Stockholm: Highlights Athletics: IAAF Diamond League


Stockholm: Highlights

Similar Content

Browse content similar to Stockholm: Highlights. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Hello and welcome to Diamond League Highlights from Stockholm.

:00:49.:00:53.

We've passed the halfway stage now and we're still in Scandinavia

:00:54.:00:56.

as we move from Oslo to Sweden's capital.

:00:57.:00:58.

Built to host the 1912 Olympics, the stadium has witnessed

:00:59.:01:00.

Some of the world's best athletes have gathered here again to attempt

:01:01.:01:13.

to write their own names into the history books.

:01:14.:01:20.

Did he hit that?! Davis is going to last this out.

:01:21.:01:38.

Harrison takes that brilliantly. Oh, yes. That is huge for Taylor!

:01:39.:01:51.

Dina Asher-Smith looking fantastic here.

:01:52.:02:00.

Here to talk you through it are your commentators Tim Hutchings

:02:01.:02:03.

Welcome to the Olympic Stadium, to the North of the city, on a cool and

:02:04.:02:15.

damp evening, 15 Celsius in the arena but a great array of athletics

:02:16.:02:20.

from the stadium, starting with the man's 400m hurdles.

:02:21.:02:31.

That is the line-up. The best line-up we have seen all season. A

:02:32.:02:36.

shame the conditions are not that great. They have all gone off

:02:37.:02:48.

weekly. Javier Culson is fast and also Tinsley in the back straight.

:02:49.:02:55.

Javier Culson definitely reading as they go towards and past 200m and

:02:56.:03:04.

into the third 100m. And Tinsley being overtaken by LJ van Zyl on the

:03:05.:03:11.

apex of the bend. Has he got enough left? Patryk Dobek going strongly on

:03:12.:03:20.

the outside. And Tinsley has gone. Nicholas Bett a little better

:03:21.:03:26.

although he stutters. Brett Robinson, LJ van Zyl fighting hard,

:03:27.:03:29.

Patryk Dobek on the near side. And Clement gets second place and Patryk

:03:30.:03:35.

Dobek third. His season is coming together, Culson, they get the time,

:03:36.:03:39.

it is not a good night for the sprinters. Solid enough, the winner

:03:40.:03:45.

over a strong field. Tinsley just ran out of gas. He did go quicker

:03:46.:03:50.

over the first 200m. He is more of an even paced sprinter and he really

:03:51.:03:55.

motored tonight in the first half and I think he paid for it. There it

:03:56.:04:02.

is, Culson... A good run again, Patryk Dobek in third, ahead of LJ

:04:03.:04:09.

van Zyl. And Nicholas Bett still not flying.

:04:10.:04:13.

Over to the discus competition. The World Championship silver-medallist

:04:14.:04:23.

building nicely. Daniel Bailey, is like improvement on her second-round

:04:24.:04:30.

effort. She hits that smoothly. The 36-year-old so experienced and that

:04:31.:04:33.

is big. A fabulous fifth round effort. Ben Youssef Meite opened,

:04:34.:04:39.

that is what she is chasing. That was almost right on 60 five. A

:04:40.:04:46.

season's best with one round to both. Very quick on the runway, 400m

:04:47.:05:09.

is one of the great sprinters. -- Tianna Bartoletta. She is twice

:05:10.:05:13.

World Champion at the Long Jump. Last year in Beijing and back in

:05:14.:05:18.

2005. She has been around a long time. 5000m next. Five men in the

:05:19.:05:30.

field running under 30 minutes. The pace requested would result in a new

:05:31.:05:37.

world best. 235, the and the big names present. Muktar Edris, winning

:05:38.:05:46.

here in 2014. So this big field gets under way. There is no Mo Farah, the

:05:47.:05:50.

Olympic and World Champion at this distance. What we are looking for in

:05:51.:05:57.

this sort of race, with the Olympic Games and athletics eight weeks

:05:58.:06:00.

away, it is some sort of indication from somebody in this field is most

:06:01.:06:05.

of the big-name protagonists who would challenge Mo Farah are in this

:06:06.:06:09.

field, something that indicates a quality in the likes of one of these

:06:10.:06:12.

man that can threaten the documents of Mo Farah by Rio. Edris not

:06:13.:06:19.

looking good in fourth place, the Diamond Race leader. Running out of

:06:20.:06:24.

steam. The gap between him and the leading trio is growing. Uefa in

:06:25.:06:31.

fifth place, he is only 16 years old. Eight in the African junior

:06:32.:06:39.

cross-country in March. Virtually unheard of. It is the bowl now. And

:06:40.:06:47.

it is Kejelcha, the star of the European team in second place,

:06:48.:06:53.

trying to latch on to the coat-tails of the tall figure of Stable Lads'

:06:54.:06:56.

