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Welcome to highlights of Eugene Diamond League, the Prefontaine | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
Classic. This is the spiritual home of American athletics. Eugene is | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
also the training base for Britain's Mo Farah, so where better for him to | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
start the final season of a magnificent career on the track? | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Here we go. Here we go. There goes Mo Farah at the bell. Mo | :01:15. | :01:32. | |
Farah's gone. He is away, bow to his superiority. It is gold! Let's get | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
straight to the track and your commenters. - comment Taitors. | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
COMMENTATOR: A huge field for the 5,000 metres. There was 29 starters, | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
but it includes Mo Farah, the double Olympic and double world champion. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
There is Kejelcha, he is still only 19, but a year ago he lifted the | :02:05. | :02:17. | |
world indoor title over 3,000. He is a special talent, but so is Chelimo. | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
A personal best in Doha three weeks ago. There is the main man, Mo | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
Farah. Chatted with him on Friday. The Olympic champion. This is his | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
opening 5,000 metres of year. He ran a 1,500 two weeks backment looked | :02:49. | :03:05. | |
very smooth. It is a big field. Kamworor is expected to provide a | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
stiff challenge for Farah. We will identify more of the athletes now | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
they're under way. They're looking for 62 seconds per lap. That would | :03:18. | :03:29. | |
take set them up for a sub 13-minute time. Another Briton Andy Butchart. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
He ran a good indoor mile. He is on record over the last few days saying | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
he believes Farah is beatable and Kamworor has said he believes he | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
will win this race today. I have always been a fan of letting my legs | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
doing the talking. Farah in eighth or ninth. Look comfortable. I was | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
struck how relaxed Mo was sounding. He is not one to talk a good race | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
unless he is feeling. When he talked to him about Kamworor, he said, I'm | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
delighted. Six laps to run. Farah has moved up to fourth place. Sambu | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
leads. The pace has settled down and a bit of a clip for Kejelcha. Farah | :04:30. | :04:43. | |
on the heels of rest-vested Geoffrey Kamworor. Certainly has slowed a | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
bit. They come to seven laps down. Sambu leading. Also looking strong | :04:51. | :05:02. | |
is Jenkins, who has a great indoor season. He has enormous speed as | :05:03. | :05:14. | |
well. They have come to 3,000 metres. Five laps to run. Kejelcha | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
in the blue moving down the outside. They go through in 7.51. It is six | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
or seven seconds outside the tempo that was requested. It has slowed | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
over the last two or three laps. They have lost a lot of the hard | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
work that was done earlier. Two laps to run and the clock on 11.03. | :05:39. | :05:53. | |
Five men on the inside is Kamworor. He said he felt he could beat Farah. | :05:54. | :06:05. | |
But he was outspringed by the bri -- outsprinted by the world champion in | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Beijing. They're leaving it late. They have to take control and | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
wrestle back control of the race from Farah. And nobody's doing it. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Yet again, I feel they're playing into the hands of the Olympic | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
champion. They're not shifting fast at the moment. They're bunching. | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
They're almost chomping on the bit on the shoulder of Mo Farah, yet | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
they will not take the lead. Kamworor in fourth as they come to | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the bell. Mo Farah in the perfect position. Exactly where he wants to | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
be - on the inside forcing the others to go around. Kejelcha into | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
third. Kamworor slipping away. This is vintage Farah. Can the others | :06:54. | :07:05. | |
stay with him. Kejelcha moving down the outside. Kamworor is there as | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
well. But Farah holding the inside line, running the shortest bend and | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
running a metre or two less than the others and he is in the front. | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
Kejelcha on his shoulder. Now they kick for home. They move away from | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Kamworor and it is Farah who will take this again. Farah all the way | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
down the home straight. Takes the win and the last lap from Farah I | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
got at around 55.3 seconds. Kejelcha gave it such a hard go. But he felt | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
he could outsprint the man who again and again has shown them that he | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
will not be out-sprinted. If that is a mark tore lay down for -- marker | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
to lay down for London, that is quite a statement. Yet again Mo | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
