Day 2 - Morning Session

:01:07. > :01:26.That is an automatic qualification. A fairly decent start. Decent

:01:27. > :01:38.start. Chambers does the necessary. A magnificent race. Jo Pavey, 40

:01:39. > :01:50.years of age. A glorious, glorious run for Jo Pavey. Her whole career

:01:51. > :01:58.has been about this moment. It is cold and wet and miserable but

:01:59. > :02:02.nothing can deal the feeling we are feeling after seeing Jo Pavey win

:02:03. > :02:06.last night. She is all over the front and back pages will stop quite

:02:07. > :02:13.a stunning performance and we will talk about that later on. It is day

:02:14. > :02:18.two of the European Championships. We are going to head straight out to

:02:19. > :02:28.the track for the men's the capital on getting underway. -- the men's

:02:29. > :02:36.decathlon. Andrew Cotter can give us the overnight scores. The first

:02:37. > :02:41.thing you can see is that they have been cleaning out a little bit of

:02:42. > :02:52.moisture to 20 blocks and the first hurdle. And the first hurdle.

:02:53. > :03:01.Moment. -- nothing much to see at the moment. The mascot did a good

:03:02. > :03:07.long jump yesterday. Three metres and the pole vault as well! You are

:03:08. > :03:15.overlooking the fact that there could be more than one person in

:03:16. > :03:20.there. More importantly, decathlon standings after the first day on it

:03:21. > :03:26.was quite interesting. Kazmirek just out in front.

:03:27. > :03:47.Krauchanka took a huge leap. Hugely impressive and a ten year personal

:03:48. > :03:50.best for Kazmirek. The high jump has great prospects in the individual

:03:51. > :03:59.advance and they will be excited about testing this service. Freimuth

:04:00. > :04:06.has been disappointing, down on his best and most events. Kevin Mayer is

:04:07. > :04:15.going well. You will have to go out little bit further down to find

:04:16. > :04:22.Ashley brightens. -- Bryant. In Glasgow, he was fourth, so he is

:04:23. > :04:26.down. We knew he might struggle a little bit after the Commonwealth

:04:27. > :04:36.Games and his efforts there. The men to look out for in these heats is

:04:37. > :04:51.Krauchanka oh. He is lighting -- Krauchanka. He is going in laid five

:04:52. > :05:07.and is running, he was disappointing in the 400. He is not doing too

:05:08. > :05:16.badly here. The time it is pretty good, a personal best. That would

:05:17. > :05:27.give him a bit of a boost going into the second day. Krauchanka, should

:05:28. > :05:38.he perform to his very best, Willow window decathlon. In -- will win

:05:39. > :05:43.this the. He is getting away from the lower marks. The best athletes

:05:44. > :05:46.in the decathlon are in the third heat, but Krauchanka, for the

:05:47. > :05:53.moment, we'll go back into the lead, and that lead held overnight,

:05:54. > :06:00.Kazmirek of Germany. That is encouraging for him. At the start of

:06:01. > :06:06.the race he was in good position courtesy of a good shots but and

:06:07. > :06:31.high jump. His running have not been good, but that was good for him. --

:06:32. > :06:37.a good shot. Amy Child -- Child will start her campaign in the 400 metre

:06:38. > :06:46.hurdles. More hurdles a bit higher. Andy Turner and Lawrence Clarke

:06:47. > :06:51.representing Great Britain. And Lindsay Sharp is back on track as

:06:52. > :06:58.the defending European champion after that Regulus silver and the

:06:59. > :07:14.Commonwealth Games -- miraculous silver in the Commonwealth Games.

:07:15. > :07:21.Watch out for Protsenko. The decathlon continues. Allyson

:07:22. > :07:29.Leonard, Lindsay Sharp and Jessica Judd. Lots to look forward to. You

:07:30. > :07:40.are looking forward to the hurdles. Yes. A cracking indoor season 41

:07:41. > :07:45.athletes, he did not take the title but he should have, -- for one of

:07:46. > :07:52.the athletes. We know you can perform but can he deliver under

:07:53. > :07:58.pressure? What about Charmin? It would be the most frustrating thing

:07:59. > :08:02.for him to know that he almost had it and it cost him by clipping a the

:08:03. > :08:04.eighth hurdles. He has to come and see what he can do. This is a bit

:08:05. > :08:20.tougher as a title to win. I think a goal is slightly out of

:08:21. > :08:31.his reach. An amazing performance by Lindsay Sharp but you wonder if she

:08:32. > :08:34.has anything else left in her legs. The euphoria of coming out and back

:08:35. > :08:42.down again trying to get ready for another championships. I think she

:08:43. > :08:45.is in very good shape. Jessica Judd is coming here a bit brash with a

:08:46. > :08:52.bit more fire to go out and perform. -- fresh. There will be

:08:53. > :09:04.some tough competition for the other runners. Ashley Bryant struggled a

:09:05. > :09:08.little bit on day one. It is not easy to come and do a back-to-back

:09:09. > :09:14.decathlon, so he is battling through. He has a lot of heart, but

:09:15. > :09:21.he has got a second day to pick up his spirit. He is disappointed.

:09:22. > :09:30.Strongest gifts, amazing javelin will stop what he has to do is --

:09:31. > :09:35.javelin. He has to try and work on the technical elements and get

:09:36. > :09:41.something in these two days. You can contact as through the BBC basic

:09:42. > :09:47.page or through Twitter. These guests will answer any questions

:09:48. > :09:54.that you have. Amy Child takes to the track. In the introduction, we

:09:55. > :10:01.said she has a better chance of taking goal that she did in the

:10:02. > :10:07.Commonwealth Games. You are right. She has been the most consistent of

:10:08. > :10:10.the European hurdlers. When you come to the Championships, everything

:10:11. > :10:15.goes out the window and you have to forget everything you did before

:10:16. > :10:25.hand, because it is delivering here. It will not be easy, even though she

:10:26. > :10:33.is the favourite. We can see how she has arrived. What about the hurling

:10:34. > :10:39.of Ashley Bryant? We will be seeing that shortly. The first heat was

:10:40. > :10:45.pretty decent. I was looking at the wind speed. It is difficult, he is

:10:46. > :10:54.tired. To save these barriers when you are actually the -- absolutely

:10:55. > :10:59.exhausted... Once you are mentally down, he is behind in his best

:11:00. > :11:04.score, and he is trying to keep the morale high, so if you said mentally

:11:05. > :11:10.tough plus heavy legs, it is challenging. He was in the mix at

:11:11. > :11:20.the Commonwealth Games and that mindset changed. It is. Let's face

:11:21. > :11:24.it. He has not really been in this environment much in this career, so

:11:25. > :11:32.he is still getting rid -- used to it. He has to really test himself

:11:33. > :11:39.amongst the world's elite, so it is a good experience for him. It will

:11:40. > :11:42.stand him in good stead. The men's high jump qualification is getting

:11:43. > :11:50.underway and it promises to be one of the events of the championship.

:11:51. > :12:00.Absolutely. You have the Olympic champion, who is quite in shape, and

:12:01. > :12:06.obviously, the world champion Bondarenko. We have not got the

:12:07. > :12:13.weather to back it up over the next few days, but it still promises to

:12:14. > :12:20.be a great competition. There is a Spanish athlete called Sotomayor to

:12:21. > :12:26.hold the high jump record. Dave, it is all yours with Ashley Bryant.

:12:27. > :12:27.Good morning everybody. Just wondering how Ashley Bryant is

:12:28. > :12:39.feeling this morning. He said it his interview that it was

:12:40. > :12:54.very tiring for him. He is in lane nine. We have Van der Plaetsen and

:12:55. > :13:01.Pittomvils, as well as Lukas, Distelberger, to join Ashley Bryant.

:13:02. > :13:10.The Russian isn't not tips to get the medals. He is only -- the

:13:11. > :13:20.Russian is not tips to get the medals.

:13:21. > :13:32.Van der Plaetsen decides to try and hurdle up the first one anyway. Just

:13:33. > :13:41.in case you are not aware, in the decathlon, the fault start rule is

:13:42. > :13:47.not the same as in normal events. Normally it would be an automatic

:13:48. > :14:08.disqualification. A little wet this morning. How we got a German word

:14:09. > :14:13.for it? It is not as wet as it was earlier. It was raining quite

:14:14. > :14:17.heavily about an hour ago. The weather forecast for the rest of the

:14:18. > :14:20.week is not dissimilar to what we have this morning, so it could be

:14:21. > :14:27.difficult in some of the field events. These are not the sort of

:14:28. > :14:35.conditions these athletes would enjoy. One positive is the fact that

:14:36. > :14:58.it is pretty still. It is not that cold, to be honest. Ashley Bryant on

:14:59. > :15:12.the far side. That was Krauchanka. This of murder is contesting this.

:15:13. > :15:17.Ashley -- a big season best there. Depending on how that comes down, it

:15:18. > :15:20.might be his personal best. Good performances from the Russian.

:15:21. > :15:26.Ashley Bryant, getting his second a underway, and you could tell that he

:15:27. > :15:30.was tired at the end of day one, and there was a a lot of fire there. He

:15:31. > :15:40.was trying to talk -- talk himself up. When you are in reaching

:15:41. > :15:41.distance, it you are thinking about the medal and you are filled with

:15:42. > :15:56.energy. The event is very strong. We are

:15:57. > :16:04.unclear as to what the scores would be. He looks OK, maybe he is

:16:05. > :16:12.straining a little bit and forcing it. I struggle a bit with the

:16:13. > :16:21.fatigue, he knew he was going to do back-to-back championships.

:16:22. > :16:32.You are a tough man Steve! Thank you. Ashley Bryant really hitting

:16:33. > :16:53.that eighth hurdle pretty hard. 14.87 is his time. Xhaka Enya of

:16:54. > :17:01.with -- Chris Baker of Great Britain, going clear.

:17:02. > :17:05.Just missed out on a medal in the Commonwealth Games. Looking to

:17:06. > :17:20.settle into qualifying. A clutch of fantastic Russian high

:17:21. > :17:33.jumpers. Dmitrik, a world silver-medallist in the past.

:17:34. > :17:35.Jumping off his left leg. They were like the fact they saw a decathlete

:17:36. > :17:46.jumping two metres 22 yesterday. STUDIO: The Germans have always been

:17:47. > :17:57.good at the decathlon. COMMENTATOR: Thompson way out ahead

:17:58. > :18:21.of the rest of the field. That was an aggressive and

:18:22. > :18:34.constructive piece of pole vaulter in. -- vaulting. A very good

:18:35. > :18:43.performance indeed. Can Thompson run a personal best here? He is charging

:18:44. > :18:57.for the line. European champion, Daley Thompson for Great Britain. A

:18:58. > :19:04.richly deserved greeting from the British crowd.

:19:05. > :19:10.On a day like today and in this competition nobody will be getting

:19:11. > :19:19.close to Daley Thompson's scores and performances.

:19:20. > :19:29.The final heat in the 110-metre hurdles in the decathlon.

:19:30. > :19:41.This has most of the main metal contenders. We have already seen

:19:42. > :19:50.Krauchanka, the Belarussian. Here we have Kazmirek who leads.

:19:51. > :20:01.Sintinicolaas, the Dutchman lying in fourth. There is Kazmirek. Season's

:20:02. > :20:06.best just outside 14 seconds in the hurdles this year. Look out for him

:20:07. > :20:13.and Mayer as well. hurdles this year. Look out for him

:20:14. > :20:37.and Mayer In Lane 6. Sintinicolaas from the Netherlands in Lane 8.

:20:38. > :21:01.What a time. What a run from Abele. A championship best and he certainly

:21:02. > :21:05.is a big medal contender. He is having the decathlon of his life.

:21:06. > :21:09.The German, third overnight on the tables and that may take him up

:21:10. > :21:15.further into medal contention. Gold medal contention, I should say.

:21:16. > :21:23.Personal bests in the long jump and shot put yesterday. He started made

:21:24. > :21:32.to in superb form. -- he started the second day in superb form. Great

:21:33. > :21:39.stuff. It was deceptive because Freimuth was close to him. Freimuth

:21:40. > :21:45.was in the process of running a big personal best as well. He smashed

:21:46. > :21:50.the old championship best as well. Freimuth will move himself up a good

:21:51. > :21:54.bit from eighth place. He did not have a great first day. He might get

:21:55. > :22:00.himself into the fringes of medal contention. Abele, depending on what

:22:01. > :22:07.he does in the rest of the day, might be a gold medal contender.

:22:08. > :22:13.Kazmirek was the German who led. He was back down there in fourth place.

:22:14. > :22:15.He ran a personal best as well. Stunning running from the Germans.

:22:16. > :22:43.But most of all from Abele. back to the hijab qualifier and

:22:44. > :22:51.Britain's Chris Baker. Good work, Chris. First attempt, good to see.

:22:52. > :23:02.The only British high jumper here at the European Championships.

:23:03. > :23:11.A good start for Chris Baker. This is a good chance to look at a man

:23:12. > :23:20.who is certainly contending here, Ukhov. Does not like jumping in the

:23:21. > :23:29.rainbow, jumps in running spikes. -- does not like jumping in the rain

:23:30. > :23:37.though. His decision to jump in running spikes means he does not

:23:38. > :23:41.have spikes in the heels. Two Ukrainian Atlee to have jumped over

:23:42. > :23:57.two metres and 40. And Protsenko, the fourth man in history... But

:23:58. > :23:59.second rank in Ukraine. When you jump 2.4 2.15 should be a formality

:24:00. > :24:15.and it is. There goes the hurdles after the

:24:16. > :24:20.three heats of the 110 hurdles. What a run from Abele that was. Kazmirek

:24:21. > :24:28.just hanging onto his lead at the moment. Krauchanka slipping to

:24:29. > :24:36.third. Freimuth leaping up to fourth place. Mayer slipped down from six

:24:37. > :24:47.to eight. Ashley Bryant still found in the nether reaches in 19th place.

:24:48. > :24:49.After a belief smack -- Abele... It'll be interesting to see how they

:24:50. > :24:56.go in the latter of the day. STUDIO: More recent history now and

:24:57. > :25:17.no moustache! , Tait there goes the great Paul

:25:18. > :25:27.arrived left on her way to a famous victory.

