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SPORTS NEWS VIDEO 1
Story: SILVER MEDAL REACTION: Sally McLellan claimed SILVER in 100m hurdles.
Duration: Approx 3’47’’
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Location: Beijing, China
Language: English
STORY:
Olympic 100m Hurdles Silver medalist Sally McLellan said her second placed finish was more than she could have ever expect in Beijing. The 21 year old from Queensland become the first Australian woman to make the 100m hurdles final since Glynis Nunn back in 1984. The gold went to American Dawn Harper in a time of 12.54. The spotlight was on McLellan to bring home a medal after reigning 400m hurdles champion Jana Rawlinson pulled out of the Beijing Games with a toe injury. It was Australia's first individual Olympic track medal since Cathy Freeman's 400m triumph at Sydney2000. McLellan’s time was 12.64 seconds.
SOUNDBITE: Sally McLellan
q. Tell me about your race?
I don’t think you could put it into words that’s why I was just screaming at the end of the race when I saw it come on the screen, I couldn’t say anything because I was just excited. This was like a dream come true and it’s more than I could have ever expected and it’s happened whilst I’m still so young, it’s just so exciting for me.
SOUNDBITE: Sally McLellan
q. What are your feeling?
So much – my mums just done everything for me really, my coach has done all the programming. It’s just been so much work, so much stress, so much expectation, so much emotion, which just all boils up into one and just exploded when I got out those blocks which was just an amazing feeling, when I crossed the line it was just a relief to finish but excitement to get the medal.
SOUNDBITE: Sally McLellan
q.Did you think you would get a medal here?
I didn’t feel it, I said to the medias that I jut wanted to make the final and that anything else was a bonus, but I always had it in my mind that I wanted a medal. I walked out into the stadium more pumped than I have ever been in my whole entire athletics career, it just worked for me last night. I got it right on the night.
SOUNDBITE: Sally McLellan
q. You were involved in the launch of the team competition uniforms back in Australian in April - how has all the team liked the gear?
I think I was the most excited Athletics athlete here, I was sitting on the adidas bus waiting to get our uniforms and I couldn’t stop jumping up and down. I couldn’t wait to try it on and couldn’t wait to get it and know that it was mine and that no one can take it off me and no one can take away an Olympian.
SOUNDBITE: Sally McLellan
q. How does it feel to win an Olympic medal?
It doesn’t feel like an Olympic medal yet. It’s just something that feels fake and I just can’t believe I have got it around my neck and its never going to go away really. Its just always going to be there I’m always going to be in the books as an Olympic medallist. Its so good for Australia and it so good for my confidence knowing that I can do this and that I have something that’s mine and no one can take it away.
GENERAL VIEWS OF ATHLETE
SPORTS NEWS VIDEO 2
Story: GOLD MEDAL REACTION: Christine Ohuruogu, 400m Gold for Great Britain
Duration: Approx 2’30’’
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Location: Beijing, China
Language: English
STORY:
Christine Ohuruogu said winning the Olympic 400m gold medal had not sunk in yet, but the China event had put her under the greatest amount of pressure that she had ever had to deal with. Ohuruogu, the first British woman to win the Olympic 400m title, was born and brought up in east London and is now set to be one of the faces of the 2012 Games. Despite a troubled build up to Beijing the Briton beat pre-race favorite Sanya Richards to the top spot on the podium to add the Olympic title to the World title she won in Osaka Japan last year.
SOUND BITE: Christine Ohuruogu
q. How do you feel today?
It’s a nice feeling I’m very happy. I think I’m just happy that it’s kind of over. Its very tough coming into these championships, extremely tough so I’m just relieved I can roll out of bed today & know that its finished now.
SOUND BITE: Christine Ohuruogu
q. Has the gold medal sunk in yet?
I think its more difficult, it hasn’t really sunk in good as it was in the semi finals. Semi finals I was very sharp it was a build up from round one, I couldn’t believe Id actually won because that for me was, I wouldn’t say one of the hardest races, but in terms of pressure it was one of the biggest amounts of pressure that I had to deal with. I’m just happy that I came out the other end. I think that is the most important thing that I didn’t switch off and I fought, even though I didn’t think I was my best person on the day
SOUND BITE: Christine Ohuruogu
q. You won gold in track & field for Team GB how does that feel?
Oh its great, its so great to win this medal for Great Britain and its so great that I have won the medal for track and field because I think that we were kind of lagging behind, but we got two medals last night and hopefully more will come. So its really good, Im really glad I’m helping Team GB on the medal table.
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SPORTS NEWS VIDEO 3
Story: Triple GOLD MEDAL REACTION: Chris Hoy makes Olympic history with three gold medals in Beijing.
Duration: Approx 3’20’’
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Location: Beijing, China
Language: English
STORY
Cycling star Chris Hoy said he was in dreamland having made Olympic history by becoming the first British athlete to claim three gold medals at an Olympic Games for 100 years.
Hoy claimed gold medals in the Men’s Sprint, the team Sprint and the Keirin event in Beijing.
