | :46:01. | ||
interesting thing about calling it a launch pad, now it is a metre | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
square. And it has opened up much greater possibilities. When you | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
used to flick on to the small Bolt, the biggest worry was that them at | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
missing the their hands. Now it is a big platform and it is sprung as | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
well. If you hit with the right amount of momentum in the right | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
shape, you can launch yourself and Mckayla Maroney does. Thinking of | :46:27. | :46:37. | |
the days with a wooden box and a springboard in the gym! This event | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
is contested by both men and women. The only difference is the height. | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
The women's is 10 centimetres lower. The runway length is the same for | :46:48. | :46:58. | |
:46:58. | :46:59. | ||
everyone. Gymnasts reach speeds of up to 20 miles an hour, hitting the | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
springboard of just 0.1 second before the pre-flight on to the | :47:03. | :47:09. | |
Bolt. The more somersaults, twists and turns in the second flight, the | :47:09. | :47:18. | |
higher the possible score. There are 100 recognised mousse, but this | :47:18. | :47:28. | |
:47:28. | :47:30. | ||
is the most popular when gymnasts perform a back sprint entry. This | :47:30. | :47:40. | |
:47:40. | :47:51. | ||
No excuse, get into the gym. Get that table up to the right height. | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
You were talking about boxes and springboards. We had something that | :48:00. | :48:07. | |
hurt you four feet. Was it stuffed with horsehair? Yes, it was and I | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
used to feed it regularly. We had a teacher and you were a start if you | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
got over it and a donkey if you did not. That is what it was like in | :48:17. | :48:23. | |
those days. If you did not, you went into the corner. What you will | :48:23. | :48:33. | |
:48:33. | :48:35. | ||
see is the gymnasts will do two vaults. If you go on the normal | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
style flipping on with a backwards entry, the next one has to be a | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
forwards entries. Difficulty is also going to be the key here. You | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
have got difficulty and execution, but the average is taken. | :48:51. | :49:01. | |
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gymnast with the two difficult vaults will be a tan vantage. | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
are waiting for the boys to come out to receive their medals before | :49:09. | :49:19. | |
:49:19. | :49:29. | ||
we can move on. Back into this packed arena as the gymnasts re- | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
enter. Kai Zou is to receive another Olympic gold medal. He got | :49:36. | :49:45. | |
:49:46. | :49:46. | ||
the team gold a few days ago. I am so pleased to see Denis Ablyazin. | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
He is in the forefront of the Russian Revolution. They have got | :49:51. | :50:01. | |
:50:01. | :50:02. | ||
some fantastic gymnasts. They have this groundwork now. The Russian | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
system of producing gymnasts for years and years has been in their | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
educational programme. Every gymnast has wonderful basic | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
technique and they are taught correctly from the word go. When | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
the Soviet Union broke up many of the great coaches went to the west | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
and earned their living in other countries, but quite a lot of | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
coaches are starting to filter back into their homeland. It always | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
seems great to travel, but there is nowhere like home. A lot of coaches | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
are going back to Russia and they are working with the youngsters and | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
rebuilding. We are seeing a team that is coming back, but a team | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
that is doing it because it is what they want in a different style to | :50:47. | :50:57. | |
:50:57. | :51:34. | ||
the Russian teams of old. What a The first of the three medal | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
ceremonies this afternoon. First the men's floor, then the women's | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
vault, and then all eyes will be focused on the pommel horse and | :51:43. | :51:53. | |
:51:53. | :51:54. | ||
Britain's Louis Smith. No doubt he is less into reggae at the moment. | :51:54. | :52:02. | |
The bronze medal in the men's four final goes to Denis Ablyazin. 15.8. | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
The same score as a gymnast who got the silver, but his executions core | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
:52:18. | :52:18. | ||
was slightly lower. He will be happy with that. You can say that. | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
A word again on the different styles within the routines. The | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
power versus the Spain. Nobody worked as hard as he did to get on | :52:29. | :52:37. | |
that podium. But you would also say in terms of control and precision, | :52:37. | :52:47. | |
:52:47. | :52:47. | ||
Kohei Uchimura was the best, but he did not choose such versatility. | :52:47. | :52:55. | |
gold in the all-around, and a silver in the men's floor final. I | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
was reading about him before the Olympics started and he said, I do | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
not want silver, I am sick of silver all the time. Well, he got | :53:09. | :53:15. | |
his gold, the individual all-around, so he got his gold. But this | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
gymnast even in slow motion looks perfect. He is probably the only | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
one that looks perfect in slow motion. He has got that wonderful | :53:25. | :53:34. | |
natural style. But retaining his Olympic title on the floor, from | :53:34. | :53:44. | |
:53:44. | :53:59. | ||
He wasn't the second gymnast up. Kohei Uchimura set the benchmark. | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
He knew exactly what he had to do to beat him. But it was technical | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
flaw work. The thoroughly deserved it. People something extra out. He | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
was accurate and it is a deserted gold medal. And he is not finished | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
:54:26. | :54:27. | ||
yet. How do you think he will get on in the high bar final? I think | :54:27. | :54:37. | |
:54:37. | :54:40. | ||
he will have a silver medal. I want him to get a silver medal. There is | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
a certain gymnast going in the final and he is trained by Mitch | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
Fenner and he has got a very good chance of gold. Now it is the | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
:55:00. | :55:00. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :55:00. | :55:49. | |
Servicemen's floor final and Kai Zou takes gold. Kohei Uchimura | :55:49. | :55:56. | |
takes silver. What a taster that was as a final. If the rest are | :55:56. | :56:03. | |
like that, we are in for so many thrills. Let's keep everything | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
crossed for a Louis Smith going in the poor horse final after the | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
women's floor. Tomorrow there is a certain Beth Tweddle who will be | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
going on the uneven bars final. It is offered to talk about medals and | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
keeping everything cross, but you have to wonder if best had got a | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
medal in Beijing, which he still be doing gymnastics today? What she | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
had Dick -- dedicated the last four years of her life today is? One of | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
the things about her is she likes gymnastics and training. She is an | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
active, busy person. Even though she intends to retire from this | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
type of competition at the end of the Olympics, I said to her have | :56:52. | :56:58. | |
you had your last training session? She said, no, I cannot stop just | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
like that, I'm going to ease down gradually. It would not surprise me | :57:04. | :57:09. | |
to see her doing the Grand Prix because she likes the sport and it | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
is a bit of an addiction. She loves it. Maybe she would have given up, | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
who knows? Were her that is what she wants to do each day, come to | :57:23. | :57:33. | |
:57:33. | :57:38. | ||
the gym. We could talk about her for hours. Here is the girl herself. | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
Into the full twist, that was a cracker. An absolute start on this | :57:44. | :57:52. | |
apparatus. It is a massive relief. The past 10 weeks have been up and | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
down and quite hard work, but I have proved I am nearly back to | :57:57. | :58:06. | |
full fitness. As soon as I was told I had surgery, my mum dropped | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
everything and came down with me to the operation. My boyfriend has | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
been their 100% to help me get through, anything I needed, | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
whatever it was, they have done everything to help me achieve my | :58:20. | :58:30. | |
:58:30. | :58:33. | ||
dream. Fantastic work! She is very composed and boxes things off and | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
she knows what she has to do and she is training hard. She had a bit | :58:38. | :58:45. | |
of a setback, but she has got over that. She works as hard as anybody. | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
She is a pretty determined lady. parents have missed about five | :58:51. | :58:58. | |
competitions in my career, but in a 20 year career, that is impressive. | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
It is the missing one, an Olympic medal. Yes, it is. As she said the | :59:04. | :59:10. | |
other day, it she does not get it, she has got three world titles and | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
six European titles, but it is the one she wants and she does not care | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
what colour it is. I have worked really hard on it and I have | :59:19. | :59:29. | |
:59:29. | :59:37. | ||
changed a lot of things and I have As long as she comes awake feeling | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
she has done her best, that is what we will be happy with. I just want | :59:42. | :59:51. | |
her to be happy. If I can walk away knowing I have done the best | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
