:00:00. > :00:32.Welcome. This is Road to Rio. With just a few days to go until the
:00:33. > :00:36.Olympics begin, we have an action packed final programme, featuring
:00:37. > :00:40.some of the biggest sports and athletes who will be going for gold
:00:41. > :00:48.with Team GB. One is Katarina John said. Can she become a champion in
:00:49. > :01:01.her own right? Team GB athletes check out the gear and Games. And we
:01:02. > :01:06.catch up with the Para Equestrian team, which includes this champion,
:01:07. > :01:09.who says it will be his toughest Games yet. The competition is so
:01:10. > :01:17.seriously hot now that if I come home with a medal I will be very
:01:18. > :01:24.happy. All of that and much more to come. We start with 1-off GB's
:01:25. > :01:29.highest profile sportsmen, Tom Daley. He has won every single
:01:30. > :01:38.diving or not, except Olympic gold, so he is hoping to complete what
:01:39. > :01:42.will be a career Grand Slam in Rio. I am Tom Daley and over the past
:01:43. > :01:47.eight years I've been working as hard as I possibly can to make my
:01:48. > :01:52.third Olympic dream come true. Back in 2008, at Beijing, I qualified
:01:53. > :01:55.when I was 13 and competed when I was 14 and then in 2009 at one the
:01:56. > :01:59.World Championships and ever since I got the taste of him on top of the
:02:00. > :02:04.world I've always wanted to win an Olympic gold medal. Then, in London
:02:05. > :02:07.20, it was the home Olympics and one of the most exciting things about.
:02:08. > :02:12.There are 18,000 people coming to support me, friends, family,
:02:13. > :02:18.millions at home. To come away with a bronze medal was amazing. To win a
:02:19. > :02:21.medal and go to the Olympics in front of a home crowd is something
:02:22. > :02:26.that is so hard to put into words. After that, in 2013, it was one of
:02:27. > :02:34.my toughest years of diving. I was injured with a bad tricep, I had to
:02:35. > :02:38.redo one of the giants in the final. I started to go really downhill and
:02:39. > :02:43.I was so terrified every single time that I went to the diving board. But
:02:44. > :02:47.I got through it. I took a bit of Tynemouth, six weeks go travel the
:02:48. > :02:51.world and do what I wanted to do, reset my brain, and then I came back
:02:52. > :02:55.to diving and wanted a bit of a change, so I moved to London and
:02:56. > :02:59.have a new coach and ever since then I haven't really looked back. I've
:03:00. > :03:03.been working as hard as I possibly can in the weight room, with my
:03:04. > :03:08.nutrition, psychology, everything. And I also had to learn a new dive,
:03:09. > :03:14.three and a half somersault with one twist, and it was a bit of a risk to
:03:15. > :03:19.learn a new dive so close to the Games, but I've been working on
:03:20. > :03:23.consistency and now going into Rio 2016 I feel like I am at my peak
:03:24. > :03:26.form and shape and hopefully going into this competition I just want to
:03:27. > :03:31.go out there and win an Olympic gold medal. I knew it is something that
:03:32. > :03:36.seems surreal to say, but I have to believe that I can win the gold
:03:37. > :03:45.medal and 55 until the very end, but wish me luck!
:03:46. > :03:50.Tom Daley obviously isn't the only British athlete going for gold in
:03:51. > :03:58.Rio and recent results suggest the likes of Greg Rutherford and Alice
:03:59. > :05:00.dead stomach -- Alastair Brownlee could be on their way to success.
:05:01. > :05:06.Plenty of athletes in top form and they will certainly need to take
:05:07. > :05:10.that into the Games because Team GB have been set target of 48 medals in
:05:11. > :05:14.Rio, fewer than 65 they claimed at London, but it would be a record
:05:15. > :05:18.haul for an Olympics on foreign soil. Before the stress of
:05:19. > :05:19.competition kicked in, I caught up with some of the team as they
:05:20. > :05:31.collected their Olympics kit. Welcome to Birmingham and the
:05:32. > :05:36.national exhibition centre, where over the past four weeks around 350
:05:37. > :05:37.Team GB real Olympic bound athletes have been here to pick up over
:05:38. > :05:47.100,000 pieces of kit. It's a very special experience,
:05:48. > :05:52.going to an Olympics and getting your kit is part of that. I just
:05:53. > :05:57.looking forward to wearing it all. Can you get it in a large? Every
:05:58. > :06:00.four years the Olympics comes around, the biggest event of
:06:01. > :06:04.everyone's career and it is the first time I will experience it.
