Day 1, Part 1

:00:11. > :00:19.Six of July, London winning the right to host the games for the

:00:20. > :00:28.first time since 1948. David Beckham, passing the Olympic torch.

:00:29. > :00:33.# Opening ceremony, only the start. # Before we look to the future,

:00:34. > :00:38.reminisced to the past. Take a trip to the Olympic Park.

:00:39. > :00:44.# Super Saturday, Team GB getting three golds. Greg Rutherford jumping

:00:45. > :00:51.his way to medals. # Mo Farah winning, collecting the

:00:52. > :00:57.trouble. What a night to be British. # One of the greatest cities on The

:00:58. > :01:04.Globe. The staff of visions. # These athletes play with

:01:05. > :01:08.precision. Watch them as they run laps around the Olympic Park, fined

:01:09. > :01:16.ways to channel your energy, I know it's hard.

:01:17. > :01:22.# We've got Usain Bolt, chasing gold.

:01:23. > :01:27.# 11 times across the line, top of the globe.

:01:28. > :01:34.# Mo looking to retire, so... # Legacies omitted in place, so over

:01:35. > :01:39.the next ten days, this is the next gen's phase to make this their

:01:40. > :01:48.stage. # London, 2017, the World Athletics

:01:49. > :01:48.Championships. London, 2017, the World Athletics Championships.

:01:49. > :02:09.# This is world domination for Farah!

:02:10. > :02:19.Michael Johnson, Stanning his way to a Commodore. -- Stanning his way to

:02:20. > :02:29.a gold medal. Jessica Ennis-Hill, top of the world. It is huge, it is

:02:30. > :02:42.massive. A world record. Champion of the world. Usain Bolt!

:02:43. > :02:47.Five years after the greatest show on Earth, the London Stadium in the

:02:48. > :02:51.Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the focus of the watching world once

:02:52. > :02:54.more and for the next ten days the best track and field athletes on the

:02:55. > :02:59.planet will go head to head in their quest to strive faster, higher and

:03:00. > :03:07.stronger, with precious metals in their sights. We're in for a treat

:03:08. > :03:13.and we are joint diminishing what we hope will be a special event, hosted

:03:14. > :03:15.in the capital city. The voice of Rebecca Ferguson, finishing the

:03:16. > :03:23.opening ceremony here, which has been taking place. It really now

:03:24. > :03:28.feels like this is alive and we are here with real athletes down on the

:03:29. > :03:33.track. We have the crowd packed in and I'm delighted to say that Dame

:03:34. > :03:41.Jessica Ennis-Hill, the full title, four words! A long name but I must

:03:42. > :03:45.give you the Dame but perhaps not every time, with Paula Radcliffe and

:03:46. > :03:49.Michael Johnson. Over the last hour it has been building and for you,

:03:50. > :03:56.Jess, it must feel very evocative of 2012. It does, to see the stadium

:03:57. > :04:00.full, the nerves are coming in, the adrenaline is building, and it is

:04:01. > :04:04.very strange for me to be sat here and witnessing the Championships

:04:05. > :04:07.from this perspective. You made your decision after Rio that retirement

:04:08. > :04:13.was the way forward for you. You called time on a very illustrious

:04:14. > :04:16.career, littered with golds and Championships but now there is an

:04:17. > :04:19.added reason why you weren't be there, you are a month away from

:04:20. > :04:25.giving birth. Yes, I feel very different being in the stadium,

:04:26. > :04:28.eight months pregnant. Very happy with my career, it's been a

:04:29. > :04:32.fantastic the Met years in the sport. My first World Championships

:04:33. > :04:39.was ten years ago so I have had a great time -- fantastic ten years in

:04:40. > :04:44.the sport. I had great success, so it is nice to retire now. We kick

:04:45. > :04:49.after night, starting the evening with the 100 metres qualifying

:04:50. > :04:54.heats, these are the men who probably won't trouble Usain Bolt

:04:55. > :04:56.later in the evening. He comes in later but you can see that the

:04:57. > :05:00.crowds are out there because they know that this is a big night for

:05:01. > :05:05.British athletics because Mo Farah's first attempt to add to his global

:05:06. > :05:10.hall will be in the 10,000 metres which is the last event on the

:05:11. > :05:16.track. Those men in the first of the preliminary rounds. We don't

:05:17. > :05:19.normally go that far back in the 100 metres. Countries you don't often

:05:20. > :05:26.see at the Olympic Games in the semis and finals. Yeah, this crowd

:05:27. > :05:31.is amazing, it wouldn't matter what's going on tonight. The

:05:32. > :05:36.preliminaries of the 100 metres, and 10,000 metres, for Mo tonight, these

:05:37. > :05:39.athletics fans have been waiting for a major event like this to come back

:05:40. > :05:43.to London and they've been waiting for five years and now they will be

:05:44. > :05:49.rewarded with some great athletics over the next ten days. The 100

:05:50. > :05:55.metres, yeah, these guys aren't going to bother Boult. You have

:05:56. > :06:00.11.20 four. Could you possibly take that tonight? No! Still a

:06:01. > :06:07.world-class athlete, I am a former athlete! Just thinking about that I

:06:08. > :06:12.pulled a hamstring! You were touching the medals earlier with

:06:13. > :06:17.glee in your eye. Let's go out and enjoy our commentary team. A good

:06:18. > :06:26.evening, Andrew Cotter. COMMENTATOR: Good evening, welcome. This is a

:06:27. > :06:33.mixture in the prelims, you've got Odhiambo, 10.14 this season. Matadi,

:06:34. > :06:38.the Liberian, 10.19. In lane three, ten .18 but it is done on season

:06:39. > :06:43.best's times and 10.18 would be 90 in terms of this season. So, here

:06:44. > :06:48.they are in the prelims but they are high calibre athletes alongside some

:06:49. > :06:56.who are going to enjoy the night Ulster three will go through

:06:57. > :07:03.automatically. -- enjoy the night. A good start, Odhiambo, the long

:07:04. > :07:11.striding Kenyon. It is Matadi. A long way clear, into a little bit of

:07:12. > :07:17.a breeze which may be a factor later on. But the giant, Matadi, the

:07:18. > :07:22.Liberian, who has raced for the Americans before but was born in

:07:23. > :07:25.Liberia, in 10.27, taking the first one and he will go through

:07:26. > :07:31.automatically. Just those three will go through because the others were a

:07:32. > :07:35.long way distance. Three will go through and the fastest two losers.

:07:36. > :07:40.Matadi takes victory in the first one and he will go through with

:07:41. > :07:48.Odhiambo of Kenya and the Canadian, Brendon Rodney. STUDIO: Matadi, the

:07:49. > :07:51.winner there, I'm not sure if he will go through to the semis and

:07:52. > :07:57.finals but there may be some rugby teams interested in his future.

:07:58. > :08:06.Boult is lucky they had to stand on the lane because he could take him

:08:07. > :08:10.out -- Bolt. He could be a linebacker. Usain Bolt is getting

:08:11. > :08:16.ready for the heat that come up later on, with his usual verve and

:08:17. > :08:19.aplomb and his style. He's been dancing, intimidating, no doubt,

:08:20. > :08:23.anybody who thinks they may have a chance against him. Trying to do

:08:24. > :08:28.what he can to psych out the opposition and entertain the others.

:08:29. > :08:34.Paula Radcliffe, a big smile for you when you see him. Yes, he just

:08:35. > :08:37.brings something extra to the Championships. He's a big reason

:08:38. > :08:43.that so many people have out to night. They are very aware that it

:08:44. > :08:46.is his goodbye to athletics this year and many people want to take

:08:47. > :08:51.that last opportunity to come and see him. So many people want to see

:08:52. > :08:56.the next people coming through, seeing athletics being healthy,

:08:57. > :09:00.wanting to capitalise on perhaps not getting tickets in 2012 and

:09:01. > :09:05.experiencing it today. So we would always see a full stadium. If you

:09:06. > :09:13.had a chance to seek Muhammad Ali's last fight or Pele's last match, you

:09:14. > :09:20.would take it. There is plenty more coming up tonight.

:09:21. > :09:26.Britain's greatest athlete in history, Mo Farah, aiming for world

:09:27. > :09:31.title number six and he is the favourite for the 10,000 metres

:09:32. > :09:35.gold. Laura Muir beginning her quest in the women's 1500 metres but even

:09:36. > :09:40.the heats of this top quality event will be tough to get through.

:09:41. > :09:44.Britain's pole vault record-holder, Holly Bradshaw, has sights on a

:09:45. > :09:49.medal. It is the tense qualifying rounds for her tonight. Simbine is a

:09:50. > :09:56.top contender in the men's 100 metres and has already run eight sub

:09:57. > :10:00.ten seconds runs this season. CJ Ujah is one to watch, he has been in

:10:01. > :10:06.fine form and he's in confident mood. But the one to watch is the

:10:07. > :10:11.main man, Usain Bolt. He already has it 11 world titles to his name. Can

:10:12. > :10:18.the fastest man ever take gold again in his final Championships? We hope

:10:19. > :10:25.you're going to stay with us throughout. This is how the evening

:10:26. > :10:29.looks. The men's discus features the reigning champion, Malachowski. Greg

:10:30. > :10:35.Rutherford won't take part in the long jump, he is absent through

:10:36. > :10:41.injury but no lack of talent. The world leader, from South Africa,

:10:42. > :10:47.Manyonga, is the man to beat. The WAP and indoor champion, Laura Muir,

:10:48. > :10:51.going for Britain -- the European and indoor champion. Pole vault

:10:52. > :11:02.qualifying, another British medal hope in Holly Bradshaw. At 9:20pm,

:11:03. > :11:10.it is the big man. Mo Farah rounding off the evening with his bid for a

:11:11. > :11:14.sixth World Championship. It is the longer distance for him to night. He

:11:15. > :11:18.hasn't lost a race over this distance since 2012, so fingers

:11:19. > :11:24.crossed that continues to night. There is CJ Ujah of Great Britain,

:11:25. > :11:28.who is a man who will fancy his chances here to get onto the

:11:29. > :11:31.rostrum, Michael, and you have been a fair critic of British sprinting

:11:32. > :11:37.in recent years. How do you rate him? I think he has a real

:11:38. > :11:42.opportunity at these championships. He has won three Diamond League

:11:43. > :11:46.races this year and I think that if he can take this round by round and

:11:47. > :11:51.focus on getting into the finals at not really think about getting on

:11:52. > :11:55.the rostrum at this point, just get to the final. If he's in the final,

:11:56. > :11:59.anything can happen. If he can put together one of the races he had

:12:00. > :12:04.earlier this year, maybe he has a possibility. He has talked about

:12:05. > :12:09.Bolt but he should focus on his own race. We will focus on him later.

:12:10. > :12:13.These are the prelims, the second heat and a good evening to Steve

:12:14. > :12:18.Cram. COMMENTATOR: Good evening, everybody. A packed house, getting

:12:19. > :12:30.some hors d'oeuvres, the preliminary round.

:12:31. > :12:41.Barnes, formerly known as Winston, formerly Jamaican, now running for

:12:42. > :12:48.Turkey. He is in lane four. Walsh of Antigua. Pretty good runners but

:12:49. > :13:00.watch out for lane two. The top three will go through. Barnes

:13:01. > :13:07.getting away well and so does Saaid. There are two fastest losers and

:13:08. > :13:14.spots. We are getting a feel for the conditions. A nice following wind.

:13:15. > :13:21.It was 1.4 in the first race. These guys, in the Middle 10.1 and a

:13:22. > :13:24.running 10.2, so conditions are that -- indications are that the

:13:25. > :13:31.conditions are good for when the big boys come in later on. Just watch

:13:32. > :13:38.Barnes here. He has run 10.17 this year. He competed pretty well, a

:13:39. > :13:43.good run in Lucerne, his last race before he came here. A former

:13:44. > :13:47.Jamaican. You can't blame him for leaving Jamaica. Now runs for

:13:48. > :13:58.Turkey. Safely through to come back later on. STUDIO: I'll be honest, I

:13:59. > :14:04.had to look where Kiri Barty was. None of my colleagues knew that

:14:05. > :14:08.either! It is just above Australia, to the right. Sadly their athlete

:14:09. > :14:14.didn't make it through to the heats but there is another heat in the

:14:15. > :14:17.hundred metres in a few moments. On the warm up track, just outside the

:14:18. > :14:22.stadium, it is where the athletes are preparing themselves for their

:14:23. > :14:29.event and you can see Great Britain's Laura Muir, in the heats

:14:30. > :14:36.of the 1500 metres. Paula, it is a brave assault, 15 and 5000, a tough

:14:37. > :14:39.double to go for. It is. She did the double indoors in Belgrade but this

:14:40. > :14:44.is a different kettle of fish at the World Championships. This is the

:14:45. > :14:48.toughest race, the 1500 metres and I think she wouldn't be doing it the

:14:49. > :14:52.other way around. But now she will be focused on really making it

:14:53. > :14:57.safely through the heats, making it through the semis and then think

:14:58. > :15:01.about the final. 5000 won't be in her head. She loves this stadium, it

:15:02. > :15:06.is where she got her British record in the 1500 metres. A great

:15:07. > :15:11.Championship form indoors, but this is London, this is a different

:15:12. > :15:15.kettle of fish, this World Championships will feel like a step

:15:16. > :15:18.up, even from Rio perhaps. Even though that was the Olympics, the

:15:19. > :15:22.crowds were not sold out on every session and this is a home crowd and

:15:23. > :15:28.you know what it is like to live job game for the home crowd. A different

:15:29. > :15:31.situation but we saw Laura's performances towards the end of the

:15:32. > :15:36.last year when she had that great time in the 1500. She is such a

:15:37. > :15:42.steely performer, you can see how she responds and trains, her being

:15:43. > :15:48.in this environment, on this stage, she's going to thrive and enjoy it.

:15:49. > :15:51.She was waiting in the wings in 2012 and didn't get the chance to

:15:52. > :15:56.experience it. Laura Weightman who is going to night raised in the

:15:57. > :16:01.final in 2012 but Laura Muir didn't even race in that. The next year she

:16:02. > :16:04.made the step forward and she has grown so much, she has learnt so

:16:05. > :16:10.much and I think that is the big thing for Laura. In those few years

:16:11. > :16:13.a lot has changed from making the first team, coming in as a gold

:16:14. > :16:18.medal favourite or being amongst the favourites in a tough race. The 1500

:16:19. > :16:23.metres is loaded with talent. It will arguably be one of the great

:16:24. > :16:28.races of the Championship, to get into the final will be HMP

:16:29. > :16:36.achievement. Even getting through the heats tonight. In a very tough

:16:37. > :16:42.heat to night. To get to the final will be a big achievement. It is a

:16:43. > :16:52.big ask, you have a big group and you have the likes of the Barber --

:16:53. > :17:03.Dibaba. There are so many people there, Laura has to be at her best.

:17:04. > :17:08.It can come down to those tactics. It is funny you say that, while we

:17:09. > :17:12.are talking about what the chances are for her to get a medal, she's

:17:13. > :17:18.focussed on producing her best performance and running the type of

:17:19. > :17:21.tactics which will give her the best performance at these championships.

:17:22. > :17:25.That is what she'll be focussed on right now, thinking about tactics,

:17:26. > :17:29.making sure she'll get it right, which is what she's thinking about

:17:30. > :17:34.right now, making sure she gets it right.

:17:35. > :17:37.The hardest thing, as well, in the heats is staying out of trouble and

:17:38. > :17:43.getting through. Thank you Paula. We will go back to

:17:44. > :17:44.the track now. It is the third of the men's 100 metres.

:17:45. > :17:53.Andrew Cotter has the pleasure. Some very, very good athletes in

:17:54. > :18:00.this third of four preliminary heats. First round, and Jan Volko,

:18:01. > :18:06.Mario Burke and Abdullah Abkar Mohammed will be the three to look

:18:07. > :18:11.out for here. Burke and Volko, in lanes six and three. Three to go

:18:12. > :18:25.through automatically. Rolando Palacios, the flag bearer.

:18:26. > :18:32.There is a little bit of a touch there, I thought, in the middle, but

:18:33. > :18:38.through come the three big names there. Burke, Volko. : Mohammed

:18:39. > :18:45.coming through quickly. The quickest time of the evening for Jan Volko.

:18:46. > :18:51.Following the breeze. Jan Volko, who is high quality. Runs 10.16,

:18:52. > :18:56.equalling his season's best time and he and Mario Burke, who runs for

:18:57. > :19:01.Barbados, at college in the United States, at Houston, he takes the

:19:02. > :19:06.victory. 10.15. A national record for him. There we are, the first

:19:07. > :19:13.national record of these World Championships and Jan Volko hand

:19:14. > :19:18.somely through to the quarter finals. Volko through with Mario

:19:19. > :19:22.Burke and Abdullah Abkar Mohammed. The youngster from Saudi Arabia.

:19:23. > :19:31.At 9. 20pm tonight, Mo Farah will race in the 10,000 metres. It will

:19:32. > :19:35.be his attempt to make it five double gold medals on a global

:19:36. > :19:39.stage. It will be his sixth World Championship gold. Earlier in the

:19:40. > :19:41.season Darren Campbell went out to his base in France to catch up with

:19:42. > :19:56.him. Sir Mo, when you look back, does it

:19:57. > :20:02.feel crazy? It feels crazy. It feels mad. It's hard to think that, you

:20:03. > :20:06.know, when you're so young you don't imagine yourself to be at that

:20:07. > :20:11.level. And to have won what I have won, it's just been incredible.

:20:12. > :20:14.In your early years, was it difficult to think that you could

:20:15. > :20:22.get up there with the best in the world? When I was a kid, I remember

:20:23. > :20:26.watching Sydney Olympics, seeing the 10,000 metres was just incredible,

:20:27. > :20:29.how it came down to the last two metres. From that point I told

:20:30. > :20:40.myself I want to go to the Olympics and be an Olympic champion. That is

:20:41. > :20:47.something I dream of. I went into Degu, that was my first silver medal

:20:48. > :20:52.at the 10,000 metres, where I narrowly got beat. The better man

:20:53. > :20:57.won on the day. For me, it was all about experience and learn from that

:20:58. > :21:02.race, understanding. I'm not going to make that mistake again. World

:21:03. > :21:07.domination for Mo Farah... It doubled.

:21:08. > :21:12.They've got nothing for him! Gold again!

:21:13. > :21:16.To be able to maintain that level, it's, it's difficult because when

:21:17. > :21:20.you're up there, you've got a target on your back and every year people

:21:21. > :21:24.are throwing their things at you, left, right, centre and you have to

:21:25. > :21:29.be smart, who you respond and what you do, knowing what counts. It's

:21:30. > :21:33.been hard over the years. They succumb to the inevitable. Mo

:21:34. > :21:42.Farah wins the gold! I'm excited to be competing in my

:21:43. > :21:46.last major championship on the track in London. It will be nice to be

:21:47. > :21:50.able to finish on a high. Why not do it where it all started, in London?

:21:51. > :21:55.Where I became Olympic champion. That is what changed me as an

:21:56. > :21:59.athlete. You come back years later and I am, you know, what I'm going

:22:00. > :22:03.to end it at that track. I am not going to carry on in terms of major

:22:04. > :22:07.champs. Well, there's only one final

:22:08. > :22:12.tonight, only one gold will be handed out this evening it is in the

:22:13. > :22:17.men's 10,000 metres. Will it be Mo Farah? Will he add to his incredible

:22:18. > :22:26.haul? This is where he is on the all-time list of gold medals.

