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session. He will start from last on the grid tomorrow. The BBC News it | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
is rude to Rio. Hello and welcome, this is Road | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
to Rio, your monthly round-up of the biggest Olympic | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
and Paralympic News. The games are fast approaching, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
here's what's coming up Who will be in the boat come Brazil | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
and can GB continue their domination of Olympic rowing this summer | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
after mixed results Is GB tae kwon do set | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
for their best ever games? They claim a hat-trick | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
of European titles. We'll meet the Fiji rugby sevens | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
team hoping to win their country's first ever Olympic medal | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
with their British coach. And we catch up with the British | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
diving partners and best mates Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
who have a novel take Imagine you're in a giant washing | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
machine and then one minute it turns this way and then | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
suddenly it turns that way. We'll also hear from golfer | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Rory McIlroy and speaking all things Usain Bolt with athletics | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
legend Michael Johnson. Lets start with rowing | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
and at European Championships in Germany there were some strong | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
British performances Great Britain, heads up, | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
looking powerful, looking strong. Great Britain's Glover, | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
a stunning job, well done. These could be the strongest British | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
4 we have seen. Really bouncy out there and you've | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
got a lot to do, it is a real strap. Really bouncy out there | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
and you've got a lot to do, And the British now | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
will come through. Absolutely brutal, the entire | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
way down the course, Into the line, they are | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
through on the line. They are two lengths | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
up, enjoying it. And they are actually | :02:12. | :02:12. | |
rowing incredibly well. Great Britain getting the gold | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
in the lightweight men's pair. We were not quite ready, | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
but we wanted to get some racing No matter how bad it is, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
they're still digging in. So, as expected, plenty of medals | :02:26. | :02:43. | |
for Britain's rowers at the Europeans and to tell us | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
what it all means, we're joined by the five-time Olympic | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
champion Steve Redgrave. Are they the closest thing we have | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
to a guaranteed gold? Obviously you can never guarantee | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
anything, but they are the closest They are unbeaten for | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
the last four years. Before 2012 they are unbeaten | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
and every time that anyone has put their best crews out | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
against them they've Their only issue possibly | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
could be complacency. They don't seem to have that and now | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
getting so close to Rio I can't see We must speak about comebacks, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
you are famous for it for yourself. Katherine Grainger is the big story | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
going into Rio after many people thinking she'd | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
step out after London. What you make of her comeback | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
and how difficult is it as an athlete to step away | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
from a sport? Being out of sport, even though | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
she was dabbling with some bits and pieces in between, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
being out of that for 2.5 years A big ask at the age of, | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
I won't say what age she is, but she's older than me | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
when I competed at my last Olympics. To get back to that | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
level is really tough. With that in mind, why do people | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
want to come back, we've seen how much pain you put yourself | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
through and the squad You don't see it as the pain, | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
you see it as the enjoyment You forget all the times you push | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
yourself to your limits within training, forget | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
about all the tough races where it did not quite work out for you, | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
you remember the good times and think, I would like | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
to keep that going. Nine medals in London 2012, | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
what is a realistic target I would certainly say two | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
golds, possibly three. I can't see it being much below six, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
possibly could creep up Six or seven medals | :04:45. | :04:56. | |
is what I predict Now, rowing is not the only spot | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
covers European Championships in the last few weeks, | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
British swimmers and tae kwon do Their successes feature | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
in our round-up of the best A good month for Bianca Walkden, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
defending her European A timely moment to catch up | :05:16. | :06:40. | |
with her ahead of what will be her I think because I missed the first | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
time it was devastating and heartbreaking and nothing else | :06:46. | :06:59. | |
could go wrong. This time, because I thought, | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
I'm not going to let it happen again, the worst thing that | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
could happen, but if you bring yourself down to it you probably | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
wouldn't go again and I thought, Doing well at the Olympics | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
was amazing and has pushed the sport up a lot more, | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
especially in the media. Hopefully now we can go to Rio | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
and get more medals than we did in London and if it just keeps | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
going it will get bigger and bigger. Everyone is stressed | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
because they want to do well, but at the same time everyone | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
is buzzing because it's As the games approach, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
problems in Brazil persist, particularly concerns over these | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
Zika virus that is carried by mosquitoes and can cause | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
serious birth defects. One authority suggested the games | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
should be to postponed but the International Olympic Committee | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
guided by The WHO insists the virus It is causing some potential | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Olympians to consider I've been reading a lot of reports | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
about Zika and there is some articles coming out saying it might | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
be worse than what they say, so I have to monitor that situation | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
as well, because there will be a point in time over the next couple | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
of years were we will have to think about starting a family and I don't | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
