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Welcome to our coverage of World Cup 3 from out in Switzerland. We're | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
basing ourselves here at Llandaff rowing club today. There aren't many | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
rowing clubs in the UK that look anything like Lucerne but the River | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Taff gives a good impression. This is the last World Cup event | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
before the World Championships that begin at the end of September | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
and the last opportunity for British They go into their training camps | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
with a lot more work to do. Here is what is coming up: | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
At the moment GB's best squad is the men's quad, | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
according to Jack Beaumont, size doesn't matter. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
We're all pretty similar size. I think that's quite helpful. Not the | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
biggest crew but we have our strengths. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
After catching gold fever in London 2012, Kat Copeland's | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
at the beginning of another four-year cycle. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
It is a long time. It is why I came back, the Olympics are everything to | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
me. But Vicky Thornley's looking | :01:38. | :01:37. | |
to repeat her European gold. No sooner have we packed up the gear | :01:38. | :01:52. | |
from Rio we are we are again, a new season, with lots of new faces. A | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
very good start for the women's pair in Great Britain. Surely the British | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
have done enough, just through. The Netherlands have taken out the crew | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
from grant A major upset. A really nice way to cap the weekend of | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
racing, with your first World Cup victory. Welcome to a a bit of day | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
for the 2017 Championships. History made here. A fantastic effort. The | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
British crew are up to the line for bronze. The perfect starting | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
position. Great Britain's Karen Bennett and Holly Morten through in | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
bronze. A major upset here. The British heavyweight men's 4 has come | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
in fifth. #123450 Australia, half a length over Great Britain in second | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
place. It is a silver medal for Vicky Thornley. Silver for Great | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Britain, holding off the United States. The job well done for the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
British crew. Gold medal in the men's quadruple skulls. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
I'm joined by double Olympic champion, Helen Glover. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
How has your time away from the sport been since Rio? Good. I have | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
missed rowing, some days. Days like this. Yes, on days like this. But Ip | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
haven't missed all the training. And looking at the results coming back | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
from the rogue team. What do you make of it? What do you see with the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
crews and those individuals that you used to raise with alongside? I | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
think it reminds me of 2013, coming back after... London. The London | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Olympics, and seeing some new people stepping into the team and returning | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
Olympians struggling to find speed. I don't think it is necessarily a | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
bad thing. I think there is a sense of pacing yourself throughout the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
four years. What do you make a very noticeable result at the Europeans, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
where the women's boats are were all over it like a rat, winning medals | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
and it was amazing and the men's team Jurgen was slightly less | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
happen. There is a sense of competition between the men and | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
women's team. There is, you always want to be at the heart of the squad | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
to step into Caversham the day after with the medals. You get a sense of | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
pride. There is a competitive element within the squad but I think | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
people shouldn't be afraid to try things. Just try people sitting in | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
different boats. Different tactics. Right now is the time to try it. I | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
don't think it is a bad thing. People will be finding their places | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
in the boats. As we mentioned all the way threw this season of the | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
lots of new people coming N you remember what it was like going down | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
to Caversham. -- coming N what is it like joining is system with the his | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
train medals and names up on the walls? #w45 is it like? -- what is | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
it like? I went there the other day. There is a sense of people fighting | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
for seats already. Previously there was a sense of you could put your | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
foot off the gas a bit, people have come back from London. This time | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
people are here, new and fresh and fighting for their seats. The first | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
race is the men's quad. At the heart of that crew is | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
23-year-old Jack Beaumont, Katherine Grainger caught | :05:31. | :05:30. | |
up with the sculler Jack Beaumont has is hemented his | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
seat there. We were confident, it was exactly how we did it at | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Caversham in training. It is comfortable, job well done for the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
British crew. Gold medal in the men's squad rule. What what is made | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
it click We are great friends. All rowing together for a few years in | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
the group. We are all a similar size. I think that's helpful. We are | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
not the biggest group but we definitely have our strengths. What | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
are your thoughts of Lucerne? Our last competition before the World | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Championships. I think if he can influence what we did in training | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
