Day 1, Part 2

:00:12. > :00:18.Welcome to Gothenburg in Sweden, a city with a sporting past to be

:00:18. > :00:22.proud of. Back in 1958, it was up one of the host venues for the

:00:22. > :00:29.football World Cup and the European Championships in 1992. Figure-

:00:29. > :00:31.skating gold medals have been won here and stays but the world and

:00:31. > :00:35.the European Athletics Championships and we are back again,

:00:35. > :00:37.this time of the 32nd European Indoor Championships, an event

:00:37. > :00:43.which has always gone well for the British teams.

:00:43. > :00:48.COMMENTATOR: Coming away and looking full of fight. Linford

:00:48. > :00:55.Christie takes the gold! Another 20 metres throw for Geoff

:00:55. > :01:00.Capes. John Regis will get gold. And it is a new world indoor

:01:00. > :01:09.record! Helen Clitheroe against the gold! De Jason Gardener is the

:01:09. > :01:12.champion. It is called for Mo Farah. -- gold 4 Mo Farah.

:01:12. > :01:18.So we are all set for the next chapter in these championships.

:01:18. > :01:23.Gothenburg looking great in the sunshine but already chilly,

:01:23. > :01:27.hosting the European Indoor Championships in 1984 and 1954,

:01:27. > :01:34.with Christian also and the triple jumper hailing from the City, this

:01:34. > :01:41.is a place with athletics in its blood. So welcome back to the

:01:41. > :01:46.Scandinavium Arena. Robin Cousins won his medal here, the ice rink is

:01:46. > :01:52.another track. The British team has been on song.

:01:52. > :01:59.The quickest we have seen from join chambers for I don't know how long

:01:59. > :02:07.-- Dwain Chambers. Holly Bleasdale sales over this time. Jenny Meadows

:02:07. > :02:16.will win this one. It is bronze for Britain and Robbie Grabarz. It will

:02:16. > :02:20.be a fight to the line here. Lots of big British names out this

:02:20. > :02:24.afternoon, none more so than Dwain Chambers who goes in the heat of

:02:24. > :02:32.the men's 60m, Jenny Meadows captaining the team, she is in the

:02:32. > :02:37.women's 800m heats, semi-finals of the men's and women's 60m with

:02:37. > :02:44.strong British representation. Laura Muir and then the finals of

:02:44. > :02:47.the 60m hurdles towards the end of the programme. In the field, Holly

:02:47. > :02:51.Bleasdale, Robbie Grabarz, the Olympic bronze medallist and Yamile

:02:51. > :02:57.Aldama goes in the triple jump qualification. A couple of

:02:57. > :03:06.superstars in the studio as well. Denise and Paula. Les hear from

:03:06. > :03:10.deke mind at the new -- let's hear from the man at the top, Peter

:03:10. > :03:14.Eriksson, taking over from Charles van Commenee.

:03:14. > :03:18.Peter, it seems fitting, the head coach of UK Athletics in your home

:03:18. > :03:24.country of Sweden for your first maiden championship. How does it

:03:24. > :03:28.feel? It is great. I have not been home for many years. It is great to

:03:28. > :03:33.come home and be the first championship, this is what to look

:03:33. > :03:37.forward to, to be at the big event. I think we have a great team to do

:03:37. > :03:41.well. You have gone for a team which has got people in their, top

:03:41. > :03:51.six potential right across the board. Is that fair to say? Your

:03:51. > :03:52.

:03:52. > :03:59.eyes, UK Sport and the lottery funding is investing in sport. A

:03:59. > :04:04.young team, average age of 22 years. A good team and good coaching staff

:04:04. > :04:08.and support staff so I am really positive. A lot of pressure coming

:04:08. > :04:12.on to the team and we have so many youngsters but I do not see that as

:04:12. > :04:18.a stumbling Stone for doing well. You can hope for a certain amount

:04:18. > :04:24.of medals but I don't even go that way, by just try to get the best

:04:24. > :04:29.out of the Bartlett. And that is what we will value. You had

:04:29. > :04:34.fantastic success with the Great Britain Paralympics team, and a

:04:34. > :04:39.Cockcroft says he is our friend as well as our coach but he knows when

:04:39. > :04:47.to be scary as well! That sounds like a winning formula. I can be

:04:47. > :04:51.tough when it needs to be tough. Otherwise you would be

:04:52. > :04:59.steamrollered all the time. And too scared!

:04:59. > :05:04.New head coach and new glasses, different from his other classes.

:05:04. > :05:11.He is very different in demeanour from Charles van Commenee. Yes, a

:05:11. > :05:14.very warm and friendly man. They have had quite a strict regime

:05:14. > :05:18.under Charles van Commenee. Both men have very different approaches

:05:18. > :05:25.but very different pressures. Charles was focused on the Olympic

:05:25. > :05:28.success, the team had to do well so he had to be tough from the outset

:05:29. > :05:34.so Eriksson, it is about making unity and addressing some of the

:05:34. > :05:38.issues that were underlying, behind the scenes, behind the scenes with

:05:38. > :05:43.the coaches and management and he had stride to Smith that as well as

:05:43. > :05:46.bring up the best in the athlete. And the Paralympic athletes, they

:05:46. > :05:54.had a very bad athletics competition in Beijing but he

:05:54. > :06:01.turned it around for London. He s and made it one big family -- yes,

:06:01. > :06:06.and made one big family. I think he is bringing people to have more

:06:06. > :06:09.unity here and at the end of the day, an athlete wants to go out and

:06:09. > :06:14.perform, they do not need to be bullied, they know what they need

:06:14. > :06:19.to do. I would liked you have seen him give a few more people a chance

:06:19. > :06:23.here, to go out and learn and grow. Although he is a new head coach, he

:06:23. > :06:27.is still part of a system which is very much focused on the top end.

:06:27. > :06:31.Not so much on letting athletes come and learn from the experience

:06:31. > :06:35.of getting to a championships. is what we are witnessing here. It

:06:35. > :06:39.would have been nice to fill some of the gaps. Not just let athletes

:06:39. > :06:45.come for the sake of it but athletes and athletics are learning

:06:45. > :06:49.processes. It is something you learn, you have to craft. It is a

:06:49. > :06:52.daunting place out there for a youngster and unless you have the

:06:52. > :06:57.opportunity to manage yourself in that environment, you will never

:06:57. > :07:05.learn. You were particular critical, Paula, perhaps slightly indiscreet

:07:05. > :07:09.tweets! "completely ridiculous", the selection? A little bit

:07:09. > :07:13.ridiculous! I just felt this was the perfect opportunity to give

:07:13. > :07:17.young guys like Chris Robertson, the chance to come here and see

:07:17. > :07:25.what they could do but you talk about during people at the deep end.

:07:25. > :07:29.Hands and -- and sometimes you have to take that chance. In the

:07:29. > :07:33.distance events, David Sharpe winning, look at that. He may have

:07:33. > :07:38.not been on that team today but he was able to capitalise on things

:07:38. > :07:42.like that. Especially events like the women's 800, you have got the

:07:42. > :07:48.top 10 in the world and only one is here. I am hoping that Steve Cram

:07:48. > :07:52.and Colin Jackson in the commentary box, we have got the camera

:07:52. > :07:56.pointing at them. A bit of context for this championship. Straight

:07:56. > :08:01.after the Olympic Games, what should we be expecting? We were

:08:01. > :08:05.discussing earlier on today, a bit of a mixed bag today. Post Olympics,

:08:05. > :08:11.lots of big names. A fair share of our big names who are not here,

:08:11. > :08:18.they are taking time to recover and they want to ease himself back in.

:08:18. > :08:26.It is not only the Brit doing that a. -- not only the Brits doing that.

:08:26. > :08:32.You get some new faces and some stars and the youngsters as Paula

:08:33. > :08:36.was talking about, top level of competition experience. It is a

:08:36. > :08:44.good competition where, if you think back to Paris, Helen

:08:44. > :08:46.Clitheroe winning and Jodie Williams winning. I agree, but also

:08:46. > :08:51.you need to come to the championships with that the real

:08:51. > :08:55.reasons to come. If you want to perform well, you have to do so.

:08:55. > :09:00.When the athletes set themselves a target to perform, they still have

:09:00. > :09:06.to deliver. He has gone by, they did not have world juniors, under

:09:06. > :09:11.23 championships, lot of athletes would come to these events -- in in

:09:11. > :09:17.years gone by. It is not needed as much now. I think expectations

:09:17. > :09:21.should be quite strong on them. Steve and Colin, your thoughts of

:09:21. > :09:26.Peter Eriksson as the new head coach. Probably quite a different

:09:26. > :09:32.approach to what Charles created. Yes, while you were talking about

:09:32. > :09:36.it, Colin and I were chatting. I am not sure, but I think we overplay

:09:36. > :09:40.this. Peter is the head coach because his job is to ensure -

:09:40. > :09:47.particularly the coaches below him and working in a world-class

:09:47. > :09:51.programme and working with the coaches - that everybody is doing

:09:51. > :09:54.their job well when they come here. If they are doing their job well,

:09:54. > :09:59.that creates a great environment for the athlete. Peter Cook will

:09:59. > :10:09.only meet the athletes every now and then. He does not night --

:10:09. > :10:11.

:10:11. > :10:14.Peter will only meet. Charles had his way of doing things and Peter

:10:14. > :10:18.will have his own worth. He can't always affect how an athlete will

:10:18. > :10:21.perform, that is how well they have trained, they must work with their

:10:21. > :10:26.coaches and hopefully they arrive in good shape and ready to do well

:10:26. > :10:30.and Peter's job is to create the right environment. His language is

:10:30. > :10:39.a bit different, talking about them doing their best and Charles might

:10:39. > :10:44.have said that he would not accept second best, a different tone

:10:44. > :10:49.almost. I do not think any athlete comes to a championship to please a

:10:49. > :10:52.head coach. I don't think any athlete to be coming to an event to

:10:52. > :10:57.please Peter Eriksson or Charles van Commenee, they should becoming

:10:57. > :11:01.here to do the best they can. They will have their own expectations.

:11:01. > :11:07.We must recognise that. A collective environment, it is

:11:07. > :11:12.important to set the framework to allow athletes to compete at their

:11:12. > :11:16.best. Of course there will have targets, no sport comes to this and

:11:16. > :11:20.does not think it will matter to win medals, that would be nonsense

:11:20. > :11:24.but he is correct to say that he wants people to come to perform to

:11:24. > :11:26.the best of their ability. You do not what people going home thinking

:11:26. > :11:34.they could not perform well because of something the team had done, he

:11:34. > :11:37.must make sure that is the case. You are spot on there, Steve. I

:11:38. > :11:40.think he wants to create a warm atmosphere where athletes may be

:11:40. > :11:44.struggling and they would like to talk to him about something.

:11:44. > :11:49.Sometimes you can feel that. Sometimes people could feel they

:11:49. > :11:52.would not be able to dare to talk to Charles. Yes, a different

:11:52. > :11:57.environment but his job is to look after the coaching side and the

:11:57. > :12:01.medical side and everything else. Let me bring you in, Denise. You

:12:02. > :12:07.reacted to what Steve Cram said, people reacting to what Charles

:12:07. > :12:11.wanted. I think it is taking responsibility and ownership of how

:12:11. > :12:15.you go about your business so I think from what I can gather from

:12:15. > :12:21.what I have seen and heard about Charles, it was about what you did

:12:21. > :12:24.in the everyday and preparation to the championships. Not necessarily

:12:24. > :12:29.about what you did here, although that was important, but the

:12:29. > :12:35.decisions you make a bad way you train, the you train with and your

:12:35. > :12:39.training programme. -- the decisions about the way you train.

:12:39. > :12:45.Some people needed more guidance in that than others. The bits Charles

:12:45. > :12:48.perhaps become too big a personality -- did Charles?

:12:48. > :12:53.they are very different people but like Denise says, athletes are

:12:53. > :12:56.different people. Some athletes do not need any pushing in training

:12:56. > :13:01.and build up and preparation and certainly in racing, there are

:13:01. > :13:04.always trying to get the best out of themselves. Others may be less

:13:04. > :13:09.professional in that built up and need the guidance. Sometimes it is

:13:09. > :13:15.not always the younger athletes, sometimes it is the athletes who do

:13:15. > :13:18.not have that innate perspective and focus and a thick Charles did

:13:19. > :13:23.something to put people into that a bit more than somebody who needs

:13:23. > :13:27.that guidance may struggle a bit more under Peter but somebody who

:13:27. > :13:33.is well able to push themselves and focus themselves will flourish and

:13:33. > :13:40.perform well. No medal predictions from year but our pundits, Where

:13:40. > :13:45.Angels fear to tread! This is what they think will happen. A divide

:13:45. > :13:51.studio and it, too, Steve Cram and Colin Jackson are going

:13:51. > :13:55.conservatively but four at the front from Denise and Paula with 12

:13:56. > :14:01.and nine medals. Five gold medals, for Denise. Name them. I am a

:14:01. > :14:07.feeling optimistic. Looking at the men's and the women's 4x400. If we

:14:07. > :14:11.do not get golds. Then you add Robbie Grabarz and the high jump, I

:14:11. > :14:15.am hoping that Holly Bleasdale can do the business in the pole vault

:14:15. > :14:21.and then we have got Helen Clitheroe moment where an

:14:21. > :14:26.unexpected person who goes beyond what we think is possible. The is

:14:26. > :14:36.that five? That is five! And what is your prediction for gold

:14:36. > :14:39.

:14:39. > :14:45.Plummer? We hope that Holly Bleasdale is OK, she sprayed hair

:14:45. > :14:50.spray on her I it and she was using hair straighteners, I do not know

:14:50. > :14:56.why she needed then. You have gone for 12. Let's go to the commentary

:14:56. > :15:01.box and the wise heads not going for too many medals. I have got no

:15:01. > :15:09.hair spray on, unlike Holly! But I did injure my finger.

:15:09. > :15:14.I feel like I am tight compared to everybody, I am right at the bottom

:15:14. > :15:18.of the list but I am playing it safe but I think there's a lot of

:15:18. > :15:23.athletes who can raise their Games. From all parts of the world. We

:15:23. > :15:27.must be realistic. I still give us three gold medals which is not bad.

:15:27. > :15:31.Only fools make predictions about something they cannot influence. We

:15:31. > :15:36.have been asked to do that! Like everybody else, we do not know, and

:15:36. > :15:41.we are hoping that we do very well. I think we will, I have gone for

:15:41. > :15:44.night like Colin, I think the 400 individual metres and the 4x400 are

:15:44. > :15:48.our best chances but the French came here with high hopes and they

:15:48. > :15:52.have had two people go out with false starts and all sorts of

:15:53. > :15:57.things can happen. I think 8, 9, 10 would be a good return. We will

:15:57. > :16:02.keep track of those predictions with great interest and told the

:16:02. > :16:12.guys to them. The men's 60m heat coming up. We have not failed to

:16:12. > :16:31.

:16:31. > :16:35.brilliant run. Linford Christie is storming through. He takes the gold.

:16:35. > :16:45.He takes it from a standing start. It was an appalling start and he

:16:45. > :16:49.

:16:49. > :16:57.still won. It is Livingston. It is very, very close. He is the

:16:57. > :17:07.European a number one. Jackson Quinonez got away very well indeed.

:17:07. > :17:08.

:17:08. > :17:18.A brilliant run. Stumbled a bit at the moment. He is going well.

:17:18. > :17:20.

:17:20. > :17:30.Through the middle. Jason Gardener is the European champion. Jason

:17:30. > :17:30.

:17:30. > :17:37.Gardener got away well. He is the champion again. Absolutely superb.

:17:37. > :17:47.6.56. That was a terrific run. Chambers gets his very good start

:17:47. > :17:54.

:17:54. > :18:00.as usual. He will win. He has got Dwain Chambers was very quick in

:18:00. > :18:04.2009. Let us hear from him. I know you have had so many successes

:18:04. > :18:09.indoors before. When it comes to the Championship like this, how

:18:09. > :18:14.much do you tap into those memories to inspire you? I have noticed it

:18:14. > :18:20.is getting harder and harder. Young men are getting faster and faster.

:18:20. > :18:24.I have started to realise I have got to rely on my experience. I

:18:24. > :18:29.still have the ability but experience pays a lot. I have to

:18:29. > :18:37.use it in the Championships. You are the man. Everybody is trying to

:18:37. > :18:44.beat you. You have the record that is answer past. It is a question of

:18:44. > :18:50.how long you can keep it going. Physically, I still have the

:18:50. > :18:54.ability to go out and perform. I try and remember -- I try and stay

:18:54. > :18:59.one step ahead of everybody. I still love what I do. That is the

:18:59. > :19:05.main thing. Whatever you do in life, do it with love and care. You can

:19:05. > :19:10.go as long as you want. If you look at Hollywood, Bruce Willis and so

:19:10. > :19:20.on, they are still making movies in their 60s. It shows, age is nothing

:19:20. > :19:24.

:19:24. > :19:29.but a number. If you still enjoy what you do, anything is possible.

:19:29. > :19:35.After Birmingham, a bit surprised when he did not make the final. I

:19:35. > :19:41.am surprised to see him here. are talking about European indoors,

:19:42. > :19:46.if anyone can mix it up it is Dwane. He has a great track record. It is

:19:46. > :19:54.about how fit he is. If he is putting himself on the line, I

:19:54. > :19:59.expected to do well. He seems a more relaxed athlete after 2012. He

:19:59. > :20:03.has some sense of personal redemption. He has. He has got

:20:03. > :20:08.perspective as well. At the end of the day, he is doing something he

:20:08. > :20:13.enjoys. He thinks he can still perform at it. He would not be here

:20:13. > :20:23.if he did not think he could go out to perform. Dwain Chambers goes in

:20:23. > :20:35.

:20:35. > :20:45.heat two. It is the two wise men in Harry Aikines-Aryeetey first. Only

:20:45. > :20:49.

:20:49. > :20:52.three heats in this round. The first format will go through. --

:20:52. > :21:00.format. Although it for a map fastest losers will join them.

:21:00. > :21:10.There will be 16 in the final. -- the four fastest losers will join

:21:10. > :21:16.

:21:16. > :21:26.them. This young man has been in great form. European junior

:21:26. > :21:27.

:21:27. > :21:30.champion. Harry Aikines-Aryeetey has been through the World Junior

:21:30. > :21:39.Championships. Not quite able to convert all of that talent as a

:21:39. > :21:46.senior. He is the same age as Julian Reus. Harry needs to be

:21:46. > :21:56.careful. He is capable of finishing in the top four. Anything slightly

:21:56. > :22:05.

:22:05. > :22:15.off, as happens in the 60m, you can be disappointed. To put it mildly.

:22:15. > :22:54.

:22:54. > :22:58.This young man has been making all kinds of headlines at home. They

:22:58. > :23:03.are getting excited about his prospects. He twitched a bit in the

:23:03. > :23:13.blocks before he went away. Harry was not so quick. He ran a good

:23:13. > :23:13.

