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CHORAL MUSIC. In front of his home crowd in the | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
city he knows so well, the city he loves. The track that set him on | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
this brilliant journey. It's never been as quick as this, | :01:22. | :01:34. | |
it's never been as hard as this. This is phenomenal racing. The | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
British best with the heart pounding. He's a one-man world | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
superpower! Gold for Farrah! What a night it was. It's very much | :01:48. | :02:07. | |
the morning after the night before at the London Stadium in the Queen | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Elizabeth Park. We've had a few showers this morning and we are all | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
here. Michael is busy working away on the other side of the studio on | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
some analysis. It's ladies morning on this side of the studio. Jed -- | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill, Paula Radcliffe and Denise Lewis will reflect on a | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
fantastic first day. The newspapers reflecting that. Some fantastic | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
shots of the family and Mo celebrating. This picture on the | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
front of the times, giving the Ethiopian the eye, but there were so | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
many moments where he was whipping up the crowd, beating his chest, | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
giving a performance within a performance last night. He was. It | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
was the first time really where aside from controlling everybody | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
else in the race, he also controlled and orchestrated the crowd. He | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
wanted to enjoy this second occasion here at major championships inside | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
this stage and make the moment and create memories. A master tactician | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
and controlling the crowd, but staying on his feet, the balance and | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
boys. There was clearly a plan to keep him from the front. Try to put | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
him off. On the last lap it was partly his fault because he was | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
checking around when he got caught and lost his balance. But to stay on | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
his feet, we gain himself and just to be to control everything from | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
that point in. We've heard it time and again, if he's in the right | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
position with a lap to go, you never bet against them. Let's look at the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
last lap. Until this point nothing seemed certain, it was incredible. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Three very, very good Kenyon 's and checked a guy still there. One lap | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
to go for Mo Farah. He's been clever, he's waited little. Now it's | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
where he's been before. Can he hold them off? He's done it before, he's | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
done it in London before, he's done it in the World Championships | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
before, he's been tripped before. Come on, Mo! The crowd are on their | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
feet. Tanui couldn't beat him last year, checked the guy has never had | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the chance. The British best with the heart pounding beneath us. Mo | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Farah in the front, controlling things. One more effort from Mo | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
Farah and here he goes! Mo Farah stretches away! Chapter guide trying | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
to chase in, it's not over yet, but Mo Farah is going to win it, he's | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
going to take another world title. He's a one-man world superpower. | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
Gold for Farah! So many people have said it in the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
last 12 hours, it was one of the greatest races that people have ever | :05:15. | :05:26. | |
seen. Such a thrilling 26 minutes. Thrilling, adrenaline pumping. I | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
don't know how Mo must have felt because the energy from the crowd | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
was immense. What a race, what a man and how he managed to stay on his | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
feet was incredible. There was jeopardy at every corner. Just to be | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
able to come away with that medal again was hard. It doesn't get | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
easier. This is the end for him, his last ever 10,000 metres on the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
track. Who would he want to be here with him? His family. They were all | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
on the track. For him it was the most special moment. You perform | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
like you do time after time, but to have your family there witnessing | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
it, your children being part of it, all those memories and images they | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
can look back on will be so special. It was so unique to have an | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
experience like that. His history on this track, the Olympics and the | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Anniversary Games, he always delivers. He always races when he | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
says he will. He very rarely pulls out. He's a championship performer, | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
he gets it right on the big occasion every time. People will say who's | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
the greatest? We can have the debate for ages. He hasn't run world | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
records, but every time he needs to get it right, he does and that's | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
hard. An event when you're logging miles and miles week after week, to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
not get injured and not break down in the build-up, that's a real | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
skill. Ladies and gentlemen, the national anthem of Great Britain and | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Northern Ireland. It was a beautiful moment and all | :07:07. | :07:57. | |
the more so because what doesn't happen generally is you get your | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
medals so soon after the race. Within minutes he was in his | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
tracksuit and getting it. The crowd could appreciate him getting his | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
medal. He did the mobile with the others. -- the mobile. They will | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
always be part of one of those historic races. It's been noted on | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
social media and we've been talking about it, we had seen rehearsals of | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
the medal ceremony and we wondered whether it would stay the same. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
There is no flag hoisting, only a low-level flag, someone holding a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
flag in front of you from the British military services. It seems | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
a little bit... Not quite the respect of the flag you would like? | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
It's different. When you stand on the podium, it's nice to see your | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
flag raised and flying high and floating in the wind. I personally | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
would prefer it. The idea was to move the event onto the ceremonies. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
So they are not long and drawn out. I understand why they've done it, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
but the feedback is correct. You're missing that moment and does it | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
really... Do you save that much time? For the athletes, it is a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
significant thing to see that flag. I've not noticed the flags as much | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
as you normally would. It's the focus as well, where do you look? | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Your eyes naturally follow the flag up. It's that celebration and that | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
moment for you and that's not there. I think you'll have less people | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
crying on the podium. I think that emotion lifts as you lift and your | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
heart soars into the sky. It allows you to have that moment to cast your | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
mind back on the year and how you've got to that point. It's a really | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
special moment. Maybe less tears in this championship! There aren't few | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
golds on his CV and last night he added to that. Let's remind | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
ourselves of his tally across the ages. It is incredible, ridiculous. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Ten in global championships. Last night was the start of his attempt | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
to get five doubles in a row at global games. What last night has | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
done, it will be tough for that 5000 metres. That was the perceived | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
wisdom last night. The time of the race will make that a really | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
challenging V-Day. The way the others raised, the way they forced | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
him to run hard. He's run very close to his personal best. But he does | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
have a good amount of time and he is the master at getting the recovery | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
right. He has everything in place to do everything right over the next | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
couple of days to recover. It's not really, really stacked 5000 metres | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
against him. At his best, he should be able to control that and to come | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
through the heats expending minimum energy. Do you think he's the | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
respect he deserves in the wider sporting pantheon? He's never been | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
in the top three of sports personality of the year. This year | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
of all years you think surely now the public will get the hind him and | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
recognise what he's done. He literally cannot do more. Sports | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
personality is a different thing and it's hard to predict how that will | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
go, there are so many aboard -- outstanding performances. If you are | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
a fan of athletics come at you know how hard it is to achieve what he's | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
achieved. That transcends through sports. The public appreciate how | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
hard it's been for him to maintain that level of performance over the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
years. Whether he will win not we don't know. It's all personal taste | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
and different things that guide people to where they vote. Because | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
he's made it look so seemingly easy, people think it just comes to him. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
He's a master. As a spectator, you think he's doing well, the director | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
and I could run that speed. If you try to comprehend how fast he runs | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
over that distance. 120 miles per week. Ridiculous. He deserves to be | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
up there. Explain how hard it is to do that for so long. He's not had | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
injury breaks from relentless. He's had injuries. He manages them. He | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
gets over them so quickly. It's very, very hard, particularly as you | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
get older. I'm not saying he's old, but he's 34. His body doesn't absorb | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
and cope with training as well as it did before. He finds it harder to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
recover. It's a way of adapting and bringing in the whole gamut of | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
everything, stability, weights work, everything that helps him keep his | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
balance, he maintains his form to be a butter run as quickly as he does. | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
-- to be able to run. He's very lucky in terms of his body. It's one | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
of his talents, being able to manage that injury risk against putting the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
hard work in and the quality work in that enables him to be in shape. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
That's partly to do with the setup. He moved to Oregon because the | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
facilities are so fantastic and because he has the rehabilitation | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
and the maintenance at his disposal. Yes and no because he doesn't spend | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
much time in Oregon any more. He went into that setup and he saw... | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
The Mo Farah of 2009 and 2010 did not lift much, didn't do much in the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
gym, was pretty weak in terms of his strength and that was the biggest | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
difference when he came back from Oregon. He worked with the likes of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
David McKendry and does a lot of core stability work to make sure he | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
can maintain that form and speed. The contrast between the 2008 | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Olympics and 2016. Last year we did a split screen of his upper body and | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
his style of running and what it did to his shoulder girdle and | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
everything. The style of his running is different. The stride length, the | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
turnover, the cadence, the speed he is able to get. Also his physique, | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
his diet. More attention to that. He's very, very lean. As you get | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
older, these other things you have to focus on. The tiny changes you | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
make to your training or your style that make a huge difference because | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
you're getting older and picking up problems. Now he's moving onto the | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
roads after these championships. He is not retiring. What will that do | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
to his training regime and how will he have to adapt? Sounds like a | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Rolling Stone! I'm sure he won't live like that. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
His training will change that much. His mileage, he hasn't got much | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
further to go, so that won't change a lot. The biggest changes will be | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
mentally. He has to get his head around the fact that he's now going | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
to a distance where he is not the king. He has to learn it. I would be | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
very surprised if he is as good at the marathon straight off as he has | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
been at five and ten. To have that range, to run with the very best at | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
the marathon, it will not come easy and he will have to work at it. You | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
have to want that if you're going to keep going, especially with that bag | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of gold medals you have already windbag. But if anybody can do it | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
with his mental strength, its Mo Farah. He begins his assault on the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
5000 metres with a heat on Wednesday. A few days off. Here's | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
what else is coming up this morning. Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
begins her bid for a medal in the heptathlon. The 100-metre hurdles | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
are first. The woman she will be changing down is Belgium's Nafi | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Thiam, the reigning Olympic champion. Wayde van Niekerk begins | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
his Championships and the first of six races in six days as he goes for | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
the 200 and 400-metre gold. Olympic finalist Matthew Hudson-Smith is the | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
fastest of three Brits in the 400-metre heats. Double Olympic | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
champion Elaine Thompson looks to continue her domination of the 100 | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
metres in 2017. Hoping to upset Thompson will be Dafne Schippers, | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
who won 100-metre silver in Beijing two years ago. Double world champion | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Katharina Liebherr when is looking for a third successive gold eligible | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
jump. Sophie Hitchon will be aiming to build on her Olympic bronze from | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
Rio last summer. Ryan Crouser and Kovacs are the ones | :17:19. | :17:35. | |
to watch in the triple jump. Katerina Johnson-Thompson will want | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
a strong start in the 100-metre hurdles. Sophie Hitchon will be | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
strutting her stuff in the women's hammer qualification. We'll get our | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
first chance to see global star Wayde van Niekerk in action in 400 | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
metres. The women's triple jump qualification at 11. KJT is back in | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
action at 11:30am the women's 100 heats with reigning Olympic champion | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Elaine Thompson taken to the track. The morning session will end with | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
the men's 800 metres. Sadly no world record-holder and winner from 2012 | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
here because of injury bust up the 1500 women, four of them qualifying, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
and it's a great evening for them. We can move to the heptathlon and | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
Toni Minichiello has joined us on the sofa. It's a heptathlon | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
heavyweight sofa, and a mean at with regard to knowledge and nothing | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
else! We have kept these two apart. It's an interesting dynamic, coach | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
and former... I'm Tony, how do you do! It begins. Snubbing him already. | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
All three of you have an opinion on this, but the morning of the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
heptathlon, you wake up, I assume everything is ready the night before | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
come you have pinned on your number. When you wake up, what are the | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
feelings going on inside you. And for you, this is your first | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
championship where you are retired. It's an early start for all the | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
heptathlete is. You have waited for this moment for however long and the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
adrenaline is pumping, on the warm up track trying to prepare the best | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
you can. It's the feeling of knowing you can't do any more at this stage. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
You have to perform whether you are carrying an injury or if you are in | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
the best shape of your life. It's nerve-racking. And it's two days of | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
nerve-racking. When you're on the blocks for the hurdles, the first | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
event, and the gun goes, do the nerves take the back seat and it's a | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
different mindset? It is completely. You start taking stock of what you | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
need to do next. Moving through the hurdles, and it's about three | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
composing yourself for the high jump. For Jess, she was one of the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
better jumpers. It's a long competition. You have to stay | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
relaxed, keep your mind going in and out of what you need to focus on and | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
then coming back to the skill. That's where the beauty of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
heptathlon starts to take shape. The two days is about managing your | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
mental state and keeping composure, regardless of whether things are | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
going great or disastrously wrong. Arguably for Katerina | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Johnson-Thompson, that has been one of the biggest challenges, the | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
mental side of the condition when things haven't gone right in certain | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
events. She hasn't been strong in that area and allowed things to | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
affect her. She hasn't been able to close it off and move away from it. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
That's an incredible skill, and one that Jess had, a bad performance | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
would wash over her. There's nothing you can do so just move on and go to | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
the next challenge. KJT has struggled in that, carrying it from | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
event to event. Hopefully we will see it change. I think she's in a | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
more relaxed place. More relaxed in France so hopefully that more | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
relaxed state of mind will help her should things go bad. She has | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
changed her setup since Rio, moving to Montpelier. Denise has been an | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
adviser, a mentor, you have been involved in her adaptation. Athletes | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
need to make change and sometimes they don't have the best person to | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
talk to and they need a sounding board. Helping to make those | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
decisions I think is valuable. Like Tony says, she's in a happy place, | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
and that's important. You went out to that happy place to catch up with | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
her. Let's see what she had to say. It's pretty here. Gorgeous. The | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
cathedral is just to the left. Very different from Wavertree! Yeah, | :21:45. | :22:04. | |
it's different in many respects. That will always be home, though? | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Yeah. I remember walking on the track with you here in November and | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
there was so much uncertainty. But watching Ukraine today, you seem at | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
home. -- watching you train today. I remember it well, and I have come to | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
this track six times a week now. It feels like home to me. Going a | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
little bit deeper. When I am here as well. Because I don't know much | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
French I feel like the mundane, negative comments you hear like, it | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
doesn't go in. All I hear is positive things and what I need to | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
do in training. It's just a really positive place for me to be in. | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
How would you assess where you are at the moment? I've never been in | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
this position before where I have been completely injury free before a | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
competition. I've had a lot of competition practice and now it's | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
just going through each event each week and trying to fine tune. I feel | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
like I'm in the best place I have been ahead of the major | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
championships. What would you measure success in London? I would | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
like to get a personal best and a medal. I would like to have no | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
regrets. To know I have given it my all in every event. Your principal | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
coach, Bertrand, he is said to me that success for him would be that | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
you can complete to the best of your ability, but just forget everything | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
and be free in all your events. I like the way he has but had. I like | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
to be free in competition and not have the weight of the world on my | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
shoulders. You have found a new apartment, you have started learning | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
the language, which is tough. Do you think you will transfer that | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
independence into the competitive arena? Yes, that's one of the things | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Bertrand has been working on with me, not depending fully on him in | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
competitions. Sometimes I'm doing gym sessions alone. I'm still not | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
completely independent. My bathroom light in my apartment has blown. I | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
don't know how to fix it! You will be looking on the Internet. I | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
wouldn't do it if I was in Liverpool, never mind going to a | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
French place in trying to get the right light bulb. I'm just Tempo Mac | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
in the dark! -- I'm just peeing in the dark! All sorts of connotations. | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
Those are her personal bests from the year. And Gotzis was one of the | :25:02. | :25:15. | |
best heptathlon conditions we have seen in a long time. And she was | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
there. What do you take from her PB this year? Very little to be honest. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
The only actual personal best was the hurdles, 13.2 nine. Everything | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
else is in a state of flux. She has changed the way she has storeowner | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
shot put, not doing the hop back any more, running across the circle. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Long jump has changed quite radically. She's just getting used | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
to javelin. You can't see anything from that. You can see a 9-point | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
improvement but it's not that different from what it was before. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
At the moment finding it steady. Because you don't compete in all | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
events very often in the heptathlon it could come together and you don't | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
know when that will happen. We haven't seen anything else this | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
season, unfortunately, that shows that there are better performances | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
to come. The only time we saw anything was the sixth round jump at | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the Anniversary Games. But you only get three jumps in the heptathlon. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
There is the potential there but we haven't conceding it on a consistent | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
level every day to know if improvement is there. -- we haven't | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
seen it. Looking at the competition and what they have in their locker | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
at the moment, there were PB is set for all the top three this year. The | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
progress from Nafi Thiam, 11th in Beijing when Jess won and then | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
winning in Rio, an incredible leap forward, Denise? It is, but we know | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
she's very talented. She was waiting, she didn't know she would | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
score big in Rio, and she didn't know she would score big in Gotzis. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
But the rivals for me are the ones that have significantly improved. | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
Schafer has put on another 200 points on her personal best. And | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
Laura has also been improving steadily for the last two years. KJT | :27:16. | :27:27. | |
hasn't stagnated, but she has had injuries that limited her progress. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Jess, you compete against all of them. You had a fantastic duel with | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Nafi Thiam in Rio. Did she surprise you how much she had stepped up? | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
Both Tony and I knew she had great potential, but coming 11th and 12th | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
in Beijing to winning in the Olympics in Rio was a massively | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
forwards, but she has always had massive potential. No great | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
surprise, but watching Gotzis this year and seeing how the scores have | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
ramped up, three girls scoring over 68, it's been an incredible leap | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
forward for the event. It's exciting. I'm kind of glad I'm not | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
there! I tapped out at the right time. It's very exciting for the | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
event. Tony, what do you think Katarina Johnson-Thompson will need | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
to get into the medals today? We know her weaker events. She says she | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
needs to get better at the better events. I don't know what that | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
means, to be honest. I think you have seven events and have to treat | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
them all with the same respect. You don't discount one in favour of the | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
other. It's about diminishing returns, how much can you improve | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
your high jump? Looking through here, she is solid in the hurdles, | :28:48. | :28:56. | |
if she can reproduce 1.98, improving the shot put to over 13 metres, | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
which she has done in the past, that's another 40 points. There's | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
another close to 100 points of improvement. Additional improvement | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
in the long jump, if you can go an extra 20 centimetres it would be | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
another 60 points. Overall it will not give you a score to go beyond | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
the 68, but it will put the other girls under pressure. When they were | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
out ahead, they can relax. If you put them under pressure, so they | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
have to perform. With Jess and others retiring, there is no big | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
statuesque figure to intimidate, so now the girls come through. All that | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
KJT can do is perform solidly and put the girls under pressure so they | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
have to perform. That way I think she can speak in and get on the | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
podium. I think where athlete goes over 7000 points, that stature, | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
that's significant. The other three girls, KJT, Schafer and Laura, they | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
believe they are in the mix. Looking at her hurdling, and that's | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
digressing a little bit, but the running events for Nafi Thiam have | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