throughout the whole radio gat at that season so far and come away | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
with another great result. Do you get excited by the thought of maybe | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
one of the other crews, maybe Lithuania, you get to race | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
potentially there, is that a focus? Into it definitely is. We have not | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
beaten them yet. They are good athletes. They have been | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
consistently quick in the squad. Big, strong guys. Each day we are | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
trying to better ourselves. Not just to focus on them but we want to beat | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
everyone. You can't do it thinking - I'd love it get a bronze, you have | :06:47. | :06:59. | |
to aim to win. Aim for the stars really. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
The final of the men's quadruple skulls. Netherlands, New Zealand, | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
Great Britain in three. Lithuania there. They won the first regatta in | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
Belgrade this year. Italy, bronze medallists in fourth. In fieft and | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
poll Nelson Mandela six. A big ask here, James. An ask that Great | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Britain can do here. They will be going for one thing, to win it. -- | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
be and Poland in six. The one thing they had over the last four years, | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
is a strong second half. They didn't have the speed out of plots. They | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
are off now and firing and they are going to take the race by the scruff | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
of the neck. The difference is, they do look like they are red-lining t I | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
would be as well. But the Lithuanians, they do look more | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
relaxed. That may have an affect during the middle of the race but at | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
the moment the British boyses have given themselves the platform to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
build on. All six boats flying through. | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
given themselves the platform to build on. All six boats flying Dump | :08:32. | :08:31. | |
-- jost gel for position. Dump Waite wania are looking | :08:32. | :08:46. | |
dangerous now. They are looking relaxed. I said that from the start. | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
They had a nice rhythm when they won the World Cup and European | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Championships. And that efficiency. The race, yes,s is not a seven | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
minute race, it is a five-and-a-half minute race but you still need the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
relaxation. Yes, they will be hurting but there is a bit of time | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
to relax and it'll pay benefit. They are two strokes ahead. At the moment | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
it is stroke-for-stroke, Great Britain have checked them, which is | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
good. We are talking about easy speed. Obviously they are working | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
for it but from the outside, it looks like easy speed, with rhythm | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
and length. When you put the pressure on, the boat also move | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
ahead. Two strokes ahead. This is good for Great Britain so far, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
they've checked Lithuania in lane 4. Now in the third 500 m and Lithuania | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
two strokes higher than the British quadruple skull. That gives the | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Brits something to move on for. They're going to have to do it now, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
because Lithuania will slip away. I don't think they've checked | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Lithuania. I think they've been racing ahead and yes they are racing | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
higher. They look like a fraction more time. Looking at them, you | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
would think they are racing the same. I think it is because the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Lithuanians have a better rhythm but our boys have a better sprint P and | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
our boys have coming strong in the third five. Here we go. Since 2014, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Great Britain had a quadruple skull that was one-tenth of a second off | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
old medal. That a day it was Ukrainia. Now they are going it up | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
again here. This is something, a project to go through to Tokyo 2020, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
but those are years and days ahead. Right now they are here. We are | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
looking at 308 and in lane 6. They are getting slipped by Lithuania | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
now. They are getting slipped. That efficient rhythm is starting to take | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
them away. As good as our boy's home is, they'll leave themselves with | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
too much to do. Stunning water into the last 500. Great Britain have | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
been heroic so far. Now the experience and the rhythm and the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
pace of Lithuania seems to have moved them out. They have been | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
overrailing just slightly but they have done it with efficiency. Look | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
at that. Out to three-quarters of a length now. They are lifting it up. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
They are about 400 out from the line. Ten strokes, keeping it longs | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
keeping the speed. We have Poland in lane 6. Great Britain have to watch | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
that. That's about ten strokes and Lithuania have it almost out to a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
length. I don't think they'll get Lithuania now. The one consolation | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
is that the strokeman, his teeth are out, he is hanging. If they can't | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
see that. Look at him. His teeth are out, he is blowing, he is red lining | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
it but they are red lining it and making good speed. He is 22, | :12:10. | :12:23. | |
Adomavicius. They are going into the World Championships as the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
undefeated crew of 2017. With that tag, they look brilliant. They have | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
clear water now on Great Britain. Lambert, Collins, Walton and | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Beaumont in the bow seat into silver. And Poland in third. Not a | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