:22:27. > :22:33.Loo The sprinters include relays, we should say that. Not that Michael

:22:34. > :22:36.Johnson, your eight is not incredible. It helps to boost the

:22:37. > :22:47.tally somewhat. That would be an awful event to

:22:48. > :22:53.contemplate. A four by 10,000 metres! Well, out there on the

:22:54. > :22:59.warm-up track Usain Bolt is still wandering around. It seems to take

:23:00. > :23:02.him a long time to get to do anything that looks sporty. We have

:23:03. > :23:09.watched him an hour wandering around. He's getting his warm-up. He

:23:10. > :23:13.has his routine. It is intimidating to some of the other guys. All the

:23:14. > :23:19.other guys have run with him for ten years. They know what he does. Now

:23:20. > :23:24.they can ignore him and do their thing. He must catch one of those

:23:25. > :23:33.young kids, I think he looks relaxed. I think I will do that,

:23:34. > :23:38.too! Big mistake, don't do that. What is it that makes him so unique

:23:39. > :23:41.we have fallen in love with him over the last decade. Sometimes in sport

:23:42. > :23:45.and you see them away from the track and they are funny, they are

:23:46. > :23:48.outgoing and then their game-head comes on. Maybe that is the way they

:23:49. > :23:52.get the best out of themselves. Maybe they don't dare to enjoy

:23:53. > :23:55.themselves. It is almost brave to allow yourself to throw off the

:23:56. > :24:01.shackles the way he does. It is very brave. I wouldn't say that, you

:24:02. > :24:05.know, and I think Jess could speak to this as well, being an athlete -

:24:06. > :24:11.I have always admired your level of focus. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed being

:24:12. > :24:22.under the pressure. I enjoyed the room, I enjoyed the stress. I

:24:23. > :24:26.enjoyed the target on my back. I know I had to be in the mind set,

:24:27. > :24:31.going over strategy until the last minute. It was the way I was as an

:24:32. > :24:36.athlete. Maybe it was the way you were as well Jess. Usain Bolt is

:24:37. > :24:40.different. He knows if he's that stressed and allowed himself to feel

:24:41. > :24:45.it then he will not perform in the way... You cannot take it.

:24:46. > :24:52.He said he wants to enjoy it and he wants to enjoy the sport. And it is

:24:53. > :24:57.the time to retire. He's relaxed. As soon as he's in the blocks, he's

:24:58. > :25:01.100% focussed. That is why it works for him. We loved your game head. We

:25:02. > :25:06.knew it was on. Let's see if the game heads are on for the final of

:25:07. > :25:12.these men's 100 metres prelims. Steve Cram is calling this one.

:25:13. > :25:20.Nick Miller from New Zealand. 10.1 a new personal best and Warren Fraser

:25:21. > :25:26.from, the Bahamas. Ran here in London, in 2012.

:25:27. > :25:29.And then also probably the top guy here, Ramon Gittens, from Barbados.

:25:30. > :25:37.He might be surprised to find himself in this. A very experienced

:25:38. > :25:44.athlete. In terms of ranks in terms of their season's best as to who

:25:45. > :25:53.runs in this preliminary round will come back at 8. 20pm.

:25:54. > :25:56.Gittens gets to it very well. Expect these three quickly pulling from the

:25:57. > :26:04.rest. 10. 26. We saw that very quick time

:26:05. > :26:11.in the previous heat. One or two will be looking at that

:26:12. > :26:16.later thinking I am not sure I want Volko in my heat. Gittens just doing

:26:17. > :26:21.enough there. The conditions, as I said earlier, look good for

:26:22. > :26:25.sprinting. The wind is blowing in the right direction. The men who

:26:26. > :26:30.were expected to go through have gone through. Fastest losers will be

:26:31. > :26:34.sorted out in a few minutes. Well the prelims are through and the

:26:35. > :26:37.heats will be coming your way in just under and hour's time,

:26:38. > :26:41.featuring Usain Bolt himself. He knows this track well.

:26:42. > :26:48.Of course he was magnificent in 2012. He's been back here to run in

:26:49. > :26:54.the Anniversary Games. It is Jamaica which made him. He's so proud what

:26:55. > :26:56.he's helped to do to Jamaican sprinting.

:26:57. > :27:04.The world champs can you go to London as motivated as you were in

:27:05. > :27:13.Beijing? One thing that keeps me going is losing. I can't lose. It is

:27:14. > :27:20.one of those things. To go out losing is not my thing. I definitely

:27:21. > :27:24.want to go out and to do my best as always. Give the fans one of the

:27:25. > :27:28.best farewells. Give the fans a show. That's what they want to see.

:27:29. > :27:33.They want me to go out and compete at my best and say goodbye in stars.

:27:34. > :27:37.I'm definitely going to train, which I am doing and stay on top of things

:27:38. > :27:43.and push myself throughout until August. So nobody will worry you in

:27:44. > :27:48.London? No new names to look out for? For me, you know me, I don't

:27:49. > :27:53.worry about people until the time's right. Because you don't know who's

:27:54. > :27:57.going to show up. Over the years, as you have seen through my career,

:27:58. > :28:01.there's always somebody else. I never try and pinpoint one person. I

:28:02. > :28:06.just sit and watch and see what happens when he gets there. London

:28:07. > :28:11.will be a farewell to the fans, many of whom would have been there in

:28:12. > :28:16.2012. Still happy memories of those games? Always. It is the right place

:28:17. > :28:21.to go out. I know London will be packed. It will be massive and

:28:22. > :28:25.people are just happy and the energy in the city will be great. I'm

:28:26. > :28:31.looking forward to it. I'm really excited to go there and compete

:28:32. > :28:37.again. For me it was one of the best championships of my life.

:28:38. > :28:44.He's pulling away... He 's going to win the gold!

:28:45. > :28:48.The champion becomes a legend! Every day the stadium was just

:28:49. > :28:51.always packed with people and just cheering on everybody and giving you

:28:52. > :28:55.a great feeling. For me, it was brilliant. I'm looking forward to

:28:56. > :28:59.going back to the atmosphere. Feeling the energy. As you guys know

:29:00. > :29:03.I feed off the energy of the crowd. It gives me that sense of relief and

:29:04. > :29:09.happiness. To compete at your best, to perform.

:29:10. > :29:13.For me, I really enjoy it. So I know it will be just... I hope I don't

:29:14. > :29:19.cry. I was going to say that. Will you get emotional? I don't know. If

:29:20. > :29:24.I get emotional in Jamaica I definitely get emotional in London.

:29:25. > :29:30.Let's see what happens! I'm not an emotional person, but to know this

:29:31. > :29:34.will be your last race in the championship, it might... You can

:29:35. > :29:38.hide it with a bit of sweat. And I sweat a lot. So we'll see!

:29:39. > :29:42.I think we might see tears. We might see emotion from the great man. That

:29:43. > :29:47.final is tomorrow. You will see him out on the track here around 8.

:29:48. > :29:53.20pm, the men's heats are going off. Shortly on the track. It is the

:29:54. > :29:57.women's 1500 metres heat. Laura Muir, British record-holder is going

:29:58. > :30:01.in the second of those heats. She's had a phenomenal indoor season.

:30:02. > :30:07.Taken it to the track as well. This is a hotly-contested event. Paula

:30:08. > :30:11.caught up with her in Monet co-a few weeks ago -- in Monaco a few weeks

:30:12. > :30:20.ago. European indoor champion. A new

:30:21. > :30:25.British record... So, Laura, things are picking up to the World

:30:26. > :30:29.Championships and you are coming in off an amazing indoor season, where

:30:30. > :30:32.you did that double. She's now got two gold medals. She's the champion

:30:33. > :30:43.again. It's another record. I remember the Laura Muir who walked

:30:44. > :30:46.out distraught in 2014 and how much you have matured and taken those

:30:47. > :30:52.huge leaps forward. So, it has to feel that you are in a good place

:30:53. > :30:56.going into London. Certainly. I am lucky, at this stage of my career,

:30:57. > :31:03.I've got a lot of championships under my belt. I think 2014, I was

:31:04. > :31:07.in good physical shape. Had to catch up in the mental side and dealing

:31:08. > :31:10.the championships and everything, I think going through all that has

:31:11. > :31:14.been good. I feel confident ahead of London. Coming into the

:31:15. > :31:19.championships you missed training with a foot injury. To reassure

:31:20. > :31:24.people at home, a lot of distance runners pick up at different points

:31:25. > :31:26.of their career. Sometimes is it a good thing to hold you back,

:31:27. > :31:37.frustration to come out in racing? It isn't until something is taken

:31:38. > :31:41.away from you that you appreciate how much you love your sport. You

:31:42. > :31:48.gain a fresh mindset going back into it. I had a take two in July but it

:31:49. > :31:52.is going well so far. We know that you are strong and you can cope with

:31:53. > :31:56.the physical impact of doing the double but mentally is there a way

:31:57. > :32:00.you go about it? Do you think first about one event and then move onto

:32:01. > :32:09.the second? It is round by round, why won't anchor that the final

:32:10. > :32:14.until I get there. It is easy otherwise -- I won't think about the

:32:15. > :32:20.final. In the 1500 metres, will that be the one where you think you have

:32:21. > :32:24.the stronger chance? Or are they pretty equal? I don't know, I'm

:32:25. > :32:29.pretty inexperienced in the 5000 but I think I have a shot. The

:32:30. > :32:33.competition in the 1500 is very strong. In the top three, you have

:32:34. > :32:45.Hassan, the Olympic champion and world record holder, Dibaba. With

:32:46. > :32:51.home support as well, that is a big ad planted, you can savour and enjoy

:32:52. > :32:58.that. I hope so, yeah. -- that is a big advantage. The Anniversary

:32:59. > :33:03.Games, the crowds were great and that has been a highlight so far.

:33:04. > :33:10.Laura Muir has got this raise won, that's for sure. The new British

:33:11. > :33:18.record. Kelly Holmes has been a bitter rated. -- has been

:33:19. > :33:24.obliterated. One of the British athletes coming to the fore in that

:33:25. > :33:30.Championships. Laura Muir, listing the great names that she must

:33:31. > :33:34.overcome to get herself through the heats. In the first heat she didn't

:33:35. > :33:39.mention Caster Semenya, a surprise she has decided to double up, the

:33:40. > :33:45.Olympic champion in the 800 metres. How is she going to fare in this? I

:33:46. > :33:48.might give you the answer after the race because I'm not sure. I don't

:33:49. > :33:54.know why she has chosen to do it this way around. If it was the

:33:55. > :34:00.801st, then doing the 1500, fine but before your main event, I'm not

:34:01. > :34:04.sure. -- if it was the 800, first. I'm sure Brendan Foster and Steve

:34:05. > :34:11.Cram will have an opinion. Good evening, Brendan. COMMENTATOR: Good

:34:12. > :34:15.evening, great to be here. Great to watch the opening round of the

:34:16. > :34:19.women's 1500 metres. Great to see Jessica Judd back after a couple of

:34:20. > :34:27.fallow years. Coming back to do justice to her own talent. Talking

:34:28. > :34:35.about Jessica Judd, heading up the start list. She has a tough heat.

:34:36. > :34:43.Semenya, and Cichocka, she has been great. Chebet has been running well

:34:44. > :34:48.for Kenya, moving up to the 1500 metres. The top six will go through

:34:49. > :34:58.but when you have to Barbour, Grace, Sifuentes, so much experience -- you

:34:59. > :35:05.have to Barbour -- Dibaba. She must think about what she does the best.

:35:06. > :35:13.It is the first heat and there are six fastest losers was available. A

:35:14. > :35:20.quick word about Caster Semenya, she is here because she won the African

:35:21. > :35:28.Championships in 26 -- in 2016, running 4.0 one. She was running

:35:29. > :35:33.three events. The defending champion, Dibaba. I'm not sure if

:35:34. > :35:39.she is in the same form she was in in 2016. At best this year, 4.16, so

:35:40. > :35:43.this will be interesting. Chebet, very dangerous, she will set off the

:35:44. > :35:50.pace. 800-metre runner who has moved up. Arafi has good pace as well and

:35:51. > :35:54.we all know about Semenya, the favourite for the 800-metre

:35:55. > :36:01.gold-medal. Three rounds here as well. Watching on the warm up track

:36:02. > :36:08.ready late last night, doing some strides. No one else was there.

:36:09. > :36:15.Vrzalova there and Gigot that will be dangerous as well. A big cheerful

:36:16. > :36:24.Jessica Judd. A great talent, had a great 2013. -- and Cichocka will be

:36:25. > :36:27.dangerous as well. Jessica Judd has been getting back in touch with that

:36:28. > :36:37.talent. Great that she has made the team. The women's 1500, the first of

:36:38. > :36:42.three heats. So, the top six will go through. I saw Jess on the way in,

:36:43. > :36:49.Brendan. I know how nervous she was. I said to her, if it helps, 4.9 last

:36:50. > :36:53.time, if you run under that, statistics tell you that you get

:36:54. > :36:57.through the first round. I think that's what we'll see her try and do

:36:58. > :37:02.here. I bet she's pleased she saw you because she is doing what you

:37:03. > :37:09.suggested, making decent pace. When you saw her on the start line, Just

:37:10. > :37:15.The Judge, from Chelmsford, easy to get here from there, a lot of

:37:16. > :37:20.supporters here. -- Jessica Judd, from Chelmsford. She had a couple of

:37:21. > :37:25.fallow years, but she came back and she will have a great future because

:37:26. > :37:32.she is a great long-distance runner. Showing wisdom. Her first major

:37:33. > :37:34.championships at 1500 metres. A wise head on young shoulders, going out

:37:35. > :37:45.there, trying to run the place, trying to run the race as to how she

:37:46. > :37:49.wants it. 64.05, the first lap, so a very good pace being set, the kind

:37:50. > :37:54.of thing that Jess did in the trials, the kind of things she likes

:37:55. > :37:58.to do and is most comfortable with. Dibaba the defending champion is

:37:59. > :38:03.moving up. Questions about her fitness but reports are that going

:38:04. > :38:12.very well. Just extricating herself on the back, Mageean. Caster

:38:13. > :38:14.Semenya, right on the inside in the middle of the pack, completely

:38:15. > :38:22.boxed. Interesting to see how she conducts herself in heats of 1500

:38:23. > :38:30.metres. Even with the women it can be pushing and jostling. On the

:38:31. > :38:33.inside, from South Africa, the 800-metre champion, running neatly,

:38:34. > :38:39.just biding her time. She could have run the 400 metres to go with the

:38:40. > :38:45.800 metres. She has such a range of talent and ability. Jessica Judd,

:38:46. > :38:51.the crowd are getting carried away. I think she's actually responding to

:38:52. > :38:56.it. 2.11 over the first 800 metres and she is striding down the

:38:57. > :39:03.straight. In third place, the defending champion, Dibaba. Dibaba

:39:04. > :39:09.deciding, hang on, this young Britain is going quickly. Yes, she

:39:10. > :39:15.got the 800. 2.11 was a bit slow and she has picked it up. Grace moving

:39:16. > :39:21.up. Terzic is struggling, five metres adrift. Semenya, for the

:39:22. > :39:28.first time, in the green of South Africa, moving up on the outside.

:39:29. > :39:33.Cichocka, the great Polish athlete, moving up. Jessica Judd has got to

:39:34. > :39:41.stay strong here. The top six will go through. She's going to make them

:39:42. > :39:49.run hard. She will, and Dibaba is going to enjoy that. Semenya moving

:39:50. > :39:54.up, Grace from the USA. Buckman, in contention but losing a few yards.

:39:55. > :40:00.Jessica Judd in her first 1500 metres, she has acquitted herself

:40:01. > :40:03.very well so far. Chebet will come into it behind Semenya. Chebet is

:40:04. > :40:11.running for Kenya, she is a quick finish. Cichocka is a good finisher.

:40:12. > :40:14.Jessica Judd has a good distance between her and the sprinters. The

:40:15. > :40:19.top six will go through and if she stays ahead of Buckman, the others

:40:20. > :40:24.might pass higher if they want to. Jessica Judd is looking strong. She

:40:25. > :40:30.just wants to keep in the top six. Dibaba goes away, Semenya, Chebet,

:40:31. > :40:35.Cichocka. Jessica Judd needs to keep going here to the line, she will be

:40:36. > :40:43.fine. She's done it, as we expected, running hard from the front. 4:02.68

:40:44. > :40:47.in the first round. She normally runs 4.4. That is brave, setting out

:40:48. > :40:51.your stall, you know what you've got to do, run as hard as you can, the

:40:52. > :40:55.big names behind you having to run hard as well. Jessica Judd,

:40:56. > :41:00.congratulations, brave running and that's what you get with her. I

:41:01. > :41:05.think that's right, the first British person on the track so far.

:41:06. > :41:14.Opening tonight. Caster Semenya, Chebet, Cichocka and the defending

:41:15. > :41:16.champion there, Dibaba. For me, young lady coming to the

:41:17. > :41:22.championships, getting on the train from Chelmsford, her supporters do,

:41:23. > :41:26.anyway, running a personal best, I'm pretty sure, and the crowd respond.

:41:27. > :41:29.The first British athlete on the track and let's hope that's a sign

:41:30. > :41:34.of things to come. You want to let them know. I love seeing a young

:41:35. > :41:39.athlete coming to the Championships, thinking about their plan and how

:41:40. > :41:44.they should do it. This young lady setting off, running hard, deciding

:41:45. > :41:49.that there were... It was too much of a gamble to spend her time

:41:50. > :41:54.amongst the sprinters. There goes Dibaba, we expected that. There goes

:41:55. > :41:58.the Olympic champion in the 800 metres, Semenya and there comes

:41:59. > :42:01.Jessica Judd. Six will qualify and let's be honest, Jessica Judd ran a

:42:02. > :42:06.brilliant race, you can't do better than that and I think it tells you

:42:07. > :42:09.that she will have a future that we first expected when we saw her as a

:42:10. > :42:15.junior and now expected in the senior competition. She's acquitted

:42:16. > :42:24.herself well. I like seeing young athletes respond in major

:42:25. > :42:27.championships. Well done, Jess. It is one delighted Jessica Judd as

:42:28. > :42:32.well. You said you didn't think you could get through but you took it

:42:33. > :42:36.out hard and you got through. I can't believe it! I think the crowd,

:42:37. > :42:42.they are just amazing, I problem we went off too fast. My dad said,

:42:43. > :42:47.don't go too fast and I thought, oh, no, but I controlled it. The last

:42:48. > :42:51.lap I was hurting a little bit. I thought I would have to run the race

:42:52. > :42:55.of my life to get through but to see that six had broken away, I thought

:42:56. > :43:00.my goodness, I can't believe it. I'm just so happy! You ran the race of

:43:01. > :43:04.your life, a new personal best that you can take to the semifinals

:43:05. > :43:09.tomorrow. What is it like an De Sart line when they announce your name.

:43:10. > :43:14.-- what is it like on the start line? I don't know, I'm normally in

:43:15. > :43:21.the zone and I don't do anything but I was so nervous, I couldn't ignore

:43:22. > :43:25.that. They were amazing. My dad has been fantastic. I'm sure I could

:43:26. > :43:30.hear him cheering me on. I can't believe it, what a great crowd.

:43:31. > :43:33.Everyone has been so nice and getting to the semis and to do it

:43:34. > :43:42.again is amazing. Congratulations, tremendous performance. Thank you!

:43:43. > :43:45.That's the way to do it, look at that, she made everybody else run

:43:46. > :43:51.hard. A personal best for Jessica Judd and one or two others behind

:43:52. > :43:55.her. Although the six fastest losers, even the tenth and 11th in

:43:56. > :44:02.the first feed, you have to go back to 1999 when you had to run 4.5 to

:44:03. > :44:13.get out of the first round. -- in the first heat.

:44:14. > :44:20.The men's long jump qualification. Manyonga, the world leader, second

:44:21. > :44:27.in the Olympics last year and boy, has he improved. His first band,

:44:28. > :44:34.8.05, automatic qualification. Comfortably, a big smile for him.

:44:35. > :44:37.The blue line is also qualifying. He has jumped 8.65 this year and he has

:44:38. > :44:42.moved on since missing out on Olympic gold by one centimetre last

:44:43. > :44:47.year. Looks like he has booked his place in the final. Just chopping

:44:48. > :44:54.his stride, so some work to be done. One and a half kicks. 8.05 or better

:44:55. > :44:59.books a place in the final. Clean on the board, the white flag will be

:45:00. > :45:07.raised. Very tidy for the world leader. Three South Africans joining

:45:08. > :45:11.Manyonga in what proves to be a top competition. We don't have Greg

:45:12. > :45:15.Rutherford, disappointing for him, couldn't recover from his ankle

:45:16. > :45:22.injury earlier this year. Manyonga, some questions over his fitness, but

:45:23. > :45:28.looks like they've been put to bed. 8.12, how about that, job done, he

:45:29. > :45:35.is in tomorrow's final. Now we have the men's discus. This is the

:45:36. > :45:46.reigning champion from two years ago, Mallash ski -- Malachowski. Was

:45:47. > :45:51.that low? 64 metres and 50 centimetres is what is needed for

:45:52. > :46:00.tomorrow's final. Two big finals. The big Pole is going to be involved

:46:01. > :46:13.again, looking to defend the title but he will have his work cut out.