routines, obviously I would love a medal, but I do not want to walk | :59:57. | :00:07. | |
:00:07. | :00:07. | ||
away thinking I have not achieved and not done my best. How does that | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
make you feel, Chris? Very nervous for her. But she has done all the | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
hard work and she has done all the routines and she knows she can do | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
the work. The Bar has a final will be tomorrow afternoon and I hope | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
you can join us for that. The next individual apparatus final is the | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
:00:39. | :00:39. | ||
women's vault. And here they come. We have got Brittany Rogers, | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
:00:49. | :00:57. | ||
Elsabeth Black. Oksana Chusovitina. Sandra Izbasa. Mckayla Maroney. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
it has to be her, she is the one with the two most difficult vaults. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
She generally has the least deductions. But we have seen | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
favourites flounder. Yesterday on the trampoline we saw the absolute | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
favourite for the women's title make that almost elementary mistake | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
:01:28. | :01:28. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :01:28. | :02:21. | |
at the end. Nothing is sure until champion. The first will be | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Brittany Rogers. There will be two Bolts. They have to be different. | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
In the score the two are averaged. Keep an eye on the difficulty. That | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
is on the left hand side of the scoreboard. No warm-up. There is a | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
warm-up to him outside with the same apparatus. They will have | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
warmed up out there. They had an opportunity about one hour before | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
the competition to warm up on the podium as well. But it is in cold | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
now. Ideally you want to be one of the first. It is not very reactive, | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
:03:15. | :03:30. | ||
it is incredibly explosive and you competition, so brace yourself for | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
:03:40. | :03:51. | ||
was safely away. Big deep in the locker for the second. But that was | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
a good opener. It is nice to have eight team-mate involved as well. | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
:04:09. | :04:12. | ||
Eight gymnasts have made it through to these finals. 5.8 difficulty. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
This was very popular for that top gymnasts at these championships. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Only a few did the three-and-a-half twists. But the top gymnasts did | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
that double twist. Just waiting for the score to come in before she can | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
:04:42. | :04:54. | ||
go on to her second. A little reminder to herself to keep focused. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
A little bit better than qualification, so she will be | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
:05:07. | :05:29. | ||
pleased with that. This one is get back because it seemed to hang | :05:29. | :05:39. | |
:05:39. | :05:44. | ||
in the air a little bit. It was very clearly done indeed. 5.8 and | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
5.6 difficulty is not a bad repertoire. That was a half turn on | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
and the half turned to go with it. She was a bit deep on landing, but | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
hop to the side after she landed. She just brushed the mat with her | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
knuckles. That is a good view of how much the Matt depresses. That | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
is one thing that has come a long way in the last few years, the | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
apparatus, how it absorbs their weight as they land. Her Test is | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
over. And she will be very pleased. A tremendous achievement to make | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
:06:38. | :07:12. | ||
with one-and-a-half twists, and she is really explosive. She could give | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
Mckayla Maroney a run for her money. She took part last year in the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
European Youth Olympics, the major competition by juniors last year | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
and I watched her do some amazing things. She lifted out of the | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
camera view. A bit of a deduction on the landing. She was a bit | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
surprised, but she is really powerful and someone who will | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
:07:52. | :07:54. | ||
develop very much for the future. She is going for a difficulty of | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
6.0 for the next one. Her first one was 6.3. You have to do to | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
:08:11. | :08:45. | ||
different ones. It is very much of and turned on. That was efficient. | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
That is a challenge for a medal. Her first Olympics at 16. What a | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
story that would be if she could end up on to the medal podium. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
went forwards and backwards and they were totally different. | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
same good style, and legs nice and tightly together. But the same lack | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
of awareness on landing. I will step back as opposed to bend the | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
:09:30. | :09:39. | ||
knees. It was interesting seeing Oksana Chusovitina's face. Yes, she | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
:09:49. | :09:54. | ||
knows she has got a lot to do. That is to give you a perception of | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
:10:04. | :10:06. | ||
height above the platform. score to be his 14.483 sec by | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
:10:16. | :10:18. | ||
Brittany Rogers of Canada. A good team is full of different gymnasts | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
:10:28. | :11:04. | ||
it. Did she get the feet down with any part of the body before | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
:11:14. | :11:29. | ||
your feet, she could be in 40. I to try and keep a focused. Come on, | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
:11:39. | :11:41. | ||
an incredible amount of injury during training and in competition. | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
:11:51. | :11:58. | ||
She has fractured elbows, farms. -- gymnast was fantastic. That's what | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
gave them the very coveted fifth place. At it tireder today, another | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
:12:14. | :12:30. | ||
to do another vault? I know you want to show the world you can do | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
your best but... She is going for it. She's going to attempt a 5.2 | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
:12:46. | :12:54. | ||
more hurt than we thought. Obviously she under rotated, | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
there's a problem with her instep and the ligaments or tendons there. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
The bravery. Common sense took over from bravery at that point. Yes, no | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
:13:16. | :13:23. | ||
point in making an injury worse for push came to shove, do I really | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
want to risk this? Interestingly, she didn't actually hit the board. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
So you would be allowed another goal. As long as you don't touch | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
the board, they take that as a false run and you would be allowed | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
another goal. But I don't think she is in the right mental or physical | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
state to do another vault. It would be dangerous. Mentally, apart from | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
physically. And there are some rather dangerous vaulters to come. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Abreu, who is next, she didn't land cleanly at all. An incredible | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
difficulty, a 7.1, but because it was such a big difficulties for, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
the execution didn't really matter and she got into the Bolt final. I | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
think is going to go for the handspring double front. If she | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
hits it it will be phenomenal. Total respect. The platform is a | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
little lower than the men. They are quite common for the men, but to do | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
that from a platform which is 10 centimetres lower, it might not | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
sound the loft, but it's a huge vault. If she hates it, this place | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
will go crackers. Mind you, we are yet to see her land this fault | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
macro, because she landed on her back with that when at the World | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Championships. A thing she did landed at the first qualification, | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
:14:57. | :15:34. | ||
Bolts. That's OK. Just not completely focused. She can do that. | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
:15:44. | :15:49. | ||
Maybe she will be a bit unsettled The approach, the ram, the Contact | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
:15:59. | :16:26. | ||
expensive. If her feet touched first, again it's the same formula. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
But I think she will lose their hallmark at least. I think the FT | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
:16:41. | :16:57. | ||
did touch first, that was my there's no margin for error for | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
that. It is very big for the female gymnasts off a low platform. To be | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
honest, she's a long way off landing that. We've seen it once in | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
how many attempts minus five or six? But it is worth the risk. If | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
she's close enough to take that chance. When you think about it, | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
17.1, one hallmark of 16.1. There will be deductions for being in the | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
