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Hello. We are in Paris for the second of two Diamond League | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
meetings in a week. Now it is time for the stars of track and field, | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
many still in peak fitness post Rio. So there is an anticipation that | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
records may be broken here. Tim Hutchings and Stuart Storey are | :01:06. | :01:48. | |
your commentators. COMMENTATOR: First to enter the | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
track, the 400 metre hurdles for men. There is the line-up. The | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
Olympic champion, Karen Clement, goes in this one. Kerron Clement, | :02:09. | :02:21. | |
the champion, 47.7 three. A race in which four men went under 48 | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
seconds, never seen that. This man, Nicholas bet of Kenny, now the | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Kenyan number to the hind Boniface Tumuti. A season's best in Rio. A | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
dearth of sub 48 second performances until we came to the Olympics and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
then for men did it. The Diamond League record is 47.62. How will the | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
Olympic champion fair here? He is the Diamond League leader of course. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Tinsley needs a really good race to set himself back up in terms of | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
confidence. Look at the Olympic champion, Kerron Clement. Watch out | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
for the man in the orange vest, he is tough in the second half of the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
race. Nicholas Bett is having the race of the season at the moment. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The Olympic champion Kerron Clement on his shoulder now. Colson going | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
well, Nicholas Bett leading, here comes Clement. Bett is going to take | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
this! What a race from the Kenyan. Bett takes it, with Clement in | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
second place. What a run that is. He's just got that inconsistency at | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
the moment, the reigning world champion, who couldn't find anything | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
like that form in Rio but of course did take the silver medal. 48.01, a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
season's best for him. As we see Clement leading the | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
Diamond race with 31 points from Colson's 25, with Tinsley on 24. The | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
men's shot put was an absolutely terrific competition. Kurt Roberts | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
spent the day fighting off Ryan Whiting for third place. His | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
season's best of 20.78 saw off Ryan Whiting's 20.65. Ryan Crouser, this | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
was sensational. 21 metres and 99 centimetres. That of course was a | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
new meeting record, taking the record held by the Swiss athlete in | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
1992. Tom Walsh had already in the second round established the first | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
record, which we saw Ryan Crouser beating, there. But in this sixth | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and final round, it saw Tom Walsh, the New Zealander, second in the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Diamond race, the Olympic bronze medallist, launched this 16 lbs ball | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
out to 22 metres! It was absolutely first class. He came here with a | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
personal best of 21.62 and goes away with 22 metres, a new meeting record | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
and that is absolutely first class. The Olympic champion in second. Kurt | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Roberts in third. Look at the points. The ladies have been waiting | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
patiently down on the track for the start of this women's race, the 400 | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
metres. Three Rio medallists go in this race. | :06:04. | :06:21. | |
Hastings, in the lighter shorts, she has gone off very quickly, already | :06:22. | :06:35. | |
closing others down. Hastings certainly leading, now MacPherson | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
getting into her running well. Hastings has steadied right down. A | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
surge off the bend. It is MacPherson who leads but here comes Hastings, | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
working hard on her arms. Still going well is Eilidh Doyle in three. | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
Hastings now gets onto the shoulder. These two battling it out once | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
again. It could be the order of the Olympic Games for these two. 50.08 | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
from Natasha Hastings. That is very close to her season's best of 49.90. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
She worked really well for that and really judge that race to | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
perfection, didn't she? 50.06 for the first time. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
The women's discus competitions a night, Caballero in third place. | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