:23:13. > :23:16.second half. The surprise, was the Romanian. It was quite an even race.

:23:16. > :23:22.You would expect that. No-one is outstanding this season. The German

:23:22. > :23:32.is very smooth and fluid. This is something we have to look out for,

:23:32. > :23:33.

:23:33. > :23:37.the surprises. There is the German. He has done well. 6.56. As a

:23:37. > :23:41.sprinter, he has everything you want. He is not under stress,

:23:41. > :23:45.working his way to the line. He knows everyone is around him. He

:23:45. > :23:51.looks calm and comfortable. A good performance. Let us have a look at

:23:51. > :23:55.Harry out of the Brooks. -- the blocks. He can be aggressive. He

:23:55. > :24:04.suffers from injuries a lot. He cannot fulfil the potential he

:24:04. > :24:12.could expose him to. He has qualified here. Qualified nicely.

:24:12. > :24:20.There is a bit of a surprise. Catalin Cimpeanu. We have not

:24:20. > :24:23.really seen him race. A good win really seen him race. A good win

:24:23. > :24:32.for him. Paris safely through. -- Harry. How are you looking at the

:24:32. > :24:37.event? It is an opportunity for us to work on a few new things and try

:24:37. > :24:41.to implement them. I had a bit of a stumble. Lots of things to work on.

:24:41. > :24:46.It was a better run than I have been doing the majority of the

:24:46. > :24:56.season. I am lucky to be here. I will make the most of it. What

:24:56. > :24:56.

:24:56. > :25:01.other trickiest things and the best things of changing coach? Hope and

:25:01. > :25:07.confidence. I beat Yohan Blake and look at where he is now. So a new

:25:07. > :25:12.coach is a new start. I want to go out there and say -- and do what I

:25:12. > :25:22.can do. Can I say hello to Dave Royal? Good to see you back. All

:25:22. > :25:25.

:25:25. > :25:31.the best. Dwain Chambers is ready for the second heat. We have heard

:25:31. > :25:38.from him, we have seen him, we wonder how his back is. That did

:25:38. > :25:46.seem to be troubling him in Glasgow. He did not get through the heats.

:25:46. > :25:53.He is 34 years old. Still with a passion for it. He has got one or

:25:53. > :26:03.two new names. He needs to look out two new names. He needs to look out

:26:03. > :26:06.

:26:06. > :26:10.for Jimmy Vicaut. The Romanian threw his hat into this -- into the

:26:10. > :26:18.ring. He thought that was his best of the year. Emmanuel Biron got

:26:18. > :26:24.fourth place. That was the automatic qualification spot. This

:26:24. > :26:29.is how they line up for the second. Jimmy Vicaut is a very promising

:26:29. > :26:39.French man. He has just turned 21. European junior champion a couple

:26:39. > :26:53.

:26:53. > :26:59.trying to run through his injury but you saw in Glasgow, there was

:26:59. > :27:03.not the same spring in his step. was not the strong at Dwain

:27:03. > :27:09.Chambers we expect to see. He did attempt to raise but it was

:27:09. > :27:19.gingerly. He is here. -- to race. When he is on the track had a major

:27:19. > :27:25.Championship, he gives it his heart and soul. 6.58 this season. He did

:27:25. > :27:30.not get close to that in Birmingham. There is Jimmy Vicaut. He has been

:27:30. > :27:38.working with a dance teacher to working with a dance teacher to

:27:38. > :27:44.help him run with more relaxation. Any thoughts? Won the French indoor

:27:44. > :27:54.title recently. Very, very good French sprinters coming through.

:27:54. > :28:02.

:28:02. > :28:08.Italy a strong as well. There is Jaysuma Saidy Ndure of Gambia. If

:28:08. > :28:14.Dwain Chambers is near his best, he is not at his best, but if he is at

:28:15. > :28:20.10% of it, he should have a chance here. He should go through all

:28:20. > :28:30.things being equal. It is a small field for this race. Four go

:28:30. > :28:38.

:28:38. > :28:45.through from each heat plus the false start of. There is a done

:28:45. > :28:51.rose. -- Odain Rose. He is the Swedish champion. Jimmy Vicaut is

:28:51. > :28:59.the man who comes in on the hottest form. He does like to look at his

:28:59. > :29:09.watch before he sets into the blocks, Dwain Chambers. He is not

:29:09. > :29:37.

:29:37. > :29:40.doing that today unless he has his best form. This is not going to

:29:40. > :29:45.be his Championship unless something dramatic happens. It is

:29:45. > :29:52.all laid out beside Jimmy Vicaut. He was very impressive. The-4 run

:29:52. > :29:59.by him. Absolutely wonderful. Flawless. -- a beautiful run. So

:29:59. > :30:09.relaxed at the end. The final time was 655. A lot more to come from

:30:09. > :30:12.

:30:12. > :30:18.that young man. -- 6.55. A bit of a gap there. A tenth of a second. He

:30:18. > :30:23.is saying, this is what I have got. Here is Dwain Chambers. A less he

:30:23. > :30:28.explodes out of the blocks, you can know he is struggling. He has no

:30:28. > :30:36.good contact on the floor, there is no drive, he does not get into is a

:30:36. > :30:40.bright spring tide running. You can see by his head he is thinking,

:30:40. > :30:45.just pain. He is really suffering. He is an athlete who has not had

:30:45. > :30:52.many injuries. He is finding out how damaging it can be. A very,

:30:52. > :30:57.very frustrated figure, Dwain Chambers. He may well go through to

:30:57. > :31:02.the semi-finals which take place tomorrow. His time is 6.78. It is

:31:02. > :31:12.tomorrow. His time is 6.78. It is some way off his best. Dwain

:31:12. > :31:28.

:31:28. > :31:32.Chambers, we will see if he gets he is frustrated. I sent a bit of

:31:32. > :31:39.anger. Phil Jones tried to get hold of him that he decided that it was

:31:39. > :31:43.not the time, throws his top down with real disgust. You can see the

:31:43. > :31:47.anger of Dwain Chambers there because we wondered what form he

:31:47. > :31:54.would be in in terms of his injury and he wandered as well and there's

:31:54. > :32:01.the answer. A very annoyed Dwain Chambers, he may be back as one of

:32:01. > :32:06.JONATHAN EDWARDS: Quite a strong reaction from Dwain Chambers. I am

:32:06. > :32:10.surprised to see that. Are you? Dwain Chambers does not like to

:32:10. > :32:15.perform like that, especially on the European stage but clearly he

:32:15. > :32:22.is not in shape. He looked very laboured out of the blocks. His

:32:22. > :32:26.contacts seem to be so long on the floor and that is not the person we

:32:26. > :32:29.know. He has had a back injury and sometimes that means the signals

:32:29. > :32:33.are not getting from your brain down to your muscles and it looked

:32:33. > :32:38.like he was struggling to get the turnover and cadence and an

:32:38. > :32:48.unbalanced way of running. Let's see if we can pick up anything from

:32:48. > :32:50.

:32:50. > :32:55.No better here. You would expect him to be high in his feet but he

:32:55. > :32:58.was fighting every step of the way. Nothing majestic about that.

:32:58. > :33:03.Nothing that looked like this printing we have come to expect

:33:03. > :33:08.from him. It was hard work. -- from the sprinting. We also must

:33:08. > :33:13.remember that if you go back to Glasgow at the end of January, up

:33:13. > :33:17.in the Commonwealth Games arena, he was 6.58 out of the blocks first

:33:17. > :33:22.and looks great so something has happened and that is what I am

:33:22. > :33:26.surprised four, he has not a valid reason for not running well. He has,

:33:26. > :33:31.but if it is something like trapping in his back, that can come

:33:31. > :33:35.and go. As easily as the bed not being comfortable here. If it is

:33:35. > :33:41.just not firing as well as yesterday. It looks like he was

:33:41. > :33:44.hoping and knew the shape was there, but it looked like he was sinking

:33:45. > :33:49.on his left side. He has usually been very willing to give answers

:33:49. > :33:53.to why things have gone wrong and I am sure he will come back and speak

:33:53. > :33:58.to Phil Jones later but we will get a reaction from Dwain Chambers but

:33:58. > :34:08.we saw those pictures of him winning in 2009, running six but 42,

:34:08. > :34:10.

:34:10. > :34:13.the second-fastest time of all time. -- running 6.42. He usually does

:34:13. > :34:19.communicate what is going on so clearly he is disappointed more

:34:19. > :34:23.than anything else. A quick word on the French athlete. He looked

:34:23. > :34:28.amazing. I think there's more to come but he is definitely favourite

:34:28. > :34:34.moving forward. Let's get back to the track and James Dasaolu goes

:34:34. > :34:44.first in this, equal top ranked Brit so far and back to the

:34:44. > :34:45.

:34:45. > :34:51.earlier in the season and we have not seen him race since the UK

:34:51. > :34:56.trials and they argue whether or not he has been 100%, but he is

:34:56. > :35:04.certainly capable of doing well here. A decent season outdoors last

:35:04. > :35:08.year and somebody who has already shown that once you are running

:35:08. > :35:15.under 6.6 indoors, certainly at the moment, you will be in with a good

:35:15. > :35:19.shout. It will be close, we will say Michael Tumi alongside him, a

:35:19. > :35:29.bit of a revelation, breaking the Italian record on a couple of

:35:29. > :35:31.

:35:31. > :35:41.the French athlete, was. James Dasaolu, has surely got a better

:35:41. > :35:59.

:35:59. > :36:03.Michael Tumi. A very good Russian is currently in the fastest loser

:36:03. > :36:07.spot so if he does go through, he will have to find his number, and

:36:07. > :36:12.he shared, both of which he threw off and then be back for the semi-

:36:12. > :36:16.finals tomorrow hopefully. I am not sure that lots of people will run

:36:16. > :36:26.quicker than that here but we will see. Two people outside the top

:36:26. > :36:28.

:36:28. > :36:38.Arena tonight. A better crowd than this morning although we expected

:36:38. > :36:39.

:36:39. > :36:49.bigger crowds of the weekend as you would expect. Field event

:36:49. > :36:50.

:36:50. > :37:00.the pole vault. James hopefully waiting for his chance to go

:37:00. > :37:03.

:37:03. > :37:10.year, Michael Tierney, everybody thought he is in goods shape, and

:37:10. > :37:18.this plan has run a personal best down to 6.51 on three occasions.

:37:18. > :37:23.For now, this is where the focus is. Michael Tierney, I was watching a

:37:23. > :37:27.video of him winning in the Italian championships when he ran that 6.51,

:37:27. > :37:31.he has only run on two occasions this year but, but he really did

:37:31. > :37:36.explode out of the blocks and the middle part of the race really

:37:36. > :37:42.impressive. Let's see what he does. The Frenchman James is different,

:37:42. > :37:46.he has improved his start, but he is best at the end. He knows to get

:37:46. > :37:56.to the final and you will get your first view of Michael Tierney here.

:37:56. > :38:13.

:38:13. > :38:17.He is in the blue of Italy. James pleased to see that when you have

:38:17. > :38:23.not raced for a while, you come into your heat and comment, you may

:38:23. > :38:29.pick up on the start. And how James Dasaolu, how he got out. A bit of a

:38:29. > :38:36.weird right arm from Michael Tumi, but James Dasaolu and looked very

:38:36. > :38:39.relaxed in the last 20 minutes. no stress at all from James. He

:38:39. > :38:44.drove through the first 20 metres and was looking at Michael Tierney

:38:44. > :38:48.from about 40 metres so that tells me that he feels good, he is in

:38:48. > :38:56.great shape and he is looking at his opponents and saying he is

:38:56. > :39:02.there with him. An excellent performance from James. Let's see

:39:02. > :39:06.exactly what happened. You have to drive this bit, react well and

:39:06. > :39:12.drive but he slyly stumbled a bit. Lost a bit of balance but he got

:39:12. > :39:16.back into his running -- slightly stumbled. I wish he would start

:39:16. > :39:19.doing that nice bounce down the track, it makes a huge difference

:39:19. > :39:24.to your sprinting. And what a great way of demonstrating that

:39:24. > :39:31.relaxation. Well done, James. news for him but not for Dwain

:39:31. > :39:37.Chambers because behind him, quite a few people went well. An

:39:37. > :39:40.impressive performers but at the bottom, but 6.74 and 6.76

:39:40. > :39:47.qualification means they go through as the fastest and Dwain Chambers

:39:47. > :39:54.does not go through. Two men through, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and

:39:54. > :39:59.James Dasaolu, there's qualification. Very impressive from

:39:59. > :40:06.James Dasaolu and Harry safely through as well. A real opportunity

:40:06. > :40:16.for James Dasaolu but he will have to be going... As quick as he has

:40:16. > :40:21.

:40:21. > :40:25.ever been. No Dwain Chambers in the looked relaxed out there. I had a

:40:25. > :40:29.plan to make it to the qualifiers as easily as possible. I thought I

:40:29. > :40:35.would drive out and qualify so I was in a good position. I knew I

:40:36. > :40:42.did not have to push or try, just to try to conserve energy. You have

:40:42. > :40:47.not run that money raised is indoors but you have been putting

:40:47. > :40:54.the work in. My coach has belief in me, he knows I do not need to

:40:54. > :41:00.compete, compete, compete. He can even afford a look sideways, that

:41:00. > :41:06.is how comfortable new look. Yeah, when I looked round I was just

:41:06. > :41:16.checking my position. More to come? Or of course. I would like to think

:41:16. > :41:22.

:41:22. > :41:28.so. Good luck. Cut to do double. -- the chairman of UK Athletics a

:41:29. > :41:32.moment ago. You can see Sebastian Coe there and his wife. Middle-

:41:32. > :41:42.distance runners, Sebastian Coe used to love running indoors with

:41:42. > :41:45.

:41:45. > :41:50.when he won the European indoor title. He has got that many titles

:41:50. > :41:55.these days. Confirmation that Dwain Chambers did not make the semi-

:41:55. > :42:00.finals. The petulant reaction that we saw and I think what surprised

:42:00. > :42:10.us both about that was that he was always the figure that people love

:42:10. > :42:13.

:42:13. > :42:17.After his suspension and coming back, he was looking like he wanted

:42:17. > :42:21.to please. I think it was important for him to feel that he was

:42:22. > :42:26.accepted by the public and his peers. And for him to be annoyed,

:42:27. > :42:31.you can understand that. Not speaking to Phil Jones and that is

:42:31. > :42:39.unusual because like I said before, he normally speaks when running has

:42:39. > :42:45.gone well. Even if it has not gone well, he has usually got a smile on

:42:45. > :42:49.his face. But there was frustration on his face which is unlike him.

:42:49. > :42:54.were taught about this sense of redemption that he got through 2012,

:42:54. > :42:58.he stood in the Olympic Stadium, he was allowed to compete first of all

:42:58. > :43:04.four Team GB and got a great cheer and performed relatively well. But

:43:04. > :43:08.it was almost like that he has got the freedom to be angry and he can

:43:08. > :43:13.be annoyed if it doesn't go well. He is an athlete and at the end of

:43:13. > :43:17.the day, these things hurt. These things kick in. He is free to be

:43:17. > :43:20.himself and he is expressing what any athlete would do if they are

:43:21. > :43:25.coming to the championships and not performing well. He knew he did not

:43:25. > :43:31.do enough and it would be wrong to be smiling, that is not be Dwain I

:43:31. > :43:35.know anyway. By a very bright future at the end of the career of

:43:35. > :43:40.the next person though, Holly Bleasdale is getting ready pull the

:43:40. > :43:48.women's pole vault as the qualification, she should do this

:43:48. > :43:52.comfortably. But hear her thought. -- let hear. I have had a great

:43:52. > :43:56.indoor season and I am feeling confident, training has been going

:43:56. > :44:00.so well and I think I am in the best place I could be with

:44:00. > :44:07.confidence. I am hopefully able to add to what I have achieved on

:44:07. > :44:11.nastier and happily get a medal. Was it the indoor season last year

:44:11. > :44:17.and the height of things you were able to achieve that catapulted you

:44:17. > :44:24.to greater things at doors and also sent your confidence soaring.

:44:24. > :44:27.that was a great big break through and struggling a bit outdoors, I

:44:27. > :44:31.hit some competition with bad weather conditions but this year I

:44:31. > :44:35.have come back out and buy have jumped more consistency than ever

:44:35. > :44:40.and I feel so much more confident than I ever have done in a season.

:44:40. > :44:44.I feel like I him in the best place I can be. With the change of

:44:45. > :44:51.coaching strategies, that has helped me mentally and more

:44:51. > :44:56.confidence. Dan said he could name 14 things I could change right now

:44:56. > :45:02.and it was really daunting having all those things to changed and I

:45:02. > :45:12.have changed some of those. I have made my run-up so it is more

:45:12. > :45:13.

:45:13. > :45:18.controlled. If I would have carried a pole, and like in the Olympics, I

:45:18. > :45:25.can do so much better, I can cope with different conditions. There

:45:25. > :45:31.are not many times when you get good conditions. Aside from all the

:45:31. > :45:34.pressures of the sport, you have got things to look forward to.

:45:34. > :45:38.would with some friends in Cardiff and I have been so nervous for

:45:38. > :45:43.these competitions because lot of pressure to come and win a medal,

:45:43. > :45:50.particularly being the favourite and there is lots of pressure but

:45:50. > :46:00.going in and trying wedding dresses, it has really chilled me out and I

:46:00. > :46:05.I guess she wants to enjoy herself and she wants to win. I would say

:46:05. > :46:09.so! She has learned a lot from last year. The height of expectation

:46:09. > :46:14.going into London and then not quite hitting what I am sure she

:46:14. > :46:19.would have hoped for herself, no medal and she must now realise that

:46:19. > :46:23.big hides are not just the game, it is about converting those into

:46:23. > :46:29.medals. She has a great opportunity to do that. The coverage we saw of

:46:29. > :46:39.her when she jumped her four metres and 87 centimetres, it was a

:46:39. > :46:47.

:46:47. > :46:52.It is about finding consistency. She talked about her run-up. A

:46:52. > :46:57.larger pole. She feels more comfortable. When she improves the

:46:57. > :47:03.run up, she can hit the heights. She is capable of hitting the 4.80

:47:03. > :47:10.mark again. Column, she will be one of your predictions for a gold.

:47:10. > :47:16.People will be waiting for her to deliver. What Holly Bleasdale is

:47:16. > :47:19.happy about doing is doing what she has to do to get consistent. She

:47:20. > :47:26.has not been involved in the excitement about herself. In

:47:26. > :47:32.interviews, she is quite straight. She says, this is what I am doing,

:47:32. > :47:36.give me time and I will deliver big performances. I have no doubt.

:47:36. > :47:42.There will be a time when she will be hitting marks consistently. When

:47:42. > :47:46.you do that, that is when we will start seeing her get big medals.

:47:46. > :47:53.her last competition, it was in Stockholm, she jumped, 4.45. She

:47:53. > :48:00.was disappointed and a confidence took a knock. This is section two.

