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Welcome to Birmingham for the Muller Grand Prix. We will see so many | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
stars of the London World Championships. 50 medallists here. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Half of them gold, on the track. One of them, a man who has been the star | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
of British Athletics for nearly a decade. One of the greatest we have | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
seen is saying his farewells. It will be fast and furious, just like | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
it was in London. Here we go then... London's calling! Britain's | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
watching. This is phenomenal! | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
He's a one man world superpower! MUSIC | :01:26. | :01:47. | |
Oh, look at that! Diamond brings them home to silver! | :01:48. | :02:09. | |
Going to get it... Great Britain, the bronze. | :02:10. | :02:22. | |
Ahead... Silver medal... It will be tough... What a fantastic ten days | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
we had. What a World Championships. Here we are in Birmingham, on this | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
glorious sunny Sunday afternoon. And The Stadium is pretty full to watch | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
many of those stars of London. 50 medallists. 25 of them gold | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
competing here. And of course Mo Farah is one of those competing in | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
the 3,000 metres. The last event on the track today. He'll be on a | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
British track competing for the last time in his career. So many of these | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
fans want to say goodbye and thank you for the memories of the golds | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
and the likes of Sophie Hitchon competing in the hammer event here. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Elaine Thompson as well and so many Diamond League points to pick up | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
along the way as well. You will see those events shortly. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Dafne Schippers there. And Mo Farah arriving in style. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
In a Bentley - a little bit earlier on today, to say, well, hello, first | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
of all, but eventually, goodbye. I think the emotion will be very, very | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
charged and very high in this stadium in about two hours' time | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
when he comes out on the track for the last time. Alongside me to watch | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
all of this Colin Jackson and Denise Lewis. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
We have seen some of them up for it after London. Others have to dig | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
deep for the reserves? There'll be tired legs and tired arms out there. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
It is about getting points today. It is about enjoying what is great | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
athletics. It will be fast and furious, as you said. For some it is | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
about trying to redeem a little bit of pride and work out why things | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
didn't work out in London when they felt they were in great shape. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Sometimes it is really frustrating when you don't deliver the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
performance you want to do. You can turn around your mind set and work | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
on it again and believe in yourself. They have a chance today. Wherever | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
they decide to finish the season they have a long, hard winter, | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
getting ready for next year. Those are the months that nobody sees the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
hard work. All that hard work will pay off eventually. We know that. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
You have to keep telling theth Lees that. -- the athletes that. It is | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
when you think, wow, what happened? Where did it go wrong? Is it worth | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
it? I am sure, at the end of the day, it is. This venue will hold the | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
events next February. It is a great city and the athletes have | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
experienced that, many times competing in Birmingham for our | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
international indoors. I think it will be a great chasm Ionships. -- | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
championships. There's no respite and they will have to get themselves | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
up again. It is one of their targets, I am sure, for a lot of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
them from the indoors back into the Commonwealth Games. Common wealths, | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Europeans. Greg Rutherford said he was not competing in the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
championships because he's had a stop-start season with injury. He | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
wants to be fit enough to do an indoor season. He wants to compete | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
in Birmingham. I retired in Birmingham. My final competition was | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
at the indoor championships there. I have a love affair with the city. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
They said goodbye in a wonderful way for me. I understand why Greg says | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
he wants to be here, wants to compete. Ultimately, you want to | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
compete well. When you have won the titles that Greg has done, you want | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to do it right. Perhaps stepping back from this outdoors season and | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
getting himself focussed for that is the right decision. That is a way | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
off. We have plenty to come this afternoon for you, though. This is | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
what you can expect. Rio gold-medallist Dalliah Muhammad | :06:03. | :06:15. | |
and Eilidh Doyle will be in the 400 metres hurdles. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
??TAKE Kyle Langford will be in the 800 metres. | :06:23. | :06:34. | |
And Abdi Jama and Chijindu Ujah will be in the men's 100 metres. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
A 3,000 meet irfield, which includes Hasan. Andrew Pozzi features in a | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
high-class sprints hurdle field. So the first event will be the | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
women's 400 metres hurdles, featuring Eilidh Doyle. Kyle | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
Langford followed by a 100-metre battle, featuring two of that | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
quarter who won that gold in London. It is the men's 110 murderles with | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Andrew Pozzi. The women's 100 metres time follows. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Isaac Makwala will be back. There is a women's 400-metre field n which | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
all three of the medallists will be on the track, including Allyson | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
Felix. And the last a 3,000 lap of honour for Mo Farah, the Olympic | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
champion. It will be coming bang, bang, bang, bang throughout the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
afternoon. So much top-class athletics to come. I mentioned | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Andrew Pozzi there. He must have watched that final and thought, why, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
why, what happened? How did it come that I was not on the start line? | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
The times he's produced this season would have seen him pushing through | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
that line, in some shape that could have got a medal. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
You are spot on. It is the most frustrating thing when you know you | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
can deliver. He won the indoors championships. Coming to a home | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
games we had a lot of hope he can raise his game a little bit. It only | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
takes a minor error in hurdles for you to be completely out of the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
equation. Unfortunately that is what happened to Andrew. It will be his | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
time again. He's still pretty young. It is a technical event. It means | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
he'll get into the grove of it. Once he does, he'll be dangerous. And the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
800 metres featuring Kyle Langford w that glorious fourth. There were a | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
few in London. Here is one of those from a young athlete you feel has | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
come on so much - ranked 4th in the world. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
He learnt so much in those championships. It will bode him well | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
in the future. We spoke to him in the studio. He was a breath of fresh | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
air. I love his attitude. He needs to race well and enjoy the moments | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
where he's up against top class fields. He's so young, coming out of | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the junior ranks, to compete at this level for him, it is great. Talking | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
about how high he aims, he said I will replace Mo. So his timing | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
couldn't be better. Mo Farah competing here for the last time on | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
a British track today. You are right. That refreshing attitude, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
nothing wrong with that. You never know where you're going to go. Let's | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
relive an event from earlier on because the women's 100 metres | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
finals are coming newspaper an hour or so. Earlier on we had two very | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
heats. Schippers is out closely, only three | :09:53. | :10:26. | |
to go through automatically. Schippers has ground to make up. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Schippers having to work hard. She's run out of the automatic places. | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
Talot with 10.95. Your finalists will go off at about | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
4.05pm. Dina Asher-Smith running herself | :10:49. | :11:00. | |
into great shape throughout that championship and looking good today. | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
It is a great final we have in prospect. Now on the track it is the | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
women's 400-metre hurdles. There is the British captain, Eilidh Doyle. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Out there in a very strong field as well. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
It is a loaded field. I think she had a disapointeding championships | :11:25. | :11:38. | |
from her point of view. She has to keep racing. Keep her head up and | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
she'll be roared on by this crowd. Mr Thompson will be on the sofa | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
thinking you are thinking about him. You know that, don't you? | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
Shamier Little a disappointment from the contingent. And Eilidh Doyle is | :11:58. | :12:33. | |
on the inside here. Finalist in Rio and London, at the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Olympics and the World Championships and she stepped into the relay and | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
scored address well for medals. The Olympics and the World | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Championships. There's the line up. It is Doyle and Little, Muhammad, | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
Russell - there would have been five of the World Championship finalists | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
in this one. Adelle Tracey had to drop out. So Doyle on the inside. | :13:06. | :13:25. | |
Eilidh Doyle will feel the love from this crowd. A finalist at the World | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Championships, where she finished eighth. Little alongside her, who | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
was so disappointing in the World Championships. | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
Just outside the medals at the World Championships and Russell looking | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
powerful. Alongside Petersen. Doyle in a good position here. | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
Shamier Little struggling. Through comes Russell, the Jamaican. Doyle | :14:08. | :14:20. | |
labouring over a little bit. Russell in third. Doyle in fourth. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
54. 20 Hejnova, victory here in the | :14:24. | :14:40. | |
Diamond League. She's qualified for the Diamond League final in Zurich. | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
Best heat here by Hejnova, who takes the victory. She tends to finish | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
pretty strongly. Didn't quite in the final in London. Had enough here to | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
just overhold. London was run about a second faster | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
than this victory time. But Hejnova, as you mentioned is not the fastest. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
She doesn't run the fastest first 200 metres. She has a good solid | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
technique. Once she can get to that high pace and maintain it, with the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
good strike pattern, it will put you into a good position. That is what | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Hejnova always tends to find herself in. She's been a little bit sharper | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
this year. Earlier I think she would have been more of a contender in | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
this race in London. Hejnova came through when it | :15:32. | :16:02. | |
mattered. Good finish between Hejnova and Delilah Muhammad. | :16:03. | :16:15. | |
Hejnova has that strength. She is not blisteringly quick, but power in | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
the latter stages of the 400 hurdles is so important. Hejnova has that | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
strength. She took the victory. We will have a chat with her. Eilidh | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
Doyle is in fourth place. Thanks, Andrew. As you came into the | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
home straight, you looked like it would be challenging for a victory. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
How would you assess the race? It was similar to the final at the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
World Championships. I got off well and then had to fight back. It | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
didn't feel that quick. I was surprised that the speed. After the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
champs, business is not done to you guys. The Diamond League circuit | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
continues. There are points to be chased and performances to be | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
delivered. What is it like for you to do that? The hardest part is to | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
try to keep training. The racing is the fun part. Actually motivating | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
yourself is tough going. But is nice to have the races afterwards. You | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
pick the World Championships, so you may as well keep going. The blood | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
going forward and well done on your team captaincy. You did us proud. | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
While we were switching over from BBC Two to BBC One, the third of the | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
