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Hello and welcome to the first of this year's coverage of the Diamond | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
League on the BBC. It is an exciting year of athletics with all roads | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
leading to London. Mo Farah coming to the line. He is going to win the | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
500 metres. A new world record. A win for Usain Bolt, he is back in | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
business. In August the capital city will host the World Championships | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
for the very first time and it will be the last time we ever see Usain | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Bolt on the track. It will also be Mo Farah's farewell on the track but | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
stars like Laura Muir will be hoping to shine. Whee Kim, week out, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
athletes will be hoping to prove their form on the Diamond League | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
circuit. Let's kick off with highlights from last night's opening | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
meet in Doha. Hello and welcome to Doha, Qatar, | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
for the first IAAF Diamond League meeting of 2017. We start with a | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
mouthwatering men's 400 metres. Good evening to Stuart Storey. Thank you, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Steve. It is a good evening and a good line-up. There are 44 global | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
medallists in this meet. There are 16 Olympic champions. It is a new | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
scoring table. Karabo Sibanda of Botswana, fourth in the Olympic | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
final. He is only 18. Inspired he says by Usain Bolt, as so many | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
others have been. LaShawn Merritt of the United States has won this race | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
three times. A real talent. He won the race in the United States | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
recently in cold conditions. Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas, he has the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
early-season's fastest time in this field. That was set in grenade. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
Plainly McKee of the United States, a couple of times world champion. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
His success has mainly come in the relays -- Tony McQuay. | :02:51. | :03:14. | |
Let's see who really put the pedal down. The Norwood is really up. | :03:15. | :03:35. | |
Maslak is usual going very strong. Steven Gardiner and Cheney McKee | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
making headway. This is going to be very tight. What has the big man got | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
here? Lane three, Steven Gardiner, the fastest man in the field on | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
paper. He leads them home here ahead of LaShawn merit. It was a very, | :03:52. | :04:05. | |
very good race. So, Steven Gardiner really hung on to the form that he | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
showed in Saint George in Grenada with that 44.2 six. Remember, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Olympic bronze-medallist in the Olympic four by four last year. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
LaShawn Merritt has already raised Karabo Sibanda. Steven Gardiner was | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
very clever. He accelerated down the back straight, through 200 metres, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
down the top end, opened up the lead on LaShawn Merritt. He moves away to | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
try and catch Steven Gardiner. With those long legs, although he was | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
tarring a little bit, he is in superb form. This guy is a real | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
talent. Thomas Rohler of Germany, the | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Olympic champion. A second round throw. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
That is a little bit better, beyond the 85-metre line. Still more to | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
come looking at him. Clearly, his coaching staff will be pleased with | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
all of that. 85.52. That is a superb start and he takes the lead. | :05:29. | :05:39. | |
Johannes Vetter a few minutes ago. Just finding his way. He is young in | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
javelin terms. There is plenty of room for improvement. He is loving | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
that one. Look at him. And why not, look at that! Johannes Vetter, well, | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
that is right on the 90-metre line. He had not beaten 90 metres, he was | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
so close in Berlin last year. Has he done it here? Just below. A massive | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
throw from the German. They lie one and two. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Holly Bradshaw is in the vault. A first attempt now at 4.5 five. | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
Looking good at the moment. Oh, yes, straight, absolutely superb. She | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
entered the competition at 4.40 five. Several of them went out, | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
finding it a bit difficult. One would expect, on that form, she | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
looks very confident indeed. Twice and Olympic Games finalist, world | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
indoor finalist, she is now based in Cardiff. Chris Baker of Great | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Britain. That is much better. And indifferent | :07:00. | :07:11. | |
indoor season for him. Little smile from his team-mate Robbie Grabarz. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Good clearance, nice rhythm. He had had a bit of an injury problem as | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
well so he is doing very nicely indeed. A smile on his face which | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
will give him a great deal of confidence, that clearance. Now, | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
third attempt from a man who is really up against it now, Olympic | :07:30. | :07:42. | |