Just one valid throw for Caballero from her series. That was it, 61.98, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
for the reigning Beijing champion. Robert-Michon producing her best in | :07:48. | :08:03. | |
round six. This one going out to 64.36, for the French athlete, who | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
is at her best almost a 67 metre throw. She took the silver in Rio. A | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
fabulous effort at a senior age. At Sandra Perkovic on top in rear and | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
very much on top tonight. She won with a throw of 67.72, waving her | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
best to last. Retaining her title in Rio from London. The world champion | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
back in 2013 in the discus and the undisputed World War I in this | :08:42. | :08:42. | |
current age up Sandra Perkovic, completely | :08:43. | :09:08. | |
un-catchable in the Diamond race. The men's 800, a mouthwatering race. | :09:09. | :09:25. | |
That is just part of it. We have got the Diamond League leader and Alfred | :09:26. | :09:37. | |
Kipketer, and take courage -- Kipkoech makes up this very good | :09:38. | :09:50. | |
field. 1:43.37. He was second in the 1000 metres in law than, in the | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
Diamond League. -- in Lausanne. What about this man? The Olympic champion | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
got a silver in the 1500 and in the 800 metres in Rio, going very well | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
indeed. Rotich fits in the Olympic final. Bosse is always a threat. The | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
first three were sub 1.43 in that final. He didn't make the final, but | :10:24. | :10:35. | |
he had a Kszczot fast semifinal but didn't make it. -- Kszczot had a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
fast semifinal, the best non-qualifier in Rio. Berian, the | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
American champion. Made the final and came in in eighth place. There | :10:50. | :11:06. | |
is I young Solomon -- Souleiman. He ran the fifth fastest time of all | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
time a couple of days ago. There is Dahmani, the other French athlete. | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
Rotich was fifth in the Olympic final. There are so many great men | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
in this race, no clear winner. The men's 800 metres. | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
Melly will have to get out and he has gone for a very quick 800 | :11:40. | :11:56. | |
metres. Soulieman is there. Berian coming across now. Rotich tucked | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
away on the inside. They come around the bend and enter the straight for | :12:05. | :12:21. | |
the first time. Soulieman, Berian, Kipkoech. And also in their is | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
Kitilit of Kenya. He is a world champion of 1500 and he is kicking | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
on Hardy, he really wants to test this field. Soulieman down the back | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
straight, Kitilit in second place. Third place is Dahmani, the | :12:44. | :12:56. | |
Frenchman running very well indeed. Makhloufi now in fifth place and | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
running well. Soulieman now under pressure. As they head to the home | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
straight, this is going to be a cracking finish! Kitilit heads into | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
the lead. Kitilit running away with this at the moment, or is he? I | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
think this is Rotich, who has come through to take that race right at | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
the end, it is Alfred Kipketer, in fact! What a finish. Kipketer it | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
was, 1:42.88, wonderful race that was. That 1000 still in his legs, | :13:33. | :13:46. | |
Soulieman. Kipketer comes through with flailing arms but he covers the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
ground well and a super time to boot. White Kitilit looked good, he | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
looked like he could be the man. But Kipketer came from about six places | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
back. I thought it might be Rotich but in fact it was Kipketer. In fact | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
look at the results of this, it was quick. We said they might be slow | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
after the Games, but look at this. Kitilit, 1:43.05, a personal best. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Then Rotich, he was closing fast. The polls left behind, but two these | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
and's best and a personal best for Dahmani France who was in the lead | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
in the early stages but then faltered. Rotich still holds onto | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
the lead and Kipketer, well done to him. We go to the pole vault now. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
Shawn Barber had a disastrous, a disaster in sporting terms in the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Olympic Games. 5.50, he went out. He said that the resin he uses just | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
didn't work with the rain. I would have thought the world | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
champion would have known mad. Very quick on the runway. Good clearance. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Looks like we will have a good competition, hardly any clearance. | :15:11. | :15:23. | |