Paralympic class races was run, the T44 men, featuring Jonnie Peacock, a | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
crowd favourite. A huge champion of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Just a few | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
weeks ago, he won his second world title here, the 100m T44 in London, | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
streaking away, putting in a wonderful performance. He is a crowd | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
pleaser, loves these occasions. The crowd loved him too. And Richard | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Brown was supposed to be in the line-up. He pulled out a couple of | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
days ago, so his great rival was not there. What is going to be a | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
walkover for Jonnie Peacock? walkover for Jonnie | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
COMMENTATOR: Jonnie Peacock in lane four. The world champion over the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
100m, and gets off to a good start. The two good sprinters are going | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
neck and neck. As expected, Jonnie Peacock gets the win. Not by much. | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
11.03, the winning time. But out pretty well. Not much to choose | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
between them, but it is there that he guessed -- guessed that | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
advantage. Peacock had just enough to get the win. Not his quickest | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
time. He ran so quick in those World Championships. The gold medal is of | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
course the most important thing. A great race between the two of them. | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
Jonnie, well done, a great win in front of a home crowd. Richard | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Whitehead was saying earlier that he has been on chocolate and pizza, | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
enjoying himself posed World Championships. What is it like to | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
bridge that gap once you have done what you set out to do and then have | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
to come back and compete here? Firstly, it is fantastic that they | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
have got the event on here today. It hasn't been here three years, so I | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
wanted to take the opportunity. It sounds like they have some great | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
plans for Paralympic sport, and hopefully this event should be back | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
here for the next four years. Once again, it has captured everybody's | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
imagination. It must be fantastic to be a part of that. You are a big | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
part of why it is growing. It's so good when you come back into this | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
country. The way they soaked up Paralympic sport is fantastic. It's | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
literally unlike anything else. I have been looking at the London 2017 | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
world champs. We really hit it hard. This is the first time I have them a | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
warm-up since my final, the first time I put my blade on, apart from | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
yesterday, when I ran a kilometre for the superhero triathlon, which | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
was great fun. So I thought I would be about 11.5, so I am happy. Enjoy | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
your downtime, whenever it comes. Cheers. He is a huge star, Jonnie | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
Peacock. Could that man be one of our next big stars of the track? | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
Kyle Langford? He certainly has the charisma and personality. Coming | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
into the World Championships come he finished fourth in the final with | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
such a great run. Had he timed it a tiny bit better, he would have been | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
amongst the medals. I think he would have been, but it's about learning. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
These environments give you something. You must always take | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
something away. Question yourself, and he does that. He has a great | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
team around him and bags of personality, which is what you need. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Let's hand you over to your commentary team. The eagle eared | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
amongst you will have noticed that that was not Andrew Cotter, it was | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Steve Cram calling the Jonnie Peacock race. Steve, it is you now | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
with Paula Radcliffe. No, it's Alistair McGowan here, doing a very | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
good impersonation. Which he does do of Brendan. Anyway, let's not get | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
ahead of ourselves with Kyle. This is a young guy who I thought | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
performed web of expectation at the World Championships. He was close to | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
a medal, but by his own admission still has a way to go to be a | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
consistent contender at a major championships in this event, because | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
it's still an incredibly tough event. Bearing in mind the two of | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
three of the real contenders didn't make the competition and they will | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
be back, he might not make the final. He is still developing the | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
confidence that he drew from what he did in London, which will certainly | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
help him going forward. Kyle is joined here by another of our very | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
good athletes, Elliot Giles. Nigel Amos of Botswana is in this as | :22:38. | :22:59. | |
well. Asbel Kiprop has not been in the best shape. Elliot Giles is from | :23:00. | :23:09. | |
the local club, the Birchfield Harriers. Kyle will be delighted to | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
be racing the great man, Kiprop. All of the work he has put in over | :23:14. | :23:30. | |
the last few years is coming to fruition. This man was the prerace | :23:31. | :23:46. | |
favourite. Amos faded in the home straight when others were charging | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
in. McBride led the final outing. He is a frontrunner by nature, but the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
way he did it in the final wasn't smart and he finished eighth. So the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
men's 800m here is a really open race. I didn't mention Erik | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Sowinski. Huge disappointment for Botswana | :24:11. | :24:31. | |
with the whole Isaac Makwala thing and Amos here probably got | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
overlooked. When Korea didn't get the final, you thought that Amos | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
might be the man. And the weather race panned out, it wasn't so. He is | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
trying to make amends for that. The British boys are trying to get | :24:48. | :24:59. | |
personal bests from this. I don't think how did much wrong in his semi | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
and his final. He has just got those next steps to make. Tyler is setting | :25:06. | :25:17. | |
off this pace by a long way. Amos now leading from McBride. And in the | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
quicker finishers. Lewandowski is there. Kyle Langford beginning to | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
move. Elliot Giles will want to go with Adam Truscott. When Amos is | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
running well, Amos will stay strong in the home straight and Amos | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
continues to kick away. Then Kszczot, Lewandowski, McBride. The | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
two Poles come second and third. No doubt about the winner. The two | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
Brits were fifth and sixth. I don't know what went wrong for Amos at the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
World Championships. If he had just run it like that... He has looked as | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
though he is strong enough. Just couldn't hang together in the World | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Championship final. That result is not right, I'm not sure why that is | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
coming up. That is your winner, and he won comfortably in the end, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Paula. He did, and he looked a different athlete of the athlete ran | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
a week ago in the final of the 800m in London. Maybe he was sick. We | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
know there were things going around, but he certainly looked a much | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
stronger athlete. He attacked quickly and caught the others | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
napping at the back. Certainly Adam Kszczot. Elliot Giles was the one | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
who found the room on the inside. He was in the right place and he had a | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
clearer run through. Kyle Langford had to go very wide, as did Adam | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
Kszczot. But Adam got their to pip Lewandowski on the line. But there | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
was a clear winner, Madeleine Moss, out in front, looking strong and | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
making up for what happened in London -- Nigel Amos. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
We will tidy up the result. That caption wasn't right. Clear winner | :27:33. | :27:50. | |
here. And I think Phil has Kyle and Elliott with him. Indeed I do, | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
Steve. After your efforts at the World Championships, fourth place, | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
has life changed for you? Are more people noticing you? Yeah, is being | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
crazy. The public reception has been mad. It's been good. It's been a bit | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
of a hard week this week, getting back into the groove. Everything I | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
have done was for the World Championships, so trying to stay | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
motivated this week has been harder. I thought the race went OK. I worked | :28:25. | :28:34. | |
hard. I felt like was putting in more energy than everybody else. But | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
I am just having fun at the end of the season now, just enjoying it. I | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
suppose the same is true for you, Elliott, you are popping up your | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
experience with these races, but you are trying to get the balance right | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
after peaking for the worlds. You have got it, it is trying to find | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
the balance. I am a bit more level-headed at the moment, but is | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
tough. When the champs are gone, it goes into different territory. You | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
are more relaxed. That is probably why the times were slower. It was a | :29:05. | :29:16. | |
good race. Keep the good form going. Well, we can tidy up the results for | :29:17. | :29:17. | |
you. Back to this pole vault. Great | :29:18. | :29:37. | |
Britain's Holly Bradshaw has had two fails at this height of 4.68m. She | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
has to go clear to remain in the competition. Possibly her best of | :29:43. | :29:51. | |
the afternoon, but three fouls for Bradshaw. Struggled with the wind | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
here this afternoon, we are gusting down the Alexander Stadium. She has | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
had a good summer, of sorts. Disappointment with her World | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
Championships. She said she was disappointed mother she has jumped a | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
British record. There is a lot to take from this year. Your thoughts, | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Tony? That was by the her best attempt. As a pole vaulter, you | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
stand at the end of the runway, waiting. She is just having a chat | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
with Scott. You wait for a consistent wind so that you can set | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
off the poor yourself with that wind to get good speed. Sandy Morris also | :30:29. | :30:40. | |
failed at that height. How about that? The world champion added to | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
her title last year. She is a cut above the rest, Stefanidi. She will | :30:48. | :30:56. | |
have changed her pole. She really gets up above the poll quickly. | :30:57. | :31:07. | |
Meijer, if she goes clear here will knock Holly Bradshaw. Bradshaw is in | :31:08. | :31:15. | |
second place behind Stefanidi. Meijer looks supported on that, her | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
third attempt. So Meijer's best, 4.61. Will have to | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
settle for third. Stefanidi, then, 4. 75 - second | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
attempt. What a clearance that is! Really has | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
been so dominant. Once again here in Birmingham, proving her class. | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
So we move on to the men's 100 metres, as they get ready. Watch one | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
more time the clearance of Stefanidi. Why not? Wasn't too | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
shabby. That is my technical knowledge of the pole vault. | :31:55. | :32:04. | |
Adam Gemili goes in the 100 metres. Not Gemili, who ran so well on the | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
second leg in the 4x100. Chijindu Ujah, the lead man in that quartet. | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
He won in Rome and London, he would have been disappointed to go to the | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
semi-finals of the individual 100s. Alongside him James Dasaolu. Fifth | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
in his semifinal in the 100 in London. Not part of the relay squad. | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
An outstanding domestic line-up here. | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
Ojie Edoburun, won the English title in Bedford in June, 10.12. European | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
under 23 champion. Zharnel Hughes, better known for the 200 is yet to | :32:47. | :32:54. | |
rediscover the form that took him to the World Championships a couple of | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
years ago. Seventh in the semifinal in London over that distance. And on | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
his home track Kyle De Escofet, the youngest in the line-up at 20. | :33:04. | :33:10. | |
10.21 his new PB this season. Harry Aikines-Aryeetey not getting | :33:11. | :33:35. | |
to join in the celebrations. Prescod missing here. Aa part from that it | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
is a full house, loaded with British talent. | :33:43. | :33:51. | |
And, well, Adam Gemili there springing out. First false start of | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
the day. We hope, he hopes it is not a false start because I think | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
everyone excited to see how he can run. He competed in the trails here | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
and struggled with six in the 200 in June. And we learned afterwards that | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
he had been running under instructions with a niggle. Then we | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
saw Adam Gemili in the relay. I wonder, I fear that he might have | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
