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Hello and welcome to Zurich for the first leg of

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the Diamond League Finals, where a truly special night

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of athletics is in prospect, as we witness the last ever

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performance, on the track, of this man...

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He's sprinting for gold, running for greatness. Beautiful! This is world

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domination for Mo Farah. The double double. He's a one-man world

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superpower. One Mo time. The great Sir Mo Farah,

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one of a host of big names competing here in a star-studied line-up

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in Switzerland, with 16 Diamond trophies up for grabs,

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each coming with $50,000 World Champion Dafne Schippers takes

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on Olympic Champion Elaine South African world champion

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Caster Semenya heads Justin Gatlin returns to the track

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for the first time since winning the world title in London in a 100

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metres which includes two of Britain's relay heroes,

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CJ Ujah and Adam Gemili. Fresh from her London 2017 success,

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Australia's Sally Pearson lines In Farah's final 5K,

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he takes on the man who beat him in London,

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Ethiopia's Muktar Edris, But first it's the men's 1500m

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with Britain's Jake Wightman taking on all three

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World Championship medallists. Time to join your commentary team

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of Steve Cram and Tim Hutchings. COMMENTATOR: One of the traditional

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events you would associate with Zurich over the years, the men's

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1500 metres, and the world champion, silver-medallist in Beijing two

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years ago. They had hoped for a Kenyan one and two and three, but

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the Norwegian took the bronze medal, Ingebritsken. The men's 1500 gets

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underway. This crowd over the years have lifted many to super fast

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times. The last time a world record was broken, it was Seb Coe. The pace

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they have asked for, very fast. I suspect one or two of them might sit

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off it. For some it's a struggle to carry on the season. When they get

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through the championships they really do hit the wall. They want to

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finish the season with a flourish. Not a lot of takers for the early

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pace. A very sensible time. Keeping an eye on the two men who finished

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in front of him at the World Championships. Cheruiyot made the

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Paysinger World Championships final. Simotwo moving up past Kiplagat.

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Jake Wightman taking closer order. To reiterate the point Tim was

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making, they amount of points you win, winning by eight points in our

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slow to get into the this final. All the tempo is still very quick

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upfront. INAUDIBLE

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1.54 for Cheruiyot, who is effectively leading things.

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Cheruiyot with a forward leaning action. Man and Ball is almost

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copying him behind. Kiplagat moving through the field. A difficult

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season for the great man. He said he was moving up to 5000 from next

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year. Does he still have a sting in the tail for his team-mates? Coming

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round to take the bell, starting to bunch up behind Cheruiyot and

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Manangol, the world champion. Took the bronze medal in London. Said he

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felt... INAUDIBLE Got a great run over the last 300

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metres and had some tactical errors. Perfect position on the inside.

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Kiplagat moving into second ahead of Manangol, Cheruiyot still in front.

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Kiplagat, the tall and elegant figure moving up on the inside. Five

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or six canyons in the first six places. Jake Wightman making a move.

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Cheruiyot still out in front. The world champion, Manangol is moving

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into second place. Cheruiyot is now kicking off the front. Kiplagat

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moves into second but Cheruiyot has stolen a march and wins it.

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Kiplagat, then Manangol and then they all tumble across the line

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behind. That will be some consolation for Cheruiyot, who said

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he was delighted with his silver medal, but sometimes you think when

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you get beaten by a team-mate, they are the sort of things you say, it

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would be great to have a Kenyan 1-2, and I'm sure he would love to have

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been world champion himself, but he's the Diamond League champion for

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2017. Not much to choose in the triple jump between the top three.

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Just seven centimetres. The win, rather surprisingly went to

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Rypakova. Waiting until the Diamond League final to produce one of the

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better performances of her season. Leading from the start and the

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winning leap came in around four. I guess at best you would call it a

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mixed World Championships for this young lady. Miller-Uibo was the

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red-hot favourite to win the 400-metre title but inexplicably

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stumbled in the closing metres. Picked up a medal in the 200 metres.

