and it the end of an era. pure gold. it's the next to the last day of the olympic games in london. and our day begins at eaton with a gold medal race in flatwater canoeing. >> the shadow of windsor castle, and figure, an explosive one. gold medal final at the new olympic distance of just 200 meters. more often than not, photo finishes with the winners

earning the title fastest in the world. moments away from the opportunity for the first olympic gold medalist ever. a look at the list. a man in each. russia in lane one. salakhov, the silver medalist this past year in the relay. different animal here. the 200 meter start to finish. no time for mistakes. lane two from hungary. just 21 years old. too young to be nervous here. spain to be a player. rivero, 27 years of age. he's been very good so far. and the home team in lane four. ed mckeever, one of the best. 28 years of age from england.

right next to mark de jonge from canada won his semifinal. 28 years of age. and from france, beaumont, second in his semi, and the european champ near 2012, and in lane 8, the veteran. 30-year-old ronald rauhe. >> a full set of olympic medals. >> the race figures to be the middle lanes perhaps four, five, six. >> yeah. lane four and five are kind of where you figure the winner to come out of. only 5'8", small man in the competition. so strong, he's got the home team behind him. i see a lot of union jacks out there in the crowd. >> an olympic medalist, that's at 5. >> man: -- meters. different conditions today, too. much more wind than they saw the

last couple of days more of a challenge, it is a head wind. underway here in the 200. good start for mckeever. >> 35 seconds, and signifying everything, a great start by mckeever in lane 4. stay in contact with them. mckeever has that really aggressive range. you can tell he wants it so bad. come up in lane three from spain. >> out in front, from canada. mckeever down to the line. this is where he trained. he would love to win a gold medal here and he does. mcconceiver from great britain in front of the crowd capture, the gold. very close on that. >> the score by mckeever in front of the home crowd. look where they're sitting.

canada in third. how about ed mckeever? they call him bolt in a boat. right now he is the best olympic champion in the 200 meter ever. >> well, the silver medal at the championships kicks it up a notch to capture the gold here at home. it is spain in second and canada up for the bronze. so it's great britain with the gold, spain with silver and canada, the bronze medal. your top three in the k-1 200 meters here at eaton dorney. >> a healthy amount. you watch, trying to lunge the boat. not quite enough. he broke his finger in april, able to get back into boating to get him the third medal for

canada during these olympic games. there on the line, meeting from start to finish, mckeever, so impressive. quick strokes. only 5'8", but strong as an objection. >> studying to be an accountant, when not on the water. so many medals and great moments. the rowing here in front of this crowd at eaton dorney, and now one in the flatwater kayak. more to celebrate here in great britain. ed mckeever gives them another gold medal. this time in the 200. stain, the silver and mark de jonge captures the bronze. the 200 meter olympic final. another gold for great britain as we welcome you inside the international broadcast center. i'm al michaels. a history-making performance by the u.s. women in the 4x100 meter relay last night.

the americans broke a world record that stood since 1985. 27 years. coming up later, the women's basketball gold medal game. the americans haven't lost in the olympics since 1992. trying to win their fifth straight olympic gold. they'll take on france. you'll see that game live. plus, women's mountain biking. an 18-mile race more than 3,000 feet of climbs and a gold medal awarded there today. up next, back to eaton dorney for more gold med's raa s as the london games continue here on nbc. i'm leaving you.

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here at eton dorney, actually picked up in the last few moments making for slower times for the finals today. there's your lineup for the c-1 200 meters. the man from russia has been very good to this point. lane one from slovakia, hagara. third in his semifinal. won a gold in 2010. mathieu from france. competed with the t-1, 1,000 meters from spain, silver medalists last couples seasons. cheban, and the 26-year-old in his third olympics. there in '04 and in beijing in 2008. lithuania in lane 5.

shuklin. 26-year-old. european chap from 2010 and shtyl. 26 years of age, world champ, 2010. next to china, takes nine hours on a plane to get to training camp. and 25 years of age, a five-time world champion in the 500 and then sakamoto in lane 8 from japan. russia in lane 6, awfully good. >> he has been. he's no stranger to bad weather. where he lives, average january, a balmy negative 20 degrees fahrenheit. >> not complaining about cold water here at eatton dorney. can't afford a slow start. no time to make it up. >> 200 meters to the finish line. first time ever at the olympics. here we go. >> the start under way.