:48:00. > :48:03.Lots of good action, not least in the women's 400m. Perri Shakes-

:48:03. > :48:08.Drayton is in great form. She Drayton is in great form. She

:48:08. > :48:16.looked superb. She really did. She has all this indoor season. Every

:48:16. > :48:22.time we see her, she has been demanding, executed her race really

:48:22. > :48:28.well. We know how important it is to get to that 200m mark first. She

:48:28. > :48:34.is in the outside lane, she went off like a train. She was

:48:34. > :48:39.commanding. She did a great job. The most important thing is, when

:48:39. > :48:46.you are in that type of form, it is to not make any trivial mistakes.

:48:46. > :48:56.You have to keep yourself focused. We know she can go in at 52 seconds.

:48:56. > :49:00.

:49:00. > :49:05.So Mike -- so why not run it like that? You have got to do it.

:49:05. > :49:08.was comfortably the fastest qualifier. In the interview with

:49:08. > :49:18.Phil, she said she did not expect Phil, she said she did not expect

:49:18. > :49:22.

:49:22. > :49:25.to run that fast. That bodes well. Again, she looks good. When it

:49:25. > :49:30.Eilidh Child was under pressure, she had this beautiful way of

:49:30. > :49:38.exhilarating, just to take herself clear. They showed someone who was

:49:38. > :49:44.full of confidence who knows what they can achieve. Her time was 5205.

:49:44. > :49:48.-- 52.05. It was a great performance. She was the one who

:49:49. > :49:54.did not win, unfortunately. She had a pretty solid race. She has not

:49:54. > :49:59.got the same speed in her legs. She has raced but not too much. She

:49:59. > :50:07.needs this confidence, she needs a run. She was comfortably through.

:50:07. > :50:16.It doesn't bode well, especially when we look ahead. There really is

:50:16. > :50:26.a gold medal banker. The men's 400m happened this morning. There is

:50:26. > :50:29.

:50:29. > :50:33.works on the back straight to make sure he goes into the second corner.

:50:33. > :50:38.You can see what is happening, he knows he is going on the outside.

:50:38. > :50:43.There is some acceleration to take him to the head of the pact and

:50:43. > :50:50.then he can just relax and control the race. All the British runners

:50:50. > :50:55.have a clear plan, go out fast. it worked. It was a great tactic.

:50:55. > :51:00.It is a tactic they will have to adopt when we move into the semi-

:51:00. > :51:04.finals. It was great to see Richard running well. He has been at this a

:51:04. > :51:08.long time. They would be nice to see him progress through to the

:51:08. > :51:15.final. A great run from him. Richard Strachan made it through.

:51:15. > :51:20.From a British point of view, our best chance is Nigel Levine. He

:51:20. > :51:25.beat Richard Strachan. We can see the closing stages of his race.

:51:25. > :51:30.competent performer. We expect the man in front of him to be the

:51:30. > :51:37.leader. He has had a great rise in this indoor season. He has run 45

:51:37. > :51:41.seconds outdoors. Nigel Levine would know what was going on. What

:51:41. > :51:46.I loved was he tested his opponent. Coming off the final bend, he put

:51:46. > :51:52.his foot down to see if he would respond. He did respond. He was

:51:52. > :51:59.like, OK, I know what you have left in a tank. He could sense Nigel

:51:59. > :52:03.Levine and the kept him back. would not let him past. Today, not

:52:03. > :52:07.tomorrow -- not so they, not tomorrow. It will be an exciting

:52:07. > :52:13.race. There are three athletes in this. All three got through.

:52:13. > :52:22.Michael Bingham. He took it out strong. One of the contenders, the

:52:23. > :52:31.Russian looked good. The Russian is strong. Indoors, we are not so sure

:52:31. > :52:41.of him. People bought -- performed really well. He went comfortably

:52:41. > :52:46.under 47 seconds. He has got a bit left in the tank. All six of our

:52:46. > :52:51.men and women through to the semi- finals tomorrow. Good news for the

:52:51. > :52:57.woman was a long jump. High hopes with Shara Proctor. She got bronze

:52:57. > :53:04.last year. Disappointed in London. She did not make automatic

:53:04. > :53:08.qualification. She did not. She qualified well enough. It is tough

:53:08. > :53:12.for the girls to come out and made sure their accuracy on the wrong

:53:13. > :53:18.way is there. She was beautiful on the board, running well. Qualified

:53:18. > :53:24.with 6.61. Safely through. It only to cut one jump. She was assessed

:53:24. > :53:32.in the competition, making it sure she could respond. -- it only took

:53:32. > :53:35.one a jumper. Post London, she have the point to prove. That is why she

:53:36. > :53:42.is here. She has made that clear. She was disappointed in the

:53:42. > :53:48.Olympics. She will be competitive. It will be one of the athletes I

:53:48. > :53:52.expect to find in the line-up. Jenny Meadows is in the 800m. She

:53:53. > :53:55.is the champion. She finished in is the champion. She finished in

:53:55. > :54:00.silver-medal position at three years ago. She was upgraded after

:54:01. > :54:10.the doping violation. She is team captain. It is great to see you

:54:11. > :54:11.

:54:11. > :54:17.because when we spoke in Birmingham you ran well. What was the

:54:17. > :54:22.discussion? When I crossed the line, I felt really tired and I thought,

:54:22. > :54:27.I do not want to do that again soon. I thought, it is probably what they

:54:27. > :54:31.need to do. It is a different training. You have to be quite

:54:31. > :54:35.race-fit. We decided we did not want to leave it three months until

:54:35. > :54:39.the start of the outdoor season. It would only be a couple of weeks

:54:39. > :54:46.into the Championship. Thrown in the deep end. It shows the kind of

:54:46. > :54:50.esteem you are held in, you have been made the captain as well. It

:54:50. > :54:55.is a fantastic honour. When Peter asked me, I accepted straight away.

:54:55. > :55:02.To a weeks ago, I would not have thought I would be in the

:55:02. > :55:05.Championship and a captain. -- two weeks. What about champion? I have

:55:06. > :55:14.never gone in as defending champion before. I am not sure realistically

:55:14. > :55:20.what my chances are. Certainly, I take it very seriously. I will not

:55:20. > :55:28.let the title slip easily. For you, this Championship, hive would you

:55:28. > :55:38.put it into perspective? What success -- what would success

:55:38. > :55:40.

:55:40. > :55:45.before you? The coach would say it is to practise your mental skills.

:55:46. > :55:49.It is all the build up, you get a lot of nerves, the warm-up area can

:55:49. > :55:55.be daunting. To go through the whole routine is really important

:55:55. > :56:02.for me. That is ticking a box of the summer. I am a competitor. It

:56:02. > :56:07.will be trying my best, trying to defend my title. A lot of people

:56:07. > :56:12.would not expected. By Emily ranked 7th or 8th going into the race. But

:56:12. > :56:15.I would be disappointed if I am not I would be disappointed if I am not

:56:15. > :56:24.on the podium. -- I am only ranked. Her coach will be watching with

:56:25. > :56:31.eagle eyes. We can see Jenny getting ready.

:56:31. > :56:39.What we your final words? Just to enjoy herself. We struggled in

:56:39. > :56:43.Birmingham. She was a bit race rusty. She asked a practice that so

:56:44. > :56:48.when she is 100% fit and summer, she is ready to go. Was this some

:56:48. > :56:51.debate in Birmingham as to whether she would come here? Not really. We

:56:51. > :56:56.thought about it and analyse the race and thought the weakest part

:56:56. > :57:05.of the day was what was going on in her head. So we thought we would

:57:05. > :57:10.put that right. She got a gold medal in Paris after the Russian

:57:10. > :57:15.was disqualified a couple of years ago. She got there was -- she was

:57:15. > :57:19.devastated she came second that day, though. What did you think? It is

:57:19. > :57:24.difficult. If you dwell on it too much, you get frustrated. You have

:57:24. > :57:28.got to go in with the mine said, if I am doing the best they can do,

:57:28. > :57:33.you cannot complain about what other people do on the day. -- mind

:57:33. > :57:38.set. You hope people doing their job behind the scenes are doing

:57:38. > :57:42.their job. Was there anything that made you change the way you

:57:43. > :57:48.approach things in light of that result? We looked at a few things

:57:48. > :57:58.and tweaked a few things and she missed the final later that summer

:57:58. > :58:00.

:58:00. > :58:04.in day do up by a fraction. We went back to the drawing board. You

:58:04. > :58:09.could argue that was the reason for the injury but we will never know.

:58:09. > :58:15.It is one of those things. We may be did not need to change things.

:58:15. > :58:20.The Russians were doping. What are you hoping for this week? She had

:58:20. > :58:25.had a long road back after last year. Just that she is enjoying the

:58:25. > :58:30.races and getting used to the whole build-up of the day and the media

:58:30. > :58:34.attention and things like that. Knowing her, she will be eyeing a

:58:35. > :58:40.medal. She definitely had a twinkle in her eye when she was talking

:58:40. > :58:44.about, it is great to be here, but the Bodiam -- the podium is what

:58:44. > :58:50.she wants. Three years ago, we would be looking at the field and

:58:50. > :58:55.saying, let us take it on and dominated. But she is a bit race

:58:55. > :59:05.rusty and she has not done all the training we would have liked to

:59:05. > :59:12.

:59:12. > :59:17.have done. Whatever happens is a where the hard work is done. It has

:59:17. > :59:21.been a hard slog for Jenny to get back. We are delighted to see her

:59:21. > :59:25.back. She is one of the most popular athlete the team. It is

:59:25. > :59:30.great she is the team captain. As the code was saying, if she had

:59:30. > :59:35.looked at the field two years ago, only 16 athletes in it, only thing

:59:35. > :59:45.that will be eliminated in this round, the three fastest from the

:59:45. > :00:10.

:00:10. > :00:15.She knows how to bring -- to win big races. Jenny is happy she has

:00:15. > :00:25.got three races. She can be steady across three. Do not be surprised

:00:25. > :00:30.as we see her making sure the pace does not slip. Great to see her

:00:30. > :00:38.back. I have expectations and hopes. I hope she can come back and take

:00:38. > :00:43.the middle. I think she is capable but they are not 100% prepared. One

:00:43. > :00:48.thing that is not lacking is a fight. She will go out and attack

:00:48. > :00:51.like she is doing now. It is hard being in the first heat because you

:00:51. > :00:57.do not know the time to shoot for. She is controlling everything.

:00:57. > :01:04.Elena Kotulskaia goes into the lead. Bit of a stumble there. She is in

:01:04. > :01:13.control. She is happy. Happy to be racing. When you have time out from

:01:14. > :01:23.injury, that can give you an extra boost to full stop she is doing

:01:24. > :01:24.

:01:24. > :01:34.everything right. Now she is wanted to move wide. She is using her

:01:34. > :01:35.

:01:35. > :01:40.experience. Wide down the back straight. Top three to go through.

:01:40. > :01:45.Nataliya Lupu own is there. Jenny has just got to keep working. The

:01:45. > :01:48.lack of training by come into play here. You cannot switch through the

:01:48. > :01:55.gears in the same way. That determination that she has always

:01:55. > :02:05.had is still there. Elena Kotulskaia is first, Jenny is

:02:05. > :02:16.

:02:16. > :02:20.safely through in third. A few more are training, a long time out with

:02:20. > :02:24.injury and the fitness coming back but it is the race fitness which

:02:24. > :02:27.takes a little longer to arrive. absolutely, blowing the cobwebs

:02:28. > :02:34.away and you see and she is coming down the home straight, she has not

:02:34. > :02:39.got the change of pace that she normally has when she is 100% ready.

:02:39. > :02:49.But she made it and fought hard and I think she will come back stronger

:02:49. > :02:58.

:02:58. > :03:02.with other athletes becoming married and now called Elena

:03:02. > :03:06.Kotulskaia. Jenny held the position behind the Russian. She would have

:03:07. > :03:13.been able to raise the pace there and go through as Nataliia Lupu

:03:13. > :03:20.went by her. She is reaching for it to her but she is not liking as

:03:20. > :03:24.much so it she is coming away and claims that third spot. I can say

:03:24. > :03:34.that journey is just about approaching Phil Jones so she will

:03:34. > :03:34.

:03:34. > :03:43.be able to speak to him about how How did that go from your

:03:43. > :03:48.perspective? Pretty good, 16 goals in the championship and three of

:03:48. > :03:52.them have run under the certain target. I always feel quite strange

:03:52. > :03:55.in the heats when you are not quite running at your fastest pace so I

:03:55. > :04:01.tried to make sure I was in the top three the whole time and I think I

:04:01. > :04:05.am better with a faster pace so I really look forward to the

:04:05. > :04:11.increased pace. It is about getting back in the ring and getting rid of

:04:11. > :04:16.the rustiness. Exactly, I have been training on my own and you have no

:04:16. > :04:20.one ever on the track coming to barge you. You have to learn how to

:04:20. > :04:26.respond and people to bump and barge, that is the 800m,

:04:26. > :04:29.particularly indoors so I learnt a few things there, trying this time

:04:29. > :04:33.in the next round, hopefully that will wake me up ready for the next

:04:33. > :04:40.round. Do you feel there is anything missing that you will not

:04:40. > :04:44.be able to work on in such a short space of time? Yeah, hoping none of

:04:44. > :04:49.the opponents are listening to this! Better if there is a fast

:04:49. > :04:53.pace so if I do not go off in the first 200m with the fast pace, I

:04:53. > :04:58.lose the best bit of May. So that his discussions about how the next

:04:58. > :05:06.race goes, who I draw, had to play it. It might have been better to

:05:06. > :05:13.make sure it was a fast race, it may play into my hands better. I

:05:13. > :05:21.need to work out who I will get in the next round. Thanks for talking

:05:21. > :05:25.to us. It is a pleasure, fell. -- pleasure, Phil. No places to hide

:05:25. > :05:32.in the championships. Not at all, not at this level and when you have

:05:32. > :05:37.been so far away from competing and as Jenny always gives an honest

:05:37. > :05:40.account. It is knowing when to kick, do you trust you can maintain that

:05:40. > :05:44.form when the other girls are still accelerating? She will have learnt

:05:45. > :05:48.a lot from that race and she will go and analyse, like she said, what

:05:48. > :05:53.to do next and that is important to get back into the flow and it was

:05:53. > :05:57.good to see her out there. A good start for Jenny so we will see her

:05:57. > :06:02.tomorrow. And a few legs cobwebs but let's get back out now to the

:06:02. > :06:05.second heat with Andrew Cotter. Second of three heats, a reminder

:06:05. > :06:15.it is three automatically in and any three fastest losers through to

:06:15. > :06:27.

:06:27. > :06:37.like there was with Elena Kotulskaia. Marta Milani comes

:06:37. > :06:37.

:06:37. > :06:40.through from Italy. Ciara Everard settling in nicely. It is a limited

:06:40. > :06:50.field and the three fastest losers going through but they know the

:06:50. > :06:51.

:06:51. > :07:01.time they have to target. And the pace they have to set. And the

:07:01. > :07:04.Belorussian athlete is setting the pace, this place is a bit weaker

:07:04. > :07:11.than the last heat. You want to ensure that they have a chance of

:07:11. > :07:14.going through as the fastest loser. 2.03 was the fastest in the first

:07:14. > :07:20.hit and that is what they are aiming to do, aiming to go through

:07:20. > :07:30.in a bit quicker than that but they went through that in 63. There's

:07:30. > :07:30.

:07:31. > :07:37.the Irish champion, Kieran Everard -- Ciara Everard. The Czech for the

:07:37. > :07:45.bit in the Champion there as well and Ciara Everard deciding to ease

:07:45. > :07:55.her way around her opponent. She is the Irish Universities indoor

:07:55. > :08:01.champion and that has improved her personal best to under 2.02. And

:08:01. > :08:08.stretching away and opening a gap. Yes, and opening the gap between

:08:08. > :08:12.her and Lenka Masna. She is showing some real form and class here, Kira

:08:12. > :08:19.Everard and she will win this one comfortably, a battle behind her

:08:19. > :08:29.for the automatic qualification between Lenka Masna and Marta

:08:29. > :08:35.Milani. A great race from Ciara Everard. This is well within her

:08:35. > :08:42.capabilities. She had plenty here. Looking very, very impressive, she

:08:42. > :08:47.is still coming away down the home straight. Marina Arzamasova

:08:47. > :08:57.fighting back but we were talking before about giving youngsters the

:08:57. > :08:59.

:08:59. > :09:03.chance to build and gain experiences and it to gain the

:09:03. > :09:10.conference. Ciara Everard looking impressive there, timing it well

:09:10. > :09:13.and she knew she was probably the class athlete and she made it tell.

:09:13. > :09:20.She was sensing that as Marina Arzamasova was putting the pace

:09:20. > :09:24.slowed a bit, she moved smoothly past and continued to go away. She

:09:24. > :09:31.is in control and winding up the pace, Lenka Masna tried to get back.

:09:31. > :09:37.A bit more to come in the next round by the looks of it. She was

:09:37. > :09:41.looking strong here. Perhaps testing herself a bit, 29.5 in the

:09:41. > :09:47.last lap which was very impressive and just see what she had in the

:09:47. > :09:55.tank. Not a very quick time overall but it was a quick last lap so she

:09:55. > :10:02.has made their way none too wearily A big smile on her face and

:10:02. > :10:07.deservedly so. It was good. I kicked out at 200m and I felt

:10:07. > :10:11.pretty strong. I had it all the way to the finish line, so it is about

:10:11. > :10:15.focusing on the semi-final. It has been a great day for Ireland, we

:10:15. > :10:18.were talking to your colleagues, a small tin that a great deal of

:10:18. > :10:23.camaraderie and real potential for success. Definitely. One of the

:10:23. > :10:29.strongest teams we have ever had coming to these championships. It

:10:29. > :10:33.raises the atmosphere among the camp. It is great to have the

:10:33. > :10:39.senior people and the juniors as well. It is really good. What are

:10:39. > :10:43.your own expectations as you move forward? My plan is to take it

:10:43. > :10:46.round by round, this is my first major championships. I want to get

:10:46. > :10:54.back and recover and see how the semi-finals go back. An impressive

:10:54. > :10:58.Earlier on during the lunchtime Earlier on during the lunchtime

:10:58. > :11:04.break we had the pentathlon it shot put taken place. This was the first

:11:04. > :11:09.of five disciplines today the young it 18-year-old Belgian who already

:11:09. > :11:16.holds the world junior indoor record. She threw 13.88 but the

:11:16. > :11:21.longest one of the day comb from the defending pentathlon champion.

:11:21. > :11:30.Well over 50m, the longest shot put we had seen and put her up from

:11:30. > :11:40.sixth into second place. But the lead still being held by Yana

:11:40. > :11:46.