:25:28. > :25:36.The crowd are on their feet. This is the greatest piece of distance

:25:37. > :25:42.running we have seen. Watch the clock. Paula running all the way to

:25:43. > :25:47.the line. She wins the European Championships, it is a European

:25:48. > :25:47.record. What a performance from Paula Radcliffe. Absolutely

:25:48. > :26:09.breathtaking. STUDIO: Brilliant Paula, and

:26:10. > :26:18.absolutely no moustache! It was horrible when you ran in Munich. It

:26:19. > :26:23.was horrible, and it was cold. Conditions were not ideal, they were

:26:24. > :26:31.not bad for distance running I suppose, better than for sprinting.

:26:32. > :26:37.Was it a disappointment that you did not break 30 minutes? Yes. I was

:26:38. > :26:42.trying to get under that 30 minute barrier because it is a big barrier.

:26:43. > :26:45.I could see the clock as I was running down the home straight and I

:26:46. > :26:51.could see the seconds ticking away but I just could not get there. When

:26:52. > :26:54.you stepped up to marathon, you improved all of your other distances

:26:55. > :27:03.and it has almost been the opposite apps to what we have seen from Mo

:27:04. > :27:06.Farah. He is the best in the world at five and ten. I was always

:27:07. > :27:12.lacking that finish and the speed at the end. To really contend to win at

:27:13. > :27:17.major championships over five and ten. When I stepped up to the

:27:18. > :27:21.marathon, I found that extra endurance and speed endurance helped

:27:22. > :27:24.my speed so I could run quicker from 3000 metres right up to 10,000

:27:25. > :27:29.metres on the track and I have that extra strength and confidence as

:27:30. > :27:34.well. Going to the marathon, and finding the distance that really

:27:35. > :27:37.suited me. I had more cards in my hand which gave me confidence to set

:27:38. > :27:47.down to the track and just have fun on the track. That was 2002. Let's

:27:48. > :27:48.go to last night, 10,000 metres, the final three laps, Jo Pavey going for

:27:49. > :28:21.gold and we know she got it. Two French women, two Portuguese,

:28:22. > :28:29.two Brits. Moreira leading. Traby in the dark blue. Jo Pavey sensing that

:28:30. > :28:37.now the race really starting to move as they approach 1000 metres to go.

:28:38. > :28:46.Cal fan really starts to put her foot down and starts to stretch them

:28:47. > :29:01.out. Jo Pavey in fifth place and the race really starting to go. Dulce

:29:02. > :29:05.Felix realising cal van is for real. Moreira and then Jo Pavey in

:29:06. > :29:11.magnificent fifth place and coming strongly. She has never been as

:29:12. > :29:21.close to the front as this. As she calms down, two laps to go. A

:29:22. > :29:26.magnificent position for Jo Pavey. Traby moves into fourth. Jo Pavey

:29:27. > :29:36.now in third. Moreira and Calvin ahead of her. Calvin is forcing the

:29:37. > :29:43.pace but she's not sprinting away from them. Moreira looking

:29:44. > :29:51.comfortable but so is Jo Pavey. Trying to get away from Traby, four

:29:52. > :30:01.of them well clear. Calvin just getting her head down and going

:30:02. > :30:04.again. Jo Pavey trying to hang on. Jo Pavey strikes again as she did in

:30:05. > :30:10.the Commonwealth Games. Jo Pavey getting ready to hit the front as

:30:11. > :30:14.she calms down. She knows a fast last lap is watching these to try to

:30:15. > :30:20.win this one. She prepared for this one, she got ready for this one.

:30:21. > :30:25.Moreira of Portugal in third place and Jo Pavey is running a

:30:26. > :30:31.magnificent race. Could it be another gold medal for Britain? She

:30:32. > :30:45.has to keep with the pace now. She has to keep going. Moreira looks as

:30:46. > :31:08.if she is losing it. What a magnificent run from Jo Pavey. 240

:31:09. > :31:13.metres to go. Jo Pavey, 40 years of age, no-one has ever won a gold

:31:14. > :31:29.medal at the European Championships at that age. Is it this time? The

:31:30. > :31:33.arms are going. , on, Jo Pavey! This is it. Her whole career has been

:31:34. > :31:43.about this moment. It is golden for Jo Pavey. She is the champion. Jo

:31:44. > :31:50.Pavey has finally come of age at the age of 40. She brought our dreams

:31:51. > :31:59.alive. That was absolutely fantastic. We are all thrilled for

:32:00. > :32:07.you, it must be such a delight to win this medal. I am surprised in a

:32:08. > :32:15.way, because I was thinking, is this the wrong event? It felt so long.

:32:16. > :32:24.Thank you to everyone who supported me. Mum, dad, my children, my

:32:25. > :32:29.brothers. They can believe it. I am speechless -- speechless, really.

:32:30. > :32:38.How special was it for you to share that moment? The stadium has got

:32:39. > :32:42.stuff around it and Emily gets really scared. My mother can take

:32:43. > :32:46.her out but we thought we could gamble it and it is emotional

:32:47. > :32:50.because this is the first time she has seen me in a major

:32:51. > :32:56.championships, and the seeing my little boy again, obviously. You

:32:57. > :32:59.were bunched together for a long time and you were on the outside for

:33:00. > :33:11.a long time. Did you ever think it would be going the trucker gets

:33:12. > :33:18.going? -- get going? I got in a bit of a rut. But it felt like a really

:33:19. > :33:23.long way. But maybe I had chosen the wrong event. We went house was quite

:33:24. > :33:28.a long way away as well. I a long way away as well. But I just

:33:29. > :33:37.thrilled, I cannot believe it. The last lap was amazing. Did you sense

:33:38. > :33:41.at any moment that you had it? I tried to do a controlled last lap

:33:42. > :33:46.because I did not want to blow up on the home straight, and when they got

:33:47. > :33:51.there, I did not know how close the other girls were, and you cannot

:33:52. > :33:56.regret anything. I just tried to judge it because I did feel quite

:33:57. > :34:00.tired because it is such a long way, so I just gave it everything at the

:34:01. > :34:04.ends. After all of the medals that you have one and all of your great

:34:05. > :34:10.performances, it was always that elusive old battle, and today you

:34:11. > :34:15.have done it. It is quite -- gold medal, and today you have done it.

:34:16. > :34:20.It is quite funny. Be a good 40, I should have learned a -- being 40, I

:34:21. > :34:31.should have learned a few things a long time ago? Thank you everyone

:34:32. > :34:34.for the support. Well done. Cheers. The cattle grid I had installed this

:34:35. > :34:46.morning did not work. There is Jo Pavey with her gold medal. A few

:34:47. > :34:49.tweets coming in. Superman says, Joe Avie has proved that age is just a

:34:50. > :35:00.number and motherhood is just the beginning. Do you agree with that?

:35:01. > :35:05.Very true. The trucker Jo Pavey. -- Jo Pavey. You come out stronger and

:35:06. > :35:17.with more endurance. She is in and endurance event. Dinamo Smothers

:35:18. > :35:24.after the school run look exhausted -- I know as some of mothers,

:35:25. > :35:28.afterschool, they look exhausted. It is the attitude of mind and having

:35:29. > :35:34.the support around you to make sure that you are able to train

:35:35. > :35:38.properly. The childcare in place. You can do your job. You are

:35:39. > :35:42.actually a very good at structuring the day, and as long as you have

:35:43. > :35:51.that support, anything is possible. The Queen and recognised the

:35:52. > :36:07.support. -- some other tweets with support for Jo Pavey. There are

:36:08. > :36:15.called for her to become a dame! I have always loved her. I have seen

:36:16. > :36:18.her training many times. It was fantastic to see her energy and the

:36:19. > :36:23.excitement of what she was doing. She is one of these people who loves

:36:24. > :36:28.the sport of Athletics and that is why she is still competing, because

:36:29. > :36:32.she thoroughly enjoys the event. What a wonderful moment for her and

:36:33. > :36:37.her family. This is what Athletics can give you, these special moments.

:36:38. > :36:40.When she looks at this front pages in the years to come and seize

:36:41. > :36:50.herself on the front of the newspapers, it is a realm as Alger

:36:51. > :36:55.that she will appreciate. -- it is a memory that she will appreciate. You

:36:56. > :37:08.cannot talk about her without talking about her team-mates. And

:37:09. > :37:16.you have to mention her partner, who looks after the children and make

:37:17. > :37:18.sure they behaves. Their whole life is structured around making sure

:37:19. > :37:29.that the kids are the number one priority while Jo Pavey does what

:37:30. > :37:35.she does. Another one from Ian Bradley, World Cup, Ryder Cup, what

:37:36. > :37:42.ever, that is my highlight of the sporting year, Jo Pavey. She sat

:37:43. > :37:47.back for a long time. She clearly had a plan and executed it

:37:48. > :37:52.perfectly. The 10,000 metres is a long way and you have to be

:37:53. > :37:57.patient. 25 laps to go, you do not want to look at that lap Marker

:37:58. > :38:03.until he jobs below that. She stayed comfortably out of trouble. She said

:38:04. > :38:09.she would be criticised for running whites but I think she was keeping

:38:10. > :38:14.herself out of trouble. -- running wide. All of the athletes have been

:38:15. > :38:20.told to ride in the sharp needle spikes and that is doing some damage

:38:21. > :38:27.to some of the athletes. That is something that you need to watch out

:38:28. > :38:32.for, and that is why Jo Pavey was running so wide, but she was always

:38:33. > :38:37.moving out, covering the big moves very gradually. You saw the orgies

:38:38. > :38:42.athletes pay a little -- the Portuguese athletes react a little

:38:43. > :38:48.bit because of that, and Joe just moved up really gradually, and when

:38:49. > :38:54.she made a mint, it was really decisive -- a move, it was really

:38:55. > :38:58.decisive and she was not letting anyone past her. Do you think she

:38:59. > :39:03.will run the 5,000 metres. I think she deserves the celebrations first.

:39:04. > :39:16.She will make her mind up depending on how she recovers. She did another

:39:17. > :39:20.12 and a half metres -- lapsed at the Commonwealth Games. She needs to

:39:21. > :39:28.see how her legs feel before she makes that decision. 5,000 heats

:39:29. > :39:33.have been cancelled so she can go straight to a final. Another tweet

:39:34. > :39:38.says that Jo Pavey has proven that you should never give up on your

:39:39. > :39:42.hubs and dreams. We are going to had back out to the field. Behave

:39:43. > :39:56.yourself! Drizzle has defended over the

:39:57. > :40:00.Letzigrund Stadium, and the mascot -- descended over the Letzigrund

:40:01. > :40:17.Stadium and the mascot is enjoying himself. Chris Baker is still in

:40:18. > :40:24.with a shout to qualify. Oh, my word! That is not what he wanted.

:40:25. > :40:28.That is a terrible flip on his take off foot. The athletes are allowed

:40:29. > :40:38.to wear longer spikes on the high jump. He was on the side of his

:40:39. > :40:45.foot. He did not quite get his spike planted at all. He would have

:40:46. > :40:55.slipped in any conditions. Just seemed to put the side of his foot

:40:56. > :41:01.down there, and he is out. None of them would have wanted to see that.

:41:02. > :41:09.Back to Chris Baker, though. That is how they do it! Lost his hat. Well

:41:10. > :41:19.done, Chris, a clean sheet so far, and a very good start. Good

:41:20. > :41:30.technique from him. He has increased his personal best from the winter of

:41:31. > :41:41.2014 and finds himself in a position to possibly make the final.

:41:42. > :41:50.That looked a little better. He has always said he doesn't like jumping

:41:51. > :41:54.in the rain. He did not like watching his team-mates go out. I am

:41:55. > :42:04.sure that he had an eye on that. These are normal running spikes. He

:42:05. > :42:19.chose not to wear the longer ones and that compromised his contact

:42:20. > :42:25.with the floor. On his left foot, the Frenchman. That was the last

:42:26. > :42:31.chance saloon for him, either go clear or go home, and he chose to

:42:32. > :42:37.clear. Let's have a look at this. Well clear there. Under pressure,

:42:38. > :42:51.though. Three fails and you are out. Look at the rain coming down. 228 is

:42:52. > :42:58.automatically qualifying. That might be enough to advance.

:42:59. > :43:14.STUDIO: not the greatest conditions today for the jumpers.

:43:15. > :43:22.You are trying to stay relaxed and warm. That's planned is crucial for

:43:23. > :43:32.converting your horizontal speed into vertical lift will stop -- that

:43:33. > :43:37.plant is crucial for converting your horizontal speed into vertical lift.

:43:38. > :43:46.If it rains, this Russian will win it because he can jump in the wet.

:43:47. > :43:50.It is a mental battle out there. We are not going to see the real high

:43:51. > :43:54.heights that we would like to see for qualification, so it is going to

:43:55. > :44:05.be tough. 10,000 gold for Britain last night. A very troubled built up

:44:06. > :44:10.in the -- for Mo Farah. This year, I need to do something. If you are

:44:11. > :44:21.going to turn up, you have to be 100%. There is a Commonwealth Games,

:44:22. > :44:28.and there is the aftermath of that, were you able to get anything from

:44:29. > :44:37.the TV coverage? We did not have much and ten at. -- internet. I

:44:38. > :44:45.wanted to do it. I was not ready. There was no way. If you did not

:44:46. > :44:52.know that the marathon was a hard event before he came here, he

:44:53. > :44:56.certainly does now. You put a lot of effort into the London Marathon. I

:44:57. > :45:03.put a lot of training into it. I gave it all. I ended up finishing

:45:04. > :45:10.eighth, which is not great for me, and from there, I wanted to do

:45:11. > :45:15.well, and then the Commonwealth Games came and went, and now the

:45:16. > :45:25.Europeans him and I would like to see if I can come awake with a win.