>> in lane 4, looks impressive. got a great start. he had one of the faster times of the qualifying heat. a great lead right now. >> significant lead. the length of the canoe. and the semifinalist world champ in 2009, of lithuania in lane 5. >> 6'5" in lane 5. and cheban has too much of a lead to give up here. >> spain there as well. styl trying to make up but they're not going to tach him. to the line, ukraine up, with lithuania, spain and russia in the mix for the medals. impressive early here. won a semifinal to make it to the final. his mom is his coach and she is a former soviet champion as well. and cheban exhausted after that 200 meter run.

>> what a race. led start to finish. the race really was for second and third. it looked like the lithuanian shot his boat out just in front. we'll take a look at the final finish. >> such a big part of it. that shoot at the end, the extension. >> we saw that in the men's kayak when the canadian grabbed the bronze medal. >> not official yet, but it looks like it is up for the silver -- tr is official. the sim verify for lithuania, and styl from russia, dominant early on in the heats and semis settles for the bronze here at eton dorney. >> and cheban already with a great lead. watch the shoot of the boat in lane 5 and 6. trying to steal a silver medal.

lithuania not giving up. better timing. saw the boat jump out of the water and cross the finish line first. >> wonder when you get one of those -- you got it. impressive. had the early lead and he never looked back. >> the power of the legs and the high kneel position, reaching out over the boat, a nice vertical stroke. driving with every leg. trying to keep it straight. >> just on one side. >> you saw him a second ago. he were a hiccup with the paddle just to keep the boat straight and luckily had enough of a lead to keep that gold medal in his pocket, which he will now take home to the ukraine. >> the results now official, and they're slower times. much slower than the world time. 42.29 with the head wind. ukraine, lithuania and russia, the gold, silver and bronze in the c-1 200. [ female announcer ] safeway presents

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2,000 meter course here at eton dorney, 200 meters used today. except for the women's k-1. not one but two in the mix. one from spain, one from portugal. well known in this sport. inna, 29 years old from ukraine. won a gold in the olympics in '08. spr spain, 30 years old, lane two. and one gold already today for great britain. jess walker trying to give them another. in a as it sa janics, the second ever in flatwater disciplines but the number one ranked in the

world, lisa carrington from kne zealand in 5 next to russia. the god medalist at the european championships last year and marta walczykiewicz from poland. 25 years old. and in lane 8, teresa portela from portugal. what do you expect here, eric? >> the wind is starting to become a factor. picking up with a head wind and especially the start. blowing them away from the start line. a meter at the start is a meter at the finish. they got to make sure they jump out quickly from the gates. >> middle of the course here. in 4, and three olympic gold medals in her career. looking for number four right alongside lisa carrington, reigning world champ. >> and after winning, it was good i won but i still have some spare in the tank.

let's see how much she has in this 40-second race. >> listen to the crowd here, too, ready to explode for lane 3. up and racing here, and a clean start. >> walker barely make it into the final, edging out japan in the semifinal. and right by the crowd. 20,000-plus cheering her on. a great start. >> in lane 7 -- lane 1 as well. and getting to the finish line. >> and she faded yesterday a little bit. see if she can hold on. here comes lane 5, fastest in the world so far this year. in the last 20 meters, ukraine, new zealand, poland -- here comes carrington coming on. will she get there? up for the silver.

>> great performance by new zealand. pulling away. so strong in the last 100 meters. and actually also, faded yesterday, not today. she gets one more medal for her huge collection of olympic medals, but lisa carrington racrace s to the gold medal at the olympics. and radonska. look at her celebrating. >> looked like hungary stepped in there for third. we'll have to look at the replay, but what a haul. already three gold medals. a silver. the third would complete the bronze. >> and the gold medal finish.

ukraine up in lane 1 and, yes, hungary in lane 4 and it's now official. hungary with the bronze medal. >> a great start here across the board. especially for britain in lane 3, unable to hold on, though. carrington, so strong over the last 100 meters. you can see the grin, the determination and now the joy as she knows she has the gold medal in the 200 meters. the first-ever in the olympic sport for that. >> started paddles when she was a young child. her family moved close to the water and got her involved, to teach her water safety if. it's turned into a gold medal at the olympics. final results, carrington, the gold, osypenko ra dons kaw, a great career and it continues for ukraine, and a bronze medal for in a as it taas it sa janic.