champion Thomas Rohler. Let's see what he's got. He is fighting back | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
because that is way beyond 85. Really fast arm. What a fast an he's | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
got. He stomps his left foot down and really works as hard as he can | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
and really wax down there. That is getting closer to the lead, Vetter's | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
lead which stands at 89 metres and 68. Is a personal best for Vetter. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Thumbs up it is getting better for the Olympic champion. 88.12, that is | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
good. A season's best for Rohler. The conditions are absolutely | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
superb. Still to come, Genzebe Dibaba makes | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
her 800 metre debut to challenge the great Caster Semenya. It is the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Olympic versus the world champion also featuring Britain's Desiree | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Henry. Ruth Jebet had an amazing 2016. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Other Rio medallists join her in the first steeplechase of 2017. As Usain | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Bolt leads the stage, the race for 100 metre dominance is on. And we | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
will have the best of some top-class field competition. Next on track it | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
is the men's 1500 metres. Doha renowned for producing fast | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
middle-distance races in this season and we have many in this race who | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
will be hoping this year will be no different. Two pacemakers on the | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
outside and then Elijah Manangoi who says he's going to beat the world | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
record this year. Good luck, mate. He is a hugely talented athlete. He | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
was second in the World Championships in Beijing. A | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
disappointing year. He pulled out of Rio after his heats. He had a couple | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
of injuries. Silas Kiplagat we have seen win many Diamond League races. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Timothy Cheruiyot who surprised many in Brussels. Ryan Gregson the | :09:54. | :10:08. | |
Australian. Then we have Souleiman who doubled up at the Olympics. And | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
plenty more names to watch out for. A big Kenyan contingent. The men's | :10:14. | :10:29. | |
1500 metres. The pacemakers has been asked to go out at a pretty quick | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
pace for this season. 55 for the first lap. They are jostling and | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
pushing to get to the front. The others are settling further back. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Ryan Gregson happy to let everyone get out in front. They are already | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
bunching behind the pacemaker. One or two pushing for some room. It | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
looks fairly steady, if anything. It is early season. Down the back | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
straight. Timothy Cheruiyot the one really following the pacemaker. They | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
are just starting to stretch things little bit. The pacemaker will try | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
and get at least to 1000 metres and then it will probably be Timothy | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Cheruiyot who's left in front. The athletes have covered 20 metres or | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
so. Coming round to the bowl they will have to do a big, big lap. | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
Silas Kiplagat is trying to get things moving. Bethwell Birgen of | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
Kenya, he is in there. Manangoi it is, down the back straight. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Souleiman looks like he is really struggling. Manangoi trying to do | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
what he has done an same any times when he has company. He finishes | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
quick but he looks in a little bit of bother here as Bethwell Birgen | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
comes to attack him on the left-hand side. Kiplagat leads it very late. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Kiplagat on the left side. Manangoi hanging in. It is Manangoi who gets | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
it. The sprinters came to the fore at the end. It was Manangoi who gets | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
ahead of Kiplagat. He wins in Doha, he has come second here before. | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
Well, the winning time in the end,, it was close to 3.13. That is not a | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
bad way to start your season, just under 3.30 two. Kiplagat just down. | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
We wed be talking about world leads in general here tonight because this | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
is the first meet and there is very little action indeed. | :13:25. | :13:48. | |
That may be better. That was a good throw. It sailed that the end. That | :13:49. | :14:00. | |
will definitely be a season's best. Thomas Rohler is in second place | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
with 88 metres and 12. And the cheque just waiting to see. A great | :14:08. | :14:20. | |
performance from him. That is ten centimetres below his personal best. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
We have got a great javelin competition going. Well, indeed. The | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
crowd being incited by the high jumpers. The javelin with Thomas | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Rohler about to launch that 800 grand javelin away. Have you ever | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
seen such a disdainful look across?! He has a little bit to make up here. | :14:39. | :14:55. | |
He has 88.12, he has 88.96 to make, and that is a big ask. What has he | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
done with that one? Oh, I say! That is a sensational throw, we over 90 | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
