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Welcome to Diamond League highlights from Rome. We're back in Europe now | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
and with eight weeks to go until the start of the World Championships in | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
London many of the athletes in Italy's capital were looking to | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
impress. So let's get straight into the | :00:59. | :01:24. | |
action with your commentators Steve Cram and Tim Hutchins. Good evening | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
everybody. There is the line-up. That's Russell of Jamaica. And there | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
is Pedroso. A former Cuban. Just one 400 metres hurdles this year. This | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
is Theron Nel. Performeded badly in Rio. There is the world champion in | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
2013 and retained her title in 2015 from Moscow. She was champion once | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
again in Beijing. Fastest non-US athlete this year with the season's | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
best of 54.5. That was a couple of weeks back. Sara Petersen only | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
world-class for the last two or three years the 30-year-old. Doyle | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
goes in lane three for Great Britain. Just one 400 metres | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
hurledles this year. Well, the conditions are just about | :02:36. | :02:58. | |
perfect in Rome. It's a warm evening. No breeze in the arena | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
either. It looks like lane eight, Russell has gone out the quickest of | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
all. She was fifth in the last World Championships. She would have been | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
disappointed with her seventh in Rio last year. | :03:15. | :03:26. | |
Russell. They come to this barrier. Russell has really attacked the | :03:27. | :03:44. | |
first 300 metres. Going strongly is Sara Petson. It will be Russell. | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Well, my word. Running scared they say in those outside lanes when you | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
have very little idea of what's going on inside you. You're | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
concentrating on your stride pattern and on getting the barriers right. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
You don't spend that much attention on those inside you, but you're sort | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
of aware of them in your peripheral vision, but she never really gave | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
them a chance to come into view. That was a brilliant run from | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Russell. The Jamaican winning. A season's best for her. What the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
fifth fastest time in the world this year. The Jamaican really strong. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
She went out hard because she was chasing the American down. She | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
didn't fall apart and kept her stride pattern together. Really | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
strong at the end and was watching for the challenge up on the big | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
screen, but it never really materialised. A really good | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
performance. A fairly comfortable win. Two or three there with | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
disappointing performances. Still to come, Chijindu Ujah faces Ronnie | :04:52. | :05:07. | |
Baker in the 100 metres. Schippers is the best hope in the 100 metres. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
We will have all the best of the action from some top class field | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
events. One non-starter in the steeplechase. | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
We have Conseslus Kipruto. We saw him at the Doha Diamond League. Not | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
running particularly well over 3,000 metres flat it has to be said. He | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
has some familiar figures up against him. Soufiane El Bakkali. So | :05:44. | :05:57. | |
Conseslus Kipruto is the favourite here, but you've got to watch out | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
for the 21-year-old. We have got Nicholas Bett in here. Then we | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
always have to factor in others. Ezekiel Kemboi is always surrounded | :06:16. | :06:36. | |
by some drama. The pace is quick. They should have a chance of going | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
close to eight minutes. They started quickly. A cracking field in the | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
women's triple jump including the top three from the Olympic Games in | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Rio last year. The Queen of the triple jump. She's still on top, but | :06:53. | :07:05. | |
she has got some real challengers. Ibarguen is still the one to beat. | :07:06. | :07:17. | |
The world lead is 14.96. Almost 15 metres already so early in the | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
season. It could be a big year for her. She started off well, the | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
Kazakhstan athlete. So second round. 14.64 and improving on her 14.24 | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
from round one. She is a massive figure. As Steve said, she tops the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
world's rankings and that doesn't look too bad either. That coming | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
down between the leading jump so far in the competition and the world | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
lead. Her own world lead of 14.96. When she fills out and powers up so | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
to speak, she is only 21, the world indoor champion. Nowhere near the | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
board there. 14.76 gives her a nice lead. The pace has just dropped and | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
all of a sudden the youngster, the world junior champion is slotted in | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