Farah asked the question, does he have the speed? Yes. Do his | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
opponents have a way to beat him? No they don't. It is like a puzzle and | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
every time Farah has another gear. Even there he is not in fifth gear. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
There is more to come and Kejelcha admits he is beaten and the trade | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
mark celebration for Mo Farah. What a performance. Confirmation of the | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
win. There is a real familiarity to that | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
result. It was good. It was amazing to win here. But this track is | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
special and many people always say a lot of stuff in terms of Mo doesn't | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
have a hard race and today it showed. Everybody was in that race. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
I went out there and used my experience and come awhich with a | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
win. What a way to end my career in the US. This is my last track race | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
ever in the US and this track, this is it. There is a host of British | :09:07. | :09:18. | |
athletes competing today, including European indoor champion Andy Pozzi. | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
Can Lynsey Sharp challenge the seemingly unstoppable Semenya? Adam | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
Gemili faces a big test. And Laura Muir is in the 1,500 metres. Now | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
let's catch up with the best of the action from Friday night. | :09:48. | :09:59. | |
COMMENTATOR: The star was Chivet. This year the challenge came from | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
the Kenyans. She was caught from behind was | :10:10. | :10:35. | |
Chespol. There is the clip on the heel. It dislodged the shoe. And | :10:36. | :10:49. | |
Chespol has to adjust. Look at the response. She winds them in. | :10:50. | :11:02. | |
Chepkoech dining well. The world junior champion, the crowd warming | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
to her on a wonderful evening. This is the water jump for the last time. | :11:07. | :11:23. | |
400 metres on. Jebet has fwon. Now the handbrake is off and away she | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
goes. It was a question of the time. Could she dip under 9 minutes? Well | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
yes she could. The second fastest time of all time in the women's 3 | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
thousand steeplechase and an outstanding performance. | :11:46. | :12:07. | |
This was Ugen's jump. She has been very consistent this year. That was | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
the best of the lot. Enough to earn her third place. Bartoletta took the | :12:15. | :12:33. | |
title last year. Here she got 6.83. Laying down the gauntlet to her | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
American team mate. We were looking forward to another riveting rivalry | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
between these two. 6.83 only enough for second. Because Reese started | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
with 6.88 and then went better. This the best of the lot. 7. 01 and she | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
knew it was a good one. Victory by a margin of 18 centimetres. The | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
longest jump in the world in 2017. The only woman to jump over 7 metres | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
assuring Brittney Reese victory. Revenge for the defeat in Rio in sum | :13:15. | :13:28. | |
we are Ugen in 4th. The Prefontaine meeting is renowned for the big race | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
action. Dbaba settled. She was never on | :13:31. | :14:00. | |
schedule though and left well short of the target over the final couple | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
of laps, despite rallying. The world record holder at 1,500 metres, the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
world champion, showing fraet strength over this longer distance | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
and crowd roaring her on as she toured the circuit for the final | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
time. She came home over 20 seconds shy of the mark required. | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
The silver lining for Dibaba is that is not in sink with record setting | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
in May. Her sights are set on the middle distance, but there was an | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
air of disappointment as she took a very comfortable win indeed. | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
Let's check in with the triple jump and Bin Dong. | :14:59. | :15:13. | |
That's big. Brilliant opener. Wow. The Olympic bronze-medallist from | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
Rio. The rhythm and power, it takes enormous strength to hold your | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
balance through the phases. That will take some catching. Christian | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
Taylor, two times Olympic champion. Just behind Jonathan Edwards on the | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
all-time list. My word, that's huge! Three fabulous phases from Taylor. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
He really hit the board well. Maintained the speed, difficult to | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
keep the momentum going, and then a marvellous leg shoot into the sand. | :15:56. | :16:09. | |
17.80 two. Will Claye. Here we go. Enlisting the support of the crowd. | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
Here he goes. Yes! Oh my word. That is brilliant. | :16:12. | :16:27. | |
There's something in the Hayward Field juice today. Anything | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Christian Taylor can do, Will Claye can match it. That's what he seems | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