air. She could find herself with a 15 for that. It's very important | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
that the judges judged it responsibly. Because you don't want | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
:17:48. | :18:06. | ||
to see lots of gymnasts taking that courageous. The crowd appreciate | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
what they are seeing. Phenomenal difficulty on the first one. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
Control on the second. She's not too happy with herself. The score | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
to beat his 15.016. That is an average of the two. She could be up | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
:18:35. | :18:36. | ||
had to work hard to get it round. You really need to push up. Her | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
:18:46. | :18:46. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :18:46. | :19:29. | |
You can see she's furious with the got a silver in Beijing on this | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
:19:39. | :19:48. | ||
Handspring, like so many gymnasts do, up into wave front somersault, | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
kick out with one 1/2 twists. But I think there were deductions their. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
She was quite deep on her landing. The leader looks on and I think she | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
:20:09. | :20:16. | ||
forwards, chest quite down. That was quite a lot lower than Janine | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Berger's vault. She is a phenomenal person that has been able to keep | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
this level of training going for so many years. Such a strong physique | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
:20:36. | :20:39. | ||
to be able to take those years of Yes, it has been announced, but | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
:20:49. | :21:12. | ||
fact that she bounced up out of which shows how much the flight she | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
had. That is it. Her Olympic career is over. What a superstar. What a | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
swansong, too. She certainly will go from this arena covered with | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
:21:40. | :21:46. | ||
hold the body straight in the air. See the power of the springboard | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
and off the platform. A little look over the shoulder to judge whether | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
floor was. There will be a deduction for the bounce on landing. | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
:22:05. | :22:10. | ||
in the air. Beautiful style. Extended, wraps it in and there is | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
:22:20. | :22:47. | ||
these Olympics by the Russians purely for her vaulting ability. 17 | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
:22:57. | :23:29. | ||
She's come all this way just to She had to plonk those feet down | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
very quickly. Did she get round? I think she did. But she lost a | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
:23:44. | :23:54. | ||
challenge. All of them producing this two and a half twists. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Everyone knew immediately if you were to be in with a shot you have | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
:24:07. | :24:07. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :24:07. | :25:26. | |
She smiles now because that was a real challenge from her. She could | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
just find herself in a medal position. But there's so much to | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
:25:40. | :25:51. | ||
come still. It was a lovely, light with the shoulders on, and there's | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
the half turn off. Very much in control. She always stays a shade | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
too long on top of the platform, but she coped with it very well | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
:26:10. | :26:12. | ||
indeed. That is the score that she has to beat. She is in with a | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
chance here. CHRISTINE STILL: Delight in the | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
:26:30. | :26:48. | ||
the lead, she is guaranteed a medal, with two gymnasts to go. But what | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
colour will that medal ball? Kayla Maroney looking to make history for | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
:27:04. | :27:07. | ||
line, but it was so much higher, so much more powerful than any other | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
gymnast we have seen. MATT BAKER: It was incredible. Just | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
:27:22. | :27:24. | ||
look at her face as she walked back to the end of the runway. Well, she | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
just hits at the optimum moment. Her style is great, legs locked | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
together, comes out of the two-and- a-half twist, arms breaking out to | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
steady the landing, there was no squeezing. It was great. | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
MITCH FENNER: She allowed herself a little smile, but soon got back | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
into focus. Now, she has got to do it again, a different vault, but | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
:28:09. | :28:33. | ||
with the same accuracy - we hope. Olympic gold. It is one she does | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
less often, but usually with great precision... Oh, my word! Usually | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
with great precision, I said. Now, she was brought here also just for | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
this piece. It was the only piece she did in the team final. And that | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
is a major upset. Well, she got her feet down first, so she will be | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
given the value of the move. front somersault with full twist, | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
it is very blind. You cannot really see the floor. You have to assume | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
you have gone high, but she just did not hit with that same contact | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
that she is used to. Her first vault scored very high. So she will | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
get a whole mark from that one. but there will be some more lack of | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
rotation, which is really what she lost. Just like we said, you can | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
never be completely sure about anything. | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
MATT BAKER: She cannot believe it, can she? She cannot believe it. | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
if there was one shoe-in for this Olympics, it was this one. We have | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
all talk about her, the greatest we have ever seen at this discipline. | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
She is into the lead. She has gone ahead of Maria Paseka. However, | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
there's a certain Sandra Izbasa, the European vault champion, to | :29:59. | :30:09. | |
:30:09. | :30:14. | ||
come. But she has scraped into the lead. Interestingly, Sandra Izbasa | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
does the same vault. She does, and she is vastly experienced, she has | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
seen all of this kind of stuff happening before in front of her. | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
You can feel the tension. Is she going to make it? She does! No | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
danger there. She bent the legs just a little bit to make sure that | :30:34. | :30:44. | |
she could bring the landing in, but she was not going to be thrown. In | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
the last Olympics, she was the champion on the floor, so she knows | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
what it takes. Steely determination. She is the one gymnast here who | :30:55. | :31:04. | |
also did the all-around competition. She hit the platform beautifully. | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
You could see how long her heels were in to guarantee the rotation - | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
it was lovely technique. Well, what does the future hold for Sandra | :31:15. | :31:24. | |
Izbasa? Let's keep calm about it! She does not have the two-and-a- | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
half twist, she will probably only do a double twist for her second | :31:28. | :31:37. | |
vault, so it needs to be almost perfect. So, it is all on execution. | :31:38. | :31:47. | |
:31:48. | :32:03. | ||
Look at that, legs locked together, Good precision, good control on the | :32:03. | :32:12. | |
landing. Big bounce back, so it was not perfect, but it was pretty good | :32:12. | :32:22. | |
:32:22. | :32:25. | ||
vaulting. She also has great height. She needs more than 15.016 for a | :32:25. | :32:35. | |
:32:35. | :32:42. | ||
it is a 16 she needs... deserves to win this, because she | :32:42. | :32:52. | |
:32:52. | :32:54. | ||
has had two consistent, very nice vaults. In my book, she deserves it | :32:54. | :33:00. | |
for that consistency. This young lady, you have to feel for her, | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
because she is the best in the world. But you have to perform on | :33:04. | :33:14. | |
:33:14. | :33:23. | ||
the day, don't you? Well, Sandra Izbasa is absolutely overwhelmed. | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
That was a great performance from her. She is the Olympic vault | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
champion. CHRISTINE STILL: Well, the biggest | :33:33. | :33:40. | |
surprise here, everybody thought the American would win this | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
competition, but she opened the door, and there was no-one more | :33:44. | :33:54. | |
:33:54. | :33:56. | ||
experienced than Sandra Izbasa to take that opportunity. You have got | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
to feel for Kayla Maroney, and you never would have predicted that. | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
But fair play, Sandra Izbasa, she was consistent. Fantastic for | :34:07. | :34:17. | |
:34:17. | :34:23. | ||
Romania as well. Go away, she says, I cannot handle this yet! But she | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
is delighted. What a superb gymnast she is. This is a very popular gold | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
medal. Very popular. She worked the all-round competition as well. She | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
came fifth in that. She was not able to challenge for the medals, | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
because she is not very strong on the bars. But she does every | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
apparatus. And she goes into the floor final at the end of the | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
competition as well. From delight to dejection from this young lady, | :34:52. | :35:01. | |
who must be so disappointed. Very much so. Gymnasts from the USA have | :35:01. | :35:07. | |