metres. I mean, he was in 98 metres territory, but that is a sensational | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
throw, unbelievable. We over 90 metres for the Olympic champion. The | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
questions were asked, and the answer was given, 93.90, wow! That put him | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
second on the all-time list behind Zelezny. What a throw. | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Here is the line-up on the left of your shot, and it features some of | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
the big names, certainly two of them in Caster Semenya and Dibaba. She | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
said she thought 55 seconds, but so many wouldn't have the 55 first lap | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
that was requested by Dibaba. Runs very much more of an even pace to | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
race. There is a former world champion in Eunice Sum of Kenya. | :16:20. | :16:32. | |
Dibaba has had one race over 800 metres this season. Then you have | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
jaws which of Poland. She was fifth in the Olympic final. And then | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Charlene Lipsey of the United States drawn on the inside. She is | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
obviously improving well. They are looking for 57 for the first lap, | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
and then we will see how Dibaba will go, she wanted the faster first lap, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
but she hasn't got it. Caster Semenya said no. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
We will see when they get into the back straight, what sort of line-up | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
we have got. Certainly Caster Semenya looks so comfortable, and | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Dibaba sitting comfortable it towards the back of that field. She | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
has the speed endurance, the strength endurance, for sure. | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
Chatting earlier on today, she said she was pleased it was 57 not 55, | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
but you can see the reticence of Wambui and Semenya to go with the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
pace, and you can understand that, 1500 metres runners, they wanted | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
good and hard from the start. Pointless trying to train sprints. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
But Dibaba has done a 57 at the end of a 1500, so looking forward to | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
this. Jenny Meadows has a lead now, but Semenya is sitting right off | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
this. Wambui is there, and Natoga rule from Jamaica Inn is up there as | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
well. -- from Jamaica is up there as well. Four times the national | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
champion, she is going to find it tough now. How easy does Semenya | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Luck? She goes past Wambui, Dibaba in third place now, and then Sum, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
the former world champion, behind her. Semenya looks majestic, so | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
comfortable, as they go with about 130 to go. Wambui putting the pedal | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
down, Dibaba looking for speed and it is not coming. Semenya absolutely | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
flying. Total dominance, Wambui in second place, Sum looks like she | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
will come to third. Semenya wins it, Wambui in second place, Sum in third | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
place, and I think it was... I am just looking at the time, can we | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
catch it? Lets just check it out. 1:56.61. It looked quickly, it was | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
quick. It is the fastest we have seen by a long way, a meeting | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
record, very classy. By anyone's standing, that is a good run by | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Semenya. She has been in great form already coming out of the South | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
African season, and look at that form. Wambui doing her best, and you | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
looked at Dibaba there, that is about as bad as you will see her | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
looking in the last few metres of a 1500 metres race, all over the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
place. She has only just dipped under two minutes, 1.57 at the end | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
of the 200 metres final last year, so nowhere near Semenya, out of | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Rome, and if she keeps running like that for the rest of the season, | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
which I expect she will, you can't see anybody getting past, can you? | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
STUDIO: This year the Diamond League is a little different. There are 14 | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
meetings around the world encompassing 16 disciplines, both | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
men and women, but the competition now follows a championship model, | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
with the first 12 meetings acting as qualification for one of the two | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
finals in Zurich and Brussels. Each of the disciplines is staged six or | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
four times before the final, and each meeting, athletes are awarded | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
points for their ranking. The top athletes at the end of qualification | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
will be awarded a starting place in the winner takes all final. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
COMMENTATOR: Arca of Nigeria, a cracking start to the year for | :20:58. | :21:15. | |
Desiree Henry, still just 21. A relay bronze-medallist last year, | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
and close to that 11 seconds mark already this year. | :21:22. | :21:34. | |
Ta Lou, fourth in both sprints. Elaine Thompson, already having a | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
