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Hello and welcome to the Aquatics Centre right in the middle of Queen | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Elizabeth Olympic Park, it looks like a shiny armadillo, but trust | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
me, it is a fantastic host for the European Championships. Day two of | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the swimming competition, Great Britain has one medal in the bag, | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
courtesy of Hannah Miley, a silver in the 400 metres individual medley. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
If things go well, we could have fired by the end of the night, here | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
is what is coming. -- we could have five. He is a world champion, he | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
holds the world record, and he has been fasted this week, will there be | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
more gold for Adam Peaty? What has Ben done to make himself proud? He | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
is in the final of the 50 metres fly. And Southport's Pinus has seven | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
European golds to her name, can this be number eight? -- finest. She has | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
got eight, which is impressive, but be number eight? -- finest. She has | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
this guy has got 11 European gold titles, Mark Foster, ladies | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
gentlemen. She has got nothing on me, then? One European title but | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
four Olympic medals, Becky Adlington is also with us through the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
competition. One guy who is all about Rio is Britain's hottest | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
swimming property, Adam Peaty. Adam Peaty is a very, very rare | :01:51. | :02:13. | |
athlete. He is one of British swimming's greatest ever. He is a | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
privilege to be able to just watch him compete, just to be able to say | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
that I know him. The months before the world record in April, I knew he | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
was capable of doing something quite insane. Goodness me, he wins the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
gold! So pleased for the little lad I had coached from the age of 14, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
with the bad haircut. It was a special moment for me. The pressure | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
was on him when he went to the World Championships. He was the number | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
one, he had broken the world record, he was now the guy to watch. The 50 | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
metres breaststroke, just insane. Very well at this Peaty... He swam | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
his perfect race. That was certainly a crowd pleaser. What a superstar! I | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
mean, the hundred metres, from a coaching point of view, that was not | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
easy to watch. This is a very big lead... And nail-biting stuff, I was | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
in tears, cheering, screaming, thinking, he is not going to do it! | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
And then he does it. Peaty has got it on the very last stroke! For him | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
to cope with the pressure in his first World Championships, at the | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
age of just 20, that is when he became a man for me. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
That is when he became a man for a lot of people, just look at this CV! | :03:40. | :03:57. | |
We are moments away from the 100 metres breaststroke final for the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
European Championships, we have just been watching the guys preparing, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Adam Peaty and Ross Murdoch, you love that shot, you can see how | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
people are preparing, what is happening at that moment? For people | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
who do not know what the call room is at home, obviously all the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
athletes get into a room, there is nobody else, no coaches, just you | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
staring at your competitors, and Adam was the only one that was | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
standing up. I do not know whether it was tactical, but it was really | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
interesting to see, the rest of them were cool and calm. He was walking | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
around, like, yeah, I have got this. You see that in athletics, some of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the guys take their tops off, I have got the muscles, I have done the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
work. It is the last opportunity we get to stare each other down, | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
because behind the block, it is you, the water and the wall. In the call | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
room, if you want to stand and look big... When I got nervous, I got | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
chatty, like now! I would talk to my competitors, they are going, go | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
away. I was like, no, what are you having for supper? It made me | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
relaxed, but it wound up. Some people have headphones on, heads | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
down, not making eye contact. Adam is clearly up for it. What do you | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
think is going to happen? I would love to see both at and Ross | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Murdoch, everyone talks about Adam, but Ross put in a great performance, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
I would like to see both of them on the podium, and I think they will | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
both boast some really fast times. Is it fair to say that Ross has | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
sometimes triumphed when he is not the favourite? We saw that in the | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Commonwealth Games. Let's see what happens in the men's 100 metres | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
breaststroke. COMMENTATOR: The final of the men's | :05:46. | :05:58. | |
100 metres breast row, and in four and five, the fastest two qualifies, | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
the fastest British swimmers in history, Adam Peaty in four, Ross | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Murdoch in five. Well, they were introduced from slowest to fastest | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
into this final, and here is Yannick Kaeser of Switzerland, his first | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
major breaststroke final. What a final it must be, to come in and | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
swim against the world champion, the defending 50 metres breast row | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
champion at the Europeans and the defending 100 metres champion. Karen | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Pickering, for these guys, really exciting to be in the same race as | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Adam Peaty. I guess, for some of those who are a bit older than him, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
it must be frustrating, seeing the youngster coming through. 26, 28 | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
years old in this race, and Peaty and Murdoch are 21 and 22. What are | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
these young guys doing?! And what about the two British guys? What are | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
they thinking, medals all times? Adam has got to be thinking about | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
times, how fast he can go at this stage in the season, how much can he | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
shake up the rest of the world, who are going to be watching him. His | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
rivals, the Australians, the Americans, they will be watching for | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the times he can post, not fully prepared. They will be looking to | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
see what he can do. They will want to stir things up. Giedrius Titenis | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
of Lithuania, well, he can certainly be in the medals, and I wonder | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
whether he could be a spoiler, the third fastest qualifier. Ross | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Murdoch qualified second fastest, brilliant Commonwealth Games, he won | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
gold there, silver at the World Championships in the 100 breast | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
rope. And Adam Peaty, the defending champion, world champion, | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Commonwealth champion and this is a stepping stone to Rio, and what a | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
great opportunity he has two said a third best time any 100 metres | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
breaststroke. He has been so consistent, looked unbeatable. To | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
walk out to a reception like that, your home country, it must feel so | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
good. He likes to smack his chest hard before he races, get himself | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
pumped up. Ross looks calm, he looks ready, exactly what he has got to | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
do, can he possibly do anything, though, to challenge Adam Peaty? | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Ross, I am Murdoch in the white hat, Adam Peaty | :08:44. | :09:00. | |
in the blue hat, the world record-holder, the | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
in the blue hat, the world European Championships. Well, a very | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
good reaction, really good reaction from Peaty in | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
good reaction, really good reaction Murdoch, but the best from Toniato | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
in two, but Peaty starting to get into his stride. The weakest part of | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
his event is the start, but as soon as he is into his stroke, look at | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
the power that he has, nobody is faster over 50 metres breaststroke, | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
and he is good at 200 as well, so he finishes strong. Andrea Toniato | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
trying to go with him, they must know it is the only chance they have | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
to get close to Peaty. He is starting to edge away. Ross Murdoch | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
has two uses 200 strength to starting to edge away. Ross Murdoch | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
back at these swimmers. He is only 0.2 off his world record split, he | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
has been doing an awful lot of training. He is swimming away from | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
Titenis, Murdoch is training. He is swimming away from | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
he get silver? training. He is swimming away from | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
wonderful gold training. He is swimming away from | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
he gets the gold, training. He is swimming away from | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
swim, gold and silver training. He is swimming away from | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Ross Murdoch, the Scottish champion, the Scottish record-holder, as just | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
stolen the silver medal inside the last 25. What a great swim for Great | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Britain, Peaty, the gold medallist, Murdoch, the silver medallist, 1-2 | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
