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The here tonight, and, sadly, there will understandably be a sombre | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
atmosphere. We are just 20 kilometres from Nice, and in the | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
stands you can see that many people who would have trouble to Nice after | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
the events of last night have chosen not to come. -- many who would have | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
travelled here. The events in which so many men, women and children lost | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
their lives have affected many. And the athletics community, the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
athletes and spectators, many of whom are from Nice, will shortly be | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
observing a minute peers silence to express solidarity and condolences | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
with those affected. And all of the athletes competing will wary lack | :01:30. | :01:30. | |
ribbon. -- will wear a black ribbon. APPLAUSE | :01:31. | :02:44. | |
Perfectly observed and, for now, the athletes concentrate on the job at | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
hand. I hand Tim Hutchings to commentate on the 400 metres | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
hurdles. There is a sombre mood, but life must go on. | :02:58. | :03:19. | |
Her season is building well, the South African. There is only Doyle, | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
she was the European champion in 2014. Commonwealth silver-medallist. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Having a super season. Ashley Spencer goes in four, world number | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
five. Great flat speed. She was second in the US championships and | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
yet chose to travel from Eugene last week. Little, one of the biggest | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
shocks was that she did not make the final last week. Sarah Patterson, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
European champion from last week in Amsterdam, she goes in sixth. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Cassandra Tate, third in the World Championships last year, another | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
casualty of the US Championships. She was only fifth in their Olympic | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
trials. Springer was the bronze-medallist last week, this is | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
her first Diamond League appearance of the year. For little, it was a | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
stunning blow. A disappointing blow for the world number two this year. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
She was world number one coming into those trials last week and did not | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
get out of her semifinals. Could not get to within two to microseconds of | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
her personal best sat at the end of May. She is in the five, with the | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
yellow flower in her hair. World Championships silver and bronze, | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
neither made the Rio team for the USA. A vetoed of Britain goes the | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
number three. Ashley Spencer goes in four, Little goes in lane five. Can | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
she compensate for the disappointment of Eugene? European | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
champion Cassandra Tate is in seven, Sprunger is in lane eight. | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
Frustration for Little in lane five, she has made up ground on Sarah | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
Patterson of Denmark. Cassandra Tate has got off very quickly. My word, | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
has Doyle gone hard from the first 200 metres. Ashley Spencer is having | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
about run at the moment. Doyle is leading at the moment in mind three, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
has blasted through this. Can she hold down the home straight? This | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
event is renowned for getting its revenge on you if you do not spread | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
your energies correctly. A fabulous performance from the Scot so far. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Doyle is still leading. She will take this by a big margin. What a | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
time, 54.11 from Cassandra Tate and Sarah Patterson. That from a Lee | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Doyle, a new personal best. She threw caution to the wind, attacked | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
it out of the blocks, held her form and did not falter at all. 54.09 | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
from Eilidh Doyle, one heck of a confidence booster against a very, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
very strong field. What a great performance from Eilidh | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Doyle. I know she was trying to work with this new patent that she wants | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
to use in Rio, the pattern that she hopes will take her to a medal. She | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
really attacked it hard. 15 strides to the first six. She does not like | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
going off her right leg. She just had to chop here. She got it | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
perfect. She would have taken that last barrier with her left leg lead. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
That is a very minor point. She will be delighted. Just as to chop a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
little bit into the last one, everything else was perfect tonight. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
A leaked oil looking more and more like a real prospect for a medal. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
When you win these big Diamond Leagues, the confidence it gets you | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
against a good field, she began so well. What a confidence booster. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
This was really, really top-class, personal best, the confidence must | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
be soaring. Let's confirm that result. 54.09, the personal best. | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
The Danish European champion, a season best for her. The Americans | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
are struggling tonight so far. Doyle on 30 points, ten points for a win | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
in the Diamond League, Tate is still pretty tight, more meets to come. | :08:22. | :08:34. | |
Rio is almost on top of us. What an excellent run, was it your intention | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
to set a PB? I just wanted to raise well. It was not brilliant, up my | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
last hurdle, I hope there is more to come. US champion Michelle Carter | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
has troubled wells and the Olympic trials last week. A fourth -- | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
fourth-round effort was the best way consistency reason for the world | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
into. That he was just one centimetre away from her season's | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
best, set when taking the US title in Eugene. The German world number | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
two could not find the 20-metre plus born but brought a European gold in | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Amsterdam just eight days ago. The reigning world champions's form put | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