great season, it began with a 60 metres personal best in Birmingham, | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
you might remember that, and she has also run a rather modest personal | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
best outdoors, so this 200 should set her very nicely. Dafne | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Schippers, in training in America, she has already had some good | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
results in training. And Veronica Campbell-Brown, so many of these | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
athletes coming over from the Caribbean season, the American relay | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
season, and of course the world relays which were just recently held | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
in the Bahamas. Simone Facey, the Texan student, and Atkins will be | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
right on the inside. So, Elaine Thompson in lane five, Dafne | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Schippers in lane four, Veronica Campbell-Brown in lane three. And | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the Ivory Coast athlete Ta Lou in six. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Thompson gets a very good start, but so does Dafne Schippers. Desiree | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
Henry is already up. Chronicle Campbell Brown is running a good | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
bend. Dafne Schippers trying to hang on down the home straight. Ta Lou | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
getting into the back, but it is a lane Thompson who wins it. It was a | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
measured bend from Elaine Thompson, that last 20 metres off the bend, | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
that transition into a home straight, opened up the gap, and | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
after that, Dafne Schippers was just chasing and never really got on | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
terms. What speed endurance that showed. You are quite right, it was | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
by her standards a fairly ponderous bend, and of course Dafne Schippers | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
was right upon her, but the transition was superb, she just | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
flowed into the home straight. She is down at the moment, and right on | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
the inside of her, Veronica Campbell-Brown was going well at | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
this stage, then all of a sudden the burners are turned on and she starts | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
to move away. Perfect, beautiful relaxation, high on the toes, hips | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
high, total and utter concentration. Schippers struggling, having to give | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
way in the final stages. It was into a slight headwind, so that might | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
have been worse, 22.19, could she have got under 22 without the | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
headwind? Schippers behind her, and Ta Lou taking third with 22.77. | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
Desiree Henry disappointing, back in seventh, 23.22. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
The tracksuit bottoms are off now, they mean business. And a huge cheer | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
goes up for the local lad. His early athletics career involved | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
racewalking, a bit of distance running, before he found the high | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
jump, and what a prodigious talent he had, all those problems he has | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
had with his back seam at the moment to be put to one side, and he is | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
jumping beautifully. There was a period last year where we were | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
expecting him to do well, and there was a big drop-off in his form, | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
perhaps he was doing too much in preparation. This is Donald Thomas, | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
2.29, and it stayed. So, two men clear at 2.29. Donald Thomas has | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
been around a long time, really gave that a rattle, but it stays on. | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
Robbie Grabarz, 2.29. He needs this. Oh, that's better! He came off a | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
pretty good indoor season, and Robbie now, 2.29, joins Barshim and | :25:57. | :26:12. | |
Ghazal, the only ones clear at this height. | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
STUDIO: Our Diamond League coverage continues next Sunday from Shanghai. | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
Later this month, and a little closer to home, we will have the | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
great city games in Manchester: The great Manchester run is on Sunday | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
the 28th of May, live on ABC two. But now the latest news from the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
world of athletics. There have been controversial | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
proposals put forward by the European athletics governing body | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
who have suggested rewriting all world records set before 2005 in an | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
attempt to restore faith in the sport. If the proposals are ratified | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
by the IAAF, a world record would only stand if it was achieved at a | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
competition on a list of approved international events. The athletes | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
will have an subject to an agreed number of doping tests in the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
monthly Diop Tuitt, and the sample taken after the record was stored | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
and available for retesting tenures. That would mean many prominent | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
retired athletes could face losing their world records despite never | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
having failed a drugs test, as their records were set before modern | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