behind him. Taking the water jump much better on that occasion. The | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Moroccan just gives a nudge and says, "I've come through on the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
inside." Conseslus Kipruto comes around with two laps to go. Slowed a | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
bit after that, but they are not far away from an eight minute pace. It | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
will be a quick race and all of a sudden, look at the youngster there. | :08:58. | :09:10. | |
So they take the bell. Losing ground. So it is Conseslus Kipruto. | :09:11. | :09:24. | |
Conseslus Kipruto responds. There is a gap between these three and | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Birech. Conseslus Kipruto holds him off and that's going to be soul | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
destroying for the youngster. It is the Moroccan now. Conseslus Kipruto | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
the last time into the water jump. Conseslus Kipruto holds the inside | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
and does it well. The two of them come off the water jump at top | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
speed. It's a battle for third. One more barrier to go and Conseslus | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Kipruto is under some real pressure. Soufiane El Bakkali will be running | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
a personal best. Conseslus Kipruto comes away again. The Olympic | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
champion has enough. A wag of the finger. Eight minutes four. Fastest | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
in the world this year. Birech just pipped his young team-mate for third | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
spot. Well, that's a massive jump forward for the Moroccan though. He | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
really challenged Conseslus Kipruto. Here you can see the Moroccan | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
leaning into him. He almost forced him on to the in field. He gave him | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
a shove and stayed alongside him and cleared the barrier well. Look at | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the leg speed. Very impressive, indeed. A cheeky glance back at his | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
competitor there. Look at how quickly they opened up the gap. | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
There was a 15 metre gap. 8.04. There is so much more to come. Well, | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
he's delighted. He doesn't mind he has come second. The man who has | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
been dominant for the last few years. Just looking further down, | :11:08. | :11:19. | |
Birech did get the third spot. Can the Olympic champion respond? She | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
has been dominant for so long in the triple jump? She is trying to find a | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
bit. She looks anxiously back. Gets the white flag. Much better from the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Columbian. Couldn't have been better really. Perfect. One isn't metre | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
from the Plasticine. Ibarguen doing her best jump. I | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
thought Ibarguen looked ropey. A slight stutter before. She's so | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
tall. She is about 6'2". She looked quite untidy there. Very little | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
rhythm for fluidity to it, but it comes down way out there and I think | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
it is a slight improvement on her 14.76 in round two. The middle phase | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
was a length. There was no length to it. But she can get away with those | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
dimensions and extends her lead. Well, the pole vault continuing. We | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
have seen some going clear. That's another one going clear. Olly | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Bradshaw who was in such good form in Manchester last week, cleared her | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
opening height. She has retired from the competition, the Briton. That's | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
worrying news from a very good athlete. This is the Olympic | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
champion. Her opening height is 4.65. Very, very business-like, | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
matter of fact. No fuss at all. European champion and then Olympic | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
champion last year, the 27-year-old. Men's sprinting is looking for the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
next big thing. It was Ronnie Baker's time to shine with Britain's | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Chijindu Ujah in third. The race was wind assisted, but both men finished | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
in under ten seconds. There is Ronnie Baker. Prior to that he | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
finished second in 9.97 in Kingston in the world challenge meeting down | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
in Jamaica. He's in four. Jimmy Vicaut for has not really produced | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
the results expected of him, the 25-year-old Frenchman. Only seventh | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
in Rio. He has just left his long-term coach. There is Mike | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
Rodgers. A great indoor sprinter. Chijindu Ujah in good form, the | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
former European junior champion at 100. That was back in 2013. He was | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
third. A good run against the best of the Americans in a windy 9.95. So | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
Baker in four. Watch him in fine form. A really good start, but Baker | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
beginning to get into his running. Coming through, Chijindu Ujah. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
That's a brilliant run. Chijindu Ujah takes it. Against a good, good | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