:06:05. > :06:07.I've been fortunate enough that I will be going into my fourth and
:06:08. > :06:08.matter how many times you've been you are proud to be representing
:06:09. > :06:18.Britain. Getting all of the kit, I still keep
:06:19. > :06:27.thinking it is like replica kit, and I have to be like, this is yours!
:06:28. > :06:32.Yes, a special day. Any athletics kit I have tried on. I think I have
:06:33. > :06:38.tried on an extra small women's best and I fill it out quite well! --
:06:39. > :06:44.vest. We are here with this world Champion swimmer. What is your
:06:45. > :06:50.favourite bit of kit? This is pretty cool. Completely different. Not the
:06:51. > :06:53.standard rucksack I usually get. It is Team GB Rio 16. To be part of
:06:54. > :07:01.that team is pretty special. Nice Thai! Yes, a tie and T-shirt look.
:07:02. > :07:07.Dairy smart. The trackies and the polos, it is all spectacular. This
:07:08. > :07:10.will be my first PG experience, and will hopefully go there and race as
:07:11. > :07:16.fast as I can. And win a medal. I don't want to
:07:17. > :07:23.come forth! I will go with an open mind. I will do them proud. It has
:07:24. > :07:26.been an absolutely amazing day. It is great to be with their teammates,
:07:27. > :07:31.because it brings the whole experience alive and it's a feeling
:07:32. > :07:35.of, we are actually going! There is no bigger or greater competition to
:07:36. > :07:40.do than the Olympic Games. It just means so much and to where the flat
:07:41. > :07:46.makes me a little bit more proud. -- to bear the flag. It certainly was a
:07:47. > :07:49.very fun day. Think of heptathlon and he will probably think of
:07:50. > :07:54.Jessica Ennis-Hill, the Olympic champion from London 2012. One of
:07:55. > :07:58.the favourites for Olympic gold is Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She has
:07:59. > :08:00.had her problems, she looks to be timing for Olympic podium push to
:08:01. > :08:14.perfection. Just remind us of those Games at
:08:15. > :08:19.London 2012. The habitat on was the first event of the whole athletics
:08:20. > :08:24.calendar and I have never done anything like that in my life.
:08:25. > :08:32.80,000 people, the noise was incredible. I don't think I will
:08:33. > :08:37.ever experience anything like that again in my life. After 2012 a lot
:08:38. > :08:40.of people were putting a lot of pressure on you, in terms of you are
:08:41. > :08:46.the next big thing. How did you cope with that? In 2012 it was hard
:08:47. > :08:52.because I was 19. I came 15th in the Olympics and I thought, I've got a
:08:53. > :08:56.lot of work to do! I don't have any -- if I am going to have any hope of
:08:57. > :08:59.a shot in the next four years. A lot of people believe you can be the
:09:00. > :09:03.next big thing, that gives you an extra push. There have been ups and
:09:04. > :09:10.downs, glimmers of good performances. The gold medal is
:09:11. > :09:15.hers! What a performance from Katarina Johnson-Thompson! She is
:09:16. > :09:21.the European indoor champion! The new British recordholder! You don't
:09:22. > :09:24.learn anything by winning because you just assume everything is great
:09:25. > :09:31.and you carry on. So last year I had a lot of learning experiences. There
:09:32. > :09:36.has been a slow buildup. I think I am a different athlete. I am more
:09:37. > :09:41.mature now. Obviously people will make national comparisons with
:09:42. > :09:44.Jessica Ennis. How has that been, with her coming back to the sport?
:09:45. > :09:50.As that provided more inspiration? To me it has been my dream since I
:09:51. > :09:55.was a little girl. I'm glad she is back and performing really well. I
:09:56. > :10:00.think this Olympics will be very hard, and the weather wins it will
:10:01. > :10:04.be on a good score. I am looking forward to the battle!
:10:05. > :10:12.The habitat fond will be one of the major highlights of the Olympics,
:10:13. > :10:17.but what about the Paralympics? -- heptathlon. London was seen as a
:10:18. > :10:23.breakthrough Games for disability sport. The Britain team were among
:10:24. > :10:28.the star performers and had -- hope to make their mark again at Rio.