false started here. Let's have a look. Your fear could be right, | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
Andrew. They often are, Colin! They often are! Head seems to go before | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
everyone else's. It is tight. Lane three, Adam Gemili will be | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
disqualified here. That is such a shame for everyone who wanted to see | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
him race against everyone else here. A few jeers from the crowd. I | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
thought Gatlin had appeared again. It is a shame because he had been | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
run sog well again in that relay. People really wanted to see what he | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
could do here. I think he wanted to see what he could do after running | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
so well down the back straight, that second leg in the relay. I think | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
he'll be frustrated, irritated. I think when they saw him the reaction | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
times he'll see that clearly. He has been moved from the track for a real | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
reason. I think this race for him most of all it was important today | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
this race because he felt aggrieved he had not got to run individually | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
in the World Championships because he had that niggle and was coming | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
back and could show what he could do. And this was a chance to show | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
against the best of British sprintings that he's just about the | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
best when he's on song. That's painful. Painful to watch. He'll be | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
frustrated. But now going back to business. So Robertson, | :35:41. | :35:51. | |
Aikines-Aryeetey, Ujah, Dasaolu, Edoburun, Hughes, Escofet. Lane | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
three, Adam now watching the rest of the spectators here in The Stadium. | :35:58. | :36:07. | |
Away this time, a good start from Chijindu Ujah. Tries to drive on, it | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
is Ujah clear at the moment. Zharnel Hughes coming through. Ujah | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
gets it on the line, 10.09. A good win for Ujah. It's been a good | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
season for Ujah. We mentioned that dip in not reaching the final of the | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
World Championships individually. That is a stiff competition. He's | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
run around the 10 second flat mark all season. He has a good win here | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
in the Birmingham meeting. Not a Diamond League event, but still | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
stiff competition. You want the local bragging rights as well. Spot | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
on. For him it was important that he's demonstrated he's the number | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
one 100-metre runner our country. Mr Prescod may have something to say | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
about that. CJ has been so consistent this season. He's a | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
lovely runner when he gets going. Drives well - good technique, very | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
effective. You marry that with a good head and you get a fantastic | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
athlete. The future is bright for him. More experienced game time and | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
time again. I want to see when he gets under that 10 second mark more | :37:22. | :37:29. | |
consistently. He's from the 10.2s to the 10.1s. His next step will be to | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
get to the 10 second mark on a consistent basis. He's not that far | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
away. So, a good win from Chijindu Ujah, pressurised, but also by | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
Zharnel Hughes, finishing quickly. Let's confirm the result for you. It | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
is a shame for Adam Gemili. I can see they are both with Phil just | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
now. CJ, I start with you - fine win on | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
the back of, well, the most famous win of your life so far. And that 4 | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
by one lives in the memory for all of us. I was optimistic. I wanted to | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
come out here and put on a show for the crowds and have fun. My legs are | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
still a bit jelly. I'm trying to get ready for Zurich and this crowd's | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
amazing. I love it. James, let's bring you in. Seeing what the guys | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
were able to achieve in the relay, but in an individual event we know | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
you guys are hovering around - you are pushing each other all the time | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
to get to that next level. It is amazing I would have loved to have | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
been part of it. Today it is about having fun in front of a British | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
crowd, who are amazing for their support and stuff. It was all about | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
fun, but let's bring in Adam. You were disappointed, you wanted to run | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
so desperately today. Put into words what happened, if you can. Honestly, | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
I don't know. I didn't feel like I false started. That's the first time | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
in my career that's ever happened to me. I thought I was trying to | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
execute... I know I'm in great shape. I know I have not had an | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
individual race to prove it. The track is amazing. And I feel like I | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
have let so many people come out to see this race and I just feel like | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
I've let so many people down. It is gutting. Absolutely gutting. I don't | :39:20. | :39:26. | |
have any words to say, like. I know it is only like the Grand Prix, it | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
is not the world champs, but it feels the same for me. This was a | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
redemption race and to show I am back in good shape and running fast. | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
I want to say sorry if you tuned in. That's all I can say, really. No | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
need to apologise. When will that chance for you? I am racing in Sir | :39:45. | :39:59. | |
ribbing, Berlin -- Zurich and Berlin. | :40:00. | :40:00. | |
Thank you. THE COMMENTATOR: The next field | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
event is the men's high jump. Robert Grabarz and Tom Gale, looking | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
forward to see how he deals with this. | :40:17. | :40:27. | |
Very light work of that. As you would expect, jumped 2. 35 to take | :40:28. | :40:38. | |
gold last week. Barshim very impressive performance | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
across the World Championships. Let's look at this from the side. | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
Just a great clearance. He goes so vertical so well. Again at 2. 20, it | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
is so easy. Too easy for Barshim, but Grabarz has a fall at this | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
height. Already second attempt, 2. 20. Oh! Gave it a rattle. Came out | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
of his arch early. You need to hold it, like a wheel turning you have to | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
go around the wheel and think, oh, it's clear. Nearly went through it. | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
It was a clearance for Grabarz. 2. 24 is the next height. Long strides | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
turn to short as he takes the curb. Didn't time his hips rising there | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
through the clearance. Here is Tom Gale. 2.30, he jumped, the | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
18-year-old. Clearance at 2. 24. Look at that. A young man looking | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
really good. First time I have really seen him jump in this sort of | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
company. Looking good. He's improved 12 acceptsy metres this year. He | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
comes off the floor so well. So, he's one of those prospects for | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
the future that Britain can hopefully really look forward to. A | :41:56. | :41:57. | |
map to join the senior team. Well, next on the track you can see | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
the high jumpers. This is a race which doesn't have | :42:06. | :42:29. | |
any outstanding favourites. Many of them ran in the relay at the World | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
Championships. Yousif playing his part in that. | :42:33. | :42:49. | |
Changed legs from the first round to the second round. Built around this | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
man, Cowan, 32 years of age. Having a brilliant season, coming to all | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
this a little bit late in his career. He started his career late, | :43:01. | :43:08. | |
though, he'd say. Kevin Borlee n the semifinal for Belgium. Three of the | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
Borlee family. He ran a 43 split. Vernon Norwood didn't make the | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
American squad. He's a 44.4 man this year. Closest personal best. And the | :43:20. | :43:27. | |
quickest in the field here. Brian Gregan, from Ireland. | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
Semi-finalist individually. Well, Martyn became a father for the | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
second time this week - a baby girl. Congratulations to him and his wife. | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
Adding to that brilliant Bronze Medal. Seven World Championships for | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
Martyn Rooney. On the inside this young man here, Josephus Lyles, from | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
the United States - he's only 19. Just fresh from the pan American | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
junior championships, where he won a silver medal for his country. A | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
great talent he is. He's in lane one. | :44:03. | :44:04. | |
So, it is not a Diamond League event. It is a bit of a chance again | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
for the British athletes to take on some good opposition and perhaps, | :44:11. | :44:13. | |
certainly for Martyn Rooney, he will look at the very least his season's | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
best, ran great in the relay. It's been Dwayne Cowan who has been the | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
Brit to follow. So Cowan in lane six. Rooney's in | :44:22. | :44:32. | |
two. Rabah Yousif out there in lane seven. Yousif is watching that | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
start. The French man going well. Right in the middle, Vernon Norwood, | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
in the dark strip for the USA. Already chased up on Borlee. Cowan | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
just left through that 200 metres. The American youngster Lyles has won | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
a very good first 250. It is Rabah Yousif. Norwood, in contention here. | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
Norwood with a two-metre lead. Here comes Cowan. Finishing quickly down | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
the home straight. Will Cowan get there? Cowan wins it. 45. 35. Well | :45:10. | :45:19. | |
done to Dwayne Cowan. His season gets better and better. At the | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
beginning of the year he could not have dreamt what was ahead of him in | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
2017. Went to the British Championships, having got the | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
qualifying time and then got selected and then, as I said, in | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
that relay, really raised his game. What about this for a win! In front | :45:38. | :45:40. | |
of the home crowd. That race was a microcosm of his | :45:41. | :45:55. | |
career. There was a point here at 200m where you thought, he has left | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
this too late. But he kept holding. He wasn't losing any more ground. | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
Vernon Millward is a very high-calibre athlete indeed, as you | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
said. You can see that he is getting stronger and stronger. There is only | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
one winner at this point. Beautifully timed race by Dwayne | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
Cowan. That is the beauty of the 400m. Cowan has other wonderful | :46:23. | :46:30. | |
season. He ran beautifully in the relay in the World Championships. It | :46:31. | :46:39. | |
was a good one as well for Rabah Yousif for a while, but difficult to | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
Dwayne Cowan finishing so beautifully. Well, his dad was the | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
most famous man in the family for quite a while, but he is fast | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
writing his own story here. That is a personal best. Not by much, a | :46:56. | :47:08. | |
couple of hundredths. Let's just confirm the results. Another | :47:09. | :47:17. | |
personal best for him, Phil? Yes, Steve. Another personal best for | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
you. Your season keeps getting better. I am so happy I got a PB. I | :47:21. | :47:28. | |
think it is my last 400, so it was my last chance. Tell me about the | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
year overall when you came into it and you are thinking, what are my | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
goals this year? How many have you ticked off the list? My goal was to | :47:39. | :47:51. | |
get into the 44s. I PB'd three times this season. This is the Diamond | :47:52. | :48:00. | |
League and I got the win, so I am happy. I got a bronze medal in the | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
4x4. First Diamond League win. Build on it, blame. Well done. GABBY | :48:08. | :48:15. | |
LOGAN: Congratulations to Dwayne, one of the great success stories of | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
the season, the way he has come through reminiscent of Christine | :48:21. | :48:22. | |
Ohuruogu, the way he finishes the 400m. You may have noticed the | :48:23. | :48:32. | |
coaching similarity between them. One hour and six minutes to Mo Time, | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
the last time we will see him run a track race in this country. The | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
stadium is packed. We are seeing great athletics, but many of them | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
are here to say goodbye and thank you to one of our greatest ever | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
athletes, who has been so dominant in the last four or five global | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
major championships. He was in reflective mood this week when | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
talking to Phil Jones about his gold and silver performances in London. | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
Most people dream of becoming world champions once or twice and have an | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
amazing career. It would have been awesome to come away with two gold | :49:10. | :49:16. | |
medals, but I have to settle for silver and gold. The ten was really | :49:17. | :49:24. | |
tough. The guys made it so hard. Just four seconds off my personal | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
best in the champs and then to come back in the 5K, I was pretty tired. | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
My body was beaten up. Going into the last lap, I am normally at the | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
front. I had nothing left. They have been trying for the last six years | :49:39. | :49:44. | |
and finally, they did it. He gave everything. But actually, the colour | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