been buzzing here. This is the first sign of a crack in their | :35:07. | :35:17. | |
:35:17. | :35:19. | ||
tremendous confidence. I am pleased for him, too. Yes, the great | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
architect of Romanian gymnastics. He came back to help the team, as | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
they were really struggling after they lost to Great Britain at the | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
Europeans. He was persuaded back in. They did find here, they got a | :35:36. | :35:43. | |
bronze medal, but they will be absolutely thrilled with this gold. | :35:43. | :35:53. | |
Maria Paseka did well to take the bronze medal. And spare a thought | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
for Berger, who just missed out on a medal, finishing fourth. Yes, she | :35:58. | :36:08. | |
:36:08. | :36:11. | ||
led for so long. 16 years old, she had her hopes raised. Yes, that was | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
a surprise, but a delightful surprise. Very exciting final, we | :36:15. | :36:25. | |
had it all. We had no vaults, great vaults. Yes, that's what it is all | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
about. You have to perform on the day, and Sandra Izbasa did exactly | :36:28. | :36:35. | |
that. She has won this vault gold medal. And she has done so in a | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
:36:45. | :36:58. | ||
She is very experienced a gymnast. She has been through injury, grown | :36:58. | :37:08. | |
:37:08. | :37:33. | ||
up a lot, decided to come back. She certainly is. It was lovely to | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
see her give a kiss to the crowd as she left, that's it for her Olympic | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
career. Did you think that Sandra Izbasa could do that in the end? | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
you saw, it was an incredible final, there was so much going on. Kayla | :37:49. | :37:56. | |
Maroney had it in the bag, is she had landed on her feet. But Sandra | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
Izbasa, she won on the floor in the last Olympic Games, and she has | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
come out of retirement, almost. She has done incredibly well, and she | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
was last up as well, so she had all the pressure on her. This is the | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
thing with her, we have seen her specialising on different pieces of | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
apparatus during her career. She is now injecting all of that into the | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
vault. She came here with vast experience, and she saw the | :38:24. | :38:34. | |
:38:34. | :38:39. | ||
American ahead of her, and she did the job. The Americans have had | :38:39. | :38:49. | |
:38:49. | :38:52. | ||
some shocks. Yes, in the team final. But it does not always work out. | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
That was the case with John Orozco as well. It has been great to have | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
your company this afternoon. And you would not be anywhere else this | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
afternoon, because Louis Smith is about to come out into disarray | :39:04. | :39:11. | |
near. -- into this arena. What will he have been doing for the last | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
hour? He probably would have been in the gym, just sampling the | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
atmosphere, listening to music, relaxing, getting in there zone, | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
and then doing his usual warm up for the pommel horse. He will | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
probably go out again and have another touch before he comes back | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
in. Because obviously, you're not allowed to do that just before your | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
routine. His coach will be with him, telling him just to relax. He has | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
done the hard work. He is completely ready. It is all the | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
psychology now. It is that thing of walking up to the pommel horse and | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
saying, this is just a pommel horse routine, it is that simple. But in | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
this arena, it is not that easy - what does it feel like to compete | :39:59. | :40:07. | |
out there? You think of it as another routine, but there are so | :40:07. | :40:13. | |
many things going on. Like what? You're trying to think how you do | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
it all the time, like in training, but when you actually do it, your | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
body stiffens up. But Louis Smith, he has got such great focus. | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
the word on the crowd, they did not half lift you guys - did it feel | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
:40:39. | :40:46. | ||
comfortable, or was it a bit The audience really act as a sixth | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
man on the team. The whole British public have got behind us. The | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
support we've had is really amazing. The crowd is packed today and the | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
atmosphere is a bit tense but hopefully the guys will do their | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
job today. Thinking back to Beijing, it was all on Luiz - can I get a | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
medal here? How much will that team bronze have helped him | :41:12. | :41:19. | |
psychologically? Like you said, in Beijing he was our complete hope. | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
The bronze we got on Monday definitely would have taken the | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
pressure of a bit. Him being part of a team and smashing two pommel | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
teams in a row will do him the world of good going into this | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
competition. He's done so many routines. He's been hitting it all | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
year. It's the most amazing feeling here. The it's going to be an | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
incredible situation and experience for everyone here. Hopefully he can | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
keep his cool. It's worth mentioning Max. Although he | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
qualified eighth, he didn't hit his best routine. Recently he's been | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
doing the World Cup circuit and has been in lots of finals. Honestly, I | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
don't think there's anyone else in the world has done as many pommel | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
routines as him this year. He does so many. And he can up his | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
difficulty as well. I'm not sure what he will do today. His goal was | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
down to a 49 in qualification. He can be around the 5455 mark if he | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
hits his routine. It's all to play for really. We will talk about them | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
a little more. If you haven't heard of Louis Smith, here is a word from | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
the man who is about to walk out into this arena in a matter of | :42:35. | :42:45. | |
:42:45. | :42:47. | ||
going to come. Then the days dwindled down and you are here. | :42:47. | :42:57. | |
:42:57. | :43:06. | ||
here to write a new chapter in British Olympic history. What a | :43:06. | :43:13. | |
moment for the 19-year-old from Peterborough! What a massive honour. | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
The London Olympic Games, it's going to be a massive competition, | :43:17. | :43:27. | |
:43:27. | :43:31. | ||
especially with the Team GB squad is unbelievable. Compared to | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
four years ago, this time around you have about eight or nine people | :43:35. | :43:37. | |
fighting for just five places. But you have to look at the positive | :43:37. | :43:43. | |
and say, look, that's how far and deeper the British men's team goes. | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
Very smooth. And he's worked so hard on his style. | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
I had to prove to the coaches and selection panel even more that I | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
have a chance to win medals. Any slip and any mistake can be used | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
against you. I've always tried to prepare in the right way. I put in | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
the hours of training and made sure that when I go to these | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
competitions that macro ultimately, if I'm proving I can win medals on | :44:11. | :44:21. | |
:44:21. | :44:24. | ||
a world stage than I think I mentally and physically. Mentally, | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
I know what I need to do, I know what I have to do to produce the | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
goods. It should be easier in front of a home crowd. The advantage of | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
enjoying the competition as opposed to being nervous. Being in a team | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
environment, having that extra support. All these things are in my | :44:39. | :44:46. | |
favour. I said all along it's about having the routine and not needed, | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
and he needed and not be prepared. Depending on where right and in the | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
final, who is in the final, I'm practising that routine in training | :44:55. | :45:05. | |
:45:05. | :45:06. | ||
so I will have it in my locker if I routine, and he has been practising | :45:06. | :45:13. | |
it time after time after time. like I said before, he's done so | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
many routines. Hopefully he can do it like he's been doing it all week. | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
He's been calm since the team final. Emotions were running high after | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
that but the guys have brought themselves back down to earth and | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
have been going to the training gym every day, hitting the routines and | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
making sure they've done enough to keep themselves ticking over for | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
this final. Let's have a word on how we think this final is going to | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
play out. You mentioned Max before, and this is the key. Basically, Max | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
is going to go up there, and I think he might unsettle Berki a | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
little. He could force Berki and the door might be open for Louis | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
Smith. We've got to keep an eye on that possibility of a bronze for | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