anti-dumping measures were put in place. This proposal has been | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
heavily criticised by athletes who stand to lose their records. Paula | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Radcliffe, Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan and Steve Cram have all | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
expressed their disappointment at what was described as collateral | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
damage in the fight against doping, as was Colin Jackson. This is a | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
revolutionary approach, and we want to regain the trust of the public. I | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
would have thought that the world record should be taken from athletes | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
not from bureaucrats sitting in offices who make a decision that all | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
of a sudden actually we are not sure that you did your record legally, | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
that is how it sounds to me, so we will just eradicate it off the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
books. That doesn't seem fair in any shape or form. This is a broad | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
sweeping solution which they are trying to push in, which yet again | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
sees clean athletes suffering for the actions of cheats, and it | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
happens time and time again. For more details and reaction visit the | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
BBC Sport website, and you can join the debate on social media. | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
COMMENTATOR: Sowter the women's one hurdles. The line-up, you can see on | :28:30. | :28:40. | |
the left. Sharika Nelvis was eighth in Beijing in 2015, just outside 13 | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
seconds. Cindy Roleder, fifth in the Olympic games, European champion. | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
There is so much talent here. Nia Ali, 12.48 her best, and here is the | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
world record holder, Kendra Harrison, didn't even make the | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
American Olympic team, sixth in their trials. She was towed dominant | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
in setting the world record at 12.20 last season. Christina Manning of | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
the United States, 12.6 T two a personal best and seasons best. | :29:16. | :29:28. | |
Let's see what Cindy Ofili can do here, Kendra Harrison seven times a | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
Diamond League winner, looked invincible last year, and whatever | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
happened for her to come sixth in the Olympic trials? She was so | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
dominant. But that is athletics for you. | :29:45. | :30:12. | |
This should be a very quick race in deed. Harrison away very strongly. | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
Harrison moving further and further away. The time,... There is a little | :30:19. | :30:28. | |
bit of a niggle where I fancy. A little bit of a limp for Kendra | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
Harrison. I just wonder if there was a little problem at the end of that | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
race. She has wandered over and she is in tears at the end there. I am | :30:41. | :30:51. | |
not sure why. Nia Ali was awful. She smashed that first hurdle. As ever, | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
nice and nice and smooth and clean. We didn't see a problem and it | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
looked like everything was OK and then all of a sudden the tears come. | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
She is down there asking for medical attention. Therein to to meet a | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
headwind so it was never going to be quick but for her that is reasonably | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
quick. Just watch as she comes over the last hurdle. May be only a | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
niggle, let's hope so. 2016 was an amazing breakthrough | :31:24. | :31:38. | |
year for steeplechaser Ruth Jebet. She went on to become Bahrain's | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
first Olympic gold medal list winning the Rio final before | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
returning to the Diamond League before smashing the world record, | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
all before her 20th birthday. Can she get off to a winning start this | :31:53. | :31:54. | |
year? Here we go in the 3000 metres | :31:55. | :32:04. | |
steeplechase. The list is on the left of the picture. There is Ruth | :32:05. | :32:20. | |
Jebet the Olympic champion. Kyeng is the world champion. She won the | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
world title in Beijing. Emma Coburn as well, and Olympic | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
bronze-medallist, terrific. The pace they have set is for something like | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
9.15 but we will see what chance buyers in this. I would expect to | :32:40. | :32:50. | |
see the world champion Kyeng trying to get into this race and put | :32:51. | :33:00. | |
pressure on Jebet. Certainly the pacemakers have got to do a decent | :33:01. | :33:11. | |
job here. Gathoni is not helping at all here moving far too far away. | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
That doesn't help at all. By the Olympic silver-medallist last | :33:18. | :33:35. | |
year, he so wanted to win in Rio but it was not to be and in front of his | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
home crowd. We have seen him produce fabulous performances. Yes, yes! I'm | :33:42. | :33:54. | |
not sure he has even started. We could be in for a long night here. | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
He looks kind of up for this. The Olympic silver-medallist with the | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
bar now at 4.65. There she goes. Sandi Morris says she is loving the | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
rivalry developing between herself and her rival Katerina Stefanidi. | :34:14. | :34:22. | |
She trains and lives in the US as well and they have got to know each | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
other pretty well. The two of them are starting to dominate in this. | :34:28. | :34:37. | |
Here she is, the Olympic champion. A second time at 4.65. In second | :34:38. | :34:46. | |