:46:14. > :46:22.So, Malachowski, 65.13. Here is an interesting character from the

:46:23. > :46:27.sport, Robert Harting. Three times world champion. He has had an knee

:46:28. > :46:31.problems. Getting his hip onto that. He made it look easy. A big

:46:32. > :46:48.statement. He is in shape. 32 years of age now. He's got his

:46:49. > :46:50.knees heavily strapped there. He fixes his base. Drops that right hip

:46:51. > :47:03.on. League qualifier. So that is Luvo Manyonga, the world

:47:04. > :47:07.leader. Back story, he's a recovered crystal meth addict.

:47:08. > :47:12.Toni Minichiello, I know you have watched him closely. What did you

:47:13. > :47:16.make of that first attempt? I think a nice, steady approach there. The

:47:17. > :47:20.qualities he has is his flat speed. He runs so quick on the runway. If

:47:21. > :47:25.you look at him as he goes through the air, he, watch him, because he

:47:26. > :47:28.has a really still upper body. He doesn't forward rotate into the

:47:29. > :47:33.sandpit. He carries that over the top over the board. Probably the

:47:34. > :47:37.fastest man on the long jump in this competition. Job done. He can walk

:47:38. > :47:44.away. The others have two more attempt to join him in tomorrow's

:47:45. > :47:57.final. Luvo Manyonga - watch out for him.

:47:58. > :48:04.What a performance from Jessica Judd earlier on. One of our athletes who

:48:05. > :48:06.we hope has a good chance in the 1500 or 5,000, Laura Muir going

:48:07. > :48:15.here. Perhaps the easiest of the three. All these heats are tough.

:48:16. > :48:19.Laura said, I'm happy with the draw here. Particularly if you have the

:48:20. > :48:24.confidence she does. A huge reception for Laura Muir.

:48:25. > :48:29.Well, she didn't get to experience this in London, as Paula said

:48:30. > :48:35.earlier on. Here for me, perhaps the favourite for the gold medal, one of

:48:36. > :48:46.the many top three big names Sifan Hassan. She will contest the 5,000

:48:47. > :48:58.also after the 1500 metres. Tsegay very good. The Germans, you will see

:48:59. > :49:02.Klosterhalfen in the next heat. Jennifer Simpson, former world

:49:03. > :49:08.champion, has a happy way of running brilliantly in championships.

:49:09. > :49:14.Bronze-medallist in Rio last year. Chebet in four. So top six to go

:49:15. > :49:18.through. I suspect this heat will be, we thought before and it might

:49:19. > :49:25.be the slowest of the three. I think the likes of Jennifer Simpson, Laura

:49:26. > :49:38.Muir will think, I will happily fin nish the top six here.

:49:39. > :49:51.Let's hope that Laura can negotiate this safely. Her last race was 3,000

:49:52. > :49:55.in the Monaco Diamond League. In the Diamond League a week or so before

:49:56. > :50:00.that. Good preparation for 1500 metre running. She's had to prepare

:50:01. > :50:04.for two events. She won't have it in her head yet - your preparation is

:50:05. > :50:10.different if you're going to run 5,000 metres. So, she's been trying

:50:11. > :50:15.to cover both bases. That 800-metre set her up nicely. So, Laura will be

:50:16. > :50:19.wanting to settle in here and hope that it's a decent pace. Nobody

:50:20. > :50:24.wants to have a jog. I think she'll be happy if it is a little slower

:50:25. > :50:27.than that first one. Almost certainly will be slower than the

:50:28. > :50:32.first one. Six to go through. If you look at the first round, the six

:50:33. > :50:43.fastest losers are looking pretty impressive. Sixth fastest ran 4.8.

:50:44. > :50:47.4.5 the required time, almost. Laura Muir, carrying a lot of

:50:48. > :50:57.pressure on her shoulders. She's attempting a brave double in running

:50:58. > :51:02.the 15,000 and the 5,000. -- 1500 and 5,000.

:51:03. > :51:07.Right at the back of the pack, Laura Muir, right in among them. She'll

:51:08. > :51:11.have some thoughts about how she moves out of that position. Hassan,

:51:12. > :51:14.of the Netherlands, who is now training in America and making real

:51:15. > :51:17.progress in the States. Steve says he thought she might be the

:51:18. > :51:21.favourite for this race. I am certain she'll take some beating,

:51:22. > :51:27.but look at her. Her tactic in the orange vest, right at the back,

:51:28. > :51:31.behind Laura Muir. There Laura Muir, doing the sensible thing, moving to

:51:32. > :51:37.the outside and quickly through the field to put herself in contention.

:51:38. > :51:42.As I said, you've got to run five races, the heats you want to

:51:43. > :51:45.negotiate nice and smoothly with the least amount of energy expended as

:51:46. > :51:50.possible. You need to keep yourself out of trouble. Laura Muir doing

:51:51. > :51:54.that well. Jennifer Simpson realising the move has been made.

:51:55. > :52:05.Jenny's not a natural front mover either. They are eight seconds

:52:06. > :52:12.slower than the first heat. Tsegay another good athlete.

:52:13. > :52:14.Look at her stretching out her pace. Tsegay stretching them for the first

:52:15. > :52:31.time. Akdag on the inside. And still happy

:52:32. > :52:35.to bring up the rather. Plenty of company there. Hassan, one of the

:52:36. > :52:38.favourites, on the back there, moving very quickly through. Laura

:52:39. > :52:47.Muir is in a good position. Now we're in a race. There are few too

:52:48. > :52:53.many athletes for comfort here. 3.7 for the 1100 metres.

:52:54. > :52:58.Now it is about staying clear of danger, make your run at the right

:52:59. > :53:02.time. Laura's doing it right so far. Jennifer Simpson will be involved in

:53:03. > :53:09.the finish. Here comes Hassan, drifting down the outside.

:53:10. > :53:13.The talented Norwegian, on the shoulder of Laura Muir.

:53:14. > :53:17.Tsegay is in a good position here. Just controlling it from the front.

:53:18. > :53:21.Only the top six will go through. There's a lot of pushing and shoving

:53:22. > :53:27.here. Has to be careful. Klein is moving out as well. Laura Muir could

:53:28. > :53:36.just do enough here. Jennifer Simpson, pushing back in a

:53:37. > :53:45.battle with Akdag on the inside. There are seven there... Simpson

:53:46. > :53:51.just stepped out. So Hassan wins it, then Simpson, then Muir, Akdag, they

:53:52. > :53:57.all go through 4.8 the winning time. Nobody will go through as the

:53:58. > :54:03.fastest loser. It was a different type of heat. The

:54:04. > :54:08.one we normally would expect, very different from the first one led by

:54:09. > :54:12.Jessica Judd. Well done Laura Muir. She ran comfortably. Did everything

:54:13. > :54:16.she needed to do. Took up a good position at every point of the race.

:54:17. > :54:21.Hassan was there to prove a point, just to let them know, I will be a

:54:22. > :54:24.danger. Jennifer Simpson quickly moved out there. Got herself into a

:54:25. > :54:31.quick place. Here they come, into the straight. And there goes Laura

:54:32. > :54:34.Muir. Running strongly. Look at Hassan coming on the outside, just

:54:35. > :54:38.threatening a little. Looking more relaxed as an athlete, with a little

:54:39. > :54:42.bit of a bump there, too. As we have seen her in the past. She's

:54:43. > :54:46.stronger, she's faster. She's going to be a danger and her and Laura

:54:47. > :54:53.Muir neck and neck here. Both having done enough. Both comfortable and

:54:54. > :54:56.confident. Both crossing the rien. Comfortably qualify -- the line.

:54:57. > :55:00.Comfortably qualified. A decent day's work for Laura Muir. She looks

:55:01. > :55:04.powerful, strong. She's mentally in control. Glancing over at the screen

:55:05. > :55:08.to make sure no dangers are coming from behind. That is wise. She's

:55:09. > :55:10.learnt that lesson and Hassan, well, I think Steve's right, she's going

:55:11. > :55:20.to be a danger. Safely through for all the big

:55:21. > :55:24.names. No upsets in either of these two heats. This is the confidence

:55:25. > :55:27.that Hassan has in her 800-metre pace at the moment. She gave a

:55:28. > :55:32.little shove there. Simpson looking for room to make sure as well. Klein

:55:33. > :55:37.was the one who just sneaked ahead to get in there for the top six. And

:55:38. > :55:49.so the third heat, well they know what they have to do.

:55:50. > :56:01.Laura, mission accomplished. What is the mind set like - when you have a

:56:02. > :56:06.busy round? What do you negotiate? Stayed out of harm's way and really

:56:07. > :56:11.happy. Just job done. I got a top six. What it is like when there is

:56:12. > :56:16.such a build-up to a chasm Ionship and you are -- championship? Feels

:56:17. > :56:26.like it is a long time coming. The support was phenomenal. Cannot beat

:56:27. > :56:31.it I am excited to be in the semi rmt -- semifinal. What is it like to

:56:32. > :56:36.be part of it? Brilliant. Women's running is the best it's ever been.

:56:37. > :56:37.It is great to be part of that and running against these girls, I am

:56:38. > :56:52.just chuffed I got through. I Hope the semi goes well.

:56:53. > :56:59.In a few minutes Holly Bradshaw will hope to qualify for the finals. She

:57:00. > :57:05.knows what it is like to compete in these games. She managed fifth in

:57:06. > :57:09.her first major championship. She's the record-holder. Puts her among

:57:10. > :57:14.the best in the world this year. Phil Jones caught up with her and

:57:15. > :57:17.asked her about her aspirations for these championship.

:57:18. > :57:24.You haved a experience of London 2012 and now you get to experience a

:57:25. > :57:29.World Championships in London. What is the process like for you? I am so

:57:30. > :57:38.excited. I remember London very well. I finished

:57:39. > :57:49.Every time I go back to the stadium, it gives me goose bumps.

:57:50. > :57:53.First attempt for 55. Yes. Well done Holly Bradshaw. I'm in the best

:57:54. > :57:56.position I've been in for a long time. I'm fitter and stronger and

:57:57. > :58:02.technically the best I've ever been. I know when it comes to a major

:58:03. > :58:06.championships I step up my game. I have proven that for Beijing and Rio

:58:07. > :58:10.the last couple of years. I've jumped two records this year. I know

:58:11. > :58:21.deep down what I can achieve. She's got that, too! Unbelieve --

:58:22. > :58:25.unbelievable! I love major championships, it is what I love

:58:26. > :58:29.doing. Steve Backley is in commentary for

:58:30. > :58:33.us for this one. Steve I know you cannot go on what is written on

:58:34. > :58:36.paper, when you look at the heights she cleared this year, it puts her

:58:37. > :58:40.around the best in the world this year. She has a big game's

:58:41. > :58:45.temperament, doesn't she? Absolutely. She's proven that time

:58:46. > :58:49.and time again. Sixth and fifth at successive Olympic Games. She's on

:58:50. > :58:53.home soil. She said she's fitter and stronger than she's ever been. And I

:58:54. > :58:58.am very optimistic about Holly Bradshaw. Toni Minichiello, I bring

:58:59. > :59:03.you in on this. What do you make of holly's prospects? Hoping she makes

:59:04. > :59:09.the final. She's passed at heights now and she will not come in until

:59:10. > :59:13.four metres 50. She will take her time. The thing will be the waiting.

:59:14. > :59:17.It will be about waiting, getting ready, rewarming up, when it is

:59:18. > :59:21.appropriate for her ready to be ready to compete. So, at this

:59:22. > :59:23.moment, she's just biding her time. She's coming in at a height that she

:59:24. > :59:34.should easily be able to cope with. So pole vaulter at one end of the

:59:35. > :59:41.stadium. At the other the men's discus. Here's the world's leader.

:59:42. > :59:47.Ninth on the all-time list. 71-metre man. Likes that.

:59:48. > :59:56.Wasn't so good on his first attempt. Looks like he's woken up. Wow! Look

:59:57. > :00:03.at that! Daniel Stahl... Two metres tall. 150 kilos heavy. Arm span of

:00:04. > :00:09.two metres 20. Does that seem possible! He's going to be the

:00:10. > :00:15.favourite going into that final, courtesy of what he did there. What

:00:16. > :00:20.is it, 67. 64, the best throw we have seen so far.

:00:21. > :00:28.And we are ready for the last of the first round heats in the women's

:00:29. > :00:36.1500 metres. The north-east of Britain well represented.

:00:37. > :00:40.Alongside Weightman, Bahta. Certainly strong this one. The first

:00:41. > :00:48.one was strong. The second one, which Steve predicted, that would be

:00:49. > :00:52.the slowest of the heats and lo and behold, there's Klosterhalfen,

:00:53. > :00:54.incredibly talented athlete. The Olympic champion in this as

:00:55. > :01:05.well. Five Olympic finalists from Rio in

:01:06. > :01:16.this heat. Sarah McDonald going as well. And there is Sarah McDonald.

:01:17. > :01:20.Went to university in Birmingham and from the north-east, she has a

:01:21. > :01:23.chance of getting through to the semifinal. Everyone in this one

:01:24. > :01:31.knows what they must do because the six fastest losers are coming from

:01:32. > :01:35.the first heat. Klosterhalfen, looks like a strong breeze would carry her

:01:36. > :01:40.away but she is hard as nails and she has gone below four minutes.

:01:41. > :01:44.Germany has great hopes for her. Sado, another finalist from Rio and

:01:45. > :01:49.Bahta, from Sweden, the former Eritrea. Laura Weightman, the noise

:01:50. > :01:54.for the twice Olympic finalist. CHEERING

:01:55. > :02:00.So disappointing in the Olympic final, it was slow over the first

:02:01. > :02:13.800 metres, not her kind of race. The race was won by Kipyegon, that

:02:14. > :02:20.great duo, her and Dibaba. Pereira, the Spanish champion. Nadi, one of

:02:21. > :02:24.the athletes from the refugee team. Five athletes in the refugee team.

:02:25. > :02:33.She is from South Sudan, they've been training in Kenny. So six will

:02:34. > :02:39.go through -- training in Kenny. The six fastest losers come from the

:02:40. > :02:45.first heat. The last of the first round heats gets underway --

:02:46. > :02:52.training in Kenya. Laura Weightman, Stafford there. McDonald, glancing

:02:53. > :02:56.to her inside, she has a decent finishing kick. Paula Radcliffe, we

:02:57. > :03:02.know what must be done here. They do know what has to be done but is

:03:03. > :03:06.there anyone who is prepared to do what Jessica Judd did and take their

:03:07. > :03:10.opportunity and say, OK, what will I have to do to get through to the

:03:11. > :03:14.next round and run a personal best, running hard from the start? The

:03:15. > :03:20.only one with a tendency to be able to do that is Klosterhalfen. Is she

:03:21. > :03:27.going to do that or can somebody like Stafford or McDonald take it on

:03:28. > :03:33.and run as hard as they can to make it through to the semis? The

:03:34. > :03:42.Colombian, Coneo, is out there but so is Stafford, her personal best

:03:43. > :03:51.this season, four point 04 is this season. Laura Weightman is in a good

:03:52. > :04:01.position, in fourth. Sarah McDonald tucking in behind her. Bader is

:04:02. > :04:07.biding her time alongside Sado. -- Bahta is biding her time.

:04:08. > :04:16.Klosterhalfen is tucking into second place. Laura has got herself in a

:04:17. > :04:23.good position. Kloster Halfon isn't going to do much wrong. Kipyegon

:04:24. > :04:35.getting herself in position also. -- Kloster Halfon.

:04:36. > :04:45.Laura Weightman and Sarah McDonald in the middle of the pack. Out

:04:46. > :04:50.front, Kipyegon, Sado and Klosterhalfen. The first six will go

:04:51. > :04:54.through, the six fastest losers. But they will do well to get amongst the

:04:55. > :05:05.six who were the unlucky losers in the first eight, 4.50 five. Terzic

:05:06. > :05:14.from Serbia in that first heat. Wakeman is going with them. Just

:05:15. > :05:22.Dhading to react. -- Weightman. Ennaoui is moving up. Klosterhalfen

:05:23. > :05:27.thinking she's not going to leave anything to chance, she's going to

:05:28. > :05:30.leave it a long run for home. Sarah McDonald is trying to hang on in

:05:31. > :05:38.eighth place. It is stretching out further now. Klosterhalfen, then

:05:39. > :05:43.Kipyegon, then Sado. Weightman is in fifth, just ahead of Stafford. Six

:05:44. > :05:45.will go through automatically. They are detaching themselves from the

:05:46. > :05:51.rest but there are others who can get back into it. Klosterhalfen is

:05:52. > :05:55.looking good. Kipyegon moving on to her shoulder, letting her know who

:05:56. > :06:00.is boss. Klosterhalfen not going to have much of it but then remembering

:06:01. > :06:04.that this is just a heat and you only have to come in the top six.

:06:05. > :06:09.Ennaoui is trying to get into the top six. Formerly American,

:06:10. > :06:17.finishing third in the US trials. Kipyegon and Sado, Weightman is

:06:18. > :06:21.sitting in fifth place. Six will go through automatically. Around the

:06:22. > :06:28.final bend. The Olympic champion, Kipyegon, she is comfortable now.

:06:29. > :06:33.Bahta, the Swede, in second place. Weightman is in fifth place. Here

:06:34. > :06:39.comes Ennaoui and Stafford. Klosterhalfen is wavering now.

:06:40. > :06:46.Kipyegon easing across the line. Bahta, Ennaoui and Sado. In the end,

:06:47. > :06:50.Klosterhalfen looked uncomfortable but Laura Weightman did the job.

:06:51. > :06:55.Sarah McDonald was further down the field. Weightman, job done, she is

:06:56. > :07:02.through to the semifinals, the hint of a smile. She should have a smile

:07:03. > :07:06.because she ran very well, she kept her head, she looked around and

:07:07. > :07:09.checked where people were and where the gaps were and she did what was

:07:10. > :07:15.needed and nothing more in that race. Klosterhalfen had a bit extra

:07:16. > :07:20.left. She was running into the back of Sado in front of her and had

:07:21. > :07:23.nowhere to go as two went either side of her. She probably checked

:07:24. > :07:29.the screen and knew that she was in the top six, expending more energy

:07:30. > :07:33.than she needed to do. Kipyegon looking good and answering questions

:07:34. > :07:41.about her fitness. Down in ninth place, Sarah McDonald isn't going to

:07:42. > :07:45.go through. Kipyegon removing any doubt at all. She takes it.

:07:46. > :07:53.Weightman is safely through to tomorrow's semifinals. Interesting

:07:54. > :07:58.to get her thoughts now. Laura, a consummate performance, you've been

:07:59. > :08:01.in this stadium before in the Olympics, it really showed, your

:08:02. > :08:06.experience. I love racing in this stadium and on an occasion like this

:08:07. > :08:12.I can step up and use the crowd, the cheering was amazing. I felt good,

:08:13. > :08:16.for a heat that was a controlled heat. Sometimes I don't feel that

:08:17. > :08:19.great but I felt nice and controlled and I was aware of what was

:08:20. > :08:23.happening. It was nice to stretch out the last couple of laps, getting

:08:24. > :08:27.my legs going and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. That awareness

:08:28. > :08:32.on the track, tapping into your experience on the big stage. You

:08:33. > :08:37.have been spiked, you know the rough and tumble, and the ghostly aiding

:08:38. > :08:42.it is tough. I always get spiked somehow -- negotiating it is tough.

:08:43. > :08:47.You have to have your wits about you and I was aware of what is

:08:48. > :08:52.happening. You step up a gear tomorrow, is your mind going to

:08:53. > :08:58.change, is it going to be different? It will be very tough, the women's

:08:59. > :09:01.1500 is extremely talented, high-quality depth, not just a

:09:02. > :09:05.couple at the top, it is right through the ranks. It will be tough

:09:06. > :09:11.but I'm ready, let's see what I've got. All the best. Thank you. Great

:09:12. > :09:18.news for Laura Weightman. We have done the maths for Sarah McDonald,

:09:19. > :09:25.she has taken the last of the fastest losers places. You have gone

:09:26. > :09:31.through. Safe through to the semifinal. Waiting patiently to find

:09:32. > :09:39.out if you have got through. You have, well done. Really?! Yes. I was

:09:40. > :09:44.waiting by the screen. You were waiting for us, that is kind of you

:09:45. > :09:48.as we spoke to Laura. All of the Brits have gone through but this is

:09:49. > :09:51.new to you, so negotiating that round, that is so much more

:09:52. > :09:56.impressive in many ways. The noise was incredible. I'm so happy that

:09:57. > :10:03.I'm through. I can't quite believe it. So happy. Tell me about the

:10:04. > :10:08.thought process on the start line and what you were hoping to achieve.

