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Welcome to Road To Rio. This is the show where every month we take an | :00:00. | :00:31. | |
in-depth look at the preparations for this summer's Olympic and | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Paralympic games. Coming up, Mack they won three medals at London | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
2012. An ABB charge Britain's swimmers to the two better in | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Brazil? Is British cycling in crisis? Could discover nation | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
allegations affect medal potential? And gold at the qualifiers. One of | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
nine boxes to secure a spot. -- boxes. It is nice to think I'm doing | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
it for my country. I would like to thank everybody at home for | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
supporting me. Let's get that gold in Rio. And we look at the new dish | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
outfits for the Olympic and Paralympic games. -- artist. -- | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
British. We start with swimming. The other big trials for the British | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
athletes were held. For some is all delivered under pressure. A few new | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
names also emerged. Here's a round-up of what happened in | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Glasgow. -- for swimmers. James guy is absolutely world-class! Fabulous | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
swim. He punches the air. Superb there from Chloe. Probably the most | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
anticipated event of the week, the men's brushwork. What a swim! -- | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
breast wrote. The main job was just to qualify. I really happy. Superb | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
swim. He has taken 20 seconds off his personal best. This is a girl | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
who missed out on going to the Olympics in London. She got it spot | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
on tonight. It means so much to me. I've been really an emotional, and | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to come away with the time on my last swim is a massive relief. One | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
of the swim is of his live, you can just -- dust off his passport. More | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
than good enough to get her on the plane. Adam will touch here. Inside | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
the qualification time. Then will be British champion. What an excellent | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
swim. A few surprise results at the British trials. To discuss the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
implications, I enjoyed by someone who knows a fair bit, Becky | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Adlington. The trials looked fantastic. Adam and James certainly | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
impress in, but some tough nullification standard set by your | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
old coach. He likes to make things challenging and that is the setting. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
I understand the reason behind it. It is one of those things a lot of | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
athletes in the past have said it is my dream to make the team, which is | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
great, but it should be a dream to get a medal at the Olympics, not | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
just make the team. It is changing that mentality. It is focusing to | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
try to stand up against the rest of the world and be a country to be | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
feared. We mentioned Adam and James winning last year, and someone who | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
also impressed was Jazz Carlin. I'm so happy she qualify. She has always | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
just missed out, and this he is a brilliant opportunity for her to be | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
the athlete we know she is. Let's look at the full squad. Eight of | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
this woman's got the automatic qualifying times. 15 he be secondary | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
standard. Three were lucky to receive our cards. Who really | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
impressed? Chloe was phenomenal. Close shot everyone. That is what I | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
love about Olympic year -- Quarry shocked everyone. She obviously | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
deserved it. There are so many people that stepped up. You have | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Matt, Duncan... Loads of people that just did really step up. Is this a | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
team that makes you miss competing? It seems like a good group. No. No. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Don't miss the training? Definitely not. This is the whole point of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
athletes moving on, said the new breeds,. It is their opportunity to | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
shine. My advice to them would be to just keep it simple. Don't walk | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
around the whole village and get totally starstruck by everyone. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Sometimes you can get caught up in the event. You just need to keep it | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
simple and remember you just put your goggles on and go for a swim. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
It is not life and death. Three medals in London four years ago, can | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
the squad better that in Rio? I think the colours is the difficult | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
one to pinpoint on anyone. We have very in Beijing, three in London | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
different colours. We could see four or five if everyone is on form, | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
touch wood. It is a great team and they have got opportunities there. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
It will be exciting to watch. Thank you. From a sport for the optimism | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
to one plunged into tomorrow. With less than 100 days to go, which is | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
cycling has lost its technical director, Shane Sutton. He quit his | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
post following allegations about his conduct. He was surrendered after | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
claims of and discrimination. An independent review has been modest. | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
He said in a statement as British athletes begin final preparations | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
for Rio it is crucial they can do so without destruction. But the | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
development of his position were becoming that. As sports editor | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
spoke to the chief executive and ask him if the departure would affect | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
written's medal potential. ! Written. Hopefully not. We have a | :06:25. | :06:36. | |
fantastic set of coaches. So no, we don't figure will affect that | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
performance in Rio. It would be great to have shown there, but with | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
the destruction around him at the minute, it would've been | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
detrimental. It is a tough environment. This programme is built | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
on being the best three riders in the world and international success. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
It is about staying ahead of the world. However, we have to balance | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
that without duty of care as well, and it is our duty of care to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
everyone in the system. That is why we need to do this independent | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
review. We will keep you up-to-date. We have really shown you how the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
British swimming team is shaping up. They were the only British athletes | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
to excel. He is a glimpse of what the other Rio levels are up to. -- | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
hopefuls. Still to come, Mike Jenkins shines | :07:21. | :08:56. | |
in the Gold Coast Suns. We will round-up the latest from the British | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
triathletes. Any hockey playing brothers who could both be heading | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to regard and representing different countries -- Rio. The Team GB squad | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
is growing quickly. Now includes nine boxes. That is after the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
European event held in Turkey where British fighters enjoyed more than a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