:10:29. > :10:31.A team of five riders and their horses have been selected as part of
:10:32. > :10:36.the Paralympics Team GB and although they are small team it is renowned
:10:37. > :10:40.for being one of the most successful, topping the medals table
:10:41. > :10:43.in Beijing and London. But it is not expected to be so easy in Rio, with
:10:44. > :10:47.the rest of the world catching them up. I think all of the nations have
:10:48. > :10:53.looked at us as riders, the British team, looked at our support staff
:10:54. > :10:57.and systems, the lottery funding that we receive, the private
:10:58. > :11:01.sponsorship, the horsepower and also Great Britain was one of the first
:11:02. > :11:05.countries to look at up-and-coming athletes and nurture kind of the
:11:06. > :11:12.young really in all sports, equestrian as well. So it will be
:11:13. > :11:15.really, really competitive at Rio. The past Games I was going to win
:11:16. > :11:20.and try to get triple gold medals, but the competition is so seriously
:11:21. > :11:24.hot now that if I come home with a metal Idol be very, very happy.
:11:25. > :11:29.Thanks to athletes lately appears that the deception of disability is
:11:30. > :11:33.changing in the UK. -- perception. Now they will try to carry that
:11:34. > :11:36.Olympic movement across the world and with the Games taking place for
:11:37. > :11:43.the first time ever in South America has never been a better opportunity.
:11:44. > :11:52.I really hope that Rio has sold a lot of seats, so people can see
:11:53. > :12:00.disability sport in a flash and see what disabled people can do. It is a
:12:01. > :12:07.really good starting point for changing perception around
:12:08. > :12:13.disability and I hope that the Paralympics will help not just
:12:14. > :12:25.athletes, but other disabled people to live their life like they should.
:12:26. > :12:28.Still to come on Road to Rio: Week -- we catch up with Audley Harrison
:12:29. > :12:32.and see how his success has paved the way for other champions. Andy
:12:33. > :12:37.Stiles got the closest thing to a guaranteed Olympic gold for Team GB?
:12:38. > :12:41.We see if Britain's sailors can rule the waves in Rio. First, the
:12:42. > :12:46.preparations for this Olympics have been far from smooth. US issues in
:12:47. > :12:49.Brazil, the Russian doping scandal and of course the return of golf to
:12:50. > :12:53.the Olympics for the first time since 1904. Controversial because
:12:54. > :12:57.the world's top four men would be in Rio.
:12:58. > :13:04.Tim Hague picks up the story. The game of golf has come a long way in
:13:05. > :13:08.112 years. Into the lead, the Americans. 1904 was the first time
:13:09. > :13:12.the Olympics featured roles, yet that will all change in Rio de
:13:13. > :13:16.Janeiro. A cause for celebration and for controversy. The world's top
:13:17. > :13:23.four players were given be there. No Jason Day, Jordan Spieth Dustin
:13:24. > :13:26.Johnson or Rory McIlroy. I am very happy with the decision that I've
:13:27. > :13:31.made and I have no regrets about it. I will probably watch the Olympics,
:13:32. > :13:34.but I am not sure golf will be one of the events I will watch. What
:13:35. > :13:40.will you watch? The stuff that matters. Those now infamous comments
:13:41. > :13:43.prove that as well as fears over the Zika virus some of the stars just
:13:44. > :13:46.don't have the appetite to play Olympic gold. It is all rather
:13:47. > :13:51.embarrassing, eating golf was selected ahead of other sports like
:13:52. > :13:55.squash and karate to appear in the Olympics and could be damaging for
:13:56. > :14:01.the future. -- given golf. It won't help. We are disappointed. They all
:14:02. > :14:05.have their reasons. On the positive side all of the top women are
:14:06. > :14:09.playing and we have half of the top men playing, so it's a strong field.
:14:10. > :14:13.When golf was last featured at the Olympics not a single woman played.
:14:14. > :14:18.This course will see a very different competition and, unlike
:14:19. > :14:23.the men, everyone will be there. I think it felt really convenient to
:14:24. > :14:29.them, to use as eager as an excuse. When you consider the disparity
:14:30. > :14:35.between the men's and women's tournament, the drive that we have
:14:36. > :14:40.for passion is evident. And while the men have a track that all the
:14:41. > :14:43.bad publicity, the likes of open champion Henrik Stenson and former
:14:44. > :14:48.U.S. Open champion Justin Rose will be going for gold. If I was the fast
:14:49. > :14:56.forward ten years I would like my career to read Justin Rose multiple
:14:57. > :15:00.Olympic -- champion and Olympic medallist. It would be very special.