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Elaine Thompson similarly in the 100 metres, the red-hot favourite. Not

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performing at all. Dafne Schippers, the way was left clear for her in

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the 200 metres, no Tori Bowie, was injured herself in winning the

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event. Marie-Josee Ta Lou gets a pretty good start. And now Elaine

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Thompson try to catch up. Schippers running a fabulous bend with

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Marie-Josee Ta Lou. Elaine Thompson trying to go with these two. And

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look at Miller-Uibo, punching incredibly quickly, and she wins it.

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21.89. Well! The race was progressing and progressing as you

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would expect. I guess, as is the want of a 400-metre record, and

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that's a new national record. It has been taken down another notch.

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21.88. It was fantastic. World champion Dafne Schippers relegated

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to fourth place, doesn't even make the rostrum. But Miller-Uibo, she

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looks shocked herself with that new personal best. The full result, and

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a new national record for Miller-Uibo. Rypakova is unbeaten

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this year. The Chinese world champion in London has looked

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supreme. -- Gong is unbeaten this year. A series of more than 90

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metres. That goes to 19 metres and 60. 20 metres remains elusive.

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Winning by over a metre from Marton and there is the world champion,

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Emma Coburn of the USA. Was third in Rio last year and then gold in

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London in spectacular fashion a fortnight ago.

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Ruth Jebet, fifth in the World Championships in London, but she is

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the Olympic champion. This field is like an Olympic final. It is quite

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staggering in its strength in depth. This is a rapidly developing

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discipline, the women's 3000 metres steeplechase. Eight of the top ten

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times of all time are still active in this discipline. You can't say

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that about any other track and field discipline, I believe. It's a strong

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event and gaining strength all the time. So good to see Emma Coburn

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mixing it with the best of the Africans in the last couple of

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seasons and then rising to the top of the pile with a perfectly worked

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strategic race in London. We can move to the far corner of the

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stadium now to the men's pole vault. Already the big obstacles are out of

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the competition. A second attempt at 5.8 zero.

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Lisek maintains his challenge here. Sam Kendricks is yet to achieve the

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site. The American has been supremely consistent through this

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2017 summer. The Polish going well, Wojciechowski. Sam Kendricks haven't

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taken three attempts to clear 5.80. First attempt at 5.87, and there we

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go. Normal service resumed. The smile is back. The American is

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getting down to business. First-time clear at 5.87. Negotiating the water

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jump OK that time. Ruth Jebet in second place. Quite a gap back to

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Emma Coburn with the European Championships from Amsterdam last

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year and the bronze-medallist in the last World Championships in 2015,

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Krause, just shadowing the American, almost as if she wants the scalp

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because she is world champion. Bondarenko, one failure for him at

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2.31 so far. Has come good at the end of the season, despite the ninth

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place in London. Jumping really well. The Ukrainian. Bondarenko with

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a second time clearance. Really citing the bar so well. It's easy to

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forget he had that incredible season back in 2014 when he cleared 2.42

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and was undisputed world number one for a couple of years. His next bar

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height will be 2.33. This is Ghazal with a second attempt. And he's

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over! Ghazal showing it was no fluke in London. Great story for the

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Syrian, still lives and trains at home most of the time. Superb

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clearance there. We have a competition on tonight. At its a

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little surprising, Steve, when you consider how bad the surface was an

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hour ago. Barshim, he had a failure at 2.3 three. This is the second

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time of asking, and he wriggles over, with lots of speed and power.

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A wonderful arc. He makes this so great to watch, the young Qatari

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just over one lap to run now. Ruth Jebet has wrestled back the lead

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from her compatriot. The former Kenyan running now for Bahrain. Ruth

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Jebet. This pair head into the back straight. 300 to run and the world

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record is 8.52 from Paris last year, almost exactly one year ago. And

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Ruth Jebet kicks away down the back straight but Chepkoech matches her

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stride for stride. Still only three women in history have broken nine

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minutes, including Ruth Jebet and Chepkoech. The Russian was the first

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in 2008. Chepkoech looks like she has thrown in the towel. I don't

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think you'll get back to her now. Look at the clock. 8.45 on the clock

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and it will be mighty far. She will miss her own world record by a

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couple of seconds. Ruth Jebet charges to the line. 8:55.33.