Association who has led a lot in these last three laps. Now Edris

:06:57.:07:01.

wakes up in the White top and he tries to go with the reading trio.

:07:02.:07:06.

Gradually clicking up the acceleration and going through the

:07:07.:07:12.

gears. The World Championships last year Kejelcha when he had such a

:07:13.:07:15.

marvellous season on the Diamond League circuit but a fifth in

:07:16.:07:20.

Shanghai and a third in Oslo and he might have the beating of this

:07:21.:07:23.

field. Stable Lads' Association carries on hunting and chasing

:07:24.:07:28.

Kejelcha into the slipstream but has he got the speed? Berihu in fourth.

:07:29.:07:35.

Stable Lads' Association eases it over the last 50. He loved it late

:07:36.:07:45.

and he crossed the line from Kejelcha. He did leave it late but

:07:46.:07:49.

he judged it perfectly. And that is not a bad return. His evening's

:07:50.:07:55.

work. Just checking, Jeilan. That is a new personal best. Over six

:07:56.:08:02.

seconds. Jeilan showed the same sort of form he did in winning the world

:08:03.:08:06.

title in 2011. Always in the right place in the right home. You felt

:08:07.:08:13.

Kejelcha had got enough. -- in the right time. So that new personal

:08:14.:08:21.

best, Kejelcha. Edris making it a one and two and 34 Ethiopia. He

:08:22.:08:27.

could be a danger to the likes of Mo Farah, he perhaps has that change of

:08:28.:08:31.

pace to challenge the British runner. Ivana Spanovic knows what

:08:32.:08:42.

the target is, you can tell how cold it is. That is good, that is good.

:08:43.:08:47.

That looks a little better. The tracksuit bottoms, the tights kept

:08:48.:08:55.

on to protect those muscles. It has been drizzly all morning, and she

:08:56.:08:59.

missed the board so that is a good jump. Very simple technique.

:09:00.:09:04.

Backward rotation but generally very good indeed and very athletic, Gough

:09:05.:09:10.

the board and in the approach. 6.90, that is the lead. The Serbian taking

:09:11.:09:17.

them all on. This is the World Champion from

:09:18.:09:28.

2013, chin. Round five. Very very fast, she is a big character. It is

:09:29.:09:36.

around 68 metres. The season's best from chin was in Shanghai four weeks

:09:37.:09:44.

ago. She topped the world rankings. And that is big from chin in round

:09:45.:09:58.

five. -- from chin. That was the winning throw in her fifth round.

:09:59.:10:08.

Good enough for second place. And in third, Hill from Cuba. That is the

:10:09.:10:14.

line-up for the women's 100m hurdles.

:10:15.:10:27.

And listen to the response to this lady. European champion back in

:10:28.:10:42.

2006, she begins her campaign. And next are the fastest woman in the

:10:43.:10:47.

world, Kendra Harrison, unbeaten this season. The world leading time.

:10:48.:10:57.

The women's 100m hurdles. A return from the champion from 2006, a

:10:58.:11:02.

decade ago, Susanna Kallur. Kallur going well, going

:11:03.:11:24.

brilliantly. And on the near side, Queen Harrison. Going away, wins it.

:11:25.:11:30.

In second place, Nia Ali of the United States. And that was a very,

:11:31.:11:42.

very good opener by Susanna Kallur. But this young woman takes some

:11:43.:11:46.

beating, Kendra Harrison. Nia Ali was second. And look at that for the

:11:47.:11:53.

start. Kallur out of the blocks. This is her first race. Harrison

:11:54.:11:58.

obviously away and Ali going well. Alina Talay dropped at this stage.

:11:59.:12:05.

Kendra Harrison is such a good technician and Queen Harrison sneaks

:12:06.:12:09.

through into third place. In these conditions, I cannot emphasise how

:12:10.:12:14.

quick that is. Only about five other athletes in the world have done that

:12:15.:12:19.

this year, six over athletes, who can run as quick as that. These

:12:20.:12:25.

conditions of foul impaired Eugene most years or in California. --

:12:26.:12:37.

compared to. So there it is. Rob Susanna Kallur 13 seconds, in fifth

:12:38.:12:44.

place, just behind -- just ahead of Alina Talay.

:12:45.:12:51.

British record holder Dina Asher-Smith will want to build on an

:12:52.:12:54.

impressive start to her outdoor season ahead of next week's British

:12:55.:12:59.

Championships. Today, she is the fastest in the field but faces stiff

:13:00.:13:05.

competition from Desiree Henry and Margaret Adeoye. These women subject

:13:06.:13:10.

to drizzle on the far side of the track. Dina Asher-Smith, exciting

:13:11.:13:20.