bad way to finish the 2017 season. But they'll have hunger in their | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
belly. I'm here with the silver medallists, | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
can you talk me through the race? It was a pretty hot pace in the first | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
half. You know, we had gone out with the intention of getting in control | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
of it. I think it was very apparent from early on, it was going to be a | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
strong pace from the word go. But, we held our form and let the crews | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
fall away in the second half, obviously apart from the | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Lithuanians. We tried to fight back but at the end of the day I think we | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
were beaten by a crew better than us and I'm OK with that. Now a long gap | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
before the next regatta, what do the next weeks hold It is a massive | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
opportunity. We've had good consistency so far and now we can go | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
back to basics to have the finish product. And what is the finished | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
project going to look like, Pete? It is up to Jurgen's programme and the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
four guys in the boat and our coach. But | :14:03. | :14:02. | |
is up to Jurgen's programme and the four guys in the boat and our coach. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
But we know where we can improve. There's two-and-a-half seconds to | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
catch up with. We can do that. I was going to say a fighting silver, but | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
it really wasn't, right at the finish, line, was it? If you look at | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the cruising speed of both crews, it was a fine raise but it wasn't a | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
close margin. The Brits will be disappointed. The way they were | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
rowing in the first minute, looked like they expected to be winning, a | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
great place to be, showing how well they have been rowing this season. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
What should the coaches do in the slight difference in the second half | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of the raise? ? The thing about the race, it didn't come from one | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
tactical decision t came from the cruising speed of the two crews. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
That middle one and Paul Stannard, the coach of the quad, the guy that | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
will taught me to row. They have a good amount of time until the World | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Championships. Fitness and all the little things that make the stern | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
run smoothly will keep them in touch with that crew. The men's quad has | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
been to this trajectory before in the previous Olympics. 2013-14, they | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
were up there and it ended up with Rio, for a variety of reasons, being | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
almost awful? Yes but that crew needed that. They needed the firsts. | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
The first to make a final and get a medal. Now it has happened we have | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
crews that will be winning and that will be exciting. | :15:49. | :15:49. | |
One of the pictures of the London 2012 Olympics | :15:50. | :15:49. | |
was Kat Copeland's reaction to winning gold alongside | :15:50. | :15:49. | |
Sophie Hosking in the lightweight women's double sculls. | :15:50. | :15:50. | |
2016 was a year to forget. Katherine Grainger caught up with her a week | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
ago in Henley-on-Thames. How hard was it coming back after the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
experience you had in Rio? Funnily enough, I don't know whether it | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
should be the opposite way. After London I was like - do I start this | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
as a hem games, we won, is that the best I'm going to do, should I get | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
out now while the going is good? Copeland and Rio know their Olympics | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
has come to a disappointing finish. This time, I knew in the second week | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
the fact I could still be around the Olympics, and be in the - although | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
we have had a terrible result, I still thought - this is just | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
awesome. That made me think - we'll carry on. The World Championships is | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
the biggest event for the international rowing scene this | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
year. Almost three big steps towards the Olympics in four years 'time. I | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
assume it is still the overriding focus? It is it is scary saying that | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
four years out. Three-and-a-half years out now. It is a long time. I | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
don't know what is going to happen. But that's why I came back. The | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Olympics is everything for me. Talking us through the start of the | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
racing season until now? It is not how I thought it would be at the | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
beginning of the year, but that is anticipate fine. It never is. The | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
second World Cup. We were disappointed. This is the last one | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
and the last race for a while. I'm really keen to get out and see where | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
we can punch out at. anticipate fine. It never is. The | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
second World Cup. We were we can punch out at. | :17:43. | :17:43. | |
TRANSLATION: 1,000 m coming up. Brits have been left in New | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Zealand's wash. 20 strokes into 1,000 m was | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
critical, as I said for Great Britain here. But as some crews lead | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
in the way, New Zealand have pushed in. Great Britain are waiting for | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
the mark and now will be on the back foot in an important third 500, | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
because that's where you are pushing to get into contention or you are | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
leading and pushing to move away. Clearly you want to be in the | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
stronger of the two positions. New Zealand doing it. Look at that. We | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
are right down on the lakes. Lake level. How the boats move A sweet | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
rhythm coming from New Zealand and further this race goes on, the most | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