of the medal might not mean as much as the sendoff. The sendoff was | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
amazing. It was incredible to have so many people loving you and | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
clapping you around the track. That moment will never be forgotten. I | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
told myself that whatever happens, I'm going to finish in London. It | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
would have been a little bit letter, but I got up result and there is | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
nothing I could have done. I tried my best. It was still a special | :50:13. | :50:18. | |
moment on that track. Farah is going to make it two gold medals for Great | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
Britain! When you look back on your career, that was obviously the | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
standout week. That was the one moment when I went to Mo. To come | :50:30. | :50:36. | |
away with two gold medals in your hometown, it can't get better. This | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
week, it's not as demanding or as nerve-wracking. Hopefully, I can | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
take care of the race and come away with a good result and say goodbye. | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
Birmingham has been good to me and the crowds have been amazing. I have | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
seen it reported. Do we have to start calling you something | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
different when you are on the road? No, Mo is my name. I just want to go | :51:02. | :51:15. | |
as the Roadrunner, Mo. New mind, fresh. There will be guys running | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
faster than me. It's about starting slowly. What do I need to learn? | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
What does it take? I am sure you will do it with style. I hope so. | :51:25. | :51:32. | |
GABBY LOGAN: Mo is coming up at 4:45 p:m.. Now is the women's turn. It is | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
a loaded race for Andrew Cotter and Paula Radcliffe. This is a | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
fascinating race, one that a huge number of people are looking forward | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
to. We have specialists from a number of events. There are the | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
steeplechasers, the wild cards. Gold and silver-medallists, the two | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
Americans from the World Championships, Emma Coburn and | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
Courtney Frerichs. We will see how they go. Emma Coburn will certainly | :52:00. | :52:11. | |
run a big personal best. The German is there as well. And the tall, | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
familiar figure at the back of Eilish McColgan. Hellen Obiri starts | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
a strong favourite, Paula Radcliffe. She does. She convincingly won the | :52:21. | :52:28. | |
other event in London. She has been running well all year. On paper, | :52:29. | :52:37. | |
Hellen Obiri is the only one who has run close to the record. It will be | :52:38. | :52:46. | |
interesting to see how quickly the likes of Emma Coburn can go. It is a | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
big ask to step back from that victory and run competitively with | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
the likes of Hellen Obiri. The athlete we didn't have a chance to | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
talk about is on the inside in fourth position, Sifan Hassan. She | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
tried the 1500 and 5,000 Dublin London. -- she tried the double. | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
Eilish McColgan, this is her best distance. She was a steeplechaser, | :53:15. | :53:22. | |
but it was too hard and her body was getting too many injuries. But if | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
she were to pick a distance, it would be 1500. It would probably be | :53:26. | :53:35. | |
the 3000m. She is capable of running very fast over 1500m. She is running | :53:36. | :53:45. | |
very wide at the moment, right on the shoes of Konstanze | :53:46. | :53:55. | |
Klosterhalfen. In training, because of how injury prone Eilish McColgan | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
is, she can't do a lot of training. So she has to do the crosstraining, | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
which means the strength is there, but she is struggling to see it come | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
through over 5000m. They will come with time. She has already beaten | :54:09. | :54:18. | |
her my time over 5000m. At the back, you might have caught a glimpse of | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
Rosie Clarke. There is a good American tussle here because you | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
have Molly Huddle, the US 10,000 metre champion who finished eighth | :54:29. | :54:38. | |
in London, as well as Emma Coburn and Shannon Rowbury. The pace is | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
pretty quick. Eilish McColgan is having to put out a steadying hand. | :54:42. | :54:52. | |
Susan Krumins of the Netherlands will be a factor here. I wonder if | :54:53. | :55:07. | |
Tuei is capable of taking the pace. She is behind now. But she is now | :55:08. | :55:19. | |
starting to pick it up a bit and the field is stringing out behind her. A | :55:20. | :55:32. | |
bit of daylight opening up behind Krumins. | :55:33. | :55:42. | |
In Eilish's case, she moved to flat racing because it was easier on her | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
body, so she very much respects the steeplechase. But there will be some | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
runners who think you can't step over from the 3000m steeplechase and | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
think you can run massive PBs and compete with us on the flat. The | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
steeplechasers are starting to get a bit detached from the 3000m flat | :56:05. | :56:13. | |
runners ahead of them. The Australian, Genevieve Lacaze, is | :56:14. | :56:25. | |
there as well. Emma Coburn is just going through. Eilish McColgan is | :56:26. | :56:36. | |
hanging onto the front group. She has the Scottish record in her | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
sights. That has been held by Yvonne Murray for a long time. She is | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
aiming for that and is definitely capable of running a personal best. | :56:50. | :56:59. | |
1988, Yvonne Murray's Scottish record, 8:29.02. But out in front, | :57:00. | :57:10. | |
Hellen Obiri and Sifan Hassan, two of the best in the world, setting | :57:11. | :57:21. | |
the pace and lifting the pace. There are about nine athletes in the | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
front, Eilish McColgan hanging onto the back of that group. Konstanze | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
Klosterhalfen was disappointed with her World Championships. She will be | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
wanted to make amends for that here. I heard she was sick there as well. | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
Maybe that was why she was not able to run at her best. But she has a | :57:43. | :57:51. | |
big range. I don't think she can compete with the likes of Obiri but | :57:52. | :58:01. | |
she can a strong run. The slight figure of the German athlete, but | :58:02. | :58:04. | |
what a talent she is. Eilish McColgan in seventh place at the | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
moment. The front group is a long way clear of Emma Coburn and | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
Courtney Frerichs. There were extraordinary results at | :58:16. | :58:34. | |
the World Championships. But Obiri will be very tough to beat here. | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
Sifan Hassan, who tried to do that double in the World Championships, | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
is alongside Klosterhalfen. McColgan is in a decent position. She is. The | :58:43. | :58:50. | |
pace has dropped a bit. Obiri leading, but not really wanting to | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
lead at this point. She is making sure she has enough left for the | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
surge she will make at some stage. She ran wisely in the 5000m, letting | :59:00. | :59:06. | |
the frontrunner do all the work. Now it seems that Sifan Hassan is trying | :59:07. | :59:10. | |
to recreate that. She has followed Hellen Obiri all the way. The bell | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
sounds and still seven athlete in here. Sifan Hassan has great speed. | :59:17. | :59:32. | |
A wonderful 800 and 1500m runner. Eilish McColgan is trying to stay | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
with them. Five or six now separate themselves from the rest. Obiri, | :59:40. | :59:51. | |
Klosterhalfen, kid can boy. The Sifan Hassan have something left? | :59:52. | :00:00. | |
Hellen Obiri tries to give more, but Sifan Hassan rounds her. Obiri has | :00:01. | :00:09. | |
gone. Sifan Hassan, stretching away. A big win for Sifan Hassan. McColgan | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
fighting hard. McColgan will be just outside the Scottish record, but | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
comes through in sixth place. A great run from the German, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Klosterhalfen. But a very impressive win from Sifan Hassan. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
A great run from Sifan Hassan there. She was frustrated when she walked | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
off the track, certainly from the 1500 metres and for the 57,000, | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
maybe a little -- 5,000, maybe a little she was gaining in the 5,000 | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
metres. She was not able to get there. She walked away with a Bronze | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Medal and the form she showed in 1500 metres was more accurately | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
reflect in that race today. She just shadowed Obiri, who was running wide | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
and leaving that tantalising gap open and then closed it up at that | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
point. Clos clogs going well. -- Klosterhalfen going well. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
McColgan got a shuffle and a shove. Here she was really struggling. You | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
could tell she didn't have much left in her legs at this point, even to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
hold a straight line down that home straight. | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
A great finish from Klosterhalfen to make amends for herself and to come | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
away with a personal best there. A big, big personal best for | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Klosterhalfen, who has not run this distance as often as others have. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Look at Hassan, the power she has - able to have a casual look to her | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
side. Nobody there to threaten her. A very good run from Eilish McColgan | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
as well, back in fifth place. It will be a personal best for Eilish | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
McColgan by a fraction. But Hellen Obiri, perhaps a little | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
disappointing. It is a personal best for Eilish | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
McColgan, down to 8. 31 flat. Sifan Hassan, 8: 28.90. A personal | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
best. A meeting record. A German record for Klosterhalfen. | :02:21. | :02:33. | |
We've had a busy afternoon already. Lynsey Sharp finished second. | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
After winning World Championship silver last week Wilson topped the | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
pile today in the men's long drop. Katerina Stefanidi continued her | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
undefeated, with another pole vault victory. | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
O'Hare of Great Britain second a close second. | :03:10. | :03:25. | |
Sophie Hahn won in the 100 metres. Jake Wightman was disqualified. | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Jonathan Peacock in the T44, 100 metres, he won at 11.03 seconds. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
There's some of the day's headlines. Let's get out to the field. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Women's discus. Here is a look back. | :03:48. | :04:11. | |
Caballero - the 27-year-old Cuban. In the second round, beyond 65 | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
metres there. So 65. 24. Her team-mates may chase | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
in that same round. Yaimi Perez, down that left sector, | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
gave it a good flight. Almost a similar distance. A very similar | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
distance. 65. 11. That was enough for third. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Real dominance from Perkovic, as we have seen from the last couple of | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
years. The double Olympic champion. Now the double world champion. She | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
saved her best for last. This was the sixth and final round. She | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
already had a throw a 67. 32. And dropped that in at 6751. | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
-- 67.51. That last-round throw. Held on to it | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
a little longer. So another victory for Sandra | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Perkovic. So confirmation of their places | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
there. Robert Grabarz in this high jump. | :05:29. | :05:52. | |
Under some pressure here. He is a pressure man. He saw the young Tom | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Gale, 18-year-old team-mate go clear. Robbie... Too much for him | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
today. He's had a real bumpy ride this year. He had his appendix | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
removed in the winter. He did well in qualifying. Grabarz slightly down | :06:12. | :06:23. | |
today again. But Grabarz equalled sixth at the World Championships | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
last week. We are just about ready for the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
men's 110 metres hurdle. David King, one of a couple of Britons going | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
here. Shane Brathwaite, sixth at the World | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Championships. Just doing enough to move through the rounds, get into | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
the final. Andrew Pozzi, missed that final by just 100th of a second. He | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
was leading in the semifinal until he hit the penultimate barrier. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Again an indicator of what can happen in the hurdles. Ortega made a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
mess of the final in London. Cuban who now runs for Spain. And | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
then Garfield Darien was cleared in bronze until hitting the ninth | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
hurdle in the final. A very impressive athlete, indeed, Garfield | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Darien. Stepped one the absence of La Garb this season. And a popular | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
man, Aries Merritt. Not quite to be in London. Fifth in the final for | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the former Olympic champion. The world record holder, who in 2012 | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
went below 13 seconds no fewer than ten times. A great title defence | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
from this man, Sergey Shubenkov, running under a neutral flag in | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
London. This is the flip side of the coin, | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
for all the stories of near misses Balazs Baji got it right in London. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Perhaps better athletes around him. He cut out the mistakes. Allen Devon | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
missed out in London by 3,000ths of a second. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
For Andrew Pozzi this is, well, he's running against six of the London | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
finalists here. This is the line he felt he should have been contesting | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
against. It is here in Birmingham instead. | :08:23. | :08:36. | |