together a solid series, capped by this 19.81 throw in round five. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
Valerie Adams was resurgent, the reigning Olympic champion from New | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Zealand came out today. Four times world champion between 2000 72013, | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
she has undergone a series of surgeries, but like a true champion | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
she fought back. She reached 20.05, the big Kiwi is back. 3/20 metres | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
for the first time in three years, perfect timing with Rio month away. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
This week the Diamond League comes to Monaco, the tiny principality of | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the French Riviera which is also the home of the IAAF. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Always one of the best meetings on the Diamond League circuit, | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
Monaco last year produced a number of world leads and a world | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Nijel Amos leads a strong field in the men's 800 metres, | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
Mo Farah and Asbel Kiprop again do battle over 1500 metres in a race | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
featuring Charlie Grice. European champion Daphne Schippers | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
headlines the 100 metres. Lynsey Sharp takes on the seemingly | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
unstoppable Caster And we'll have all the best | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
action from some top class Field competitions. | :10:31. | :10:42. | |
The men's 800 metres. I think it is going to be | :10:43. | :11:33. | |
interesting to see who takes this on. We know some of the normal | :11:34. | :11:49. | |
frontrunners. Brandon McBride has already moved up on Kip Keita. | :11:50. | :12:05. | |
There is a degree of safety going through about 50.5. Psalm is 50.6. A | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
strong, big field. You do not want to commit too much with that much | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
talent breathing down your neck. McBride will try to hold off the two | :12:18. | :12:45. | |
Kenyans. Kip Koech is just elbowed out of it. He tries to hold the | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
inside. He will hold the inside. It is Kip Keita, the Kenyan champion. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
The -- McBride looking for some rude. Kip shot will try to get | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
there. It is another when her Kip Keita. Well, he looked strong at the | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
Kenyan trials. He put himself in a good position there. He used those | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
elbows to really good effect. Lewandowski finishing strongly. | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Michael Rimmer in fifth. Around the bend. The two polish in his wake. -- | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
polish athletes. Kip Keita, it is not pretty to look | :13:39. | :13:58. | |
at, flailing arms. He covers the ground well. Good to see Lewandowski | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
coming back as well. A really quick run from him. A seasoned's best in | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
third. The Polish pair are quite a pairing. Very experienced. Kip | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
Ketter is raw talent. The men's long jump. Damar Forbes from Jamaica. | :14:19. | :14:35. | |
Jamaica obviously looking to turn some athletes who cannot sprint to | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
well into long jumpers. Forbes was a thin Moscow a couple of years ago. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
He has not progressed really since 2013. A little shake of the head. | :14:46. | :14:59. | |
Long jump this year looks stacked, with so many men. Probably putting | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
the Olympic champion, Greg Rutherford, under some pressure. | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Eight metres and eight. The African champion already this | :15:10. | :15:23. | |
year. A drop in the stride. A little bit below eight metres. You | :15:24. | :15:50. | |
lose so much momentum when you drop your stride like that. It is below | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
eight metres. Seven metres, 93. Something to build on. When you | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
think he is an 8.38 jumper this year. We have an intriguing women's | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
pole vaulter. Disappointingly, the field of eight is already down to | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
six. Two of the main contenders not starting at all. This is Silva. | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
Coming in at 4.5 five. Successfully. Only six now taking part. A big year | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
for the Brazilians. Eliza McCartney. At this height, Ling Li has already | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
gone out. Silver over the first time. Her first gold in the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
competition. Well clear as well. Plenty of height. Here is Murer, in | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
great form. 35 years old. She makes light of it. | :17:01. | :17:28. | |
Ride on the inside, Mamet Abraham. -- Mame-Ibra Anne. Just Mr Medel | :17:29. | :17:45. | |
indoors this year, Taplin from granola. -- missed a medal. Said | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
NEL, 20 years old. Really big talent. -- Cedenio. 44.7 this year | :17:56. | :18:07. | |
back in Jamaica. Tony McCoy. -- Tony McQuay. And a happy birthday to Van | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
Niekerk. 24 today. In the form of his life. Makwala Botswana. -- | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
Makwala from Botswana. He can be great on his day. Maslak. Silver | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
medallist at the European Championships. Just outside the | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
medals in that race was Kevin Borlee. I said Van Niekerk was in | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
the form of his life. He has been training with Usain Bolt recently. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
He has been running stunningly well at all distances. The 100 and 200. | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
He ran the third fastest ever time in 300 metres. Only Michael Johnson | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
and Usain Bolt have ever gone quicker. Van Niekerk of South | :19:01. | :19:13. | |
Africa. With merit and James he will surely contest the gold medal at | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Rio. Cleanly away. Tony McKay has moved | :19:16. | :19:35. | |
up quickly inside. -- Tony McCoy. Van Niekerk making up some ground. | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
Also going well is Taplin. Van Niekerk through the first couple of | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
hundred metres. He looks very comfortable. Taplin going well. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Makwala trying to go with Van Niekerk. It may be Taplin with the | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
slight advantage. Van Niekerk almost changing gear. Moving away from the | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
rest. He will win this at a canter. Said Daniel finished quickly. -- | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
said NEL. He always looks tired. In Beijing | :20:13. | :20:24. | |
last year, he ended up in hospital. But he produces the goods. I love | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
his action. I love the way he runs. You just think Van Niekerk is | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
heading for something big. He reminds me of a miniature Kirani | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