:10:09. > :10:13.It was a tough ask, my first World Championships. I had a shout but I

:10:14. > :10:18.thought, I don't care if this goes badly, I wanted to try and get

:10:19. > :10:23.through. I couldn't do any more. I qualified with a personal best.

:10:24. > :10:31.Congratulations, we'll see you in the semis. Thank you, see you

:10:32. > :10:35.tomorrow! Confirmation of that. Laura Weightman going through.

:10:36. > :10:40.Looking pretty comfortable. Kipyegon, the Olympic champion,

:10:41. > :10:45.taking it. In ninth place, the personal best for Sarah McDonald

:10:46. > :10:52.sees her food to the semifinals. -- sees her through. Asking in the

:10:53. > :11:00.studio where a man you would be in this event. She very comfortable.

:11:01. > :11:05.Dibaba heading things. Jessica Judd, what a fantastic run in the first

:11:06. > :11:17.heat. All four British runners will go through to the semifinals.

:11:18. > :11:23.We've already seen one South African going through to tomorrow's final in

:11:24. > :11:36.the long jump. Manyonga is through and this is his team-mate, on 7.95

:11:37. > :11:50.at the moment, and that looked close to the board but it is good. Ranked

:11:51. > :11:55.number two in the world, Samaai. Tends to do his best in South

:11:56. > :12:01.Africa. The South Africans are in good shape and the Americans are

:12:02. > :12:06.bringing a strong trio. Samaai is waiting for his official

:12:07. > :12:11.measurement, it is 8.04, one centimetre short of auto. He will

:12:12. > :12:18.have his last job, he is ranked fifth at the moment -- his last

:12:19. > :12:35.jump. I mentioned the Americans, this is the 2016 World Indoor

:12:36. > :12:39.Championships, Debdt. -- Dendy. Underneath the automatic qualifying.

:12:40. > :12:44.Anderson, the Olympic champion -- Henderson. What an awkward dip and

:12:45. > :12:58.drive it was, looked really crumpled. He did not use his levers

:12:59. > :13:04.very well. Dendy, looking at a round summary, the end of the second

:13:05. > :13:12.round, he's going to need around 7.9. He is in 14th place with 7.70

:13:13. > :13:17.eight. I mentioned athletes struggling, this is the Olympic

:13:18. > :13:28.champion. Fifth in the Olympic trials. 7.70 four. In 20th place.

:13:29. > :13:33.Second round of three. 8.05 is needed for automatic qualifying or

:13:34. > :13:38.top 12. That looked better. It is better but it is a red flag.

:13:39. > :13:42.Pressure building on the Olympic champion. That's a massive jump,

:13:43. > :13:47.interesting to see how far this is. It wasn't far beyond the board. Wow,

:13:48. > :13:55.Henderson, that is a confidence boost for sure. But under lots of

:13:56. > :13:58.pressure, that's got to be around 8.40. Massive effort, the longest

:13:59. > :14:06.we've seen but it won't be measured. Doesn't count. Still in 20th place.

:14:07. > :14:11.STUDIO: Henderson has a lot of work to do, the Olympic champion. The

:14:12. > :14:16.world champion Greg Rutherford isn't here because of injury. In the next

:14:17. > :14:20.hour and a half we will see the beginning of the Long goodbye of two

:14:21. > :14:25.of the greats of athletics of this era. The sun is going down on two

:14:26. > :14:29.incredible careers. You know who I'm talking about!

:14:30. > :14:36.# We've come a long, long way together

:14:37. > :14:42.# Through the hard times and the good

:14:43. > :14:51.# I have two celebrate you, baby # I have two Prayuth -- I have to

:14:52. > :14:55.praise you like I should. # We've come a long, long way

:14:56. > :14:57.together. # Through the hard

:14:58. > :15:08.times and the good # I have to praise

:15:09. > :15:26.you like I should. It is indeed the end of an era and

:15:27. > :15:30.Jess was saying earlier that she feels her career ran parallel with

:15:31. > :15:33.Usain Bolt and maybe Mo Farah started later but the same thing,

:15:34. > :15:36.they've been at the major championships together and they are

:15:37. > :15:42.here again and they are both out somewhere on the warm up track and

:15:43. > :15:46.so is Ore Oduba. I am playing the role of Sir David Attenborough,

:15:47. > :15:50.having a look at the warm up track and seeing who we can find. I can

:15:51. > :15:56.tell you that in the mix we have seen him earlier tonight, the same

:15:57. > :16:01.bolt himself. He's just behind the tent. The moment you come to us, the

:16:02. > :16:06.lesser spotted Bolt has made his way around the tent but everybody who

:16:07. > :16:12.was in this enclosure now is trying to get a piece of Usain Bolt. Mo was

:16:13. > :16:16.here but these are the punters making their way into the stadium

:16:17. > :16:21.trying to get a sneaky peak of whoever they can get. On a night

:16:22. > :16:24.with Mo Farah and the same bolt they have a hot ticket. The number of

:16:25. > :16:30.these athletes haven't been into the stadium. We have had the message,

:16:31. > :16:32.Bolt is there as cool as a cucumber. Just striding up and down the track,

:16:33. > :16:43.making himself feel at home. A lot of these athletes have not

:16:44. > :16:48.made their way into the stadium. Mo Farah is one of them. When he goes

:16:49. > :16:54.in there, he'll be getting the roar of his life. We are about an hour or

:16:55. > :17:00.so to go before, where is he... ? Where's Mo? He's there somewhere. I

:17:01. > :17:05.got wind he's somewhere in this safari of athletes. You can find

:17:06. > :17:14.him, Ben? Can you find him? I can't find him. He's there somewhere. It's

:17:15. > :17:23.like a Where's Wally! It is like a Where's Mo? Gabby, it is all going

:17:24. > :17:24.on here. We have the two guys making their final farewell somewhere. It

:17:25. > :17:32.is hotting up. Thank you. We could see him. When

:17:33. > :17:38.you spot him running from behind you know him straightaway, his style.

:17:39. > :17:41.We'll miss his presence. We have seen Bolt here, he's ready for

:17:42. > :17:49.action. Of course there are other people lining up in those 100 metres

:17:50. > :17:52.heats later on. Here are the main contenders.

:17:53. > :18:16.It is a coveted throne. Will he be ousted at career's end. Once in the

:18:17. > :18:25.last four World Championships did Bolt slip. One false move and Yohan

:18:26. > :18:31.Blake comes again. Searching for the beast within.

:18:32. > :18:35.Mean time, a young pretender comes from the American north, Christian

:18:36. > :18:46.Coleman, just 21, and the quickest contender this year.

:18:47. > :18:51.A challenger from the African south - 23, a real Olympic and eight times

:18:52. > :19:00.under ten seconds this year alone. What of the threat from the British

:19:01. > :19:12.kingdom? Chijindu Ujah - aster, fighting on home ter -- territory.

:19:13. > :19:22.Usain Bolt... He's saved his title! May have even saved his sport. In

:19:23. > :19:26.this game of throne's though, only one can be king. The king is dead...

:19:27. > :19:38.Shsss. Long live the king! And you'll have to wait until the

:19:39. > :19:43.final heat of this round of the men's 100 metres, as the assault

:19:44. > :19:45.proper starts to work out who is the fastest man on the planet in 2017.

:19:46. > :19:54.Andrew Cotter is calling this one. THE COMMENTATOR: The fastest at the

:19:55. > :20:00.moment is Christian Coleman. We will see what he can do, this 21-year-old

:20:01. > :20:07.in the first of the quarter finals effectively. Christian Coleman has

:20:08. > :20:12.been outstanding. 9.82. He's run and American sprinting is

:20:13. > :20:16.just a little bit of a fallow period, waiting for the next

:20:17. > :20:23.generation to come through. Christian Coleman is perhaps going

:20:24. > :20:27.to spearhead that challenge. Three go through automatically here.

:20:28. > :20:33.The quality is higher across the board than we had in the

:20:34. > :20:37.preliminaries earlier on. Usain Bolt is the record-holder. Christian

:20:38. > :20:42.Coleman, based on times, it is whether at this age he has can race

:20:43. > :20:45.the championship and keep on delivering. Quite often we see

:20:46. > :20:50.sprinters from the United States who run so well, college athletes and

:20:51. > :20:55.they run so, so quickly, but then in the big championships they perhaps

:20:56. > :20:58.don't deliver quite as they did in college races in the US trails. Here

:20:59. > :21:14.is the line-up for this one. Jak Ali Harvey, the Jamaican, now

:21:15. > :21:20.running for Turkey. Senoj-Jay Givans, from Jamaica.

:21:21. > :21:28.Third in the Jamaican championships in the 100. 10. 02 this season.

:21:29. > :21:32.Matadi, gets a glance. He won his heats.

:21:33. > :21:38.Cejhae Greene, another youngster. 10. 05 this season.

:21:39. > :21:53.Jak Ali Harvey, 10. 10. We move on to Christian Coleman.

:21:54. > :21:58.Again, can he turn those very, very quick times into success at major

:21:59. > :22:02.championships? Without Andre De Grasse, he is perhaps the best of

:22:03. > :22:10.the next breed of bright young things and Coleman goes here in lane

:22:11. > :22:15.nine. The first of six. We've had the prelims on to the first round,

:22:16. > :22:36.semi-finals and finals tomorrow and three to go through automatically.

:22:37. > :22:44.Christian Coleman goes in lane nine for the United States.

:22:45. > :22:48.A little bit of a twitch there. Christian Coleman comes through.

:22:49. > :22:53.Julian Reus going well. Harvey of Turkey. It will be

:22:54. > :22:58.Christian Coleman. 10.01. Switched just a little bit on, all

:22:59. > :23:02.is dead calm when Christian Coleman came well so through. This track is

:23:03. > :23:07.fast. Everyone says so. And he made that look quite

:23:08. > :23:11.comfortable. A good run from Jak Ali Harvey, the Turkish athlete.

:23:12. > :23:14.Christian Coleman, again, the major championships, it is about

:23:15. > :23:17.delivering through the rounds and doing it time and time again. Trying

:23:18. > :23:20.to save energy and play the card that you look good to your fellow

:23:21. > :23:25.competitors as well. Christian Coleman looked good there. . It is

:23:26. > :23:29.one of those things you have to demonstrate to the others around you

:23:30. > :23:33.that you are in great shape and whatever you throw at me, I'll

:23:34. > :23:39.respond. Christian Coleman, out on his own. Well off the blocks.

:23:40. > :23:44.Nothing really taxing for him. Got himself into his upright running and

:23:45. > :23:49.gently pulled away. A very good performance by him. Nice and solid.

:23:50. > :23:51.Christian Coleman, the winner of that first heat is down there with

:23:52. > :23:58.Phil now. Got to stay composed. A lot of

:23:59. > :24:02.energy and excitement in the building. I had to calm myself and

:24:03. > :24:08.execute my race. How were the nerves at the start? A little bit. I wanted

:24:09. > :24:12.to focus and execute. As for your own chances - how much pressure do

:24:13. > :24:17.you put on yourself to succeed so early in your career? Not

:24:18. > :24:21.unnecessary pressure. I want to go out and do what I know I am capable

:24:22. > :24:25.with. At the end of the day I live with the results. All the best going

:24:26. > :24:30.forward. Thank you. Christian Coleman looking good. The fourth

:24:31. > :24:39.fastest American after all time after Gy Gatlang, Green. Almost

:24:40. > :24:45.below 10 seconds in these quarter finals of the men's 100 metres. So

:24:46. > :24:51.three going through -- Christian Coleman, Jak Ali Harvey and Cejhae

:24:52. > :25:07.Greene came through to take that third automatic qualifying place.

:25:08. > :25:15.Three jumps here in qualification. Lawson looking to make tomorrow's

:25:16. > :25:20.final. It is about the time. The blue line is the autoqualifying of

:25:21. > :25:28.8.05. 12 athletes will proceed to the final. Or automatic 8.05, either

:25:29. > :25:38.way to book your place. Lawson with plenty to spare.

:25:39. > :25:43.8. 49 to jump. Victory at the US championships. Lawson, fourth in the

:25:44. > :25:51.Olympics last year. Do you remember his hand scraped the sand. His

:25:52. > :25:58.challenger, 8. 05. Confirms his place in tomorrow's final. Here is

:25:59. > :26:09.his team-mate under some pressure. Marquis Dendy. A world class triple

:26:10. > :26:14.jumper, but not having a great time and needs something around, well,

:26:15. > :26:22.7.90. That looks like he's not going to make it. So Dendy, statistically

:26:23. > :26:27.in his prime at 24 years of age, has just bombed out in qualifying.

:26:28. > :26:34.It looks as though, anyway, that awkward dip again, looks like he

:26:35. > :26:37.loses his speed. And the distance is sacrificed.

:26:38. > :26:40.Good extension. That's not the problem. He just loses that

:26:41. > :27:04.horizontal speed. Such a capable jumper. This is Henderson -

:27:05. > :27:09.the Olympic champion from last year. Toni, he won that by one centimetre.

:27:10. > :27:13.Manyonga has moved on and Henderson, in a bit of trouble here, but

:27:14. > :27:17.looking good at the same time. I think it's awkward for them on the

:27:18. > :27:21.back straight. We're getting very low winds. Not a lot of assistance,

:27:22. > :27:25.which is necessary from the wind to give them the speed in order to jump

:27:26. > :27:33.the qualifying distances. So we saw Dendy just then, he was running into

:27:34. > :27:37.a -0.7 wind. If you add it to the situation where he sinks and loses

:27:38. > :27:50.his speed, it is a recipe he will not qualify, as we have seen.

:27:51. > :27:57.On the left of the picture is Yohan Blake. Of course Blake knows what it

:27:58. > :28:09.is like, I say to beat Bolt. When Bolt had the false start in Deagu.

:28:10. > :28:13.Blake has had a fraught time over the ensuing years and recently a

:28:14. > :28:25.groin injury stopped him running in the Diamond League. Abdul Sani Brown

:28:26. > :28:30.has won two personal bests. Volko, you would have seen him run a

:28:31. > :28:38.new national record. He's next to Xie, the best of the Chinese, up

:28:39. > :28:46.into 10.09. Barnes came through earlier on in the preliminary round

:28:47. > :28:54.running very smart as well. Then Yohan Blake. Huge support for

:28:55. > :28:56.all of the Jamaicans. He's a little quieter than he was two or three

:28:57. > :29:01.years ago. He's calmed down a little. He was known as the beast,

:29:02. > :29:06.or he wanted to be known as the beast. He's certainly capable of

:29:07. > :29:09.producing a performance that can push Bolt all the way. But as I

:29:10. > :29:38.said, a question mark Around his niggles.

:29:39. > :29:52.I have not mentioned Lima, from Portugal. 10.05. Coached by Linford

:29:53. > :29:55.Christie. Getting away smoothly, Blake got a terrible start. Blake

:29:56. > :29:59.has work to do to get into the top three.

:30:00. > :30:05.Blake will just get in there. 10. 06. This young man is a superb

:30:06. > :30:11.talent. He's a big name in Japan. He's got all sorts of sponsorship

:30:12. > :30:23.deals already. He's only 18. He may be better at 200 metres eventually.

:30:24. > :30:26.A very good 200-metre runner. But, dum Colin, he has shown a great

:30:27. > :30:31.performance. A great performance by this young man. I agree, I think the

:30:32. > :30:36.200 metres is where he'll go ultimately. He has that beautiful,

:30:37. > :30:39.silky smooth technique. When he comes out of the block, second from

:30:40. > :30:44.the right of the screen, doesn't spend that much time driving. As

:30:45. > :30:49.soon as he hits the floor, just works his way, doesn't he?

:30:50. > :30:54.Long strides, close to the ground. Doesn't have the same kind of tempo

:30:55. > :30:59.that you see from some of the other runners. Remember, just going to

:31:00. > :31:04.remind you of this Guy's age - he is just 18. He's gained all this great

:31:05. > :31:08.experience already. Good stuff from the youngster.

:31:09. > :31:14.Just a question mark about Blake, whether he drove hard out of the

:31:15. > :31:19.blocks. Look at this, Colin, his reaction was not too bad, but his

:31:20. > :31:24.pick-up was slow. I think he dipped under. Pushed out well. If you watch

:31:25. > :31:27.him there, he doesn't look like he's straining too much, Steve. He

:31:28. > :31:32.doesn't look like he's going to work himself. He's fighting for it, is

:31:33. > :31:37.the word I want to look for. He's got eyes ahead, focussed. Feels

:31:38. > :31:43.himself pulling through and left and right and glances at the right time

:31:44. > :32:07.once he's crossed the line. Confirmation then of Blake then.

:32:08. > :32:17.The long jump on the far side of the stadium there. And this athlete,

:32:18. > :32:25.Henderson, is under massive pressure. The Olympic champion from

:32:26. > :32:30.Rio. We saw the massive foul that he jumped in the second round. At the

:32:31. > :32:37.moment he's going out. Let me bring you in, Toni. Henderson is last

:32:38. > :32:44.comment leading 7.90 two. Is he going to do it? If the second round

:32:45. > :32:50.is anything to go by, he should. If he moves it up about six inches,

:32:51. > :32:53.running the way he did stop but there's a lot of anxiety and

:32:54. > :32:57.nervousness. He is one of those who can generate bead on the runway and

:32:58. > :33:04.run off the board and carry the speed deep into the pit. Very

:33:05. > :33:07.capable, but nervous moments. Very nervous moments for Henderson, the

:33:08. > :33:11.Olympic champion. All other eyes looking to him. The other athletes

:33:12. > :33:21.have finished trying to make the final. 20 First Place, a big foul in

:33:22. > :33:26.the second round. He need 7.92 or better to make the final. It's

:33:27. > :33:32.better. This is going to be really close. It is a valid jump. It is

:33:33. > :33:37.below the auto qualifying. I think he may have just done it. He shakes

:33:38. > :33:44.his head but I think he may have jump just enough. We're looking the

:33:45. > :33:48.summary. He made the adjustment, it was a bit of an over adjustment,

:33:49. > :33:55.overcompensating for being so close in the second round. The blue line,

:33:56. > :34:00.8.0 five. 7.92 or better to make the top 12. If he gets into the final,

:34:01. > :34:04.all of these performances are scrapped. It's not enough,

:34:05. > :34:11.Henderson, the Olympic champion, is out. Oh, that's distressing for him

:34:12. > :34:17.and for his coach. A puzzled look on his face, he's not sure. Maybe he

:34:18. > :34:22.doesn't understand that that is his competition over, a jump of 7.90,

:34:23. > :34:28.easy for a man of his class and ability. He is a pressure man, he

:34:29. > :34:33.proved that last year, a last round jump when he took gold in Rio. He

:34:34. > :34:38.came here as a contender for the world title. Well, Henderson, no

:34:39. > :34:46.part to play in tomorrow APPLAUSE

:34:47. > :34:49.Final -- in tomorrow's final. The frustration I'm sure already in

:34:50. > :34:55.place as a result of not being able to compete. Seeing competitors, who

:34:56. > :35:07.he would have loved to go go toe to toe with all stop -- go toe to toe

:35:08. > :35:13.with. Nothing he can do but watch, Greg Rutherford. Two Americans

:35:14. > :35:18.faltering. Athletes in the men's long jump qualification, looking way

:35:19. > :35:22.off their best. Tomorrow, the final, and Manyonga from South Africa is

:35:23. > :35:30.looking possibly like the favourite. It can quickly go wrong and the

:35:31. > :35:34.athletes know that one slip and it could be over. The first appearance

:35:35. > :35:39.of one of the three British athletes going in the men's 100 metres on the

:35:40. > :35:44.right, Reece Prescod, the UK champion, in lane two. Perhaps a

:35:45. > :35:47.slight surprise that he won the UK title. Four British athletes have

:35:48. > :35:54.gone quicker than him this season but Prescod delivered in Birmingham

:35:55. > :36:05.and took the title well. This is who he is lining up against. Simbine,

:36:06. > :36:12.very quick. Not De Grasse. A couple of days ago he pulled out. A big

:36:13. > :36:19.loss to the race. Three will go through automatically. As big a

:36:20. > :36:26.moment now when he won the UK title. Being welcomed to the Olympic

:36:27. > :36:38.Stadium. Needing to go close perhaps to his best. Alex Wilson alongside

:36:39. > :36:43.him from Switzerland. Simbine, well, so consistently fast this season, no

:36:44. > :36:50.man has more sub ten second runs than him, eight of them. But Meite

:36:51. > :36:56.and others have gone below ten seconds. Meite, the finalist in Rio,

:36:57. > :37:01.winning the 100 in the Paris Diamond League. Burke, if you were with us

:37:02. > :37:06.earlier, you may have seen him, from Barbados, coming through the

:37:07. > :37:08.prelims. The Grassi, even though he pulled out a couple of days ago, he

:37:09. > :37:28.is still listed in this race -- the Simbine was Wayde van Niekerk's

:37:29. > :37:35.roommate in Rio. They are taking South African's men's sprinting

:37:36. > :37:42.forward. Prescod in lane two. Wilson outside. Forte of Jamaica in four.