One of the highest quality fields of the afternoon - the men's 110 metres | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
hurdles. Well, that is Garfield Darien - I am | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
sure it is Darien. There was a lot of twitching going | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
on. But I think Darien was the man. Is there something about that lane, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
do you think? Yes, possibly. Possibly. Was he in that one, Adam | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
Gemili? I don't know. Let's look to see if Garfield Darien... You said a | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
little bit of twitching. Well, there was a couple inside him, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Shane Brathwaite, actually no, well, we shall see. Why don't we stop | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
speculating and see what the computer says. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
And nobody at the moment - are they still studying it? There's no real | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
rush. Looking at the starters, they are thinking, what's going on. Just | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
to the left-hand side of the runners. There is a big gathering | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
there. Nobody is making any moves towards the start line as yet. | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
Studying all the papers and notes. Lane five, Garfield Darien, is gone. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
That's a shame as well. Garfield Darien has been doing so well this | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
season. But there are a couple of athletes gone. I think Shane | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Brathwaite. Shane Brathwaite has gone as well. Darien is taking all | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
the camera work, but Shane Brathwaite has disappeared as well. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
In a more muted fashion. A Little Rock from David King at the top. A | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
lot of rocking and rolling. Ready once again. I think Brathwaite | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
might, well he was 0.8 as well. There he is. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
In false start corner. So King and Pozzi, Ortega, Merritt, | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Shubenkov, Baji and Allen Devon. This time away and Pozzi and King | :10:51. | :11:06. | |
out quickly. Merritt now getting into his running. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Shubenkov coming through now alongside Merritt. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Pozzi beginning to... There is Merritt just about gets it from | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Sergey Shubenkov. It wasn't the cleanest or quickest race but a | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
victory for Aries Merritt, still against a high-quality field. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Merritt holding off Shubenkov. Andrew Pozzi unable to get close to | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
them in the end either. A good win for Aries Merritt. A very, very | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
popular figure from, that reduced field. Again a shame to lose | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Brathwaite and to lose Garfield Darien. I think it would have made | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
it more competitive race, but Aries Merritt, the deserved victor. I | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
spoke to Aries yesterday. He said to me, Colin, I am just tired. Looking | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
at that race it was a tired victory by him. You know what, he's the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
worlds record-holder for a good reason - fast off the blocks, can | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
get into that rhythm well. Once he gets into that really smooth, at | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
times when he doesn't make any mistakes as well, that is when he | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
will focus well. He takes control of this race early. Shubenkov will | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
always make that charge. We expect him to do that but he clattered | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
hurdles which is not like Shubenkov. I think that could have cost him a | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
little bit. Just watching Shubenkov getting very | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
close here. I was watching Andrew Pozzi as well. He's out of shot | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
here. He clipped barrier number four. Aries Merritt - that has been | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
a theme today for a lot of athletes. How can you be that tired. You do | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
it, it is a cumulative thing and you target the World Championships and | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
coming here a week later, it is very difficult. We may only think of the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
physical difficulty of it. It a east no t that tough for the athletes | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
physically, because they are prepared very well. They are the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
best in the world for a good reason. Mentally it is difficult to lift | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
yourself when you've had a very good championships, you've done your time | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
celebrating and when you are frustrated with your performance | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
sometimes you are still not lifted for another race. Time to tidy up | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
the results. Untidy race and disqualifications as well. Merritt, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
the winner. Andrew Pozzi, down in sixth, ahead of David King and Pozzi | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
is with Phil Jones. Thank you. Talking in comment tli | :13:24. | :13:38. | |
there about -- talking to commentary there about how difficult it is - | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
you have gone out and performed so well. I wouldn't call it well. A lot | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
of us were very tired from the World Championships. It All about doing... | :13:49. | :14:01. | |
Still to come out with a victory today? These gentlemen were all | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
class. It is really good to get the win. Of course you want to run | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
faster. Things happen - conditions are a thing. The weather isn't the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
best. But everyone has to run in it. And it's the UK. I love to come here | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
and to run. I'm happy. We will let you warm down. We'll have a quick | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
word with Andy. Obviously this is a good event for you to get some | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
disappointment from the World Championships out of your system in | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
That is the plan if you come out of the back of a major champs which | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
didn't go so well. It is good to come back and remote vat yourself. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
We work all year for that one kind of chance at the major champs. It | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
has been a tough couple of weeks. What does this hold for the rest of | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
the season? I will have to wait and see. I have a few more meets lined | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
up. We have to go back and see if it will be beneficial to do that or | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
whether it is best to rest and get ready for next year. We appreciate | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
you talking to us. Thank you. Thank you. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
The sprint stars take to the tracks in the women's 100 metres final. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
A stacked 200-metre contest. And it's Mo time for the final time | :15:17. | :15:55. | |
on a British track as we say farewell to four time Olympic | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
champion Mo Farah. That race is the last time we will see Mo Farah race | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
on a British track. It is about 45 minutes away. You don't want to miss | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
it. Thousands have come to say thank you for so many special days. He's | :16:13. | :16:30. | |
got no room! Mo Farah! The greatest champions, one day it comes to an | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
end. This chapter has closed. I want to say thank you to everyone who | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
supported me. # Thank you for the days. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
# Those endless days, the sacred days you gave me. | :16:46. | :16:57. | |
What a performance from Mo Farah! # I won't forget a single day, | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
believe me. # Days I'll remember all my life. | :17:01. | :17:13. | |
Beautiful! He's the double Olympic champion. My words cannot do justice | :17:14. | :17:38. | |
to how I feel. # Thank you for those days, those | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
endless days, the sacred days you gave me. This is world domination | :17:45. | :17:58. | |
for Farah! He's sprinting for gold! He's running for greatness! Mo Farah | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
is the world champion again. It's a fantastic 54 Farah. They | :18:10. | :18:27. | |
succumbed to the inevitable, bow to his superiority. The double double! | :18:28. | :18:46. | |
In front of his home crowd, in the city that he knows so well, the city | :18:47. | :18:59. | |
he loves. He is a one man world superpower! It's gold four Farah! | :19:00. | :19:12. | |
Incredible. Mo Farah is coming up in half an hour. Now it's the women's | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
100m final. We are halfway through the line-up. Elaine Thompson in lane | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
four. Levy is from Jamaica, not a familiar | :19:23. | :19:40. | |
name. Five women in this field won a muddle of some sort in the relay, | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
including Morolake Akinosun for the USA. | :19:47. | :20:03. | |
The three we didn't see are four on the far side, Shaunae Miller-Uibo. | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
And of course, Dina Asher-Smith. The 200m specialists are Elaine | :20:13. | :20:30. | |
Thompson, and when I said five women had won a medal, you wouldn't think | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
that one who didn't was Elaine Thompson. | :20:34. | :20:49. | |
Dina Asher-Smith gets out very well. Schippers going with her. Look at | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
the young Jamaican, but it's going to be Elaine Thompson. Thompson wins | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
it from Ta Lou. Levy gets the third spot ahead of some big names. 10.93 | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
into a slight headwind. I keep saying this and we are probably | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
going to repeat ourselves for the rest of the season. Elaine | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
Thompson's one blip on a superb year was the final at the World | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
Championships. She is probably going to keep winning. She will probably | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
keep running under 11 seconds, and we will probably never look at that | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
100m final again. Let's forget about that. It was a blip as you said, | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
Steve. We had great expectations for the Diamond League in London. So we | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
were thinking she could go under 10.7, but it didn't happen. Dina | :21:47. | :21:58. | |
Asher-Smith ran a solid first 60m. Thompson is just beautiful to watch. | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
She didn't respond to the gun, but it doesn't matter when you are as | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
talented as she is. She has a great transition, good knee lift. Stays | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
relaxed even though there is a lot of talent around her. She will be | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
scratching her head all season, Steve, but I am sure she will return | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
to the top soon. Well, she keeps winning these other races and she | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
will have to put it behind her and move on. There are no major | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
championships for them next year. Not a good run from Schippers. We | :22:34. | :22:47. | |
will tidy up the results for you. Ta Lou was the only other one under 11. | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
And Elaine Thompson is with Phil. Great to see you back in winning | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
ways, Elaine. I wonder how it has been for you to rebound after the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
World Championships to deliver these performances? Well, first time | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
competing in Birmingham on this track. I just picked myself up to | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
focus. What has been in your mind post Championships? Honestly, I | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
haven't got to think much. I just focus on the few races I have left. | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
This is the real you, isn't it, winning? Sometimes I am all about | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
winning and sometimes you have a bad day. My bad day was at the World | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
Championships. What is next for you? Zurich. And have you got a busy end | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
of season beyond that? I am taking it step-by-step. Just race these few | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
races and then get some rest. You are a great Olympic champion. We | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
look forward to seeing you more in this country. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Great Britain's Tom Gale has jumped superbly well in this high jump. He | :24:10. | :24:21. | |
is behind two world medallists. Too much for him today, but keep an eye | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
on this young man. He is in very classy company. I know you have | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
enjoyed his performance, Tony. He just sack a bit on those last three | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
steps instead of running toll. Want to watch for the future, Tom Gale. | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Remember that name. The Syrian is popular. The bronze-medallist from | :24:55. | :25:06. | |
the World Championships was really overwhelmed with that medal. Syrian | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
bronze medal in the high jump. He is jumping with loads more confidence. | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
Third attempt for Barshim. Classy jump. So two athletes have cleared | :25:26. | :25:39. | |
2.31, and 2.33 is the next height. We ready ourselves for the men's | :25:40. | :26:07. | |
200m. A very high calibre field here. Five of the finalists from | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
London are here, including the champion. It has got a bit cooler | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
here. You can feel a bit of dampness in the air. There will be heavy | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
stuff this evening, but still mercifully dry. It was a | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
disappointing games for the Frenchman. He is somewhat off his | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
personal best. Isiah Young did make the final in London, but only ate | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
there. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake was just outside the medals, the anchor | :26:50. | :27:05. | |
leg in the 4 x 100. The 200 was not outstandingly quick. Ameer Webb, the | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
US champion, fifth at the World Championships. A very powerful | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
runner. But there will be a warm welcome here for this man. One of | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
the figures of the World Championships, with his lonely, | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
defined one. Still has the quickest 200m title of the year in Madrid | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
