USA: LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 - President Obama congratulates Olympians Michael Phelps and women's gymnastics team while at campaign stop

Record ID: 330993

  • Title: USA: LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 - President Obama congratulates Olympians Michael Phelps and women's gymnastics team while at campaign stop
  • Date: 1st August 2012
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (AUGUST 2, 2012) (AGENCY POOL) BRITISH ROWERS CHRIS BARTLEY, ROB WILLIAMS, PETER CHAMBERS AND RICHARD CHAMBERS ARRIVING AT TEAM GB HOUSE AFTER WINNING SLVER IN THE MEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT FOUR NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH ROWER, RICHARD CHAMBERS, SAYING: "To be part of such a successful team, you know, in the car on the way here from Eton Dorney we were hearing about gold medals and medals that were coming in from the rest of the team and we just feel that proud, privileged and honoured to be part of such a successful team." (LEFT TO RIGHT) BARTLEY, RICHARD CHAMBERS, WILLIAMS AND PETER CHAMBERS HOLDING THEIR SILVER MEDALS AND POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS PAN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OF ROWERS HOLDING THEIR SILVER MEDALS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH ROWER, PETER CHAMBERS, SAYING: "You know, our strongest part of our racing is our second-half but, you know, with the way the conditions were we were a bit slower in the first kilometre than we wanted to but then when we sort of....when it got into decent good conditions we started to shift really well and we started to sort of lay down a good marker and, you know, we sort of we do want to time it right and we near enough did today." CLOSE OF TWO SILVER MEDALS / TILT UP TO BARTLEY (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH ROWER, CHRIS BARTLEY, SAYING: "The kind of support we had, even on kind of rows when we weren't racing when the crowds were there at seven in the morning and they were shouting for us and cheering our names and stuff and yeah that was just fantastic and in the race in the last 500...just the noise was like you could almost feel it and I think it definitely carried us over the line from bronze to kind of the silver medal and yeah we've got a lot of people at Dorney to thank for our medal today I think; it's just brilliant." MORE OF BARTLEY, RICHARD CHAMBERS, WILLIAMS AND PETER CHAMBERS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS TILT UP FROM SILVER MEDALS TO RICHARD CHAMBERS AND WILLIAMS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH ROWER, ROB WILLIAMS, SAYING: "I think inspiring and...inspiring and a little stressful in that we've all got huge expectations for ourselves and, you know, there's 13 boats in finals from GB rowing and I think there's a massive weight of expectation and both publically and personally on what we can do but I think it's really good for the sport." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS
  • Embargoed: 16th August 2012 13:00
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  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVAEG4S505H61X14PJVWYRGSQNSC
  • Story Text: Despite being the favourites along with Denmark Britain's lightweight men's four are pleased with a silver medal behind South Africa who claimed their first ever rowing Olympic gold
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