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regal setting here in the english countryside. what a terrific venue this has been at eton college in the waters of dorney lake. one week of rowing, capacity crowds and again this week, for flatwater as we come down to th final event here at eton dorney of the 2012 games. the men's k-2 200 meter final. and tln is the lineup. canada in lane 1. france very good. two-time reigning world championship great britain also one of the favorites. in lane 1, cochrane, and eton dorney, at the opening ceremony, the highlights of the olympics

so far for him. and france. a couple of wins in the world cup circuit this year, and great britain in lane 3. european champs in 2012. three golds in that event. and from belarus, they sail through winning their semifinal to make it here to the final. russia has been very good. from germany, the veteran. european silver medalist this year has an opportunity here. argentina correa and they were ninth at the championship. here they are. from australia, bird, phillips, inspired by the australian win in the k-4 and said we have nothing to lose here in the k-2 200.

>> up to the line here in the final. >> coming in, great britain, lane 2 and 3, but the russians looked so strong in qualifying. you've got to figure they're the favorites today. but britain in a good position in a little bit of a sheltered lane with france on one side and russia on the other. >> here we go. lanes 2, 3, 5, perhaps is where the race going to be won, but here's canada in lane 1. great britain -- >> a great start. and powering through there. britain actually hanging on the last 100 meters, had the crowd pull them through. so strong. slowing down a little, but look at power that put them through in the last heat.

>> and inside, the russians or to the line and great britain, total dominance from the beginning of this event. >> in the heat, the semis and now in the final. >> i don't think i've seen anything like that. the rest of the world was racing for a silver medal from the get-go. what a performance by the russians pow erg the entire way from start to finish. very happy, and they should be. very much an amazing performance. >> and belarus, the bronze medalist from the world championships, and different distances up to the silver. great britain has already won a gold medal today and now capture the bronze here at eton dorney. >> and broke a paddle in the back of the boat. might have been a celebration for a medal. again, a great day for britain on water.

gold medal, now a bronze. you go through the finish again. russians are so far ahead. britain and belarus nose to nose, belarus taking it. britain, though, a great finish. so strong in the sprint there. they're now starting a great tradition for the 200 meter. >> it was, i mean, the distance they won by, you don't see that often in the 200s. >> normally looking at fephoto finishes everywhere. they cruise through the finish. >> normally across the finish line you look around and aren't quite sure you won. >> the guy in the back looking at the guy in front. definitely not normal for the 200 meter. >> and they haven't been on the team very long in the 200 meters. meteoric rise for this russian team. two wins in the world cup circuit, the major international scene coming in, and strong medal favorites, but right away, establishing themselves as the

gold medal favorites and they've come through. >> run-away gold medal win for russia, and here in the k-2 200 meter final, belarus up for the silver, and great britain in front of the home crowd here at eton dorney, capturing a medal in the final event of 2012. [ male announcer ] olympic tennis players bob and mike bryan

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at stonehenge, meteorologist jim cantore back in town. what's the action down there, james? >> there's a lot action. i think everybody that's not in olympic park is right here on portobello road. when you see this, sea of humanity out here. what is abon absolutely forecas day. the market, goes way back to 1870 cuts into the heart of nottinghill, remember the movie with julia roberts and hugh grant. even more popular than it already is. and antiques, flea market -- while i'm out here. go shopping, look around. wearing van patrick shirts all

week. maybe something in the green would be nice. go well with my skin color. maybe a little leather. get a little leather on. it hasn't been cold enough. maybe tomorrow night we'll chill out. all in all, absolutely wonderful. you can't go anywhere without smelling food. great food smells everywhere. we just had some jamaican jerk chicken. my frent doug friend dougy is . he's going to play -- can we have a little marvin gaye here? there you go. that's it. thanks, bud. appreciate that. all sorts of things. there's the marvin gaye. whew, that's twice. na anyway, a perfect day. an east wind is coming in. it's a little cooler. hotter here, but cooler over along the city. >> the fits of a bizarre guy. a perfect match today. when you olympics started, so much talk about the weather

being terrible. it's turned out to be terrific and it looks like it's going to hold through the closing ceremony tomorrow. correct? >> i really think they will. you know, as wee -- lods we're . al few showers, it won't hinder the races. if you're a runner you don't want 80 degrees. you want temperatures in the 50s and 60s. need to bring the temperatures down and may get that with a few showers. i think we're dry. going with it all week and stick with it. al, dry by the ceremonies. closing ceremony. so i think we're looking good, buddy. you could not xshgs like you said, for a better weather pattern, especially given what we had, what we started with in june and july. you really couldn't. >> get a new shirt. we'll talk to you tomorrow. jim cantore. coming up, the women's volleyball bronze medal match, japan against south korea. up next we talk live in our studio with freestyle wrestling jordan as the games of the xxx