for Great Britain. Peaty gets up on his stroke, but by the time the guts | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
to the 50 metre mark, he was a head. The underwater work, how far he was | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
ahead in those closing stages! Murdoch using that 200 strength he | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
has to finish so well. Oh, big glide from Ross. So Adam Peaty wins, a | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
time of 58.3 is right on the old world record. What | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
time of 58.3 is right on the old Unbelievable. So a unrested, | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
unshaved Adam Peaty wins the European title, 58.3, a 1- to for | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
Great Britain, brilliant swim by Ross Murdoch to get the silver. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Great to see him get progressively faster through the heats, semifinal | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
and final, absolute perfection to be doing that, such great preparation | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
for the Olympic Games. Great swim from Peaty. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Two very happy boys in the pool, and two very happy commentators, you | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
perforated my eardrums! How impressed were you by the time? | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Seriously impressive, to be posting that three months out from the | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
Olympic Games should give him an amazing amount of confidence, just | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
incredible. And for Ross as well, to get the silver medal, he really | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
showed his back end strength there. You have to look at Ross, number | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
three in the world, so for Adam to put a second and a half between him | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
and the others, his start was not the best, but it was decent, it was | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
good, and it helps when he lies a little bit more under the water. | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
Cameron van der Burgh, he is a better starter, but that is the sort | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
of time that will win the Olympics. To say hard training, I do not think | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
people will say, it is not a world record, but he is not rested, he is | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
not shaved down, he is hurting, training really hard, so to post | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
that time should give him a massive boost. We enjoyed it, let's see if | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
he did with Sharron. Many congratulations, getting faster | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
from the heats to the semifinal to the final, a hell of a message to | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
everyone in Rio. It is only half of the job, but I am still in hard | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
training, you cannot swim slowly in an arena like this with a crowd like | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
that. Amazing support, one of the best races I have ever had in terms | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
of the competition with Ross, the GB support, it is great. I know you | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
have got a relay, Imbeau-Dulac you go, then concentrate on Ross, but | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
many congratulations. That I am going to let you go. You did not | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
give up until the last stroke. Even on the last stroke, I did not give | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
up, you have to fight for every single metre, they are on your | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
shoulder the whole way, massive shout to everyone in the stands and | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
watching at home. We cannot do much without their support. There was | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
talk that you might surprise everybody, like at the Commonwealth | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Games, but he is a tough competitor. A tough guy to race, always race | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
ready, regardless of his state, but it is great for me, it means I have | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
to up my game. Breaststroke is in the best place, we are going to be | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
leaving so much of the world behind, especially in the 200. I know, I did | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
not make it to the 200, but Jamieson missed out as well, a tough job to | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
make that team! Silver medal tonight, many congratulations. Thank | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
you very much. Two British swimmers in five and | :14:07. | :14:20. | |
six, Chloe Tutton and Molly Renshaw, they have a super chance of making | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
the final. So in five is Chloe Tutton, and in six is Molly Renshaw. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
And Renshaw right on the cut off after the heats. Lau could be in | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
four, the European short-course champion. | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
Renshaw in six. What are your Chloe Tutton is having. -- what a year. | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
She was surprised to make the team and now she finds herself in the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
centre of the pool. A great chance of making it to the final. These | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
girls have some work to do. Both are pretty good at the 200 breaststroke, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
so they can finish strong. They are going to have to put some work in, | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
and build up some speed in front of their rivals. This is when they have | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
to dig deep, keeping the stroke long. They don't want to start | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
punishing the water and rushing their stroke. They have the time it | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
to perfection, the smooth and strong. Great news for the Brits, | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
because they are in great shape. Fiona Doyle of Ireland also here, up | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
in seven. In a very good position. Chloe Tutton, she gets the finish. | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
67 foot .6, a lifetime best for her. -- 60 7.6. And APB for Molly | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Renshaw. Surely they are going through to the final? They have put | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
themselves into a great position. Really writing that wave, making the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Olympic team. What an exciting summer they have a head. A good | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
start from them. But they are both youngsters, 19 and 20, but they are | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
able to carve up the first 100 and use their strength in the second 50 | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
metres to perfection. Timed it well. A bit of a stretch from Molly. Well | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
done, girls. Chloe Tutton wins, with Molly Renshaw in third, and Fiona | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Doyle in fourth. Ruta Meilutyte, the fastest | :16:42. | :16:57. | |
qualifier in to this second semifinal. Sophie Hansen goes in | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
lane two for Sweden. The 17-year-old, what a great experience | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
that would be for her. And Luthersdottir from Iceland in lane | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
three. Many people remember her swim at London, 15-year-old winning that | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
title. But since then she has had her ups and downs. Last year she | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
broke her elbow falling off a bike on the way to morning training and | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
it has taken three months to come back with that. It would have broken | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
a lot of athletes. The boring rehab. But if anything she has come back | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
tougher and stronger, and more determined. That impresses me, when | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
people can come back. And look at that, she is a strong swimmer. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Cheers. And we were talking to coach just before the race. She has only | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
really come for this. Two days, just before the race. She has only | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
then she's going back to Plymouth. She looks very strong. The Olympic | :18:09. | :18:36. | |
champion in four, Ruta Meilutyte. And a great start. If you stop the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
race there, she has probably already won by 0.3 seconds. Men and women, I | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
do not know anyone who starts better than Ruta Meilutyte. She does not | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
give away any advantage. A great stroke rates, quicker than we saw in | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
the heats this morning, 30.8 at the halfway mark. That is fast swimming. | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
But she makes it look easy, even though underwater she will be | :19:17. | :19:17. | |
working so hard. And she is a full though underwater she will be | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
second faster than she was in the heats this morning, going out | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
comfortable. But look at this, she has been working in the gym very | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
hard. When her elbow was broken, she has been working in the gym very | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
was tying up a little bit of that early speed. The target was 66 flat. | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
66.16 is very good indeed. And I wonder whether tomorrow | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
66.16 is very good indeed. And I final she will break 66. Wouldn't | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
that be something special? A new championship record. That would be | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
impressive. So fast. A good reaction and so powerful underwater. Already | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
impressive. So fast. A good reaction taking her first stroke underwater | :20:05. | :20:04. | |
while some of the other taking her first stroke underwater | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
still gliding. But what a stretch. taking her first stroke underwater | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Maybe a 10th of a second just on taking her first stroke underwater | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
training, the middle of posh training, a good swim. Bosch | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
training is working well at the European Championships. Ruta | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Meilutyte winning the second semifinal. A new championship | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
record. The rest of the field a full second behind. And I'm delighted to | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
tell you that Sharron Davies is now talking to the British sensations, | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
Chloe and Molly. Ladies, many congratulations. Fantastic. First | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
and third in that race. You are inspired by watching the guys? | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Definitely. Adam Peaty is a massive inspiration. He has done this | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
before. It was just a good push. Chloe, this is kind of the first | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