important thing for Copeland and Craig is to keep their heads up. | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
They are fighting or the minor medal, the bronze. We are panning | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
out. Great Britain lane 4 to the left of the picture. They are | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
fighting now for silver. They are in bronze. They have moved back up. At | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
34 strokes per minute, you can see that bottom right of the picture. | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
But looking superb today on the lake of the gods. Zoe McBride and Jackie | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
from New Zealand. We've seen they have a good racing rhythm, keeping | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
the speed. The Poles had a great first half but they can't live | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
through the middle. The Brits are going to challenge the Poles who | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
could be dying. The last 250 hasn't been great for Great Britain. They | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
are coming back off it. They have been left by Russia in lane 5. Being | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
pushed hard by the Italians. The Italians an under-23, stepping up | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
for the first time in this combination in 2017. But the stroke | :19:46. | :19:57. | |
seat there for New Zealand. They are right on the edge. Confidence high. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Boat moving on underneath. The best feeling in the world on water like | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
this when your boat is moving. The best feeling is they are sending the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
opposition away before the World Championships and all their memories | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
will be of a New Zealand boat rowing off into the horizon. That's what | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
they are sending down. Every inch they can get down ahead of the | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Poles, the Swiss, the Brits is just going to hurt them before the World | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Championships. Poland going through, the last 250. They were the European | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Championships. They are second at the last World Cup regatta. They are | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
getting a shock here. Deresz and Mikolajczak. The home crowd now are | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
rising to the challenge. It is almost like having an extra person | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
in the vote here. They need an extra person right now. It is | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Great Britain will struggle to get on to the poed yu. Look at the | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
difference, the class, Zoe McBride and Jackie Kiddle from New Zealand | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
making it look easy. They've laid the marker down. Second place is | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Poland, Russia into bronze and Great Britain coming in last position, as | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
I said only a minute or so ago, they are fighting the Iovtchev tallians | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
and in that mini battle, the Italians won. They were fighting the | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
Italians. We've been talking to some of the athletes, and from my | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
experience, I know how hard it is to get on the Lucerne poed yu. We were | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
talking about at Henley how you would be disappointed if you didn't | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
make the podium. How are you feeling now? Disappointed. So at least I was | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
right about that. Yeah, pretty disappointed but not - um, but it | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
doesn't really knock my confidence. Like we know what we are doing, and | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
we know what we have to do between now and a couple of months' time. We | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
just have to make sure we do do it. Did the race feel different today | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
than it did at previous World Cups? In terms of how we were rowing, I | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
think similar to the others, good bits, and bits we really have to | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
work on. The top end, with the key Kiwis, it is hard to work. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
So it is a very busy afternoon here, there are races happening so you | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
will hear the PA and you might hear the bell. Let's reflect on that | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
women's double in Lucerne. will hear the PA and you might hear | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
the bell. Let's reflect women's double in Lucerne. | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
I expected them to be on the podium. They are fast enough. Not sure what | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
happened. They were beside the Kiwis, maybe with when they went | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
ahead they got drawn out of it. It was a dramatic move from the New | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Zealanderers. From the moment they started, it almost seemed all over | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
It was from that 850 marker to half way, the British lost the contact | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
that would've put them in silver-bronze position by being | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
beside the winning crew. They'll be frustrated because they know they | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
are better than that, and they are. So the trajectory of the results, | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
World Cup #1, they were second, Europeans, 2, and then 4th and 6th. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Not great trajectory with the worlds a few months away. It no but they | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
are finding their feet. They are a new combination. Cat in particular | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
knows how to win and they have something to work on. You don't want | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
this particular radio gat at that as your final prouct D I'm sure they'll | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
come back stronger. You know Cat probably better than anyone in the | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
rowing team what is she like as an individual and athlete? Formidable. | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
You get her in the water and you see a look in her eyes - nobody is going | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
to beat me. OK she was beaten today but she has the longevity and a | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
determination and fire that burns, very fiercely. You can guarantee | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
she'll go awane work as hard or harder than anybody on the training | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