to be saying. 17.01 the opening effort. That was a little site for | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
him. This is huge. 17.38 puts him into second place, | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
tucking in behind Christian Taylor. The next action is the women's 100 | :16:51. | :17:10. | |
metres hurdles. A magnificent seven of American high hurdler is. The | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
strength in depth in American high hurdling is outstanding. In lane | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
one, the only non-American, Alina Talay from Belarus. From the USA, | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
Jasmin Stowers, heading for Olympic qualification last year before | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
crashing into the final barrier. Dawn Harper-Nelson, former Olympic | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
champion in Beijing in 2008. Still in great form. Sharika Nelvis, three | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
times a Diamond League winner. And Queen Harrison, Pan American games | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
champion in 2015. Stour is gets it on the line. 12.50 | :17:55. | :18:20. | |
nine. -- Stour is. Really good hurdling from Jasmin Stowers. 12.50 | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
nine. A season 's best for the young American. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
Second to write, Jasmin Stowers didn't get a particularly good | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
start. Second to left, Christina Manning led through the first half | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
and then Stowers got into her running. She knows she battling with | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
an athlete five lanes to have a right. In lane eight, Queen Harrison | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
easing past Manning to take second spot. This is the final result. A | :18:55. | :19:09. | |
season 's best. Harper-Nelson was given third place. Armand Duplantis, | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
the Swedish American, has pole vault thing in the genes with his father | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
for top picked up a foal -- pole vault at the first time at the age | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
of four or five. Great technique. The best pole vault in the family | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
and already, at 17 years old, looking very, very accomplished | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
indeed. Safely over at 5.70 one. -- 5.7 one. The reigning Olympic | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
champion, Ruth Beitia. Nicely done. Effortless. Just warming up, Ruth | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
Beitia. 1.8 four. Clean card so far. First-time clearances at 1.79 and | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
1.8 four. Back to the triple jump now. The | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
league still held by Christian Taylor with that Montrose -- | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
monstrous opener. Will Claye is in second after his second round | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
effort. That's big from Claye again! I don't | :20:20. | :20:33. | |
think it's taken the lead, but it might well be an improvement on the | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
17.38 in the second round. He's so quick on the runway. Just lifts his | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
head at the last minute. 17.38 we are looking to improve on. Christian | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
Taylor on 17.8 two. 17.6 X, getting closer. Will Claye in second place. | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
Coming next ago. The bar now at 1.8 eight. 19 years old. Prodigious | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
talent. Clear daylight. Wonderful technique. Timing, so fluid. Ashley | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
Cunningham at 1.8 eight. -- 1.80 eight. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Andrew Pozzi's promising career has been blighted by injury. This year | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
he filled early season promised by winning gold in Belgrade. If he can | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
get through the outdoor season injury free he will expect to | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
compete a world final in London against many of the men he faces | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
today. There's the line-up for the men's | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
metres hurdles. 110 Hot seat of Britain in lane two. Omar McLeod, | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
the Olympic champion and... Devon Allen in lane five. There's Ronald | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Levy of Jamaica, the 24-year-old. Andrew Pozzi, European indoor | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
champion in March, world number one indoors. Dimitri Bascou, his first | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
race of the outdoor season. The Olympic bronze-medallist in Rio in | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
three. There's Omar McLeod, the only athlete in history to have run under | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
ten seconds for the flat 100 and under 13 in the hurdles. The Olympic | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
champion, the world number one after a big win in Des Moines three weeks | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
back. McLeod very quick on the run in. | :22:43. | :23:04. | |
Second place might have been Ronald Levy. There was no doubting the | :23:05. | :23:16. | |
winner. Omar McLeod taking it. Another very, very polished | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
performance. Not the best start from Omar McLeod, but by the third or | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
fourth hurdle he was into his rhythm. Pozzi working very hard to | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