massively improved and she has run really hard. I think that's where | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
KJT needs to think, what can she do in the throwing? I don't want to | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
harp on about it, but it's much of a muchness until the throwing. The gap | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
is so big. She can focus on strong events, which are on a par with Nafi | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
Thiam, but her weaker events are so far away. She's a fantastic javelin | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
thrower, so she can creep closer and I think that's where she can make | :30:44. | :30:44. | |
the difference. They are getting ready for the | :30:45. | :30:58. | |
hurdles. Kat will be in the fourth heat, the quicker women. Thiam is in | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
the third. It's not her strongest event, the hurdles, Thiam. She | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
doesn't hit the top of the leaderboard after the first event. | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
She's improved. She worked incredibly hard on her speed this | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
winter. Her time on the hurdles is coming down, her 200 metres time is | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
getting closer to breaking 24 seconds. Although she makes not be | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
at the top part of this event, it will give her confidence if she can | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
run a personal best. A quick word on Morgan Lake. She's focusing on the | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
high jump. Would we expect her to come back to the heptathlon? There's | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
such great heritage of women multi-eventers. Million dollar | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
question. I think her heart would love to, there's unfinished | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
business. She's having fun in the high jump. She's got great | :31:54. | :32:01. | |
potential. But not just yet. All British hopes on Katarina | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
Johnson-Thompson this time round. Can she get herself a medal? She | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
will need a great start in the medals. Such an exciting | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
competition. Let's get underway with the first of the heats. Steve Cram | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
is ready to commentate. Good morning. | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
Morning! Great light last night, I had a nice warm down, and nice bath | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
and I'm raring to go. Recovery programme is working well and | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
looking forward to a cracking second day. Great weekend in store, today | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
and tomorrow. The marathon is tomorrow. Lots of interest right | :32:41. | :32:47. | |
through the weekend. Still a lot of people outside waiting to get in. It | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
views, with all the security arrangements that have to be in | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
place these days means it takes a bit longer to get in. They will be | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
some -- they will be rewarded with some great athletics this morning. | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
The heptathlon getting underway and we have the 400 metres heats and the | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
800 metres heats as well. We will be here until about 1pm. Better weather | :33:14. | :33:22. | |
today. Some showers overnight replaced with beautiful sunshine. | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
T-shirts and shorts the order of the day. These two young ladies, talking | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
about the future of the event, they were number one and two in the | :33:35. | :33:45. | |
European Junior Championships. Shukh is the world youth record holder. | :33:46. | :33:56. | |
We'll be hearing more of them over the next few years. Talking about | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
youngsters, this young lady was third in the world Junior | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
Championships last year, to Thiam. We will see her in heats | :34:09. | :34:27. | |
number three, the quickest this season in this race, Aguilar. Barman | :34:28. | :34:37. | |
from India, the Asian champion. New personal best this year. Yet to | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
reach 6000 points. This young lady has just managed that, at 6040 this | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
year, the Brazilian, De Sousa. Two very good youngsters. Alina Shukh | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
from Ukraine. Not one of her better events. Ruckstuhl, not so bad. She | :34:56. | :35:05. | |
finished second behind the Ukrainian at those European Junior | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
Championships. First event of the heptathlon. Four | :35:08. | :35:24. | |
heats to come. This is the first of the four. Looking for a good start, | :35:25. | :35:32. | |
all of these athletes. Beautiful conditions. We've seen how fast this | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
track is. Not a breath of wind this morning. | :35:37. | :36:05. | |
Ruckstuhl will be watching for the clock. 13.81. Great start for the | :36:06. | :36:17. | |
19-year-old. There is the first smile of the morning. What a way to | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
get your heptathlon underway. It's a good, solid run. She's taken a tenth | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
off her personal best, having already improved her personal best | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
this year. Really nice to see. She's really aggressive into the first | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
hurdle. This is saying to me that this young lady is really confident | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
in her technical abilities. Charges at every single barrier. Good | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
technique. When she gets stronger and improves her sprinting speed, | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
that personal-best will tumble yet again. | :36:54. | :37:03. | |
(STUDIO) Thiam goes in heat three and Katarina Johnson-Thompson goes | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
in heat four. Back on the track in a moment. Let's head outside. We've | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
caught up with Michael Johnson. Me and Michael enjoying the British | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
sunshine. We said we weren't prepared for this. But we have to | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
soak it up. You're more prepared than I am. I was wearing a black | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
bomber jacket a moment ago. What's nice to see is hundreds of fans | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
making their way into the stadium. It's great to see people coming out | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
in their droves. Absolutely, people have been waiting for this since | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
London 2012, the chance to host another great championships. It | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
started fantastic last night. I'd like to say they are here to see | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
some fantastic competition, which we will see, but of course they are | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
here to see Usain Bolt. If you are coming, bring high factor because | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
it's heating up. Let's talk sprinting. Usain, first of his | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
swansong is tonight. Last night, did we see some scapegoating? He talked | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
about blocks. We saw a frustrated Usain Bolt and he showed that during | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
the race. I'm sure he will want to come back out this evening in the | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
semifinals and correct his mistakes. It wasn't a very clean race. | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
Typically what we see with him in early rounds is he's working on | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
things, trying to get raise sharp for the final because he hasn't had | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
a lot of races to prepare. Last night was uncharacteristically | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
ragged. Not a great start. He talked about the blocks and said he wasn't | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
very comfortable with them. He said they were the worst blocks Id ever | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
seen at a championship. I'm not sure what that's about. I've heard these | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
blocks are a bit different, maybe not as substantial, maybe a bit | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
flimsy. I've not seen them myself. That would play on your confidence | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
and you can't get the propulsion you would want out of the blocks. That | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
would not affect him in this me finals. I expect he will get that | :39:13. | :39:21. | |
right. The British fans, a lot of support, but not so much for Justin | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
Gatlin. That's something that is really unfortunate. We as the media | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
created that. Two years ago in 2015 going into the World Championships | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
in Beijing, we created this Justin Gatlin against Usain Bolt, Villains | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
versus hero. I'm not quite sure that was the right thing to do. He's paid | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
his price come he's served his punishment, it's not his fort rules | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
allow people who have cheated to come back and go back into the | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
sport. Other people have tested positive and have been banned who | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
were in the stadium last night and will be for the rest of this week. | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
They aren't getting booed. I'm not sure that was the right thing to do, | :40:08. | :40:15. | |
I wasn't happy with that. It's not what we want, it was a bit of a | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
pantomime. But he will do what he does tonight. A quick word on the | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
British guys. Reece Prescod is a man of the future. You were impressed | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
with his composure last light. He did really well last night. There's | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
a difference when nobody expects anything of you. When you and I | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
start speaking about him, he will be aware of what was said about him | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
last night, people were impressed, into the semifinal and now there is | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
expectation and that's a completely different approach. That's where | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
good coaching comes in. His coach will have to say you have to block | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
that out, don't focus on Usain Bolt or anyone else, run your own race, | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
producer personal-best, which she will probably need to do to get to | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
the final. -- he will probably need to do. He should take it one round | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
at a time. Semifinals, run your best race again. Get into the final and | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
see what happens. We've had a good look at all of them. Semifinals this | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
evening. What have we learned from the first run out? Some beanie from | :41:22. | :41:29. | |
South Africa, true to what we thought, eight times under ten | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
seconds which is very impressive but he hasn't beaten anyone. He was | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
fourth in the preliminary heat last night which is not impressive. He | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
may not be a factor. Justin Gatlin looks smooth. Kristin Coleman most | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
impressive. Fastest time in the world this year, only 21, from | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
America. He took time off, which paid off because he looked fantastic | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
last night. Bolt, we will see significant improvement in the | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
semifinal. Things will stop to really come to light and we'll be | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
able to get a good preview in the semifinals of what's to come tonight | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
at the final. It will get spicy this evening. Let's go back inside for | :42:12. | :42:13. | |
the heptathlon. Thank you and we are ready for the | :42:14. | :42:21. | |
second heat in the 100 metres hurdles for the women's heptathlon. | :42:22. | :42:30. | |
Broersen goes again. There are four heats and you are allocated based on | :42:31. | :42:32. | |
your season's best times. Nadine Broersen is not a bad | :42:33. | :42:45. | |
hurdler. Good consistency throughout. | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
Yorgelis Rodriguez from Cuba. Seventh in Rio in the Olympics with | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
the new Cuban record. Not the finest hurdler, but pretty strong overall. | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
The Reina Preiner, the Austrian, silver in the European under 23 | :43:05. | :43:16. | |
championships. Xenia Krizsan of hungry was the European champion a | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
couple of years ago. The Dutch have a good crop of heptathlete. | :43:22. | :43:33. | |
Alysbeth Felix from Puerto Rico. Record holder for Puerto Rico in the | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
high jump, but not so good at throwing. Shiv Shiv are cast, very | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
experienced, sixth in Beijing a couple of years ago in the World | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
Championships. -- Chile ski circus. Ivona Dadic took bronze at the | :43:53. | :44:02. | |
European Championships last year. Klucinova, the Czech record-holder. | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
All the pressure coming down on these athletes because it's an event | :44:08. | :44:17. | |
where things can go to start. You need to attack it and be positive. | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
Broersen, 13.39 is her personal best. Some weight off that this | :44:24. | :44:32. | |
season, 13.68 in the hurdles. Still spectators flooding in here. The | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
stadium is pretty full, but a few still outside. Good conditions. Not | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
too warm, but fairly still. The second of four heats in the women's | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
100 hurdles in the heptathlon. There was an obvious twitch from Felix. | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
Things are slightly different for falls starts in the multi-events. | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
You're given a little bit more grace. They won't get instantly | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
disqualified. They have seven events to concentrate on. She will get a | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
warning. They will all be wanting to get the | :45:12. | :45:25. | |
race underway. Her files start is against the whole field. We will | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
show the reaction times to confirm that, just rocking in the box, from | :45:30. | :45:31. | |
Felix. Sorry, everyone, sorry! Setting off | :45:32. | :45:47. | |
Dadic in lane eight as well, but it was obviously Felix. No morph -- | :45:48. | :46:00. | |
more false starts can be afforded. They have done their warming up, | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
they know it will be along two days. You can understand why sometimes | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
they are a bit twitchy. And for most of these women, it's not their | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
favoured event. That's why they are in second heat. | :46:12. | :46:19. | |
It's the stillness and silence that is so unsettling for the athletes. | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
As Colin was saying, they are waiting a long time down here. It's | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
a long hold for them here again. They have just come out to give the | :46:33. | :46:46. | |
official warning. It's no disqualification, but it's for six | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
and eight, it was for Felix and I think Dadic was set off. Another. | :46:52. | :47:05. | |
And everyone would be out. Katarina Johnson-Thompson goes in the fourth | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
heat, Nafi Thiam in the third. Broersen, world indoor champion of | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
three years ago, might content for medals here. A top five finish | :47:18. | :47:19. | |
perhaps. She goes in lane five here. On the inside of Rodriguez takes it, | :47:20. | :47:52. | |
well inside a season best time and just inside the personal best. | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
Pretty decent run and I think all the athletes are happy to get | :47:58. | :47:59. | |
through without further incident. A long wait after the false start. | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
Whether any of these athletes can content over seven events, I'm not | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
sure. Broersen is pretty strong. A good run from Rodriguez on the | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
inside lane. Yeah, she was out really well, Andrew. Cuba has great | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
heritage in the hurdles, both in the men and women. They have some great | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
technical coaches. Rodriguez, well, went early in the event, took the | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
lead on and was rewarded with a season's best. Looking up at the | :48:35. | :48:48. | |
screen. Men's shot put qualification is underway. Making qualifying look | :48:49. | :48:59. | |
very easy, twice champion of the world, three-time European champion, | :49:00. | :49:09. | |
David Storl. No Brits involved. The world has moved on and now the | :49:10. | :49:20. | |
Americans are the danger, Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs. Here is Ryan | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
Crouser, the big man, the Olympic champion. He has got within half a | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
metre of the world record this year, 22 metres 65. Ryan Crouser rotating. | :49:30. | :49:39. | |
Big man, controlling his long levers very well indeed. He has booked his | :49:40. | :49:47. | |
place in tomorrow's final, joining David Storl. His team-mate Kovacs is | :49:48. | :49:50. | |
struggling a little in the first round. He hasn't automatically | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
qualified just yet. Krauser at 20.90, he can take his shoes off. A | :49:59. | :50:05. | |
result of the second heat in the women's heptathlon hurdles. | :50:06. | :50:14. | |
STUDIO: Next up in heat three, the Olympic champion Nafi Thiam. She has | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
improved her personal best tally to more than 7000 points in Gotzis this | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
year. We caught up with her earlier in the season. | :50:29. | :50:35. | |
Of course it's an important event and everybody will be watching me | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
and expecting me to do great things, especially after Gotzis. It's been | :50:42. | :50:49. | |
different years. I think I can still be good things in London. I hope so. | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
It would be too bad to not do a good performance there, but also there | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
was an incredible level. A lot of girls are going strong. I don't want | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
to put pressure on myself. I think it's most important that I still | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
enjoy what I do that's how I always thought about my tactics, not | :51:16. | :51:18. | |
thinking about the other ones. I don't want to change that. That's | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
how I feel most comfortable. We will see. And she's out, the sun is | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
shining on the stadium. And Nafi Thiam is ready to try and claim her | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
first world title and build on her Olympic title from last year. Jess | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
Cameron use of this is one of the events she has worked on, sprinting | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
and running, over the winter. She looks a lot better. She is so tall | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
that these events can be difficult and the barriers are quite low. It's | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
about being active over the hurdles and running off strong, which she | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
seems to do. I'm excited to see what she will run the. Physically, | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
looking at her, she's a similar physic to Katarina Johnson-Thompson. | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
It's interesting, showing you the physiology and how people's natural | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
talents across the seven pieces aren't what you would predict. I'm | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
amazed that KJT doesn't throw further, and equally | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
Johnson-Thompson's hurdles have been one of the strong points. It's just | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
to your make up. It's what you come to the event with com you have a | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
natural ability in something sent it varies across athletes. What she has | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
done, she is naturally strong. She has always been a good thrower, but | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
she knows the speed. In some ways it has been challenging for her, but | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
she has been able to do it. It's relaxation, she wants to stay | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
relaxed and stay focused and not put pressure on herself. When you | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
emerge, Tony, as she did at the Olympics last year, into the global | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
consciousness, and now you hold that title, everybody is coming for you. | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
As your mindset as the coach, do you have to work on that with your | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
athletes and go into the competition with a slightly different vision? | :53:11. | :53:12. | |
You would suspect that but the reality is to focus on yourself. | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
What's Nafi Thiam and her coach of them really well is focus on | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
herself, what are we strong and weak at and work on our gaps. Because of | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
that, and the age, you can just keep improving. Lets see if she can | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
improve and head to heat three with Steve Cram. | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
Some of the older athletes of the event, Sharon Day Monro. Salman-Rath | :53:39. | :53:54. | |
in lane two. Anouk Vetter was the Amsterdam champion last year. | :53:55. | :54:09. | |
Quaresma, one a couple of years ago, the Portuguese. I knew in ten, a | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
pretty good hurdler. -- anew in Watching for the clock. The European | :54:18. | :54:40. | |
under 23, recent under 23 champion from Switzerland, and we have just | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
seen her younger team-mates do very well in heat one. We have already | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
seen quite a few personal bests in the first two heats, so be Olympic | :54:51. | :55:00. | |
champion looking to become a double world champion. Colin and I have | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
noticed the impressive hair work here. Getting herself set. Good | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
conditions, not a breath of wind, warmer. | :55:14. | :55:28. | |
Anouk Vetter has the lead on this, going very well in indeed. There is | :55:29. | :55:42. | |
the first indicator, Anouk Vetter was delighted with her performance. | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
A big run for her. Very close to her personal best. Not a good start from | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
Nafi Thiam and never really got moving. You are expected to come | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
through. A little bit of a disappointment. We will wait for the | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
times but it must be around 13.5 for Nafi Thiam. I think she will be a | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
bit disappointed with that. At no stage of the race was she making any | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
ground. I would expect that would happen when somebody is running | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
13.31. A very good run by Anouk Vetter. Taking control early. | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
Focused well, working off each and every one of the barriers and was | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
again rewarded with a season's best. Some of these women are hurtling | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
very well indeed. In contrast, Nafi Thiam, a couple of questions. | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
Because she is tall, she takes her time a bit into the first hurdle. | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
Eight strides, when you have really long legs, it can be complicated. | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
It's not the but she focuses on all the time. I think she is working her | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
way through, keeping focus and running hard off all the barriers, | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
but not quite as sharp. I think she may be a little bit disappointed | :57:00. | :57:01. | |
because that was a full out run. Joe Kovacs in the shot put is the | :57:02. | :57:18. | |
reigning champion, but he has opened up his account fairly unimpressive | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
thee, 20.62 in the first round. He saw his team-mate Ryan Crouser | :57:27. | :57:36. | |
comfortably go beyond the automatic qualifying. We were expecting to | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
qualify with ease, he has gone over 22 metres this year, 22.57. Just | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
separated from that, he went left and the shot went right. The power | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
dissipates. He liked it, though, the hand in EF. 20.67, a slight | :57:51. | :57:59. | |
improvement from Kovacs. This the hand in the air. | :58:00. | :58:10. | |
Maybe a couple of tenths lost for Nafi Thiam. Andy Goode viewpoints as | :58:11. | :58:16. | |
well. Not the start she would have wanted. | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
STUDIO: How main points are we talking there? A couple of hundred | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
outside 30 points. It means she might not score 7000, but she might | :58:32. | :58:42. | |
get 6999. A little blip, but it will maybe affect confidence. A first | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
glimpse of this later. Katarina Johnson-Thompson sticking out her | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
tongue to the camera, a relaxed move will stop you couldn't think of a | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
better arena for her to compete in. The crowd will be on her side. She | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
has to relax into this and enjoy the atmosphere. You have to take it in. | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
We had the amazing images from Jess in London where you just take a beat | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
and allow the crowd to get with you. You have to use the crowds to get | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
with you. She has seen Nafi Thiam's run. She will draw confidence from | :59:15. | :59:18. | |
that. Although it will not be a massive difference in points at this | :59:19. | :59:21. | |
time, if she can get a great start it will give her a mental edge going | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
to the high jump. One of the things we talked about earlier was her | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
mental state throughout the two days and how she has in the past let | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
disappointment affect her next event. This is one of her stronger | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
events. She wants to start the whole thing with a great time and post a | :59:37. | :59:44. | |
high score on the board. Can you tell anything from her demeanour at | :59:45. | :59:46. | |
the moment, Denise, as somebody who has spent time with her, from how | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
she is looking? Not yet. She is in the zone right now, focused on | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
getting a great start. It's about keeping the mental state in check at | :59:56. | :59:59. | |
the moment and being aggressive. She knows she has to work hard. Expect | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
her to come through really well in the latter stages of the race but | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
it's about getting a good start. Physically she looks stronger. She | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
has been working on her posture. She has those natural rounded shoulders, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
so she has been working hard on strengthening her back and call. She | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
says she only used to train three days a week, very long sessions, so | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
her training has changed massively. Tony looks suspicious. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
She was a five day train with Mike Holmes. Three days a week, a little | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
pinch of salt. Does that mean three gym sessions or three technical | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
sessions? If you only do three technical sessions in heptathlon, | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
you might as well forget it! How many gym sessions a week would you | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
be doing? I had three better after I had Reggie we had to condense it. We | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
did long gym sessions, he made us stay in there for an hour and a | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
half. Sorry! It's important to keep strength levels because they do drop | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
away. Getting the balance right between when you should take time | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
off and do your lifting. I used to do my lifting right up to the | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
events. You didn't taper down your lifting? Maximum lifts. Working on | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
the power. She's looking focused and strong. She needs a good start. She | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
will be buoyed by that time from Thiam. Andrew is the commentator. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
When you think of great athletics moments, they are normally in the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
evening under the lights. But with the heptathlon, you are straight | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
into it. There are seven finals. Nano goes in lane two. Nadine Visser | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
ran 12.78. These are the four to -- fastest hurdler is. Williams is a | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
very, very good hurdler. A world junior champion three years ago over | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the barriers. Falls down a little bit in the throes. Cachova, new | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
personal best in the Czech Republic in June. We will let the London | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
stadium welcome the next athlete. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
There's no hiding place in front of 60,000 people! Schafer will be a | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
medal contender if she gets it right across the events. Former world and | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
European junior champion. Erica Bougard, another very good hurdler. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Poor shot put and javelin to say the least. Another medal contender from | :03:12. | :03:25. | |
Latvia. Ikauniece-Admidina. Katarina Johnson-Thompson is outstanding in | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
the high jump, the long jump, 200 metres. Very good 800-metre runner. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
The hurdles, doesn't quite get to the very top level yet. You think of | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill, outstanding hurdler. In this stadium, in this | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
event, exploding into things with 12.54, a British record at the time. | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
Can she get close to her personal best? It all begins here in the 100 | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
hurdles. This takes it in 12.85. Nadine | :03:59. | :04:29. | |
Visser, well clear. A decent run from Williams. It's all about the | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
time for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. You think about exploding into that | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
event. Perhaps a little bit of safety in the blocks. She sat for a | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
while, it was cautious from Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Let's see her | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
time. Colin Jackson will talk you through this one. These women, this | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
event, very strong hurdlers. Any position above seventh place would | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
be fantastic for Kat. 13.33. She will be very happy with that in | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
contrast to Thiam. Look at the start. Very soft going into the | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
first hurdle, over striding. You need good cadence, good leg speed | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
going into the first barrier because it sets you up. But she starts | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