The ‘flying Scotsman’ as the man from Edinburgh has been branded said every gold was special and his success in China is what every athlete dreams of. The 32 year old believes the GB team did exceptionally well in China due to the excellent infrastructure of the sport in the UK. There was no talk of retirement either Hoy spoke about repeating the success in front of his home crown at London 2012.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. Did you realize the enormity of your achievement?
not at the time I was really focused on the event itself and just trying not to let any distractions creep in, but after the event people were telling me it was the first triple gold medalist from the same Games from a British athlete for 100 years. It’s crazy, These are the things of dreams. For it to come together just at the right time it was fantastic.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. How does it feel to win 3 Olympic Gold Medals
Every Gold medal is special. The Olympics is a unique event, it’s the one that everybody wants to win, it’s the pinnacle of any athletes career and every time you step up onto that podium even if it’s a gold silver or bronze it doesn’t matter what medal it is, it means a hell of a lot. You cant put it into words the feeling you get when all the hard work, all the sacrifice and everything you gone through, you suddenly realize its worth while and you hear the national anthem, you see the flag go up, family and friends in the crowd. Its what you always dream of.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. Tell me about your training
To be honest I just enjoy the training, I enjoy what I do, obviously I do it because I want to be the best in the world that’s my drive, my focus but I actually enjoy the procedure of training and enjoy setting myself targets working hard in a day and at the end of the day taking a very small step towards my overall goal. You know its not just about the winning its about the taking part.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. Team spirit
When I first rode for GB in 96, they gave me a tracksuit top on loan for World Championships, you gave it back at the end of the Championships, you had your own bike, they gave you a set of wheels, it was just done on a shoe string budget. From those days when the lottery funding came on board things became more professional and now everybody on the team whether you’re a mechanic, a rider, a physiotherapist whatever your job is your aim is to be the best in the world and we got a support staff that the rest of the world are really envious of.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. Team GB have been awesome in cycling
Once you start winning once the team starts winning it becomes infectious and its crazy to think we got 7 out of 10 available gold medals on the track which you kind of know its possible but until you get up there and realize this is crazy, to win almost all the gold medals that are available its fantastic.
SOUND BITE: Chris Hoy
q. What about 2012?
you can keep going as long as you have the motivation and personally Im really driven to have the opportunity to have a home Olympic Games and to win a Gold medal in front of a home crowd that’s a huge thing for me. l’m 36 in London, no reason why I cant win a Gold medal there, the Spanish rider Joan LLaneris he won a gold medal here in the points race, he is 39 so you know as they say Impossible is Nothing.
GENERAL VIEWS OF ATHLETE
SPORTS NEWS VIDEO 4
Story: GOLD MEDAL REACTION: Victoria Pendleton Sprint cycling Great Britain
Duration: approx 2’50’’
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Location: Beijing, China
Language: English
STORY:
Women’s sprint cycling gold medalist Victoria Pendleton said she would not have won the medal in Beijing without the experience of having missed out in Athens four years ago. The 27-year-old from Hitchin, Hertfordshire said without the disappointment of Athens she wouldn’t necessarily have made the change and the step forward in my career. Pendleton, three times a world champion in the individual sprint, fulfilled her Olympic ambitions, comfortably beating Anna Meares, of Australia, in the final. Pendleton also set an Olympic record on Sunday in qualifying for the final. When asked what it was like to stand on top of the podium and listen to her national anthem she admitted it was impossible to put into words.
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q. How are you feeling?
To be honest for me it didn’t really feel real, its something you imagine in your dreams that one day you’ll be doing that. Every athlete’s hope is to be listening to their anthem on top of the podium so when it actually happens it was all a bit surreal.
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q. You also competed in Athens but didn’t win.
I think that without the disappointment of Athens I wouldn’t necessarily have made the change and the step forward in my career. It was hugely disappointing and I was ready to give up and after that year I really kind of changed my training program, I tried to approach it in a different way and the following year I was World Champion and since then I have maintained that position in the world rankings and I think now I feel like a different athlete
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q. Looking forward to 2012, will you compete?
Well im hoping in 2012 they will bring in another women’s event and hopefully a women’s sprint event because there is only one sprint event for women’s and 2 endurance events so fingers crossed there will be a women’s sprint event and Shanaze Reade can get up and do that with me.
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q. Team GB are giving an amazing performance in cycling
We absolutely stormed the cycle rankings so there is not another nation anywhere near us so
It’s nice to know that we are the bets in the world and we are not just the best in the world, but we are by far the best in the world!
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q.how does it feel to win a gold?
Can you put that into words? I don’t think you can, I don’t think there are many things in the world for an athlete that would come close to that feeling. It’s something completely special, completely different.
SOUND BITE: Victoria Pendleton
q. You won Olympic record, tell me about it?
well actually I was hoping to get close to the world record, my times during the week leading up to the competition were very strong and I was actually well ahead of record schedule, but unfortunately it was quite cold in the morning and the temperature makes a huge difference on track times. I got an Olympic record I have to be happy with that but its something else to aim for.
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