:45:26. > :45:28.-- away with a win. You won a silver in 2006 and you thought you should

:45:29. > :45:34.have won a gold, and you said something like, never again. It is

:45:35. > :45:41.not going to happen again! I had to wait for years for Barcelona. I am

:45:42. > :46:00.analytic champion but the Europeans are always in my heart. You can

:46:01. > :46:04.never forget where you started. It has been amazing, I want to continue

:46:05. > :46:09.my career and look back later on in life and say that I made my country

:46:10. > :46:13.proud and my people proud. It is something I work hard for but at the

:46:14. > :46:21.same tank, you have to have a bit of luck as well. -- but at the same

:46:22. > :46:26.time. It is a bit of a sporting cliche but you are only as good as

:46:27. > :46:33.your last race they say. You almost sense he comes here feeling he has

:46:34. > :46:40.something to prove. Also he said, going back to a Championships that

:46:41. > :46:44.has happy memories for him. He very much wants to conjure that up and

:46:45. > :46:49.get back to that feeling. Watching him in that video, he seems down. He

:46:50. > :46:54.does not seem like the bubbly Mo Farah and he needs to get back to

:46:55. > :46:58.just having fun and doing what he does best, winning the races and

:46:59. > :47:01.running well and getting himself back up again. He knows from his

:47:02. > :47:05.training that he is in shape but because he has had those knocks in

:47:06. > :47:10.terms of the marathon not going as well as he wanted it to, that is

:47:11. > :47:15.something that is really difficult to deal with. We spoke of how

:47:16. > :47:21.difficult injuries are to deal with. But normally you have a timescale

:47:22. > :47:33.knowing how long you take to heal. With injury, it -- with illness, it

:47:34. > :47:46.is different. Is it just an unfortunate coincidence, the injury

:47:47. > :47:53.and illness? I do. He needed to take the time to recover but the mental

:47:54. > :47:58.factor of it not going to plan in London, that is something that is

:47:59. > :48:01.harder to get over. If that had gone well, I think we would have seen him

:48:02. > :48:07.coming into the track season firing on all cylinders. I still think we

:48:08. > :48:10.will see him run well here today but I think it took him a little longer

:48:11. > :48:17.mentally to get over that disappointment of the marathon. And

:48:18. > :48:29.again to get over that illness episode. Was it... He ran a 3.28

:48:30. > :48:33.1500 metres in 2013, and trying to extend that to running a very fast

:48:34. > :48:39.marathon, maybe it was not the wisest thing to do? Mo Farah is a

:48:40. > :48:47.very fast... He would probably say he is five, ten K, but with a very

:48:48. > :48:53.fast 1500 metres, that he can translate... And to say that I can

:48:54. > :48:59.be right up there on my first go in the marathon, maybe that was

:49:00. > :49:04.expecting too much. That is not saying he cannot develop to being a

:49:05. > :49:10.better marathon runner later in his career, I believe he can, but to run

:49:11. > :49:14.a very fast 1500 metres and an outstanding marathon would have been

:49:15. > :49:21.very surprising. One athlete hoping to get gold here is Eilidh Child.

:49:22. > :49:40.She will be in the qualification very shortly. Let's hear from her.

:49:41. > :49:49.After Glasgow, I was quite busy 24, 48 hours after it, but I tried to go

:49:50. > :49:55.home and spend a little time with my family. Get back to normality and it

:49:56. > :49:59.has been nice this last week, getting away from everything and

:50:00. > :50:03.refocusing on the Europeans. I don't think back to Max championships

:50:04. > :50:09.would have been too much of a problem. I only had a couple of

:50:10. > :50:13.rounds in the Commonwealth Games. It has been nice to switch off and

:50:14. > :50:24.refocus and I am looking forward to the Europeans. I have not really

:50:25. > :50:34.done anything, competing, so I think I will be fresh. Physically, I don't

:50:35. > :50:39.think it should be a problem. It is about keeping focused and hopefully

:50:40. > :50:44.I can win something. I think the good thing from Glasgow, in terms of

:50:45. > :50:49.pressure and expectation, it will probably never get that big for me

:50:50. > :50:58.again. Being a home athlete, everybody expected me to win a medal

:50:59. > :51:01.of some colour. Yes I am number one in Europe, but I don't fill the same

:51:02. > :51:10.kind of pressure that I dealt with in Glasgow. There are so many offers

:51:11. > :51:17.quite close together, so although I am number one, I cannot be

:51:18. > :51:20.complacent. It will be about getting through the first couple of rounds

:51:21. > :51:27.and seeing what form everybody is on.

:51:28. > :51:37.It is just about who has done what in the last couple of weeks and who

:51:38. > :51:41.is still on form and looking good. Ranked number one in Europe and she

:51:42. > :51:46.talks about feeling less pressure than she did at the Commonwealth

:51:47. > :51:51.Games, being a poster girl, but in reality, I think there is more

:51:52. > :51:55.pressure on here here. I don't think so. The weight of expectation and

:51:56. > :52:02.wanting to show her best. Although she did not win... She would never

:52:03. > :52:08.have won unless Carly spends tripped up. Exactly, but she wanted that

:52:09. > :52:13.experience of being home-grown athlete and doing well and she did,

:52:14. > :52:17.she ran brilliantly. There is a different type of pressure here. She

:52:18. > :52:24.knows she is the number one in Europe. She is in good shape. A lot

:52:25. > :52:30.of names have run faster previously but they are not ingratiate the

:52:31. > :52:40.season. Ross and over in Heat 3, she has won medals, but Child has shown

:52:41. > :52:45.the most consistency. Becoming European Championship would be huge

:52:46. > :52:51.for her. But coming second in the Commonwealth Games, that was the

:52:52. > :52:57.real expectation, that was a different level, no? A lot of people

:52:58. > :53:05.would say, it is a Olympics, world, Commonwealth. But it is that winning

:53:06. > :53:09.is opposed to coming second. I think so and it is difficult, depending on

:53:10. > :53:13.which events you look at, the Commonwealth Games can go hugely up

:53:14. > :53:19.and down and the same for the Europeans. It is winning a title, it

:53:20. > :53:26.will obviously always trump coming second or third. She has the heats

:53:27. > :53:36.to negotiate first of all. Andrew Cotter is calling this one.

:53:37. > :53:50.COMMENTATOR: There were a couple of bad days at Glasgow but this is

:53:51. > :53:53.heavy. A very different crowd here this morning, rather subdued, not

:53:54. > :54:13.packed to the rafters as it was at Hampden Park.

:54:14. > :54:18.There is Sotomayor of Spain. Famous name in athletics. And Dauwens

:54:19. > :54:37.having a good season. She is not quite to the calibre of

:54:38. > :54:45.her team-mate, the defending champion in Heat 3. A quick scan

:54:46. > :54:54.past the heart of Midlothian wristband. We did not see Barry

:54:55. > :55:28.Etter of Switzerland, just inside Child. -- Arrieta.

:55:29. > :55:35.Never has a silver felt more like a gold as it did in Hampden Park.

:55:36. > :55:43.Child is leading, she is the quickest in Europe this year. Moving

:55:44. > :55:50.comfortable you pass. Umea. Looking -- moving comfortably past

:55:51. > :56:05.Sotomayor. Dauwens in laying six, the Belgian athlete. Eilidh Child

:56:06. > :56:06.hurdling well out in front. Once the final barrier is negotiated, she can

:56:07. > :56:21.ease down a little bit. Easy enough from Eilidh Child, she

:56:22. > :56:28.is in good shape, it goes on for Child. It is really good to see. She

:56:29. > :56:32.has bounced back from the Commonwealth Games. All of the

:56:33. > :56:35.celebrations and emotions. She is mentally prepared for these

:56:36. > :56:41.championships and she will be going for that gold medal. She has really

:56:42. > :56:48.honed her technique and rhythm. It is a really balanced race that she

:56:49. > :56:52.runs. It takes a lot of time. In this event especially, when

:56:53. > :56:57.conditions are like they are today, heavy rain. The track can look very

:56:58. > :57:00.different and so can you in your mind in your preparations. She has

:57:01. > :57:02.taken this race very seriously and qualified very well. Dominant, that

:57:03. > :57:19.is the most important thing. Child does look very strong at the

:57:20. > :57:22.moment. It is good to see. She has really done it well. Their

:57:23. > :57:27.preparations have been very meticulous this year. Not too many

:57:28. > :57:30.interruptions when it comes to the preparations to this event. When you

:57:31. > :57:33.have the emotions of the Commonwealth Games, home

:57:34. > :57:37.championships, and she delivered a performance very well indeed under

:57:38. > :57:43.immense pressure. But here, the first thing she is looking at is

:57:44. > :57:47.getting hurt 15 strides for the first five or six hurdles before she

:57:48. > :57:54.changes down for this final bend. It makes it easier to go around the

:57:55. > :57:59.turn with the left leg first. That is her 16th stride and she goes back

:58:00. > :58:09.onto her left leg. It means you can hug the corner. She takes her time,

:58:10. > :58:14.no mistakes, no trailing. We have seen athletes being disqualified for

:58:15. > :58:19.putting their lead leg to the side. I really, really great performance

:58:20. > :58:26.and demonstrated the everybody that she is ready to become the champion.

:58:27. > :58:31.Let's hear from her. Colin Jackson saying you look ready to become a

:58:32. > :58:39.champion. Is that how you feel? I am not sure. I was quite nervous. I

:58:40. > :58:46.just wanted to get it out of the way. The rounds are always the bit I

:58:47. > :58:51.don't like. I am glad it was a solid performance and I can go away and

:58:52. > :58:57.relax. It is pretty cool and the rain is falling but you are used to

:58:58. > :59:04.this! I think the ring got heavier but we are all in the same boat,

:59:05. > :59:09.everybody has to deal with it. The success from Glasgow, how tricky has

:59:10. > :59:14.it been, the transition? It has been quite hard to get refocused. After

:59:15. > :59:19.watching Joe last night and seeing how she could do it, none of us have

:59:20. > :59:24.any excuses now, we all have to deliver. What an inspiration she

:59:25. > :59:33.was. It was amazing. We are also proud of her. Great start, well

:59:34. > :59:40.done. We will see how her competition

:59:41. > :59:43.fares. Eilidh Child getting off to a good start. Safely through. This is

:59:44. > :59:59.the result of the first heat. STUDIO: Colin Jackson keeping the

:00:00. > :00:04.pressure on right from the start saying she is ready to become a

:00:05. > :00:16.champion! She knows that in the back of her mind and she does not need to

:00:17. > :00:20.be reminded. You take inspiration from the smallest things. Whether

:00:21. > :00:27.she had any doubts about how she was feeling, worried about the weather,

:00:28. > :00:32.just a little bit thinking, if Jo Pavey can do it, I can do it, and it

:00:33. > :00:37.was a great performance. Sometimes you can sense if a team is doing

:00:38. > :00:47.badly, you think it will not happen for me, but this was massive. It

:00:48. > :00:54.sets the ball rolling. Inspired. You start to feel it could be a really

:00:55. > :00:59.good championship. Maybe it was really good preparation. It is

:01:00. > :01:05.important that you take it up and that the 400 metres start really

:01:06. > :01:10.well to get the team rolling. It was important last night that Jo Pavey

:01:11. > :01:15.went out and did that. In terms of the race, I don't think you could

:01:16. > :01:19.have asked for any more. It seems to pan out very well indeed. We talked

:01:20. > :01:24.about the improvements that she has made with her technique. It is

:01:25. > :01:32.smooth, she is attacking hurdles, which is crucial. You have just got

:01:33. > :01:36.to do that. It is the early morning start, the preparation on the

:01:37. > :01:40.warm-up track and putting it together in the race, which gives

:01:41. > :01:45.you the confidence to know that you can move through to the next around

:01:46. > :01:53.comfortably. This was not a comfortable race for her. She did at

:01:54. > :01:58.tack it but there is no stress on her face at all. It perhaps that

:01:59. > :02:01.makes the transformation from Commonwealth Games and all of the

:02:02. > :02:07.pressure of being the home athlete to be in the number one in Europe

:02:08. > :02:12.and winning a gold medal here. It is very different. In Glasgow, there

:02:13. > :02:17.was a huge poster of her everywhere, you could not miss the fact that she

:02:18. > :02:22.was a home favourite, and she comes here, she knows she is ranked really

:02:23. > :02:32.highly, but she is one of many athletes across all of the athletes

:02:33. > :02:36.that are ranked high. She is not carrying the weight of expectation

:02:37. > :02:39.of other people and she can go out and prove herself. You have to

:02:40. > :02:44.understand that you can deal with pressure and she has proved that

:02:45. > :02:49.with her performance. We are going to head back out now for some field.

:02:50. > :02:56.with her performance. We are going to head back out now for some field.

:02:57. > :03:10.A perfect start so far in less than perfect conditions for Chris Baker.

:03:11. > :03:20.He rattled that just a fraction too hard. It was a good attempt. You can

:03:21. > :03:27.see the rain coming down and making conditions very difficult will stop

:03:28. > :03:32.the top 12 will go through. The bar is currently at 223. A clearance

:03:33. > :03:38.here may see him through to the finals. Two more attempts. First

:03:39. > :03:47.chance to see the main men of world high jumping, Bondarenko, the

:03:48. > :03:54.champion from last year. He has been huddled under the shelter. He is

:03:55. > :04:01.gracing us with a wonderful clearance there. Minimum energy

:04:02. > :04:11.expended. That shows the class of a men who is the second best jumper of

:04:12. > :04:21.all time, two metres and 42. This is the one European athlete who has

:04:22. > :04:28.beaten Child this year. Ryzhykova, a season best of 55 flat. That was a

:04:29. > :04:36.big win for her. She will be hoping to modify straightforward here.

:04:37. > :04:45.Velvere on the outside. Look at the start list. Barbosa in lane two.