making inroads into the field. A little mistake off the final | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
barrier. 13.33 is what we are looking for. A lot of people will | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
think she's down the field, but it's to be expected, she is against some | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
better hurdlers. Just look for her time. Spot on, these are quality | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
hurdlers. A lot of them have gone under 13 seconds. One other thing to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
talk about. ACCA nature at Medina, on the outside, she has run a | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
terrible time. 13.71. -- Ikauniece-Admidina. Not too bad at | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
all from Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Four hundredths of a second down on | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
her personal best. There was the mistakes she made. She hit the next | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
hurdle and she fell off that a little bit. That's where she could | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
have lost that personal best performance. For me, an excellent | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
start from Kat. Look at lane nine. Schafer alongside Johnson-Thompson | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Branwell. Ikauniece-Admidina was going well and then it went wrong in | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
the second half. She was fading badly. Ikauniece-Admidina is a 13.07 | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
runner. She has lost huge points. Seemed to be struggling with a leg | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
problem. That was pretty evident because she had zero power at the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
back end of the race. If there's anywhere you need to be technically | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
efficient, it's the back end. From Kat. -- great from Kat. Let's have a | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
look at the standings. The names to look out for, Katarina | :07:23. | :07:36. | |
Johnson-Thompson, Carolin Schafer, a decent run and she may be a medal | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
contender. Nafi Thiam, a couple of tenths down on her personal best. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Ikauniece-Admidina battling through injury. I'm sure the Latvian would | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
have featured, but a poor start for her. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
(STUDIO) you always want to come out and post a PB, like you did, Jess, | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
in 2012. If you don't do that, getting as close as Kat did and | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
putting yourself amongst it, will she be pleased with that? Or a | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
little bit disappointed? She takes seven strides to the first hurdle. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
She compresses herself in the blocks and she can't unfold. The angle on | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
the front leg forces her to stand straight up. Put your blocks in the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
right place and you run a personal best. When she gets to the hurdles, | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
chief or Leeds and is very floppy so she's very close. Very simple tidy | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
up. Lead with your knee and you can run and sprint between them and you | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
can break 13 seconds. She is 6-foot. Like Thiam, getting the cadence into | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the first hurdle is difficult. When you're doing it in seven strides, | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
she has to push really hard. It's counterintuitive. She's crowding the | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
line in order to make seven steps. You fold your legs up. It's like | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
doing a very deep squat and trying to stand up. You have to have a 90 | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
degrees angle in the front leg and 120 in the back otherwise you can't | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
power out. Let's have a look at the overhead camera and see if we can | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
get any more from that. Lane nine, she looks like she might be carrying | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
an injury. Yeah. She got out well but she hit the seventh hurdle. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Fifth hurdle. I don't know whether she's coming into the competition | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
with an injury, but she looks like she's grabbed her hamstring off the | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
hurdle. That doesn't bode well. No. A poor start for an athlete we | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
thought would be in the mix. The one who is the lady everybody wants to | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
beat, Nafi Thiam, didn't have the best start either. Let's have a look | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
at her. Tell us what you thought of her performance, Tony. A very tall | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
individual. She takes eight strides to the first hurdle. Look how her | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
knee is bent. She keeps it tight. I don't like the lead arm, goes across | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
her, throws it out a little bit which creates rotation you don't | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
want. She has to fit into the space. She bends the knee, she cuts the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
distance. Not active enough off the trail leg. She's dropped 30 points | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
but then Kat instead of moving towards her and taking benefit, she | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
stepped away a little bit, but not by much. The bigger problem will be | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
for the Latvian girl. She's 80 points down. It means she's more | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
likely to score 6700 and Kat can probably achieve that. As you step | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
towards them, there's a chance to be on the podium. It's the high jump | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
next and that's where she is world class and she can post a big score. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
The high jump is always interesting. They're jumping ability is | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
incredible. Watching them battle it out is brilliant. They will need to | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
jump in the high 90s. She will feel pressure because she has to deliver. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
She wants to start with a PB but she hasn't done that. She will come out | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
and jump high and she will want to get close to two metres. That's at | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
11:30am. We will be all over it. Back on the track now. The 400 | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
metres hurdles... Sorry, the 400 metres flat. They would be very | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
shocked if there were hurdles out there! Olympic finalist, a really | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
exciting athlete. Still only 22 years old. He's gained so much | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
experience over the last few years. In Glasgow as the Commonwealth Games | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
we got a glimpse of him first and 40 was exciting. Lovely runner, | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
relaxed, gaining confidence. He's had stress fractures, but nice to | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
see him back strong and confident. He seems to enjoy the big occasions. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Can he deliver in front of the home crowd and get safely through Steve | :12:39. | :12:39. | |
Cram is the commentator. What a great morning we've got | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
because these 400 metres heats will be very exciting. Matthew | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Hudson-Smith getting is underway. Dwayne Campbell in heat three and | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Martyn Rooney in heat five. Wayde Van Niekerk, the favourite, world | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
record holder, is in the second heat. There are also other big names | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
to watch out for. Fred Kerley of the USA, really exciting to watch him | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
run here in his first major championships. Big talent. | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
Some familiar names to those of you who are regular athletics fans. | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
Particularly in the outside lanes. The qualification is not easy. First | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
three and six fastest through to the semifinals which are tomorrow. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Matthew Hudson-Smith has shown in his burgeoning career that he is | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
good at raising his game at the major championships. His last | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
performance here was an odd one, the London Diamond League. A couple of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
weeks ago. He fell over at the start. That was the night for him to | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
put in a good confidence building performance before these | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
championships. He missed that opportunity. Maslak on the outside. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
He will be a good one for them all to chase. He was in the world record | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
race recently. There's Fred Kerley. He's a massive talent. He's just 22 | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
years of age. Haven't seen him on the international circuit really and | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
this is a baptism of fire for him. Kevin Borlee, 29 years old, | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
extremely experienced. Hudson-Smith in five. A huge cheer for the | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
Brummie lad. All of the danger for him is outside. Might need to watch | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
the Kenyan in lane two as well. He's run close to 45 seconds this year, | :15:10. | :15:10. | |
there he years. On times, he should finish in the | :15:11. | :15:28. | |
top three here. I will be interested to see Gordon as well. Coming back | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
to the sort of form that saw him win medals a few years back. He ran a | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
31.923 200 metres recently, and as the fastest he's ever done. It might | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
indicate he's ready to drop under 45 seconds again. | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
Only three of them will go through... | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
Hudson-Smith has got to get on terms with those men outside him. Fred | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
Kerley starting quickly. Hudson-Smith already going past | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Kevin Borlee who has started quickly through the first 150. Maslak going | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
well. The three of them moving away, Fred Kerley but in a gap between | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
himself and Borlee and Hudson-Smith. Already looking around, a bit of | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
bravado. He says, watch me go, it's easy for me. It looks easy. | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Hudson-Smith going well, but Borlee and Maslak, this is tough. Fred | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Kerley will win it, Hudson-Smith fading quickly, fifth. That is a | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
tough, tough heat, but I didn't like the way Hudson-Smith eased back. I'm | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
not saying he eased back, but didn't fight enough in the 1015 metres. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
There are six fastest loser spots. If you are not in the top three you | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
have to keep going for the time. Fifth place, but the last 15 metres | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
might well have cost him. It's very close. Hudson-Smith, 45.31. Fred | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
Kerley, that was impressive and Michael Johnson sitting upstairs | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
must have been purring. He's a real talent. I didn't like this, really. | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
Just run the race, get on with it. You can relax without having to look | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
around. Not sure what that was about, throwing out his hands. This | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
is a serious business, this is the preliminaries and he's a young | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
athlete and he will learn. I also agree on Matthew Hudson-Smith. You | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
have to fight, and he's giving up way too early. Especially in the | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
early rounds where you have to acquit yourself really well. Fred | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Kerley not making too much ground, not taking a gap out of him, running | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
well in the first 200 metres, impressive and relaxed. In the early | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
rounds you want to run quickly through the first 200, get your | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
rhythm down and then come off the turn exactly where you want to be in | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the race, among the leaders, which is where he was initially and then | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
started to fade. This is where he relaxed a bit too much. In a great | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
position and then his arms drop down, a little too much relaxation. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Borlee coming up on the outside, you have to respond to that and he | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
didn't do that. It was a missed opportunity. He's going to have an | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
anxious wait because there are now five more heats to come, and he's | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
not even a fastest loser, the second fastest, because was ahead of him. | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
At the Olympics, 45.31 wouldn't have got you through is the fastest | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
loser. We have some high quality races to come and he will have an | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
anxious wait. Back to the hammer, Steve. The hammer with Sophie | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
Hitchon, a big cheer as she entered the stadium. Qualifying time for the | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
athletes to go 71.5 or top 12. Sophie Hitchon has proved time and | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
time again that she is a major championship challenger. Olympic | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
bronze last year, fourth in the World Championships two years ago | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
and lifetime bests on both those occasions. Looking for something in | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
excess of 71.5. It's looking good, down the middle. She controlled | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
herself. A big cheer from the crowd because Sophie Hitchon makes another | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
major championships final. That looked easy and it bodes really well | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
for her prospects of standing on another global rostrum. Loved the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
moment last season when she threw a British record in the last round at | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Rio. And that is the perfect start to her World Championships. A big | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
smile from Sophie, into the final. 73.05, the best of the athletes so | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
far. Matthew Hudson-Smith in that race the way he wanted, not just in | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
terms of position. He knows it, the last 50 metres not helping his cause | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
of advancing. 45.31, confirmed in fifth. Gordon is ready to improve, a | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
season's best for him. Maslak with a season's best. Hudson-Smith, 45.31, | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
and five races still to come. Not what you wanted, I'm sure. | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
Describe the race from your perspective. Got out really well but | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
couldn't find the extra gear. It's strange when these things happen but | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
we have to move on and hopefully I get through. It's an anxious waiting | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
game. Are you thinking back to anything you would have done | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
differently? I would have probably settled better, personally. These | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
things happen and you have to move on from it. You have shown is in | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
your young career how you can move on from round to rant. This is a new | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
experience, not getting through automatically. Definitely, but I | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
just have to learn from it and carry on. It's a waiting game, as you | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
said. All the best. Sophie Hitchon with her tracksuit back on. She's in | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
the final on Monday. Not a perfect throw, good enough to get through, | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
but there are technical improvements to be made and something around 74 | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
metres might get on the rostrum. A good start from Sophie Hitchon. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Automatic qualifying. She can leave the arena. The other athletes can | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
continue. Three throws maximum. But the perfect start for Sophie. | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
The Olympic champion and world record-holder is ready to begin his | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
400-metre campaign. One of two events he's going for here, Wayde | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
van Niekerk, going for the 400 metre and 200-metre double. The Michael | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Johnson speciality. And he Johnson's record in the Olympics, stretching | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
clear of LaShawn Merritt and James in the final 50 metres. People | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
believe he can go below 43 seconds. That's a bit of a stretch, but he's | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
an outstanding, incredible athlete. This should be a little bit of a job | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
for him. Again, a high-quality field. Steven Solomon, Nery Brenes | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
from Costa Rica, world indoor champion from 2012. Shearman St | :23:12. | :23:21. | |
Vincent the Grenadines. Van Niekerk say he can take on Usain Bolt's | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
mantel. He's a different character, a much more quiet figure, no | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
showman, but on the track is comparable. Outstanding 100, 200 and | :23:31. | :23:45. | |
400 runner. Cedenio, running 44.01, nobody has run that fast before and | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
not got a medal. Still only 21. De Vita ray of Italy in lane two. And | :23:53. | :24:05. | |
Janezic of Slovenia in lane one. -- Davide | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
Re. One of the great athletes, Wayde van Niekerk. Looking at times, the | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
first heat was quick, Matthew Hudson-Smith down in fifth with | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
45.31. Wayde van Niekerk should be able to win this at his leisure. | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
There is a long hold. Asked to stand up. Just a little bit unsettling. | :24:43. | :24:57. | |
Wayde van Niekerk, he has won a couple of Diamond League meetings | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
this year. 43.62 in Lausanne to win that one. And also in Monaco where | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
he was pushed quite hard. Could the athlete in lane for please respond | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
immediately to my set command. Atine-Venel of France, quite slow to | :25:24. | :25:35. | |
follow the set command. The Marshall speaking to them. | :25:36. | :25:57. | |
A second first-round heat in the men's 400 metres, three going | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
through automatically and on the six fastest losers. Wayde van Niekerk | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
taking it easy through the first hundred, just measuring himself at | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
the moment. He wants to push up a little bit. The man outside him, | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
less KCom it's quite easy at the moment. Van Niekerk leading. Three | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
to go through automatically and Van Niekerk jogging, looking easy and | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
comfortable just now. Solomon also looking strong, the youngster | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
outside, beginning to fade. Van Niekerk takes it again, coasting | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
across. 45.28, not as fast as the first heat. Van Niekerk taking the | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
victory. Matthew Hudson-Smith, 45.31 in fifth in the first heat, easy | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
enough for Van Niekerk. Michael Johnson, was never going to be a | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
repeat of the final in Rio, but that was about energy conservation and | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
stretching the legs for Van Niekerk. That's not the way you want to do | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
it, it takes a lot more energy to relax in the first half of the race | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
and then have to find yourself with 100 metres to go, making up ground | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
and having to kick up into another gear. The better way to do it is to | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
get out, take the lead and then ease back and relax. He has to kick in | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
and that takes a lot of energy. He is trying to conserve energy because | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
he is doing the 400 and 200-metre double. But he is in great shape and | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
the class of the field. No problems for him in this qualification to get | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
through to the next round. Starting off a bit too timid. Even though | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
this is an early round only want to relax, you still want to get out and | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
run the first 200 metres as if it's the final. Getting in to that | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
beautiful long stride, he knows he's the class of the field, very | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
relaxed. This will be a very interesting 400 metres with Van | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
Niekerk as the world-record holder, defending world champion and Olympic | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
champion, trying to do the double. But Fred Kerley in the earlier | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
round, he will have something to say about that. Extremely relaxed, | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
having to kick in a little bit, but not too much of a problem. Just a | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
fantastic athletes, looking to do something special here in these | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
championships over 200 and 400 metres double. Wayde van Niekerk is | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
true. But a reminder it was a much slower heat than the first one, | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
where we saw Matthew Hudson-Smith. Comfortable for Van Niekerk. Nery | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
Brenes went through as well. Good run from the Italian, Re. Much less | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
fancied than the likes of Cedenio, who will have to wait and see if | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
he's one of the fastest losers. Sophie Hitchon is still the | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
qualifier from the women's hammer. This is the Belarus athlete, a world | :29:14. | :29:22. | |
best this year, and she is capable of joining Sophie. It looked high | :29:23. | :29:32. | |
and long. Sophie Hitchon at 73.05, still the leading mark. A similar | :29:33. | :29:50. | |
distance from Malyshik. Second best so far and also qualifying. Another | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
young athletes, the 22-year-old Polish, Malwina Kopron. Can she join | :29:57. | :30:22. | |
Sophie and Malyshik. We have lost that one. The throw is making the | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
most of what very good athletic conditions in the Olympic Stadium. | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
That's probably the best we have seen so far. Close to a lifetime | :30:32. | :30:42. | |
best. 75.11, her lifetime best. 73.50 to book a place in the final. | :30:43. | :30:51. | |
The marks are scratched, 74.97. Three athletes qualifying, Sophie is | :30:52. | :30:52. | |
one of them. The congratulations on a tremendous | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
performance. When you come into qualification it must be tricky, you | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
need to negotiate it and you've done it with aplomb. It is really | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
difficult to come into the qualification rounds. Once you're | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
through, as is a little bit more like a normal competition. It's nice | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
to make it in one throw but you just need to make it. Tim Neila it with | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
an impressive throw shows the form you're in. -- to nail it. We'll see | :31:29. | :31:37. | |
on Monday night! As for being in this stadium, does that give you a | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
lift or are you trying to block it out? I'm not going to lie, it does | :31:41. | :31:48. | |
make you really nervous. You have pressure on yourself and everyone | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
else is here to support you so you want to perform well. But the crowd | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
is amazing. You showed last year in Rio that you fight to the end and | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
you can pull it out of the bag when you most need to so you can tap into | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
those memories. Definitely. Once the final comes, you try to execute your | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
technique. Don't do anything fancy, just come in and execute. Great | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
start, we wish you well for the final. Thanks. | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
Good luck to Sophie Hitchon. And good luck to this man. Dwayne Cowan. | :32:23. | :32:33. | |
What a story for him, 32 years old. This is one of the contenders for a | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
medal, Baboloki Thebe. Young man from Botswana. They have a great | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
relay team as well. Their slowest guy is 45.30 individual. Wayne, | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
incredible story. His father is Lloyd Coward, one of the top | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
coaches, coach of Christine Ohuruogu and others. Dwayne has been getting | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
better and better at a stage of his career where that wouldn't happen to | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
most, at 32. He's had a great season, including a surprise win in | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
the European Team Championships. He set a new personal best on this | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
track at the London Diamond League. He has a tough heat. If he runs like | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
that, he has a good chance. Demish Gaye there has had a few problems, | :33:25. | :33:34. | |
four weeks without racing. Feed -- CD from Botswana. | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
Demish Gaye has only lost one 400-metre race this year. | :33:41. | :33:54. | |
Coward and has started pretty quickly. The crowd really getting | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
into this and he's going well. He's chasing down Thebe. Demish Gaye is | :34:03. | :34:10. | |
quick. Demish Gaye has gone very hard through the first 250. Dwayne | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
Cowan has a real job on his hand but he's a strong finisher. Thebe... | :34:18. | :34:25. | |
Here comes Coward and... Dwayne Cowan. He is going to qualify. | :34:26. | :34:39. | |
44.83. This young man, he started the season with 4409 in his first | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
race in March. He's been incredibly consistent since. He's a big talent. | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
The Jamaicans have some good young 400-metre runners as well. At the | :34:52. | :34:59. | |
other end of the scale, 32. His first major championships and he's | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
through to the semifinal. 45.39 to do that. A smart race, Michael. It | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
was a smart race. He got out quickly and settled in a bit. Not the | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
cleanest of techniques but looks like he's lingering, but that's just | :35:17. | :35:25. | |
the way he runs. Nice, long stride and he looks nice and relaxed which | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
I really like. Now you have to take a break at some point in the 400 | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
metres, you can't drop it all out. He does that from 200 to 250. He | :35:36. | :35:45. | |
finds himself in about fourth place, third place, coming off the bend. | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
Decent position. He acquitted himself very well and has done just | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
well enough to get third position for automatic qualification. That's | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
the way you want to run the first round. Everybody wants to relax, you | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
want to conserve as much energy as possible over these three rounds if | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
you're fortunate to get into the final. It's better to run too fast | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
in the first round than not fast enough. That's what Matthew | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
Hudson-Smith is dealing with now. Waiting to see if he will get into | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
the final. Cowan, great first run to get into the semifinal. Semifinals | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
tomorrow. As far as Matthew Hudson-Smith is concerned, he's | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
still in a good position as far as fastest losers. The second and third | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
heats were not particularly quick. Thebe and Gaye looked very strong. | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
Both under 45 seconds. Dwayne is through to the semifinals. He is | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
with Phil. Well done. Such a big occasion and | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
to accomplish that performance in the first round must be greatly | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
satisfying. Yeah. Got through to the semifinals. I took three weeks off | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
so one a bit rusty. Hopefully next round I'll go out a bit harder and | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
get a faster time. Tell me about your year to get to this point. | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
Somebody at your edge -- age to be getting better is a rare thing. I | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
started at 28 years old. I'm still young. In terms of... Yeah. To | :37:26. | :37:35. | |
everyone out there, never give up. I'm 32 years old. I'm training with | :37:36. | :37:43. | |
people of 19 and 20 and you just have to grind it. Impressive. What | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
can you achieve? You were close to your personal best. That's a box | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
you'd like to take. Hopefully I'll get a PB in the semifinals and | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
that's it. My whole aim was to get through the first round. I've done | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
that, just about. Onto the semifinals. Well done. Thanks. | :38:06. | :38:16. | |
Women's triple jump qualification under way and a flamboyant | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
character, you Lamah Ross Hussey from Venezuela. Silver-medallist in | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
Rio last year. Has gone over 15 metres this year. -- just shy of it | :38:31. | :38:39. | |
this year. It is qualification. 14.20 better to get into Monday's | :38:40. | :38:48. | |
final. Ten one expected to do that comfortably. -- Rojas expected to do | :38:49. | :38:56. | |
that comfortably. Shy of auto qualifying. After giving her the big | :38:57. | :39:05. | |
build-up! Rojas with a tentative start. Checked herself on the board. | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
Looks bang on 14 metres. Way off the optimum of getting onto the take-off | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
board. Tony, what did you make of that? I think she'd decelerated. | :39:18. | :39:27. | |
Didn't drive and made it short. A bit of mourning rust I suspect. | :39:28. | :39:37. | |
Rybarikova, bronze medal last year. Champion here five years ago. She | :39:38. | :39:46. | |
