Day 3, Part 1

:00:58. > :01:03.He has saved his title! You may have even saved his sport! He has done it

:01:04. > :01:15.again! The champion becomes a legend! Usain Bolt! The final stage

:01:16. > :01:47.for Usain Bolt. It is Gatlin, Gatlin wins it right

:01:48. > :01:50.at the death! It wasn't to be. And this is sport, there are no

:01:51. > :01:57.guarantees. There isn't always a happy ending. His lane now empty,

:01:58. > :02:09.and so it ends. Welcome to day three of these World

:02:10. > :02:14.Athletics Championships, the sun rises over the Olympic Stadium, but

:02:15. > :02:20.things feel a little bit different this morning here, certainly not the

:02:21. > :02:25.euphoria of day two after Mo Farah's gold in the 10,000m. The king has

:02:26. > :02:29.handed over his crown, but not to demand that people expected or

:02:30. > :02:33.wanted, and the papers reflect that, the world's media is reflecting

:02:34. > :02:40.that. We will talk about that, the rights and wrongs, I am sure you got

:02:41. > :02:44.your opinions, it is #bbcathletics, we will be talking about and for the

:02:45. > :02:49.next half an hour, because we wake up 12 hours later, we have had time

:02:50. > :02:53.to reflect, think about it, and the immediacy of the emotion last night

:02:54. > :02:59.was highly charged, but have your thoughts changed? Have you had time

:03:00. > :03:06.to put this into perspective? You know, it is an interesting

:03:07. > :03:08.situation, and I think that people like simple narratives, and we

:03:09. > :03:16.created one a couple of years ago with good versus evil, Bolt against

:03:17. > :03:20.Gatlin. And people are frustrated, because they want to see clean

:03:21. > :03:24.sport. It is simple, and it is easy, and it feels good to pin that on one

:03:25. > :03:30.person, and that has been Justin Gatlin. British media is fantastic

:03:31. > :03:33.with headlines! We see some of them this morning that he will go through

:03:34. > :03:38.later, and I think that sort of forms opinion. And it is

:03:39. > :03:42.unfortunate, because I don't think, at the end of the day, it gets to

:03:43. > :03:49.the real heart of the issue, which drugs in sport and how we clean that

:03:50. > :03:55.up, and how we... We can't eliminate it, but how do we, you know, start

:03:56. > :04:00.to win the fight against doping and sport? The Justin Gatlin situation,

:04:01. > :04:05.when Justin Gatlin has retired, the problem will still need to be

:04:06. > :04:09.addressed. He is 35 years old, we knew coming into the championship

:04:10. > :04:12.what is previous record was, he was allowed to compete, the governing

:04:13. > :04:20.body has made that possible, this is not Justin Gatlin's fault. And we

:04:21. > :04:25.cannot expect one man, in Usain Bolt, to save the whole sport. We

:04:26. > :04:28.cannot pin it on this one person, he is not the only one to come back

:04:29. > :04:33.from drugs, but everyone likes to make him the bad person. The only

:04:34. > :04:38.way to solve this is to up the deterrence, up investment across the

:04:39. > :04:41.board, the concentration on cleaning up the sport, lifetime bans - then

:04:42. > :04:50.we wouldn't be facing the situation at all. That is what people want

:04:51. > :04:53.across the board, to know that wherever you are in the world, if

:04:54. > :04:55.you are taking part in athletics, you are subject to the same level of

:04:56. > :05:04.testing and scrutiny, whether you are Ayana in Ethiopia all Laura Muir

:05:05. > :05:08.in Scotland. Gatlin has been somewhat unfortunate, because he has

:05:09. > :05:13.been up against Bolt, the people's favourite, so that is why it has

:05:14. > :05:18.been easy to pin this on him. But leaving here last night, it was

:05:19. > :05:23.quiet, the mood was definitely down. But people are reporting that Gatlin

:05:24. > :05:28.himself has been to reach out to the IAAF and said, I am sorry for my

:05:29. > :05:33.wrongdoings, especially that second doping offence, where he was caught

:05:34. > :05:36.on steroids. He has apologised for that, he has said, I am going to do

:05:37. > :05:41.everything I can to encourage children not to do this. So he has

:05:42. > :05:46.made his peace with the IAAF, but from my point of view, the IAAF, the

:05:47. > :05:51.governing body, have not done enough to support him. Well, they have

:05:52. > :05:55.allowed him to be in this maelstrom, this feeling that if Somerby was

:05:56. > :06:00.going to beat Usain Bolt last night, you know, the sport would have loved

:06:01. > :06:04.it to be a young, fresh talent, a clean, fresh talent, but it was the

:06:05. > :06:08.antithesis. Let's get into the headlines, I will let you come back

:06:09. > :06:16.on that in a second, because the British media do write some special

:06:17. > :06:29.headlines. What a dope, in the Sunday Mail. Bolt from boos, and

:06:30. > :06:33.this photograph, not worthy, Gatlin bowing down to Usain Bolt. Usain

:06:34. > :06:37.Bolt was very magnanimous, saying that Gatlin is a good man, and he

:06:38. > :06:40.clearly has forgiveness in his heart, he doesn't hold any

:06:41. > :06:45.bitterness towards him. It is the IAAF which was not able to make the

:06:46. > :06:51.bans longer. They wanted to make them longer but it was considered

:06:52. > :06:55.restraint of trade, and what Usain Bolt was saying, we probably all

:06:56. > :06:58.felt a little bit - much as we do not want cheats to be allowed back

:06:59. > :07:03.into the sport, that felt a little bit wrong last night, it felt not

:07:04. > :07:06.human, and if we want a bigger deterrent, you don't have to look

:07:07. > :07:10.very far for kids not taking up sport, because that moment of

:07:11. > :07:14.victory, what it meant to Justin Gatlin, he wasn't able to savour

:07:15. > :07:23.that. It couldn't have felt good to him, it must have been a sad place

:07:24. > :07:26.to be. People will be saying, he just shouldn't have been a glance,

:07:27. > :07:29.and I can't tell my kids see is a great role model. But under the

:07:30. > :07:32.rules, he was, and he is not the only person who has come back. That

:07:33. > :07:35.is not what athletics is about, it is about celebrating great

:07:36. > :07:43.performances, being able to believe in performances, celebrating and

:07:44. > :07:47.sharing those emotions and moments. I Am Bolt, fantastic documentary, if

:07:48. > :07:51.there was going to be another five minutes, this is not how anybody

:07:52. > :07:59.wanted his career to end. The Mail on Sunday, a romcom turned into a

:08:00. > :08:04.slasher movie, athletics' worst nightmare unfolded in front of the

:08:05. > :08:08.world. Another example of a fantastically dramatic headline! It

:08:09. > :08:13.is not the end of the world. You know, I see what he was saying about

:08:14. > :08:17.the feeling in here last night, but there was celebration of Usain

:08:18. > :08:21.Bolt's career last night, when he was going around that track, no-one

:08:22. > :08:25.was concerned about the fact that he lost the race or that it was Justin

:08:26. > :08:29.Gatlin who won it at that moment, when he went around the track and

:08:30. > :08:35.did his final, you know, victory lap as an individual athlete. There was

:08:36. > :08:39.celebration, and someone asked me earlier this morning if I felt like

:08:40. > :08:43.Usain Bolt's career legacy would be tarnished because of the lost - not

:08:44. > :08:47.at all, the legacy is so huge that everyone loves him, he has meant so

:08:48. > :08:53.much to this board that there is still celebration, you know, around

:08:54. > :08:59.Usain Bolt. So I do not think that it is, you know, a disaster, or a

:09:00. > :09:03.slasher sort of ending to this! I think it is, you know, a separation

:09:04. > :09:08.of an amazing career and what he has meant to this board, despite the

:09:09. > :09:13.loss still. Just leaving the stadium, the atmosphere in here for

:09:14. > :09:17.him, it was euphoric, you have to celebrate his career, but leaving

:09:18. > :09:22.the stadium, on reflection, there was a numbness, people were

:09:23. > :09:27.scratching their heads as they were leaving, descending on Stratford. I

:09:28. > :09:32.think there may also have been a kind of shame in the behaviour here,

:09:33. > :09:36.because there was a mob rule mentality. 60,000 people in here

:09:37. > :09:39.funds, 55,000 would never think they would start booing somebody in a

:09:40. > :09:44.public arena, but in that crowd, they are hyped up, they behave in a

:09:45. > :09:49.different way. And emotions come out, Steve is right, it is sport,

:09:50. > :09:53.not a movie, it is not a happy ending story, it is just people

:09:54. > :09:57.putting it out, and it is who gets there first. That is part of the

:09:58. > :10:01.whole drama of sport, that is why we all come to watch it, because

:10:02. > :10:06.anything can happen on the night. And it did, and I don't think it's

:10:07. > :10:10.tarnishes it, because we see the real characters come out in people

:10:11. > :10:15.afterwards, and we saw that come out in both the athletes. They died not

:10:16. > :10:20.being talked about got the silver medal, didn't he? As I said last

:10:21. > :10:24.night, Christian Coleman must have thought, the night I beat Usain Bolt

:10:25. > :10:29.and I still do not win the race! He would never have imagined that!

:10:30. > :10:34.Every sprinter for the last ten years has been thinking, if I can

:10:35. > :10:38.beat Usain Bolt, I will be world champion, Olympic champion, but I

:10:39. > :10:42.think, you know, one of the dangers of the good versus evil, the very

:10:43. > :10:47.simple narrative, is that we lose perspective. This is still sport. It

:10:48. > :10:50.is hard to go out and win every time, you know, the other seven

:10:51. > :10:57.athletes in the race were not on the same page with everyone else in the

:10:58. > :11:01.stadium, who was all about this perfect ending to Bolt's career,

:11:02. > :11:06.that he will come out, people have bought tickets, and they thought it

:11:07. > :11:13.was guaranteed, I am going to go and see Usain Bolt run his last race,

:11:14. > :11:16.and he is going to win. That is not what this is about, this is sport,

:11:17. > :11:20.the other seven guys always wanted to hand him a loss, and that is

:11:21. > :11:25.something that is always possible. And Usain Bolt knew that, he knew

:11:26. > :11:29.that he could lose. These headlines would be different if he had lost to

:11:30. > :11:34.somebody else, we all talked about it, we talked about Gatlin, Coleman,

:11:35. > :11:38.there was a possibility, he has not been informed, so always a

:11:39. > :11:43.possibility he will be beaten, it is just about by whom. Yeah, again,

:11:44. > :11:48.that is the simple narrative, and that is what nobody wanted, and

:11:49. > :11:51.nobody wanted it to be Justin Gatlin because of the narrative that has

:11:52. > :11:56.been put together, but that does nothing, it feels good, you know,

:11:57. > :12:03.but to criticise, it felt good for the people who were booing, it feels

:12:04. > :12:06.good to read the headline about the villain that we can blame, but at

:12:07. > :12:12.the end of the day it does nothing towards, you know, helping the

:12:13. > :12:17.situation or rectify the situation we are dealing with with doping in

:12:18. > :12:24.sport. Let's gear from Sebastian Coe, who said he would feel queasy

:12:25. > :12:27.if Gatlin beat Bolt in Beijing, and this morning he was on Garry

:12:28. > :12:33.Richardson's programme on BBC Radio 5 live, and this is what he had to

:12:34. > :12:39.say. It is not the worst result ever, I mean, I am hardly go to city

:12:40. > :12:44.of funds and tell you that -- I am hardly going to sit here and tell

:12:45. > :12:49.you that somebody who has walked off with two band in our sport has now

:12:50. > :12:56.got his glittering prize, but he is eligible to be here, we did attempt

:12:57. > :13:01.a life ban and this particular set of circumstances, and we lost that.

:13:02. > :13:05.So we now have the athlete integrity unit, we need to make sure that we

:13:06. > :13:17.do everything that we possibly can to toughen up. But, actually, we are

:13:18. > :13:22.bound within the Wada world code, that is mandatory. There have been

:13:23. > :13:26.two bans in the past, one was watered down, which made it very

:13:27. > :13:32.difficult for the second ban, and we went for an eight year ban, which

:13:33. > :13:36.would in essence have been a life ban, and we lost that, so these

:13:37. > :13:41.things are suffused in legality. Shall we hear from the men

:13:42. > :13:46.themselves, Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt, in the aftermath last evening,

:13:47. > :13:51.speaking to Phil Jones? It is not the crowd, I tuned it out

:13:52. > :13:56.through all the rounds, I stayed the course, you know, I kept my energy

:13:57. > :14:00.through the semis, came to the finals, did what I had to do. The

:14:01. > :14:03.support has been outstanding, I can never expect this from any other

:14:04. > :14:08.crowd, they really stand by me and push me to do my best. We are rivals

:14:09. > :14:13.on the track throughout the years, but we are joking with each other,

:14:14. > :14:18.we have a good time. The first thing he said, congratulations, you worked

:14:19. > :14:22.hard for this, you do not deserve all the boos. It inspires me

:14:23. > :14:27.throughout my career, and he is an amazing man. My start is killing me,

:14:28. > :14:31.normally I would get it through the rounds, get better through the

:14:32. > :14:34.rounds, but it didn't come together, and that is what killed me. It

:14:35. > :14:39.didn't come together, and I knew if it didn't, I felt like it was there,

:14:40. > :14:45.but the fact that I didn't get it, that is the reason I lost. It is

:14:46. > :14:49.still an amazing night, Usain Bolt's last race, so many victories and

:14:50. > :14:54.losses, and to be able to run against him throughout the years,

:14:55. > :14:57.you know, just an amazing night. And he wouldn't have had that

:14:58. > :15:05.opportunity, as Sebastian Coe said, had he not achieved that a dear ban.

:15:06. > :15:12.As the sport got its hands tied behind its back? -- that eight year

:15:13. > :15:19.ban. A little bit, that is why it is so important that athletics takes

:15:20. > :15:27.the lead with this integrity unit, but as he said, we still have two be

:15:28. > :15:30.submitting to the Wada code, so until they get tougher, we cannot go

:15:31. > :15:35.against that, so we are bound to follow the same rules, to follow the

:15:36. > :15:38.same regulations that Wada put in place, as much as athletics would

:15:39. > :15:42.like to go further with that. The integrity unit is moving in the

:15:43. > :15:48.right direction, it needs to go faster, in my opinion, it needs to

:15:49. > :15:59.Moretti needs to bring in more of regulating everything, not just

:16:00. > :16:04.anti-doping, nationality, illegal betting, age-group manipulation. All

:16:05. > :16:08.those things, under the same remit of corruption which needs to be

:16:09. > :16:13.looked at in the sport. Everything needs to be independent but the

:16:14. > :16:15.biggest part of that is anti-doping, bringing things away from the Court

:16:16. > :16:21.of Arbitration for Sport and making that in-house so sanctions can be

:16:22. > :16:27.passed quicker and faster so we can have some control over it. It is our

:16:28. > :16:32.sport so we should say whether it is a life ban or not. That is the issue

:16:33. > :16:36.I have. It is a human right to be able to come back and practice your

:16:37. > :16:41.sport, it is not. It is a privilege and if you violate the rules then

:16:42. > :16:49.you should not come back. What do you make of Lord Coe's comments? Has

:16:50. > :16:55.he moved quicker enough in those two years to create a sense this will

:16:56. > :17:06.never happen again and we can stop this corrosion? He makes a

:17:07. > :17:12.legitimate comment that we are subject to the Wada code and they

:17:13. > :17:15.will not let us impose an eight year or a lifetime ban. There are things

:17:16. > :17:22.that we can do within the sport and rules you can set up, there are

:17:23. > :17:26.things we can do that makes it more difficult for athletes to come back.

:17:27. > :17:32.As an example, prize-money you've won over the years that you have

:17:33. > :17:36.been using drugs. Paying that back before you can get back into the

:17:37. > :17:39.sport. That sort of thing. There are all sorts of things that would make

:17:40. > :17:47.it more difficult for an athlete to come back. I would like to see Lord

:17:48. > :17:55.Coe try to implement those. If you get more of the brewing that you we

:17:56. > :18:05.got for Justin Gatlin, then he has support to say, our fans don't want

:18:06. > :18:12.this. Why did they not do for you and Blake or a LaShawn Merritt? Will

:18:13. > :18:18.they be doing it today? They won't. Two years ago that narrative got

:18:19. > :18:24.started and it had to do with good and evil. The media created this. We

:18:25. > :18:28.are as guilty of that. Exactly. I said that then. It does not do a

:18:29. > :18:33.service to the fight that we need against doping in sport, trying to

:18:34. > :18:37.get a situation where we have a level playing field for all

:18:38. > :18:42.athletes. Lets get some reaction from the wider picture. Darren

:18:43. > :18:49.Campbell, one of our colleagues from five live. We know you love your

:18:50. > :18:55.sport. Are you a little bit less in love? I will never fall out of love

:18:56. > :19:01.with athletics. Last night was disappointing but the crowd voiced

:19:02. > :19:06.their feelings. That sort of reaction we normally see whether

:19:07. > :19:15.football player leaves a football club and play for somebody else.

:19:16. > :19:17.What that showed me is the public still love the sport, they

:19:18. > :19:26.understand the sport and they voiced their reaction. They paid their hard

:19:27. > :19:31.earned money and I'm sure the fact that Usain Bolt was competing, those

:19:32. > :19:37.tickets would have been very expensive. The emotions last night

:19:38. > :19:44.where to do that. Today I would hope we have settled down a little bit. I

:19:45. > :19:54.hope we deal with today with a bit more dignity. We don't have to

:19:55. > :19:58.celebrate but maybe at that moment we are just silent. I've heard

:19:59. > :20:13.people speak on radio about boycotting going to events. So you

:20:14. > :20:20.are talking about silence being the answer and the potential to show

:20:21. > :20:27.disapproval might be to mess the ceremony altogether and athletics

:20:28. > :20:39.altogether? Obviously that is home fans feel. The reason we should not

:20:40. > :20:43.do that as there are two other people in the medal ceremony, one of

:20:44. > :20:48.those is Usain Bolt, the other is a young athlete, Christian Coleman,

:20:49. > :20:55.this is his first major championships. I would not want him

:20:56. > :21:03.leaving without the memory. Ultimately it is not Justin Gatlin's

:21:04. > :21:12.fall. The fault lies with him in regards the drug test but the reason

:21:13. > :21:19.he's here, that is not his fault. The question was, what do you need

:21:20. > :21:26.to do to be banned for life? Do we get to that situation you are

:21:27. > :21:40.penalised for abusing the trust the fans give. I feel for parents.

:21:41. > :21:48.Imagine if you brought your child here, everybody says, why is

:21:49. > :21:54.everybody brewing. This is affecting everybody. It's time for change. The

:21:55. > :22:03.guys are talking about it in the studio. People's reaction to him, we

:22:04. > :22:08.don't see it to people like LaShawn Merritt, running today, Blake,

:22:09. > :22:18.people who had those tests. Is it fair, the way that he's been treated

:22:19. > :22:23.and how do we educate the public? The emotions by the way that they

:22:24. > :22:33.were because it was Usain Bolt. He's given so much to the sport. People

:22:34. > :22:38.empathise with Usain Bolt. He gives his plane, he goes round the track.

:22:39. > :22:44.I don't think it's as simple as Justin Gatlin being the poster boy

:22:45. > :22:54.for drug cheats. This began in Beijing. He should have beat Usain

:22:55. > :23:00.Bolt in Beijing. He tightened up, his shoulders when high, he lost

:23:01. > :23:19.that race. This time round, he looked for the mistake, the final

:23:20. > :23:31.ten metres. He was not in the mix. Fair play, he held him off but

:23:32. > :23:34.neither of them saw it. The fairy tale would have been Usain Bolt

:23:35. > :23:42.receiving his final gold medal in an individual event. Thanks for your

:23:43. > :23:52.opinions. The last British man to win a medal in the championships. He

:23:53. > :24:00.echoed a lot of our sentiments. This did start two years ago. The

:24:01. > :24:08.narrative has continued. It is uncomfortable. The brewing was

:24:09. > :24:17.horrendous. -- the booing. If we start encouraging our fans, British

:24:18. > :24:22.fans, to boycott and leave stadiums, that's a big problem. We need to

:24:23. > :24:27.encourage people to come in and look at our national trials, which were

:24:28. > :24:37.virtually deserted. The lifetime bans, for me, I've said it, I think

:24:38. > :24:42.two offences, you should be out. The innocent young athletes, this is not

:24:43. > :24:47.just about the athletes but the coaches, the agents that are

:24:48. > :24:51.complicit. They carry on coaching. They carry on coaching. Certain

:24:52. > :24:56.cultures have been around a long time, the athletes test positive and

:24:57. > :25:01.we don't talk about it and that is the only uncomfortable thing, the

:25:02. > :25:08.coach needs to be out, right across the entourage. (XXX) fining

:25:09. > :25:13.federations. We sanction Russia when they went against the rules. They

:25:14. > :25:25.are not the only country where this is going on. A lot of countries.

:25:26. > :25:30.When you go above a certain amount of athletes, get fines. We need to

:25:31. > :25:39.encourage people. That was my problem. The kids in this stadium

:25:40. > :25:44.who watched and asked why people are booing, it is because he broke the

:25:45. > :25:50.rules and codes of ethics. I'm not sure you can ever tell a crowd how

:25:51. > :25:55.to behave and I cannot imagine a situation where, if Usain Bolt is in

:25:56. > :26:04.the room, anybody will not cheer. If he's there, people want to be

:26:05. > :26:15.enthusiastic. It won't be silence. You could be silent for Justin

:26:16. > :26:19.Gatlin. You don't need to boo. Usain Bolt will be recognised for his

:26:20. > :26:31.bronze medal. Both of them can be cheered. They reacted to Justin

:26:32. > :26:37.Gatlin and only Justin Gatlin. But I agree with both of you. I don't

:26:38. > :26:43.believe that the answer is fans boycotting events. I do think fans

:26:44. > :26:52.have a role to play in putting pressure on the Wada, putting

:26:53. > :26:57.support behind Sebastian Coe when he says we want a lifetime ban. When

:26:58. > :27:02.your hands are tied you need the support of fans to say, we don't

:27:03. > :27:10.want athletes who have had an infraction twice or even once in the

:27:11. > :27:13.sport. There are two men today who have served bans. The crowd will not

:27:14. > :27:17.acknowledge that because their knowledge is not as deep and they do

:27:18. > :27:21.react to headlines and narratives, of which we were part of. We are

:27:22. > :27:27.going back to 2015 and the build-up of reaction and the post reaction to

:27:28. > :27:32.that race and contrast that to last night.

:27:33. > :27:40.Usain Bolt gets out pretty well. They are together, Usain Bolt gets

:27:41. > :27:58.it! I think he has! Pretty good start, he chases him

:27:59. > :28:05.hard. Here he comes. Justin Gatlin WinZip! It is Justin Gatlin! Right

:28:06. > :28:13.at the death. He steals it. Usain Bolt never got there.

:28:14. > :28:34.Let's join Steve Cram in the commentary box. Good morning. The

:28:35. > :28:39.line that you used in 2015 was, he may have saved the sport. In light

:28:40. > :28:45.of last night, what was that? I don't think it was a good night in

:28:46. > :28:48.the sense that you've seen the headlines, we walked with others

:28:49. > :28:58.outwith the crowd and we were talking to a few people. The booing

:28:59. > :29:00.is not nice for Justin Gatlin as an individual but he personifies what

:29:01. > :29:05.people don't like about the sport and they have a right to show that.

:29:06. > :29:09.For that reason, we should not take it lightly. It was not a good night

:29:10. > :29:20.for athletics for those reasons. I also said in commentary, it is

:29:21. > :29:29.sport, there's no script to follow. They took the opportunity to voice

:29:30. > :29:40.frustrations. It is not his fault. He is the most famous drug cheat in

:29:41. > :29:47.the world in a stark event. I chatted to other people. The

:29:48. > :29:56.ceremony has been switched to a different time. I'm still grappling

:29:57. > :30:02.with it thyself. The line I used was, he may have saved his sport. I

:30:03. > :30:12.am a headline grabber. We've all been saying, Usain Bolt, it should

:30:13. > :30:18.not have been his responsibility to save the sport and it is not Justin

:30:19. > :30:22.Gatlin who solely personifies what is wrong with the sport. They are

:30:23. > :30:27.the lightning rods to which everybody is gravitating. Last night

:30:28. > :30:36.we saw that reaction. Thanks very much, Steve. We will catch up later.

:30:37. > :30:39.He's got a long day ahead of him. There's lots more athletics going

:30:40. > :30:44.on. Lots of things to be positive about. Is going to be some fantastic

:30:45. > :30:50.British chances. The heptathlon, is ongoing today. Katarina

:30:51. > :30:52.Johnson-Thompson has let herself with a lot to do but is not out of

:30:53. > :31:04.the picture completely. She is starting with one of the best

:31:05. > :31:09.events, long jump, and it is how she recovered. She ran hard in the 200

:31:10. > :31:13.last night, I hope the legs are fresh. She knows what she has got to

:31:14. > :31:17.do, she has got to jump very, very well, and maybe increase the

:31:18. > :31:24.distance between her to try and climb up the leaderboard a little

:31:25. > :31:27.bit. Just one more question on last night, and the ramifications, you

:31:28. > :31:31.know, I had a few things this morning on the radio, this will ruin

:31:32. > :31:36.the whole championships, it will be talked about everyday - that is

:31:37. > :31:40.sensationalism, isn't it? This won't be the story of the championships.

:31:41. > :31:46.No, it will be what it was before, Mo Farah in his last race is on the

:31:47. > :31:51.track, and he has got one more, it will also be Usain Bolt's last

:31:52. > :31:55.championships, he has got the relay coming up, which will be amazing,

:31:56. > :31:59.you will see the same crowds trying to get a view of him for the last

:32:00. > :32:04.time on the track, and that will be a great competition as well with the

:32:05. > :32:10.US, Great Britain, Japan, Jamaica, the 4x100m relay. And Wayde van

:32:11. > :32:16.Niekerk in the 400m, trying to complete the 400-200 double, so many

:32:17. > :32:22.things going on, and let's dispose with the sensationalism. Let's tell

:32:23. > :32:29.you what is coming up today. Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson

:32:30. > :32:33.Will Hope to shine on day two of the heptathlon, but Olympic champion

:32:34. > :32:37.Nafi Thiam is also in action. She had a really strong day, and the

:32:38. > :32:42.Belgian looks well-placed to claim world gold. Marathon time on the

:32:43. > :32:48.streets of London, Callum Hawkins is attempting to build on his top-ten

:32:49. > :32:53.finish in Rio last summer. Four months ago, Josh Griffiths was an

:32:54. > :32:59.unknown club runner, today he makes his World Championship debut over

:33:00. > :33:03.26.2 miles. The marathon man to beat is Daniel Barron Giroud, he took a

:33:04. > :33:06.surprise victory in the London Marathon in April. In the women's

:33:07. > :33:15.race, the ringing world champion, Marian Dibaba, is the woman to beat.

:33:16. > :33:21.America's world champion Allyson Felix tops the bill in the women's

:33:22. > :33:29.400m heats. Kerron Clement begins his 400m hurdles campaign. We will

:33:30. > :33:37.see Andrew Pozzi in the 110 metres hurdles as that gets off and

:33:38. > :33:46.running. And Omar McLeod Jamaica also in the hurdles. This is the

:33:47. > :33:52.timetables so you can pick out how to spend your Sunday morning, and

:33:53. > :33:55.see the things that matter most to you, and the heptathlon takes off,

:33:56. > :34:19.steeplechase in just a few minutes' time.