field. Chijindu Ujah clocking up one of the best wins of his career as a | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
senior athlete and the time 10.02. It might be anything that special. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
The field that he has beaten Chijindu Ujah, and it is confirmed | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
as a season's best for the Briton. Jimmy Vicaut who looked to be | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
finishing strongly could do nothing about the Briton to his right coming | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
through. Ronnie Baker third. He has taken some big, big scalps there, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Chijindu Ujah and that might really start his season, Steve, getting on | :15:31. | :15:31. | |
to a very important roll. He has been running well since his | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
season started and this is just adding to that. He surged really, | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
just maintained his form coming through. Not the best of starts. You | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
thought Baker would come onto that. A good run indoors. But he just does | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
not come on. Jimmy Vicaut probably thought his danger was to his left. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
But CJ comes through for the win. He has run under ten seconds this year. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
He is getting closer and closer to getting back to that sub ten seconds | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
form he had a few years ago. It has been a disappointing year or two, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
particularly last year. But this year he looks in great shape. That | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
is a big win for him. We move now onto the women's triple jump. Rock | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
has is still leading. Nobody has been able to challenge the tall | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Venezuelan. That is another good jump from her. Really consistent. A | :16:41. | :16:54. | |
very slight following wind. Although the air in the stadium feels very | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
still. That improves. 14.8 four. The last chance for the Olympic | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
champion. Heading for defeat That is close. It does not look | :17:08. | :17:19. | |
quite good enough. You can see the line yourself on there. That is only | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
a guide, but she probably knows. She is waving to the cloud. It is the | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Venezuelan who will win tonight. Six centimetres short. Is this the | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
handing over of the mantle so to speak. The world number one is | :17:38. | :17:50. | |
powerfully built. Sandy Morris has had a difficult time, the American. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Under pressure. She will be really disappointed with that performance | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
tonight. Two attempts to get over two point 40. She now goes out. From | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
the track it is the men's 800 metres, full of real interest. The | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
most intriguing name is Nijel Amos, the Olympic silver-medallist from | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
2012. Is he in any sort of form? He has changed his coaching regime. It | :18:25. | :18:37. | |
is almost as if they go together. He is more of an 800 metres specialist. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
They have asked for a reasonable pace here. The tour 19-year-old is a | :18:45. | :18:56. | |
talent. A world junior champion. The winner in Shanghai could be the one | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
that everybody else is watching here. Amos on the inside started | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
pretty quickly. The pacemaker on the outside has got a bit fast over this | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
first one. They are settling into a decent pace. But it is a bit quick | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
for me. Not even for me, but for them as well. It is one of the | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
problems if you have an inexperienced pacemaker. He is in a | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
world of his own, enjoying himself, looking great. That is one of the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
most ridiculous gaps I have seen for a long time. The pack are not even | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
remotely interested. Oh, Amos has gone down. They were so bunched it | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
was going to happen. You are absolutely right. Amos was clipped. | :19:51. | :20:05. | |
But the race is on now. If they catch him here, it will be partly | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
because he went through in 77. The charge is on. He is out in front, | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
but he will be pulling up trees in the home straight. Will he become? | :20:21. | :20:35. | |
He is going to hang on for the win, the Polish worrier. He just got | :20:36. | :20:47. | |
taken by surprise. The race was a mess, Tim. I do not mind that. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Sometimes you have to learn to raise and that is what he is always good | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
at. That type of race will play into his hands. But he attacked first and | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
he got the advantage. He ends up with the win. He was a bit tired in | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
the end. Brazier finished quickly as well, but such a messy race. Such a | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
shame to see Amos go down. But the Polish runner retained the metre | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
down the straight. He attacked. He got himself into a decent position | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
down the back straight. He kept looking at the screen. He is a big | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
talent, the 19-year-old. It might be a bit of a lesson for Brazier. That | :21:36. | :21:55. | |
was always likely result. Lewandowski knows where to put | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