get into the picture. Omar McLeod, the longer the race went on, the | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
better he got. The margin of victory was quite comfortable. Alan trying | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
to go with him with Aries merit. Trying to play catch up. Look at the | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
lean to the line from McLeod. Fastest in the world this year. In | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
second place, in yellow, brie and run from Ronald Levy. A Jamaican -- | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
brilliant run. We can go back to the triple jump | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
and Christian Taylor. About to take his fourth attempt. He's put | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
together a wonderful series and he leads. That's big again! He knows | :24:13. | :24:26. | |
it. Stomps out of the pit, oozing pomp and arrogance. That is so | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
important, mentally he's really on top of this. Thumping his chest. He | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
knows he's got this nailed, going so well. Modest in the second round. | :24:37. | :24:48. | |
18.11! Now we are getting into world record territory. The 18-metre club | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
has five members, that's all. Renaud Lavillenie. Yes! That's the | :24:54. | :25:09. | |
lead for the Frenchman. The little man with the big heart is on song | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
here, going for a fifth title. They absolutely love him and the | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
adoration is very much reciprocated by Renaud Lavillenie, one of his | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
favourite meetings in the Diamond League series. That is why. He's top | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
of the leaderboard once again. We can take you back to the triple | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
jump. Taylor booming out to 18.11. He's now regained the lead. What | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
will Will Claye do in response? Plenty of speed, nice rhythm to the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
board. Fabulous second phase. That's big again. That might be 18 metres | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
once more! I think only once in history have two athletes beaten 18 | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
metres in the same competition. We might be seeing it again here at | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Hayward Field. He's hoping and praying that he will have taken the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
lead from this man, who jumped 18.11 in the fourth round. 18.05, Will | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
Claye. That is a huge new personal best. Looking at the wind, it was | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
2.4. Just over the limit. It doesn't count as an official personal best. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
Psychologically he's knows he's an 18-metre jumper. 2.5 inches shy of | :26:36. | :26:47. | |
Christian Taylor. Back to the track, the women's 100 metres. The athletes | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
stripped down and ready at the far end. Veronica Campbell-Brown is a | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
living legend, three times Olympic champion, taking 200 gold in Athens | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
and Beijing Guoan the she looked very out of sorts in Shanghai a | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
couple of weeks back when she finished sixth. Michelle-Lee Ahye | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
your, fifth in the last World Championships, fourth in Shanghai. | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Can she find her reasoning -- racing legs? Muler L Ahoure of the Ivory | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
Coast. -- Uri Geller hooray. She's a quick starter. Moral Lake Akinosun | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
goes in lane six. -- Morolake Akinosun. | :27:37. | :27:52. | |
Akinosun takes it from Ahoure. Ahye coming through to take third spot. | :27:53. | :28:08. | |
If the time is confirmed, it is a significant new personal best for | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
Akinosun. The wind just over the legal limit at 2.1. It does mean the | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
personal-best stays at 10.95 for the American. Ahoure took second place. | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
Brilliantly timed by Akinosun. Third left of picture. At this stage | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
Ahoure is looking good and has opened up some daylight. Here comes | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
Akinosun in the last ten or 15 metres, flailing the arms of it. | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
Confirmation of the win for Akinosun. Campbell-Brown, a | :28:42. | :28:50. | |
significant improvement for the Jamaican. | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
Back to the men's pole vault competition. Duplantis, final | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
attempt. It was close. He gave it a tickle. The bar sadly comes down for | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
him. His afternoon is over, but he's won the hearts of this Hayward Field | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
crowd, many of whom are seeing him for the first time. He is surely the | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
future of men's pole vault thing in the world and he's quite a talent. A | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
third failure and his competition is done. Sam Kendricks lying in second | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
place, from the USA. This his first attempt at 5.86. | :29:30. | :29:49. | |
Trying to keep pressure on Lavillenie. Kendricks, an Olympic | :29:50. | :29:58. | |
bronze-medallist from last summer. Oh yes, he has brought the crowd | :29:59. | :30:06. | |
alight. That is the gauntlet laid down to Lavillenie. Kendricks takes | :30:07. | :30:17. | |
