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London 2012 organisers act over empty seats - they tell Olympic | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
officials to use their seats or let them go. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Thousands more collect their tickets sold online for today's | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
events - organisers say they'll be more over the coming days. We can | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
do better on this. I think you'll see fewer empty seats and more | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
people getting to see these fantastic sporting events. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Oh, I don't know what to say. It was going so well, but one poor | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
dive leaves Tom Daly and Pete Waterfield out of the medals. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Sometimes the sport goes in your favour. Sometimes it goes against | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
you. It is annoying, but what can you do? After disappointment in the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
diving all eyes turn to the pool tonight where three British | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
swimmers will battle it out for medals. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
We'll have the latest from the Olympic Park. Our other main news - | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
tens of thousands of refugees flee sear qua's second city. Those left | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
behind are running short of food and water. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Mounting pressure on the eurozone - America's Treasury Secretary flies | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
in for talks. On the first weekday of London 2012, | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
we're live with the spectators and communers to ask is the transport | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
system coping? Cross-country for the country - | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Zara Phillips takes the eventing team another step towards a medal. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
On BBC London: How the capital coped - commuters | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
give us their verdict on the Olympic travel experience. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
And out of medal contention - but why 18-year-old Zoe Smith still has | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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something to celebrate. Hello, and welcome to the BBC News | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
at Six from the Olympic Park. An extra 3,000 tickets have been on | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
sale for today's events after the organisers took action in the row | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
over empty seats. Olympic officials from other countries and sporting | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
bodies have been told to use their reserved tickets or release them. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
The sight of hundreds of empty seats for some high profile events | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
has left would-be spectators angry. Clive Myrie has our first report | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
tonight. Hundreds of thousands of people | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
crammed into the Olympic Park today. I got cash in my pocket. I'll put | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
it in yours for some swimming tickets. But not everyone has a | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
ticket for what they want to see, and the sight of empty seats | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
compounds the frustration. Really upsetting, really upsetting. We | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
applied for about four or five different sports, and, of course, | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
you know, we only got one. But be careful. Empty seats don't | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
necessarily mean spare tickets have gone begging. We found these at the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
hockey stadium for a match between South Korea and New Zealand - not | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
necessarily sell-out teams, especially at 8.30am. | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
APPLAUSE At the riding events in Greenwich, | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
the stands have plenty of spare capacity. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Pictures like these do, however, make people angry. Perception is | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
all, and there is no doubt some tickets allocated to certain | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
organisations have gone unused, so today Olympics organisers try to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
head off the rising tide of public anger. We're doing this session by | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
session talking to the accredited groups, including, obviously, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
broadcast media and everybody else and asking whether we can release | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
for the different sessions tickets back into the public pot. Where we | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
can, we're going to release those the night before. For David Cameron, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
he had taken the tube to the Olympic Park today getting the best | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
perception of these Games is vital. I totally share that frustration, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
and at the COBRA I chaired this morning, LOCOG decided to make | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
available 3,000 more tickets for sale, also to get the volunteers | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
and the armed service personnel that are doing a fantastic job - | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
and to allow them to use more of those seats. So of the 3,000 new | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
tickets made available today how do you get your hands on one? Go to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the LOCOG website. You can only get them online. There is no point | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
turning up here to a ticket office in Stratford because these are for | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
collection only. And this is the scene late if the afternoon for | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
gymnastics at the North Greenwich arena, troops filling up some of | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
the empty seats. Where there's spare capacity at the Olympics is | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
no longer really the point. It's all about getting bums on those | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
At the Aquatics Centre behind me British hopefuls Tom Daley and Pete | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Waterfield lost out in the medals in the synchronised ten metre | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
platform diving. The competition was won by the Chinese. Sophie | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Rayworth is there for us now. It was all down to just one poor dive, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
wasn't it? Yes, absolutely heartbreaking for the British pair. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
It was packed in here. The noise of the crowd was deafening, and to | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
begin with, it was all going so well for Pete Waterfield and Tom | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Daley. After the first three dives, they were in the lead, but in a | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
space of just 1.5 seconds, the time it took them to do their next dive, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