want anything to affect that. So right now I'm ready to go | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
to the Olympics and go to Rio Is there a chance you might not go | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
if that gets worse? I mean, yes, I'm going to get my | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
injections for all of that, so at least I will be | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
immunised if I do get bitten Right now I'm going, | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
and I'm looking forward to it. We will get the latest on that | :08:53. | :09:02. | |
in our next Road to Rio Still to come on this show we get | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
the latest from Paralympics GB as they announce swimming, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball squads | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
for the 2016 games. And we meet with the little-known | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
British coach who is a megastar in Fiji as he looks to win that | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
country its first ever Let's turn our attention | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
to the track and the biggest star in athletics, Usain Bolt, | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
he's dominated the last two Olympics, winning six gold medals, | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
but Rio will be his last games, hoping to bow out with more titles | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
and a man who knows him well is the four time Olympic champion | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Michael Johnson. Delighted to say he | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
joins us from the USA. This will arguably be the biggest | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
challenge of his career, First, anyone with Usain Bolt's | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
talent, you just never bet But I think that last year's | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
World Championship performance when he came under more pressure | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
than he has ever come under in his career, he was still able | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
to pull out a victory and not having had the best preparation leading up | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
that championship and Justin Gatlin was in probably the best form | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
we seen him in the last few years. I think that Usain Bolt showed | :10:10. | :10:21. | |
at that point something special, so I would not bet against him | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
to deliver another 100, 200 and 4x100m relay | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
victory in Rio this summer, Fascinating, what is it | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
like for an athlete at this stage of their careers, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
because you've been through it yourself, you want the success to go | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
on but you also want to bow out I'm sure you've spoken | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
with him about that? I think, and we've spoken about this | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
and retirement and when is the right time to retire and I think that | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
you want to maintain a level of excellence while you're out | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
there and bow out at the same level, that becomes increasingly more | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
difficult as you get older as an athlete after having gone | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
through so many championships because then the focus | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
becomes remaining healthy. That is difficult and not | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
quite as much fun, so not That is a difficult position to be | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
in and a difficult one to navigate. You mentioned Justin Gatlin earlier, | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
to many he represents the negative side of the sport with the drugs | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
cheating that we've seen in athletics, what do you make | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
of the current state of the sport I've been asked that question a lot | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
and I've never shied away from giving answers on issues | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
and difficult issues. At this point, to be completely | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
honest I have no perspective on what is going to happen with this | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
sport because I could not have possibly imagined any of the things | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
that have happened that have transpired over the last year, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
I'm just hopeful that something good will come out of this and the sport | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
will come back to a point where there is trust from the fans | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
and athletes in the sport. Next to the Paralympics | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
and a new sport for the games - Britain have two gold-medal, | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
two silvers and a bronze at the recent World Championships | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
so are in a strong There are six events in Rio | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
and expectations are Mark Chadlow has been to meet two | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
of their medal hopes. This British squad are full-time | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
athletes and believed their journey into Para-Canoe has given them | :12:42. | :12:54. | |
the physical and mental toughness I was on a gap year in Australia | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
working on a farm at about six weeks in I contracted a virus, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
we don't know where from still, that basically paralysed my arms | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
and legs overnight. Nick Beaton was an Army | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
captain and Afghanistan I was about 40 metres away from our | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
base and I stood on an IED - an improvised explosive device - | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
so I was injured Sport has been key to | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
rehabilitation, many of this squad reached elite level | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
in other para sports. Nick in rowing, Emma at sitting | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
volleyball, both competed in London. But the new Paralympic sport opened | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
up of bridge and it is that Emma was But the new Paralympic sport | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
opened up opportunities, Emma was spotted on the talent ID | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Day three years ago I've done a bit of kayaking but not | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
much, certainly not To go from starting in March | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
to being world champion that Great Britain have qualified to six | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
ports for real, who will be in them will be decided in early | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
June as the team aim to change their target of three | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
medals in the sport's We are very focused and very | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
determined to achieve Our medal target and beyond, | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
is a real driving force. That para-canoe squad is yet to be | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
named but Paralympics GB have pitched their teams | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
in wheelchair rugby, basketball and swimming | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
pools picked their teams in wheelchair rugby, | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
basketball and swimming pools A squad of 31 operatives para | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
summing A squad of 31 British swimming athletes have been selected | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
for Rio will be to improve on the seven golds they won | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
in London and amongst those, champion Ollie Hind, who has won | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
every major title since 2012. So he knows all eyes will be | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
on him the games. Obviously you never expect that | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
all of the success will come but I've worked really hard for it, | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
I'm really proud of what I've been able to achieve but it is looking | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