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Astonishing running after a first slow kilometre of nearly 3.02. The

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second quickest time in history behind her own world record set 362

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days ago at the Paris Diamond League and just a couple of weeks after

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those Rio games. Unbelievable closing speed from Ruth Jebet.

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Two women in the same race under nine minutes. She misses the world

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record by 2.5 seconds. She takes the Diamond League title in the women's

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steeple race. The pole vault from Piotr Lisek. A brave effort to pass

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and give it one last go but it wasn't to be. It has been a good

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night for him. A little payday as well. Congratulations from the

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American. The two Poles finishing second and third. Sam Kendricks

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continues his unbeaten season. Great competition. Not the best in terms

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of heights achieved, but he wins with a clearance of 5.87.

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There is the Olympic champion from last year and London 2012, Caster

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Semenya. Unbeaten this year and last year over 800 metres. She took the

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bronze for the 1500 in London as well. She is in lane seven. Will she

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go with this quick pace? She has appeared to do just enough to win

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the 800 metres again and again and again. Early

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surge from Sum. Bishop going quickly as well. Semenya is too hungry for

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this. The runner in a white vest looks like she's ready to take this

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to the rest of the field and she will need to go through it at a

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healthy pace and attacked the second lap to get away from Semenya. Sum

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going a bit more sensibly. Watching Niyonsaba. She is right up

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there with Semenya. Can she get dragged through here? Bishop having

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a go here. Great to see the Canadian reading with 200 metres to go. Now

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Semenya attacks, a little earlier than usual, imposing herself on the

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field. Niyonsaba in her slipstream in the white vest in second, Bishop

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in third. Sum moves past Bishop into third. Here comes Semenya, unleashes

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that power down the home straight. Niyonsaba powerless to get back to

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her. Niyonsaba, she going to take second? Yes, a late charge coming

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through... The time, 1:55.80 four. The high gym now and Barshim. Over

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on the third attempt. -- the high jump. The crowd loved it. In

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Birmingham he famously said he wanted to take the bar home with

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him. Just alluding to that as he grabbed the bar. I don't think that

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is the end of it tonight, though. 2.30 six. He has won this

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competition already. Ghazal is second. Young Tom Gale of Great

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Britain in the Diamond League final in eighth place. But Barshim, 2.3

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Justin Gatlin, won here in 2005, 12 years ago. He bullied his way into

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the world gold ahead of Usain Bolt Tseng roughly 56,000 people I'm

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disappointed. Pujara, he has had a fabulous season. He won in

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Birmingham on Sunday. -- Ujah. Justin Gatlin in the third lane and

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Ujah in lane five. Set... A good start from Gatlin and Powell. Powell

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moving away. Ujah challenging for this one, he might get this... He

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does, I think the Briton takes it. Very tight indeed but I think Ben

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Youssef Meite took second place. The camera focuses on Ujah. Did he take

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the biggest win of his career? Only 23 years old. A win in Birmingham on

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Sunday, a win in the domestic field, would be nicely rounded off with a

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win in the Diamond League final. He does take it. Ujah, from the

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season's best. Fabulous pick-up in the middle section from Ujah. On the

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far side Powell and Gatlin had their own little battle. Ben Youssef Meite

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in second. Let's have a look at it again. Ujah right in the centre in

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lane five. Yes, it was pretty even, was in it? Ben Youssef Meite

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finishing strongly. CJ hangs in. Great leave. The two of them not

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slip by hundreds of a second. That will down two thousandths of a

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second. Look at that photograph. You couldn't really separate them from

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that. They win by the tightest of my -- margins, but there is the result.