British talent. Simone Facey from Jamaica in six. But this young lady,

:13:21.:13:28.

British record holder at 100m and 200m, world junior champion in 2014.

:13:29.:13:33.

What a good job the coach has done with her. That is Marie Josee Ta Lou

:13:34.:13:39.

of the Ivory Coast who just missed the Beijing final last year, third

:13:40.:13:43.

in her semifinal. Desiree Henry, a former world youth champion in 2011,

:13:44.:13:51.

in very good form, her personal best in April in California. That is 29,

:13:52.:13:56.

sixth in the World Championships over 200m but not in good form, only

:13:57.:14:00.

sixth in Lucerne a couple of nights ago. And Adeoye, her first race, the

:14:01.:14:10.

31-year-old Briton, it in 2016. Asher-Smith in-line five.

:14:11.:14:20.

A good start from Asher-Smith, fourth from left, under 11 seconds

:14:21.:14:21.

last year to set the British record. Asher-Smith leads from their

:14:22.:14:34.

team-mate, coming through strongly on the outside is Simone Facey, but

:14:35.:14:38.

Asher-Smith is going to take this one under pressure towards the line,

:14:39.:14:46.

but wins in 22.7 four. Mminus 0.8 wind, that is what they were running

:14:47.:14:50.

into, and that is very satisfying indeed. She would have wished, I am

:14:51.:14:55.

sure, for significantly better conditions than this, and she would

:14:56.:14:59.

have run quicker and a nicer night. She did, she had very good

:15:00.:15:03.

transition of the bend, stays to the inside of the lane, runs very nicely

:15:04.:15:09.

indeed, Desiree Henry, the European medallists in the 4x100m, part of

:15:10.:15:13.

the team with Asher-Smith, she really had a good race with pace

:15:14.:15:17.

closing down to get second place at Desiree Henry. But Henry, good race,

:15:18.:15:24.

but certainly Asher-Smith, the best of 22 point 47. Gradually coming

:15:25.:15:33.

back to form, but that is not bad in these conditions. There it is, a win

:15:34.:15:38.

for Dina Asher-Smith from Simone Facey. I thought Desiree Henry

:15:39.:15:42.

started fast and ran well, personal best, 22.88 in third place. I could

:15:43.:15:52.

have executed a bit better on the straight, of my 200, it would

:15:53.:15:56.

ideally have been a bit better. But the first 100, not ideal conditions,

:15:57.:16:01.

I am quite happy. Brittney Reese in third place with 6.67 in this long

:16:02.:16:07.

jump, tall powerhouse that is Brittney Reese, three times the

:16:08.:16:10.

world champion, and that is a pretty good jump indeed. Certainly is a

:16:11.:16:15.

terrific competitor. Has she done enough? Chasing 6.90, which we saw

:16:16.:16:26.

earlier. It's the board perfectly, absolutely spot-on. No finesse about

:16:27.:16:31.

this, lovely hang in the middle, I have to say, she gets it all

:16:32.:16:38.

together, gets terrific left off the board. A real dynamo of an athlete,

:16:39.:16:46.

6.88, not quite enough, two centimetres short of Spanovic. She

:16:47.:16:51.

is just ahead of the twice world champion, Brittney Reese, at 6.88.

:16:52.:16:56.

Tianna Bartoletta in third. Well, Ruth Beitia, can you be the second

:16:57.:17:13.

person clear? 2.0 at best. Oh, yes! Once she is out of the bed, there

:17:14.:17:20.

she goes, that is OK. She is tall, very, very tall, twice world

:17:21.:17:25.

champion silver-medallist, this year of course, import them. And back in

:17:26.:17:30.

2010 as well, won the European title as well. -- in Portland. She is the

:17:31.:17:38.

second person clear budget goes into the lead. One more attempt at this

:17:39.:17:51.

height, really finding it difficult, Licwinko. Oh, yes, she has got it!

:17:52.:17:59.

She remains in the competition. That is Ruth Beitia, the smile on her

:18:00.:18:04.

face, because Licwinko is one of the main opponents. This time she got it

:18:05.:18:09.

right, very pleased with that. Stays in the competition, just clicked it

:18:10.:18:13.

as she went down. It was a good clearance, though, having said that.

:18:14.:18:17.

So she is in third. Well, they're getting stripped off for the start

:18:18.:18:19.

of the 100m. No problem with the start, pretty

:18:20.:18:39.

even, actually, it looks like Bailey is going well, but here comes Harvey

:18:40.:18:46.

on the inside, he gets it, I think Meite was third, I think Richard

:18:47.:18:51.