:37:43. > :37:48.Simbine of five. Meite in six and Burke in seven and Saaid of the

:37:49. > :37:53.Maldives is in eight. We will go through automatically to the

:37:54. > :38:01.semifinals. -- three will go through what radically. Prescod getting a

:38:02. > :38:05.decent start. Meite coming through and Simbine is in trouble. Prescod

:38:06. > :38:09.is going to come through. The victory will go to Forte but

:38:10. > :38:13.qualifying for the semifinals goes to Reece Prescod, very impressive

:38:14. > :38:20.run. Meite also but disappointing for Simbine. All those times he is

:38:21. > :38:25.delivered, he didn't go through but Reece Prescod certainly goes

:38:26. > :38:29.through. The winner, Forte. Many cheers here for this man, Reece

:38:30. > :38:34.Prescod, the UK champion, through to the semifinals. Strong performance

:38:35. > :38:38.from this young man. I was wondering if he'd be anxious on the line. The

:38:39. > :38:43.start is in his best part of the race but he nailed it, he got out

:38:44. > :38:47.well, driving hard for those first couple of metres and put himself in

:38:48. > :38:54.a very good position. Always strong from 60 two 100 metres. He keeps his

:38:55. > :38:59.form. He knows the quality of the athletes around him. He does what is

:39:00. > :39:04.necessary and is rewarded with a new personal best, 10.0 three. Great

:39:05. > :39:10.performance. Out again from the blocks hard. He knows the quality is

:39:11. > :39:15.to his right. He works hard, he keeps cool. He doesn't want to get

:39:16. > :39:20.tight, cause anything tends that would slow him down and a great job.

:39:21. > :39:26.Great to see that for the UK champion. Have a look again, bang,

:39:27. > :39:29.getting up right, pushing hard. He's a tall man, he's always going to be

:39:30. > :39:35.struggling for the quick start but that was pretty useful. It was the

:39:36. > :39:39.time to do it. You don't want to leave anything here, you want to get

:39:40. > :39:43.out and guarantee a place in the next round and that's what he's

:39:44. > :39:51.done. Awarded, 10.03, let's hear from him now. Impressive

:39:52. > :39:58.performance, to do it on H on a night like this and a personal best.

:39:59. > :40:03.The stadium here, I saw so many people, it is mad. Nice to have the

:40:04. > :40:07.people behind me. The run was pretty good. I've been working on my style

:40:08. > :40:11.and it is getting there. Hopefully do the same tomorrow, execute and

:40:12. > :40:15.just go for it. You are able to keep your nerves in check pretty well. I

:40:16. > :40:23.was nervous this morning, I had to force down my breakfast. Me and my

:40:24. > :40:26.roommate, CJ, keeping cool and hopefully keep going, really. So

:40:27. > :40:33.close to the sub ten seconds, that must be so close for you, hopefully

:40:34. > :40:36.tomorrow. I'm getting there, I feel it's coming and I got to take it

:40:37. > :40:44.step-by-step. Tremendous race, well done. Thank you. What a run. Forte

:40:45. > :40:50.is the first man to go under ten seconds this evening. Reece Prescod,

:40:51. > :40:54.personal best, tenth on the UK all-time list. Simbine come out of

:40:55. > :41:01.the automatic places but he is in qualification to go through as one

:41:02. > :41:06.of the fastest losers. A lot of Brits are in action here in the

:41:07. > :41:10.Olympic Stadium. One with a chance of winning a medal, Holly Bradshaw.

:41:11. > :41:16.She's proved she can deliver on the biggest stages of all. Across the

:41:17. > :41:20.last five or six years. She jumped 4.81 for a new British record in her

:41:21. > :41:26.last outing. She says she's fitter and stronger than she has ever been.

:41:27. > :41:31.The bar is at watch metres and 50 centimetres. She has passed the

:41:32. > :41:43.opening two Heights. The first attempt for Holly Bradshaw. Oh, yes!

:41:44. > :41:49.Good start. This is qualification. 4.16 is needed for Sunday's final.

:41:50. > :41:54.It is the perfect start -- 4.6 p. Toney, we talked about her needing

:41:55. > :42:02.to go well and that looked good. It was all right, she has been sat down

:42:03. > :42:08.since the competition started -- Toni. The poll needs to be high and

:42:09. > :42:16.up and in front of which is why you saw the kick the outside. 4.50,

:42:17. > :42:20.first-time parents, very good. STUDIO: What an evening we've

:42:21. > :42:30.experienced and we have so much more in store. Two legends of the sport

:42:31. > :42:33.beginning their farewell. 80 minutes until we see Usain Bolt. We seen him

:42:34. > :42:39.warning up and now we've seen the great man getting ready to walk

:42:40. > :42:43.through. Mo Farah is still going through his strides and reparations

:42:44. > :42:50.as well. Doing a little bit of elaborate stretching, moving the pal

:42:51. > :42:53.big floor, thrusting, I'm not sure what the technical term is. Jess is

:42:54. > :43:03.saying that isn't the technical term! -- pelvic floor. He will be

:43:04. > :43:07.out on the track. No doubt the atmosphere is going to go up a notch

:43:08. > :43:15.or two. It is the fourth round now of the men's 100 metres heats and

:43:16. > :43:24.the Crown is calling this one with representation from Reece Prescod's

:43:25. > :43:29.roommate, CJ Ujah. COMMENTATOR: What a season he has been having, CJ. A

:43:30. > :43:35.change in his coaching set up. Now he is with Stuart McMillan. Running

:43:36. > :43:39.with a new sense of confidence and consistency. He has been around the

:43:40. > :43:45.ten second mark, doing well on the Diamond League. 9.98, his best

:43:46. > :43:48.performance, in Rabat. Warmer than it is here but good conditions

:43:49. > :43:55.tonight, we've seen some good sprinting so far. He has a pretty

:43:56. > :44:01.good feet here, I think. Su may give him something to think about.

:44:02. > :44:05.Interesting to see how Christopher Belcher for the USA, his first time

:44:06. > :44:10.at this level. He has only run under ten seconds once, in the American

:44:11. > :44:17.Championships. Interesting to see how he goes here. CJ: I like his

:44:18. > :44:24.attitude. He brings a calm confidence to what he's doing. He is

:44:25. > :44:29.in the shape of his life. Just missed out on the final last year in

:44:30. > :44:35.Rio. Surely he can make it through to the final and then, you never

:44:36. > :44:38.know. Su also won on the Diamond League circuit in front of the home

:44:39. > :44:46.crowd in Shanghai. He was behind CJ in Rabat. And Bolt and others in

:44:47. > :44:58.Monaco. We saw Millar earlier on in the prelims. Dodson from Samoa as

:44:59. > :45:06.well. Going through to ten -- Belcher on the outside. He is a shy,

:45:07. > :45:13.reserved character! The arm warmers, maybe his comment on the weather

:45:14. > :45:23.here in London. Colin tells me that his father is German and Belcher and

:45:24. > :45:35.CJ Ujah, two bookends in this heat. The first three will go through. It

:45:36. > :45:41.is lanes two and nine, to watch. There will be a huge cheer if he can

:45:42. > :45:52.just compete in the way that he has done all year.

:45:53. > :46:06.False start in lane seven, that is less heart -- that is Lehata. He

:46:07. > :46:12.knows it. First one of the championships, a dubious accolade.

:46:13. > :46:16.Yes, you can see. Bang. Does he even wait? He just took off. These

:46:17. > :46:20.athletes have come a long way and they will be disappointed when that

:46:21. > :46:22.happens and so will the crowd, that's for sure. Clearly before the

:46:23. > :46:36.gun. He was fourth in the Commonwealth

:46:37. > :46:50.Games in Glasgow, 2014. Particularly in all the Caribbean countries.

:46:51. > :47:01.So Mosito Lehata, sadly for him, that's the end of his world champs.

:47:02. > :47:05.In the 100 metres, anyway. It is not a good moment, is it? When

:47:06. > :47:10.you see that red card, you have to be escorted off. You've done all the

:47:11. > :47:14.preparation, all the warm-up, all the procedure and just a little bit

:47:15. > :47:18.of a lack of discipline or nerves causes that.

:47:19. > :47:22.Probably nerves. You know, despite the experience that so many of these

:47:23. > :47:30.athletes have, you know, if you had run in the heats of Rio you wouldn't

:47:31. > :47:36.have had this size of crowd. So, a big occasion. What we are tliing

:47:37. > :47:43.about the Japanese strip by the way, that definitely needs a few minutes

:47:44. > :47:48.of discussion later in the evening. Aska Cambridge running in the lane

:47:49. > :47:50.next to Chijindu Ujah. There he is, in lane two. A cheer going up from

:47:51. > :48:10.the crowd on the far side. Safely away this time. CJ gets a

:48:11. > :48:19.nice start. Bell with work to do. Cambridge is right in there. Bell

:48:20. > :48:24.finally gets up there. -- Belcher finally gets up there. A season's

:48:25. > :48:29.best for him. A slight head-wind. Hardly a breath of wind on the

:48:30. > :48:34.track. We know it is fast. CJ got out nicely. 10. 07. That's all he

:48:35. > :48:37.had to do. Negotiate, come back tomorrow. He would have liked to

:48:38. > :48:45.have won his heat. You don't have to push that hard. A decent start. He

:48:46. > :48:49.really nailed that. Worked hard for the right time to work hard and just

:48:50. > :48:55.keep focussing. Just do what you can do. All season CJ has been doing

:48:56. > :49:00.these type performances. That's all we can ask for him to do right now.

:49:01. > :49:04.He will raise his game going through the rounds. Look, he's looking

:49:05. > :49:08.across, making sure he's in the right position at the right time. I,

:49:09. > :49:12.myself, am very pleased with that from CJ.

:49:13. > :49:20.CJ, well done. First round over and done with. Seems like you were

:49:21. > :49:23.relaxed. I was relaxed. Wanted to go through my phases and get ready for

:49:24. > :49:27.tomorrow. You've had such a tremendous season. This World

:49:28. > :49:30.Championships has been on the horizon for so long. What is it like

:49:31. > :49:35.to be out there? It is nice. The crowd is amazing. Obviously London

:49:36. > :49:39.World Champs, cannot get better than this. I will enjoy it. Hopefully I

:49:40. > :49:43.can make it to the finals. What is it like for you at your early stage

:49:44. > :49:47.of your career to be talked of as a contender or possible medal hope for

:49:48. > :49:53.us? It is nice. But I have to keep my head down and focus on me and

:49:54. > :49:58.just keep on improving. Is it good you have a roommate in Rhys? He's a

:49:59. > :50:03.good kid. You saw him win the trials. I am sure he'll probably

:50:04. > :50:06.smash his personal best again. It is good going forward for British

:50:07. > :50:11.sprinting. All the best for tomorrow. Thank you.

:50:12. > :50:16.A really good, solid performance. The heats are an indicator, nothing

:50:17. > :50:21.more, that tough stuff comes tomorrow. Absolutely. They'll all be

:50:22. > :50:27.nailing it tomorrow. For CJ, for me, it is a good season for him. Looks

:50:28. > :50:38.like he's got all that control - good running, CJ. Really good.

:50:39. > :50:42.So, Bingtian Su, from China, through safely and two good British

:50:43. > :50:49.sprinters. And the third of the British

:50:50. > :50:54.athletes will go in the final heat. Usain Bolt going in the last heat.

:50:55. > :50:58.We take you right back Michael Johnson to the first heat and

:50:59. > :51:03.Christian Coleman, obviously from the United States, has had a great

:51:04. > :51:07.season. He's raced a lot. Yesterday you were worried that intensity of

:51:08. > :51:11.racing he's done may make him not as sharp as you might like in terms of

:51:12. > :51:15.predicting medals for him. What did you see today that impressed or

:51:16. > :51:20.persuaded you otherwise? They made the right decision. He and his coach

:51:21. > :51:23.decided no t to run in Europe after the US championships and that rest

:51:24. > :51:28.has done him a service. As we see here. He looks very smooth, very

:51:29. > :51:31.relaxed. The only concern I would have had is whether he was still

:51:32. > :51:35.race-sharp because of the time off. It was certainly the right decision

:51:36. > :51:39.to make to take that time off because he has had so many races.

:51:40. > :51:43.He's obviously still very race-sharp here. This will boost his

:51:44. > :51:46.confidence. I am sure he wants to get up there and run. This will

:51:47. > :51:52.certainly boost his confidence. Very relaxed. He's a very impressive,

:51:53. > :51:56.very neat sprinter. He's very efficient, very quick and has a

:51:57. > :52:01.bright future. He's getting started. Just finished his college career.

:52:02. > :52:06.Think I the future bodes well for him. The future looks bright in the

:52:07. > :52:10.shape of Reece Prescod, who had a fantastic entry to the semifinal

:52:11. > :52:14.there. The way he ran that, very composed. You wouldn't know it was

:52:15. > :52:20.his first chasm pi whereonship. No, you wouldn't. -- championship. No,

:52:21. > :52:23.you wouldn't. He was able to recover from that, which is impressive for

:52:24. > :52:26.someone with his level of experience and acquitted himself very, very

:52:27. > :52:29.well here. This is what you want. You want to produce your best

:52:30. > :52:33.performances when it counts. He was able to do that and produce a

:52:34. > :52:37.personal best here. It will get tougher in the next rounds. He will

:52:38. > :52:40.go into the next round with quite a bit of confidence from this. He

:52:41. > :52:43.doesn't look like, you know, the pressure really affected him much at

:52:44. > :52:48.all. He said he was a little bit nervous this morning. But that is

:52:49. > :52:52.good coaching to get a young athlete like that, ready here in the first

:52:53. > :52:57.round in the 100 metres and produce a personal best. There is Justin

:52:58. > :53:02.Gatlin, out for the penultimate of these heats of the 100 metres. Did I

:53:03. > :53:07.imagine it, Andrew Cotter, or did I hear a boo there? Your imagination

:53:08. > :53:11.is not playing tricks on you. There was a boo or two. Perhaps more than

:53:12. > :53:33.that inside the stadium. Gatlin would be the golden man, but

:53:34. > :53:38.for Bolt, who goes in the next heat. Here, heat five, three to go through

:53:39. > :53:51.automatically and Gatlin, at the age of 35, starting his campaign again.

:53:52. > :54:03.The hand's coming up. Lane two, Keston Bledman, very experienced

:54:04. > :54:09.from Trinidad and Tobago. He has to explain why he wasn't happy.

:54:10. > :54:16.He has to explain to the starter. Gives us a start to talk about the

:54:17. > :54:19.starters. Keston Bledman, 29 now. He's, he's had some success. Again,

:54:20. > :54:26.if you put your hand up, you do have to come up with a decent reason for

:54:27. > :54:30.having done so. A very good reason. I was looking at him there and he

:54:31. > :54:35.was having a proper conversation with the official. Out comes the

:54:36. > :54:38.green card for everybody. Perhaps his foot was slipping down

:54:39. > :54:47.the block or something. There'll be a reason. Got Kim alongside him. 10.

:54:48. > :54:56.Ds 07. Justin Gatlin is there.

:54:57. > :55:02.Gavin Smellie, quick starter. He goes in six.

:55:03. > :55:09.Fisher, once of Jamaica, in seven. Abdullah Abkar Mohammed, came

:55:10. > :55:20.through the prelims, in eight and Thando Roto ran 9. 95 this season.

:55:21. > :55:30.Again, applause around the stadium. Now silence for the fifth of sixth

:55:31. > :55:35.first-round heats in the men's 100. Oh, called back. It didn't look

:55:36. > :55:39.pretty even that one. I was going to say a good start from Gatlin, as it

:55:40. > :55:44.often is. He's halfway down the track.

:55:45. > :55:53.And it might be Thando Roto, the South African... This is all going

:55:54. > :56:00.wrong for the South African sprinters. Anyone below 0.1 is

:56:01. > :56:06.considered a false start. Thando Roto will be heading off and

:56:07. > :56:10.his World Championships in the 100 metres, certainly, is over.

:56:11. > :56:14.Let's have a closer look at it, Colin. Far left. He's moving very

:56:15. > :56:18.early. Very early indeed. And again, it is

:56:19. > :56:23.what we were talking about earlier, I think a little bit of nerves.

:56:24. > :56:27.Anxiety. First time on a big stage, with a crowd like this - Andrew,

:56:28. > :56:31.where there's people who are very close to you. There's buzzing going

:56:32. > :56:36.on, but you have to hold your concentration. He's looking at the

:56:37. > :56:41.board. I can assure he'll be looking up in hope, because that red card

:56:42. > :56:48.will be on the way. That's painful for him.

:56:49. > :56:58.He'll try and argue his case. There's no arguing about it. It's

:56:59. > :57:07.there, on the computer. Sorry, but that's the rules... There

:57:08. > :57:15.we are! Harsh, but fair, you're out.

:57:16. > :57:21.So, two non-starters here. Chavaughn Walsh didn't come to the start line.

:57:22. > :57:31.We have Keston Bledman, Kukyoung Kim, of Korea. Justin Gatlin goes in

:57:32. > :57:38.five. Gavin Smellie of Canada. Andrew Fisher Abdullah Mohammed of

:57:39. > :57:39.Saudi Arabia. The rules... There we are!

:57:40. > :57:44.Harsh, This time clearly away. A great

:57:45. > :57:48.start from Kim in lane three. Gatlin making his move. Can he go through

:57:49. > :57:54.automatically. Fisher as well. Labourering to the

:57:55. > :58:03.line. Gatlin comes through. 10. 10.06. And

:58:04. > :58:07.the noise inside -- 10. 06 and the noise inside the stadium. That

:58:08. > :58:11.chequered history want to put it behind him, but the crowd in this

:58:12. > :58:16.stadium not allowing him to here. He will win, he will move on and he

:58:17. > :58:20.will shut it all out. He did what had to be done here. One of these

:58:21. > :58:26.athletes who is great out the blocks. When he gets into that

:58:27. > :58:31.rhythm, quite difficult. But look at that man - he's here and that will

:58:32. > :58:34.be a little bit of a noise. What Justin Gatlin has to put up with so

:58:35. > :58:38.often. We will show you Usain Bolt, the man

:58:39. > :58:40.who has beaten him so many times, but he's in the house and just about

:58:41. > :58:54.ready. Holly Bradshaw in the pole vault

:58:55. > :58:58.qualification has chosen to pass her next height of four metres 55. She

:58:59. > :59:04.shares the lead. 4. 60 is also qualifying. Talking

:59:05. > :59:10.about the fact, that is a confident move, isn't it? It was a good

:59:11. > :59:15.clearance at 4. 50. That has given her the confidence. It is a smart

:59:16. > :59:18.move, save your energy and clear the 4. 60 the first time and that's you

:59:19. > :59:26.through for qualifying. Let's wrap things up from the fifth

:59:27. > :59:43.heat, Justin Gatlin taking it. Thando Roto, so disappointing, the

:59:44. > :59:48.South African disqualified for that false start.

:59:49. > :59:56.Usain Bolt, striding out for his heat, the final of these heats...

:59:57. > :00:04.Listen to that! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Not just from

:00:05. > :00:07.the Jamaican quarter. Anyone here with a ticket knows that tonight

:00:08. > :00:11.they are very, very lucky indeed. They may not have a ticket for

:00:12. > :00:17.tomorrow night and this could be the last chance they ever get to see him

:00:18. > :00:20.out there and we're lucky, too, I guess, about we, Denise to see him

:00:21. > :00:24.in the flesh as we have so many times. It has been a privilege to

:00:25. > :00:29.watch him and watch him grow, watch him become the legend that he is.

:00:30. > :00:34.You never get tired of seeing him connecting with his audience. I

:00:35. > :00:40.mean, it feels like, you know, just, it's his arena. He's owned it for so

:00:41. > :00:45.long. I cannot wait to see him meet his destiny, which is etched

:00:46. > :00:50.already. It is fantastic. And Jess, not every athlete gets the privilege

:00:51. > :00:54.of deciding when the end has come. Often injury cuts things short. You

:00:55. > :01:01.had that last year in Rio and you the esided -- and you decided it was

:01:02. > :01:04.the end. Anyone who saw the documentary saw the build up to Rio

:01:05. > :01:08.was a struggle to get that motivation. He's here now. He's done

:01:09. > :01:12.the hard work and it is about enjoying it. So many athletes have

:01:13. > :01:17.to cut their careers short through injury or whatever it might be,

:01:18. > :01:23.disappointments. He is that athlete. Purple is the colour of his school,

:01:24. > :01:28.school uniform. Gold - well that speaks for itself! . The green and

:01:29. > :01:32.gold of Jamaica. Steve Cram will call this one for you.

