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ANCHORWOMAN:
Now with news of a possible first gold medal for team GB it's over to the Post Office-odrome.
COMMENTATOR # 1:
You join us here in Beijing PO-odrome just as things are reaching fever pitch and Britain is on the verge of winning its first gold.
COMMENTATOR # 2:
That's right and you couldn't have come at a better moment as Giles D'Anby- Smythe has gold firmly set in his sights.
COMMENTATOR # 1
Giles has now been in the queue for some four hours and despite all the odds stacked against him he hasn't complained once. Even when there were three women in front, all trying to bank their odd coins and send back their catologue returns, he's managed to keep his cool.
COMMENTATOR # 2:
That's right nerves of steel, losing the head or sighing loudly would surely have meant crashing out of this final early doors for the less experienced competitor. And for those who weren't out of bed at 3.30am this morning...
COMMENTATOR # 1
And quite frankly were where you all?
COMMENTATOR # 2
Yeah you lazy lot! Anyway let's look at his opening gambit.
COMMENTATOR # 1:
Here we see Giles enter the PO-odrome with his regulation three letters that require stamps. Notice how the queue is almost out onto the pavement but that doesn't phase the 24 year-old Berkshire queueist.
COMMENTATOR # 2
You betcha! He's made of sterner stuff than that. We saw the Le-Beq, the Frenchman and current World Champion; make the elementary mistake of trying to barge in to the front of the line only to be disqualified.
COMMENTATOR # 1
No, D'Anby-Smythe's years of training at Reading main Post Office have paid off handsomely. He simply joins the back of the line and stands there meekly waiting his turn. And since then it's been text book stuff.
COMMENTATOR # 2
And now back live he's only got one other competitor in front of him, Gunther Pretzel, the big German lad who has already been docked 4 faults for asking another competitor to keep his place when he needed to go to the bathroom.
COMMENTATOR # 1
Unbelievable blunder and the best he can hope for is a bronze because of that. And there he goes up to the window with his three letters. It can be only a matter of minutes before Giles D'Anby-Smythe becomes the first gold medallist for Team GB.
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Cashier number 3 three please!
COMMENTATOR # 1
And there goes Giles! What a moment, years of queueing finally paying off and quite honestly there are tears in my eyes. I've known this lad since he used to go down the shops to get his mum's fags and a nicer young man you couldn't hope to meet.
COMMENTATOR # 2
What a moment for Team GB and indeed all his pals back in Reading. Amazing stuff! Quite incredible! And with that it's back to the studio and Sue.
ANCHORWOMAN:
Amazing scenes there and a truly momentous event in the history of Britain's Olympic adventure.
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