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Ujah winning by millimetres. Barshim has called it a night at

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5.30 six. Third attempt it took to get over it. Probably said enough

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was enough, no more so as the great man. He has the Diamond League title

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to add to his world title. So, to the 5000m and the final track

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appearance of Britain's He is going to take another world

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title. A one-man superstar, gold for Mo Farah.

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After victory in London over 10,000m to seal his tenth global gold,

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he was beaten to the 5K by Ethiopia's Muktar Edris,

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He gave everything, this will be the worst he's ever felt.

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Expect a strong challenge too from world bronze

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medallist, Paul Chelimo of the United States.

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The night sky bringing focus to this glorious facility. It is Mo Farah

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time, 12.5 laps of the track. It will be reputedly for the last time

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that Mo Farah will contest a major race on the track. He couldn't have

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picked a more difficult one! The top six from the London final, which was

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won by Edris. I was talking to Mo Farah today and he said, I was just

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too tired. After winning the gold medal, his tenth, it was a stretch

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too far. I am sure for Mo Farah there will be a few thoughts about

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the journey he has come on to get here. I was looking up some track

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results, all the way back to 1995, when he won the English schools. 95,

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his first track event, 1500 metres. And now here he is at the other end

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of his career, choosing one of the great stadiums to compete in, one of

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the great crowds to compete in front of. A very knowledgeable crowd, who

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I am sure have been very appreciative of the fact Mo Farah

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has chosen to come here. A little unusual, because Mo Farah has been

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winning at the global level every year after the major championships

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since debut. He has run in the UK and Birmingham, but he has never

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come back onto the Diamond League circuit. In fact, the last time he

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did it come in 2010 was here in Zurich and he finished fifth in one

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of his fastest times, 12.57. He knows how hard it is and how tough

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it is coming back after a major championship.

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Difficult conditions in the women's javelin. The long-time leader this

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evening was Roberts, the Australian. A great night and it got better in

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the final round when she threw a personal best, 64.63, to finish

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second. She would never have thought she would come second in the Diamond

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League final. But the winner, as in London was Spotakova of the Czech

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Republic. Continuing a brilliant season in 2017. Again, the final

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round delivering 64.53. She came good when it mattered most, as she

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did in London. You could argue Mo Farah, when he

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went into that 5,000-metre final in London a couple of weeks back,

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wasn't on a level playing field, running on tired legs. These 5000

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metres specialists came into the final very well prepped and made him

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work for it, the silver medal he took that night. Mo, he has this

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astonishing astute ability to get things right in the race. Again and

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again Mo outwitted his opponents. Have they got it right tonight? I

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don't think they have. He was fatigued and I think he ran

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virtually the perfect race, aside from missing that extra gear down

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the home straight. Nine men have got away now and they are not doing

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anything to feed that Mo Farah surge that has happened again and again on

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the circuit. We have seen a few attempts to seek people ending their

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career on a high, Usain Bolt couldn't manage it. Mo Farah didn't

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get gold, but he will want to go out with a win here. The others are

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there to spoil the party. The Diamond League title up for grabs,

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as well as the prize money. Mo Farah has done pretty well over the years,

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thank you very much! Mo Farah into the final part of the race, where he

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will want to hold that position. 1000 metres to go. A slow kilometre

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there. Mo Farah has been in this situation so many times and has come

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out on top. He will want to do the same here. Will he strike first?

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Will he try and control it from the curve, as he likes to, or is the

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happy sitting where he is waiting for one of the others to make the

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first move? Again and again in the last few years we have wondered why

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the athletes have allowed Mo Farah to control the race in the last two

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or three laps. It is interesting. The same tactic being employed here.

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I got the impression Mo Farah wanted to dictate proceedings. He's not

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prepared to surge in a big way to get the front. He had a fantastic

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double in London himself running that high position. You can see the

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energy in that pack, the nervousness, they are desperately

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keen to make sure they match everything Mo Farah does.

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So, finally Mo Farah moves to the front. The final lap of a superb

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career on the track. Ten world titles. Most of the time he's not

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won by very far, the smallest of margins finished with a big sprint

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finish. He is going to attempt to do the same here in the Diamond League

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final. The tall Ethiopian behind him. This time Mo Farah has the

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lead. That's what he likes to have. In front of this capacity crowd.