block. Talking about working hard, let's turn to Victoria Thornley. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
She had superb results in the Gold Cup. Last weekend at Henley t wasn't | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
all a bit pear-shaped. She was drawn in the final against the German and | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
for one reason or another, we weren't sure what went on. Steering | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
problems. It might have been weed but it didn't go right. Let's see | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
how in Lucerne, hopefully no weed or wash, if she can recover. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
The skullers just starting to stretch out. On the far side, Vicky | :25:23. | :25:34. | |
Thornley in 1. And Annekatrin Thiele in 2. The Swiss culler in 3. The | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Swiss skuller coming through in first. The Austrian in second. She | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
won Poznan three weeks ago setting a best time. These skullers are | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
high-quality and high performance but we are watching the bows of lane | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
1 coming level. Importantly coming level with Annekatrin Thiele in lane | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
2. In lane 5, Mueller from the United States of America making a | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
move. We have not seen here this year. She was 4th at the Olympic | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Games in the women's pairs. Dropping one place. And she's mixing it in | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
against the top skullers of the world. | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
There are huge Swiss rowing fans, she will anticipate want to win this | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
more than any. Now Thornley has taken Thiele out and looks like she | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
is hot on the heels of the Austrian. Vicky Thornley have a sensational | :26:55. | :27:09. | |
third 500, but Mueller is there and Great Britain has to start to | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
challenge now. She's doing that. These' three-quarter of a length up | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
on Annekatrin Thiele from Germany but the Canadian taking it on. It is | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
building. Another ten strokes and another for the Canadian in the | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
third a 500 m. Here she is on the tails now. 500 m to go. 50 strokes | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
remaining in this women's single skulls. JIC Thornley there and she | :27:40. | :27:55. | |
was tracking the Austrian but Mueller and the others are tracking | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
here. . Well Lobnig and Mueller are involved in a race on this side of | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
the course with each other and that's taken them through. They'll | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
have their own private battle. Vicky is in a battle on one side of the | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
course. Vicky needs to switch her attention from the far side | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
otherwise Zeeman from Canada is going to get silver. The home | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
skuller has responded to what is going on in the left. Still, Zeeman | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
from Canada ups the rate. Putting it right on the edge. Look at the water | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
here. Focussing on technique and application. Technique and | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
application. And 26 years of age, Zeeman, she was tenth in this event | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
at the Olympic Games la last year, is pushing hard against Gmelin from | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
Switzerland. On the far side, Vicky Thornley is looking as though she | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
has been raced out of the medals. Well out of the medals. In the | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
battle with Mueller for fourth and fifth at the moment. | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
Holding off an impressive second thousand metres from the Canadian, | :29:14. | :29:25. | |
Zeeman, who is in second. Photo finish there. Just held off Muller | :29:26. | :29:39. | |
from the USA. And the British competitor in fifth place. The first | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
time this season you've not made the podium but how did the race feel? | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
Good, it is always really had to win a medal in Lucerne, but I gave it my | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
all, I just came up short. That's disappointing but, there's a lot to | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
gain from that race. I had to be on my toes. I'm disappointed but not | :30:05. | :30:13. | |
really upset. Fifth place for the European champion. Where is that on | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
the spectrum of happiness or disappointment? I'm sure she will | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
want more but it is still finding its feet. Every time they go out and | :30:26. | :30:32. | |
race there is a different result, and they are all finding their | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
place. I'm sure she will want more but it has been good. Looking back | :30:38. | :30:46. | |
to last weekend, she had an absolute nightmare at Henley. To overturn | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
that result is good. Exactly, and for her to be where she feels she | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
should be with regard the German, that's a good event now. She will be | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
able to move forward. There was one other singles sculler who jumped | :31:05. | :31:13. | |
out. I know, Muller, I did not even know she could do that, and I was | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
very impressed, to see a good result just shows that she is a racer and | :31:18. | :31:26. | |
that's what you need to do know matter. There is a big training | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
block everybody has got now. What will be in her mind about a | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
realistic result? She's demonstrated she can win medals. She will be | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
setting her sights on that. I don't know where her site will be but I | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
think it's open enough that she can overturn anyone in that field. | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
Katherine Grainger is not with us, she is receiving a lifetime | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
achievement medal. Congratulations to her. Richly deserved. Here is | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
what is coming up in the second half of the programme. Well-deserved runs | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
medal for the women's quad in the European Championships. Can they | :32:17. | :32:28. | |
build on that? This is a good race. The British men's four has | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
dominated. Will he be part of the next batch? I want to be part of | :32:31. | :32:41. | |
that legacy. Can the women go one better? Before that I've come down | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