forward for me now, what else there is that I want to achieve | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
and looking into Rio there's plenty of things that I want to achieve | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
and focusing on those. The only female selected | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
is Coral Beattie, competing She is more than happy to be treated | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
like one of the guys. It is no different, we still have | :15:26. | :15:39. | |
to train as hard and we It's been a lot of hard work | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
going into it. Sometimes twice a day, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
obviously now it's shown that There is a mixture of youth | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
and experience selected for the women's wheelchair | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
basketball squad, debutant Sophie Cargill has overcome the odds | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
to make the team following a tough I was rushed into hospital, | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
I had something wrong with my bowels I remember saying to my mum | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
and my boyfriend at the time, I'm not going to Rio but obviously | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
the road back has been a struggle and it's been difficult | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
and the amount of support I've had has really pulled me | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
through and to be able to get myself of British athletes that have been | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
selected for Rio so far. With ten more sports expected | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
to make the announcement in June. Wheelchair rugby was one of the most | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
popular events at London 2012 but rugby sevens | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
will make its debut in Rio. One of the leading contenders | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
for goal will be Fiji, who are led One of the leading | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
contenders for gold will be Fiji, who are led by British coach | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Ben Ryan, they've just won the Sevens World Series | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
for the second year in a row. David McDaid cough up with them | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
on the Canadian leg of the tour with a swap the white sand | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
of the Pacific Islands for something This is the first time | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
for me to feel the snow Inexperienced, perhaps on snow, | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
but experts on the rugby field. The Fiji sevens team | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
is the world's best. Something they are keen | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
to underline this summer by winning their nation's first ever | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Olympic medal. Sevens rugby is going on, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
it stops the nation. It will be really something special | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
for Fiji, the first time But we are not there | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
just to win a medal, Trying to help them achieve | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
that is their English coach. Whose success has already made him | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
a major celebrity in Kids have been named after me, | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
I cannot go from there, to difficult, I will have a couple | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
of hundred photos a day We have a very good side | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
that is playing at the moment, one of the best side Fiji have ever | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
had and I am lucky I'm part of that They really like him, | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
he is there for us and that's how we want to play, | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
we want to play Fiji rugby in open Fijian success comes | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
despite the islanders humble But Ryan believes that can help them | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
achieve their Olympic dream. The fact they've got no money, | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
that this will turn them into household names forevermore | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
back in Fiji is driving the team. And I think it is a real positive | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
and a real advantage that the negative of not having | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
any money can really be If we will win a gold medal | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
at will not be because of money, it will be because of heart | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
and ability and the local boys from the local | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
villagers doing their thing. From a seven man team to double act, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Jack Lord Chris Mears won gold at what was a record-breaking | :19:14. | :19:30. | |
European champions at the British Jack and Chris are best | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
mates and live together, but as we discovered they're not | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
always silly in sync. Are you going to | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
literally prompt us? I'm Jack Law, and I'm | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
a British Olympic athlete. I was going to go in there | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
saying I'm Chris Mears. I would say were the worst | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
people to work with. After eight minutes | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
were done four lines. We competed at London 2012 | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
and that was an amazing experience, In 2014 we had the Commonwealth | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
Games and we came home victorious with a gold medal and in 2015 world | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
championships we came home It was fantastic to get the third | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
place because it meant we qualified a spot for the real Olympics, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
which took the pressure off Something you might not know that | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Chris is he is an up and coming DJ and music producer and he is working | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
that I support him every step of the way, is touring Zurich | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
and London clubs doing a bit of it. Something you might not know | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
about Jack Law is that every living second he is not in the pool | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
or in the gym he is, in fact, on many games, | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
most of them are first person down This is the big dive | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
I was speaking about. This year we've learnt a new dive, | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
for the viewers who don't know much about diving, | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
imagine you're in a giant washing machine and one minute it turns this | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
way and suddenly it turns that way. To have the Commonwealth and now | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
the European gold medal around our neck is an achievement | :21:35. | :21:49. | |
will remember for All of the training | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
is about what will help us perform, maybe even | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
better, on that big stage. There's not been many Olympic | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
medals, there has been For us to do that would be something | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
that I can only dream of since I've been a kid, that is fantastic | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
when you win anything but a win alongside your best buddy | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
is the best feeling in the world. Jack and Chris, two great characters | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
that about it for another action packed show, we will back in a month | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
and will leave you with a glimpse of what is coming up | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
on the Road to Rio. Many places in June plenty of | :22:30. | :23:43. | |
sunshine today if you can see the satellite picture. Central and | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
western areas getting the best sunshine. | :23:48. | :23:48. |