:11:46. > :11:53.Maksimava. She threw 14.65 to keep the women's 800m. This could be a

:11:53. > :11:58.young star of the picture, this is Anta Hinriksdottir, she only turned

:11:58. > :12:03.19 last month, 4th in the world juniors, the silver medal race

:12:03. > :12:10.leader in that but she really did attack that race. And I think she

:12:10. > :12:20.will be a star of the future. She has just run just as quick as she

:12:20. > :12:24.

:12:24. > :12:30.did last year, and just 17 years of first heat, Elena Kotulskaia coming

:12:30. > :12:37.through there and looking pretty impressive. Kira Everard winning

:12:37. > :12:42.the second heat. And Marta Milani disqualified for Italy, we do not

:12:42. > :12:52.know why she was disqualified. means that all six women could go

:12:52. > :13:12.

:13:12. > :13:22.times areas champion. A great new indoor facility in Ireland. Many of

:13:22. > :13:25.

:13:25. > :13:29.the athletes have run close to Albanian athlete, she is having a

:13:29. > :13:33.cracking season as well. She is reasonably experienced, whether she

:13:33. > :13:37.had begun, luckily or not the starter has brought them back. --

:13:37. > :13:43.whether she heard the gun. I am not sure it was the starter's fall,

:13:43. > :13:47.everybody else started fine. You do not often see a false start in the

:13:47. > :13:52.800m. Not very often at all! I am not sure any of them know what

:13:52. > :13:57.happened. Some of them found their way round the first bend before the

:13:57. > :14:04.recall. The starter has got his arm up to say everything was clear, she

:14:04. > :14:12.just did not hear them and for whatever reason, they have been

:14:12. > :14:19.recalled, luckily for her. She will receive... She will not be

:14:19. > :14:25.disqualified, I will be amazed if she is. What is the problem now?

:14:25. > :14:31.They are worried about her number for some reason. Oh, she folded it

:14:31. > :14:35.over with the sponsor. It's as Gothenburg and that, it is just so

:14:35. > :14:42.everybody knows where we are. She either did not here or did not know

:14:42. > :14:49.whether there with the starter's gun. Paula Habovstiakova then

:14:49. > :14:53.paused and then meet marksmen decided they would bring them back.

:14:53. > :14:58.Shall we have a crop top conversation?! If they would like

:14:58. > :15:03.to make the babes at have something softer that does not rub the things

:15:03. > :15:07.out of your abdomen, I am not sure it is so important out of the plot,

:15:07. > :15:12.but she did does seem to have it folded under her she did it as she

:15:12. > :15:14.was walking back for the restart. Indignation in the cross-country

:15:14. > :15:22.world in the Sunderland International's, some women wearing

:15:22. > :15:28.crop tops. It was in Newcastle, what can you expect? To has done it

:15:28. > :15:32.again! I cannot believe that. The reason, you do not see too many

:15:32. > :15:41.Albanian athletes, she runs on the circuit, running well this year,

:15:41. > :15:46.she has then to us -- then had to storm through and she is lucky to

:15:46. > :15:51.get through. We see a youngster at the front who loves to get out

:15:51. > :15:58.there with a slightly odd action. But she has stormed through the

:15:58. > :16:03.first 200m, 28.79. A fast start and Luiza Gega getting herself into the

:16:03. > :16:09.race. Yes, but impressive that Anta Hinriksdottir is just going for it.

:16:09. > :16:13.She has got a slightly lower lean and an effective stance in moving

:16:13. > :16:21.away. She is relishing being on the stage and having this opportunity

:16:21. > :16:25.and she is turning this into two races. A bit of inexperience on the

:16:25. > :16:29.17-year-old, she does not need to go this fast. She likes to front

:16:29. > :16:33.run, she did it in the world junior championships and as Paula was

:16:33. > :16:39.saying, she has got that action and I am sure she will get more upright

:16:39. > :16:47.and stronger, a great, long, languid stride on her. And now

:16:47. > :16:57.Luiza Gega is struggling to get involved now. They are taking much

:16:57. > :17:15.

:17:15. > :17:22.going past. Then followed by the Ukrainian, who is the second round.

:17:22. > :17:29.She is taking -- trying to take control of the race. Rose-Anne

:17:29. > :17:35.Galligan wins. The refrain in second place. A very tired

:17:35. > :17:41.youngster in third place. It is inexperience. She has loads of

:17:41. > :17:48.ability and talent. Galligan has the experience. There is the start.

:17:48. > :17:53.If you have done it once, you should be forewarned. She had to

:17:53. > :17:57.work so hard to get back involved. By the final stage, she is really

:17:58. > :18:01.tired. The more tired, the more the forward lean comes into play. She

:18:01. > :18:05.has done enough. She cannot run like that against the senior

:18:05. > :18:10.athletes when she gets into the semi-finals. She will have to hope

:18:10. > :18:17.she gets pulled round and runs with a bit more common sense. She went

:18:17. > :18:27.very fast through the first 200 metres. Gallacher looked good. --

:18:27. > :18:37.

:18:37. > :18:45.Have you ever seen that? The first time that you could maybe excuse

:18:45. > :18:51.someone from a -- or not hearing it. But not twice. The second time,

:18:51. > :18:56.they cannot start the race again. She is looking at them have run

:18:56. > :19:00.away from her and then she is on the back foot. She is working

:19:00. > :19:07.really hard. She has the stress of knowing it is her error that has

:19:07. > :19:13.put her in a position. No problems for Rose-Anne Galligan. Ireland are

:19:13. > :19:15.having a good day. She is full of smiles.

:19:16. > :19:23.smiles. Another excellent performance. It

:19:23. > :19:28.must be catching. Seeing my team- mates compete well, I wanted to as

:19:28. > :19:34.well. A rather bizarre start with the Albanian athlete not hearing

:19:34. > :19:39.begun? What did you see? I got a fright. I thought I had done

:19:39. > :19:43.something. I think it was her numb but that she was not showing. I do

:19:43. > :19:48.not know what was going on. -- her number. You took care of business.

:19:48. > :19:57.What are you hoping to do from here on in? The first thing is to make

:19:57. > :20:02.the semi-finals. It is my first time. I will speak to my coach and

:20:02. > :20:12.see what the plan is for tomorrow. see what the plan is for tomorrow.

:20:12. > :20:25.

:20:25. > :20:35.fastest qualifiers, it did not take much to get through. Luiza Gega has

:20:35. > :20:38.

:20:38. > :20:46.been disqualified. We hope Jenny Meadows will go well. That is a

:20:46. > :20:51.wide-open race. Gear Everard was very impressive. Two Irish women

:20:51. > :20:57.are through. -- a Ciara Everard. Jenny Meadows will not be too far

:20:57. > :21:03.away if she can find her old form. Still to come: We have got the

:21:03. > :21:09.heats of the men's 800m. Michael Rimmer is going well this season.

:21:09. > :21:15.He will be in with a church -- with a chance. Mukhtar Mohammed is

:21:15. > :21:25.ranked number two. They ran well in Birmingham. Do not forget Joe

:21:25. > :21:28.

:21:28. > :21:35.Thomas. He makes up our trio in the men's 800m. Then the triple jump

:21:35. > :21:45.champion, Emile Aldama will be looking to qualify. We also have

:21:45. > :21:51.

:21:51. > :21:58.Robbie Grabarz as well. Robbie Grabarz finishes the first attempt.

:21:58. > :22:08.Very, very good indeed. It is a bronze for Britain and bronze for

:22:08. > :22:12.

:22:12. > :22:19.How much has the success kept you inspired? The success breeds

:22:19. > :22:24.success? A looking at last season, it would be easy to drop my

:22:24. > :22:29.personal best and say I was happy. But it is enjoyable. When it is

:22:29. > :22:37.going right, it is even more fun. You want more and more of that. It

:22:37. > :22:44.is what you do it for. That keeps you motivated. How would you assess

:22:44. > :22:50.how the indoor season is going for you? Quite well. I missed a bar but

:22:50. > :22:54.I wanted. But I have trained really hard and the things I have done

:22:54. > :22:59.have created positive problems. A bit faster, but more powerful and

:22:59. > :23:04.they are hard things to deal with we were used to jumping a certain

:23:04. > :23:12.way. It is putting a lid on it and controlling it. I have prepared

:23:12. > :23:17.well for this. That is interesting. You are fired up for the winter

:23:17. > :23:21.season, it is hard to incorporate into technique. Be it is. He will

:23:22. > :23:26.have to make adjustments with his run-up. His take-off position as

:23:26. > :23:33.well. They are positive problems because he is looking at jumping

:23:33. > :23:37.2.40. That is where he is heading. He is a fantastic athlete. He is

:23:37. > :23:42.rising through the ranks and featuring at European Championships.

:23:42. > :23:52.I cannot wait to see him jump. He will probably... There has not been

:23:52. > :23:53.

:23:53. > :24:01.a victory for Britain since 1984. - - 1994. How high did he jump? It

:24:01. > :24:06.was 2.37. That is five. -- high. We will see Robbie Grabarz later.

:24:06. > :24:16.Holly Bleasdale is coming in at 4.46. Now we will concentrate on

:24:16. > :24:29.

:24:29. > :24:39.the hurdles. This is the men's Lagarde Martinot is perhaps the man

:24:39. > :25:08.

:25:08. > :25:18.final. He just squeeze through. A loud roar from the crowd of Philip

:25:18. > :25:18.

:25:18. > :25:28.Nossmy. We were talking about him being soft out of the blocks. He

:25:28. > :25:30.

:25:30. > :25:40.does get going. He has done 7.53 this year. This was a personal best

:25:40. > :25:45.

:25:45. > :25:55.for Paolo Dal Molin. He is the Portuguese record holder indoors.

:25:55. > :25:57.

:25:57. > :26:07.He lowered it to 7.68. He is very strong. Perhaps not quite at Sergei

:26:07. > :26:15.

:26:15. > :26:23.Shubenkov's level. But strong in his heat. A Greek record holder.

:26:24. > :26:33.Spain came through in 7.75 in the heats. It will be interesting to

:26:34. > :26:57.

:26:57. > :27:07.see who Pascal Lagarde Martinot the final. It takes place later

:27:07. > :27:44.

:27:44. > :27:49.him. He is slow out of the blocks, Pascal Lagarde Martinot. You cannot

:27:49. > :27:53.at any stage be resting in your blocks. You have got to be shot out

:27:53. > :27:58.of them and put pressure on your opponent and dictate the race.

:27:58. > :28:03.Paolo Dal Molin from Italy. They are excited about this man. He set

:28:03. > :28:06.a personal best in the eaves. He has gone a bit quicker here. Good,

:28:06. > :28:15.strong performance from him. A couple of mistakes earlier on but

:28:15. > :28:25.he managed to take the victory in 7.58. Konstantin Shabanov got third

:28:25. > :28:26.

:28:26. > :28:30.place. Greece take fourth place. Paolo Dal Molin was being hunted

:28:30. > :28:40.down by a Pascal Lagarde Martinot. Look at the start. You have got to

:28:40. > :28:43.

:28:43. > :28:48.be aggressive. Paolo Dal Molin shows that. But his trail leg is

:28:48. > :28:52.terrible. He will be a real threat in world hurdling if he can control

:28:52. > :29:02.that. We will get word to him as soon as we can. Paolo Dal Molin

:29:02. > :29:12.winning that one. Pascal Lagarde Martinot will want a sharper start

:29:12. > :29:15.

:29:15. > :29:20.in the final. People believe he can take this one.

:29:20. > :29:25.Holly Bleasdale getting ready to take her first vault in his

:29:25. > :29:31.qualifying competition for the final tomorrow. Nobody has cleared

:29:31. > :29:35.this height of 4.36 so far. 10 athletes have tried. It will give

:29:36. > :29:40.us a clear indication as to what sort of shape Holly Bleasdale is in.

:29:40. > :29:50.She is wearing the blue number as the leader in terms of the height

:29:50. > :30:00.

:30:00. > :30:04.have to go again. We were indicating earlier on her last

:30:04. > :30:11.appearance in Sweden was just a couple of weeks ago when she

:30:11. > :30:15.cleared 4.40. She has cleared over 4.70 this year. Two more attempts

:30:15. > :30:25.to stay in the competition and they will be important for Holly

:30:25. > :30:38.

:30:39. > :30:48.has had one attempt in the competition at the moment, this is

:30:49. > :30:57.

:30:57. > :31:04.her first attempt. The last athlete chat with her coach. Not looking

:31:04. > :31:14.particularly happy. She looked OK in warm-up. Here's the Russian. And

:31:14. > :31:18.

:31:18. > :31:25.the first athlete to go clear. A would hope that is what Holly

:31:25. > :31:34.Bleasdale would to achieve that the first attempt. Holly has two more

:31:34. > :31:39.attempts to get this height and JONATHAN EDWARDS: A slightly nerve-

:31:39. > :31:47.racking start to her indoor campaign, for Holly. Yes, I have to

:31:47. > :31:51.say. I have got sweaty palms. The first attempt for an athlete of

:31:51. > :31:55.Holly's calibre, she can clear that at her first attempt. She seemed to

:31:55. > :32:00.struggle. Sometimes when you're waiting around, you can get a bit

:32:00. > :32:05.tired. But she has been in these long, drawn-out competitions before.

:32:05. > :32:10.She looks like she has not got much turnover at this moment in time and

:32:10. > :32:15.you look at the contacts on the floor, she does not look sharp. She

:32:15. > :32:19.was not even tight over the bar. So I am a bit nervous. I am a bit

:32:20. > :32:23.concerned. But I expect her to do better in the next attempt. One

:32:23. > :32:32.thing she did say in her interview was quite alarming, when her coach

:32:32. > :32:35.tells you that there are 13 things that she can work on. There a shot

:32:35. > :32:45.of adrenalin for her. Let's get back out on the track for the

:32:45. > :32:53.

:32:53. > :33:03.second final of the men's 60m the final at 6:45pm UK time to. The

:33:03. > :33:17.

:33:17. > :33:25.favourite from Russia, Sergey the Russian has only been beaten

:33:25. > :33:33.twice, once in Birmingham, we saw him beaten by his team-mate and

:33:33. > :33:38.also the American. A bit of a glitch. He looked really good in

:33:38. > :33:43.qualification. 7.52. And given the fact that seven put 50 is the equal

:33:43. > :33:51.fastest in the year so far, gives you some indication of the shape he

:33:51. > :33:54.is in. The person alongside him has been going well as well as the

:33:54. > :33:59.French athlete. The French athlete was rather fortunate to come

:33:59. > :34:09.through this morning after having done a false start to all of our

:34:09. > :34:21.

:34:21. > :34:31.eyes. But he managed to argue his goes into the start into the set

:34:31. > :34:50.

:34:50. > :34:55.again. Very close for the 4th spot, the Hungarian did well as well. I

:34:55. > :34:59.cannot see him getting beat. Not quite as good a start as I expected.

:34:59. > :35:03.Colin, he is so good and technically good as well. He is

:35:03. > :35:07.good outdoors but assuring out of the blocks, maybe not as good as

:35:07. > :35:12.some of the others but he finishes his race well. And ultimately, it

:35:12. > :35:16.is to crosses the line first. It is as simple as that. This man does it

:35:16. > :35:21.with ease. No stressed or strain, calls himself through the field. He

:35:21. > :35:28.knows he is the main man and let everybody else wonder what he can

:35:28. > :35:34.do. If he wants to get down to the fast times and get into the 30s, he

:35:34. > :35:37.needs to nail the start. He does not work very effectively into the

:35:37. > :35:41.first hurdle and that costs him. The head goes very low, it looks

:35:41. > :35:45.like he will overbalance. Sometimes when you start, you start comes

:35:45. > :35:49.from what you used to do as a kid and it has not been developed so

:35:49. > :35:53.what he needs to do is to that the videos, look at where he can

:35:53. > :35:57.improve, feel he is strong and then push his start a bit. Takings of a

:35:57. > :36:00.bit off the line. Do not crowd himself too much and that will make

:36:00. > :36:09.him more aggressive in to the first hurdle and he can really compete

:36:09. > :36:13.against the top of the world. as clean, you saw him smashed

:36:13. > :36:18.through the third hurdle or 4th hurdle, he was much cleaner this

:36:18. > :36:23.morning, that was more a strength, but still could nonetheless. Yes, a

:36:23. > :36:27.but still could nonetheless. Yes, a strong performance by hand. You got

:36:27. > :36:37.there before I even knew! But Sergey Shubenkov looked very good

:36:37. > :36:40.

:36:40. > :36:48.there. He is no Colin Jackson, is leading now and Jackson is holding

:36:48. > :36:52.him. Jackson wins it. Not as fast as his semi-final and he says, my

:36:52. > :36:57.goodness me, I made hard work of that but he is the new European

:36:57. > :37:04.indoor champion. Jackson got away very well and it is Jackson under

:37:04. > :37:08.pressure but he takes it. A brilliant run. Colin got away from

:37:08. > :37:16.the blocks brilliantly. Jackson is storming down the track. He will

:37:16. > :37:20.win this, it looked like... 7.422. Not quite as quick as he achieved

:37:20. > :37:30.in semi-final qualification but Colin Jackson is the European

:37:30. > :37:30.

:37:30. > :37:35.indoor hurdles champion for the I have to say on that seven -- 7.42

:37:35. > :37:42.I thought your trail leg looked a little slow! I was exhausted from a

:37:42. > :37:45.60m. What was the idea behind the 60m? It was obviously your

:37:45. > :37:49.speciality, annoyed by sprinters for beating them? I am a bit

:37:49. > :37:52.playful when it comes to the workload and I was training very

:37:52. > :37:56.well with Linford Christie in Australia and it was he suggesting

:37:56. > :38:00.I should concentrate on the 60m at the European indoors so I did that

:38:00. > :38:04.and I ended up winning both titles. So it was a good not from Linford

:38:04. > :38:09.Christie. You talk about some athletes talking about some indoors

:38:09. > :38:12.and you always loved it. And yes, it broke up the monotony of the

:38:12. > :38:17.preparations for the summer and I could still work on being very

:38:17. > :38:20.competitive and luckily not have to break in too much of my

:38:20. > :38:24.preparations in the summer. I spent a bit more time in the gym, getting

:38:24. > :38:34.a bit more physically stronger for the indoor season so only a bit of

:38:34. > :38:35.

:38:35. > :38:42.a tweet for my training rather than a real hunger focus. A �10 bet on

:38:42. > :38:45.�60 on the final, who is it on? Sergey Shubenkov, it will take a

:38:45. > :38:50.lot to beat him. I and the women's hurdles coming up now, the semi-

:38:51. > :38:55.finals, who should we look out for? Probably the Turkish European

:38:55. > :38:59.champion. She has an explosive start outdoors. At the first

:39:00. > :39:03.qualifying round we did not see her exploding out of the box but she

:39:03. > :39:08.hauled herself through. He has come under eight seconds this year so I

:39:08. > :39:18.would look to see what she can do. Thank you, Colin, with a head back

:39:18. > :39:24.

:39:25. > :39:29.times in the heat. This is how they finished in the first semi-final.