place. A determined athlete. Oh, yes, that was a superb vault. She | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
has really come of age. She said the Olympic final was very hard indeed. | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
She said it was a difficult endeavour. The Olympic champion and | :34:59. | :35:09. | |
4.86 is her personal best but that looked good. Yarisley Silva. Didn't | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
look good early on. She has had a fair few failures in this. Seven | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
failures so far, but that is when it matters, when you start clearing the | :35:25. | :35:35. | |
bigger heights. And so she gets over that 4.65 season's best. Holly | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
Bradshaw is out now. She is finished. There is a good little | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
group they're just starting to slow a little bit at the front. Emma | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
Coburn and others are good 15 metres behind them. We will get the time | :35:51. | :35:59. | |
for the first kilometre in a moment. They are just inside the 9.15. They | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
are on about 9.10 if they keep this going. One of the pacemakers has | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
dropped out now. Ruth Jebet who we have seen many times leading races | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
but she has proved everything she needs to prove. That is a fast | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
paced, Stuart. It is nine minute pace. Chepsol is up there. They are | :36:21. | :36:37. | |
all trying to do their best here. It is developing into a fast pace and | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
you wonder at what point Jebet will want to push on here. They are going | :36:42. | :36:48. | |
a bit quicker than was initially asked. But now you are in this case, | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
I wonder if she thinks, I will take this opportunity to push on. | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
This is Omar Craddock. Trying to work out the wind here. Going into a | :37:00. | :37:12. | |
bit of a breeze. That was solid enough. Nice on the board. I tell | :37:13. | :37:22. | |
you, Steve, he is having to work very, very hard in there, | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
particularly in the middle phase to survive and get into that job. It is | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
very ragged. There is nothing smooth about that. It is a piece of power | :37:32. | :37:39. | |
triple jumping. Well, that is good from him, already proving his | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
season's best, going beyond 17 metres. That will move him into an | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
early lead. The men's high jump, Robbie Grabarz. Oh, yes, he is | :37:50. | :38:00. | |
continuing to go well here. I was talking about his confidence he | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
carries now season three season. Although he did not win a medal in | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
Rio he was happy with the competition and a big year ahead. | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
London where he won the bronze medal in 2012. He has a chance in front of | :38:14. | :38:22. | |
a home crowd again to do the same. So Mutaz Essa Barshim now. Here we | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
go again. And once more. He is showing the others where to go. And | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
where he is going, he will certainly not beat him in the sense that | :38:35. | :38:45. | |
first-time clearance. So smooth, lovely rhythm coming in. Getting a | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
little bit excited now. Coming round now with a couple of laps to go in | :38:52. | :38:58. | |
the women's steeplechase. Jebet leads. Kiyeng in second place. Then | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
Chepsol, world junior champion. Beatrice Chepkoech has been there or | :39:07. | :39:14. | |
thereabouts all the time. Jebet is now about 40 metres down. The rest | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
following in their wake really because the pace has really hotted | :39:19. | :39:26. | |
up now. Jebet has taken it on now. The tenor of the races hers. This is | :39:27. | :39:37. | |
a real charge once again. We have seen Jebet run the races in | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
different ways. When she was looking for records she would go out there | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
in set the pace herself, really hammer it home. This could be the | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
first time we have seen more than one woman go to nine minutes in a | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
race. I said she will have to dig it up because Kiyeng looking dangerous, | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
really, really dangerous. The world champion of 2015 does not like | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
losing. She hurtled well they are right on the shoulder of Jebet. | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
These two are away. Beatrice Chepkoech in third place and the | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
junior just dropping off a little bit. What a race we have here with | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
the world champion. Watch the clock. Absolutely superb. Kiyeng has come | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
past the Olympic champion and world record-holder. Can she hold on? She | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
can indeed. Jebet is finished. Kiyeng is coming through. Look the | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
clock! Just missed the nine minutes. So, it was very, very quick. Emma | :40:44. | :40:52. | |
Coburn coming through to finish here. Assefa coming through to | :40:53. | :41:01. | |
finish as well. They will all know it was pretty quick. In fact, it was | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
a sensationally quit race in the end. Just outside nine minutes. How | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
close was that? We almost had the two under nine minutes, didn't we? | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
Cracking race. This is Jebet looking up at the screen. She knows the | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
I said at the bell she was just looking a bit flat | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
flat. Kiyeng on her shoulder knows she has to go away here. They are | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
