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Good evening from Cardiff. Tonight we have a bumper programme. The | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Olympians, Paralympians, British Lions, Glamorgan Dragons, and a | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Premiership manager. Stay with us for the programme. Coming up | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Other home unions ready for the Rugby Sevens Team GB? You need Team | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
GB playing two years out from Rio. Dog days at Glamorgan, how can the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
county recapture past glories? supporters have lost the will to | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
live. Tony Pulis on premier-league style and aspirations. If you said | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
to me I would be lucky enough to manage Wales, there would be | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
fantastic. -- that would be fantastic. All that to come, plus | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
we will be hearing from Olympic and Paralympic medallists Hannah Mills | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
and Ellie Simmonds. But first, here we are at their home of Welsh rugby, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
and with a Lions tour at the end of the season there are discussions | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
already up and down the country on just he will make Warren Gatland's | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
scored two stadia? In four years rugby sevens becomes an Olympic | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
sport. Steffan Garrero has been looking at how will the Home Unions | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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plan to create the Great Britain As the Welsh side enter their 8th | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
consecutive season and defend their World Cup title plans for a Great | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Britain side in Rio 2016 are being hatched. Rugby sevens has come a | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
long way from an end-of-season knees-up for the boys, to a full- | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
scale Olympics board. I was fortunate enough to do three of the | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
tournament, Adelaide, Hong Kong, South Africa, back when I was 19, | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
had a great laugh, very enjoyable, the first time exposed to those | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
crowds, you play for 50,000 people in Hong Kong, and at that age that | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
experience is invaluable. The first point I thought I could be a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
professional rugby player was playing sevens. It was a really big | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
thing for me, boosted my confidence, my skills. It was a massive | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
platform for me, grateful for the coaches for bigamy. -- picking me. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Harry Robinson is the latest to the produced getting experience of the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Sevens series first. With the lure of the Olympics in four years' time | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the spotlight is on the shorter form of the game as an end product | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
as well as a developmental tool. is now an Olympic sport, we have | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
had meetings, and there are so massive opportunities for Great | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Britain. If we get the selection right and the management, there are | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
serious medal possibilities. There is no reason we cannot go to Rio in | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
2016 and win a gold medal in men's and women's rugby. You need to move | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
it on at a pace. Unless we get this organised fairly quickly now we | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
will run out of time compared with other countries who will be more | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
organised. One of the major hurdles to overcome is how to make a | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
British team gel. Sport Wales has seen the International Rugby | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Board's initial plans for sevens over the next four years. They make | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
no mention of Team GB appearing until the Olympics. Qualification | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
which has yet to be ratified by the International Olympic Committee can | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
be achieved by the individual performances of any of Wales, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Scotland and England. Controversially giving GB three | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
shots at qualifying. It is quite a complex situation given the teams | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
that have been voting for this process, it bodes well be in a | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
position against the beat, so it is unfair, they understand it. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Separate nations combining for a one-off event is something we saw | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
with the Olympic football team in London, and the British Olympic | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Association one lessons to be learned from that model. -- want | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
lessons. If you look at the Welsh players, they are brilliant. Deep | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
down they probably wished they had been better prepared in terms of | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
the actual tournament. That was why it was so annoying they lost. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
you are plainly Zealand and cold, you will get beat. The team has got | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
to plan tournament. You have got to factor all this in. My big we shout | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
is we're not looking back in four years and saying we left it too | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
late, we left too much to do. Imagine playing in tournaments | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
before the Olympic Games, in terms of the I R b seven series that | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
works well, would you like to see the British side involved? I think | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
it has got to be. There has got to be some upfront discussions now | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
about how it will work. United in TD -- Team GB would be at least two | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
years before Rio. We need to get the organisation in town to give | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
them a realistic chance. They will obviously have the Rugby World Cup | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
in the previous year, would it be feasible for any of those, George | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Joffe, to be dropped in? -- George North. Personally I think yes. He | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
certainly makes the lines to gather them up. He could make the sevens | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
team if he wants to. If you want to be the World Cup, that is your big | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
priority but in terms of the Olympic players, the sevens players | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
would be evicted for me -- big tick. Whether the British team is made up | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
of sevens experts or big name stars we understand the Irish RFU would | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
expect all of their centrally contracted players to turn out for | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the Republic of Ireland in 2016, even if they qualified for Great | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Britain. Four years is a long time but the Olympic cycle has already | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
begun. The current crop of Welsh seven players begin the World | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
series on Australia's Gold Coast in a fortnight, and for many this is | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
the start of a journey that could see them end up on a podium in Rio. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
There are members of the squad that will be in the GB squad in 2016 and | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