the lead. Lovely vaulting. Women's high jump. The second attempt. That | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
is more like it. She goes clear at 1.95. Second | :30:22. | :30:33. | |
place. In lane 8 the 20-year-old from | :30:34. | :31:06. | |
Africa. Lane 7 Vernon Norwood, an accomplished relay runner. | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
Hudson-Smith making his debut for Britain. Very much the future of | :31:14. | :31:25. | |
British 400-metre running. Shawn Merritt, what can we say about him | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
that hasn't been said. Seven times a champion. Three times an Olympic | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
champion. I saw him yesterday looking very re-Laaxed in-- relaxed | :31:37. | :31:46. | |
indeed. Merritt very much the man to beat in this race. Let's keep an eye | :31:47. | :31:56. | |
on the young man to his left Sibanda. But Merritt is on the | :31:57. | :32:05. | |
shoulder of Hudson-Smith already. Lane 4 is out. Sibanda has gone. | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
Merritt running a tight bend. Going well is Norwood in lane 7. We have | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
lost the young African. Merritt coming under pressure from Norwood. | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
But still he will have far too much to do. Merritt coming home in under | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
45 seconds. 44.79. Just a fraction outside his season's best. But | :32:32. | :32:46. | |
another very polished performance by La Shawn Merritt. He brings | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
fantastic 200-metre speed. As he comes off the bend, he looks a | :32:52. | :32:59. | |
little leg levy. They were -- leg heavy. Conditions are not ideal. | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
There is a strong wind. They are coming back in 7 and 8. Thebe just | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
taking second place to the extreme left of picture. But he did stay | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
well clear, Merritt. The only athlete under 45. | :33:17. | :33:31. | |
Will Claye, this man's triple jump competition has been coming to a | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
boil. With Christian Taylor with the second best jump of all time. There | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
is another excellent jump, but shy of the magic 18 metres mark and more | :33:44. | :33:51. | |
frustration. 18.05. But it was not legal. Taylor is already confirmed | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
as the winner. Can he be boyed out to something better? That looked | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
like a no-jump from Taylor. It matters not a jot. He has the win. | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
Confirmation of the win. 18.11. Very rarely do you see two athletes over | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
18 metres in the same competition. Dong takes third. Back to the pole | :34:16. | :34:26. | |
vault and Lavillenie still in action. Nobody yet clear at 5.91. Oh | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
no, I thought he had that. He did too. So frustrate rd, it was a | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
brilliant attempt. In fact it is a second attempt. But his last effort | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
because he had one failure at 5.86. But Sam Kendricks has won the day. | :34:47. | :34:52. | |
The Olympic bronze-medallist clearing 5.86. I said it could be | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
significant. That is what has been the case. | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
Still to come, Laura Muir in the 1,500 metres. The world and Olympic | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
champions lead a high class field in the women's 200 metres. There is the | :35:11. | :35:20. | |
ladies 800 metres. What a field it is, the world No 1, Caster Semenya, | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
a Winner Doha three weeks ago. Twice a world champion. | :35:28. | :35:42. | |
Niyonsaba. And the Olympic bronze-medallist from Rio Wambui. | :35:43. | :35:59. | |
This Caster Semenya in lane 6. Big, imposing figure. Will she dominate | :36:00. | :36:10. | |
as she did in Doha? Well Chambers the pace maker running to run 56. | :36:11. | :36:19. | |
She has gone off well as has Lynsey Sharp in the blonde pony tail. Sharp | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
is in the middle of a pack. Difficult when you're on the inside | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
at the start. Do you go off quickly to try and get position near the | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
front or go at a steady tempo and get boxed, like Sharp has. Chambers | :36:35. | :36:44. | |
leads, Niyonsaba has gone with her. Wambui this third. And then Caster | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
Semenya in fourth. Loping down the home straight as they come to the | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
half way mark. Even in fourth there is something about the rhythm of | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
Caster Semenya that looks so threatening. She looks untroubled. | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
Wambui looking to be working harder. We will see Semenya come good. The | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
pace maker Chambers is out out there and went through in 59 seconds and | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
there was not much interest from the field. Niyonsaba in second. As | :37:16. | :37:23. | |
Wambui moves up on to her shoulder. Now the move from Caster Semenya. | :37:24. | :37:31. | |
Eases on the should and moves into the lead. Wambui moves on to her | :37:32. | :37:40. | |
shoulder. She looks so untroubled, so relaxed. Now she pumps harder. | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
Wambui on her shoulder. They are moving clear. The rest struggling. | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
Caster Semenya doing just enough to stay ahead of Wambui. The gap is a | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
metre. Semenya will take it. The clock didn't stop. What a shame, or | :37:57. | :38:05. | |