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Just about managers to hold off Kejelcha. And now, the current world

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champion against the 10,000 metre winner. All the other gold medals he

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has... He will try and take away the last glory from Mo Farah, striking

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for home. He's going for the line, it's going to be tight again, can Mo

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Farah get there? Yes, he does! They have thrown themselves at his feet

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figuratively and literally. Mo Farah gets to the line first. The cheer

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goes up. What a way to end. Maybe his closest victory. Of all of his

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great victories. Muck to address throwing himself at

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the line. It wasn't to be for him tonight. Goodness me, that was

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close. -- Muktar Edris. Sometimes you want to make it dramatic, make

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it look good. Not coming down the home straight waving to everybody,

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fighting tooth and nail. That's what I love about Mo Farah. He and they

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are running on a fresh legs. Mo Farah literally having to dive at

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the line as the others hit the track. It was the perfect end to a

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track career from this great champion. Down the home straight, I

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believe Muktar Edris thought he could get past Mo Farah. Look at the

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features of the Britain to the right of your picture. They are coming at

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him. Paul Chelimo, Muktar Edris, the tall figure of Kejelcha. Paul

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Chelimo can't find daylight between the pair of them. Desperately tight

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at the line, but it's a win for Mo Farah to close his career. So happy.

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He has proved his talent again and again so impressively. What a race.

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He has some great pictures to hang on his wall of a great and

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illustrious career. And maybe that's one might be one of the most

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dramatic. Mo Farah winning the Diamond League title in his last

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ever race. The winning time, winning by just four hundredths of a second.

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Thank you, Sir Mo Farah. Now, the South African opened his

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account with 8.14, Samaai. Bronze-medallist at the World

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Championships, part of a research and is in South African athletics.

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Samaai is experienced, a bronze-medallist from the

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Commonwealth Games three years ago, fifth in the world indoors last

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year. The South African coming down at 8.23. Manyonga has been a

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sensation of this summer. He's the new world champion and Olympic

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silver-medallist in but his consistency has been supreme in

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2017. The gold medal in London has given him new-found confidence.

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World junior champion in 2010. Good on the board. Foul in the first

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round. This brings him down at 8.31 to take the early lead. South Africa

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in one and two. Manyonga and Samaai. opener from Vadlejch. He was on the

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thin Rio last year. Now he has a taste for a top three spot. And that

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is 88.5 zero. Thomas Roller is the next ago. The world's number two,

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93.90 in Doha in May. 84.95, and the third-round effort, way beyond 85

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metres. Fabulous throwing from this astonishing line-up of top javelin

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throwers. The world record of 98 metres, I suspect that will last a

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long time. Thomas Rohler with 86.59. The World Championships

:36:52.:36:57.

silver-medallist in lane three. Nelvis. Eighth in the World

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Championships in 2015. Only fifth in the World Championships this year

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and didn't run in London. Sally Pearson, now 30 years old. Self

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coached, has had a lot of injury problems in the last couple of years

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but she has fought her way back to the top.

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Nelvis trying to come back at Pearson. I don't know if Pearson got

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there. She might have got there with the Colin Jackson style dip comedy

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tour so almost going horizontal, she might have stolen half an inch from

:37:45.:37:49.

Nelvis. Fantastic run from the American, just fifth in the US

:37:50.:37:54.

championship, Nelvis. That is the calibre of US sprint hurdling. As

:37:55.:37:57.

Sally Pearson taken it Costa she has! 12.55 for Pearson and surely

:37:58.:38:04.

the margin of victory will be minuscule. That's the reason you

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realise you are Diamond League champion of 2017, 50,000 US dollars

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better off, Sally Pearson. It rounds of an astonishing summer. Rounded

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off in the best possible style by the Australian.