Max Whitlock, because he is in the same position that Louis Smith was | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
in four years ago. We are now going to pause for the gold-medallist in | :46:02. | :46:12. | |
:46:12. | :46:21. | ||
the women's vault final. Sandra Taking gold in what turned out to | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
be the most incredible final. We all tipped Maroney. We thought she | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
was going to come here and take the first gold for the USA in the | :46:31. | :46:40. | |
history of the Olympics of the vault final. But Sandra Izbasa | :46:40. | :46:50. | |
:46:50. | :46:50. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :46:50. | :48:49. | |
Now the only final left is the pommel horse final. We are 10 | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
minutes away. Very shortly, Louis Smith will wander out into this | :48:56. | :49:03. | |
arena. Let's hope that he is remaining as, as possible. -- | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
remaining as calm as possible. We were making a joke about the fact | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
he does listen to reggae, he listens to music a lot and that | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
keeps him nice and calm. He has a blasted out before we go out to | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
compete, and it seems to have done the trick. Hopefully it will do the | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
same today. That keeps him relaxed and calm. It's part of his usual | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
routine. We don't really want to change that. Even when you come to | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
major competitions, you want to do your normal routine and get in the | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
zone. Try and treated as much as you can do played down as much as | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
you can as if it's just a training session. A lot of you guys had to | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
work all round in the team because Louis Smith was simply here for his | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
pommel horse routine. So he got to experience this arena from kind of | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
a Spectator's point of view. How much do you think that will have | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
helped him to soak up this atmosphere? Because Louis Smith was | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
doing the pommel horse, he is our head cheerleader. He's our team | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
captain, so he gets us through. He's always there shouting us. | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
That's the role of thing we have in the changing rooms as well. Yeah, | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
it's very difficult for him, especially if we have pommel as | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
last operators, he's got a Wade through the whole competition | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
before he gets to compete. He did incredibly well in qualifying and | :50:23. | :50:32. | |
then again in the team final to come out first on pommel horse. He | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
has so much experience now. I'm hoping he can deal with the | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
pressure today and go out there and do his thing. It's going to be a | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
competition of difficulty first his execution. We keep talking about | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
this guy, Berki. He is six-time European champion. This is his | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
routine. He is remarkable with his execution. Just look at the legs. | :50:56. | :51:06. | |
So beautiful. Again, he looks so tall and graceful. His difficulty | :51:06. | :51:14. | |
is superb. Louis Smith did a fantastic routine but he nipped in. | :51:14. | :51:22. | |
His routine was a class act. It's going to be a good fighter but if | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
Louis Smith can do it, today will be the day he beats Berki. He was | :51:26. | :51:32. | |
looking a bit shaky, not his usual confident self. You can see the | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
break in execution there, he's played his legs a little bit but | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
kept the swing bowling. We are expecting, Louis Smith has two | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
different routines. One that is slightly easier than the other, | :51:43. | :51:51. | |
both very, very difficult. If Berki scores in and around 15.7, we are | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
then expecting Louis Smith to go for the harder style routine. | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
not too sure. The first qualification day and the team | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
final he's done his 6.9. It is not easy, but it is easier routine. He | :52:03. | :52:11. | |
has hit 158 and 59. With the advantage of going last, he can see | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
what Berki does. And Tommasone, you got to be careful of him. We were | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
training with him before we came out here and he's been working on a | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
couple of upgrades. Like you said, Berki is an incredible athlete. | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
This is the one thing he hasn't got yet so he's going to be going for | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
that just as much as our guide is. We will have to see how it pans out. | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
I've been talking to Louis Smith for a long time about how hard do | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
you go and do you go for it, what do you train, do you walk in and | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
then react to the competition as it happens? Would you rather have a | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
set plan in your mind, woke up and do it, or react to the competition | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
and therefore you are kind of in two minds? I'd rather have | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
everything planned out in my head. It doesn't always work out like | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
that. Sometimes it's a mistake does have been you have to be quick on | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
your feet and think of how to get out of it. But normally, yes, I | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
like to rehearse it in my head before I put forward. The same sort | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
of thing, the same as Daniel. You want to go out and do the routines | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
you've trained for but that's the hard thing. He has trained at 7.1 | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
and has been hitting it in training. It's going to be a difficult | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
decision for him, but one who will make with Paul Hall. It will be a | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
joint decision. Something they probably will have decided before | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
they walk out into the competition arena. We will have to wait and see | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
which one he chooses. A you can sense the atmosphere here. | :53:39. | :53:49. | |
:53:49. | :53:54. | ||
pommel horse is just behind us. The gymnasts are just about to enter. | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
There's Louis Smith. How is he looking? He looks good, he looks | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
calm. He's got his gloves on still. I think you will be keeping in the | :54:06. | :54:14. | |
zone. He's not looking up to the crowd or anything. He'll just be | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
keeping calm and relaxed. He's ready. As well, Max looks calm and | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
relaxed. It is a big occasion for him, he's only 19. The guys are | :54:21. | :54:31. | |
:54:31. | :54:48. | ||
does have the advantage of seeing everything good gymnast go ahead of | :54:48. | :54:58. | |
:54:58. | :55:03. | ||
him. This is the moment that Louis high score to start with. Busnari, | :55:03. | :55:13. | |
the oldest member of this pommel horse competition at 33. Hidvegi, | :55:13. | :55:23. | |
:55:23. | :55:58. | ||
Belyavskiy. And standby, ladies and gentlemen... | :55:58. | :56:08. | |
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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING there we are, the stage is set for the final of | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
the Men's Pommel Horse. We can go back to Mitch Fenner and | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
:56:24. | :56:25. | ||
Christine Still. MITCH FENNER: What a final is in | :56:25. | :56:31. | |
store here. Cyril Tommasone will kick it all off, and he is no mean | :56:31. | :56:41. | |
:56:41. | :56:42. | ||
athlete. There's a lot of opposition for the British athletes | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
here, Christine. CHRISTINE STILL: Indeed there is. | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
And as we have already seen in these Olympics, it is very | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
unpredictable. Cyril Tommasone has been the leader of the French team | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
in this competition. I'm sure he will lay down a very strong | :57:03. | :57:11. | |
challenge right from the beginning. Tommasone, of course, the perfect | :57:11. | :57:21. | |
:57:21. | :57:21. | ||
build for this apparatus, long and lean, very elegant. Very consistent | :57:21. | :57:31. | |
:57:31. | :57:32. | ||
as well, he scored exactly the same in qualification and in the round. | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
MATT BAKER: And he did get a silver in the World Championships last | :57:35. | :57:45. | |
:57:45. | :57:46. | ||
year, so a dangerous man. And a very talented one. Very confident | :57:46. | :57:53. | |
handstand to open. There's the second. Now, he is really strong | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
off the blocks here, that's a good start. Good chest position to make | :57:58. | :58:05. | |
sure of those Russian shapes. A very consistent here, Tommasone. | :58:05. | :58:15. | |
:58:15. | :58:17. | ||
This is difficult, that's three straight body turns. Very clean. | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
There's the handstand dismount. Just a little pause at the end, but | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
it was a cracking routine until the very end. Well, it was going so | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
incredibly well for him, and Max Whitlock will have noticed that, | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
and will be thinking, I could have a shout for a bronze. Absolutely, | :58:39. | :58:46. | |
Matt - is there an opening?! It was strange, it seemed to stall. Well, | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
it was a superb start. He came fast out of the blocks and looked really | :58:50. | :59:00. | |
:59:00. | :59:03. | ||
good. The Russians went well, but here, there is no doubt he will be | :59:03. | :59:08. | |
marked down for that, but just that pause at the end, maybe he is | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
