Day 5

:01:09. > :01:20.The 400m is like no other race. Run as fast as you can for as long as

:01:21. > :01:25.you can, it's as simple and complicated as that. COMMENTATOR:

:01:26. > :01:32.Can anyone possibly beat this man? Explode out of the blocks and try to

:01:33. > :01:40.sustain an even pace. Adjustments are always necessary. The challenge

:01:41. > :01:46.is you have to make the right one. After all, the 400m is as much a

:01:47. > :01:50.feat of physical endurance as it is of mental discipline and race

:01:51. > :01:58.management. COMMENTATOR: Here comes Johnson now. He ran the perfect

:01:59. > :02:07.race. Block out your competitors, yet be completely aware of them.

:02:08. > :02:13.Counterintuitive? Absolutely. Van Niekerk has gone very quickly... And

:02:14. > :02:18.it is a new world record! One thing you have no control over is the

:02:19. > :02:23.lactic acid in your legs that will build and build. It's agony.

:02:24. > :02:31.Everywhere you look, there's challengers. That lovely action,

:02:32. > :02:37.holding it together. But in all honesty, glory is a pretty good

:02:38. > :02:41.painkiller. It is day five, we are at the

:02:42. > :02:45.halfway point almost in these championships, can you believe it

:02:46. > :02:51.already, here in London and it's a slightly cooler day today but what

:02:52. > :02:59.time we have been having so far. The agony, ecstasy, controversy, twists

:03:00. > :03:02.and turns and what happens tonight is anyone's guess. That's why the

:03:03. > :03:07.fans are flocking here to the Olympic Park, they are seeing world

:03:08. > :03:11.last performances and a chance to say I was there when it happened. It

:03:12. > :03:18.could be Kyle Langford having the race of his life tonight in the

:03:19. > :03:24.men's 800m. The crowd is filling already, so respectful because the

:03:25. > :03:30.medal ceremonies are happening in front of knowledgeable crowds. Once

:03:31. > :03:35.again I have a great studio line-up this evening. It is a big hello for

:03:36. > :03:40.the first time in the studio to Colin Jackson, of course double

:03:41. > :03:49.world champion. Where has his cushion gone? I wondered why I had

:03:50. > :03:54.you tonight! Michael is here of course, and Paula as well. So many

:03:55. > :04:04.stories to get stuck into, not least what is going on with Isaac Makwala.

:04:05. > :04:09.Kyle Langford's family have been getting attention so it has been a

:04:10. > :04:15.great family affair and he's such a character, you cannot help but get

:04:16. > :04:20.sucked into his energy. Yes, it is the energy and enthusiasm. He ran

:04:21. > :04:25.out of his skin to make this final, run the perfect race. Let's just

:04:26. > :04:28.hope the Kyle Langford that turned up for the semifinals is the one

:04:29. > :04:32.who's there tonight and not the one who turned up for the heat. The

:04:33. > :04:37.penultimate race on the track this evening and last night it was the

:04:38. > :04:44.hurdles final and finally Jamaica got themselves a gold. At last. But

:04:45. > :04:51.Omar McLeod was under a lot of pressure to and deliver. There is

:04:52. > :04:54.jeopardy with the ten barriers that can get in the way of your

:04:55. > :04:59.performance but it was good to see him get that gold medal for himself

:05:00. > :05:03.and for Jamaica, and I liked the fact there were two Europeans on the

:05:04. > :05:13.rostrum as well. He's coming into the studio later. You may have seen

:05:14. > :05:18.a long lingering cuddle with his mum last night. There's a lot to chat to

:05:19. > :05:27.him about, and he has two small dogs. I know one is a shiatsu. I'm

:05:28. > :05:33.going to get him to do some gospel singing on the sofa and then I will

:05:34. > :05:37.feel my job is done. Michael, obviously brilliant as always,

:05:38. > :05:45.evocative description of what the 400m feels like and tonight it's a

:05:46. > :05:49.great final. It is obviously van Niekerk's first step in achieving

:05:50. > :05:54.that double. Yes, and it is tricky because the other competitors are

:05:55. > :05:58.not concerned about the double. They will destroy that and he's got a

:05:59. > :06:02.first step. He is focused on the double but you have got to win this

:06:03. > :06:11.first so he will be managing how much he puts into it and how much he

:06:12. > :06:16.holds back. If he controls the race, how much does he hold back? One

:06:17. > :06:24.person he won't be facing tonight is Isaac Makwala, who last night pulled