to meet with some of the people of this wonderful rowing club. You're | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
not actually racing today. Why is that? I am going to the Welsh trials | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
in half an hour. What does that entail? We're doing singles and | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
cord. How did you get into it? My school does not roll, me and my | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
friend played hockey, the seasons are very short, so we decided to | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
come down. In common with a lot of other clubs we have a big junior | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
section and that is increasing exponentially every year. There is a | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
great demand for it. That's a great thing to see. At the other end of | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
the scale there is a big demand for Masters rowing which is great to | :33:28. | :33:40. | |
see. You are racing today. How do you feel? A little nervous at the | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
moment. We just saw our competition and he's a big boy. But just looking | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
forward to it now. Looking forward to getting out there. Is this your | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
favourite event? This is the first race I've ever done in a pair but it | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
is becoming my favourite. Being part of this club is very special, a lot | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
of history. How do you feel about the fact that rowing is growing as a | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
sport and encouraging more youngsters? Yes. Definitely. We got | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
so many younger ones coming through, it is so great to see. What would | :34:18. | :34:26. | |
you say to anybody thinking about joining their local club? | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
Absolutely, it will be one of the best decisions you've ever made. | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
Thank you so much and good luck to both of you. If you want to find out | :34:36. | :34:44. | |
how to get involved in the local sport you can go on the BBC website. | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
We are turning our attention to the women's quad, Eve had an up-and-down | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
season. Bronze at the European Championship but then illness ruled | :34:57. | :35:10. | |
them out. Let's see how they get on. 2016 silver medallist, as we look at | :35:11. | :35:24. | |
Australia in lane number three. Look at the run. They get onto it and | :35:25. | :35:41. | |
travel on. Beautiful site. They are still working hard. It'll be | :35:42. | :35:50. | |
interesting to see who has that little bit in reserve. The Germans | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
are moving well. It is not a battle you want to have. It is a big | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
difference psychologically. Paul and have led from the first | :36:02. | :36:15. | |
stroke but the pressure is continuing to be failed on them. | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
Great Britain have been to the left of the picture, this is the quality. | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
Looking to make it three gold medals. The pressure is on but they | :36:33. | :36:49. | |
have responded and shown why they won the first two Mac World Cups. | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
Zeeman continues to drive it. We come down to the last 200 metres. It | :36:59. | :37:07. | |
is Poland and the Netherlands. The Netherlands have ten strokes. Down | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
to 15 strokes. They know that Paul and will have a sense of victory and | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
still the technique is tight, Poland are running into the gold medal | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
position. They've made it three in a row in the 2017 World Cup series and | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
they've done it in such style. The Netherlands closed them down to take | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
silver medal. Look at the gap that opened up. Great Britain coming | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
through in fifth place. Great Britain get the gold medal, | :37:40. | :37:55. | |
and relief all round. Great Britain are the Olympic champions and the | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
crowd are going mad. Gold medal, wonderful. We have done it, and we | :38:01. | :38:13. | |
have done it in style. This is what they trained for. Incredible | :38:14. | :38:22. | |
discipline and power. They've done enough, it is going to be five in a | :38:23. | :38:35. | |
row. Some great history. The current line-up has had an up-and-down | :38:36. | :38:43. | |
season. They were fifth. Last weekend, the final was Italy versus | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
Great Britain. The Italians, where the European champions, and the | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
Britons absolutely dominated. They never looked like getting back into | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
the race. The British won the race by a comfortable lead. Does he think | :39:01. | :39:10. | |
this current small boat can match the success from a year ago? | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
Almost there, Great Britain are the men's Olympic champions. | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
Obviously you've had a huge success in men's eights. It now has a 20 | :39:25. | :39:34. | |
year legacy. How difficult does that feel? Different to most. The | :39:35. | :39:44. | |
camaraderie I've built has been with a different group of guys. | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
Immediately there's a big change. It has been hard but, it is a challenge | :39:48. | :39:57. | |
and I need that. I feel like I've done four years of this. I'm quite | :39:58. | :40:08. | |
happy to move on to another boat. Obviously he has caused that for a | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
very long time. Did he give you an impression of continuing the legacy, | :40:14. | :40:21. | |
is he just lay, this is a new crew? There's always going to be that | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
legacy, he is the most successful Olympic coach of all time. There is | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
a legacy of that. I want to be part of that legacy. You can see in the | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
way that we've been growing that there is tension. There is a major | :40:40. | :40:53. | |
upset here. This is the first season we've seen such inconsistency and | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
the changing results. How has that been? There are so many variables. | :40:57. | :41:05. | |
The team is different. I don't know if they've had an effect. Every time | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
we've raced we've gone away. I'm all for that. It is the right thing to | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
do, finding the right place. We have underperformed but I want to win. It | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
is about trying to take it back to simplicity. That is the same as the | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
technique as well. What is the potential of the boat? I think we | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
can do it. It is a big legacy. I am not stand, Matt is not George. We | :41:41. | :41:52. | |
are new guys. Final, here we go. The leak of the gods. A few crews will | :41:53. | :42:05. | |