facing the way he was not predicted to be facing at the end! He will | :59:14. | :59:22. | |
get a few tenths off for that. he might have added an extra half | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
twist to up the difficulty! There is a tiny strip of daylight. | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
covered it very well, actually. It was more of a hesitation than | :59:32. | :59:40. | |
anything else. More than anything, like you say, I would say that door | :59:40. | :59:50. | |
:59:50. | :00:03. | ||
qualifier. And of course, new judges today. If you have got | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
gymnasts in the final, you cannot have judges from that country. | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
Those are the marks. That is sharp judging. That's down on what he | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
:00:26. | :00:27. | ||
might have expected. The only clue to the age of this man is the | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
construction of his routine. I wonder if he has adjusted it. These | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
:00:46. | :00:51. | ||
days, the routine is more dominated by circles than flowers. -- flares. | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
:01:01. | :01:11. | ||
There is good, he is on the one do that. He will come back again. | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
That dates him a little, but boy, it is impressive. This boy has been | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
around a long time, and he is circling very well. Hands together, | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
coming towards the dismount, and a slight hesitation, but the | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
handstand is clean. Give it to him, because that was a long, hard | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
working routine! He has seen it all, he has been around almost as long | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
as I have! He got a silver at the European Championships eight years | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
ago! A real crowd-pleaser as well, that routine. Yes, a routine which | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
shows, as you say, lots of flour. It really makes the pommel horse | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
:02:08. | :02:09. | ||
seem quite exciting. -- flare. is not easy, but it does not seem | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
:02:19. | :02:19. | ||
to get the credit it deserves. It is very impressive, but it is | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
fractionally easier to do it than it is to circle. You do not get any | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
credit these days. But that was a great effort from Busnari. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
CHRISTINE STILL: super control right at the end. You could see the | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
slight difference between him and Tommasone. He almost elevated off | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
:02:50. | :02:52. | ||
the apparatus. MATT BAKER: He will have to have | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
gone better than his qualifying score. It looks like he has got it. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
He has! He has gone into the lead! Well, that will throw the cat among | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
:03:14. | :03:22. | ||
the pigeons. Hats off to him, outside of the medals at the last | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
:03:32. | :03:33. | ||
World Championships. MITCH FENNER: Lovely handstand. He | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
:03:43. | :03:44. | ||
then goes into the circles... All made in Hungary. Very nicely done. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
That is such a difficult skill, the Russian, the straight body swing at | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
:03:59. | :03:59. | ||
the end. And it was very flat coming off from that. It is going | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
to be a long way now until the end of the routine after that. Such a | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
disappointment. Every gymnast who has qualified for these finals is | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
keen to show their best. This is a big disappointment for him. A nice, | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
clean, extended swing, not over- extended, but he is very sharp. | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
:04:29. | :04:40. | ||
Look at him on one handle. Very And the hamster and was also very | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
effective. What a pity. He came to grief on the very difficult Russian | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
combination, but that was class work. So, he loses a mark for | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
falling off, and of course he loses the value of the element that he | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
did not complete. And we have to say, Hidvegi was a real medal | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
chance. He was indeed. Look at this. He is travelling forward and | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
backwards with good style, lovely hand placement. This I believe is | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
the Russian, which came to grief. His weight was behind his hands, no | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
:05:29. | :05:40. | ||
way he could clear that handle. Britain's Max Whitlock. Hidvegi was | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
one of the gymnasts that was standing in the way of a potential | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
medal for him, as was Tommasone. But of course, he is got to hit it. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Yes, and the question is, will he go higher run his difficulty then | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
:06:07. | :06:10. | ||
he did in qualification? He posted a six-four, but he can do a six-six. | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
He will do a six-six, I am pretty sure about that. Of course, we saw | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Max Whitlock cope fantastically well with the pressure in the team | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
final. What now? Max Whitlock is ready to go in this Men's Pommel | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
Horse final! The door is open for a medal. Now, this is important... He | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
has got to keep his legs tight. It is when he starts travelling the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
length of the apparatus that sometimes, his form goes. But this | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
is very impressive. Spindle, excellent, good extension. Can he | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
keep his legs tight? He has kept it tight - this is looking very good. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
The triple Russian has gone well! Now, then... Into the hands dance | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
sequence... That is a beautiful routine! Max Whitlock is | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
challenging for a medal! That was super stuff! | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
MATT BAKER: World class performance from the 19-year-old! That was | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
first class! But has he done enough for bronze? | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
CHRISTINE STILL: He always handles the pressure, and more! That time, | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
he gave something a little bit special. We were worried about his | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
travels, but he really did well this time. This is of the work, and | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
boy, I don't know about a bronze, but this is a real challenge for a | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
medal, even higher than that. Well, that is going to pile the | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
:08:18. | :08:30. | ||
shoot up to the sky with the announcement of the score!! | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
could not have done a better job. What a fantastic platform he has | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
built for the rest of this competition. Kristian Thomas, | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
:08:52. | :09:27. | ||
beautiful leg separation. Lovely in handstand. The Under-has gone well. | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
:09:37. | :09:38. | ||
Picking up into the circles. Very, very clean on one handle. Nice in | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
:09:48. | :09:49. | ||
the Russian. This is really, really good. He came out square from that | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
spindle. There was a criticism of him... He is keeping his style very | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
well indeed. A small hesitation, but Krisztian Berki, you have | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
really risen to this challenge! That was a super routine from the | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
:10:18. | :10:26. | ||
down the gauntlet for the man who wandered in wearing headphones at | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
the start of that routine. He's got fabulous style. He used it, that is | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
big strength. His big strength is his execution. On the single their | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
quirky stands alone, but here he has brought something out in double | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
leg as well. The Russian he kept in style, which is very difficult to | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
do when you are a long man. Boy, he really can swing! A tiny hesitation | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
at the top of that can stand but it will be very little deduction. Look | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
:11:07. | :11:07. | ||
for a mammoth score from him. Good job, Mr Berki. Always great to see | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
these gymnasts perform on the big stage. His first opportunity in the | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
Olympic Games. Here without a team as a specialist. Louis is going to | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
have to be at the top of his game here. It is an enormous score. A | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
:11:39. | :11:48. | ||
6.9 difficulty. Berki leaves. -- truly off to Krisztian Berki for | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
:11:58. | :12:29. | ||
Qualified with the sixth highest the one handle. There's the spindle, | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
but he lost a bit of rhythm on that. You can't float the legs, you've | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
got to keep them swinging. These are the Russian that swings which | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
are such a challenge. Now he is travelling very nicely forwards and | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
:12:54. | :12:57. | ||
lost rhythm and a bit of shape at the end. What a final this is | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
proving to be. Two gymnasts to go. Valeiev ski, of Russia and Great | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