She is tall, steady approach. Driving that inside me. 193, still | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
leading. The steeplechase coming up, very good. Some big names in this. | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
We certainly have, the top five from Rio in this. The quality and depth | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
improving on the world scene, the race including the world, and | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
Olympic champion. The German European champion included. As well | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
as the 2012 Olympics champion. 12 in Rio. Emma Coburn looking to put up a | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
substantial challenge, the Kenya and one of the pacemakers. Ruth Jebet | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
Berrer. Will they go with the pacemakers? We | :16:17. | :16:34. | |
are looking at around three minutes for the first kilometre. If Ruth J | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
bet is up to the challenge... And the reigning world champion... They | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
might see something rather special. Ruth Jebet slotting into third | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
place. Cockburn back in eighth place. | :16:54. | :17:09. | |
It looks quick, stretched out already. It certainly looks quick. | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
They started very well and you talk about Jebet, we saw her in Eugene. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Breaking nine minutes, racing away from the field. Kiyeng couldn't stay | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
with her, they thought she might come back but she didn't. That is | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
where we first saw the quality of the young athlete. She was mature | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
beyond those years, in the middle of the group. The world champion | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
alongside her. While spread, interesting to see whether the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Australian can approach the Australian work word. -- record. It | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
will be interesting to see if she can function in this race. 561 on | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
the first attempt... But he's been having problems with his opening | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
height. He got beaten at the Olympics. | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
Breathing a sigh of relief! To get over the opening height. Well... He | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
has had his problems. Six-metre vaulter at his ferry best, Olympic | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
champion in London, twice the world indoor champion going over six | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
metres but that was a little bit of a fall away to the side. Spectacular | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
first kilometre run, much quicker than the Olympic final. Jebet | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
leading from Kiyeng. Beginning to get away, these two. Kiyeng in | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
second place. Steeplechase personal-best quicker than her three | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
kilometre flat time, quite bizarre. Pursue it flat personal-best, only | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
running 15 point for two, Jebet attacking this and she can maintain | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
this rhythm we could be onto something very special. The world | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
record eight points 58. At the Olympics. Over eight years ago. | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Kiyeng feeding off the front runner. A big gap between Kiyeng and Jebet | :19:29. | :19:41. | |
in the Olympics. Look at that, subtle increasing pace down the back | :19:42. | :19:42. | |
straight. Into the back straight. How could she have such talent at | :19:43. | :19:58. | |
19? Ten already mentioned the world record could have been in her | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
pocket. The night it could be... Conditions are perfect. The | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
opposition perfect. The world Champion chasing you but she likes | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
to run this way. She comes into the straight. Kiyeng easing away. I | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
should say, Jebet. Cockburn in fourth place leading the | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
pack of some six athletes between fourth and ninth. Jebet dancing at | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
the big screen, as long as she heads to kilometre zone around six | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
minutes, the world record could be on. | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
She uses away from Kiyeng, the Olympic silver-medallist. Ruth | :20:47. | :20:58. | |
Jebet, working out her pacing. I do believe something historic could be | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
unfolding in front of us. I felt with the split she produced in Rio | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
she is capable of something a long way below nine minutes, well inside | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
the existing world record. This is just about perfect. At the moment, | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
she could run three point-macro 04 and still break the world record. | :21:21. | :21:33. | |
The first Olympic champion in Bahrain after Jamal's bronze in | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
London, the fastest team time in Rio. Looked extravagant. | :21:37. | :21:46. | |