be seeking divine intervention. Will Saxon is leading off, one of the | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
strongest men out there. It's all about the first 50 metres. Having | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
technique but relying on explosive power. You will be on the front foot | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
as you come off red. As you come towards rhythm on the front foot, | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
making a marker so that the cruise around you are having to adjust what | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
they are doing. You want to be laying it down but then alongside | :42:38. | :42:44. | |
the Netherlands. They qualify with the fastest time. Sixth in the | :42:45. | :42:54. | |
European Championships. Here they are leading. Heading towards the | :42:55. | :43:02. | |
first mark which will be 500 metres. Easy to get sidetracked. He's one of | :43:03. | :43:12. | |
the best athletes in the world. It's a definite rear-wheel drive. He is | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
aggressive and he will lead the charge. Two very good athletes in | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
this boat. You've been in this position before. It's the transition | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
period. The race is under way. Talk us through the next 100. It is | :43:28. | :43:43. | |
vital not to let your speed drop. They were very quick out of the | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
blocks but it is always lower than the first. You've got speed, don't | :43:50. | :44:00. | |
rest and go again. I like the way he strokes, it might not be the | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
smoothest but he drives it on. They were about I'm going through 100 but | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
they've gone through again ahead. Keep it long and long and long | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
again. Let the ball travel for you. -- let the boat. As you see they are | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
out, they are going towards a third of the length, they don't want to | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
squeeze out by working harder but by letting the boat travel. They were | :44:31. | :44:43. | |
the third fastest qualifiers as the teams come towards it. Britain have | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
moved out of half a length. Consolidating well in the second 500 | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
and now they just want to turn the screw a little bit more. They want | :44:56. | :45:04. | |
to make them work and not overwork. Here comes Lane number five. The | :45:05. | :45:18. | |
Italians have one thing they always had, they will not roll over, they | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
will go and they will go and they will go. This Italian crew won the | :45:23. | :45:34. | |
European Championships. They are a length behind and they are not going | :45:35. | :45:42. | |
to come back against our guys. They look very relaxed and that is what | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
you want. It will not bode well for the second half of the race. He can | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
take the weight off and sprinkle the line. I don't see anyone but us | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
winning this race and our boys can watch Italy and low for blondes -- a | :45:57. | :46:06. | |
low for bronze and silver. They've just nailed this 500 metres as we | :46:07. | :46:15. | |
come towards the last 500. Clearwater over the rest of the | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
field. This is what the crew will want them. Keep it long, keep the | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
pressure, because the Italians will lift it again. When you've broken | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
clear, it is huge, you've got to work so hard to get the overlap, | :46:34. | :46:41. | |
much less wrote them down. Great Britain are 400 out from the line. | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
Commanding position. This is where they send a message because the | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
Australians are bracing in the eighth and the British will win this | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
but convincingly enough that it makes the Australians stay. They can | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
clear them out by dominating the Italians. It looks ugly from the | :47:03. | :47:19. | |
Italians. They are at 45 right now. The right of your screen. The speed | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
is with Great Britain and the British are turning around and up | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
and down season. They are finishing this on a major high. If you want to | :47:32. | :47:39. | |
win the gold medal you've got the final length just easing off like | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
they can do. Great Britain have turned around and up and down | :47:45. | :48:00. | |
season. That is what it's all about. Did a fabulous job. This is a crew | :48:01. | :48:08. | |
that is coming together very nicely. That was a good job, they dominated | :48:09. | :48:11. | |
that race from 400 metres to the finish line. It was never in doubt. | :48:12. | :48:19. | |
I like how they just don't let the pressure off. They can bang away on | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
the inside but they are not coming out. It's a good message to send | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
out. You've got to beat us, they are not going to give it. How did it | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
feel? It felt great. We knew they would go out hard, we listened to | :48:38. | :48:49. | |
them, I cannot see anything past Mo's enormous back! Once you're | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
there, trying to cover all the moves and hang on for dear life. The last | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
time we met you were talking about the changes you are making with the | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
crew. Is it a finished product yet? Not quite. Yesterday of the day | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
before we are progressing. Our midway space was the clear factor. | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
To get that right is a real confidence booster. To open that up | :49:19. | :49:27. | |
was a really nice feeling. And more from the outside. You had a length | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
of lead from the start of that. Oh come doubled does it feel? It feels | :49:32. | :49:40. | |
comfortable having that distance. I was aware that you had four crews | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
fighting out for two spots behind us. Often the race can come back | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
onto you. But I felt like I had plenty left in the tank. It was | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
lovely to sit there and watch the race behind us. Is that how lovely | :49:56. | :50:03. | |
it was, just watching it? It was relaxed, there was another gear. | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
We've had an up-and-down season but we've come away with two victories | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
and a silver. It has not been too bad. Looking forward to some | :50:14. | :50:23. | |
relaxation. Is the confidence growing with each race? Very much. I | :50:24. | :50:31. | |
have been saying how special it is to win. The tally is quite low so to | :50:32. | :50:48. | |
come away with this win, you've seen the competitive races. It puts us in | :50:49. | :50:52. | |
a good stead for the next few months. There was a ripple of | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