:01:33. > :01:43.COMMENTATOR: Say hello, wave goodbye. Usain Bolt, a rapturous

:01:44. > :01:48.welcome as he came into the arena. By contrast, as ever, to that of

:01:49. > :01:57.Justin Gatlin. Here, the journey begins, for Usain Bolt. Heat six,

:01:58. > :02:02.first round. Against him, James Dasaolu of Great Britain and Jimmy

:02:03. > :02:09.Vicaut, of France, two of Europe's best. Fraser came through the rounds

:02:10. > :02:14.early on, as did Rodney from Canada. Their reward, a chance to run

:02:15. > :02:19.against a great man. Vicaut, I was watching him doing some stance. He

:02:20. > :02:22.had some hamstring problems. He's been out for a few weeks. He says he

:02:23. > :02:26.doesn't know how he's going to do but he's going to give his best

:02:27. > :02:33.shot. He's worked hard to be fit and healthy. Everyone has been chatting

:02:34. > :02:38.about CJ and Reece Prescod, Dasaolu has quietly gone about his business

:02:39. > :02:39.and he's been in good form. Let's hope he can negotiate his way

:02:40. > :02:59.through here. Tada of Japan. You don't need to introduce the

:03:00. > :03:05.greatest athlete of all time. Here in London for the final time. As

:03:06. > :03:18.ever, the showman on the start line. Let's put all of the emotion and

:03:19. > :03:24.everything else to one side for the next few seconds. Now it's about how

:03:25. > :03:30.good Usain Bolt is. We've seen his races, one under ten seconds. See if

:03:31. > :03:35.he just does enough here. He has Vicaut and Dasaolu against him. Just

:03:36. > :03:51.get an indication of where he can go in the next two rounds tomorrow.

:03:52. > :03:59.Decent start from Bolt. Dasaolu was quick and so was Vicaut. Bowled has

:04:00. > :04:09.some work to do here. Here he comes and there he goes. 10.0 eight. A

:04:10. > :04:18.shake of the head. It's the pick-up that isn't quite there at the

:04:19. > :04:22.moment, is it? That is Jimmy Vicaut and Dasaolu, he has given them a

:04:23. > :04:26.three-metre head start over the first 20, 30 metres and then he runs

:04:27. > :04:31.them down. He doesn't need to be better than that. But he has that

:04:32. > :04:40.ability and quality, when he gets to top speed. It takes longer defined

:04:41. > :04:48.it than he used to. He didn't have much urgency, from ten metres, 230.

:04:49. > :04:54.It is when he glanced halfway down. He can afford to look around. You

:04:55. > :05:01.can see him going, one, two, three, four, I need to change my place

:05:02. > :05:09.here. -- my pace. I'm told by people who know this, Paula Radcliffe, he

:05:10. > :05:14.is called Hero the hedgehog. He is playing the game up very well. Let's

:05:15. > :05:19.have a look at this. It is that bit of the race where they get away from

:05:20. > :05:25.him between ten and dirty metres. He takes a glance, doesn't he --

:05:26. > :05:30.between ten and 30 metres. He starts hitting the floor a bit harder. He

:05:31. > :05:37.gets up bright and he takes a nice easy victory. 10.0 seven. Your good

:05:38. > :05:43.friend Colin Jackson talking over the replay, you've just watched it,

:05:44. > :05:48.what did you think? Very bad! I stumbled a little bit coming out of

:05:49. > :05:54.the blocks. I'm not very fond of these blocks, I think they are the

:05:55. > :05:57.worst I've experienced. I have to get this together, I must get the

:05:58. > :06:02.start together because I can't keep doing this. What is it about the

:06:03. > :06:08.blocks in particular? It's shaky, when I did my warm up and pushed

:06:09. > :06:13.back it felt like what I'm not used to. Not as firm as I'm used to. You

:06:14. > :06:17.are used to this reception from the crowd, how amazing is that? Always

:06:18. > :06:22.wonderful, they always show me so much love and I really appreciate

:06:23. > :06:27.it. Happy to be here. It will be ramped up tomorrow, the semifinal.

:06:28. > :06:29.We hope. Yeah, I'm excited, looking forward to the finals and doing my

:06:30. > :06:40.best. All the best. The thing is, when he does his best,

:06:41. > :06:44.it's pretty good! It's interesting, what he was saying about the blocks.

:06:45. > :06:49.I think Bledman was saying the same thing, indicating that the blocks

:06:50. > :06:54.had moved. When I was watching it I thought his foot actually slips

:06:55. > :06:58.down. They are struggling with the comfort element of it. They can

:06:59. > :07:05.practice it in the warm up. You can see his running with a little bit...

:07:06. > :07:11.He looks anxious, he's not happy, is he? He canters his way through. But

:07:12. > :07:16.when you're as talented as he is, you can afford to have those blips

:07:17. > :07:21.and still ease your way through. So that's what he did. Let's have a

:07:22. > :07:26.look at Jimmy Vicaut and Dasaolu there. Vicaut, that's good from a

:07:27. > :07:32.man who's had a hamstring problem. Delighted not to have any problems.

:07:33. > :07:38.Dasaolu never uses his full height. His knees get out in front of him.

:07:39. > :07:41.He's in good form, Colin. Nice and strong, both athletes. Vicaut and

:07:42. > :07:46.James know each other very well, racing head-to-head many times. Back

:07:47. > :07:49.in the day they were the top two Europeans, so they know each other

:07:50. > :07:55.well and it is nice that they have got through to tomorrow. It will

:07:56. > :08:04.mean that Tada goes through and I think Simbine has the fastest loser.

:08:05. > :08:09.Roto, his team-mate, with a false start. STUDIO: We need to get to the

:08:10. > :08:15.bottom of the blocks, I think! You are the experts, what is he talking

:08:16. > :08:21.to, what is he alluding to? Yeah, I'm not sure. They look like normal

:08:22. > :08:29.blocks to me but the race didn't look like normal Usain Bolt. That

:08:30. > :08:32.didn't look very good at all. I think he obviously felt something in

:08:33. > :08:36.the blocks that he didn't like and he wasn't happy with the start and

:08:37. > :08:41.it affected him in the race. Because what he started to do there, you see

:08:42. > :08:46.him start to look around much earlier than he normally does. You

:08:47. > :08:48.also see Usain Bolt coming out in the first round of a major

:08:49. > :08:55.Championship, when he knows that he's got to use these rounds to get

:08:56. > :08:59.himself sharp, to run a good first 60 metres, and he didn't. He threw

:09:00. > :09:03.the race away at the end and looked over and thought, I'm going to raise

:09:04. > :09:10.these guys and do what I need to do. He doesn't normally run in the first

:09:11. > :09:14.heat but he was actually competing. It looked weird. Can I ask a

:09:15. > :09:19.question. Because he doesn't race very often, over the years, does

:09:20. > :09:24.that impact his feeling, his flow when it comes to the championships?

:09:25. > :09:29.You said he looked across earlier, does he lose a feeling or does that

:09:30. > :09:35.not apply to him? I don't think it applies to him, because he is used

:09:36. > :09:41.to doing what he needs to do. In this first round, Jimmy Vicaut could

:09:42. > :09:44.be a medal contender, Dasaolu could be a finalist, but he doesn't have

:09:45. > :09:49.to race against those guys. He never thinks about that. He normally comes

:09:50. > :09:54.into the first round, this is my opportunity to work on some things,

:09:55. > :09:58.30, 40 metres and I will be in control of the race, but he wasn't

:09:59. > :10:01.and started to look out in front. The other thing he'll be

:10:02. > :10:05.disappointed about, he shook his head at the end, he let it affect

:10:06. > :10:10.him in the race, instead of continuing to do what he needed to

:10:11. > :10:13.do he let it affect him in the race. Will that be a psychological

:10:14. > :10:18.advantage for those who think they can take him on in the final

:10:19. > :10:24.tomorrow? No, it won't be because he will get it right in the next round,

:10:25. > :10:27.I guarantee you. That's who he is. He will get it right. We probably

:10:28. > :10:31.won't hear anything after this about the blocks. He'll be disappointed to

:10:32. > :10:37.make that comment because that's not who he is. At this point I imagine

:10:38. > :10:43.he's thinking, I want to go out and run again and be Usain Bolt because

:10:44. > :10:46.that wasn't Usain Bolt. But for the thousands and thousands here, they

:10:47. > :10:51.just saw Usain Bolt coming through and winning with ease, as they are

:10:52. > :10:54.used to seeing. When you micro-analyse the performance, it is

:10:55. > :10:59.like nothing we've seen in a major Championship. Great to see him but

:11:00. > :11:03.he didn't seem himself. He's had a turbulent year, and when you are at

:11:04. > :11:07.that stage, as I was, you can have injuries every time but he goes into

:11:08. > :11:13.every Championship with pressure. This is a different kind of pressure

:11:14. > :11:16.as this is his final one. You can see the frustration that he isn't

:11:17. > :11:21.where he wants to be but he will find it he is Bolt. We were talking

:11:22. > :11:25.yesterday about he gets through this in terms of motivation because he

:11:26. > :11:30.isn't going to break a world record, it hasn't been the strongest year in

:11:31. > :11:34.100 metres running in terms of a main protagonist. I said you need to

:11:35. > :11:41.create that. You said you didn't think he did. He enjoys being out

:11:42. > :11:45.here. Who does that? Bloopers themselves on the line like this

:11:46. > :11:54.when he's got nothing to prove that smack bloopers themselves on the

:11:55. > :12:00.line. Only Usain Bolt -- who put themselves on the line. It is about

:12:01. > :12:06.how he acquitted himself in the race. He will want to put it behind

:12:07. > :12:12.him. Even know that wasn't a very good race, in Usain Bolt terms it

:12:13. > :12:19.was all four, he still ran in 10.07 and controlled it. It didn't come to

:12:20. > :12:22.him in the way that he normally does, so he went back to school

:12:23. > :12:26.yard, getting in front of these guys and getting across the line before

:12:27. > :12:31.they do. He has the ability to do that. He's bad is still too good for

:12:32. > :12:36.the rest of the field, that is dispiriting for them! One of the

:12:37. > :12:41.greatest sportsman of all time. The greatest British athlete of all time

:12:42. > :12:46.will shortly be out in the arena. Mo Farah doffing his cap as he comes on

:12:47. > :12:50.for the 10,000 metres. He's done it all in this sport, hasn't he,

:12:51. > :12:58.looking for his sixth World Championship gold.

:12:59. > :13:17.A story of human movement. This looks easy. It has been anything

:13:18. > :13:22.but. 1983. The start. Twin boys are born in Mogadishu, Somalia. Eight

:13:23. > :13:34.years later, one twin moves to London. He loves football. Running.

:13:35. > :13:39.Running wins. There are setbacks. Disappointing performance by Mo

:13:40. > :13:47.Farah. Successes. He's destroying them in the home straight! The

:13:48. > :13:54.champion! Change, change of routine, coach, change everything. He must

:13:55. > :14:02.move, to move faster. Denying Farah! Is he ready now? Is this the time

:14:03. > :14:10.and is this the place? He's taken it again, Farah, it is gold! He is the

:14:11. > :14:18.double Olympic champion. These are Mo nights and this is Mo town. It

:14:19. > :14:25.becomes the motion picture of the age, to be repeated and appreciated

:14:26. > :14:36.time after time. As expected. Howarth monumental Mo. Mo Farah is

:14:37. > :14:37.the mode champion again. -- Usain Bolt monumental Mo.

:14:38. > :14:51.Rio. How will the finish be? This is the final straight, the final

:14:52. > :15:00.chapter. In the city where his love affair with Manning began -- with

:15:01. > :15:13.running began. STUDIO: Eddie Butler there. That is his global haul to

:15:14. > :15:17.date. That is a phenomenal haul in an area, it is unprecedented to keep

:15:18. > :15:23.doing it, round after round. Paula Radcliffe has joined us again. After

:15:24. > :15:27.Rio, we sat in the studio, has he got it, can he keep the intensity,

:15:28. > :15:33.the training that he does not being away from his family, his precious

:15:34. > :15:38.twins and his son and wife. Three daughters and a son, he's got, and

:15:39. > :15:43.he does, he leaves them for months at a time to do altitude training.

:15:44. > :15:49.It is the sleep and rest and everything it takes to be the best.

:15:50. > :15:54.It is the everyday grind of it. This is probably the first year, if I'm

:15:55. > :15:58.honest, where we start to see him a little bit tired in training and

:15:59. > :16:02.he's had to work hard. He has been heavy legged in some of the

:16:03. > :16:07.early-season racing but he still has that of invincibility and that is

:16:08. > :16:13.what is so incredible about him, how he controls the field, making the

:16:14. > :16:17.field bow to how he wants the race to be run and he's able to control

:16:18. > :16:21.them to make sure he is where he won smack to be and if he's in that

:16:22. > :16:27.position with a couple of laps to they can't beat him. They don't

:16:28. > :16:29.believe they can beat him. When you see the finish is, how fast he

:16:30. > :16:35.finishes, they know what they have to do. But they just aren't able to

:16:36. > :16:38.do it. They have to take it to him hard in the early part of the race

:16:39. > :16:44.and I don't think they can do it, they don't believe they can.

:16:45. > :16:55.They are coming out into the stadium. Paul larks I -- Paula I ask

:16:56. > :17:01.you this time and time ben again, how do they do it? They know what

:17:02. > :17:08.have to do. It has to be the Kenyans. We have et think yop ya in

:17:09. > :17:17.there. It has to be them working together.

:17:18. > :17:24.If they make it really hard in the beginning, possibly. It is a tough

:17:25. > :17:28.ask. Taking the applause there, Mo Farah.

:17:29. > :17:34.Lapping up the crowd. His final 10,000 metres on the track

:17:35. > :17:38.here in London - the scene of such heroics in 2012 for him and his

:17:39. > :17:42.small family - how it's grown. They are here to enjoy this moment. He

:17:43. > :17:45.talks about how he does it for them. For them to see him here is so

:17:46. > :17:50.special. So many sportsmen and women don't get that opportunity. Family

:17:51. > :17:55.comes after careers have finished. For Mo it has always been about his

:17:56. > :18:00.family and how wonderful if they could see him take another global

:18:01. > :18:06.gold here. Jess, you know what it is like with

:18:07. > :18:11.family and the commitments that you have to get through, as you did with

:18:12. > :18:16.Beijing. It is all about juggling. Mo has carried on. It is the

:18:17. > :18:21.motivational element for me as well. It is how Mo has managed to do it

:18:22. > :18:28.year on year, but motivated himself to be on top. That is what athletes

:18:29. > :18:33.find hard once they have tasted glory and the success they wanted to

:18:34. > :18:38.achieve. He's just mentally so, so together. It's incredible to watch.

:18:39. > :18:41.Staying healthy as well, that is the big thing - staying injury-free,

:18:42. > :18:46.with the amount of mileage, the amount of work he's putting in and

:18:47. > :18:52.his body doesn't break down and his form stays strong right through to

:18:53. > :18:55.that crucial last lap. Dig deep, Mo Farah, one last time. 10,000 metres

:18:56. > :18:59.on the track. Let's hand you over then to Brendan

:19:00. > :19:09.Foster and Steve Cram. THE COMMENTATOR: Here we go then.

:19:10. > :19:14.London's calling. Brip's watching.

:19:15. > :19:24.-- Britain's watching. We're all waiting. Since that brilliant night,

:19:25. > :19:29.two nights, I guess, five years ago now in London, he's had three more

:19:30. > :19:33.golds, at 10,000 metres. And he's had three more children.

:19:34. > :19:38.Keep the family thing going. He's keeping it nicely balanced. This is

:19:39. > :19:43.not going to be easy for Mo Farah. Too many people, including ourselves

:19:44. > :19:49.say start the programme, it is never that easy. Mo has never won the

:19:50. > :19:54.10,000 gold medal in all of his great races by more than 0 .6 of a

:19:55. > :19:59.second. It is always that close and may well be tonight. Up against him

:20:00. > :20:16.three very good Kenyans. The three who raced him in Beijing.

:20:17. > :20:33.It watch out for Cheptegei as well. A former training manager.

:20:34. > :20:41.Belihu, 19-year-old Ethiopian. An unknown quantity. Not this man.

:20:42. > :20:45.Twice the world half-marathon champion. Beating Mo Farah in

:20:46. > :20:53.Cardiff - famously after falling down at the start. Here we go...

:20:54. > :21:16.Certainly divides the British media. I read an article who said he is a

:21:17. > :21:22.hero. Everyone agrees with. That I think most people at home agree with

:21:23. > :21:27.that as well. I went to watch the Ethiopian trials

:21:28. > :21:53.- he won it, Hadis, 62nd last there's Tanui.

:21:54. > :21:58.Muchiri, he may well help as well. If we are going to see anything to

:21:59. > :22:02.test Mo, we said this, two or three of them have got to work together,

:22:03. > :22:06.at least, to make it hard. Not one of them is good enough to run away

:22:07. > :22:11.from him at the start. They have to make it hard and tough before they

:22:12. > :22:15.get into that part of the race, the last 600 metres that belongs to Mo

:22:16. > :22:19.Farah. Time and time again, he's delivered.

:22:20. > :22:32.One more time for Mo Farah. In front of his home crowd n the

:22:33. > :22:37.city he knows so well. The city that he loves. The track that set him on

:22:38. > :22:46.this brilliant journey over the last five years. The crowd already

:22:47. > :22:51.raising the noise level and we're only on lap one. 24-and-a-half laps

:22:52. > :22:57.ahead now. And Brendan, it is the age-old

:22:58. > :23:01.question - how do you think Mo Farah, he's orchestrated the crowd,

:23:02. > :23:07.because he orchestrates the races as well. Over the last few years he has

:23:08. > :23:15.orchestrated the races. He's often sat at the back, but I notice today

:23:16. > :23:21.he's not sitting at the back. His sensors - a plan ahead. I think he's

:23:22. > :23:26.absolutely right with that sense. He's actually closer to the front

:23:27. > :23:33.after one lap than he often is at these championships. 61. And there's

:23:34. > :23:38.Amlosom stepping off the track quickly. That is disappointing. You

:23:39. > :23:43.sense here the Kenyans, the Ugandans and a couple of the young Ethiopians

:23:44. > :23:48.are thinking, we're going to make a race tonight. They look like they

:23:49. > :23:55.are going to make a race tonight. Two Ugandans in the front there.

:23:56. > :24:00.This is the guy, who at the World Cross Country Championships, his

:24:01. > :24:03.home crowd in U began da, he had a host of good Ethiopians and he got

:24:04. > :24:09.very excited. He was running brilliantly on the day. In the pen

:24:10. > :24:15.ul the I mate lap, he had an 11-second lead into the last lap,

:24:16. > :24:18.and then he, around halfway through he fell apart.

:24:19. > :24:23.He was beaten. The two know each other well. What he's not got to do

:24:24. > :24:27.is get over excited. The race plan may well be, let's take it to Mo

:24:28. > :24:33.Farah right from the gut. Let's have a go. That looks like what they will

:24:34. > :24:38.do. It is unusual. We have never seen that, really. He set off a bit

:24:39. > :24:42.too quick there Cheptegei. He's in the front.

:24:43. > :24:47.Mo Farah knows if he didn't know it beforehand, that they were going to

:24:48. > :24:52.at least try something today, then he knows now. The two of them have

:24:53. > :24:59.set off at a good pace early on. Going through the first 1,000

:25:00. > :25:03.metres, if you think, 4.42 is about two minutes, which is fast for a

:25:04. > :25:09.championship. Only twice have we gone under 27 minutes. There we go,

:25:10. > :25:21.2. 39. That is what was suggested earlier. We talked about this many

:25:22. > :25:28.times. These two men, Cheptegei, the Ugandan, and the cross-country

:25:29. > :25:31.champion. Down the field, in a sensible place, relaxing, just doing

:25:32. > :25:35.what he wants to do, letting them do what they want to do at the front -

:25:36. > :25:41.he can't stop that. These are early days. These are the days for Mo

:25:42. > :25:45.Farah when the nervous tension is allowed to seep out of his body.