Two laps to run. Two and a half laps to do it. Kiyeng running bravely but | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
isolated in second place. A gap behind her of 70 metres. Cockburn in | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
third beginning to ease away from the pack. A sensational piece of | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
running, looks as if she is pushing on better. The world record in | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
danger. Looked like it on three occasions I have seen her run. Got | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
away from the world champion. She enjoys running on her own. Did that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
in Eugene and in the final stages of the Olympic Games, the final, she | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
went away and unless something extraordinary happens, we are on for | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
a moment of steeplechases Street. She is ten seconds quicker over the | :22:34. | :22:49. | |
barriers, only running 32 and a half minutes for ten kilometres on the | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
road. 19 years old, going through in 743. She can cover the slap and | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
about 75 seconds and still break the world record. This was threatened in | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Rio. Usually goes. Each of these | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
barriers, get over them well, memories of the men's steeplechase | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
in this stadium last year banished in the minds of those present. She | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
goes down the back straight, 250 left, looks tired. One more jump to | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
come, Ruth Jebet 200 metres to run. CHEERING | :23:32. | :23:43. | |
Watcher Jon for the final time, entering the straight, one barrier | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
to go, the world-record front 2008 by the Russian athlete, living on | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
borrowed time. 50 metres to run, look at the clock, | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
an astonishing world-record! Running for Bahrain... She crosses the | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
line... Opening up a new era in women's steeplechase. The quality | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
gap has been improving, 29 women under 930 this year is unprecedented | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
and now a young lady who is a long way under nine minutes. She could | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
have been Olympic champion in Rio, she chose to save it and the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
decision was right. There it is. Marvellous world-record, six second | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
improvement. Kiyeng behind the 19-year-old in second. Place Times | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
superb. The first aid athletes under 920. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Jebet with 36 points can ironically still be caught by Kiyeng on the | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
final. Sam Kendricks... In good form, of course, when in | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Lausanne. Squeezing over that. Kendricks going clear at 581. | :25:05. | :25:24. | |
Ironically, first time, after a couple of second time clearances. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
When he doesn't strain he serves in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
and midstride in real, he stopped to stand to attention for a US national | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
anthem. The triple jump. Nobody getting up to 17 metres as | :25:39. | :25:59. | |
yet. That was very close to 17, looking closely, they normally know. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Pretty closely, within an inch or two, 16 metres 85, consistent but | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
not hitting the big marks. Opened with 1661 and then 16 37, big | :26:10. | :26:36. | |
jump in the third round, 16 92, took the lead and retained the lead. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
Carter, winner of the triple jump, long way behind the board with that, | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
that dumbing down at 16 49 but he takes the win. Confirmation of his | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
leading home. Taylor leads the diamond race by a | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
big margin. The next event, the women's 200 | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
metres. Not a great deal in it are not bend. | :27:07. | :27:42. | |
Dafne Schippers has pulled out. Henry going well on the outside | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
lane. That may show Bruce gets there... Could have been Henry | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
O'Hara brandy me. Brandy me ran a brilliant bend but Dafne Schippers | :27:56. | :27:56. | |
easing away. A big personal-best, 20 to 46 for | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
the Britain. The second throw for the Ukrainian, | :28:05. | :28:42. | |
86 in the first. Yes! Yes! Close to 85, could be in the lead or close to | :28:43. | :28:52. | |
it. Hardly a breath in this stadium, the flags are lying alongside, no | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
movement... There it is. No movement whatsoever. | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
The third attempt for the French man, the Olympic silver-medallist | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
and that is nice... Yes Xtra-vision Mark LAUGHTER | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