:34:20. > :34:26.We are on air on BBC Two until five o'clock, it really is a marathon

:34:27. > :34:29.broadcasting day! But it there is a man who can last the distance, we

:34:30. > :34:35.have got in the commentary box - Steve Cram.

:34:36. > :34:42.Thanks, it is a long day, loch going on in the stadium, two marathons, I

:34:43. > :34:50.do not know how many people will be watching athletics on the streets or

:34:51. > :34:55.in the stadium, but a big day. The sun is shining, and we start with

:34:56. > :35:08.the steeplechase first-round, three races, the first three and the

:35:09. > :35:12.fastest losers to the final. Birech will be one of the favourites, but

:35:13. > :35:20.Zak Seddon next game will be delighted to have made the team. Zak

:35:21. > :35:33.is full of smiles, relishing the opportunity.

:35:34. > :35:41.Krystian Zalewski of Poland on the inside there, we have got a very

:35:42. > :35:49.good Moroccan in this race as well, Soufiane Elbakkali, so it tough

:35:50. > :35:58.first round for Zak Seddon. It is not quite full in the stadium yet,

:35:59. > :36:01.people still coming in, sold-out, the evening sessions through the

:36:02. > :36:06.rest of the week, last night was incredible, and just to carry on as

:36:07. > :36:13.Paula has come down to the commentary box, just to carry on, it

:36:14. > :36:18.takes A-level while, it takes about an hour to get there! -- a little

:36:19. > :36:23.while. The idea that everyone is just going to remember that, I don't

:36:24. > :36:27.think that is true, a lot of people saying how much they enjoy the

:36:28. > :36:32.championships, and the question keeps getting as, where are we going

:36:33. > :36:35.to win any more medals from? I would love us to be winning a medal from

:36:36. > :36:41.the steeplechase, but it would be good just to see some of these guys

:36:42. > :36:47.advance from the heats into the final here today, a tough ask, tough

:36:48. > :36:52.conditions, the first three and six fastest losers will go through. Zak

:36:53. > :36:58.Seddon is a pretty exciting young talent here, he has done well. If I

:36:59. > :37:02.tell you that he turned up to the training camp in the same pair of

:37:03. > :37:06.shoes that he has been running in since January, he was just happy to

:37:07. > :37:09.find himself on the team and in that situation. And who stepped up to

:37:10. > :37:14.lend a new pair of shoes but Mo Farah? He is running around in sheep

:37:15. > :37:23.bikes that have been lent to him, but he has worked hard to be here.

:37:24. > :37:28.-- in spikes. He is a British athlete that did not expect to make

:37:29. > :37:32.the team, out there, competing in the stadium, let's in front of full

:37:33. > :37:38.crowds, full support, taking their first steps on a journey, knowing

:37:39. > :37:43.that their future is being looked after in the right way. Just a point

:37:44. > :37:54.on that group, this is the biggest ever endurance squad, I think since

:37:55. > :38:00.2012. 1912! Sorry, it is going to be a long day to day, since 1912, yes!

:38:01. > :38:10.More women than ever before, obviously we saw both Lauras going

:38:11. > :38:19.through to their final, Zak Seddon here. So the early pace is pretty, I

:38:20. > :38:22.mentioned Birech in this race, Elbakkali has been having a

:38:23. > :38:28.brilliant season, the tall Moroccan in the red in about fifth place at

:38:29. > :38:45.the moment, two very good young Ethiopians, whose ages down as 18 or

:38:46. > :38:55.19, just to come back to that point about age manipulation. I watched

:38:56. > :39:00.them in Hengelo, and I was impressed, good pace, technique is

:39:01. > :39:05.not brilliant, but only 17, well, that is what is aged says, but

:39:06. > :39:11.obviously a young talent. Ethiopia has not really found anyone to

:39:12. > :39:16.challenge the Kenyans. Ethiopia has not concentrated on this, we have

:39:17. > :39:20.seen a few women come through in steeplechase from Ethiopia, but on

:39:21. > :39:27.the men's side, nowhere near the domination, and we talk about the

:39:28. > :39:40.100m being so important... The Swedish athlete looks like he is

:39:41. > :39:43.living. We talk about Kemboi personifying the event, it is very

:39:44. > :39:48.much an event that people go into, for many countries steeplechase is

:39:49. > :39:53.seen as something that you go into if you are not quick enough to make

:39:54. > :39:59.the 1500m team the 5000m team, you will concentrate on steeplechase.

:40:00. > :40:10.That is a very good point. Kenya will be hoping to maintain the

:40:11. > :40:16.dominance, the big news was Kipreto coming to compete, he has not been

:40:17. > :40:22.in great shape, Birech's big rival, national rival, he is right up

:40:23. > :40:26.there. Zak Seddon doing a good job, it is going to get tougher, but he

:40:27. > :40:36.has got himself nicely involved, and that is good to see. Elbakkali, I

:40:37. > :40:47.saw him run in the Diamond League in Rabat, incredibly impressive. He

:40:48. > :40:55.made it look way too easy, to be honest, just moving up on the inside

:40:56. > :40:58.now to joint third place. Yeah, Krystian Zalewski of Poland just

:40:59. > :41:04.moving onto the shoulder of Zak Seddon, just moving around him now,

:41:05. > :41:11.and is Zak Seddon has it in his legs to latch onto the back of him, he is

:41:12. > :41:15.a really wily competitor, as we see Elbakkali moved easily to the front.

:41:16. > :41:20.He does look strong, and he ran scarily well in Rabat, and I think

:41:21. > :41:23.some of the rumours, we talk about the fact that Kenya has a

:41:24. > :41:32.steeplechase tradition, but Morocco has a steeplechase tradition that

:41:33. > :41:46.has been a little bit sullied by the results in coaching. It passed me

:41:47. > :41:54.by, Paula, tucked on the inside there, we know his background, he is

:41:55. > :41:58.the tall figure in blue of France, and I am seeing him just move

:41:59. > :42:08.outside now, I can't understand the strength of this heat, you have got

:42:09. > :42:12.Birech, you have got Elbakkali, and some runners who should have been in

:42:13. > :42:18.the third heat, but it has been made even tougher in this race. The big

:42:19. > :42:29.names coming to the fore, going through 2000m at a steady pace, just

:42:30. > :42:35.trying to work out, that has thrown us a little bit, the fact that he is

:42:36. > :42:40.in this race, it must have been a redraw, I don't think you would just

:42:41. > :42:43.have come out, he has done some controversial things, but to race in

:42:44. > :42:47.the wrong heat would be really pushing it, I can only imagine that

:42:48. > :42:51.France put in a complaint, do they have three runners in this one, and

:42:52. > :42:56.they decide they need one in each of the heats? Well, Birech almost took

:42:57. > :43:00.a tumble at the water jump, one of the favourites, so here goes

:43:01. > :43:04.Elbakkali as they take the bell. Zak Seddon just starting to feel as

:43:05. > :43:10.though he is struggling, obviously, you would expect that to happen, the

:43:11. > :43:14.six fastest loser spots are available, so if he can stay in the

:43:15. > :43:19.top nine, he has got a slim hope of hanging in, but it is Elbakkali, the

:43:20. > :43:27.very good Ethiopian, Wale, Birech on the inside, the runner from Uganda

:43:28. > :43:31.struggling over that barrier. But now Elbakkali stretching out.

:43:32. > :43:35.Elbakkali stretching out really well, he doesn't really need to do

:43:36. > :43:40.any more, very much controlling this from the front, and the battle

:43:41. > :43:43.behind will go on behind him, going on for the third automatic

:43:44. > :43:49.qualifying place. The first two are clear at this point with a couple

:43:50. > :43:54.more barriers to clear. Really upsetting things there, Birech is

:43:55. > :44:00.really struggling, a bit of a shock. Mekhissi, who was moved into this

:44:01. > :44:04.heat, Elbakkali clears the last barrier, so does Mekhissi, Wale in a

:44:05. > :44:07.real sprint, they will be the top three qualifiers, and the first

:44:08. > :44:12.surprise is that Birech, who would have been one of the favourites for

:44:13. > :44:18.a medal, we'll have to wait to see if his time is going to be quick

:44:19. > :44:24.enough. Zak Seddon crosses in 8:33, and at the moment he will be a

:44:25. > :44:32.loser, but with two more races to come, he has got a very slim chance

:44:33. > :44:37.of staying in there. So Elbakkali, Mekhissi, well, that made that an

:44:38. > :44:47.incredibly difficult race. You could actually look at those three, the

:44:48. > :44:55.real medal contenders, three of them in the same semifinal, a tough one

:44:56. > :45:00.for Zak Seddon. Well, the heptathlete are out for day two,

:45:01. > :45:07.first event is the long jump, five of seven, this event. The favourite

:45:08. > :45:11.is not in the lead, Thiam, the Olympic champion, trailing the

:45:12. > :45:19.German, Carolin Schafer, after the first day of action. So Thiam, first

:45:20. > :45:24.attempt in the long jump. Slightly laboured on the approach, it is

:45:25. > :45:32.beyond six metres, lifetime best of 6.50, she jumps that in Rio en route

:45:33. > :45:35.to Olympic glory. Slightly tentative there, just knocking off a bit of

:45:36. > :45:47.the soreness from her day's work yesterday.

:45:48. > :46:05.We have seen athletes fall foul of that. Making no mistake there, for

:46:06. > :46:09.the opener. There is Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She made some

:46:10. > :46:20.inroads into salvaging her day yesterday. It did not go well. One

:46:21. > :46:30.metre 80. It was way down. Huge dent in her campaign to a potential

:46:31. > :46:48.medal. It is not all lost. A global medallist. She will need to go close

:46:49. > :47:00.to Vista content. How was that as an experience? I've worked my it was

:47:01. > :47:12.incredible. On that track, that is enough to keep me going. Was your

:47:13. > :47:17.plan to give you this going forward? I came into the Championship,

:47:18. > :47:26.realistically it was going to take something special. One of these days

:47:27. > :47:40.when everything clicks. In the end, I did not have it. A quick word on

:47:41. > :47:53.Mo Farah. He is a legend. I did not have any decent spikes. I did not

:47:54. > :48:05.take the trainers off for two weeks. Good at going forward. I hope to see

:48:06. > :48:15.you soon. Apologies, I thought he was in ninth place but sadly he was

:48:16. > :48:33.intense. There he is. An anxious wait. Good support for the

:48:34. > :48:42.heptathlete is. Twice European champion, first attempt in the long

:48:43. > :48:53.jump, over six metres, just. Down on what she is capable of. Maybe out of

:48:54. > :48:54.contention on day two. Going to be really tight. It looks as though

:48:55. > :49:24.gold and silver are wrapped up. Here is an athlete to keep an eye

:49:25. > :49:39.on. This is the penultimate event after the long jump.

:49:40. > :49:58.Can claim up from a position overnight. Around that six-metre

:49:59. > :50:02.mark. Some of the fatigue and I work from yesterday, it is good strategy

:50:03. > :50:17.to get that first. Safe on the board. First attempt, get one in,

:50:18. > :50:28.and you've got two attempts. That is what has happened. Here is your

:50:29. > :50:37.overnight leader. We knew she was in shape. That was a really solid first

:50:38. > :50:52.day. She knows she can give the champion something to think about.

:50:53. > :51:12.Looking to retain a Leeds. A big jump is needed. Again, slightly

:51:13. > :51:16.tentative. Shakes her head. 6.20 she jumped last year. Sixth in the

:51:17. > :51:27.Olympic Games. Good discipline on the board. A little step sideways

:51:28. > :51:42.which will be celebrate and lose a little bit of distance. Needs more,

:51:43. > :51:49.more likely. An athlete who has no room to be cautious. Katarina

:51:50. > :51:58.Johnson-Thompson needs The Jump of her life if she is to wrestle her

:51:59. > :52:01.way back into contention. Carrying that. Underperformed in the high

:52:02. > :52:22.jump. Blistering run. She's got her jumping legs on. What

:52:23. > :52:41.is it going to do? She has maybe lost her balance from yesterday.

:52:42. > :52:52.Just faltered. Decelerating and losing distance despite it being OK

:52:53. > :52:59.on take-off. We talked about her as a contender for medals. She will be

:53:00. > :53:02.one person to keep an eye on. It will come down to that race for the

:53:03. > :53:23.medals. Rodriguez is a contender as is

:53:24. > :53:40.Katarina Johnson-Thompson for bronze. She knows what she needs to

:53:41. > :53:51.do here. The second fastest ever. Two jumps remaining. Only three

:53:52. > :54:02.lacked jumps for this. Katarina Johnson-Thompson eyeing up this. I

:54:03. > :54:07.huge roar from the crowd to lift her spirits, dampened somewhat

:54:08. > :54:19.yesterday. Does she want it enough? Does she have the mettle?

:54:20. > :54:39.It is a big effort. Is it a white flag? It's a huge jump, yes it is!

:54:40. > :54:44.Cage -- KJT may have jumped back into the medals. We know that she's

:54:45. > :54:51.a great long jumper. That is a really good jump. Exactly what she

:54:52. > :54:58.needed. The crowd response. They know the importance of that leap in

:54:59. > :55:06.this fifth event of seven. It was never going to go right in every

:55:07. > :55:19.event. It has here. That improves her chances. We'll take a breath and

:55:20. > :55:31.compose herself. There is a chance to let loose. There is a brawl ran

:55:32. > :55:42.the stadium. A smile from Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

:55:43. > :56:04.They come round the bend. We have the favourite for this.

:56:05. > :56:10.Silver-medallist in Rio de Janiero, and the next heat. Four Kenyon is

:56:11. > :56:36.involved in this. Evan Jager moves so well. I'm not

:56:37. > :56:42.sure that Ezekiel Kemboi is in the kind of form that means you can win,

:56:43. > :56:49.but you never know. And Ieuan Thomas of Cardiff. Keep an eye on him. Yes,

:56:50. > :56:58.it's a very interesting story, how he made the championships. Came so

:56:59. > :57:09.close to getting the qualifying and actually fell. Was invited on a

:57:10. > :57:22.rankings service. Work hard for a chance to experience this. Anyone

:57:23. > :57:40.who watched this knows how well he dominated. He's really established

:57:41. > :58:01.himself as the man to take on the mantle. Losing a bit of touch at the

:58:02. > :58:08.moment. The Moroccan who ran 12, but failed to finish in Stockholm, just

:58:09. > :58:22.staying out of trouble. Quite tight, as we saw in the first heat. Coming

:58:23. > :58:31.through. We have a fall down there. Just trying to see who it was who

:58:32. > :58:42.went down. He would have been a contender. He was rolling around and

:58:43. > :58:56.he's lost too much contact no. Falls foul of the steeplechasers. Became

:58:57. > :59:02.European champion when he removed his best in celebration. Talking

:59:03. > :59:12.about this qualifications, he was supposed to retire after the Olympic

:59:13. > :59:19.Games but he was running right behind and noticed Ezekiel Kemboi

:59:20. > :59:22.put a toe nail on the infield and was disqualified. Technically it was

:59:23. > :59:30.correct, it was certainly against the spirit of the sport and many

:59:31. > :59:31.were unhappy. Was upgraded to bronze and he came back and said, I'm not

:59:32. > :59:46.finished. Hopefully enjoying his experience

:59:47. > :00:00.but at the front, Evan Jager has lifted it. There is a contrast as

:00:01. > :00:06.you see the clean technique. Contrast with the technique of

:00:07. > :00:20.Ezekiel Kemboi, not quite as smooth but it gets the job done. You never

:00:21. > :00:30.know which one will turn up but he has something to settle. He has

:00:31. > :00:38.hardly turned up. Usually has one good race. Ezekiel Kemboi is almost

:00:39. > :00:39.toying with him. He's such a great change of pace, even at the age of

:00:40. > :00:54.35. He is looking round. Kemboi is having to dig in, Seboka

:00:55. > :01:09.trying to get back to him, a flying finish from Seboka, I think Yoann

:01:10. > :01:14.Kowal just holds an, I am not sure he knew Kemboi was coming up on the

:01:15. > :01:19.inside, three go through automatically, Jager looking easy,

:01:20. > :01:22.backing up his favoured status. Ieuan Thomas coming through now over

:01:23. > :01:29.the final barrier, some way down on his best. I am not sure if Kemboi

:01:30. > :01:44.might just have sneaked it from Kowal, it was certainly very close.

:01:45. > :01:48.But Evelyn -- Evan Jager the winner, it will be a great final. Yes,

:01:49. > :01:52.confirmation that Kowal has grabbed the place, we haven't seen the time

:01:53. > :01:57.for Kemboi, but I think the race was quick enough that he has a very good

:01:58. > :02:01.chance of going through as a fastest loser, Kemboi. He did not have

:02:02. > :02:08.enough in his legs, stuttering really badly. Certainly at this

:02:09. > :02:13.final barrier, he stutters, then he starts to make up ground on Kowal,

:02:14. > :02:17.who looks comfortably clear at this point, but Seboka launched his

:02:18. > :02:21.charge, and Kemboi tried to react, but his best was not quick enough at

:02:22. > :02:27.the end. Have they been given the same time? If you watch Kowal, he

:02:28. > :02:33.thinks he has made it, and he sort of starts to look around a little

:02:34. > :02:36.bit, eases off a little bit, reasonably comfortable. Seboka

:02:37. > :02:40.appears on his outside, and he doesn't realise that Kemboi is on

:02:41. > :02:47.the inside, suddenly he has to make a bit more of... A secondary surge!

:02:48. > :02:48.Just enough to see him through, but Jager looking tremendous out in

:02:49. > :03:00.front. Here is a little look at the

:03:01. > :03:07.overnight standings before we catch up with the long jump, the fifth of

:03:08. > :03:09.seven events, Carolin Schafer of Germany hit of Nafi Thiam. We would

:03:10. > :03:17.get the thoughts of Toni Minichiello, Jess Ennis-Hill, your

:03:18. > :03:20.thoughts on KJT's chances of a medal? She's still in there, she

:03:21. > :03:25.will have to get a really good jump in, she has started well, three

:03:26. > :03:29.centimetres better than last time, so an extra nine points, starting to

:03:30. > :03:36.close the gap. What you have to like at is the difference between Schafer

:03:37. > :03:40.and Thiam, converted two centimetres, Thiam has to be Schafer

:03:41. > :03:48.by seven centimetres. If we go down, Rodriguez has to beat Thiam, sorry,

:03:49. > :03:52.be Schafer by 43 centimetres. So there are differences, so that they

:03:53. > :03:58.go into the javelin even. Here is Thiam on the run. With Katarina

:03:59. > :04:05.Johnson-Thompson looking on in support, 6.20 in the first round, it

:04:06. > :04:10.is better, slightly. Well, we expected more, maybe, by the look on

:04:11. > :04:22.her face. Your thoughts on that jump, Tony. At this kind of speed,

:04:23. > :04:25.it was hard to see, not really pulling her foot underneath,

:04:26. > :04:29.carrying the speed off and out. It is not about the speed on the

:04:30. > :04:34.runway, it is the speed that you leave the take-off board with, that

:04:35. > :04:48.is what Tigist Tufa into the pit. A better jump, 6.33, an extra 13

:04:49. > :04:56.centimetres. She is quite a long way down on what she is capable of, what

:04:57. > :05:02.she did in Rio last year, Thiam. Well, smiles on her face, she will

:05:03. > :05:07.have been pleased with her first jump. I think it is a great market

:05:08. > :05:12.to open up with that kind of jump. Let's have a look at her again. This

:05:13. > :05:22.is a look back at that opening jump of Johnson-Thompson, 6.56, talk me

:05:23. > :05:27.through it. I tell you what, I am nervous, a little bit short on the

:05:28. > :05:30.board, she tends to put her foot out longer on the block, and even she

:05:31. > :05:34.knows it is close, because she has been erratic on long jump runways.

:05:35. > :05:40.But she has changed her run-up, she goes for a rolling start, and any

:05:41. > :05:43.error on the rolling start, five or ten centimetres, is with double by

:05:44. > :05:47.the time you get to the board. Not the fullest try off the board, I

:05:48. > :05:53.think she has cut that short. I think she knew she would be tight on

:05:54. > :05:58.the board, perfect board, drops her feet in a little bit early for me,

:05:59. > :06:03.see how the arms are well forward. So more distance to come? I

:06:04. > :06:09.definitely think so. Look at that, a bit of positivity from Toni

:06:10. > :06:14.Minichiello! Are you being cheeky?! It is a bit difficult at there, the

:06:15. > :06:19.winds that we are getting, minus wins, into the face, we saw plus 2.2

:06:20. > :06:23.in one of the competitions, so the wind is gusting around, it will play

:06:24. > :06:32.havoc with the run-up. My advice would be to move back a shoe, then

:06:33. > :06:41.run at it hard. Omega and back, give yourself space, and run added. -- so

:06:42. > :06:43.move back. It is these moments between jumps. The critical thing

:06:44. > :06:51.here, and it is going to happen, forget the

:06:52. > :06:55.difference between Kat for gold against Thiam and Schafer, forget

:06:56. > :07:00.that, that may have gone. Johnson-Thompson needs to beat the

:07:01. > :07:04.Cuban girl by 23 centimetres to go into the javelin even, and then when

:07:05. > :07:09.you get to the javelin, 20 points, that is where you have got to make

:07:10. > :07:13.the difference again. Yeah come intriguing stuff, that is

:07:14. > :07:20.going to keep us interested all day today, the marathons to come, this

:07:21. > :07:23.is the morning, the men's marathon, incidentally, starts in about 20

:07:24. > :07:26.minutes. We have got lots of other action on attractive blondes as

:07:27. > :07:38.well. This is the line-up for the final heat. Tindouft has been added,

:07:39. > :07:46.the Moroccan. Mekhissi should have been in this one, but Tindouft is in

:07:47. > :07:50.this one now. Rob Mullett is in this one. 16-year-old Jakob Ingebrigsten,

:07:51. > :07:55.part of the brilliant family, the latest to throw himself on to the

:07:56. > :07:59.world stage, only 16 years of age. Good 1500m right, but going in the

:08:00. > :08:08.steeplechase, a bit of a baptism of fire for him. II -- Brimin Caputo,

:08:09. > :08:20.and there is Rob Mullett, you might have

:08:21. > :08:24.heard Zak Seddon talking about him, I loved his comment, that would keep

:08:25. > :08:33.the running for another ten years, the excitement that he felt wearing

:08:34. > :08:44.the vest. Hughes, the very good Canadian. There is Ingebrigtsen.

:08:45. > :08:50.There he is, Kipruto, really interesting, as I say, to see how he

:08:51. > :08:55.is going to compete, because he has been not been competing very well,

:08:56. > :08:59.he has been injured, his very first race in the Diamond League in Doha

:09:00. > :09:02.was very average, so a lot of question marks over the Olympic

:09:03. > :09:06.champion here. We have just seen Ezekiel Kemboi have to sprint, and

:09:07. > :09:12.he will now have to wait to see if he goes through as the fastest

:09:13. > :09:17.loser. Four Kenyans in here, there is Kemboi, the Diamond League

:09:18. > :09:24.champion, sorry, defending champion, excuse me. Four Kenyans in the

:09:25. > :09:29.steeplechase this year, two of them in this heat. Again, top three, the

:09:30. > :09:36.fastest loser spot is 8:26, that is the slowest of the fastest losers,

:09:37. > :09:40.so incredibly tough task for Rob Mullett, if it wasn't already.

:09:41. > :09:45.Right, I way they go, let's catch up with the long jump in the

:09:46. > :09:53.heptathlon. Carolin Schafer of Germany, the overnight leader, she

:09:54. > :09:58.is a contender possibly for gold. She looks on course for a certain

:09:59. > :10:04.medal. She was runner-up to Thiam in an historic heptathlon competition

:10:05. > :10:12.earlier in the summer, with a lifetime best. Taking her time here,

:10:13. > :10:15.as she is entitled to, 6.10 in the first round, she knows she is going

:10:16. > :10:20.to have to improve on that to give Thiam something to think about.

:10:21. > :10:26.Well, it is a slight improvement, by the looks of it, into a gentle

:10:27. > :10:34.headwind. 0.7 metres per second, the headwind, for the long jumpers.

:10:35. > :10:40.Maybe Schafer would have expected more, she jumped in excess of 6.50

:10:41. > :10:44.en route to that score earlier this summer. They did have the wind at

:10:45. > :10:48.her back. You can see she is tightening up and grimacing as she

:10:49. > :10:52.comes in, really tight across the shoulders, that just impede

:10:53. > :11:00.movement, run open, run loose, that is what gives you speed. Run open,

:11:01. > :11:03.run loose! Tough in the World Championships, though, isn't it?

:11:04. > :11:11.Schafer waiting for her distance. Looking for something bigger than

:11:12. > :11:24.6.1 zero. Next up is your Bilic Rodriguez of Cuba. -- Yorgelis

:11:25. > :11:30.Rodriguez. There are two parallel runways here, it is busy. She might

:11:31. > :11:38.have to ask an official to go and get a tape measure, it might be

:11:39. > :11:42.quicker! So, then, it is taking longer than every other jump, I

:11:43. > :11:49.don't know if there is a problem here, but the athletes do not need

:11:50. > :11:57.this. We will update you on that as we get the result of Schafer's

:11:58. > :12:01.distance. The early pace being shared,

:12:02. > :12:06.Matthews of Canada in second place, he got it moving at a reasonable

:12:07. > :12:11.pace, and as we have all been saying, when you are in the third

:12:12. > :12:19.heat and you know what you have to do, 8:26 gives you a chance, a

:12:20. > :12:25.little nudge there! It is just because Sikowo was coming across,

:12:26. > :12:29.use wanted some room, a reluctant leader, running wide in the lane.

:12:30. > :12:37.Rob Mullett just at the back, Ingebrigtsen towards the back of the

:12:38. > :12:42.group, the 16-year-old. And I missed the kilometre point, Paula, help me

:12:43. > :12:47.out, I didn't see it. To: 52, a little smaller they need to get

:12:48. > :12:58.things moving along. Rob Mullett will not too much surging, just

:12:59. > :13:02.moving give themselves a good view of the barrier. Quite a few guys

:13:03. > :13:13.jostling for position, the silver holding up is hand, just to say it

:13:14. > :13:16.wasn't his fault. Matt Hughes fell badly in the Diamond League in

:13:17. > :13:21.Monaco, but he recovered well. He wants to keep himself out of

:13:22. > :13:24.trouble, and when it goes slow, like this, they are all getting a bit and

:13:25. > :13:29.see, pushing around, making sure they get clear sight of the barrier.

:13:30. > :13:37.Young Ingebrigtsen moving out wide to make sure he gets a clear view,

:13:38. > :13:41.very exciting. The youngest ever, no, this year when he broke through

:13:42. > :13:46.the four minute barrier for the mile, the youngest ever man to do

:13:47. > :13:49.that, very talented family, and where does he fit in? Where is his

:13:50. > :13:54.strongest event? He is still finding that out.