:25:46. > :25:50.That was a 67-second lap. That was slower. There goes Mo Farah, just

:25:51. > :25:54.doing what he knows how to do. The crowd are supporting him. I notice

:25:55. > :25:59.on the start line, Steve, he looked very, very relaxed. He was winding

:26:00. > :26:03.the crowd up, making them cheer, clap, making them shout for him.

:26:04. > :26:05.They all know him. They all love him. They want to see him run a

:26:06. > :26:21.great race tonight. We have talked about this before,

:26:22. > :26:27.there are great athlete in this race. Mo Farah is a great

:26:28. > :26:34.competitor. Nobody will be better prepared than Mo Farah. He came down

:26:35. > :26:38.on Thursday night, later flight than he initially intended to. His last

:26:39. > :26:45.couple of sessions went very well, I am told. Very quick 400 metres. For

:26:46. > :26:52.a 10,000 metre run tore be able to do that it is phenomenal. 67, as we

:26:53. > :26:55.said. So, he's gone through the same processes that he's gone through

:26:56. > :26:58.time and time again now. He knows which boxes he needs to tick. He

:26:59. > :27:19.knows how to come into to a chasm Into a championship.

:27:20. > :27:23.He's not reacting to the pace. He's not reacting to what they are doing

:27:24. > :27:28.in front. He's not getting involved in the up and down motion. This man

:27:29. > :27:37.is a chal talent Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor. This man eventually will

:27:38. > :27:43.run a fantastic marathon. He's already twice world cross-country

:27:44. > :27:47.chasm pi mpion. If this was a distance other than 10,000 metres on

:27:48. > :27:52.the track, if it was on a road, over a half-marathon, in the country over

:27:53. > :27:57.10 or 12 K, you would give Kamworor a strong chance. Look at Mo Farah -

:27:58. > :28:00.on the track now, he's not at all affected by this. Now, they have got

:28:01. > :28:04.to make the running. They have to take it to him. Mo's relaxing at the

:28:05. > :28:09.back of the field. But you know when they lined up, to be a strong man

:28:10. > :28:12.and to try and take on the great Mo Farah, you've got to be confident on

:28:13. > :28:17.the start line. A lot of these guys on the start line think they can win

:28:18. > :28:21.this race. There's one man on this start line who knows he can win this

:28:22. > :28:25.race and that's Mo Farah. He has to be careful. He has to be in the

:28:26. > :28:29.right position. He has to react to moves that happen later on. Most of

:28:30. > :28:36.all he has to be resilient and focussed on what he knows he can do.

:28:37. > :28:38.He's three and half seconds behind the leader, Geoffrey Kipsang

:28:39. > :28:42.Kamworor. At this point it is not a problem. He wouldn't want a gap to

:28:43. > :28:48.develop, even at this early stage. He needs to keep that train, as we

:28:49. > :28:52.sometimes call it. So he can pick people off, which will take him

:28:53. > :28:56.closer to the lead. What he's doing at the moment is thinking, you are

:28:57. > :29:00.going hard, guys. You are running around 27-minute pace. But I think

:29:01. > :29:04.you're going to slow down and I'm going to let you come back to me.

:29:05. > :29:07.You keep going like this, I will have to make the move to go up. At

:29:08. > :29:11.the moment, I am confident that you will not keep this up and you will

:29:12. > :29:21.come back to me. So why should I run harder tloo u the first 2,000/300

:29:22. > :29:27.metres than I have to? -- harder through the first 2,000-3,000 metres

:29:28. > :29:30.than I have to? At the end of the day Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor, in

:29:31. > :29:33.the lead there, in second place, sorry, behind Cheptegei, a friend of

:29:34. > :29:39.his. We have Paula Radcliffe in the studio. She's listening and watching

:29:40. > :29:48.closely. Have you got a view on this? I think you hit the nail on

:29:49. > :30:02.the head there. I think deaf -- definitely Kamworor has a plan. They

:30:03. > :30:04.are trying to work together. To maintain it after that and keep it

:30:05. > :30:08.working really hard through the middle part of the race. I think Mo

:30:09. > :30:13.is looking relaxed, sitting back there. He's confident that they

:30:14. > :30:17.cannot keep it up and cannot work together enough. Somebody when it

:30:18. > :30:23.gets hard will say, no, I will not take my turn.

:30:24. > :30:30.Mo has won 10,000 metres this year. He went out very hard and then

:30:31. > :30:35.slowed down. He had the pace making not going very far. He tried to go

:30:36. > :30:42.under 27 minutes on his own: He had to back off that.

:30:43. > :30:47.They are still running, 27. 10 pace. So Mo for the first time moving up.

:30:48. > :30:53.On that night he, even the last 1,000 was not that fast. It gave him

:30:54. > :30:56.a benchmark of where he was at. I know he's trained hard. He was a

:30:57. > :31:00.little disappointed with that performance. He's trained harder and

:31:01. > :31:04.make sure if they ran this hard he would be able to win it. So far, so

:31:05. > :31:09.good. It's a good race. As much as you want Mo to do well and as much

:31:10. > :31:12.as we want of course to see him win here, I really do like the fact that

:31:13. > :31:15.this time they are having a go. This time they are not going to just hand

:31:16. > :31:20.it to him. They have done this before. They have gone hard, but not

:31:21. > :31:25.hard enough. The big question is, are these guys good enough to keep

:31:26. > :31:29.this pace going lap after lap to really hurt Mo Farah? I think they

:31:30. > :31:34.may be physically good enough. The question is - who has got the

:31:35. > :31:38.determination? Who is mentally good enough? Can one man, clearly

:31:39. > :31:44.Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor is trying to direct operations. He wants it to

:31:45. > :31:53.be fast. He doesn't want it to be a test of speed. He knows that Mo

:31:54. > :31:57.Farah can outsprint him. Tanui is a danger. There's Mo

:31:58. > :32:03.relaxing. Way off the pace. Not involved in the race at all. They

:32:04. > :32:08.are making a decent fist of it. Cheptegei is running a really strong

:32:09. > :32:18.race there. Mo has an almighty group of talent ahead of him.

:32:19. > :32:20.and I don't think they can do it, they don't believe they can.

:32:21. > :32:36.Doing really good 65 second laps. And the age of 19 and 20, doing it.

:32:37. > :32:52.Youngsters who are inexperienced but are right there. Hadis, 2-1 the

:32:53. > :32:58.trial. -- who won the trial. You can tell it is slowing because look at

:32:59. > :33:04.the grouping. This is what is Mo wants. This is what he thought would

:33:05. > :33:11.happen. Not long and you're going to start slowing. He is relaxing. Just

:33:12. > :33:19.going to get in front and let him know that I'm in this. They really

:33:20. > :33:26.are slowing down now. The plan to run the finish out of Mo Farah isn't

:33:27. > :33:31.really working. That is clever distance running. He is the most

:33:32. > :33:36.experienced, he is the best and he's telling them, I'm here and he has an

:33:37. > :33:42.advantage. 16,000 people cheering him on. Just reminding them, give me

:33:43. > :33:55.a cheer, tell me that you want me to win. Kiprui Cheptegei is there and

:33:56. > :34:00.Mo is lucky that they aren't attempting to break away. Mo is now

:34:01. > :34:06.where he wants to be. He has the two leaders in his sights. He's already

:34:07. > :34:13.done his little bit of getting the crowd engaged. He has the

:34:14. > :34:17.temperature raised. He has two athletes and if they did not know

:34:18. > :34:21.earlier, they know now, they have heard the cheering for Mo Farah.

:34:22. > :34:26.This is an interesting piece of the race because if they can't keep the

:34:27. > :34:31.pressure over five, six, 7000 metres, they can wave goodbye to

:34:32. > :34:39.their chances of beating Mo Farah. Doing his best here, Kipsang

:34:40. > :34:45.Kamworor. Maybe somebody has got to start throwing out some 61, 62s. If

:34:46. > :34:52.they leave it to the last 800 metres, then they know what happens.

:34:53. > :34:55.If you are Kipsang Kamworor, he knows he only has a chance if it

:34:56. > :35:03.goes quickly. He's looking around for help. They have obviously said

:35:04. > :35:08.to him, they will help him. This is the first significant move from the

:35:09. > :35:20.Kenyan team. Mo just has to keep an eye on this. He doesn't have to

:35:21. > :35:27.sprint. There goes the guy we saw earlier in the year, and the three

:35:28. > :35:32.canyons, one, two, three. Mo is a few metres back. The lap times, that

:35:33. > :35:37.is quicker, 63 seconds and now you've got to take it seriously, Mo,

:35:38. > :35:43.because you don't want them running off the front. He ran a great race

:35:44. > :35:49.in the marathon here earlier this year, the leader. Tanui, the

:35:50. > :35:53.runner-up behind Mo Farah in the Olympic Games. Mo has got to react

:35:54. > :35:59.now. He needs to work harder and close the gap. You don't want it to

:36:00. > :36:04.grow and Mo is sensing it. The crowd cheering him on, we are now in a

:36:05. > :36:10.race. We come to the halfway point, 13.30 three. That was a very quick

:36:11. > :36:15.lap that he put in. That's what I was saying, you can't keep running

:36:16. > :36:24.65, steady pace. Suddenly the race is on and there is a test for Mo

:36:25. > :36:31.Farah. Now he knows. He wound them up, by going to the front and his

:36:32. > :36:35.reward is a tough 1000 metres. 2.39, it was in the last 500 metres.

:36:36. > :36:37.Another 61, this is what they haven't done to him before. Is it

:36:38. > :36:55.too early? Come row and you have the three Ethiopians there.

:36:56. > :36:58.And then Mo Farah are trying to make sure he stays on the back of the

:36:59. > :37:05.train here. Keeping them in distance, keeping that distance, he

:37:06. > :37:09.knows they can't keep it going. He knows that they have to slow down.

:37:10. > :37:18.When they do, he's going to be there. One lap to go, he was about

:37:19. > :37:23.20 metres behind and now it is ten metres and they have slowed down

:37:24. > :37:29.again. That surging, that is hard to do. They might try and do it again

:37:30. > :37:37.but it's hard to maintain that. Very hard to maintain it, Steve, and they

:37:38. > :37:42.haven't been able to. Once again, Kamworor is in the lead. Mo Farah,

:37:43. > :37:45.another 65 second lap and Mo Farah has found that the field has come

:37:46. > :37:50.back to him rather than him responding. He hasn't changed his

:37:51. > :37:56.pace which is an advantage. They changing pace which is difficult.

:37:57. > :38:01.These men, Tanui and Kamworor, determined and talented athletes. Mo

:38:02. > :38:04.just needs to remind them, OK, you've done a little bit, you've had

:38:05. > :38:12.your chance at the front, now, reminding them. That is what I

:38:13. > :38:19.thought he would do. Somebody who herself tried in many ways to break

:38:20. > :38:23.away at the front in the 10,000 metres and 5000 metres races, Paula,

:38:24. > :38:26.watching this. That surging is good but you must keep the pressure on,

:38:27. > :38:32.you can't slow down as quickly as they have done. No, you can't, you

:38:33. > :38:40.must keep the pressure going. I was wondering where Karoki was and he

:38:41. > :38:47.can be difficult to beat. Surging Tour de France there. Maybe there

:38:48. > :38:53.was another one -- surging Tour de France there -- surging to the

:38:54. > :39:00.front. A quick response from the others. They didn't like him winding

:39:01. > :39:08.them up. Well, he has orchestrated so many races by almost playing mind

:39:09. > :39:22.games with the others. When you have the track record, without wishing to

:39:23. > :39:28.pun that Mo has, reminding them that if you don't get away, I'm still

:39:29. > :39:34.here. Getting close enough Tour de France to give them a nudge and as

:39:35. > :39:42.Paula was saying -- close enough to give them a nudge. They are

:39:43. > :39:57.operating at 27 minute pace. There is the Eritrean Kifle. You can see

:39:58. > :40:01.the laps going around. It says there are nine laps to go and that's where

:40:02. > :40:05.you can start to say, we've had a hard part of the race but now we are

:40:06. > :40:11.thinking about the endgame. Am I strong enough and fast enough?

:40:12. > :40:21.Kamworor looking up at the screen, any hint of weakness for Mo Farah?

:40:22. > :40:25.No, there is and at the moment. Cheptegei has done some of the early

:40:26. > :40:29.leading, moving alongside Kamworor. Mo Farah knows that he's in a

:40:30. > :40:34.distance race which is going to be a test of endurance for the next

:40:35. > :40:40.couple of laps and hopefully, for Mo, a test of speed over the last

:40:41. > :40:46.couple of laps. You have to go back to 2009 for a sub 27 final, Kenenisa

:40:47. > :40:55.Bekele leak in his last world title. His last was 26.49, with Haile

:40:56. > :41:02.Gebrselassie. We may yet get something as quick as that if this

:41:03. > :41:13.pace stays on. 66, that is the slowest lap in a while. Tenui

:41:14. > :41:16.realises it. The crowd cheering, we have a long way to go but they are

:41:17. > :41:20.getting excited because they realise that Mo is in the mix. A lot of

:41:21. > :41:35.people around him, three young Ethiopians running well. You can see

:41:36. > :41:39.tucked on the inside there but these guys are running hard. Many of them

:41:40. > :41:44.are going to fall apart over the last few laps. They will have to

:41:45. > :41:58.because I think the pressure will mount. Cheptegei is in the lead

:41:59. > :42:06.here. Running strongly and running sensibly, not changing the pace, Mo.

:42:07. > :42:13.Basically five second lap with seven laps to go, that's OK, it isn't too

:42:14. > :42:27.severe. Still the two men, check to Mac -- Cheptegei and Kamworor and

:42:28. > :42:30.Tanui. The third-place man from the London Marathon is a strong man. A

:42:31. > :42:37.lot of strength and Ramon here. But out of them all, if you are going to

:42:38. > :42:43.bet on the last lap, you are going to go with Mo Farah. And the crowd

:42:44. > :42:49.are on their feet down the back straight. And then the home

:42:50. > :42:54.straight, they rise as the excitement builds, as the tension

:42:55. > :43:04.builds. The anxiety is growing. Is Mo Farah OK? He looks OK. Six to go.

:43:05. > :43:15.Cheptegei leading from Kamworor, from Hadis. 63, the quickest lap

:43:16. > :43:22.that we've had. Look at the crowd here. This is what they have come

:43:23. > :43:32.here for. Mo sitting there, waiting as ever. It is getting hard now,

:43:33. > :43:39.getting really hard. Tanui keeping up the pressure. A couple of crucial

:43:40. > :43:45.laps in the 10,000 metres. The last six laps, less than six to go and a

:43:46. > :43:50.move by Mo Farah. He is now thinking, when he will come into the

:43:51. > :43:55.finishing straight. It will save five more laps to go, 2000 metres

:43:56. > :44:00.and that is the zone when you have to start thinking about the endgame,

:44:01. > :44:04.what is the plan, how fast can he go, how fast does he need to go? Who

:44:05. > :44:09.will go first and how will he respond? Mo Farah is in the middle,

:44:10. > :44:14.where he wants to be. Within shooting distance. 63 seconds, there

:44:15. > :44:18.will be some more of them and then it will be faster. This will be one

:44:19. > :44:22.of the quickest World Championship 10,000 metres, it will be one of

:44:23. > :44:28.Mo's fastest, I can say without any doubt. The question is, can anybody

:44:29. > :44:34.put the pressure on him as they enter the last mile. Look at the

:44:35. > :44:43.crowd here. Haggas has moved to the front. This is the Obi and that we

:44:44. > :44:45.know very little about -- Hadis has moved to the front. The Kenyan that

:44:46. > :44:56.we know little about. This is the stiffest of tests. Mo

:44:57. > :45:01.Farah knows what he has to do from this point. They are making it

:45:02. > :45:06.tough. Some pushing and shoving and Mo Farah comes to the front. Mind

:45:07. > :45:13.games of the highest quality from the athlete of the highest quality

:45:14. > :45:17.in the field. He says, guys, it has been good, it has been hard, it has

:45:18. > :45:21.been tough, but is this all you got so far because you need to find

:45:22. > :45:26.something else? I think that they heard him, they have heard it a lot

:45:27. > :45:32.but I don't think they wounded him -- I think that they hurt him. I

:45:33. > :45:38.think he is powerful enough. And now young Hadis of Ethiopia. In 1993 we

:45:39. > :45:45.saw a young Ethiopian called Haile Gebrselassie arriving on the scene.

:45:46. > :45:46.Later we saw Ken Anisa Bekele -- Ken Anisa became the arriving on the

:45:47. > :45:57.scene. Mo is now drifting along. There are

:45:58. > :46:05.three canyons. What is going to happen now? Be careful, Mo, get on

:46:06. > :46:09.the outside. He's having a look behind, gathering himself with three

:46:10. > :46:14.laps to go. This is the sort of pressure we've never seen him put

:46:15. > :46:20.under in a 10,000 metres final. It had never been this quick or hard.

:46:21. > :46:25.63 lap. Hadis at the front but look at many are still there, the three

:46:26. > :46:32.canyons, Cheptegei is still there, Ahmed is still there. If you can

:46:33. > :46:40.just stay there and hang on, if you can get to that part of the race

:46:41. > :46:45.where he is better than everybody else. Mo Farah would normally be a

:46:46. > :46:49.little bit faster. He has had to work hard to hang onto this. Moving

:46:50. > :46:55.gradually with every step, getting closer his territory. Another step

:46:56. > :46:56.closer to the bell, when Mo Farah normally is able to unleash enough

:46:57. > :47:05.to win. Once more he comes on the outside to

:47:06. > :47:12.remind them to get the crowd going. This is phenomenal racing! This is

:47:13. > :47:16.fantastic distance run. Here is a fantastic distance runner taking it

:47:17. > :47:23.on. Two laps to go. He wants to be as clear as he can. He's got an

:47:24. > :47:29.Ethiopian - a familiar sight, three Kenyans, a familiar sight. We have

:47:30. > :47:32.one British athlete here, Mo Farah, in the zone. He's won races from

:47:33. > :47:42.this position. And now we're moving into the back

:47:43. > :47:48.straight. We are moving into Mo Farah territory. Moving up to 600

:47:49. > :47:56.metres remaining. Look at how good he looks.

:47:57. > :48:00.Fancy chasing this! Fancy having the best 10,000 metre runner the world

:48:01. > :48:05.in front of you! The gold-medallist in each of the last major

:48:06. > :48:08.championships, be it Olympic or World Championships. He's showing

:48:09. > :48:14.he's the quickest not only at the end but in the race. We are coming

:48:15. > :48:18.up to take the bell. Three very, very good Kenyans and Cheptegei is

:48:19. > :48:23.still there. One lap to go from Mo Farah. He's done it cleverly. He

:48:24. > :48:27.waited a little, slowed a little. Now it is where he's been before.

:48:28. > :48:32.Can he hold them off? He's done it before. He's done it in London

:48:33. > :48:37.before. He's done knit the World Championship -- done it in the World

:48:38. > :48:42.Championship before. Come on Mo! The crowd are on their feet, all around

:48:43. > :48:47.this wonderful stadium. Tanui couldn't beat him last year.

:48:48. > :48:52.Cheptegei didn't have the chance. But the British best, with the heart

:48:53. > :48:59.pounding beneath it. As hard as it can. Mo Farah, in the front,

:49:00. > :49:04.controlling things. One more effort from Mo Farah and here he goes. Mo

:49:05. > :49:10.Farah stretches away. Cheptegei trying to chase. Not over yet. Mo

:49:11. > :49:17.Farah will win it. He'll take another title. He's a world

:49:18. > :49:27.superpower. It's gold for Farah! Incredible! 26. 49, to win the

:49:28. > :49:34.hardest gold medal of his career so far.

:49:35. > :49:43.The pain etched on his face. Beneath that, the pride that this man must

:49:44. > :49:49.have in his achievements in his ability, in his resilience, in his

:49:50. > :49:56.competitiveness. You struggle as ever for words to

:49:57. > :50:11.describe how good that is, and let's just say a word to Cheptegei...

:50:12. > :50:16.We've had Gebrselassie and Mo Farah is surpassing their achievements.

:50:17. > :50:22.Give Mo a proper test, make him work hard. He couldn't have worked any

:50:23. > :50:28.harder than that. For those who doubt this man, that performance

:50:29. > :50:32.should just point out to everybody that he not only wins gold medals,

:50:33. > :50:36.but he can run fast as well. That is three seconds off his personal best.