When things are not going brilliantly you can celebrate with | :29:22. | :29:22. | |
small victories. Cleared by 81, under real pressure. | :29:23. | :29:39. | |
A monstrous sigh of relief. The adoring home fans. He is well clear. | :29:40. | :29:48. | |
Plenty of height. Between the world-record holder and the bar. He | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
hasn't been firing on also lingers recently. -- on all cylinders. The | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
women's 1500 metres next, the athletes out and lined up. 17 | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
starting with two pacemakers and fodder race promises to be. Nine of | :30:08. | :30:19. | |
the real top ten are here. Including the Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon. | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
Judy Kiyeng one of the pacemakers. Jenny Simpson, that perfectly judged | :30:23. | :31:01. | |
race. What a race it was, passing Laura Muir. Half a dozen young | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
Africans against the veterans from the USA, Jenny Simpson and Shannon | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
Rowbury. Genzebe Dibaba the Olympic champion | :31:19. | :31:34. | |
the only absentee here of real significance. Took the Olympic | :31:35. | :31:46. | |
silver behind Kipyegon, but I wonder whether Kipyegon herself will be | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
fired up by the news of that astonishing 8.52 in the | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
steeplechase, smashing the world record by over six seconds. We're | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
looking for 64 seconds exactly from the pacemaker and then... I'm | :32:03. | :32:12. | |
surprised they haven't asked for something a bit quicker when | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
Kipyegon is clearly in the low 3.15s after the way the 300 are unfolded. | :32:18. | :32:30. | |
You don't very often see that, and I enjoy watching Laura Muir of Great | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
Britain run. She's always up there or thereabouts in these kind of | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
races. She didn't -- it didn't quite work for her, she tried to go with | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
it at the Olympic Games, her strategy not quite right. Look at | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
Jenny Simpson, she's been here for a week and she is in fourth place in | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
the race, behind the pacemaker. She's one of the most experienced | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
athletes. Remember, she won the world title in 2011, a silver medal | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
in 2013. She has been in the major championships. This is now stringing | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
out, a respectable pace, for sure. They went through 463.97. I would | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
like to say that is perfect, because we're looking for 64, but that means | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
the athletes behind her ran through in the high 64s, 65s. That is a bit | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
on the slow side. Kipyegon, the Olympic champion. Jenny Simpson | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
right up there on her shoulder, in fourth. Hassan, in sixth place. | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
Sado, then Shannon Rowbury. Laura Muir, who ran so strongly last year. | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
That is on the slow side, it really is. That is a shame. How quickly can | :33:47. | :33:54. | |
they run here? She knows that second lap was too slow, Kiyeng, that is | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
why she is accelerating. Laura Muir knows she can handle this. I thought | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
she misjudged the Olympic final badly. She looks to be getting it | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
right here, Stuart. She really surges now, with 450 metres to go. | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
The chase is on for those behind. Hassan recognising the danger. Well, | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
they have seen Laura Muir do this before. Now with 400 metres to go, | :34:26. | :34:37. | |
she has got the lead and those with higher at the moment... It is Laura | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
Muir who leads at the moment. They have just run a 61 second lap. Laura | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
Muir going hard down the back straight and Hassan trying to get | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
back on terms. Kipyegon looks beaten on this occasion. This is the ideal | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
unfolding of a race for Laura Muir, the Scot. The Briton so disappointed | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
with her seventh place finish in Rio as she saw one body after another go | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
past in the last 300 metres. Into the straight now! The attack is | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
coming but it's not going to get there, I think. Kipyegon, in second | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
place now, easing past Hassan. Laura Muir now, this is what she wanted in | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
Rio, a much more representative run from the Brits, watch the clock! My | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
word, 3:55.24, she has smashed the British record and that is indeed | :35:33. | :35:34. | |
the fastest time in the world this year! Laura Muir, we knew it was | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
coming all-star it's a meeting record to boot, for the Scot. That | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