if it did very late. It shows 1.59.09. Ignore that time on screen. | :38:06. | :38:14. | |
But Caster Semenya, well, it Wurz almost patronising, she dominated so | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
much and did just enough to keep Wambui at bay. Semenya hugging the | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
inside track. Forcing her Kenyan opponent go wide. Semenya looking | :38:26. | :38:32. | |
untroubled. Just a glance to the right and she can just ease off in | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
the final few metres. Caster Semenya winning. The wing mar gin belies the | :38:39. | :38:48. | |
ease of the victory. The crowd expect fast times from the | :38:49. | :39:05. | |
100 metres. The entire field have sub 10 second personal bests. So | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
Gemili will have to be on top form. Justin Gatlin the world champion. He | :39:11. | :39:23. | |
is 35 years old now. The Canadian is still only 22, De | :39:24. | :39:49. | |
Grasse, huge hopes for him. Meite was solid in Shanghai a fortnight | :39:50. | :39:58. | |
ago. His lifetime best is 9.96 came in Rio. There is Ronnie Baker. He is | :39:59. | :40:12. | |
a youngster too at 23A distant relative of one Tyson Gay. Ujah goes | :40:13. | :40:24. | |
for Britain. Gemili, three times European champion, the 23-year-old. | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
He was fourth in Rio over 200 metres. | :40:31. | :40:47. | |
Baker storming away with this. Look at the time. 9.85 there. Fabulous | :40:48. | :40:59. | |
stuff from Ronnie Baker. That is a huge new personal best from him. It | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
is a world lead as well. Fastest time in the world was 9.98 by the | :41:04. | :41:14. | |
Zambian. But that time, albe it with a wind over the limit. Didn't get | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
the best of starts. But soon up and into his running. Justin Gatlin also | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
third from right going well. The longer the race went on. He dragged | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
Ujah with him did Baker. That is very impressive from the | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
23-year-old. He has been in sparkling form and played a part in | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
the world relays last month. That is a couple of good scalps for Bayer | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
Kerr. -- for Baker. This is one of the most eagerly | :41:46. | :42:05. | |
anticipated races of the weekend. Six women sub four minutes. The | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
record on US soil for the most sub four minute finishes is five. | :42:13. | :42:24. | |
Kipyegon has owned this event. But Laura Muir is in the form of her | :42:25. | :42:34. | |
life. Had a wonderful indoor season. Four national records, five personal | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
bests and double victory at the European indoor Championships. The | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
pacing to be done by Price. They have asked for 64 laps. Aiming to | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
get under 3.59. This will be a really tasty encounter. A chance | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
from a British perspective for Laura Muir to come of age and test herself | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
against the very best. She has the fastest time in the field. There is | :43:01. | :43:16. | |
the pace maker. They have requested 60 second laps. There is Laura Muir | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
taking close order with Kipyegon. That is Grape Grace at the -- Cape | :43:24. | :43:32. | |
Grace at the front. I'm surprised to see these big names come together. I | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
almost feel it is a clash that should have been saved for the World | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
Championships in London. This is a fabulous field. Simpson against | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
those two. But Laura Muir will have to do some smart thinking. I think | :43:49. | :43:55. | |
Kipyegon has it all. You're right and the point well made, we saw in | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
the Olympics last year with Laura Muir in a medal position and not | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
happy to settle for nird. Tried to em-- for third and tried to improve | :44:06. | :44:07. | |
and came home in seventh. There is also also a world class | :44:08. | :44:25. | |
operator. Plenty for Laura Muir to test herself again. Kipyegon where | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
she wants to be and Muir just getting boxed in slightly. | :44:33. | :44:44. | |
Kipyegon shocked many with her victory in the Olympic Games. Two | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
laps to run. The last 800 metres in Rio was way under 1.58. Dibaba | :44:53. | :45:08. | |
couldn't last on the final lap but Kipyegon could. Laura Muir came | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
unstuck over the final 200 metres and Jenny Simpson ran the smoothest | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
race of all. There she is now, second left. She ran the smoothest | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
race to take the bronze medal. Grace is still in there as well, going | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
shoulder to shoulder with Kipyegon. Laura Muir a bit further back. | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
Shannon Rowbury is also in the field. The pacing has been nicely | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
done. Kipyegon taking closer order as the pacemaker drops out. Now a | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
chance for Laura Muir to test herself against Faith Kipyegon. | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
Final 400 metres. Kipyegon hits the bell. Grace on the inside, Laura | :45:51. | :45:59. | |
Muir having to go wide. Gudaf Tsegay is in there as well, I sat opposite | :46:00. | :46:05. | |
her on the plane, chatting to her. There's Laura Muir down the back | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
straight with 300 to go. What has she got? We were talking to her | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