:50:37. > :50:44.Surrounded by his family. And that is something that, to him, is so

:50:45. > :50:52.important. Brendan, we love great races. That I said at the beginning

:50:53. > :50:56.he never wins by more than 0.6. No, he didn't. It was four-tenths again.

:50:57. > :51:02.He makes us worry. For me, that was the best ever. That was the best

:51:03. > :51:08.ever. The best ever, his last ever 10,000 metres in a championship, in

:51:09. > :51:11.his favourite stadium, where he got the crowd on board. He was tested in

:51:12. > :51:17.the middle. He was hurting in the middle. And he still had what he did

:51:18. > :51:21.before, what we have seen him do before and Steve, sitting next to

:51:22. > :51:25.you here tonight, seeing that piece of athletic history, seeing Mo Farah

:51:26. > :51:30.doing it the way he did it. Seeing Mo Farah bring this crowd to their

:51:31. > :51:34.feet, taking his family on the journey, well, it's never been

:51:35. > :51:40.better. There's nowhere in the world you would rather be tonight, than

:51:41. > :51:45.here in this fantastic stadium n the middle of Newham, sitting next to

:51:46. > :51:49.you, getting excited. Well, what a fantastic performance! What a

:51:50. > :51:54.fantastic day! Take the family on to the track, Mo. Bring them all on to

:51:55. > :51:59.the track. They are all welcome. This man is a complete legend. It is

:52:00. > :52:03.a total pleasure and honour for us to be sitting here, able to talk to

:52:04. > :52:07.the great British sporting public about something that both Steve and

:52:08. > :52:11.I were nervous during that race, we were looking at the lap times. Some

:52:12. > :52:16.were getting faster. Some of them were hurting him. You could see him

:52:17. > :52:19.hurting occasionally. But this man is a ruthless winning machine.

:52:20. > :52:24.He really is. He's unstoppable. And that young

:52:25. > :52:29.man, Cheptegei, should be delighted with his silver medal. He worked for

:52:30. > :52:32.it. He gave us one of the great distance races that we have ever

:52:33. > :52:39.witnessed in this wonderful stadium. And there's the man. There's our

:52:40. > :52:46.hero - Mo Farah. His tenth global gold medal. Tenth!

:52:47. > :52:55.Ten of them! His chest isn't big enough to wear them all at once. He

:52:56. > :53:01.only weighs 53 kilograms. His eighth in a row. We have seen him get

:53:02. > :53:06.beaten indoors in the 5,000 a couple of times in his great career. Eight

:53:07. > :53:11.wins in a row over the 10,000 metres distance. A brilliant, brilliant

:53:12. > :53:15.night. As I said, for you, I know this is your last 10,000 metre

:53:16. > :53:20.final, we have you for the rest of the week, thank goodness, but what a

:53:21. > :53:26.race for him to finish, the 10,000 metre career for us, for us to sit

:53:27. > :53:29.here and watch. You look at the World Championship gold medal table,

:53:30. > :53:34.if you look at the individual medal table, Mo Farah has moved into

:53:35. > :53:42.second place behind Usain Bolt. Usain Bolt has won seven golds and

:53:43. > :53:51.one silver. In jumping from where he was to second place, he's overtaken

:53:52. > :53:56.Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis. A great discus player.

:53:57. > :53:59.What a... Let's get the BBC to publish an individual athlete's gold

:54:00. > :54:04.medal table for the World Championships and see Mo Farah in

:54:05. > :54:13.second place behind the legend which is Usain Bolt. Fantastic! Fantastic!

:54:14. > :54:19.Fantastic! Well, these are wonderful scenes and

:54:20. > :54:23.this stadium w the echoes of 2012 still reverberating around, but now

:54:24. > :54:28.they are being drowned out by the cheers of 2017.

:54:29. > :54:33.I bet you don't see a more exciting half an hour at this stadium in the

:54:34. > :54:37.next 12 months. I bet West Ham don't give the 60,000 people as much fun

:54:38. > :54:42.as we've had tonight with that one. I tell you t sustained noise that we

:54:43. > :54:47.were experiencing from about seven or eight laps out, it was

:54:48. > :54:50.phenomenal. They knew they were watching something great. They knew

:54:51. > :54:55.obviously that it was building for Mo. But, all the way through, he was

:54:56. > :55:00.using the crowd. This is right at the very beginning on the first lap.

:55:01. > :55:04.We know he orchestrates the races. He knew they had a role to play as

:55:05. > :55:08.well. You were saying, Brendan, he's done this before. On the last lap he

:55:09. > :55:12.was clipped a couple of times. There's nobody trying to do anything

:55:13. > :55:16.here. That is what happens. Trying to find position, move position. It

:55:17. > :55:19.occasionally happens. But he was, he's good at staying on his feet.

:55:20. > :55:24.He's brilliant at staying on his feet. Brilliant at the last lap. He

:55:25. > :55:28.gets knocked to the side. He wobbles a bit and then he starts to control

:55:29. > :55:35.this race. He's running fast. Running strongly. Totally a bump,

:55:36. > :55:39.accidental. Now he's made the decision. Nobody is coming past me.

:55:40. > :55:43.You can do whatever you want, you can run as fast as you want and I

:55:44. > :55:50.will run a bit faster. If you look at the difference, look at how much

:55:51. > :55:54.Mo has controlled. Tanui is wobbling from side-to-side. Mo is in control.

:55:55. > :55:59.I notice him slowing there. He just relaxed on the bend. Looked over his

:56:00. > :56:03.shoulder. Just decided, right, that's OK, that's it, there's your

:56:04. > :56:07.chance. Here he goes. Here comes Cheptegei. Tanui is all over the

:56:08. > :56:11.place. He's a beaten man. Here comes the sight we have longed for today.

:56:12. > :56:18.The sight you have seen on so many occasions. The sight you will never

:56:19. > :56:29.get tired of. The great, great sir Mo Farah, winning his sixth World

:56:30. > :56:31.Championship gold medal. I was pleased I was there! You made this

:56:32. > :56:40.nation very proud of you! Well, those closest to you are

:56:41. > :56:45.always the ones who feel the nerves more than anything. It is great for

:56:46. > :56:51.his youngsters to be able to see dad win a gold medal on home soil.

:56:52. > :56:55.I think most of them went up to see him at his training camp, which is

:56:56. > :57:02.unusual. He doesn't normally have that happen. What memories they will

:57:03. > :57:07.have. I am looking, Brendan, the last

:57:08. > :57:14.1,000 metres was 2. 29 again. That is not, they made it hard, but it's,

:57:15. > :57:20.Mo can handle the 63, 63, 63 and then a 55 at the end, that is one of

:57:21. > :57:24.his slowest laps. Only in Rio was a tad slower. I don't want to tell

:57:25. > :57:28.them how to beat him. Let's forget that. Those are the stats. The last

:57:29. > :57:34.thousand about the same as he normally does. You can tell them all

:57:35. > :57:39.the secrets. He had a lot of chances. You couldn't beat me. Now

:57:40. > :57:46.Steve Cram will tell you how to beat me. Write it down. He's gone now!

:57:47. > :57:51.Unbeatable! Unbelievable! For us, such a great pleasure. Such an hon

:57:52. > :57:56.tore be here watching him. Now they are on -- such an honour to be here

:57:57. > :58:07.watching him. Let's do it officially then.

:58:08. > :58:11.Mo's personal best is 26. 46. The winning time, as if we need to

:58:12. > :58:18.know the time, it is incredibly fast. 26. 49.51.

:58:19. > :58:21.Gold medal for Mo Farah of Great Britain for the tenth time.

:58:22. > :58:26.Cheptegei chep, brilliant silver for him, with a massive personal best.

:58:27. > :58:33.Reward for a great performance and making up for his loss at the World

:58:34. > :58:36.Championships in front of his home crowd and Tanui, getting on the

:58:37. > :58:46.rostrum. A personal best for him. So, welcome to day one of the World

:58:47. > :58:52.Championships here in London. What a way to start. Look at that gorgeous

:58:53. > :58:56.smile - Mo Farah's family loving these moments. Loving what they have

:58:57. > :59:00.just seen. Their incredible father. Paula Radcliffe, we have seen him do

:59:01. > :59:03.it in different styles. He's had different races, but we have never

:59:04. > :59:09.seen anything like that. No. I think it really, as Steve said, it with us

:59:10. > :59:14.the best of all of his victories. I mean, yes, 2012 kicked it off. It is

:59:15. > :59:33.where it started. It is where he burst through as the foremid-able he

:59:34. > :59:38.is. -- -- force he is. He needs to go back and he needs to really,

:59:39. > :59:43.really recover well. He needs to take... You take a sip of that.

:59:44. > :59:47.Michael and Jess are alongside us as well. Michael, you were pacing like

:59:48. > :59:53.an expectant father during that race. You gave me the eye a couple

:59:54. > :59:56.of times to say, I am not sure. Because Mo didn't look sure.

:59:57. > :00:00.Normally he looks very sure of himself. We have never seen him in

:00:01. > :00:05.that position before. It was a fantastic race to watch. It is what

:00:06. > :00:10.you want to see. It was an incredibly competitive race going

:00:11. > :00:14.back and forth. He didn't look sure of himself and that concerned me a

:00:15. > :00:17.little bit. He's got the one weapon he's always confident in and that's

:00:18. > :00:21.his speed. Because they did have a concerted effort. You said they have

:00:22. > :00:25.to work as a team and they did work as a team, Paula. They did. They had

:00:26. > :00:30.a plan and they stuck to the plan and they really worked as hard as

:00:31. > :00:36.they could. They couldn't have run that any harder. Cheptegei worked

:00:37. > :00:42.hard for that silver medal. A great moment with his family.

:00:43. > :00:47.And we say welcome to BBC Two viewers who have joined our

:00:48. > :00:55.coverage. A few moments ago on BBC One we saw Mo Farah win his world

:00:56. > :00:59.title. We held off incredible challenges from a concerted effort

:01:00. > :01:03.from his Kenyan competitors. But eventually he got there. And we are

:01:04. > :01:08.staying on BBC One for the medal ceremony. The news will follow as

:01:09. > :01:13.well. But for the moment, so you don't miss this very historic moment

:01:14. > :01:19.in world athletics we are staying on BBC One and then the coverage will

:01:20. > :01:23.continue until 10.30pm on BBC Two. Medal ceremonies as you know, often

:01:24. > :01:28.a late race like this, the medal ceremony would be tomorrow. But this

:01:29. > :01:31.crowd here are going to witness the medal ceremony tonight. A great

:01:32. > :01:38.thing for them to enjoy that moment. It is. And they are staying. Nobody

:01:39. > :01:43.is leaving this arena. Everybody is to hear our National Anthem played.

:01:44. > :01:49.Let's hope there'll be more to follow. You have to give a slight

:01:50. > :01:52.nod to the girls in the 1500s there. Two personal bests there. That was

:01:53. > :01:55.outstanding running from Jessica Judd, in particular. On this race

:01:56. > :01:59.though. I have not heard your thoughts on this, Jess. You were

:02:00. > :02:04.similarly nervous throughout that as well. And with a month to go, to

:02:05. > :02:08.baby two, we didn't want it to get too nervy. What did you feel about

:02:09. > :02:12.that moment? When you are on the track as an athlete, whether you are

:02:13. > :02:16.a coach or a family member, it is out of your control and it is so

:02:17. > :02:21.nerve-racking. And just to see Mo run like he does over and over

:02:22. > :02:27.again, on this stage, in front of this crowd was incredible. Special

:02:28. > :02:30.to really witness it here. He tried all sort of tactics, the kind of

:02:31. > :02:35.firing up his opposition, beating his chest, getting the crowd going,

:02:36. > :02:40.which seemed to get his opponents riled, Michael? . I think Brendan

:02:41. > :02:43.said it best. He knows how to orchestrate the race. That is what

:02:44. > :02:47.he is brilliant at, is controlling the race. Controlling what the other

:02:48. > :02:50.guys are doing. He didn't have to make all those surges that a lot

:02:51. > :02:56.were making as well. That worked really well for him that he was able

:02:57. > :03:00.to continue to run at an even pace. You talked about he wasn't, he is

:03:01. > :03:06.not in his greatest shape as he has been in the past. I think ultimately

:03:07. > :03:10.he showed he's in good shape. I wonder what this means for his 5,000

:03:11. > :03:15.later. The hope is that has not taken too much out of him. The plan

:03:16. > :03:19.of the athletes working together there, of the Kenyan athletes, and

:03:20. > :03:23.the Ethiopians as well was to work as hard as they could and they were

:03:24. > :03:28.definitely trying to block him. What they were trying to stop was Mo

:03:29. > :03:31.Farah being in the lead with a lap to Government so, from the

:03:32. > :03:35.beginning, they -- with a lap to go. So from the beginning they went out

:03:36. > :03:40.hard. He was trying to create more atmosphere, as if he needed it

:03:41. > :03:47.because he knew the crowd were really right behind him. Let it go a

:03:48. > :03:53.little bit too much in the middle of the race. Like the plan wasn't

:03:54. > :03:57.coming. Mo went back to the front, to say, yeah, I am still here and I

:03:58. > :04:00.am controlling this. It was hard at this point. They were trying to get

:04:01. > :04:03.back in front of him. They were working together. He had to work

:04:04. > :04:08.hard again to come back to the front. I think this year he's shown

:04:09. > :04:13.he's in better shape than he's been in any of the other ones. He's

:04:14. > :04:18.worked really hard after that 10,000 metres. He knew he was fast. He's

:04:19. > :04:25.trying to get back. He knew they were trying to block it. They were

:04:26. > :04:30.all trying to get around him. Tanui tried to get back in front of him.

:04:31. > :04:34.When Mo Farah is in front at the bell, nobody is beating him. His

:04:35. > :04:38.biggest worst enemy was himself. He was looking wide, looking to see

:04:39. > :04:41.where the dangers were coming from. Looking over both shoulders. He

:04:42. > :04:45.stumbles on to the rail. He stays up. He's so good at staying calm,

:04:46. > :04:50.not letting those little things that can really knock you and take your

:04:51. > :04:55.momentum away. He doesn't let them get to him. Cheptegei at the moment

:04:56. > :04:59.is looking the best. Gathering himself. Anybody else here, he would

:05:00. > :05:04.have come through and he would have won the race. He couldn't get past

:05:05. > :05:08.Mo Farah. Mo had that little bit extra gear to come through. He

:05:09. > :05:13.hasn't run the fastest lap he's run in any of his world titles, but he

:05:14. > :05:16.didn't need to and couldn't because they made the race so hard to that

:05:17. > :05:25.point. They tried everything they had. Cheptegei, 20 years old, the

:05:26. > :05:29.Ugandan. Are we seeing a future dominator of these events? Can

:05:30. > :05:32.anyone dominate like Mo Farah has the last decade or so? I think

:05:33. > :05:36.Cheptegei is somebody to be watched coming through. The bravery he

:05:37. > :05:40.showed in the world cross-country to go out as hard as he did and try and

:05:41. > :05:44.win that race was reflected as much in the wisdom that he used, a little

:05:45. > :05:48.bit there today, in trying to judge that. He came out with a huge

:05:49. > :05:52.personal best. He's not been able to beat Mo Farah. Didn't believe he

:05:53. > :05:57.could beat him coming into it. He's got away with a silver medal. We go

:05:58. > :06:00.back to the first weekend of January, on a cold Saturday, in

:06:01. > :06:05.Edinburghnd a he was disappointing in the Edinburgh cross-country. He

:06:06. > :06:09.said, I have t no done enough work this winter yet. Coming off the back

:06:10. > :06:14.of his celebrations from Rio he took some time out. From then on he knew

:06:15. > :06:18.he would have to work harder and dig deeper than ever to get to this

:06:19. > :06:23.position. When I say this year is the last year that he's really

:06:24. > :06:29.decided he's prepared to make all those sacrifices and do what it

:06:30. > :06:32.takes. He's 34 now. It's hard to work through that he gave himself

:06:33. > :06:36.more of a break. A little bit more time with the family before he went

:06:37. > :06:43.into the camp. Yes, he paid for that in January. His ego took a little

:06:44. > :06:48.knock. He got a wake-up call to work harder. He committed to it. The

:06:49. > :06:53.training he's done the last couple of weeks has been great. He needs to

:06:54. > :06:58.get his medal first and celebrate. But really start right now tonight

:06:59. > :07:02.on that recovery plan to come back for the 5,000 metres heats. He's not

:07:03. > :07:06.had to do the 5,000 metre heats after a race as hard as that one

:07:07. > :07:10.tonight. Indeed, he hasn't and the news will follow that medal ceremony

:07:11. > :07:15.which will take place here shortly. Hopefully soon. We don't have wind

:07:16. > :07:19.of the athletes coming out soon. The news will continue and we will

:07:20. > :07:24.continue our coverage on BBC Two. There have been other races tonight.

:07:25. > :07:31.There's only been one final. It is Mo Farah who has won it. A

:07:32. > :07:37.successful night for the women and the men's. It was OK. It was very,

:07:38. > :07:42.very good. We thought that Chijindu Ujah would, could get into the

:07:43. > :07:46.final. He's into the semifinal. All three into the semifinal, which

:07:47. > :07:50.really bodes well for those guys. They will feed off the energy from

:07:51. > :07:53.one and other. They will go into that semifinal with some confidence.

:07:54. > :07:57.I think that Chijindu Ujah is still the class of the three and he's got

:07:58. > :08:02.a very good perspective on his possibilities here. Looking around

:08:03. > :08:07.the stadium behind me and a lot of people have stayed for this medal

:08:08. > :08:11.ceremony, which is fan tas, because the tem -- fantastic, because the

:08:12. > :08:16.temptation to bolt off home, excuse the pun... They will get rewarded

:08:17. > :08:20.because the medal ceremony is about to begin and Mo Farah comes back

:08:21. > :08:26.into the stadium, this time with his tracksuit on.

:08:27. > :08:30.Still no doubt in a state of euphoria from that incredible race.

:08:31. > :08:34.The comugs will not have kicked in -- the exhaustion will not have

:08:35. > :08:54.kicked in. Let's hand you now to Steve Cram.

:08:55. > :09:07.I was going to turn and say have we seen a race like this? This young

:09:08. > :09:11.man here, in the last three he's come third.

:09:12. > :09:19.He gives us all every single time. In the Kenyan team, some people

:09:20. > :09:23.wonder why. On the night he produces a run like that. And they all had a

:09:24. > :09:28.go. And I am so pleased for this young

:09:29. > :09:34.man. Cheptegei, I was watching television

:09:35. > :09:39.news earlier today which was kind of criticising him for not winning a

:09:40. > :09:47.medal, saying pressure is on him to win a medal for his country in

:09:48. > :09:51.London. Well, he's done that. Seb was in Kampala at the

:09:52. > :09:56.championships when he went from first to 30th in the last 600 metres

:09:57. > :10:02.of the race. Not tonight. Brilliant silver medal.

:10:03. > :10:08.Well, his first 10,000 metre race in 2008 he lost in the USA. He lost at

:10:09. > :10:15.the World Championships in 2011, but not any more. Win, win, win, win.

:10:16. > :10:23.Gold, gold, gold all the way. And again, here tonight, his tenth

:10:24. > :10:29.global world, his tenth global gold medal. Incredible! It's, it is easy

:10:30. > :10:36.for us to keep adding them up, but each one of these wins, in itself,

:10:37. > :10:40.if they'd only ever won one, if he'd only won this race tonight, that

:10:41. > :10:46.would have been a phenomenal achievement. Another one to add to

:10:47. > :10:58.an incredible list of achievements. This is for Mo.

:10:59. > :11:01.# God save our gracious Queen Long live our noble Queen

:11:02. > :11:41.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. A true British sporting hero. He'll

:11:42. > :11:44.be back to finish off what we hope will be a brilliant career on the

:11:45. > :11:49.track. If it ends right here, with the success he's had tonight, thank

:11:50. > :11:57.you, Mo. That was incredible. This was perhaps the best ever.

:11:58. > :12:03.A sixth World Championship gold. Not just a British great, perhaps the

:12:04. > :12:11.greatest British athlete, but alongside the world's greatest. His

:12:12. > :12:15.name sits alongside Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis, Gebrselassie and others,

:12:16. > :12:18.just to name a few. He is one of the greats of the sports. That is the

:12:19. > :12:24.end of our coverage here. The news is following. If you want to stay

:12:25. > :12:26.with us, we will be over on BBC Two, until 10.30pm. Now it is time for us

:12:27. > :12:32.to go The latest of our Premier League

:12:33. > :12:36.commentaries for you this season,