:13:55. > :13:58.That roar was for Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who has taken to

:13:59. > :14:04.the runway for the second attempt in his fifth event. Rodriguez, the

:14:05. > :14:09.previous jumper, was 6.23, in fourth place behind Katarina

:14:10. > :14:14.Johnson-Thompson, who has moved into third place as we stand. The middle

:14:15. > :14:21.of the fifth event, Johnson-Thompson, round two of the

:14:22. > :14:25.long jump. No. If you watch that again, you will see her length and

:14:26. > :14:33.three or four steps out, she just reaches, and this is the problem

:14:34. > :14:38.with Kat, the poor discipline in her running. She just let the Shingo

:14:39. > :14:43.away and the foot lead out. It is a rhythm thing, exactly the same in

:14:44. > :14:47.the high jump, wasn't it? It is that, trying too hard, the

:14:48. > :14:52.inaccuracy of the rolling start. If she fixes that, this kid can jump

:14:53. > :14:56.seven metres, no doubt. She has got one more chance to do that, a foul

:14:57. > :14:59.in the second round, but you can see that Johnson-Thompson is definitely

:15:00. > :15:18.in medal contention. OK, one more to come for KJT, the

:15:19. > :15:20.last heat has not been pedestrian but pretty slow, and sadly Rob

:15:21. > :15:32.Mullett is really struggling there. Big problems in terms of fastest

:15:33. > :15:42.losers, but for a Rob Mullett, even that pace is a bit of a struggle.

:15:43. > :15:49.The two Americans now, just watching as Matt Hughes comes up round the

:15:50. > :15:54.outside. Oh! Oh and another faller. It was the Swede there who went

:15:55. > :15:58.down. Kipruto just trying to decide whether things are moving on. I

:15:59. > :16:04.don't think it was anyone's fault there. Solomon just going down

:16:05. > :16:10.really heavily. Matt Hughes has taken the opportunity of the upset

:16:11. > :16:18.caused their to break away. The gaps are appearing. Hughes is putting the

:16:19. > :16:24.pressure on. About time too, Paula. It was slow. About time too. The

:16:25. > :16:29.guys were bunched together and waiting for somebody else to make

:16:30. > :16:36.the move. When Solomon went down there, everyone got a shot of

:16:37. > :16:47.adrenaline. It is who reacted the fastest to that. Matt Hughes has a

:16:48. > :16:53.bit of a cushion there. In terms of stringing out this race, it is going

:16:54. > :17:01.to hot up now in the final lap. So Matt Hughes in a very good position

:17:02. > :17:09.here. The tall Ethiopian is now looking threatening. Kipruto, this

:17:10. > :17:14.will be a big test for him. Only the top three. They cannot afford not to

:17:15. > :17:26.be in the top three. Anything slower than about 8.21... Hughes, what a

:17:27. > :17:32.great performance from him. Lovely technique from the Canadian.

:17:33. > :17:38.Hurdling very nicely indeed. The Olympic champion moving into third.

:17:39. > :17:45.Matt Hughes is just looking a little bit tired over the water jump there.

:17:46. > :17:54.These three are moving away now. The last barrier. Safely over. Not so

:17:55. > :18:04.good from Hughes, but he can CB hind him. A real scrap on for the fastest

:18:05. > :18:10.loser spots. 25, 26, no. Only one fastest loser from that heat. So

:18:11. > :18:17.plenty of people, including the former Olympic champion, Kipruto.

:18:18. > :18:27.Thankfully, you said that only one fastest loser would come from that

:18:28. > :18:32.heat, because there was a faller who hit the ground hard and just

:18:33. > :18:38.stumbled over the line. He was going so well. He almost came to a

:18:39. > :18:47.standstill in the water, his legs look going, and he climbed over the

:18:48. > :18:59.final barrier, and just kind of foul. We will be discussing the

:19:00. > :19:04.men's marathon shortly. Ideal conditions, it really is. A crisp,

:19:05. > :19:12.beautiful, almost autumnal morning. Brendan Barber will be commentating

:19:13. > :19:16.on that marathon. We haven't yet discussed the events of last night

:19:17. > :19:21.and the ramifications of that victory for Justin Gatlin. Famously,

:19:22. > :19:26.two years ago, there was images of you dancing in the aisles when Usain

:19:27. > :19:31.Bolt one in Beijing. With that in mind, tell us what you are feeling

:19:32. > :19:37.this morning. I wasn't dancing last night. I was very disappointed with

:19:38. > :19:41.the fact that Usain Bolt didn't win the race. I was also disappointed it

:19:42. > :19:47.was Justin Gatlin and, who has been banned in the past for taking drugs,

:19:48. > :19:53.who actually won the race. In many ways, the story is the bad guy. And

:19:54. > :19:58.he's not a bad guy. He beat the hero, and he is the hero. I was

:19:59. > :20:07.really sad, but when you analyse it, we are covering sport here. The

:20:08. > :20:11.story, if it was fiction, you would write the story that Usain Bolt

:20:12. > :20:17.managed to hold himself together, come across the line and win by four

:20:18. > :20:22.hundredths of a second. But this is different. The fairy tale ending,

:20:23. > :20:28.the ending of drama, of a story... It wasn't a great ending, but the

:20:29. > :20:33.ending was that the great hero, the legend of our sport, one race to

:20:34. > :20:41.many, one season to many, trying to hold his body together, trying to

:20:42. > :20:45.get in time, his start being in his mind and disappointing him, and

:20:46. > :20:50.being unable to win the race. He only lost by four hundredths of a

:20:51. > :20:54.second. It was a story of real sport, but disappointment. The

:20:55. > :20:59.surround sound is not great and the crowd was booing for Justin Gatlin,

:21:00. > :21:03.which is disappointing. But they wanted to see Usain Bolt win his

:21:04. > :21:09.last individual race, which she wasn't able to. He wasn't able to

:21:10. > :21:19.increase as number of gold medals. We were disappointed, the crowd was

:21:20. > :21:22.disappointed, but we are dealing in sport at the end of the day. Thank

:21:23. > :21:25.you very much, Brendan. Let's focus on a couple of the Brits taking part

:21:26. > :21:29.in the men's marathon. Josh Griffiths came to our attention in

:21:30. > :21:35.spectacular style when he ran his very first marathon earlier this

:21:36. > :21:41.year. The London Marathon was going to be my first, and I was hoping to

:21:42. > :21:46.run it under 2.16, which is the Wales Commonwealth Games qualifying

:21:47. > :21:51.time. I had trained for a long time. COMMENTATOR: There is an athlete

:21:52. > :22:00.wearing 114, who could well be Josh Griffiths. This could be a surprise

:22:01. > :22:04.hit. That is under 2.15. Halfway round, I caught up with some of the

:22:05. > :22:08.lead British runners. I was still worrying about my watch and nothing

:22:09. > :22:12.else, because I thought these guys were in a different race. I worked

:22:13. > :22:16.my way through the field and across the line, and I realised what had

:22:17. > :22:21.happened. COMMENTATOR: Could this young man be

:22:22. > :22:26.representing Great Britain in the World Championships in London? I

:22:27. > :22:30.thought I had just qualify for London, but I didn't want to count

:22:31. > :22:34.my chickens or anything. I was waiting for the phone call a couple

:22:35. > :22:46.I have the very best of British with me right now. What about the

:22:47. > :22:51.reaction of your fellow athletes? They were really excited. Excited

:22:52. > :22:55.that I get to race in the Champs in the summer. It makes them believe

:22:56. > :23:00.that it could happen to them as well. That is the great thing about

:23:01. > :23:06.running. It is a true democracy, because if you are good enough, you

:23:07. > :23:11.train fast -- hard enough and fast enough, you get in. You a poster boy

:23:12. > :23:18.for club runners can achieve major feats and join the elite in the way

:23:19. > :23:22.that you have? Definitely. I know people probably better than me who

:23:23. > :23:27.just have not made the jump. You have to continue to work hard and

:23:28. > :23:32.believe in yourself, and what I achieved in London shows it is

:23:33. > :23:39.possible. If I got to be a full-time athlete, it would be a dream come

:23:40. > :23:43.true. The benefits of being here, as a newcomer to the team, is you can

:23:44. > :23:47.pick the brains of some of the more experienced people here. There's a

:23:48. > :23:53.host of people here with more experience, so it's great to be

:23:54. > :23:58.talking to them, get advice on things like having to deal with

:23:59. > :24:03.nerves. The London Marathon was amazing, the crowd there. It is

:24:04. > :24:07.going to be similar, if not better, at the world champs in the summer.

:24:08. > :24:10.I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be a great experience.

:24:11. > :24:21.We wish Josh the very best of luck today, and Callum Hawkins as well.

:24:22. > :24:29.Ninth in Rio, hoping to build on that. It is a looping course. They

:24:30. > :24:34.run it four times. It starts at Tower Bridge, and it's looking

:24:35. > :24:38.absolutely resplendent today. Not dissimilar to the day we had

:24:39. > :24:43.recently for the London Marathon. I'm delighted to turn you over to

:24:44. > :24:49.our marathon commentary team, Paula Radcliffe, Brendan Foster and Steve

:24:50. > :24:57.Cram. A beautiful day in London. The last

:24:58. > :25:01.one was won by Daniel Wanjiru. He is familiar with the course on Tower

:25:02. > :25:11.Bridge. Before the halfway point normally, and it is the start of

:25:12. > :25:16.this World Championship marathon. So they have four laps. This will

:25:17. > :25:20.effectively be the start straight and finish straight. They will not

:25:21. > :25:28.come back onto Tower Bridge until they have finished the race. The lab

:25:29. > :25:35.is just ten kilometres. 42: that is of the marathon. It is pretty much

:25:36. > :25:40.along the embankment. Those who are used to watching the marathon will

:25:41. > :25:45.recognise it. We have a good representation from Great Britain,

:25:46. > :25:54.as we have heard. Josh Griffiths, a great story. Davies has been brought

:25:55. > :25:59.in as a late replacement, and Callum Hawkins, who I can already see three

:26:00. > :26:04.or four in from the left-hand side. He is wearing sunglasses and the

:26:05. > :26:10.white and blue of Great Britain, the kind of blue shoulders. What a great

:26:11. > :26:15.performance from him in Rio. We have very good Kenyans, very good

:26:16. > :26:21.Ethiopians, lining up here, in what is always still one of the

:26:22. > :26:25.highlights any Championships. I agree with that. I am delighted to

:26:26. > :26:30.see the crowds on the roads of London. We are commentating from a

:26:31. > :26:36.distance, here in the Olympic Stadium, and here we are on the

:26:37. > :26:39.streets of London, largely running on the embankment, eventually

:26:40. > :26:48.running around St Paul's and back along the embankment. Four laps of

:26:49. > :26:53.around 10,000 metres. This famous bit of the London Marathon course,

:26:54. > :26:59.along by Tower Bridge and down the Mall eventually. British distance

:27:00. > :27:03.running in terms of today's performer, we are really looking to

:27:04. > :27:08.Callum Hawkins to provide us with a run for our money. The crowd are

:27:09. > :27:14.expecting a battle with the Africans, a battle with the

:27:15. > :27:19.Ethiopians, and the Japanese team are pretty strong. A battle with the

:27:20. > :27:25.Kenyans. It would be great for us today, Paula, if we could see Callum

:27:26. > :27:29.Hawkins feature in this race. It would be really special. The guys

:27:30. > :27:40.racing here today, the people racing on the track have had the

:27:41. > :27:42.opportunity to compete in an amazing atmosphere and an amazing stadium.

:27:43. > :27:45.The crowds on the streets for a marathon in London will make it

:27:46. > :27:52.great, and to see a bricked up there would be amazing. As you see, a

:27:53. > :27:57.steady start. The laps are very familiar. Running into the final

:27:58. > :28:02.miles of the London Marathon, but it's just the start it. They go

:28:03. > :28:08.along the embankment almost up to Westminster. We will be able to see

:28:09. > :28:12.Big Ben. They turn around and head back into the city around St Paul's

:28:13. > :28:17.Cathedral, by the Guildhall and the Bank of England, and then dropped

:28:18. > :28:22.back down onto the embankment. That will be the condition of the first

:28:23. > :28:28.lap. I'm pretty sure the crowds are going to build. As we progress

:28:29. > :28:34.through the next couple of hours. Lots going on back in the stadium,

:28:35. > :28:41.and we will be going backwards and forwards to the marathon. Let's

:28:42. > :28:47.catch up with the long jump. It is the heptathlon in the Olympic

:28:48. > :28:57.Stadium. A beautiful day. It is the second day for the heptathlete. One

:28:58. > :29:06.place behind Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the third round,

:29:07. > :29:12.Vetter. That is better. Vetter one of a trio of strong Dutch

:29:13. > :29:18.heptathlete. That is an improvement for her. A good run. Unfortunately,

:29:19. > :29:24.when she plants her foot on the board, she has a bent knee, so she

:29:25. > :29:28.doesn't quite get the left. Anthony, crumples a bit, doesn't quite get

:29:29. > :29:36.the lift. She would get more distance if she stood up on that.

:29:37. > :29:46.But she looks happy. It is 6.32, her season's best. She has a very good

:29:47. > :29:52.javelin, and she is on for 6550. That is going to be in and around

:29:53. > :29:59.for the bronze medal. It is all about points in the heptathlon. And

:30:00. > :30:04.this is Thiam. She is already in the lead, with six metres 33. Last

:30:05. > :30:12.attempt to improve it. It's a big effort.

:30:13. > :30:19.When the pressure builds, she gets better - that is the mark of a

:30:20. > :30:29.champion. Look at body, Chester, reaches she is a tough cookie. --

:30:30. > :30:37.chest up. 6.33 was her best so far, 6.58 is a lifetime best, that looks

:30:38. > :30:43.close to it. It is a season's best, 6.57, consolidates her first place

:30:44. > :30:50.position with two events remaining. All right, then, the overnight

:30:51. > :30:56.leader, Schafer, has gone into second place because of Thiam's long

:30:57. > :31:03.jumping. Schafer chasing, and other jump beyond six metres, 6.20, but it

:31:04. > :31:08.is a no jump for the German, no improvement. Just going back to

:31:09. > :31:15.Thiam, her personal best is 6.58, so to produce into a minus 0.5 wind, I

:31:16. > :31:20.said she was a tough cookie, but what a great competitor, that is the

:31:21. > :31:25.kind of determination you need in heptathlon. Schafer leaving her toes

:31:26. > :31:29.out a bit, an erratic individual. Not the best jump for her, looking

:31:30. > :31:35.at the schools, doing a quick bit of maths, she is still capable of

:31:36. > :31:39.scoring 6700. The silver-medallist safe as long as she can produce a 50

:31:40. > :31:46.metres javelin throw that you always tends to do. So a bit of a slip for

:31:47. > :31:54.Schafer. Thiam rises to the top. Another contender, the young

:31:55. > :31:58.Rodriguez, the Cuban, 22 years of age, finished one place behind

:31:59. > :32:03.Katarina Johnson-Thompson, setting a new Cuban record, last year. It is

:32:04. > :32:07.going to be another ding-dong battle for bronze potentially, her last

:32:08. > :32:15.attempt, no, 6.23 in the second round was her best. And she is in

:32:16. > :32:19.fourth place as we stand, Johnson-Thompson in the third-place,

:32:20. > :32:26.but she has another jump, Johnson-Thompson. She can improve

:32:27. > :32:33.her situation. We have only got the javelin in this morning session, and

:32:34. > :32:36.then the 800m to come for the conclusion of the heptathlon, and

:32:37. > :32:43.Rodriguez was going for it there, that is what happens when you push

:32:44. > :32:47.too hard, I guess. I think, yeah, she will be disappointed, because

:32:48. > :32:57.she is capable of 6.50, but she has jumped 17 centimetres better than

:32:58. > :33:02.last time. For me, Kat needs to jump an additional 25 centimetres, that

:33:03. > :33:06.is what she needs, she throws around 41-42, then it will be a

:33:07. > :33:11.straightforward foot race in the 800m, so she needs this. She does

:33:12. > :33:15.have a tendency, when she runs faster, to open her stride, so you

:33:16. > :33:21.have got to have discipline here, Kat. Johnson-Thompson, round three

:33:22. > :33:30.of the long jump. Fast on the approach, good on the board. It is

:33:31. > :33:34.another jump in the mid 6.5 metres, somewhere in the region of what we

:33:35. > :33:40.saw in the first round, 6.5 six. I think the look on her face tells us

:33:41. > :33:45.what we need to know. Not as quick on the runway, determined to get a

:33:46. > :33:49.jump in, she has sacrificed speed, still got that opens stride, but not

:33:50. > :33:57.really carried the speeding, unfortunately. Caught in two minds,

:33:58. > :34:00.I really feel. I mean, I can't mind read, but I get the impression that

:34:01. > :34:08.she didn't go for it, because she knew that if she went for it, she

:34:09. > :34:13.might foul. 6.45, you know what, a fantastic jump of 6.56, that is the

:34:14. > :34:18.competitive streak you want, but the discipline needs to be there on the

:34:19. > :34:23.runway. An extra 60 points have gone begging there, I think.

:34:24. > :34:34.Johnson-Thompson looking good with just two events remaining.

:34:35. > :34:36.Just about ready for the start of the men's 400m hurdles, and that is

:34:37. > :35:02.how they line up. Kemar Mowatt, Jose Luis Gaspar of

:35:03. > :35:10.Cuba, the 21-year-old in lane seven. A couple of good Estonians, Jagor

:35:11. > :35:16.goes in lane six. And there is the Olympic champion, from Rio, won the

:35:17. > :35:20.title at his third attempt, only seventh in the US trials, but OK to

:35:21. > :35:29.compete here because he is a wild card as the 2016 Diamond League

:35:30. > :35:34.winner. Takatoshi Abe of Japan, he has a chance of going through. And

:35:35. > :35:49.Javier Culson, took bronze on this track five years ago in the

:35:50. > :35:53.Olympics. 48.76 this season. It has just been announced around the stage

:35:54. > :35:55.and that four will go through automatically, and the four fastest

:35:56. > :36:13.losers over the five heats. Britain represented in this one by

:36:14. > :36:18.Jack Green, who goes in the fifth of the heats. The first heat of the

:36:19. > :36:37.men's 400m hurdles. So away they go, and we will find

:36:38. > :36:41.out how Javier cause and's form is, but so too Kerron Clement, who has

:36:42. > :36:55.been running well this season. -- Javier Culson. The new star of the

:36:56. > :37:03.event, Kyron McMaster. A good, strong start from Jagor of Estonia

:37:04. > :37:10.as well, and at the moment it is Clement, Abe of Japan, Jagor

:37:11. > :37:15.beginning to fade. Culson with a bit of work to do. Four go through

:37:16. > :37:23.automatically, Jagor coming back into it, but Kerron Clement and Abe

:37:24. > :37:33.of Japan, and also the Estonian, Jagor, 49.47 for Kerron Clement. I

:37:34. > :37:40.was going to say he looks as comfortable as it is possible to

:37:41. > :37:46.look running before the metres hurdles, pretty well controlled by

:37:47. > :37:53.Kerron Clement, 49.46, and a good run from Abe, the Japanese champion.

:37:54. > :37:58.And Colin Jackson watching this one along with me, Jagor seem to get a

:37:59. > :38:03.second wind coming down the straight, but Kerron Clement does

:38:04. > :38:07.look pretty comfortable. He does look really comfortable indeed, nice

:38:08. > :38:11.to see him going through the whole process correctly, doing his stride

:38:12. > :38:15.patches, doing everything right to make sure it is a comfortable switch

:38:16. > :38:24.down off the final barrier. That is what you want to see from a

:38:25. > :38:31.champion. Well, the men's pole vault qualification is and the way,

:38:32. > :38:38.Shawnacy Barber, the reigning world champion, a clearance at 5.30, now

:38:39. > :38:41.trying 5.4 five. That was unusual, what did he do there?! He handled

:38:42. > :38:48.that! Colin Jackson will be impressed with that! Not quite sure

:38:49. > :38:52.what to make of the technicalities of that! Instead of going upside

:38:53. > :38:59.down above the poll, he kind of straddles it. A bit like a western

:39:00. > :39:03.role, if you remember that from your schooldays, rolling around the bar,

:39:04. > :39:07.you do not have to get your centre of gravity up so far. Brendan is

:39:08. > :39:13.giving me a thumbs up, here are members the Western roll, good to

:39:14. > :39:20.have some boys who understand what I am talking about! It is a clearance,

:39:21. > :39:25.if slightly unusual, Shawn Barber looking to defend his title,

:39:26. > :39:30.automatic or vocation and 5.75, so more to come. -- automatic

:39:31. > :39:33.qualification. Meanwhile, Tower Bridge looking

:39:34. > :39:36.resplendent in the sunshine, this is where they will end up for the

:39:37. > :39:42.finish, they left about 50 minutes ago, and let's just have a look at

:39:43. > :39:47.the lap that I mentioned earlier. Four laps, they will not come back

:39:48. > :39:51.to Tower Bridge until the end, they go along the Embankment, familiar

:39:52. > :39:56.route for the London Marathon normally, the curve of the river,

:39:57. > :40:02.Big Ben in the background, almost all the way to Big Ben, almost to

:40:03. > :40:07.Westminster, but then they turn around just before there, and they

:40:08. > :40:10.head back in the same direction. And then they just take a little

:40:11. > :40:19.left-hander and go up through Paternoster square, around Saint

:40:20. > :40:22.Paul's, Guildhall, as you can see, the Bank of England, through the

:40:23. > :40:28.City, then back down onto the embankment, and that is about 10K,

:40:29. > :40:33.and then they will go back and do four laps. That last little bit, as

:40:34. > :40:38.I said, only on the very last lap. They have just reached the turning

:40:39. > :40:42.around point, and they are now heading back along the Embankment,

:40:43. > :40:48.approaching five kilometres. It has been pretty slow up to this point,

:40:49. > :40:54.nothing much happening, really, a big group, people from Kenya,

:40:55. > :41:02.Ethiopia, the familiar African contingent, but also, for the Mo

:41:03. > :41:14.Farah fans, you might member this man racing Mo Farah over 10,000m,

:41:15. > :41:19.Meucci. 15.58 is very slow for these guys. Callum Hawkins is in that

:41:20. > :41:22.group on the inside, and he has been training in Spain, there were some

:41:23. > :41:26.suggestions that maybe things, because he has been having a

:41:27. > :41:29.cracking year, I am told that the last few weeks have gone reasonably

:41:30. > :41:33.well, well prepared for this, looking forward to racing well, and

:41:34. > :41:38.he will not be frightened about being near the front. He won't be

:41:39. > :41:43.frightened at all, he was very happy to commit in Rio to really go out

:41:44. > :41:48.and run a very brave race there, made the decision to skip the London

:41:49. > :41:52.Marathon, to take that pre-selection position and concentrate solely on

:41:53. > :41:55.this, so he has been training in Bjork, and by all indications things

:41:56. > :42:03.have gone well and he is excited to get out and race -- training in

:42:04. > :42:08.Majorca. I have been impressed by the crowd at there watching them

:42:09. > :42:12.today, a decent day for marathon running - it could have been

:42:13. > :42:17.oppressive if it was like a few weeks ago. The feed stations for the

:42:18. > :42:20.individual countries, run member, a completely different organisation to

:42:21. > :42:25.the London Marathon, it is only this number of runners, a few number of

:42:26. > :42:33.runners, so specifically designed and organised so the lead athletes,

:42:34. > :42:37.the Ethiopian, Mekonnen, looking for his specific link with a country

:42:38. > :42:40.flag on it, so the organisation slightly different to the London

:42:41. > :42:44.Marathon, which is about catering for the masses. This is about

:42:45. > :42:50.catering for the elite, but the crowds are happy to see the elite on

:42:51. > :42:53.this great cause, a great cause for spectator in, because you can see

:42:54. > :42:58.them four or eight times as they come up and down the Embankment. I

:42:59. > :43:02.think that is why the crowds are out, a free show, the marathon show,

:43:03. > :43:08.and also the World Championship show, and later we will see the

:43:09. > :43:14.women take this course. And next week, the walking as well, Tom

:43:15. > :43:17.Bosworth, the walks will be on the Mall, leading up to Buckingham

:43:18. > :43:26.Palace, which will be fabulous and the last day of the championships.

:43:27. > :43:28.So far this morning first to show his colours at the front is Mekonnen

:43:29. > :43:39.after the very slow first five kilometres. This is slow motion, in

:43:40. > :43:42.case you are wondering! One -- Daniel Wanjiru, the winner of the

:43:43. > :43:47.London Marathon, he will be hoping to repeat that this afternoon, but

:43:48. > :43:51.very slow pace at the moment. Let's go back to the stadium.

:43:52. > :43:54.Further to the east of London, we're just about ready for the second heat

:43:55. > :44:02.of the first round the men's four metres hurdles. I mentioned Kyron

:44:03. > :44:15.McMaster, the outstanding athlete in this event this year. There is

:44:16. > :44:17.McMaster, of the British Virgin Islands, world junior

:44:18. > :44:25.bronze-medallist last, but amazing progress this season down to 47.8

:44:26. > :44:30.zero, 20 years old, quickest in the world this year, the only man below

:44:31. > :44:41.48 seconds. Outside him is the Jamaican champion, Hyde. The

:44:42. > :44:55.Irishman, Barr, is in five. The Japanese runner is in three.

:44:56. > :45:03.So keep an eye on lane six, Thomas Barr has had injury problems, ran so

:45:04. > :45:07.well in Rio, just a fraction away from the bronze medal there, but

:45:08. > :45:12.injury problems this year, an event which takes its toll on the body. At

:45:13. > :45:14.the moment, Barr, in lane eight, looking so strong, as he has this

:45:15. > :45:31.season. TJ Holmes, the American, has made

:45:32. > :45:36.good progress. It will be TJ Holmes who leads them into the final

:45:37. > :45:46.straight. Four to go through automatically. Barr digging in now.

:45:47. > :45:55.A fight for fourth place. A dip on fourth place. TJ Holmes and McMaster

:45:56. > :45:59.ahead of him, and Hyde, and Barr in that the battle for automatic

:46:00. > :46:09.qualifying place. TJ Holmes was third in the trials, and he looks in

:46:10. > :46:14.passive, trying to look like it was a stroll in the morning sunshine.

:46:15. > :46:25.Thomas Barr is looking to the screen for confirmation. Right on the

:46:26. > :46:30.outside, the world leader. He is young, only 20. From the Virgin

:46:31. > :46:35.Islands. He has got into that magical figure of 48 seconds. As we

:46:36. > :46:39.come closer to these championships he has struggled a bit with his

:46:40. > :46:45.stride pattern and his rhythm, and lost a bit of that early season

:46:46. > :46:51.form. In London, he struggled. Had to do lots of changing around. All

:46:52. > :46:57.of that comes from a lack of experience, basically. Where you

:46:58. > :47:03.have had this great improvement from going from a 49 second run down to

:47:04. > :47:08.47. The stride pattern and the approach has to change entirely. But

:47:09. > :47:15.a huge talent. You've got to watch him. Thomas Barr has missed out by

:47:16. > :47:21.100th of a second in the automatic qualifying places, but he is in a

:47:22. > :47:27.position for one of the four fastest losers. Lets recap what happened in

:47:28. > :47:32.the fifth event of the long jump, Katarina Johnson-Thompson. In the

:47:33. > :47:39.first round, she did this. A really solid effort. 6.56. Really pleased

:47:40. > :47:45.with that. Unable to improve on it, but it really did salvage her

:47:46. > :47:52.competition into third place, as you can see behind Carolin Schafer and

:47:53. > :48:01.Thiam. In contention from that bronze, with Rodriguez. Absolutely.