will feel at home. 32-year-old from Kazakhstan. Looking to get over | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
14.20. It's a statement to other athletes if you can get auto | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
qualifying, you can walk away. Easily beyond. That was better. She | :39:58. | :40:07. | |
ran so much better on the runway. I'm having it. She really committed | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
herself. Good speed. And then worked the three phases. Straightforward | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
qualifying, no messing about. Kept her speedwell through the phases. | :40:22. | :40:29. | |
Good, textbook triple jumping. The best jump of the qualification | :40:30. | :40:37. | |
process so far. Auto qualifying with 14.57. This is the vehicle that will | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
return the various implements in the throwing competitions. Save the legs | :40:43. | :40:49. | |
of the throwers. Here is another field event that happened earlier. | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
Men's shot put qualification. Tomas Walsh, 22.14, a seasoned's best. The | :40:56. | :41:10. | |
Americans a little off-colour. Joe Kovacs didn't look anywhere near his | :41:11. | :41:11. | |
best. Youth is the order of the day. | :41:12. | :41:27. | |
Steven Gardiner, 21. Steven Gayle. Just sneaked below 45 seconds this | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
season. Good run by Demish Gaye, his team-mate, in the previous heat. | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
Wilbur Le the third. -- Wilbert London the third. Third place at the | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
US Championships. That was behind Fred Kerley and Gil Roberts. We fly | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
past the Irish Champion! We have Santas, silver-medallist at | :41:52. | :42:08. | |
the Olympics five years ago at 18. Jonathan Borlee in lane nine. The | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
fourth of six first-round heats in the men's 400 metres. London, world | :42:16. | :42:24. | |
junior silver-medallist last year. 19. 44.47. He's got Steven Gayle and | :42:25. | :42:36. | |
Steven Gardiner outside him. Gardiner is an outstanding talent | :42:37. | :42:37. | |
from the Bahamas. Away they go. Three to go through | :42:38. | :42:52. | |
automatically. The first heat in which Matthew Hudson-Smith went is | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
still comfortably the fastest. A strong start from Steven Gardiner, | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
the tall figure in lane seven. He eases past Sam Cross outside him. -- | :43:03. | :43:10. | |
Santon. Steven Gayle trying to keep pace. Steven Gardiner striding | :43:11. | :43:19. | |
clear, a long way clear of the rest. Looking to shut it down a little | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
bit. London finishing strongly. Gardiner eases across the line. | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
Brian Deegan takes the third automatic qualifying place. Very | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
good run from the Irish Champion. Steven Gardiner, the contrast with | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
Wayde Van Niekerk. He went out hard and eased down, which is perhaps the | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
more sensible way to do things. Impressive. London finished strongly | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
as well and Brian Deegan through. -- Gregan. We've known him for a while, | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
Gardiner. A young and talented athlete and he ran a sensible race. | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
You want to go out hard in the opening 200 and put pressure on, | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
ensure you are in position with 100 to go. Impressive run also by | :44:13. | :44:22. | |
London, the 19-year-old American coached by my coach, Clive Hart. | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
Putting himself in second position. Very, very nice by Gardiner. | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
Relaxing. That will allow him to go into the semifinal with a great | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
position, a lot of confidence. Very slight and slim, but a long stride. | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
Gets into his running. You want to get up to full speed as fast as | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
possible. Nice and relaxed down the back stretch. Beautiful stride, very | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
efficient. We saw him a couple of years ago and thought this could be | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
a 400 metres star of the future and he's putting himself in position | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
this year to be a potential medallist. Exactly what you want, | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
coming off with 100 to go, able to continue to keep everything in line. | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
We seen athletes over the past get a little ragged at the end, but he is | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
able to hold position, hold his technique. It's the most efficient | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
way to cover the last, difficult 20 to 30 to 40 metres. He did it very, | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
very well. The quickest qualifier so far. The | :45:32. | :45:41. | |
first 100 metres was extraordinary. Santos finished strongly but in 5th | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
place. Gardiner, London and Gregan taking the third automatic | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
qualifying place, great bun by Brian Gregan. -- great run. | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
Here is an athlete who has dominated this event over the last decade or | :45:58. | :46:10. | |
so, Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia. In 17 she's been off to get to | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
Monday's final. Just shy of that auto qualifying. | :46:15. | :46:22. | |
15-metre plus jumper when she gets it right. 14. 86 her best so far | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
this season. Making sure on the board. That's wise, but just looking | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
at that line, it's got to go out beyond 14. 20. Collapsed a little in | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
that second phase. Had to salvage it somewhat, lost distance through | :46:42. | :46:50. | |
that. Kimberley Williams. | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
28 years of age, 6th and 7th of the last two Olympic games so is a | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
contender. Fast on the approach. Just shy of 14 metres there. | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
A decent jump for the Jamaican. Reaching out a little on the runway, | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
reaching for the board and her hips are slightly behind her foot and | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
doesn't carry it over. Collapses on that second phase. Gets a lift. | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
That's where she loses speed. You would hope she sorts that out and | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
should get qualifying. A little bit to spare on the board. Athletes | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
making sure, a slight headwind maybe on that back straight running in the | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
opposite direction to the sprinters. In 4th place, just shy of auto | :47:34. | :47:34. | |
qualifying. Things are looking good for Matthew | :47:35. | :47:47. | |
Hudson-Smith at the moment. He was 5th in that first heat but so far | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
his time is looking solid to go through to the semifinal. What about | :47:52. | :48:07. | |
Martin Rooney, he is in lane eight. Merritt outside him. One or two | :48:08. | :48:15. | |
youngsters in lane two. Renny Quow, and Winston George in | :48:16. | :48:30. | |
lane one, half a second quicker than Rooney. So let's just say it isn't | :48:31. | :48:38. | |
going to be easy! Rooney has had problems and was due | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
to run earlier but picked up an injury in training before that race | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
and then has had a curtailed season. Only 5th in the British | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
championships. Merritt had the luxury of not having to go through | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
the American cut-throat system because he is the Diamond League | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
champion from 2016 and therefore got a bye into these championships. | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
Countries can have four athletes, if we haven't mentioned that already, | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
as well as three qualifying, any Diamond League champions or | :49:13. | :49:14. | |
defending world champions but you can't have five, if you had for | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
instance a defending world champion and a Diamond League champion, | :49:19. | :49:20. | |
separate athletes, you would have to choose between them as I think Kenya | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
had to do. So, tough for Rooney here. And this | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
may well be as much as anything getting him a run out, obviously we | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
are hoping a relay team can do well. It's going to be tough. I have | :49:38. | :49:44. | |
already mentioned Botswana, the USA will be very strong as ever. Here is | :49:45. | :49:45. | |
the full line-up. He ran the 200 in the heats in the | :49:46. | :50:15. | |
American championships, Merritt and was very quick this year, as well at | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
200 metres, or his personal best. Rooney trying to get the crowd in, | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
he knows the task is a huge one for him. But can he find some of his old | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
form with those weeks he missed, he may be able to catch up. Quow, back | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
to Berlin in 2009, a surprise bronze medal for him then. And Makwala, he | :50:41. | :50:53. | |
is running superbly quick at 200. A real character. | :50:54. | :51:04. | |
Husillos will be a contender. And Raymond Kibet, winner of the Kenyan | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
trials. And we saw Walton. We have gone past him, but 44. 99, most of | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
his other times have been more like 46. I think one 45 and then won the | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
junior championships in Peru. So, has he got a performance like that | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
in his legs? He is in lane two. Rooney is in lane eight. | :51:30. | :51:37. | |
Expect this to be Makwala and Merritt and a real tussle after | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
that. Top three through to the semis. | :51:41. | :51:49. | |
At the moment 45. 7 will get you a fastest loser spot. | :51:50. | :51:59. | |
So the crowd will do their best. Lane two Walton has gone off flying | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
through the first 100 metres, the young 18-year-old. Maybe getting | :52:04. | :52:12. | |
overexcited. Rooney has a reasonably quickly, sometimes he doesn't. The | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
two men on the inside in lanes one and two have to figure in this. | :52:17. | :52:27. | |
George and Walton. But Makwala and Merritt as expected: Young Walton in | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
third place. Merritt struggling a bit. Walton is going to hang on to | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
second. Merit will get second. Rooney may have dipped in for 5th | :52:42. | :52:53. | |
there. But Makwala doesn't hang around. Great race in Monaco | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
recently. Merritt, doesn't know if he thought he might have pushed him | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
more but a smooth run in the end. Rooney, a tough, tough heat for him. | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
Just waiting for the time to come up. Walton is a huge talent. | :53:10. | :53:24. | |
Husillos did get 4thle. I will bring you in, Michael. Makwala, one of the | :53:25. | :53:31. | |
classes of this 400 metres this year, that time is impressive and | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
allows him to be able to do this, run that first 200 metres very | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
quickly and doesn't take as much out of him as it does the competitors. | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
Then just able to relax here. In control of this race around the | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
bend. And finish with a very impressive early stage 44. 56. To | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
your point, Steve, Walton over there on the inside, the youngster from | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
Kay man Islands, very -- Cayman Islands, impressed with his race | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
here, recognising athletes on his outside were not running very fast | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
so it looked like he may have gone out too quickly but he actually put | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
himself in a great position to finish this race as an automatic | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
qualifier behind Merritt. Rooney here, this was always going to be | :54:19. | :54:20. | |
tough for him. Didn't get out quickly, needs to get out faster | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
than that. Keeping his eye on Merritt. This was a great position | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
for Rooney to be inside of Merritt, that's one of the race leaders, you | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
knew he was one of the race leaders as world champion and former Olympic | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
champion. With Makwala Rooney allows Merritt to get too far ahead there, | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
loses contact with him. Now trying to come back, which is going to be | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
tough. This is always going to be difficult. You can't allow Merritt | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
to get that far ahead and lose contact with him. If I had seen this | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
lane drawn and I am Martyn Rooney I would have felt this is exactly | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
where I need to be, just inside of someone like Merritt and you draft | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
off him for the first 200 metres and use your strength coming home which | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
he didn't do, which is a missed opportunity. I can tell you despite | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
that good lane draw and trying to follow Merritt, sadly, his time will | :55:26. | :55:32. | |
mean he won't qualify. We still have one more heat. | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
Rooney will not go through to the semifinal. He is with Phil. | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
Martyn, what's the sense of emotion right now, 500ths between you and a | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
place in the next round? I didn't realise it was so close. Well, first | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
of all, disappointed at how I ran. Not great. But I will take | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
opportunities to back my team, it's not been an easy summer or winter, | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
but my wife, my son, all the guys I work with, medical team, and all the | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
people at home who buy lottery tickets, you are part of my team and | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
guys who fund me and support my family, give me the opportunity to | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
represent my country and try to do the best of my ability, thanks to | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
everybody in my team. Even if you don't know me, you bought a ticket, | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
you are a team player. And thank you very much. Talking of team, work | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
isn't done for you because the relay is coming up, you have high hopes | :56:37. | :56:43. | |
for the team. Yeah as a relay runner, we have a great squad. I | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
think Dwayne did well earlier, Matt, he went out a bit hard, hopefully he | :56:47. | :56:54. | |
gets through. But the guys we have back in the training camp, Jack in | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
the hurdles, we have a great squad. And we are here to come away with a | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
medal, make up for Rio and see what happens. Thank you for talking to | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
us, Martyn. Appreciate it. Thank you, Phil. | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
STUDIO: A disappointed Martyn Rooney, would you say, Michael? An | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
interesting post-race reaction. I don't know if it's disappointed | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
enough. You have to reflect on your performance. As opposed to, you | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
know, the team that supported you and all of that. That's fantastic. | :57:26. | :57:28. | |
That's great. There is a time for that. But right now, you know, | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
talking about all those people who supported and all those people who | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
bought a ticket, you owe them an explanation as to why you didn't | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
execute the way you should have and at 30 years old and with his | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
experience he should know how to execute at this point and take | :57:44. | :57:45. | |
advantage of the opportunity that he had today. We have heard that far | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
too many times from Martyn Rooney and so, those people who bought a | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
ticket will say, yeah, we heard that before. We are tired of hearing | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
that. Why didn't you do something different today? Bringing it around | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
to the 4x4, trying to throw a positive light and say there will be | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
more to come from him. We shall see. There is more to come from the | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
hepathletes. They started with the hurdles and Katarina | :58:11. | :58:11. | |
Johnson-Thompson impressed with a 13. 33, her second fastest time ever | :58:12. | :58:20. | |
which gives her 1075 points. The pre-event favourite, the champion | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
from Belgium was way down on her best and got 1044, in 11th. It adds | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
up to a really exciting high jump head-to-head. These two were having | :58:30. | :58:42. | |
a great ding-song in Rio last year. She is capable of huge scores here. | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
It's a great event. She will be internally confident but is very | :58:48. | :58:50. | |
much relaxed right now. It's important because she is and is | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
likely to be one of the two athletes left in this competition. It's a | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
long old morning for these guys. Explain the high jump competition | :59:01. | :59:03. | |
rules in terms of when you opt in and out because it's slightly | :59:04. | :59:06. | |
different to a normal high jump competition. The increments go up in | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
three centimetres as opposed to five for the normal competition. | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
Basically, I haven't seen what the bars go through today, but I expect | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
Kat to start to maybe think about coming in at 180. Plus if she's | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
feeling confident and from that point it will show you how confident | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
she is with what she does. It's a great competition. This is where the | :59:30. | :59:36. | |
action starts. If she's not careful she will get trod on there by a | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
cameraman! Looking incredibly relaxed there. The other side of the | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
stadium they're getting ready for heat six of this men's 400 metres. | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
The sky at the moment getting cloudier. But it's still dry. | :59:50. | :00:07. | |
COMMENTATOR: Again three to go through automatically. There is Gil | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Roberts. Finished second in the US | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
Championships. Sibanda from Botswana, fifth in Europe. 18 years | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
old at the Olympics. They get underway in this last heat, | :00:27. | :00:46. | |
three go through automatically. Hudson-Smith is looking good for a | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
fastest loser place. Nathon Allen is moving up quickly. Gil Roberts | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
making his move. Gil Roberts is a powerful figure with great | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
experience as well. Roberts and Allen. Three go through | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
automatically. These three separate themselves and Roberts starting to | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
look a little bit strained. 44.92. Hamroun of Qatar took the third | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
automatic qualifying place. -- Abdul Osman room. Gil Roberts ran a pretty | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
hard race. There wasn't a huge amount left for Gil Roberts but he | :01:50. | :02:01. | |
did enough to come through. It was a good performance. The one I | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
was watching as well... We'll get Michael back in a second. Sibanda | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
stopped running. Watching in the light blue. He should have been in | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
the battle for the top three but he starts jogging. Botswana are big | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
favourites in the 4x4 so that will be worrying for them. We're going to | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
look at Gil Roberts as well. This was another tough heat. The first | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
heat was tough for Hudson-Smith. When one of them just doesn't run, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
jogging the last 20 to 30 minutes, almost bizarre. It's been | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
interesting. Gil Roberts went out pretty hard and started to look a | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
bit pained over the last 100 metres. Talking about Sibanda, will have a | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
look at him in a moment. He was so exciting when he came on the scene. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Botswana have a very talented crop of athletes, with Nigel Amos as | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
well, the 800 metres runner. Sibanda has had a few struggles this season, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
he hasn't gone below 45 seconds. He did rather pull up. Very | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
disappointing. Nathon Allen, 21, from Joe Baker -- from Jamaica. He | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
goes below 45 seconds and he'll be challenging for a place in the final | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
and possibly medals beyond that although that might be a stretch. A | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
good victory here in the first round. The last of the six heats. | :03:45. | :03:57. | |
Matthew Hudson-Smith will go through with his 45.31. These are the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
qualifiers. Botswana with two of the three | :04:03. | :04:14. | |
fastest qualifiers, but a disappointing run from Sibanda. | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
Wayde Van Niekerk will still be the man to beat. | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
(STUDIO) time to reflect on those 400-metre heats and there's no | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
better man than the maestro himself, Michael Johnson. He's itching to go. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
Taking you back to the first heat. Matthew Hudson-Smith made it | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
through. Olympic finalist. He didn't run like someone with a lot of | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
experience. You weren't impressed by his game management. I wasn't | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
impressed. It's tough for young athletes at the beginning of the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
championships. He's got a great attitude. Now it's time to get | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
serious, get started. He got a decent start. Kevin Borlee to the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
outside. Making up ground on BorlAce over 100 metres. He did a very good | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
job of getting up to race pace. He's got his eyes on these guys. Then he | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
starts to lose to little bit just as he gets right here with 100 metres | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to go. You want to keep your eye on the leaders. You've got to look | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
around and see. You've got the big screens you can look at. You can | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
feel those guys behind you. You've got to react which is what he | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
doesn't do. BorlAce coming up on his shoulder. | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
This is when Matthew Hudson-Smith has to react. You want to err on the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
side of running too fast in the early rounds rather than too slow. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Everybody wants to conserve energy, it's tough, but are on the side of | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
running too fast. Which is what you said about Wayde Van Niekerk. It | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
made me look at everyone else differently. There's no point going | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
out slow and thinking at the end you can take people off. What van | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Niekerk did wouldn't stand him in as good stead for the next round. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Right. You don't want to do that and think you can catch everyone unless | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
you're the world record-holder! It wasn't good race management from | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
him. This will be important for him because he's doubling in the 400 and | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
200. It's a lot of races. When he won his first championship in 2015, | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
they had to take him off the track on a stretcher because he doesn't | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
have great stamina. But he has great speed endurance. He didn't pay | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
attention to the guy on the outside and now he has to react. That takes | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
more energy. He kicks in. It takes a lot of energy, like when you're | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
playing a video game, you've got the power metre. I'm looking at you | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
blank! We don't spend our time in books like you do. His power metre | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
went to zero. But he's a fantastic athlete and he can get away with | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
that. After you said that, I was looking at the athletes we think | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
will make it to the final, but Steven Gardiner looked so relaxed. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
It looked like he ran a really, really good race. He's a very | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
good-looking runner. He is tall and nice and clean in terms of his | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
technique. We saw him a few years ago, we heard about this guy from | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
the Bahamas, very young, and he ran a very nice race. I expect him to be | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
a medallist. He looked incredibly relaxed. Isaac Makwala didn't make | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
it to the final in Rio. He's the African champion. African 400 metre | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
running is something to behold at the moment. What did you make of | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
him? Fantastic athlete, we've seen him run fast Times at 400 and 200 | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
early in the season. He had an incredible event in Madrid this | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
year. He's using that 200 metre speed to get through the first 200 | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
metres very quickly. This is how you run an early round in the 400 | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
metres. Leave nothing to chance even if you're one of the best in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
world. He still pushes around the bend and now he can relax. He's got | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
control of Lashawn Merritt, the former world and Olympic champion to | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
his outside. He's conserving a lot of energy in contrast of van Niekerk | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
because he can basically glide the last 40 to 50 metres. Perfect | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
running. He's made mistakes in the past and it looks like he's aiming | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
to not repeat that. Fred Kerley we looked at earlier with his | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
interesting antics for a first round, to be giving it the come and | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
get me, especially with a man who's not had much international | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
experience. He was very impressive and ran a very good race and he's a | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
fantastic athlete. He's shown himself this year to be a world | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
beater and potentially a medallist. I didn't like the antics and I'm | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
sure his coach will speak to him about that and hopefully we'll see | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
him get it together and take this more seriously. I kind of like it! I | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
know you do. Was the book comment anything to do with me looking like | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
a librarian today? I like it. I was thinking about ripping it off myself | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
but I don't think I could pull it off. Somebody compared me to Doris | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Day! We have an exciting evening coming up with the men's 100 and 's | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
semifinals and final. There have been more comments on the blocks and | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
they are a bit wobbly and it's affecting peoples starts. That would | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
obviously affect your confidence. You want to push off as hard as you | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
can. If you find it's a bit wobbly and not as stable as you used to, it | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
will affect you. I don't expect it to expect in this evening. I think | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
he will be disappointed in his performance last night, which wasn't | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
just down to the blocks, it was down to how he reacted to the blocks in | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the race. That's something a veteran doesn't do. You were surprised he | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
even referred to it. Maybe an indication of his temperament. I'm | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
sure he'll be different today. You can see that tonight on BBC One. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Let's have a look. The last time you'll see Usain Bolt | :11:17. | :11:32. | |
running it on a major championship final. We started the track with the | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
women's heptathlon 100 hurdles. Katarina Johnson-Thompson posted | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
13.33, which is her second best time ever. She's in sixth position going | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
into her highest -- best event, the high jump. Nafi Thiam was a lot | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
further down on her best time and she's an 11th place going into this | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
say she needs to post a really, really good job. The two of them had | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
a fantastic head-to-head last year in Rio. We'll be with them all the | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
way. Let's look at the standings. We expect to see Schafer pushing for | :12:13. | :12:38. | |
the medals. Down there in 11th place, Thiam. That won't be where | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
she wants to be. Ikauniece-Admidina had a disappointing run and I think | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Steve Backley has news on her. Is it good news? It's not good news. She's | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
out. She hasn't gone to the second event, the high jump. She pulled up | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
in the sprint hurdles, holding her leg and she's out. That's good news | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
for Kat Johnson-Thompson. One of the main contenders has gone out. Nafi | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Thiam, as expected, the Olympic champion, is still looking good. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Really good news for Kat. Very disappointing for the competition | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
because it's a hotly contested heptathlon, but it's an opportunity | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
for K J T. She's opted out until 1.80 in the high jump. She's one of | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
the best jumpers in the competition. Ikauniece-Admidina, the Latvian, is | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
such a fierce competitor and she's the most progressed athlete in | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