chasing the clock. At this point you still thought there was a point for | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
two of them to get under nine minutes. In the end, Jebet faded. | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
Kiyeng came away. She was not even looking at the clock. She has missed | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
it by a tent of a second. Asafa Powell, he has run more sub | :41:50. | :42:31. | |
tens than anyone else. Justin Gatlin. Of course, not able to hang | :42:32. | :42:39. | |
onto Usain Bolt in Rio. He had one or two injury problems last year | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
which held him back. 35 years of age now, the American. Akani Simbine | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
from South Africa, what a start to his year. It will be really | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
interesting to see how he goes. A breeze in the face will not help. A | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
local man, Benny Aga Moody, running for Qatar. -- Femi Ogunode. | :43:07. | :43:15. | |
Gatlin as ever gets out pretty quickly. Andre de Grasse struggling. | :43:16. | :43:27. | |
Asafa Powell takes second. We were looking for sub ten. Didn't quite | :43:28. | :43:37. | |
getting that. It has come up as 9.99 in front of May. And that is into a | :43:38. | :43:44. | |
headwind. I said how well he has been going, what a season this young | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
man has had. A real powerhouse of a start from Gatlin. You expected him | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
to go away with this. Simbine really put the pressure on the South | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
African. An Olympic Games champion. He has been in the big championships | :44:04. | :44:05. | |
before but he is believing now. Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse, | :44:06. | :44:20. | |
the two big names of this race, disappointing. This is Katerina | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
Stefanidi in the pole vaulter. A really good competition from her. | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
Again goes clear. The Olympic champion is performing so well. I | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
saw a glimpse of her earlier on with her husband coach. Based in Arizona | :44:40. | :44:46. | |
for the last couple of years and she said everything over the last couple | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
of years has just come together perfectly. There he is. | :44:50. | :44:59. | |
The two of them are brilliant partnership on and off the track. | :45:00. | :45:13. | |
Sandy Morris at 4.75, having seen the record, chasing Stefanidi, and a | :45:14. | :45:22. | |
huge roar from Sandi Morris, and look at this, real strength from | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
Morris, and then the athleticism comes in. She had a little bit to | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
spare as well, Sery seasons best Morris outdoors. | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
Just looking at the line-up you can see on the left there. Van Zyl | :45:40. | :45:54. | |
there, and Clement, the world champion. Very quick, some 45. The | :45:55. | :46:09. | |
following season he was nowhere near the form that we saw. Samba of Qatar | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
is a world leader at this stage. Nicholas Bett has not gone off very | :46:15. | :46:59. | |
quickly indeed. Clement now making some headway as they come into the | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
300 metres mark. Samba going very strongly indeed in this race. He is | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
the world leader, and he has got the fast time in this so far, and he is | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
absolutely flying in this, the crowd will enjoy this one. Kerron Clement | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
struggling, but look at this, samba of Qatar, WinZip comfortably, van | :47:29. | :47:37. | |
Zyl in third place, and we have a new kid on the block, he is only 21, | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
he looked very strong. Clement looked good, but from about 300 in, | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
this young fellow absolutely flew away from the rest of the field. | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
What a talent he is. He is big and strong, he has got to control that, | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
and his stride pattern, he has changed down before this point, but | :48:05. | :48:07. | |
at this point, he has gone so hard, you think, are you going to fall | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
apart? But he obviously has huge ability, and this is a massive find | :48:15. | :48:22. | |
for Qatar. If he is running low 48s at this stage in the development of | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
his career, what is he going to be capable of? That that the distance | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
between him and what is a very capable field. He has a look at the | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
clock almost as if to say, really? He thought he might be closer to | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
breaking 48 seconds. He is a big new star in this event. | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
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Last event on the track this evening, the men's 3000 is, hugely | :49:18. | :49:30. | |
talented men like Kewmoi. Chelimo made a name for himself in the | :49:31. | :49:43. | |
Olympic Games, and could Kejelcha knows how to do well. 3000, seven | :49:44. | :49:50. | |
and a half laps of the track. The pace they have asked for world get | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
them to two kilometres in just outside five minutes. They are | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
looking for something quicker than 7.30, it is whether or not they get | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
the pace over the first 45 laps. Conditions as ever really good, the | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
breeze settling down a little bit, it is in their faces in the home | :50:12. | :50:22. | |
straight. This is Kazi from Hungary who is trying to run around 60 - | :50:23. | :50:39. | |
second laps. Barshim knew he had to aim for the higher height, grab | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
Robbie Grabarz guaranteed second place, had a decent go at 2.33 mob | :50:46. | :50:52. | |
at 2.55 is beyond him to night. He will be pleased to have come second | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
in a good quality competition, he knows that Barshim is great. It is | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