Kilty was third. 10.19, a very good run indeed, it went pretty well with

:18:52.:18:56.

the form book. A good opener, let's have a look at the start, Meite got

:18:57.:19:01.

away pretty well, Kilty going well from the second lane, Meite in the

:19:02.:19:05.

light blue top looks good at this stage. Harvey coming through, he

:19:06.:19:10.

gets there. Meite in second place, was it Kilty in third, or did they

:19:11.:19:14.

catching? Let's have a look at this, Kilty just over striding on the far

:19:15.:19:20.

side a little bit. Yes, he has got beaten, hasn't he? Looked a little

:19:21.:19:24.

better on the first run through, but he was fifth in the end, 10.31 for

:19:25.:19:32.

third. Same time for third, fourth and fifth, it does not get much

:19:33.:19:40.

closer than that. Now, here is Shawn Barber. Trying to find his rhythm

:19:41.:19:44.

this season, it has not been a brilliant season for Barber,

:19:45.:19:51.

season's best of 5.91, but that is better! The first man clear at 5.65,

:19:52.:20:03.

remember, he is a 5.93 man, Barber, and the pressure is all on Renaud

:20:04.:20:07.

Lavillenie, a third attempt for the Frenchman at this height. Christian

:20:08.:20:14.

Taylor in the first round of the triple jump, second longest triple

:20:15.:20:18.

jumper in history. That is not a bad opener. I do not think it is 17

:20:19.:20:26.

metres, but it is OK. Taylor, in this triple jump, he is last in the

:20:27.:20:31.

jumping order. And that looks to have taken the lead to me. Next best

:20:32.:20:44.

is 16.32 by Troy Doris of Guyana. So here is Lavillenie in that pole

:20:45.:20:47.

vault. Under real pressure, his opening height, the world

:20:48.:20:59.

record-holder. Both he and... Not going smoothly, his season, but

:21:00.:21:04.

going better tonight now! Under a bit of pressure there, both they and

:21:05.:21:09.

Shawn Barber, at the third time of asking, at 5.6 25. Lavillenie leads

:21:10.:21:17.

by dint of that being his opening height. Barber had a second time

:21:18.:21:28.

clearance as the previous night. -- at the previous height.

:21:29.:21:32.

Last month in Eugene, Ruth Jebet became only the second woman ever to

:21:33.:21:36.

run under nine minutes in the 3000m steeplechase, missing out on a world

:21:37.:21:41.

record by just under a second. Ghribi is the record-holder and

:21:42.:21:44.

provides the quickest competition, as Jebet looks to go one better.

:21:45.:21:52.

On the far side of the track, some 16 starters in this one, and of

:21:53.:21:56.

course we are used to bury QuickTime is being run these days, indeed the

:21:57.:22:03.

second athlete has joined the under nine minute club this year. -- very

:22:04.:22:09.

quick times. The number two all time, the Asian games champion,

:22:10.:22:17.

Jebet. Running for Bahrain, although she is, of course, Kenyan born. The

:22:18.:22:25.

pacemaker, Fancy Cherotich, will take over and the pace that has been

:22:26.:22:33.

asked for is three minutes for the first kilometre. The world record is

:22:34.:22:41.

8:50 8.1, that was said by a Russian in Beijing. -- set. They got off at

:22:42.:22:51.

a fair old lick here, and Ruth Jebet, who beat the world champion,

:22:52.:23:01.

slots right into third place. With two and a half minutes on the clock,

:23:02.:23:05.

the second and fourth fastest athlete in history and art in this

:23:06.:23:08.

Beeld, the Olympic gold and silver-medallists from London. --

:23:09.:23:15.

are in this field. It is a pretty packed field. The leader has Jebet

:23:16.:23:21.

in her slipstream. The second pacemaker, who was supposed to take

:23:22.:23:25.

them to halfway, cannot stay with this. She has not gone with it, just

:23:26.:23:30.

looking to see if Ghribi is out there. She is way back, she has to

:23:31.:23:35.

be coming back from injury or illness, because she is not remotely

:23:36.:23:43.

interested in challenging. So Ruth Beitia, then - second attempt,

:23:44.:23:47.

always looks very confident, believing that she is going to clear

:23:48.:23:50.

it, and that is so important in the vertical jumps. 37 years old now,

:23:51.:24:00.

Ruth Beitia. Fourth in the Olympic Games in London. Oh! Squeezes over

:24:01.:24:06.

that one. It is almost like she maintained contact with it most of

:24:07.:24:13.

the way over, beautifully judged, the arc. That gives her the lead,

:24:14.:24:21.

1.93, and now the others have it all to do. This is Troy Doris, second

:24:22.:24:28.

jump in the triple jump, first-round, as you can see, 16.32.

:24:29.:24:35.