coach last night, and the young, and he admitted there had been a couple | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
of problems with a fever. Otherwise training at Flagstaff has gone | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
perfectly over the last few weeks. A question over whether the hay fever | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
and pollen count in Oregon is very high. She's having to dig very deep. | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
She likes to do it the hard way. I think Kipyegon has got this, she's a | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
class apart. Laura Muir digging deep, having to work very hard to | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
stay in second place. Another impressive victory for the Kenyan. | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
She takes applause. Laura Muir beaten by the better woman on the | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
day. Smiles all round from the meeting record holder. Kipyegon | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
comes up with another very, very impressive performance. Kipyegon has | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
marvellous speed in during and over the final 200 it told. Easing clear | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
of Laura Muir. Look at the grimace from Laura Muir. Obiri snatch a | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
second place. Kipyegon looks smooth. Lovely, fluid stride. She wins from | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
five or six metres. Obiri of Kenny just gets second. Confirmation of | :47:31. | :47:40. | |
the result... Laura Muir having to settle for third on this occasion. | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
More to come, you sense, from the European indoor champion. | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
Here is Kamila Licwinko. This is her third and final attempt at 1.98. | :47:53. | :48:01. | |
That was all wrong. A shame. Concludes her work for the | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
afternoon. She was fine up to and including 1.92 and then 1.98 she | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
hits the buffers. The last attempt for the competition leader competing | :48:16. | :48:24. | |
here as a neutral athlete, Russian born. Third attempt at 2.03 and it | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
was successful. That surely is the jump that will clinch that high jump | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
competition and it does indeed. The Olympic Club you, Beitia, in fourth | :48:39. | :48:54. | |
place. -- the Olympic champion. That's huge! You could hear him roar | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
it on its way. That is a monster from Crouser. His lead was with | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
21.89. That is very close to his lifetime | :49:06. | :49:22. | |
best. Kovacs, last attempt in this shot put competition, lying in third | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
place. That's a no throw. Joe Kovacs's afternoon is done and he | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
will finish in third place. It underlines the quality of this | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
competition when the reigning world champion, Joe Kovacs, can do no | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
better than third place. Tom Walsh steps into the circle for the final | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
time, the penultimate throw of the contest. He needs to find, goodness | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
me, about 70 centimetres. That's to catch Crouser. No. So close. Looks | :49:54. | :50:01. | |
to be beyond 22 metres, but it's no throw. That's frustrating. It was | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
big. You have to retain control, stay within the circle. That | :50:10. | :50:19. | |
confirms Crouser as the winner. Tommy Walsh's best coming with his | :50:20. | :50:26. | |
opener. The next action on the track is the women's 200 metres and a | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
field loaded with talent. Rio reunited. All three medallists from | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
last summer are here. Better known as a 400 metres runner, the Olympic | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
champion, Shaunae Miller-Uibo going in the 200 here. Tori Bowie in lane | :50:43. | :50:52. | |
seven, the silver and bronze-medallist, bronze in the 200, | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
silver in the 100. The joint fastest in the world this year. Elaine | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
Thompson, double Olympic champion, the first female sprinter to do the | :51:03. | :51:09. | |
sprint double at an Olympics since Flo Jo in 1988. Very much the | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
favourite to win here. Dafne Schippers, born just 13 days apart | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
from Elaine Thompson was -- Elaine Thompson. She will have a say here, | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
Dafne Schippers. The world champion. This field, one of the highlights | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
for this wonderful crowd anticipating a wonderful race. | :51:32. | :51:39. | |
Looking for Elaine Thompson in the purple vest. Tori Bowie has had a | :51:40. | :51:47. | |
storming first 50 metres. Coming under pressure is Dafne Schippers. | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
She's doing very well, but at the moment Thompson is nowhere. Tori | :51:53. | :52:02. | |
Bowie is going to win this one. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the 400 metres | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
specialist, in second. Bowie has taken this field apart. Elaine | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
Thompson, the double Olympic champion, made to look very, very | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
ordinary. Dafne Schippers also flailing behind. 21.77 the winning | :52:17. | :52:22. | |
time. That's an improvement on her lifetime best, a scorching | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