last month. Danny Talbot, a gold medallist in that relay quartet. And | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
again on his home track, the Birchfield Harrier. Semifinalist in | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
the 200 in London. Aaron Brown had a horrible time in the World | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
Championships, disqualified from running fractionally out of his | :27:58. | :28:09. | |
lane. It wasn't a 200m at the World Championships of the highest | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
quality, but it was so competitive. We hope for no hangovers for the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
athletes here. Temperatures have dropped a bit. Don't expect | :28:20. | :28:20. | |
blistering times. Guliyev finished strongly in the | :28:21. | :28:51. | |
final in London and it is even at the moment. Makwala, the bots one, | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
going strongly. Guliyev will try and hunt him down. Here comes Ramil | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
Guliyev. Guliyev takes it. The Canadian ran well for third place, | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
but Guliyev is the world champion. No hangover for him, no fatigue. The | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
Turkish athlete takes the victory. At one point, Makwala looked as if | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
he might be coming through to win, but Guliyev is the world champion | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
and he wins it in a decent time in these conditions. I was looking at | :29:28. | :29:39. | |
the wind, because that is always telling further 200m. They have do | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
battle with it around the bend. But this was a solid one. He ran the | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
same type of rice he ran when he won the world title itself. Nothing too | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
electric around the bend. Perhaps many of these gentlemen are still | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
very tired. Makwala get in front, but he didn't do the transition very | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
well. That allowed Guliyev to ease himself through. That is what I love | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
about the 200m. You think Guliyev is accelerating, but he is not. He is | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
just decelerating less quickly than the rest as they go around the bend. | :30:30. | :30:37. | |
Strength is his forte, and the ability to relax. If you tense your | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
shoulders, that will restrict your movement. You want to keep a good | :30:42. | :30:42. | |
range of movement. Mitchell-Blake and Talbot in fifth | :30:43. | :31:01. | |
and sixth. What a time they must have had and | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
to come back here today and celebrate it with a home crowd | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
again. It is a shame I couldn't put on a better performance. But the | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
crowd has been amazing. You have learnt that in the past, I | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
know when you have been to championships and you have to pick | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
yourself up again. It is different this time because you had that medal | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
success happened a lot of our forry ya around it as well? It has been a | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
strange week. We are not used to it. We have not been world champions | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
before. Everyone has been so nice, so supportive. It is nice to come | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
out here and see the British crowd again. It makes you hungry for more, | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
I suppose? Definitely. It is a learning experience. I learn from it | :31:52. | :32:02. | |
and get better in the future. I am interrupting here. We believe you | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
are retiring and we want to say a massive thank you on behalf of all | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
the athletes on the team. You are wonderful. We love to chat to you. | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
And you are always so kind. We want to say a big thank you from all of | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
Thank you one and all. A couple of words? I am not one for speeches. It | :32:21. | :32:30. | |
means the world. Thank you. Thank you very much. | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
It is not very often you see our Phil floored. It was a genuine | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
surprise for Phil Jones. Denise is with me. I got goose bumps there. | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
The reality hit there. We have known for a while it would be Phil's last | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
meet with us. We will miss him. You can see the love and affection the | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
athletes have for him. He knows what to say - whatever performance - they | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
all gravitate to Phil. It is the first person they speak to. Win, | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
lose - he's the one they pour their emotions out to. They celebrate with | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
him. And, you know, he's just been a wonderful, wonderful reporter for | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
us. And a real friend and, yeah, to a lot of people, the ath Lees | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
included. So they -- athletes included. They will miss him. We | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
will miss that voice. We wish him well. He's a great guy. Steve | :33:26. | :33:35. | |
Backley. The champion, Rojas, way down the | :33:36. | :34:20. | |
field, with 13.94. So, rallying some form, a week on, behind the lead of | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
Williams. Maybe just a bit inspired more than the energies who spent | :34:25. | :34:32. | |
their energy last week. It is 14. 14.44. That is exactly the | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
same distance as Williams, but still in second place. | :34:39. | :34:48. | |
Back on the track, on the far side, it is the women's 1500 metres. 17 | :34:49. | :34:57. | |
athletes, including the pacemaker, who will be Jennifer Meadows. Before | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
these women go off, all of us in the commentary box would like to add our | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
thanks and thoughts to Phil as well. We are getting to the last half an | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
hour or so and even agreeing with all the words said about him. A nice | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
gesture there. All of the international athletes who got to | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
know Phil over the years. Including, I am sure Jenny Simpson. What a run | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
from here at the World Championships. | :35:28. | :35:36. | |
Laura Weightman, six, her best ever performance at a major global games, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
Commonwealth silver-medallist as well. Laura taking on a good field | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
here. In terms of the Diamond League this is the woman who is leading it. | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
A happy knack of sprinting to good positions and winning when the pace | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
hasn't been so good. Cichocka of Poland, finished just | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
behind Wightman at the World Championships. | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
Arafi high up there in terms of points. That is what it is all about | :36:02. | :36:11. | |
- Sarah McDonald. Quigley, disqualified in the Games. We saw | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
the camera past Bahta. Five are guaranteed for the final. Eight | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
women here could fill those seven places. So somebody is going to lose | :36:27. | :36:27. | |
out. They all want to be in Brussels for | :36:28. | :36:43. | |
the final. Including Jenny Simpson, she is the lowest ranks. Jenny needs | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
to certainly come in the top two or three here to make sure she gets | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
enough points. She's definitely capable of doing that. It is a big | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
field. It is good they have a good pace-maker in Jennifer Meadows, who | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
will take out the pace requested of her, about 2.8, 2.9. That is a good | :37:05. | :37:15. | |
pace. It will string it out. It is only Tsegay who has gone with that. | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
The rest are happy not to follow the quicker pace. A little bit quick | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
through 300 metres. It is too much of a gap. It is OK the group holding | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
off a little bit. This will be a pedestrian race for those behind | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
Jennifer Meadows. A little swift there, really. The group paced | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
around 64.5 seconds. Jenny has gone quick. Tsegay is capable of running | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
a fast time. Others thinking, let's get this race | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
moving and finally a bit of pace for the group there. They start to try | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
to close this gap down. Simpson sitting there, happily as is Laura | :37:56. | :37:56. | |
Weightman. She has a 5 l 3. -- personal best. | :37:57. | :38:21. | |
Now it is Bahta trying to make up a bit of ground. They are starting to | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
make inroads, but not quickly. You saw the other Ethiopian. We didn't | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
see her for the rest of the summer. They approach 800 metres. The lead | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
is 2.9. The group are about 2.11. Jennifer Meadows moves to the side. | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
Tsegay finding herself out there in front. She has a good 20-metre lead. | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
For somebody of the calibre of Tsegay that is a lead she could | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
hold. They still have a lot of ground to make up. Bahta is there. | :38:57. | :39:04. | |
Wightman. Chebet getting clipped by Cichocka behind her. The problem is | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
nobody wants to help Bahta out with that. Jenny Simpson is happy to | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
hover on her shoulder. Laura Weightman, maybe she will come | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
around. She's putting hers into a position to -- herself into a | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
position to challenge. The Ethiopian has gone quick and | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
hard. Bahta chases. Simpson stuck for pace at the moment. Tsegay still | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
out there in front. They are coming fast. The team-mate is making up the | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
pace here. Seyaum has closed the gap. Chebet working from the front. | :39:48. | :40:06. | |
Seyaum, Tsegay being chased be I the rest. -- being chased by the rest. | :40:07. | :40:17. | |
Chased home. Chebet trying to get there. Others are closing the home | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
straight. It will be Seyaum who will come home for the win. An easy win | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
in the end. Others are trying to get there, but they won't. 4. 01, the | :40:28. | :40:41. | |
winning time. Slow for the pack. Seyaum sprung out of the pack. | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
The others who didn't chase hard. And it will be interesting, because | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
I am looking at the finishing places, Jenny Simpson might find | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
herself run out of a place. We will have to see in terms of the Diamond | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
League final. Apart from Seyaum, I don't think many others can hold | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
their heads up too high there. I don't think they can. The likes of | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
Arafi, who finished so fast and grabbed that spot on the line, the | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
third spot on the line, she finished very fast. She left it late. | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
Bahta was rewarded for having done as much work as she had with that | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
chase pack. Cichocka had a bad race there. She was boxed for most of the | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
race. She came out wide at the end. She didn't have the leg to get past | :41:29. | :41:39. | |
Bahta. Arafi, Chebet were qualified. Maybe Jenny Simpson will make it | :41:40. | :41:41. | |
through. Back to the high jump. | :41:42. | :42:03. | |
2. 33, first attempt. 2. 31 is his best this afternoon. | :42:04. | :42:11. | |
And that failure maybe opens the door to Barshim. Let's look at this. | :42:12. | :42:19. | |
He's unlucky. He clipped that with his head. That is why he was | :42:20. | :42:26. | |
scratching his head. Mis-timed his arch. Went into it too early. It | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
gets different every time. So the higher the bar, the longer you have | :42:33. | :42:35. | |
to wait. A big scream from the champion, | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
Barshim. Well, he took three attempts to get | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
over the previous height, he now has a first attempt at 2. 33 | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
centimetres. Oh, he's got it! Brilliant stuff from Barshim. | :42:53. | :43:01. | |
Goes out in front at the new height and really takes it to the Syrian, | :43:02. | :43:14. | |
gas gas. S -- Ghazal. Gets better and better. That is excellent. | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
Not the leg he's jumping on, that drives it so well. And the space | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
between him and the bar. Stays away from the bar and a great arch. | :43:27. | :43:37. | |
So then, with two passes at 2. 2.39, a line of the other jumpers in | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
support of a new height of 2. 40. He's got it! Barshim goes clear. | :43:44. | :43:57. | |
2. 40. Look at that! From the other jumpers - the first 2. 40-metre jump | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
in Britain since 2000. So 17 years. A stadium record. | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
It is a meeting record and it is a world lead for Mutaz Essa Barshim of | :44:12. | :44:19. | |
Qatar. He's taking the bar home. Mr Barshim takes the bar home. He likes | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
that one. He's keeping that! Well, what a beautiful jump. He has looked | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
sensational. So composed. So still of body when | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
he runs hard at the kerb. Nothing moves. It will be interesting to see | :44:33. | :44:42. | |
if we get a replay of this. Look at that - 2. 40. A world best of 2017. | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
There's the man who did it. Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar. A classy | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
jumper and a brilliant performance. He's failed at 2. 39 twice. Elected | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
to put the bar up at 2. 40 and look at the space! That could have been | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
2.42 or more. That is why people around the world think this is the | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
man who can break the world record. Two centimetres more - big | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
celebrations for him. He 's got a lot to say. He's now talking to | :45:18. | :45:19. | |
Phil. Congratulations! What a performance | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
you have delivered yet again here in Britain. We don't get tired of | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
seeing it. What is it like to do? I am very happy to be here in | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
Birmingham and the UK less than a week, jumping good. Take a personal | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
record. 2. 40, really happy with this height. I wanted the meeting | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
record. I knew I was in good shape. I need to feel some pushing, some | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