there is great motivation to stop we have seen how London has | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
influenced the country, really, in terms of sport, everybody got | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
behind it and it was an amazing event. That would be huge. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
It is good to here World Cup- winning coach Sir Clive Woodward | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
giving the big thumbs-up to George North and his Lions heads. From one | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
man who polarises opinion to another. And tomorrow after two | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
successive defeats in the Premier League, it Swansea travelled to the | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Britannia Stadium to face Stoke and a Welsh manager he is never one to | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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Stokes style is not to everybody's taste. It was once described by | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as rugby, not football. But what does | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
he make of the criticism? Absolutely fantastic when that | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
happens. It even he has so some kind words of a certain periods. -- | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
said some kind words. We are happy with ourselves, with our lot. We | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
think we are doing it the right way. We like to play through the pitch | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
quickly,, we like to get around the box as quickly as we can. We are a | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
better team than what people give us credit for, we are not as direct | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
as people think we are but we don't mind them thinking that way. That | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
is fine. Everybody said we were absolute sets to be relegated the | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
first year, it has been a great journey. Since 18 promotion to the | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Premier League in 2008 the Welshman has guided his team to three mid- | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
table finishes -- since getting promotion. Should heed look at a | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
more direct approach? There is nothing right a wrong, just adapt | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
the system to the players you have, or adapt the place to the system | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
you want to play. The team plays very direct, especially at home, a | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
lot of pressure a new, and you have to try to get out of that pressure, | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
we did have to defend too deep because they are very strong. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
has signed some good players, they are physically more adept, have | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
given more strength, especially size wise. A proud Welshman, he has | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
offered to take -- take charge for the national side following the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
death of Gary Speed. For two defeats in the opening World Cup | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
qualifiers he is a sympathetic observer. Been disappointing, I | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
watched the game, you want him to do well because the fact we haven't | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
done so well for a long time. What Wales have to do, they have to | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
start winning a few games. If they can pick up a couple of wins in the | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
next three, four games, the table might change. The back end of the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
tournament to qualify for a World Cup would then become very | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
interesting. Chris is an experienced manager of. He is a | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
football man and he will get a few more breaks. He has come up and | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
spoken to Ryan about playing for Wales. I think there is a broken | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
leg there for the Arsenal player. This tackle broke the leg of the | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Wales captain so was playing for Wales ever really on the cards? | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
has come up as they do Ryan, five minutes, it really over the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
situation with Ramsey and what he had said about Ramsay, he would | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
have to give the all-clear for Rhine to play. Chris wanted to | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
clear that up with Ryan, what they said between each other. Ryan wants | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
to continue with his dream of playing for England. Chris is doing | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
as much as he possibly can to try and get as many good players | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
together as he can, and then put his plays in place to play well, | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
win games. In the cut-throat world of the Premier League he is now the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
4th longest serving manager in the division. What about the switch to | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
international management? For me the Welsh job is for an experienced | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
manager. I think managing the Premier League club is for younger | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
manager. Having said that, look at Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, they ain't | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
doing too badly. And still a middle-aged man, a long time to go, | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
I hope. I don't think any person would not want to manage the | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
country, I would love one day if you sit in the I would be looking | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
have to manage Wales, there would be fantastic. Wales may have to | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
wait for him, club management is the place for him for the time | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
being, at least. I never take anything for granted, especially in | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
this game. That is why every day I wake up and try to work out what I | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
did the previous day to make sure I stay in it, because I still love | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
the game, still got a lot of energy and passion for it. You have to be | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
dedicated, you have to be full-on as a manager, had fully -- | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
hopefully that light inside me keeps burning for a few years. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
In an intern you can hear coverage of that match on Radio Wales and | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Radio Cymru. We will stay with Swansea now as | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
the City can rightly boast being home to one of the stars of the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
London Paralympics. She won more medals on her own than entire | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
countries like India and Argentina. We went to meet the golden girl of | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
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It is gold for the 13-year-old Ellie Simmonds, a tremendous | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
performance. In Beijing 2008, aged 13, Ellie Simmonds became the | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
second youngest British Paralympian ever. She returned with two gold | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
medals, became the young sports personality of the year, she then | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
followed that up with 10 world championship titles, and five | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
European gold medals. A poster girl before the 2012 games, her | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
achievements in the Aquatics Centre placed her as one of the faces in | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the greatest of British sporting summers. Born with a bone growth | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