:04:46. > :04:51.Fontanive in Paris. Petersen in for, McMahon in five, Ryzhykova in

:04:52. > :05:09.six and though there on the outside. -- Velvere on the outside. Christine

:05:10. > :05:13.McMahon, 22 years of age. 56.97, a new best. Ryzhykova is interesting,

:05:14. > :05:18.because when she actually set her personal best, it was in these

:05:19. > :05:28.championships two years ago, when she won the bronze medal, so she can

:05:29. > :05:32.Rise to the occasion on the day. She beat Child earlier in the year. She

:05:33. > :05:54.could be a danger for a medal. It looks like Petersen is coming up

:05:55. > :06:02.on our computer. Let's see where he goes. The Danish record-holder,

:06:03. > :06:09.semifinalist at the Olympics, and away she goes. To be fair, these

:06:10. > :06:23.athletes are up very early and it is wet and horrible. They do some

:06:24. > :06:27.drills and jog around, but she was just trying to stay out of the

:06:28. > :06:35.rain. You cannot blame them. It is very chilly as well. The warm-up

:06:36. > :06:39.track is downtown and Zurich and the athletes go there to do the first

:06:40. > :06:47.part of their warm-up and then they come down to the track. It is not

:06:48. > :06:52.ideal women not the best preparation that charter it is not ideal, not

:06:53. > :07:02.the best preparation -- it is not ideal, not the best preparation.

:07:03. > :07:11.Petersen does have enough experience. She should not have been

:07:12. > :07:20.feeling the nerves too much. Barbosa on the inside, Fontanive in lane

:07:21. > :07:36.three. Link for is now empty. Ryzhykova here in lane six. -- lane

:07:37. > :07:43.four. Ryzhykova is going pretty well. Barbosa making a few inroads

:07:44. > :08:01.into Fontanive outside her. Ryzhykova it looks like she is

:08:02. > :08:08.struggling. Her last race was at the Monaco Diamond lead and she did not

:08:09. > :08:20.do too badly there. Barbosa leading best. Ryzhykova now getting her act

:08:21. > :08:33.together. Get it all wrong. Fontanive take second. As she was

:08:34. > :08:37.approaching, she was coming strong, coming into the last hurdle, and we

:08:38. > :08:41.are moving with that momentum, you want to try and attack it, and then

:08:42. > :08:47.she decided that she could not heat it. Tried to put the brakes on a

:08:48. > :08:52.little bit. Let's have a look at this. She has got the momentum

:08:53. > :09:04.coming. Just watch what happens here. You make decisions, do I

:09:05. > :09:09.stretch or push? She completely slips going into that barrier. It

:09:10. > :09:17.looks like before she even took off and she was sliding. Let's have a

:09:18. > :09:25.look at this again. She tries to reach forward and the trips into the

:09:26. > :09:29.barrier and smashes it on the floor. I do not think I ever seen that

:09:30. > :09:33.before. It looks like a last-minute decision. She put a short stride in

:09:34. > :09:49.and then cannot get that lead leg up. She decided she was going to

:09:50. > :09:57.reach for it. That is -- she could have been a possible contender

:09:58. > :10:04.despite the form from earlier. Barbosa is gone. She is going to

:10:05. > :10:08.qualify easily. The Ukrainian works hard into these barriers. A little

:10:09. > :10:17.clash of arms. I think she tripped into the barrier. The messy. She

:10:18. > :10:24.will be frustrated. These are what the Championships are all about. You

:10:25. > :10:31.always have these little accidents. Slippery, wet, makes it

:10:32. > :10:36.unpredictable. And this is a men who does not like to jump in the rain.

:10:37. > :10:47.He has just managed to clear both heights. He goes clear again. He has

:10:48. > :10:50.changed into the high jump spikes. He doesn't like jumping in them,

:10:51. > :10:53.though, and that might explain why he keeps rattling over, just doing

:10:54. > :11:11.enough. It is another clearance. Looking to go clear, and he does.

:11:12. > :11:21.The Polish champion, a men who has jumped 232 this year. These are

:11:22. > :11:25.testing the high jumpers. Two metres 23 might be enough to make the

:11:26. > :11:36.finals. That is the question being asked of Chris Baker. The second

:11:37. > :11:44.attempt, must go clear. No, no, no. He will have one more attempts, but

:11:45. > :11:48.under pressure. We have seen a number of athletes go clear at the

:11:49. > :12:00.height of 223. One more chance for Chris.

:12:01. > :12:15.Protsenko has also cleared. Only six men ever to go past the 240 marks.

:12:16. > :12:22.Strangled it a little bit. Way below what he is capable of, but surely it

:12:23. > :12:28.indicative of the conditions. You can see the reign of. It puts

:12:29. > :12:47.questions in your mind. -- you can see the rain. After that accident

:12:48. > :12:50.for Ryzhykova, it has opened the way for Child. But as Colin Jackson

:12:51. > :12:58.keeps saying, you have got to jump the hurdles. I remember an American

:12:59. > :13:03.athlete coming to the Championships last year in the 400, but I thought

:13:04. > :13:08.Barbosa looked good in the last heat, so she might be throwing

:13:09. > :13:12.herself in as a threat to Child. We are just about ready for the next

:13:13. > :13:19.heat, and we will be back with it shortly.

:13:20. > :13:33.Chris Baker, what are you made of? This could get him to the final. Oh,

:13:34. > :13:39.yes! Chris Baker has gone clear in difficult conditions. Just looking

:13:40. > :13:44.down the sheet, I think only ten athletes have cleared this height.

:13:45. > :13:49.12 will advance. It looks like the clearance of Chris Baker will

:13:50. > :13:59.advance him and to the final on Friday. Wonderful stuff. Well done,

:14:00. > :14:06.Chris. We move on to heat three of the winning's 400 metre hurdles.

:14:07. > :14:30.Look out for Davydova of Russia. This is the women you has a great

:14:31. > :14:46.title. Magi, one of the favourites. There is Russell ova -- Rosolova.

:14:47. > :14:50.Kolesnychenko of Ukraine, when the juniors a couple of years ago. The

:14:51. > :15:22.Lithuanian that goes in line eight. Linkiewicz might be in the running

:15:23. > :15:36.for an automatic qualifying place. So too would be Davydova, if she is

:15:37. > :15:43.in form. I mentioned the defending champion might be going for the

:15:44. > :15:51.championships, she is in Lane 4. A good start by Rosolova. Elegant

:15:52. > :16:05.looking runner and moving very well. In Lane 6. Rosolova looking very

:16:06. > :16:17.strong at the moment, silver in the last championships. Davydova, the

:16:18. > :16:31.defending European champion. Three to go through automatically.

:16:32. > :16:40.Kolesnikov -- Linkiewicz is in second. Rosolova's time, not too

:16:41. > :16:46.impressive but a decent enough run from her. Safely negotiating the

:16:47. > :16:56.first round which as we have seen, is by no means guaranteed. 15th to

:16:57. > :17:06.hurdle eight, from Rosolova. A balanced race from her. Don't be

:17:07. > :17:13.disguised by her time, she can go a lot faster than that. A nice and

:17:14. > :17:16.balanced run, she is switched on and focused. The only thing that could

:17:17. > :17:24.really worry her as she comes down the home straight on the wrong leg.

:17:25. > :17:30.And when the pressure is on, that could be a little bit of a challenge

:17:31. > :17:39.for her. A long way high-end Rosolova, there was an interesting

:17:40. > :17:47.battle for third place. Between Davydova and Staisiunaite. Rosolova

:17:48. > :17:56.a long way clear and looking pretty impressive from start to finish.

:17:57. > :18:11.Rosolova safely through. We are at the business end of this meant's

:18:12. > :18:19.high jump. Fassinotti, trains in the UK. He has a failure and this is his

:18:20. > :18:24.second attempt. He looked heavy may be on that take off but it is a good

:18:25. > :18:29.clearance for the Italian champion. He just seemed to get stuck

:18:30. > :18:37.slightly, maybe it is just his style of jumping. It looks as if it may be

:18:38. > :18:47.a height that will advance him through to the final. Second attempt

:18:48. > :18:54.for Fassinotti. Ivanov of Bulgaria has two fails at this height. Only

:18:55. > :19:00.three fouls, if you do get three, you are out that this is his last

:19:01. > :19:05.chance. Well done. That is a fantastic clearance. Just touching

:19:06. > :19:20.the bar. With pretty much every part of his body. It is a good clearance.

:19:21. > :19:30.He knows that will get him through. 20 years of age, Ivanov, a third

:19:31. > :19:41.time clearance. Churyla. Of Belarus. 21 years of age. This is his third

:19:42. > :19:47.attempt at 2.23. He is heavily strapped. He rattled it but it

:19:48. > :19:55.stayed on. Another third time clearance for another youngster.

:19:56. > :20:21.Churyla again just rattling the bar. Britain's Chris Baker, gutsy

:20:22. > :20:34.performance in the rain, well done Chris. He makes the final.

:20:35. > :20:47.We have a future weeds coming in and this one from Gary Burgess. -- we

:20:48. > :20:54.have a few tweets. He asks, does Paula think she has what it takes to

:20:55. > :21:04.do a Jo Pavey and go to Rio in eight few years? -- a few years. We all

:21:05. > :21:09.want to keep running but I don't think my foot would allow me to race

:21:10. > :21:17.at a high enough level. But I would love to. Thinking back to Atlanta in

:21:18. > :21:21.1996, Steve Cram mentioned about the warm up track here being away from

:21:22. > :21:27.the track. It was the same in Atlanta wasn't it? Yes and then you

:21:28. > :21:31.have to modify your warm up. You don't do all of it on the one track

:21:32. > :21:36.because you don't have to do another warm up in your 15-20 minute journey

:21:37. > :21:43.to the other warm up area which we had. I find it very strange. It was

:21:44. > :21:46.unsettling. You are on a bus with all of your competitors and trying

:21:47. > :21:51.not to make eye contact and it was just uncomfortable! That was the

:21:52. > :21:58.worst thing, being herded together with all of your competitors. People

:21:59. > :22:06.don't understand that in the call room area, there is very much but

:22:07. > :22:09.one-upmanship, people saying, I have warmed up so much better, and then

:22:10. > :22:18.when you are put on a bus together, it makes it more focused as well. It

:22:19. > :22:27.can play on people's mind and make a difference mentally. Chris Baker is

:22:28. > :22:31.with Phil. Tremendous performance in the rain, what it is like when you

:22:32. > :22:39.see the weather conditions like that? I like it, I am used to the

:22:40. > :22:43.rain so it was perfect for me. We have seen you wear the cap and not

:22:44. > :22:51.wear the cap, what is the thinking? It just keeps me relaxed. As an

:22:52. > :22:57.experience compared to Glasgow and the crowd cheering you on there,

:22:58. > :23:01.what has it be like you, a little more subdued? Yellow mark a little

:23:02. > :23:07.bit, but the experience is great. Coming from Glasgow to this, it has

:23:08. > :23:17.been amazing. It has been a great year for me. I have been chatting

:23:18. > :23:26.about what I will do now between now and the final. Good luck for the

:23:27. > :23:41.final. STUDIO: We had Sotomayor and in this fourth heat, we have a pedro

:23:42. > :23:43.so -- Pedroso. , Tait and they are distantly related as Cooly the Cow

:23:44. > :23:52.is to Jonathan Edwards! This is Klopsch having a pretty good

:23:53. > :25:30.season. Pedroso has really stormed through

:25:31. > :25:36.the first hundred metres. And Klopsch setting the pace here. There

:25:37. > :25:40.is Titimets, just got her head down. She would be the one we would expect

:25:41. > :25:47.to come through. Klopsch is really going hard. Surely she cannot keep

:25:48. > :25:51.that going? She might be heading for a new personal best if she did.

:25:52. > :25:59.Pedroso starting to look tired as well. Let's see how Klopsch

:26:00. > :26:06.negotiates this one. Titimets can now start to come through. Titimets

:26:07. > :26:16.is going to take the victory as expected. Klopsch would not be too

:26:17. > :26:26.far away from a personal best. She really did attack it hard.

:26:27. > :26:35.It is difficult with athletes like her, she is always there, but if

:26:36. > :26:41.Child got beat by her, she would be pretty disappointed. I loved the

:26:42. > :26:46.tone of that, she would be pretty disappointed. All of these runners

:26:47. > :26:50.have the potential to run a lot quicker. The winners we have seen so

:26:51. > :26:56.far, they are still running well within themselves. Which gives us a

:26:57. > :27:02.little bit more excitement. But also some anxiety for Eilidh Child. She

:27:03. > :27:05.handled the pressure of the Commonwealth Games well and she will

:27:06. > :27:15.come here with a wise head, knowing what she can do.

:27:16. > :27:30.Krauchanka of Belarus. That is a big throw. He has a lifetime best of 47

:27:31. > :27:38.metres plus but no mark from this season. As he had from a number of

:27:39. > :27:44.events. He is certainly a contender for medals, if not gold. You cannot

:27:45. > :27:49.help thinking with the pole vaulter coming next, in the rain, after what

:27:50. > :27:55.happened last week in Glasgow, that the decathletes will not be

:27:56. > :27:59.relishing that. Krauchanka is certainly relishing what looks as

:28:00. > :28:07.though it is a very long throw. And should he hit his marks, he is

:28:08. > :28:16.capable of taking gold here. That is close to his lifetime best.

:28:17. > :28:21.We have got Andy Turner, Lawrence Clarke, with some illustrious shoes

:28:22. > :28:34.to fill. Colin Jackson up to the first

:28:35. > :29:37.hurdle. Four in a row, what a stud! We

:29:38. > :29:43.forget how amazingly good he was. Explosive out of the blocks. And

:29:44. > :30:06.meticulous with his training. I always felt sorry for Tony Jarrett.

:30:07. > :30:19.Colin Jackson, did you enjoy that? Yes, seeing me in my youthful days!

:30:20. > :30:24.The European Championships are always really important for me,

:30:25. > :30:29.because it was always setting me up for the big confrontations with the

:30:30. > :30:35.USA and Cuba and the Canadians. Tony was always on my case. I always had

:30:36. > :30:39.somebody chasing me down and pushing me and that helps me with my

:30:40. > :30:45.performances. In that commentary box there is another athlete who got

:30:46. > :30:51.four gold medals in a row. Yes Steve Batley did that in the javelin. He

:30:52. > :30:59.is looking at me and giving me daggers! It as part more easy to do

:31:00. > :31:05.it in the field that in the track. One of the most remarkable things,

:31:06. > :31:14.every two years, are you a big fan of that change from four years to

:31:15. > :31:21.two years? No. Every four years makes it more special. We have

:31:22. > :31:27.annual championships. The opportunity to -- I would prefer it

:31:28. > :31:32.to be four years again, but it gives the opportunity to the athletes to

:31:33. > :31:36.get titles. If you are having a dodgy season and you miss out, you

:31:37. > :31:41.can regain a title a little bit later down the line. Championship

:31:42. > :31:59.record, 1998 in Budapest, triple jump record, the big favourite,

:32:00. > :32:04.Pascal. By and thus far cry have no doubt that he will look at that and

:32:05. > :32:12.think he can get close to that -- I have no doubt that he would look at

:32:13. > :32:17.that and think he can take it. He is being pushed towards that time.