:15:01. > :15:03.Just how special the golf competition becomes could be the
:15:04. > :15:08.deciding factor in its future in the Tokyo Games in 2020.
:15:09. > :15:14.Boxing can be one Team GB's big medal winners, they will take 12
:15:15. > :15:19.athletes to Brazil, the biggest squad since 1984 and hopes are high
:15:20. > :15:23.after five medals at London 2012 but many credit orderly Harrison with
:15:24. > :15:29.helping route even make the sport when he won the super heavyweight
:15:30. > :15:33.title at Sydney 2000, ending a 32 year wait for a GB boxing gold. I
:15:34. > :15:36.spoke to him earlier. We only had two boxers qualify for Sydney, it
:15:37. > :15:40.wasn't a lottery funded sport so there was a lot riding on going
:15:41. > :15:44.their. I was so confident I was going to get the gold, not just for
:15:45. > :15:49.me but the future of boxing so we could become lottery funded. It was
:15:50. > :15:53.a festival of sport, all the athletes, Sir Steve Redgrave,
:15:54. > :16:01.everyone was there, nobody knew boxing, so I dyed my hair different
:16:02. > :16:04.colours, I was really look kosher is, lots of charisma, I wanted
:16:05. > :16:08.people to see not just what I could do in the ring but out of the ring
:16:09. > :16:12.as well. For fights in ten days is an arduous task but I was up to the
:16:13. > :16:17.challenge. Each time I won a bout I could feel the crowd was building,
:16:18. > :16:21.and when I got to the final there was 10,000 people singing orderly, a
:16:22. > :16:24.amazing occasion to go there and not just for yourself but for your
:16:25. > :16:30.country to win a gold-medal. A magical moment in my life, not just
:16:31. > :16:34.for me but for boxing too. It completely revolutionised the sport
:16:35. > :16:40.in the UK after that? Yeah, now you look at the Olympics and you saw the
:16:41. > :16:46.success of London 2012, even in 2008 we had three medallists. After the
:16:47. > :16:48.Olympics, after Sydney we became a lottery funded sport and pumping
:16:49. > :16:52.that money in has allowed the athletes to be trained and to be
:16:53. > :16:56.paid to be full-time athletes, to have the support staff, to have all
:16:57. > :17:00.the sports science needed. You can see we've caught up with the rest of
:17:01. > :17:03.the world and now boxing is a sport where you're looking, how many
:17:04. > :17:08.medals are we going to get? Before it was how many would qualify. It's
:17:09. > :17:13.a huge turnaround and bravo to boxing. Sydney is where it all
:17:14. > :17:20.started. Absolutely. In terms of other big changes, the world of
:17:21. > :17:23.boxing has been thrown up in terms of what will be happening in the
:17:24. > :17:25.future because we now have professional boxers allowed into the
:17:26. > :17:28.pics. Has it changed the pathway we have seen from amateur to
:17:29. > :17:32.professional? What do you make of that change? The Olympic ideal, I
:17:33. > :17:36.always had that ideal of going to the Olympics like it is a Harvard
:17:37. > :17:40.degree and you take it, turn professional and you have a new
:17:41. > :17:44.career. Now the line has been blurred to some degree, the amateurs
:17:45. > :17:48.don't fight with head guards this Olympics. They use a ten point
:17:49. > :17:53.system. You will get professionals and amateurs mixing and it's a
:17:54. > :17:59.shame. Team Gmail prospects in boxing, Nicola Adams must excite
:18:00. > :18:04.you? Definitely. Nicola Adams has had a great career already am going
:18:05. > :18:10.to Rio with a chance of defending an Olympic title, so excited for her.
:18:11. > :18:13.She definitely... Looking at her performances in the qualifiers and
:18:14. > :18:18.the World Championships, she hasn't put a foot wrong and I think Nicola
:18:19. > :18:22.Adams could be our first two-time Olympic boxing champion. An amazing
:18:23. > :18:26.achievement for her and boxing. Certainly would. Thank you very much
:18:27. > :18:30.for your time. Before Nicola Adams competes in Rio she will pass
:18:31. > :18:34.through the Team GB holding camp in Belo Horizonte, the same base the
:18:35. > :18:38.England football team news during the football World Cup in 2014. Wyre
:18:39. > :18:47.Davis has been to check out the venue.