:48:02. > :48:07.Needs 40 metres or more to stay in this. Just the javelin and 800

:48:08. > :48:19.metres to come. Johnson-Thompson in third place as we stand. Still urge

:48:20. > :48:24.early stages. Hawkins is up there. Haven't seen

:48:25. > :48:30.Josh Griffiths yet, but I think he's up there. A little bit further back.

:48:31. > :48:35.We get five kilometre splits, so we can keep an eye on how they are

:48:36. > :48:39.doing. This is the scenic part of the route. The idea of world

:48:40. > :48:45.Marathon courses is that they tried to show off the host city as well as

:48:46. > :48:50.they can, and this one doing that very well indeed. In front of St

:48:51. > :48:55.Paul's. A beautiful morning in London. As Brendan and Paula were

:48:56. > :49:02.saying, nice marathon running weather. Not too warm. The winds and

:49:03. > :49:06.rains we've had at times have hopefully abated. A good crowd

:49:07. > :49:14.starting to build, and I'm sure that will continue as the morning goes

:49:15. > :49:18.on. We have mentioned Wanjiru. A very good Kenyan team here. We have

:49:19. > :49:26.Kipketer in there as well, and Kirui, who won Boston. And silver

:49:27. > :49:36.medallists in this championship a couple of years ago from Ethiopia.

:49:37. > :49:44.Polar a contender as well. High quality in this world marathon

:49:45. > :49:50.final. Showing off the lovely historic part of this great city. St

:49:51. > :49:58.Paul's and Paternoster Square behind them. Heading back around the city

:49:59. > :50:04.and back onto the embankment. 18 degrees out there. Not much of a

:50:05. > :50:11.wind. There is a shower there on the course. A little cooling for some of

:50:12. > :50:17.them. This is part of the course, you wouldn't expect as many people,

:50:18. > :50:23.but they are gathering on the embankment, London Marathon style.

:50:24. > :50:31.Not too much happening, so let's get back to the stadium for these 400

:50:32. > :50:36.metres hurdles heats. Big news that Kieren McMaster, the

:50:37. > :50:39.fastest man this year from the virgin Islands, has been

:50:40. > :50:46.disqualified. That means that Thomas Barr moves up into the automatic

:50:47. > :50:51.qualifying places. Usually in the 400 hurdles, it means a Trail leg

:50:52. > :50:59.violation. We will have a look at it, and have a look at McMaster in

:51:00. > :51:05.that race. 400 metre hurdles, there's lots of things that can go

:51:06. > :51:11.wrong. You can clip a line. Watch his feet. Is he making any contact

:51:12. > :51:20.with the line? If it's not violation there. He has taken the barrier

:51:21. > :51:26.there, as you can see, with his left leg as his lead leg. We cannot tell

:51:27. > :51:33.from this angle. From the head on you maybe able to see whether he is

:51:34. > :51:37.trailing. His trail leg is not quite going over the barrier, maybe, which

:51:38. > :51:42.is the type of thing we need to look out for. Whether he is clearing the

:51:43. > :51:50.barrier accurately or whether he is clipping the line. This could be

:51:51. > :51:56.crucial one. No, looks fine. He's looking around. He feels quite

:51:57. > :52:02.comfortable. At this moment, I can't quite see which of the things he's

:52:03. > :52:07.done that has caused the disqualification. If you look back

:52:08. > :52:12.to the first hurdle, when he hit it, it might have been a problem because

:52:13. > :52:18.of that. He is the quickest in the world this year. There will be an

:52:19. > :52:22.appeal process for his disqualification. Let's look at the

:52:23. > :52:30.first hurdle again, as we wait for this third heat. Watch his feet. If

:52:31. > :52:35.he clips the line in any way, that could be an instant

:52:36. > :52:42.disqualification. But he looks really smooth. Couldn't see any

:52:43. > :52:47.mistakes there. Let's see what they eventually say officially. Some of

:52:48. > :52:52.the bigger and more established countries are good at appealing.

:52:53. > :52:57.Let's see how the British virgin islands are. Thomas Barr moves up

:52:58. > :53:10.into the automatic qualification places. This is heat three. Copello

:53:11. > :53:32.very strong. Gets a little bit easier for some of others involved.

:53:33. > :53:35.Samba in nine, a very talented youngster. Goes outside Copello

:53:36. > :53:46.there. Copello is that European champion,

:53:47. > :53:59.bronze medallist at the last Olympic Games. Four goes through

:54:00. > :54:11.automatically, without Rasmus Magi as well. The opportunity for one of

:54:12. > :54:15.the other athletes as a result. Hussain very good, but away from

:54:16. > :54:33.Switzerland, not quite as strong. Copello, a majestic upright style.

:54:34. > :54:46.Samba, the Qatari youngster, looking good as well.

:54:47. > :54:56.Good run from Copello, the European champion. Made it look reasonably

:54:57. > :55:03.comfortable. Copello looked really good all the way round. No stresses,

:55:04. > :55:10.got his stride pattern right, very smooth.

:55:11. > :55:16.Talking about going smoothly, our first bit of pace put on in the

:55:17. > :55:22.marathon, by Great Britain's Callum Hawkins. He led in Rio for a while,

:55:23. > :55:27.and he's doing it again in the World Championship marathon. He decided

:55:28. > :55:32.he'd had enough of that very slow pace. He's in the World Championship

:55:33. > :55:38.final. Why not? He's in good pace and has run personal bests at half

:55:39. > :55:44.marathons this year. He knows this is a fantastic stage and a fantastic

:55:45. > :55:52.opportunity for him. Early, early stages, of course, and an immensely

:55:53. > :55:56.talented field. In Rio we were like, really, do you want to do that? The

:55:57. > :56:01.conditions here are not the same as in Rio, so why not? Callum Hawkins

:56:02. > :56:08.leading the World Championship marathon. He's not leading it at a

:56:09. > :56:14.stupid pace. It's a sensible pace. It's a good, fast course, great

:56:15. > :56:20.conditions, very little wind, 55% humidity, so not hot out there.

:56:21. > :56:25.Advised by great American runner Steve Jones, what would Steve had

:56:26. > :56:32.done? He would have gone out there. The toughest man on the day is going

:56:33. > :56:37.to win the race. Almost 10K completed. Callum Hawkins likes to

:56:38. > :56:40.run in the front. He's not doing something because he's panicking.

:56:41. > :56:49.We've seen him on the road the last couple of years, running good half

:56:50. > :56:55.marathons. 15.37 for 10K there. He's comfortable leading. He likes to

:56:56. > :57:01.lead. An aggressive front runner, not overawed. I don't think this

:57:02. > :57:07.field is as strong as in Rio, and he led in Rio. He has that extra

:57:08. > :57:12.experience. He is powerful. We saw him doing this in the Edinburgh

:57:13. > :57:18.Cross country earlier in the year doing exactly this. It was lovely to

:57:19. > :57:24.see current leader Callum Hawkins of Great Britain, and by the way,

:57:25. > :57:29.Scotland. I know, and absolutely belongs there. He's looking around

:57:30. > :57:36.saying, do any of you want to come with me and make this a proper race?

:57:37. > :57:41.He's picked up the pace to 2.12 pace, and he's done that in the last

:57:42. > :57:45.kilometre, so he's running faster than that. He's stretching the

:57:46. > :57:53.field, and he's capable of doing it. If you look at him may be against Mo

:57:54. > :57:57.Farah and the stage that Callum Hawkins is in his career, does he

:57:58. > :58:02.have a bit more over the marathon distance? It is his best distance,

:58:03. > :58:07.and he's not been afraid to go to it at this early stage in his career.

:58:08. > :58:14.He's been training and preparing hard for that. If nothing else, he's

:58:15. > :58:20.poked the wasps nest, because they've all started to buzz around a

:58:21. > :58:24.little bit. Big names, the people we expect to contend for medals,

:58:25. > :58:35.hopefully along with Callum Hawkins. Who knows? The race is on now. As

:58:36. > :58:42.Paula was saying, 15.30 eight. 15.36 for Callum Hawkins himself. The pace

:58:43. > :58:52.will get quicker from here on in. The man who won here in London...

:58:53. > :58:59.Just trying to see where he is. Further adrift. Kipketer, who is

:59:00. > :59:06.there. Sorry, Kirui. Wanjiru up with him as well. On the final lap, they

:59:07. > :59:11.will go straight into the finish over Tower Bridge. The crowd

:59:12. > :59:18.starting to build here, which is wonderful. It's always odd to see in

:59:19. > :59:24.a marathon, three laps to go! It is like a mile race. Overlooking the

:59:25. > :59:31.tower of London, the athletes back in the stadium, getting ready for

:59:32. > :59:35.the next round. The tower were resplendent there. The athletes here

:59:36. > :59:43.in the sunshine ready for the next heat of the 400 hurdles.

:59:44. > :59:48.Nobody disqualified in the marathon, as far as I'm aware, but a big

:59:49. > :59:53.disqualification with McMaster. One of the favourites, quickest in the

:59:54. > :59:56.world this year, from the British Virgin Islands. Disqualified for a

:59:57. > :00:05.lane infringement, which is stepping over the line on a bend. This is

:00:06. > :00:11.where we believe it occurred. Just hasn't touched the line, and it is

:00:12. > :00:18.clear. Absolutely. No argument about that. The distance for the event is

:00:19. > :00:25.measured as being six inches from the line. So if you clip the line,

:00:26. > :00:30.it is instant disqualification. He will have known there. There are

:00:31. > :00:35.officials at every barrier watching. So McMaster went out, and Thomas

:00:36. > :00:37.Barr moved up into the automatic qualifying places. Here is how they

:00:38. > :00:57.line up for the next heat. Warholm, very quick, young

:00:58. > :01:05.Norwegian. A good multi-events athlete, but discovered he was very

:01:06. > :01:21.good particularly at this event. Just 21. Stand him in good stead in

:01:22. > :01:42.this event. This man from Jamaica, Ricardo Cunningham. His team-mates

:01:43. > :02:11.have gone through. There is Warholm. Mostly himself making the noise.

:02:12. > :02:23.Some of the medal contenders have taken a keen interest in the

:02:24. > :02:28.disqualification of McMaster, and Stigler will know that his chances

:02:29. > :02:35.have improved for a potential medal. The same with Warholm. Once you

:02:36. > :02:53.start to get down to the low numbers...

:02:54. > :03:09.False start. Not a particularly common occurrence. I was trying to

:03:10. > :03:22.have a look at that, could not quite see.

:03:23. > :03:35.Crawling his way to disqualification.

:03:36. > :03:54.You can sometimes excuse it. Nervousness and adrenaline.

:03:55. > :04:17.A good athlete, he has gone sub 49 seconds last year.

:04:18. > :04:22.They are readying themselves again. Just San Toys on the outside in lane

:04:23. > :04:32.nine. The fastest losers go through as

:04:33. > :05:09.well. Cleanly away this time. Good start.

:05:10. > :05:23.The powerful Norwegian coming forward, making great strides.

:05:24. > :05:40.He is running strongly. Stigler and Santos... Four will go through so it

:05:41. > :05:42.should still be comfortable enough. Untidy and finishing quickly,

:05:43. > :05:50.Cunningham for Jamaica needs to finish quickly. He might just do it.

:05:51. > :06:01.The four were clear. Good run from Santos. He ran blindly and it worked

:06:02. > :06:19.well for him. Took victory in the Diamond League

:06:20. > :06:23.and he did it nicely. Incidentally we going backwards and forwards

:06:24. > :06:27.between the marathon and the events in the stadium. If you want to keep

:06:28. > :06:31.watching the marathon, it is on the red button at the website. There is

:06:32. > :06:36.no commentary. Some might think that is a better option! Hopefully you're

:06:37. > :06:44.enjoying our coverage. We are enjoying watching the leaders,

:06:45. > :06:56.grabbing some water there. Just warming up litter. We've been

:06:57. > :07:01.noticing, given McMaster was disqualified in the stadium,

:07:02. > :07:03.stepping on the line and shortening the route, some of these athletes

:07:04. > :07:08.have been shortening the route of the London Marathon -- of the

:07:09. > :07:13.marathon. It would not happen in the London Marathon because of barriers.

:07:14. > :07:19.When they go round the bend, the definitely cutting the cord. I'm not

:07:20. > :07:23.happy, Paula is not happy. It is not a disqualification but if you do

:07:24. > :07:27.enough of them you're running a few yards less. It all adds up given

:07:28. > :07:53.there four lapse. Somebody needs to get out there and

:07:54. > :07:59.warned them they should not be doing that. We have seen them doing that

:08:00. > :08:16.many times before but it is not right. Only 25 years of age. He grew

:08:17. > :08:26.up a lot after a Rio de Janiero. He was running comfortable alongside

:08:27. > :08:30.them for much of the route. Splendid sight, London on a beautiful day. It

:08:31. > :08:35.is pretty good for running. The temperature is rising. It will

:08:36. > :08:48.probably get warmer in the afternoon. Imagine what it would

:08:49. > :09:00.have been like. This is not a normal day of work.

:09:01. > :09:13.Things have changed a little. In the black vest, Yamauchi. He is a serial

:09:14. > :09:23.marathon runner. He is called the People's Champion in Japan. They

:09:24. > :09:38.love him. Calumet is moving the pace along.

:09:39. > :09:50.About 20 seconds behind him, they are approaching. The pace has picked

:09:51. > :10:16.up a little bit. We're getting ready for that but

:10:17. > :10:22.also Katarina Johnson-Thompson getting ready for the javelin. The

:10:23. > :10:29.penultimate event. It is not the strongest event. She will need

:10:30. > :10:42.something in excess of 40 metres to stay in contention. The better

:10:43. > :10:52.throwers are in the second pool. We hope and think it is still possible.

:10:53. > :10:59.Britain's sole representative is Jack Green. He's coming back to some

:11:00. > :11:07.of his very best form. He goes in lane three. Not the strongest

:11:08. > :11:47.line-up. Ali of Pakistan, waves to the crowd.

:11:48. > :11:58.His twin brother won the world title two years ago. Jack Green is being

:11:59. > :12:02.introduced to the crowd now. Dobek made the finals a couple of years

:12:03. > :12:07.ago. Jack Green has already been announced to the masses. Such a

:12:08. > :12:21.young talent when he burst onto the scene, 2011. Game to the Olympics,

:12:22. > :12:36.hit a barrier. Hit spell of injury. No coming back. Hann of France. Used

:12:37. > :12:48.to run for Senegal. Jack Green is running comfortable 48. You go back

:12:49. > :13:06.to his personal best, set in 2012. He's getting close to it. A good man

:13:07. > :13:09.to have in the relay. Twice the Brazilian champion. He can go beyond

:13:10. > :13:24.49 seconds. The last of the heats. Roaring for

:13:25. > :13:33.Jack Green. Little clip on the first barrier, moving along nicely. Fairly

:13:34. > :13:40.even. The US champion on the outside. We know how quickly he can

:13:41. > :13:46.go. Fernandez Spain looking strong in lane nine. European

:13:47. > :13:51.silver-medallist. Jack Green moving into a good position and it's a good

:13:52. > :13:58.close race. Jack Green hit the barrier had. That may cost him in

:13:59. > :14:04.the final 50 metres. Hann leaves for France. Green finishing strongly. He

:14:05. > :14:13.is starting to tire. He might have run out of this. Koech coming

:14:14. > :14:17.through. He might be OK in terms of times. Even if he is ran out of it.

:14:18. > :14:20.It was not the final 50 metres he would have had the legs for if he

:14:21. > :14:26.had not hit the barrier. You can see that he's feeling that there because

:14:27. > :14:35.he had had. Hann takes the victory with 49.3 four. Dobek was there. We

:14:36. > :14:42.shall see if Jack Green makes it. All these guys are very good

:14:43. > :14:48.finishers and we new that coming off the final time there would be a huge

:14:49. > :14:56.charge. This is where Jack clatters the barrier. You don't want that to

:14:57. > :15:03.happen. Then he needs to refocus. If you hit that it takes the speed off.

:15:04. > :15:07.Everybody else charges at the same time. Where did he finish? He's gone

:15:08. > :15:11.out of it on automatic qualification. He's lost out on

:15:12. > :15:23.thousands. He smashed the barrier both with the

:15:24. > :15:32.Leeds Lake and the Trail legs. He lost all that time, all that rhythm,

:15:33. > :15:35.but he stuck with it. Slightly faded there, but he focused, re-engaged

:15:36. > :15:43.into the race, and charged in. Disappointed he didn't get that

:15:44. > :15:49.automatic qualifying, but with that time, that should see him through.

:15:50. > :15:58.It will do. Just run out of the automatic qualifying by the Kenyan,

:15:59. > :16:07.Koech, taking it by 2000 and the second ahead of Jack Green. But Jack

:16:08. > :16:14.will go through as one of the fastest losers. Tough race, Jack,

:16:15. > :16:20.but you are through. The bad news is that you clattered a hurdle there.

:16:21. > :16:24.Yes, a bit of a stinger. I was really pleased with that, until I

:16:25. > :16:29.managed to wear one, and that's what it does to you. I should have been

:16:30. > :16:33.in a position where I took that on and won that race, but that's

:16:34. > :16:37.hurdles for you. I need to make those changes for tomorrow for the

:16:38. > :16:45.when you come into the race, do you know what you need to do time-wise?

:16:46. > :16:50.I've got to do my own thing. What ever happens happens, regardless.

:16:51. > :16:56.Disappointed overall, because that is the race I should be winning.

:16:57. > :17:00.Probably my worst race of the year, which is not great timing, but I

:17:01. > :17:06.will make sure tomorrow is better. What is it like to be back in this

:17:07. > :17:10.stadium after your experience in the Olympics in this stadium? Things are

:17:11. > :17:15.different now. A lot of experience along the way, but I am a better

:17:16. > :17:25.person and a better athlete now than I was. We wish you all the best.

:17:26. > :17:28.Good luck. Thanks. Johnson-Thompson still waiting for

:17:29. > :17:35.her first attempt in the javelin. She has had three or four warm up

:17:36. > :17:40.throws, nothing over 40 metres yet. Throwing around 35 metres. What have

:17:41. > :17:44.you made of her warm up throws? In the run-up, there's not enough

:17:45. > :17:48.acceleration down the run-up. The run up speed is the energy you

:17:49. > :17:52.develop to put into the javelin, but we have not seen her run down the

:17:53. > :17:57.runway with enough to punch the javelin over the 40 metres that she

:17:58. > :18:05.needs. It's still warm up, so we will give the girl a chance. That

:18:06. > :18:11.javelin, the white and green. Different javelins are rated. That

:18:12. > :18:15.is quite a highly rated javelin. It is always tough to find a javelin

:18:16. > :18:26.that suits the distance you are throwing. Let's look at confirmation

:18:27. > :18:32.of Jack Green missing out on automatic qualifying by 2000 and the

:18:33. > :18:48.second, but he is the it got -- he is the quickest of the fastest

:18:49. > :18:56.losers, along with Futch. Meanwhile, in the marathon, the pace

:18:57. > :18:59.picks up a bit. Callum Hawkins still in the lead group. Plenty of

:19:00. > :19:06.athletes in the lead group. Operating at around 2.12 pace. The

:19:07. > :19:12.big names happy to let others keep the pace moving along a bit. The

:19:13. > :19:19.lead group has whittled down a bit, about 25 athletes in the lead group.

:19:20. > :19:23.The wonderful sight of St Paul's Cathedral, overlooking the city. On

:19:24. > :19:28.the skyline, it used to be the visible site, but now there's

:19:29. > :19:33.building all around. You can see everywhere you go, the city is

:19:34. > :19:38.growing in that direction. Callum Hawkins on the inside there. He was

:19:39. > :19:42.looking round to see who's there, to see who's in contention. I just hope

:19:43. > :19:48.the experience that he gained when he ran so well in Rio, that that

:19:49. > :19:54.stands him in good stead for the another word on the tight corners.

:19:55. > :20:02.When the groups are that slow. We have seen a couple of slow motions.

:20:03. > :20:07.Walkers are bit more used to it. When you are in a big group like

:20:08. > :20:12.that, watch them going around the tight bend. A lot of these guys run

:20:13. > :20:16.lots of road races where you do that sort of thing as well. The

:20:17. > :20:23.turnaround points, just need to be a bit wary. A little bit of pace on

:20:24. > :20:31.now, stretching out. 32 in this group. These guys Conte in all of

:20:32. > :20:36.the main contenders. Callum Hawkins nicely tucked in there. Definitely a

:20:37. > :20:41.bit more pace on. The back of the group a bit more strung out. One or

:20:42. > :20:49.two struggling to stay with them. The overall pace is not that fast so

:20:50. > :20:55.far, but they have been yo-yoing that pace and stretching it out of

:20:56. > :20:59.it. Stretching it out to sub 2.10 pace, and then quickening. That is

:21:00. > :21:05.starting to do damage to a lot of this field. Eric Gillis of Canada

:21:06. > :21:10.starting to fall off the back of that group. That is starting to

:21:11. > :21:15.happen. Some people do not belong in that group and are struggling to

:21:16. > :21:20.stay there. Will pay a big pace later on. When those surges are

:21:21. > :21:27.happening, Callum Hawkins is tempering it a bit. Getting somebody

:21:28. > :21:32.else to string it out, as Kipketer has now done. He is continuing the

:21:33. > :21:40.ground work that Callum Hawkins laid. That will make it safer on the

:21:41. > :21:45.turns. 15.20 one. They are going to run a faster 10K now. Once you get

:21:46. > :21:51.there, that is proper fast marathon running. Much faster than a lot of

:21:52. > :21:55.these guys, perhaps including Callum Hawkins, are capable of. So you have

:21:56. > :22:00.to judge whether or not to go with it. Look at the damage being done to

:22:01. > :22:06.the lead group here. Within the last 90 seconds or so, a group of people

:22:07. > :22:12.who were heavily involved in the race are now being stretched out.

:22:13. > :22:17.Looking at a map of the course, it's pretty easy until they come off the

:22:18. > :22:21.embankment and do the little twist. The twists are around St Paul's

:22:22. > :22:25.Cathedral there, to show off the city. The marathon runners would

:22:26. > :22:30.much prefer to just run up and down the embankment. This is an

:22:31. > :22:38.interesting course. It is a tough course. These twists, turns and

:22:39. > :22:42.tight corners are going to be hard, especially the last ten kilometres.

:22:43. > :22:47.You don't want to do sharp U-turns in the last ten kilometres on feet

:22:48. > :22:52.that are sore, legs that are hurting. That is going to make it

:22:53. > :22:57.very tough. So if you were in charge of the course, you will have missed

:22:58. > :23:01.out all of that group and run up and down the mirror? No, it's an

:23:02. > :23:07.interesting course. If you are a front runner like I was, you want

:23:08. > :23:17.the chance to break away. Once you are away from the chasing pack, you

:23:18. > :23:22.can start to get away. Callum Hawkins is trying to settle and find

:23:23. > :23:27.way he wants to be in that group as it breaks up. That is important. Try

:23:28. > :23:32.to keep his rhythm going as much as he can. As that continues, the

:23:33. > :23:40.athletics continue back in the stadium.

:23:41. > :23:46.From the men's 400 hurdles, we move onto the women's 400 metres. A

:23:47. > :23:52.beautiful day in London, and the stadium pretty full. The great

:23:53. > :23:57.Allyson Felix, she gets start here. The defending champion and the

:23:58. > :24:03.winner of six Olympic golds in total, and nine World Championship

:24:04. > :24:08.golds. Just about ready to get her introduction to the crowd. A

:24:09. > :24:14.beautiful runner to watch. Such great experience. This should be

:24:15. > :24:26.fairly comfortable for her. This is the Italian champion in lane nine.

:24:27. > :24:38.And Swiety of Poland. Ashley Kelly of the British virgin Island. Imali,

:24:39. > :24:58.winner of the Kenyan title. We move on to Allyson Felix, the

:24:59. > :25:04.quickest time in the world this year with a 49.60 five. That was on this

:25:05. > :25:11.track in the Diamond League last month. If you watched the Olympics

:25:12. > :25:17.in Rio, you may have remembered her duel with sure name the, now Shaunae

:25:18. > :25:29.Miller-Uibo oh, and you might remember Miller throwing herself at

:25:30. > :25:39.the line. Can run 400, 200. She ran the 100 at the US trials, in 11.03.

:25:40. > :25:46.But the 400 metres have been her forte. Swiety on the outside, in

:25:47. > :25:52.Lane eight. Three to go through automatically. The first of four

:25:53. > :25:58.heats in the 400 metres. Felix already breezing her way past the

:25:59. > :26:07.athlete in lane two. Great style, and great pace as well. A bit

:26:08. > :26:13.further out, Jones going smoothly. Felix just biding her time and

:26:14. > :26:17.trying not to expend too much energy. Looking for a controlled run

:26:18. > :26:29.as well. The three ahead at the moment after Felix, Ashley Kelly and

:26:30. > :26:33.Imali. Felix can start to ease down. Three go through automatically. A

:26:34. > :26:39.strong finish from the Greek athlete. Trying to get past the

:26:40. > :26:50.woman who got passed her at the start. Ashley Kelly takes third

:26:51. > :26:53.place behind Alison Felix. The defending champion safely

:26:54. > :26:58.negotiating this first round. Allyson Felix a class apart. How

:26:59. > :27:04.quickest time in the world this year is almost half a second quicker than

:27:05. > :27:10.the rest of this field. Felix doing what is necessary. Doing what

:27:11. > :27:15.necessary. She got them to race pace very quickly, which is what you want

:27:16. > :27:21.to do. That is exactly how you want to run these early rounds, to

:27:22. > :27:26.conserve as much energy as possible for the semifinal and final. Came

:27:27. > :27:33.off this bend with a very nice lead. Running very relaxed there. Able to

:27:34. > :27:40.relax and really shut it down. She is running it like a 300 to 350

:27:41. > :27:45.metres race. That is why that is a much more efficient way to run the

:27:46. > :27:53.400 metres. Lets get her thoughts now. What is the key for you in the

:27:54. > :27:58.first round? You have had this experience many times before? Just

:27:59. > :28:03.get out, run comfortably and secure the win. You feel at home here. We

:28:04. > :28:08.saw you run the fastest time in the world this year in the anniversary

:28:09. > :28:13.games recently. Has that helps? It's great to come here. This is a

:28:14. > :28:18.special place for me. In terms of the way you perform just then, you

:28:19. > :28:25.seem to be in prime form. If that is fair comment? Yes, I'm excited. We

:28:26. > :28:29.wish you well for the next round. Thank you.

:28:30. > :28:36.Not fall some answers, but she runs very well indeed. To go out faster

:28:37. > :28:43.and shut it down, it's better to do it that way. Yes, she's got to run a

:28:44. > :28:50.good 300 metres here. She is running the same sort of pace we will see in

:28:51. > :28:55.the semifinals here, but when you approach the last 50 metres, and you

:28:56. > :29:02.shut it down, it is an easy run. It doesn't build up as much lactic acid

:29:03. > :29:08.are some of the competitors, who are really going for it, and Haft to

:29:09. > :29:14.overcome that lactic acid. Allyson Felix is very relaxed, not having to

:29:15. > :29:18.strain at all. It allows you to work on the race pace and get it right

:29:19. > :29:26.for the first 200 metres, which is important. Taking these

:29:27. > :29:33.opportunities in the early rounds to do that is of extra benefit later.