they slipped into fourth place. In the end, it was the Chinese pair | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
who won gold, as James Pearce reports. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Day three official programmes! Front-page billing for one of the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
poster boys at the Olympics - in terms of popularity, few members of | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Team GB come close to matching Tom Daley. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
APPLAUSE This event, though is all about the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
partnership, not the individual. Pete Waterfield, aged 31, a | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
relative old man and also a relative unknown compared to his | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
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The first dive of their six was good. It left them joint leaders | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
and the red-hot favourites. The representative of China - the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Chinese dominate this sport. If Daly and Waterfield were to beat | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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them, they were going to have to Cheered on by the Prime Minister, | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
it was all going so well. Halfway through the competition, and they | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
were in first place. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
We'd all been told that the Chinese pair were unbeatable, but with | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
every dive, the expectation is rising. Here we go, Daly and | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Waterfield's fourth dive, and they're still leading. But it was | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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Oh, I don't know what to say. bad dive, and they'd fallen down | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the leader board. He could have been forgiven for wanting to bang | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
his head against wall. Realistically, his medal hopes were | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
over. Despite all the support, they finished fourth. The crowd have | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
been absolutely amazing. I am getting emotional thinking about it | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
now because it's all of what we have dreamed of and to come fourth | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
is just so agonising after all the hard work and training. One dive | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
that the pair will have to reflect on ass the one that's cost them the | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
After the disappointment in the diving, all eyes now turn to the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
pool. You can probably see the swimmers warming up behind me | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
because this less than two hours' time, three British swimmers will | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
be going for medals. They'll be hoping to improve on Team GB's | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
medal haul tonight, and one man who will be watching on very nervously | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
is Gemma's father and also his partner, Vaughan. What is it like | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
for you to sit and watch your daughter on a platform like this? | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
I'd like to think I would be sitting there with a stone-like | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
stomach, but actually I know I'm going to be leaping up and down | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
like a dervish. You can tell I lost my voice last night. I'll have none | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
after tonight. The atmosphere in here was incredible. Absolutely | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
phenomenal, never heard anything like it. Your job is to keep him | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
calm. I am trying to. She's up against stiff competition, the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
American competitor, who people are dubbing the Michael feps of the | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
pool. Do you reckon she can do it? Any of the eight can do it. Gemma | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
lost the bronze medal by less than a blink of an eye. Once you get to | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
this stage it's all open. She's done quite well. She's done the | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
heats and the semis faster. I am hoping she can do something for us | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
tonight. You have been shouting, but does the crowd support help | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
her? Yes. A lot of people think that the swimmers can't hear, but | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
they can. You have heard it. The place comes alive. It's amazing. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Two - fourth twice in Beijing. Let's hope she can bring in a medal | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
tonight. Thank you both very much. And of course, you can see it all | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
unfold live on BBC One tonight. George? | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
Thank you very much. Let's talk to our sports editor, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
David Bond, who is in the Olympic Park. David, on this question of | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
tickets, the organisers can't exactly order these other sporting | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
federations to just hand back their tickets, can they? That's right. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
They can't order to give them back. This organisation is part of the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
host city contract which London signed back in 2005, but what they | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
can do and what Seb Coe says he is doing is negotiate with the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
federations to say to them, look, what tickets do you need the night | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
before for the following day's events? And if you don't need them, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
then maybe we can reconfigure the various sporting venues and put | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
those tickets on sale to the public. That's what they did last night. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
That's why 3,000 tickets were snapped up. It's a policy which so | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
far seems to be working. The situation today here on the Olympic | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Park and at all the venues across London seems to be that the venues | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
are fuller, but it is still happening, and that's despite the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
fact that LOCOG say they reduced the allocation for the Olympic | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
family by 15% since Beijing, and the question is, for a public which | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
has got such enormous appetite to come and see these games is why | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
having had seven years to organise this they seem to be scrambling to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
find a solution now. All right, David, thank you very much. Thank | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
you. Other news now - Syria's most | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
senior diplomat in Britain has resigned - telling the foreign | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