Britain's Louis Smith. Nakonechnyi is the oldest on the Ukrainian team. | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
:13:24. | :13:39. | ||
the name of the game for him. That is a clear three-tenths Paul's. | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
:13:49. | :13:57. | ||
Max Whitlock stay in contention He's trying his best to stay as | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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young Russians. The Russian pommel horse champion. He will try and get | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
:14:48. | :15:02. | ||
circle but he rescued the swing. Got to keep as flat as you can. He | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
lost the rhythm there. That will cost him. But he is not going to | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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part company with that horse, he's That was very good. There was a | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
moment when I thought he was going to part company but he wasn't | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
having any of it. It was as quick as you like and he fought his way | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
through it, but not without deduction. Good for him because in | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
the team final he made a bit of a mess which cost his team Dili, so | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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he will be delighted to have put Whitlock is guaranteed a medal. | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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won't score 15.6, I can't see it break on the dismount. I think Max | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
can hold on to a medal position. Max was so clean, his style. He was | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
always a tatty gymnast as a youngster, and he's improved so | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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Britain's Louis Smith. He has watched the competition unfold in | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
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front of him. He knows exactly what guarantees Max Whitlock a medal! | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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routine in the locker if he needed handle... Going very well. He's | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
done the second one. There is the spindle. This is going extremely | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
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that is superb! For my money, that's where the gold medal. Yes! | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Louis Smith delivered under pressure. All eyes were on him. | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
Goodness me, he didn't let anybody down there. Wow, what a fantastic | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
performance from Louis! Whatever the result, he gave it his best and | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
nobody can do more than that. Absolutely not. That was terrific. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
It's very easy for us to sit here and call that routine, but it was | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
immense. He kept his style and kept his head. He pushed in an extra | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
ration. He really is worthy of a high, glossy medal. We hope it is | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
cold but it certainly should be silver. His style is so improved. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Really clean, legs locked together, those feet stretched. That was the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
criticism of his work previously. He's put it all right. Fabulous | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
difficulty. Look at the control on that dismount. That is the focus he | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
has shown all the way through. We are looking at 16.066 to make the | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
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the executions call was slightly lower than Berki's, Berki will take | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
gold. It couldn't have gone any closer. Berki did not crumble under | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
the pressure. Louis didn't crumble either. He went out there and gave | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
it is very best shot. Well, what can you say? You can't say anything | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
because there's no protest to be made. You can't protest on an | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
execution score. These two know what it is like. And what a job he | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
has done to take a bronze medal. Well, Great Britain two and three, | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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but there is your Olympic pommel Great Britain with a silver and | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
bronze. But the way Berki one that gold under extreme pressure was a | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
very great salute to him for doing that. Berki, double world champion, | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
:21:28. | :21:40. | ||
European champion is now the was challenge enough, and then to | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
set a target for Louis Smith to have to go for difficulty... He | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
lost out on form, Louis, but you have to say congratulations to | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
Krisztian Berki, who did not buckle under pressure. What a final and | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
what a gymnast this man is. You are worth gold. Louis, a brave attempt | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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to match his score, but they have little breath of relief. Max weblog, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
he finds himself with an Olympic bronze. Louis and Max between them, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
what the job they have done but Great Britain. Silver and bronze in | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
what used to be their nemesis apparatus. Now we are most | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
consistent and probably the best team on this apparatus, well, we | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
are this best team on this apparatus, in the world. A silver | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
and bronze medal is just reward for their brilliance. But this man, | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
when the pressure came he did not buckle. He is a worthy gold | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
medallist, Krisztian Berki. European, world and now Olympic | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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champion. Max is still smiling - he of the Hungarians, going right back, | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
they gave us these moves that are so common now. But they gave these | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
moves over 40 years ago. So what a final that was. Gold de Berki and | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
silver and bronze to Great Britain in the form of Louis Smith and Max | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
Whitlock. How does that sound, Chris, to have two Olympic | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
medalists? We have another chance to what Matt -- Max Whitlock's | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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so high above the handles. His style, as a junior he was quite | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
untidy but always had great flair. This last year he has really got | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
the quality of work along with the up to the mark. Legs are absolutely | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
glued together. He's such a cool guy. I felt confident in the team | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
final when he approached the floor. I think I felt the same this time. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
We've seen so much a one in this pommel Horse Final beforehand with | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Hidvegi coming up before him and Tommasone as well struggling. Max | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
knew there was a chance. I noticed, just when he was sacked their | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
before he went up, he gave a wry smile. He knew that he was in with | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
a brilliant chance. My word, he took that opportunity with both | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
hands. He got himself an Olympic bronze medal. Yes, he is the guide | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
to do it. They brought him because he is quite inexperienced but he is | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
the junior that has risen to the challenge and shown that he likes | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
:25:13. | :25:16. | ||
Krisztian Berki. He was straight into those flairs, he didn't mess | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
about. That was unbelievable work. He really did show his class. He | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
kept his focus. What a challenge Max Whitlock set him. He knew he | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
had to beat Max and then set a target that Louis would really have | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
to work to achieve. The ultimate game of poker! Absolutely! And boy, | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
he played a very strong hand. This was unbelievable from Berki. That | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
little Hopper as he goes round. So Kouassi. When it boils down to the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
execution, can you argue with the judges there? No. The work he does | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
on his single leg work is stratospheric - no one else swings | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
single legs like him. There were very tiny problems perhaps in the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
shade on the Russians but apart from that, this guide, that was a | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
performance that was unbelievable. Louis was always going to have to | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
react to what happened in the competition. He came with two | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
different routines in mind. The question was always going to be | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
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which one would he do? This was the both handstands. I thought at this | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
point that he was a little bit under pressure. He can do three | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
Russians here. There is the first Russian, then he put the second in, | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
which made it seven, but he left the third out. And then he quickly | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