:39:29. > :39:38.Martinot-Lagarde looking very impressive. The result of the

:39:38. > :39:48.second heat as well, Sergey Shubenkov, with the German,

:39:48. > :39:50.

:39:50. > :39:58.Hungarian and Max, the Belorussian going through as well. A hard man

:39:58. > :40:05.to beat, Sergey Shubenkov the fastest there. It is his much to

:40:05. > :40:12.lose. -- his match. On to the women's 60m hurdles, the first

:40:12. > :40:22.semi-final. And very close because 11 athletes in the heats separated

:40:22. > :40:29.

:40:29. > :40:37.only by eight one hundredth of a to the final which takes place just

:40:37. > :40:44.before 8 o'clock Swedish time, just before 7 o'clock UK time. The

:40:44. > :40:54.Finnish athlete going in 7th, the record-holder indoors and out. And

:40:54. > :40:54.

:40:54. > :41:04.looking at the last couple of athletes, the women to beat, 3, 4,

:41:04. > :41:05.

:41:05. > :41:45.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

:41:45. > :41:51.5, the Russian, you can see her in as well as Alina Talay. Kondokova

:41:51. > :41:57.get there, she is through in the time of eight seconds flat for

:41:57. > :42:00.Kondokova. We thought it would be flat, closer than the heats and not

:42:00. > :42:04.a Hu Jintao between them in the semi-final either. It was very

:42:04. > :42:12.close, the same two athletes were in the same heat this morning and

:42:12. > :42:17.the result will be the same, I think. Kondokova just sneak in.

:42:17. > :42:23.Nothing special happening in the women's hurdling so the performance

:42:23. > :42:31.of eight seconds is always going to be a feature. It produced a very

:42:32. > :42:38.even eight seconds. Thrust and counter flights from Kondokova

:42:38. > :42:43.responding well to the threat of Alina Talay. Taking the gold in the

:42:43. > :42:48.final later on this evening possibly, she has taken victory in

:42:48. > :42:55.the first semi-final. Eight seconds dead and confirmation of the other

:42:55. > :43:00.qualifiers coming through. Alina Talay and it was between these two.

:43:00. > :43:10.They are used to battling between each other. Running off the

:43:10. > :43:13.

:43:13. > :43:16.barriers well, it will be another Robbie Grabarz waiting to come in

:43:16. > :43:19.in the qualifications of the men's high jump, still waiting for the

:43:20. > :43:29.second attempt for Holly Bleasdale on the pole vault. But women now

:43:30. > :43:34.

:43:34. > :43:38.catch up with the women's 800m and Yana Maksimava still

:43:38. > :43:47.hanging on to a medal position at the moment. She is under pressure

:43:47. > :43:53.in this long jump. She is not a great long jumper. That is around

:43:53. > :44:03.about the six-metre mark. We would expect the better jumpers to be

:44:03. > :44:06.

:44:06. > :44:16.class malty event athlete. But Yana Maksimava came through strongly

:44:16. > :44:17.

:44:17. > :44:24.earlier today. 1.90 in the high jump. Not bad at all. 5.94, 831

:44:24. > :44:29.points and already down in second place. This lady is in pole

:44:29. > :44:33.position but needs a lot longer in order to put herself some distance

:44:33. > :44:41.between herself and the rest when it comes to the 800m and that looks

:44:41. > :44:48.a little better. She is the defending champion. The French No.

:44:48. > :44:51.1 so she would love to defend this title successfully. Good judgement

:44:51. > :44:59.on the take off board. She always gets tremendous hype when she takes

:44:59. > :45:04.off. -- height. Right through the take-off., although she needs to

:45:04. > :45:09.tidy it up a bit in terms of the direction on take off but 6.25 is

:45:09. > :45:16.good, it extend her lead over everybody. This young athlete is a

:45:16. > :45:25.fantastic talent. She broke the world junior record for pentathlon

:45:25. > :45:31.recently. Over six feet tall and just 18 years old. Reminiscent of

:45:31. > :45:35.Great Britain's very own Morgan lake, a precocious 15-year-old

:45:35. > :45:41.heptathletes. Recently came second in the senior national

:45:41. > :45:51.championships in high jump. She is that good. She moves up into second

:45:51. > :46:08.

:46:08. > :46:15.over the rest. That looks a little longer. She gets the white flag. At

:46:15. > :46:23.the moment, the gap between her and second places around about five

:46:23. > :46:31.seconds. If she has increased a distance... She could have moved

:46:31. > :46:35.even further ahead. Looks very strong. It is 6.32. That means the

:46:35. > :46:45.gap going into the last event is seven seconds. A good achievement

:46:45. > :46:45.

:46:45. > :47:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

:47:33. > :47:43.athletes lining up. This is a tough Nevin Yanit. She is running at her

:47:43. > :47:44.

:47:44. > :47:54.best. She has been in as good a shipper she has been for a while.

:47:54. > :47:54.

:47:54. > :48:04.She double rook is doing very well as well -- double a route Nevin

:48:04. > :48:06.

:48:06. > :48:16.Yanit has not raced that much. She has looked in good form in

:48:16. > :48:45.

:48:45. > :48:51.qualification. She is the two-time the quickest we have seen. That is

:48:51. > :48:56.almost as quick as we have seen in Europe all year. That was close. I

:48:56. > :49:03.thought this semi-final would have a better quality in it. The Italian

:49:03. > :49:08.came in late in the end. Nevin Yanit just gets it. Ba will be a

:49:08. > :49:12.good final. It will be very exciting. The women's final always

:49:12. > :49:18.tends to be. They are all technically good. If any of them

:49:18. > :49:23.make a mistake... It will be a really tight final. Nevin Yanit,

:49:23. > :49:28.she has gone under eight seconds. She did not have the best start. We

:49:28. > :49:33.have more to come from her, I think. Alleyne Barings and a stronger

:49:33. > :49:39.start. She is the European outdoor champion, Nevin Yanit. She will

:49:39. > :49:46.want to add this title to that. Let us look at the box. Ireland have a

:49:46. > :49:52.personal best of 7.84. She would be clearly leading this field if she

:49:52. > :49:57.was at her best. She is working her way back from injury. She has heard

:49:57. > :50:07.her hamstring, back. This will be a tight race. -- hurt her hamstring.

:50:07. > :50:08.

:50:08. > :50:18.I am looking forward to it. That final is coming up later. The

:50:18. > :50:37.

:50:37. > :50:47.men's as well. No British interest. holds the record of 1.475. Has he

:50:47. > :50:48.

:50:48. > :50:53.done it too soon? He came here full of confidence. He is running away

:50:53. > :51:03.from the field at the moment with one lap to go. Really leaving a

:51:03. > :51:07.

:51:07. > :51:13.long trail behind him. They cannot close the gap. He is taking it on

:51:13. > :51:21.and he has done it. Looking full of fight. Britain will have two

:51:21. > :51:31.remarkable wins. They have a remarkable record. Just outside the

:51:31. > :51:39.

:51:39. > :51:43.world record indoors for gold. David Sharpe closing down on the

:51:43. > :51:49.champion. Can he get the attack he needs? David Sharpe running the

:51:49. > :51:53.race of his life. The European defending champion against the

:51:53. > :52:01.world junior champion. Can David Sharpe made it? Here he goes. David

:52:01. > :52:10.Sharpe comes home to take the gold medal. What a run that was by the

:52:11. > :52:15.youngster. Steve heard in the middle position at the moment. He

:52:15. > :52:21.is performing magnificently. He is on the shoulder of the West German.

:52:21. > :52:26.Steve heard is ahead of the West German. He is going for the silver.

:52:26. > :52:31.He is running the race of his life. The Spaniard has fallen. He is

:52:31. > :52:41.coming up, what a battle this is. The final track event. It is

:52:41. > :52:44.

:52:44. > :52:50.Britain's win. The greatest run of his life.

:52:50. > :52:57.In 1990, it was the term of Scottish run at, Keane. He took the

:52:57. > :53:03.European indoor title. He had sharp elbows. He did not need them there.

:53:03. > :53:13.P was away and clear. It was a magical moment. He then won the

:53:13. > :53:21.

:53:21. > :53:26.world indoors at Toronto. Next it is Mukhtar Mohammed.

:53:26. > :53:30.A few last moments for him. A real opportunity for him. He ran well in

:53:30. > :53:37.Birmingham. He was under the weather last week. He went to

:53:37. > :53:42.Stockholm. He ran up her 1,000m race. It did not go as well as he

:53:42. > :53:52.hoped. He is feeling better now. He a very good week preparing for this.

:53:52. > :53:53.

:53:53. > :53:58.Let us hope it goes well for him here. Look at that 60m hurdles.

:53:58. > :54:07.Nevin Yanit has broken the record for Turkey twice this year.

:54:07. > :54:17.Veronica Borsi is getting better all the time. Alleyne Barings in

:54:17. > :54:27.third. -- Alleyne Barings. Let us have a look at that final that will

:54:27. > :54:28.

:54:28. > :54:32.be later on tonight. I am not sure that was the final. That was the

:54:32. > :54:42.start list from earlier. They are trying to confuse the! It is easily

:54:42. > :54:43.

:54:43. > :54:50.done. That is the line-up for the final. That will be a beleaguered

:54:51. > :55:00.final. -- will be a really good final. Coming back to Mukhtar

:55:01. > :55:19.

:55:19. > :55:25.outside in lane six. A lot of us have watched this young man over

:55:25. > :55:35.the last three years. He has great ability. He has shown he is ready

:55:35. > :56:11.

:56:11. > :56:18.to really makes it up with Michael cagey. He lets the Swede come round.

:56:18. > :56:28.Mukhtar Mohammed needs to keep out of trouble. Andrea's there Pat's

:56:28. > :56:31.comes round. Mohammed needs to go out hard. The two fastest go

:56:31. > :56:36.through to the semi-finals and there are five heeds. It is not

:56:36. > :56:43.about leaving anything here. It is about going out and doing it. --

:56:43. > :56:48.keeps. The Swede is controlling the race at the moment. The crowd will

:56:48. > :56:55.be excited to see him progress. When you run at a pace, it is

:56:55. > :57:03.giving everyone a chance. Muck up - - Mukhtar Mohammed is doing a good

:57:03. > :57:13.job. He has not able to pass. Andreas Ihle re pacts hold them

:57:13. > :57:13.

:57:13. > :57:18.back. But of two go through. Mukhtar Mohammed his second. That

:57:18. > :57:28.is a better move. He keeps getting pushed back each time. He is using

:57:28. > :57:29.

:57:29. > :57:34.up valuable energy. He will have to attack hard round the top bend.

:57:34. > :57:44.Mukhtar Mohammed is any good place. He has got to be strong. It looks

:57:44. > :57:48.as though he will be. He had to be strong. Pushing, shoving, that is

:57:48. > :57:53.what you get indoors. It is not nice or pretty. You have got to

:57:53. > :57:58.look after yourself. He did it reasonably well. He did not panic.

:57:58. > :58:07.The exactly. A bit of inexperience showing. He did not impose himself

:58:07. > :58:16.enough on the race. Fighting hard down there and salvaging the winner.

:58:16. > :58:20.-- the wind. Johan Rogestedt, look at his gritted teeth. He looks more

:58:20. > :58:25.controlled and relax from the other angle. He will blow-outs and

:58:25. > :58:31.cobwebs and go into the next round more confident. What you would say,

:58:31. > :58:36.he has won and that is good but the last lap was the best lap. There

:58:36. > :58:42.were for that laps and the best was the last one. When you have got

:58:42. > :58:48.that ability, you do not panic. -- there were four Labs. We might have

:58:48. > :58:52.expected him to move through. The main thing was he did not try and

:58:52. > :58:57.make up the ground. He did not panic. He got another shot as he

:58:57. > :59:01.came round the last bend. He knows where he needs to go. He is looking

:59:01. > :59:05.forward and maintaining his start. He does not look like he is

:59:05. > :59:12.panicking. He is just showing his inexperience a bit. The other men

:59:12. > :59:17.are bigger. He is new at this level. He spent a lot of last year trying

:59:17. > :59:22.to qualify and did not make it. He has burst through. He comes isn the

:59:22. > :59:26.fastest time. It came through at the end, his talent, and he was

:59:26. > :59:33.able to control it and get what he needed. It will have done him good

:59:33. > :59:38.to have that run. He will run a more constantly in the next round.

:59:38. > :59:44.more constantly in the next round. -- more confidently. There was a

:59:44. > :59:53.lot of bumping and battling their. It is not pretty sometimes. It is

:59:53. > :59:58.not what I wanted. Today, I ran his race, the Swedish man. He had a

:59:58. > :00:03.good crowd behind him. I said to myself in the race, do not panic,

:00:03. > :00:08.have a good finish. Today I was disappointed in my race. But I am

:00:08. > :00:13.glad I got through. It is all part of the learning curve. This is all

:00:13. > :00:17.new to you. It is getting used to the atmosphere and the race. You

:00:17. > :00:20.might have to impose yourself on the race more. Indoors is very

:00:20. > :00:27.difficult. There is a lot of pushing and shoving. You cannot

:00:27. > :00:31.waste energy. A key is to come through with a victory which is

:00:31. > :00:37.what you did. What confidence does that give you? Before, my

:00:37. > :00:43.confidence was high, because I know I can get into the final. Hopefully,

:00:43. > :00:53.I can get in the final night. We wish you well for tomorrow. Thank

:00:53. > :01:00.

:01:00. > :01:10.He won, not all that quick. The former youth champion takes the

:01:10. > :01:22.

:01:22. > :01:29.second spot. The other three will Bleasdale. The smile comes to her

:01:29. > :01:34.face for the first time during this competition. The plant was good, a

:01:35. > :01:44.little bit of a drift to the right hands cyber nothing too serious.

:01:45. > :01:46.

:01:46. > :01:51.Her safety over but he will have to men's 800m, Mukhtar Mohammed

:01:51. > :02:01.already through, and Joe Thomas must try to do the same ball Great

:02:01. > :02:09.

:02:09. > :02:15.Britain. -- the same for Great the trials, the UK Indoor

:02:15. > :02:25.Championship in Sheffield. Last season ruined by a stress fracture

:02:25. > :02:29.

:02:29. > :02:36.to his chin. Hoping for much more happy with the way he ran things,

:02:36. > :02:44.what will but the tactic Roger Thomas be? -- what will the tactic

:02:44. > :02:51.for Joe Thomas? Jan Kubista, his father ran in the inaugural World

:02:51. > :03:01.Championships, won bike Steve Cram. Watch for Kevin Lopez, the Spanish

:03:01. > :03:03.

:03:03. > :03:10.guys sitting comfortably in Fort at the minute, sorry, faith. 5th

:03:10. > :03:20.Surrey 5th. He is going to bide his time. Jo Thomas is where he wants

:03:20. > :03:22.

:03:22. > :03:29.to be right now and hole in a the outside very experienced

:03:29. > :03:38.athlete. Jo Thomas still out in front. And the Hungarian, Tamas

:03:38. > :03:44.Kazi, alongside. Looking fairly comfortable. The Norwegian then

:03:44. > :03:51.there as well. Spiller 26. Look at the pace of Kevin Lopez, coming

:03:51. > :03:57.round the outside -- Adne Sv Dahlin. Suddenly it, the pace is up a lot

:03:57. > :04:03.quicker. Jo Thomas Adam front and here comes Kevin Lopez, the first

:04:04. > :04:07.two go through automatically and it is still Joe Thomas. And Lopez

:04:07. > :04:11.alongside him, those two having a look around and having a look at

:04:11. > :04:16.each other. Looking to see if they go through. They do go through. A

:04:16. > :04:23.good run from Joe Thomas and Lopez is there and they are the two

:04:23. > :04:29.automatic qualifiers. Tamas Kazi run out in third place. Kevin Lopez

:04:29. > :04:34.was number two. Their impressive by Joe Thomas. He was leading the way

:04:34. > :04:38.-- are very impressive. He was then able to wind it up and stay in

:04:38. > :04:44.control. Lopez trying to come back at them and they were not able to

:04:44. > :04:54.get there. Looking very good. front from the start and at the end

:04:54. > :05:04.

:05:04. > :05:09.as well. Tamas Kazi just run out. A can see that he is not tying up at

:05:10. > :05:13.all, -- Joe Thomas running. We thought he would get back -- we

:05:14. > :05:17.thought that Kevin Lopez would get back at him but he did not. Just

:05:17. > :05:25.looking round to make sure he can hold on to the second qualifying

:05:25. > :05:30.spot. The women's 800m looks strong as well. Jo Thomas Winning the

:05:30. > :05:40.second heat of the men's 800. I just waited for confirmation of

:05:40. > :05:40.

:05:40. > :05:45.that. A good high risk strategy that Joe plays. He makes it slow.

:05:46. > :05:53.That was really impressive. Confirmation of it. Not the

:05:53. > :05:56.quickest time, but he looked very composed and controlled. Kevin

:05:56. > :06:05.Lopez, very experienced, could not quite get to him and had to sit

:06:05. > :06:12.back and hope for Tamas Kazi and Jan Kubista, but they were a bit

:06:12. > :06:22.too slow possibly. Phil Jones is a patient man, he is calling him in

:06:22. > :06:24.

:06:24. > :06:32.now with a biscuit and a cup of tea. Joe in complete contrast to the

:06:33. > :06:36.first hit with Mukhtar Mohammed. Yes, I tried to control the race,

:06:36. > :06:44.everybody wants to be at the front and when you are there, you need to

:06:44. > :06:50.hold your line. The Norwegian tried to squeeze through but no room on

:06:50. > :06:53.the inside. I made sure of that, my coach would have killed me! Overall,

:06:53. > :06:59.how pleased are you with the preparations? Your look good at

:06:59. > :07:04.there. I have been training well. I hit a bit of illness leading into

:07:04. > :07:11.the British series but I knew it was there, I was just being patient.

:07:11. > :07:21.I am looking forward to tomorrow. It is pretty cool, always nice to

:07:21. > :07:25.Mukhtar Mohammed and Joe Thomas through to the semis. Michael

:07:25. > :07:29.Rimmer goes in the 4th heat. Good news with Holly Bleasdale getting

:07:29. > :07:36.over at the second attempt. You can take your finger off the panic

:07:36. > :07:40.button, Denise! Yes, nervous times but good expectations that we were

:07:40. > :07:45.thinking. She had to rectify some problems and in the first attempt,

:07:45. > :07:50.she looked a bit laboured but this second attempt, a bit more positive

:07:50. > :07:54.and a bit more committed. That is the result. A great clearance from

:07:54. > :08:00.her. Settled the nerves and let's see her progress through this

:08:00. > :08:10.qualification. We did not think she looked super sharp but we will come

:08:10. > :08:14.

:08:14. > :08:18.back to that. Robbie is about to go the arena, and his will be his

:08:18. > :08:23.first jump of the competition, let's hope he does not repeat

:08:23. > :08:27.Holly's performers were the first jump. The European outdoor champion

:08:27. > :08:37.nastier, that was where he burst on the scene. Before he got his

:08:37. > :08:37.