office he could no longer support the violent and oppressive actions | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
of President Bashar al Assad's regime. His decision comes as | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Syrian government forces pounded rebel areas of Aleppo, the | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
country's biggest city and commercial heart. The battle for | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
:11:17. | :11:24. | ||
control of the city - now in its His report does contain some | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
distressing images. The battle for Aleppo is raging, | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
and parts of this vast, ancient city are now at war. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Which means the ranks of the dead and the wounded are growing. Eight- | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
year-old Muhammad is peppered with shrapnel wounds from a government | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
shell. Those who can get out of the city are, desperate to escape the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
shelling that doesn't discriminate between soldier and civilian. But | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
notice how many of them are women and children. The men have stayed | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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to fight. For those left behind, daily life is a tale of survival. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
The bakerry has just opened for the first time in days. It's now the | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
only place to get food here. The fighters try to control the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
crowd that's hungry and desperate. Shortages make life hard. Bombs and | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
bullets make it unbearable. In Aleppo, it's the weakest that | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
suffer the most. And yet this battle has only just | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
begun. The rebels get ready. They have had news government soldiers | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
are heading this way, and the fighters move along empty streets | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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to defend the area. SOUND OF GUNFIRE | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
This war pitchs the government against an armed rebellion. Syrian | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
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against Syrian. And neither side can afford to lose this vital city. | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
Armed with just light weapons, the rebels face daunting odds as they | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
race to support a unit that's trapped. The Army's trying to take | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
back these districts, but the resistance is stiff. Well, the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
rebels are now advancing. They believe that government forces are | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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Ducking behind a wall for cover, a fighter shouts to move, pointing to | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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snipers behind us. Well, the rebels have now moved up | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
because the government's been trying to push into this area. It's | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
a very confused situation. We know there are snipers all around here | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
because it's an urban area. The sounds ring out, and what you can't | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
tell is which direction they're actually coming from. As you can | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
see, the rebels are incredibly tense. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
One of the commanders has been shot. He's laying in the gutter bleeding | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
to death. A truck shot sniper fire to try to get him out, but the | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
group is attacked, and they have to pull back. Guns blazing, they lay | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
down covering fire. But by the time the man was hauled up, it was too | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
late. SOUND OF GUNFIRE | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Three commanders from the same base died that day. We pulled back as | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
more fighters came to help. For awhile, they were pinned down. Then | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
en masse they shot their way out. It's impossible to predict who will | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
win this war, but it will shape the destiny of Syria and this region, | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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and it will leave countless more bleeding and dying. And the time is | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
just about 6.15pm. Our top story: London 2012 organisers act over | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
empty seats. Thousands of extra tickets are being released. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Coming up: GB's male gymnasts doing battle for their first ever team | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
medal. Later on BBC London news: | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Making a splash - we meet the man who has helped to deliver one of | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
2012's most adrenaline-fuelled venues, and how the capital is | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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coming together to celebrate the Today is the first full working day | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
of the Olympic games with both commuters and spectators trying to | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
get across the city. The morning rush hour passed off without any | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
great incident but the pressure is on right now and one of the main | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
pinch points is likely to be London Bridge station. Our correspondent | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Jon Kay is there. People are streaming through here. They say it | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
could be did busiest night this old station has seen. Passenger numbers | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
are up today but because people have been staggering their journeys, | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
changing routes as advised, actually it has not been quite the | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
meltdown the pessimists and the Games organisers predicted. Monday | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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morning. In the middle of London. The first Olympic rush hour. | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
Brilliant. I am early today. I left at the same time. Even in the City | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
things are moving freely. How was your journey? Easy. Great. The cost | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
quite quiet to be honest. It was Berry peaceful. Great. Peaceful?! | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
It seems many Londoners have followed advice and made | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
alternative plans. We are pleased with how it is going, everybody at | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
London Bridge worked well, the Tube. Well. It is not just in the Olympic | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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park at Deraa and deceit. -- There are empty seats. These people are | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