himself in those sort of racers. Now we are at the women's high jump. | :22:00. | :22:15. | |
1.80 eight. That is nice. She generates a lot of speed. She is | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
another authorised neutral athlete, in other words are Russian. Plenty | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
of athletes are clear at this height. It is the first attempt for | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Silva. This might be a little bit of | :22:44. | :23:00. | |
stretch. Do not listen to me. What do I know? Just rattled it slightly. | :23:01. | :23:13. | |
The world champion in Beijing, let's not forget. She seems to have warmed | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
to the competition tonight, the Cuban. That is a seasoned's best for | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
her. 4.70 five. She makes it look easy. | :23:23. | :23:42. | |
Now this is the third and final attempt for the Kiwi. All smiles. | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
You have got to be so positive, you have got to be absolutely on top of | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
it. She is still only 20, the Olympic bronze-medallist. Oh! It | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
stayed up and she gave it such a clatter. I am trying to think of a | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
polite word to describe how lucky she is. That is amazing, and she | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
knows it. A huge sigh of relief. The third and final attempt. To be fair | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
she was mostly clear of it by the time she made contact. The athletes | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
are stripped off and ready for the 400 metres in the Olympic Stadium. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
It is a solid line-up. MacPherson goes in lane five. She is world | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
champion in the indoor arena. Hastings is going in lane four. | :24:51. | :25:04. | |
Williams is 35 years old. Took bronze medal ten years ago in soccer | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
at World Championships. She has gone off again with full | :25:07. | :25:32. | |
commitment, Hastings. She has moved away from mills in blue. Hastings is | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
so exciting to watch because she throws everything at the first 300 | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
metres and plays catch me if you game. But MacPherson is holding her | :25:41. | :25:53. | |
on the back straight. Zelniak is also going well. But they come into | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
the straight. Has Hastings got the legs? She has got a two-metre gap at | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
the moment, but they are coming back at her. Williams Mills is coming | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
through to challenge. Hastings wins this by three metres. An impressive | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
run by the American. I think Williams Mills just comes through to | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
snatch second and Zelniak is third. The record stays very safe. Typical | :26:25. | :26:43. | |
for Hastings. She got off really well and then she checked back. When | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
she came into the straight she just starts to move again. Instead of | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
going through 200 and keeping your foot down and hanging on, she just | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
backed up a little bit. With 50 to go she started to tire, and the | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
others are charging. But she is yet to get going. Yes, there is more to | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
come. The men's javelin has been grabbing | :27:15. | :27:26. | |
everyone's attention this year. There is a great line-up. The former | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
Olympic champion Shaun Walcott is in this as well. | :27:35. | :27:46. | |
This man as well from the Czech Republic is in good form already | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
this year and that is another good start to the competition. Over 85 | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
metres. It is kind of dead air tonight and it is warm and mild. It | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
is not as muggy as it sometimes is in Rome, but not a breath of wind | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
out there. That is a good start from him. Britain's 20-year-old Morgan | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Lake at this third and final attempt. She is the world junior | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
champion from 2014. This is well within her compass and that was a | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
lovely clearance from Morgan Lake. That is a seal of great ability in | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
this competition on that occasion. She looks in really sharp form | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
already this year. When she was banned and the Russian team was | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
banned, she cleared 2.3. It looks as though she is in superb form. The | :28:49. | :28:58. | |
world number one. He looks a bit more optimistic about that one and | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
well he might. 86 metres, something like that. The others are applauding | :29:06. | :29:16. | |
that effort from the German. He did not have the best of the first | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
round. But that is the best so far from Thomas Rohler. The lid is his. | :29:22. | :29:38. | |
The European indoor champion got his world season off to a decent start | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
in Eugene, equalling his personal best in a world-class field. Rome | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
should prove just as tough a test as he lines up against the world record | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
holder and the current and former world champions, all good | :29:54. | :29:55. | |
preparations for an assault on the medals in London. So on the track, | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
the men's 110 metre hurdles. It is a great field here. | :30:05. | :30:19. | |
hurdles Now, Andrew Pozzi of Great Britainment only made the semi in | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