major international for you. It was a big learning curve. Yes, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
completely new to me but I am loving it. I'm taking it in my stride. And | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
a big PB this year, where can you go next? Word you see yourself going | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
this summer? Just getting better, hopefully. -- where do you see | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
yourself. Molly, lovely to see yourself here. Showing why you | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
should be here. Yes, that was a big PB for me. I did not expect to | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
swimmer that well here, because we have just been back in the pool for | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
four weeks. But this is showing that it is working. And it is great to | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
have such depth in the breast drug field. Yes, since this year, we have | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
been a bit behind, but now that Chloe has come through, we have to | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
strong breaststroke is. Great swimming from both Chloe and Molly. | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Their favourite event later in the week. But now it is time to turn our | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
attention to the men's 200-metre medley. | :22:17. | :22:30. | |
Max Litchfield from Great Britain going in six. He has a chance of | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
making this final. He really needs to put in a very big semifinal. Now | :22:37. | :22:54. | |
Laszlo Che, the fastest qualifier. -- Laszlo Cseh. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
The first semifinal of the men's 200 metres individual medley. Max | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Litchfield of Great Britain in six, in the blue hat. In the centre, the | :23:08. | :23:27. | |
Greek, certainly the star, Andreas Vazaios. Certainly, to be a world | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
class 200-metre medley star, you cannot have a weak stroke. You will | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
be exposed. They need to iron out their weaknesses. But it is also | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
about making sure that whatever stroke is your weakness does not | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
cost you too much if you are working too hard. You cannot put too much | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
effort into it, so it leaves you with nothing left on your other | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
legs. It is about efficiency. But what a lead. 1.62 behind Andreas | :23:59. | :24:11. | |
Venizelos is Max Litchfield. -- Tampax. Raphael Stacchiotti of | :24:12. | :24:24. | |
Luxembourg just behind him. Litchfield, sandwiched between | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
Stacchiotti and Benjamin Gratz. He really did some damage in the heats. | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Almost a relief to get onto the medley. The Greek, better from the | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
start. An excellent backstroke. And look at this brief -- look at this | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
freestyle. He just takes the outside. Finishing well. Max | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Litchfield, finishing in fourth. A dangerous place to finish. But a | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
very good finish. 2.86 for him. But a really good swim from Vazaios. An | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
exceptional swimmer from him. But Litchfield, left a little on the | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
blocks. Not the best reaction from him. But Vazaios was superb. In a | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
different class, in a different race, really. Finishing comfortable, | :25:30. | :25:39. | |
just a stretch into the wall. Not too much effort in the closing | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
stages. The Greeks are having a great meet here. He wins the first | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
semifinal. Max Litchfield has a chance of making the final with | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
that. Great Britain's Dan Wallace is going | :25:54. | :26:05. | |
in lane two, the Commonwealth champion in the 400 medley. But he | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
has work to do if he is going to make it to the final. Interesting, | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
Dan Wallace has been selected for the British team as one of seven | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
freestyle swimmers. I think it was also reflective of the wild card. He | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
is the Commonwealth champion. And he has been World Champion as part of | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
that relay. But he had a pure trials. And he will want to put that | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
right. -- poor trials. I'm not sure why he did not go right at the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
trials. He is wearing a nose clip? Who wears those these days? I found | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
it easier for backstroke. You don't have to worry about water going up | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
your nose. The backstroke, they spend so much time underwater, it is | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
just a little bit easier to hold your breath. Some of the swimmers | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
are able to plug their nose with their top lip. You will sit and try | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
that now. It is not a good look! I am very glad the camera was not on | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
us at that point! Stick your lips out, stick your top lip as far up to | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
your nose as you possibly can. And then you breathe them. Don't breathe | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
them, you will get water up your nose. Dan Wallace does not wear a | :27:47. | :27:58. | |
nose clip. I would love to see him really work this first 100 metres. | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
His butterfly is not bad at all but his backstroke is weaker. The | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
His butterfly is not bad at all but semifinal, the second, the men's | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
200-metre individual medley. A fantastic facility, this pool in | :28:22. | :28:31. | |
Stratford. And Dan has so much to prove now, after delivering at | :28:32. | :28:42. | |
trials. This season, beginning just five weeks ago, he showed so much | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
promise in 2014, winning the Commonwealth Games. And last year as | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
well, a good world championship. But he did not really get it right. He | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
will be keen to put things straight. he did not really get it right. He | :28:59. | :29:10. | |
place in the final would be good for Dan, getting back into racing. At | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
the moment, a little down on the pace. Good breaststroke, good | :29:17. | :29:17. | |
freestyle, so now it is chance. pace. Good breaststroke, good | :29:18. | :29:27. | |
now is his chance. It is a pricing and much you can sense and see when | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
you are swimming. -- it is surprising how much you can sense. | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
Wallace is based here. Two from the surprising how much you can sense. | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
next to him, the Portuguese swimmer. surprising how much you can sense. | :29:42. | :29:55. | |
A good 200-metre freestyle. He is watching those swimmers, | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
A good 200-metre freestyle. He is up. There is a lot of space between | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
A good 200-metre freestyle. He is him. He will want to get into this | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
final. The charges coming on from Dan Wallace. He still has a great | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
chance of the final. I think he is finished in fourth. 2.7 | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
chance of the final. I think he is reckon he will make the final. He | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
might be seven for eighth and if he is, that will be something special. | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
I think we have to Brits in the final, maybe seven. That would be | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
great. It would be great to see and the crowd will love it. Hopefully | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
one of them has not knocked the other one out. That butterfly kick | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
underwater, choosing to stay under not very long in the 200 medley. | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
How close it was in the closing stages, everyplace counts. So the | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
results of the second semifinal of the men's 200 metres medley, Dan | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
Wallace did really well. I think he is in the final, let's just check | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
and see. We should get the finalists now, here we go, look at that! Dan | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
Wallace in seventh, Max Litchfield in eighth, excellent, both in | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
tomorrow night's final. Sneaking into the final, but as you | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
guys telling me, if you have got a lane, you have got a chance. So far | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
so good for the British swimmers, Chloe Tutton and Molly Renshaw boat | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
into their final tomorrow, one gold medal already from Adam Peaty, | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
silver medal for Ross Murdoch. I don't want to jinx it, but let's | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
talk about tomorrow night, Dan Wallace and Max Litchfield, have | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
they got any chance with Laszlo Che out of it? He pulled out after | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
qualifying fastest. Max is somebody that is just at the start of his | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
career, so it is great that the pictures any final ahead of his | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
first Olympic Games. Dan is used to this. 2014 was an amazing year for | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
Dan, came fourth in the World Championships, and on form he could | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
potentially win it. He did not have the best trials, which was only | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
three or four weeks ago, but I would say he can clearly do this swim, it | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
is about doing it at the right time. You could say this is not the right | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
time, concentrate on the 200 freestyle, the relay at Rio. For | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
Max, great experience, another final, for both of them tomorrow | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
night, and the more experienced he gets, the better. As we have already | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
seen this week, people peak at different times, let's see what he | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
has to say about it, Dan Wallace is with Sharron. A topsy-turvy? Is, how | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
did you feel just a few months ago, when you are thinking, Rio is | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
coming, it did not quite happen at the trials, but now what you are | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
coming back into form. -- a topsy-turvy view months. It has been | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
emotional stuff, ups and downs, but I found my way onto the team, I | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
wanted to prove a point, I am not just a wild card. Everyone knows | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
that I'm capable of making the team and doing something good this | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