working from home during the Games. It is the masses of people, the | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
commuters squeezing him that the tourists, it helps not to have to | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
do it. It makes the day more relaxed. I used to working hard? | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
So on places are busy. At Greenwich they are arriving from all over the | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
country for the equestrian events. I expected it to take us at least | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
three hours to get here but it has been really good. It is early days | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
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And thanks to the new wi-fi system installed on the Underground, | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Robert Hall joins us live from the platform at Oxford Circus. Robert, | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
how is it with you? Here we are, one of the busiest transport hubs | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
in London, but this has been more like a Sunday. A steady flow of | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
people but nothing like the crush expected. Why? Many people opted to | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
stay at home, many companies in consultation with TfL asked staff | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
to stagger working hours, many civil servants in Whitehall doing | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
the same. Another factor, the events are staggered so you do not | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
get lots of people coming out of different stadia at the same time. | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
That helps. There is a problem with pickpocketing amongst the crowds. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Police are concerned and there are extra police are not got the | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
message is take extra care if you're travelling. -- extra police | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
about. Now to the Eurozone crisis and the US treasury secretary has | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
unexpectedly travelled to a small North Sea island for an emergency | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
meeting with his German counterpart who is there on holiday. There's | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
growing pressure on the European Central Bank to intervene to help | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Spain but that needs the approval of Germany, the eurozone's most | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
powerful member. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt joins us from Brussels. | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
Why this heightened activity? Holidays are being interrupted, the | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
US Treasury Secretary at flying to a remote island in the North Sea, | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
meetings between leaders, phone calls, statements, all of this is | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
aimed towards trying to reduce the borrowing costs of Spain. That | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
would avoid the need of that country having a bail-out. The | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
focus is very much on the European Central Bank. Last week the head of | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
the bank said he would do whatever it takes to preserve the single | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
currency. The expectation is that the bank. Buying government bonds | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
from countries like Spain hoping to bring down those costs. Certainly | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
the markets like what they here and there is a feeling there will be | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
some big step taken in the next few days. The focus is very much on a | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
meeting at the ECB on Thursday. People will look to see what it | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
will do and what it can do according to its own strict rules. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
But one word of caution in this, not just reservations in Germany, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
but the ECB have bought bombs before in the past, the impact, | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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limited. -- bonds. HSBC is setting aside a further �950 million to | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
cover the cost of compensation for mis-selling products, and fines for | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
money laundering in the United States. Its chief executive, Stuart | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Gulliver said the bank was "very sorry for past mistakes". At the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
same time, HSBC reported profits of almost �7 billion for the first | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
half of the year. More now on the Olympics... Great Britain's men's | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
gymnasts are currently competing in the team final. The five gymnasts | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
qualified in 3rd place for the final behind the US and Russia. | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Let's cross to the North Greenwich Arena and our correspondent Dan | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Roan. It must be getting exciting because I can tell you that Princes | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
William and Harry have just arrived. It is on for Team GB, they are in | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
the bronze-medal position in third place. They have gone through five | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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of their six disciplines in this You can see the Chinese gymnast on | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
the mat, his final routine on the floor and it will come down to this. | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
That is how close it is. Back to some of the highlight so far... | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Louis Smith, the golden boy in this country, was first up on the pommel | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
horse. This is the discipline he excels at. A fantastic start. He | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
was left crying tears of joy on Saturday after a similar | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
performance. The attention then turned to the Rings, which is | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
traditionally G B's weakest event. Sam Aldham, the 19-year-old with | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
something of a shaky dismount from the Rings, which left GB down in | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
fifth place. Finally Kristian Thomas produced a stunning volte to | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
bring Team GB back into contention into third place, that is where | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
they remain now with just one discipline left to go. Very | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
exciting. If they managed to get a medal it will be the first time | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
since 1912, 100 years ago, when gymnastics was very different from | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
now, so in effect they will make history. If they do it it will go | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
down as one of the greatest team performances of this Olympics and | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
any previous. So on the third full day of competition let's just see | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