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rounds and relax late other than this afternoon and watch my teammates. >> you seem pretty comfortable with being the face of wrestling, a sport i know you feel doesn't get enough attention. i've seen you quoted saying, you've seen ten times more poker on television than wrestling. >> now that you truly are the face of wrestling, what next? how do you manifest and make that sport more popular? >> continue to win. continue to do things like this. continue to give the sport greater exposure. continue to just represent the sport and with great humility. i think i've done that up to this point and i want to hopefully continue that. >> you grew up in new jersey but went to nebraska. you're in lincoln right now, but you're going to be out of college now for the next four years. so instead of training in a college program, how are you going to keep ready for rio de janeiro? >> my head coach, personal coach the last two years, i train a lot with the college guys and back and forth between there and

the olympic training center in colorado springs with the coach and the national team. we do a lot of training, a lot of different techniques. so it works for me. >> now, you know, you tell some people you're a wrestler, you know what most people think, you're wrestling wwe. >> yeah. >> and now, it seems to me that the mma, mixed martial arts, is using the college programs, wrestling programs as a breeding ground for the mma. what do you think of that? any chance you would do that? >> awesome. a little bit of sports, cool on pay per view every other weekend. i've never been to a fight in my life. kind of scared to get punched in the face. >> really? >> yeah. we'll see. i'm not at tough off the mat as i am on it. >> what i loved yesterday. afterwards you said, if the queen of england had shown up, you were going to put a double move on her. double leg move on her. >> i don't want to say that too loud again. although that was a good idea. >> could have made a few

headlines. >> pretty cool. >> your twitter handle, all i see is gold? >> all i see is gold. >> keep that or come up with something new? >> ah, no. it's real. you know, people realize it, that i continue to win and it builds the level of confidence for me that helped me to get to this point. so i'm going to continue to win hopefully more gold medals in the future. >> embrace the grind, as you say. >> embrace the grind. >> jordan burroughs. time for volleyball. japan against south korea. paul sunderland and kevin barnett with the call. things are wirnding down with the women's sport. the bronze medal match between historic powers japan and korea. but it has been a long, long time since either one of these teams has won an olympic medal. for korea, the last time was all the way back in 1976. a bronze, and for japan, also a bronze in 1984.

korea in white with the leading score. and japan in the red uniforms. and first strike going to japan. >> i like japan going to the middle. they need to establish some play in the middle. this matchup features two of the best players in the world. and on the outside, they need to remember the middle is part of the game, too. >> all over the top of the block and out of bounds. the number one scorer in the tournament by quite a wide margin. 185 points with a combination of kills, blocks and aces. and for kimura, you talked about, the number three scorer in the tournament. we'll say their names an awful lot.

>> waiting for the touch to be called, and it is pt's head referee, susana rodriguez, and a good start indeed for japan. >> combination play. haven't seen much of that. that ball hit out of bounds. look at the koreans. >> challenging the head referee. >> you're not going to get anywhere with the whole team right below the ref's stand. nervous, down 4-0, but that's not helping your case. >> time out taken quickly by korea. >> korea making this to be an incredibly tough match. i think this is going to be a back and forth event, a battle both teams known for defense. both teams giving maximumest ft in the that phase of the game.

particularly over on the japanese sign, libero, put on an amazing disblay a libero can really mean to a team. >> another look at that controversial play that forcerd the time-out. no question the paul was out of bounds, but was it touched? maybe a micro toutouch by shinn >> and a bronze medal matchup. where do you go but to number 10 to restore stability for korea. >> and kim has taken 352 slams throughout the course of this tournament. that's an average of 50 per match. that ball served just out of bounds.

>> remarkable, kevin about kim yeon-kouyg, number three in efficiency? remarkable. everybody knows from korea she's getting the ball. >> that ball's going to be hit out of bounds. jin and the rest really struggling. >> their energy level seems low to me, kevin. >> a little nerves early on. this is, for them, very similar to the quarterfinal. if you win, you get a medal. if you lose, no one remembers. so the stress is high in this bronze medal match.

>> that's going to be for contact, unforced error. a rare one. really interesting point you just made. i hadn't thought about that. knockout round, quarterfinals. you move on or you go home after you've done good, hard work to get into the quarterfinals, then when you get to the bronze medal match that pressure comes back. it is always hard to remember who finished fourth. and that ball shanked out of bounds by japan. >> trying to make a shot out of a difficult play. sometimes it's better just to give the ball to your opponent and try and make something happen. good save by japan. nice job working out of the net. by number 11.