summer. Is that part of the problem of being in the American programme | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
that does not tie in with ours? Not really, I have been in America for | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
five years now, but it has worked really well for me, me who who I am | :33:46. | :33:55. | |
today. It is the communication between my coaches over the last | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
five years has been good. Well done, both of you. | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
We will have that final tomorrow night. We have mentioned two medals, | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
but not all of them. Earlier Ben Proud went in the 50 metres fly, a | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
double Commonwealth gold medal holder, can he take the European | :34:12. | :34:14. | |
title as well? Before we share the final with you, this is what he had | :34:15. | :34:26. | |
to say. Fantastic swim, first gold medal to England in the swimming | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
pool is come a two and it has come for young Ben Proud of Plymouth. At | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
the Commonwealth Games, I didn't know what to expect, just a stepping | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
stone to make the Olympics this year. And going there, doing as well | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
as I did, it was a massive relief, because my friends and family, | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
leaving them to start this new life, it made it worthwhile. You could say | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
that what we were doing was right, we were on the right path. It was | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
great to get the two golds, even better to see that what we were | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
doing was right. And we have got the Europeans, how are you going to | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
approach it? I know you are not resting. What are you looking for? | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
It is going to be a big racing week, we will spend as much time doing as | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
many races as possible, trying to get my mind fixed on being able to | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
race. And you know, the best training is racing, so we are going | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
to do the 50 fly, the 103 and 53, along with possibly some relays. -- | :35:28. | :35:39. | |
the 100 free and the 50 free. Racing everybody against Europe, it will be | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
some great competition, I am really looking forward to trying to do my | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
best. Ben Proud in the 50 butterfly, Fran | :35:45. | :35:59. | |
Halsall in the 50 butterfly as well, men's and women's races, they are | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
splash and dash, get your hands on the wall. Very good start indeed for | :36:03. | :36:11. | |
Ben Proud, great reaction, at first and very quickly is Govorov, really | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
strong, look at the speed of the turnover, head down, flat across the | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
surface, maybe ahead at the moment. Govorov of the Ukraine looks like he | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
will get the touch. The gold goes to Govorov, very close indeed for | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
silver, Ben Proud may have got the bronze medal, really tight. The gold | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
goes to Govorov of Ukraine, the silver to Laszlo Cseh, | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
goes to Govorov of Ukraine, the final he had, Ben Proud weds 23.3, | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
just final he had, Ben Proud weds 23.3, | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
Great Britain's first silver medal of day two. Superb swim, but he lost | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
that on the touch. Great start, so fast off the block, Ben Proud, great | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
reactions. You can see, in the closing stages, Govorov on the wall, | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
Laszlo Cseh just timed that a bit better and managed to snatch the | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
silver medal away from Ben Proud. Only was also of the men's 50 metres | :37:17. | :37:29. | |
butterfly final. -- so he is -- so the results. Congratulations, and | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
other bronze medal, it looked as if the timing on the war was not quite | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
right. That is made with 50 fly, good time, but I knew I was not | :37:40. | :37:49. | |
right at 45 metres. It was still a good race for me. I am still really | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
happy with that. Your 50 free has been in really great shape, it must | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
give you great confidence going into the 50 free later in the programme. | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
Definitely, it is not even at my best, I have been doing no training | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
for butterfly at all, so swimming quite close to my best is good. 50 | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
free is most of my attention, I have got a couple of days to freshen up, | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
hopefully by Saturday I will be ready. Congratulations, Ben Proud, | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
he was so close to the silver, that is insanely close. Can you plan for | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
that? Are their tactics to make up that kind of time? When you swim a | :38:28. | :38:35. | |
sprint event, you will know how many strokes it is, you know it is | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
probably 17 strokes it is, you know it is | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
and he will finish on a four strokes it is, you know it is | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
If you are a couple out from the strokes it is, you know it is | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
wall, you can readjust. He is not seeing the wall, only the bottom of | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
the pool. It is not hit or miss, you can make adjustments, but you train | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
so many times, the moment you go to the wall, it should | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
so many times, the moment you go to right stroke. Not an Olympic event, | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
but it bodes well. Definitely, it should give him loads of confidence. | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
Right, the final of the women's 200 metres breaststroke, a heck of a | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
schedule for Katinka Hosszu, how do metres breaststroke, a heck of a | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
they do it? I don't know! She does this all the time, she races a lot, | :39:23. | :39:24. | |
she does big programmes, this all the time, she races a lot, | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
this as part of a training session. Let's see how she gets on. | :39:29. | :39:46. | |
The fastest qualifier is Daryna Zevina of the Ukraine. So Hosszu | :39:47. | :40:01. | |
only third fastest into this, but there is a particular reason why, I | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
think. She has given herself quite a tough schedule, she had the 400 | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
medley before that semifinal, and the 400 medley, I cannot imagine | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
what it felt like to swim the 200 backstroke afterwards. And there she | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
is, she calls herself the Iron Lady, that is what she is known as. | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
Whenever she puts videos out, she talks about the | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
Whenever she puts videos out, she the forge. A real brand going for | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
her. She has said a tough schedule, all about preparing for the Olympic | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
Games, make it as tough as she can now so it is easy in Rio. Daryna | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
Zevina is the fastest qualifier, the Ukrainian, the European junior | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
champion. Now the fastest qualifier for the senior final. Well, Zevina | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
in three, the world champion at 200 medley and 400 medley, already won | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
gold in the 400 medley. Can we see past another girl for Katinka | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
Hosszu? She is the class act of the field, she is ranked six places | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
higher in the world than Daryna Zevina. Zevina looked good in the | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
semifinal, but Hosszu, well, she is rested now, isn't she?! Are supposed | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
she is, but what a tough double that was last night, 400 medley final | :41:31. | :41:38. | |
then 200 backstroke semi. The final of the women's 200 metres backstroke | :41:39. | :41:40. | |
at the European Championships. The pink suit of Daryna Zevina right | :41:41. | :41:50. | |
in the centre, the fastest qualifier. The best start from | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
Katinka Hosszu in lane three. Also a very good start up in seven, Simona | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
Baumrtova of the Czech Republic, but Katinka Hosszu started as she means | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
to continue. Not the prettiest stroke, quite bouncy in the water. | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
Some almost glide like a hovercraft over the top of the water, perfectly | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
still, though. She needs to take this race on. She has got great | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
strength in the closing stages of races. The 400 medley sees to that. | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
There is first and second, close to us is Katinka Hosszu, and look at | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
the lady in the pink suit at the bottom, she swam on this side of the | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
lane going down, she is right on that side in lane one, she is | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
probably swimming 102 metres down this first length. Let's see what | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
you does in the second 100. Sue over first, 0.8 head of Zevina and | :42:51. | :42:58. | |
second. -- Hosszu over first. Zevina did that in the semifinal herself, | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
talk about the Anjaal eating roof causing the swimmers to move a | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
little bit off centre. -- the undulating roof. It is different | :43:09. | :43:16. | |
when you are outside under the clouds, but no problem for Katinka | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
Hosszu, dead centre of the lane, not giving herself a single centimetre | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
more. Just outside the European record split. It is fast swimming | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
from Katinka, it would be great to see the championship record go, it | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
has stood since 1991 to her compatriot. Hosszu is toughing it | :43:36. | :43:43. | |
out, this will be tough for Hosszu, unrested, it is going to hurt now. | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
Zevina is coming back very strongly, I think Hosszu is going to hang on, | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
powering home. She needed another ten metres, the gold goes to Hosszu, | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
silver goes to Zevina of Ukraine, the bronze goes to Samardzic of | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
Croatia, but the last 15 metres, Zevina was coming back, Hosszu | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
smashes the water. Well, she has won European titles at a number of | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
distances, and now she adds the 200 backstroke. Her season's best as | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