little success. Our sports reporter was there. | :09:20. | :09:31. | |
This is the Turkey Black Sea coast. It may look like a nice place for a | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
holiday, but for Great Britain's boxes, they came here for one of the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
most important weeks of their careers. With no Brits yet qualified | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
for Rio, there were fighting for Olympic places. Only the finalists | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
in the women division could book births, and Nicola Adams, that never | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
looked in doubt as she eased her way to the flyweight gold medal. The | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
first edition box -- boxer to qualify. I'm on the way to Rio, and | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
it is an amazing feeling. The main three Rio places where on offer at | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
each weight. Five boxes all qualified, winning goal. Obviously | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
you start wanting to become champion. I've been working for it | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
since I was a kid, and now I am here. Never thought in a million | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
years I would be here, but I am right now. Two silver-medallists | :10:44. | :10:55. | |
sealed spots, while a win or bust third fight God and Hanif through. | :10:56. | :11:07. | |
-- got Adam Fowler through. With more chances to qualify in the next | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
couple of months, that number could grow. | :11:12. | :11:23. | |
Despite the qualifying process for Rio already begin under way, radical | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
new proposals have been put forward by the governing body which could | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
see amateurs fight alongside professionals this summer. It is | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
controversial. Let's hear what Anthony Joshua makes of it, and from | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
the President of the Association. Boxing is probably the last Olympic | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
sport, and the lipid medal is supposedly ordered to the best | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
athletes in the sport. I think for me as president, the IOC agenda made | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
it very clear every international federation should consider bringing | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the best possible professional boxer. It is a good opportunity for | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
people who don't want to rush to become professional and still want | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
to represent the country, but it gives them the opportunity to | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
compete with professionals. It makes for tougher competition, but it is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
just how it is regulated. It will only grow with experience. Certainly | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
interesting to see what happens there. Time for the mother catch up | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
with what is happening on the ground in Rio. The BBC South America | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
correspondent joins us now. Thank you for joining us. Tell us more | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
about the impeachment scandal and possible removal of the President | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Dilma Rousseff. It continues to gather momentum. What impact could | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
this have if it happens before the games? It is huge. Everybody's | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
attention is focused on the political crisis in Brazil. And not | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
on the other big games. Dilma Rousseff faces imminent impeachment | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
and suspension overcharges in Congress. The last act as president | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
could be to receive the Olympic torch when it arrives. After that, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
she may have to step aside and be suspended for the duration of the | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
impeachment trial. It is humiliating for her. It is a big moment for | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Brazil and has somewhat deflected attention away from the other big | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
games. The problems don't stop. Two people have lost lives as a result | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
of a cycle lane claps billed for the lyrics. 11 people may have died as a | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
result of construction on venues gone wrong. -- cycle lane collapse | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
build for the Olympics. The collapse of the limbic cycleway was a big | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
concern because it may have been rushed. -- Olympics and stop there | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
are questions whether the correct precautions were taken. The pressure | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
to get these finished on time will be round-up and hopefully they will | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
not at corners in terms of safety. Another of events have taken place | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
successfully. Is the general consensus that this went well? The | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
sporting venues around's book to be going well. About 98% of the work is | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
complete and most of the sporting venues are complete. The velodrome | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
is causing problems. The test event had to be delayed and there are | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
problems laying the specific would track in the velodrome. It is not | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
the sporting venues themselves causing problems it is the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
infrastructure, especially the main Metroline, which is a critical part | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
of linking the city of Rio to a big part. That will be touch and go | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
whether that is ready. Thank you. Weightlifting has had a test event | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
by gigabits were not there. One woman and one man had secured a | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
place in Rio but we don't know who will take up the slots | :15:13. | :15:13. | |
place in Rio but we don't know who will take up the slots yet but the | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
leading contender to take up the women's place is that we Smith who | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
was a London Olympian. Here is her real notebook. I gave up school to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
focus on the training for the Olympics four years ago -- Rio. It | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
takes over your whole life and it can be really difficult and when | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
weightlifting starts going wrong and it is your whole life, where'd you | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
go from there? What have you got to distract you? It can be tough but we | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
do it for the love of it. The buildup to Rio is entirely different | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
to the buildup to London. For London we had host nation spots so we had | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
five of them in the end. Five people definitely going in and it was just | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
a case of beating a teammate to get to the place where you can go and I | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
did. This time you have to work harder to go and I have had to work | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
really hard to qualify for a space in Rio. The women's team have come | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
on so much and we have got Rebekah Tiler now who is 17 years old and is | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
breaking records left, right and centre and it is amazing to see and | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
I think it is inspiring for many children her age and younger. Since | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
London, women have formed a strong contingent in the UK and have been | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
working so hard. Unfortunately the men's team lost their funding last | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
year so now it is just the women's team. It is great to see so many | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
more women just be in the media for weightlifting. Another sport which | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
has certainly grown over the last Olympic cycle is triathlon. Few knew | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
much about the sport for the Brownlee Brothers began winning | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
