chris: we asked the matthews meter, 12 of our regulars including katty and john, is it smarter politics for romney to stretch for repeal or smart tore downplay hyssop sigs to health care at this point? eight say it's better to downplay it. don't push this issue. four say stress repeal. john and katty, you split. katty, you're with the majority. >> we always split. chris: you say it's not a big winner for romney basically. >> for three reasons. one is that he would have to run on repealing a law, parts of which as we've already discussed are popular. i don't think that independents in the country want to go back to that brutal fight that we had a couple of summers ago over the health care law. i justify don't think there's the appetite for it. -- just don't think there's the appetite for it. the base is behind romney and hate obama and already active. and i do think that every time he talks about it, and massachusetts comes up. and it's not that the massachusetts law in and of itself, but it plays into this perception that romney is somehow slippery. that he's somehow a flip-flopper. chr

. >> marlene matthews, who also won a bronze in the to wonder meters in the 1956 games -- in the 200 meters in the 1956 games in melbourne. much more here on "bbc world news." >> this is "bbc world news." the headlines -- olympic organizers are reducing the number of seats set aside for officials after outrage over empty space in some venues. power has been restored across northern india after hundreds of millions of people were cut off by a major failure of the electricity grid. now, all three members of the russian punk band, pussy riot, have pleaded not guilty after they sang a political protest song in the moscow cathedral. think the women have been treated too severely. >> locked in a bulletproof cage in a moscow court house, the three women accused of staging a deliberately shocking political performance in russia's most important church. today, they went on trial, charged with desecrating the cathedral. of the women have been held in prison for five months ahead of today's trial, despite the fact that two of them are mothers of young children >> the group is called pussy riot

. >> 22-year-old matthew centrowitz is a graduate of broadneck high school in anne arundel county. he will compete in the 1,500 meterral lead. his father, qualified for the games in 1980. his room in arnold still has the posters of who we idolized as a kid. >> he would talk to his father for hours about running, what did you eat, how did you focus, psychologically prepare for a race? >> they will join him in london for the race. >> i said how was the food. he said he had not had fish and chips but he loved peach cobbler. >> beverly says he does not get nervous, but she does. she is excited to watch his retain and cheer him on. >> he has a gold cross that i got lost a couple of years ago. he will touch it right before the race. it will be probably one of the best experiences of my life and i do not think you can duplicate that. >> kai reed, wbal tv 11 news. >> bob dudley planned the trip -- beverly plan the trip to the dual years ago, and not knowing he would make it came, calling it a leap of faith. >> you can't you can catch every olympic moment right here and the -- you can watch every minute of of a pick coverage

. >> reporter: it was an american one-two with matthew grevers and nick thoman winning gold and silver in the men's 100-meter backstroke, but it was the fuss in gymnastics where the u.s. team, which has qualified first, finished a disappointing fifth in the finals. the team event was won by, guess who, the chinese. and to finish on another controversial note, some american athletes have been complaining about not being able to promote their own sponsors because of an olympic rule that only official game sponsors can be showcased here. >> the olympic ideal and the olympic reality are now different. >> reporter: remember when the olympics used to be about amateurs, and at least that was the idea then. now it seems to be about competing sponsorship. and if we can digress for a moment and go back to sports, michael phelps is poised on the cusp of history. if he wins his two events today, he will be the most medaled olympian in history, currently at 17. >> mark phillips, thank you. bill rhoden is with us now, sports columnist for "the new york times." good morning, bill. >> hey, charlie, how are you? >> so, we've