:32:18. > :32:25.Sharman, Clark and Turner. Let's hear from Turner. The European

:32:26. > :32:29.Championships have brought you success in the past, but this one

:32:30. > :32:37.has an added significance for you. Yes will stop I have had a lot of

:32:38. > :32:43.success. Bronze eight years ago, a gold four years ago, but I decided

:32:44. > :32:49.that now is a good time for me to hang up my spikes and call it a day.

:32:50. > :32:56.This is my last year competing. I never thought I would be ready to

:32:57. > :33:02.say I am ready to retire, but I can honestly say that I am. I have had a

:33:03. > :33:07.few dark places over the last year, with surgeries and my mother passing

:33:08. > :33:11.away, I thought I would never run again. For a wild I did not want to

:33:12. > :33:18.do anything and then I decided that she would want me to carry on. My

:33:19. > :33:24.first race back was in Birmingham and people knew that my mother had

:33:25. > :33:30.passed away, and each year that I got on the starting line blew me

:33:31. > :33:43.away. I was in a fit state to do a race after that. -- no fit state. In

:33:44. > :33:48.my mind, I don't think I could have lived with myself if injury

:33:49. > :33:55.determined the end of my career. For the amount of times that my Achilles

:33:56. > :34:00.was hurting me, since my last surgery, they have been absolutely

:34:01. > :34:03.fine, I can moonwalk first thing in the morning, eye candy ballet, and

:34:04. > :34:13.that is not something I have been able to do -- I can do ballet.

:34:14. > :34:19.Turner is the European champion! I have one more than ever thought Ike

:34:20. > :34:26.could win. It is unexpected. I am just some -- I could win. I am just

:34:27. > :34:39.some kid from Birmingham. Is there a sense of relief? I am a competitor.

:34:40. > :34:43.I want this. I wants to do well. Sometimes he want to witness an much

:34:44. > :34:48.you try too hard. I am going into this a bit more relaxed. I want to

:34:49. > :34:54.do well. I want to win a medal. That is what I am here for. Andy Turner

:34:55. > :34:58.calling time on his career at the end of this year. He is an athlete

:34:59. > :35:04.who wears his heart on his sleeve. Yes. It makes you sad hearing him

:35:05. > :35:08.talk like that. He has had to contend with a lot. It is hard to be

:35:09. > :35:13.injured and feel that you are not getting the best out of your self.

:35:14. > :35:18.He has had some wonderful medals, surprise medals, but he is someone

:35:19. > :35:23.that I just feel missed out a lot. He could have probably just got

:35:24. > :35:28.better times over his career had he not had to battle so hard in injury,

:35:29. > :35:32.and it is the life of an athlete, it happens, but it is that recognition

:35:33. > :35:38.of that point where it is enough, you have had enough of the battles,

:35:39. > :35:43.the challenges, and you want to leave the sport on your terms. He is

:35:44. > :35:51.able to run, which is great. It is sad, but it is that time to face the

:35:52. > :35:56.facts, time to go. He has also shown a real resilience. 2010-2011 were

:35:57. > :36:01.his best events and since then he has been fighting against injury. He

:36:02. > :36:06.said that there are only so many times that you can go through that,

:36:07. > :36:12.keep battling, keep battling. He will look back on these memories to

:36:13. > :36:17.keep him going through hours of physiotherapy, rehabilitation,

:36:18. > :36:21.sitting out while things healed, and there are only so many times that

:36:22. > :36:26.you can do that. When you are injured all the time you are not fun

:36:27. > :36:32.to be around. He has got young children, his partner, and it is

:36:33. > :36:36.just tough. You want to be partner -- happy and be the person that

:36:37. > :36:40.people want to be around, and when you are battling injury, it is a

:36:41. > :36:45.depressing time. We are going to the commentary box. You have watched

:36:46. > :36:51.Andy Turner's career. What did you think of him in the hurdles? Many

:36:52. > :36:55.years ago, at the back end of my career, he was just coming into the

:36:56. > :37:01.competition and he has run against me in numerous occasions and by

:37:02. > :37:04.always found that he was interesting -- interested in mastering the

:37:05. > :37:11.event. When you really want to learn, that is a good place to be.

:37:12. > :37:17.He progressed to being a champion. Even before that, he suffered from

:37:18. > :37:20.lots of injuries, and he had that wonderful purple patch in his

:37:21. > :37:25.career, winning those titles, and then he had to battle again with

:37:26. > :37:29.injuries. You can imagine that it was frustrating for him because he

:37:30. > :37:35.had ups and downs and had to pull his weight back again. It is awful

:37:36. > :37:38.for an athlete, your body let you down at those critical times.

:37:39. > :37:44.Perhaps you thought he did not get the times out in his career that he

:37:45. > :37:52.might have for -- might have hoped for. He was always there or

:37:53. > :37:56.thereabouts at 130, he was consistent with his performances, so

:37:57. > :38:04.if he could run that all the time, back-to-back, he would've had the

:38:05. > :38:11.opportunity to get perhaps into the 13.07 class. His final major

:38:12. > :38:15.championships here. What is a realistic expectation? He needs to

:38:16. > :38:21.get into the final and he is capable of that. He can't get down. He has

:38:22. > :38:35.to put everything behind him and say, right, I need to beat the

:38:36. > :38:45.spinal. -- this final. Pascal from France, 12.95 is his record. We

:38:46. > :38:49.watched him with our mouths wide open because he went out there

:38:50. > :38:54.aggressively and won the title. He beat everybody clear. He came up to

:38:55. > :39:01.me after and say, I want your record next, with a big, beaming smile, and

:39:02. > :39:06.I said, go for it, young men! He is fun to be around. I hope he can hold

:39:07. > :39:12.it together. That is the question, when you are the favourite, it is

:39:13. > :39:18.dealing with the pressure. How do you analyse him from a psychological

:39:19. > :39:22.point of view? He is a young person. This is an occasion where he has an

:39:23. > :39:28.opportunity to win a title. We saw him indoors when he was the leader.

:39:29. > :39:33.He lost that title. I think it burned him and he worked hard to put

:39:34. > :39:38.himself in the position of being one of the main contenders outdoors for

:39:39. > :39:43.every single competition. Now he comes to the Championships with

:39:44. > :39:49.everybody looking at him. He will have his own expectations, but will

:39:50. > :39:57.he deliver? Only he can answer that question. French sprinting is doing

:39:58. > :40:05.well at the moment. You have got quite a few. There might be one with

:40:06. > :40:13.an injury. But there will be a sense of confidence in the French team

:40:14. > :40:20.that will help Martinot-Lagarde. There is a real flurry of sprinting

:40:21. > :40:27.that is coming back into France. For me, it is an exciting time. It is

:40:28. > :40:35.Great Britain against France in the spring. And in the rain! We saw a

:40:36. > :40:41.fall in the women's hurdles. What are conditions like? It is awful.

:40:42. > :40:47.You throw up your lead leg and run into a mass of water continuously,

:40:48. > :40:52.and that is off-putting. They have done it, they had a go at it, and

:40:53. > :40:57.for them, they will just deal with the circumstances that they have

:40:58. > :41:04.been thrown into. Thank you. Just to catch up with the results to see who

:41:05. > :41:08.has qualified and who has not. Just before we have the high hurdles for

:41:09. > :41:23.the men, the women's 400 hurdles, Child topping the qualifiers.

:41:24. > :41:29.Titimets, Barbosa, the only one who looks like she could possibly

:41:30. > :41:44.challenge Child. Fastest loser spot going to Troest.

:41:45. > :41:52.An extra qualifier there. We move onto the high hurdles, the 110

:41:53. > :42:01.hurdles, and martinet -- Martinot-Lagarde dominates. Some

:42:02. > :42:20.other strong names in there as well. A class of heart. -- apart. Borini

:42:21. > :42:38.celebrated the juniors -- Perini celebrated the juniors last year.

:42:39. > :42:42.This athlete still has some pace. At a former European indoor champion

:42:43. > :43:02.way back when, 2007, he goes in late eight. Martinot-Lagarde has left all

:43:03. > :43:09.others. His brother included. He was in the fourth heat. He is the

:43:10. > :43:32.younger brother and far better hurdler.

:43:33. > :43:47.A couple of hurdles heat Martinot-Lagarde. Losing ground.

:43:48. > :43:53.13.30, into the very slightest of wins. Ten barriers negotiated.

:43:54. > :43:59.Shaking that hand. A little bit untidy in the middle. I think he

:44:00. > :44:05.heat his hand on the barrier. That can sometimes happen. He crashed one

:44:06. > :44:13.of those hurdles. I think it was her role six. -- hurdle six. He comes

:44:14. > :44:18.off it strongly. He has to make room. There he goes. Cutters that

:44:19. > :44:24.one. That holds him back a little bit. He works into these barriers

:44:25. > :44:35.very well indeed. He literally jogged into line. He changed over

:44:36. > :44:41.the winter from seven strides up to eight strides. It is trendy for

:44:42. > :44:46.athletes now to do certain strides. Most Europeans in the early 80s that

:44:47. > :44:51.a seven strides approach. You just have to get comfortable in that

:44:52. > :44:55.first hurdle. That is why they change down so they can work a lot

:44:56. > :44:59.harder into it. A very strong headwind. If you are not strong

:45:00. > :45:04.enough you can run into problems. He certainly does not have that

:45:05. > :45:09.problem. He is only just 22, so he is getting stronger and more

:45:10. > :45:18.physically imposing. A very difficult men to beat. Safely

:45:19. > :45:27.through, along with Noga. Just a slight wrap of the knuckles.

:45:28. > :45:33.Martinot-Lagarde, the favourite, safely through the first round. That

:45:34. > :45:40.is going to hurt in the cold, isn't it?

:45:41. > :45:50.It have not seen it before. I have seen a lot of the van hurdle but I

:45:51. > :45:53.have not seen that. It looks good! Look how it just went through.

:45:54. > :46:00.Lovely, smooth. Apart from hitting it with his lead

:46:01. > :46:19.leg, he was so relaxed. He is quite a tall guy so he has to

:46:20. > :46:23.make adjustments in and off that hurdle but he has such frequency

:46:24. > :46:28.between those hurdles, that pitter patter motion he has created, but he

:46:29. > :46:35.has a lot of speed over those hurdles as well. Colin, let's chat

:46:36. > :46:49.about those seven strides to the first hurdle. Somebody likened it to

:46:50. > :47:04.the files be flop in high jumping. Not at all. Many athletes have taken

:47:05. > :47:09.seven strides. It is not that unusual. It goes back a long way.

:47:10. > :47:13.The athletes with long legs who wanted to drive harder into the

:47:14. > :47:20.first hurdle. That they find more comfortable just doing seven

:47:21. > :47:25.strides. You work an eight strider. Did you try some? I could have done

:47:26. > :47:28.seven strides if I wanted to but the frequency was important for me. The

:47:29. > :47:39.pitter patter strides of eight wheelie set me up for coming in and

:47:40. > :47:42.off every barrier. I guess the star at the time set the trend. So now

:47:43. > :47:56.everybody is thinking seven is the way to go. Aries picked it up

:47:57. > :48:00.because when he was young he did seven strides. But they all want to

:48:01. > :48:04.have a go now and some will be more successful than others. Lawrence

:48:05. > :48:13.Clarke from Great Britain is in the next heat. The Commonwealth Games

:48:14. > :48:18.was the initial target. It did not quite go to plan for me. I ran

:48:19. > :48:24.pretty poorly and half a second off my best. In a way, coming back from

:48:25. > :48:29.that gave me an extra boost into this training before the Europeans.

:48:30. > :48:38.Because they are far more important and arguably, I know Pascal

:48:39. > :48:45.Martinot-Lagarde has run a very good time this year. If I am to get

:48:46. > :48:49.another chance this year, this is it and this is what I have been

:48:50. > :48:53.targeting. I am in the best shape. I had the best training session ever

:48:54. > :49:00.on Friday. The Commonwealth Games was a real kick in the wrong place,

:49:01. > :49:06.that is for sure! Lawrence Clarke, fourth in the Olympics, that in

:49:07. > :49:10.London, but perhaps not progressed in the way he might have hoped since

:49:11. > :49:15.then. I think a lot of us expected more from him. We keep talking of

:49:16. > :49:24.these injuries that creep up at the wrong time. He does not seem to have

:49:25. > :49:27.moved on. Let's hope he moves in the right direction in these

:49:28. > :49:32.championships. He needs another good winter binding to get down to the

:49:33. > :49:37.times but I think he is capable. Colin Jackson, what did you make of

:49:38. > :49:41.Lawrence Clarke? He is one of these guys who study again, the whole

:49:42. > :49:46.event of athletics and he's silly enjoys hurdling. He used to come and

:49:47. > :49:53.question me continuously when he was a young man, which was the best way

:49:54. > :49:59.of running over them. I said to him always, hurdling is like your own

:50:00. > :50:03.fingerprint, it is very personal to you. You have to develop your own

:50:04. > :50:09.way of clearing the barrier that is successful. I think he is a quality

:50:10. > :50:10.athlete. If you are fourth in the Lebid games, you have to be half

:50:11. > :50:26.decent. Steve Cram, it is all yours. Lawrence Clarke really needs to be

:50:27. > :50:36.on his game here. The first three just to qualify by rights. Almeida

:50:37. > :50:59.of Portugal, Furer, his birthday today. That is Traber. Almeida,

:51:00. > :51:14.Portuguese champion. And somebody has made Furer a nice banner!