recent times. Bitterly disappointing for her. We suspected something was | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
wrong, her time was well down and she was holding our leg. Our | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
sympathies go to her because all that preparation and hard work and | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
she's out after one event. We'll go back to the high jump is it hots up. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
Let's go back to the track because it's the women's 100 metres heats. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Asha Philip is down there. Listen to her reception. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. The grand dame of the British | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
women's team. Only 26 but such experience. European indoor | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
champion. A very fast German athlete alongside her. 20 years old. She ran | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
11.01 to win the German title last month. | :14:37. | :14:53. | |
And Ahoure, ran 10. 83 in Florida in June, third quickest time this year. | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
And Naomi Sedney of the Netherlands in lane nine. Lane six we missed | :15:03. | :15:18. | |
Yelena Ryabova: Asha Philip on the inside. | :15:19. | :15:32. | |
Three to go through automatically. First of six heats in the women's | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
100 metres. Great start by Asha Philip. Storming | :15:36. | :15:49. | |
out. Luckenkemper easing through. Philip just run out of the automatic | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
places. 10. 96, the wind a little bit behind but it's legal and | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Luckenkemper goes below 11 seconds for the first time and that's why we | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
have the smile. That's why she got the victory. Great run by | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Luckenkemper. Off that start as well, three metres down on Asha | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
Philip early on but came storming through. Ahoure had to work hard, as | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
well, had to do a lot over the second half. But Luckenkemper, the | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
20-year-old, 10. 96. Asha Philip will have to wait to see if she is | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
one of the fastest losers. Asha Philip has run a season's best time, | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
11. 14. A decent run, and look at this start, as well, Colin. You | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
can't ask for much more from Asha than a season's best in this first | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
heat. Explosive start. But what a recovery from the German. First time | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
for her under 11 seconds. You can she how she feels about that. Good | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
wind behind. But look how much she lost on Asha Philip at the | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
beginning. She held it together and kept her focus. It's a good quality | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
field this. All these women's 100s are very high, high standards. Good | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
to see that. A fast race and great time to pull | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
out a season's best. The frustration as well I suppose at the same time? | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Every time I keep getting that. I am happy with a season's best. I don't | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
think I have had a positive win this whole season. Fingers crossed I do | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
qualify and I am in the semifinal. You didn't get to experience this in | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
2012, unfortunately and now you are here what's it been like? Amazing. I | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
didn't come down last night so I didn't hear the crowd, I could hear | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
it from the warm-up track when they were call the British athletes, OK, | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
totally scared! But I will embrace it, this is my home, I am happy to | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
be here. You were then able to get a season's best when you needed to. I | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
feel I am more of a championship performer, hopefully I run faster | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
and get a positive win maybe. You know what, I am going to take this | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
on the chin and enjoy the moment. Did you feel not only a season's | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
best but a personal best is within you? Definitely, I keep running | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
faster. I am not that far off it, so I feel I actually could. All the | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
best, thank you. Thank you, Phil. COMMENTATOR: Luckenkemper, 10. 95 | :18:25. | :18:45. | |
it's been rounded down to, great run from the German. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
STUDIO: Out now on the track for the next heat, the double Olympic | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
champion from Jamaica, 25-year-old Elaine Thompson, only running the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
100 metres here in London so you would guess she's going to make it | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
spectacular. Let's hear from her. Elaine Thompson, a brilliant | :19:03. | :19:18. | |
performance from her, the two of them running superbly fast. It was | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
my first championship ever. That was my biggest challenge to actually | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
come away with a silver medal. It was a big international. It was a | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
big success for me. In Rio, you really showed everybody how talented | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
you truly are. I know I was talented but sometimes you don't know how | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
talented you are until you actually perform the best that you can. | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
And it's Thompson's gold! A roar from Elaine Thompson. As you look at | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
the season so far are you happy with the way things are going? I have to | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
give God thanks every day because the life of an athlete is not easy. | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
It's on the track day by day. The season's going good so far, let's | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
take it race by race, stay humble and confident. So you are looking to | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
claim gold? Definitely. That's what you are coming for? Definitely. | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
Nothing else? Well, I am also on the relay squad and help my team to grow | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
on the track, pass on the baton and capture that gold. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
STUDIO: Difficult not to like, isn't she? I could listen to her all day! | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
Yeah. A melodic voice she has. And I could watch her run, she's | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
fantastic. Got amazing talent. We never know what look she's going to | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
turn up with, as well. It's a show for Elaine. It is, but she is an | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
impressive athlete. She came on at the last couple of years and I think | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
she has just taken over that Shelley Anne Fraser Price mantle. There is | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
much more we are going to see from her. Shelley of course having a | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
baby. Elaine ready to step up to the plate, Steve. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
I should maybe correct one thing that tends to float around, when she | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
ran in London everybody said she ran in flats, she didn't, she ran in a | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
sort of flat racing shoe but with a spiked plate on the bottom. And 10. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
94 on that occasion. She's phenomenal anyway. But been out | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
there a long time this particular heat. They're out very early. | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
She has an easy heat inner I think by her very high standards. | :21:58. | :22:15. | |
As we go along, Emanuel, very experienced. Yongli Wei. A young | :22:16. | :22:32. | |
talent we have seen going past there, popped in to say hello to us, | :22:33. | :22:45. | |
and is coaching. I bumped into Stacey Crawford, as well. | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
For Elaine Thompson this round is obviously just a formality. No | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
preliminary rounds in the women's 100 metres. Straight in to this | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
round. Top three and six fastest as Andrew pointed out earlier. There | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
will and big cheer for this young lady I am sure. The Olympic | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
champion. A lot of Jamaican support. I bet you some try and stay in the | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
stadium for tonight and go, I thought my ticket was for tonight, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
as well! 55,000 in the stadium this morning. A full house tonight. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Ariana Washington of the United States. Yet to break 11 seconds in | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
her career. This young lady here, just 19, | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
Khalifa St Fort. Bronze at the junior championships last year. And | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
the Welsh-based Charlotte Wingfield. Her father is from Malta. She | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
competes for Malta. So the top three. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
There he is, I said he was commentating this morning, he is | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
not. We are the only ones who do everything! | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
There is a few more of us, to be honest. But the rain finally comes. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
It was forecast and they're just about in the dry. The rain line is | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
about five metres ahead of Thompson. So she will start in the rain and | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
after about - sorry, start in the dry and will end up in the rain | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
after about six metres. There you can see the rain line | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
there. Nice start from Elaine Thompson. | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
Emanuel going well. Elaine Thompson, very easy indeed. Good performance | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
from her. Washington came through nicely. I bet they get off the track | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
pretty quickly here. It's absolutely chucking it down out there! There is | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
hair to think of and everything else. And the next round. She's a | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
beautiful runner to watch. Nice shape out of the blocks, Colin. She | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
will be happy to get that out of the way. She can get out of the blocks | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
when needed. This was such a controlled run from her. Did enough | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
to get out of the blocks well, good frequency early on, sets herself up | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
beautifully allowing her to coast, literally, from about 60 metres all | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the way into the tape. Brilliant, brilliant to see. Let's look again. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Shouldn't really react quickly, but it doesn't matter. Once she puts her | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
foot down on the floor there's so much speed, so much it drifts her | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
beautifully away and effortlessly. This is one of the things, you do | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
not know how fast she's going because she does it without any | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
effort whatsoever. Look at this head-on. | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
Bang! There is the gun. Off she goes. Makes quick adjustments. Made | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
no real difference. Drove really nicely. And with effect. Pace. | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Timing. Rhythm. And just smooth. All the way through to the line. Ends up | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
with a great winning time. Just outside 11 seconds. There is a lot | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
to come from this young lady. Yes, easy for her. She will get into | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the dry. Back tomorrow for the semifinal. That one of probably the | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
easier heats. Four more heats to come. | :26:49. | :27:06. | |
It's high jump time for the hepathletes. Caroline Schafer is a | :27:07. | :27:16. | |
contender. The bar is now 1. 64. Well, clipped that. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
-- 1. 74. And the rain has come to the Olympic | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Stadium. It's wet under foot. And that is a | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
factor in the high jumping. Questioning maybe the stability of | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the take-off foot there. The rain is on the track. Got twisted up on | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
that. I think she rotated on the floor and backed in. The rain on the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
floor affects your confidence and whether you are going to slip. | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
Broersen is very competent, see how she manages. Comfortably indeed, | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
2014 world indoor champion. Quick to get out of the rain. They are in | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
shelter behind. Dry there but running into the rain. Everybody | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
knows whoever has done a high jump in a rain competition, you land on | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
the bed, there is a pool of water, you just get wet, your clothes get | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
wet. You are getting colder as the competition goes on. That's not good | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
for the performance and it's not very comfortable. Katarina | :28:19. | :28:28. | |
Johnson-Thompson is one of the best. You know what, keep that coat on as | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
long as you can, keep warm and dry. Hopefully the showers will stop. The | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
umbrellas have come out. Laura there would have got the | :28:37. | :28:55. | |
bronze medal. Now it's thrown it wide open. Wide open and I think | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
it's played in Kat's favour there. Katarina Johnson-Thompson doing, as | :29:00. | :29:15. | |
you said, Tony, keeping warm, keeping dry. She has a world best in | :29:16. | :29:24. | |
the second event: She can make ground and score heavily in this | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
second discipline of seven. Just stay warm, stay with your own | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
thoughts. She's been waiting now 35 minutes since her warm-up finished. | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
You can see the standing water on the track. The rain has eased a | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
little bit but it's still coming down and the standing water there | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
for the next heat in the women's 100 metres. | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
As Steve was saying dry for the first few paces and once they get | :29:54. | :30:06. | |
past a few metres. Henry lit the Olympic flame in 2012. And they ran | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
very quickly earlier this season in California, 11. 09 and good time out | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
there as well, 22. 6. A rather damp East End of London. | :30:15. | :30:34. | |
Spectators are a bit more dry then they would have been at the | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Olympics, a slightly extended roof, but that's no consolation for the | :30:40. | :30:47. | |
athletes. The rain has just got a little bit heavier again. Standing | :30:48. | :30:56. | |
in the dry at the moment. Henry, still just 21, but a very | :30:57. | :31:06. | |
accomplished sprinter. A lot of big names in here, Tori Bowie of the | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
United States, a US champion. And Blessing Okagbare. But Henry with a | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
chance of being one of the top three automatic qualifiers. They have been | :31:22. | :31:31. | |
brought out for a long hold to stand and look at the rain. No preliminary | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
rounds in the women's 100 metres, so some athletes here might struggle, | :31:38. | :31:38. | |
to say the least. And it's getting heavier. The track | :31:39. | :31:57. | |
is very wet now. Asha Philip's time from the first heat, much as it was | :31:58. | :32:05. | |
for Hudson-Smith's time, looking good for a fastest loser. It was a | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
quick heat. Henry will get the traditional home welcome. CHEERING | :32:13. | :32:25. | |
Will that inspire her to wake quick time? Gastaud, the 17-year-old. Tori | :32:26. | :32:35. | |
Bowie. Samuel, the Dutch champion, a very | :32:36. | :32:52. | |
good starter. Blessing Okagbare, and another | :32:53. | :33:20. | |
double-barrelled name, Lalova-Collio of Bulgaria, 33, a double sprint | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
finalist at the Olympics in Athens. Shows you how long she has been | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
around. She's in lane nine. So Desiree Henry in lane two. Gastaud, | :33:29. | :33:40. | |
Tori Bowie, Samuel, Tenorio, Patricia Taea, Okagbare and | :33:41. | :33:52. | |
Lalova-Collio. Certainly Tori Bowie and Okagbare will be expected to go | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
through. And Desiree Henry will be expected to go through as one of the | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
automatic qualifiers. Desiree Henry was trying to hold on | :33:59. | :34:19. | |
for third but it was tight. Lalova-Collio was coming through | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
quickly in lane nine. Tori Bowie into a very slight wind, 11.05, | :34:23. | :34:30. | |
looking good when she got going. Not the quickest conditions any more. | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
Desiree Henry in a very good position, but I think she might have | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
been shading on the line. Lalova-Collio was finishing | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
strongly. That time might not be enough for Henry. The six fastest | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
losers go through. Henry shaded out on the line by Lalova-Collio. After | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
a good start at least. Yes, she got off a good start, but the quality | :34:56. | :35:04. | |
showed very soon when Tori Bowie got into the full flowing action of | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
hers. She is a great 200-metre runner as well, Tori Bowie. But just | :35:10. | :35:18. | |
shaded out by Lalova-Collio. She knows what it's like to go through | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
the rounds, has been in several major titles. Desiree Henry at the | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
beginning of her career. She just got tight in the crucial part of the | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
race. She leans, trying to get third spot, but unfortunately just misses | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
out. Her time puts a third fastest of the losers and six will go | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
through. Three more heats to come. It will be close for Desiree Henry. | :35:42. | :35:43. | |
She is talking to fill. Well done. So near, yet so far. A | :35:44. | :35:55. | |
little bit of a waiting game, but you are third fastest loser so far, | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
hopes high of you getting through. Anything you could have done | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
differently? Today I was focusing on my start and making sure I executed | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
there. I thought the run itself was good. Disappointed not to get the | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
automatic qualifying space, but right now I just have to wait and | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
see, relax and gather my thoughts as though I'm going to the semis. It's | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
a waiting game now. Being patient. How did you cope with the pressure | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
of being in a home games at this stadium where only five years ago | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
you were lighting the cauldron for the flame? It was amazing. After the | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
race I was thinking, it's not too bad. Then you look around and seal | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
the British flags, it makes you feel so proud, being British, and the | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
fact people are coming down to sport us. Five years on, it's a dream. We | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
wish you well and we will keep our things cost. Thing is crossed and | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
thank you to everyone at home. COMMENTATOR: | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
Improving things a little, she is actually the second fastest of the | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
losers. It's unlikely five will go faster than her in the remaining | :37:02. | :37:02. | |
three heats. Carolin Schafer, fifth in Rio, | :37:03. | :37:17. | |
second in the world list this year, she's made ground but isn't enjoying | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
the wet conditions. Carries a foul, but that's better from the German. | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
1.74, but I'm sure she knows she needs more. 1.86 is her best. Trying | :37:28. | :37:36. | |
to stay dry. But it's not about the failures, as it would be in the | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
individual competition. It's about the points. The next height is 1.77 | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
and Carolin Schafer is still involved. STUDIO: Nafi Thiam and | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson coming in at 1.80. They want like these | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
conditions, Denise? They won't. It takes an adjustment in the mind. You | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
put your runner down in dry conditions and it alters the way you | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
might run. But you have to be confident. Sometimes when it's wet | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
you can be hesitant. No problems in qualifying for Sophie Hitchon, the | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
great British hammer thrower, who won a bronze medal in Rio. The sun | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
was shining back then. They are long sessions, four seasons in one | :38:25. | :38:26. | |
session. Sophie Hitchon through, just one throw is all it took. What | :38:27. | :38:36. | |
a fantastic way to qualify. Sophie has grown in confidence since that | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
bronze medal. In fact, the last two seasons have really gone well for | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
her. That smile says it all. She knew exactly what she had to do. She | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
came in confident and strong and discipline. A great performance. Her | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
coach, we saw them interviewed in that fabulous documentary during the | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
week that charted some of our hopefuls for these championships. | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
Trying to ease the pressure, saying, she's five years, this progression, | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
she was ahead of the game with her bronze in Rio. Don't expect anything | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
here. Was that the coach being kind and trying to dampen expectations? | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
That's the coach recognising the pressure that can exist for a young | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
athlete and how it can destroy their confidence. When there is so much | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
pressure and expectation so early, and we have probably seen lots of | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
athletes not achieve their potential because of that, and he's trying to | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
protect his athlete, it's smart to do so. Might have different ideas | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
after that qualifying throw. Just outside her personal best. We can | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
head back to the track, it's time for the silver-medallists from the | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
Olympics and World Championships. Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
is next. Steve Cram is calling this one. COMMENTATOR: Not sure about | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
this year. Their fastest time was in April this year of the back of an | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
early season training camp. She has run under 11 but hasn't looked on | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
top form for me. 200 is perhaps her better event. Would like to see her | :40:19. | :40:26. | |
smile a bit more. Come on, give us a smile! Looking up at the sky is, | :40:27. | :40:35. | |
looking leaden overhead. Almost looks like she's in that mood | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
herself. She's against Marie-Josee Ta Lou, they had a great tussle over | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
200 in Lausanne. They will be the standout athletes. A scrap after | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
that. Carol Saffy, a new French sprinter. -- Carol Carolle Zahi. | :40:54. | :41:06. | |
Should be straightforward for Schippers. And for Marie-Josee Ta | :41:07. | :41:15. | |
Lou. Dafne Schippers, that 10.95 all the way back in April. And there's a | :41:16. | :41:28. | |
smile, that's better. When she's on form, she will certainly give | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
Thompson something to think about. She will be pleased Thompson isn't | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
the run in the 200, I'm sure. Fourth in Rio for Marie-Josee Ta Lou in the | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
400 and 200. Good performances this year, there or thereabouts, often | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
chasing Thompson home in the Diamond League. There's Carolle Zahi, and | :41:48. | :41:58. | |
Carina Horn. Asha Philip and Desiree Henry still sitting nicely in a | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
fastest loser spots. Asha Philip will definitely go through and I | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
would think Henry, 11.32, given the track has got wet and cooler, the | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
women are not running quite so quick so I can't see her being in trouble | :42:14. | :42:22. | |
in getting into the semis tomorrow. Six fastest losers from the six | :42:23. | :42:24. | |
heats. This is heat four. Dafne Schippers and Jose Jose Mari | :42:25. | :43:01. | |
Calhoun heading out in front, just as we expected. -- Marie-Josee Ta | :43:02. | :43:13. | |
Lou out in front. Got a feel for the track, got to see how the blocks | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
are. What's your take, Colin, on Schippers this year? She's running | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
well, but I don't see a spark there. She's had a bit of a problem working | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
out her diet. She has been feeding on top of the worlds. She has made | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
dietary adjustments during the year. I wouldn't say she is in bad form, | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
but a little bit below par. I think once she gets that equilibria she | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
will be back to her best form. She has had some epic battles with | :43:51. | :43:59. | |
Marie-Josee Ta Lou. It's just negotiating around to the best of | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
their ability. It's gone a little bit chilly. Looking around the | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
stadium, we are all in jackets now. The athletes had to do a good warm | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
up, and then they stand outside for a considerable length of time | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
cooling off. I'm not sure whose downstairs... It looks like Dafne | :44:18. | :44:18. | |
Schippers. It is indeed. You always want to get the first | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
round out of the way as easily as you can. Yeah, the first round. My | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
start was OK, and then easy go to the finish. The weather wasn't kind, | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
turning Chile and rainy all of a sudden, typical London weather. How | :44:41. | :44:43. | |
are you feeling coming in and what were your preparations like? Very | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
good. I'm very happy and my body is good. No problems and I'm excited | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
for tomorrow. A busy week ahead of you. Looking at the crowd and the | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
support you will get in London, that must help you through a busy | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
schedule. It's OK. It's run by run. I have energy here. It's a good race | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
for now. Good start for now. We wish you well for the semis and final | :45:12. | :45:12. | |
tomorrow. California, 11. 09 and good time out | :45:13. | :45:23. | |
there as well, 22. 6. A nice hug for the two of them. Back | :45:24. | :45:24. | |
tomorrow for the semis. Group B of this hammer throws have | :45:25. | :45:48. | |
to contend with a bit of rain here in the Olympic Stadium. The sun was | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
shining earlier when Sophie Hitchin went through. No such conditions. Is | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
going to have to stay stable here. She does. She is a resounding | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
favourite. A huge odds-on favourites to take the title here again. A | :46:08. | :46:14. | |
comfortable throw there. Three throws beyond 80 metres last year. A | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
world record to take the Olympic title. Sails into the final. Sophie | :46:22. | :46:34. | |
Hitchin involved. Wlodarczyk goes beyond qualifying. Back to this | :46:35. | :46:46. | |
heptathlon. Carolin Schafer. Better. The rain looks like it's stopped a | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
little. That was a better effort. Much better. She got more vertical, | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
got up higher before she went over the bar. A lot of people try to get | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
over the bar before they're even off the ground. It's about that height | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
first. A better pop off the floor. Up she goes, plenty of clearance and | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
over the bar. The floor's been dried up by the sponges so hopefully | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
they're getting better grip out there. Fingers crossed the rain | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
doesn't become too much of a problem. Looks like it's drying out | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
as Broersen looks to match that clearance of 177. The slightest of | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
wobbles, but also clear. Yeah, goes into the bar a little early as I was | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
saying before, tries to clear the bar. Your eyes kind of take over and | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
you think you have actually jumped and you go towards the bar instead | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
of staying away from the bar and work the vertical. | :47:41. | :47:49. | |
You see her rotating. Got a bit close. Katarina Johnson-Thompson | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
watching on. She hasn't joined the second event, the high jump, just | :47:56. | :48:04. | |
yet. She is the best in the world, 198 last year, along with Tiam. It's | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
interesting looking at them, they're not looking at each other, they're | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
biding their time. We have been waiting 45 minutes. Probably | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
thinking I wish you girls would hurry up so we can get started. | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
A yawn from Katarina Johnson-Thompson there. | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
Looking to entertain the hungry crowd. | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
She's not sharing, is she! Please! Will the hepathletes have lunch, | :48:32. | :48:55. | |
Tony? They'll certainly have snacks, popcorn is a good snack. They'll | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
have snacks in their bags, it's mainly sugars, you want fuel, petrol | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
all the time. All dignity has gone out the window here, shovelling it | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
in! I have a four-year-old daughter and trust me, when it comes to | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
popcorn she doesn't share and shovels in the same way. Bless them! | :49:16. | :49:24. | |
This bucket is mine, this giant bucket! First heat of the giant | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
popcorn bucket eating contest, automatic qualifier on the right. | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
Trying to come through as the fastest loser on the left! | :49:35. | :49:44. | |
Just power it in! It's not as if you are on national | :49:45. | :49:46. | |
television at all. It's gone, it's finished. Let's move | :49:47. | :49:55. | |