James. He is not big but can he last well down the home straight. He just | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
outlasts the others. It looks like he is accelerating both the others | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
are struggling. Merritt looked fantastic last week in the US | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
trials. But this man will be a handful. His speed has improved over | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
200 metres. He did make that looked like a canter. There was very little | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
sign of strain. He works a little bit harder with the arms to ease | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
away from Taplin. Very impressive indeed. Van Niekerk winning. A | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
personal best for said Ennio. -- said NEL. | :21:27. | :21:38. | |
Xinglong Gao in the long jump. A modest opener for the Chinese | :21:39. | :21:52. | |
22-year-old. Really good speed and rhythm. Lovely and smooth. That | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
actually flattered to deceive. A shake of the head from him. A long | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
way behind the plasticine. That is a huge distance to give away. When you | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
hardly make the board at all in relatively stale air... -- still. He | :22:16. | :22:31. | |
will need to go further than that. Katarina Stefanidi. That is nice. | :22:32. | :22:46. | |
Really smooth. Took the European title in Amsterdam with 4.8 one. -- | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
4.80 one. The confidence is evident, isn't it? This is Murer them. -- | :22:55. | :23:06. | |
again. Down to five in this competition. That is better. As Tim | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
was saying, when she gets close to Rio, they would be so hoping she | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
will hit are top form at the right time. 4.6 five. In nice clearance. | :23:22. | :23:35. | |
This is Holly Bradshaw. She won the UK title with 4.60. A world-class | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
performer on her day. 4.71 her lifetime best. That is good, a | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
season's best. She is starting to get towards the height where she can | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
content. Third attempt. Silva. She needs to make this. Yes! This | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
women's pole vaulter is there for the taking tonight. The better | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
athletes not having too much of a problem. Until that point, silver | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
looked in a bit of bother. -- Silva. But the world champion manages to go | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
clear. She is hanging in there. Mo Farah broke the longstanding | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
the British record for 1500 metres He came close to that time again | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
last year in another very fast race. On both occasions, though, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Mo finished behind Asbel Kiprop. The three-times world champion has | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
a PB within a second of the world The men's 1500 metres. The athletes | :24:41. | :25:03. | |
on the track. The blue ribbon event of many a championship. A lot of | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
European interest. Abdelaati Iguider is in there. Makhloufi. Mo Farah. | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
Asbel Kiprop, the outstanding world number one. This race includes just | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
about everybody, the Olympic champion, world champion, European | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
champion, European indoor champion. The first four from the world | :25:35. | :25:47. | |
championships last year are in this. We are looking for 1.50 four 800 | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
metres. It is predicted to be incredibly quick. Where they go. | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
There will some stragglers suffering in the latter stages if they all go | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
with the pace. The two pacemakers have been tasked with going out at | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
1.50 four 800. You thought it was too fast, Steve? On paper it doesn't | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
even look right. You probably go out a bit quick and then they're | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
expecting them to pick up again through 2000 metres. I can't see | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
that happening. It is going to be down to Kiprop. I think it is the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
third lap when you find out if you really fancies it. Makhloufi | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
stepping on Mo Farah. That is where the gaps start to appear. Kiprop | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
this maybe challenging the others. They are probably thinking, he will | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
come back to us on the third lap. If he does, he may be in trouble. If he | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
doesn't, we are going to see him doing what he does best, showing how | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
fast he can go. There has been talk of world record attempts. It has | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
been set up for that so far. Kiprop is probably 54.5 at 400 metres, just | :27:13. | :27:22. | |
about perfect. Abdelaati Iguider isolated in fourth. Look at the | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
single file. A strip of runners way back along the home straight. Two | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
laps remaining. Abdelaati Iguider is a sub 1500 metre -- 5000 metre man. | :27:38. | :27:50. | |
Mo Farah is in aid. Look at the 800 metre time! 149.9. He is struggling | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
to keep this going. Kiprop looks relaxed. They will start to close | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
this. Mo Farah will not stay in a place. They are all going to come | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
back to Kiprop. He is good think, I am having a rest now. Then I go | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
again. Abdelaati Iguider is close. He will have to go hard and fast. | :28:19. | :28:28. | |
The world record is 3.26 said in Rome all those years ago. Abdelaati | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
Iguider leads. As Kiprop gone too hard? -- has Kiprop gone too hard? | :28:35. | :28:45. | |
Mo Farah in fifth. Looking strong as they head into the back straight. | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
Abdelaati Iguider is a 3.28 man. Leading by two are three metres. Has | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
somebody to a mad now, Kiprop. Mo Farah in sixth. He has still got | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
work to do. The rest of the struggling. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
The European champion is back in about eight place. Iguider has | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
Kiprop breathing down his neck. Running really wide on the outside. | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
Iguider on the inside, beaten. Here's coming away with this win | :29:25. | :29:31. | |
very comfortably, looking fantastic. -- he is coming away. | :29:32. | :29:50. | |
My word, it was left very, very late indeed by Kwemboi. It shows how | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
delicately you have to pays these races when you are operating at the | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
edge of the envelope, you have to get it right, 1:49.9, 1:50.3 was | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
just too optimistic. He will be disappointed with that. He really | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