:51:15. > :51:20.Brorsson from Sweden. Next him, Trajkovic from Cyprus. This is Dal

:51:21. > :51:32.Molin. Lawrence Clarke, by his own

:51:33. > :51:35.admission, disappointing Commonwealth Games and wants to be

:51:36. > :51:41.much better here. He has Bascou next to him. He missed a medal at these

:51:42. > :51:47.championships four years ago in Barcelona. He has seen things that

:51:48. > :51:53.certainly move forward in French high hurdling since then but he has

:51:54. > :52:00.run a new personal best, 13.25, putting him right up there in the

:52:01. > :52:06.rankings. Bascou and Clarke on this side and Traber on the far side for

:52:07. > :52:07.Germany. Dal Molin will be amongst it as well. But only three to

:52:08. > :52:32.definitely go through. Bascou and Clarke getting away well.

:52:33. > :52:40.Almeida and Traber starting to come into this. Bascou pulling away. It

:52:41. > :52:46.will be Bascou, Traber and Clarke. They are the top three. They are the

:52:47. > :52:56.three you would have expected. Lawrence Clarke... He lost a good

:52:57. > :53:01.yard or so in the first hurdle on Bascou. But he did get it back. I

:53:02. > :53:05.was worried for him in his first couple of flights but he got into

:53:06. > :53:10.the race eventually. I think when Bascou got in front of him, Lawrence

:53:11. > :53:13.Clarke could not quite go past him because his arms were just holding

:53:14. > :53:20.him back. That is really off-putting as they hurdler -- as a hurdler.

:53:21. > :53:29.Your body tends to go where your lead leg is. If you are drawn next

:53:30. > :53:35.to each other, the chances are you are going to clash and I think that

:53:36. > :53:38.is what happened here. Perhaps if it did happen, Lawrence Clarke will

:53:39. > :53:49.tell us. Bascou is a good-quality hurdler. When you are running

:53:50. > :53:52.against somebody, the way the French are executing the race at this time,

:53:53. > :54:00.you have to be at your best at all times. You can see how close their

:54:01. > :54:04.arms are getting to each other. Lawrence Clarke will not be able to

:54:05. > :54:09.get past him. You have to literally lean on him and pushed him out of

:54:10. > :54:16.the way. You have got those barriers as well. 3.5 feet tall but you have

:54:17. > :54:21.to contend with. But he is through and that is the most important

:54:22. > :54:32.thing. Bascou is right on the edge of his lane isn't he?

:54:33. > :54:40.We saw there was a bit of coming together, how did you see it? For

:54:41. > :54:48.me, it was just about keeping it clean.

:54:49. > :54:56.I made a complete hash of it in Glasgow and I am here to make

:54:57. > :54:59.amends. I am through to the semi. What sort of transition has it been

:55:00. > :55:03.from the games where you were disappointed to hear when you had to

:55:04. > :55:09.pick yourself up? It has been really hard. Hard four or five days of

:55:10. > :55:12.training, last Friday, it was the best training session I have ever

:55:13. > :55:18.had. Hopefully they are more things to come. It will be good to get this

:55:19. > :55:23.out of your system, the frustrations of Glasgow and get back racing

:55:24. > :55:30.again? Glasgow with the biggest downer I have ever had in my career.

:55:31. > :55:34.I was in tears by the end of it. This is the best competition there

:55:35. > :55:41.is this year. It is the fastest track in the world. I could not be

:55:42. > :55:48.in a better place to run well. Wish you well for the next round.

:55:49. > :55:58.It is a new track surface. New personal best for the German,

:55:59. > :55:59.Traber, getting between Lawrence Clarke and Bascou. Those three go

:56:00. > :56:09.through. STUDIO: We get the sense of

:56:10. > :56:13.disappointment Lawrence Clarke felt after the Commonwealth Games. But

:56:14. > :56:19.this gives him a chance to bounce back. You have heard people

:56:20. > :56:25.approaching it differently with their training. He probably felt he

:56:26. > :56:29.needed to put some work in to push out that awful experience of the

:56:30. > :56:34.games. If he has had a good training session, it would have changed his

:56:35. > :56:37.mental approach to this competition. He is a bit is appointed with the

:56:38. > :56:41.heats but he has got through safely and that is all that matters.

:56:42. > :56:44.Hopefully he will build from this. I was surprised he said that he had

:56:45. > :56:52.five hard days of training. You would have hoped light days would

:56:53. > :56:57.help your body and mind recover. Maybe he felt he needed something.

:56:58. > :57:02.Maybe he has missed some work and he felt he needed to blow the cobwebs

:57:03. > :57:08.out. The danger is, that can make you a little heavy. I personally use

:57:09. > :57:12.to prefer not to do too much and try to stay fresh and do a little bit of

:57:13. > :57:16.speed work but athletes are all different. It is still very windy

:57:17. > :57:22.out there. Colin, you talked about the lane drawn and the difficulty he

:57:23. > :57:27.had with the French athlete. Was it something you looked at when you had

:57:28. > :57:33.a lane drawn for a raise? That was one of the reasons I got out of the

:57:34. > :57:36.blocks really well, because I wanted to be in front early! It is a

:57:37. > :57:40.problem when arms are coming across you. You cannot go past your

:57:41. > :57:47.opponent when you are in midair. That can cost you. What Lawrence

:57:48. > :57:50.Clarke was aiming to do with this training would be a couple of hard

:57:51. > :57:55.runs over ten with the hurdles brought in so we have to move very

:57:56. > :57:59.quickly indeed. With some hard sprinting sessions. He would try to

:58:00. > :58:03.marry those things to get the best performance out of them. A couple of

:58:04. > :58:07.days rest after that is fine and I think he will execute a better race

:58:08. > :58:13.come the semifinal as well. You talk to him about technique. He has an

:58:14. > :58:19.interesting almost double arm over the hurdles. I said about having

:58:20. > :58:25.your own fingerprint over the event, it has to be the most effective and

:58:26. > :58:28.efficient way. As a good coach, you have to enhance what somebody does

:58:29. > :58:33.naturally to produce the best performance you can out of them. His

:58:34. > :58:40.technique is very unusual but it is his. His technique, unusual, but

:58:41. > :58:44.somebody who is perhaps almost a perfect technician would be will

:58:45. > :58:53.Shaman who comes up in the next heat. His technique is almost

:58:54. > :58:56.flawless. What he can do certainly in the back end of the race, is

:58:57. > :59:02.relying on his technique to see him through. He does not have to press

:59:03. > :59:07.because he is unlikely to make a mistake. But he did clip one of the

:59:08. > :59:14.barriers in the final in the Commonwealth Games which is unusual

:59:15. > :59:19.for him. We have the Commonwealth Games final on-screen. He is just

:59:20. > :59:23.running beautifully well and he makes that mistake there, a crucial

:59:24. > :59:32.mistake and it drags him back. He loses the title by a couple of

:59:33. > :59:36.hundreds. Of the two Championships, the Commonwealth was the easy one

:59:37. > :59:45.given how well we saw Pascale run in his heats. They are both people who

:59:46. > :59:49.can run under 30 seconds in both championships but the one here is

:59:50. > :59:58.far more consistent. Colin is alongside Andrew for the commentary.

:59:59. > :00:13.So close at the last three World Championships.

:00:14. > :00:24.There is Baji of Hungary. Shabanov, the Russian champion.

:00:25. > :00:43.We have Buhler, the German champion in Lane 1.

:00:44. > :00:50.This heat is made a little more roomy with the withdrawals of Ristic

:00:51. > :01:31.and Kanervo. A lot of them are finding it

:01:32. > :01:48.frustrating putting their feet into the blocks, I think it is because it

:01:49. > :01:49.is higher than normal. It has gone a little dark overhead again and a

:01:50. > :01:58.little cooler. Again, Buhler from Germany in Lane

:01:59. > :02:24.1. Sharman in lane four. Sharman a little bit slow out of the

:02:25. > :02:35.blocks. Sharman looking comfortable at the moment. In the lead at the

:02:36. > :02:51.moment. Sharman, the winner. The time for him, 13.29. Sharman moves

:02:52. > :03:22.on. That was a really nice performance by him.

:03:23. > :03:29.Sharman, as majestic as he is, has done a really good job. And handled

:03:30. > :04:03.this round very well. Got out in front early.

:04:04. > :04:26.It looked crisp and clean and sharp and just what you wanted. I am

:04:27. > :04:30.pleased with that. We all come together on this Great Britain

:04:31. > :04:36.occasion, it was England last time at the Commonwealth Games but there

:04:37. > :04:42.is a great feeling of unity within the team and everybody is really

:04:43. > :04:46.relaxed. I did what I needed to you and prepare for tomorrow because now

:04:47. > :04:55.I am at the business end of the competition. Jo Pavey was amazing

:04:56. > :05:01.last night. By the time she got back I was asleep, she was running quite

:05:02. > :05:06.late. So inspirational. And the season you have had, performing time

:05:07. > :05:12.after time, the consistency must delight you? It is good, this is the

:05:13. > :05:17.first round. You have to be competitive during these kind of

:05:18. > :05:17.competitions. It will be really exciting tomorrow night

:05:18. > :05:22.competitions. It will be really exciting because I am not the only

:05:23. > :05:28.guy running quick in Europe at the moment, we have the world leader

:05:29. > :05:32.here, we have another bronze-medallist from Moscow. When

:05:33. > :05:54.we all get together and scrap it out, I cannot wait. When you are

:05:55. > :05:56.consistent you can prove that you can do that. It is just talk until

:05:57. > :06:10.we actually do it, isn't it? So he moves through. With a forward

:06:11. > :06:12.to seeing him competing in the semifinals tomorrow. There is

:06:13. > :06:35.confirmation of that. Sharman is a great technician, isn't

:06:36. > :06:37.he? Lovely to watch. I am enjoying the season with him. We have heard

:06:38. > :06:54.him talk about consistency. You just knew there would be a big

:06:55. > :06:59.run at some point in previous championships and I feel the same

:07:00. > :07:05.way about Sharman. He is constantly around that 32 mark, making it look

:07:06. > :07:13.really easy and really comfortable. He is so good on hurdle five onwards

:07:14. > :07:17.that you feel that if he can get a great start he might get a new

:07:18. > :07:22.personal best. There have been a few races where he have -- has won

:07:23. > :07:27.consistently. We have looked at the clock and thought it would be 13.01

:07:28. > :07:33.and it has not been. He is frustrated. You cannot chase it. He

:07:34. > :07:38.knows it is going to come, he is in shape. It could be these

:07:39. > :07:47.championships where he finally gets the PB. Watching him run between the

:07:48. > :07:51.hurdles in contrast to Martinot-Lagarde, he is just a

:07:52. > :07:58.little bit shorter. It is all about the leg length. Just a couple of

:07:59. > :08:06.inches on the inside leg, and he can pick up his legs in between the

:08:07. > :08:12.barriers. Sharman shuffles in between the barriers. I do believe

:08:13. > :08:25.he has a 10th of a second to come in. I think realistically... Andy

:08:26. > :08:32.Turner has announced he is going to retire at the end of this year.

:08:33. > :08:48.Eight British hurdler who has been injured says that Andy Turner is a

:08:49. > :08:54.legend and a top bloke. I have given everything. What a great sendoff it

:08:55. > :09:01.would be. Back to Steve Cram. everything. What a great sendoff it

:09:02. > :09:10.would be. Back to Steve Cram. There have been one or two easy

:09:11. > :09:17.heats but this is not one of them. Let's hope he can perform well.

:09:18. > :09:34.There are some fastest loser spots available. This is the men who

:09:35. > :09:54.followed him and 2012. The older brother of Pascal, Kiss of Hungary,

:09:55. > :09:58.Andy Turner. Andy has raised quite a few of these and leads in his

:09:59. > :10:05.illustrious career and you will be hoping that he can get another

:10:06. > :10:23.victory over them. Top three qualifies. Andy Turner has got to

:10:24. > :10:29.get into the top three. Was Andy Turner third or fourth? We will have

:10:30. > :10:42.to watch the clock. 13.30 was the winning time. And he needs to be

:10:43. > :10:46.bigger than the 13.258 -- 13 .58. Martinot-Lagarde on the far side,

:10:47. > :10:57.13.46, he is watching it, we are watching it. There you go. I am sure

:10:58. > :11:08.Andy Turner will be OK as the fastest loser. He will be through.

:11:09. > :11:11.Huge relief. He will be pleased that he got through that. This was the

:11:12. > :11:17.toughest of all the qualifying rounds for him. It was a good, solid

:11:18. > :11:33.run and he knew he would be up against it. You expect him to be

:11:34. > :11:42.scorching out there. It was important that and ran. -- that Andy

:11:43. > :11:47.Turner ran. Training is one thing. It is fantastic. But you need to be

:11:48. > :11:52.competitive on a regular basis, and this is one of the bigger bandages

:11:53. > :11:57.that will Sharman has had. He has been allowed to race in these big

:11:58. > :12:03.races, big competitions, where you can hold your technique under

:12:04. > :12:08.pressure, and Andy Turner has not have that -- had that. In the and,

:12:09. > :12:13.he was pretty solid in what he was doing, made a couple of mistakes,

:12:14. > :12:23.but he is big and big and strong and has one titles before. Well done.

:12:24. > :12:36.That little queue against Andy Turner's name it means he goes

:12:37. > :12:43.through as the fastest loser. For finer misses out on a place in the

:12:44. > :12:47.semifinals. Safely through in the end, but you are not quite sure what

:12:48. > :12:53.you needed to do, but you are through. This is a massive relief.

:12:54. > :13:02.The demons in my head have been going on. Standing on the starting

:13:03. > :13:10.line, you try and blanked it out. A freak incident plays on your mind.