on to the 5th heat in the women's 100 metres. | :49:56. | :50:13. | |
Kambundji, European bronze-medallist last summer. Swiss champion over 100 | :50:14. | :50:24. | |
and 200. Far better in the 100. Simone Facey of Jamaica. In the | :50:25. | :50:39. | |
shadow now of Elaine Thompson. Pinto of Germany and Chand of India. | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
Michelle-Lee Ahye. A little bit of a habit of running quickly throughout | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
the season, not doing it at major championships, ran 10. 82 in | :50:49. | :50:57. | |
Trinidad in June. Buchanan in eight. And then Santos of Brazil on the | :50:58. | :50:58. | |
outside. Again three going through | :50:59. | :51:10. | |
automatically. This is the penultimate first round heat. Henry | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
still in a good position, and Asha Philip certainly going to go | :51:17. | :51:17. | |
through. And, that will be, unfortunately, | :51:18. | :51:49. | |
Pinto, who is going to turn round and eventually head straight out. I | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
would say there was a little bit of noise in the field events and the | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
heptathlon going on just before the start. But Tatjana Pinto, you see | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
her head go and the rest of her and a little doubt about that. Yes, | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
unfortunately, for her. That warm-up that she did about an | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
hour-and-a-half ago may not be needed. Lane five, it will be a red | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
card for Tatjana Pinto, all the training and preparation comes to | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
nothing. Such a good run from Luckenkemper, her team-mate ran 10. | :52:33. | :52:41. | |
95 but she is off. Makes things easier for some others, | :52:42. | :52:59. | |
as well. Pinto would have certainly fancied one of the top three places. | :53:00. | :53:18. | |
Santos going strongly in lane nine. Those three coming away. Facey is | :53:19. | :53:30. | |
edged out. Santos runs well. 11. 05. A fraction outside her personal | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
best. Slightly damper, cooler conditions, as well. A very good run | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
from the Brazilian. 100th of a second down on her personal best | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
time. It's been rounded down equalling her personal best. That is | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
the way to move through to the semifinals, very good run in lane | :53:46. | :53:51. | |
nine. Michelle-Lee Ahye I am sure she has more to spare. She does at | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
least go through. Good sprinting from all the women so far, we have | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
seen quick times and in very controlled conditions. I am looking | :54:03. | :54:08. | |
forward to those semifinals. Santos, nice and strong from the beginning. | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
We expect Kambundji to get a great start. Let's see what Ahye has to | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
offer in the semifinals. There is the Olympic champion | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
getting ready to join this second discipline of seven while Alina | :54:27. | :54:36. | |
Shukh of Ukraine, just 20 years of age, 180 and comfortably clear. | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
So then. Looks as though the rain has | :54:44. | :54:54. | |
stopped. They've mopped up the puddles. Decent conditions again | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
Shukh making the best of them. That knee is heavily strapped for the | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
young Ukrainian. Here is Thiam, the best high jumper, the best | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
hepathlete in the world currently, third best ever has gone through the | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
7,000-point mark. Opens her high jump with a clearance of 180. | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
Well, I am sure she will have had a sigh of, not relief, but wanted to | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
get that jump out of the way. She's been waiting 55 minutes, an hour, | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
goes at it, throws herself backwards. That sort of is similar | :55:37. | :55:43. | |
to her style. Having waiting an hour to get that jump, it will be the | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
same situation for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. The sun comes out | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
as Katarina gets ready to also join the high jump. Things looking good. | :55:56. | :56:04. | |
We go back to Erica Bougard of the United States. Talk about leaning | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
in, take me through what went wrong there. I would like to see that jump | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
again. What should normally happen is you run a curve, lean away, that | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
creates a force to jump upwards. You have to go with the lean. Like you | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
are riding a bike around the corner and see how her head, if you watch | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
her head, it leans and goes towards the bar. Takes her into the bar. | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
Instead of staying away and then converting it straight to lift. It's | :56:34. | :56:41. | |
a waiting game for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. | :56:42. | :56:54. | |
But Krizsan of Hungary. Her best ever is 181. Not even close. Having | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
a few problems there I think with the rhythm. It is a rhythm event. If | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
you have that smooth rhythm running, so that you accelerate, each step | :57:07. | :57:09. | |
gets quicker than the one before, and set it up, lean back. See the | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
head just takes her in. Wherever the head in that inside arm go, the body | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
will follow. You have to send those upwards into the air. The cheers | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
from the huge crowd here, 60,000 people, looking on as Katarina | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
Johnson-Thompson, a solid start in that hurdles, first event. First | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
attempt. Now 180. Oh, yes! Great start for KJT. | :57:39. | :57:48. | |
Appreciative of a very noisy support. A wonderful atmosphere here | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
in the stadium. First time clearance for her opening height. Good start. | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
Yeah. Again nice and steady. Again rotates a little bit. Goes towards | :57:59. | :58:06. | |
the bar. Is that me or does she have strapping on that take-off foot? | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
Giving her a little extra support on that foot. I would like to see that | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
again. She has the tights on so it would be difficult to see. There we | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
go up and over the bar. Steady, a nice opener. Yeah, just a little bit | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
of tape you see on that left foot. Hopefully just giving her a little | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
bit of support and hopefully nothing wrong there at all. She is one of | :58:34. | :58:42. | |
the tallest athletes. Uses levers so well. Thiam, they are the two best | :58:43. | :58:53. | |
ever high jump scores and performances. Yeah, to be fair about | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
the Olympics, they weren't offered 198 to jump, they were offered 197. | :59:01. | :59:08. | |
Yeah, it's a bit of a moot point as to whether she would have won that | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
one. Well, success so far for KJT in the | :59:14. | :59:24. | |
high jump. Deajah Stevens going in this final heat. The final heat of | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
this women's 100 metres. Trying to calm herself down. | :59:31. | :59:41. | |
Baptiste still running fast. Morrison of Jamaica, 4th in their | :59:42. | :59:48. | |
championships but is close to 11 seconds. Swoboda interesting to see | :59:49. | :00:03. | |
how she goes. And Neita, a 20-year-old. Still a teenager when | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
she won for Great Britain in Rio. Daryll Neita will want to be in the | :00:07. | :00:26. | |
top three here, but this is one of the tougher heats. The likes of | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Swoboda, wonder how she will go. Morrison, Baptiste and Stevens in | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
the middle. It has just warmed up a tout with | :00:33. | :00:46. | |
the sun trying to break through. The rain has stopped, so better | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
conditions than for some of the middle heats. | :00:50. | :01:04. | |
It will be very tight, Daryll Neita running a great race, and she wins | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
it! Excellent, no wonder the arm goes aloft. She needed to run well. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Tough heat, the women all running sub 11, or all 11-2. Daryll Neita, | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
didn't take any chances, winning the race. It's close, Colin. Good start, | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Morrison getting out well. Swoboda gets out well as ever. Asha Philip | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
ran 11.14, but a few nerves no doubt. You can see the relief for | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Daryll Neita. Very nice to see. She is 20, still young, and gaining | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
experience in major championships will be crucial for her to improve | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
and get better. Out of the blocks, kept focused, at no stage did she | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
thinks to herself, I'm in the lead and I can cruise. No, a good, solid | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
job, exactly what she did in the trials. It's what you want to see | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
athletes do, not taking any risks, not taking anything for granted, and | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
putting out a good solid performance. It was a tough | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
first-round race for her. You can see why she's very pleased. You can | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
see her reaction, yes, I'm through. The 100 metre hurdles heats | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
tomorrow. The important thing there, Colin, we knew there were five good | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
ones in this and all five will qualify as fastest losers. But don't | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
take the risk or the chance. Lane nine might have helped, she was away | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
from some of the rest that was going on. You can see her focus. Not | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
looking across and running her own race in lane nine. It's a really | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
professional job. Very impressive, Young, 20 years old. A performance | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
like that to book her place in the semifinal very well. We can hear | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
what she has to say now. A very happy Daryll Neita down by | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
the side of me. After a tremendous performance. I know I'm in the best | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
shape of my life. It's all about focus, my coach, my team. They have | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
got me into such an amazing place and I'm so grateful. I'm going to | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
put my head down and rest up for the semi. It was a stack is heat and you | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
have won it. I've taken some really fast girls. It was a tough field but | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
I had to believe in myself. When we talked in Paris in the holding camp | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
you said you wanted to be at the top of the sport. It's not just about | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
getting through round by round, you want to be an Olympic champion. One | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
day I want to be an Olympic champion. I have a bronze medal and | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
now I'm rooting for the higher medals. The only way to get those | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
medals into race against those who have them. Tomorrow when you have to | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
step it up again, you were close to your personal best there. 11.15, but | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
I feel there is more in me. I feel great right now. I will recover and | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
chill and then move onto tomorrow. Continue to enjoy well done. | :04:21. | :04:32. | |
Baptiste and Swoboda, despite not finishing in the top three, they | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
will go through as fastest losers and the good news is all three | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
British sprinters going through. It was tight at the end for Henry. One | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
disqualification for Pinto might have helped. Not sure how quick | :04:48. | :04:59. | |
Pinto would have run. Luckenkemper heading up the qualifiers, very | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
impressive. The fastest losers on the last page. | :05:01. | :05:18. | |
Desiree Henry is the sixth of them. Just enough to be in the semifinal. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Three British women in the semifinals. STUDIO: | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
A word on Daryll Neita. Well done to that man being prepared, not many of | :05:27. | :05:38. | |
us carry that in our handbags. Maybe he was hoping for the sun. Daryll | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Neita's interview was refreshing there. A few British sprinters, | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
including Martyn Rooney earlier, they didn't seem to have a game face | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
on. It's very refreshing. She's focused on the semifinal, we didn't | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
hear any fluff, she's focused on the task at hand. You are here to | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
produce your best performance right now, when it counts. Take it round | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
by round. Thankfully Matthew Hudson-Smith made it in. And his | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
interview as well was about learning from mistakes. You have to apply | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
that right now as opposed to using this as any sort of opportunity for | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
something in the future that isn't promised. You are here right now, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
all the work that you put in, you want to put it together here. It was | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
refreshing to hear her not just celebrate the win, she didn't really | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
talk about that at all, she talked about the semifinals and what you | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
want to do there, and ultimately what she wants to do. She made no | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
apologies, she wants to be Olympic champion and that's what you want to | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
hear. There was a collective sit up and listen when she said that. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Staking your claim and staking in Ames is a bold thing to do, but why | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
shouldn't athletes be doing that? It's that aspiration. That's why | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
she's here. It's a natural response. She has taken stopped and looked at | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
her feet and knew exactly what she wanted to do. She's a thinker, she | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
stunned the analysing beforehand and executed her race to perfection. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Thank goodness the cameraman duct at the right time. It would have been a | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
great shot. This is to bring you up to speed with what happened this | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
morning. We were on the air at 9:30am. Action started at 10am. | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk has come through in the 200-metre | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
heats. Beginning his bid for a double gold in London. The Colombia | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
needed one jump to get through qualifying. Sophie Hitchon made | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
light work of qualifying for the hammer final, booking her spot in | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
the final. Defending champion Elaine Thompson was also in cruise control, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
qualifying at a canter for her semifinals. Plenty more still to | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
come until 2pm. Later this evening, another super Saturday in this | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
stadium, memories of 2012 are never far away. No doubt Usain Bolt will | :08:12. | :08:23. | |
be the main man this evening. What a night it should be. Long jump final | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
as well, sadly no Greg Rutherford, who is injured. | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson and her fellow competitors have got to get | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
through the high jump competition. She's a world-class high jumper, so | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
she entered the competition at 1.80 along with Olympic champion Nafi | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Thiam. They are down there somewhere behind us. The rain did stop for KJT | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
when she took her first attempt at 1.80 and cleared it nicely. | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
Hopefully that will give her a lift, the son opening up. The cloud | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
lifting, the conditions. We know she can jump higher. Just acknowledging | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
the crowd's response. But she's really focused at this point because | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
she knows jumping high today is important. Being aware of the | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
competition around her. She's in good shape right now. And there is | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
Nafi Thiam, still in that competition. The high jump takes a | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
long time, a lot of athletes in there. We are now getting to the | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
stage where only the best jumpers are left in it. This was Nafi | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
Thiam's 1.80. Just like KJT, such a strong event. It's a big point | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
scorer for the girls, easily you can get 1000 points. Everybody trying to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
get as close to 1000 points for every single event. This is one | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
event where you can do that in abundance. A nice clearance from | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
her, again, relaxed and confident and flying high. The next event on | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the track is the men's 800-metre heat. We can catch up with Steve | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Cram and Paula Radcliffe in the commentary box. Where is men's | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
800-metre running on a global sense, and specifically on our British | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
hopefuls? COMMENTATOR: No David Rudisha, always a shame when you are | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
one of the world's greatest eight and had metre runners. He got the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
world record at the Olympic Games, got injured just before these | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
championships. Would have been interesting to see him take on the | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
young American -based Kenyan. Nijel Amos is back to that 2012 form. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
World 800-metre running is at a very high level. Bringing Paula in on the | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
British side of things, it's been a difficult year, Kyle Langford and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Elliot Giles, to good young talents. They have tough heats. But for the | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
guys it's particularly tough. They will have to run in the vein of Jess | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
Judd yesterday in the 1500 and put it all out to try to make it through | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
to the next round. We had Murphy for the USA last year being very good. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
They have a brilliant run, Donavan Brazier, who I think will become a | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
big star. He is already very good. Interesting to see how he does here. | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
STUDIO: You mentioned Kyle Langford. The harrier is only 21 years old. He | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
got great experience in Beijing a couple of years ago. We caught up | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
with him. Paging was a massive learning curve | :11:49. | :12:00. | |
for me. I learned so much pre-and post-competition. -- Beijing. I have | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
come up with a PB this year and come to the World Championships, but I | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
still don't feel like I have achieved what I wanted to achieve | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
this year. It's a bittersweet feeling almost. I've had a bit of a | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
hard start to the year with family members and a friend passing away. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
It was hard in the camp, but it's all coming together now. Beijing | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
helped everything, the experience. I think when I get to London it should | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
hopefully come together. I'm really excited for it. Great Britain's Kyle | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
Langford. He's going in the second heat. We can start with heat one, | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
getting down to the track with Andrew Cotter and Paula Radcliffe. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
The first of six heats. Drew Windle going here for the United States. He | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
was third in the US Championships. Donavan Brazier heading that US | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
challenge, but drew Windle with a good time already this season. Kenny | :13:13. | :13:27. | |
might have lost Rudisha for this championship, but the 19-year-old | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Kipyegon Bett, second in the Diamond League meetings this year in Rome, | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
and Paris, and won in Shanghai. A very powerful presence, Kenya, still | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
in this event. That's how they line up. I think all the runners in the | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
event will be delighted to see Kramer in the event. It's nice to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
have a pacemaker effectively. Because fastest losers will go | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
through. Kramer is a very talented Swedish athlete and likes to go out | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
fast, he's in lane nine. Three going through automatically, and the sixth | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
fastest losers. Alzaabi, the European under 23 champion, of the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
United Arab Emirates. Arroyo, the 22-year-old is below 1.45 this | :14:23. | :14:35. | |
season. Drew Windle, just edged qualification in the US | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Championships. There is also Donavan Brazier to look out from the | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
American challenge. Ibid in, Belferar, Ayouni. 1:43.76 last year. | :14:50. | :15:04. | |
Second that the Kenyan trials. And summer has returned to the Olympic | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
Stadium. The first of six heats in the men's | :15:08. | :15:23. | |
800 metres. Look out for Kramer in the blue and yellow. Likes to take | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
it out quickly. A very talented athlete he is. He is going to settle | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
in a little here unless he picks up the pace and moves across, as they | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
break. Kramer just tucking himself in, | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
alongside Bett at the moment. Yeah, took a few looks across and straight | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
to the front. This is the way he ran when he won the European under-23s | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
last month. Not afraid to commit. The first three to qualify in top | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
heats and six fastest losers and you are in the first heat you want to | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
make sure you get the race moving. Yes, it's good for all the athletes | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
behind to be chasing that yellow shirt as they go through 400 metres. | :16:08. | :16:20. | |
Bett at the moment behind Kramer. Now Bett begins to make his move. | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
Drew Windle needs to start moving up. He looked better in the Monaco | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
Diamond League this month. Windle with much ground to make up. Drew | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Windle being run out of things. Three to go through automatically. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
There is a big gap for him to try to get back. Bett in front. Drew Windle | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
beginning to make his move. It's a long way to try to come back. Windle | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
sees the door opening. He will get through! As one of the three | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
automatic qualifiers. And Ayouni was drifting out. The door opened for | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Drew Windle. That's how to pace it, just about. That's how to wing it! | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
That's how to give it everything that you have got and to seize the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
opportunity at the last possible moment. He was really relying on | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
Ayouni in front and there being space enough. Maybe he has learned | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
to race smarter in the next round. A bit of of a shoelace problem for | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
Bett. Didn't hamper him. First place for Kipyegon Bett. Up and running in | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
the 800 metres. Fascinating event. Ayouni started to struggle. Windle | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
coming through. This is how the different pacings of different | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
runners judging it differently in the 800 metres. Windle had more to | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
give. Illustrating in a heat situation, even when you think you | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
are out of it, you have to keep running as hard as you can, through | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
the line is what we have to keep telling junior athletes more and | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
more. You don't know where the spots are going to open up. Ayouni | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
drifting to lane two. Sometimes when you are so hired the last thing you | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
are thinking about is remaining tight to the kerb. It opened up for | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Windle to come through. Kramer did what he always does. He goes | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
through, as well. With Drew Windle. Confirmation of that: | :18:42. | :18:54. | |
The heptathlon continues. A very relaxed looking Katarina | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Johnson-Thompson. She has chosen to pass at this height. First time | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
clearance of 180. The event favourite Thiam, the Olympic | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
champion, explain tactics behind the strategy of passing at this height, | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
Tony. It's a smart move, basically. They're very comfortable jumping | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
past the height, conserve energy. You are probably looking between | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
nine and 11 jumps total in a competition. This is a two-day | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
competition. So you are conserving energy. They've a big break after | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
this but you want to be at your best when the bar is at its highest, so | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
save that energy for later. Katarina Johnson-Thompson doing just that. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
The rain has been an issue so far but it looks as though it's drying | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
out and Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Thiam will get the best of the | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
conditions in this second event of the heptathlon. Scafer of Germany, | :20:00. | :20:11. | |
she has had six jumps already. -- Schafer. Goes clear the first time | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
of asking for a change. A decent jump. Her best is 186 this year. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Seven jumps there, perfect. Remember you are going to finish with three | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
jumps, the last three are going to be fails. She's getting to a height | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
she wants, par if you like in golf terms, the next height she gets | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
that, anything above that is a bonus points. Broersen, 27 years of age | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
now but has had injury worries. 183 proving too much. If you just look | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
at her right knee you can see - sorry the left knee. The black | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
strapping. It shows there is probably the tendon is inflamed on | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
the knee. Again it makes it difficult to jump off because you | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
feel pain as you take off. So you put the strap on which takes the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
pressure off the tendon. Down the other end of the track, | :21:17. | :21:39. | |
thankfully no injuries for Kyle Langford. He has the front running | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Dutchman, there in the orange, that will help, because he knows - the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
first heat that's just taken place if you are not in the top three, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
there were six men under 1. 47 flat, so you get in the wrong heat where | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
they go too slow and you have no chance going through as the fastest | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
loser. This is one of the tougher heats. He has Kupers, he will make | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
sure it's quick, I am sure, that will be good for Kyle, there will be | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
no nerves. Just go and run. Still have to come in the top three. But | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
if he doesn't he has a chance of getting a decent time. Only third in | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
the British championships. He was surprised that day by Lamont who | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
then got the qualifying time in London and got the automatic spot. | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
Kyle ran quick enough, as well. And missed out was Andrew Sarge. | :22:39. | :22:52. | |
Kevin Lopez, the very experienced Spanish athlete. Branden McBride, | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
very good indicated andian. Had a great race in Monaco recently. -- | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
very good Canadian. Lopez from Mexico could be a threat, | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
as well. There is Jesus Lopez. Gakeme, really | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
good form, indoor at the indoor championships last year, twice made | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
semifinals. McBride in great form. Paris of Argentina. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Then the European indoor bronze-medallist, European team | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
champion this year, Kupers and Lopez in between him and Kyle Langford. | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
Great talent, Kyle, has good speed, as well. When you look at 800 | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
metres, you want them to be able to run quick 400 and Kyle has that, he | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
has to get his race brain into gear, as well. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Hopefully if it's nice and quick he won't have to give that too much | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
thought. So second heat. Top three. Jesus | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
Lopez in the green of Mexico starting quickly. They'll all be | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
looking for Kupers in the orange vest. Natural frontrunner here. | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
There he goes. Has a look across. Maybe he is thinking... McBride | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
under his shoulder. Langford in about 6th, that's fine as long as | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
there is decent pace on. Yeah, Kyle Langford, a huge talent but needs to | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