:08:37. > :08:47.Olympic bronze medal. To become amazing. Probably has had a red can

:08:47. > :08:57.put out in front of the high jump but because the high -- the 800m is

:08:57. > :09:02.

:09:02. > :09:10.about to start. The third round. One young man I am interested in

:09:10. > :09:16.watching his Zan Rudolf. Getting clipped from behind, lots of

:09:16. > :09:21.pushing, Renars Stepins is running on the inside, and then Rudolph

:09:21. > :09:29.pushing, the man at the front is not getting pushed. Zan Rudolf

:09:29. > :09:33.could really perform here. In a bad position though, Paula. Yes, he

:09:33. > :09:37.started off. He looked as if he was getting into the right position

:09:37. > :09:44.with no fear and then proceeded to get ready shoved around in the next

:09:44. > :09:49.couple of 100m. I think the experience is showing with Luis

:09:49. > :09:54.Alberto Marco. He is controlling the race. 55.3 and they know they

:09:54. > :09:59.have gone a bit quicker. And also Renars Stepins has stepped off, but

:09:59. > :10:06.on the outside, young Zan Rudolf, fighting for a position. They are

:10:06. > :10:12.like Spitfires attacking out of this guy. And now Thijmen Kupers is

:10:12. > :10:20.fighting. They take the bell and a Dutch man in the lead. Only the top

:10:20. > :10:25.two to go through. It may be that the fastest loser goes through.

:10:25. > :10:29.Look at Zan Rudolf. In 19-year-old showing that he has got pace but

:10:29. > :10:34.Luis Alberto Marco has got experience. It will be a real

:10:34. > :10:40.sprint to the line here. He has got the strength? Thijmen Kupers is

:10:40. > :10:45.still holding him. It could be Zan Rudolf losing out. Luis Alberto

:10:45. > :10:50.Marco and Thijmen Kupers, the two. It will be close with two more heat

:10:50. > :10:55.to come up. Messy again and you would think, Paula, if you were the

:10:55. > :11:00.coach for that young lad, this 19- year-old is good. Where he was in

:11:00. > :11:04.the first two laps, he got pushed around a bit but you want to get a

:11:04. > :11:07.smooth run in the early rounds and he did not get that. Exactly, you

:11:07. > :11:12.could see his number was half hanging off and he spent a lot of

:11:12. > :11:15.time running in lane three there. Bethan that they wasted a lot of

:11:15. > :11:25.energy and it just meant that he was on the back foot and not able

:11:25. > :11:30.

:11:30. > :11:34.last lap, he is putting himself in the right position to be able to

:11:35. > :11:42.attack but he has used other bit of energy and he is running wide as he

:11:42. > :11:47.comes round this band. Thijmen Kupers is holding out the youngster

:11:47. > :11:51.wide. You can see how he is leaning in and not able to finish in the

:11:51. > :12:01.straight to close it. It was a slow heat and tough qualifying

:12:01. > :12:03.

:12:03. > :12:11.conditions with only two elbows and experience to good

:12:11. > :12:14.effect. As well as Thijmen Kupers. Zan Rudolf would be the fastest

:12:14. > :12:24.loser at the moment but with two more heat, the chances might be

:12:24. > :12:32.

:12:32. > :12:40.at Robbie Grabarz, 2.18 metres. He took off a long way from the bar

:12:40. > :12:43.but soared over. Just the third athlete to go clear. This is the

:12:43. > :12:47.second ball of qualification for the high jump. These guys have got

:12:47. > :12:51.the distinct advantage and they know exactly how high they need to

:12:51. > :13:01.achieve and it will not be the automatic qualifying height of 2.31,

:13:01. > :13:03.

:13:03. > :13:08.Denise, a nice, comfortable Clements from Robbie Grabarz there.

:13:08. > :13:11.No guarantee it will happen easily. No, and he will not want to take

:13:11. > :13:15.any chances with this. He is looking good and he knows he is in

:13:15. > :13:21.good shape. All he has to do is to be sensible and he knows he can get

:13:21. > :13:25.through. Lots of people that can jump around 2.30, some big guys in

:13:25. > :13:34.Europe have got over that height and he is right up there in the

:13:34. > :13:41.next. -- in the next. He is so confident and he took off miles

:13:41. > :13:45.away -- in the mix. This is about making sure that he gets the

:13:45. > :13:49.clearance and he said in his interview, he is further out. He is

:13:49. > :13:53.stronger, carrying much more speed and he had to make that allowance.

:13:53. > :13:59.He will have to play with his run up but he is looking good.

:13:59. > :14:04.Automatic qualification at 2.31, we doubt it will take that to get

:14:04. > :14:14.through to the final. Micheal Rimmer looking for a good

:14:14. > :14:19.

:14:19. > :14:25.performance, a great performance in this, he raced in the 600 metres in

:14:25. > :14:32.Birmingham, that was his first ever indoor race. He had a bit of a

:14:32. > :14:38.collision with Abubaker Kaki but the result was allowed to stand.

:14:39. > :14:45.His main rival here, Andreas Bube and Giordano Benedetti. The first

:14:45. > :14:51.two will go through automatically. It will be tense for those waiting

:14:51. > :14:59.for the fastest losers and Micheal Rimmer's tactic at the moment, to

:14:59. > :15:04.hang back alongside Andreas Bube and let the others have a go. A bit

:15:04. > :15:08.of a bar-room brawl in the previous heat. Micheal Rimmer not

:15:08. > :15:12.experienced in the indoor races. Yes, he is very new to indoor

:15:12. > :15:18.racing as his first ending in Birmingham ended in a collision

:15:18. > :15:28.where he showed his inexperience. He also does not sit easily, he

:15:28. > :15:38.does not want to add too much pressure on his shoulders. He is

:15:38. > :15:54.

:15:54. > :16:02.racing in his lucky T-shirt someone to take it quicker. They

:16:02. > :16:06.have not got to run much faster to guarantee themselves a spot.

:16:06. > :16:13.earnest manner in the race is out in front at the moment. Michael

:16:13. > :16:18.Rimmer as having a look around at the moment. Andreas Bube is that

:16:18. > :16:25.the bat. He will have to make a move now. The paced lifts once more.

:16:25. > :16:33.-- the pace. Michael Rimmer will put the squeeze on and try and ease

:16:33. > :16:43.around the outside. Andreas Bube is holding him off. Michael Rimmer

:16:43. > :16:43.

:16:43. > :16:51.will have to rely on fastest loser. The time is 1.5 go. Anis Ananenka

:16:51. > :16:59.is the winner. -- 1.50. By my reckoning, Michael Rimmer has not

:16:59. > :17:04.made it through as fastest loser. And there is another he to go. He

:17:04. > :17:10.will not be happy with that. He will have learned some lessons.

:17:10. > :17:19.What did he go wrong? There was too much to do. He did not have their

:17:19. > :17:24.guests to get past Andreas Bube beef -- Andreas Bube. Michael

:17:24. > :17:33.Rimmer strained by was not able to do it. You see him coming round

:17:33. > :17:38.here, he looked like he was in control. He is covering everything

:17:38. > :17:44.there. It looks like he is following the leader, he may be

:17:44. > :17:48.gets thrown off his stride as Andreas Bube comes past. I did not

:17:49. > :17:55.see any connection there. He is trying to go around but cannot do

:17:55. > :18:05.it. Then the tension comes in and he is getting tired. He is a man

:18:05. > :18:06.

:18:06. > :18:12.that has one 1.46 this season so You ran impressively in Birmingham.

:18:12. > :18:19.You will one of the favourites but he did not work today. Why? I got

:18:19. > :18:28.caught out with a slow first lap. I have not done anything this the

:18:28. > :18:34.Civic. It felt good. I think maybe I should have 100% committed. He

:18:35. > :18:38.held me off. -- anything this specific. You are relatively new to

:18:38. > :18:43.this. You seemed like you were controlling it pretty well. You

:18:43. > :18:51.were doing the right things when you need to do. I think so. It is

:18:51. > :18:59.getting used to it. You cannot take over easily. It is a steep learning

:18:59. > :19:04.curve. More from here for you now? A different day, I will come back.

:19:04. > :19:12.A different day, I will come back. Not easy to take for Michael Rimmer.

:19:12. > :19:22.He was a bit too slow in the first half. Anis Ananenka wins it.

:19:22. > :19:22.

:19:22. > :19:32.Michael Rimmer is not fast enough as the fastest loser. Brimmer is

:19:32. > :19:33.

:19:33. > :19:43.out. -- Michael Rimmer is out. Now to the final heat. I am sure Adam

:19:43. > :19:45.

:19:45. > :19:55.Kszczot will be surprised not to see Michael River Coe go through. -

:19:55. > :19:59.

:19:59. > :20:04.- Michael Rimmer. First two to go through. It just shows, the fastest

:20:04. > :20:08.times do not come into this. It is not about who has got the fastest

:20:08. > :20:12.time. Michael Rimmer is top of the rankings but he is not true. Joe

:20:12. > :20:16.Thomas got through easily. He was in the right places at the right

:20:16. > :20:26.time. What will happen here? The defending champion is right at the

:20:26. > :20:27.

:20:27. > :20:32.back. He does not mind being there at all. He is in great shape. We

:20:32. > :20:42.expected to dominate qualifications and the final. Absolutely. He is

:20:42. > :20:42.

:20:42. > :20:46.the man on form. He is realising he beasts -- he needs to move up. Goes

:20:46. > :20:54.around. Gets himself into a bit more of a contention slot. He is in

:20:54. > :21:01.fourth place. For he has the fast finishers. He knows how to wind it

:21:01. > :21:10.up. He will have gained confidence from seeing Michael Rimmer go out.

:21:10. > :21:14.Nikolaus Franzmair is at the front. He is doing a good job. Spain

:21:14. > :21:23.already have two in the next round. He is attacking the last 200 metres.

:21:23. > :21:31.He is getting a nudge. This is a man in good form. He knows how to

:21:31. > :21:34.run indoors. He is looking for danger, there is none. We have no

:21:34. > :21:40.doubt about our winner, he is just gliding through, the defending

:21:40. > :21:47.champion from Poland, Adam Kszczot. He is just checking behind. The

:21:47. > :21:52.Jozef Repcik is through as well. That is the quickest of the first-

:21:52. > :21:57.round heats. It looks as if he is blowing a bit but he has got the

:21:57. > :22:02.pace. When he is in bother, he can turn on the burners and get out of

:22:02. > :22:07.trouble. He is dangers on the last lap. I think he has got the pace,

:22:07. > :22:14.the experience. -- are dangerous. He can use that to control the race.

:22:14. > :22:18.It is about that, coming in and imposing yourself on the race. He

:22:18. > :22:25.wants to move to the next round with confidence and show the others

:22:26. > :22:33.what he has got. It is the first round of qualification for the

:22:33. > :22:43.women's triple jump. There is the British number one Emile Aldama. --

:22:43. > :22:47.

:22:47. > :22:52.Yamile Aldama. That looks pretty useful. She has not been in great

:22:52. > :22:58.form but she has been recovering from a bad shoulder. Certainly

:22:58. > :23:05.getting better and better as the season progresses. She was looking

:23:05. > :23:12.anxiously for a coach. But I think she can be pleased with that. There

:23:12. > :23:22.is the automatic qualifying line. That will be 14 metres. Only two

:23:22. > :23:25.

:23:25. > :23:30.have done it so far. Yamile Aldama is in third place.

:23:30. > :23:35.She is a lovely jumper to watch. Just lacking a bit of sharpness

:23:35. > :23:41.after injury. She is a beautiful athlete. Strong, everything you

:23:41. > :23:46.would look for in a triple jumper. She has good speed, good phases. It

:23:46. > :23:52.will not take much, if she could get up to something like... Not

:23:52. > :24:01.even her best but around the 14 mark, she could be in with a shot.

:24:01. > :24:05.High hopes for a. Next up, it is that 1,500m for the women. We have

:24:05. > :24:09.Laura Muir of Scotland in the first Laura Muir of Scotland in the first

:24:09. > :24:15.heat. She is making her senior Championship debut. Tell me the

:24:15. > :24:21.feelings as you head into a senior Championship. I did not plan to be

:24:21. > :24:26.here. I wanted to see how things went. I am pleased to be here. I

:24:26. > :24:33.want to get a personal best. What was the reaction when it you got

:24:33. > :24:41.through? A I was delighted. It is the first senior international, I

:24:41. > :24:50.am so happy. It preps me for the outdoor season to come. This will

:24:50. > :24:55.carry forward? There are so many experienced runners so it will

:24:55. > :25:02.depend on the process. Meeting all the team managers and getting

:25:02. > :25:10.settled into the team structure and racing experience should be really

:25:10. > :25:19.good. It seems like you are a fast learner. You are pushed around last

:25:19. > :25:24.year. This is not the case now. Last year, I was still a junior,

:25:24. > :25:29.the 1,500 is really tactical. I lost concentration sometimes. I

:25:29. > :25:39.missed the break when people went. So this time, I thought I would be

:25:39. > :25:41.

:25:41. > :25:47.ready. You never know what will great opportunity for Laura Muir.

:25:47. > :25:53.Pick out a few names. You might reckon -- you might recognise the

:25:53. > :25:59.Russian. She is the world record holder. Natalia Rodriguez is an

:25:59. > :26:09.experienced athlete. She has won medals at the highest level. The

:26:09. > :26:12.

:26:13. > :26:20.Russians have already -- have always been able to won medals.

:26:20. > :26:30.Britannia Rodrigues victory that bronze in 2011. -- Natalia

:26:30. > :26:48.

:26:48. > :26:53.controversy, the Spaniard. Laura Muir's task is a task -- is a tough

:26:53. > :26:57.one. She must finish in the fastest loser spots. A bit of a

:26:57. > :27:01.disadvantage to be in the first race. She would have liked to have

:27:01. > :27:07.been in the third one. We will break off for Holly Bleasdale.

:27:07. > :27:14.First attempt at 4.46. Oh, it looked a bit laboured but she gets

:27:14. > :27:18.a. She crawled over there. The 5th athlete to clear this height. That

:27:18. > :27:26.will be good enough to take her through to the final. This

:27:26. > :27:36.qualifying competition that still continues. Well done.

:27:36. > :27:41.No mistakes for Holly Bleasdale. In this 1,500m, you can see a mish-

:27:41. > :27:51.mash. The Russia was tripped and fell, she lost about 15 metres but

:27:51. > :27:52.

:27:52. > :27:58.got back in the race. Laura Muir will beat looking for a personal

:27:58. > :28:02.best. She has not been having a great indoor season and a slow race

:28:02. > :28:07.would not have suited her. At least they are running at a decent pace

:28:07. > :28:12.in the early stages. The way that Laura needs to look at this is this

:28:12. > :28:16.race is her final, she needs to go out and run it as hard as she can,

:28:17. > :28:21.go for a personal best. There is no point in running outside of a

:28:21. > :28:25.personal best and saying, could I have made the final? She needs to

:28:25. > :28:30.go out and put everything on the line. She has to give everything

:28:30. > :28:36.she can. She asked a walkaway knowing she has given everything. -

:28:36. > :28:46.- she has to walk away. The Russian is controlling the race at the

:28:46. > :28:50.moment. She is slowing a little. Danuta Urbanik has a lot of

:28:50. > :28:56.experience, keeping close to the back. Anna Shchagina is drifting

:28:56. > :29:00.back down the field. Laura Muir is between two world-class 1,500m

:29:00. > :29:06.runners. She is in excellent company. She is running really well.

:29:06. > :29:13.She is not intimidated. She needs to watch Natalia Rodriguez as it

:29:13. > :29:17.gets into the closing stages. She does have a fast finish. She is not

:29:17. > :29:27.afraid to push through. But Laura Muir is keeping herself where she

:29:27. > :29:31.

:29:31. > :29:37.wants to be. She is able to cover anything that happens. Despite Anna

:29:37. > :29:41.Shchagina's greatness -- despite the Russian's greatness, we have

:29:41. > :29:45.been talking about the issues around Russian athletics,

:29:45. > :29:50.particularly over two years, it is good the pressure is on now. The

:29:50. > :30:00.attention has been turned towards the Russian Federation. It is good

:30:00. > :30:06.

:30:06. > :30:11.to see so many positive cases coming through. The pace has not

:30:11. > :30:16.been that good. She is struggling to put on. Look at Natalia

:30:16. > :30:22.Rodriguez. She is cruising through. Laura Muir is still in there

:30:22. > :30:32.fighting. Natalia Rodriguez will be feeling confident. She has expended

:30:32. > :30:34.

:30:34. > :30:40.a lot more energy. Natalia Rodriguez should be easing back.

:30:40. > :30:47.Laura Muir doing her best. That is the world record holder she is

:30:47. > :30:52.trying to get past. Laura Muir is just 19. She is with two world

:30:52. > :30:57.athletes. Look at Laura Muir. An attack. She has got to get in the

:30:57. > :31:02.top two. If she does that, she will be through. What a great run by the

:31:02. > :31:06.youngster. Natalia Rodriguez wins and Laura Muir, the race of her

:31:07. > :31:14.life, it will be close to her best. Probably inside it. Goodness me,

:31:14. > :31:18.that is a massive achievement she has taken. Look at the first lap.

:31:18. > :31:23.That is where the fall happened. Laura Muir was well clear. She ran

:31:23. > :31:29.a perfect race, got involved early on. Ran a good pace. It was the

:31:29. > :31:34.perfect pace of a. A bit of speed, a real gutsy finish. -- perfect

:31:34. > :31:44.pace for her. All of her supporters will be jumping up and down. That

:31:44. > :31:59.

:31:59. > :32:03.is a good target for her. What a never give up fighting and that the

:32:03. > :32:07.leisure are struggling to get past, and even though there are closing

:32:07. > :32:11.on Natalia Rodriguez, but Natalia Rodriguez have the extra gear which

:32:11. > :32:16.she stepped into. Laura is fighting hard and digging in deep and it

:32:16. > :32:26.just showed that she did not have the base that she had in previous

:32:26. > :32:27.

:32:27. > :32:32.her life, personal best and it is not just about people coming and

:32:32. > :32:36.winning medals, right at the start of these championships Laura Muir

:32:36. > :32:39.on paper has not got a chance of coming in the top six but she has

:32:39. > :32:49.thrown the paper out of the window and put in a great performance to

:32:49. > :32:56.

:32:56. > :33:01.her winning time here, and a personal best for Laura Muir of

:33:01. > :33:11.Scotland and Great Britain. With two more races to come, the others

:33:11. > :33:18.

:33:18. > :33:27.will have to hope they can go 2.23 metres,. He accelerates and

:33:27. > :33:32.flew over there. Fine jumping for Robbie. European outdoor champion

:33:32. > :33:37.and by the time we get to the final, we are sure he will be wanting to

:33:37. > :33:47.become the European indoor champion as well. Two jumps and 100% success

:33:47. > :33:55.