:29:34. > :29:37.Safely through she goes. Tomorrow's semifinals, things will get rather

:29:38. > :29:46.more interesting. Allyson Felix going through, as you might expect.

:29:47. > :29:51.Also going through is Vasiliou of Greece and Ashley Kelly of the

:29:52. > :29:57.British Virgin Islands. This is a man who has raised his game this

:29:58. > :30:05.year, Sam Kendricks of the United States. Another failure. A surprise.

:30:06. > :30:10.He will have one more go at that. 5.75 is needed to go through to

:30:11. > :30:15.Tuesday's final. Kendricks has competed nine times this year, and

:30:16. > :30:21.won all of them. Came here as the favourite to take the world title.

:30:22. > :30:23.Six metres he's jumped, but he's getting it wrong today. Kendricks in

:30:24. > :30:38.some trouble. One jump remaining. There have been further

:30:39. > :30:47.developments. Keeping the pace going. An indication of the way that

:30:48. > :30:54.it has picked up. Callan decided, I want to keep the pace going. Start

:30:55. > :31:08.to see the bigger names dropping off. All of the sudden these three

:31:09. > :31:22.have pulled away. He does not cover the moves pretty well. Callum

:31:23. > :31:35.Hawkins is in that chasing group. One of the favourites is pushing on.

:31:36. > :31:43.What we've seen is the difference between the mass city run and a

:31:44. > :31:51.Championship run. Without pacemakers they are not sure what to do. The

:31:52. > :32:11.message is to get to the halfway point. Back to the stadium. Katarina

:32:12. > :32:23.Johnson-Thompson. Need to repeat that. It is long, it is over 40

:32:24. > :32:35.metres! Exactly what she would have wanted. Direct replica.

:32:36. > :32:45.It is a seasoned Postma best -- season's best. Drag a little bit.

:32:46. > :32:55.Got away from the point a little bit. The main protagonists, Katarina

:32:56. > :33:00.Johnson-Thompson has given herself a really good chance of attacking it.

:33:01. > :33:37.She needs something more. Emily Diamond. Just about to get her

:33:38. > :33:53.introduction. Caught a glimpse there. Miller-Uibo, as she is now,

:33:54. > :34:04.having married a fellow athlete. What a finish it was in Rio de

:34:05. > :34:13.Janiero. Safely through. Miller-Uibo is one of the main contenders. Such

:34:14. > :34:54.a great runner to watch. They will need to be unfazed by the

:34:55. > :35:01.moment when Miller moves past. Moving along so powerful here. Three

:35:02. > :35:23.go through automatically. MacPherson is behind in second.

:35:24. > :36:03.Coming through to take third place. Emily Diamond has run out of things.

:36:04. > :36:19.Pretty good from the Jamaican. It was always going to be a tall order.

:36:20. > :36:29.It will be a stretch. She got off very quickly which is what you need

:36:30. > :36:40.to do. The veterans know how to run the early rounds. She positions

:36:41. > :36:45.herself here. I thought she may have got off the gas a little early but

:36:46. > :36:51.not quite. Acquitted herself very well around the spend. Positioning

:36:52. > :37:01.herself at the front and the back. Able to relax and see the arms and

:37:02. > :37:10.shoulders very relaxed. Not bouncing along to the finish line. That's the

:37:11. > :37:19.most efficient way to do this. It was always going to be tough.

:37:20. > :37:28.Things are changing in the marathon. The Olympic bronze-medallist that

:37:29. > :37:40.10,000 metres looks very comfortable. There's a chasing group

:37:41. > :37:50.of four which includes the London winner. Another chasing group behind

:37:51. > :37:57.that, Callum Hawkins. He's in the top ten at the moment. He is close

:37:58. > :38:06.enough to the group, you would think there is still a bronze medal

:38:07. > :38:19.available. Definitely suffering from having gone with the east-2-mac. The

:38:20. > :38:22.group will start to chase. Talks about maturing as a marathon runner,

:38:23. > :38:33.Callum Hawkins, he had some decisions to make. Decided to

:38:34. > :38:38.maintain his pace. He gradually maintained it. He didn't panic, he

:38:39. > :38:41.didn't try and go with the medals as they appeared to disappear. He's

:38:42. > :38:52.more relying on the fact there will be people ahead of him who are not

:38:53. > :38:53.able to sustain this space. Most of the people along there but there are

:38:54. > :39:13.definitely going to be casualties. He looks to have gone too fast, too

:39:14. > :39:25.soon. He's running really well along the embankment. He was running along

:39:26. > :39:38.the embankment and being chased. He's got company in about fourth or

:39:39. > :39:48.fifth place. Another one of the Ethiopians, I think it is Tesgaye

:39:49. > :39:56.Mekonnen, behind him. We are trying to see where Callum Hawkins is. They

:39:57. > :40:12.settled in the front. These three are well clear at the moment. He's

:40:13. > :40:21.had a busy year. He was part of the attempt earlier this year. He is

:40:22. > :40:25.well used to running ahead but was switching in and out every five

:40:26. > :40:30.kilometres there. He's worked himself steadily back. He looks

:40:31. > :41:00.behind him. The American champion, world leader

:41:01. > :41:06.in a bit of trouble here. His only qualification, no medals, if he

:41:07. > :41:11.wants to be involved, Sam Kendricks, he needs to go clear. Pressure. What

:41:12. > :41:19.can he do on the last attempt? That is better. Very much better. He

:41:20. > :41:39.showed his competitive ability there. There's a sigh of relief. It

:41:40. > :41:53.may be enough to take him through. A lot of athletes are clear already.

:41:54. > :42:04.Let's wrap up what happened. Disappointed to be off the season

:42:05. > :42:09.best. We will see of they are some of the sixth fastest losers.

:42:10. > :42:39.Jackson, who was bronze in Beijing. Jele of Botswana. We have Gomez, the

:42:40. > :42:43.18-year-old, the new junior champion. There is Jackson, just

:42:44. > :43:11.outside 50 seconds this season. Well outside that at the moment. A

:43:12. > :43:36.reminder that three go through automatically.

:43:37. > :44:16.Mupopo in the second lane, try to force her way into the second -- top

:44:17. > :44:26.three. Jackson is not as fluent as a statically pleasing. Good enough.

:44:27. > :44:36.She might take them into the home straight. It's a close race. Just

:44:37. > :44:48.beginning to fade. She will be run out of it.

:44:49. > :45:00.We'll go through in terms of times. We talk about Mupopo, came to

:45:01. > :45:11.prominence running 50 seconds but 51 seconds only this season. I think

:45:12. > :45:22.Jackson will not be pleased with this race. She is exactly where she

:45:23. > :45:33.needed to be. She has her work cut out for her. Ran off Jackson and was

:45:34. > :45:38.able to glide through the first 200 metres and position herself very

:45:39. > :45:40.well. Jackson now having to do a little bit of work. Not realising

:45:41. > :45:59.who was on the inside. Mupopo looking very smooth. It was

:46:00. > :46:05.actually a very high quality race. Emily Diamond is now down to six of

:46:06. > :46:10.the fastest losers, so clinging on at the moment, but three heats to

:46:11. > :46:13.go. Katarina Johnson-Thompson getting

:46:14. > :46:26.ready for her second round effort in this penultimate heptathlon event,

:46:27. > :46:31.the javelin. A good first throw of 41 .70 two. She has just seen one of

:46:32. > :46:38.her competitors pop out 52 metres. So may be Cavic, the European bronze

:46:39. > :46:48.medallist, pushing herself into contention. Cat the only athlete in

:46:49. > :46:52.the top five in this event in the top pool. The other four in the

:46:53. > :47:00.second Paul to follow, because they are longer throws from lifetime

:47:01. > :47:06.bests. That is the view that KJT has out into the field, a 40 metre line

:47:07. > :47:11.and a 50 metre line are ahead of her. Something closer to the second

:47:12. > :47:16.line would be ideal. Johnson-Thompson, round two of the

:47:17. > :47:23.javelin. Fast on the approach. It is a number throat just on that 40

:47:24. > :47:30.metre line. Maybe not quite as good as her first round throw. Slightly

:47:31. > :47:35.decelerating there. You have to punch the energy out. You cannot let

:47:36. > :47:41.it float steadily down to the ground. That angle of attack is

:47:42. > :47:52.unfortunate. The significance of the previous round's throw means that

:47:53. > :47:56.she is on for a round about 6520. My calculation, if Rodriguez the Cuban

:47:57. > :48:02.and Vetter does what they are supposed to do, they are likely to

:48:03. > :48:09.score around 6574 that bronze medal. So she needs to score a bit more.

:48:10. > :48:16.One more throw remaining for Kat to improve on that effort in the first

:48:17. > :48:27.round. He looks a little bit nervous, doesn't he.

:48:28. > :48:33.We are watching the marathon here. Kirui leading. The Boston Marathon

:48:34. > :48:39.winner against Kohler, the Olympic bronze medallist at 10,000 metres.

:48:40. > :48:46.What a nice contrast there. She really is coached by a well-known

:48:47. > :48:54.coach in the past of the Kenyans -- Kirui is coached. This guy is still

:48:55. > :48:59.developing his career. He doesn't do high mileage yet. He's still got

:49:00. > :49:04.improvement to make. He's certainly showing that today. These two going

:49:05. > :49:09.very strong, moving ahead of Kipketer, who ran well in Tokyo this

:49:10. > :49:14.year. Looks like he got back a little bit, but that gap is growing

:49:15. > :49:22.again, Brendan. It is, that these are the two strongest runners in

:49:23. > :49:28.this field. They are class athletes. The Olympic bronze medallist, Tola,

:49:29. > :49:33.is a great runner. Kirui is strong. When he was a young man, he

:49:34. > :49:39.surprised everybody, running under 27 minutes. Looking at the analysis

:49:40. > :49:46.of the field, you have the two best runners now, finding themselves at

:49:47. > :49:54.the front, where they often are. Kipketer, unable to sustain the

:49:55. > :49:58.pace. The last split was staggering. That is phenomenal pace. You can see

:49:59. > :50:03.why the field is strung out as it is and the damage it has done. Kipketer

:50:04. > :50:13.has a long, lonely race ahead of him. Sim Bu is closing again on

:50:14. > :50:17.Kipketer. They have to keep their focus and concentration. They cannot

:50:18. > :50:23.see a of them so they have to maintain their own rhythm and their

:50:24. > :50:29.own race. Just a word on Josh Griffiths and Andrew Davies. They

:50:30. > :50:34.are in the 62nd and 63rd position, running together, more than four

:50:35. > :50:38.minutes behind our leaders. Callum Hawkins running a brilliant race

:50:39. > :50:49.again in the World Championships, in ninth place. He ran a phenomenal

:50:50. > :50:51.split himself. These three medal positions held by two Kenyans and an

:50:52. > :51:06.Ethiopian at the moment. Meanwhile, back to the stadium and

:51:07. > :51:12.all the fun of the fair. The start list for the fourth heat in the

:51:13. > :51:17.women's 400 metres. Phyllis Francis goes here for the United States,

:51:18. > :51:19.being announced to the crowd. Williams-Mills here as well in lane

:51:20. > :52:04.four. Bahrain, 19 years old, former youth

:52:05. > :52:09.champion. 51.33 this season. At 19, Naser, a great talent. Artymata, 31

:52:10. > :52:35.years old now. Second behind Ken are Hayes in the

:52:36. > :52:36.US trials. Artymata of Cyprus, Naser of rain, next Williams-Mills of

:52:37. > :52:52.Jamaica. The fourth heat of the women's 400

:52:53. > :53:00.metres. Emily Diamond hanging on to the last of the fastest loser places

:53:01. > :53:06.at the moment, 42.20. Might not be fast enough. Naser, the 19-year-old

:53:07. > :53:21.from Bahrain, going well. Three go through automatically.

:53:22. > :53:28.Inside Naser, Artymata is moving strongly. For separating themselves

:53:29. > :53:42.from the rest. What a race this is from Naser of Bahrain. Three go

:53:43. > :53:50.through automatically. 50.57 four Naser, the 19-year-old from Bahrain.

:53:51. > :53:54.A new personal best, a new national record, for Bahrain. She didn't

:53:55. > :54:00.leave a lot out there, but that was an impressive run from the

:54:01. > :54:06.19-year-old, leaving Novlene Williams-Mills behind her.

:54:07. > :54:12.Williams-Mills looking up to the screen for confirmation of her time.

:54:13. > :54:22.That was something to watch from Naser, the 19-year-old. Is very

:54:23. > :54:27.impressive. She ran this like a veteran, really using Novlene

:54:28. > :54:32.Williams-Mills, the veteran on her outside. She made a fantastic move

:54:33. > :54:38.here. Being very patient, as you would expect from a veteran, not a

:54:39. > :54:44.19-year-old, to come off that bend and position herself very well,

:54:45. > :54:50.having the benefit of Williams-Mills on her outside. Keeping everything

:54:51. > :54:59.in line, using upper body strength to propel herself to the finish line

:55:00. > :55:02.ahead of Williams-Mills and Francis. Francis has the unfortunate lane

:55:03. > :55:10.position on the outside, not able to see the inside. But that was an

:55:11. > :55:18.impressive run. Naser is very impressive at the end. Very quick

:55:19. > :55:25.indeed. Emily Diamond is still hanging on. Still in six place. The

:55:26. > :55:30.last of the fastest losers at the moment. The men's pole-vault

:55:31. > :55:39.qualifying continues. We saw Sam Kendricks go over the third time of

:55:40. > :55:52.asking at 5.60. Pawel Wojciechowski of Poland is in a good position. He

:55:53. > :55:58.will need this height to proceed. 5.60. This is to stay involved. Last

:55:59. > :56:05.chance to remain in contention. The second best in the world. That was

:56:06. > :56:12.clear. So the two men highly fancied at the medallists here at the World

:56:13. > :56:16.Championships put themselves under pressure, but respond positively.

:56:17. > :56:26.You don't need that, though. That's got to be tiring. Not much changing

:56:27. > :56:33.in terms of positions in this marathon, but it is beginning to get

:56:34. > :56:37.to a crucial point of the race. They are approaching the bell. You

:56:38. > :56:51.don't often say that in the marathon. 14.44. Another fast five

:56:52. > :56:56.K. So that is being run at about 29.13 410 K, very quick by anybody's

:56:57. > :57:03.standards. Kipketer is pulling away from the group behind. We haven't

:57:04. > :57:10.seen too much from Callum Hawkins recently. We will get a split as

:57:11. > :57:16.quickly as we can from that 30 kilometre point. These two seem to

:57:17. > :57:20.have it between them. They definitely did. Kipketer is running

:57:21. > :57:35.strongly at the moment. 20 seconds down on the need two. Then there is

:57:36. > :57:42.a 12 or 15 second gap back to Wanjiru and Simbu. Now we are going

:57:43. > :57:50.to see Callum Hawkins. He is in about ninth position. Eighth

:57:51. > :57:55.position, sorry. He is down on the leaders, but maintaining his pace.

:57:56. > :58:01.He is certainly in with a very good chance of running a personal best

:58:02. > :58:06.today. He has acquitted himself well today. We will see how strongly he

:58:07. > :58:12.can maintain that over this final lap. A class performance from Callum

:58:13. > :58:18.Hawkins. Let's hope he can close as strongly as he has opened. Kipketer

:58:19. > :58:23.in bronze position. He's running powerfully as well. He's had some

:58:24. > :58:28.ups and downs. Has run alone for a lot of this race, but he looks at

:58:29. > :58:35.full flow there. Striding along through the city. Eventually going

:58:36. > :58:39.back along the embankment. Wanjiru, further down the field, the London

:58:40. > :58:45.Marathon champion earlier in the year. We did think he would feature

:58:46. > :58:51.largely in this one. We thought he would be the danger, maybe even the

:58:52. > :58:58.man to beat. But Simbu from Tanzania is pulling away from Wanjiru. Here

:58:59. > :59:03.in London, Simbu went out harder than ever before, and faded quite

:59:04. > :59:08.badly. He still ran a personal best. This race might have suited him a

:59:09. > :59:17.bit more. He was good in the championships, but he had a better

:59:18. > :59:21.pace. But that 29.14 is so fast, the likes of Wanjiru and Simbu are

:59:22. > :59:28.unable to cope with that. But there is still a way to go. Simbu and

:59:29. > :59:35.Wanjiru are not totally out of this yet. If you look at it normally,

:59:36. > :59:40.there are vast changes in the last few miles of a marathon. But it

:59:41. > :59:45.looks like we are looking here overhead at the two contenders for

:59:46. > :59:56.the gold medal. Who will come out strongest? When they inject a lot of

:59:57. > :00:01.pace, like 29.13 410 kilometres, that is tough. The crowds are out to

:00:02. > :00:05.support this. You would not be surprised to see a Kenyan and an

:00:06. > :00:11.Ethiopian battling it out for the title. Who is likely to win this

:00:12. > :00:17.one? Hard to stay at this stage. They are both running really well.

:00:18. > :00:23.You can watch coverage of this as we go back to the stadium on the red

:00:24. > :00:28.button. For now, more from KJT and from the women's 400 metres.

:00:29. > :00:53.The European junior champion. Zoey Clark, the Aberdonian.

:00:54. > :01:29.She will be chasing one of the sixth fastest loser places.

:01:30. > :01:50.Patient George in lane nine. Can Zoey Clark use the energy of the

:01:51. > :02:25.crowd? She's gone on very strongly. Three go through automatically. Six

:02:26. > :02:35.fastest losers places are up for grabs. They put themselves in a

:02:36. > :02:42.position for one of the qualifying places. Zoey Clark take third place.

:02:43. > :02:54.A good run and she moves through to the semifinals. Did what she had to.

:02:55. > :03:05.Patients George also going through but a good run. Zoey Clark is

:03:06. > :03:18.through to the semifinals. The smile says it all. Going well for the

:03:19. > :03:27.Brits this morning as I turn that the eyes are turning to Katarina

:03:28. > :03:37.Johnson-Thompson. Her lifetime best is 42 metres and one centimetre.

:03:38. > :03:55.Another throw in excess of 40 metres. It is good to see her

:03:56. > :04:16.looking optimistic. A quick bit of mathematics. Just a little bit down.

:04:17. > :04:26.The magic number is 6600 points. She may not need to run that quick. By

:04:27. > :04:34.my calculation, she could go three points ahead of Rodriguez, which

:04:35. > :04:47.would mean bronze-medallist. Tony has his abacus out. We just seem

:04:48. > :05:02.Zoey Clark going through automatically.

:05:03. > :05:11.All sorts happening in the marathon here. We've got an outright leader.

:05:12. > :05:20.Looking very strong indeed. One of the few rising parts. He's on his

:05:21. > :05:31.last lap but he's got good clear lead. All of a sudden it is starting

:05:32. > :05:37.to fall apart. This gap is going so fast. He's just come round the

:05:38. > :05:46.corner. His team-mate is still in third place and the good news about

:05:47. > :06:00.Callum Hawkins is they have moved up quickly and are picking off athletes

:06:01. > :06:02.as they go. Cal is in seventh place. Could be heading for a top six

:06:03. > :06:30.finish. Looks like he's tried a little bit

:06:31. > :06:39.of pace. At one point move around and said, now I'm going properly and

:06:40. > :06:46.when he did it was decisive, Tola. He knocked the wind out of the lungs

:06:47. > :06:52.of Geoffrey Kirui. He looked strong and comfortable there. He was

:06:53. > :07:02.powerful at that slight rise. It's not much of a rise but it is slight.

:07:03. > :07:08.All the streets and roads are closed because of this marathon. We are

:07:09. > :07:35.looking overhead and coming in close. Good 10,000 metre runner. He

:07:36. > :07:44.decided to try the marathon again. There is the second place Geoffrey

:07:45. > :07:50.Kirui got. Nobody had heard of him before. If you look at the times

:07:51. > :08:05.that Tamirat Tola is getting, he's a class act. He tried to get a bottle

:08:06. > :08:38.of water. He made a meal of that. He's still a little inexperienced.

:08:39. > :09:05.I thought he would look at them. He took a sip and threw it away. Helix

:09:06. > :09:18.laboured there. Aggressive running. He's moving through the field.

:09:19. > :09:37.It is incredibly rare to get a British athlete in the top ten.

:09:38. > :09:49.Historic performance so far. Inside the stadium, there is

:09:50. > :10:32.Montsho. Onuora was edged out in 2013 but all

:10:33. > :10:39.of her results come with a raised eyebrow. Onuora needs to find some

:10:40. > :10:48.better form. That was an improvement. The Jamaican talent in

:10:49. > :11:01.lane for. The last heat of the women's 400

:11:02. > :11:12.metres. Onuora will need a very good result to go through. The crowd are

:11:13. > :11:22.cheering the Onuora, who is falling behind a little bit. She needs a

:11:23. > :11:34.strong finish. She tends to finish pretty well. The Jamaican in lane

:11:35. > :11:46.for. Onuora in the second lane. She leads into the street.

:11:47. > :12:25.Taking the third automatic qualifying place. It was not alive.

:12:26. > :12:26.Onuora has had her struggles this season. Let's have another look at

:12:27. > :13:01.this one. The young Jamaican, Gordon, running

:13:02. > :13:04.really well. The American candle LS -- Kendall Ellis. This should be a

:13:05. > :13:09.great semifinal coming up. This young Jamaican is really making a

:13:10. > :13:20.mark. It is interesting watching Kendall Ellis. You should expect to

:13:21. > :13:30.come through there. Well out of things. Montsho going through

:13:31. > :13:42.automatically. These are the qualifiers. That run from Naser,

:13:43. > :13:49.very impressive. Phyllis Francis, very impressive. A little bit

:13:50. > :13:54.further down you will find Felix. She was taking it very easy. Zoey

:13:55. > :14:01.Clark going through, the only British runner to go through. Onuora

:14:02. > :14:04.not running it. Zoey Clark will be the sole representation in the

:14:05. > :14:11.semifinals. There is that time of Allyson Felix. She was jogging her

:14:12. > :14:23.way home. She will still be the favourite in the semifinals.

:14:24. > :14:35.Lavillenie, the world record-holder. Clear of 5.60. 5.70 first attempt.

:14:36. > :14:49.Looking good. What a dramatic competition it was at the Olympics.

:14:50. > :15:06.Never has he won a world title. Looking good. Very comfortable.

:15:07. > :15:13.Away from the excitement in the stadium, we are getting very excited

:15:14. > :15:21.in this marathon. We have a leader, Kirui. Tola made the break, and

:15:22. > :15:27.suffered for that. He is starting to struggle. Behind him, there is a bit

:15:28. > :15:33.of a gap to Simbu and Kipketer. Kipketer was in third place for a

:15:34. > :15:39.while, but now Simbu has gone behind him. They are chasing Tola for the

:15:40. > :15:44.silver medal. The next athlete along the road is Callum Hawkins of great

:15:45. > :15:55.written, now in fifth place. He is within striking distance of those

:15:56. > :16:01.men in front. He is moving so well. He must know that if he keeps

:16:02. > :16:05.running strongly... It is a big, big gap, but as they continued to come

:16:06. > :16:10.back towards him, he will be encouraged by that. I don't want to

:16:11. > :16:17.get too carried away, but he is running well. He is running strongly

:16:18. > :16:22.and he is getting encouragement. Kipketer and Tolar are both

:16:23. > :16:31.struggling. When you struggle in a marathon, when it goes... Just to

:16:32. > :16:37.use a local phrase! Basically, when it goes, it's gone. You are hanging

:16:38. > :16:43.on. That is where Tola is right now. He's still moving. Not collapsing as

:16:44. > :16:46.badly as we've seen. If you are out in the streets of London, gives

:16:47. > :16:51.Callum Hawkins every bit of Anchorage meant you can. He has

:16:52. > :16:59.already run the race of his life. Very, very close to his personal

:17:00. > :17:03.best. He is within chasing distance. Yes, it is relying on athletes ahead

:17:04. > :17:09.of him folding, and him maintain and pick up that pace, but he has judged

:17:10. > :17:16.this so well this far. He is within reaching distance of a medal. That

:17:17. > :17:25.is a fantastic run, so if you are out there, gives him a big shout.

:17:26. > :17:30.Well done, Paula. Since you've said that, they are moving out. Boston

:17:31. > :17:36.Marathon winner Kirui from Kenya there. A couple of athletes behind

:17:37. > :17:42.him struggling a little. We have had a look at the results. I wonder if

:17:43. > :17:47.anybody out there can think who Britain's highest ever performance

:17:48. > :17:54.in the men's marathon is. Paula, you know the answer. So do you, Steve. I

:17:55. > :18:02.bet no one will get his name. We have had different athletes in the

:18:03. > :18:08.Olympic marathon. In a world marathon, we have only had one

:18:09. > :18:11.person finish higher than the position currently occupied by

:18:12. > :18:18.Callum Hawkins. He is in fifth place. We have only had a fourth. We

:18:19. > :18:22.have never won a medal in the European Championships. This is a

:18:23. > :18:28.brilliant run from him. What ever happens. What a year he's had since

:18:29. > :18:38.Rio. We thought he may have been coming into this a little bit

:18:39. > :18:41.underprepared. One or two little niggles. Any marathon runner wants a

:18:42. > :18:47.perfect preparation if they can. He still has a few kilometres to go,

:18:48. > :18:51.and we will get the next indication. Kirui is going well. We will have

:18:52. > :18:56.the next indication of whether those gaps are closing at the 14th

:18:57. > :19:03.thermometer point. After that, there's not much chance to close the

:19:04. > :19:09.gaps. This gives you a chance to show where the challenge is coming

:19:10. > :19:14.from. The ones amongst the buildings less so, because you cannot see

:19:15. > :19:19.ahead of you. Kirui looked in control here. I think it was a

:19:20. > :19:29.precautionary glance behind. Two kilometres is not long to go in a

:19:30. > :19:33.marathon, but along a lot can happen in those last two kilometres. If you

:19:34. > :19:37.are tired and you can see people coming back to you... It is about

:19:38. > :19:43.maintaining that and not doing anything sudden, which I think is

:19:44. > :19:49.the mistake that Tola made, asked some questions of Kirui, and I think

:19:50. > :19:54.he ended up emptying his tank and leaving himself with nothing left.

:19:55. > :19:59.He is still holding it together better than he looked as though he

:20:00. > :20:04.would a few kilometres back. He will be getting some information from the

:20:05. > :20:09.sides. We hope Callum Hawkins will be getting some information from his

:20:10. > :20:14.home support, letting him know what the gap is, because when it gets

:20:15. > :20:20.very twisty and he can't see a of him, just let him know that he's got

:20:21. > :20:27.it down to five seconds, or seven seconds. That really helps him. Just

:20:28. > :20:31.to show how good he is going, we have had Hugh Jones finished twice

:20:32. > :20:39.in the top ten. He finished fifth in his best performance. The man who

:20:40. > :20:46.finished fourth in 1995 was Peter Whitehead. Another Brits came in

:20:47. > :20:52.seventh. Those are our best performances. It is a Sunday

:20:53. > :21:03.morning. I'm trying to work out how many years ago. Tola... 22, that's

:21:04. > :21:10.how long. Tola is moving OK, as Paula said. He is not cornering that

:21:11. > :21:16.particularly well. At this stage in a marathon, those corners hurt.