expected to run a long way around 3.30. Had been whisperings in the | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
hotel of world-record attempt. If you go out at 150, you're setting | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
yourself up to win a world-record all get into bother. When you slow | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
down so much on the third lap, I think that was his plan, go out | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
hard, maybe get the others sucked in, slow down and go again. But | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
Kwemboi came from nowhere. We are here in Monaco, we expect great | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
things from Kiprop, we will not always get it. He said to me | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
yesterday that he has had a difficult week, problems with his | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
manager and agent back home in Kenya, he says he has been stressed | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
out. But then don't go out 150, don't take the bait. Run a more | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
sensible rate. He has themselves to blame, he went out hard, for | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
whatever reason it was not there. Kwemboi came out with a win which | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
would surprise everybody comically himself. All credit to him, it | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
almost looked like a tactical race, the speed that Kwemoi was able to | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
generate. A season's best. Manangoi was second. Mo Farah in fifth place. | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
Quite a few athletes had the rhythm of their race upset by the pace | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
being much too quick. Charlie Grice, by the way, another young British | :31:40. | :31:49. | |
athlete, 3:33.60. Forbes is still leading, eight | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
metres eight. The only want to go over eight metres so far. | :31:55. | :32:07. | |
That is much better. Maintained right the way through until he hit | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
the board, he has been right on the border all night. Taking him well | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
over eight metres. I said his personal best goes all the way back, | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
three years ago now, 2013, his best year, right on the board again. This | :32:25. | :32:34. | |
can't be too far away from. -- far away from that. He has the bit | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
between his teeth, he knows he is leading in a decent field. It is not | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
one of the best. 8.23, season's best, so close to a personal best | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
for Forbes, who maintains his position in the lead. | :32:51. | :33:00. | |
Back on the pole vault for Silva, a first attempt. Silva coming alive | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
all of a sudden after having looked in a little bit of bother at 4.65, | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
the world champion makes it look almost too easy. It puts her in the | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
lead at the moment. On the far side of the track, the | :33:15. | :33:28. | |
women are lining up for the 3000 metres. They read it competitive | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
field. One or two macro art that are stepping up for the first time, | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
Rosie Clarke of Great Britain got a call to the start with just a | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
Tuesday. Steph Twell, Mercy Cherono and Helen Obiri will start as the | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
favourites, probably. Many of the Kenyon said Ethiopians are fresh | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
from their trials. The Ethiopians named their team today -- many of | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
the Kenyans and Ethiopians are fresh from their trials. | :33:58. | :34:07. | |
Insert the Dibaba broke the world record here last year. I am not sure | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
we will see too much World Cup form here. Obiri performs better than | :34:15. | :34:23. | |
Jeroen no at the Kenyans trials. -- Obiri performs better than Cherono. | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
Steph Twell is heading off to Rio, Great Britain are taking pretty much | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
a full contingent in the long distances, 5000 and 10,000, in the | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
men's and women's, the first time in quite a long time. | :34:42. | :34:51. | |
Cherono is on the outside. Waiting to see what sort of pace is set. | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
They asked for an aged 30 pace, I am not sure we will get that | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
maintained. Hopefully a good race. 4.65 opening height for this pole | :35:01. | :35:17. | |
vault, now 4.70 six. She is an wonderful form. The vertical jumps | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
are so dependent on confidence. You have to be on top of it, | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
psychologically. 4.76 was no problem at all. | :35:30. | :35:45. | |
He always jumps with the gold chain in his mouth. That is big. Much | :35:46. | :36:00. | |
better. Forbes of Jamaica hit a big one in round three, eight metres 23, | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
that is the target. That was very close indeed. Fabulous height. Oh, | :36:06. | :36:22. | |
my word. He is less than one inch shy, he is in second place. | :36:23. | :36:32. | |
Look at her card, 4.76 with only her second vault. 4.81, she goes clear. | :36:33. | :36:43. | |
That is the way to do it. Very much in control of things at the moment. | :36:44. | :36:55. | |
Silva is in trouble. She passed out for .76, which was interesting, she | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
was ahead at 4.71, which Stefan needy did not attempt. Three | :37:04. | :37:11. | |
failures at 4.81, she is gone. You saw the Greek clear at the second | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
time of asking, the Mirror has had four failures. With that failure by | :37:16. | :37:26. | |
Silva, it confirms the victor against a very strong field is | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
Stefanidi. Obiri looks up, she will see her | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
team-mate. Kisa is five metres behind. The danger will come from | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
Mercy Cherono. A battle for fourth spot with a lap to go. Obiri, with | :37:42. | :37:52. | |
the 1500 metre pace, turning the pressure on. Cherono will try to | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
hang on, try to hope her strength can come into play, but Obiri is | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
looking good. There is a screen on the back straight, she has a little | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
glance and her confidence grows, because the Gap extends to five | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
metres. Helen Obiri is starting to push on and cake away. The former | :38:11. | :38:18. | |
world indoor and. -- push on and kick away. This is the old sprinting | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
form of Helen Obiri. Look at the difference between herself and | :38:25. | :38:26. | |
Cherono, Cherono coming under pressure from Kisa. This will be a | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
great win for Helen Obiri, a pretty great time, not too far from her | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
personal best. 8.24, Cherono settling for second, 8.27 or | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
thereabouts. Kisa dropped out in the home straight in what looks like a | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