We saw Christian Taylor at 16.70 in his first-round jump. That is a

:24:36.:24:42.

lovely piece of jumping, it looks as though he has gone a bit further

:24:43.:24:49.

than that. 16.50 by the look of it. Look at him, he has got more clothes

:24:50.:24:55.

on, weighed down by Kit! But obviously that tells you the story

:24:56.:25:02.

of the condition out here. 16.55, there he is, second place. Alessia

:25:03.:25:08.

Trost, third and final attempt at 1.93. It would be a season's best if

:25:09.:25:14.

she were to get this. 1.92 she jumped in Eugene at the end of May.

:25:15.:25:24.

No, no. No. Just took off a little bit too far away, or seemingly so,

:25:25.:25:28.

difficult to judge from here. She has gone now. Licwinko desperate to

:25:29.:25:37.

get over this, she struggled at 1.90, doing it on the third attempt.

:25:38.:25:45.

That was close, actually. That was close. She has gone too. So this big

:25:46.:25:56.

striding athlete hammers in, gets good lift, just too much on that bar

:25:57.:26:04.

there. That is the result of the high jump, Ruth Beitia's a season's

:26:05.:26:16.

best. Jebet down the back straight, a lead of 70 metres now, running

:26:17.:26:27.

superbly. Second in Shanghai, 9:15, only 11th in the World Championships

:26:28.:26:30.

last year, how she has come on over this last 12 months or so. Around

:26:31.:26:40.

about 3:03 for the second element but has maintained the tempo pretty

:26:41.:26:46.

well considering the pace of the first kilometre. Anything around

:26:47.:26:50.

8:30 is world-class, frankly. The rest of the field go through in her

:26:51.:26:56.

slipstream. She comes through below us with two laps to run. A tiny

:26:57.:27:00.

little figure, the diminutive figure, a little stuttering over the

:27:01.:27:04.

barrier. The Australian duo running really well. A personal best for

:27:05.:27:22.

LaCaze last week, and she has had personal bests at different

:27:23.:27:25.

distances, all pretty solid times, in contrast to the African

:27:26.:27:30.

steeplechasers, who do not focus on flat running at all, really only

:27:31.:27:34.

concentrate on the chase itself. But there is little Ruth Jebet driving

:27:35.:27:37.

on, with six and would metres to run, still looking strong. -- with

:27:38.:27:44.

600m. Barring disaster, she has the race won. The lead is about 100m.

:27:45.:27:55.

Chepkoech has dropped back and is being reeled in by the Australian

:27:56.:28:01.

duo. Jebet, again, without stuttering performance over the

:28:02.:28:04.

barrier, she has to be losing a couple of metres each time she does

:28:05.:28:08.

that. The Australians on the hand, they have got a good team in Europe

:28:09.:28:12.

at the moment, some only arrived in the last few days, gradually finding

:28:13.:28:17.

their feet. Jebet enters the last lap, she has got to cover it in

:28:18.:28:22.

around 6768 seconds to break nine minutes. She has held to form pretty

:28:23.:28:28.

well through the second kilometre. In Stockholm, they love distance

:28:29.:28:32.

running, they love steeplechasing. Can they roar her on through the

:28:33.:28:39.

last 300m? She is working hard, LaCaze is in fourth, there are some

:28:40.:28:42.

big names behind this Australian pairing. Madeline Hills was fourth

:28:43.:28:50.

in Oslo last Thursday, a personal best of 9:20 four. She went out in

:28:51.:28:55.

the World Championships last at 5000 and the steeplechase. This is a

:28:56.:28:59.

great battle between this trio. A little domestic dustup between the

:29:00.:29:02.

Australians, the water jump for the final time for Jebet. The crowd

:29:03.:29:07.

roaring her on, she is not going to be under nine minutes. It has been a

:29:08.:29:12.

mighty strong run, impressive run, as LaCaze takes hard in towards the

:29:13.:29:16.

final water jump out of shot. Skipping over the final barrier, the

:29:17.:29:24.

little Bahraini was a winner beating the world champion, she has beaten

:29:25.:29:27.

the field by virtually the length of the home straight. 9:08, the meeting

:29:28.:29:36.

record has gone. Gravy was not a factor at all. -- Ghribi. A good run

:29:37.:29:45.

from LaCaze, across the line now, 9:20 3.5, and Hills come through for

:29:46.:29:51.

fifth place, very good performance. Very good performance. She loves to

:29:52.:30:00.

run on her own and she did the same thing despite the presence of the

:30:01.:30:08.

World Champion in that fabulous race and she dipped under nine minutes.

:30:09.:30:14.

That is confirmation of the win, Jebet. A meeting record, the only

:30:15.:30:20.

one of the night so far. Rabbi, of Kenya. And great run from Match of

:30:21.:30:36.

the Day. A second attempt now. The world record holder is used to these

:30:37.:30:39.

situations, he has been in these situations several times before and

:30:40.:30:46.

he really hits the deck. That is fabulous, much, much better. That

:30:47.:30:51.

was better. A second time the clearance for the Olympic champion,

:30:52.:30:56.

twice indoor champion, Corinthian Casuals. No throws to open with, the

:30:57.:31:07.