well, so she is getting faster through the year. The power off the | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
start by Zevina, right out of the water, good leg strength for that. | :44:31. | :44:39. | |
Hosszu already ahead. Getting tough for her in the closing stages, | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
Zevina was coming back at her. Oh, she wanted that wall so much! | :44:44. | :44:54. | |
Katinka Hosszu is the European champion in the women's 200 metres | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
backstroke, very close behind, though, Daryna Zevina of the | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
Ukraine. We touched on Katinka Hosszu's busy | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
schedule just before that race, here is her schedule for the week. Two | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
gold medals in the bag already. They are not easy, quick events, how | :45:13. | :45:32. | |
much does a butterfly race take it out of you might that looks like one | :45:33. | :45:34. | |
of the hardest. The distance events take a lot more | :45:35. | :45:46. | |
out of you. There is a build-up, but you can remove that pretty quick. | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
With distance, it takes longer. But this is what she does. This is not | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
new to her, it is not the first time she has tried this. Very similar to | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
Hannah Miley in that way. How easy is it, and I believe we have a | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
technical glitch... Can you hear about that. How easy is it to carry | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
bad form into the Olympics? We were about that. How easy is it to carry | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
talking about how she might perform this week, but can you stay at their | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
peak? For her, I think at the moment she is swimming through this. She | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
will not be rested completely. But she will have already qualified for | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
Hungary, based on the results last year. This will be a training week | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
for her. Every metre she goes to, she performs near her mast. | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
for her. Every metre she goes to, meeting. And the way her coach and | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
team carry on, that is a spectator sport in itself. They are very | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
aggressive. Nothing wrong with a bit of passion! Last night, Fran Halsall | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
swam our second fastest of passion! Last night, Fran Halsall | :46:55. | :46:57. | |
final and she has of passion! Last night, Fran Halsall | :46:58. | :47:10. | |
the shape of Sarah Sjoestroem. Fran Halsall, still in | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
to be silver?! It is! Brilliant. Fran Halsall has certainly got more | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
in her. And at last, called for Great Britain. Gold again for Fran | :47:24. | :47:31. | |
Halsall. What a double. Fran Halsall! European champion, a | :47:32. | :47:42. | |
tremendous week. The final of the women's 50 metres | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
butterfly, Fran Halsall, the fastest qualifier in four and the world | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
record-holder is in five. A good, clean start and a fast one from lane | :47:55. | :48:04. | |
three. Bataclan Hassell has a fast turnover. Nice and flat in the | :48:05. | :48:05. | |
water. turnover. Nice and flat in the | :48:06. | :48:18. | |
working hard. Come on! It looks like may be the silver went to Otterson. | :48:19. | :48:28. | |
-- Jeff Maggert. And the bronze goes to Fran Halsall. The winner, 24 | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
point nine. And 41 hundredths back, Fran Halsall. What a great race that | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
was. Fantastic. A good start from Jeanette Otteson. Sarah Sjoestroem, | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
no breaths. She nailed the turn. Jeanette Otteson. Sarah Sjoestroem, | :48:54. | :49:02. | |
close. And there is the winner. So the World Champion defends her 50 | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
metres butterfly championship title here at the European Championships. | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
24.9, Sarah Sjoestroem. Otteson the silver and Fran Halsall, a great | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
bronze. Fantastic, another bronze medal. Yes, two tents under 25, I | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
would have been happy with that. It is a good step for the rest of the | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
week. Were you hoping to tire them out? Maybe, but those girls know | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
what they are doing. It is a good race and I really enjoyed it. It | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
shows, with butterfly, the Finnish means a lot. I had not nailed it | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
tonight. I am happy. When you watched it back, it looked as if you | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
had got it but she did not bring her hands in front. It is all about | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
nailing the finish. Last night I had the most perfect race. Tonight, the | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
finish was a bit off, but a finish is what it is. I am just happy with | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
the medal. And the lead changes all the time. What goes through your | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
head when you have the gall last? It is quite an easy job because you | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
know where you are in the race. If you are head, you can chill out down | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
the first 50. It is just about knowing the tactics of it and making | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
sure you are in a good position. Hopefully, we will be part of the | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
competition. Defend their title, well done. A proud moment for Fran | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
Halsall, receiving a bronze medal they are, another European medal. | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
She has God one heck of a medal haul. This will be her third | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
Olympics. I believe how about three Olympics, this will be the one where | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
she competes for a medal. And we can see her walking around the aquatic | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
centre now, taking in the crowd, because it is fair to say that it is | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
a loud and proud crowd. As swimmers, it must be nice to see youth groups | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
coming in, the swimming stars of the future. Yes. And I speak for both of | :51:09. | :51:19. | |
us, at the beginning of the career, you want to race in America, and you | :51:20. | :51:22. | |
like the glitz and glamour but when it came down to it, the ones that | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
mean the most are the home crowd. It is not just the friends and family, | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
but the next generation of British swimmers can come and watch and the | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
fans of swimming can come and cheer for you. In here, it is that noise, | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
it is quite deafening up there, so I do not know what it is like down | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
there. And Fran Halsall seems like the kind of person that feeds off | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
the crowd. We heard Chloe and Molly saying that earlier, they are really | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
enjoying it. When you are at so many mass of competitions, do you | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
remember to enjoy it? With a bit of distance, was it just getting the | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
job done or did you enjoy it? The older you get, you become less | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
overwhelmed of it -- with it, and you do enjoy the home crowd. | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
Especially someone like Fran, she has a big personality, and she loves | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
this sort of thing. She soaks up the atmosphere. But as you get older, | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
you appreciate it more. When you are first on the team, you are a bit | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
scared but towards the end of your career, as you grow up, you relish | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
the crowd. And we will see her a little bit later in the medley | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
relay. But now, James Guy, we have been talking a lot about him. He | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
failed to make it to the 400 metres semifinal but he has made it to the | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
200 metres semifinals. Let's see how he gets on. A first semifinal of the | :52:43. | :52:52. | |
men's 200 metres freestyle. Very interesting. Stefanovic in four. We | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
thought he was going to win that. I am delighted to be joined by Karen | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
Pickering, herself the World Champion in the 200 metres. This | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
will be a fascinating first semifinal. I will these guys | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
swimming, tactically. The 200 metre freestyle has almost become a sprint | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
event. But some of the guys will have a 400 background, like | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
Stjepanovic. But they will be strong in the closing stages. There are | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
other swimmers good at 50 and 100, and they will need to make the most | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
of their speed in the opening part. The whole race is quicker than it | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
used to be. Stjepanovic there, he is good at 400. They have to be strong, | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
but you cannot sit back too much. You cannot use too much energy. You | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
have to give yourself a chance to finish strong. Is that the tactic, | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
go out fast and comeback last? Ideally, that is the plan! That is | :54:08. | :54:16. | |
what working towards. And that is why you are the World Champion in | :54:17. | :54:19. | |
the 200 metres freestyle and I am sitting, dating. Felix back, his | :54:20. | :54:38. | |
first freestyle semifinal. -- Felix Stjepanovic. | :54:39. | :54:49. | |
Let's see how Karen's tactics pan out here. First out, fastback. The | :54:50. | :55:01. | |
first semifinal of the men's 200 metre freestyle. The favourite, | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
Stjepanovic, the defending champion in lean four. A cagey start. Only | :55:09. | :55:20. | |
Stjepanovic making a move. I did not think he took the race on and off in | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
the 400 freestyle. But six tenths of a second ahead of the field already. | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
This is the Stjepanovic we know. Six tenths ahead of 50, that is not too | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
bad! Obviously, he is listening to me. It is simple, really. He knows | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
that he does not have the strength. To give himself a chance, he needs | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
to get out ahead of the field. Stjepanovic over first. | :55:52. | :56:02. | |
Casper matches back third. -- Kacper Majchrzak third. Tying up a little | :56:03. | :56:15. | |
bit in the middle. Verschuren leading. He went down | :56:16. | :56:35. | |
like a shot, and Stjepanovic is trying to hold on. Kacper Majchrzak, | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
the Polish swimmer, on the lane trying to hold on. Kacper Majchrzak, | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