Rio and huge disappointment for him and has massive ambition to do well | :30:26. | :30:37. | |
in the World Championships. The silver-medallist from Rio has | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
been up and down this year. Aries Merritt, 13.12 in Eugene. | :30:40. | :30:55. | |
Fastest since he had his operation, a kidney transplant in 2015. A great | :30:56. | :31:06. | |
story that still. Pozzi gets an excellent start. Merritt. Merritt | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
hangs on! Not only hangs on, moves away at the end. 13.15. Well, I said | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
the story just gets better and better. Well, it's a great story, | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
but you have to carry on commending him. I thought Andy Pozzi twitched | :31:30. | :31:43. | |
badly. You can see Merritt hanging on there. Pozzi, I don't think it | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
was loss of concentration. He lost that concentration hard. That | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
affected him badliment Pozzi third. Second from the top as you're | :31:55. | :32:05. | |
looking at those four. A perfect dip from Aries Merritt. Well, Shubenkov | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
is short of competition. I feel sorry for the fella. He's battling | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
his way back and that was a strong run for him, a third. | :32:18. | :32:34. | |
Stefanidi mansion to get a bit of stickiness on that bar. | :32:35. | :32:48. | |
A grimace from Stefanidi. When you're competing everything goes | :32:49. | :32:55. | |
right for you, but she has the aura of winning and winning. She has the | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
confidence. The others as well then might buckle a little bit behind. | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
Limb prick bronze-medallist, the youngster from New Zealand. | :33:09. | :33:18. | |
McCartney has been at this stage of her career and keeps getting | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
personal bests. But not tonight though, but she will continue to | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
improve. It's still good enough for third place tonight. | :33:25. | :33:35. | |
And Silva now in this pole vault. Third time failure at 4.85, but 4.75 | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
gives her a second place on the night. Stefanidi cleared 4.85 as she | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
has every height. Stefanidi is having the bar moved up according to | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
our computers here to 5.07. That would be a new world record. The | :33:54. | :34:04. | |
world indoor champion was fifth in Rio and has a new coach. | :34:05. | :34:21. | |
A slow championship race, 4.33 she was bind the Polish athlete. There | :34:22. | :34:39. | |
there is Cichocka. She is strong. Arafi has got good speed. Tsegay has | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
good strength and recently broke two minutes for 800 metres can you | :34:48. | :34:50. | |
believe? A big field. 18 starters in the | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
women's 1500 metres. The fastest time was in Shanghai a | :34:57. | :35:15. | |
month or so back. Are they going with the pacemaker here? | :35:16. | :35:28. | |
Well, Tim, one athlete got herself slotted in behind the pacemaker. I'm | :35:29. | :35:39. | |
really interested to see the tall leky German. A massive talent. When | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
you start adding this to her cross-country and the strength she | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
has in long-distance. Watch her. Hassan is after it. Well, they come | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
round towards 400 metres and the field seem to be going with this | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
one. The pace is pretty good. The majority of the field have gone | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
through in 64.5, 65 seconds. They're up for this one. Perfect conditions. | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Hassan in second place. I don't know if she has urged the Romanian out in | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
front to accelerate, but it seems like there has been an acceleration | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
and the German has slotted into third. Hassan gets clipped from | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
behind. She is having a word with Tsegay behind her. The pacemaker | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
just needs to keep it clipping along here as they come towards two laps | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
to go, but the field is stretched out, this big field, because the | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
tempo upfront has remained healthy and they come through below us with | :36:40. | :36:53. | |
two lapse to run and below 1.51. Look at Konstanze Klosterhalfen. She | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
is thinking about going past. I don't think Hassan will mind. Look | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
at there, the German knows what she doesn't have is natural pace, Tim, | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
but she has got such good strength and she is attacking saouf saouf. | :37:05. | :37:21. | |
Hassan. Well, there is no fat on her. The German with 550 metres to | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
run. Really testing this field now with this surge. She went past the | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
pacemaker. Hasson on her shoulder who has got real strength too | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
challenges the German too. The surge is taking them clear. Sado is in | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
fourth place. It is Hassan leading, 2.55 at the bell. This is going to | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
be quick. Konstanze Klosterhalfen in second place. There is a gap back to | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
fifth place, but Hassan here, running the perfect race to drag | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
Konstanze Klosterhalfen the German to a quick time. Konstanze | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
Klosterhalfen is running a massive race. She could run under four | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
minutes. That would be a brilliant performance. Look at Hassan, strong | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