had to be possible. She looked so fantastic in Rio but misjudged it in | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
my humble opinion when she followed Dibaba's almost suicidal surge from | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
halfway through to about 200 to go when Kipyegon eased past her. That | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
astonishing statistic, that last 800 in well under 1.58, the pair of | :36:01. | :36:10. | |
them. A meeting record, world lead and a British national record for | :36:11. | :36:20. | |
the Scot. Hassan, 3:57.13 and Shannon Rowbury, a season's best | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
come in fourth place. Billion times in the women's 1500 metres. | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
Kipyegon, 36 points, Laura Muir on 28. She could catch the Olympic | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
champion in the final if Kipyegon doesn't have a good run. Now, what | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
can Trost achieve here? It is an important jump. It is her final | :36:44. | :36:54. | |
jump. No. That is the end of her competition. A 1.93 clearance, three | :36:55. | :37:03. | |
failures at 1.96. Spencer is the other athlete left in. She is | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
attempting 1.98 right now. A real test for her. For anybody, really. | :37:10. | :37:20. | |
Set that personal best back in 2010. Just lost the confidence as she | :37:21. | :37:29. | |
nudged the bar, drifted through it. That is her first failure, 1.98. It | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
is not a season 's best, but on the last height, Beitia looked very | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
comfortable indeed. 1.98, very much in her compass. That is a fabulous | :37:44. | :37:55. | |
jump indeed. 1.98. It equals her season's best, and there looks to me | :37:56. | :37:57. | |
to be more to come. I understand that Laverne Spencer | :37:58. | :38:14. | |
maybe not feeling well. Look at that clearance, that is an astonishing | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
clearance. That is as good as it gets, really. That is two metre plus | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
jumping. If she can maintain that, we may see two metres here. Now, | :38:24. | :38:34. | |
Vadlejc, from the Czech Republic, a nation with such strong tradition in | :38:35. | :38:45. | |
the javelin. That is big! My word! Around 87, 88 metres. He has really | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
hit that one nicely, in a windless stadium, not getting any help at all | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
from the conditions. A really heavy night, the air is thick, and | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
anywhere around 85 metres plus is pretty special in these conditions, | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
no doubt about it. That takes the lead, and a new personal best | :39:07. | :39:14. | |
nonetheless. Weber, then. Third round of this javelin competition | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
which has started to liven up. Oh! He has it that well. And that is | :39:18. | :39:25. | |
about... Look at that. That is about 86.50, 87 -ish? Well, Weber really | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
now beginning to hit that javelin hard. What a fast arm he has got on | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
the rest of him, former European junior champion. He is the future | :39:38. | :39:47. | |
committee is only 21. So, that is a throw to be celebrated. Now, what is | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
it? 87.39! That is a great, great performance. Just short of his | :39:56. | :40:06. | |
personal best. So, Thomas Rohler, he needs a good distance here because | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
he is down in sixth place. His best is 91.28 this year and that is just | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
shy of the 85 metre mark and he's not happy, is he? He's not happy at | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
all. It's around 84, probably. Not quite getting the timing right. | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
There is so much that can go wrong. A little shake of the head. The | :40:27. | :40:34. | |
javelin throw is back in German hands at the moment. 84.16, third | :40:35. | :40:45. | |
place. Vadlejch winning the javelin with that personal best. Rohler | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
having to settle for third place in Paris. Renaud Lavillenie. A | :40:53. | :41:01. | |
last-gasp effort from the Frenchman, the Olympic silver medallist. Going | :41:02. | :41:10. | |
for 5.8 seven. Already two failures from Hendrix. That is nice and now | :41:11. | :41:18. | |
the pressure is applied to the American! Isn't it nice to see him | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
celebrating? With the pressure of the Olympic final behind you, this | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
is a mere nothing. The friendship and camaraderie a little more | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
evident than it might have been a week back. Hendrix, the questions | :41:34. | :41:47. | |
will be asked of him now. -- Sam Kendricks, the questions will be | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
asked of him now. Sam Kendricks, then. Third and final attempt at | :41:51. | :41:59. | |
5.87. Won over Renaud Lavillenie a couple of nights ago, can he do it | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
again? No, he can't. But a great competition again. The Frenchman | :42:05. | :42:12. | |
this time wins over the American. 5.87, 5.8 one. I just wonder whether | :42:13. | :42:20. | |
Renaud Lavillenie will move on. There is the line-up for the women's | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