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Fourth-round effort from Manyonga, out in front in the winning position

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for the South African. He likes it. He likes it a lot, I think. And they

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usually have a pretty good idea, these fellas. 8.31 came in around

:38:46.:38:55.

two. Millimetre perfect on the board, wow. I said he was giving

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away one centimetre, and it was a lot less than that. Every sinew and

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every muscle straining for that distance. No jump in the first or

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the third rounds. They sandwiched the 8.31, and the fourth-round

:39:15.:39:19.

effort from Manyonga, 8.49 to extend his lead impressively over Samaai in

:39:20.:39:34.

the second round. The final throw, leading with 88 metres, Vadlejch,

:39:35.:39:48.

the Czech Republic athlete. As been very consistent this second half of

:39:49.:39:51.

the season, even though it's a surprise tonight. Throwing well, and

:39:52.:39:55.

that's not far away from his personal best and the season best

:39:56.:39:57.

approaching 89 metres. The winning throw 89.5 zero. Manyonga, such a

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talent and so athletic. 8.49 is the winning jump from Manyonga tonight.

:40:23.:40:33.

What a Championships from Makwala. Shaking his head as if to remind us

:40:34.:40:37.

what might have been for him, of course. The food poisoning outbreak,

:40:38.:40:43.

the Norrodin virus that affected so many athletes and teams. -- the

:40:44.:40:44.

Norrodin oh no! Stephen Gardiner has fallen

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over at the start. The only other person I saw do that earlier in the

:41:21.:41:27.

season was Matthew Smith. Makwala down the back straight. Gil Roberts

:41:28.:41:36.

is going well. Makwala certainly leading in the first 200 metres.

:41:37.:41:42.

Norwood is trying to close up the gap between him and Roberts, the

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American in lane three. Makwala is way ahead of everyone else. Makwala

:41:47.:42:00.

just tying up the lead. Crosses in 43.97. The arms spread out. That

:42:01.:42:08.

must be... I told you I was good! And then the press ups again. Fast

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becoming his trademark, did the same in London. What a shame we didn't

:42:14.:42:17.

get the race between him and Steven Gardiner there. What on earth did

:42:18.:42:25.

the tall man do? I think it happened to him in Birmingham the other

:42:26.:42:29.

weekend as well. Stumbling over the first couple of strides. A storming

:42:30.:42:34.

run from Steven Gardiner. The Botswana man winning by five metres

:42:35.:42:41.

or more. A winning time of 43.95, Roberts in second and Norwood third.

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That's all the action from Zurich, but there's plenty more sport coming

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It's Challenge Cup Final day, Hull FC verses Wigan Warriors

:42:51.:42:53.

is live from Wembley next on BBC One.

:42:54.:43:03.

Newcastle versus West Ham is the live Premier League

:43:04.:43:06.

commentary game over on 5Live at 3pm.

:43:07.:43:07.

And it's the Stockholm leg of Triathlon's World Series -

:43:08.:43:10.

you can see highlights tomorrow at 1:45pm on BBC2.

:43:11.:43:12.

The next athletics on the BBC will be the second leg

:43:13.:43:15.

of the Diamond League finals next Saturday.

:43:16.:43:17.

That's followed the following week by the Great North City Games.

:43:18.:43:20.

Before the Great North Run itself, on Sunday 10th September at 9:30am.

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Plenty to look forward to then, but now, a final time to look back,

:43:27.:43:34.

and say thank you to the one and only Sir Mo Farah, who has taken

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COMMENTARY MONTAGE: The final act of a superb career on the track. Mo

:43:38.:43:51.

Farah has been in this position so many times. He will want to come out

:43:52.:43:57.

on top again here. Mo Farah striding for home. You have to keep this

:43:58.:44:01.

going right to the lie. It will be tight again. Can he get there? Yes

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he does! What a way to win. Thank you, Sir Mo Farah.

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Phone went, and it was my sister, Jane,

:44:11.:44:11.

and she said, "It's looking quite serious, really serious."

:44:12.:44:14.

A short while ago, Buckingham Palace confirmed

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