:21:17. > :21:22.Kirui is looking strong. Is there more drama in terms of a medal? The

:21:23. > :21:29.gold medal could well be going to Kenya here. The silver medallist is

:21:30. > :21:35.Tola at the moment. A real scrap following him for the bronze.

:21:36. > :21:41.Kipketer of Kenya, then Calum Hawkins of Great Britain. Simbu in

:21:42. > :21:46.there as well. He is clearing referred there. Look at Kipketer,

:21:47. > :21:51.struggling across the road there. That is the first person that

:21:52. > :21:57.Hawkins will see. If he is going strong, he may well have Kipketer in

:21:58. > :22:05.his sights. This is the fourth placed athlete here. Looking

:22:06. > :22:09.anxiously over his shoulder. The crowds are cheering, and telling me

:22:10. > :22:14.that Callum Hawkins is coming round the corner. Kipketer is struggling,

:22:15. > :22:23.so that is one place he could make up in the latter stages. If Tola is

:22:24. > :22:29.struggling as well... He was leaning on the corner there, which tells you

:22:30. > :22:38.he's struggling. Passing St Paul's Cathedral. Looking for Britain's

:22:39. > :22:44.Callum Hawkins. That is the leader, Kirui, closing up the two hours. Not

:22:45. > :22:51.much further to go. Taking the twists and turns for the last time.

:22:52. > :22:56.Heading towards Tower Bridge. Kirui, the Boston Marathon winner. Had a

:22:57. > :23:02.bit of a spell, went to ahead of him, struggled a bit. Goes through a

:23:03. > :23:09.welcome shower at that point. One hour and 58 minutes on the clock.

:23:10. > :23:17.Jeffrey Kirui of Kenya looking as though he's got to keek standing to

:23:18. > :23:26.win this one. Not far to go. Passing the 40 kilometre mark soon. Tola is

:23:27. > :23:31.struggling, but how much? He probably still has a good minute or

:23:32. > :23:37.90 seconds on Callum Hawkins. That is a lot to make up in the last

:23:38. > :23:41.three K. He'd have to completely fall apart. You would not wish that

:23:42. > :23:47.on any athlete. He is tired. The knee lift is not there. He could be

:23:48. > :24:00.hanging on for silver, but how much danger is he in from Simbu from

:24:01. > :24:06.behind? I don't think he's looking that bad, Tola. He is not falling

:24:07. > :24:11.apart. If you contrast his form with that of Kipketer, who is really

:24:12. > :24:16.falling apart, Simbu is maintaining his form. He can close that gap on

:24:17. > :24:21.Tola, but I don't know if he can close it enough in the time he has

:24:22. > :24:26.left. We are looking to see how close Callum Hawkins is and if he

:24:27. > :24:35.has made up ground on the Kipketer. The worldwide coverage on this event

:24:36. > :24:39.is involved in the coverage for gold, silver and bronze. If we could

:24:40. > :24:43.be a bit biased for a few minutes and switch the camera is a bit

:24:44. > :24:49.further down the road, we could see the welcome sight of the young

:24:50. > :24:55.Scotsman, the aggressive 25-year-old, getting better all the

:24:56. > :25:00.time. Running his best international performance today. Kirui looks

:25:01. > :25:10.smooth and comfortable. The few twists and turns showing of this

:25:11. > :25:17.great city to the rest of the world. Well, this coverage is for the whole

:25:18. > :25:21.world. The host broadcaster has to cover the medals. Often, the

:25:22. > :25:26.marathon, you should be looking for the athletes coming through. Brendan

:25:27. > :25:34.has reminded everybody that these medal positions can change quickly

:25:35. > :25:39.in the last mile or two. Tola hanging on. The Ethiopian very

:25:40. > :25:48.tired. He made a big bid to win this race. Kirui getting away from him.

:25:49. > :25:54.Simbu having the race of his career. He was fifth at the Olympics last

:25:55. > :25:59.year. He showed in Rio that he knew how to judge a race, and he's

:26:00. > :26:04.judging it very well today. We'll Callum Hawkins get into the top

:26:05. > :26:10.four? There is Kipketer. He is forth at the moment. Where is Callum

:26:11. > :26:18.Hawkins? Kipketer looked as though he was struggling. You would think

:26:19. > :26:23.Callum was a bit camera shy! He is loitering in the city. Fifth place,

:26:24. > :26:33.we are pretty sure. Keeping out of camera shot. Maybe he doesn't want

:26:34. > :26:37.to be on the camera! Kipketer. There he is, catching him. What a

:26:38. > :26:44.performance from Callum Hawkins. Fourth is the worst place to finish

:26:45. > :26:51.in any championships, however... It is better than fifth! This would

:26:52. > :26:55.equal Britain's best ever performance in a world marathon

:26:56. > :27:00.championship, and he has acquitted himself brilliantly. Top ten in the

:27:01. > :27:08.Olympics, and perhaps heading for fourth place. He's got a scrap on

:27:09. > :27:11.for that. Just over a mile of running left for the leader. Just a

:27:12. > :27:22.bit more than a mile for Callum Hawkins. He may finish as high as

:27:23. > :27:26.any Britain has ever finished in a World Championships. He could and

:27:27. > :27:33.should challenge his personal best time, maybe he could run under two

:27:34. > :27:38.hours ten, in a race that was not designed to run fast. It was

:27:39. > :27:42.designed to be the championship of the world, designed to show off this

:27:43. > :27:48.wonderful city to the world. The crowds know about marathon running

:27:49. > :27:53.in this city. We've seen some great marathons in championships. We have

:27:54. > :28:01.seen the Olympic marathon. We have Simbu, the third placed athlete from

:28:02. > :28:06.Tanzania. There goes Callum Hawkins. He has gone into fourth place.

:28:07. > :28:11.Callum Hawkins is in a position where he has equalled the best ever

:28:12. > :28:17.performance from a British athlete in the World Championships. It

:28:18. > :28:23.couldn't happen to a tough guy. Keep looking forward, Cal. We've seen him

:28:24. > :28:29.on the country, seen him on the road. Come on, Callum. Keep it

:28:30. > :28:36.going. If you contrast the front view of Callum Hawkins, he is really

:28:37. > :28:41.tired. Working harder than he's ever worked. He's grimacing. He knows

:28:42. > :28:47.he's had the race of his life here. His form is holding together.

:28:48. > :28:56.Running from the back, you wouldn't know how much he is hurting from the

:28:57. > :29:03.front few. How much is the gap? 59 seconds behind second-place. He's

:29:04. > :29:09.closer to third. Simbu is moving better than Tola. Tola is falling

:29:10. > :29:16.apart. This is going to come to the wire. Simbu will get close to

:29:17. > :29:22.catching this guy. There may be enough in those heavy legs to carry

:29:23. > :29:27.Tola to the finish line. Hawkins is charging fast, but he might run out

:29:28. > :29:34.of road. He might. He needs to know how much he's closing. He needs to

:29:35. > :29:40.know it's not Simbu he's working for, it's Tolar. If the team out

:29:41. > :29:46.there can get that information to him... He's using every last bit of

:29:47. > :29:53.energy. Psychologically, he can get a bit of a boost. We saw him in the

:29:54. > :30:02.cross-country in Edinburgh, so close to winning that one. He is positive,

:30:03. > :30:07.he is aggressive. We are looking at Kirui, the Boston Marathon winner.

:30:08. > :30:13.We are looking at Tola in second place under pressure. We are looking

:30:14. > :30:18.at Simbu from Tanzania, running strongly. Callum Hawkins has just

:30:19. > :30:24.passed Kipketer, now in fourth place. Seems to be as strong as the

:30:25. > :30:29.rest of them. As you have said, Paul and Steve, will he run out of road?

:30:30. > :30:34.He will be very close to his personal best. A wonderful tonic for

:30:35. > :30:42.him, if he can only finish fourth, the best ever by a British male

:30:43. > :30:51.marathon winner. Paula, what is your view now? You are getting nervous.

:30:52. > :30:58.I want him to get the medal, he was one of my picks for it, earlier on I

:30:59. > :31:03.thought he was going to be outstanding and run a personal best

:31:04. > :31:06.but he's worked so hard in the closing stages of this and

:31:07. > :31:08.everything is changing. It is just that the gaps are big. There's not

:31:09. > :31:19.much road left. I wish he would do more running on

:31:20. > :31:42.camera. He looks to be running comfortably.

:31:43. > :32:04.He would be better off looking ahead.

:32:05. > :32:18.They are doing a really good job. Steve was never in the six. Here

:32:19. > :32:25.comes a man looking like a champion. He has one last look over his

:32:26. > :32:37.shoulder as he turned the corner. He will see Tower Bridge. What a

:32:38. > :32:43.spectacular finish. It signals the finish for what has been a tough

:32:44. > :32:45.race. For a little while he thought the gold medal might be

:32:46. > :33:01.disappearing. When he made his move it was

:33:02. > :33:09.decisive and now you can start to salute the crowds. Brilliant

:33:10. > :33:18.performance from this man. You don't win Boston without being strong.

:33:19. > :33:26.He's got a big career ahead of him. He's been absolutely brilliant

:33:27. > :33:33.today. This is for the gold medal. It has not always been the case. The

:33:34. > :33:39.world Marathon title goes to Geoffrey Kirui of tenure. He will

:33:40. > :33:55.not worry about what is happening behind. Everybody else is watching.

:33:56. > :34:09.So strong. To Tamirat Tola. He's wandering across the road.

:34:10. > :34:36.The line is 300 metres away for Tamirat Tola.

:34:37. > :34:47.The Ethiopian is hanging on, Simbu is chasing him. He tries again.

:34:48. > :34:59.Tamirat Tola looks again. There won't be enough time. Simbu takes

:35:00. > :35:08.the bronze just a couple of seconds behind. What a reception there is

:35:09. > :35:24.going to be here. Great performance by Callum Hawkins. I hope he's going

:35:25. > :35:33.to work it. He's finished on glorious form. This man, it could be

:35:34. > :35:37.one of the greats. It was a real pleasure. Huge well done to Callum

:35:38. > :36:00.Hawkins. He's run a personal best. He's run a more measured race.

:36:01. > :36:06.There's a little bit more in his legs to finish. Callum Hawkins

:36:07. > :36:19.showed a lot of fight and potential to progress in the future. Geoffrey

:36:20. > :36:26.Kirui is the champion. Another great Kenyan distance runner. Callum

:36:27. > :36:32.Hawkins, I'm looking at his time. Two hours and ten minutes. You

:36:33. > :37:16.cannot get better than fourth place. 26 seconds away from a medal. He

:37:17. > :37:33.gave everything and had nothing left in the end. There he is. The point

:37:34. > :37:35.is by finishing fourth in London he is being lauded as a bit of a

:37:36. > :38:00.champion which is great. Callan will not be happy, you will

:38:01. > :38:04.look at it and will I can work harder, I can learn more and I can

:38:05. > :38:05.grow and mature as an athlete and I can come back and I can get that

:38:06. > :38:27.medal at some point in the future. He's got a great setup, Callan. His

:38:28. > :38:41.father and his brother have set up a running team. His coach, Steve

:38:42. > :38:52.Jones, he cannot get better advice. He wants to be aggressive and run at

:38:53. > :38:57.the front. We see it on the road. We see Jafary again, Callan should be

:38:58. > :39:04.pleased about the likes of the people he has beaten. Choose the

:39:05. > :39:09.right one, choose the right Marathon, who knows. Callum Hawkins

:39:10. > :39:22.did us proud today. He has done Scotland proud. Great scenes on

:39:23. > :39:34.Tower Bridge. Some tired athletes coming in.

:39:35. > :39:52.I think they get the medal stone in the moat.

:39:53. > :40:12.I'm not sure what happens if there are any of them.

:40:13. > :40:44.There is the American receiving the plaudits.

:40:45. > :40:57.He was touted as a possible medallist.

:40:58. > :42:09.The next World Championships will be in Doha.

:42:10. > :42:25.Geoffrey Kirui taking the gold medal. Very impressive run. Tamirat

:42:26. > :42:32.Tola hanging on by a few seconds. Callum Hawkins of Great Britain in

:42:33. > :42:50.fourth. He equalled the best ever performance.

:42:51. > :43:04.They were running together for an awful long time. I said earlier on.

:43:05. > :43:23.The marathon started there. The javelin I wrote. If you missed

:43:24. > :43:29.it earlier, Katarina Johnson-Thompson... Year is the

:43:30. > :43:39.first throw for Thiam. It will depth. That is some way short. You

:43:40. > :43:46.saw the 59-metre row she did en route. It is one of her strongest

:43:47. > :43:52.events. She is in the lead coming into this.

:43:53. > :44:19.It's only the first round. She will expect more.

:44:20. > :44:33.Omar McLeod, he got the victory in Rio de Janiero.

:44:34. > :45:00.best got the qualifying standards after the game. Not too far away.

:45:01. > :45:09.Harris, the American champion. Second place in Sacramento in June.

:45:10. > :45:15.Four to go through automatically. With McLeod in their Harris, it is

:45:16. > :45:22.not easy. Not that the hurdles is. You've got

:45:23. > :45:43.to be a clue -- on it. Omar MacLeod is the Olympic

:45:44. > :45:48.champion. Unbeaten this season, save the one meeting in Paris, the Paris

:45:49. > :45:57.Diamond League, where he suffered from cramp. Apart from that, wins

:45:58. > :45:58.all the way. Baji silver medallist at the European Championships last

:45:59. > :46:09.year. The 21-year-old on the start line

:46:10. > :46:20.here in the first heat of the men's 110 metres hurdles. Omoregie trying

:46:21. > :46:27.to get into his running. Four go through automatically. And now Omar

:46:28. > :46:33.McLeod is there. Omoregie is run out of it. McLeod takes it. I is

:46:34. > :46:39.struggling a little bit further down the field. McLeod took a while to

:46:40. > :46:44.get going, but once he gets going, he's got amazing speed. Very, very

:46:45. > :46:49.quick over the flat, but such an impressive hurdler. And Omar's

:46:50. > :46:54.technique seems to be getting better and better. More erratic last year

:46:55. > :46:59.when he won the world title. David looking up at the screen, keeping

:47:00. > :47:04.his fingers crossed. Omar crashed into the first and second hurdle.

:47:05. > :47:09.Took a while to recover. He is the world leader. He's gone under ten

:47:10. > :47:15.seconds for 100 metres. As soon as he hits the floor, he has the

:47:16. > :47:21.capability of turning over those legs, being aggressive but

:47:22. > :47:26.controlled. Omoregie down in sixth place. Looking for a slightly

:47:27. > :47:31.cleaner race than this. You always need to be cleaner championships. If

:47:32. > :47:36.you crash barriers, you spend time recovering. He is all over the place

:47:37. > :47:41.there. He will be frustrated there because he never had the opportunity

:47:42. > :47:47.to get into a smooth rhythm. I am frustrated for the young man because

:47:48. > :47:51.he knows what he's capable of. He was always at an angle and

:47:52. > :47:55.off-balance. He would have wanted a tidy race. Let's get his thoughts.

:47:56. > :48:04.The biggest frustration there will have been hinting the hurdles, and

:48:05. > :48:10.plenty of them. Yes, a bit messy. I have been working on my first

:48:11. > :48:15.hurdle. It wasn't great overall, but I've been training really well. Been

:48:16. > :48:24.putting sessions in with my training partner. Just recover and get ready

:48:25. > :48:30.for the semifinal. It's been a long build-up to coming here. You've been

:48:31. > :48:34.in the holding camp. Did that play into it, the sense of anticipation

:48:35. > :48:39.and the nerves building up? I've really loved the experience the last

:48:40. > :48:44.three weeks. This is my first senior outdoor championship team. I've

:48:45. > :48:49.loved the whole experience. It's a great atmosphere. I've been training

:48:50. > :48:54.really well, so a bit disappointing. Hopefully it will be all right and

:48:55. > :49:04.I'll get it right for the semifinal. Thanks for talking us. He said he

:49:05. > :49:10.was off-balance, and he was close to being outside his lane, Omoregie.

:49:11. > :49:26.Unless he is physically obstructing somebody, it will be fine. Alongside

:49:27. > :49:31.him is Takayama. The rules don't apply the same way they do around

:49:32. > :49:37.the bend on the straight. As long as he is not deemed to be obstructing,

:49:38. > :49:43.there should be no complaints. It might all be a moot point, because

:49:44. > :49:49.six there. He's the second fastest loser at the moment. Only four go

:49:50. > :50:00.through over the five heats, so a tall order for David Oma Reggie. --

:50:01. > :50:04.Omoregie. Back to this heptathlon. The

:50:05. > :50:12.overnight leader let it slip a little bit in the long jump. Carolin

:50:13. > :50:17.Schafer. Throwing into the sunshine. On the 50 metre line. Just shy of

:50:18. > :50:23.it. That is a good throw for the Germans. Looking down at her

:50:24. > :50:30.lifetime best from this year, 50 metres and 34 centimetres. A season

:50:31. > :50:40.'s best, anyway. Slightly different to Thiam. It really is going to go

:50:41. > :50:46.down to the wire, this heptathlon. And Schafer very much in contention

:50:47. > :50:52.in second place at the moment. Vetter, another athlete we need to

:50:53. > :50:56.keep an eye on. When we think of the performance of Catherine

:50:57. > :50:59.Johnson-Thompson, and the potential for medals, Vetter of the

:51:00. > :51:08.Netherlands in fifth place after the long jump. A good athlete, though.

:51:09. > :51:17.That was a big effort, way beyond 50 metres for Vetter. She likes it. A

:51:18. > :51:24.lifetime best of 55.76. That will challenge it. That's what we didn't

:51:25. > :51:28.want. She's got two more as well. That's going to make things really

:51:29. > :51:40.tight going into the 800 metres. She's got two more throws to

:51:41. > :51:45.improve. 55.22 for Anouk Vetter. All of a sudden a contender for the

:51:46. > :51:50.medals. Right, another field event. The

:51:51. > :52:00.men's pole-vault qualification under way. Holzdeppe is carrying two

:52:01. > :52:06.fouls. Gold medallist in 2011. Silver from the world champs as

:52:07. > :52:12.well. He has form at these championships in the past, but has

:52:13. > :52:22.to go clear of this new height of 5.70. The last attempt, a good one!

:52:23. > :52:29.That's more like it. The German booking his place in the final on

:52:30. > :52:34.Tuesday. We have seen Lavillenie looking good, and Holzdeppe joins

:52:35. > :52:42.him. Ahead of the second heat in the first round of the men's 110 meter

:52:43. > :52:47.hurdles. David King, the Plymouth athlete, the UK champion this year.

:52:48. > :52:53.Devon Allen, third in the US championships. A great American foot

:52:54. > :53:04.or player, which is what he's going to do after his athletics career.

:53:05. > :53:15.The Polish athlete goes in lane nine.

:53:16. > :53:36.If King can go close to that, he's got a chance. There's the line-up.

:53:37. > :54:03.Czykier in lane nine. Strong competition for King.

:54:04. > :54:15.Devon Alan coasts across the line. With Darien just behind. David King

:54:16. > :54:20.put himself in a good position until the second half of the race, and

:54:21. > :54:29.just paid the price. He fell back. He will be struggling to go through

:54:30. > :54:33.with Allen and Darien. They were the two favoured athletes in this round.

:54:34. > :54:40.They did produce what is expected of them. David put himself in a good

:54:41. > :54:44.position. Got out of the blocks well and set himself up nicely. That

:54:45. > :54:52.acceleration is really important from the beginning. Darien on his

:54:53. > :54:58.left. He ran well. Nice and solid. You don't want to start to think,

:54:59. > :55:05.I'm feeling a bit behind, and start to race. When you start to race you

:55:06. > :55:10.make technical errors. One clip, you get right behind, and you take two

:55:11. > :55:15.or three hurdles to recover. He lost ground by making those clips at the

:55:16. > :55:20.crucial moment in time. He works really hard into the first hurdle,

:55:21. > :55:26.which is what you want to do. Hurtling very smooth. The

:55:27. > :55:30.acceleration phase is good. Darien starts to move away, so David puts

:55:31. > :55:38.his foot down, crashes into the barrier. Crashes into the next one.

:55:39. > :55:42.A little bit more air, and then he is all frustrated. Tension in the

:55:43. > :55:50.shoulders. He is frustrated because he knows he had a good opportunity

:55:51. > :55:55.there. David King slipping back from third or fourth down to finishing in

:55:56. > :56:06.eighth place. Not good enough to go through. Allen, Darien, Czykier.

:56:07. > :56:14.They go through automatically. David Omoregie still in second place of

:56:15. > :56:25.the fastest losers. Four to go through over the five heats. Back to

:56:26. > :56:34.this pole-vault qualification. Wojciechowski. Surprise champion of

:56:35. > :56:43.the world in 2011. A big cheer. From him and the crowd! He likes that a

:56:44. > :56:48.lot. That has kept him involved. We'll probably get him through to

:56:49. > :56:53.the final on Tuesday. Congratulations from Sam Kendricks,

:56:54. > :57:00.who was in a good -- who was in the same position a few moments ago.

:57:01. > :57:10.Looks as though vulture Caskey is in the final. A tall man, a tall plant.

:57:11. > :57:16.Drives up. A good fault, especially because of the circumstances of a

:57:17. > :57:23.third try. Amazing how many athletes need that bit of impetus to propel

:57:24. > :57:30.them over. 5.70 looks like it will be enough to get through to the

:57:31. > :57:35.Tuesday's final. A lot of athletes going out at this height.

:57:36. > :57:43.Wojciechowski of Poland, successful at the third time of asking. Here's

:57:44. > :57:52.one of your favourites, Kendricks. Pleased for each other. A busy day

:57:53. > :57:59.in the stadium and over in the city. The women's marathon starts at 2pm.

:58:00. > :58:04.These were the scenes as Callum Hawkins ran the race of his life to

:58:05. > :58:14.finish fourth in a new personal best in the World Championship half --

:58:15. > :58:19.marathon. Really excelled himself and was only 26 seconds away from a

:58:20. > :58:26.medal. A brilliant run, and he spoke to us afterwards. Callum Hawkins,

:58:27. > :58:30.fourth in the World Championship marathon, equalling the best that

:58:31. > :58:36.any British male athlete has ever done in this event. What's your

:58:37. > :58:44.reaction? Bittersweet. I could just see the third place in the last five

:58:45. > :58:50.K, I just kept the same distance. Maybe I left it a bit too late. I

:58:51. > :58:58.wanted to get a medal, and I ran for that. Fourth is still pretty good, I

:58:59. > :59:03.guess. Pretty good is very modest. No other British male has ever done

:59:04. > :59:08.better than that in this event. That's a huge achievement. I don't

:59:09. > :59:14.think it's quite hit me yet, because I was just hanging towards the end.

:59:15. > :59:21.I have a hope of getting a medal in the future, hopefully, and that is

:59:22. > :59:26.what I was aiming for. Bittersweet. Fourth is the worst place to finish

:59:27. > :59:33.in many ways, and yet top ten in Rio and forth here now. It is an upward

:59:34. > :59:39.trajectory. You will believe that a medal is in sight. I could see it in

:59:40. > :59:45.the site, second just 200 metres to go. That is the way it is. Hopefully

:59:46. > :59:51.I will push on with the Commonwealth Games and Tokyo after that, get in

:59:52. > :59:55.amongst it. I have to say thanks to the crowd. The last few kilometres

:59:56. > :00:03.it was unbelievable. I couldn't hear myself. Perhaps we can look forward

:00:04. > :00:09.to you and Mo Farah contesting marathons in the future. That will

:00:10. > :00:15.be good! Good to have a team mate up there. Another challenge, but

:00:16. > :00:21.hopefully he will be seeing my back! Only joking. He is a quality

:00:22. > :00:28.athlete. You are a minute away from Allister Hutton's Scottish record.

:00:29. > :00:33.Almost below the 2.10 barrier. An extraordinary story the last couple

:00:34. > :00:39.of years. The Mac today was all about position and racing it. It's

:00:40. > :00:46.just a bonus that I got a personal best. I am in a better shape than

:00:47. > :00:52.that, and that race proved it. Very well run. Many congratulations.

:00:53. > :00:58.Enjoyed the rest of the championships. An amazing Scottish

:00:59. > :01:00.contingent here. In the last couple of years, probably since the

:01:01. > :01:05.Commonwealth Games, all the hard work everyone has done has started

:01:06. > :01:08.to pay off. You get the snowball effect of confidence. You see

:01:09. > :01:14.somebody else doing it, one of your peers you've grown up with, and you

:01:15. > :01:19.think, why can't I do it? Hopefully it will spur on everyone in Britain

:01:20. > :01:25.and everyone steps up again. Congratulations.

:01:26. > :01:40.Some fourth places are better than others. This is the start list.

:01:41. > :01:45.Aries Merritt has a story, we will tell you if you do not know about

:01:46. > :01:56.that. The bronze champion in Beijing. Shane Brathwaite was there

:01:57. > :01:58.as well. There is Aries Merritt. Shortly after the World

:01:59. > :02:02.Championships, had a kidney transplant. His sister's kidney. Now

:02:03. > :02:21.challenging the very best in the world again. Aries Merritt going

:02:22. > :02:32.pretty well. Aries Merritt is clear of the rest.

:02:33. > :02:38.Set the world record, 12.80, but is certainly good enough to challenge

:02:39. > :02:45.for the gold medal. Aries Merritt is the winner and moving through. He

:02:46. > :02:59.loves the competition. He's looking at the screens. Is he going to have

:03:00. > :03:09.a chat? I'm going to chat to fill. You can see on the big screen, it

:03:10. > :03:23.was a fantastic race. I wanted to take control early. You have so many

:03:24. > :03:26.great memories. What is it like? It is amazing, the crowd is amazing,

:03:27. > :03:33.the people in the UK are amazing. They've been talking on commentary

:03:34. > :03:36.about the remarkable story since having the kidney transplant. Your

:03:37. > :03:42.sister giving you that. To get back to this level is mind blowing. What

:03:43. > :03:51.is it like? You never get something you can handle and I've handled it

:03:52. > :03:54.quite well. But the purpose in life is to inspire others and let them

:03:55. > :04:02.know that no matter what your going through you can succeed if you put

:04:03. > :04:09.your mind to it. You've done it. Let's have another look at the race.

:04:10. > :04:15.You need to stay cool. Don't create any extra issues. He's established

:04:16. > :04:23.other than well. Running a clean race. If you can do that at the

:04:24. > :04:38.right moment in time you get good performance levels. Not pushing,

:04:39. > :04:50.getting into a lovely rhythm. When he wraps it up you will be able to

:04:51. > :05:08.do that. He gets a lovely feel and glances and ends up with his time.

:05:09. > :05:21.Two more heats to come. We will have the British number one, he might be

:05:22. > :05:31.a medal contender. Before the Championship he spoke to fill. The

:05:32. > :05:42.official interview starts now. It is great to see you. World

:05:43. > :05:45.Championships in London and you have produced some of the performances of

:05:46. > :05:51.your life. It is coming together the way you would want. Is that how you

:05:52. > :05:55.view it? Yes. It has been a long time coming but for once I'm going

:05:56. > :05:59.into a Championship with really good preparation, run a personal best in

:06:00. > :06:05.races this year, have been the quickest in my career. The timing is

:06:06. > :06:06.going well and I'm training well and I'm getting preparation and looking

:06:07. > :06:31.for. My first major Championship win.