100-metre hurdles. Well, Sydney of Feeley had a good | :42:24. | :42:39. | |
Olympic Games and just missed out on the podium, was fourth -- Cindy | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
Ofili. She was just ahead of her sister. Nadeem Hildebrand. And Gomis | :42:47. | :42:56. | |
of France on the outside. They run from lanes two to nine, so Lane one | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
will not be used. The women's 100-metre hurdles. Can she run | :43:02. | :43:10. | |
another fine run or will the others challenge? | :43:11. | :43:30. | |
Away this time, Harrison has got away well. Cindy Ofili going quite | :43:31. | :43:38. | |
strongly, here comes Harrison now and Dawn Harper-Nelson going well, | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
but Harrison is going to win this one. That was 12.45, so she has | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
really run an awful lot of quick times. The meeting record | :43:49. | :43:58. | |
incidentally still stands, 12.2 to Enqvist Russia, set back in 1992. | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
But certainly the world record holder made easy work, there. It has | :44:03. | :44:09. | |
been rounded down just a little bit. 12.44. Dawn Harper-Nelson was | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
second, 12.65, a season's best for her, and Cindy Ofili in third. She | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
just makes room for these hurdles. Beautiful technique. Not quite as | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
fine as we've seen, I've said on several occasions but this is as | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
good as you can get and it really is close to that. Just a couple of | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
tenths of a second off a world record, but goodness me, she's such | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
a good sprinter too. The race is great for her. Kendra Harrison, | :44:39. | :44:45. | |
12.44. Cindy Ofili, 12.66, third place. A good win over Jasmine Stour | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
's. He has the stage to himself! Gives | :44:48. | :45:12. | |
it a clip but it stays up! CHEERING | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
The celebrations continue for the French man in front of his home | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
crowd. He can never make up for the disappointment and boy did he | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
showed, that silver medal in Rio. Five metres 93, only a couple of | :45:28. | :45:35. | |
inches shy, five centimetres he was in Rio, his season's best. I bet you | :45:36. | :45:42. | |
he goes to six metres now, I bet you he does, he will want to approach | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
six 03 that was made in the Olympics. | :45:50. | :45:57. | |
Attempting over two metres for the third and final time, can the | :45:58. | :46:07. | |
Olympic champion do this? This had her third and final attempt. Not to | :46:08. | :46:14. | |
be... Nevertheless, to come away from the Olympics in Rio and come | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
back here and performed as she has done, 198, a centimetre higher than | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
she achieved in the Olympics but it's the manner of the clearances, a | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
lot more in the tank. Levern Spencer, season's best withdrew from | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
the event, maintaining second. We promised you six metres. Making | :46:33. | :46:53. | |
the adjustment on the brights. Very fast... No, no... And there is the | :46:54. | :47:05. | |
pole vault result. 593... Over Kendricks. 52 points to the French | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
man, and unassailable lead. I know we have a 3,000-metre race | :47:12. | :47:21. | |
coming up and here is the start list. | :47:22. | :47:35. | |
What a field it is. Ryan Gregson, looking for a personal-best, the | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
Australian. Are they going to hit the 60 second | :47:42. | :48:24. | |
rhythm that has been requested? Conditions possibly a little bit too | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
warm. The fabulous world-record in the women's steeplechase one about | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
40 minutes ago, good for the 800-metre runners and Laura Muir | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
with that reddish record in the 1500 metres. They haven't gone off | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
quickly. Don't look to be too many takers. -- British record. | :48:49. | :49:02. | |
Chelimo, the Olympic silver-medallist in second place. | :49:03. | :49:10. | |
Making his debut for 3000 out laws, assured of a personal-best. -- | :49:11. | :49:21. | |
outdoors. Third place in the women's long jump, the Estonian. Balter. A | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
good athlete, 29-year-old, fourth in the European Championships, sixth in | :49:28. | :49:35. | |
the Olympics in Rio. Almost as good as her Rio performance, six metres | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
75. Couldn't produce anything better. | :49:40. | :49:48. | |
Ugen who had a disappointing Olympics came through with a | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
season's best in the second round of the long jump, second place, six | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
metres 80, real problems in the Olympic Games, but then it was left | :49:58. | :50:12. | |
to Spanovic. The 26-year-old Serb, winner in Lausanne. A week or so | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
after a bronze medal, in Rio, seven metres, eight centimetres, took two | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
jumps, this in the second round, no jump in the first round, six metres | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