very quick time for the Norwegian. Rock star crossed at about 8.39, | :38:49. | :38:58. | |
Steph Twell at about 8.40 one. Helen Obiri, Tim, she will be looking at | :38:59. | :39:08. | |
the 5000 metres. Dibaba is not in it. Chariot is | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
coming back too great form. Obiri has to be thinking about medal | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
chances in Rio. When you think she did all the work for the last two | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
macro kilometres of that race. World-class closing. She was able to | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
raise her game over the final 150, a very, very well executed race. She | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
turned the screw consistently, more and more through the last 300 | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
metres. And to just burn off an athlete of the strength and speed of | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
Mercy Cherono is fabulous. Particularly pleased for Steph | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
Twell. That moves her up the UK all-time list. 8:40.98, her official | :39:51. | :40:03. | |
time. A big personal best. A personal best for the Norwegian and | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
the Canadian runners as well. They host of personal bests, as ever, in | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
Monaco, even Rosie Clarke in 11th knocked three seconds off her best. | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
Dafne Schippfers is on top of the world, currently leading | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
the rankings for both 100 and 200 metres. | :40:24. | :40:25. | |
Since leaving heptathlon to concentrate solely on track | :40:26. | :40:27. | |
events, the Dutch athlete has dominated women's sprinting, | :40:28. | :40:29. | |
winning six major gold medals and setting blistering times. | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
After breaking the Diamond League record over 200 metres | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
in her last outing in Oslo, Schippers will be looking | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
to do the same over 100 metres tonight. | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
The women's 100 metres, all eyes are surely on Daphne Schippers, the | :40:47. | :40:58. | |
world champion, the European champion in Amsterdam last week in | :40:59. | :41:00. | |
front of an adoring crowd over 100 metres. Veronica Campbell-Brown goes | :41:01. | :41:13. | |
on three, she was almost fourth -- only fourth in the Jamaican | :41:14. | :41:14. | |
championship is. This will be a real test for the | :41:15. | :41:35. | |
Dutch athlete. A pretty good start from Schippers. She moves clear. | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
Campbell-Brown in second place. Skippers. She made that look very, | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
very workmanlike. Pretty straightforward. Not a great deal of | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
pressure being applied. She is so much more confident with this better | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
start. She said yesterday that she feels because of the significance of | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
the start of the 100, more so than the 200, Heron proved starting | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
technique means she has more potential to be gathered up, so to | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
speak. -- her improved starting technique. She is already well than | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
the one at 200. She might not be welcomed and one at 100, she has had | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
a couple of this season, one in each distance, but she will be tough to | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
beat come Rio. The thing you have to always remember with Daphne | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
Schippers, she will be good in the rounds. This confidence that she has | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
in her start, she is putting herself under less pressure, meaning you | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
start better anyway. She has a bit more confidence that it will work | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
for her. She keeps it simple and straightforward, then once she is | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
into running, more often than not, the last 20 or 30 metres, she will | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
keep going away or run others down as they have got ahead of her. | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
Strong, powerful, relaxed, more to come. That is what would trouble me | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
if I was the others. Whenever you see her, you always think, OK, three | :43:03. | :43:09. | |
rounds and she might have to go into the 1070s or something, it will be | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
warm in Rio, a little breeze tonight. There are five athletes | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
this year who have gone under 1080, she is not amongst them, so it will | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
be tough. Daphne Schippers beats Veronica Campbell-Brown, a big gulf | :43:26. | :43:26. | |
between the two macro. Robbie Grabarz in the high jump | :43:27. | :43:43. | |
competition. Goes clear at 2.3 one. He has been perfect up to and | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
including this height. The Olympic bronze medallist in fine fettle with | :43:49. | :44:00. | |
Rio bearing down on us. 2.31 first attempt. Brassington sailing over. | :44:01. | :44:09. | |
Really coming into good form. -- Barhsim. | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
The second attempt for Gianmarco Tamberi. The tights are off, the | :44:18. | :44:27. | |
basketball shorts are off and the clearances are coming. Fascinating | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
fellow, really good sense of humour. Very animated press conference with | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
Barhsim yesterday. This has the makings of something very special | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
tonight. His opening night was 2.2 two. -- 2.20 two. | :44:45. | :44:56. | |
Gaza, the Syrian, in the form of his life. He goes clear as well. This is | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
really warming up. Another one clear. Second attempt for him. He is | :45:05. | :45:15. | |
in third. Xinglong Gao looking desperately to give it some | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
respectability, his card. Andy almost does it. Peppering the region | :45:20. | :45:28. | |
between 7.5 and eight metres. Prior to this he has not been able to hit | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
eight metres. That looked below eight metres, I have to say. And he | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
has done it with his sixth and final effort. Talk about reward for | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
perseverance. He moves into third place. Texaco is scalps. -- he takes | :45:44. | :45:56. | |
a couple of useful scalps. Djidji in Poland in lane one. -- 's | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
IQ. -- Jaguar. Ortega of Spain is in three. | :46:02. | :46:14. | |
Martinot-Lagarde has been given the middle lane. Omar McLeod in five. | :46:15. | :46:28. | |
Dimitri Bascou in sixth. 110 hurdles. Safely away. Omar McLeod | :46:29. | :46:39. | |
got a terrible start. Bascou leading. Here comes Omar McLeod. | :46:40. | :46:52. | |
Still Bascou. Ortega get said! -- gets it! Ortega came from nowhere at | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
the end. He did not get a good start. It was all happening on this | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
side. Bascou was away. He was being chased down by Omar McLeod, the made | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
a mess of things and ended up on the track. The man who finished strongly | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