applause for that performance. That was more like it, wasn't it? It was. | :51:00. | :51:08. | |
Those guys did not take their eyes off it. The crews were looking | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
around and expecting Great Britain to go ahead as they did. They will | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
enjoy that this fight was going on behind them, and everybody has shown | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
what they've got and they still beat them. The Australian four is about | :51:25. | :51:32. | |
to race. The choice about which bought you roll in, you've had this | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
with some of the cruise your racing. Every race is a chance to push them | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
away, push them away. It is like a shop window. You show them what you | :51:44. | :51:52. | |
can do. You show them that you don't want to be beaten by the British. | :51:53. | :52:01. | |
That was a very solid performance. There was a lovely shot, you could | :52:02. | :52:09. | |
see them easing away, they were taking a few inches every stroke. | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
Within three strokes you suddenly saw a change in the crew and that | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
was the point they were going to win from. We have not got time to show | :52:20. | :52:27. | |
you all the races. Here is Gary with a round-up of how some of the others | :52:28. | :52:35. | |
got on. When I Holly Norton and Karen Bennett only managed fourth | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
place behind New Zealand and Denmark. Great Britain finished in a | :52:40. | :52:47. | |
disappointing six. In the lightweight men's doubles, Great | :52:48. | :52:56. | |
Britain did not make the final. The Donovan Brothers of Ireland's dead | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
and managed a bronze medal. Now it is time for the women's eight and | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
one of the members, special shout out to her. Six months ago she was a | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
clubgoer at Imperial College and was working part-time in a shop and now | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
she's doing her stuff in World Cup kit for Great Britain. Great Britain | :53:22. | :53:32. | |
had a very good start. They are at the halfway mark. In third place. | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
They had a transition in that second 500. Romania have brought New | :53:37. | :53:47. | |
Zealand on the far side. There is the stretch out. Britain are sitting | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
in lane number four. They are keeping the overlap. We are into | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
1200 metres already on the final. It goes back in the blink of an eyelid. | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
Every stroke, every ten strokes, every 50 metres. What will happen | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
now is rather than thinking New Zealand or Rumania, the Dutch are | :54:12. | :54:18. | |
going to inch back to our guys and get into fighting the Dutch rather | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
than fighting the crews ahead of them. They want to aim high, don't | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
look back. This group is so special, they could do so much special | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
things. But it is learning from things, learning how to roll, a race | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
where the action is going on over there. There's a lane of nothing, | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
really, pushing hard between them and Romania. New Zealand in Lane | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
number one are going at them as well. World Cup winners last time | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
out, they are really hunting the European champions. 50 strokes in | :55:02. | :55:10. | |
the final. Clearwater back to third position for Great Britain. They | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
have Clearwater over the Netherlands in Lane number three. It will be | :55:17. | :55:24. | |
very hard. The British are in no man's land. There is a jewel going | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
on and it is very close and very aggressive. The British are a long | :55:29. | :55:35. | |
way ahead of the Dutch but also significantly behind New Zealand. | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
You can see the grit and determination. In isolation you will | :55:42. | :55:56. | |
slip down. This is cracking stuff. It is going to the line. Romania | :55:57. | :56:06. | |
have gone. They will have had a hold on the legs. Stretching out to the | :56:07. | :56:16. | |
half length. New Zealand are planning a tin, throwing everything | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
at Romania. The European champions in Lane number two. Getting back to | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
the top of women's rowing. They used to dominate back in the day. Up to | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the line for them. The European champions, the World Cup winners | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
here. They are the crew to watch the World Championships as Britain come | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
through into third place. It's a worthy bronze medal. They did that | :56:44. | :56:50. | |
damage in the first hundred metres. They were forth at the European | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
Championships, and on that occasion they were beaten. They've turned | :56:55. | :57:07. | |
that around. The last medal performance was in the women's | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
eight. You've got information about the Romanians. I saw them in the gym | :57:14. | :57:26. | |
doing hard training. The British won a bronze medal. Small field but | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
there were quite big gaps. We still got the Americans to come in and | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
that is significant but the British girls, a lot of them will be | :57:37. | :57:38. | |
training full-time for the first time in their careers so they will | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
definitely get faster as well. When you look at the whole British team, | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
what do you make of the results? Solid enough, all the crews will be | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
wanting more about four years ago the British team won bronze at the | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
gold and this time we have a bronze, silver and gold. And we were | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
hovering about nine, and the results in Rio de Janiero were really good. | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
We got back to top rowing nation. The next you will see is the World | :58:10. | :58:20. | |
Championships from Sarasota. Don't worry if you are missing the tennis, | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
it's back tomorrow. Andy Murray is on second. That is it from here. | :58:26. | :58:32. | |
We've done absolutely no rowing but we've gone home with this spot. | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
Thanks very much to them and we will see you next time. Great Britain and | :58:39. | :58:51. | |
silver medal. Great Britain finishing this on a major five. | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
This is what it takes to get her to come home, you know? | :58:57. | :59:12. | |
Do you ever think about what happened all them years ago? | :59:13. | :59:16. |