:33:55. > :34:04.above the rest in this heat and perhaps in this event, Abeba

:34:04. > :34:09.Aregawi, now of Sweden. Erstwhile Ethiopian athlete, only started

:34:09. > :34:15.competing for Sweden in December. And she has a season's best which

:34:15. > :34:21.is a good few seconds quicker than anybody else. Elina Sujew, one of

:34:21. > :34:24.the Sujew twins, her sister goes in the next race. In this field of

:34:24. > :34:34.seven, the first two through and the fastest losers to go through to

:34:34. > :34:44.the final tomorrow. Here it is all about Eilidh -- it is all about

:34:44. > :34:53.Abeba Aregawi. She settled in her new Swedish should. She gets

:34:53. > :35:03.clipped at first but the crowd will lift her all the way round. Some

:35:03. > :35:15.

:35:15. > :35:19.decides to take it out and control things. Stay out of danger in the

:35:19. > :35:27.heats, that is all that matters. You do not want to have all the

:35:27. > :35:32.form in the world and get knocked out, like Marusa Mismas in the last

:35:32. > :35:38.round. Abeba Aregawi running in front of her new home crowd now.

:35:38. > :35:41.The first time was in the race in Stockholm earlier where she ran the

:35:42. > :35:48.3.58 to top the rankings coming into this and to show that she is

:35:48. > :35:56.the person to beat. And for her, she does not want to say a

:35:56. > :36:01.particular place, the pace though she has not trained at, and the

:36:01. > :36:11.others sitting in behind her, letting her control the pace and

:36:11. > :36:17.

:36:17. > :36:24.winning the race that she wants to. Svetlana the second place at her

:36:24. > :36:29.heels. You get the chance to watch for the previous race in the second

:36:29. > :36:32.heat, three fastest losers to go through to the final. At the moment,

:36:32. > :36:42.Abeba Aregawi is entirely Inc control. She represented Ethiopia

:36:42. > :36:43.

:36:43. > :36:48.at the Olympics in London it can be reduced to just four months with no

:36:48. > :36:57.real protest by Ethiopia so here she is. She is married to a Swede

:36:57. > :37:01.and competing for Sweden. It could be a gold medal for her tomorrow.

:37:01. > :37:06.In front of this new home crowd, she still spends a fair amount of

:37:06. > :37:16.time in Ethiopia training and not so much time here in Sweden but

:37:16. > :37:22.

:37:22. > :37:28.understandable in the winter here in Sweden. Second place is Natallia

:37:28. > :37:32.Kareiva, and a season's best for other athletes. She is seconds

:37:32. > :37:37.Claire of anybody else, Abeba Aregawi. A different class to a lot

:37:37. > :37:42.of these athletes -- seconds clear. She is nine seconds faster than the

:37:42. > :37:49.next person in this race. I don't think that will really show, she is

:37:49. > :37:54.moving away now and she is trying to take the field a bit back. Sujew

:37:54. > :38:00.also trying to do with the move in third place but they are not making

:38:00. > :38:10.much impact on Abeba Aregawi. are trying to eat away a bit of the

:38:10. > :38:11.

:38:11. > :38:21.gap but a resolute five metres and there is the Russian and Elina

:38:21. > :38:21.

:38:22. > :38:31.Sujew, they are battling for the third place. Abeba Aregawi entirely

:38:31. > :38:36.in not troubled. The battle continues full second and third. As

:38:36. > :38:46.we look at the leader, Abeba Aregawi entirely comfortable. She

:38:46. > :38:49.

:38:49. > :38:56.is comfortable holding them at this distance. And there looks like the

:38:56. > :39:00.Belorussian athlete will have to go for the third. It looks like it was

:39:00. > :39:06.a dozen over who still may go through as the fastest loser. The

:39:06. > :39:08.automatic place, the second automatic place and hard by Natalia

:39:08. > :39:17.but little doubt about the winner. Entirely in control throughout that

:39:17. > :39:24.race. It was Abeba Aregawi. Berry, very easy and impressive and

:39:24. > :39:29.Natallia Kareiva showing that you need to fight to the line. The is

:39:29. > :39:39.going to the photo finish but it looked like she took it but no

:39:39. > :39:39.

:39:39. > :39:49.doubt about the actual winner, Muir in the first heat, qualifying

:39:49. > :39:51.

:39:51. > :39:54.by right for the semi-final. She is PHIL JONES: Congratulations on a

:39:54. > :40:04.terrific performance. Lots of people jumping off the sofa with a

:40:04. > :40:08.run like that back at home! I knew it would be close and I have so

:40:09. > :40:17.happy. And to do that against two world-class athletes like that, the

:40:17. > :40:22.world indoor record holder, you beat her! It was really club close

:40:22. > :40:27.to my personal best. The tremendous performance and lots of talk about

:40:27. > :40:30.some of the 1500m guys who could have been picked and they were not

:40:30. > :40:36.and here you are as a 19-year-old who shows what can happen if you

:40:36. > :40:42.give people a chance. So good for this opportunity and that 19, it

:40:42. > :40:52.gives me so much help for the future in races won by a learning

:40:52. > :40:58.

:40:58. > :41:03.so much. Keep it going, great to 1500m, it was Natallia Kareiva

:41:03. > :41:09.winning it on the photo finish. Abeba Aregawi well clear and

:41:09. > :41:19.looking very comfortable in did. I think step Linea will go through as

:41:19. > :41:29.

:41:29. > :41:39.one of the first fastest losers -- not the prettiest rotational style

:41:39. > :41:44.

:41:44. > :41:50.I have ever seen but it is over 20 Out to the letter inside but

:41:50. > :42:00.manages to retain his balance. 20.15, a season's best, he is in

:42:00. > :42:08.

:42:08. > :42:12.Way beyond 20 metres. He led the way in qualifying yesterday so

:42:12. > :42:21.Serbia was going to be one of the favourites here. Good balance and

:42:21. > :42:31.tremendous acceleration across the circle that is a long way. A nod of

:42:31. > :42:38.

:42:38. > :42:48.in the 1500m third heat, the start list. The other twin of Germany,

:42:48. > :42:59.

:42:59. > :43:03.can the Irish athlete ran as well as Laura Muir did? Look at the

:43:03. > :43:08.qualification times, Claire likes running in Sweden, she ran her

:43:08. > :43:13.personal best of 4.13 and she would have to knock another few tenths of

:43:13. > :43:23.a second off that. The fastest loser spot is about four point well.

:43:23. > :43:23.

:43:23. > :43:31.They have set off for a bit of a good pace. She has run quicker

:43:31. > :43:37.indoors then she ran out doors last year. Some new runners and there. -

:43:37. > :43:40.- in there. It is slow. And Sujew has just seen her twin sister

:43:40. > :43:48.eliminated in one of the previous heat and knows what she is shooting

:43:48. > :43:58.for. They have the advantage of knowing the two fastest loser times.

:43:58. > :44:04.

:44:04. > :44:09.I am surprised they are letting it Irish athlete still at the back, he

:44:09. > :44:15.has dual citizenship, she had the choice of running for Britain but

:44:15. > :44:19.she chose to run for Ireland. Clare is based in the Midlands and just

:44:19. > :44:26.watching what is going on her head. Not a bad place to be, you are

:44:26. > :44:29.getting a clean run through. Sujew really tried to push things on. You

:44:29. > :44:32.could have five women going through if they were quick enough, I am

:44:32. > :44:39.just not sure what she is doing enough yet. She has gone to the

:44:39. > :44:49.front but she did not change the pace. They were still running a

:44:49. > :44:50.

:44:50. > :45:00.72nd -- a 70 second place. They need to have a chance of getting

:45:00. > :45:14.

:45:14. > :45:18.this race faster. Sujew leads from It will be interesting to see if

:45:18. > :45:22.the Russian has the pace over the last lap. She is letting herself

:45:22. > :45:28.been guided back into fourth place but she wants a better position.

:45:28. > :45:34.would expect the Spanish to have a decent finishing place. Claire

:45:34. > :45:38.Tarplee as well. She wants to be up behind the leading -- the leading

:45:38. > :45:48.four so she does not have much to do in the closing stages. She

:45:48. > :45:49.

:45:50. > :45:56.cannot make her mind up. There she does now. Anna Shchagina does not

:45:56. > :46:00.want to go at the front yet. She will attract -- attack just before

:46:00. > :46:08.the bell. Claire Tarplee still has an opportunity. The Russian is in

:46:08. > :46:12.first place. Poland is looking good. Claire Tarplee is in 5th at the

:46:12. > :46:17.moment. She needs a big last lap. The Irish runner is going to move

:46:17. > :46:22.into fourth place but issue close enough to attack? I am not sure.

:46:23. > :46:31.Anna Shchagina is still holding -- holding up the inside. Isabel

:46:31. > :46:40.Macias asked is looking to attack. The Russian is not going to hold on

:46:40. > :46:45.to this. Isabel Macias is going to get it. Only the top two will go

:46:45. > :46:52.through. The first four laps put paid to anybody's chance as going

:46:52. > :47:01.through as the fastest loser. The Spaniards, they teach them young.

:47:01. > :47:11.They are very good. Claire Tarplee was not close enough, the 300

:47:11. > :47:47.

:47:48. > :47:57.metres to go, to get herself close the world champion, the Olympic

:47:58. > :48:18.

:48:18. > :48:23.You're very welcome. You are retired. What is it like looking

:48:23. > :48:29.back? A I love to see the pictures. It is nice to look back. It feels

:48:29. > :48:36.like it is from a different time. I have great memories. It is nice to

:48:36. > :48:39.see them. World titles, a Olympic titles. The Olympics must stand out

:48:39. > :48:44.titles. The Olympics must stand out as the greatest? When I look back,

:48:44. > :48:49.I am pretty proud of the young girl did so much in the beginning of my

:48:49. > :48:53.career. I had a lot of pressure from home as well. I am from a

:48:53. > :48:57.small country. We had a lot of success in Sweden. I feel happy

:48:57. > :49:04.with being able to manage the pressure and still keep myself and

:49:04. > :49:10.my focus. It was nice. You talk about coming from a small country.

:49:10. > :49:19.You have had incredible success as a country in athletics. Yes. There

:49:19. > :49:24.were amazing years in the beginning of 2,000. It has been hard on the

:49:24. > :49:29.others coming after us. You cannot think and try to compare with that

:49:29. > :49:34.time because it was unique. We were so good at the same time, so many

:49:34. > :49:39.of us. The question everyone asks, and I know Denise asks it as well,

:49:39. > :49:46.you retired from pentathlon relatively early. What we all

:49:46. > :49:50.reasons? I had many reasons. -- what were your reasons. I was

:49:50. > :49:54.satisfied with my career and I wanted a new challenge. It was a

:49:54. > :50:00.joy and happiness and inspiration for the sport that has been my

:50:00. > :50:05.number one priority. After a won gold in Osaka, I was very happy and

:50:05. > :50:12.I wanted to move on and find new challenges. I do not just do it for

:50:12. > :50:19.winning medals, I do it to learn something new and new challenges. I

:50:19. > :50:25.had good lessons after that. I feel happy. You are a legend. We all

:50:25. > :50:30.loved you. Did that anticipation of may be going on to become what

:50:30. > :50:36.could have been a double Olympic champion, that is so rare, and

:50:36. > :50:41.Beijing, I felt, you could have done it? A I could have done it if

:50:41. > :50:46.I had the motivation that it takes to do the event. You need to be

:50:46. > :50:52.motivated to train every day. But I lost the motivation. For me, I am

:50:52. > :50:57.very proud of one gold medal and I will never think, I could have had

:50:57. > :51:01.two. I am proud of the one I have. I am happy for the new challenges

:51:01. > :51:05.and new experiences I have got. By eight would not have made their

:51:05. > :51:10.decision if I thought I would regret it. For me, it has been...

:51:10. > :51:14.It was a good decision and I could not do any different. Another gold

:51:14. > :51:21.medal you would be proud of was here in Gothenburg. That was in

:51:21. > :51:31.2006. It was a privilege to compete in front of the home crowd. That is

:51:31. > :51:37.so special. For you in London, it was amazing. People in the city are

:51:37. > :51:42.cheering for applets. -- athletes. To be in the home crowd is amazing.

:51:42. > :51:47.You were in London. He did not compete. What did you make of

:51:47. > :51:52.Jessica Ennis? She is amazing. I am so happy I have competed against

:51:52. > :51:58.her. I thought she really would break my record and she will do in

:51:58. > :52:02.the future, I think. She is a great athlete and a lovely girl. I was so

:52:02. > :52:08.happy. I was watching her at the end of the competition, the

:52:08. > :52:13.heptathlon, it was amazing. You are retired. It is always a difficult

:52:13. > :52:17.transition, I think, for athletes. How would you find it? It has been

:52:17. > :52:22.quite easy, actually! I was so excited about the other things in

:52:22. > :52:26.my life to open doors that have been closed for some time. I am

:52:26. > :52:30.studying, I am doing other stuff. It is really exciting to do new

:52:31. > :52:36.things and see what is out their. You have been in the bubble of

:52:36. > :52:40.sport for some time so I am happy to be out of it and see what life

:52:40. > :52:45.has to give me. Injuries, were they the ones that forced to out already

:52:45. > :52:49.just had enough? I would have beaten by injuries, I think, they

:52:49. > :52:54.were not too bad. I could have rested and come back. In the end, I

:52:54. > :52:59.am curious about the new life. Sport for me as always been great

:52:59. > :53:03.and fun but it has not been everything. I am looking forward to

:53:03. > :53:09.doing new things. I am quite happy with just being here and doing

:53:09. > :53:17.other things and during the other athletes on. I feel good. Going

:53:17. > :53:22.back to the competitive time, how many occasions did you two compete?

:53:22. > :53:31.Two. When someone says, there is a hurricane coming... It was like,

:53:31. > :53:37.get out the way! There is this girl coming. Everyone knew about this

:53:37. > :53:44.force that was coming. We did European Cup together once. We did

:53:44. > :53:49.Paris as well. It was incredible watching her. To be so technically

:53:49. > :53:53.proficient as so many events is what we all aspire to do. There was

:53:53. > :54:00.no visible weaknesses. You that such an incredible technique. How

:54:00. > :54:04.do you do that? I trained for a long time. I was a kid trying

:54:04. > :54:08.everything out. I love to do different events. I think I played

:54:08. > :54:15.sports for such a long time and tried to figure it out myself. That

:54:15. > :54:24.was maybe a part of it. You can hear the cheering behind us. That

:54:24. > :54:29.is the second race of the 800m. How much did you enjoy competing

:54:29. > :54:33.indoors? How much did you? It's is definitely different. Outdoors is

:54:34. > :54:39.the biggest season but indoors is a bit closer with the crowd and

:54:39. > :54:44.everything. The atmosphere is very nice. I liked to do indoors. Also,

:54:44. > :54:47.it is one day. That is easy. are involved with the organisation

:54:47. > :54:51.of this Championships. How important is it for Swedish

:54:51. > :54:55.athletics? You have had a strong time. Things are not quite so good

:54:55. > :55:00.at the moment. Be is getting better and better. I think it is because

:55:00. > :55:05.they have been comparing -- been compared to us before. It is a lot

:55:05. > :55:09.of pressure. But now there is a lot of new and good talent coming up

:55:09. > :55:14.with young people. Hopefully, the future looks good. It is unfair to

:55:14. > :55:19.compare because we might not have that kind of unique years in many

:55:19. > :55:23.years in Sweden. It was crazy, wasn't it? The whole world was

:55:23. > :55:28.looking as Sweden and saying, what is this system that is producing

:55:29. > :55:34.superstars? A it was crazy. I do not think anyone has a good answer

:55:34. > :55:40.for that. We inspired each other we were free from injury in a team

:55:40. > :55:45.that when you get a good atmosphere going, it just happens. I am happy

:55:45. > :55:55.and proud I was part of it. Coming back to what you will do now, you

:55:55. > :55:55.

:55:55. > :56:01.mention studying. Was it art? -- no. I am studying peace and

:56:01. > :56:05.called it right now. It is one of the things I have been doing beside

:56:05. > :56:09.sport that I am really interested in. Where will that take you?

:56:09. > :56:16.will see. I am involved in different organisations and working

:56:16. > :56:22.with different things. I think I should study now before I get too

:56:22. > :56:25.old. I will not go back to school later. I am doing it now so I get a

:56:25. > :56:31.degree. We will then see what happens. And keep involved with

:56:31. > :56:36.sport? A little bit but not in official way. I am supporting my

:56:36. > :56:40.friends. I will do some things in the future as well for sport but

:56:40. > :56:44.more... I am not working very much with sport right now. It is like

:56:44. > :56:49.you want to close a chapter completely and do something utterly

:56:49. > :56:54.different? Maybe that is how I work. Let us get rid of that and do other

:56:54. > :57:04.things. Maybe that is how I work. I like to focus on one thing and move

:57:04. > :57:14.on. Thank you. Thank you for the memories you gave us. We will head

:57:14. > :57:17.

:57:17. > :57:25.back out and catch up with Robbie clearance so far in the competition.

:57:25. > :57:33.He just tried it off. A 90% of the way over. It was his calf muscles

:57:33. > :57:43.supple but one. Watch again. -- that pulled that one off. He is so

:57:43. > :57:57.

:57:57. > :58:02.quick over the bar. Two more have seen some rotators. When it is

:58:02. > :58:11.done correctly, it is an effective technique for shot put. He does not

:58:11. > :58:21.look very impressed! He launches it over the 20-metre line. He could be

:58:21. > :58:24.

:58:24. > :58:28.challenging for the silver-medal position. Indeed it is. Robbie

:58:28. > :58:34.Grabarz had a little trouble at the first attempt. Let us see if he can

:58:34. > :58:38.do it. He has knocked it off again. This is going to be interesting.

:58:38. > :58:44.Only two athletes from the first full of high jumper managed to

:58:44. > :58:51.clear 2.28. We only have a couple of guys from this pool who have

:58:51. > :59:00.cleared it. -- the first pole of high jump. Luckily, Robbie Grabarz

:59:00. > :59:05.got a first-time clearance at the other one. We have been talking

:59:05. > :59:12.about the one-day pentathlon. This is the situation going into the

:59:12. > :59:20.last event, BA andm. The French athlete who won a year ago has a

:59:20. > :59:30.commanding lead. -- 800m. Then you have the 18-year-old from Belgium.

:59:30. > :59:48.

:59:48. > :59:53.She is in third place. It is game is one of the stars to go -- one of

:59:53. > :00:01.the stars of the event. She is in second place. There is the gold,

:00:01. > :00:11.the number one, the French athlete. Interestingly, two years ago, she

:00:11. > :00:14.

:00:14. > :00:20.was A303 points down -- she was 83 points down. That was about seven

:00:20. > :00:30.seconds. She's great them back and became the champion. She has the

:00:30. > :00:47.

:00:47. > :00:57.advantage of being ahead this time. group of athletes. There is the

:00:57. > :01:04.