can have didn't and kicks away. She has got this one in the bag. It is a | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
question of how fast. Konstanze Klosterhalfen has lost a lot of | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
ground. She needs to concentrate here and keep the knees up. Hassan | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
does it. She has that awkward round-shouldered style, but what a | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
run from her. The gap is 15 metres. Watch the clock. This is going to be | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
quick. Konstanze Klosterhalfen is hanging on, they are all struggling, | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
but Hassan is in a class of her own. Watch the time, this is quick. My | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
word, in second place coming through was Winny Chebet. I said she was one | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
to watch. Goodness me, second in the world junior 800 a few years ago, | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
Winny Chebet, but she was a distant second despite the quality of her | :39:01. | :39:10. | |
run because the real quality came from the Dutchwoman, Sifan Hassan. | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
It was the way in which Konstanze Klosterhalfen is not frightened of | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
anyone that goes after it. Her best distance might be the 5,000 and | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
maybe even longer because she has got such good pedigree, but under | :39:26. | :39:38. | |
four minutes for the German and for Jebet. | :39:39. | :39:49. | |
Conseslus Kipruto was more than good enough tonight. That's a meeting | :39:50. | :39:59. | |
record. A world lead. 3.56.22. Improving substantially. The women | :40:00. | :40:06. | |
owes pole vault is going on and they are crossing the javelin runway. So | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
they are having to wait for their attempt. There is the lead. It maybe | :40:12. | :40:29. | |
a metre or so beyond that. So the Olympic champion, getting to grips | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
with conditions here and that will extend his lead in the third round. | :40:36. | :40:47. | |
87, 89. This is Stefanidi. Could this be a world record? No, but she | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
had a go. And remains world number one and remains on top in terms of | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
world rankings and indeed, winning competitions. Stefanidi winning | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
again tonight with a world leading 4.85 in the women's pole vault. | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
Attempting the world record. She has got a stretch to get there yet for | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
me. Well, she knows what she is up against. It gives her a prospective | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
on what a world record really means. A-beautiful clearance at 1.96 at the | :41:15. | :41:30. | |
first time of asking and boy, was she clear. There is clearly a great | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
deal more to come. She's making it look easy and making herself look | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
very much like an athlete who should be on top of the world rankings with | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
2.03 from Eugene a couple of weeks back. | :41:43. | :42:00. | |
Levchenko the only one to go clear. The third attempt for her. Clutch | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
jump. It was a pretty good clearance in the end, look at it. Yes, very | :42:08. | :42:17. | |
nice indeed. What can the London 2012 champion | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
do? That's big. That has put the cat amongst the pigeons. I don't think | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
it's the lead, but that's from Walcott, that's a fabulous throw. | :42:28. | :42:39. | |
That is beyond 86 metres. The women's 100 metres. | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
Henry in decent form. For Schippers, it wasn't the | :42:44. | :43:02. | |
Olympics she wanted. Still performing well. Schippers is only | :43:03. | :43:09. | |
24. This year, 10.95 back in April in the States where she prepared for | :43:10. | :43:11. | |
the start of this season. Michelle-Lee Ahye Managing to juggle | :43:12. | :43:31. | |
long jump and the 100 metres. Williams right over in lane two. It | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
is Schippers. It will be Schippers just. Schippers gets it. And just | :43:38. | :43:46. | |
outside, we will wait to see if that gets taken down. Under 11 seconds. | :43:47. | :43:55. | |
The clock stops. In fact Tim, it has been taken to 10.99. It was an OK | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
start. I wouldn't say it was a great start. She had two good starters | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
next to her, but it was Williams who got out so quick over in lane two, | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
but then the real race got going in the medal lanes. Good scrap, wasn't | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
it, between Schippers and Ta Lou. Well, she is a big powerful athlete, | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
Schippers. The 200 is her best event. The start isn't her best. All | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
credit to Ta Lou. She hung on to her. Stayed with her almost stride | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
for stride the hole way down the straight. Just lost out on the final | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
run in and the strength of Schippers taking her clear. A good run from | :44:40. | :44:46. | |
Ahye too. 10.99. Schippers was one of three athletes under 11 seconds | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
this year and she confirms that form with another very, very solid run. A | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
good race that. A really close race. Williams just went for one speed at | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
#30e metres to another at 80, 90, but she did hang on to fifth place, | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
but as Tim was saying, Schippers once more under 11 seconds. T Lou | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
just outside at 11.03. This is the second attempt at two | :45:16. | :45:34. | |