90, carrying a niggle. Retired after this jump, six metres 90, stayed out | :50:35. | :50:41. | |
in front. It was a win for the Serbian. There it is, confirmation. | :50:42. | :50:53. | |
56 points makes Spanovic way out in front and cannot be caught. This has | :50:54. | :51:04. | |
been economic pacemaking. Going through four and a half laps almost | :51:05. | :51:13. | |
spot on four minutes 30. Edward is second-fastest in the behind Mo | :51:14. | :51:25. | |
Farah this year. -- Iguider. Chelimo strongly up the back straight. 459. | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
Down to Iguider, 20 metres. They come around the crown of the bend. | :51:37. | :51:44. | |
Gebrhiwet in third, maintaining his epic 12. An Ethiopian dustup going | :51:45. | :51:53. | |
on. Iguider coming through, we are looking for 530 to maintain this | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
ribbon and in fact, he has accelerated. Turning the screw. Even | :51:57. | :52:06. | |
if the others excel rate, they will not close the gap significantly. It | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
looks good to go underneath 730, the range he is going, doesn't looked to | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
be tiring and the others are a long way back. A lap and a half to go, | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
they are accusing a little bit. -- closing. Good leg speed, Iguider, as | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
he goes around the bend, past the 200-metre mark. A lap and 250 metres | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
to go, still looking fresh. Soon be in the home straight, 100 metres, | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
closing a little bit but if he can maintain this place this will be | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
very quick. Just under 500 to run for Iguider. Rop in third, probably | :52:47. | :52:57. | |
the best distance for Iguider. A fabulous 1500 metre runner, running | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
a long way under 330, a great 5,000-metre runner, breaking 13 | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
minutes but he does not get the chance to meet and beat the best but | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
that 3000 he is making a good fist of this although the chase is on. | :53:15. | :53:31. | |
Your mouth to gel care -- Rio... Closing with every stride. -- | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
Kejelcha. The Ethiopians coming. 130 to run, Kejelcha on the shoulder of | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
Iguider for the first time, the Moroccan not able to respond, a | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
tell-tale glance over his shoulder. He cannot go with it, Kejelcha | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
judging this to perfection, easing away to a ten-metre loss when, look | :53:53. | :54:00. | |
at the clock, 728, Iguider in second place, Gebrhiwet in third, brilliant | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
run from Ryan Hill to take fourth for the USA. Kejelcha winning, a | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
world junior record, world under 20 record as it is called these days. | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
Fastest time in the world this year. Absolutely superb by Kejelcha. A | :54:18. | :54:27. | |
world under 20 record for the Ethiopia. A personal-best for | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
Iguider. Kejelcha could catch address, come | :54:30. | :54:47. | |
the final. The men's 100 metres coming up. | :54:48. | :55:07. | |
Collins, fifth Olympics in Rio, retired three times but the | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
youngsters keep bringing me back, he said. Personal-best said this | :55:14. | :55:15. | |
season. Christophe Lemaitre has pulled out, | :55:16. | :55:35. | |
there is vehicle, the French man. Promised much in the European | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
Championships but did not perform well. -- Vicaut. Rogers, the former | :55:42. | :55:58. | |
indoor specialist. There is Ben Youssef Meite, from the ivory Coast. | :55:59. | :56:08. | |
What can you say about Martina? National record, superb run from the | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
Netherlands in Lausanne. And be run, young Briton, 27, 996 this season. | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
-- Fearon. Away first time. Collins going well. | :56:22. | :57:05. | |
Vicaut left behind, Ben Youssef Meite takes this, he does, looks | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
like Symbian South Africa in second place. The time... A great run from | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
the ivory Coast, came through strongly in the end. Collins always | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
gets away, then use that might coming through, Rogers not able to | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
match him. On the near side, Martina coming through, so strong in the | :57:32. | :57:34. | |
final stages. You can never discount. The results... | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
The winner equalling the national record. Joel Fearon from Great | :57:42. | :57:56. | |
Britain in fourth place. Remember, double points in the finals. A quite | :57:57. | :58:03. | |
outstanding night here, national and world records set. | :58:04. | :58:10. | |
Studio-macro that is built from Paris, but penultimate Diamond | :58:11. | :58:16. | |
League meeting comes from Zurich, highlights on Saturday the 3rd of | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
September. Then it's Brussels and the final Diamond League from | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
Brussels and 2016, highlights on BBC One. From all of us, goodbye. | :58:27. | :58:46. | |
A proper divorce is built on a solid foundation of hate. | :58:47. | :58:53. |