disorder her father said Mike Gayle has made the world stop and think. | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
-- My Girl. Many congratulations on all your achievements. What has | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
life been like since the Games? Life since the Games has been | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
amazing, the experiences I have got to do, the things I have had the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
opportunity to take part in has been unbelievable, I'm so lucky. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
The success I have had at the Games was up there, yet the things I have | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
to do -- I get to do afterwards a rub their as well. Elly was born in | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the West Midlands with a condition which is a form of dwarfism. For | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
her to realise her potential in competitive swimming she would have | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
to start training full-time with her coach, Billy Pye, in Swansea. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Rather than leave the whole family, her father, brother and three | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
sisters stayed at home and she and her mother moved to to Swansea. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
only wait to get the best out of myself was to move to the Wales | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
international pool, and facilities, the group that trainer, it was | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
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perfect for me to get the best out Leading up to London, I had a lot | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
of pressure on me. The atmosphere and having that massive crowd | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
behind you and having all the places sold out with British | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
supporters, it gave us that extra bit and it really helped. You have | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
to enjoy the success at the time. She was involved in an epic race | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
with the American in the 400 metres but broke the world record. In the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
200 metres individual medley, it was another gold and another world | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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record. In the 100 metre freestyle, she swam a personal best by over a | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
second but still lost to the American despite swimming as fast | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
as she ever had in her life. I did not expect to swim as well as I did. | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
I said six personal bests. I walked away with two goals, a silver and | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
bronze. After you finish one of the races, the emotion is evident. You | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
splashed water over your face to disguise it. Was it really | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
emotional audit relief? It was emotion after the 400 metre | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
freestyle. It was such a tight race. She broke my world record | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
beforehand and since then I have trained so hard and to have such a | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
tough race, we were neck and neck all the way and it was every | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
emotion possible. The motto of the Paralympics was to inspire a | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
generation and to change people's attitudes towards the Paralympic | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
Games. To you think -- do you think that has happened? The support from | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
the general public has been amazing. Paralympics bought his right up | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
there now. It will have inspired a lot of youngsters and hopefully | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
they will be the next generation. Your father said, "My Girl has made | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
the world stop and think". Is that true? I don't know to be honest. I | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
think I have contributed but it's not just me. The whole of Team GB | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
did amazing. I played my part. what next for Ellie Simmonds? | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
have achieved everything I wanted to achieve but I've always want | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
more. I want to push myself to the best of my ability and when I know | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
I have done that, I don't know what I'll do, but at the moment I'm | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
enjoying it. If I don't enjoy it, I'll stop. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
To cricket now and another huge blow for Glamorgan this week as | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
star bowler James Harris confirmed he was leaving the county to join | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Middlesex. So will failures on the field lead to more top players | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
leaving? And where next for Glamorgan after another | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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disappointing season? Ian Hunt This is the new cricket museum at | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Glamorgan where fans can reminisce about the glory days and trophies | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
won which must feel like an age ago now and when one poor season | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
follows another and you star players bale out, you have to | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
wonder what it will take for Glamorgan to ever have more great | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
moments like these? Recriminations and finger-pointing after another | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
poor season when Glamorgan won just eight of their 38 matches. A | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
radical proposal from the chairman who told us that heads should roll | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
in high places. I don't think we've got the right people there. From | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
the chairman to be chief executive to the committee. To be honest, I | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
think you need to sweep it all away. What Glamorgan a needs now is a | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
whole culture change. The supporters have lost the will to | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
live. There are fed up with it all. Quite frankly, Glamorgan has become | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
a laughing stock. I honestly believe that in order to change the | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
culture, we have to move some people on. Glamorgan's chief | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
executive was unable to respond because he is a hot up -- on | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
holiday. But he responded to up the criticism in a phone interview. | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
are halfway through the job and what is needed is not some radical | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
quick fix. What is needed is a lot of hard work and for the whole club | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
to pull together. We have a pretty clear plan of what needs to happen | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
through the winter. Nobody is making excuses and nobody is hiding | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
what has happened and everyone is determined to fix it. This is the | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
gruesome breakdown of summer 2012. games -- three games. There are | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
second bottom of their one-day league with just three victories. | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
The 2020 campaign was ruined by the rain and poor form. It is pretty | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
simple in cricket to see how well you have performed because it is | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
black and white. It is in averages and way you finish in the table. We | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
are short of where we want to be. Glamorgan have been a losing side | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
for a long time. When it comes under close matches, they know how | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