:06:32. > :06:41.Running quick times, performing on the world stage, it has not really

:06:42. > :06:42.come about. To deliver against some of the best hurdlers in Europe, it

:06:43. > :06:55.is so strong. Obviously an entirely different set

:06:56. > :07:07.of circumstances, you've experienced that. I got over the Olympics a long

:07:08. > :07:10.time ago, the misfortune of being injured, not being able to fulfil my

:07:11. > :07:14.potential or show the kind of form I've been showing all season. I was

:07:15. > :07:17.only 20, it was overwhelming and really tough to come back from that.

:07:18. > :07:23.I'm looking forward to enjoying what most of my team-mates in London were

:07:24. > :07:32.talking about. That home atmosphere and support of the crowd. Hoping to

:07:33. > :07:45.get behind that this year. This year, Evelyn has gone well for me.

:07:46. > :08:14.Waiting to go. In 2012 it was injury which forced him to pull out.

:08:15. > :08:52.Andrew Pozzi is given his welcome. Aries Merritt is a very fast man.

:08:53. > :09:07.-- Xie. Ron Levy ran very fast before. It was a very quick race. He

:09:08. > :09:09.is a man to watch. McLeod carries most of the hopes for Jamaica but

:09:10. > :09:52.Ron Levy can go close. He has the pace. Playing on to one

:09:53. > :10:05.of the fastest loser places. Away cleanly. Aries Merritt has gone!

:10:06. > :10:10.Andrew Pozzi is in front. Andrew Pozzi takes it.

:10:11. > :10:17.The noise from the crowd will greet that British victory. Levy, we gave

:10:18. > :10:22.him the big build-up and he was out quickly. Too quickly. He had a hard.

:10:23. > :10:33.He paid the price. Andrew Pozzi was the winner. -- he hit it hard.

:10:34. > :10:36.Andrew Pozzi made no mistakes. That's what you want to do. Get a

:10:37. > :10:40.feel of the track and the atmosphere. He's run faster than

:10:41. > :11:04.this before. Andrew Pozzi moving over that first

:11:05. > :11:15.hurdle. Then he needs to keep calm. Cruises through.

:11:16. > :11:27.He catches that barrier terribly. He hooks it with the Trail foot. That

:11:28. > :11:44.took him out of the race. Looks nice and solid. What a contrast with the

:11:45. > :11:52.Olympics. I hope he's lost his best running. He more than capable of

:11:53. > :12:01.this running. I'm happy to see what he does and how he's doing it.

:12:02. > :12:08.Semifinal next four Andrew Pozzi. One of our great talking over the

:12:09. > :12:13.replay. Colin Jackson. Said it was solid and clean and that is what you

:12:14. > :12:16.wanted. That is what you want in round one. Nothing stupid. Staying

:12:17. > :12:22.clean over the barriers and avoiding big mistakes. We saw what happened

:12:23. > :12:31.with what happened to Levy on the outside. One of the favourites is

:12:32. > :12:37.gone. S yap. S -- yes. He ran a personal best in Paris. That's a

:12:38. > :12:43.loss to the competition but I'm happy to move through. You've got to

:12:44. > :12:47.be on it all the time, cannot take anything for granted. Tell me about

:12:48. > :12:58.going forward. You've got to step it up a gear. That is a pretty solid

:12:59. > :13:03.time. I'm ready to do that. Strong start and then it is about staying

:13:04. > :13:09.clean and smooth. We wish you well for tonight. He is being realistic

:13:10. > :13:21.because he knows that the times were quicker. Those times, it was a quick

:13:22. > :13:27.heat, they may knock him out of the fastest loser plays. We are in the

:13:28. > :13:37.third round of the javelin in the heptathlon. Nafi Thiam is down on

:13:38. > :13:42.what she's done previously. No improvement in the second round.

:13:43. > :13:49.Last chance to gather the points to dominate. That has stalled but is

:13:50. > :13:58.better. Over 50 metres. As she did in the long jump, and across the

:13:59. > :14:06.last few days. When it is needed she calls on a little bit more and eases

:14:07. > :14:12.away from the best of the rest. She's left that a little closer than

:14:13. > :14:26.she would have liked. That is likely to present a.

:14:27. > :14:32.Here is one of the only ones that could have given them something to

:14:33. > :15:04.think about. She is contesting this. She is

:15:05. > :15:08.appealing. If it has to land... That is a very close call. She's not

:15:09. > :15:19.happy. Anouk Vetter has pushed Katarina

:15:20. > :15:24.Johnson-Thompson out of the medals because of a big throw in the first

:15:25. > :15:33.round. That is big again. Oh, my word. That consolidates one hand on

:15:34. > :15:38.a bronze medal, I suspect. Tony, you have been tallying the points. What

:15:39. > :15:44.you make of it? I'm gutted. That was great. This girl was not in my five

:15:45. > :15:50.to watch before this championship. I have too apologised to the young

:15:51. > :16:01.lady. She's gone about her business event after it then. 58 41.

:16:02. > :16:10.Championship best. The longest throw ever in a world Champs heptathlon.

:16:11. > :16:17.Anouk Vetter. I think Rodriguez is the only one who can pull Vetter's

:16:18. > :16:30.hands off the bronze medal. Vetter goes into second place with that

:16:31. > :16:35.throw. 47.41 her best in the second round, Rodriguez. Lets ready

:16:36. > :16:45.ourselves for the final heat in the men's 100 metres hurdles. Shubenkov

:16:46. > :16:51.the Russian, the defending champion, getting his chance to defend his

:16:52. > :16:59.title here. This stitch and Hough the Australian on the outside here.

:17:00. > :17:03.-- Ristic and Hough. Parchment as well from Jamaica. This is a tough

:17:04. > :17:21.one. Shubenkov given clearance to compete

:17:22. > :17:25.neutrally in April of this year. Certain athletes who fulfil certain

:17:26. > :17:49.criteria from Russia are allowed to do that. There's a number here.

:17:50. > :17:53.Again, away cleanly. Shubenkov not had the best start. Cabral going

:17:54. > :18:10.well. Not the quickest time. A little bit

:18:11. > :18:16.disappointing, bearing in mind the calibre of some of the athletes

:18:17. > :18:24.there. Shubenkov goes through, so to Parchment, but Ortega the winner, in

:18:25. > :18:30.13.37. Shubenkov there was a very pedestrian out of the blocks. He's

:18:31. > :18:35.not like that normally. Funders out of it usually. You can take risks

:18:36. > :18:40.like that in the high hurdles if the field is not of a high quality like

:18:41. > :18:45.it was there. If you didn't make a mistake, he would have been fine.

:18:46. > :18:53.Normally he would be up in front by now. Ortega clear running, nice and

:18:54. > :18:57.smooth indeed, but lack a lead, I think, for Shubenkov, that people

:18:58. > :19:02.didn't do so well around him, otherwise he would have to put his

:19:03. > :19:08.foot down. Wrist it went well there, but had to pull up there, crashing

:19:09. > :19:15.into a barrier. Ortega moving really well. You would expect him to do

:19:16. > :19:24.that. Parchment of Jamaica. You would expect him to finish very well

:19:25. > :19:30.indeed. But Shubenkov will have to pull his finger out. Really

:19:31. > :19:35.pedestrian. Didn't drive hard. But you do have the tendency to make a

:19:36. > :19:39.mistake like that. Pushed him forward, then caught him at the

:19:40. > :19:45.barrier. Because there wasn't that much pressure, he had the time to

:19:46. > :19:52.recover. Didn't feel he had to stress on there. Did enough. In the

:19:53. > :20:00.semifinal, he will have to step up. He was a bit off-balance, but he

:20:01. > :20:05.does go through. So does Parchment and Ortega. Shubenkov, the defending

:20:06. > :20:16.champion, knows he has to improve, and I'm sure he will as well.

:20:17. > :20:20.If you were with us earlier on, you will have seen a great men's

:20:21. > :20:26.marathon race. If you didn't, here is the result. Kirui winning for

:20:27. > :20:33.Kenya. Tola, the very tired Ethiopian, managed to hold on for

:20:34. > :20:43.the silver. Callum Hawkins almost caught Symbian and Tola, chasing

:20:44. > :20:48.them down in the latter stages. For a result further down, one or two

:20:49. > :20:55.names to pick out for you. One or two who we thought might have gone a

:20:56. > :21:02.little bit better. Mechanism of Ethiopia, 19th place. Andy Davies

:21:03. > :21:07.came in as a late replacement. One other British competitor, the man

:21:08. > :21:12.who got himself into the team with a brilliant run in the London

:21:13. > :21:17.Marathon. Never thought he would represent his country at the World

:21:18. > :21:24.Championships. He did, and finished in 39th. Josh Griffiths. He spoke to

:21:25. > :21:30.us afterwards. Give us your thoughts in competing at the highest level. A

:21:31. > :21:36.really tough race. It was very hot today, but it was the best two hours

:21:37. > :21:40.and 20 minutes of my life. I would have loved to have finished a bit

:21:41. > :21:45.higher, but that was the best experience I've ever had, so I've

:21:46. > :21:52.come away with it more motivated than ever to try to improve. A

:21:53. > :21:57.massive thank you to the crowd. Anyone who came out and supported

:21:58. > :22:02.me. The best experience I've ever had. The athletics stadium, the

:22:03. > :22:07.crowd has been amazing, but it looked like you guys were getting

:22:08. > :22:15.amazing support out there. I've never experienced anything like that

:22:16. > :22:20.in my life. Not just my family and friends, but random people shouting

:22:21. > :22:25.my name. It really helps a lot. A massive well done to calibre is

:22:26. > :22:30.well, because fourth place is amazing. He equalled the best ever

:22:31. > :22:39.for a British male athlete in this event. Guys like him inspired me

:22:40. > :22:45.last year, and to see him finish fourth is just amazing. Yours is an

:22:46. > :22:51.inspirational story as well. You have come from a club racer to the

:22:52. > :22:55.elite end of the sport. You will have inspired many people, I would

:22:56. > :23:00.imagine. There's lots of club runners just as good as me. You just

:23:01. > :23:08.need a good day and everything go right, and you can make that jump. A

:23:09. > :23:15.great experience for me. The next big thing for you, the Commonwealth

:23:16. > :23:20.Games. The next thing for me will be an ice bath after this. But then I

:23:21. > :23:24.will get back to training, and hopefully will be in the

:23:25. > :23:30.Commonwealth Games for Wales. Thank you.

:23:31. > :23:41.These are the qualifiers for the final of the men's 110 metres

:23:42. > :23:57.hurdles. McLeod, the Olympic champion there. Pozzi won his heat,

:23:58. > :24:04.and is going through. Harris, the US champion. Shubenkov competing under

:24:05. > :24:16.that neutral flag. He's defending champion.

:24:17. > :24:25.So after six of the seven events in the heptathlon, before we get the

:24:26. > :24:33.results, let's have a look back at a long throw, the longest ever, in

:24:34. > :24:43.fact, in javelin heptathlon. Looking at that third effort of Vetter. Pops

:24:44. > :24:51.it through the point. That was a foul, in fact. We were hoping to get

:24:52. > :25:00.another look at the 58 metres we saw in the third round. The competition

:25:01. > :25:05.is over. Vetter has moved up into third place. They didn't be in state

:25:06. > :25:15.the slightly contentious effort of Shafa. It was judged a flat throw

:25:16. > :25:21.but was reinstated. Anouk Vetter, this the throw that we believe will

:25:22. > :25:27.knock Katarina Johnson-Thompson out of the medals. Good acceleration.

:25:28. > :25:36.Difficult to tell from that angle, but that flew out. How about that?

:25:37. > :25:43.Way beyond 55 metres. It has put her just three points behind Schafer of

:25:44. > :25:52.Germany, who sits behind Thiam. Confirmation of those standings

:25:53. > :25:59.after six events. Thiam takes an 11 second lead over Schafer. Three

:26:00. > :26:08.points is nothing in terms of time difference. Schafer is a much better

:26:09. > :26:17.800 metre runner. That will be a foot race for the silver. Looks like

:26:18. > :26:25.Johnson-Thompson is too far out to challenge for the medals at this

:26:26. > :26:31.stage. That brings the morning in the stadium to a close. But don't go

:26:32. > :26:36.anywhere, because the women's marathon is about to start. We've

:26:37. > :26:47.had the men's marathon already, and Tower Bridge, a wonderful backdrop

:26:48. > :27:12.for these races. There you see the name of marinated

:27:13. > :27:24.Babar. She and her team-mates could well figure. Tola, another Ethiopian

:27:25. > :27:30.there, running for Germany. Very good Japanese team, as ever, hoping

:27:31. > :27:37.they can go well here. Then the Kenyan contingent. Their main hope

:27:38. > :27:52.may well lie with the veteran, Edna Kiplagat. Kiprop will be looking for

:27:53. > :27:59.a good performance as well. Conditions have just been warming up

:28:00. > :28:17.a little bit. Katarina Ribeiro, the famous Portuguese name.

:28:18. > :28:26.Amy Cragg, perhaps the best of the American contingent here. A big

:28:27. > :28:32.field. Many will have watched the results of the men's race with

:28:33. > :28:38.interest. I wonder what the British women thought about Callum Hawkins

:28:39. > :28:44.coming in fourth place? London was the trial for these World

:28:45. > :28:56.Championships. Ali finished not too far ahead of Pardew. Here is Dibaba.

:28:57. > :29:05.A great championship record for Dibaba. Carries the famous Ethiopian

:29:06. > :29:24.name. Defending champion with a bit of a doubt over her fitness coming

:29:25. > :29:32.into this. This is Rose Chelimo. On two occasions, she won this world

:29:33. > :29:40.title. Defended the world title in Moscow, and has finished in the top

:29:41. > :29:47.33 times in London. Great experience. 37, but still going very

:29:48. > :29:56.well indeed. Kiprop. Just pipped to the gold medal by Dibaba in Beijing

:29:57. > :30:07.in 2015. Silver medal by one second on that occasion.

:30:08. > :30:27.Ando Kia were of Bahrain. -- Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa. Kirwa macro will

:30:28. > :30:31.know that Mane Dibaba will be a formidable competitor. The main

:30:32. > :30:39.contenders for this women's championship marathon. Around 20

:30:40. > :30:46.degrees, maybe 21, still creeping up. A little bit of a breeze.

:30:47. > :30:51.Wonderful day for spectating, as Brendan said earlier. A few of the

:30:52. > :30:55.men struggling a little bit. Not exactly difficult summer conditions,

:30:56. > :31:00.it could have been so much worse, an awful lot hotter at 2pm and I know

:31:01. > :31:04.there were some eyebrows raised when the timetable was set for the

:31:05. > :31:09.marathons. The women were given the heat of the afternoon in the first

:31:10. > :31:14.week of August, but thankfully we have September weather. It could

:31:15. > :31:19.have been the heat of the afternoon. A couple of weeks ago it was

:31:20. > :31:24.extremely warm, 30 degrees in London. And what a splendid setting

:31:25. > :31:31.as they set off from Tower Bridge. They'll go along embankment and then

:31:32. > :31:36.drift through the city, past St Paul's Cathedral and eventually

:31:37. > :31:44.running up and down embankment. Ten kilometre loop approximately. That

:31:45. > :31:49.blue means these spectators can watch the drama of the marathon

:31:50. > :31:59.unfiled and they will see them on eight occasions. They leave Tower

:32:00. > :32:03.Bridge with the tower of London. I just was speaking to my

:32:04. > :32:07.granddaughter and she was visiting the tower of London, Paula, along

:32:08. > :32:13.with her grandmother. She was telling me how impressive the crown

:32:14. > :32:17.jewels were. My daughter also visited there and told me about how

:32:18. > :32:21.the Queen keeps all her jewellery there and there are even meant to

:32:22. > :32:24.look after it. She did say, I was told there were a lot of little dogs

:32:25. > :32:32.outside and I didn't see any of that. My grand daughter told me that

:32:33. > :32:39.was where and Berlin was headed! -- and bowling. My daughter is working

:32:40. > :32:45.on the medals ceremony! That the treasure. They will be given out on

:32:46. > :32:53.the tower at the end of a gruelling 26 miles. If you weren't with us

:32:54. > :32:56.earlier, four lapse of just over ten kilometres. The Tower Bridge start

:32:57. > :33:02.is where we come back to the finish and that's the only time when they

:33:03. > :33:11.will go back to the bridge. The laps are primarily along the Embankment

:33:12. > :33:17.and they will go around Saint Pauls and Paternoster Square, Paternoster

:33:18. > :33:24.Square, the Bank of England and then back onto the Embankment the early

:33:25. > :33:33.leader is Ribeiro of Portugal. That name will come just the memories.

:33:34. > :33:39.Fernando Ribeiro. Happy to let her take the early lead, the rest, and

:33:40. > :33:50.sitting in the group. Alyson Dixon I can say. The Sunderland stroller.

:33:51. > :33:59.That was earlier than usual. I felt a notch and I was going to say

:34:00. > :34:03.something, but I'm on such weak ground around the whole Sunderland

:34:04. > :34:12.thing that I will take all the bits you've got. A very early mention of

:34:13. > :34:17.Sunderland strollers. The British team, Tracy Barlow, Alyson Dixon and

:34:18. > :34:22.Charlotte Bird you from Aldershot and file district. Famous distance

:34:23. > :34:28.running club. -- Charlotte Purdue. Interesting to see how she runs. We

:34:29. > :34:32.saw Charlie the other day at the team hotel, very perky and really

:34:33. > :34:40.looking forward to it. Her mum and dad were with her. Like the rest of

:34:41. > :34:53.this very good endurance contingent, she's been inspired by Mo. -- she's

:34:54. > :34:57.been to Fonte le mot. Supported by the London Marathon. They are not

:34:58. > :35:01.all on lottery funding, but the vast majority are supported and have

:35:02. > :35:10.received some sort of support in terms of their type oration --

:35:11. > :35:15.preparation. 17 members of the endurance team in Fonte le mot and

:35:16. > :35:20.the bulk were supported by the London Marathon. They set up

:35:21. > :35:26.training situations and camps in Kenny and Fonte le mode to be -- to

:35:27. > :35:31.allow the athletes to go away and be supported. The atmosphere amongst

:35:32. > :35:35.the other athletes has been really encouraging. We'll see Tom Bosworth

:35:36. > :35:40.come out in the walk next week and he's slotted into that endurance

:35:41. > :35:46.setup. A lot of banter goes on. They are all looking forward to seeing

:35:47. > :35:51.walk well and the girls will already have been buoyed by the run of

:35:52. > :35:55.Callum Hawkins this morning. They will have been completing their warm

:35:56. > :35:59.up, getting ready to go into the court room when Hawkins was fighting

:36:00. > :36:06.his way into that magnificent fourth-place. I've had a look at the

:36:07. > :36:12.splits of the men's race. Eight positions, Callum finished the

:36:13. > :36:18.fastest over the last 2.2 K. One second faster than the winner. You

:36:19. > :36:22.went for some lunch which was a luxury I wasn't afforded! Callum, in

:36:23. > :36:27.his interview... I know you brought me a sandwich, thank you. In his

:36:28. > :36:34.interview he said he makes to have misjudged it. He was with fourth

:36:35. > :36:38.deceits -- position. You could sense some frustration. In the end, I

:36:39. > :36:47.could see both medals not that far ahead of me. I don't think... He ran

:36:48. > :36:51.the best race he could. He wasn't to know the others would come back.

:36:52. > :36:54.You've got to run your race. If they'd come back, brilliant. He

:36:55. > :36:59.couldn't plan he would run people down in the latter 's Voges. It was

:37:00. > :37:05.hard in the middle part where the damage was done. Total really

:37:06. > :37:10.suffered. He might not have been able to last the distance. You've

:37:11. > :37:15.got to look at Hawkins, ninth in the Olympics last year, his first major

:37:16. > :37:19.championship. Fourth in the World Championships this year. He's

:37:20. > :37:24.already looking forward to a future in the marathon. We now know Mohamed

:37:25. > :37:31.Farah, the great Sir Mo Farah is going to have a dab at the marathon.

:37:32. > :37:34.You can imagine Callum's response. It was very positive. He's looking

:37:35. > :37:40.forward to Mo Farah coming to the marathon. The marathon runners would

:37:41. > :37:44.do that. Bring it on, let's race. There's nothing Callum Hawkins will

:37:45. > :37:51.be worried about. If he runs against Sir Mo, what a great race that be.

:37:52. > :37:57.I'm excited to see what he's capable of. More than him racing against Mo,

:37:58. > :38:03.and this great British race, it's more what Callum Hawkins is capable

:38:04. > :38:09.of. His potential for growth over the marathon distance is probably

:38:10. > :38:15.greater than that of Mo. Mo has already run in the 2.08 range and he

:38:16. > :38:19.can go quicker, but Callum has a bigger margin because he is younger,

:38:20. > :38:24.he's got more of a career ahead of him instead of coming to the tail

:38:25. > :38:27.end of his career into the marathon. Commonwealth Games potential next

:38:28. > :38:32.year, European Championships potential next year, World

:38:33. > :38:38.Championships next where it will be hot. He said, most games definitely

:38:39. > :38:44.but it might be Tokyo next in terms of major championships. There are

:38:45. > :38:50.choices in between. Commonwealth Games. They've got so many good

:38:51. > :38:55.endurance runners on the British team. Laura Muir yesterday is in the

:38:56. > :39:00.final of the 1500 metres. Lynsey Sharp going in the women's 800

:39:01. > :39:07.metres. Andy Bouchard, Jake Wightman, Chris O'Hare, Josh Kerr.

:39:08. > :39:12.It goes on. People should be asking the question. Why are they doing so

:39:13. > :39:16.well was Mac what have they done so well in Scotland to produce such a

:39:17. > :39:21.powerful bunch of athletes including some of our best distance runners.

:39:22. > :39:25.It's great that that's happened, but the England side of the board should

:39:26. > :39:31.be saying, hang on, there's normally a bunch of distance runners from

:39:32. > :39:35.England. Mo Farah has a cake should the run for England. Overall

:39:36. > :39:42.Scotland have done really well in the last couple of years. We happen

:39:43. > :39:47.to live a bit closer and my son used to go to school there. There was a

:39:48. > :39:53.little period where they grew up together. They raced each other

:39:54. > :39:59.quite a lot. Jake I know. Chris O'Hare. Derek Hawkins and Callum

:40:00. > :40:04.Hawkins. There were others. They kind of came through at the same

:40:05. > :40:07.time. I'm not sure there was a Scottish policy, but there was a

:40:08. > :40:11.culture that allowed them to do that. It's not always easy to copy,

:40:12. > :40:17.but it's great when you get that going. You get people thinking...

:40:18. > :40:26.Laura Muir comes into it, Liz McColgan. Eilish McColgan! Her and

:40:27. > :40:33.Lynsey Sharp came through the cross country ranks together. Eilish will

:40:34. > :40:38.tell stories about getting beaten by Lynsey Sharp in cross country races

:40:39. > :40:43.and thinking this is Liz McColgan's daughter. She had time to develop.

:40:44. > :40:47.It's almost that team spirit that we are trying to recreate with the

:40:48. > :40:51.training camps and with getting people training together and

:40:52. > :40:56.learning from each other. We saw much earlier this morning in the

:40:57. > :41:03.3000 metres staple Chase, Zak Seddon talking about the atmosphere of

:41:04. > :41:05.being around the training camp. There's Alyson Dixon, representing

:41:06. > :41:16.Great Britain, the Sunderland stroller. Sitting alongside the

:41:17. > :41:20.early leader, the famous distance running country of Portugal.

:41:21. > :41:24.Ribeiro. She's checking her watch, checking the distance. She knows the

:41:25. > :41:29.pace she wants to run. That's her prerogative. They won't take any

:41:30. > :41:32.notice of her for a little while, but if she keeps going like this,

:41:33. > :41:36.one or two will be getting information from coaches and

:41:37. > :41:44.assistance exactly what's happening ahead and around. A beautiful day,

:41:45. > :41:51.beautiful afternoon. Cool. Shade of the trees. It's a nice day, a great

:41:52. > :41:58.day for spectating, a good day for running. This part of the course

:41:59. > :42:01.allows them to take some shelter. They'll be looking for the fuel

:42:02. > :42:07.stations, very important in the early stages to take on drink. Your

:42:08. > :42:14.personal drink and a little drop of water. I've had my feed station

:42:15. > :42:18.brought to me, thanks very much. The middle of the afternoon, Sunday

:42:19. > :42:24.afternoon in London, may be some tourists weren't aware what was

:42:25. > :42:29.going on. They'll have a great opportunity to see the world's best.

:42:30. > :42:34.There's Kiplagat, the two time world champion. She knows the streets of

:42:35. > :42:40.London, this part of the London route, so well. As I said earlier,

:42:41. > :42:49.if you weren't with us, the Embankment is the main part of the

:42:50. > :42:53.route. Going past Somerset house. They go round the curve of the bend

:42:54. > :42:57.of the River Thames. They can see Big Ben in the distance as you

:42:58. > :43:01.always can in the latter miles of the London Marathon. Just before

:43:02. > :43:08.they reach that, they turn around to come back down the bank meant at

:43:09. > :43:13.around five kilometres. -- down Embankment. Then they go up into the

:43:14. > :43:21.city. A twisting and turning section. Couple of little rises, no

:43:22. > :43:27.real hills. Then they dropped back to the Embankment, turn around at

:43:28. > :43:33.the Tower. Just over 10.5 kilometres per lap. A bit breezy now, the wind

:43:34. > :43:40.is picking up, that's been a feature of the weather for the last few

:43:41. > :43:44.days. Some send -- some said an ill wind blew through the stadium last

:43:45. > :43:53.night! That's for them to say and asked to observe. -- and asked to

:43:54. > :43:56.observe. The event director, Joe Milner, was happy with this morning

:43:57. > :44:03.'s effort. The athletes are back in action now. The course winds its way

:44:04. > :44:08.away from the Embankment to the scenic part of London, showing off

:44:09. > :44:16.this wonderful scenery in this great city of ours.

:44:17. > :44:26.It's funny, talking about the whole endurance thing. I was thinking last

:44:27. > :44:31.night... It's not always easy to go back and go straight to sleep,

:44:32. > :44:35.things run through your mind. All the excitement around the 100

:44:36. > :44:44.metres, at the 10,000 metres with IR now. A few of the big distant stars,

:44:45. > :44:53.Dibaba, they've had questions over them. Were they fit enough to come

:44:54. > :44:59.here and run really well? The only one was Mo Farah. We knew he was

:45:00. > :45:05.ready to go well. But in the marathon on the women's side...