pressure. The crowds helped me out. We are jumping well together. I felt | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
good, so I went for it. You are keeping the bar - you will not let | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
anybody else have it, will you? I am taking that bar home. I will keep it | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
somewhere. Every time I look at it I'll remember that jump. Well done. | :46:08. | :46:09. | |
Thank you very much. Thank you. Our stunning performance by Barshim, | :46:10. | :46:21. | |
and of course looking forward to the World Championships in Qatar and a | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
couple of years' time. We are ready for the penultimate race of the | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
afternoon, the women's 400m. And another strong line-up in this one. | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
The gold, silver and bronze-medallists are all here. | :46:36. | :46:51. | |
Noviene Williams-Mills is 35 now and made her sixth successive world | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
final in London. Allyson Felix, only bronze in the | :46:56. | :47:17. | |
400 in London, we say only! But there were another two golds for her | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
collection in the 4 x 100 4 x 400 relay. But this woman became the | :47:21. | :47:27. | |
champion, Phyllis Francis. She did it in the cool and wet conditions | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
with a personal best in the final. She is from Oregon, which is damp | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
and chilly, so she likes the conditions. | :47:36. | :47:45. | |
Chrisann Gordon, the third Jamaican in this line-up, studying in Texas. | :47:46. | :47:53. | |
Ran a good first leg for Jamaica in the relay but then MacLachlan pulled | :47:54. | :47:55. | |
up in the second leg. Phyllis Francis took advantage as | :47:56. | :48:12. | |
Shaunae Miller-Uibo faltered. Bahrain has a tendency now to import | :48:13. | :48:39. | |
a few athletes, like some Middle Eastern countries. But Sarwar even | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
Nacewa has a Bahraini and father and a Nigerian mother. Francis picked up | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
the right time in the final in dismal conditions. I am sure it will | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
not be long before Salwa Eid Naser does likewise. An announcement of a | :48:58. | :49:07. | |
technical hiccup. So we are just going to have a little wait for the | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
women's 400m while that is wheeled out. Keeping warm in these | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
conditions. The temperature has dropped a bit. | :49:19. | :49:30. | |
So they are willing in the new box. Again, my technical knowledge is | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
being stretched to its limits here, but a new box of equipment is being | :49:37. | :49:44. | |
brought in. Cables are being changed. It is a bit frustrating for | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
the athletes here, staying warm. We will wait a few moments before we | :49:51. | :49:59. | |
get the women's 400m under way. Whilst they fix the timing system, | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
the triple jump is in its final stages. We saw Catherine a bargain | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
in the previous round. But she needs to go beyond 14.44 to snatch victory | :50:15. | :50:23. | |
here. It is a big effort. It's going to be close. Looks as though it may | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
be over the line. It gets the white flag. Ibarguen has been dominant in | :50:30. | :50:40. | |
the past and may have lost another victory here, right in the final | :50:41. | :50:49. | |
stages. Look at this, Tony. That was a good hop. But the second phase is | :50:50. | :51:10. | |
what made the difference. It is 14.51, which does mean victory for | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
Ibarguen. Men's shot put, final field event. This is the Olympic | :51:15. | :51:23. | |
champion. It is over 21 metres. We are in the fifth round. That is 21 | :51:24. | :51:36. | |
metres plus for the big American, Ryan Crouser. Waiting for his | :51:37. | :51:50. | |
measurement. Smiles all around. This lot are entertaining the crowd at | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
the moment, but we have a thumbs up from the man who has pressed control | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
of the league and the women's 400m is good to go. | :52:01. | :52:23. | |
And the way they go, Allyson Felix with that long, fluid style, already | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
making up ground and pulling away from Phyllis Francis. Naser inside | :52:31. | :52:40. | |
Francis. Closing in, Zoey Clark inside lane one, trying to keep pace | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
with Gordon on the inside. But Naser has gone off so quickly. Already | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
passing Phyllis Francis. Does Francis have anything left? Courtney | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
Okolo leads them into the home straight, but Naser has great power | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
as well. Okolo still going strongly, but it is Naser holding off Allyson | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
Felix, who can't quite grow their -- get there on the line. It is not as | :53:16. | :53:22. | |
quick as she won in London, but it's another very impressive scalp for | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
Salwa Eid Naser, this 19-year-old from Bahrain will only go from | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
strength to strength. Silver-medallist at the World | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
Championships, and she beat the gold medallist. She is going places, | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
Salwa Eid Naser. Very impressive. Holding off Allyson Felix and | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
Courtney Okolo on the outside. You are going to see a whole lot more | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
Salwa Eid Naser over the coming years. Really impressive run by the | :53:49. | :53:55. | |
19-year-old. She knows the pedigree of Allyson Felix. So in her mind, | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
she's thinking, if I can take her down, go past her and hold my form, | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
everybody she knows is bit jaded. And look how she managed to do that. | :54:06. | :54:17. | |
The 19-year-old just does enough. Takes it by a jiffy. That is a | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
technical term, otherwise known as four hundredths of a second. She is | :54:24. | :54:35. | |
19, but very powerful already. Yeah, she can go out hard, but keeps her | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
form when it matters at the back end of the race. Huge potential. The | :54:41. | :54:50. | |
rain has started to come down, but Naser wins the women's 400m. | :54:51. | :55:03. | |
And the crowd are getting excited here, because on the far side from | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
where we are, Mo Farah has come out with the rest of the 3000m field, | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
the last event on the track today. And they know they are going to see | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
the great Mo Farah for the final time in a British track event. | :55:18. | :55:25. | |
Double double Olympic champion, six world golds, two world silvers and a | :55:26. | :55:28. | |
haul of medals, the likes of which we will have to wait a long time to | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
see again. We have been blessed to have Mo Farah competing in our | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
lifetimes, Denise Lewis. We are. We have been talking about this for | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
weeks, months. I can't believe today it is actually happening. It feels | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
like I have been watching Mo since he was a youngster, the talent | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
everyone was talking about. You just wondered what his destiny would hold | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
in athletics. He has been the most decorated athlete we have ever seen. | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
He has pulled the crowds. We are going to miss him. British athletics | :56:03. | :56:09. | |
will miss him in terms of the medals he has provided in the last three or | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
four major championships. And the crowds will miss him because he | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
always gives such exciting races. We have come to expect him to win the | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
way he does. He has hopefully inspired the generation behind him. | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
How many young athletes have we heard talking about how they want to | :56:28. | :56:30. | |
emulate his achievements? That is a great legacy. Not just in what he | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
does on the track, but everything he does fit, his lifestyle, his | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
attention to detail, looking for that extra second. It is a way of | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
life and if young athletes want to learn anything, it is about how to | :56:47. | :56:49. | |
become a champion, and that is through sheer commitment. So, for | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
the final time on the track, over to you, Steve Cram and Paula Radcliffe | :56:57. | :57:05. | |
for Mo Farah's last race. Yes, a day which has finally come, Mo's last | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
race in Britain. His last race will be in Zurich in the Diamond League | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
final, bar but this is his last race in Britain and a chance for the fans | :57:14. | :57:18. | |
to say thank you. He already had a great reception when he came into | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
the stadium earlier in a very nice car. Let's listen to his reception | :57:23. | :57:24. | |
now. He has been to Birmingham so many | :57:25. | :57:39. | |
times and tracks around the UK. That is upside down! It is a tribute to | :57:40. | :57:50. | |
the people killed in Barcelona. He has written on his arm. I can read | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
it now. That was the Spanish athlete. He is understandably paying | :57:56. | :58:03. | |
tribute to those who were part of that tragedy in Barcelona earlier in | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
the week. For Mo, it is not a great field against him, and why should it | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
be in your last race? You should be allowed to go out in style with a | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
win. There is nothing at stake here other than a chance to reflect on | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
some memories and a chance for the crowd to show their support. And you | :58:24. | :58:37. | |
can hear it now. It is a 3000m race, seven and a half laps of the track, | :58:38. | :58:45. | |
and a race in which Mo is the British record-holder. It took him a | :58:46. | :58:54. | |
while to get that. It used to be held by Dave Moorcroft and like many | :58:55. | :59:01. | |
other records, the 1500, the 10,000, the half marathon, all now belong to | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
Mo Farah, the best British athlete of those distances ever. And in | :59:08. | :59:15. | |
terms of medals, I am not sure he will ever be surpassed. If anyone | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
does, it would be a heck of an achievement. The time being, it is | :59:22. | :59:26. | |
just a chance to reflect on what has been the incredible career, not | :59:27. | :59:31. | |
really of two halves. People ask where Mo Farah was before, and it is | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
worth reminding people of how good an athlete he was as a youngster, | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
winning the mini marathon in London and winning plenty of cross-country | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
races. He was a fixture from a very early part of his career. He was | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
never a case of doubting his talent, it was whether he could harness it | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
properly. Plenty of people had a part to play in that. Alan Storey in | :59:53. | :59:57. | |
the early days, his schoolteacher. Then as he got better and went to | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
the World Championship and Olympic Games, others had a role. Ian | :00:02. | :00:08. | |
Stewart for a while, then Barry Fudge. Then he went to America to | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
work with Alberto Salazar. That was the point at which his career took | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
off, turning him into a winner, Paula. That is the thing we will | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
remember about Mo Farah. He hasn't broken world records, but he has | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
become a winner. He probably got a lot of help from | :00:24. | :00:38. | |
Alberto and him teaching him to keep his body strong and ease down enough | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
before races. That is a big factor in why he didn't perform, | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
particularly in Beijing, 2008. He trained very well going into that. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
That's Something he'll have to learn for the marathon, when he moves up. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
We talk about it being his last race and he'll be emotional out there and | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
he'll want to enjoy it and get some energy from the crowd and remember | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
times on the track. It will not be his last time on a track. He'll | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
train a lot on the track and he'll move to a new challenge in the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
marathon and have to learn that almost again. Yes, so it will not be | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
the last time you see him racing in Britain. He'll be on the roads in | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
future. It is not as though he'll have to not pounding out reps around | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
the track if he's going to have a good marathon career and 10 K on the | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
road - whatever he chooses to do. A decent pace set by Kibet and Birgen. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Birgen, who has run, both of them have raced Mo many times and | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
repaying the favour. Two very good athletes setting a pace. Asked for | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
2.32. 2.33 they went through in. The field is strung out. In front of Mo | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
Farah is Mechaal. He ran well in the Anniversary Games. Behind them is | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Andrew Butchart, who is learning so much from having the opportunity to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
train alongside Mo Farah, to spend time in training camps alongside | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
him. He's got a future ahead of him on the track. He's wanting to learn | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
as much as he can from Mo before Mo waves goodbye to the track. It might | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
not have been emphasised enough and you and I have witnessed it | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
first-hand in Kenya, in Ethiopia, in Flag staff, the way Mo operates. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Remember when he first moved to the Kenyan house in Teddington and he | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
got a whoa these guys train a different way, saw how they slept | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
and approached their training and Mo's been the same for a lot of our | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
endurance athletes. Paid every attention to detail tail, and the | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
altitude training for the endurance programme. These guys get to see up | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
close and personal that Mo Farah is not an alien. He goes out, trains | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
hard, backs it up with all the preparation around that and they see | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
what they need to learn from that. Andrew Butchart, a case in point, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
probably learnt from that final in London in the World Championships. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
He didn't really run his own race. He wants to race. Come out with a | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