to lose better than they know how to win. That is something that | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
needs to be turned around. There are no quick fixes. I watched a | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
fair bit of their cricket this season and it seems to lack that | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
absolute determination. We won three championships and those were | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
done by teams that actually believed they could win. I don't | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
get the feeling when I watched that there is a passion out there. | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
are a side were not used to winning games of cricket, they're not going | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
to have the belief. We have to give extra players in war are used to | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
win games and their attitude can become infectious. All we have to | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
get our support staff and coaches to drum into the guys what we need | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
to do to win games of cricket. Doesn't it come down to talent and | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
perhaps that you don't have the talented players that this county | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
used to have? I think we've got a team that is talented enough to | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
perform. We are not the best team in the competition but we do have a | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
team that can perform. When we did perform to our ability we competed | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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with anybody. But they keep hearing the same thing over and over again. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
This year will be better, we will work hard, but there is never any | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
change. We are looking at a few tours, potentially a tour to South | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
Africa, India or Australia. We are keen to take the players away on an | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
intensive 12 day-trip and get them working hard away from the winter | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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here. We also want to bring in some specialists. You have to think | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
outside the Square and look at different people. But failure comes | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
at a cost with Glamorgan's star bowler James Harris confirming a | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
move to Middlesex this week's. -- this week. To lose a player you | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
have seen since he was 13 or 14, it is disappointing. I think if he'd | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
have stayed, England honours would have come. But he feels that going | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
to the first division will promote his chances further and I can't | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
blame him for that. Cricket is getting more like football with the | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
transfer system. James Harris things he's got a better chance in | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
the first edition so off he goes. The danger is that all second- | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
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division clubs could be feeder clubs for the first division. A | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
player like James Harris feels the only way he can further his career | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
is to move on. It is disappointing. Supporters might put up with | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
anything as long as there are more moments like these again. As long | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
as another winter of hard work brings something to smile about | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
next summer. Ian Hunt reporting there and Sport | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Wales will keep you up to date with all the news from the SWALEC | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
stadium as it happens. But back to the Olympic success now. The first | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Welsh woman to win a medal in Olympic sailing was Hannah Mills, | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
who came home with a silver. Steffan Garrero caught up with her | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
at an event being held in Cardiff for the first time. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
This is what is known as extreme sailing, designed to redefine | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
sailing as a spectator sport and it gives the cloud -- the crowd a | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
close-up few. The competition attracts some of the best | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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professional sailors in the world. What have the past few weeks been | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
like? Manic. We finished the games and went to the closing 7 -- | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
ceremony. We then went back and forth to London to do all kind of | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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random things like for two days and media days. When were you happy | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
with your silver medal? Wednesday when our fleet racing | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
finished and we had a day off before the final race. We secured | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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the silver that night and we were pretty excited that night. Standing | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
there, getting the medal you have dreamed of your whole life, it is | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
kind of frustrating when you wanted the gold but it is just a bizarre | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
feeling. You can't describe what emotions you go through. We feel we | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
have got some unfinished business in Rio. We definitely want that | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
gold medal. Back in her home town, Hannah Mills has joined Team Wales. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
It is going to be very exciting racing out here. It is really nice. | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
The Olympics was a high pressure event and they wanted to nail it. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
It is nice to come here and enjoy sailing and enjoy a different | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
challenge. Compared to the rest of the sport, budgets on the extreme | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
series are relatively small. boats are not too expensive but | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
they are made of carbon. They can break quite easily. It is full-on | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
when it goes wrong. They are big boats but the concept is exactly | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
the same. It is just a bit quicker and mental at times! The series is | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
a change of of eight races all over the world. Races are 10 minutes | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
long and courses are mostly oval in shape. It is sailing's version of | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
the Velodrome Warwick running track. To adjudicate amongst the chaos, | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
umpires on the water issue immediate penalties for | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
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infringements. As the teams move to the retreat -- Riviera for the next | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
leg, the Welsh group are looking forward to next year. We want a | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
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Welsh brand represented for the full tour and the eight events. | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
We wish Hannah Mills and team Wales all the very best. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
That's it for this evening. Remember to let us know if you know | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
someone who deserves to be our BBC Cymru Wales Sports Unsung Hero this | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
year. They have to be unpaid, and over 16-years-old. All the details | :28:37. | :28:39. |