learn his trade, as it were, as he comes through. He has a tendency to | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
overuse his energy in the first couple of rounds, especially if he | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
gets himself into trouble. It's good to see him outside. Giving himself | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
space and time to react. A little slower than the first heat. McBride | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
at the front. Kupers is on the kerb. Lopez is in a good spot. Tries to | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
give Lopez. They're still fighting there. | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
Really not happy there, he gave Lopez quite a shove. You can see a | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
grimace on Kyle's face. He looks to wait until the home straight. | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
They're all good finishers here. Lopez, both Lopez. Kyle, has he | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
enough to get into the top three. McBride goes away. Lopez and Kupers | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
keep moving away. He is going to be 5th at best here. Kupers wins. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
McBride and lose Lopez. Gakeme and then Langford. There is still plenty | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
of heats to come and he is 5th. That's going to be a tough one. In | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
terms of times. A shake of the head. He wasn't in touch with 200. He | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
wasn't close enough. He is a good quality athlete and he is good in | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
the home straight but he gave these guys a head start. You can't really | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
do that. You have to be more in the race. McBride had slowed it nicely | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
to give him a chance to get involved. He didn't take that chance | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
down the back straight. Then just doesn't have enough legs to... To | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
run athletes of that was quality down. He is still involved as a | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
fastest loser at this point. But I worry for him going through. It's a | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
big worry for him going forward. He knows that. He is shaking his head. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Almost as if he is saying goodbyes now. He allowed that shove to knock | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
him off his stride and almost gave up a little bit at that point. Then | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
he came back fighting but left himself too much work to do. You | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
can't make up ground like that on guys like Kevin Lopez who is moving | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
through, knocking Gakeme out of that top three position. Those loser | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
spots will fill up as you see the heats go on. Third fastest at the | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
moment. I am sure Phil will let him know that. Let's see what | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
You are the third fastest of the fasters at the moment so you are | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
still in the mix you with disappointment was on your face as | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
you crossed the line, Kyle. Yeah, it's a hard game, you know, it will | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
eat you up and spit you out. I wasn't good enough there. I gave | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
everything I could. But it was just, you know, inexperience with myself, | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
just maybe not in the right position, going when I should go. | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
But, you know, hopefully I will make it through. But, I have to improve | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
on these sort of things and can't happen again, but it is what it is. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
Being closer to the guys at the front coming down the home straight, | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
was that the key today? I don't know, I was trying to sit back and | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
pick off, I sat a little bit too wide. And the last 100, it was all | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
moving the same pace, I was catching but, you know, they're kicking just | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
as fast, so should have been closer but John, my coach, we will sit down | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
and look at this and improve. We appreciate you talking to us. Thank | :28:39. | :28:39. | |
you. Where he lost that was down the back | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
straight. He had a chance, they were all moving at the same pace as he | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
said, but he was already, five, six metres back. | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
He will be in at the moment. We do have plenty more heats to | :28:58. | :29:08. | |
come. The sun is back out. | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
It's warmer again. Cram has taken his gilet off! And | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
Thiam, the Olympic champion, gets ready. Katarina Johnson-Thompson | :29:19. | :29:33. | |
waits. She will follow Thiam. This is the second event of seven. Thiam | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
doesn't look as if she's settled into this competition yet. Katarina | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
Johnson-Thompson looking comfortable so far. Thiam looking slightly | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
anxious, this is her best event. She rose to the occasion last year. What | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
has she got at 186? That's more like it. | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
That will settle the nerves. Yeah, let's not get too carried away on | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
the difference with technique and style. She gets up in the air, comes | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
off the floor very well. It looks jerky, doesn't look smooth and in a | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
classic way. Arms there, drives them up. Works the knee. Probably could | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
work it a little bit hard, drive it up to give yourself more lift. Again | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
at this height it's comfortable, she will have confidence. I think she | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
will grow as the competition comes and the same for Katarina | :30:28. | :30:28. | |
Johnson-Thompson here. Johnson-Thompson at the same height. | :30:29. | :30:39. | |
That was a miss. The runner-up looked wrong. She was too close. | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
Yeah, I think she got too close and ran in. Remember, she's had one jump | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
in an hour and a half, 90 minutes. That's just the second. A little bit | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
of rust, doesn't matter, you cannot get off twice as long as you keep | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
clearing the height. Backing into the bar and taking it off with her | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
shoulders. Lean away, stay away and I'm sure she'll get the vertical. | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
I'm sure she'll get it, it's well within her repertoire. 1.95 in | :31:07. | :31:15. | |
Gotzis this year. Best of 1.98 last year. It's well within her | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
capabilities. You will get a lengthening and shortening of stride | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
in order to get the rhythm. As long as you don't buckle on the knee too | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
much, because then every time you bend the knee energy is lost into | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
the floor and you don't get the return off the floor. Under the | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
guidance of the new coach, moving to France. Bertrand is the new coach to | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
guide Katarina Johnson-Thompson, lets hope to potentially a rostrum | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
finish in the World Championships here. But there is the favourite, | :31:50. | :31:57. | |
Nafi Thiam. They coach plays a big part, Tony, but you would say that, | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
wouldn't you? Definitely. A lot of information coming from the coach, | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
the critical thing is the relationship between the athlete and | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
coach, not so much the technical, but the relationship, the way you | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
support them and communicate and get information across to them. Ready | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
for the third heat in the first round of the men's 400 metres. | :32:19. | :32:29. | |
Rotich goes in the outside. Harris, second in the US trials behind | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
Donavan Brazier. A 1:44.53 this season. He goes to Penn State | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
University. There is no Almassri in lane six. Remove straighter Elliot | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
Giles, the UK champion. -- we move straight to Elliot Giles. Won on | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
this track in the Diamond League meeting. He tends to run tactically | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
very well, so we will see how he handles this. El Guesse of Morocco, | :33:00. | :33:07. | |
Sanchez of Puerto Rico, and De Arriba of Spain. Keeping an eye on | :33:08. | :33:15. | |
the times with Kyle Langford hanging on. It's still early, still heats to | :33:16. | :33:23. | |
go. He's currently the third fastest loser at the moment. Elliot Giles is | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
looking to go through as one of the automatic qualifiers here. Left for | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
a moment on the start, Elliot Giles, but he does tend to judge things | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
pretty well. The men to look out for, Rogic on the outside. | :33:40. | :33:52. | |
-- Rotich on the outside. Elliot Giles in fifth at the moment. He's | :33:53. | :34:06. | |
settling into fifth. He's ready to cover any moves in the race. He gets | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
himself in good positions. The one place where he didn't was in Monaco | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
where he went out much too hard and paid for it in the closing stages. | :34:16. | :34:23. | |
He has learned from that. Ferguson Rotich takes it out from Sanchez. | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
Elliot Giles battling for fourth at the mode. Three of them will go | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
through automatically. Sanchez alongside Ferguson Rotich. El Guesse | :34:38. | :34:46. | |
tries to make a move. De Arriba, the bronze-medallist in the European | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
indoors is also there. Ferguson Rotich and Sanchez and Giles all | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
looking good at the moment. Three will go through automatically. But | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
Harris will have something down the home straight. Sanchez has gone. | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
Suddenly it's three of them clear. Elliot Giles able to look around, is | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
comfortable and looking strong. There are your three to go through | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
automatically. Ferguson Rotich taking the victory. A good run from | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
Elliot Giles. Harris is thereafter jostling and barging. Sanchez fell | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
away. Comfortable for the automatic places, the top three and a good run | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
from Elliot Giles. A very good run from Elliot Giles. If we look back | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
we will see how well he judged the race down the back straight. He was | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
also a tiny bit lucky, managing to find space and manoeuvre himself | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
through on the inside to get himself into a very good position coming | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
into the last 200 metres. Acquitted himself really well. Katarina | :35:52. | :36:02. | |
Johnson-Thompson eyeing up the bar at 1.86, that she has dislodged at | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
the first time of asking. A more serious look on the face of | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
Johnson-Thompson. Steps sideways there. That was very close. | :36:14. | :36:20. | |
We'll be very keen to see this as the replay, Tony. Two fouls at 1.8 | :36:21. | :36:28. | |
six. Not looking great for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Just her heel at | :36:29. | :36:35. | |
the end, just didn't get it out. That's well within her capabilities. | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
I'm confident she will get that. She might rue that a little bit. She | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
drove up. You see how fast she has travelled along the bed. From the | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
point of take-off to the point where she lands, it's just soft, she needs | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
to convert more of a punch to put herself in the F. The travel across | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
has caused the rotation to flick the bar. Carolin Schafer at the second | :36:59. | :37:06. | |
time of asking. Clean clearance. She will be delighted with that. Three | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
fouls and it's the end of your competition, remember. Second time | :37:10. | :37:18. | |
clearance and a personal best for Carolin Schafer. It bodes well for | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
her medal challenge. That's an equal personal best. That's what she | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
cleared in Gotzis. That's par now, solid performing. It's what you want | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
in heptathlon. The bar now goes to 1.8 nine. Can she get the points | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
bonus. Broersen has had a lot of attempts for a loop 1.90 plus high | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
jumper. Perhaps showing a lack of confidence in her abilities. That | :37:47. | :37:54. | |
wasn't even close. Two fouls for Broersen at 1.86, and looking under | :37:55. | :37:55. | |
pressure. Just around the last heat in the | :37:56. | :38:05. | |
men's 800 metres. Elliot Giles going through as an automatic qualifier. | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
Kyle Langford has been knocked down to the fourth fastest loser. But | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
Elliot Giles is safely through. Safely through and a happy man. | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
Obviously this is a huge stage. You had a taste of it in Rio last year. | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
This year you have now done what you didn't do last year and accomplished | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
and a performance in the first round. It's staying relaxed in these | :38:28. | :38:37. | |
moments. I looked at it as a normal race without the pressure. Stay calm | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
all the way through. It paid off, if I had panicked I could have been in | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
trouble with 200 to go. It all went to plan. We've made the semis. We | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
wish you well for the semis. Thank you. | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
We have seen Johnson-Thompson with two fouls at 1.86 and she has to go | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
clear to stay in contention. It's early days to talk about medals, but | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
this is her strongest event across the Severn. 1.98 last year in Rio. | :39:10. | :39:22. | |
She has to go higher because the throws are so weak, the shot and | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
javelin. Johnson-Thompson has to throw caution to the wind and find a | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
way of getting over. She can jump this. I'm sat here with butterflies. | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
It's like I'm coaching again. The significance of this, if she doesn't | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
clear that she has lost 180 points for personal best score this year. I | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
have every confidence she will clear this because it is well within her | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
capabilities. She knows what to do. Johnson-Thompson at 1.86, her last | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
attempt. No! That's a massive disappointment for Johnson-Thompson. | :39:59. | :40:06. | |
She knows it. Three fouls, a serious haemorrhaging of points. Speechless, | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
Steve. I feel for the girl, absolutely feel for her. That means | :40:13. | :40:20. | |
a score for her, at this moment in time, if she repeats all the marks | :40:21. | :40:28. | |
she she got in Gotzis, then she could score 6500. We know it's not | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
over because 6600 can get you on the podium. She can find points because | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
she can go 30 centimetres longer in the long jump. She can find it | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
elsewhere. It's not over, it will be a tough conversation for the coach, | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
but this is where the coach earns their corn. Big disappointment for | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
Johnson-Thompson in an event where she was expected to take a lot of | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
points. It's like getting a double bogey or worse. She has to carry | :40:55. | :41:03. | |
those points, and she knows it. Huge disappointment. For me that's a real | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
lack of discipline. The run-up is sloppy. It changed every time. She | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
has done it before in the long jump. We have seen her unfold and unravel | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
in the throwing where she is not as confident. We needed to see her go | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
clear there. We will come back to it. Broersen with two fouls. No. | :41:26. | :41:36. | |
Broersen also, her high jumper also comes to a grinding halt. But she | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
had a clearance of 1.8 three. So Johnson-Thompson... She's leaving | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
the arena in a different mood to how she entered. She will be bitterly | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
disappointed at this moment in time. Like I say, in athletics you have | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
the chance of making comments here, so it will be down to the coach. In | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
this heat we have perhaps the gold-medal contender for the | :42:03. | :42:12. | |
800-metre title. Korir in lane nine, might not be known to athletic fans | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
too much. Based in the US, has great ability. A 44 second 400 metre man | :42:20. | :42:28. | |
who can run brilliant 800 metres. Moving across now. A really open | :42:29. | :42:35. | |
heat, this one. Marc Reuther, he set a new personal best recently. | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
European under 21 finalist. He has decided to take it on, a big old | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
item in the fun. And then Korir and Thiago Andre of Brazil. Plenty to | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
watch out for here. We have seen Dahmani. Korir is one of only three | :42:55. | :43:05. | |
men to have run 44 seconds at 401.43 at 800. -- 44 seconds at 400 and | :43:06. | :43:27. | |
1.43 at 800. Manco, another US-based athlete running for Ghana. -- | :43:28. | :43:38. | |
Amankwah. Reuter Mac is still controlling it at the front. Korir | :43:39. | :43:46. | |
begins to extricate himself. A very good solid performance from him. The | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
Polish speaking through on the inside, Rozmys. That's one of those | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
heats that you hate when you are an 800-metre runner. There is always | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
one that just goes slow, and then all of a sudden it's not a normal | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
1.44 rom-com you are running 1.47 and that gives everyone a chance. | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
Korir is a superb talent. He's used to doing well in a heats and semis | :44:16. | :44:19. | |
and finals, so I think he will conduct himself. Didn't do more than | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
he had to. Didn't want to expend a more energy than he had to. And he | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
didn't, judged it perfectly. He's not even gone into second gear as he | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
comes down, cruising through to the front and not even bothering about | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
the fact that Rozmys is about to sneak through and come close. He | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
almost gets there on the line, the Polish third string athlete in Yate | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
and metres. We are yet to see Lewandowski, still to come. But a | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
good qualification for him and Korir is looking very strong. | :44:56. | :45:04. | |
Look how relaxed he is. Korir safely through. The good news for Kyle | :45:05. | :45:20. | |
Langford is still in a fastest loser spot. | :45:21. | :45:32. | |
Thiam on the runway. Second event of the heptathlon has | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
seen her competitor, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, go out at a height | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
below what she is capable of. Thiam, 1. 89, first attempt. Wow, very | :45:43. | :45:51. | |
good, very, very good indeed. She seems to get better the more | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
important the effort is. That's the mark of a champion. Rose to the | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
occasion in Rio. And she's come good. Settling in. She doesn't run | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
well over the hurdles this morning. Looked a bit ragged in the first | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
attempt. But is settling in. 1. 89, the best we have seen so far, the | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
only athlete clear at this height. STUDIO: Thiam with a good high jump | :46:18. | :46:30. | |
at 1. 89. Really showing the way there. Her experience counting. Her | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
Olympic gold medal now really building up towards a fantastic | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
climax of the competition for her. But such disappointment for Katarina | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
Johnson-Thompson. On an event that she is world-class at, 1. 98 jumper, | :46:46. | :46:52. | |
to go out not clearing higher than 1. 86. Huge disappointment. You can | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
see it on her face, Denise and lost a lot of points there. She's lost a | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
lot of points, she will be feeling sick to her core. Both myself, Jess, | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
we have been in positions where you think oh my gosh, but you have to | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
remember this is not only about points at this stage. It isn't. It's | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
about battling for medals, it's still early days. I have had | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
disasters in heptathlons where I think what is going to happen next | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
but you have to have the capacity to keep fighting. We said about Kat, is | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
that it's the ability to shut off after one event and treat the next | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
like a new competition. That is going to be tested now. This is the | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
hardest situation for her, she's gone into the high jump with it | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
being one of her best events, hoping for it to be a high scoring event | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
and come away with that. To compartmentalise that and move on to | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
the next event is going to be extremely difficult. Because she's | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
going into the shot put which is one of her weaker events. The reasoning | :47:53. | :47:59. | |
why you would miss a height when you are confident but when it's a cold | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
day relatively and the rain is there and you have to wait a long time, 90 | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
minutes, would the rhythm of the day, would it not be better to clear | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
183 and get into the rhythm of the jumping than to have that time | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
waiting? It depends on the athlete. For me you want to get a jump in and | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
want to, if you are feeling confident and happy in your jumping, | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
you don't want to expend too much energy and sometimes it's good to | :48:25. | :48:27. | |
miss a few rounds and come back in at a higher height. She was jumping | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
well in warm-up, and obviously felt confident. Again the weather's not | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
been great. We did have a big downpower and it affects you in | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
different ways. It's hard to say but that was her decision. She's gone on | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
what she normally She has a plan, normally comes in at | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
180. It's understanding the changes in the environment, sometimes you | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
might have to make that decision and say I am feeling cold, I need to | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
come in and you can change. You can, once you have opted to pass, well, | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
you know in the mind that you can come back in, it's tough from here,s | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
and this is where she needs to show her mettle. We know her throws are | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
her weaker event. She still has 200 metres, the long juch that could be | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
a high scoring event. -- long jump. We saw problems she had in that in | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
Beijing. We have to hope she can mentally refocus and has more time. | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
Yeah, she's going to have to wait now and see how Thiam performs and | :49:30. | :49:32. | |
she's jumping well at the moment. She's going to have to sit back and | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
gather herself and compose herself for the next two events. It's going | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
to be tough for her. OK. Let's get back outside. It's the next heat of | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
the men's 800 metres. Andrew is your commentator for this one. | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
Some black clouds coming in. There is the line-up for this one. | :49:51. | :50:02. | |
That looks rather gloomy. Bosse has been the standard-bearer | :50:03. | :50:19. | |
for France for sometime. I might have seen lightning there! And I | :50:20. | :50:27. | |
think I was right. Dramatic roll of thunder for Nijel Amos. | :50:28. | :50:29. | |
I am slightly scared! The main stay of 800-metre running | :50:30. | :50:59. | |
for years now, Adam Kszczot. He has seen his teammate just going | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
through. So a thunder storm threatening the | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
stadium here as we get going in the 5th of six heats in the men's 800 | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
metres. Again look out for times, as well, because Kyle Langford is till | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
in 4th place of the fastest losers with two heats to come and six | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
fastest losers will go through overall. | :51:24. | :51:31. | |
Bosse creeps in alongside Amos. Amos not a pretty runner to watch but | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
unbelievably talented 800-metre runner. As an 18-year-old he was | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
silver-medallist in the stadium five years ago. He has had tough times | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
since but seems to be coming back to his best. Has been racing | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
impressively this year. Bosse behind him in contrast is finding his feet | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
this season. He improved a bit in the Monaco Diamond League and looks | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
in good shape now as he is tracking amiss through the first 400 metres. | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
Another rumble of thunder. Amos is there and Bosse. Kszczot further | :52:10. | :52:20. | |
back but is a strong finisher. Amos sitting there. Here comes Kszczot. | :52:21. | :52:28. | |
He had to move really wide there. Now he is closing very fast. Will | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
sit back in a little and then attack again in the home straight. And an | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
injury there, as well. Bosse in front. Amos and here comes Adam | :52:40. | :52:54. | |
Kszczot now. Mark English. Amos will take the victory, just ahead of | :52:55. | :53:04. | |
Bosse. 1. 47. Again it's not quick at all. It's looking good for Kyle | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
Langford again. But not a quick race, but well enough judged by | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
Nigel Amos. Not a quick race and a messy race, as well. A few stumbles | :53:18. | :53:26. | |
there. I think it was Hamada having to get into a wheelchair there. | :53:27. | :53:35. | |
Looks like something went in his hamstring attachment. His arms | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
swinging out, as well. He is not going to be taking further back in | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
these championships at all. Not a good way for his championships to | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
end. The rest of the race did continue. Bosse controlling at the | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
front. Amos letting him do that. Adam Kszczot just doing what he | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
needed to do, keeping his wits about him. All three of them did enough to | :54:03. | :54:08. | |
hold off Smaili and none of the fastest losers will come from that | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
heat. Disappointing for Mark English. He is a 1. 45 man. In a | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
race that's not quick, so well done. He is not going to go through, but | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
Nigel Amos, wonder if he can turn his silver into gold from the | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
Olympics to the World Championships in this stadium. It's good for Kyle | :54:31. | :54:38. | |
Langford because his time still leaves him in a good position to go | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
through as one of the fastest losers. | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
Here is a jump that happened during that race. Already had a PB in the | :54:50. | :55:02. | |
bag with 1. 86. Third attempt. Short approach. But proved too much for | :55:03. | :55:10. | |
the German. But a really good second event. And is very much in | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
contention for a medal across the two days of the heptathlon. Here is | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
the favourite, Thiam. Keeping herself warm. It has dropped in | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
temperature. We have had rain, some sunshine. She's used to this, | :55:24. | :55:31. | |
though. She armed herself so well in Rio. Was very much the champion in | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
every sense as another crack of thunder rattles around the Olympic | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
Stadium. No fouls so far. We are into the 90s. 1. 92. No athlete has | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
attempted this yet. We are in new ground in these World Championships. | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
Thiam clear, wow! Look at that. Pressure on and she delivers. Thiam, | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
a clean card. Exactly what she would have wanted. She fights it hard, | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
though. Might see her relax, if she's going to get towards two | :56:12. | :56:14. | |
metres which she knows she is capable of, maybe will have to tidy | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
that up a little. Lots of points going in the bag. | :56:22. | :56:31. | |
Well, the only other athlete who is still involved, Katarina | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
Johnson-Thompson went out at the previous height, in case you didn't | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
see it, and had a best of 1. 80, the Cuban Rodriguez, maybe a top ten | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
finisher overall, this is a strong event for her. She has a lifetime | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
best already at the previous height. So in new ground. | :56:53. | :57:00. | |
Good support from Thiam watching on. Oh, she looked well over that. Came | :57:01. | :57:09. | |
down on it. So Rodriguez looking good. Two more attempts to add that | :57:10. | :57:18. | |
tally to her score. Just the shot and the 200 metres to come today, a | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
busy day, a long day. The athletes have been out nearly two hours now | :57:23. | :57:29. | |
just for this second event, the high jump. Nafi Thiam going into the | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
lead, as expected. As that high jump and the heptathlon | :57:37. | :57:44. | |
draws eventually to a conclusion, although Thiam was going to go | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
higher, obviously, let's do a result of heat five before we go to the | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