:06:25. > :06:33.out of the heat because he succumbed to this norovirus. However he was

:06:34. > :06:37.passed fit to run tonight and this morning he spoke to BBC News

:06:38. > :06:43.correspondent Natalie Perks and told her how disappointed he was that he

:06:44. > :06:54.could not run last night. I was not that sick, I just vomited. I vomited

:06:55. > :06:59.when I got on the bus. The medics asked me whether I'm OK, I said I'm

:07:00. > :07:05.not OK, then they took me to the medical room. I waited about 30

:07:06. > :07:12.minutes, there was nothing, then I went out. I just go to do my warm up

:07:13. > :07:20.before the 200. But during the warm up I wanted to go to the coat room.

:07:21. > :07:29.I think they put it to the IAAF that I am sick, because they saw me

:07:30. > :07:33.vomiting but I am OK. What are you waiting for now? They are waiting

:07:34. > :07:37.for the medical resource but because they didn't test me I don't know

:07:38. > :07:45.what medical results they are waiting for. This is bad. Sometimes

:07:46. > :07:51.I feel heartbroken yesterday. I was ready for this, I worked hard for

:07:52. > :07:57.this. I feel like sabotage or something like that. You feel like

:07:58. > :08:02.the IAAF have sabotaged you? I don't know what it is, I don't know

:08:03. > :08:06.because I don't have the full information about this. If they said

:08:07. > :08:13.you couldn't run, what would you feel? Like I said, I would be

:08:14. > :08:21.heartbroken. Even now I'm not feeling OK to have the bad news. And

:08:22. > :08:24.you feel 100% fit to run tonight? Yes, I'm feeling good to run

:08:25. > :08:34.tonight. That was a few hours ago. Isaac

:08:35. > :08:40.Makwala was fit and said he even felt he could have run last night

:08:41. > :08:47.but the IAAF felt differently. There is a DNS next to his name and if we

:08:48. > :08:54.look, the IAAF have issued this fairly ambiguous statement.

:08:55. > :09:04.It doesn't explain exactly why, and he in his own interview with Natalie

:09:05. > :09:10.said he wasn't tested for anything and so we don't have an advancement

:09:11. > :09:16.on that at the moment. This story is taking all kinds of twists and turns

:09:17. > :09:19.and BBC News correspondent Natalie Perks is track-side and can bring us

:09:20. > :09:24.up to speed because there's even more developments. It's quite a

:09:25. > :09:29.bizarre situation. I headed to the hotel earlier which has been

:09:30. > :09:32.confirmed as not the source of the illness but where the affected

:09:33. > :09:38.athletes are and I are expected to find the athlete in isolation. He

:09:39. > :09:44.felt he was fine and hadn't been tested. Throughout the day we have

:09:45. > :09:49.been speaking to his coach, the Botswanan team and they have had no

:09:50. > :09:54.updates until five hours before he was due to race in that huge final

:09:55. > :10:00.tonight against Wayde van Niekerk, telling him he was pulled out of the

:10:01. > :10:04.race for a medical condition. A very bland statement from the IAAF. They

:10:05. > :10:09.haven't done themselves any favours because they are not telling us why

:10:10. > :10:13.they have taken this decision, having not tested him in his words.

:10:14. > :10:17.Clearly they have made the decision because they feel worried he might

:10:18. > :10:23.come here, affect other athletes and cause damage to himself but they are

:10:24. > :10:26.not saying that, and for him of course it's devastating. He has

:10:27. > :10:33.tried to peak in his training to try to do the double as Michael has

:10:34. > :10:39.done, to do the 200m and 400m and pulled out of both and he says he is

:10:40. > :10:42.fit. Have you heard anything from the Botswana delegation? Not since

:10:43. > :10:45.this statement was released so we are trying to find out what the

:10:46. > :10:51.situation is because there's lots of talk he will turn up tonight, he

:10:52. > :10:57.will try to get in. There's rumours the IAAF won't let him in, that his

:10:58. > :11:01.accreditation now is invalid. Obviously it was clear he was

:11:02. > :11:05.devastated, they clearly believe he could have run tonight and don't

:11:06. > :11:10.understand the medical reasons given to them. It is a very odd situation

:11:11. > :11:15.that will only develop throughout the night. Of course there was the

:11:16. > :11:19.German triple jumper Neil Eckhardt who collapsed because of the virus

:11:20. > :11:24.but was still allowed to compete in the triple jump on Monday with the

:11:25. > :11:28.caveat there was no sickness, but a collapse and then being able to

:11:29. > :11:39.compete seems quite a big jump, if you excuse the pun, then Thomas Barr

:11:40. > :11:45.bowled out himself. You would think it would now stop athletes admitting

:11:46. > :11:49.they are sick if the IAAF are going to be this hard. That is the bizarre

:11:50. > :11:54.situation they have found themselves in. By not communicating throughout

:11:55. > :12:00.the day as to how and why they have come to this decision. All they have

:12:01. > :12:06.said is Italy's rule 113 that they can pull someone out of the race

:12:07. > :12:17.presumably for the safety of themselves and others around them.