>> sending the ball up high. so korea can check her defense. and out of bounds, now korea waking up just a little bit. yi, number 11 scorer in the tournament getting the score. >> and the whole game, stretched out playing defense. 63'12", ni 1 6 foot 3 1/2 inches. >> they lost to the united states in the semifinal setting up this bronze medal. >> interesting thing when you talk about the defense of both of these squads. japan ranked number one in

defense in tournament on average number of sets. career ra korea ranked search but third in total digs. played a lot of volleyball but faced a lot more defense. 350 games coming into this tournament. >> excellent blocking by korea once again number 12. han song-yi. >> neither one of these teams known for their blocking. sevenens and eights in the tournament as a whole. this will yield bigger blocking numbers for both sides.

>> a good look who has taken japan up to number five in the world, and counterpart in the eighth year heading up the korean effort. ranked 15th coming in. here they are in the bronze medal. early for number 10. >> kim, japan leading 8-5. medications?

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with that service error right back in contact. >> off the top of of the tape. very lucky play for korea. >> you can see off the top of the tape and dribble it over, you, too, could make a lot of money in volleyball, if can you hit it consistently. a rule change, hitting the net occasionally creates that. >> i'll take that for the continuation of play that many times occurs. >> a fast start for japan has been eliminated. >> and 94 points backing up kimura. >> early kill for japan. >> you're exactly right, kevin, about the contribution out of the middle.

very little action out of the japanese middle in this whole tournament. >> a smart shot. pushing into the block and out of bounds. >> another big swing. kim. >> how do you settle down your team where you have those early match jitters? give it to your star player, and put it over the 5'3" blocker. >> you can see in this tournament, efficiency without understanding what to do as a point of kaek. seen a couple of attacks in a

row. so shooing the intelligence. >> nothing is going to the floor without a body flying after it. not for the bronze medal. hit out of bounds. >> wonderful effort by both team, but particularly korea. and the first lead for korea in this opening set. >> just grinding it out defensively. korea with great attention to detail, hanging in. they know they have to match the japanese dig for dig. there to get the set up, could have easily been a lift.

>> korea's come all the way back after trailing right at the start of this bronze medal match 6-1. kimura, hard crosscourt and surprising that that ball didn't come up in that dig. and now takeshita, you pointed out, just 5'3", best setter in the world at the 2011 world cup rotates to the back row. combination, number 10 again. >> korea will deal a lot with her, moves her dropping inside from the left. things get so concerned about it, they will kick a blocker out and have has blocker out on the

right-hand side waiting for kim, beats that by bringing her in purposely to about the middle of the court. >> number 19 in white back on. >> short serve leading straight to a crackdown by kim. all of these pieces of tape on her shoulder, obviously done a lot of work. 350 swings coming in. that shoulder's a little tired. getting rehab in between. >> titanium tape on that, looks like. >> and shinnabe. [ laughing ] not necessary. take the money. i'm not taking your money. besides i get great gas mileage. what's that? it's eassist. helps the engine run really efficiently. it captures energy that assists the engine... so i'm never guzzling gas.

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japan, you mentioned earlier, currently fifth ranked. at one point climbed all the way to third. this has been a resurgence of japanese women's volleyball that has an incredible history of success. >> 32 aces against only 34 errors for the japanese. kim young jung, hitting heerror and now a service error early. can she do it one more time? again, averaging 50 swings a match, is number 10 for korea. >> nobody else even close. >> good transition swing out on the right side sakoda to japan. >> we have seen a lot of ebata.

abo playing a critical role for the japanese. they've dug into their bench for this bronze match, and sakoda gets the call. >> a tweet from a japanese sports journalist saying, who look out if sakoda comes in. she can get hot. you're right, kevin. we have not seen a lot of her. double pump in the middle and slam dunk for korea. and jin, 6'3" middle blocker, tied at 14. remember, the first four sets of this bronze medal match like all of the matches here at the court, must win by two, a fifth set if necessary will be played to 15. >> and off the block and out of bounds once again by sakoda. >> told you how korea got into this bronze medal match as far as japan.

3-2 in a preliminary round. in one of the greatest matches i've seen, beat china three sets to two. 18-16 in the fifth and overwhelmed by brazil, three sets to none. in the semifinal, set ug up a rematch of the beijing olympics later on today will be the united states and brazil. for the gold medal. >> the rematch of '08 where i thought brazil was clearly the stronger team. they proved it in the match. i think things have flipped. volleyball, in the united states, it's now up to them to prove it. >> and that's going to be slugged down inside the block, and kim starting to heat up, or loosen up.