Egyptian. He is a massive thrower. World Championship silver-medallist

:31:08.:31:13.

last year. That is big, over 85 metres for the 27-year-old. One in

:31:14.:31:20.

Eugene with 87 metres. On fifth in Oslo last week, he had a bad evening

:31:21.:31:24.

in the stadium but he has gone much better. 86 metres X Maclay. That is

:31:25.:31:31.

going to take some catching. Shawn Barber in the Pole Vault, his

:31:32.:31:39.

third and final attempt of 5.7 three. Hill had problems at 5.50,

:31:40.:31:51.

5.60 five. -- he had problems. The World Champion finding it tough. Oh,

:31:52.:31:58.

no, no! He is out. He is in second place behind Corinthian Casuals, a

:31:59.:32:06.

familiar pattern in many respects. Chris Carter of the United States --

:32:07.:32:18.

behind Renaud Lavillenie. He is pretty quick on the runway and that

:32:19.:32:25.

looks to be a bit better. 16.21 in the first round. Not bad control

:32:26.:32:38.

rate the way through. Third place. That is the line-up for the women's

:32:39.:32:40.

400m. The bronze-medallist in the World

:32:41.:33:00.

Championships is part of the Great Britain Relay. 51.55 her season's

:33:01.:33:05.

best. Novlene Williams-Mills around a long time and competing in five

:33:06.:33:13.

World Championships beginning in it soccer in 2007. A of experience. So

:33:14.:33:18.

then Bundy-Davies of Great Britain, a member of the British four by

:33:19.:33:24.

four, season's best 51.26 in Geneva five days ago. Twice European junior

:33:25.:33:32.

champion Laviai Nielsen. 52.20 eight. A season's best. Just a

:33:33.:33:43.

little bit quicker last season. A not -- a long hold but they have got

:33:44.:33:52.

away this time. Looks as though the 24 has gone off quickly in this.

:33:53.:34:00.

Bundy-Davies going well. Williams Mills flying down towards 200m and

:34:01.:34:03.

she leads at the moment, the most experienced athlete in the

:34:04.:34:08.

competition so far. And she is certainly leading, John Sillett

:34:09.:34:13.

going well. The Polish runner running nicely -- Bundy-Davies.

:34:14.:34:20.

Onuora strength in the final stages. Bundy-Davies looking good and it is

:34:21.:34:29.

going to be anybody's race. Novlene Williams-Mills and Onuora is coming

:34:30.:34:32.

through strongly. Novlene Williams-Mills is going to take

:34:33.:34:36.

this, Onuora gets second, Grenot gets third. That was a good race.

:34:37.:34:43.

Nothing special about the time but my goodness me, Novlene

:34:44.:34:47.

Williams-Mills charged through the first 200m and she probably went a

:34:48.:34:53.

bit quick because he, they had caught her. Bundy-Davies looked good

:34:54.:34:56.

as she came into this part of the race, tied up a bit here. And right

:34:57.:35:02.

on the inside, Nielsen going well but losing form. Onuora on the

:35:03.:35:10.

outside closing down well. Yes, conditions, the times said it all. A

:35:11.:35:20.

world-class field. Not many races won in the Diamond League as slow as

:35:21.:35:24.

that, no reflection on the athletes. It was a cool evening and they were

:35:25.:35:27.

held a long time before they got away. I expected more from

:35:28.:35:31.

Bundy-Davies, she got her personal best five days ago in Geneva, 51.26,

:35:32.:35:36.

but tonight she dived down the home straight when I thought she would

:35:37.:35:40.

kick on well, finishing in fourth place. 52.7 one. Fresh from breaking

:35:41.:35:49.

the Scottish male record in Oslo, Laura Muir turns her attention to

:35:50.:35:56.

the metric mile, targeting the 1500m podium in Rio but this is her first

:35:57.:36:03.

race in the distance. She is joined by Laura Weightman who has already

:36:04.:36:08.

had a qualifying time in Eugene. The women's on the back straight --

:36:09.:36:13.

the women on the back straight and what a good field this is and what a

:36:14.:36:16.

fascinating race this could turn out to be. Looking out for the world

:36:17.:36:22.

indoor champion in 2012, Hellen Obiri. And also for Uefa who ran so

:36:23.:36:28.

doggedly in Oslo last week, hanging on to the coat-tails. Also Fulham of

:36:29.:36:46.

Great Britain, European Championship bronze-medallist in 2014 -- Laura

:36:47.:36:58.