:18:48. > :18:53.How many medals the British team will win at these Olympic Games
:18:54. > :18:58.depends in many parts on the preparation before the games. This
:18:59. > :19:04.is the tennis club in Belo Horizonte, and our's flight north of
:19:05. > :19:10.Rio de Janeiro but it is here the preparation camp has been set up.
:19:11. > :19:13.Half of the athletes will come through here, boxers, table tennis
:19:14. > :19:17.players, athletes, weightlifters, and it's been set up with ?1 million
:19:18. > :19:30.of lottery funding. Of course there's a lot of interest
:19:31. > :19:35.in how Team GB is preparing for these games and achieving that medal
:19:36. > :19:43.target of 48 medals after coming third in the medals table in London
:19:44. > :19:47.2012. Many of the top British women is here in Belo Horizonte using this
:19:48. > :19:52.magnificent facilities secured by Team GB. Rugby players, athletes and
:19:53. > :19:56.archers will be using this facility, many in Belo Horizonte before moving
:19:57. > :20:00.back to Rio for the competition proper. Belo Horizonte is some way
:20:01. > :20:04.from Rio de Janeiro but in being here Team GB think they have the
:20:05. > :20:08.best training facility in Brazil and the attention to detail is the key
:20:09. > :20:12.thing. This, or example, is exactly the same kind of running track the
:20:13. > :20:18.athletes will have at the elliptic stadium in Rio. The athletes will be
:20:19. > :20:22.here until three days before they start competition in Rio. Lip-out
:20:23. > :20:27.Olympics. Its home from home very much, all away from the hurly-burly
:20:28. > :20:31.of Zika, unfinished buildings and the competition in Rio itself and it
:20:32. > :20:39.is what might help Team GB achieved its highest medals target away from
:20:40. > :20:42.home ever in Olympic competition. Wyre Davis reporting for us there.
:20:43. > :20:47.British sailors have won at least one gold at each of the last four
:20:48. > :20:51.Olympics, much of that was down to this man, sir Ben Ainslie. He did
:20:52. > :20:55.retire from dinghy sailing after London 2012 but there are still
:20:56. > :20:58.plenty of medal prospects. We asked the double Olympic champion Sarah
:20:59. > :21:08.Clinton for her take on the current squad. Hi, I'm Sarah there a ten
:21:09. > :21:15.OBEs, winning my first Olympic gold in Athens and then four years later
:21:16. > :21:22.in Beijing. For you... I'm one of the three blondes in a boat. Going
:21:23. > :21:26.on current form, Giles Scott is definitely one of my favourite. He's
:21:27. > :21:29.been dominating the Finn class for the last three years so he has got
:21:30. > :21:34.to be my number one pick and then you have got past medallists from
:21:35. > :21:39.2012. In Olympic sport if you win a medal you're likely to go again, so
:21:40. > :21:43.that puts Hannah in the mix in the 470 class and also in the
:21:44. > :21:46.windsurfing, Brodie sure in the RS X has a good chance of winning a medal
:21:47. > :21:51.and Nick Thompson in the laser class. In the last couple of years
:21:52. > :21:53.he has started to get those performances at World Championships,
:21:54. > :22:00.so fingers crossed it goes well for him in Rio and he gets a medal.
:22:01. > :22:05.It's going to be a bit of a problem in Rio but to be fair, before every
:22:06. > :22:09.Games there's always something. In China there was the seaweed problem
:22:10. > :22:14.and in Rio we have the pollution. As I say, you have to take precautions.
:22:15. > :22:17.I know it sounds silly, if it's windy you have to keep your mouth
:22:18. > :22:22.shut when you get a wave in your face. So it's things like that and
:22:23. > :22:26.really looking after yourself. Team GB is one of the most
:22:27. > :22:29.successful sailing nations in the world, so there's every reason to be
:22:30. > :22:41.excited about the 16th. -- Rio 2016. Good luck to them. That's just about
:22:42. > :22:45.it from the final Road to Rio, the journey to the 2016 games is almost
:22:46. > :22:49.complete for the 15,000 athletes who will compete across the Olympics and
:22:50. > :22:53.Paralympics. To whet your appetite, here's a look back at the
:22:54. > :22:55.breathtaking games of London 2012. Goodbye.