final heat. And set up the situation for the fastest losers, Andrew. | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
Yeah, again not the quickest as Paula was saying, messy from all | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
concerned. Those times leave Kyle Langford still in a decent position, | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
although a strongish heat to come. It was a very strong last heat but | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
it's been made easier, but the big news here is that the Kenyan doesn't | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
start, he was overlooked, finished third in the trials and was annoyed | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
and posted on Facebook about it in a way that criticises the federation. | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
He was advanced into the event because of a withdrawal but he is | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
now not starting, I don't know what is going on so Saruni not here. | :58:45. | :58:58. | |
Brazier, I mentioned earlier. All men who would normally finish ahead | :58:59. | :59:09. | |
of Learmonth. But this guy can produce a big performance. He did it | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
at the British trials, finished second and then at the Diamond | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
League produced 1. 45 that guaranteed him selection. He thought | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
he wouldn't be able to do that then. Hats off to him. Going to be | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
interesting to see what he can do here. I wonder if he knows 1. 1.46. | :59:26. | :59:37. | |
38 would be good enough. Not in the top three here. You wouldn't expect | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
him to be. But this man, Donovan Brazier, the best talent for me to | :59:44. | :59:52. | |
come out of America at 800-metre, for a long time. | :59:53. | :00:03. | |
Mohammed Aman, a former world champion, now coached by Mark | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
Roland, based in the US, two-time world indoor champion. Not in that | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
sort of form these days but he is improving slightly. And will be a | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
threat here. Watch out for Donavan Brazier, a | :00:16. | :00:39. | |
very good American talent. It's not normal for Guy Learmonth to take it | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
out and make good pace, but anything decent, just run around 52 for the | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
first lap and give yourself a chance of 1.45, but I have horrible feeling | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
it could be slow. Brazier out in front. He is stretching it out. A | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
bit surprised to see that, Paula? Looking down the list I was thinking | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
who was likely to take it out, definitely not Brazier, Lewandowski | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
and Amel Tuka, but Donavan Brazier has taken it on and is doing Guy | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Learmonth a favour, stretching it out and making it quick. Learmonth, | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
has a lovely action. 51.89 through the first 400. Brazier of the United | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
States, Guy Learmonth tucked in nicely in second. Danger line | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
further back with Amel Tuka, Aman and Lewandowski. Brazier is making | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
this a quick heat. The top three will go through here. Guy Learmonth | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
doing a great job and stop just looking at the screen. The danger is | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
still five metres behind. Brazier is there. Learmonth has to stay strong. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
The attack will come. Amel Tuka is chasing. Lewandowski and Aman, has | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
to stay in the top three. Learmonth will hang on to third. Amel Tuka | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
finishes quickly as well. Well done to Guy Learmonth. And the difference | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
between him and Kyle Langford is that he got up there early. They | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
were already quicker than him in the home straight but he was ahead, in a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
great position, following Brazier. Stayed strong in the home straight. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Great running from Brazier. Now let's start looking at the clock for | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
these qualifiers. Will his team-mates join him in the semis? We | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
have to look at the line. He threw himself at it. I think it's coming | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
out at 1:46.60. I don't want to say too soon but I think Langford is | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
through. A really strong race by Guy Learmonth. He had it laid out on a | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
little bit of a plate for him by Donavan Brazier, how he took the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
race on and made the pace quick. But that race, at no point did he panic. | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
He used the screens to check what was coming behind him. The person | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
who misjudged the race was Lewandowski, who left himself with | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
far too much work to do in the home straight. Amel Tuka hasn't been as | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
in good shape this year but Lewandowski was too far back with | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
250 metres to go to run like that. If he runs like that in the next | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
end, he will not progress to the final. A great run from Guy | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Learmonth. What a fantastic performance. It was | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
such a stacked field as well. To go through the way you did. A few | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
people were writing me off in big races. I know I can always raise my | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
game when I need to. The hardest part for me is just getting to this | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Championships. Home games against, I love it and I will always run well. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
I'm looking forward to the semifinal tomorrow. Steve Cram pointed out in | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
commentary that it is key when a pace picks up you are in the mix at | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
the end. Kyle Langford didn't do that earlier and you were able to do | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
it. Exactly, the last thing I wanted to do was get caught off the guard. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
I wanted to go with pace and keep hanging in. I did that and I'm | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
happy. Well done and we wish you well for the semi. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Nafi Thiam at 1.9 five. First attempt, and she's got that as well! | :04:44. | :04:57. | |
That's a brilliant effort. In what have been fairly testing conditions. | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
Nafi Thiam getting close to a lifetime best. 1.95, stretching the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
lead. She has already gone into the lead with her previous clearance of | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
1.92. Only two events into the seven, but that extends it. A huge | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Branco for Nafi Thiam, the hijab, and she's making the most of it. -- | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
a huge banker. -- the high jump. Set a Cuban record in Rio, the | :05:25. | :05:44. | |
22-year-old. Best look at that. Look at the celebration, that's what it | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
means to her. She knows, she knows the significance of that. With | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
athletes faltering. We have seen the Latvian go out, Kathryn Johnson | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Thompson has also faltered in the high jump. Might be thinking of a | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
rostrum finish, Martinez. Rodriguez goes at 1.95. She is jumping well, | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
but not on that occasion. 1.95 might prove to be too much. But the young | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Cuban is looking really good, it has to be said. Looking across her | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
lifetime best, she came into this with a lifetime best of 1.87 and now | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
she's attempting 1.95. It takes a bit of positive thinking, I would | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
imagine. STUDIO: It's turning into a | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
world-class high jump competition, just not with one of the competitors | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
we as British athletics fans, and unashamedly so today, hoped would be | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
there. But we have to celebrate these performances because Nafi | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Thiam is producing the goods when it counts. She had a wobbly start when | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
it started by her standards, but she's out there now putting in some | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
fantastic points on her total. Her last attempt to shaky, but she | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
cleared it and she's looking strong out there. This is her clearing 1.9 | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
five. It's getting close to her clear in her personal best. With | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
her, it's a strong event, but she's really relaxed. As Tony has | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
highlighted in commentary, is not the most majestic looking run-up. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
She's not tidy over the bar, but she's effective. It's dynamic and | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
she works off the floor really hard. She snakes over the bar. By any | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
means necessary, the points don't lie. 1.95, a clean sheet. It's good | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
jumping. She takes those short strides as she comes in, like Fred | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Flintstone with his bowling ball. But she elevates really well and | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
gets up. We just heard some cheering... I think Rodriguez has | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
just gone clear at 1.98... 95? I think it would be 95. We will have a | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
look at that in a second. We were hoping for a head to head in the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
high jump. It's Rodriguez and Nafi Thiam. Let's see Rodriguez at 1.95. | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
Denise, talk us through her technique... COMMENTATOR: Rodriguez | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
looking really solid here. This really helps Nafi Thiam. We have a | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
head to head from an athlete we didn't expect. She is in new | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
territory. The coaches are going absolutely crazy. 1.95 for the | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
Cuban. A massive lifetime best, equalling the championship best of | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
Karol Linetty what -- Carolina coughed. Rodriguez, equalling what | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
Nafi Thiam, the greatest ever high jumper in her talent, has done. This | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
really helps Nafi Thiam, it slows down and she doesn't have to follow | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
herself into the next heights. A little bit of time, put the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
tracksuit on and compose herself. The bar will be raised and the next | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
attempt will be at 1.98 to match last year's clearance for Nafi | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Thiam. STUDIO: Smiling, looking relaxed and ready to go. We will get | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
back out there when Nafi Thiam headset. We will sadly see Katarina | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Johnson-Thompson go out, failing at 1.8 six. She cleared 1.8, opted not | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
to go at 1.8 three. Talk us through this, Jess. Is something I did a lot | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
in my career, backing into the bar. She did you get to clear it. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Anticipating too much, turning her shoulders into the bar and trying to | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
clear before she had the hiked. Her second attempt was a lot better. She | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
cleared it with a really good clearance. She doesn't get close to | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
clearing that. She has waited 90 minutes between the 1.8, missing | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
1.83, having to get herself wonder began. Should be thinking this is | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
bread-and-butter for her, Tony? See that little stutter step. What they | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
have done is soft on the curve. Her curve now goes further out from the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
bar. The feet tickled them off. By softening the curve she is more | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
stuck up, carrying more speed across the feet and travelling along the | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
bar. You don't have time to rotate down. We can head back out there | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
with Steve Backley for Nafi Thiam's attempt at 1.98. COMMENTATOR: A | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
slightly smaller crowd than we had earlier but still good support for | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the Belgian, Nafi Thiam. This is to match her lifetime best. Too much. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
Perhaps a bit of a sighter. Interesting to see another look at | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
this. Looks like she might have got too close, a common error. Might | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
have got crowded. Funny when the bias towards these heights, things | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
change. Hard to tell from that angle. Didn't see enough of it. | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
Interesting to here from the guys in the studio. Nafi Thiam trying to | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
make the technical adjustments. She will have two more attempts. This is | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
where it plays into her favour to have another competitor involved. We | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
were hoping it might be Katarina Johnson-Thompson, but it's Rodriguez | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
of Cuba, who I think might have retired having got clear of 1.95. So | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
Nafi Thiam will be next up to follow herself and have the second attempt | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
at 1.98. Needs to compose now and make those adjustments, lock them | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
in. We know she is capable, she knows she is capable. She will have | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
a little pause before her second attempt. STUDIO: Well Nafi Thiam | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
collector Saban gets ready for the second attempt at 1.98, we can see | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson's third attempt at 1.80. She cleared this | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
fight at 14, she has been taking this for 14 years. This is normally | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
so straightforward, Denise? Her third attempt at 1.86. Again we see | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the skip at the take-off. I think she was too close and should have | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
stayed away. Tony has talked about the technique of high jump, you have | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
to fight the resistance of taking off before you jump. You have to try | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
to float, feel hanged time over the bar, float over, and she didn't do | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
that. That kind of hanged time saw Nafi Thiam get to this position. She | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
at 1.9 eight. Steve Backley can this. COMMENTATOR: Denise Lewis says | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
air time. She has to float. Nafi Thiam with her second attempt | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
at 1.98 and that was a better attempt, but still a fair way off. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
She maybe needs the impetus of a third attempt, that bit of spice to | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
know it's your last chance to put a fire into the take-off. It's gone a | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
little bit flat for her. But one last attempt for Nafi Thiam. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
STUDIO: What a competitor she is. Like the rest of the field, she | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
still has five more events to go after this, but she wants to push | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
yourself to a PB and get herself in a really great mindset as she moves | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
through the day, Jess? If she moves on knowing she has attempted in | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
clear that height successfully, if she feels she can do that again, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
there's no point in stopping now. If you have one more attempt, you go | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
for it and try to accumulate as many points as you can. Talking about the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
mental side of Johnson-Thompson's day. She looked quite pleased with | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
herself after the hurdles, solid start, looking happy enough. Going | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
into the high jump, an event where she is world-class. She has entered | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the individual competition, as has Nafi Thiam. A long way between the | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
first clearance and 1.86, lying down and relaxing, we don't normally see | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
those shots, but it might happen all the time. What is going on in their | :15:10. | :15:10. | |
mind at that point It is important to visualise what | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
you have to do, not getting too involved with what's happening in | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
the stadium, because that can be draining when you are watching | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
competitors run around. She would have been thinking about technique | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
and relaxation. When it's time to go, you have to get yourself in the | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
moment, dynamic and active and I think she did look a bit soft, she | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
didn't seem to have the fire in her legs for some reason. She's got the | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
ankle strapping on but I don't think that really impacted her. There was | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
total and utter disbelief at this point because any day of the week | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson can get over 1. 86. She can do it off short | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
approach. Her coaches won't have seen this. The 1. 89 was in Beijing | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
and she almost had to jump off one foot to clear the bar because she | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
was on her third athement. That's right, it was. -- third attempt. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
None of the two run-ups were the same. | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
COMMENTATOR: Nafi Thiam. Too close. Leaned in. Wasn't to be. But a very | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
good effort in going clear at 1. 95. Masses of points. And the rest of | :16:32. | :16:43. | |
the world, other than Rodriguez of Cuba, faltered somewhat. Thiam going | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
well after two events. Way out in front. Maybe would have wanted a bit | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
more. Scored over 7,000 points. The coach watching on. But Thiam, well, | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
it's all about medals here at the World Championships, she has that | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
high score and has broken through 7,000 points. Her heptathlon is | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
going very well indeed after two events. | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
STUDIO: Nafi Thiam doing herself no harm there in terms of the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
standings. We will look at those right now. Steve, talk us through | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
those. Yeah, we can see the points. 1171, | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
Thiam and Rodriguez. You can see the difference with every height. You | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
reduce in points. Way down here, as we see below the 1,000 points. | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
200 points down for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Tony said she can | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
still get a medal, she has to believe, but it's about accumulating | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
points and that's what Thiam is so good at. These are just the points | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
for the second event. We add them to the hurdles, the | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
first event from earlier this morning and two 7ths of our way | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
through the heptathlon, the shot is the first event of the second | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
session - the first session set. Thiam ahead of Rodriguez and Schafer | :18:30. | :18:44. | |
in third. Katarina Johnson-Thompson just losing ground there. Needs a | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
big long jump tomorrow morning. Only two events and a lot of | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
athletics to come for these hepathletes. | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
STUDIO: Now it's about how she gets ready mentally and on to tomorrow. | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
This is a big test. It has been in the past, the mental | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
side, this is going to test her in a different way than last year. She's | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
going to have to gather herself and make sure she comes back strong for | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the shot put and she has a great 200 so she can hopefully run a strong | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
time there. Like Tony said, it's not over yet. We still have five more | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
events to go. It's still quite open for the medals. Thiam is doing | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
incredibly well and she's bang on for a gold. Schafer is looking good | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
for silver but the bronze is still open. It's going to be a scrap. It | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
will be, definitely. She will have to dig deep and find something | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
inside herself she's not managed to do before. Let's not underestimate | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
the challenge. She's going from a really good event, a strong event, | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
that's gone badly, going into an event that in hasn't gone well, that | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
takes a lot of fight. This is where we will see the character of | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson, whether she has learned to deal with | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
disappointment within the heptathlon and manufacture on very quickly | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
because she's going to need it tonight. -- and move on. I asked you | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
if you had a bad high jump and gone on to do well and Denise said, the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Olympics, when I won gold, she didn't say when I won gold, but I | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
knew what she meant. You had a bad high jump that day. I had a disaster | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
for me in the high jump. I had been injured as everyone knows, it's well | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
documented. But I still believed I could jump well. You need to be over | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
the 80s, to have a realistic fighting chance. I didn't do it. My | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
attitude into the shot put and it was a good event for me, I was going | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
to transform myself into one of the best shot putters in the heptathlon | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
competition. That mindset has to be strong. Yes, it can be done. It's | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
not over yet. She's still in 5th place. Let's look, Tony, give us a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
comment on this. This is her PBs. We are talking about emotional sides | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
and things like that. Let's take the emotion out and look at the logic. | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
She is still capable of 65 or 66 at this point. Rodriguez has moved up | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
but still five events to go. So, she probably isn't going to get a huge | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
lot more points out of today. I think the long jump, the javelin and | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
the 800 tomorrow are places she can pick up the slack, get over 6600 and | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
put herself in a frame for a medal. Schafer can be erratic. You can | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
still put people under pressure. You are still in there. Let's look at | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
the logic, that's what I would do as a coach. It's gone, this is what we | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
need to do. Use the crowd and the energy here. There was so much | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
support for her here today. Once she had gone out of the high jump, a few | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
people went for an early lunch. They were hoping for a big battle between | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
those two. This stadium is full of 60,000 | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
people, every single one is a Katarina Johnson-Thompson fan, use | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
that energy if you want. Have the logic, understand what performances | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
you need to put together. This isn't over. It's a seven-event | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
competition, not two events. Absolutely, it's not about points at | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
this stage. It's about medals. We can talk about the crowd and using | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
that to your advantage, but it has to be about her character now. It | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
has to be about her fight and what she believes is possible. If she | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
hangs on to the baggage of what's happened, she's going to compromise | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
the rest of her help tat lan. -- heptathlon. What advice would you | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
give her Step back, put it to one side and go into the shot put and | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
fight for it. We are looking at it as if all the other athletes will | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
perform brilliantly in every event, that might not be the case. That | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
puts Kat back in contention Father a medal. I would tell her to get | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
herself together, take time and come out strong for this evening. Taking | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
you back to last night, what a night we had here in this stadium on day | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
one. Mo Farah's 10,000 metre victory was special. An incredible race. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Adding to his global haul making it ten medals now, ten golds, of | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
course. The morning after the night before who do you really want to | :23:43. | :23:55. | |
talk -- Brendan Foster, of course, but let's remind you how he did it. | :23:56. | :24:07. | |
In front of his home crowd in the city he knows so well, the city that | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
he loves. The track that set him on this brilliant journey. It's never | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
been as quick as this. It's never been as hard as this. This is | :24:28. | :24:39. | |
phenomenal racing. The British best. He is a one man world superpower! | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
It's gold for Farah! Congratulations. That was a | :24:47. | :24:59. | |
fantastic performance last night. It was a pleasure to be there. Early | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
part of the race, it's going reasonably quickly. You are kind of | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
guessing there was going to be pace-making, did you, because you | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
were close, you normally go to the back. Yes, I was pretty close this | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
year, I knew something was going to happen because the last ten years | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
they've been saying how they're going to beat me and what they need | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
to do. They never follow. Now fair play to them, they followed this | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
year and made it one of the toughest championships of my career. I | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
suppose you concentrate on running lap after lap and you were busy | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
doing this. I am telling people, I have the whole nation behind me, | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
what do you have to help me out. 3,000 to go, were you beginning to | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
hurt then? I was hurting. 3,000 metres I was hurting, I was tired | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
and there was a lot of stuff, a lot of elbows, physically that race was | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
a bit crazy. At which point, when you went to the front, a couple of | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
laps to go, that was going to be your race then? That was going to be | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
my race. 800 metres to go, nearly got a couple of trips, from that | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
point I was like, they are not going fast enough to beat me, try to just | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
control it where you feel good and where you have something left for | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
the last lap and go for it, that was always my plan. When you crossed the | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
line, tell us. It was beautiful, I really enjoyed it. That one moment | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
can't be forgotten. It won't be forgotten, Mo, it was a great race. | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
No matter what, a big race in a few days' time? If I believe enough, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
it's possible. Do you believe it enough? Yeah. Physically are you OK? | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
You have a few scratches, wounds. A few bruises, have to take care of | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
it, I have to rest and get ready and whatever happens, happens, it's a | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
new race. Nice specs by the way, Mo Farah! | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
Loving those! Tonight it's another legend of the sport, THE legend of | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
the sport. Usain Bolt to take centre stage. | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
You don't want to miss that. Join us for that this evening. A quick recap | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
on things that happened here. We have put the heptathlon to bed for | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
now. The 80 metres, the British men, all making it through -- 800. | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Langford was in the first of the British men to run and came through | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
as a fastest loser. Well done to them. Sophie Hitchin, with that | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
fantastic 73. 05 making it through in the hammer. Easily, one throw, | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
job done. Great to see her. I am optimistic for her in the final. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
Good morning's action, long enough for you? Everyone ready for lunch? I | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
want you all back here after the afternoon nap, fresh and ready to | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
go. 6. 30pm we will be back here on BBC One. Tonight really is going to | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
be an incredible evening. A super Saturday to beat them all. Usain | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Bolt appearing on the track in a major championship for the very last | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
time. We know you want to join us, see you at 6. 30 on BBC One. | :28:12. | :28:54. | |
It's gold for Usain Bolt! He has done it again! A new world record. | :28:55. | :28:56. |