Weightman. Four minutes a realistic top -- target for athletes of this

:36:59.:37:08.

calibre. It is important they go with it and they run aggressively. A

:37:09.:37:13.

lot of strength in this field, Muir does not like to hang around all the

:37:14.:37:21.

slack. The Polish runner in this field as well, the tall figure in

:37:22.:37:25.

the mere -- in the middle, Weightman towards the back of the pack on the

:37:26.:37:29.

outside, out of trouble. As they head down the home straight with

:37:30.:37:33.

three laps to go. 84 macro in second place, the 22-year-old of Australia,

:37:34.:37:43.

Jenny Blundell all. And a lot of strange movements. Surging round the

:37:44.:37:53.

outside, the Ethiopian, Besu Sado. A best of just outside four minutes.

:37:54.:38:00.

Up to 400m. 63 .1 nine. Pretty much perfect and they look up for it.

:38:01.:38:07.

Besu Sado is almost having a conversation with the other it

:38:08.:38:12.

Ethiopian runners. If she can tempt them to stay with her through the

:38:13.:38:18.

second lap, 2.07 is a promising split. Yes, it is. Not bad

:38:19.:38:23.

pacemaking. We saw Jenny Meadows with her first pacemaking job the

:38:24.:38:28.

last time out in Oslo and she did well to take 2.0 seven. Laura

:38:29.:38:32.

Weightman moving well and Laura Muir getting herself out of the middle of

:38:33.:38:37.

the pack and onto the outside and in a position to attack. Ricoh Arena on

:38:38.:38:44.

the outside. They have slowed down a little bit, not sure what the

:38:45.:38:49.

statistics will tell us -- Ricoh Arena. It is a shame. Towards the

:38:50.:39:03.

back of the field, running a seesaw tight race. What a shame. That Italy

:39:04.:39:18.

pays off 63, the first lap. She should step aside now, she should

:39:19.:39:21.

step of the track and we hope she does not get in anybody's way, Sado

:39:22.:39:27.

still leading. Weightman hits the front and she does not have great

:39:28.:39:31.

speed, neither does Laura Muir and the British runners in first and

:39:32.:39:37.

second at the moment. 550 two run. A bit of elbowing with Sado. And they

:39:38.:39:49.

come down towards the bowl. Laura Muir perfectly poised, Sado moving

:39:50.:39:57.

onto her shoulder. Laura Muir, Sado, Weightman in third place. Weightman

:39:58.:40:05.

one making them work on this final lap, she looked very strong and very

:40:06.:40:09.

confident last week -- Muir. Hanging onto the coat-tails of her

:40:10.:40:19.

competitor in Oslo. The third lap, Muir looks to have lost a bit of

:40:20.:40:23.

speed and almost her rhythm. Up on her toes again and onto the shoulder

:40:24.:40:29.

of Meraf Bahta. Moving round the outside with Sado heading backwards.

:40:30.:40:35.

Just liking speed at this stage. 150 metres to run. Muir still battling.

:40:36.:40:48.

624 down the outside, it is anybody's race. Muir looking for a

:40:49.:40:52.

way through and she cannot seem daylight. A big win for the Polish

:40:53.:40:57.

runner, she has blown away, look at that. Meraf Bahta. Gudaf Tsegay

:40:58.:41:08.

taking third place. Sado lacking the legs through the last 150. The place

:41:09.:41:15.

times will be stronger because a lot of athletes within a second or two

:41:16.:41:21.

of that strong run from Angelika Cichocka who came with a personal

:41:22.:41:26.

best of 4.03 and has very nearly broken that the night, it is

:41:27.:41:31.

certainly has season's best. Two terms of a second from her lifetime

:41:32.:41:36.

best. Look at the form from the Polish runner as the rest of them

:41:37.:41:41.

struggle. Muir ran a very different race today. She stayed back in the

:41:42.:41:45.

pack and she did not want to get out there quickly. And in the end, she

:41:46.:41:52.

did not have the speed to stay with this woman. And they expected Hellen

:41:53.:41:56.

Obiri to be up there. Meraf Bahta ran well tactically, at the back,

:41:57.:42:01.

moving up slowly but surely, getting her to second place. So the third

:42:02.:42:07.

round of the javelin. The World Champion Diego looking for that

:42:08.:42:11.

90-metre form and he really does, that. He hit that hard. It looks

:42:12.:42:19.

much better but when he hit the javelin, it knows that it is hit. He

:42:20.:42:27.

moves his front foot ahead and he unleashes the arm. He hits it almost

:42:28.:42:32.

with his chest first and his arm follows through. Not passive, very

:42:33.:42:36.

active, but he has got it, such power. Second place at the moment.

:42:37.:42:47.

Yego. Back to the third-round throw now of

:42:48.:42:56.