was Ortega. He is in a bid of turmoil at the moment because he | :47:23. | :47:25. | |
thinks he should be going to the Olympic Games to represent Spain. | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
The IAAF say his eligibility does not come into effect to compete in | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
major championships until November. And this will put him right at the | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
forefront of the headlines because he has won here tonight. His story | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
will get some attention. He said a new national record in Spain earlier | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
in the season. Look at Omar McLeod. Hitting more barriers. He crashes to | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
the track really heavily. He even manages to lose his shoe. It shows | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
what an unforgiving discipline this is. Ortega third from right, very | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
smooth. Taking the barriers in his stride. Never gives the other is a | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
sniff. That was faultless. What about Martinot-Lagarde. What a | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
return for him. There is Omar McLeod crashing down. Ortega coming | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
through. He drags the big man through with him. Watch | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
Martinot-Lagarde. Under a bit of pressure. Watching his team-mate, | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
Bascou, going away. Look how strongly he finishes it. By far his | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
best run of the season. 13.01 tonight. Here is the result. | :48:49. | :49:13. | |
Bondarenko with his third attempt. Not this time. That looked very | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
smooth indeed from the Ukrainian. The former world champion. And | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
Bondarenko throws the gauntlet down to the others. First time clearance | :49:27. | :49:28. | |
at 2.30 four. -- 2.3 four. He goes clear! It wouldn't be the | :49:29. | :49:50. | |
one you would look down the list of names and say, this is the man who | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
is going to win. But he goes clear. What can Tamberi do? Oh, yes! Of | :49:59. | :50:10. | |
course, he says. The showman. World Indoor Championship of the European | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
champion. 2.34 at the second attempt. Barshim in real trouble. | :50:15. | :50:25. | |
His season has been rounding into one of enormous promise. This will | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
be massively disappointed. It is just that. The javelin is an event | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
which is on the field programme tonight. Here is Catherine Mitchell. | :50:37. | :50:48. | |
The Australian. 66-metre throw at her best. That is a very sound | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
throw. 63.80. This is the woman who won the European title, Callard over | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
it. -- Kalann of itch. That is a really good effort. Way out there. | :51:05. | :51:18. | |
Those markers are wrong. A bit disconcerting. It was a good throw. | :51:19. | :51:27. | |
It is disconcerting. That was a 65-metre throw, not a 70-metre | :51:28. | :51:36. | |
throw. She moves into an early lead. The line-up for the next event. It | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
is a big field. 12 starters. It is a high-calibre field. | :51:43. | :51:59. | |
Nyairera Wambui, World Junior Championships 14. Won-macro the | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
Kenyan Olympic trials last week. Niyonsaba, the World Indoor | :52:08. | :52:29. | |
Championship. She shares lane six with Molly Ludlow. Fourth the | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
Neolithic trials last week. Just missed out on a spot of the | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
Olympics. Caster Semenya, world champion in 2009, unbeaten in 800 so | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
far this year. The world record is 1:53.20 eight. That was in 1983. A | :52:47. | :52:59. | |
weather girl. Caster Semenya has displayed his enormous range in | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
recent weeks. -- away they go. Semenya has all of the armoury | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
needed to handle a field of this calibre. I wonder if she might | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
overextend yourself in this 800 metres. The pacemaker has gone off | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
quickly. Semenya slots into second. She looks relaxed. The rest of them | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
being strung out. Niyonsaba in second. Nyairera Wambui moving into | :53:29. | :53:38. | |
sixth. So far, Lynsey Sharp keeping our powder dry. Nyairera Wambui went | :53:39. | :53:46. | |
through the first few hundred metres slower than the others. It is not | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
super fast but certainly quick enough. Can Semenya runaway from | :53:53. | :54:01. | |
Niyonsaba? 56.04 is probably a better time. It is more sensible. It | :54:02. | :54:10. | |
is Semenya at the moment. The athletes in world rankings in first, | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
second and third. 250 metres to run. Lynsey Sharp in A. 200 metres | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
remaining. This is where Semenya in every race this year has eased away | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
from the opposition. Almost effortlessly. Brilliant running from | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
Molly Ludlow. She is clinging on to the top three. Out in front after... | :54:32. | :54:41. | |
Lynsey Sharp than the home straight. -- home straight. Semenya looking | :54:42. | :54:49. | |
powerful, looking smooth. 1:55.30 four. That is a new personal best. | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
And boy, oh boy, does she look stressed? Does she look in trouble? | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
A brilliant, brilliant, smooth piece of 800 metre running from Caster | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
Semenya. Yes, some good performances behind. There is nobody who can do | :55:15. | :55:25. | |
what she can do at the minute. Nobody can do that. Not even | :55:26. | :55:35. | |
Niyonsaba or a Nyairera Wambui. She can win at will. Surely she is going | :55:36. | :55:42. | |
to run much quicker than that if she wants to. This is controlled | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
running. She only picks up on the last 100 metres. To have that in | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
your tank, the others have not got that. They just do not. As a | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
competitor you always have to think, how can I beat that person? I cannot | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
see anything. I could not suggest anything to the others that could | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
give them even a glimmer of hope. Because in effect, she acted as a | :56:10. | :56:17. | |
pacemaker. Didn't step aside, didn't slow, just gradually eased away. The | :56:18. | :56:24. | |
place times spectacular. A national record. That was for Niyonsaba in | :56:25. | :56:32. | |
second. Great personal best from Molly Ludlow. | :56:33. | :56:45. | |
Bondarenko with his second attempt at 2.3 seven. That is nice. Yes. The | :56:46. | :56:58. | |
confidence is coming back for several of these high jumpers. Last | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
year was almost a fallow year. After the exploits of 2014 which was so | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
spectacular. Tamberi. His first attempt. That is clear. That is a | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
personal best equalling performance from Tamberi. And he takes the lead. | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