:45:06. > :45:06.Kipruto has given us an answer this morning. I wonder whether married

:45:07. > :45:27.Dibaba will do the same here. S have a little look at course. The

:45:28. > :45:31.Tower Bridge was the start. And the shard, that would have been a great

:45:32. > :45:36.vantage point for much of this race if we could get up there. Along the

:45:37. > :45:44.embankment and the sweep of the bend, to that turnaround point, just

:45:45. > :45:51.before getting to Westminster, five kilometres, there, shifting for half

:45:52. > :45:55.of the kilometre on each map, and back along the embankment and then

:45:56. > :46:03.turning up through St Paul's Cathedral. The Guildhall, the Bank

:46:04. > :46:10.of England, through the city and back down. That is the twisting

:46:11. > :46:11.section. And the last lap is back to Tower Bridge, otherwise, the

:46:12. > :46:21.turnaround is just before that corner. Ribeiro is still bleeding

:46:22. > :46:26.and we shall get that split. She will be passing five kilometres very

:46:27. > :46:32.shortly, those yellow maps across the road are the timing points,

:46:33. > :46:42.giving us some indication of the sort of pace they are running and I

:46:43. > :46:48.love watching marathon runners taking corners like this. You could

:46:49. > :46:52.get a buzz around their better than some of them! Try running that at

:46:53. > :47:00.the end of the marathon! There wasn't even a pole to swing around,

:47:01. > :47:08.to help you balance, and on the last ten kilometres... You wanted a pole

:47:09. > :47:13.to swing around? Or at least a barrier, you lose balance and you

:47:14. > :47:21.try to stay steady whenever your feet are swollen and hurting at that

:47:22. > :47:33.point. There are no attempt to to swing around in the marathon, sorry

:47:34. > :47:37.to say! -- there are no poles. Watching some of them going around,

:47:38. > :47:43.even in the early stages, the walkers do this very well, they have

:47:44. > :47:51.so many turns to make and each lap is only around two kilometres. But

:47:52. > :48:02.they are going slower. It is easier to turn and I am not sure they have

:48:03. > :48:10.that Benny hairpins. -- that many. We are designing courses including

:48:11. > :48:15.poles! Anything else? She is still not happy about some people stepping

:48:16. > :48:21.onto the pavement in the Men's marathon! And rightly so. You run

:48:22. > :48:28.the course that is mapped out. It is dangerous. Stepping across those

:48:29. > :48:35.curbs, you run the risk of tripping. It is not outstandingly quick, just

:48:36. > :48:41.keeping the race moving at her pace and keeping things ticking over, to

:48:42. > :48:46.get the other girls moving but the main pack, behind her, the main

:48:47. > :48:53.protagonists at the front, nobody seems to concerned about Ribeiro.

:48:54. > :49:01.Somebody like Kiplagat would have reacted and gone with her. The first

:49:02. > :49:07.five kilometres, that is just inside the 2.30 pace. Quite a lot of people

:49:08. > :49:16.in the field have not broken 2.30 yet, when you think of 40 macro. For

:49:17. > :49:27.some people it is more comfortable. Already running the personal best,

:49:28. > :49:32.-- when you think of Dixon. They are a good few seconds behind the

:49:33. > :49:47.leader, Ribeiro. The Ethiopians, there is a group coming to the

:49:48. > :50:00.front. Two Dibabas. Mahrez Dibaba. Someone who could surprise us...

:50:01. > :50:01.That is Ribeiro. -- Mare Dibaba. I hope somebody at home is recording

:50:02. > :50:28.that! Early on. 15 second lead. Now, Kiprop, joining the Ethiopian

:50:29. > :50:35.contingent. Four Ethiopians, they have the defending champion,

:50:36. > :50:40.dangerous if you are still getting to grips with these World

:50:41. > :50:46.Championships, normally you have three but you can add to that if you

:50:47. > :50:53.have the world champion and if you have the Diamond League champion

:50:54. > :50:58.from the track and Field series from 2016, but you cannot have both, you

:50:59. > :51:14.cannot have five of them, you must choose one or the other.

:51:15. > :51:24.I am trying to rack my brains, was not a world team Championships in

:51:25. > :51:33.this race as well? You can have five runners? Yes, five runners, the top

:51:34. > :51:40.three to score. And that was the World Cup in the marathon, we won

:51:41. > :51:48.the bronze team medals in 2005. This is the dilemma for the top marathon

:51:49. > :51:51.runners, running the World Championships, in August or London

:51:52. > :51:57.or whenever it is happening, because the big attraction these days by the

:51:58. > :52:01.major city marathons, and the Olympic Games stands out as a major

:52:02. > :52:10.marathon but the big city races are coming up in Berlin and Chicago and

:52:11. > :52:19.earlier in the year, in London. This is an understandable dilemma? It is,

:52:20. > :52:23.on lots of levels, you have championship racing, it is not

:52:24. > :52:29.conducive to faster times, with only a couple of marathons each year, you

:52:30. > :52:34.want to run them in good conditions and very often these are very hot,

:52:35. > :52:40.middle of the day starts, like today but at least the conditions are

:52:41. > :52:43.decent today and personally I picked to run the World Championships in

:52:44. > :52:50.Finland and conditions were great, one of my idols was the winner of

:52:51. > :52:53.the first inaugural world championship marathon and you could

:52:54. > :52:58.still run a very good time and that will be a factor with many marathon

:52:59. > :53:03.runners choosing London and Callum said he is not interested in going

:53:04. > :53:13.to do her. I do not blame him, I would be focusing on Tokyo. -- in

:53:14. > :53:22.Doha. And for the track runners, there is prize money available and

:53:23. > :53:30.here, also, but that does not compare to the big city marathons

:53:31. > :53:34.and that is a big draw. We are looking at some slow motion of the

:53:35. > :53:40.athletes coming around those tight turns. Funnily enough, you did

:53:41. > :53:49.mention one of your idols, I was speaking to the husband of great

:53:50. > :53:51.advice. We were talking about the first world championship marathon,

:53:52. > :53:56.Greta became the first world champion at the marathon. And she

:53:57. > :53:59.was the first ever world champion because the marathon was the first

:54:00. > :54:05.day and he said we were always very proud that the IAAF set up the World

:54:06. > :54:11.Championships and four Greta, that was a fitting tribute to become the

:54:12. > :54:16.first ever world champion whenever she was the winner in Helsinki, and

:54:17. > :54:26.you with the winner two years later, she was the first ever, that is some

:54:27. > :54:36.accolade? And Jack does a great job, I am glad, with the Oslo Diamond

:54:37. > :54:43.League, they have something going, we could see the younger in the

:54:44. > :54:56.steeplechase today. He sadly did not qualify. And you missed that because

:54:57. > :55:01.you were doing an interview? Ali Dixon being cheered on by the

:55:02. > :55:05.British crowd, leading the chasing group, I do not know if they are

:55:06. > :55:11.doing much chasing at the moment but they are certainly behind Ribeiro,

:55:12. > :55:17.the early leader right from the start. And doing an early apology

:55:18. > :55:22.because our computer, which normally gives us the splits, as decided to

:55:23. > :55:27.have some lunch and when it comes back online, we will let you know

:55:28. > :55:32.how things are going in terms of the times. Charlie Perdue. Tracy Barlow

:55:33. > :55:42.at the back of that group and that is a leader, Ribeiro. They are

:55:43. > :55:49.further behind, it was 15 seconds but it does look further. Not going

:55:50. > :55:54.that fast, she was running something like 2.30 and they will let that

:55:55. > :56:02.continue for a while. When somebody gets completely out of sight, the

:56:03. > :56:06.others get worried. Going into this city section, they will not be able

:56:07. > :56:14.to see her at all because of the twists and turns, until the

:56:15. > :56:18.embankment because that is a lead of around 25 seconds at this point,

:56:19. > :56:24.just counting as they went around the corner. She is not from a

:56:25. > :56:35.country that has a strong tradition in the marathon distance, Fernando

:56:36. > :56:45.Ribeiro, of course, just say it's... We have a couple of requests to say

:56:46. > :56:56.the great Rosa, I was coming from King's Cross and he said, can you

:56:57. > :57:04.just say Rosa Mola. And you don't have to pay the taxi fare! That is

:57:05. > :57:15.your ticket! In 2001, Edmonton, there was that long street. Rosa

:57:16. > :57:21.going down there. And she was all right! The bells are at St Paul's

:57:22. > :57:29.Cathedral, for this marathon, that is for Brendan because this will be

:57:30. > :57:34.his last, cherry, the last marathon, he is here for the rest of the week

:57:35. > :57:42.but the last marathon. You can also come and do the walk as well. I will

:57:43. > :57:50.observe was worth, I am very impressed with him, coming to the

:57:51. > :57:59.track, with the walk, five and a half minutes for just one mile. Stop

:58:00. > :58:05.laughing, I said walks. He looked like he was running five minutes 30.

:58:06. > :58:10.The judges said that he was walking all the time but it was impressive

:58:11. > :58:22.he was able to walk as fast as you could not run! Explaining how the

:58:23. > :58:28.rules work and he is right, it is up to the judges to decide. Anyway, we

:58:29. > :58:32.are looking forward to that, that must have been quite the exhibition,

:58:33. > :58:38.brilliant performance from Tom and we wonder if he can translate that

:58:39. > :58:45.to 20 kilometres, for the half marathon distance. If you are coming

:58:46. > :58:56.to watch and cheer Tom and the other walkers, there is 50k earlier in the

:58:57. > :59:08.morning and 20 after that. And next Sunday, on the mile, up and down. --

:59:09. > :59:13.the Mall. In front of Buckingham Palace. Ribeiro is happily at the

:59:14. > :59:20.front, she has been watching the splits and I did not think there is

:59:21. > :59:28.anything more than 5k markers. Without using any trademark names,

:59:29. > :59:33.just to tell how fast they are going from their watches. What she is

:59:34. > :59:38.doing is she has decided the race plan, she thinks she can do this on

:59:39. > :59:47.the day and unlike the men, nicely paced, if I would want to run 2.27,

:59:48. > :59:53.this is how I want to do it. Perhaps she has just one place and once they

:59:54. > :59:59.get stuck in, it is hard to change. Charlotte Purdue at the back of that

:00:00. > :00:04.pack. When you settle into the base, and changes and starts surging, like

:00:05. > :00:09.the men earlier, that is very hard to respond to and some runners find

:00:10. > :00:13.that harder than others and Ribeiro prefers to get into the regular pace

:00:14. > :00:18.and keep that turning over. She is very aware from all of training what

:00:19. > :00:24.that is as you probably does not need to look at any splits, her body

:00:25. > :00:29.knows. She is running her own race, probably expecting the pack to come

:00:30. > :00:33.past and carry on moving but she at least will help run the race that

:00:34. > :00:38.she planned at these championships. Coming past the Guildhall. The

:00:39. > :00:43.centre of the city of London Corporation. And the rest of the

:00:44. > :00:45.field coming through the square. Ali Dixon, comfortably running. At the

:00:46. > :00:57.back of the pack. Tracy Barlow and Charlotte Purdue.

:00:58. > :01:01.They go past the famous Guild Hall, home of the Lord Mayor 's banquet.

:01:02. > :01:09.You probably go to that every year, Steve. Will you stop talking about

:01:10. > :01:14.food? I'm struggling a little bit. Just watching them through in front

:01:15. > :01:23.of the Guild Hall, I was watching Aly Dixon on the blue line. A great

:01:24. > :01:30.Sunderland Harrier and he's a course measuring now. Make sure you run on

:01:31. > :01:40.the blue line, her dad would be saying. Sunderland supporter as

:01:41. > :01:47.well? Rumoured to be. That blue line does indicate the shortest point,

:01:48. > :01:50.the shortest route you can take and the most efficient route. Doesn't

:01:51. > :01:56.always look that way when you're out there running the tendency when

:01:57. > :02:03.you've run a lot of marathons is to find the blue line and run on it.

:02:04. > :02:07.We've got some very qualified course measure is putting out the blue

:02:08. > :02:11.line, but sometimes you find it doesn't take the best line and if

:02:12. > :02:16.you look ahead and observe the race, observe the tangents and run those

:02:17. > :02:20.efficiently that can be much better. Ribeiro dropping her arms a little

:02:21. > :02:25.bit. I don't know if she's got a stitch or whether she's trying to

:02:26. > :02:31.relax and maintain her form. Some runners will run with arms straight

:02:32. > :02:35.by their sides. There was a Chinese runner who used to run without

:02:36. > :02:39.bending her arms. My son the other day was running with his arms

:02:40. > :02:49.straight out behind him and he said he was running with a Batman cloak!

:02:50. > :02:57.Are used to have one of them. -- are used to have. A son or a Batman

:02:58. > :03:06.cloak? I still have one of them. My son. Not the Batman cloak. Didn't

:03:07. > :03:13.Adam West diuresis Lee? The original Batman. I think he did. -- didn't

:03:14. > :03:21.Adam West died recently. Used to that. Ribeiro is finding that her

:03:22. > :03:26.tenure at the front of this World Championship marathon may not be too

:03:27. > :03:32.much longer because they are certainly closing her down. The

:03:33. > :03:42.crowds are building out on the route. A free ticket to watch the

:03:43. > :03:46.world's best. She will be reaching the turning point that sends her

:03:47. > :03:53.back to the Embankment pretty soon. At the moment we don't have any

:03:54. > :04:04.splits on the computer. We will only have the leader. Somebody has gone

:04:05. > :04:09.down, Burla. A shoe has come off. That was Demise. She's a real

:04:10. > :04:13.talent. Still in the burgeoning part of her marathon career. It's

:04:14. > :04:18.happened early enough and she got her shoe back on quickly enough.

:04:19. > :04:25.She's one of the outsiders with a good medal opportunity. Let's see if

:04:26. > :04:31.we can see what happens. Burla got up quickly and on she went. I said

:04:32. > :04:35.in their men, I was surprised it didn't happen in the men. When

:04:36. > :04:43.you're in a big group like that, you don't see the turn and you're in a

:04:44. > :04:48.bad position. Better to be a bit stretched out. Definitely better to

:04:49. > :04:52.be stretched out and get a better view. There's a lot more bright sun

:04:53. > :04:58.now than there was earlier in the men's race. Those shadows on the

:04:59. > :05:06.course, as they came around the bend, the shadow affected how they

:05:07. > :05:12.were viewing the corner. Somebody stumbled and threw their arms up.

:05:13. > :05:16.Others go down. Luckily it's happened early in the race so

:05:17. > :05:22.there's time to put the issue back on and gather yourself and get back

:05:23. > :05:27.again. Totally unaffected by that out in front was Ribeiro. She can

:05:28. > :05:32.clearly see and she wasn't running in a big pack. Especially on points

:05:33. > :05:39.of the course like this where it narrows between traffic islands and

:05:40. > :05:45.traffic lights. Aly is doing the right thing. She is in shape to

:05:46. > :05:53.challenge her personal best. She will take a leaf from Ribeiro's book

:05:54. > :06:03.and start stretching out. Aly Dixon trying to close the gap between

:06:04. > :06:11.herself and the group... The gap to Ribeiro. Closing all the time. They

:06:12. > :06:22.are approaching the ten K point fairly soon. That might be it on the

:06:23. > :06:33.road, the yellow mark. 17.50 five. A slower period. That's just outside

:06:34. > :06:41.2.30 pace. Just slowed somewhat. Not too much. The leading group just

:06:42. > :06:47.seven or eight seconds behind. The gap was 20 seconds a couple of miles

:06:48. > :06:57.back. Now it's closing almost with every stride. She is slowing,

:06:58. > :07:22.they've maintained their pace. A big group.

:07:23. > :07:38.I'm happy to say the computer has been oiled and fed. And... The

:07:39. > :07:45.splits we saw on our screen we can go into more detail with. More

:07:46. > :07:53.importantly to on when they get spread out, knowing exactly what the

:07:54. > :07:56.gaps are. Callum Hawkins had a gap between himself and a potential

:07:57. > :08:01.medal, it was closing all the time but never quite quick enough. Not

:08:02. > :08:07.his fault, he ran brilliantly, as hard as he could. We hoped at one

:08:08. > :08:21.point somebody in front would misjudge things. He reeled in Kiptoo

:08:22. > :08:26.turf. Remember Wilson kicked it? Great runner. There's Aly Dixon

:08:27. > :08:33.moving close to the leader. She will be leading in the World Championship

:08:34. > :08:41.marathon. In a moment or two. They aren't running very quick. This is a

:08:42. > :08:48.decent pace for Aly Dixon. A big cheer from the crowd as Aly Dixon,

:08:49. > :08:53.just past the ten kilometre point, Aly Dixon of Great Britain hits the

:08:54. > :09:00.front. Ribeiro, the long-term leader, going along at a reasonable

:09:01. > :09:09.pace. Aly Dixon, relaxed, not running excessively. Getting a good

:09:10. > :09:14.eye on the tight corner. A little look of relief even from Ribeiro as

:09:15. > :09:18.Aly Dixon came alongside her. As if to say finally the rest of the girls

:09:19. > :09:22.have decided to make something of this race. There is Charlotte

:09:23. > :09:27.Purdue. I'm looking for Tracy Barlow. She may have been in the big

:09:28. > :09:34.pack ahead of Charlotte Purdue. I think she's a bit further back.

:09:35. > :09:40.Clear day in London. Shots from overhead, as we look again at the

:09:41. > :09:45.Tower of London, one lap completed. They are on their second of four

:09:46. > :09:50.laps. Aly Dixon is now getting some company. Ten kilometres gone. No

:09:51. > :09:57.pacemakers in an event like this today. The athletes who are used to

:09:58. > :10:04.running big-city marathons and they always have pace makers. Doing it

:10:05. > :10:09.for themselves. In the men's race we saw a fairly pedestrian opening and

:10:10. > :10:15.then we saw them reach the halfway point, just past the second turn,

:10:16. > :10:20.the second lap, and then the race started to get serious. Today, big

:10:21. > :10:25.crowds supporting this women's marathon. Great vantage points on

:10:26. > :10:33.the Embankment. Great support for the British athletes. They have come

:10:34. > :10:40.to know them over the years. Many of these athletes have run in London

:10:41. > :10:44.and won in London. Aly Dixon enjoying the moment, leading the

:10:45. > :11:00.World Championships marathon. Kiplagat won that London Marathon in

:11:01. > :11:14.2014. Second in 2012. There's Hannah Kiprop. Another one we haven't

:11:15. > :11:20.mentioned is Daniel. She won the Commonwealth title in Glasgow. I was

:11:21. > :11:24.trying to think about the weather that day, I can't remember. Didn't

:11:25. > :11:31.we have one of the marathons where it rained a lot? I think it was the

:11:32. > :11:38.men's. She won from Jessica Trengove, who is also running well

:11:39. > :11:44.today. It wasn't dissimilar to today. Pretty reasonable conditions

:11:45. > :11:51.for we saw the flags of all the nations, the drinks are organised.

:11:52. > :11:55.150 volunteers organising they see the flag and next to the flag, the

:11:56. > :12:00.team put the drinks in the right place, in the right order.

:12:01. > :12:06.Replenishment is important and as the race goes on, at a neat seek

:12:07. > :12:11.their own concoctions of electrolyte concoctions and energy providing

:12:12. > :12:16.drinks. All working smoothly as the athletes moved to the left and took

:12:17. > :12:20.their drinks. They are drinking them conscientiously. They practice doing

:12:21. > :12:23.this because this is very, very important. I remember Haile

:12:24. > :12:26.Gebrselassie in his first ever marathon didn't take any drinks and

:12:27. > :12:32.paid the price. He eventually learned how to drink when he was

:12:33. > :12:36.running and eventually broke the marathon world record, as he did for

:12:37. > :12:46.all the other distances on the track. The athlete Paula was

:12:47. > :12:52.referring to, Kyoto. If it gets you around, that's the way to do it. I

:12:53. > :13:04.was looking at ones of the Tanzanians were mean, Shaury, with

:13:05. > :13:13.the very extravagant forward lean. You think, how did you get to run

:13:14. > :13:16.like that with an exaggerated lean? Everyone is different. Marathon

:13:17. > :13:26.runners in particular. All sorts of styles. It's amazing. You go to any

:13:27. > :13:30.basic running group session where there was any lower level of

:13:31. > :13:34.coaching and they talk about how to carry your arms and carry yourself.

:13:35. > :13:42.They tune in to somebody like this and go, look at her! Or him. Your

:13:43. > :13:48.body, within reason, will find the most natural and efficient way for

:13:49. > :13:53.you to run. That will vary from person-to-person and in certain

:13:54. > :13:56.cases it may be more efficient at the time but increased the injury

:13:57. > :14:02.risk and the toll on their body later on. If you have a big forward

:14:03. > :14:06.leaning, it has to affect your efficiency and maybe predispose you

:14:07. > :14:10.to more injuries later on. Maybe it's how she naturally started

:14:11. > :14:16.running and to change your style, and I know I had criticism over my

:14:17. > :14:20.style, and sometimes the effort and the energy needed to work on that

:14:21. > :14:25.and to change it is not worth it. You won't gain more than you lose by

:14:26. > :14:31.the time and work that would need to go into it. It's a pretty sizeable

:14:32. > :14:35.lead that Aly Dixon has built up. The main group have allowed her to

:14:36. > :14:40.woke away again. I hope she's not getting carried away. It's hard to

:14:41. > :14:47.tell when we're only getting splits every five kilometres. With the

:14:48. > :14:53.support she is getting, sometimes it gets you carried away in the early

:14:54. > :14:59.stages. But she looks composed. We know her really well. The one thing

:15:00. > :15:05.she can't do is... If she's thinking I want to run a personal best,

:15:06. > :15:09.they've set off at 2.30 pace so she's got to start running quicker

:15:10. > :15:14.earlier. She won't be of the picket up from halfway and do great splits.

:15:15. > :15:18.That's not the way she runs. She would probably have hoped more

:15:19. > :15:23.people would have come with her by this point. This is her saying, I

:15:24. > :15:27.don't know if I'm going to represent Great Britain again, I want to

:15:28. > :15:31.represent my country as best as I can, run a personal best wearing a

:15:32. > :15:36.British vest in a major championships and that's as much as

:15:37. > :15:39.any athlete can do. This is her challenge to do that. She's probably

:15:40. > :15:45.going to be surprised nobody has gone with her, cheese not going that

:15:46. > :15:51.hard. We'll see how long it lasts. We know it's not a gold-medal surge

:15:52. > :15:55.that she's putting in. She's not getting ahead of herself. This is

:15:56. > :16:00.how uncomfortable running, this is the shape I'm in, this is how I want

:16:01. > :16:02.to go and perform, if you don't come with me, see you later. I know

:16:03. > :16:13.you'll come at some point. As she gets into certain parts of

:16:14. > :16:18.the cause, she might be able to get away from the pack in the sense that

:16:19. > :16:24.the pack does not know she has gone ahead, if she gets out of sight of

:16:25. > :16:28.the runners closing behind her in the main pack, they will be counting

:16:29. > :16:33.who is there and they will see the main people and they might forget

:16:34. > :16:40.there is somebody who has gone ahead at the front, two of them, there is

:16:41. > :16:44.one girl and ahead of her is Aly, in the twisting section she might be

:16:45. > :16:51.able to build up a cushion. Aly always likes to go quicker, I

:16:52. > :17:04.remember in Berlin, before she set personal best, she was on around

:17:05. > :17:08.2.28 and felt off for the last 10k, it was much better judged race. And

:17:09. > :17:16.it made sure she got selected as well. Look, anybody who comes to a

:17:17. > :17:21.championships wants to run as quick as they can and in the marathon you

:17:22. > :17:26.can effect that. She would not normally be in the situation, she

:17:27. > :17:31.runs countless road races or her own, that is how good she is, she

:17:32. > :17:36.has to run 10k and half marathons back home in the north-east so she

:17:37. > :17:42.is used to this but not in a good championship marathon. Getting

:17:43. > :17:47.plenty of support, though. Shares and trying to make the most of that,

:17:48. > :17:53.trying to encourage the crowd to support her. What she has done is he

:17:54. > :17:58.has waited for the first lap, she will have studied the course, I

:17:59. > :18:02.hope, and she will know where the loop goes but she gave herself a

:18:03. > :18:07.chance by running the first loop to find out just how steep those hills

:18:08. > :18:11.are, it is running over the first time that gives you the most

:18:12. > :18:17.information that she has decided, I feel like I can push on any second

:18:18. > :18:25.lap and not leave this to earn Ardboe over the last 10k or gradual

:18:26. > :18:30.wind-up. She would not be able to react and stay with the lead pack.

:18:31. > :18:49.She is far better making this an even run. Kiplagat, closest to the

:18:50. > :18:53.camera, Sally Perdue getting some cheering from the British contingent

:18:54. > :19:01.out there as well. She is also in that group. Not far off 15

:19:02. > :19:05.kilometres, another couple of minutes, Aly Dixon, badly jihadist

:19:06. > :19:12.continues to increase, I think what we are saying is it is more that she

:19:13. > :19:18.is running at a sensible pace of around 2.30, that might be quicker

:19:19. > :19:25.over 5K but the pack by looking at each other, the big names in terms

:19:26. > :19:30.of the Kenyans and Ethiopians, happy with the early pace and the slow

:19:31. > :19:37.pace and then you wait until the end of the lap before they get moving,

:19:38. > :19:44.before halfway. And then that super-fast second half from them, I

:19:45. > :19:57.am sure. You can bet on that. Nine seconds ahead of the Korean, Lim.

:19:58. > :20:00.You don't need the reaction from the crowd went over shorter distances

:20:01. > :20:09.and she is getting good support, making her feel good. And there, the

:20:10. > :20:15.chaser and then the group and you will be looking at the outside of

:20:16. > :20:22.that group, you can see Kiplagat, the Ethiopian contingent as the

:20:23. > :20:27.athletes continue on to the second lap along the Embankment, heading

:20:28. > :20:34.towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. Having very good support

:20:35. > :20:38.on the side of the road. Different phenomenon that you would normally

:20:39. > :20:45.see at this point of the London Marathon, we see the great runners

:20:46. > :20:52.and the rhinos and Rupert and fancy dress but today, this is serious

:20:53. > :20:57.running and the charity runners will be waiting until the springtime,

:20:58. > :21:03.record numbers of applications for the London Marathon. Aly Dixon, she

:21:04. > :21:07.might run London but also the Commonwealth Games and that is a bit

:21:08. > :21:10.of a clash for these marathon runners and now the pack is

:21:11. > :21:18.gathering some speed. Starting to gather some momentum. You can bet

:21:19. > :21:21.your bottom dollar, that shot contains the winner, the runner-up

:21:22. > :21:36.and the bronze-medallist for this competition. They are starting to

:21:37. > :21:39.get moving, that group. Not a bad thing for Aly, if they catch or

:21:40. > :21:46.sooner rather than later, at a reasonable pace, not flying past,

:21:47. > :21:55.that will be better and she can maybe slot into that group and that

:21:56. > :22:00.group will whittle down gradually. Paula has been talking about the

:22:01. > :22:04.marathon, the mood changes, sometimes you are feeling very good

:22:05. > :22:11.and suddenly not so good and it comes back. Yes, you have to go into

:22:12. > :22:17.any marathon fully accepting that there are going to be ups and downs

:22:18. > :22:22.and every runner, the matter how good, breaking two hours or five

:22:23. > :22:27.hours, you are going to go through at least one bad patch and in that

:22:28. > :22:31.time you must focus on what you have done in the past, the fact you have

:22:32. > :22:35.done all the training and preparation. Where you went to in

:22:36. > :22:39.your mind to get through those hard points in the training and to go to

:22:40. > :22:46.that place in the race and be able to keep your focus and if you go in

:22:47. > :22:50.accepting that this is... This is not 15 just yet but it must be