performance. Bowie in the blue, blasting the first 75 around the | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
blue. -- around the bend. The others can't get close. Great bend from | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
Dafne Schippers, solid running down the home straight from Thompson, but | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
the gap was huge. She never had a chance of getting back to Tori | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
Bowie. A big win for the American. Confirmation... Allyson Felix, | :52:52. | :53:01. | |
22.33, down in fifth place. There's the statue of Bill Bowerman | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
and we prepare now for the final discipline, for many the climactic | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
discipline, the Bowerman mile. Bill Bowerman one of the Storl warts of | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
track and field in Oregon. The pacemaker will be Rotich. He's | :53:19. | :53:28. | |
looking to go out in 1.53. Sensible pacemaking. Elijah Kiptoo expected | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
to take over. If they can lay down a decent final lap, having stuck with | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
that tempo, we might get something under 3.50. The Olympic champion | :53:40. | :53:50. | |
withdrew two days ago. Centro running really well a couple of | :53:51. | :53:57. | |
weeks back, but he's got a virus at the moment. The injury is recovering | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
well, but Centro pulled out with a virus. Charlie Grice, winner of the | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
international mile last year. He is upgraded from the international race | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
to the main Bowerman mile. Clayton Murphy is back in eighth place at | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
the moment in the light blue vest. I'll be interested to see how he | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
goes here. At the moment, looking for the tall figure of Kiprop. He's | :54:26. | :54:36. | |
not the first four canyons. In fact, looking to see where Kiprop is, you | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
can see Ingebrigtsen towards the back of the field, about three from | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
the back. A lap and a half done. Also going well is Iguider, three | :54:49. | :54:58. | |
times Olympic finalist. Very tough customer, a good 5000 metres runner | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
as well. Kiprop towards the back of the field in the Orange, three from | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
the back. Letting this race run away from him and he does this so often. | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
Almost an arrogant, strategic method. Sometimes it works, | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
sometimes it doesn't. This hasn't been particularly quick, around | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
1.55. Not as quick as requested. Not at all. Kiprop almost idling at the | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
back. Fascinating to see him starting to pick his way... Second | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
from the back. He's about to be overtaken. Interesting to see | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
whether Kiprop will do his trademark surge from the back in the final 400 | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
to 600 metres. Blankenship making a big surge. Somebody has gone down. | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
That's Souleiman, that's unfortunate. Lincolnshire got fed up | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
with the way it was meandering up the back straight. -- Blankenship. | :56:02. | :56:08. | |
This is playing into the hands of one man. I'm looking at Clayton | :56:09. | :56:15. | |
Murphy in the light blue. Watch him. He's got the 800 metres speed. Can | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
he stay with it? Blankenship, eighth in Rio over 1500 metres. Kwemoi is | :56:22. | :56:29. | |
there, the winner over 3000 metres in dough half. -- dough half. -- | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
Qatar. Kwemoi has the strength from the | :56:35. | :56:48. | |
3000 metres. The Kenyans emanating this one at the moment. Murphy has | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
left himself with a lot of work to do as they come into the final | :56:53. | :57:00. | |
straight. Murphy should have been up with these three. Kwemoi down the | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
outside and he will take this. The strength and speed are there. It | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
looked like a tactical affair. That could have been so much quicker. | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
Here are the three Kenyans battling it out. It became a test of strength | :57:19. | :57:25. | |
over the last 30 to 40 metres. Great leg speed to beat Manangoi. Let's | :57:26. | :57:34. | |
take a look at the final result. The Kenyans proudly wearing their | :57:35. | :57:35. | |
national vests. That's all from Eugene. We're only | :57:36. | :57:49. | |
halfway through a day of sport on BBC Two. Stay with us for the | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
European rowing Championships. Thanks for joining us. We've seen | :57:53. | :58:12. | |
some more great performances from some of the world's best athletes, | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
who are all working towards one thing, the World Championships in | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
London in August. Until next time, goodbye. Usain Bolt! He's done it! | :58:21. | :58:32. | |
Semenya is the champion! A new British record! A mammoth jump! A | :58:33. | :58:41. | |
new world record! Sophie Hitchen, what an effort. It's huge! A new | :58:42. | :58:50. | |
British record! David Rashida is going to win the world title. A | :58:51. | :58:57. | |
beautiful jump. Laura Muir, she has smashed the British record. Mo Farah | :58:58. | :59:00. | |
wins the gold! We need to trap the beast | :59:01. | :59:12. | |
which killed him. Tear him apart! | :59:13. | :59:20. | |
I want him found! Now! | :59:21. | :59:25. |