And my word, Willie he take some scalps tonight? Bondarenko behind | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
him. Barshim already out. Thomases out as well. Here is Majad Ghazal. | :57:30. | :57:42. | |
What a night he is having. No. He is more concerned with the foot than | :57:43. | :57:50. | |
the failure. This is Spotakova in the javelin. First round,. She | :57:51. | :57:59. | |
managed to get into the top four. Three more throws. Now we have got | :58:00. | :58:10. | |
better marking out there as well. Kalann average leading. Mitchell of | :58:11. | :58:21. | |
Australia lying in second place. Not quite far enough. The 200 metres for | :58:22. | :58:30. | |
men all set to go. Christophe Lemaitre is becoming | :58:31. | :58:46. | |
almost the forgotten man of European sprinting after dominating. James | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
Ellington in the yellow for Great Britain. He is concentrating on the | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
100 this year. Martinez of Dominica. A pretty even break. A good start | :59:01. | :59:32. | |
for lane eight. The Jamaican is also going well. Brenner is in lane one. | :59:33. | :59:42. | |
It is anybody's race. Alonso Edward has just got their centrist moves | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
away by a metre. Alonso Edward gets the win from Lemaitre, and perhaps | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
Brenner is for third. 20.11, that is the time at the moment. | :59:53. | :59:57. | |
It has just been taken down by a hundred, 20.1 zero. Alonso Edward | :59:58. | :00:04. | |
has been in good term, 20.06 is his season best. Very, very smooth. | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
James Allington swung wide. You never really got back on terms with | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
the majority of this field. -- he'd never really. Edward was very, very | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
much smoother. It is a season's best for Lemaitre, not by much. It is all | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
a bit ragged. You can't knock anyone for fighting hard. He was never the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
smoothest of sprinters. He will claim and say that he is edging in | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the right direction, but Alonso Edward, just look at him, nice and | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
relaxed. Then sit off the truck. Martina was probably a bit | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
disappointed with his performance. Alonso Edward, a big winter night. | :00:53. | :01:11. | |
20.10 his winning time, a season's best from Lemaitre. Very Brenner is | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
just run out of third place by Martina, but he equalled his | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
national record. -- Nery Brenes was just run out of third place. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
The men's 3000, the final event. What a race it promises to be. A | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
host of Kenyans, including the world number one who, as we understand, is | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
looking for a long way under eight minutes, that is Kipruto. We | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
understand he has never wrote that. If the pacemakers do their job, if | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
Kipruto goes with them, the World Championships silver-medallist for | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
each of the last two macro occasions, 2013 in Moscow and last | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
year in Beijing, maybe we could see something special here tonight. Of | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
course we want to see a great race as well. Records are the cream on | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
the cake, so to speak. Bondarenko is in a little bit of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
trouble. He is on the way back, Bondarenko. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
He has had a busy evening, came in at 2.22, clear but first-time. There | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
is his card in full. A second place for Bondarenko. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
At the third time of asking, Tambe area, the European champion, 2.39, | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
cleared it. -- Tamberi, the European champion. Tamberi has a new national | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
record, 2.39, McLeod were on their feet. -- the crowd were on their | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
feet. This youngster who stunned the world | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
at the European Championships, Rojas, she is still a little bit | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
raw, still yet to control those long limbs, but think of the potential | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
she surely has at this? Certainly an improvement. Started with 14.23 in | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
round one. She was in the Labour last time saw it. In proving to | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
14.55 -- she was in the lead, the last time we saw it. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
This precocious talent from Rojas. She is now somebody for Ibarguen to | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
battle. All smiles. She is quite a character, Ibarguen. She has been | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
around a while, 32 years old, Rojas is fully 12 years younger. | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
A fabulous final phase, she squeezes every centimetre out of it. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
One national records already for Tamberi, what a year he is having. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
He already has to macro gold medals at the Ruby in Championships and at | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
the Europeans. Let's hope that is not an injury. -- at the European | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
indoor Championships and add to be repealed. Oh, no, no, no. I was just | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
saying what a year he is having, that looks like an athlete who | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
thinks he has done something bad. A new national record from Tamberi, | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
but with a very worrying injury just before Rio. Bondarenko taking second | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
place, Robert Grabarz taking third in the Diamond race, Bondarenko is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
still reading it. Back to the steeplechase, but first | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
kilometre 2:40.50 four. It is not Grice Peck -- great pacemaking. I | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
think there might be a race for Kipruto now, rather than a time | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
trial. The third placed runner is trying to | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
hang onto Kipruto. Kipyego is in fourth place in the orange. He has | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
to go. He is hanging around, the place is going. The last 1000 | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
metres, really good athletes, the world-class, front running attacking | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
athletes, he is blaming everybody else. Have a go, go on! Show us what | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
you can do. He will blame the pacemaker but, to | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
be fair, if this was so easy for him he should have gone past in a lap | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
ago and got on with it. Otherwise I agree, he has won four Diamond | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
League Yes so far, each at a canter. -- Diamond Leagues so far. He won in | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
the Birmingham Diamond League with just a few hundred 's. This is | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