Thomas Rohler. The best of the third round. He is a big man, the German.

:42:57.:43:04.

That is beyond 85 metres. Remember 86 metres, the third-round throw

:43:05.:43:09.

that you saw a couple of minutes ago. The German World Championship

:43:10.:43:20.

finalist last year. Hitting 85 metres, 89. Falling just 11

:43:21.:43:27.

centimetres. Four inches shy of the lead from round three. Into place,

:43:28.:43:32.

come to believe. The final round in the Triple Jump for Christian Taylor

:43:33.:43:37.

already leading. Getting better and better. That is certainly better. We

:43:38.:43:46.

said this man is such a consistent jumper, he really is. He is way out

:43:47.:43:50.

of there as World Champion, Olympic champion. He has done it all and he

:43:51.:44:00.

wants to do it again. That is 17.50 nine. He has won it. By newly a

:44:01.:44:06.

metre from Troy Doris. Christian Taylor in a class about on the

:44:07.:44:14.

night. So there it is. It is a packed field. Vincent Parise

:44:15.:44:20.

attempts to get them under way properly this time unlike in

:44:21.:44:26.

Shanghai, not his fault. David Rudisha, fabulous run in Birmingham

:44:27.:44:32.

over 600 metres. In very good form for the world record-holder.

:44:33.:44:44.

Hears the championship man, always difficult to beat. World

:44:45.:44:56.

Championship finalist last year, fall in Beijing. What can David

:44:57.:44:58.

Rudisha now do in the men's 800m? Well, this promises much, it really

:44:59.:45:14.

does, very calm now, and the superb pacemaker has gone out already.

:45:15.:45:23.

Timothy Kitum has gone up to get position, Bosse right on the back of

:45:24.:45:28.

the group, and Rudisha moves into second place. Looks very

:45:29.:45:38.

comfortable, Aman behind him, Kitum, then Bosse, who was always a threat,

:45:39.:45:47.

proved to be so in the last race. They are settling down, Kitum is the

:45:48.:45:52.

leader of the two Kenyans, apart from Rudisha. I am surprised that

:45:53.:45:58.

Bosse has not made more interest of Rudisha, not really interested in

:45:59.:46:02.

going with the pacemaker, they have gone through in about 52 seconds. It

:46:03.:46:07.

was slow, and Rudisha looked like he wanted to control this one. He is

:46:08.:46:12.

leading the race proper, then Aman, then Bosse really attacking down the

:46:13.:46:17.

back straight. Rudisha responds now, and this is what is going to happen,

:46:18.:46:21.

Bosse was always going to put the pressure on, and Kdzczot making some

:46:22.:46:27.

headway into third place, Rotich coming through behind Aman. So

:46:28.:46:32.

Rudisha and Bosse into the final bend now, with Rotich powering down

:46:33.:46:39.

the straight. Remember, he won the race in Shanghai, and look at these,

:46:40.:46:44.

Rudisha is beaten here, Bosse, Rotich, is he going to do it again?

:46:45.:46:51.

He will take it, Rotich, Bosse second, Kszczot third, Rudisha was

:46:52.:46:54.

fourth, and in fifth place was Abdullah. The time, 1:45.7, he came

:46:55.:47:09.

through on the inside and David Rudisha, and he beat him there, but

:47:10.:47:13.

my goodness me, that was another race for him, and I just wonder,

:47:14.:47:18.

Tim, where Dave Wood Rhodesia is at this time? Gulp it is a very good

:47:19.:47:22.

question, I do not think he is comfortable running in that manner.

:47:23.:47:31.

-- David Rudisha. I am sure he does not like the conditions, but they

:47:32.:47:36.

are the same for everyone. He had to kick in really hard to keep Bosse at

:47:37.:47:41.

bay. Bosse moved alongside him very fast, but they were all beaten by

:47:42.:47:45.

this man, Rotich, who knows how to celebrate! Is celebration probably

:47:46.:47:52.

annoyed Rudisha in Shanghai. The picture could be very different in

:47:53.:47:56.

seven or eight weeks' time. That concludes proceedings in Stockholm,

:47:57.:47:58.

there are the leaders. The season rolls on, the performance

:47:59.:48:13.

of the night for me was Ruth Jebet of Bahrain, 9:08.37 in the

:48:14.:48:19.

steeplechase. We will be in Monaco very soon, we hope the weather will

:48:20.:48:25.

be significantly better! When I next weekend, the British championship

:48:26.:48:27.

with places on the road to rail at stake. We will have the best of the

:48:28.:48:33.

action from one o'clock on BBC Two. -- on the road to Rio.

:48:34.:48:42.

That is all for now from Stockholm, though, until next time, goodbye!

:48:43.:48:46.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS