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This is world domination by Mo Farah. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Michael Johnson storming away to another Gold Medal. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Magnificent, Carl Lewis, that is history in the making! | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Jessica Ennis Hill is back on top of the world. A new world record. | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
Champion of the world! Usain Bolt! | :00:47. | :01:11. | |
In front of his home crowd, in the city he knows so well and the city | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
he loves, the track that set him on this brilliant journey. It has never | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
been as quick as this, it has never been as hard as this! This is | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
phenomenal racing! The British best. With his heart pounding beneath it. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
He is a one-man world superpower, it is gold for Mo Farah. | :01:49. | :02:02. | |
One of the things that separates the all-time greats from the rest is | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
their ability to deliver when it matters most. We witnessed that in | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
spine tingling form last night thanks to Mo Farah and stagnate, it | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
is the turn of this man. -- tonight. Usain Bolt, of Jamaica. Usain Bolt | :02:15. | :02:33. | |
is the world junior champion. It is going to be gold for Jamaica! | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Usain Bolt is the Olympic champion. He has done it again, a new | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
world-record! 9.5. It is going to be gold. The | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
champion becomes a legend! Unbeatable, unsurpassable! | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Usain Bolt, three times World Champion! | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Magnificent seven, the Odyssey continues! | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
He has saved this title, he has saved his reputation. He may have | :03:07. | :03:19. | |
even saved the sport! One last time. | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
What a night it is set to be in the London Stadium in The Queen | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Elizabeth Park. Des two and Usain Bolt night. The final championship | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
of his career. He has got the semifinals and we hope the final at | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
9:45 p:m., the man's 100m vinyl, you do not want to miss it. Incredible | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
atmosphere building here and IM privileged to be part of the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
sell-out crowd here, because everybody knows they will see | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
something special, it is that man Justin Gatlin is, is he going to | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
cause the upset? Not many can. Usain Bolt has seen the challenges of his | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
career and he always runs them down. They bombed into each other on the | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
track inevitably and somebody was more keen to say hello than the | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
other! That is the way friendships and rivalries go! Usain Bolt never | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
seems to really let anybody get under his skin and he had this | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
incredible run of people coming at him. We have all enjoyed watching | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
those rivalries, but somehow, he has bounced them off. Yes, he just has | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
that confidence. It is not as if he has come out of nowhere, he has been | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
in the sport so many years from junior level right the way to the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
finishing part of his career. I think that confidence he has and | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
enjoyment he has for competing and being in front of a big crowd and | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
performing the way he does, he carries that into every event. Said | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
last night, Jess, it is about knowing when the time is right to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
finish your career, when you are not enjoying competing as much and he is | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
getting to that point because it was a struggle to get to the line in | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Rio. I imagine on this the final day, the emotions inside must be | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
just, the butterflies and anticipation and excitement. It must | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
be huge. Just getting yourself ready for a race when his body is getting | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
tired and it was a bit older, he is struggling to hold it together and | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
to stay healthy in the season, getting ready for a big and | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
important race like a World Championship final is huge, but when | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
you know it is your last race and you so publicly stated that, it has | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
got to be at the emotions will come out afterwards. Before that, it is | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
the same showman, the same building it up, involving the crowd, any | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
emotions will come out may be on the rostrum when he has crossed the line | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
and not before. There was certainly in motion here when we met as one of | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the most incredible 10,000m races ever in a championship final, Mo | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Farah was going for his tenth championship gold and he is on his | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
way to a better double gold on the global stage attention to life. -- | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
potentially. When you have a lot of everybody, the morning after, or | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
what you want to do? You want to chat the Brendan Foster. | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
Legend. I tell you what! Time and time again, he has delivered, one | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
more time for Mo Farah. Honestly, it was lovely. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
In front of his home crowd, in the city he knows so well, the city that | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
he loves, the track that set him on this brilliant journey. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Congratulations, that was a fantastic performance last night, a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
pleasure to be there. Ever nervous? Yesterday was different for me | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
knowing it was going to be the last ten K, I was just quite all | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
yesterday. People were like, what is wrong, Mo? Early part, it was going | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
reasonably, you were pretty close, you normally go to the back. I was | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
pretty close, and you something would happen because the last ten | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
years, they were saying they would be me on what they needed to do and | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
they never load up. Now fair play, they followed this year and they | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
made it one of the toughest championships of my career. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
Already orchestrating the crowd because York Strait the races as | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
well. I am telling the people, I have been nation behind me, what you | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
have, boys? It has never been as quick as this. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
3,000 metres to go and it was hurting, I was tired. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Physically, that race was a bit crazy. 800m to go, I nearly got a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
couple of trips. From that point, was like, they are not going fast | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
enough to beat me, try and control it where you feel good and where you | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
have something left for the last lap and go for it. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
That was always my plan. The British best with his heart pounding beneath | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
it. Tell us about crossing the line. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
It was beautiful, I really enjoyed it. There was that moment where it | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
will not be forgotten. He is a one-man world superstar! It | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
is gold for Farah. Excited for next weekend? Arsenal? | :08:28. | :08:41. | |
No, Mo Farah, 5,000 metres. Physically OK? Some scratches and | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
bruises, just have to take care of it and dressed and get ready and | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
think whatever happens happens. It is a new race. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
Mo looking smart in his spectacles and very fresh. The morning after | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the night before. That is the medal table, let's savour that, it looks | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
good, Paula? Very good, if it carries on like that, it sets the | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
ball rolling and it is a great start. I'm sure the atmosphere | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
inside the camp with the gold medal must have boosted everybody today | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
will stop look at the fans, pouring in. They are the lucky ticket | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
holders. If you have a ticket for tonight, you know you are in for a | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
treat, not just for the semifinals and finals, we also have the women's | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
semifinals and the 1500m and a fill condiment for Britain. You must be | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
thrilled. It was amazing to watch last night, so happy to see gestured | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
back and taking that race by the scruff of the neck. -- Jessica Judd. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
Qualifying for the semifinal, she's in a top semifinal and she might | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
have to do the tonight but she is having fun with her running and to | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
be surrounded by Laura Muir, Laura Weightman and Sarah McDonald, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
looking forward to watching the semifinals tonight. So loaded with | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
talent, these runners. And running it in a hat tab on, you do not have | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
to think much about your race strategy, it was a time trial -- | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
heptathlon. In the big sense of the word, you are kind of racing against | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
yourself. In the 15, tactics is a huge part and I can't imagine having | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
to run the race and think about everybody else and how I will get to | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
different positions. Laura does so well and they have just breezed | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
through Canterbury and looked confident. Excited about the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
semifinal and hopeful for all of them. It is going to be tough, it is | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
one of these toughest races, if not the toughest race depth wise of the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
championships. Any other year, the semifinals could have been finals. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Warming up on the track in her shades, which I wonder if she had | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
those packed in her bag this morning when we had thunder and rain, we | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
have had everything! The Sun has come out, it is bathed in sunshine. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Looking fantastic. Starting to evoke the feelings of 2012. There has been | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
reallocation medals already starting these championships and that will | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
continue throughout. Jess is getting her gold upgrades tomorrow and it | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
was gold last night for Mo, but tonight for Jo Pavey, it was an | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
upgrade the Bronze. This is from fourth place in Osaka, the World | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Championships of 2007, the Abbey to took the silver bailed a doping test | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
-- the athlete. That result meant it was Jo Pavey, the European champion | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
of 2014, who thrilled everybody when she was a relatively new mother out | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
there and she took that gold. A great Commonwealth Games the same | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
year as well and ended up in the rostrum on sports personality, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
things came late for her in her career but you say, that was 2007. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
What would a medal have done for her in her career at that stage? | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Exactly, that is the biggest thing people who choose to treat rob from | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the sport. It is moments like this and it is changing the race, the way | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
it would have been run and people's careers would pan out. Jenny Meadows | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
has spoken about losing medals meant she went away, trained and her body | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
broke down and she couldn't cope with that, and it is the knock-on | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
effect. You can never get that back. What cheats take from our sport, you | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
can never get back and you can't come down hard enough on them in my | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
opinion. You have got a lot of gold medals already, Jess, you are | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
getting another tomorrow, 6:45pm is your medal ceremony. An upgraded to | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
gold from silver. It is ten minutes away from the 100m medal ceremony as | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
well, so it is going to be a big evening for medals. But I have | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
noticed the athletes are wearing tracksuits. What you think? Still | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
debating what to wear. Have they a special maternity tracksuit? No, I | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
think they wanted me to squeeze into my 2011 tracksuit and I said no | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
chance! Trying to find something I will fit into. You looking cracking! | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
Were all here tonight and we will play everybody in and discus every | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
event that happens. But Michael likes his study time, he's out there | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
being very studious. Working out. He is listening! Working out what he is | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
going to say. We will discus the man's 100m. Michael, when you see | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
his cushion, you know they are coming in the House during the | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
night, so Michael is and Paula and Jess. Sorry, that was a bit hard! We | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
have got a great evening in store, this is what you can't forward to. | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
-- you can look forward to. The greatest athlete ever attempts to | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
add a 12 gold world medal to his unparalleled collection of his | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
career in ultimate style. Controversial American Justin Gatlin | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
was booed during the heats on Friday, can the arch villain spring | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
a surprise and upsell the finale of Usain Bolt? | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Also trying to gate-crash in the 100m is America's Christies -- | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Christian Coleman, fastest in the world at the age of 21 issue. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
He is in top company but could CJ Ujah claim a first British world | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
medal since Darren Campbell in 2003? Double European indoor champion | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Laura Muir at once to break onto the global stage, she is one of four | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
British runners in the semifinals. With the high profile exit of Jeff | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Henderson and the absence of Greg Rutherford, the stage is set for | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
world leader in South Africa's Hugo manana to deliver. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
She struggled in the High Jump today but can Katarina Johnson-Thompson do | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
well today in the shot-put? Can the Belgian continued to | :15:11. | :15:26. | |
dominate the day? Here is the timetable tonight, the Heptathlon | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
with the shot put at seven o'clock and defiant last bit is the 100 | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
metres semifinals for the men, then the stern test from Daniel Stahl in | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
the discus throw. Can he revisit his form. Four British athletes in the | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
1500m, headed by Laura Miller, then Luvo Manyonga in the long jump in | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
the absence of the injured Greg Rutherford. Henderson did not make | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
the final. At ten past eight, the 10,000 metres for the women and at | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
nine o'clock, the 200 metres and that is one of the pet events. And | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
at 9:45pm, Usain Bolt could celebrate his 12 championship gold | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
medal. It has been very eventful for the Heptathlon, our soul | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
representative, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, despite huge | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
promise earlier in her career, is yet to win a global outdoor medal. | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
The favourite is the Belgian, Nafissatou Thiam, and this morning | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
we had the Hurdles and the high jump and we have the story. The noise in | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
the stadium is building because everybody is getting ready for the | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Women's Heptathlon featuring Katarina Johnson-Thompson and | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
everyone has a ticket and they are in for a treat. Not the best start | :17:16. | :17:28. | |
for Nafissatou Thiam, and alongside her, we have the lead from Anouk | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
Vetter. 13.30 three. That is not a good start from Nafissatou Thiam. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
She never really got moving. Katarina Johnson-Thompson has work | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
to do, but it is the Netherland is doing very well, Nadine Broersen. | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
And 12.85 with Nadine Visser. We can think about Katarina | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
Johnson-Thompson exploding into that event and perhaps some safety in the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
blocks because she was cautious at the start from Katarina | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Johnson-Thompson. You had a good look at her, how is she looking? Not | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
the best start and she was looking worrying but she ran a good time. I | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
think she will take some confidence from that. Katarina | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Johnson-Thompson, and we have Nadine Visser in front. Laura | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Ikauniece-Admidina losing huge points, struggling with a leg | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
problem. If you were in the head of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, how do | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
you improve? Absolutely, that is the key to the Heptathlon, park those | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
emotions temporarily, stay in the moment and focus on what is coming | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
up next. The first attempt, 180. Great start for Katarina | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Johnson-Thompson. Very relaxed looking Katarina Johnson-Thompson, | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
passing at this height. Basically, that is a smart move, you want to be | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
at your best when the bar is highest. It was a tactic she hoped | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
would pay off later in the morning but having passed at 1.83, she would | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
fail at 1.80 six. Failing three times here would be a nightmare. One | :19:37. | :19:49. | |
point 86. No! My gosh! And you can see just how devastating that is. | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
That is a massive disappointment for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and she | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
knows it. Speechless. The competition continued until the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
final two operates a shrug athletes, including the Olympic champion. She | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
has got that as well. 1.85. That was a clean clearance, delighted with | :20:19. | :20:33. | |
that. Neither could improve on 1.95,... The standings after two | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
events. And Nafissatou Thiam in the lead by seven points from Rodriguez, | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
who had a fantastic high jump and create that head-to-head we thought | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
would be with Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Katarina | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
Johnson-Thompson, by virtue of the fact that both events were good but | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
not perhaps good enough for her, she is still in fifth place but she | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
still has the shot put and that is not one of her favourites. She is | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
well behind Nafissatou Thiam in distance. She is capable of 30 | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
metres and that will get her some points, but Nafissatou Thiam is | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
fantastic. She is capable of throwing 50 metres. What has she | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
lost? Let us not say 1.98, but what if we said 1.96? It is massive, | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
people says the high jump is over weighted, it has been that way for | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
years but you are compromised, if you are a very good high jump, she | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
has to dig deep and she knows she can throw 13 metres, it is whether | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
she has left that baggage behind. She has to come out here with a | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
clean slate and be aggressive, I want to see her being aggressive. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
She is not coming in here... She is such a proficient high jump. Easy, | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
nothing you would have said was wrong with that at 1.80? You | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
generally do not think Katarina Johnson-Thompson will get into | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
trouble, you can always feel she has what it takes to get over. That was | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
the second? And her jumping ability is incredible, the long jump and the | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
high jump but she just did not have any rhythm on the runway, trying to | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
clear the bar before she even had any height. There was devastation, | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
she knows that has cost her dearly. They worked on her conditioning. | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
Utter disbelief. We talk about mental state and before the Hurdles | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
we talked about her ability to compartmentalise and move things to | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
one side and in Beijing, she was devastated by the long jump and you | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
put your arms around her and we were back on watching that in the studio | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
in Salford and that was a real moment. As a new mother out there, | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
you could see the heartbreak on her face? Every heptathlete knows that | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
feeling, we were rivals but I knew just how awful it was for her to be | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
in that position, to have no jumps. It is soul destroying, that is the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
event, you have to get through every event, mentally strong and | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
physically get through. Devastating last year. And Nafissatou Thiam did | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
that today, by her standards she had an average Hurdles? And she then | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
does this in the high jump? You always know things will not always | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
be perfect. You have to accept that, getting the personal best is a | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
bonus, it is rare, Nafissatou Thiam last year, that was some error and | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
she has grown into this role. I wondered how she would cope with | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
being Olympic champion and she has gone from strength to strength, we | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
saw that at the European Championships and she was supreme | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
and she has transferred that and she is in a very Nice -- nice move at | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
the moment. At lunchtime we felt disappointed for her and her | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Heptathlon chances, somebody else could have an event that does not go | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
well and she can pick herself up? Hope is not lost? You will not get a | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
personal best in every event, you have to decide on those performances | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
and Katarina Johnson-Thompson has to shorten the gap between those | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
events, she will not beat Nafissatou Thiam in the shot put, it is making | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
those gaps smaller to get closer to the medals. The shot put and 200 | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
metres left to come tonight and we getting down to only minutes away | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
from the men coming into the stadium for the 100 metres semifinals. Some | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
of them will still be on the track before heading into the cool room. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Or an ad-lib is there. The air is thick with anticipation ahead of the | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
main event, myself and Colin went through a crowd of nine people deep, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
all having their eyes on Usain Bolt and is it fair to say there is an | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
element of nervousness in the air because of yesterday? Usain Bolt is | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
not the most comfortable out of the blocks and he was quite vocal about | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
how he was not very comfortable, that will have caused bells for | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
everybody but he is a professional and perfectionist and he will put | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
that to bed and were definitely give him, he would use. If the blocks are | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the same, he will be coming out. He will not care about any of the other | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
competitors but who will be the main challenge? The semifinal is red-hot | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
and with Coleman for the United States, he was in the same | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
semifinal, we could see potential medallists going together very | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
early, they are like heavyweight boxers, there will be lots of this | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
Sun that going on until the main event! I should have warmed myself | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
up for that! He is up against the best? That semifinal is very tough | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
for CJ and he will drive his best, the fastest loser places. This man | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
likes to put his money where his mouth is, will Usain Bolt do it | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
tonight? Yes, he will, 9.81! It looks glorious, confident, Colin | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
predicting 9.81. He has come in two major championships under pressure, | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
in 2015 there was almost pantomime Theatre with Bolt against Gatland | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
and in the build-up to the Rio Olympics he told us how he dealt | :27:38. | :27:47. | |
with that. People loved seeing the 100 metres as the fastest medal in | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
the world. Going into the championship I was nervous, I was a | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
little bit worried, the extra pressure people but aren't you | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
because they were going with good against bad with myself and Justin | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Gatlin. I remember my coach saying, listen, the only person I am seeing | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
showing off more on the occasion that new is Justin Gatlin. When he | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
comes to the championship, he will always be ready. He always pushes me | :28:21. | :28:34. | |
to be my best so I appreciate that. Justin Gatlin, he has never been | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
under so much pressure in his life. He is usually running away or being | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
chased. I talked to my coach and he said, don't worry, you are the | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
champion, you have been here many times, just get it done, you know | :28:55. | :29:07. | |
what to do. Justin Gatlin! Usain Bolt! Usain Bolt! | :29:08. | :29:21. | |
We are about nine minutes away from the first of the semifinals, | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
conditions could not be better? I think we will learn a lot in these | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
semifinals. Yesterday left some questions with Bolt questioning the | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
starting blocks and questioning his own performance. And that plus the | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
performance from Christian Coleman left some questions so we will see | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
things taking shape and we will have a race. How relevant do you think | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
that rivalry Usain Bolt was so eloquent about, how is that relevant | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
tonight? It is poignant, it shows you why Usain Bolt wins so many | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
races when he comes into championships where he is not at his | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
best, we have seen that time and again and here, he is more | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
vulnerable tonight that he ever has been in the past. But that is why he | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
will probably win, he understands how to deal with pressure and he | :30:26. | :30:33. | |
also understands the effect that pressure has on his competitors when | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
they think, maybe there is some chink in the armour with somebody | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
like Coleman. He knows how to perform and produce | :30:39. | :30:57. | |
the type of performers that he needs to win. Others do not know how to do | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
that and that is why he will probably win again tonight when he | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
is not at his best because some of those other people probably will not | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
produce their best performance. If they are able to do that, Christian | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
Coleman as an example has the fastest time this year in the world | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
and he looked fantastic yesterday, if you can do that again two more | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
times, maybe he can win. We are in for a real treat, but at the end of | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
the day, look, it is hard to beat him. And that piece about how he | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
understands the sport and himself as a competitor shows why he is so hard | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
to beat. Earlier, I was saying to Jess he had almost a struggle to get | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
to the line in Rio and to motivate and get himself to his final | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
Olympics, so it must have been a challenge this year. Today, he wakes | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
up this morning and he knows today is the last day, he must have a | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
range of emotions to deal with more than normal on the final | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
championship day. He is a unique individual in that he understands | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
and he has talked about, we saw in the documentary he feels pressure, | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
he just knows how to deal with it as a competitor. But as a person, it it | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
does not matter to him. His legacy is set. Life will continue. That is | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
not how he lives. Life will continue, it is not the end of the | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
world. He wants it bad, he wants to win and go out winning. But in the | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
grand scheme of things, it does not matter to him. And that is a very | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
unique balance. I can't see myself doing that, I would not put myself | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
on the line here, I retired on top after Sydney and when I weighed out | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
whether there was more to gain or to lose, I felt there was more to lose, | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
it will take my toys and go home! And that is what I admire about him, | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
he felt, there is nothing for me to prove. I still will put it on the | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
line and give these guys a shot at me. And he likes that. He feels like | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
he will give them a shot and beat them. A better reaction Justin | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
Gatlin from the crowd and there was last night, there was pantomime | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
BOOING last night. I went out and had a word with the crowd! All | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
60,000! I think again, if you are going to do that with Gatlin, do it | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
for all the people who have ever testified that in sport, do not make | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
him the poster child for what is wrong with the sport. It is a | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
fascinating 20 minutes for the semifinals, let's get down onto the | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
track for the first of three semifinals of the men's 100m. Good | :33:38. | :33:38. | |
evening, Steve Cram. Good evening, everybody. The chair | :33:39. | :33:48. | |
was on the big screen and in the stadium, it was Katarina | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
Johnson-Thompson. Rather than for Mr Gatlin, so interesting to see what | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
his image, when his image appears, what reaction he gets. We have three | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
races, we have three British athletes. Will one of them make it | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
through to the final tonight? Hopefully to join Bolt. Hopefully to | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
give this crowd not only the chance to cheer Bolt and whoever else is in | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
there. Dasaolu run very well in the British Championships. And he has | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
performed well all season. Up against him, he has got one of the | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
fastest men in the world this year, Akani Simbine, Aska Cambridge, | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
Julian Forte from Jamaica. Justin Gatlin is in six. An Zhenye Xie of | :34:42. | :34:53. | |
China. Well, he has a habit of running well in South Africa, Akani | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
Simbine. But not producing it in the championships. That was the case | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
yesterday. So he is in lane two. On his game, he's very quick. Aska | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
Cambridge is not the best of the Japanese, we will see Brown, a young | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
talent, in the next. James Dasaolu, the Croydon Harriers member. Loving | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
the crowd. He has to finish in the top two, only the top two guaranteed | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
and two Buster spots, three races the semifinal. Julian Forte, 995 in | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
qualifying, equalling his personal best. That was special for the | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
Jamaican crowd and there is a what in here tonight. There you go. | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
BOOING. Nothing else to be said really. The | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
crowd incline to have an opinion, in all sports they have those they like | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
and those they do not. Ivory Coast, having a wonderfully consistent | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
season chasing the CJ Ujah and others, Meite. Kim of Korea. A new | :36:07. | :36:17. | |
national record set this year. And Zhenye Xie, not the best of the | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
Chinese. And the Chinese will have a good Relay team. That will be later | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
in the week. So three semifinals, Bolt is in the third. This is the | :36:30. | :36:38. | |
first. Gatlin. He is in six. Dasaolu in four. Meite in lane seven will be | :36:39. | :36:53. | |
the big threat. A packed house, as you would expect. | :36:54. | :37:05. | |
A plain start, the quickest on the far side, Akani Simbine, Gatland | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
running through the middle. It is going to be close. Meite in fourth. | :37:12. | :37:19. | |
I said if he gets it right, he will be a threat, not as fast as I was | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
expecting from the likes of Gatlin. Even Meite. 10.6 in a slight | :37:26. | :37:37. | |
headwind. Pretty good conditions. Simbine winning by 41 hundredths of | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
a second from Justin Gatlin and that is a good return. Sadly, Dasaolu | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
will not be quick enough. And he was in fourth place anyway. What did you | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
make of that, Colin? Meite just held off by Justin Gatlin. Interesting | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
race. Everybody wondering if Simbine would turn it on and that is exactly | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
what he did come out of the blocks, taking an early lead. You know when | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
you go to the first round and you cruise through? You get chopped in | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
and outside lane. You do not get in the mix. That can cause a bit of a | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
problem. Justin Gatlin sneaking through for the second place. Much | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
closer, I was not expecting it to be that close. Expected it to be a bit | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
faster than that, but it is only the semifinal. Redman will be ready for | :38:26. | :38:33. | |
that final. It is interesting, I was chatting to the American management | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
and they were playing down Gatlin saying he had changed too many | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
things in his normal setup. Not sure he is in the right place mentally | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
for this and the BOOING can't help. That was not a Gatlin performance | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
for me in the semifinal stage. No, not vintage. He is getting older, | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
you have to add that into the equation, and he will all be looking | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
that always be looking, and searching, but in the final. 10.9, | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
one of the slowest races he will have run. | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
The heptathlete out for the third event of seven, Katarina | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
Johnson-Thompson, huge disappointment in the High Jump. Way | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
down on what she is capable of, soul destroying, in the words of Jessica | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
Ennis-Hill. First row, looking to salvage a challenge for a medal. | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
Down the left sector. Almost stopping in the middle. Around 12 | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
metres. She can go over 30 metres. So a steady start. A little reverse | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
speed and changing technique. She has made this year. Let's have a | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
look at that. Not a bad start, she has got a throw in, above 12 metres | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
is OK. Not setting the world alight and it is not going to make ground | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
on the position. 12.1. This is one of the contenders for the medals. | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
Carolin Schafer, of Germany. In third place overall. And you can see | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
the personal best way beyond what we have just seen from Katarina | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
Johnson-Thompson. Over 40 metres. Different lines, it is a different | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
sector. The better throwers on one side of the sector at the end of | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
this Olympic Stadium. Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the opposite | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
pool. Based on lifetime bests. Good start for Schafer. Really good | :40:36. | :40:46. | |
start, lifetime best, 14.84. This is the event leader, the Olympic | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
champion, Nafissatou Thiam. In full flow. 1.95 in the High Jump, average | :40:53. | :41:04. | |
in the hurdles. The personal best is her season's best, over 50 metres, | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
this is the gap Katarina Johnson-Thompson is looking at. | :41:09. | :41:17. | |
Thiam looking to increase her lead. Got her right shoulder and that, | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
that is around, over 50 metres. That is a big effort from Thiam, of | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
Belgium. That is how to do it. It was pretty raw, actually, the | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
technique. A bit like the High Jump. 15.17. So Katarina Johnson-Thompson | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
losing more ground on the opposition and not much you can do about it at | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
the moment. Second of three semifinals in the | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
man's race. This is a big fellow, Emmanuel Matadi, he raced for the | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
United States in the past but is representing the country of his | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
birth, Liberia. Jamaican born Alex Wilson who has been living in | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
Switzerland since he was 13. Fairly modest in the last round. Yohan | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
Blake. World Champion in 2011. When Usain Bolt made a false start. | :42:24. | :42:36. | |
Outside him, this huge talent, 18 years old, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
Japan. Father from Ghana and Japanese mother. Bingtian Su, | :42:40. | :42:49. | |
outstandingly quick out of the blocks. Jak Ali Harvey, the former | :42:50. | :42:58. | |
Jamaican competing for Turkey over the last two years, finished well in | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
his heat to come through. This man had to finish well, he started | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
dreadfully, he likes a show on the start line. And then some noise to, | :43:06. | :43:17. | |
the Reece Prescod. Such a hugely talented youngster. A tall man, you | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
can see what happens, you can have problems and growing pains and now | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
only fulfilling his potential. 10.3 in qualifying, that was in lane two | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
and now he is in lane nine. Writing the flanks to the final of the 100m, | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
a big asked. To reach the semifinal, an achievement in itself. Only two | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
go through, the first heat, the first semifinal, was not quick. An | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
outside chance of being one of the two fastest losers. Prescod is in | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
lane nine. Second semifinal of the man's 100m. | :43:57. | :44:10. | |
Su Bingtian flies away. A stumble from Sani Brown. Prescod coming | :44:11. | :44:22. | |
through and he gets second on the line. Yohan Blake the victory. But | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
Reece Prescod is heading to the final of the world's Championships, | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
what a run once he got into his running! He was flying! He does not | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
know it yet, but it has been confirmed. He sees it on the screen, | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
10.0 five. Consistent, consistently quick. He ran so well in the first | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
round. And what a run he has put together in the semifinal. Yohan | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
Blake the victory, but most of the cheers inside the stadium for the | :44:54. | :44:56. | |
man in second place because Reece Prescod is true to the final of the | :44:57. | :44:58. | |
100m. What a strong performance from that | :44:59. | :45:09. | |
young man, if he could repeat that, he would be very close. His start | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
was not as good at the finish is one that Reece Prescod can always | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
deliver, passing everybody very easily. Only Yohan Blake. Everybody | :45:22. | :45:33. | |
else, he treated them like, OK, this is my turf, and I will fight | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
through. Brilliant run. Look at him moving past all except Yohan Blake. | :45:40. | :45:50. | |
He is tall, he is like Bolt. He needs a while to get into the | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
running. Popping out of the blocks, that is the way he runs. This is the | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
way he will improve, getting used to the start, he will have a very nice | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
progression in his sprinting life, lovely running from Reece Prescod. | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
Interesting things happening all over. The match touted Japanese | :46:13. | :46:22. | |
athlete, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, had a terrible stumble. We can confirm, | :46:23. | :46:36. | |
these are the tables. , automatic qualification. Here he comes, we can | :46:37. | :46:51. | |
break off from Bolt as Katarina Johnson-Thompson gets ready for his | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
second effort in the shot put. Slight improvement. The noise in the | :46:56. | :47:04. | |
stadium as Usain Bolt enters, ready for the semifinal. The third event | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
of the Heptathlon, Katarina Johnson-Thompson losing some ground | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
and this is damage limitation, the shot put is not strong for her, it | :47:16. | :47:27. | |
is better than, well, 12.37, she needs more in the third round. | :47:28. | :47:39. | |
Balding macro the stadium erupted when Usain Bolt entered the arena. | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
We are hoping will be the penultimate time, we hope this is | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
going well and we would like to see him in the final, you are not | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
worried about the semifinal? Especially given The Times we have | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
seen, this semifinal does have Christian Coleman, that should be an | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
interesting prided to what we will see tonight but I do not think he | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
will have any problems. He is anxious to run at this point and we | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
will see something very different from the execution last night. That | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
was a very good run from Reece Prescod? He has a weirdo start, but | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
what was impressive is the finish, he was maybe in sixth place halfway | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
through. And to take second place, if you can get that start together, | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
he can get under ten seconds. He shows consistency, he can be really | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
good. His eyes are moving around, you don't tend to see that much, you | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
used to seeing the affiliates really focused, his eyes were going left | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
and right, just the way he does his thing. This is a new technique from | :49:01. | :49:09. | |
the new preparation camp, he is learning so much and he has been | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
working on his stance. Coming together nicely. Chijindu Ujah next | :49:14. | :49:28. | |
to Usain Bolt in Heat 3, the final at 9:45pm tonight. Steve Cram, | :49:29. | :49:38. | |
described the atmosphere. Just below us, around a couple of hundred | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
Jamaican supporters, very close to the finish line, they have placards | :49:42. | :49:50. | |
with the silhouette of this man, the unmistakable silhouette with his | :49:51. | :50:03. | |
pose and the word legend. And some scarves, which were selling outside | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
for only ?3. He does represent his country so well and there is a great | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
Jamaican contingent in London to support him. There is a lot of | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
nervous tension as well, that was very nice bowl from Shuhei Tada from | :50:21. | :50:31. | |
Japan. Emre Zafer Barnes had to come through the preliminary rounds. And | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
is this the man to upset the party, Christian Coleman? 12.01 -- 9.82. | :50:37. | :50:48. | |
Until the American trials, he was unbeaten. Andrew Fisher, another | :50:49. | :50:55. | |
transfer from Jamaica. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :50:56. | :51:02. | |
This is what we have come to see. He is the one they have come to see. He | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
is the reason why so many people are here tonight. He has called Usain | :51:09. | :51:18. | |
Bolt. Chijindu Ujah next to him, getting some British support. | :51:19. | :51:27. | |
Brilliant run from Reece Prescod, what can Chijindu Ujah do? Jimmy | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
Vicaut is struggling with a hamstring injury. But he looked like | :51:32. | :51:38. | |
he was ready to go fast in qualification. And a bit of a | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
surprise, Cejhae Greene from Antigua and Barbuda, a 21-year-old, just | :51:44. | :51:53. | |
outside ten seconds this year. So far, pretty slow and I don't think | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
he has ever needed to be the fastest loser, at the moment 10.12 would be | :51:57. | :52:05. | |
good enough, and with Christian Coleman and Usain Bolt in this, that | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
is maybe what he is looking at. And with Bolt next to him, maybe he can | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
be dragged through to join him in the final. Here we go, the last | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
individual semifinal from Usain Bolt. Surely he has to make it | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
three? Bolt is away pretty well. And | :52:25. | :52:44. | |
Christian Coleman. Bolt looks across. 9.97. Well, he is through, | :52:45. | :52:58. | |
but there is a huge sigh of relief from the television stations around | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
the world, but that is interesting, the first glimpse of Usain Bolt and | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
Christian Coleman together and the threat looks like it is coming from | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
this man, not Justin Gatlin. Look at his face? His name is not on there? | :53:16. | :53:23. | |
The top four does not have his name. But we know, it's all right. | :53:24. | :53:34. | |
Interesting, just for one second the crowd were thinking, what is going | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
on? Surely that was Usain Bolt? And his name is not on the computer | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
screen. His name has disappeared early. Chijindu Ujah... He is on | :53:44. | :53:55. | |
there, right now. For a little while he had changed his name to Andrew | :53:56. | :54:04. | |
Fisher. He is not starting well but Christian Coleman is explosive? | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
Blasting this out. He says to Usain Bolt, this is how I am, if you are | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
going to hold me back, I will still be working harder for 15 metres | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
more. Usain Bolt, hauling himself out of the blocks, not charging with | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
frequency. Checking to his left, he can see Hellfire Coleman is in front | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
of him. You seem that long stride he has. And in the final, he will have | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
to nail that start and from a much better position at the 50 metres | :54:40. | :54:47. | |
mark and go from there. -- you can see how far. Usain Bolt looks and | :54:48. | :54:55. | |
control, I need to start to pull this all the way through. Still | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
glancing over there. And Christian Coleman, giving that little glance. | :55:02. | :55:11. | |
Bolt smiling. So close and yet so far once again? I did not quite get | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
out of the blocks. Really disappointed with that. It was the | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
toughest of the semifinals with Usain Bolt and Christian Coleman, | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
what was the thought process? I knew what I was up against, I just did | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
not not execute the start. And as for your roommate, Reece Prescod, | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
what can you say to him about the final? He is full of surprises, you | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
never know, amazing talent, why not get a medal? Why not? I am going to | :55:49. | :55:57. | |
get behind him and support him. I wish I could have been there with | :55:58. | :55:58. | |
him. Thank you for talking to us. Very disappointed last year, this | :55:59. | :56:11. | |
year it is two hundredths of a final by which he misses the final. And | :56:12. | :56:24. | |
the fastest loser... Jimmy Vicaut. Shades of Beijing when he got | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
through to the final but I suspect that is the tussle, Blake will | :56:28. | :56:35. | |
feature, how much quicker can Bolt get? He has got quicker in every | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
race this season. These are the qualifiers. Reece Prescod, brilliant | :56:43. | :56:51. | |
to see him, Christian Coleman, two from the USA and Jamaica. And | :56:52. | :57:03. | |
Bingtian Su. The second of seven in the high jump. Rodriguez from Cuba. | :57:04. | :57:17. | |
She has over 40 metres and that is better. Just shy of 14 metres. We | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
have talked about putting herself into contention for a medal and she | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
will be one to watch. Very good technique. The left side staying | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
strong, but shy of 14. And your best ever was 14.60 four. | :57:39. | :57:50. | |
She needs over 13 metres. She needs her lifetime best. Like a golfer | :57:51. | :58:00. | |
with a double bogey, she needs to birdie the next hole. She needs to | :58:01. | :58:09. | |
dig deep for a personal best. She needs to push on. She is not on for | :58:10. | :58:21. | |
that at the moment, she is on for 6498. Yorgelis Rodriguez is not | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
doing well, the bronze medal is still there. Katarina | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
Johnson-Thompson can still get that? I think so. Putting together this | :58:33. | :58:42. | |
textbook first day, Nafissatou Thiam. As solid start, not like the | :58:43. | :58:51. | |
Hurdles but was very good in the high jump and she has gone beyond 15 | :58:52. | :59:00. | |
metres. 15.17. Getting ready for this second effort, she can really | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
go after this, she has that long throw at the points on the board in | :59:07. | :59:12. | |
this third event. She can really push her right shoulder, this is | :59:13. | :59:20. | |
where she gets her distance from. Maybe losing the left side little | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
bit, dropping below. I don't think that is any improvement. And that is | :59:26. | :59:33. | |
what happens. But the Olympic champion leads the world here. And | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
at the moment, she looks unstoppable. There is no improvement | :59:38. | :59:55. | |
14.76. Nafissatou Thiam, fantastic in the shot put and delivering, like | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
Rio, where it matters most, and building on the impressive high | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
jump, I'm just head over to the board with Michael. Michael has been | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
working hard on some analysis. Reece Prescod in the Men's 100 metres | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
final tonight. He mentioned his start, you said it was strange? | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Slow? Just a little bit weird, we can look at him in the semifinal, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Great Run, fantastic, watch here, not a great start, already behind, | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
at this point he is maybe in fifth or sixth place and this is where | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
things get impressive. Ready to pick up the speed and come through. Look | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
here. This is causing it to be weird. His | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
ankles almost touching, that will not get you much power of the blog | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
and that is why his start was not very good at all. But again, he was | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
able to come through it and overcome that, a poor start. To keep his | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
focus, continue to execute. His eyes on the finish line, and just pick | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
through the field. Get himself into second place. Amazing performance, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
to get himself into the final. Is that something that he could | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
literally change in a split second? His mother is watching and she text | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
at him to say his ankles were together on the start box, does that | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
make a difference? It can make a massive difference because he can | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
get a better push from the starting blocks, it it is also the way he | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
came off the blocks. If your ankles touch and you put pressure on the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
blocks and that does not propel you forward, it propels you inward and | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
one knee towards another, you do not go forward. That is absolutely | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
something. He is young, it could be just a mistake. There's time ever | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Usain Bolt has been beating the semifinal or Olympic semifinal -- | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
first time. He could have won that. Let's take a look. Much better in | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
this race and he had been in the semifinal. This is what he wanted to | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
do, to come out here and make up for what happened yesterday and he does | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
very well. No problem with the blocks this time, a better start. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
This time, he executes and he takes his time and his more patient. Last | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
night, he rushed it when he saw he was in trouble. He slows down, he | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
looks at the screen and he feels comfortable and he knows he could | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
continue this if he wants and go and win this. But he will be very bit | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
for the final. And I think there is more where that came from. Does he | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
will leave a bit. Why would he do that? For his own confidence going | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
into the final not push that bit? Because he always has confidence and | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
he does not need to build confidence by beating Coleman who is not the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
World Champion and Olympic champion like Usain Bolt. He knows he just | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
needs to be patient and do what he does and stay within himself. When | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
it really counts, which is what he always does, then he will put it all | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
on the line. Ready for the moment, Michael. Paula has joined us, what | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
we are looking out for? On the track. Laura Muir. She is in the | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
first of the semifinals of the 1500m, all British women made it | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
through, all four. Laura is the Diamond League winner and the best | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
in Britain. That is why we get four women in the semifinals, what race | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
to she need to qualify for the final tonight? She knows, she just has to | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
run it like any race, and she always lays it on the line and she puts it, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
makes it into a brave and tough race and she will do that. And Jess Judd | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
as well. Just might have to run another personal best to advance | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
through to the final, she would just attack this race. They are up | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
against Kipyegon. Caster Semenya. Dibaba. Any of the year, it could be | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
a final. Coming through thick and fast and these semifinals are the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
highest of high quality. The women's semifinals of the 1500m and it is | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
Heat 1 and Mrs Steve Cram. Round one was the highest quality | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
ever in a major championships in terms of the time achieved and part | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
of the worst you to Jess Judd which made the others have to run quick | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
because of her frontrunning. Two Olympic champions, Kipyegon and | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Semenya. A defending World Champion, Dibaba, also the world record | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
holder. Laura Muir, the champion in the European Indoors and the | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
European outdoor champion, Cichocka. Also the likes of Arafi and grace of | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
the United States. Quality athletes and only five go through. Tsegay | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
under four minutes this year and she is still only 20. Laura Muir. She | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
has got a bit of a strapping on her leg. I think she has been nursing a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
bit of an Achilles issue. Hopefully, that is OK. Might get a look at that | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
strapping shortly. The defending champion Dibaba and almost looking | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
back to her best. Just an incredible world-record. We were not sure | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
whether she would run the 5,000 and she chose the 1,500 and she might | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
yet run the 5,000. Personal best by Jess Judd, superb run in the heats, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
it you can expect something similar. She knows nothing but to go out and | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
run as hard as she can. The others will love that. Arafi, Zoe Buckman | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
of Australia knows this is a tough semifinal, as does Klein. And what | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
about Caster Semenya? The Olympic champion at the 800m and they have | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
just ignored her on the start line. The Olympic 1500m champion Kipyegon. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Faith very popular among the 1500m runner contenders. Semenya is a | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
stranger amongst this group of athletes because this is not her | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
normal event and most people very surprised to see her contest this as | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
well as the 800. The semifinal, five to go through, the two fastest | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
losers from the two. Sitting next to me, you and I both enjoyed Jess, | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Rebecca, incredible journey to get back to this form. Yesterday in the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
heats, a lot of people saying how much they enjoyed her running. It is | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
kind of all she knows and I think we will get something similar. It is | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
really good. An athlete knows her strengths. Even under pressure, the | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
World Championship semifinal, she is taking this competition and sticking | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
to her challenge and that is a real strength for the young lady who we | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
will see a lot more of in the future. Dibaba realises she has got | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
to get close. This is a loaded field with real talent in it. This could | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
grace any final and it is going to be tough for Jess. A little bit | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
tougher... There goes Dibaba, no, it was the other Ethiopian athlete. She | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
is having a race. Trying to get back but she has lost four, five seconds, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
but Jess Judd does not let up. A perfect first lap. Yesterday, she | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
said her dad told her not to go too quick on the first lap and this time | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
it is more circumspect. 65, just bringing this up gradually. We hope | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
she can use her strength, she has good strength and she will know she | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
is not as quick as many of the other big names. But if she can stretch it | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
out and get rid of some, it is a test of endurance, it is the impact | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
yesterday had. The impact that has had on everybody today. Trying to | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
work on Brendan's microphone. Jess Judd is coming round with two laps | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
to go. We are watching for the 800m mark. Pretty much giving up,, that | :08:45. | :08:56. | |
is sad for her. Laura Muir on the inside. Arafi. Kipyegon behind Laura | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
Muir. I went through in 2.11. Almost identical to yesterday. She is | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
tiring, she did well yesterday Jess Judd, Laura Muir on the inside and | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
the middle but Dibaba is where she wanted to be. And look at Semenya on | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
inside just cruising alongside the other bit champion. Olympic | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
800-metre champion Semenya and away goes Kipyegon. She decides to needs | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
to be in a better position in the finishing straight. The poll in the | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
red and white Cichocka. Laura Muir alongside Dibaba. Jess Judd looks | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
tired as the big names take it on. A mix-up race, this is Laura Muir and | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Jessica Judd fading but Dibaba holds the inside. The Olympic champion is | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
next to her. This is Laura Muir putting herself in the right place. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Right within the limit 800-metre champion Caster Semenya. 65 seconds | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
and now the race is on. Laura Muir looks really comfortable. Supremely | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
comfortable. Kipyegon looks relaxed. Working hard. Cichocka. We know what | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Semenya can do. Kipyegon at the front. Dibaba a little anxious, only | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
five go through. Laura Muir in a perfect position. Kipyegon leading | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
it. Dibaba in trouble. The surprise is Hanna Klein of Germany. Laura | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
Muir, Semenya, Arafi. These five pulling away. Kipyegon, Laura Muir, | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
Semenya, Cichocka and Klein of Germany. The first surprise, the | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
winning time is 3,56. Two Ethiopians who I would have put my money on | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
getting through, one is the defending champion and the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
world-record holder and the other is a very good athlete, Tsegay, who | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
crosses the line distraught after falling earlier and Jess Judd looks | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
tired. A messy semifinal, Brendan. But Kipyegon and Laura Muir, | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
brilliant. Looking comfortable. Two hard races. Two hard races, Steve. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
That is why Jessica Judd is flat on her back and you can see the | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
strapping on the leg of Laura Muir. Giving consolation to her young | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
team-mate. Laura Muir looked really good. Really strong and powerful. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
That was a lot of action in that race. A lot of talent in that race | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
and the two British athletes, well done, Jessica Judd. And Laura Muir | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
trying to help her. That is the Olympic champion, Laura Muir | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
alongside her looking powerful and looking good. This is Semenya, just | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
doing enough. And the surprise of the race, Dibaba fading away in the | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
home straight. Muir looking good. Kipyegon deal a bit champion looking | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
strong. Here comes Caster Semenya. Klein of Germany, they are the five | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
qualifiers. And surprise, surprise. The reigning champion takes no | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
further part, except look at the times, we will have to see, but | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
Semenya looks good. Laura Muir should feel really confident about | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
that, a strong performance. I think she is down there now. With Phil | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Jones. He is there. She is there. Yet ready for them. Laura Muir. | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
Both British athletes with me. Are you OK, first of all? Yes, I | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
gave it everything. I couldn't do any more. Yes. It is OK. You | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
attacked it like you always do. They wanted to, I was getting kicked a | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
bit. It was so far. The last 24 hours has been crazy. Everybody has | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
been lovely. That is why you go out to race. I did that for me. It did | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
not pay off but to make a semifinal is just, I am over the moon and it | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
is my dad's birthday so I wanted to give it a good go but it wasn't to | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
be. Next time. Laura, it shows the camaraderie and the team, supporting | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
your team-mate. Triumphant on the global stage like we hoped, showing | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
tremendous form. Thank you, yes. I wanted to get the semifinal, that | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
could have been a final. Jess did a great job and she was amazing, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
running a BB is great in something like this. A bit of strapping on | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
your calf, at your Achilles. Is it something we should be worried | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
about? No, my foot is fine, my body was not used to it being back in | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
spikes, but all good. As you run the race, you said it could have been a | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
final, as for the final, a quality field, but you look on top form. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Yes, really surprised how I felt. I just felt really good and wanted to | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
stay out of trouble. A girl went down at one point, the 1500m is | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
scrappy and I wanted to get the final, glad I did that. We wish you | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
well, congratulations, Jess, all the best going forward. Thank you and | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
thank you to everyone at home as well, thank you. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Yes, this is just exhaustion from Jess Judd. We knew she would run | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
herself into the ground pretty much, glad she is all right. Wobbly legs! | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
A discrepancy in size but Laura Muir doing a great job, a bit of a crutch | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
for a while and Jess saying thank you very much. Good friends, the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
British quartet get along very well indeed in this event so they will be | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
delighted Laura Muir has gone through. But the surprise is the | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
World Champion Dibaba, world-record holder, she has to anxiously wait | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
and watched the semifinal and Hanna Klein of Germany the surprise among | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
the big names. Important moment here for Katarina | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
Johnson-Thompson, her last chance to improve on her second round. She | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
will throw 13 metres at her best and I really want to see her going after | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
this. Something around 13 metres would put back into medal | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
contention, but no. Disappointed with that. What did you make of | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
that? Perry Street legs and upright when throwing, there was not enough | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
flex in her legs to use the quadriceps and her groups. Again, | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
throwing 12.72 in her best performance. This is leaking another | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
17 points. But again, Yorgelis Rodriguez has also underperformed so | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
there is a chance for a medal but you have to fight for it. It looks | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
like Nafissatou Thiam is setting out her stall for a gold medal once | :16:22. | :16:33. | |
again. 15.17, what can she do here? She threw 14.51 on her best effort. | :16:34. | :16:45. | |
That 15 metres maybe puts back on course for 7000 points? Hip, chest | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
and arm, let us see the distance... 15.17... Better than what you dreams | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
of. I would praise something around 16.9. -- predicts something. The joy | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
on the face of Sarah McDonald that you find out she had made the final! | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
Laura Weightman, she has made the last two Olympic finals. Can she | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
make her first world final? Not a happy hunting ground for the World | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Championships but she has the quality. Perhaps not the great star | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
names of the first eight, another world champion | :17:44. | :17:58. | |
with Jenny Simpson. She took the title in 2011. Fastest in the world | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
this year, Sifan Hassan. Perhaps the favourite for the title, really | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
surprised to see her struggling. Mind zacro with her left thigh | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
heavily strapped. And Meraf Bahta from Sweden. High quality. Can Laura | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
Weightman find a way through? The two fastest losers as well. Genzebe | :18:38. | :18:52. | |
Dibaba is not our Kent. Laura Weightman will want a decent pace | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
for this one. -- not out yet. She is trying to encourage the pace. Not | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
trying to set the pace on her own, leaving space on the inside, she | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
looks comfortable and strong, Jenny Simpson... With mind zacro on the | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
inside. She knows the time, she can do 4.5. And as one of the fastest | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
losers, that is a big advantage for her. Sifan Hassan is under the | :19:27. | :19:43. | |
tutelage of an American and is a lot stronger. But this is very good | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
running from Laura Weightman but nobody is responding to her? We were | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
looking for a decent pace. This is Besu Sado trying to get herself into | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
a better position. This is familiar for Sifan Hassan, loitering but she | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
will make her move, she had a blistering finish in Beijing a | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
couple of years ago. Could not quite get back to Genzebe Dibaba. She has | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
a great change of pace and she sits at the back, like Mo Farah, waiting | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
for her moments. Jenny Simpson, the other American, upfront alongside | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
Laura Weightman. Laura Muir, the Diamond League winner, but then look | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
at Sifan Hassan, she is a lot smoother and stronger. Off the front | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
from the German. Making this sensible move and that is a burst of | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
speed. Can she keep going? Error in pursuit are they know how good she | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
is. She is prepared to try to win her way through the hardware. She to | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
get out from the front in her heat. Just scraping through after leading | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
all the rest of the accolades and look at that gap she has opened. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
This elfin figure. Sifan Hassan coming back to the front of the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
chasing pack, Besu Sado making her move also. They hit the bell. | :21:27. | :21:38. | |
Konstanze Klosterhalfen will be hurting soon. But Sifan Hassan | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
leading the chase. It doesn't really matter, five left to qualify and | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
then the fastest losers. Look at the speed of Hassan. And Besu Sado | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
speeding away. On the bike straight, Laura Weightman battling it out. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Trying to hang on as the pack close in. She will pay the price, as | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
Hassan comes past. Jenny Simpson is there. Laura Weightman trying to get | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
past Winny Chebet. Here comes Laura Weightman, looking for the gap on | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
the inside! And Laura Weightman is coming. Jenny Simpson! Laura | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Weightman takes fourth place, just ahead of the Moroccan. She judged | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
that well and is smiling, she is into the final of the 1500m. She was | :22:51. | :23:04. | |
not frightened by Hassan and Meraf Bahta. Laura Weightman ran | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
unmeasured race and she has her reward. That was not a conventional | :23:08. | :23:19. | |
way to qualify for a final, you can tell Laura Weightman that her coach | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
was sweating. That was a very strange race went Konstanze | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Klosterhalfen went away, that is Laura Weightman putting pressure on | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
the bike, Konstanze Klosterhalfen fading away, Hassan is powerful and | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
Meraf Bahta is equally strong. She has to do this almighty run in the | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
home straight and she is beginning to do it. Winny Chebet struggling. | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
Accelerating and suddenly, thank goodness, Laura Weightman finding | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
something in the last 50 metres. Sprinting through. So close to fifth | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
place. And her nervous coach, Steve Cram, is delighted, as he should be | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
but he will not have run many races like that because sometimes that can | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
go wrong for you. Struggling for a little bit at the back but when she | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
got into contention... Will, dear Alex Pike that was messy. -- old, | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
dear. The first smart thing is not to go mad and we thought she was | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
going hard but there were too many people for my liking, some great | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
athletes, Besu Sado, Winny Chebet, everywhere there was danger but what | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
you will know with Laura Weightman is she has guts, she is strong and | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
she likes hard races and she has found some extra pace this year and | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
that is what she did at the end, and for me, this is when you think she | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
will dig deeper than anybody in the home straight, everybody does but | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
she will fight to the line. In 2012 in London, she got to the final by | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
100th of a second by sticking through and she is doing a little | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
bit of the same today. She is watching that fast finish, to make | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
your way through, into the final of the World Championships, she has | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
been an two Olympic finals before. A little bit of applause and she is | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
talking to fill. She has been watching the replay and she heard | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
what Steve Cram was saying. We always have known you have had | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
determination? This year I believe in myself more, I have never run a | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
race like that before in my life. I knew it would take a great race and | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
I cannot believe I did that! I was so nervous. But the stadium and the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
crowd is incredible, I knew I had to catch three or four. I was gaining | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
places, to finish in fourth place, over the moon and so thrilled to | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
make the final. And the role of that crowd, that was all for you? There | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
is no greater feeling than competing in front of the home crowd, I love | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
the stadium, I cannot wait for Monday. What can you achieve? After | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
the race of your life tonight? Anything is possible if I keep | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
believing in myself, the matter what happens, I will come out with a good | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
performance. Well done, all the best. Safely through, there we are, | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
confirmation... Jenny Simpson alongside running a very good race. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
Tidying things up. Sifan Hassan will be the favourite, Lecabela Quaresma, | :27:04. | :27:17. | |
Laura Weightman. Sara Vaughn in ninth place. These are the finalists | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
for Monday. Laura Muir, Caster Semenya is also in their and Jenny | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Simpson, Genzebe Dibaba will go through as one of the fastest | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
losers. Completely out of sorts but she might have a chance to recover | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
from Monday and Laura Weightman is also there. Next on the track, the | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
longest of the Women's races, the 10,000 metres but we will know in | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
two hours, who is a world champion over 100 metres. There is one man | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
who feels he is pure gold. We first time, that is a good start from | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Powell, Usain Bolt streaking away from the field! That is superb, this | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
is a new world record! Away they go, Usain Bolt going past already, | :28:14. | :28:22. | |
blasting around the top bend, Shawn Crawford tried to handle him. | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
Streaking down the home straight. What is a time? It is gold and a new | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
world record. I do not believe it! Absolutely brilliant! Get set... | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
Powell was the quickest but Usain Bolt is getting into his stride, | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
pulling away, he is going to win the gold. 9.64, the champion becomes a | :28:52. | :29:05. | |
legend. That is a clean start, Bolt out of the blocks really well, Blake | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
has a lot to do, look at him go, three metres lead, coming into the | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
home straight, here comes Yohan Blake but he will not catch on, | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
Usain Bolt is going to do that. Gold all the way. 9.32. Bolt has been | :29:25. | :29:34. | |
left in the blocks, Gatland is leading. Usain Bolt is going to take | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
it! 9.80, the magnificent seven and the Odyssey continues! He gets away | :29:45. | :29:53. | |
well. Already away, the grass is running well. Usain Bolt, on his | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
own, as he has been throughout his career, running away from everybody. | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
Running to what he would love to be able to do as an athlete. This is a | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
gold medal, his eighth gold. Six individual gold medals in his | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
Olympic career, we will never see his like again. Sun setting on his | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
career tonight. The stadium grappling with anticipation. He is | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
in the final, one hour and 45 minutes away, the last time he will | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
be on the blocks in a major championship. Doubts always around | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
him at this level, but it is about his attitude and pressure. Is he up | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
for it? He certainly looks up for it. Who will challenge him all the | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
way? Christian Coleman, maybe Reece Prescod of Great Britain. But he | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
always seems to know how to win. That final is at 9:45 p:m.. It is | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Bolt night and also heptathlon evening as well, the shop but under | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
way. The 200m coming up shortly and the men's Long Jump final is around | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
the corner. And there is a man in the House tonight who is not out | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
there jumping, but he certainly put himself into athletics and World | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
Athletics Championships history, he is the reigning World Champion. | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
Olympic glory came first, followed by a European title and Commonwealth | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
gold last summer. Out in front at the World Championships. And he | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
looks set to complete the set. In the fourth round, he is looking to | :31:38. | :31:46. | |
extend his lead. That is big. That is a huge jump. It is a mammoth | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
jump. Greg Rutherford in the fourth round. The pressure was on. 8.41, a | :31:51. | :32:00. | |
seasoned's best. Rutherford takes gold here in the Bird's Nest. | :32:01. | :32:08. | |
Rutherford completes his Grand Slam. It is unbelievable! | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
Are not many more people that have crammed more into the last five | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
years this man. The smile is still broad despite the injury and they | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
all still be in the stadium! If you want to swing round to look at this | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
lot. The Greg Rutherford fans in the House. This man will spend every | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
single moment he can signing autographs and taking pictures, he | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
is a gentleman. Let's start positively and talk about the | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
memories of this place from 2012. They must come flooding back? Yes, | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
the most amazing thing being here every day, this crowd is about | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
27,000 people less than it was five years ago that it feels louder. | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
Every moment I see a Long Jump are warming up and getting ready to go, | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
I am just desperate to put on my kit and say, don't worry, I am here, I | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
am ready. Sadly, it is not to be. This is a new experience for me | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
being injured and is talking about it rather than being in it. But this | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
place is one of the most wonderful tracks in the world and I am | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
thrilled I can be here in some capacity. Everybody loves watching | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
this, EU more than anybody. Those images. You got two babies now, but | :33:21. | :33:31. | |
the time of your life? Definitely, I look a lot younger and I had more | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
sleep, you can see by the face. A bit more grisly, I am ageing | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
quickly! London 2012, for me, is the defining moment of my career and the | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
greatest moment ever in my career. Having my children is more | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
important, obviously, but athletically, you aim to become one | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
of the best in the world. That is what every single British athlete | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
wants to do. Every athlete wants to become the best in the world and I | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
have been very fortunate I have had my time doing that. It is not over, | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
a very keen to come back and the fire in my belly watching this over | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
here and getting ready to go is getting me going. If he had a | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
jacket, he would be unzipping it now and ready to go. You are desperate | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
to be at the anniversary Games and performing here and you held of the | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
decision. Why could you not be out here performing? Sadly, this year | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
has been one of those old-fashioned Greg Rutherford years and I have | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
been dogged with injury. I had an injury in my back which caused | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
problems. And the ones that have been documented more recently, two | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
ligaments in my ankle popped. That is less than ideal when you need to | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
run down a runway and jump. There is a hernia in migraine. Some tracking | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
them up this year! Very keen to see the back of them. I will have to go | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
for surgery on the train. I have been in this situation before. After | :34:56. | :35:01. | |
rehab, get ready for next year. Been there and done it and you will come | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
again. But the disappointment is we will not have either of the last two | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
Olympic gold-medallist because Jeff Hansen went out yesterday, so what | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
do you make of the competition here? If you are competing, you would win | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
easily, but who should we look out for? This is a fascinating Long | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
Jump. I think the favourite has to be Luvo Manyonga, he has been | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
jumping so well and he is on something we all hoped, jumping | :35:29. | :35:30. | |
regularly over 850 at the start of the year and that is important to | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
boost the event. Henderson is out, but he is one of the only ones left | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
with experience of winning a major championships. Without him, it mixes | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
it up. I spoke to Dwight Phillips and former Olympic champion from | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
2004 and he reckons Lawson has that but he is American and he would | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
always say that! A spicy bentonite. If it is any consolation, you will | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
not be competing but at least I get to watch this with my friend which I | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
never thought I would get to do. Very quickly. Beyond this, you are | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
having the surgery, have you put any timeline on when we might see you | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
compete and jump again? Yes, absolutely, I will take the indoors | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
seriously for once and when you get ready for the summer coming you | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
train through the winter, but I am going for it and there is the World | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
Indoor Championships. I held all four outdoor Championships and they | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
do not have the two indoors. There is a world and it European Indoors | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
and if I can win those two, there is nothing I have not won and that | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
motivates me. That is a target, a UK comeback. We will have the wires go | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
into Grant Brie possibly and you might see me jumping. Dashed the | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
Glasgow Grand Prix. Meanwhile, we have a Long Jump. | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
Good to have you back. That World Championships, the indoors, it is in | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
Birmingham in March. So exciting Greg says he will jump indoors | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
because we do not see that very often and he has the intention of | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
coming back into big-time, tuition. Looking forward to the women's | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
10,000m in a fume moments. Paula is definitely the person to talk to | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
about that. But Laura Weightman, that was a gutsy run and she said it | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
well, I'm not normally picking people of like that on the home | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
straight. No, Maura is discovering that about herself. She has | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
discovered she is quicker than she thought she was this year. -- Laura. | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
She was digging deep as she always does and you was finding something | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
and she was seeing something coming back, she saw Klosterhalfen coming | :37:46. | :37:56. | |
back. But she went away from her in the last ten metres. We'll have done | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
her confidence so much good for the final. She just wants to go in and | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
have fun and see what she can do. That is a race that is a nightmare. | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
Seemingly no plan. And so you can easily get eaten up in a race like | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
that through no fault of your own. That is the kind of race where if | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
you are not calm and you have not got your stuffed together, you | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
really get into trouble. People going at the front really hard and | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
is dying and coming back quickly. People falling over. And chipping. | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
She needed to keep out of trouble and stay on her feet and keep | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
fighting freight route of the last minute. The most important thing you | :38:37. | :38:39. | |
can do in a round is keep fighting until the last round. A double order | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
Laura which is fantastic news and it be an incredible race, Laura Muir | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
raced beautifully and she sailed through to the final. The women | :38:52. | :38:58. | |
coming out for the 10,000m. The name on the page jumping out every time | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
is Tirunesh Dibaba. Twice Olympic champion, like Mo Farah. She is also | :39:05. | :39:11. | |
an Arsenal fan like Mo Farah. She does not have the doubles record but | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
imperious at the 10K, you can beat her tonight? Ayana can and she did | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
so commit singly in Rio last year. I have not seen either of them race | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
this year on the track. We need to get an idea how they are looking | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
over the first couple of laps. Is it going to go off as quickly as Rio? | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
That was the fastest championship final and probably race we have ever | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
seen. Ayana had the most incredible race and that was a morning session | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
in Rio. A very unusual 10K final. This is the most traditional place. | :39:47. | :39:54. | |
Tirunesh Dibaba might as well be wearing a crown, distance running | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
royalty. Yes, when she first came onto the scenes, for so many years | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
we called her the baby faced destroyer. Is 31 now and it seems | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
that she has been around forever because she was winning major | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
championships in 2004, 2,000 five. She has changed and she has been | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
away and started a family, but still coming back extremely strong and she | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
probably ran fastest and surprised herself with health asked she went | :40:23. | :40:33. | |
in Riyadh last year with 29.42. It would be destined because Ayana runs | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
so hard and so quick. This is the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and making | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
it look very straightforward, the five K victory. Yes, she did. She | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
dominates and she has the Arsenal, very like Mo Farah over the 10,000m. | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
But he does not win by that kind of margin. No, he likes to leave it a | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
bit later. She does not launch an attack until late in the race, but | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
she does it with such speed and so much better than the rest of the | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
field in so many races that she just moves away and has a large cushion | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
by the end of the race. As always with the 10,000m, there will be | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
races within a race. Plenty to get your teeth stuck into, Brendan | :41:17. | :41:18. | |
Foster and Steve Cram. Intriguing race in prospect, one of | :41:19. | :41:27. | |
the all-time greats, Tirunesh Dibaba. Ayana would love to be | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
considered in that position eventually, but if she bit? How has | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
her injury affected her? Is there anybody in this very good Kenyan | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
team capable of upsetting the Ethiopian script? And what about | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
surprise medals? We saw Emily Infeld pipping Molly Huddle last time, the | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
two Americans in a scrap for third and fourth. Infeld celebrating a | :41:54. | :42:00. | |
little early, the drama unfolding behind the front two. A lot to look | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
forward to, really good conditions for the 10,000m run. If there is | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
such a thing. One of those sentences you should never release a! And we | :42:11. | :42:17. | |
have got Beth Potter in this. -- never really say. Now moving on to | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
the Triathlon. Charlotte Taylor. Trying to look down the line. There | :42:26. | :42:41. | |
is better. -- Bath. And Jess Martin. Anyway, Tirunesh Dibaba introduced | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
to the crowd. I don't think they do too much together nowadays. There is | :42:48. | :42:55. | |
Dibaba and she is fine and fit and healthy and training well. We heard | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
the rumours she has not been going quite so well. We shall see very | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
shortly. So these Kenyans will be hoping they can take it on. Jebet | :43:08. | :43:18. | |
Tirop. A youngster really when she won the championships, 21 now. She | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
has not got the fast times. All three Kenyan is capable of running | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
fast. Yasemin Can face Laura Muir at the Indoor Championships in March. | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
There is Jess Martin on the back row. The third of the British | :43:36. | :43:43. | |
athletes. And world cross-country champion Irene Chepet Cheptai, this | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
time in Kampala. The Ethiopians did have a trial which I went to. And | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
the top three, they just ignored and they have got Tirunesh Dibaba and | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
Ayana. But are they fit and healthy? The women's 10,000m final. 25 laps | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
of the track and we had Mo Farah to chair last night. With all due | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
respect, Beth and Jess and Charlotte, the crowd will be once | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
more looking forward to a real tussle tweet Ethiopian and Kenya but | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
can anyone else get in amongst it? -- between. We had a world record, | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
Brendan, in Rio last year. I don't think we will get I don't think we | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
will get a world-record tonight, but we did not think we would get one in | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
Rio. It took us by surprise as we went round. Tonight, real drama in | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
the 10,000m last night and drama in this event in the later stages. Not | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
as much British interest at the sharp end, I feel. There definitely | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
will not be. And trying to sort themselves out, they look as though | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
they are doing two laps of the track before they go on to the marathon | :45:05. | :45:07. | |
course, just jogging around and taking it easy. | :45:08. | :45:15. | |
Tirunesh Dibaba essay, the five times world champion on the outside | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
and they go, steady, almost jogging, but eventually they will get going | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
and the race will really take off. Here are the finalists for the Men's | :45:28. | :45:44. | |
long jump, Greg Rutherford watching on. This is a very mixed group of | :45:45. | :45:52. | |
continents. Asian, European, Africans. Yuhao Shi rounding things | :45:53. | :46:02. | |
off, just 18 years old. The only American left in there is Jarrion | :46:03. | :46:12. | |
Lawson, he went out in qualifying. Fouled in the last round of Rio with | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
his hand, and it potentially was the gold medal winning jump. The lead is | :46:19. | :46:29. | |
7.80 nine. 428 secret. Fast on the approach. That is big. 23 years old, | :46:30. | :46:42. | |
Greg Rutherford mentioned him as a contender for the title. They know | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
the South Africans are strong. But Jarrion Lawson... Cutting the | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
Sandwell into eight metres. That looks in excess of even 8.40. Very | :46:56. | :47:05. | |
good balance and rhythm, that was a very tidy first round. Exactly what | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
he would have wanted. And that is a season best, 8.37. Looking back at | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
one of the earlier jobs. Luvo Manyonga. Is that the scream of the | :47:19. | :47:28. | |
champion in the making? He has troubled background. He came from | :47:29. | :47:35. | |
poverty in South Africa, losing out on Olympic gold by just one | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
centimetre and that is a big jump but red flag. That was the earlier | :47:40. | :47:51. | |
jump, look at this, qualifying yesterday. He is very good on the | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
board, look at him driving his knees, great position of his heels, | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
keeping his upper body upright and does not rotate and crash into the | :48:04. | :48:04. | |
pit. That was 81 seconds, this is more | :48:05. | :48:26. | |
like a marathon. And not even a very fast marathon! They went through the | :48:27. | :48:37. | |
first kilometre in what would mean 35 minutes for 10,000 metres. People | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
at home might think they could do that! That is OK, 10,000 metres does | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
not always have to be so fast, it has one of the greatest proponents, | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
Tirunesh Dibaba, her first title in 2003 in Paris, where she is, I have | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
always enjoyed watching her and I remember looking at some film of | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
action, just the way she runs, so efficient. Somebody said she | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
eventually would end up as a great marathon runner and we are starting | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
to see that. 14 years, top of the world, winning 5000 metres and | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
10,000 metres titles and this burgeoning marathon career. When he | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
was your style, I was watching her and she does not look very good at | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
this pace. She looks good at a proper pace and she was shuffling | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
along, but looking like anything special and deciding she was a | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
little bit bored with this but remember in London? The 2.17 | :49:45. | :49:54. | |
marathon, coming in and winning in the 10,000 metres, only running two | :49:55. | :50:02. | |
marathons in her life, both in London, she loves running here and | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
she appreciates the British crowd and she has the most medals of any | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
female athlete in the history of the World Championships, and going all | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
the way back to 2003, arriving as an unknown Ethiopian and she has been | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
called the Queen of distance running and that is a title she carries | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
pretty well. In Manchester, wedding 10,000 metres pretty easily and in | :50:30. | :50:38. | |
London and I am sure she will run well tonight but whether she will | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
win or not, that is why we are here. Watching Michel Torneus moving | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
around. There she goes. For the first time coming to the front. I | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
think the first question for a lot of people watching is, is Almaz | :50:54. | :51:01. | |
Ayana OK? That is 3.20 eight. Early stages. Very slow, maybe some pace | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
being introduced but we have a cracking long jump final going on. | :51:09. | :51:17. | |
Yes, really hotting up. Ruswahl Samaai, lifetime best, the | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
second-ranked South African behind Luvo Manyonga, who had that foul | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
earlier on. The first round. Chasing that lead of Jarrion Lawson. And | :51:28. | :51:36. | |
that is big. That is over eight metres. That is a good start for | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
Ruswahl Samaai. Buying in the Olympics last year. Second on the | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
world list this year behind his team-mate. And he has made the | :51:47. | :51:53. | |
better start. He carried the speed onto the board, that suspension. | :51:54. | :52:02. | |
Only eight centimetres to spare, that is a great shot, working hard | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
to counter the rotation and stretching as far as he can into the | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
sand. Disappearing out of shot. Second place, 8.25. Here is the past | :52:14. | :52:23. | |
champion, the winner in 2013, Vanessa Chefer, one of a handful of | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
athletes who are competing as neutral because of the blanket ban | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
on the Russian team. He was cleared by the review board in July so he | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
has got himself ready. Can he retain his title? He is ever so bouncy | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
whenever he gets things right. And this is a demonstration. His | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
season's best is 8.32. Unbeaten this year but has not been outside of | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
Russia. He has competed with all sorts of injuries over the years, | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
and he is one to take very seriously. That was a big first | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
round. Nothing blistering. Aleksandr Menkov is still favourite, the lead | :53:13. | :53:21. | |
is Jarrion Lawson with 8.37. And he goes into second place with 8.27. | :53:22. | :53:29. | |
Here is a little look at the discus earlier on. Look at that. Close to | :53:30. | :53:43. | |
70 metres from Daniel Stahl. Enormous distance. For this big | :53:44. | :53:52. | |
band, two metres tall and 50 kilos. He really retains his width. He is | :53:53. | :54:01. | |
very consistent this year. 69.19, going into the lead, was Daniel | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
Stahl. The Lithuanian was second best. He then did this! Look at | :54:10. | :54:18. | |
that! Almost bang on the 70 metres line. Just shy of an enormous | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
championship record from Andrius Gudzius and that took the lead in | :54:27. | :54:29. | |
the second round. And it is still the lead as we get to the end of the | :54:30. | :54:37. | |
final of the discus. Andrius Gudzius ahead of Daniel Stahl and a lifetime | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
best from Mason Finley. What a time to do it! Back to the long jump. | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
Their main man, Luvo Manyonga, what is going through his mind after that | :54:52. | :54:58. | |
foul? We didn't get to see how much of a foul that was. But Lawson is | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
very quick, collegiate champion, Luvo Manyonga is the fastest on the | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
runway so far so let us see how they can pull things together. 8.65 is | :55:10. | :55:19. | |
his world lead. What has he got in the second round? That did look a | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
little bit tight but that is big. Way beyond the lead of Jarrion | :55:27. | :55:34. | |
Lawson. That looks closer to nine metres and eight metres. I thought | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
he looked tight on the take-off. Out look at how calm and collected he | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
was, getting out of the sand and winking at the coach. He gathered | :55:45. | :55:57. | |
himself. Perfect board. With six centimetres despair, what a | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
wonderful shot of that hitch kick, that was huge from Luvo Manyonga. | :56:02. | :56:10. | |
8.48, taking the lead in the second round. | :56:11. | :56:21. | |
So, Luvo Manyonga, relief after that foul. Order is recent. And order has | :56:22. | :56:30. | |
resumed in the 10,000 metres final. The first 3000 metres have been | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
pretty pedestrian, almost ten minutes, and the pace picked up and | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
all of a sudden things have been broken up, guess who? The world | :56:40. | :56:48. | |
record-holder, Ayana, throwing in a quick lap, this is about 300 metres | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
of hard running. And the other Kenyan who has that gap. Because | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
Tirunesh Dibaba was slow to react, she would not have that acceleration | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
and Ayana decided enough is enough, that is 68, Matlab, they were going | :57:14. | :57:24. | |
so slow. As a distance runners sweep past, you big man, Daniel Stahl, | :57:25. | :57:32. | |
gets ready for his last attempt, trailing Andrius Gudzius from | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
Lithuania, both over 69 metres. This has been awesome but Daniel Stahl | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
needs to find more to take the gold medal. Another big hit? It stalled | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
badly and has dropped short of 65 metres. Silver for Daniel Stahl. And | :57:50. | :58:00. | |
that is the champion. Muted celebration, he has another through, | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
you maybe would have expected the big man to challenge the lead. That | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
pat on the bike from the Swede. He is happy with second, Daniel Stahl | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
was expected to take the title. And Andrius Gudzius, huge lifetime best. | :58:19. | :58:29. | |
69.20 one. Two centimetres ahead of Daniel Stahl. The pleasure of | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
walking into the cage, knowing he is champion of the world. What a | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
wonderful feeling this must be, looking at the championship record. | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
What has he got? Another big throw for Andrius Gudzius. Enormous! Maybe | :58:48. | :58:55. | |
not quite as far as his best, he did not quite like it. 69.2 one. And he | :58:56. | :59:09. | |
takes gold from Lithuania. -- 69.20 one. And this is the chasing group. | :59:10. | :59:19. | |
Chasing for third. Beth moving onto triathlon with success already, | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
winning in Cardiff are delighted to win the British championships. Based | :59:25. | :59:34. | |
in Leeds. They are picking up, a lot of them tried to go whenever the | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
race broke up. The leader is on the far side, the world record-holder | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
and Olympic champion has ripped the supplied. Almaz Ayana has stolen a | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
march and it is more than that, racing away and add a superbly quick | :59:51. | :59:59. | |
pace, the sort of pace you would not see in the 5000 that kilometre, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
2.49, no wonder even the great Tirunesh Dibaba has attempted that. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
They cannot go with this. Nobody can live with the pace of the | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
world-record holder. Her first race of the season, waiting to see her | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
arrival. She was supposed to run a race and it was cancelled. She was | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
supposed to run recently in Monte Carlo and that was cancelled and | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
here she is now after training in Ethiopian, another 68 second lap. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Running so much faster than the early part of the race. In the | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
chasing group, Dibaba has caught up. And looking down the field, there is | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
the leading British athlete Beth Potter. And it is a strange race. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
But this is a very impressive athlete. Great piece of frontrunning | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
and Paula will be enjoying this in the studio. That has ripped the race | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
apart. No one can go with that, it is within the world-record pace. No | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
wonder she is so far ahead. It is faster over three kilometres the | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
most of these girls are capable of running. So no wonder she has not | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
been challenged. Can did and she is paying the price. Tirunesh Dibaba | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
never reacted. Almost as though she knew what the plan was and what | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Ayana was trying to do and she decided to wait and run the race for | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
the silver medal and she has got herself into that pack fighting for | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
the silver medal. Yes, just on the back there. I was hesitating on | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
Alice Aprot Nawowuna. She took Ayana on on the first half of the race and | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
she faded as Ayana kicked on and got faster and faster to that incredible | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
world-record. Look at the gap she has. This is phenomenal. I bought | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
these three Kenyans might give her a race for her money but that is not | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
the case, they have had to let her go. She is way out in front and it | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
is about silver and Bronze. Nobody in the history of distance running | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
could have lived with her over the last couple of laps. We do not know | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
what will happen in the later stages as we get the laps ticked off, but | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
running remarkably quickly. And she did something similar in the felt | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
thousand metres in Rio and they did catch her and she did come back. -- | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
5,000 metres. Now there is only one thing standing between her and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
victory, her own application. Going so much quicker, so far away from | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
this field, she has destroyed them. Destroyed this field. Can she keep | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
going chasing that group, Tirunesh Dibaba? | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
Right, Jarrion Lawson is in second place behind that Nick Abbot of Luvo | :03:16. | :03:28. | |
Manyonga. The American. 11 centimetres behind. That is a season | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
best, massive crowd. Very supportive of the Long Jump despite the absence | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
of Greg Rutherford. Lawson, round two. That is another big effort. | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
This may challenge the lead of Japan -- Luvo Manyonga. What a competition | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
in the early stages. Six jumps for the top eight. Wilson may have | :04:03. | :04:14. | |
extended the lead of Manyonga on the Gold line, the South African. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Perfect on the board. He has got his eye on it and orientated himself | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
well. Jarrion Lawson is putting together a good series of jumps | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
here. That bodes well for the rest of the competition. 8.43, a season's | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
best again in the second round. This is a young man we got to know a | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
couple of years ago, he took the Bronze medal in the last World | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Championships, Jianan Wang. He is 20 now. 8.14 in the first round. Round | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
two, good on the board, that is a big effort. Wang is putting himself | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
in contention. Lots of athletes fancying Bess. It could go a number | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
of ways. The Chinese looking good. It is interesting the man in the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
yellow Hat, Huntington, the coach Turner Mike Powell. Perfect on the | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
board. Keeps his technique nice and simple. And body up in the, | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
stretches out. Holds his chest up. Just drops up behind his feet. There | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
is more to come, this competition is hotting up. 8.23, in fifth place in | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
the second round, it is tough out there. This is the celebration for | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
the discus. The big man from Lithuania in the middle, with a | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
massive lifetime best, Gudzius. Daniel Stahl had to settle for | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
silver. A beautiful sunset over the East End of London. I'm looking | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
towards this fantastic venue. And the excitement that we had here last | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
night is building again for Usain Bolt. This 10,000m final has got | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
people enthralled because the world-record holder and the Olympic | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
champion Ayana has put so much distance between herself and this | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
incredible field. Now almost half a lap ahead of the pack. She has just | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
run 3,000 metres in about 8.33 in the middle of a 10,000. Unbelievable | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
distance running. We have seen something tonight the like of which | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
you have never seen before. Never seen anybody destroy a field as she | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
has done. The slow and early pace and she picked it up and picked it | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
up. You look at that time, Steve, the 3,000 metres time in the middle | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
and you wonder, can she possibly keep going at this pace? When you | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
look at this field, you have two world cross-country Championships, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
the steadfast is 10,000 metre runner in their and five times World | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
Champion Tirunesh Dibaba. And when she looks across the track, and you | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
will see how far she is. There is the chasing group down the home | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
straight. And there she is. Halfway round the top bend. When she gets | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
back down, she will be able to look down the track which lay and look | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
across and right opposite when she gets to the halfway line, they will | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
be passing the halfway line on the other side. I think she is going for | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
the new world-record, which is the record number of athletes slapped. I | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
will ask our word. The stitch and to find out. -- the number of athletes | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
lapped. The group after that, the Kenyans and Dibaba, the rest of the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
athletes are within her sights and she is using them to keep her pace | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
going. So Ayana looking more tired but she has so many athletes to a | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
mat with five laps to go. I reckon these four might be the only four | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
she does not lap. She has come halfway down the home straight as | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
they have gone down the back straight. That is the chasing group, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the fifth fastest 10,000m run of all time is leading that and Ayana is | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
looking at the screen. She will not get too much information because the | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
athletes are spread around the track. Last night, we saw a | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
fantastic distance race. Competitive distance race and a great victory by | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Mo Farah. Seeing the other end of the scale of distance running here. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Anna beat destroying a field and running at the sort of pace we have | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
never seen anybody run before in the middle of a 10,000m race -- an | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
athlete destroying. They are helping her now because she is working her | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
way through and when she comes past, look how well she is going and how | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
strongly. We are witnessing the night, Steve, one of the greatest | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
distance runs in history. A world-record in Rio, because | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
Nawowuna went out hard and she couldn't maintain it, but Ayana | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
could. Tonight, the first part of the race was pedestrian. It started | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
to pick up slightly and away she went. The last one was a 2.54. She | :09:50. | :10:01. | |
is getting tired. But it is the distance she has put between herself | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
and this other group who are the best in the world. The best of the | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
rest. And they are now 230, 240 metres behind Ayana. I think she is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
going to win the gold medal, I wonder whether the 5,000 metres is | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
within her site and whether she starts to think about that. The | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
harder she goes here, the more recovery she needs to make. She has | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
got this race won, she looks comfortable, she is slowing a bit, I | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
wonder whether she is going to go back for the 5,000 later in the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
week. Looking at the screen all the time and all she will see on the | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
screen is herself. There is no other athlete in the shot. She is halfway | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
down the home straight. The other athletes are not even halfway down | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
the back straight. She three laps to go for Ayana, and we are witnessing | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
a little piece of history. The final time the statistics will only show | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
how good this was when we analyse it. We are lucky, we have got Mark | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
Butler, the top statistician in the world, giving us this information. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
And he says we are witnessing a piece of history. She does not need | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
to run now, there is the body, that is Ayana. Looking in front of me and | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
the other athletes are just coming in. The far side of the track, | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Ayana. Nearside of the track is the chasing group. Tirunesh Dibaba in | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
fourth place. And in the history of distance running, Tirunesh Dibaba | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
has never been beaten by this much in her history which started in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
2003. She won five gold medals, she has run great races and average | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
races, she is running an OK race tonight but she is some -- seeing | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
something she has never seen before. You are right. Last year, although | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
she was distant from Ayana, she was only 25 seconds behind her. It is | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
going to be more like five is -- 45 seconds this time. I still think | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Ayana may not lap the rest of them before this chasing group because | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
that is definitely slowing down, but what a performance from Ayana. The | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
speech she is moving that in contrast to the other 10,000m | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
runners. And don't forget, these are the best in the world. You have the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Kenyans and the Ethiopians, they are the best from around the world. And | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
they are getting completely pulled apart by Ayana. It must be soul | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
destroying, these are decent athlete and Ayana is coming past at a pace | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
they can't relate to. Looking at her now, she looks as though she is | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
running slightly downhill, she is going so well, she is absolutely | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
brilliant here. Look at how she is passing them, look at how quickly | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
the gap opens. I was talking to her manager yesterday and I said, how is | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
she running? He said, don't worry, she will almost be as good as she | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
was last year in Rio. Well, you got this one right! She is coming round | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
now this time and she is hearing the bell. Superb piece of frontrunning | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
by Ayana. Plenty of athletes and some have moved to get -- to let her | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
through. A race between Agnes Tirop on the inside and Dibaba just | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
hanging in there. In the days of old, Dibaba would have unleashed a | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
great sprint on the last lap to win a gold medal but it is her | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
team-mates doing it this time. Dibaba borehole to get a medal and | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
join her on the rostrum. But we have time to savour Ayana -- Dibaba will | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
hope to get a medal. Having destroyed the field and shown a new | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
level of distance running, nothing to worry about except she will enjoy | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
the Wells title but she will collect in a few yards time, and a great | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
race going on behind her, but she does not care. The crowd is rising | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
to a wonderful piece of distance running. The Olympic champion, the | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
world-record holder, Ayana of Ethiopian is now the World Champion! | :14:18. | :14:27. | |
Fabulous running and look at Tirunesh Dibaba now, reminding us of | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the great days when she would run for gold, this time she is trying to | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
run for silver. Agnes Tirop is hanging on to her, the age-old | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
battle of Ethiopian versus Kenya. They have dropped their team-mate, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
so these two will get a medal, who is going to get the silver? Dibaba | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
takes a look at the screen and she sees Tirop is still bad. Does Tirop | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
have anything else? Dibaba not as quick as she used to be, but she | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
might be quick enough. Tirunesh Dibaba is going to make it an | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Ethiopian one and two in the 10,000m. Silver for Dibaba. Tirop | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
takes the Bronze for Kenya, but a long way behind the winner Ayana. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
In big sprinting for the lesser places from almost all the other | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
athletes, probably only six or seven of them were not lapped by Ayana and | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
she only started running after eight laps but my goodness she did and I | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
am delighted for Tirunesh Dibaba, that little smile, giving Ayana that | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
little hug. Any questions about the fitness of Ayana completely blown | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
away. Stunning performance, and a different way to last year when she | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
broke a world record but in many ways just as impressive. Ephemeral | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
the impressive distance performance by Ayana, a delightful performance | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
by Dibaba in second place, another gold medal for Ethiopia and the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
British athlete, Beth Potter, coming through right now. Her career might | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
unfold at the triathlon. That was a strong performance on an evening | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
when everything went into second place with a performance the likes | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
of which we have never seen before. Well done, Beth Potter. In the third | :16:35. | :16:46. | |
round of the long jump. The South African is the Commonwealth | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
record-holder with 8.60 five. The Olympic silver-medallist last year | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
is in the lead. Round three. Another big effort. And another white flag. | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
He has the run right. Luvo Manyonga living up to expectation. He carried | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
that niggle from the Stockholm league, he hurt his ankle, but | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Nu'uausala that as he puts in a very impressive series together. Look at | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
this. The wind on the bike straight is picking up, earlier it was minus | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
and we can see 1.2 metres, wishing him onto the board. Look at his | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
arms, getting in there. Dropping his feet early. That right foot. That is | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
8.32 in the third round for Luvo Manyonga. Very supportive crowd, | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
very knowledgeable, as ever. The jumpers enjoying that. And Jarrion | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
Lawson from the United States, 8.43 in the second round. Was that good | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
on the board? It was. Will this challenge the lead? Yes. What a | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
competition! He rushed that flight, whirling his arms around quickly and | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
he came in for a premature landing. RP goes, and he pulls himself down | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
below his hips, if he stretched he would have sailed and travelled in | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the air longer. Premature landing but that is 8.40, no improvement in | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
second place. You feel there is more to come. The second rank South | :18:56. | :19:14. | |
African, Ruswahl Samaai. 8.25 in the second round. And second in the | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
world. Look at the way he runs, punched and lower, he could stand up | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
tall. And express himself. You can see those hunched shoulders. Getting | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
the white flag. Shopping into the board. The wind is picking up, | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
people will have to make adjustments, the stronger the wind, | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
the more that will push you in. It circles down and into the ground, | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
like a forward roll into the air, he needs to hold up his chest. May be | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
more to come from Ruswahl Samaai. Fighting that forward rotation | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
created by that slight outer body position. A shorter step is like | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
getting tripped over and that causes the rotation. It was not in front of | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
him, where it needed to be. We can reflect on that 10,000 metres | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
performance by Almaz Ayana. Replicating her run in Rio in terms | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
of streaking away, in her own way. That was on a different level. That | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
was dominance. To run 3000 metres in 8.33 is quick anyway. In Monaco, | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
eight .30, Ailish McColgan just behind her. But backing that up, I | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
would love to see with the last 5K was because she finished with 30 | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
point 16. And setting off at the marathon pace and no wonder she | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
destroyed the rest of the field and she lapped everyone, finishing 47 | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
seconds ahead of the silver medal, and that was Tirunesh Dibaba! But | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
somebody just turning up. She lapped pretty much most of the field, | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
including the bronze-medallists from Beijing in 2015. What can she do in | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
this sport? She could go down? She could make a fantastic marathon | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
runner? The world is for oyster in terms of middle distance running? | :21:41. | :21:50. | |
She can destroy the field like that, there were doubts about her fitness, | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
she is in shape or she is not, she is in phenomenal shape. She can be | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
very competitive over 3000 metres, 5,000m she could probably challenge | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
the world record and the marathon remains to be seen but on that | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
basis, it could be extremely fast. Just over one hour away from the | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
final of the Men's 100 metres. Beautiful scenes overhead in the | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
stadium. The rain has stayed away, there is this stunning sunset, going | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
down on the championship career of Usain Bolt, littered with gold | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
medals all the way, including a particularly magnificent seven. | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
Usain Bolt, here he goes, streaking away already. Watch the clock! That | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
is gold and he has done it again! Did you world record for Usain Bolt! | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Away cleanly, Bolt gets a very clean start. An excellent start from Brian | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
Shawcross but this is all about Usain Bolt, three metres, five | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
metres clear and away he goes. Another gold medal. What is the | :23:15. | :23:27. | |
time? I cannot believe it. Once again, there is no mishap, as was | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
last Sunday night in the 100 metres. Gold is into the home straight. | :23:35. | :23:47. | |
19 .42 seconds, the fastest in the world this year. They get away, | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
DeGrasse gets the best start but Usain Bolt is going to get there, he | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
will take it again! Nine .70 eight. That was a clean start, getting out | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
of the blocks very well. Bolt going around that bend. Here comes Usain | :24:13. | :24:25. | |
Bolt. Changing through the gears. Bolt eases off, 19.66! Bolt gets | :24:26. | :24:39. | |
away pretty well, as does Rogers, bold and Justin Gatlin, Bolt gets | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
it? I think he has! Usain Bolt! Cracking start, Justin Gatlin is out | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
quickly but so is Usain Bolt, going to be very close in the home | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
straight and Justin Gatlin has not caught him. Surely Usain Bolt cannot | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
relinquish this? He is going to win this bank almost a big margin that | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
he probably could not believe. They are his magnificent seven individual | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
world championship golds. Will he be adding to those? But those seats, | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
make sure you have the snacks ready, this is going to be phenomenal, the | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
atmosphere is crackling. And this is a line-up... Two Jamaicans, Bolt and | :25:34. | :25:55. | |
leg. And sixth -- Christian Coleman. And Reece Prescod really has been | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the most incredible story, his meteoric rise, winning the National | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Championship title to qualify back in July, in early July, he threw | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
himself centrestage and said when growing up people said he should be | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
a 200 beaters and 400 is runner because he is very tall but he is | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
making a pretty good go at 100 metres. What are confident entry | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
into this level! Bill Jones caught up with him. Reece Prescod, the | :26:26. | :26:40. | |
21-year-old British runner. I don't tend to over complicate things, I | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
look at the good things aren't so bad things and I work on the bad | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
things. That is a pretty good start. It is going to be close, DeGrasse | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
winning it. I came seventh, that was not great because I wanted to win | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
but these guys have been on the circuit for years and I am three | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
years younger than all of them. I took that attitude and went back to | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
training and worked harder and it came right at the trials. Once Reece | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Prescod gets moving, he is incredibly quick. Quick start. Look | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
at Reece Prescod, finishing very quickly! He gets it! He will go! | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
Coming away from the middle was a great experience and I did my race | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
well, I felt I could continue that permit them going into the World | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
Championships. If you analyse something, it becomes a problem in | :27:51. | :27:52. | |
your head and you just analyse that one thing. Keep things simple. For | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
it all to come together for you in the year of the World Championships | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
in London, is that an added bonus? It was a blessing, under 23, London, | :28:04. | :28:13. | |
OK! London is out there, that will be the dream but I will stay at the | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
under 23s to stay happy. And I got the qualifier! I prepared for that, | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
I got to the trials and I put my race head on and London was there, | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
British champion! A lot of boys said that I have skipped the queue! | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
Normally you go for the junior and I have taken the fast track. It is | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
good. Do you go in there with nothing to lose attitude for the | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
World Championships? I definitely think so, I am 21, quite young, if I | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
can keep racing well, that is what it is all about and if not, I will | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
go back to work again and come back stronger. When I hear them drawing | :29:01. | :29:08. | |
my name, I just embrace it, I just run. That was just before these | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
championships, such prophetic words because that is exactly what he has | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
done, he has embraced this experience. And he is at the start | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
of his career, just 21, all of that excitement and relaxed. On this | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
amazing stage and he did not expect to be here at this time and seeing | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
him run like that, it gives you goose bumps! | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
When somebody comes through as a trial, as a surprise, and then | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
produces again and again, it bodes well? He is thirsty to run, he is | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
happy in this environment, he will have to enjoy this and he will raise | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
his game. It is the 200 metres time for the Heptathlon woman. Steve Cram | :30:01. | :30:01. | |
can update you. Surprise surprise, the Olympic | :30:02. | :30:21. | |
champion Nafi Thiam leading things, city Cheptai going well and | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Rodriguez had that brilliant High Jump. Katarina Johnson-Thompson down | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
in 13th place after three events. She really needs a good 200m to | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
finish the day and a high. Just to give her a glimpse that tomorrow | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
could be better. And we have got four races and these are the | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
athletes in the first of the four. Based on their ability. Very good in | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
the shot-put, Sharon Day-Monroe. But the highest of the current standings | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
is Nadine Broersen, she is in sixth place, in main eight. And anything | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
under 25, they will be delighted, only a couple of personal bests | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
under 25. Lecabela Quaresma in lane six. | :31:17. | :31:26. | |
So the first of four races in this women's heptathlon. There is | :31:27. | :31:38. | |
Quaresma. Broersen will want to finish with a good 200 here. | :31:39. | :31:51. | |
Greenaway. Broersen did get a good start and started quickly. Sharon | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
Day-Monroe trying to get on terms with the American. Sharon Day-Monroe | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
in second place and coming through quicker. Broersen fading a bit here. | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
The American is putting her under real pressure, it is going to be | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
tight on the line. Sharon Day-Monroe might get this by a fraction. And | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
that is a good run from Broersen as well. Quicker than her season's best | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
for Sharon Day-Monroe. A pretty solid enter her day. Good Shot Put | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
from her moving her up the standings and a decent run and Broersen | :32:28. | :32:34. | |
looking up at the clock. Tony, Broersen is in sixth place. A | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
reasonable 202nd day for her? Not as strong as it has been in the past. A | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
higher scoring athlete than we have seen in recent years. And losing | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
quite a substantial amount of points on her personal best. Started well | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
with a great drive out, coming off the turn. And with about 80 metres | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
to go, you can see her blowing hard. Struggling when Sharon Day comes | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
alongside her. Yes, she ran a good bend and ran out of steam the last | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
50 metres, Broersen, having put herself in a good position. A good | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
bend in lane eight. She might look back and think, she might expect a | :33:22. | :33:29. | |
drop down from the current position she is in, in sixth place. Just in | :33:30. | :33:36. | |
terms of totals. It bit of daylight between herself and eighth place. We | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
will have to wait and see. So, Broersen the second by 100th of a | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
second to Sharon Day-Monroe. 890 points for the American. If you are | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
joining us, this is a look back at the leading Long Jump, compelling | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
final, there is your event leader Luvo Manyonga of South Africa, in | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
the second round will stop and will bring you win in a second, Tony, | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
that is 8.48, five centimetres in the lead. We'll Manyonga think he | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
has done enough with three jumps remaining? It is strange, Steve, you | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
may have found in conditions that the first round is very competitive, | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
first people find their way. And people tend to go to sleep a bit | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
through rounds three and four. And even five. Once they get the round | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
six, people know, you are fighting for the medals. Maybe we will see a | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
dip as they get used to it but I think they will be going for it hard | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
in the last round. Well, queueing up behind you | :34:45. | :34:54. | |
including this man, Jianan Wang. 25 centimetres only behind the lead of | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
Manyonga. Wang in round four. Just decelerating may be slightly. No | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
improvement for the Chinese athlete. Wang is just 20 years of age, his | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
season's best is his lifetime's best, 8.29. Almost the same in | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
second round. In fifth place, Wang, good on the board. He shows really | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
good discipline. Stretching and driving at maximum speed and maximum | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
effort to be within a centimetre or two of the past scene. Well drilled | :35:38. | :35:46. | |
and well practised. And Wang... At the moment, Aleksandr Menkov is in | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
the Bronze medal position. Silver medal at the moment is Jarrion | :35:52. | :36:00. | |
Lawson in second place, the American in 8.43, just five centimetres | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
behind the lead of Manyonga. Wang may be wondering what he can do to | :36:06. | :36:14. | |
get in amongst it. Samaai. Tony analysed this athlete a couple of | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
jumps ago and noticed him being slightly hunched over on the | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
approach, let's see if he can stand tall and use his posture to govern | :36:24. | :36:31. | |
-- to good effect. Samaai, round four, looks better. That is better, | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
you knows it. Red flag, he ran off the board so much better. His foot | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
was to underneath before, he stretches put out further and a bit | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
too far and ended up in the plasticine. The starting to get it | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
right. That tease him up for the rest of the competition, he knows he | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
is capable of challenging for the lead, Samaai. His team-mate Manyonga | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
out in front with two jumps remaining. | :37:01. | :37:12. | |
So, Aleksandr Menkov, and authorised neutral athlete, in brackets, | :37:13. | :37:24. | |
Russian. So Menkov in the opening round had 8.27, followed by two | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
bowels. Fourth round John as he rolls in casually into his run. More | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
discipline in the final steps, but he made a mess of that and he knew | :37:36. | :37:43. | |
it was a foul, no improvement. Menkov in third place, this is your | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
event leader, Manyonga, is still out in front and getting ready for his | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
fourth attempt. And here is your leader in the heptathlon as well, | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
Nafi Thiam readying herself for the final event, the second of the four | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
heats. Not a great 200m runner but she is the leader and she wears the | :38:04. | :38:11. | |
green name. A new personal best this season, and warmly received by the | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
London crowd. Not too many in this round-up will the cheer in the medal | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
shake-up. Katerina Cachova of the Czech Republic. Thiam of course | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
leading. Guest only in Grit Sadeiko in 18th place. The best of 24. | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
Alysbeth Felix up Puerto Rico in lane five. These women running in | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
the 20 fours. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will go in the | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
fourth heat, there is Eliska Klucinova who is that that the | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
moment, consistent in the remaining events without being spectacular. | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
The 19-year-old European Junior Championships silver-medallist | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
Geraldine Ruckstuhl. But down in 14th at the moment and in 12th place | :39:00. | :39:14. | |
is Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida. So this is all about the Belgian Nafi | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
Thiam, who is still in line for 7,000 points. If things go according | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
to plan. I think Carolin Schafer lease after the first day but | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
Thiam's javelin is outstanding and that will be the difference between | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
those two. So Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida on the inside. Geraldine | :39:37. | :39:45. | |
Ruckstuhl of Switzerland... And Tamara de Sousa of Brazil on the | :39:46. | :39:46. | |
outside. All about the time for Nafi Thiam, | :39:47. | :40:01. | |
200 is not her best event. Round the bend she comes. Grit Sadeiko running | :40:02. | :40:13. | |
strong. Chasing down the time. Evenly matched, and a good round on | :40:14. | :40:21. | |
the outside from Tamara de Sousa. 41 -- Thiam flinging herself at the | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
line. Fractionally behind Thiam's personal best. Pretty much as we | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
expected, she has been close to, without threatening her personal | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
best in all the events so far, but that is good enough to keep ahead of | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
the rest. But Carolin Schafer is in the fourth heat and she might lead | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
after day one. But Thiam will not be too displeased with what she has | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
run. Obviously, she would have wanted a personal best, but she is | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
doing just about enough, Tony. I think so, the time she has produced, | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
a couple of tenths outside her personal best. It is still | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
conditions so difficult for her. The conditions earlier this year were | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
perfect with the breeze behind. The time she has run, from my | :41:08. | :41:22. | |
perspective, you have only lost 20 points, 24.57, only 17 points, so a | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
really solid performance. We talked about her not being a great 200 run | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
or 800 runner in the final event, she does not look very fluid out | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
there but she is a power athlete. Yes, if you look at the way she | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
runs, not a lot in front, she weaves her foot on the floor a little too | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
long so it picks up behind her. Not the best angle. Rocking and rolling. | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
Needs to be a bit stronger and improve the techniques of the power | :41:50. | :41:51. | |
she does have will be much more efficient. But again, consistent | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
throughout and we will see the difference in terms of 200m from | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson who is a world-class 200m runner. But Nafi | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
Thiam just outside her personal best and will not lose much ground. We | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
will watch what Carolin Schafer can do and Katarina Johnson-Thompson in | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
the fourth round. Cachova, of the Czech Republic. | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
Thiam just a fraction behind and outside her personal best and she's | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
talking to fill. A successful day for you, how would | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
you assess the day from your perspective? It was a good day? I | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
did some medal performances. Like the hurdles. The shot-put. I think I | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
didn't do any mistakes. It was pretty solid and I am happy with the | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
200m. Really it is the event I mess up a little bit, so that is good. Is | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
that the most important thing in the heptathlon when you are competing in | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
this? We saw our own Katarina Johnson-Thompson only clearing in | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
the High Jump 1.80, it is not to make a mistake like that? Yes, I | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
think so. It is the challenge to do OK and then some big performance in | :43:09. | :43:16. | |
some events. But it is really easy to do a mistake, so that is what is | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
horrible in the heptathlon. You always look so composed, keep it | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
going tomorrow, well done today. Thank you, I will try. | :43:24. | :43:53. | |
Usain Bolt squeaking away from the fields, it is gold for Usain Bolt, a | :43:54. | :44:08. | |
new rails -- record for Usain Bolt, Bolt is going to do it again, Usain | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
Bolt! We are getting closer, just under 32 | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
minutes to the 100m men's final here at the London Stadium, in The Queen | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
Elizabeth Park will stop and the athletes warming got and is doing | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
their last-minute preparations out on the warm up track. Reece Prescod | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
of Great Britain who got himself into that final with a magnificent | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
run, he has performed brilliantly in these championships since winning | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
his national title in early July and is taking it in his stride, the | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
21-year-old. Christian Coleman has run the fastest time in the world | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
this year, the American, not a lot of experience in this event but he | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
has looked like he was born to this, is he going to push Usain Bolt all | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
the way? Justin Gatlin knows exactly what it is like to be on the biggest | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
stage, he has been the protagonist of Usain Bolt many a time, can he | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
push him one more time? It is the last time they have a chance to take | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
the biggest scalp and the man perhaps who knows him best of all is | :45:13. | :45:14. | |
Jamaican team-mate Yohan Blake. grass taking their time, and wearing | :45:15. | :45:33. | |
sun hats, feeling the cool London area as the temperature drops that | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
the London Stadium. Back to the track and the 202 is. Steve Cram? | :45:38. | :45:48. | |
Just one more until we see Katarina Johnson-Thompson, we have the | :45:49. | :45:57. | |
athletes in third and fourth, we have Anouk Vetter from the | :45:58. | :45:59. | |
Netherlands. Certainly, Anouk Vetter and Yorgelis | :46:00. | :46:12. | |
Rodriguez are in a scrap going into tomorrow. They are well matched in | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
the 200 metres, although Anouk Vetter has a better personal best | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
although this year and there was only five hundredths separating | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
them. You know when Rodriguez has had a day like today, she might find | :46:33. | :46:43. | |
something extra. Her season best, 24.16. Anouk Vetter will have | :46:44. | :46:52. | |
something to run out. There will not be that much between them unless | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
something goes dramatically wrong for Rodriguez. Caroline Agnou from | :46:57. | :47:04. | |
Switzerland in lane three. And Hanne Maudens from Belgium. If there is a | :47:05. | :47:14. | |
chance for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, we need her to run | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
a superb 200 metres, they were asked only what that means but if these | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
two run fairly well indeed, particularly Rodriguez, if she works | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
on the great day she has had today, that would just take that bronze | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
medal position away a bit further as well. | :47:37. | :47:48. | |
Rodriguez climbing out of the blocks, but the best, Anouk Vetter | :47:49. | :48:00. | |
starting more quickly. Also going well is Odile Ahouanwanou. Rodriguez | :48:01. | :48:09. | |
is starting to fade, as is Anouk Vetter. Well, Rodriguez and Anouk | :48:10. | :48:18. | |
Vetter not as quick as they might have liked. Odile Ahouanwanou liking | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
her performance and why not? That is a personal best. Excellent running | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
from her. Only, I wonder if Rodriguez, when you have the | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
adrenaline coming, she did not come out of the blocks? She stood up, did | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
not really react to the gun. And for some reason, it is something that a | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
lot of heptathlete stood, driving your shoulders into the lane and you | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
must set this up for 200 beaters, you cannot just expect to run 200 | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
beaters, you have to drive from the beginning. We still have a great | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
long jump final. Steve Cram? We have indeed. Jarrion Lawson. The massive | :49:09. | :49:28. | |
crowd loving this long jump final. The American, 8.43, trailing the | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
South African. What has he got in round five? That is a massive | :49:34. | :49:42. | |
series, he opened with 8.30 seven. Backing that up with a .40 in the | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
third round. It is not look as though it is going to impress on | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
that lead, the gold and silver lines almost on top of each other, five | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
centimetres apart, there is no improvement, it looks, for Lawson. | :50:01. | :50:10. | |
Teasing things for the third round. That is OK, he has one more chance, | :50:11. | :50:18. | |
but Luvo Manyonga might have more to give, this man is unbeaten in 2017. | :50:19. | :50:28. | |
Serious jumping, he has been prolific, jumping in XS of 8.60 on | :50:29. | :50:37. | |
occasions, and who knows, he might be capable of more. There is a | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
slight following wind, no one improved in round four. Luvo | :50:45. | :50:54. | |
Manyonga, round five. That was a big effort, and again... May be no | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
improvement as the 200-metre heptathlete is wait to go. Katarina | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
Johnson-Thompson in the next heat, Luvo Manyonga, no improvement with | :51:07. | :51:18. | |
8.48. He has equalled the distance of Aleksandr Menkov with 8.47 and | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
with only one job remaining, you just feel there might be some more | :51:26. | :51:34. | |
drama to come. It always produces. He is in the lead here, Luvo | :51:35. | :51:44. | |
Manyonga. No improvement at 8.17. And there is one job remaining. Onto | :51:45. | :51:52. | |
the final heat of the 200 metres for the Heptathlon women and 11 probe is | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
one of the fastest in the field and she will have to produce close to | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
her personal best to get a serious form before going to bed. She is the | :52:02. | :52:10. | |
fastest by a long way and this is against the clock, about motivation | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
and how much she will want to fight to move up the leaderboard. And not | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
force it? Don't get too dense, understand she can come away with a | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
positive note from 200 and put the other events to bed and start fresh | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
tomorrow. She has it in her to run a very good time tomorrow. We can go | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
to the commentary team, the final heat of the 200 metres in the | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
Heptathlon. She is the fastest by some distance in this event over the | :52:42. | :52:52. | |
rest, in fact, her 22.81 gives her -- was into the headwind and that is | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
the second quickest in any British athlete this year, only Desiree | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
Henry was faster. She is ordinarily world-class in the long jump and the | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
high jump, they carry her, but if you slip up in any of them, you will | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
suffer. The high jump Sir Achilles fielded a hand there is no other way | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
to put it, it has been painfully disappointing today for Katarina | :53:21. | :53:21. | |
Johnson-Thompson. Carolin Schafer is quick as well, | :53:22. | :53:38. | |
this season. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, that high jump | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
just took the life out of her. Whether we can see a real drive in | :53:45. | :53:52. | |
this 200 metres... Don't put too much thought into that minus wind, | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
the crosswind helped them around the turn. It still registered as miners | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
with the wind gauge, 50 metres up the home straight but here is the | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
opportunity to put all Banks and distress into this race. And move | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
forward through and get the additional points you need. The | :54:14. | :54:20. | |
crowd will try to lift Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Promote outside | :54:21. | :54:34. | |
chance of a medal for her. But there has to be something very special. | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
Erica Bougard, 22nd at the moment, but the women from Germany could | :54:40. | :54:55. | |
push... The long jump, the javelin and the 800 metres tomorrow. Kendell | :54:56. | :55:03. | |
Williams, she is a good 200 metres runner, Ivona Dadic could get close | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
to the medal positions at the end of the first day. The Austrian is in | :55:08. | :55:20. | |
eighth place. Second in 200 metres in the Heptathlon equates to about | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
100 points and Vanessa Chefer at the moment is 72 points behind | :55:26. | :55:34. | |
Nafissatou Thiam and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, can she get close | :55:35. | :55:40. | |
to her best and take a leap up the rankings? The final heat of the 200 | :55:41. | :55:41. | |
metres in the Heptathlon. There is an aurora from the crowd to | :55:42. | :56:01. | |
lift Katarina Johnson-Thompson as he attacks the first 100 and takes | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
chunks out of the opposition, driving on, chasing down the time, | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
Carolin Schafer running strongly but Katarina Johnson-Thompson lifting | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
and pushing and drives towards online, the wristy huge gap to the | :56:15. | :56:26. | |
line is quick, 22.81, -- 22.88, not far from her personal best. She will | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
move up the rankings and put yourself in some position where she | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
can make some challenge on the second day. You can see the drive | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
and are working and you can see her smiling, she has confidence in the | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
200 metres, she drives as a very strong athlete, lifting her knees on | :56:48. | :56:53. | |
the home straight, that is the drive, the body position, standing | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
up early for me, working the bend really hard. Then just as she comes | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
off, picking that point and running at it, her arms working, the other | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
girls are suffering, they don't have her strength, when she is open and | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
free. She is striving, she starts to reach and rock a little bit, | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
driving, there, across the line, 22.86. Great performance. Get those | :57:23. | :57:30. | |
head underneath and get taller, she needs to work her feet better, they | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
need to bounce off the floor as she moves around the turn. Not quite the | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
horizontal flight position you would want. She is a high quality 200 | :57:40. | :57:48. | |
metres runner, in a different league to the rest of the heptathlete 's | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
and she will move into fourth place at the end of the first day, she is | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
not great with the javelin but a good long jumper and a very good 800 | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
metres runner so in a good position to challenge at the end of the first | :58:03. | :58:13. | |
day. The Men's long jump coming to a climax with round six. This man | :58:14. | :58:16. | |
could change the order of the medals. Ruswahl Samaai, had to play | :58:17. | :58:29. | |
second fiddle to his team-mate, Luvo Manyonga. Chopped badly but that is | :58:30. | :58:37. | |
a very big effort. That might improve his performance, it looks as | :58:38. | :58:40. | |
though he stuttered slightly in the end. He did not look optimal for | :58:41. | :58:50. | |
Ruswahl Samaai, he will be pleased with bronze, he just chopped, | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
sticking that short stride in. If he got that right, well, Ruswahl Samaai | :58:56. | :59:10. | |
has jumped very well indeed. 8.32, that is an improvement and that | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
keeps him in third place, guaranteed. I have checked, he is | :59:15. | :59:22. | |
not guaranteed because the man to follow, Aleksandr Menkov, has been | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
pushed to fourth place. He can wrestle that back. Great support | :59:28. | :59:34. | |
from a huge and knowledgeable crowd and that is why athletes love to | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
come to Britain to compete. Menkov, previous champion. 2013, his | :59:40. | :59:52. | |
lifetime best of 8.56, when he took the world title. 8.32 is his best | :59:53. | :00:01. | |
this year over the same distance. And that is Luvo Manyonga. Looking | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
composed, he knows they are coming after him. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Nervous time in the Long Jump competition. Menkov, four fouls. | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
This is the opportunity. Runs fast on the runway, accelerates into the | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Long Jump. Mary is -- never simple technique, he just brings his leg | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
through. Menkov, last round, so approach, but he accelerates hard. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
It is shy and it is a foul. He encroached on the board. That is his | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
team-mate, Luvo Manyonga, congratulating his team-mate Samaai | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
and a Bronze medal. Menkov has to settle for fourth. Well, Menkov is a | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
neutral athlete. Now he is competing in a neutral vest. No time to | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
elaborate on that now but athletes take so much pride putting on their | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
national best, a neutral athlete maybe feels different at a World | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Championship is. Samaai celebrating a guaranteed Bronze. Now we can give | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
him that and no that nobody can take that from him. Two athletes yet to | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
jump so the silver and gold may still change place. But South Africa | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
definitely have two medals. There is your event leader, Manyonga, out in | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
front. He is enjoying himself! I think he is as pleased for Samaai as | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
he is for his own situation. Writes... Once again, Jarrion Lawson | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
turns to the crowd and so does the event leader. Great stuff, great | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
camaraderie between the jumpers. And Lawson can do this. Lawson of the | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
United States needs to find five centimetres only, faster going on | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
the approach. It is big. Well, it is a white flag. As he did in Rio last | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
year. He dragged his hand back into the sand. This time, it looks like a | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Queen entry into the sandpit. -- clean entry. 8.44, Lawson has to | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
settle for silver. Four centimetres shy of gold, but it guarantees a | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
gold for this man. And Samaai is away with his nation's flag. And | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Luvo Manyonga is reduced to his knees, what a journey! Talk about a | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
troubled past, the American celebrating the silver. Manyonga | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
came from the townships, a poverty stricken background. A social drug | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
addict, reformed. Sports saved him. Lawson, the American, silver medal. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Manyonga guaranteed gold, what a wonderful story! Champion of the | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
world. Silver last year, Manyonga in the last round, does not need it. He | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
has already won. It is a huge effort! But it is a foul. That is a | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
shame. It just shows you just the talent. Standing before us. Well, a | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
unique celebration. Fantastic stuff from Luvo Manyonga! A sound angel. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
Gold and Bronze for South Africa. Some edging the American Lawson will | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
stop -- sandwiching. Brilliant stuff. It went exactly as the form | :03:57. | :04:08. | |
would have suggested. Gold for Agnes Tirop -- Luvo Manyonga. Cheering for | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
the champion. He is the man, gold and Bronze. Brilliant, brilliant | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
stuff. Not the dramatic end we maybe would have hoped for, but Manyonga, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
well, we need to know more about that back story and Manyonga takes | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
gold. That is the confirmation. A world gold medal and 8.48. | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
These are the standings after the first day of the heptathlon. Leading | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
by 22 points, Carolin Schafer, behind Nafi Thiam. Rodriguez in | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
third. Katarina Johnson-Thompson just behind Rodriguez. Katarina | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Johnson-Thompson better in the Long Jump and 800m and a weaker javelin | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
compared to the Cuban so we will see what develops on the second day. | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
The London Stadium here in the heart of the Olympic Park in East London | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
looking magnificent. Evoking all kinds of emotions reminiscent of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
2012. And if you have just joined us on BBC One, a very warm welcome to | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
the second night of these World Championships. 24 hours ago, we | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
witnessed the greatest British athlete ever Mo Farah and 24 hours | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
on, we are about to witness depleted greatest athlete of all time, who | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
transcends his sport, who is about to run his last individual | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
championship race. Usain Bolt, of Jamaica. | :05:45. | :06:00. | |
Usain Bolt is the world Junior champion. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
It is going to be gold Ford Jamaica! Usain Bolt is the Olympic champion! | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
He has done it again! A new world record. | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
He is running away, he is going for gold. The champion becomes a legend. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
And he is going to take the gold again. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Unbeatable, and the passable! Usain Bolt, three times World Champion. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Magnificent seven, the Odyssey continues. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
He has saved this title, he has saved his reputation. He may have | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
even saved his sport. One last time. | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
Can he is silence them one more time? The indoor track just | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
underneath the stadium. It is the penultimate place the athletes go. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
And Usain Bolt looking as calm and charming as he always does in those | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
moments. The cheering behind us, he has not come out, don't worry. A | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
very British thing just happened, I have never seen it in athletics | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
before, a Great British streak at! We are not going to show you. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Michael is bemused, it doesn't happen in American sport. More | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
importantly, is Usain Bolt going to be the man streaking ahead this | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
evening? Are you confident from what you saw today and yesterday he has | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
everything to pull together and the challenges in the semifinals? What | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
we are about to see is a fantastic competition and that is what some -- | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
is so great about athletics, accommodation. People came to see | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Usain Bolt because he is a legend like people came to see Mo Farah | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
last night because he is a legend, but they also got a fantastic | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
addition must night and we will see that the late because Christian | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Coleman can challenge Usain Bolt. At the end of the day, Bolt is ready, | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
he looked great in the semifinals and confident and much more pleased | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
with himself today than he was yesterday. But he is not going to be | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
in the same rage at 9.6, it is more like 9.8. Excited to have Reece | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Prescod involved, he has come through so well from the beginning | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
of the season and the challenges, but for you, Coleman is the man who | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
can push Bolt all the way. This is what he has got. Coleman is | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
fantastic and he ran a very good semifinal with Bolt. Both in the | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
middle of the track. He pulls away from the field quickly | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
and he would have to hold that to avoid this. Bolt coming back, which | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
he did. You can see Coleman jumps out and he gets a great lead, but | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Bolt is not fazed by it. It bit of a gap, but he has seen that before and | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
he feels confident he closes it and he does, and he uses up at the end. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Not necessary for him to win this. I'm sure Coleman probably let up a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
bit as well because he knew he had the victory at hand and he has | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
qualified for the final. That is where the runners will | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
emerge for the 100-metre final, the men, and that man has the job of | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
leading them out. Each final has their own spectacular entrance and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
some of the athletes, as you can imagine, milk the moment more than | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
others. Others look more nervous. Former European champion Vicaut of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
France. The mascot trying to distract them. Bolt of course paying | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
attention, as he always does to any frivolity. He does not look to | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
stress, Usain Bolt will stop no, he never does, he never looks stressed. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
And I think most of these guys, the veterans have learned that is the | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
thing unique to Usain. Do not try to duplicate it. You saw Coleman doing | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
the right thing and being in front of the pack so he does not have to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
look at Usain Bolt or see him so relaxed and be intimidated by that. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
This area right here, that is what I miss. That area right there, that is | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
where some of these races can be won and lost. Christine Coleman is right | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
there beside Usain Bolt, but he looks poised. The good thing about | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
the US system is that you do get a lot of championship experience. A | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
lot of college and university championship experience. So he could | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
just duplicate that here, he has entered those rooms before, just not | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
at this level. He has not looked to like this experience, Coleman. He is | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
a great college athlete in the winning everything this season he | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
can at that level, but a break from his intends raising in the season | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
and looking fresh and experienced. Denise. Yes, but as Mike says, that | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
is the moment when he believes in himself. The collegiate system is | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
one thing, but entering the track at the World Championships when you are | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
one of the favourites against the man of the moment, the man of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
era, that is a different story. Let's listen to the roaring, Reece | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Prescod is coming out first. The crowd are going to absolutely love | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
his presence here. CHEERING. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
A very languid entry into this stadium. Would you prefer him to do | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
some high knees, Michael? I would like to see more from him, but they | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
call it the walk-out, I guess. That is impressive! He has given us | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
something different in every round and he has delivered again. I don't | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
think Vicaut will give us much. Strange way the walk-out, how it has | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
changed! It is much more showbiz! He was not going to do the walk and | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
absorb more of that. It is important not to lose your focus. This is fun | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
and entertaining for the crowd, but it really about staying locust. This | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
is a big deal. It is and I like the way that they introduced the guys -- | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
staying focused. Running out and getting the crowd into it. And there | :12:33. | :12:45. | |
is one more. CHEERING.. | :12:46. | :12:57. | |
He might not miss the training and the hard work, the winters, but he | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
is going to miss that. The adulation. You always miss that | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
feeling. But you know what it takes to get to that point and I don't | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
think he would be missing the next year. Well, it really does feel in | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
here like the excitement levels have gone up a notch. Denise looks like | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
she is feeling incredibly nervous because everybody wants to see a | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
results to lift the roof here and be a fitting to be to a man on the edge | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
of winning his 20th global gold in Olympic and World Championship | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
history, a nice round number, Steve Cram! | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Yes, he is pretty good at being perfect. If you are going to design | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
a superhero, he might be six foot five, he might be physically | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
impressive, he might have a bit of charisma, he might be brilliantly | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
reliable. You might give him a name as well, something like, I don't | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
know, Bolt. He fits the bill. When you think about it, the weight of | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
expectation, any athlete carries it for themselves and it is huge. For | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
their coach and their family. This guy is carrying the weight of | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
expectation of the world for years now every time he walks out onto the | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
track and he delivers. What a sight that is! The stage, the final stage | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
for Usain Bolt. The last time we will see him as an individual | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
athlete. Well, for most of his career, his main rival has been the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
clock and he has punched it in the face many times. But I guess time | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
has now just about caught up with him and he has to remember what it | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
is like before he was brilliant, before he was unbeatable. | :15:05. | :15:16. | |
And try to remember what it is like to try to win just one more time. | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
Akani Simbine, Justin Gatlin, Yohan Blake, Reece Prescod, Christian | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Coleman, Jimmy Vicaut and Bingtian Su. What a wonderful moment for | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Reece Prescod, representing his country. Bingtian Su from China. The | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
Chinese record-holder. Joint European record-holder over 100 | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
metres, Jimmy Vicaut from France. He needs no introduction... Listen to | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
the crowd. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :15:59. | :16:10. | |
Nail in the all-time top ten, Christian Coleman, 21, from the USA. | :16:11. | :16:22. | |
Akani Simbine, fifth place at the Olympics last year. He ran 9.89 last | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
year and the only time bold faulted with the fault -- false start, it | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
was this man, Yohan Blake, who took gold. So many times the silver | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
medal, so many times he has followed Bolt home, Justin Gatlin. Loving | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
every single moment of this, Reece Prescod from Great Britain, the last | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
time Great Britain won a medal in this race, it was Darren Campbell, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
working behind me for our colleagues, who won the bronze medal | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
in Paris. We hardly knew about Usain Bolt back then. Just one more time. | :17:12. | :17:26. | |
The Men's 100 metres final. Bolt gets a good start, Christian | :17:27. | :17:55. | |
Coleman is leading him, he is not going to catch at the moment and | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Christian Coleman has still got the lead and Justin Gatlin has got it! | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
At the death, Justin Gatlin steals it. Bolt never got there. It is | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
Justin Gatlin! Definitely. They are all looking! BOOING. That is a very | :18:15. | :18:30. | |
nice gesture from Gatlin considering the reaction of the crowd, they so | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
wanted their man to win, it was not to be. I thought he got out | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
reasonably well, Christian Coleman got out there brilliantly. And all | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
the while, Gatlin came through with 9.92, that will mean a lot for him. | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
And for this man, so it ends. His lane is empty and an empty feeling | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
for many people in the stadium, I am sure. This is sport, there are no | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
guarantees, there isn't always a happy ending. Tears for Justin | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
Gatlin. His day finally arrives. Perhaps at the most inopportune of | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
times. In the day that he wins the gold medal, all eyes are elsewhere, | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
the headlines will be interesting, I am sure. And now, the chanting | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
starts. And the celebration is not of tonight, not of the gold medal | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
missed tonight but of a career that will be unsurpassable, of his | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
performances down the years, of the joy he has brought to so many. That | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
is what they wanted to see continuing tonight but it was not to | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
be. But goodness me, what moments he has given us and what history he has | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
made. There will never be another. I am trying to approach that race... | :20:14. | :20:37. | |
Bolt, Christian Coleman, we thought that Christian Coleman was going to | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
win this... The man in the shadows, he came out of the shadows, almost | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
the pantomime villain of this, he came through to win. Justin Gatlin | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
did exactly what he did at the US trials to personally Christian | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Coleman, everybody thought he would become the US champion and Justin | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
Gatlin just snuck in to take the title and he has done the same thing | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
here. The world champion with 9.92, Justin Gatlin, who would have | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
thought that? Michael, did you think that? I did not, I thought that Bolt | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
would be challenged but I thought by Christian Coleman, I did not believe | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
it would be Gatlin. Bolt was under pressure. I thought he was under | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
pressure. He did not have to be here and you must give him credit, he | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
came out here and he put himself out there, giving Gatlin and others the | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
opportunity to beat him and I am sure lots of people are upset but I | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
can guarantee you that Usain Bolt will not be upset. He is a | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
competitor that he will know that life goes on. Yes, and this sport | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
will go on and goodness me, we will miss him. This will be the race that | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
nobody will replay. He came out of the blocks pretty well, just did not | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
get on terms quickly enough with Christian Coleman. Watch Gatlin. The | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
closest to the screen, he keep striving hard, remembering what it | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
takes to win championships and thinking, I am not going to repeat | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
last year. Maybe, Colin, I was talking to the Americans are here, | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
they said he won the trials because nobody was watching him, they were | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
watching Christian Coleman and others and he has done the same | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
tonight. And he has not raised as many times on the circuit as when he | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
was flying, if you can remember that. Perhaps, as he has got older, | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
he has become smarter at racing. He was away from the action, he did not | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
know where Usain Bolt was, nobody on his shoulder, he was getting on the | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
shoulders of people. Working hard from the garden to the tape and he | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
ended up surprising the world by taking this title. Huge egos, out of | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the blocks. Always good, technically. He works hard at the | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
drive, all of the phases, very well. -- here he goes. With this huge | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
boost, Steve, when he lined up... And when he finished. In his mind, | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
he wanted to silence the crowd. Look at that response. Let's see what | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
that does. We should explain, for some who maybe have not been around | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
this sport for a very long time, Justin Gatlin hard two lengthy drug | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
bans. Obviously the popular version of Justin Gatlin is as the villain | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
of the piece and he has had to play that alongside Bolt throughout his | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
career and that is the gold medal he has craved, Justin Gatlin, 9.92... | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
And I have never said this before, the bronze medal to Usain Bolt of | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
Jamaica. Usain Bolt taking his lap of honour, | :24:40. | :24:57. | |
and honourable, incredible career and that is what this is all about, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
the crowd showing their appreciation for the joy and thrills he has given | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
them over the last decade. And this is Usain Bolt showing his | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
appreciation to this crowd and city that has given him so much support | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
over the years that which he calls his second home. He loves the | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
support that he has gotten from this crowd, his relationship with the | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
fans has been amazing and I think he would want to go around and sign | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
autographs and take pictures and show them just really how much he | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
appreciates the support they have given him over the years. Justin | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Gatlin knows that he is painted as the villain. He heard the crowd, but | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
he was bowing down to Usain Bolt. We did talk earlier in the evening, | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
that he could be the protagonist. How do you feel? Last year, you | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
would an American, so many people said, because you have won the gold | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
before, silver must feel disappointing? But you are full of | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
joy? Absolutely. There is disappointment, we wanted to see her | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
moaning but he performs and entertains every time, like Michael | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
says, he has come here to thank the public for their support over so | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
many years and he will be happy, he has had the most amazing career and | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
for us to witness this and watching him end his career, it is not gold | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
but an incredible career. The fans that have come here to see him, the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Jamaicans that live in the UK, getting to see their hero in the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
flesh and as you have said, he did not have to come here, he could have | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
retired in glory? That is one of the things are spent so much about him, | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
he is not afraid to come back and put it on the line. He is not afraid | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
of the possibility that he would come here and he was not healthy, | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
the possibility he would end his career losing. I put the pressure on | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
myself, I only deal with the pressure I put on myself and the | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
expectations I have and not others. Nothing will overshadow the amazing | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
career that he has, I think the last image of Usain Bolt that people will | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
have will be Beijing, the double Olympic and world championship that | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
he has accomplished in the 100 and 200 and the amazing Relay. And being | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
a great sportsman and show man and someone who has been unique and a | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
great ambassador for the sport. Hugging, kisses, celebrations of a | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
wonderful career. And I don't think many of us have got our head around | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
the fact that we will not see him racing in a major championship | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
again. It is sad, leaving the sport myself was emotional but to see | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
somebody like Usain Bolt not being a part of this sporting arena any more | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
is very sad to see is time for him to go. Christian Coleman look so | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
relaxed in those semifinals and you perhaps felt this could be his time. | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
Anyway, it would have felt more satisfactory if it was him at the | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
top because you would feel that the new king had been launched and is | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
back Christian Coleman has a bright future, it was just a long season | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
for him and one race to many but still a great performance from him, | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
coming to these championships as young as he is and getting the | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
silver medal and he will be able to say, I beat Usain Bolt! He goes | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
professional? He has signed a huge contract a few months ago with Nike | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
and he is also a very good 200 metres runner. It was not what we | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
thought we would see the seasoning and so many people got that golden | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
ticket, to see gold number 20 from Usain Bolt, he has held this sport | :29:35. | :29:42. | |
together like glue in so many ways as well but sport doesn't always | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
have a fairy tale ending, it is certainly not predetermined and | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
tonight we all realised that Usain Bolt is human after all. Join us | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
next on BBC Two... ..this season, | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
the whole game in full It's been a knockout day | :30:00. | :30:00. | |
in the Premier League. The second half, Jermaine, | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
very much... | :30:05. | :30:10. |