personal best. He's run 7. 37 this year. It is a big ask for him. So a | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
good pace being set. Andrew Butchart seems to be up for it today. Mo, as | :03:48. | :04:03. | |
as we said, I am being reminded by our statistician who has given us | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
the stats, he's said Mo's never broken the British record for the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
mile, mainly because he's hardly ever run it. Butchart is out in | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
front, with Mo Farah and Mechaal, good 1500-metre runner. The young | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Kenyan there, Kiplangat, as well. These four well clear of the rest, | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
with two laps to go. Two laps to go. Through the rain that Andrew | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Butchart, being Scottish, is probably used to. Mo behind him, | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
letting him do the work for the time being and waiting. He'll be aware | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
that Mechaal is sitting behind him too. Tiernan is trying to get back | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
to them. I am not sure he'll be able to. He led for a while at the World | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
Championships. Butchart, Farah, Kiplangat, Mechaal, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
600 metres to go. This is where Mo Farah over these last years has | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
completely dominated events. Only in London, in that very last chance to | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
win another gold medal did he falter. But so many times he's taken | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
the race on from this point and he's pulled fields apart. He's often had | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
to wait until the home straight, until the last few metres to be sure | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
of the win. He might have to do that today. He'll have to dig in a little | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
bit. With 400 metres to go, he's still got company. Mechaal might be | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
the danger here. I am not sure he'll have the speed to take on Farah. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Mechaal is working very hard. He's got enough to get past Kiplangat. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Has he got enough to challenge Mo Farah on his final lap of honour | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
within this race? The crowd rise down the back straight to cheer on | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Mo Farah through the last 200 metres. Surely he's going to reward | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
them with a victory on home soil. Mechaal though is going to make sure | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
it is a good, hard, honest race over the last 200 metres. Mo Farah enters | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the home straight. Takes one look behind. He checks there's no change. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
He changes through the gears. This is the sight that everyone has come | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
to see. Everybody is on their feet here. The final sprint, the final | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
chapter, the final win for Mo Farah in Britain. | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
The winning time 7. 38.65. No gold medals today, just the | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
satisfaction of a man and an athlete who knows that he has given so much | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
joy to so many people for such a long time. We have been saying a few | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
goodbyes this season. This is yet another one, which is hard to make | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
and hard to accept in terms of what he's going to do on the track. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
That's it. And Farah, all of those brilliant | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
races and the gold medals he won were all hard fought and hard won. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
And that's what I think endured him to the British -- endeared him to | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
the British public. It was never as easy as it has been for some. It was | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
always a graft and I think, I said at the World Championships that | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
competitive spirit of his always shone through. There he is, draped | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
in the British flag, as ever. I will hand down there in a second. It is | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
two goodbyes. One to Phil and one to Mo. They have both been brilliant. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
For the final time Phil Jones interviewing Mo Farah. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Thank you for your kind words. What a sendoff you have received here | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
today. How has it been for you? Last week I was a bit tired. A little bit | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
of down time with the family to relax. It's been amazing. It's been | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
amazing. This is it. What are the emotions coming in today? High, not | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
as high as London. One last time at home. Great support from the home | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
crowd. Really enjoyed it. You wanted to win - give them a winning send | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
off. As you are going around are you taking in this is the last time we | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
see you on the track in this country? Not at all. Trying to get | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
it right obviously a strong athlete. The Spanish guy who finished fourth | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
at the Worlds. What about these people - all these people who have | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
cheered you and supported you? It is amazing. This is what it's about. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
This is what we dream of. It is amazing to have the home crowd and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
amazing people throughout my career. I just want to thank everyone who | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
supported me and followed my long journey. We will see you in Zurich, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
then it is marathon running. But give us a word, try and sum up for | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
me, even if you can what being on a track in Britain means to you? It | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
means everything to me. I never dreamt to become four times Olympic | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
champion, multitimes champion. All I would dream of as a youngster is to | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
run for Great Britain. You compete in the world juniors, you go through | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the rank and you dream of becoming Olympic champion. You do it and to | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
have an amazing career, and I just want to continue and see what I can | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
do on the road with that. You have a target. Under pressure and really | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
enjoy it. Of course I will... As an athlete you become, a hobby, | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
something you enjoy, it becomes a job. I love what I do. It is part of | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
it. Sometimes it can get a little bit hard when you have so much | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
pressure, you cannot go anywhere. Now it will be a completely new | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
game. I am excited. So you should be. You have lived the dream on the | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
track. We hope you continue to do soen. Thank you to everyone. Great | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
support from insta game and twitter. -- instagram and Twitter. I | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
appreciate it. The end of an era. That is for sure. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
His era will go on. A new era for Mo Farah on the roods. We will not see | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
him -- on the roads. We will not see him again on the tracks in this | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
country. After this season there'll be no more Mo time. It is a great | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
sadness for us. We have loved this period of athletics, having him | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
light up these meets and global meets, always delivering. So very | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
rarely do we say Mo Farah was down to race, for some reason he pulled | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
out. He was incredible at making his body in peak condition, at the right | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
time. Mentally and physically ready. I think it is important to realise | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
that it is He's happy. He's achieved more than | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
most, more than so many athletes set out to. And so this is a new | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
challenge for him. I think, yes, we bid farewell, say thank you. Let's | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
look forward to the next chapter of his life, which will hopefully | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
conjure up that newness for him. Sometimes it has felt like a job and | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
he started off running because he loved it and it with us a hob yip | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
and perhaps that's what -- a hobby and perhaps that's what he's hoping | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
to get back. You then feel like you have the stress because you take | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
response blingt for the role you've had. You didn't set out to be that | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
particular way. For him it is a real fresh beginning. I am really pleased | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
that he's enjoyed it. He said at the end, he'll go back, he'll enjoy | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
running on the roads, being all, starting all again. So, for me it is | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
just fantastic to see him finish with a smile and a victory, of | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
course. Well, he's wandering off the track | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
there. I am sure he'll be back to sign autographs and do selfies. The | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
shot put was wrapping up as that race was going on. | :12:19. | :12:32. | |
That is a big throw down the left sector. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Tomas Walsh - a real surprise victory last week a head of the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
champion, Crouser. Let's look at this - good balance as he spins over | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
that left side. Quick of feet. You cannot see it in that shot. Hip, | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
followed by the shoulder and off the shot put goes. A slight improvement | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
on the last round. That hands it to Crouser, who has the last say in | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
this competition. Very last put of Crouser, the | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Olympic champion. Sixth in the World Championships amid a bit of | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
controversy. Last effort of this shot put competition. High, but it | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
will fall short of 21 metres. Once again hands the victory to Walsh. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
So, great performance from Tomas Walsh. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
To suggest to anyone who didn't believe, or suggested it was a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
surprise victory, once again for Tomas Walsh of New Zealand. 21. 83, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
ahead of Ryan Crouser. There's Tomas Walsh. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Well, there is plenty more athletics for you to look forward to. Zurich | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
highlights on Saturday. Mo Farah racing there. Brussels highlights on | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Saturday 2nd, 1. 1.15pm. What a day the Great North Run | :14:04. | :14:25. | |
always is. Let's talk about the performance of the day. Denise, you | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
have been Mullering over! In the men's 400 metres. Fantastic | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
personal best. And his first Diamond League win. Brilliant. Anyone who is | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
aspiring, never give up. He's 30-plus. Late to the sport and | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
winning a Diamond League for the first time. Fantastic. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
As you say, late in kind of his development, but to win a World | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Championship medal, great for him. Anything you want to highlight? It | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
has to be Barshim in the high People have tired legs - he's the | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
world champion and then jumps a world lead. Everybody has their head | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
down with excuses. And Tom Gale, the 18-year-old, a star of the future, | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
we hope. What about Mo Farah for you today? | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
It is not writ no-one the stars, is it? -- written in the stars, is it? | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
He wanted to go out with a victory and he had to fight a bit to get | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
that today. The biggest thing for he Daley him | :15:29. | :15:40. | |
to keep under control was probably his emotions, because it is a big | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
thing for him to say thank you to those who have supported him. He | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
tried not to look too much before he started the race. He wanted to win, | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
and then when he finished, you could see the emotion starting to hit him. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
And there he is, out on the track, Mo Farah. I said he would be out | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
there to sign autographs and take those selfies. We all want to thank | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Phil Jones as well. It is his last time working for us on the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
athletics. But we have love this guy, Mo Farah. Thank you for | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
everything. He's boxed, he's got no room! Mo Farah fights for the | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
shoulder! The greatest champions... One day it comes to an end. This | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
chapter has closed. It's been incredible. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
# Thank you for the days, those endless days, the sacred days you | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
gave me. What a performance from Mo Farah! | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
Beautiful! He's the double Olympic champion. My words cannot do justice | :16:57. | :17:32. | |
to how I feel. # Thank you for the days, those | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
endless days, those sacred days you gave me. This is world domination | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
for Farah! # I won't forget a single day, | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
believe me. He's sprinting for gold, he's running for greatness! Mo Farah | :17:56. | :18:13. | |
is the world champion again. It's the fantastic five for Farah. They | :18:14. | :18:26. | |
succumb to the inevitable, bowl to his superiority. The double double. | :18:27. | :18:42. | |
He is in front of his home crowd in the city he knows so well, the city | :18:43. | :18:55. | |
he loves. He is a one man world superpower! It's gold for Farah. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Incredible. Partners In Rhyme, the show that's | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
all about finding rhymes. | :19:07. | :19:10. |