relatively easy. They go through the Bell in about | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
7.0 seven. The crowds are enjoying this. They know they are distance | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
running in Monte Carlo, it is always a feast of great middle-distance | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
races, tonight is no exception. The world junior champion, the | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
reigning world junior champion, the world Junior Championships starting | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
next week, so he will lose that title. You can never do well at the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Olympic trials, but your list as pace and he will put Kipruto under | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
some pressure. Kipruto responded immediately. Twice the World | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Championships silver medal as now, he skips over the water jump into | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
the water. He is much the taller of the two macro. Who has got the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
change of pace? This is now a tactical affair. Kipyego is in | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
third, he is run out of it. Kipruto ups the cadence. He makes it look | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
comfortable. Three metres to the goods in 8.08, what might have been? | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
One of these days, Kipruto, who records his fifth consecutive | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Diamond League win in the Speigel -- steeplechase, one of these days he | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
will get it right, he will get great pacemaking, he will attack the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
distance from the middle and latter section and he will go a long way | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
below eight minutes. I think he is pleased to have won the race in what | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
was a tactical affair. Kipruto winning 8:08.11. | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
The Moroccan and fourth place had a personal best. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
Rojas again, gradually improving, looking better through the rounds. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
That middle phase is just a step, almost literally just a step. She | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
does not make it a phase of the jump. She is a very, very raw | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
talents. I can imagine coaches all over the road would be thinking -- | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
all over the world would be thinking, goodness me, what is this | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
middle phase? It hardly covers any distance at all. So much more to | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
come from this very, very tall young lady. 14.60 four. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
She has been leading the javelin throughout, this lady. She could not | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
go further. Flat conditions, not easy for javelin throwers. A win for | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
her, but not able to improve. Nobody has been able to even get close to | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
her. So she wins. Kimberly Williams, the sixth and | :09:23. | :09:37. | |
final round for the Jamaican, who is in third place at the moment. 14.29 | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
is her best, that was way back in the first round. No jumps in the | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
second and third rounds. Oh, that is a big second phase and a | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
huge final phase from Williams. She is a 14.56 jumper this year. She is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
not far short with that effort. Just about perfect on the board. I know | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
one or two macro people would call that a no jumper. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
She sits back on it a little bit, Williams, twice a World | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Championships finalist. The final effort, 14 metres 47. In this light | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
headwind, there is still a bit of breeze around. This will be the last | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
of the action of the night. Ibarguen down the back straight. Many of the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
crowd had stayed, which is good to see. She is leading the competition | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
from Rojas, 14.87 on the third round, no jumps in round four and | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
five. Last round of the competition. Oh! Saved the best until last! With | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
a defiant sweep of the arm, Ibarguen takes a bow. She has won tonight. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
She stays on top. She has maybe given us the best jump of the | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
competition right at the very end. She is looking for 15 metres, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
certainly not far away. Very, very close. She knew, didn't she? Looking | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
for the results. Oh, it is 14.90 six. Very close to 15 metres. Big | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
smiles, she would love to have gone over 15 but she stays on top, | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
looking good. Stay with us on BBC One next to find | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
out what it really takes to coach a champion. We would given exclusive | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
access to go behind-the-scenes with the man behind the success of | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill. That is followed by continued coverage of Davis Cup | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
tennis. Tomorrow on BBC Two, highlights of | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
the triathlon World Series. Diamond League athletics will be back life | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
next weekend with the Anniversary Games in London. Coverage starts | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
from 7pm on Friday evening. After the horrific news from Nice | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
overnight, taking part in an athletics competition can seem | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
futile and insignificant. However, the only thing that athletes can | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
realistically offer is to perform as well as they are able. Tonight we | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
had a host of impressive performances from British athletes | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
as Rio comes close, ticket early in entrance. Mo Farah was a little off | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
the pace in the 1500 metres, but I am sure nothing to worry about. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
There was a big personal best from Charlie Grice in the same event, and | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Steph Twell continues her return to Rio form. Lynsey Sharp went close to | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
her best, and Holly Bradshaw got a personal best in the pole vault. But | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the star of the British athletes was a litre oil, a massive win for her | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
in the 400 metres under personal best, showing she is very much on | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
course to be a real contender in Rio. -- the best of the British was | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Eilidh Doyle. | :13:04. | :13:09. |