up to him to see how high he can go tonight. 2.36, then. He looked so | :51:01. | :51:07. | |
good right up to and including 2.30 three. Oh, yes. 2.36, and flying. | :51:08. | :51:19. | |
Bronze-medallist as I said in London, but how far has he come | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
since then? So close to the world record with 2.43 his personal best. | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
Some terrific competitions, but he is full of confidence, he is at | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
home. Everything is right for him, and you can see the pass, read cross | :51:35. | :51:46. | |
is a failure, a pass, and then the first time clearance at 2.30 six. -- | :51:47. | :52:04. | |
2.36. Stefanidi, what a performer. I tell you what, that lead will be | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
difficult to take away, that's for sure. | :52:10. | :52:29. | |
So, Copello, they are all struggling with the headwind a little here, | :52:30. | :52:37. | |
let's see what Copello can do here, he just fell off a little at the | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
end. Very good on the board, but Copello, he is a neat runner on his | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
approach, but again, they are all struggling to get any distance at | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
all tonight. Maybe an improvement. Indeed it is, 16.81, and that moves | :53:01. | :53:11. | |
him up into third-place. Four laps to go in the men's 3000. Could of | :53:12. | :53:24. | |
Kejelcha has never been far from the front, but the pace has been strong, | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
there is always a danger that it will fall off. They are trying to | :53:33. | :53:47. | |
maintain a roundabout 60-2nd laps. Further back on the field, you can | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
see they're all stretched out. Andrew Butchart has been training, | :53:52. | :53:59. | |
many have come here expecting a fast time, but look at the gap now, | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
Kejelcha is out in front with three to go. This is the javelin, and | :54:05. | :54:19. | |
third place was Vadlejch, and my goodness me, that last throw was a | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
demonstration. That is close to the 90 metres line, and that got him | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
third place, that was the quality of this competition, he hit it very | :54:31. | :54:38. | |
hard. He was eighth in that final, now throwing it out close to 90 | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
metres. How often would that distance have won a major event on | :54:44. | :54:53. | |
any circuit, really? And there he is, 93.90, the second longest | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
throw-in javelin history. Fabulous javelin competition, and better | :55:02. | :55:03. | |
doesn't look too happy. -- Japan is only Zelezny has thrown further than | :55:04. | :55:15. | |
that. Christian Taylor, and that was good | :55:16. | :55:30. | |
enough to take it at 17.25. Way off the board, that is what you call | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
safe, and there it is, 17.25, that will do and it moves him ahead of | :55:36. | :55:37. | |
Cradock who took second place. It is Kejelcha, and now Kwemoi. Paul | :55:38. | :55:53. | |
Chelimo who kicked so well at the Olympic Games to get a good time, | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
they are still going fast, and a big gap behind them. Andrew Butchart of | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
Great Britain and Ben true making progress, but the four in the front, | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
it is Kejelcha with the kickers, here comes Kwemoi again. Ndiku | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
looking a little ragged for the first time. Kwemoi makes the first | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
move. Chelimo tries to cover it. It is Kwemoi, the silver-medallist from | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
2014, the man who wants to make a go at the 5000 metres is chasing, or is | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
making Chelimo try to chase him. And Kwemoi finds another gear, and away | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
he goes. Look at this, he is fantastic. He has a chance of going | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
under 7.30, and look at the clock, 7.28. Then it is Chelimo, then | :56:45. | :56:54. | |
Kejelcha, then a very tired Ndiku. There will be some quick times | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
tonight behind as the clock now ticks are beyond 7.40 four, 45. That | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
was a big race for this man. The 3000 to distances, that is very big, | :57:07. | :57:14. | |
a huge performance from him. That will put him not quite on the world | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
all-time list of the top 20, but not far away from it. | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
Headlines were made on the field, 90 metres and 93 centimetres for Thomas | :57:25. | :57:35. | |
Rohler, the Olympic champion. And Barshim in the high jump set a | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
record. And a new name to watch out for, Samba in the 400 metres | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
hurdles. Robbie Grabarz has a good start to his outdoor season. Holly | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
Bradshaw, 4.55, expect she might be disappointed not to have gone higher | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
tonight. And on the track, Andrew Butchart, Desiree Henry and Cindy | :57:58. | :58:05. | |
Ofili a little disappointing, but it is early days, amazing how quickly | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
June and July will come. If you want to see more, you can on | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
the BBC website or the News channel. Next week the athletes converge in | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
Shanghai, and you can see highlights on five o'clock at BBC Two on | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
Sunday. Until then, goodbye. Usain Bolt! He has done it! Caster | :58:21. | :58:33. | |
Semenya is the champion. It is a new British record. | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
It is a mammoth jump. Sophie Hitchon, what an effort. | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
It is huge, a new British record. David Rudisha is going to win the | :58:47. | :58:57. | |
world title. Laura Muir has smashed the British | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
record. Mo Farah wins the gold! | :59:03. | :59:05. |