line, trying to get the drag out of Stjepanovic. It looks like | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
Verschuren will get to the touch. And he does. Kacper Majchrzak | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
second, and Stjepanovic third. And the times are pretty quick. 45.8. | :56:53. | :57:03. | |
Very fast indeed. Three guys under 1.4 seven. A little surprised that | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
it was so fast. They did not look like it would passed out -- pan out | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
that way. But with Verschuren finishing so strong. Good to see | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
that way. But with Verschuren Stjepanovic taking the race on. | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
that way. But with Verschuren is what he needed to do. I think it | :57:21. | :57:21. | |
will be the same final in the is what he needed to do. I think it | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
tactics -- in the same tactics in the final. | :57:26. | :57:33. | |
tactics -- in the same tactics in almost touch together, but that is | :57:34. | :57:35. | |
how close it was. The defending champion, Stjepanovic, will be in | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
the final, I am sure. champion, Stjepanovic, will be in | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
Majchrzak of Poland in third and the rest will have to wait. | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
Majchrzak of Poland in third and the what James Guy is thinking now. | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
Three guys under 1.4 seven. 1.46 must be the target for the second | :57:54. | :58:03. | |
semifinal. The men's 200 freestyle, James Guy in lane five, the second | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
faster qualifier. But Glenn Surgeloose had a great start this | :58:10. | :58:17. | |
morning. What is James Guy, the World Champion, currently thinking? | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
Eocene quick first semifinal. He did not swimmer well at the 400, but he | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
had a good crack at the heats this morning. Good for him. He put that | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
400 experience behind him. I think he might have underestimated out of | :58:33. | :58:35. | |
that would be to get through to the final of the 400. It was a bit of a | :58:36. | :58:43. | |
wake-up call. But it is good to see that he came back strong. That 1.45, | :58:44. | :58:51. | |
it would have given him a shock. He leads the world rankings at the | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
moment, seven tenths quicker. But there is an advantage for the | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
swimmers in the semifinals, having seen what is ahead of | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
swimmers in the semifinals, having know what they have to do. Sometimes | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
it can be a bit quick. But they look focused and calm. Beasley, they have | :59:08. | :59:13. | |
not shaved. They might put proper trunks on today. Very brave to swim | :59:14. | :59:21. | |
with that skimpy bathing suit in the 400. But he put that right this | :59:22. | :59:31. | |
morning. His freestyle looks very good indeed. It is fair to say that | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
he is completely un-arrested. A lot of the big guys are. Interesting to | :59:38. | :59:40. | |
see that they are not arrested at all, and they just have to fight to | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
make sure they do a professional job. You might not see the | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
difference between rested and not rested, but they certainly feel it. | :59:49. | :59:50. | |
In the closing stages, it hurts. The fastest qualifier, Surgeloose | :59:51. | :00:04. | |
there, from Belgium, in lane four, James Guy is one lane up for him. | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
The black hat for the Belgian, dark blue for James Guy in five. And Guy | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
had a very good reaction to the gun there, and a pretty good start, | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
probably Surgeloose up just about the best and the first 25 metres. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Great start from Surgeloose, already got a medal in his pocket, that has | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
got to feel good, bronze as part of the freestyle relay yesterday. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Always good when you start picking up medals early. James Guy taking | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
the race on, great to see such a talented swimmer and only 20 years | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
old. Not a lot of experience yet, even though he is the reigning world | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
champion. Every meet he does, he will be learning, using it to his | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
advantage. When he comes up against older swimmers in the summer, he | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
will be learning from everything he does. This is what we like to see, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
gutsy swim from James Guy. See has worked very hard than the first 100 | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
metres, he turns first, but Surgeloose saw him about ten metres | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
down into that, and we saw him start Surgeloose saw him about ten metres | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
to work hard. Still James Guy working it well, and if he can keep | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
this up, with 50 metres to go at this turn, he has a great chance of | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
getting a centre lane for this final. Much more impressive at the | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
moment, 50 to go. Good turn for Surgeloose, but the crowd will help | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
James Guy, because he will be feeling it. When you are not as | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
rested as you can be at a major championship, it really starts to | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
hurt. The first tab will be harder than normal, but this is about guts | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
and determination. Much better from James Guy, really fighting down this | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
last term. He is back, he wins the second semifinal of the men's 200 | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
metres freestyle, his time is quick, not quite as fast as the first semi, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
but he will have a centre lane into the final tomorrow evening. We took | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
on a big guy in Glenn Surgeloose, interesting tactics, very fast down | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
the first 50 and 100. It had to be done, he got away well and took the | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
race on. In this situation, no point sitting back and waiting, you need | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
is to attack the race. Surgeloose gave of a challenge, but Jolie | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
enough to take second place in that second semifinal. -- but only | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
enough. James Guy wins the second semifinal, Surgeloose is second. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Andrea Dorigo of Italy is third. I'm pretty sure James Guy will have one | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
of the three centre lanes, he is third fastest into the final. There | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
we go, Sebastiaan Verschuren was fastest. Surgeloose is fourth, what | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
a final that is going to be, goodness me! | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
I think we all can breathe a collective sigh of relief, because | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
nobody wants to see anyone fall short of their potential. We talked | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
a lot about what happened yesterday, he had something to prove. I felt | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
for him in that last 100, because I know what it is like, in really hard | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
training, the second 100 hertz, pure pain. When you are not rested, it | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
does not come easy, he just wanted to prove that he's taking it | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
seriously, he's a world-class athlete, that is what he wanted to | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
prove. He is with Sharron now. James, a better swim, Becky Watts a | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
new wanted to prove that yesterday was a glitch. Programme -- but he | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
saying you wanted. Yes, back to the old James Guy, nice to have the home | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
crowd. The shaving down, tell us about that, what it does to you, to | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
your head and physically, what is it worth to you? It is hard, a lot of | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
guys say they shave down, look at their head and body, it is hard, | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
because I want to race fast, but when you are shaved down, it makes a | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
huge difference, I think. Third in the final, in the middle, it will be | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
a close race. Yes, Sebastiaan Verschuren was very quick, but I | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
will try my best. So far tonight, Adam Peaty has a | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
gold medal, Ross Murdoch has a silver, talk us through this | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
glorious moment. Glorious it is, and on the | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
right-hand side of that shot, Giedrius Titenis has got his bronze | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
medal already. Great Britain's Ross Murdoch wins the silver in the men's | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
100 metres breaststroke at the European Championships. Commonwealth | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
champion at 200 breaststroke, World Championship runs last year, one | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
better now, silver medal at the Europeans. A wave to the camera. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Looking forward to seeing what he can do in Rio. Great swim from Ross, | :05:32. | :05:43. | |
he knows Adam will go out like a train, he just has to try to close | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
down in the second half of the race. He has to be calm about it, and he | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
did just that today. Well, the Commonwealth champion, the world | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
champion, he has just successfully defended his European Championship | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
title. He is the world record-holder. And in two and a half | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
months' time, I wonder if he will complete the set and become Olympic | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
champion. This has been all about a stepping stone to Rio, he said. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Well, that victory may well be a small step to the fastest | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
breaststroke in history, a giant leap on his road to Rio. European | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
champion Ross Murdoch. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :06:26. | :07:26. | |
Well, he is a new British superstar, and in Britain, where this event | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
really has been right at the top of our nation's history, he is the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
fastest man ever, the fastest breast stroke in history. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
fastest man ever, the fastest breast Look at that, Adam Peaty gets the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
gold, Murdoch the silver, 1-2 for Great Britain, wonder., both | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
unrested, and not far to the Olympics. -- wonderful stuff. Great | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