medals but Alastair and Johnny are no longer the only headline names | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
for Great Britain. Others have proved themselves on the world | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
straight like Helen Jenkin -- stage. A recent win for her in Australia | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
confirmed her place in Team GB in Rio. Let's look at how the squad is | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
shaping up. Victory. Hollans takes the win in Edmonton. A stunning | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
result and that last Jonathan Brownlee wins. To find a dominant | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
force in world triathlon you don't have to look far. The Brownlee | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Brothers are strong favourite for Rio but who will join them on the | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Copacabana? To decide the final women's spot it came down to a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
shootout on the Gold Coast between Jodie Stimpson and two-time world | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
champion Helen Jenkins. We have one spot and Jodi and are ranked one and | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
three in the world and it is almost crazy that one of us will be going | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
to the games. She's a very hard competitor to go up against that it | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
makes it more exciting and gigabits have got some great athletes. In the | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
race, Jenkins proved stronger and took the wind and a shot at the | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
Olympics. I really feel for her. Just our team is so strong. It just | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
isn't fair that she might not be going to the games. It is an | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
exciting position to be in and they think we are blessed as a country in | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Great Britain because we have got a great amount of talent. She has | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
pushed them all away. As for the men third-place is still up for grabs. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
The contenders are Tom Bishop and Gordon Benson. Neither have gold | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
medals but they show the potential in the Gold Coast to support the | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
Brownlee Brothers in Rio. We were still not great come out we need to | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
be the best we can be. While there may be the odd wobble before the | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Olympics come just ask Johnny, more moments like this are highly | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
likely. It is great to be part of team Great Britain and to be part of | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
the system here. We're going there to make a splash. We mentioned the | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
British swimmers trying to get to the Olympics earlier in the show. It | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
has also been a crucial month for the Paralympic counterparts as their | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
trials were hosted for Rio. A total of 25 athletes made the | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
qualification time over five days of competition. Now we go to our | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
correspondent. It has been a successful five days for Britain's | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Paralympic swimmers in Glasgow. 25 athletes achieve the qualification | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
standard for Rio and world records have been broken in D 250 metres | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
freestyle and the 400 metres freestyle. Simmons admits even she | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
was surprised by her performance. I am so chuffed. I didn't really want | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
to go that fast that trials, I wanted to try to keep it for Rio but | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
I am really happy and I'm happy to have pushed myself to that time and | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
now I can look back and work towards the things that I need to do in Rio | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
because that is where it counts, not here where you can go smashing get | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
the gold medals. To there are also exciting new talents that have | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
achieved the qualification standard including 12-year-old Abby Kane and | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
teenagers Rebecca Redfern and Ellie Robinson. And the national director | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
is confident that these youngsters will only help strengthen the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
development of the team. That upward pressure from our development | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
athletes keeps our podium on athletes honest and working hard. It | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
puts pressure on them looking behind them for their place over their | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
shoulder and it is good for us and for team Great Britain to have that | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
happening. The next opera many of these athletes is the European | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
championships in Portugal next week and then it is back to training and | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
if this week is anything to go by, British Paralympic summing is in a | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
very good place ahead of Rio. Athletes born in Northern Ireland | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
can decide who they want to compete for, team Great Britain or Northern | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
Ireland and in hockey this has thrown up the unusual scenario of | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
two brothers from Antrim who could be heading to Rio de Janeiro but | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
playing for different teams. Now we go to our correspondent. Two | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
brothers both born in Northern Ireland but representing different | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
countries and both hoping for success in Rio. But the competitive | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
sibling rivalry started a long time ago. We played all sports when we | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
were younger, not just hockey, cricket and rugby and football and | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
golf and tennis, everything we could get our hands on and every game | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
wound up in an argument. The funny story would be on Sunday lunch when | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
our grandma, you couldn't close your eyes in grace because half your food | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
would be missing. It was over a century waiting for Ireland. Their | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
trip to Rio booked when Australia claimed the Oceania cup. It is one | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
of those situations where you have got relief at the start and it has | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
been such a long wait. And then there was the realisation that we | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
have really done something special here. But then we really have to | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
focus on going there in performing and not just taking part. While | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Ireland will be metal outsiders: the expectations for Great Britain are | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
much higher. We are a metal target. We have our podium programme. That | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
is the goal for us but I cannot speak for the Irish guys. I'm sure | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Paul will but we're going there to win medals. You would like your | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
friends and family to be doing well as long as it is at your own | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
expense. A bit of a dilemma for the family if they come against each | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
other. That is just about it for another action-packed show. We will | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
leave you with a look at some of the major Olympic events to look out for | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
over the next month, all of which you can follow here at the BBC as we | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
continue on the Road to Rio. I will start off by giving you | :22:52. | :23:45. | |
a quick sense of what is to come over the next two or three days | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
through the bank holiday weekend. Thankfully, I am sure many of you | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
will say hurray, at last, it will be less cold and there will be some | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
sunshine and less rain at times. | :23:57. | :24:01. |