:13:11. > :13:17.Training has been going well. I am just thrilled to bits to get that

:13:18. > :13:22.one out of the way. We ran your interview earlier. This is going to

:13:23. > :13:33.be your last major championship and you are retiring. You do not want

:13:34. > :13:36.this to be your last race Mr Mark -- last race? I just did not want to

:13:37. > :13:42.come here and not make the semifinal. If this is my last

:13:43. > :13:49.international championships, I want to go out running. My head held

:13:50. > :13:59.high. I'm just relieved, that is the main word. You obvious they can go

:14:00. > :14:07.much faster. You have got that kind of Gary first one out of the way. --

:14:08. > :14:13.scary one. I am thinking in my mind, don't mess it up. At least now I am

:14:14. > :14:18.going to the semifinal. If this is going to be my last race, I am going

:14:19. > :14:22.to go out fighting. We will see what happens tomorrow. We wish you all

:14:23. > :14:30.the best. Thank you. Hello, children!

:14:31. > :14:36.Really good news therefore Andy Turner. Great to see him again. A

:14:37. > :14:51.great performance from will Sharman, equaling that of Pascal. You can see

:14:52. > :14:58.Andy Turner going through as a fastest loser. Clark makes it three

:14:59. > :15:04.Britons into the semifinals. I have a tweet in that says, could Goldie

:15:05. > :15:13.Sayers speech be more important than we thought? I think for Andy Turner

:15:14. > :15:16.it was the demons, as he said, that is quite interesting, but we talked

:15:17. > :15:21.yesterday about the role of the captain, and sometimes it is the

:15:22. > :15:25.pearls of wisdom, the one line that someone says, that can really

:15:26. > :15:31.resonate with an individual, and it varies from her sent to prison, but

:15:32. > :15:38.if you make that connection, it can really inspire you. -- from person

:15:39. > :15:41.to person. As a whole, the GB team know they are in a good position

:15:42. > :15:48.right now. They have great sprinters. On the whole, it is in

:15:49. > :15:51.good shape, and as someone like Andy Turner, he just has to feed off

:15:52. > :15:57.that. He got through that hurdles race, which was a demon in his own

:15:58. > :16:03.mind, and you can look forward to the rest of the championship.

:16:04. > :16:07.Perhaps this is why he has called time, because he has some demons in

:16:08. > :16:11.his head and he can't see the wood for the trees. If you are not able

:16:12. > :16:21.to put into practice the things that you are training for all the time,

:16:22. > :16:25.year in, year out, you don't get the opportunity and it isn't fun, it

:16:26. > :16:33.really is not fun. I feel relieved that he is able to have his last

:16:34. > :16:39.memory not be on the Visio bed. He is able to come onto the track and

:16:40. > :16:43.race. The strap of the physiotherapy bed. You can leave the sport with

:16:44. > :16:51.his head -- the physiotherapy bed. You can leave the sport with your

:16:52. > :16:54.head held high. It is not hard to do something for the last time. No,

:16:55. > :16:58.because you're mind is slightly detached from the actual

:16:59. > :17:02.performance. People are always beating to you about your retirement

:17:03. > :17:08.and you are going to drift away and slow things down. I think he has got

:17:09. > :17:12.hold of his emotions. He did not want to go out on a bad note. He was

:17:13. > :17:22.running very carefully and that qualifying round. He was smiling and

:17:23. > :17:25.he was being cautious and clearing perhaps a centimetre higher than

:17:26. > :17:32.normal. He said he was going to give it some in the semifinal, and why

:17:33. > :17:37.not? The first event on the track earlier was the men's 100 hurdles.

:17:38. > :17:48.But find out what has been happening.

:17:49. > :18:02.This is the seventh event of ten, the discus. That is beyond 40

:18:03. > :18:14.metres. The rain has stopped, much to the delight of the discus

:18:15. > :18:17.throwers in this decathlon. A very large 47 metres plus throat, he has

:18:18. > :18:30.set the mark and is in the lead overall in the decathlon. Ashley

:18:31. > :18:36.Bryant, 41.49. Here is the men who led overnight, Kazmirek of Germany.

:18:37. > :18:50.Very strong Germans, and that is a really big throat. Kazmirek. -- big

:18:51. > :18:56.throw. He has a best of 44.77. He started the day over the hurdle

:18:57. > :19:01.shots with a 14.05 am and that is just shy of 45 metres. It is going

:19:02. > :19:07.to go down to the wire, no doubt about that. Three Germans in

:19:08. > :19:22.contention. Ashley Bryant looks like he is out of the medal this time. 43

:19:23. > :19:29.metres and 15 four Kazmirek. Good wit as he wound up. He used all of

:19:30. > :19:37.the link in his arms. The displacement from his upper and

:19:38. > :19:45.lower body. Was that close to 50 metres? If so, that -- it was good

:19:46. > :19:53.to see that displacement in the vertical plane beyond the 45 metre

:19:54. > :19:57.line, that far line. That is a big throw, and that might put him right

:19:58. > :20:10.back into contention. It was all about Kazmirek of Germany. But

:20:11. > :20:13.Freimuth is back with 14.81. Another men who is possibly just outside of

:20:14. > :20:26.contention and needs a big throw is Kasyanov of the Ukraine.

:20:27. > :20:33.I was talking to Daley Thompson the other week and he said don't talk

:20:34. > :20:47.about medals in the decathlons until after the pole vaulter. -- vault.

:20:48. > :20:55.He is about fourth or fifth place overall.

:20:56. > :21:09.Ready for the first heat of the women's 800 metres.

:21:10. > :21:30.Poistogova is very much the woman to BT. -- eat -- beat here.

:21:31. > :21:50.Away they go, two laps, Hinriksdottir with a rather ungainly

:21:51. > :22:14.start. Leonard settling in. Hinriksdottir,

:22:15. > :22:19.a percussionist talent really. World youth champion, junior champion, she

:22:20. > :22:25.has this theme of attacking the races from the start but really

:22:26. > :22:29.judged it badly for the world junior championships and went through far

:22:30. > :22:35.too fast on the first lap and was unable to finish. Alison Leonard

:22:36. > :22:45.settling into a very good position. The fact Del Buono did not start in

:22:46. > :22:53.this race... That affects the seedings of the heats. Hinriksdottir

:22:54. > :23:07.still out in front and Leonard in a good position. Poistogova, sitting

:23:08. > :23:12.on the outside. Three to go through from just six but they are all

:23:13. > :23:16.bunched together. Six quality athletes. Hinriksdottir still out in

:23:17. > :23:25.front, looking strong at the moment. Alison Leonard on her shoulder.

:23:26. > :23:27.Poistogova sitting in third place. Lindh trying to get back and Hynne

:23:28. > :23:42.hanging on the back. Poistogova cruising away. Lindh is

:23:43. > :23:49.trying to creep in. Alison Leonard is going to win this. Lindh, the

:23:50. > :23:52.Swede, comes through. From a British point of view, Alison Leonard

:23:53. > :23:58.running very through to go through to tomorrow's semifinals. A very

:23:59. > :24:02.good run from Allison, showing she belongs in this kind of setting.

:24:03. > :24:09.Which probably at the beginning of this year, she would not have

:24:10. > :24:13.thought. A very short run. She kept herself in the perfect position

:24:14. > :24:16.throughout the race. Tracking Hinriksdottir who about this stage

:24:17. > :24:21.of the race, is really starting to pay from having led so far. And does

:24:22. > :24:27.not have the strength in her legs to be up to continue the run.

:24:28. > :24:30.Hinriksdottir did not look that impressive to me out here. She

:24:31. > :24:44.wanted to challenge Alison Leonard and show she was there. Lindh

:24:45. > :24:50.pushing very strongly. Fedronic has been running well, she will have to

:24:51. > :24:59.wait for a fastest loser spot. Disappointing run for Fedronic. But

:25:00. > :25:03.Alison Leonard judging it very well. It was not likely to be a troubling

:25:04. > :25:09.race in terms of class, just six athletes in there. Alison Leonard

:25:10. > :25:15.coming through to take that and make sure of her place in the semifinals.

:25:16. > :25:39.They take place tomorrow. A good run from Alison Leonard to move through.

:25:40. > :25:44.There was a big smile on your face at the start, you have waited a long

:25:45. > :25:49.time for this and you did not waste the opportunity. I wanted to get

:25:50. > :25:53.through comfortably, no worries, just get through. You seemed

:25:54. > :26:11.credibly relaxed. Yes. The way you were able to secure your

:26:12. > :26:15.place, not only the trials, you had to chase the time and you got it

:26:16. > :26:21.when you needed to. It all comes to this point. I have had if you bad

:26:22. > :26:28.runs but it is all good. Well done today.

:26:29. > :26:39.Jessica Judd goes in the next heat. Del Buono did not run in that heat.

:26:40. > :26:43.The European Championship state that the provision of a medical

:26:44. > :26:46.certificate endorsed by medical officer is the only reason you can

:26:47. > :26:51.miss a road and come back and compete in subsequent rounds. Del

:26:52. > :26:56.Buono would have had to have a medical reason, a genuine one.

:26:57. > :26:58.Signed by a medical officer, for her to come back and compete in that

:26:59. > :27:08.1500 metres final on Friday night. Jessica Judd out on the track, I

:27:09. > :27:26.think the rain might have stopped. She will become the Commonwealth

:27:27. > :27:29.champion, silver for Scotland. Jess Judd, the 19-year-old, will have

:27:30. > :27:32.more medals to come, I know she will. It was soul destroying at the

:27:33. > :27:44.moment. 80 metres to go and my legs just

:27:45. > :27:47.died. When I came off I was really disappointed but I saw my family and

:27:48. > :27:53.my mum and dad have been really supportive. My boyfriend and

:27:54. > :28:19.everyone, they all ride behind me. I realised how good it was, to make a

:28:20. > :29:12.final at 19, it was not easy and I am proud of that. Do come forth is

:29:13. > :29:27.not as bad as I thought at the time. I would not have expected to have

:29:28. > :29:33.done that well. I try my best at the commonwealths and I tried to do the

:29:34. > :29:35.same here. Disappointment at the Commonwealth seems to be a bit of a

:29:36. > :29:56.theme at the moment. Jessica Judd, just 19 years of age

:29:57. > :29:57.and that fourth place was a very good performance given where she is

:29:58. > :30:32.in her career. actually. Out on the outside, a

:30:33. > :30:41.brilliant indoor performance from this athlete. Bigger indoors. Almost

:30:42. > :30:46.one eight medal. -- quicker indoors. She could be a danger here as well.

:30:47. > :31:05.First three to qualify. She is thinking she is just going to

:31:06. > :31:09.run out like she used too. Carefree. She looks as if she is heading to

:31:10. > :31:19.the front, which would not be a bad thing to do. If she is more relaxed,

:31:20. > :31:24.it is a big thing. I think I would like to see her go back to her

:31:25. > :31:29.running from her heart and trusting her instincts, because when she does

:31:30. > :31:34.that, she has a good racing instinct when she lets that happen. She seems

:31:35. > :31:38.to have more energy. Just enjoy it more. That is what she needs to be

:31:39. > :31:45.doing. She does not have to overthink it as well. This is not a

:31:46. > :32:01.bad thing. Get out in front, run a solid 400. Leading it through the

:32:02. > :32:08.belt. 58.79. The rest of the field is just tracking Jessica here. She

:32:09. > :32:11.wants to come here and make amends but she needs to just run the race

:32:12. > :32:26.and react to the people coming around here now -- her now. Just

:32:27. > :32:29.Judd is leading. -- Jessica Judd. Wide on the band. Digging it up a

:32:30. > :32:42.little bit. Still a bit of danger here. Buchel is staying close to the

:32:43. > :32:50.curb. Jessica just needs to push on. A bit of danger here! A think sheet

:32:51. > :32:59.might just about be all right. Keep rights to the line. Jessica Judd

:33:00. > :33:03.takes third spot. She goes through. Hard work, but the fact that she

:33:04. > :33:10.only got through by a yard or two, the fact that she let it, she had a

:33:11. > :33:15.good round, did not get messed up, has helped her qualify there. Hard

:33:16. > :33:22.work for Jessica Judd. She is through to the semifinals. It looks

:33:23. > :33:28.hard work for her and it looked easy for some of the other runners.

:33:29. > :33:36.Jessica ran that raised well. She put herself in the right position

:33:37. > :33:43.throughout and tried to react. Jessica at this point holds her

:33:44. > :33:48.competitors off. What was worrying me was the work -- look on her face,

:33:49. > :33:52.because she looks like she is starting to struggle a little bit.

:33:53. > :33:57.She feels that with what she missed in the winter that she is a little

:33:58. > :34:01.bit lacking on endurance and on finishing the race as well as she

:34:02. > :34:08.did last year. She is getting the support of the crowd. She was buoyed

:34:09. > :34:15.by the performance that she put in indoors as well. We can see from the

:34:16. > :34:19.front that Jessica just needs to stay relaxed at this point. She is

:34:20. > :34:33.focused, she does not look as though she is struggling. She finished with

:34:34. > :34:39.almost a 64, so the whole field is wondering why it looks so easy. It

:34:40. > :34:41.is because she was looking -- she wasn't looking across the screen

:34:42. > :34:48.will stop she was really cruising to the line. -- screen. She was really

:34:49. > :34:54.cruising to the line. Jessica is it through to the next round and she

:34:55. > :35:01.needs to focus on that. She is going to talk to us now.

:35:02. > :35:08.A really aggressive race. I am happy with that. I never feel good in the

:35:09. > :35:14.heat. My legs are a bit heavy, but by qualified. He got out there and

:35:15. > :35:20.took care of business. Lots of bumping and barging, you know -- you

:35:21. > :35:23.got out there and took care of business. Lots of bumping and

:35:24. > :35:28.barging, you never know what is going to happen. I went to the

:35:29. > :35:32.friend, I did not expect it to be that great. With 100 to go, I

:35:33. > :35:37.thought, have done this, and it was nice to get a run out and to be able

:35:38. > :35:46.to come back tomorrow. It steps up a gear tomorrow. I know I am in good

:35:47. > :35:50.shape. I just have to think everyone who picked me up after the

:35:51. > :35:55.Commonwealth Games. My mother and father, everyone, grandparents. I am

:35:56. > :35:59.just so happy to be here. We will just have to see what happens. We

:36:00. > :36:00.will wish you well for tomorrow and well done today.