metres. Not giving anything away emotionally, she is staying very | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
detached and focus. That is the first smile we have seen through the | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
evening, frankly. Now the men's javelin. He has had a | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
really poor night. He has been weighed down so far, but that is | :45:50. | :46:00. | |
huge! Well, he has done it again. He is taking the challenge to Thomas | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
Rohler, his team-mate. He had no throw in the fourth round and in the | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
fifth round produces a huge throat. That will take the lead. Goodness | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
me, where did that come from? It takes the lead. This is a strong | :46:18. | :46:30. | |
field. Filippo Tortu of Italy is the world junior silver-medallist. A big | :46:31. | :46:42. | |
talent. But he could struggle against this company, particularly | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
against Andre de Grasse, the Olympic silver-medallist. Just 22 years of | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
age. Only fifth in Doha and then forth in Eugene. Struggling a bit | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
with form perhaps. There is Christophe Lemaitre. 26 years old. | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
He took the bronze in Rio. And very even start initially. Christophe | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
Lemaitre struggled on the band a little bit. Andre de Grasse changes | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
gear and moves away. He is the smallest of all of them, but look at | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
that winning margin. That is the Andre de Grasse we remember from | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
2016. He is finding his racing legs. A class apart. He did all his | :47:40. | :47:55. | |
running from the 90 metres point. That is a three-metre winning margin | :47:56. | :48:05. | |
from Andre de Grasse. Filippo Tortu is getting a big roar from the crowd | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
in the stadium. He finished fourth, a season's record for him and a | :48:09. | :48:17. | |
personal best. A great performance. Look at him out there in lane seven | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
and he was with them coming off the bed. But then you see Andre de | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
Grasse, not changing gear, but maintaining good form. Christophe | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
Lemaitre just sneaks second place. Andre de Grasse is a lovely runner, | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
very relaxed. As far as we know Usain Bolt will not run the 200 | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
metres in London and that leaves this event wide open, a really | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
exciting event. This man has the talent to win it, but does he have | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
the mental fortitude and strength to believe he can go on to become world | :48:52. | :49:01. | |
champion? Genzebe Dibaba came up short in her attempt at the 5000 | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
metres world record in Eugene and she has not really impressed so far | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
this season. Kenya's Helen Obiri set a lifetime's best over the distance | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
last month. She should provide a tough test for Genzebe Dibaba. | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
Perhaps they could get closer to the world record held by Genzebe | :49:25. | :49:31. | |
Dibaba's sister, Tirunesh Dibaba. It is a tall order at any time. But | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
I suppose if anyone who has got the pedigree to go after it, it is | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
Genzebe Dibaba. The world record is held by Tirunesh Dibaba. That is the | :49:44. | :49:51. | |
full line-up. The big challenge will come from Helen Obiri. There are | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
plenty of good athletes in here. We will probably end up with two races | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
because the pace they have asked for is very quick. Stephanie Twell and | :50:00. | :50:07. | |
Eilish McColgan are going for Great Britain. Consternation at the hotel | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
as to what was being asked for pace wise. The idea is to go out hard and | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
then try and hang on. I am not sure that is the best way to attack this | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
fast time. The problem they have got is to go out as hard as they want to | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
go out and you have to find some good pacemakers and I am not | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
convinced we have got good enough quality pacemakers here tonight. The | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
young athlete who has been asked to do it has a personal best of nine | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
minutes, so you get the idea of the kind of task that will face the | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
pacemakers. We'll Genzebe Dibaba take it on herself? I would think | :50:54. | :51:03. | |
probably not. We will wait and see. We have got two races going on. | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
There is a group of athletes, with the European athletes like Aileen | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
McColgan and Stephanie Twell and they are so detached. There are a | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
few stragglers and then 130 metres behind this pace, and it is a faster | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
pace. I have said that this athlete is not good enough and Genzebe | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
Dibaba has, early enough, decided to have a go. Hats off to her. It is a | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
risky strategy. If she is not in shape to run very fast and run away | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
from the rest of them, she will pay for this because it will be a long | :51:46. | :51:53. | |
run in front for Genzebe Dibaba. Back in this high jump competition. | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