times for British swimming, a lot of swimmers around the world will be | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
looking at that and be a little bit worried. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
looking at that and be a little bit as well, he has done a lot of weight | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
training, much stronger than he was last year. Such a lovely bloke, so | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
calm, so nice, so pleasant. When you meet him like that, he does not seem | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
to have the fire and meet him like that, he does not seem | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
a lot of real champions have, but my goodness me, in the pool you would | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
not mess with him. They say you have got to watch the quiet ones! It is | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
great to see two Brits picking up the medals, what do feel about the | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
electronic flag going up? Indeed! I suspect I love those people | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
hustling him are not asking for his autograph, they are trying to work | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
out how quickly they can get him back into the changing rooms, he has | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
got a relay just around the corner. That is incredible, so lovely, his | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
mum and grandma are sitting right next to us, she is filming it an | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
iPad! The BBC will send you the footage! Adam and Ross, credits to | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Ross as well, he is often pushed to the side because of what an amazing | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
athlete Adam is, but Ross swam an incredible race as well. Such a | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
strength in depth in that event, we have had over the years, look back | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
to that, and we have now got a history with BT, Murdoch, Jamieson. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
You kind of forget that Murdoch, that is a wonderful opportunity to | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
have two guys on the rostrum, and we have not had that since you add Joe | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Jackson! It did not happen away before then. Last year was a very | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
successful year, the World Championships were brilliant. In the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
4x100m mixed medley relay, Great Britain are world champions. It was | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
great for us to watch, great for spectators, a bit of a surprise. It | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
is a bit of a strange one, having two men and two women, you can swim | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
anywhere you want, you don't have to stick to a particular order. We have | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Fran | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Halsall. Tonight will be tough, Walker-Hebborn did not have a great | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
200 metres backstroke, Adam Peaty will be tired, Fran Halsall has not | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
been doing 100s. How will they be feeling? They have already been on | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
the podium tonight, will they be buzzing already for a lie down? It | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
is kind of mixed, isn't it? You walk home exhausted, but the adrenaline | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
will still be flowing. Adam had a great swim, he will still be | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
buzzing. He will be tired in the last 50 metres. Brown may be tired, | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
but they will have another in the bag. It is relay time! | :10:58. | :11:12. | |
Great Britain going in lane four, the fastest qualifier in this | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
morning's heats. And team Sweden are next to team Italy, but we have a | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
fantastic team. So Great Britain start off with Chris Walker-Hebborn | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
on the backstroke, Adam Peaty on the breaststroke, Shelbourne Marie | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
O'Connor on flight, Fran Halsall on freestyle. -- Siobhan-Marie | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
O'Connor. You can put a man and woman on any leg that you want, | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
fascinating tactics. If you want to win, you have to go, man, man, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
woman, woman, it just works out quicker to have them going first, in | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
terms of the best times, if you have got the option, of course. If you | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
have got the choice, you start with the men, because the difference | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
between men and women is bigger. You have to lead off with two guys, | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
finish with the two girls. It is very difficult to swim behind the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
waves, even if you have very good swimmers. We had Georgia Davies on | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
the backstroke leg this morning in aids, she swam very well, pretty | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
much 60 flat, but if she was at the gains the really big guys who do it | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
in 54 or 55, five seconds behind, swimming through, like behind a | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
pleasure boat! You can end up getting washed up on the side of the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
pool if you are not careful. Only Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, are those | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
four, swam in the heats this morning. The others were arrested, | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty concentrating on their individuals. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
They still managed to qualify fastest, the world record-holder is. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
I was not sure about this event when it was first being put under the | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
programme, I thought just another swim, but seeing as we are so good | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
at it, I quite like it now! Yes! I have to say, the jury is still out a | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
tiny bit for me, it is interesting. So it is not on the Olympic | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
programme, but it is certainly at the World Championships, and we are | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
the waning world champions and world record holders. -- the reigning. So | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
six out of the 17th choosing to start with the men. Right at the | :13:42. | :13:53. | |
bottom, the Moldovans have sent off Salcutan. That is tough, and you | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
will see why they put the men out first, look at that, that is only 15 | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
metres in, and the guise of swimming afterwards, it is like swimming | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
behind a bus, it is very difficult indeed! -- the guys. Chris | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
Walker-Hebborn in the dark blue hat has had a decent start. Not a great | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
swim in the individual, he will want to make amends as part of the team, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
not just letting yourself down but thinking of your team-mates. He will | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
know he has got some superb swimmers to come, you have to give | :14:31. | :14:31. | |
everything, it will be tough, it will hurt in the closing stages. | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
Adam Peaty comes next. He is doing well, because Simone | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Adam Peaty comes next. He is doing leading, Walker-Hebborn did not make | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
the final, but a very good swim from him. Adam Peaty goes in, and surely | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
we will have the lead after the halfway mark, the world champion, | :14:56. | :14:56. | |
the defending champion of the 100 halfway mark, the world champion, | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
fantastic! Well, of course, Italy halfway mark, the world champion, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
have got one of the women swimming their breaststroke leg, a real | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
disadvantage, but what a difference Adam Peaty has made in just 50 | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
metres. I mean, he must be feeling it after that fantastic European | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
title, only just won that, this is almost like a training session, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
getting back into do another fast swim. Look at the great on his face, | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
gritting his teeth, he wants it! Absolutely powering away. Chris | :15:30. | :15:42. | |
Walker-Hebborn headed off. And now we are going to have Siobhan-Marie | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
O'Connor. It was quite tight, the handover. Great Britain first, with | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Hungary second, Sweden third. Fourth, at the moment, down in lane | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
Hungary second, Sweden third. there is a man chasing Siobhan-Marie | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
O'Connor in five as the Italians are chasing. But | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
O'Connor in five as the Italians are behind. A lot of work to do when you | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
dive in and you see someone 50 metres ahead. But Siobhan-Marie | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
O'Connor, on her own in the middle. She did so well this morning to get | :16:21. | :16:21. | |
the team through to the finals. She did so well this morning to get | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Really, she is being chased by the She did so well this morning to get | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Italian. She is going to have a fantastic finish but | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Italian. She is going to have a hold on, going into the water will | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
be Fran Halsall, of course. She needs to get every opportunity. The | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
final leg of this mixed relay. Fran needs to get every opportunity. The | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
Britain. And she is being chased by Pellegrini from Italy. Surely she | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
cannot catch up this much? And our World Champion team, Pellegrini is | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
absolutely flying. She absolutely loves a relay. She loves the chase. | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
An absolutely loves a relay. She loves the chase. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
relay swimmer. Fran is a sprinter. She is going to be hurting. She has | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
got to dig deep and hang on. Pellegrini will be sensing her, | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
chasing her down. Fran Halsall won a medal on the 50 metres butterfly. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
But Pellegrini is not giving up. Great Britain will win their second | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
gold medal of this Championships, and it is golden for team Great | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
Britain. Chris Walker-Hebborn started with the backstroke and then | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
it was Adam Peaty, who already has two gold medals, then Siobhan-Marie | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
O'Connor O'Connor and bringing it home and fantastic style, Fran | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