got into the spindle. He really did give it his very, very best effort. | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
CHRISTINE STILL: The crunch was really that he and Berki ended up | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
with the same difficulties Cormack. Yes, but this was the measure of | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
his performance, total control, right at the end. To get the same | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
score as Berki is an achievement. MATT BAKER: And what a release. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
When you think back, do you think he would have been feeling under | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
more pressure here the he was in qualification? Oh, yes, he was | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
under a huge amount of pressure. He had to come up with the goods. He | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
has been consistent all the way through. To be fair to him, he | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
stepped up the difficulty by a tenth. He knew what he had to do, | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
and when you get the same score as the Olympic champion, and it comes | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
down to style in the end, I thought that was fantastic. There is | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
confirmation. Krisztian Berki is the Olympic pommel horse jumping. | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
Louis Smith takes the silver, Max Whitlock the bronze. To have two | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
gymnasts on the Olympic podium in the men's pommel horse, I mean, | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
goodness me. You remember, Matt, from your days, how far we have | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
come in the pommel horse. We are now the strongest team in the world | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
on the pommel horse. We have got two medals in an Olympic Games. I | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
cannot believe what we have seen. No, it it's fantastic. I do not | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
think there should be any disappointment with Louis Smith | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
with his silver. He has stepped up, he got bronze last time, this time | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
he has got silver. He has improved enormously during this past year in | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
style, performance, and that was a great performance, much to be | :29:03. | :29:11. | |
celebrated. And from a difficulty point-of-view, he matched Berki, it | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
is the hardest routine out there in the world. Well, he out did Berki | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
on difficulty, and just lost it on style. What does that say about Max | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
Whitlock's execution? Down on difficulty, but still in the top | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
three. He is 19 years old, add a few more years of difficulty on top | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
of that... Oh, yes, he is huge for the future, not only as a | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
specialist, but all round as well. Jeremy pretty decent on every | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
apparatus. I think he is going to be our star in four years' time. | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
has been a key part of the British team, how well the young gymnasts | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
have performed. We know on a European level how strong the | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
British juniors are. The next Olympic cycle is going to be very | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
interesting. It will be. Max Whitlock himself was junior | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
champion in Europe on the pommel horse. The bridge between junior | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
and senior is not a small one. And he has achieved it. He is now an | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
Olympic medallist. Incredible. At 19 years of age. What a future he | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
has. And we saw Louis Smith getting bronze in the last Olympics, and | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
then suddenly Max Whitlock gets carried along with it - that's how | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
it works. CHRISTINE STILL: Yes, it is the | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
belief, the belief that it is not impossible to go out and to win | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
medals. Beth Tweddle showed us first, and Louis Smith carried it | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
on. They have been the inspirations for the next generation, and now, | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
to be honest, the next generation expect to achieve. It is not a | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
wonderment. In the Junior Europeans, they were first and second in the | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
all round, and they one plenty of medals in the individuals. It could | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
not be more emphatic than that for our juniors. Just a first-class | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
performance. Our British lads came out here in front of such an | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
expectant crowd, and they have just delivered superbly. | :31:21. | :31:31. | |
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ANNOUNCER: Max Whitlock! MATT BAKER: And the home crowd | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
applauds 19-year-old Max Whitlock, who steps up to the podium to | :31:35. | :31:45. | |
receive his Olympic bronze medal. MITCH FENNER: We thought when Louis | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
Smith got bronze in Beijing that it was tremendous, but it has been | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
emulated in the next Games by a younger gymnast. Fair play, that is | :31:54. | :32:03. | |
terrific for British gymnastics. From South Essex gymnastics club, | :32:03. | :32:13. | |
:32:13. | :32:14. | ||
not to millions of miles away from Huntingdon, where Louis trains. | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
unassuming young man, but now, he is among the best in the world, | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
with his Olympic bronze medal. ANNOUNCER: For Great Britain, Louis | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
:32:32. | :32:42. | ||
Smith! gave his very best, matched the | :32:42. | :32:52. | |
:32:52. | :32:54. | ||
score of Berki, but on the countback, he just missed out. | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
Absolutely fantastic. Louis had his coach with him from Huntingdon | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
:33:13. | :33:17. | ||
gymnastics club, and he has done a tremendous job. A tremendous moment. | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
Great Britain's Louis Smith gets a silver in the Olympic pommel horse | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
:33:32. | :33:40. | ||
Olympic champion, Krisztian Berki! World champion, European champion | :33:40. | :33:48. | |
and now, Olympic champion. What a career this man has had. He has | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
been at the top of his game for so long. And it is so fitting, because | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
it was the Hungarians who started so many things on this apparatus, | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
they transformed it, and that was 35 years ago, when they started | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
twisting and turning. He has taken on that legacy, and now, he is | :34:09. | :34:18. | |
Olympic champion. This, his first Olympics, he took that opportunity, | :34:18. | :34:24. | |
and he nailed it, absolutely nailed it. He came out here with the crowd | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
absolutely in full voice for the British boys, and he handled it | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
really well. And the pressure that he must have been under, to come | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
out here in front of his home crowd, he was certainly up against it. | :34:39. | :34:49. | |
:34:49. | :34:49. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :34:49. | :37:07. | |
Louis Smith takes silver croc Great Britain, and Max Whitlock, the | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
bronze. It is always difficult, you're thinking, can they get gold? | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
But Beth Tweddle summed it up, she said, if I leave that arena and I | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
have done my best, I will be happy. Yes, and both of these two have to | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
be delighted. They did not leave anything behind. No, they did | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
everything that they could. To see Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase in the | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
ruling yesterday, they gave absolutely everything, and they got | :37:38. | :37:45. | |
silver. And to achieve exactly the same score, to lose it on the | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
countback in the end, but I just go back to the performance of Berki, | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
to stay calm in this arena, to produce what he produced, I mean... | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
And then Louis steps up and he apps his difficulty, only by a tenth, | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
but he did it. He knew what he had to do, and Berki is a worthy, were | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
the Olympic champion. Louis gracious in taking his silver medal, | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
really gracious. Once again, when you see the pictures of Berki, his | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
leg extension, it is class. When you think of the pommel horse, you | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
want to see the circling, it was absolutely textbook, really. You | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
will always have the arguments about the execution versus the | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
difficulty, but it has done a lot for British gymnastics. How would | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
you describe our style of gymnastics, in Britain? It is | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
immense. The standard for the future is guaranteed now. There | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
will be hundreds of juniors coming through. A few of them will cross | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
the bridge into senior level. They have now got a legacy to live up to. | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
Smith and the team, the team bronze medal, and then to take two medals | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
in this company, they have laid down a legacy for others to follow. | :39:06. | :39:13. | |
And the future looks pretty good to me. Just the most incredible pommel | :39:13. | :39:23. | |
horse Final. We have seen it all this afternoon. In the women's, we | :39:23. | :39:33. | |
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