:01:04. > :01:11.stopwatch is, at the moment, the French athlete has seven seconds on

:01:11. > :01:17.that the athlete in second place. She has two seconds on the athlete

:01:17. > :01:27.in third place. But the Belgian is only one point ahead of fourth-

:01:27. > :01:29.

:01:29. > :01:34.placed. She is lying in third place. She is one of the slowest 800m

:01:34. > :01:41.runners in the field. She could lose bronze. If she did get close

:01:41. > :01:51.to her best, she could be in with a chance of breaking or equalling her

:01:51. > :02:06.

:02:06. > :02:16.record. At the moment, it is seconds on the lead applet. --

:02:16. > :02:18.

:02:18. > :02:23.athlete. The champion is being overtaken. No sign of the Belgian

:02:23. > :02:28.making her way back in the field at the moment. It looks as if the

:02:28. > :02:38.Belgian will lose out on a medal. It was a different situation we had

:02:38. > :02:48.

:02:48. > :02:54.it. She needs to pull as much distance away from Nana Djimou and

:02:54. > :03:00.Nana Djimou has spotted it. She saw the red and green of bowler Bruce

:03:00. > :03:06.getting away down the back straight, she has responded a bit. But a

:03:06. > :03:16.tremendous, but a performer in Yana Maksimava. She will win the silver

:03:16. > :03:21.

:03:21. > :03:25.medal. It looks like Nana Djimou crossing the line,. Will have to

:03:25. > :03:33.wait until the times have been converted into points but it looks

:03:33. > :03:38.like Nana Djimou has retained her title I have just been handed a

:03:38. > :03:43.note to say the gap was about 5.9 seconds. It was not quite enough.

:03:43. > :03:48.Nana Djimou leaving it until very late before she did put on a bit of

:03:48. > :03:53.a sprint. There she is, she will not know she has retained her title

:03:53. > :04:01.yet. It has not come up on the scoreboard but Yana Maksimava's

:04:02. > :04:11.time has, and officially Nana Djimou is in a position to do the

:04:12. > :04:12.

:04:12. > :04:21.arithmetic. There we are, there is the winner of the 800m but not the

:04:21. > :04:26.pentathlon overall champion. We will clear that up a bit later on.

:04:26. > :04:32.Still pole vault qualifying is going on, Holly Bleasdale has an

:04:32. > :04:38.opportunity to nail on her place in the final. 4.56 and it looked very

:04:38. > :04:42.easy. I have to say, that looked easier than her for 0.46 that she

:04:42. > :04:50.got at the second attempt a little earlier on. But not good. -- than

:04:50. > :05:00.her for 0.46. That will boost their confidence for the final. -- 4.46.

:05:00. > :05:00.

:05:00. > :05:08.Holly in the final tomorrow. Yamile Aldama in 6th place in the third

:05:08. > :05:13.round, her season's best, 13.92, then a foul. A couple of extra

:05:13. > :05:18.centimetres would not go amiss. And that is very tight indeed. I could

:05:18. > :05:23.not quite see where the mark was. It might be bang on the qualifying

:05:23. > :05:32.line. If it is, she has gone over 40 metres for the first time this

:05:32. > :05:36.season. -- 14 metres. It was a foul. A big foul as well. But in La

:05:36. > :05:44.Aldama still in 6th place, a chance of making it through to the final -

:05:44. > :05:52.- but he merely Aldama -- Yamile Aldama. This is it for Robbie

:05:52. > :05:56.Grabarz. If they have to go back to 2.23 to decide who makes it through

:05:56. > :06:02.to the final, will end up with more than eight athlete, but Robbie

:06:02. > :06:09.could do with this one. Oh, No. He looked so, so confident that

:06:09. > :06:16.earlier heights. He must have thought everything was on song. He

:06:16. > :06:20.did not look comfortable. Mind you, only three athletes have cleared

:06:20. > :06:24.that height in this pool which means that five in total have

:06:24. > :06:33.cleared it. We will see the calculators out to see who will

:06:33. > :06:36.make it through to the final, let's hope Robbie is one of them. We saw

:06:36. > :06:39.Holly Bleasdale comfortably over that height and then she spoke to

:06:39. > :06:45.Phil Jones. PHIL JONES: That was a tremendous

:06:45. > :06:50.clearance to get through with consummate ease which is what we

:06:50. > :06:55.expect of you. Always tricky to negotiate. Berry nervous coming

:06:55. > :07:01.into it, lot at stake and with 20 goals out there, lots of waiting

:07:01. > :07:05.around and Indian warm-up as well. I handled it pretty well -- and in

:07:06. > :07:10.the warm-up as well. I am really happy that it went very well, I

:07:10. > :07:16.could not have asked for much more. You have not unclear over your

:07:16. > :07:20.first height, and then the long wait, is that difficult difficult -

:07:20. > :07:26.- you had not gone clear. So many girls in it and I needed to move up

:07:26. > :07:31.a pole. The pole was soft and I tried to wait 45 minutes, it was

:07:31. > :07:38.hard for me to stay focused and I was worrying about clearing my bath.

:07:38. > :07:43.I manage it well and I felt good at there -- clearing my bath. --

:07:43. > :07:47.clearing my bar. It Britishers were hard and with the last clearance,

:07:47. > :07:52.it does not take away these expectations -- it looks like it

:07:52. > :07:55.was really hard. I really want to come out and prove that I can be

:07:55. > :08:01.consistent and start winning medal at major championships and that is

:08:01. > :08:11.what I am in for tomorrow. It is another stepping stone. We wish you

:08:11. > :08:14.

:08:14. > :08:18.another champion in the pentathlon, the same we had a few years ago,

:08:18. > :08:21.Nana Djimou has retained her title. I think everybody in the field and

:08:21. > :08:28.the crowd knew that because of the gap she had going into that last

:08:28. > :08:38.event. So Nana Djimou once again the multi- events champion, great

:08:38. > :08:39.

:08:39. > :08:44.these championships, going to France. Where will the next two go

:08:44. > :08:54.to? We have got two 60m hurdles races. This is the line-up for the

:08:54. > :09:12.

:09:12. > :09:20.bronze medallist last year, he can be very good but can be awful. Not

:09:20. > :09:24.very good out of the blocks. The Italian, a real surprise package,

:09:24. > :09:31.only 4th but won a big race in France last week and has shown form

:09:32. > :09:38.here. The German athlete, their champion, has a chance here of

:09:38. > :09:43.winning a medal. At the favourite though for the gold, the fastest

:09:43. > :09:48.man in Europe, joint fastest in the world this year, Sergey Shubenkov,

:09:48. > :09:52.the European outdoor champion now attempted to become the European

:09:52. > :09:57.indoor champion. Former world junior champion, actually beaten

:09:57. > :10:03.his team-mate earlier this year but most of the time, he plays second

:10:03. > :10:10.fiddle, and Konstantin Shabanov. Silver medal at the European Under

:10:10. > :10:14.23 championships, the Hungarian athlete, he is in the form of his

:10:14. > :10:21.life and in lane eight, out of the action in the middle lanes, he may

:10:21. > :10:31.well be the type of athlete who could sneak through and take a

:10:31. > :10:42.

:10:42. > :10:47.medal. It will be a surprise if dominated for so many years and it

:10:47. > :10:52.is a geisha Bank of who is head and shoulders above the rest in terms

:10:53. > :11:02.of European -- European hurdling, and it is Sergey Shubenkov who is

:11:03. > :11:12.

:11:12. > :11:20.left it late, very, very late and for the first time in his life goes

:11:20. > :11:27.under 7.5, 7.49, the winning time. Goodness me... Until the last few

:11:27. > :11:31.metres, the Italian was winning. He explodes out of the blocks, easy

:11:31. > :11:36.1.5 metres on Sergey Shubenkov but he relies on his technique and off

:11:36. > :11:46.the last hurdle, just as enough. I think Martinot-Lagarde will get the

:11:46. > :11:48.

:11:48. > :11:53.bronze medal. But should -- Sergey Shubenkov has indeed added the

:11:53. > :11:58.indoor title to his repertoire. But it was close, Colin. Closer than we

:11:58. > :12:05.all would have thought. Especially when it is the Italian who comes

:12:05. > :12:13.through for the silver medal. Perhaps we were looking through to

:12:13. > :12:17.Martinot-Lagarde to push Sir Alicia Bragg of off. The important thing

:12:17. > :12:22.is to know what you're capable of, you very quickly know that he can

:12:22. > :12:31.still afford to push on, rely on a sprinting speed to get close to

:12:31. > :12:36.those barriers and then say that he demonstrated that very well. A new

:12:36. > :12:41.world League, 7.49. We said in the semi-final that nobody was in this

:12:41. > :12:47.race could go underneath 7.50, so we did not think he could be beaten

:12:47. > :12:55.and he had to work hard for this victory. But it is always about

:12:55. > :12:59.winning and he has done it. Well done. He said earlier on, Colin,

:13:00. > :13:03.when you ran that 7.52, it was easy. Nobody around him and that is

:13:04. > :13:13.almost better to come back when you did not get a good start, he knows

:13:13. > :13:17.he is down. The Italian is running the time of his life but he still

:13:17. > :13:21.concentrated and concentrated on his ability. He knows he has beaten

:13:21. > :13:24.everybody virtually in the world so when you light up in the final, you

:13:24. > :13:29.need to have that reels of confidence, it does not matter if

:13:29. > :13:33.you had a bad or great start. You still have the capabilities of

:13:33. > :13:37.winning and taking victory when it matters and he has delivered well

:13:37. > :13:44.today. The gold medal goes to Russia, Sergey Shubenkov winning

:13:44. > :13:51.with the world's quickest time. The silver medal and the new national

:13:51. > :13:58.record for Paolo Dal Molin of Italy. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde of France

:13:58. > :14:08.in the third place. A whole host of national records and personal bests

:14:08. > :14:17.

:14:17. > :14:20.behind them, a close final but they in the pentathlon, there was the

:14:20. > :14:29.situation after the last event, Yana Maksimava winning it to 0.14

:14:29. > :14:33.0.84. And looking further down the field, Nana Djimou or a few points

:14:33. > :14:39.behind, and it meant the gap was closed but Yana Maksimava could not

:14:39. > :14:49.get on level terms. The gap is only eight points in the end, Nana

:14:49. > :14:51.

:14:51. > :14:54.Djimou once again the champion. Hanna Melnychenko came on to win

:14:55. > :14:59.bronze. Some roses have outstanding figures

:14:59. > :15:04.and other races are fascinating in their unpredictability. The final

:15:04. > :15:08.of the 60m hurdles for the women, close to call even without the

:15:08. > :15:18.vagaries and uncertainties that hurdling can bring. All the women

:15:18. > :15:20.

:15:20. > :15:30.in this including the Irish athlete are capable of getting a medal.

:15:30. > :15:52.

:15:52. > :16:02.Realistically, the medals are up medals before, last year. Yulia

:16:02. > :16:09.

:16:09. > :16:15.Kondakova. Micol et Sano. She might just be struggling a bit with the

:16:15. > :16:25.times. The hurdles is difficult to predict in this race. The European

:16:25. > :16:25.

:16:25. > :17:07.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

:17:07. > :17:11.indoor champion their four years is Nevin Yanit to takes it. I think

:17:11. > :17:17.our island was in second place. Very, very tight. The winner is

:17:17. > :17:21.Nevin Yanit of Turkey. The gold- medallist. The European indoor

:17:21. > :17:25.champion. Her celebrations begin. The others will wait to see what

:17:25. > :17:30.they have claimed. What a performance by Nevin Yanit. She had

:17:30. > :17:34.a steady indoor season. Quiet early on. She has come into form at

:17:34. > :17:38.exactly the right time. She looked comfortable in the heats. She

:17:38. > :17:48.pushed herself into the semi-final, bringing a new personal best. In

:17:48. > :17:49.

:17:49. > :17:53.this final, look at that, taking the gold medal. It may be cruel for

:17:53. > :17:58.Ireland. The confirmation we are getting is she may have been run

:17:58. > :18:02.out of things for the medals. would be a shame. She had a

:18:02. > :18:05.positive first part of the race. She does faded at the end when it

:18:05. > :18:09.really mattered. We have always said, the women's hurdles, you

:18:09. > :18:15.could throw a blanket over them. When you look at the results, you

:18:15. > :18:21.can say that. 7.89, a new national record. I just heard some screaming

:18:21. > :18:31.in the background. Screams of celebration from a run up a bossy

:18:31. > :18:36.

:18:36. > :18:41.and Alina Talay. We will get confirmation later. Rule for

:18:41. > :18:47.Ireland. She has run a season's best. This is how she ran it.

:18:47. > :18:51.Fourth-placed is the worst place to be. It is a very, very positive

:18:51. > :18:58.Championship for her. She has worked hard to get back into the

:18:58. > :19:06.top tier of hurdling. She just misses out. There is nothing to be

:19:06. > :19:16.disappointed their. A performance is strong. She ran 8.05. Steady

:19:16. > :19:23.

:19:23. > :19:29.progression. Just not quite enough. are in the cruellest position. Let

:19:29. > :19:36.are in the cruellest position. Let us hear her thoughts. My sentiments

:19:36. > :19:41.exactly. The cruellest place. It was hundredth of a second. You said

:19:41. > :19:46.you were not going to do an indoor season and came so close. I have

:19:46. > :19:51.never been in a major final and not come in the top four. It is a bit

:19:51. > :19:55.cruel but it has happened before. This season I have had, it is good

:19:55. > :20:01.going. It is the quickest I have run indoors since I won indoors. I

:20:01. > :20:05.have to take the positive. By now, I am gutted. It is hard to talk to

:20:05. > :20:10.you at a time like this. You started so well in the race.

:20:10. > :20:14.started well. I felt like I fought hard the whole way. I have to take

:20:14. > :20:18.it, I will be said tonight but hopefully tomorrow will be better.

:20:18. > :20:22.If you're looking forward to the season to come, this is the best

:20:23. > :20:27.time you have done since to those and six. It bodes well. Yes. I

:20:27. > :20:32.wanted to give myself a chance to run really well. So I had to come

:20:32. > :20:36.here and do this. The preparation was tough but I did my best. I wish

:20:36. > :20:46.the figures had been -- I wish the other girls had been slower.

:20:46. > :20:59.

:20:59. > :21:03.can be proud of yourself. Well done. That looks good. He has been

:21:03. > :21:13.knocking on the door for medals for some time now. Never managed to

:21:13. > :21:23.secure one. World Championship finalist. A new personal best for

:21:23. > :21:28.

:21:28. > :21:35.him. Second place. He has responded. He is going to be in the lead. He

:21:35. > :21:45.may well have extended that. Bosnia up against Serbia at the moment.

:21:45. > :21:55.Absolutely powers that shot put way beyond 20 metres. Good technician.

:21:55. > :21:55.

:21:56. > :22:02.Very, very powerful. The best he has achieved this year. No more

:22:02. > :22:12.changes in it that shot put final. There is the result. A one of his

:22:12. > :22:15.

:22:15. > :22:22.best performances ever, the leader. The Czech Republic got the bronze.

:22:22. > :22:25.Absolutely delighted. Serbia do not win it too many major medals.

:22:25. > :22:35.Especially not at international level. In this man, they have a

:22:35. > :22:41.real star. He won a bronze medal last year. This time it is gold. I

:22:41. > :22:45.am not sure he will be able to do a lap of honour, he is a big lad. He

:22:45. > :22:49.will be over the front pages of the newspapers in Serbia tomorrow. A

:22:49. > :22:54.bit -- a little replay of what happened. That was his winning

:22:54. > :23:03.growth. It was perfect as far as he was concerned. -- winning throw.

:23:03. > :23:10.That is the end of day two. Let us rub of the British performances.

:23:10. > :23:18.This was his clearance at 2.28 metres. It looked good early on.

:23:18. > :23:23.This clearance was also very good. This clearance was also very good.

:23:23. > :23:33.He will be disappointed. He spoke to Phil Jones afterwards.

:23:33. > :23:38.Tell me how that went. I have made the final, I just find out. I am

:23:38. > :23:46.surprised. It is a great track to jump on. I run to first. I have got

:23:46. > :23:51.to control a tomorrow in the final. It is all good, I just run too fast

:23:51. > :23:57.and ran out of room. I know what I have to do tomorrow. That is good

:23:57. > :24:02.to hear. You have to that clear in the first pool. A I realised the

:24:02. > :24:07.track was really quick coming in. The first bar is always hard. That

:24:07. > :24:11.is what made the final. I managed to keep on top of it. I got too

:24:11. > :24:16.excited coming into the next bar. I need to realise I don't need to try

:24:16. > :24:20.hard to clear hides like that. It is easy for me. I have learnt how

:24:20. > :24:30.to hide embedded is easy. -- Heights like that. I tried too hard

:24:30. > :24:30.

:24:30. > :24:35.ms it up. Holly Bleasdale did the same. As long as you get it right

:24:35. > :24:40.ended up in the final, you can take care of it then. A I am really

:24:40. > :24:45.believed. I do not know what I would have done if I had not made

:24:45. > :24:50.the final. You can read those things. Good luck. Robbie Grabarz

:24:50. > :24:58.safely through to the final. It was also good news from the women's

:24:58. > :25:06.triple jump. This jump was measured at 13 metres. That was good enough

:25:06. > :25:16.to get her through to the final. We are getting towards the end of her

:25:16. > :25:16.

:25:16. > :25:26.career. She has the pedigree. She career. She has the pedigree. She

:25:26. > :25:32.

:25:32. > :25:37.has got a lovely languid style. is looking amazing at 40. She might

:25:37. > :25:43.find it hard jumping back-to-back. I am hoping she gets a good rest

:25:43. > :25:51.and comes out positively tomorrow. Let us talk about Robbie Grabarz.

:25:51. > :25:56.He was scared he would not make the final. He did. It did not work with

:25:56. > :26:01.his technique. Is about timing. Everything is. People suffer in the

:26:01. > :26:05.hurdles. You get extra strength and speed and you have got to learn to

:26:05. > :26:10.deal with it. What Robbie said to me, he said, clearly, I am learning

:26:10. > :26:15.about the event. He said, I do not have to tried so hard. He is

:26:15. > :26:18.recognising what his strength and weaknesses are. He will deal with

:26:18. > :26:21.them. A Holly Bleasdale made it them. A Holly Bleasdale made it

:26:21. > :26:27.through. She was the opposite from Robbie. She started badly and then

:26:27. > :26:33.found form. She said in her interview she started on a sock the

:26:33. > :26:40.pole. When she made the change, it helped. She got into her grave. --

:26:40. > :26:45.on a softer pole. She is safely through. -- she got into her grew.

:26:45. > :26:49.This medal is playing on her mind. She has jumped tide but she has to

:26:49. > :26:54.nail it tomorrow. The big shock of the day, Dwain Chambers did not

:26:54. > :26:58.make it through. He was disappointed in his does the book -

:26:58. > :27:03.- in his performance. I will be interested to find out the reason.

:27:03. > :27:06.Let us look at my map coverage for tomorrow. We will be back for a day