Halsall. Superb from Great Britain. Strong stuff. Fran is a superb on | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the anchor leg. She loves a relay. Talk about Pellegrini liking the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
thrill of that chase, but honestly, who was going to get past Fran? Have | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
you changed your mind a little bit on how much fun the next medley | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
relay is? -- next medley. Well done, they are the world champions and now | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
the European champions. And you cannot underestimate the power of | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
getting medals in relays. Four swimmers going back to their hotel | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
as European champions. It has an impact. It is so important to team | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
spirit. They will be having fun together. It is not just about | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
individuals, it is good fun, a relay. It certainly is. They have | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
not quite made the score board official. A few nervous swimmers | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
around. But you can see the guys looking down at the other end of the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
pool. Just waiting to see. They need to put it in. And the crowd, a tiny | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
bit nervous also. This could be interesting. I hope there is nothing | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
too tight on the changeovers. Well, we can see on our computer that | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
there is nothing wrong with the British times, as far as we can see. | :19:39. | :19:50. | |
The second one, zero .2 six. Adam Peters -- Adam Peaty's handover was | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
good. Fran Halsall, 0.3 four. And I think we will have a | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
disqualification. I'm not quite sure why. The handover times looked all | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
right. But the time between touching the wall and the toes of the next | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
swimmer leaving the block. I can tell you that Norway have been | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
disqualified. The results in the final race of the second day of the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
European Championships, 2016, Great Britain win their second gold medal | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
in the 4x100 next medley relay. The goals to Britain Musselburgh to | :20:34. | :20:46. | |
Italy. Bronze to Hungary. Take a bow, of four. The crowd came and | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
they delivered. It is a relatively new event and that is currently a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
crowd pleaser. And they were so far ahead, they were going to win this | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
event on paper. But they all put in solid performances. A good time from | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Chris, a solid time from Adam. Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, it was nice | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
to see her get in the plural because we have not seen her race yet. And | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Fran says she is not good at the freestyle but that was a great time. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Do the hundred! We love that event. It has only been raced three times. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Twice at the Europeans, twice at the World Championships. And lead | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
changes so much that it is exciting to watch, especially for crowd. We | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
love it because we are good at it as well! Before the race we spoke about | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Adam, how he had just won a gold medal and had to get straight back | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
in the pool. Would he be buzzing or tired? I think it was fair to say | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
that he loved it. He would have been tired towards the end. But it is | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
going to be tiring. He is only human. But the time was 0.5 slower | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
than he had just done. But it doesn't matter. It is about the | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
race. He was not going about a time. As long as he did the job for the | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
team, job done. Let's look back at it. The final of the men's 100 | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
metres backstroke and this is wide open. Some great juniors, five | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
former European junior champions in this. The fastest qualifier, | :22:26. | :22:39. | |
Christou of Greece, in four but it will be interesting to see what | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
happens in six. The 31-year-old, can that carry him through? Maybe the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
youngsters are better prepared for this event. Just giving it | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
everything they have got at the moment. What a turn. Coming out | :22:57. | :23:12. | |
ahead of the field, Christou. And at the moment, it is Lacourt. Heavy | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
training. The Russian coming back in lane five. Is he going to get the | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
touch? Did he win its? He did, but he stuck in an extra armour when he | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
did not need to. Apparently he did not dive, he put in an extra move. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
He is about six foot nine, you would think he would just have reached for | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
the wall. He is delighted with that swim. That is experienced that | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
carried him through. And here we see that beautiful underwater work that | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
the backstroke swimmers have. Breaking the surface into that turn. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
Lacourt, again, supreme of the wall. He went in together, but came out | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
ahead. In the closing stages, he was feeling there. And it was the | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
youngster getting that finished right, him. The result of the men's | :24:09. | :24:20. | |
100 metre backstroke, Camille Lacourt becomes a champion. The | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
silver for Tarasevich. Turning our attention to the semifinal of the | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
women's 100 metre freestyle. A very competitive field of this one. The | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
first semifinal, the swimmer from Holland was fastest. No surprises | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
there. And in the second semifinal, it was the Olympic champion who | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
touched the wall first, closely it was the Olympic champion who | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
followed by Sarah Sjoestroem of Sweden. | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
So and we will see that tomorrow night. | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
It has been a very successful might for Britain in the pool. At the | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
moment we are seeing Katinka Hosszu collect her 10th individual European | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
title. Congratulations to her and we will see her in the pool quite a few | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
more times later in the week. She loves being on telly, that women! | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
Congratulations to the British swimmers. Tonight. Five medals, that | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
is a great night. Last night, Hannah Miley did a great job, but five | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
tonight, hopefully that will set up the team to build on this momentum. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Maybe tomorrow we will get six! And at the moment Britain is sitting at | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
the top of the medal table. Two gold, two bronze, two silver. We did | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
enjoy the relay. We were saying the same thing at Berlin. The first time | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
we topped the medal table. We went in with a strong lead. Olympic | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
swimmers, the Olympic Games, they are stepping up against the best | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
that Europe have to offer and still delivering. Very exciting. The relay | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
was very exciting. And Becky has teamed us up nicely for a night of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
swimming tomorrow. She is wanting six medals! | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
swimming tomorrow. She is wanting From six o'clock we have | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
swimming tomorrow. She is wanting men's 1500 metres freestyle, the | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
women's 200 metre freestyle, featuring James Guy, and the women's | :26:39. | :26:39. | |
100 metre featuring Chloe featuring James Guy, and the women's | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
Molly Renshaw, both going into the final with PBs. What are you looking | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
forward to particularly tomorrow night? It has got to be James Guy. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
He has been the talk of the past two days. Hopefully he will be able to | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
pick up a medal tomorrow night. He probably should have got that in the | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
400 as well. We have been watching his dad all evening, going like | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
this! It is so hard, I feel like going up to him and giving him a hug | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
and saying, it is just the semifinal, you're OK. Plenty to | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
celebrate. If you want to see the full medal ceremony of the mixed | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
medley 4x100, you can do on the BBC sport website. Finally, Adam Peaty | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
will be able to sit down and have a rest! Thank you for your company | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
this evening. If you want to join us tomorrow night, we are on your | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
television from 6:30pm on BBC Two but you will not miss a race if you | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
press the red button at 6pm. So they two of the swimming, successful all | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
around. Thank you very much for your company and hopefully we will have | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
you with us tomorrow. Becky and Mark will be with us again, and they will | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
be with us all week. The rest of the week is shaping up to be pretty | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
exciting, isn't it? Who else are you looking forward to seeing? I am | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
looking forward to the distance races, so Jazz Carlin in the 800 | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
metres, I am looking forward to that. And Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
who we have seen tonight getting a gold medal in the relay, I looking | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
forward to her 200-metre individual medley. We're joking about the fact | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
that we are watching the friends and family who look so nervous and | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
anxious, and hopefully they will be able to enjoy themselves as the week | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
goes on and they should certainly look back on the night as a very | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
successful evening in the pool. | :28:32. | :28:36. |