:36:01. > :36:06.just have to see what happens. We will wish you well Thank you very

:36:07. > :36:09.much. -- we wish you well. Thank you very much. The second lap is always

:36:10. > :36:25.going to be a bit difficult. The winner made it look very easy

:36:26. > :36:32.indeed. This decathlon is getting very interesting indeed. Kazmirek of

:36:33. > :36:36.Germany is the event leader. Just inside, on the right-hand side, just

:36:37. > :36:43.missed the cage. It is a rally throw. Just inside the sector.

:36:44. > :36:49.Kazmirek led overnight. He is still in the lead, and he salvaged that

:36:50. > :37:13.throw. Expect him to go further than that. If that is anything to go by.

:37:14. > :37:19.3D all in contention for the medals. This men has been the most

:37:20. > :37:24.aggressive, as he is again. It makes you believe in him, doesn't it? He

:37:25. > :37:33.believes! Really imposing himself on this the capital on. It is going to

:37:34. > :37:39.go down to the wire. With the -- on the decathlon. Anything could happen

:37:40. > :37:47.as far as medal places. Many athletes are pushing through the

:37:48. > :37:59.6000 mark. Just over 6000 points, I would say, at this mark. That is

:38:00. > :38:07.world-class. A valid throw. Another men who will push through 6000

:38:08. > :38:13.points is Kasyanov. A long throw needed from the tall men, and it is

:38:14. > :38:27.a long throw. That will put him in contention. Three Germans. Kasyanov

:38:28. > :38:37.of the Ukraine uses his long limbs, essential for discus. Kasyanov

:38:38. > :38:43.certainly asking questions. Three events to come and he is right back

:38:44. > :38:50.in there. He has pushed through the 6000 mark as well with that throw,

:38:51. > :38:57.certainly. 47.96, a season best for the Ukrainian. And from there, we

:38:58. > :39:08.drift right into the next heat in the first round of the women's 800

:39:09. > :39:22.metres. Look out for the Russian in lane two. The Russians dominate in

:39:23. > :39:30.terms of the times this season in Europe. The Russian champion had not

:39:31. > :39:50.uttered before and then she broke in the final of the Russian

:39:51. > :39:59.championship. Rogozina was pushing hard in previous championships. Look

:40:00. > :40:09.out for a chase down of the first three finalists. The Ukrainian

:40:10. > :40:27.junior champion Albert in lane eight. Macro coming to the front. A

:40:28. > :40:31.little look across. Rogozina is only 21. A little bit of an experience in

:40:32. > :40:41.the championship races. Write down the back straight. Macro is now

:40:42. > :41:05.controlling the race from the front. Her best time, just outside

:41:06. > :41:16.two minutes. The Spanish champion has come through as well. Rogozina

:41:17. > :41:23.and Lamote looking fairly comfortable just now. Moving on the

:41:24. > :41:34.outside there, and trying to make up a little bit of ground before they

:41:35. > :41:38.reach the bend. Rogozina looks like she might be leading them into the

:41:39. > :41:50.home straight. Lamote is hanging in there. The Romanian is still in

:41:51. > :41:53.there as well. Lamote had to maintain that pace. Rogozina just

:41:54. > :42:02.having a look around and making sure she is doing what she needs to do.

:42:03. > :42:11.It is a window for the Russian. Not as quick as the first heat with

:42:12. > :42:16.Alison Leonard. No, not as quick as the first two heats. The first three

:42:17. > :42:18.from each of these races goes directly through to the next round

:42:19. > :42:34.with the fourth fastest losers. The Romanian girl just came through

:42:35. > :42:37.on the inside. A desperate search here and then she realised she might

:42:38. > :42:43.have a little bit more left in her legs than she thought. She

:42:44. > :42:47.comfortably was in the third qualifying position. Lamote also

:42:48. > :43:17.looking smooth. Here is another look at the discus.

:43:18. > :43:25.Oh, a good throw again! Shalt it all the way out. It is very close for

:43:26. > :43:32.the medals as it is getting to the final stages, it would seem. It all

:43:33. > :43:36.comes down to Javelin and 400 metres, and every centimetre counts

:43:37. > :43:44.and is a discus. A second-round attempt. He is looking to improve on

:43:45. > :43:53.that, just to sneak a few more points in the bag. Just to confirm

:43:54. > :43:59.that distance, 43 points 25, a slight improvement. Confirmation of

:44:00. > :44:00.the result of that and ultimate heat in the first-round of the 800

:44:01. > :44:18.metres. One more heats to go in those 800

:44:19. > :44:26.metres qualifications -- qualifications, with Lindsay Sharp.

:44:27. > :44:35.Quite contrasting qualifications. Alison Leonard, for someone who

:44:36. > :44:40.doesn't have championship experience, she did raise with an

:44:41. > :44:45.excellent racing brain and she seemed like she belonged in this

:44:46. > :44:51.environment. It is good to see her making the most of this opportunity.

:44:52. > :44:58.No qualification time in the UK trials. You can almost imagine

:44:59. > :45:05.like, I got there, but she has not managed to maintain that level. This

:45:06. > :45:09.has enhanced her performance because she has acted herself to enjoy the

:45:10. > :45:15.whole atmosphere. The 800 metre is very different to every event. It is

:45:16. > :45:20.very controlled in what you have to do, because you have to make

:45:21. > :45:25.decisions at quite a fast speed, which is quite unusual, so for me,

:45:26. > :45:29.it has been a shining example to what you can do if you have good

:45:30. > :45:34.preparation all the way through. The second judge, breathing very

:45:35. > :45:41.heavily. That was tough. -- Jessica Judd. I worry about her because she

:45:42. > :45:44.seems fragile out there sometimes and they think that is because of

:45:45. > :45:47.the issues she has had, and she knows that when she puts her foot

:45:48. > :45:55.sometimes down it might not be there. She made a decision early,

:45:56. > :45:58.got out of trouble, saw of people trip up and get into trouble

:45:59. > :46:03.yesterday, so she did the right thing there, and it was a difficult

:46:04. > :46:06.-- difficult qualification but another quote occasion and

:46:07. > :46:19.nonetheless. Let's hear from Lindsay Sharp.

:46:20. > :46:27.It seems like ages ago but it was important to me to enjoy myself.

:46:28. > :46:31.Experiencing the Commonwealth Games at home in Glasgow. The emotion

:46:32. > :46:37.people saw in my interview probably summed up my year. Every single

:46:38. > :46:42.hurdle I have had in the last year, right down to the moment I won that

:46:43. > :46:48.medal in Glasgow. Probably why it was so emotional.

:46:49. > :47:03.I found this year, I can only really think about what the next races. --

:47:04. > :47:06.race is. I think it is difficult, people probably do not expect a

:47:07. > :47:10.defending champion to still be in the picture for the next

:47:11. > :47:15.championships. So I am really grateful I am here. And in a good

:47:16. > :47:21.position and ranked really highly so I can push for a medal. Defending

:47:22. > :47:24.champion but in controversial circumstances occurs the Russian who

:47:25. > :47:32.beat her in Helsinki then got disqualified. I think she might feel

:47:33. > :47:36.she has something to prove but it does help she has had an amazing

:47:37. > :47:39.experience at the Commonwealth Games and that will elevate her. She will

:47:40. > :47:44.look at the list and think she has a good chance. She has had a good

:47:45. > :47:49.season. She has a lot of confidence and that is what you need. To raise

:47:50. > :47:57.these rounds with these girls, you have got to be in for the fight.

:47:58. > :48:00.Confidence, a medal, Steve Cram, a medal would be the best thing in

:48:01. > :48:04.terms of recovery because that was a tough race. Both the semifinals and

:48:05. > :48:08.the finals of the Commonwealth Games. South if nothing else, it

:48:09. > :48:15.showed she has that strength of mind.

:48:16. > :48:21.It is about every time you start on the starting man, start again, put

:48:22. > :48:29.everything out of your head and do everything possible.

:48:30. > :48:54.This is the last heat, a pretty good one as well.

:48:55. > :48:58.Stambolova served a drug ban, I remember her coming out of nowhere

:48:59. > :49:09.and winning. Stambolova has won a personal best

:49:10. > :49:21.on three occasions already this year.

:49:22. > :49:31.From Luxembourg, Matyas. A personal best of just outside two minutes and

:49:32. > :49:33.two seconds. Last year, this young lady ran really well at the world

:49:34. > :50:06.student games. I know that Masna will run really

:50:07. > :50:10.well against Lynsey Sharp. Lynsey Sharp got a good start. She will not

:50:11. > :50:16.want to lead, it is not her way. She will want to watch what others get

:50:17. > :50:19.up to and trust her strength in the home straight. She will probably

:50:20. > :50:25.just come across and leave that inside lane open and she does.

:50:26. > :50:40.Reluctant leaders, nobody wanting to take it through. They will all trust

:50:41. > :50:48.their kick. If there was a natural frontrunner... Massenet really fell

:50:49. > :50:57.into the trap Lynsey Sharp set, leaving that inside lane open.

:50:58. > :51:05.We see the remaining athletes come through and try to challenge Lynsey

:51:06. > :51:13.Sharp. An unusual position, this, for Lynsey Sharp. She knows she is

:51:14. > :51:20.good in the home straight. Massenet will cover. Three will go through. I

:51:21. > :51:25.don't think there is too much cheer for Lynsey Sharp to worry about,

:51:26. > :51:29.just hold that position, strong in the home straight. I would not be

:51:30. > :51:37.surprised if these three glide away from the rest. They are the

:51:38. > :51:43.favourites. It now becomes four of them in with a chance. Stambolova

:51:44. > :51:50.thinking she have to pick things up here. Lynsey Sharp controlling this

:51:51. > :52:00.as she once, looking good. Just keep running to the line when you -- and

:52:01. > :52:05.you can ease off when you get to it. Pretty mature performance from

:52:06. > :52:10.Lynsey Sharp. Got off early and sat on the leader's shoulder and then

:52:11. > :52:13.moved to the front wishy sets a bit of danger and had more than anybody

:52:14. > :52:21.else and plenty in reserve in the home straight. Just always a worry,

:52:22. > :52:25.when athletes ease back too much. Exactly, what she is struggling to

:52:26. > :52:31.do here, the big screen here is actually quite small and quite high

:52:32. > :52:35.up, she glanced and she could not see it, but she needed to keep

:52:36. > :52:40.moving because Stambolova had already almost lost out. She managed

:52:41. > :52:44.to spot the challenge coming wide and she moved wide around and in the

:52:45. > :52:49.end, it was Masna who paid the price and was run out. We will have to

:52:50. > :52:52.wait and see for the times, whether to seek if she will make it of the

:52:53. > :53:05.fastest loser but I think she will. I think that was a really good run

:53:06. > :53:11.from Lynsey Sharp. You want to see them developing their confidence.

:53:12. > :53:15.She finished second two years ago but eventually with the drug

:53:16. > :53:16.disqualification, became the champion and she started her defence

:53:17. > :53:44.really well. Sintinicolaas is a very good pole

:53:45. > :54:01.vaulter. Watch out for him. It was all very close in the end in

:54:02. > :54:11.that 800-metre fourth heat. Lynsey Sharp and Stambolova, I think a lot

:54:12. > :54:16.more left in both of them. Masna will go through as a fastest loser.

:54:17. > :54:24.All three British women through to the semifinals. Which is good to see

:54:25. > :54:25.and hear and let tidied that up and then hopefully we will hear from

:54:26. > :54:54.Lynsey Sharp in a second. What an accomplishment, it is great

:54:55. > :54:58.honour for you to defend your title. I was excited to get back here and

:54:59. > :55:06.compete. Largo is not that long ago but it feels like ages ago. --

:55:07. > :55:09.Glasgow is not that long ago. You find yourself at the front and you

:55:10. > :55:15.were able to control the race from there. That was not really the plan

:55:16. > :55:19.but I just got out the first 200 like I usually do and I find myself

:55:20. > :55:25.at the front. It was quite fun to run from the front for change. Using

:55:26. > :55:31.to be in imperious form. After the Commonwealth Games and coming away

:55:32. > :55:39.with a medal, do you feel there is even a greater strength here? I was

:55:40. > :55:43.not in as good shape as I am now in 2012. Onwards and upwards. All the

:55:44. > :55:52.best for tomorrow. A beautiful shot of the Letzigrund

:55:53. > :56:09.Stadium. Everybody from the British point of

:56:10. > :56:15.view, good news, getting through. Lynsey Sharp, supreme. It was a

:56:16. > :56:19.commanding performance from her. Effortless piece of running, great

:56:20. > :56:25.racing brain, tactically aware. At all stages. The guys in the

:56:26. > :56:28.commentary don't quite like the looking around which we know is

:56:29. > :56:35.dangerous. The cost positions are won and lost. People don't make the

:56:36. > :56:42.finals by easing off too much. But I thought she looked really good. She

:56:43. > :56:45.would never have competed against some of these acted but you seem to

:56:46. > :56:49.be able to handle the situation with them very well. All of those

:56:50. > :56:53.questions about whether she would recover, the emotion, the sickness

:56:54. > :56:58.she had, could have taken a lot out of her but no sign of that. She had

:56:59. > :57:04.obviously whether that storm going into the Commonwealth Games. She had

:57:05. > :57:09.a couple of weeks to raise her game, the excitement of winning, the

:57:10. > :57:13.relief, and it left her on an upbeat cloud. Let's start to look forward

:57:14. > :57:19.to this evening because it is really a big night here in the stadium. Men

:57:20. > :57:24.and women's 100 metres. I glanced down at those finals and I thought

:57:25. > :57:28.the semifinals would be tasty enough. It will be a really exciting

:57:29. > :57:35.evening of sprinting from the women sprint hurdles as well. An exciting

:57:36. > :57:39.moment for us all. Who will you call? France versus the UK on every

:57:40. > :57:48.single level. We also have genuine medal prospects. Questions over

:57:49. > :57:57.certain people's fitness perhaps? We will have to wait and see. There are

:57:58. > :58:38.always rumours. He looked pretty impressive to me yesterday.

:58:39. > :58:47.Tonight, all eyes will be on Mo Farah. A lot of questions Dancevic,

:58:48. > :58:51.will he be able do it? -- a lot of questions to answer.