what's happening with the medals tally. China tops the table with 14 | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
medals, including that gold medal for synchronised diving today. The | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
USA is in 2nd place. Great Britain is currently 17th. Andy Swiss | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
reports on the other highlights. They are the strongest of gold | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
medal favourites for Britain, cat Ranger and Diana Watkins. The pair | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
have never been beaten in more than two years together and it was not | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
hard to see why. They seemed to be growing in a race of the Rhone, | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
smashing the Olympic record as they powered to the final. After three | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
consecutive silver medals, Grainger on course for that elusive gold. | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Inspired, it seems, by the fans. You feel it in your body, it pulses | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
through you. The crowds are sensational. We both feel lucky, we | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
have this incredible support from the country behind us and we are | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
conscious of that. When you physically habit behind you, it | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
doesn't have to like nothing else. Plenty more action on the water. In | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
the sailing Ben Ainslie continued his quest for gold at Weymouth | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
while David Florence and Richard Hounslow were among the British | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
qualifiers for the semi-finals of the canoe slalom. More home success | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
at Wimbledon as Laura Robson and Heather Watson won their first | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
round singles matches. And in the way to lifting the so Lee Smith | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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lifted twice her own body weight on our way to a British record. -- Zoe. | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Beyond my wildest dreams. I competed as an Olympian in my home | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
town. I am overwhelmed by that. Another impressive display from Ye | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Shewen. She was quickest in the 200 metres heats. It already seems the | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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Games may have unearthed a remarkable talent. Yesterday she | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
performed in front of her mother and grandfather. Today Zara | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
Phillips and her Team GB eventing team-mates were in fine form with | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
their eyes on a medal during the sport's cross-country stage in | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Greenwich Park. Joe Wilson was there. The huge crowd of 50,000 for | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
the second day or were venting. Not all locals were pleased. But it | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
became a kind of equine festival and a key part of Britain's journey | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
towards a medal. Normally the equestrian cross country stays | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
miles out of town but not this time. For the horses here they will | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
almost feel like they're jumping straight into the City of London. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Cross-country is a test of stamina and courage for horse and rider. At | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
51, Mary King has conquered most are obstacles and excelled here. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
She went to the top of the leaderboard after a round. Others | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
fell and there were frequent delays, frustrating for those who came to | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
watch a family member. So many eyes in Greenwich were turned towards | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Zara Phillips. Twice she missed the Olympics because of injury to her | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
horse, now she made up for lost time, flying. 24th after the | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
weekend dressage, she rapidly gained ground here. But in eventing | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
riders do not just compete for themselves, their team are medals | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
at stake so -- at stake. This drove her towards perfection. The object, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
clear all fences, precious do manage it, Zara Phillips cracked it, | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
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even if she had lost track of the The crowd there unbelievable. You | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
can't hear you watch beeping are you to tell you. You have to check. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
It is unbelievable. Hopefully didn't take any heads off on the | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
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way! They will be back tomorrow You can see the news and coverage | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
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Now the weather... What we have seen today is more fair weather | :28:10. | :28:18. | |
cloud across the UK, no sign of any It is quite lucky because there has | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
been a lot of show was a round the rest of the UK. From space we can | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
see from the satellite picture there is a lot of cloud coming in | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
from the Atlantic and that will bring a very different feel to the | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
weather for tonight and tomorrow. Ahead of that cloud the showers | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
that have been heavy are decaying and fading away but the thickening | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
cloud coming in from the West will spill into England and Wales, the | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
rain is mostly light and patchy. Clear skies in Scotland and it will | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
be called for the time of year. -- cold. It could be wet at Eton door | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
late tomorrow. The wind direction could change and that could be | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
crucial. For other events, we will find a lot of cloud and rain around | :29:09. | :29:17. | |
in the morning. The tennis could be delayed because of rain. It will | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
clear to the north. A wet start with Whetton and whether it moving | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
towards northern England. As we head into the afternoon across | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
Wales it will be called underneath the cloud and rain and the weather | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
goes downhill across Northern Ireland. We will have sunshine | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
across Scotland and heavy showers in the north. Wet weather arriving | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
eventually across northern England, a poor day through the Midlands. | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
Across southern England we should see an improvement in the weather | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
as it brightens up and we get some sunshine. All change as we head | :29:50. | :29:53. |