It ends in failure as it does so often in the vertical jumps. One of | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
the great ironies of those disciplines. But what an evening it | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
has been for the Russian jumping here. Neutral athlete, it was | :52:08. | :52:22. | |
comfortable win. This is slowing and slowing. That second 1000 metres | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
when she decided to pick it up and they were already five seconds down | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
on the pace. To have to run this far on your own out in front is a tough | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
ask. She has got Agnes Tirop for company as well. This is not what | :52:42. | :52:52. | |
was billed. But I am just curious, Tim. If you say you are going to go | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
out that hard, you have got to find the pacemaker. She is slowing so | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
much that Helen Obiri goes, enough is enough, I came here to run fast. | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
I am off. Away she goes and suddenly Genzebe Dibaba is in fourth place. | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
They have got five laps to run. Funnily enough, the world record at | :53:16. | :53:23. | |
three kilometres it was eight point 38. But Tirunesh Dibaba, her elder | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
sister, finishes like an absolute train. We are breaking off for the | :53:30. | :53:39. | |
javelin. Thomas Rohler, and his final opportunity. He has hit it! | :53:40. | :53:49. | |
That is fabulous competitive instincts. He knew he needed a | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
bigger effort. So often you get the big effort in the first round or the | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
last round. You know it is the last chance saloon. Thomas Rohler, it is | :54:02. | :54:14. | |
a monstrous effort. It is in neutral air, he is not getting any help on | :54:15. | :54:24. | |
this one, muggy evening. Helen Obiri is really stepping up here tonight. | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
The Olympic silver-medallist has been in great form over the last two | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
years in particular. Her personal best is 14 point two two. She has | :54:36. | :54:44. | |
got an 85-metre lead. She is going to take the bell Inn around 13.13. | :54:45. | :54:53. | |
She needs a 69 last lap. 68 would get her personal best. She is now | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
lapping athletes. 12 are dropping out. Letesenbet Giday is getting | :55:02. | :55:09. | |
into the grid behind. The crowd are rising to her. She looks quite | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
supreme, she has destroyed Genzebe Dibaba. She is lapping good | :55:16. | :55:22. | |
athletes, Helen Obiri. It will be a mighty quick time. It is the manner | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
of the performance that has been special. She is lapping athletes and | :55:28. | :55:37. | |
is lifting this again. Only four athletes have ever run below 14 | :55:38. | :55:45. | |
point 20. Heading for the quickest ever 5000 metres and sprinting away. | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
She is watching the clock and is going to win the race. Look at the | :55:51. | :56:00. | |
time. A huge performance from Helen Obiri. Great running from her. I can | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
tell you that Genzebe Dibaba is pretty much jogging and being passed | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
by athletes in the home straight. A Kenyan record. Only three Ethiopians | :56:10. | :56:24. | |
have run quicker. Helen Obiri with a superb run. Agnes Tirop took the | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
second place. The youngster Letesenbet Giday got into third. | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
What a big effort from her as well. Whatever the hype about Genzebe | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
Dibaba, it is hype at the moment. Helen Obiri, running well, running | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
strong, running confident and rewarded with a huge performance. | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
Absolutely. She really did find something in the last lap, still | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
something in the tank for the final circuit of the track. Look at her | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
with her head rocking from side to side, trying desperately to get | :57:04. | :57:17. | |
under 14 stop 20. I have always enjoyed watching her run. A great | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
athlete. Now she is running better than ever. A new Kenyan record for | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
Helen Obiri. A great performance from her. Agnes Tirop ran well to | :57:29. | :57:38. | |
get second place. There were some excellent early-season performances | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
tonight with Helen Obiri and Sifan Hassan and Thomas Rohler. But for | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
most of the Brits it was a disappointing night. But Singin do | :57:49. | :58:00. | |
Pujara got victory against a very good field. The time was less | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
important than the win. CJ could not have given himself a better | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
confidence boost. The athletics action is coming thick and fast on | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
the BBC. This weekend we have two Diamond League meetings to bring | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
you. On Saturday we will have highlights from Oslo. Then it is | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
Stockholm on Sunday night, or next Monday lunchtime on BBC Two. And | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
there is more athletics the following weekend with the European | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
team Championships. Catch a live coverage all weekend on the red | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
button, online and on connected TV. Later tonight we have got live rugby | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
union. That is followed by cricket highlights with a must win match for | :58:45. | :58:53. | |
Australia in the ICC champions Trophy. We will be back with plenty | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
more athletics next week. Until then, goodbye. | :58:58. | :59:05. |