:12:18. > :12:22.-- it is rule 113. But one athlete has been left devastated and don't

:12:23. > :12:27.forget he's the fastest man over 200m this year. We have been denied

:12:28. > :12:33.the chance of seeing him in what should have been a fantastic duel

:12:34. > :12:36.against Wayde van Niekerk. Now because of this medical condition we

:12:37. > :12:41.are not going to get to see that so it is disappointing for the fans and

:12:42. > :12:47.the athlete. Public Health England have said 30 athletes and support

:12:48. > :12:53.staff have been affected by what is confirmed as the norovirus. Is the

:12:54. > :12:57.IAAF is just trying to contain this? We have spoken to the London

:12:58. > :13:02.organising committee of 2017 and they have described it as an

:13:03. > :13:06.occupational hazard. So when you get 20,000 people coming to one place in

:13:07. > :13:11.one hotel you will get books going around. It has happened before, it

:13:12. > :13:17.is not the first and won't be the last time but they seem to have done

:13:18. > :13:26.a good job of containing it. We know of nine, four in the German team and

:13:27. > :13:31.four support staff affected. They believe they have got it under

:13:32. > :13:36.control but of course with Makwala pulling out it will dominate

:13:37. > :13:41.headlines and has done all day. The IAAF have been unable to keep a lid

:13:42. > :13:46.on it. Natalie, we will come back to you if this story moves on. Jackie

:13:47. > :13:52.Brock Doyle as a spokesman for the IAAF and we have this comment from

:13:53. > :13:56.her. It's a sad case but we have to process for the health and wellbeing

:13:57. > :14:01.of all athletes. Clear guidelines have been issued to team managers

:14:02. > :14:11.and doctors on Sunday. The Botswana team turned up for briefings, we

:14:12. > :14:20.cannot go into details of athletes. But the one thing is to hear Isaac

:14:21. > :14:25.Makwala say he wasn't tested for anything. This is going to be one of

:14:26. > :14:29.those situations where the IAAF is going to realise that some point

:14:30. > :14:34.that they have got this horribly wrong. Either by disqualifying this

:14:35. > :14:37.athlete from competition unnecessarily or by not

:14:38. > :14:42.communicating clearly to him and his team and to the media as to why they

:14:43. > :14:49.have chosen to disqualify him and what the procedures are. Does this

:14:50. > :14:55.go across the board and apply to all athletes? What is the criteria? If

:14:56. > :15:00.you collapse you are OK but if you vomit you are not OK? What I'm also

:15:01. > :15:04.wondering about here as well is if the idea is to contain this and

:15:05. > :15:12.disallow the athlete to compete because of potentially contaminating

:15:13. > :15:16.other athletes, is he still staying in the hotel with other athletes and

:15:17. > :15:21.has he been advised to not be around other people? It doesn't appear that

:15:22. > :15:26.any sort of guidelines were recommended to him as to what he

:15:27. > :15:29.should and should not do in terms of coming into contact with other

:15:30. > :15:52.people. So there's a lot of inconsistency here.

:15:53. > :16:01.Isaac Makwala, fastest time in the world this year for 200 metres,

:16:02. > :16:05.right? Second fastest time in the world this year for 400 metres. And

:16:06. > :16:13.now he has been pulled out of both of these races. There are conspiracy

:16:14. > :16:17.theories. It is going to be suggested, Paul, what happens with a

:16:18. > :16:23.vacuum? People fill it with information that might not be true.

:16:24. > :16:33.-- Paula. There are going to be series. What Michael said is

:16:34. > :16:41.speculation. It is a pretty strong accusation. It isn't an accusation,

:16:42. > :16:46.Paula, we have to make sure we don't distil this stuff. If you have said

:16:47. > :16:50.something you have said it. That is the elephant in the room is what I

:16:51. > :16:56.am saying. Without information that is... It has already started. And

:16:57. > :17:03.the safety, as well. It started last night when people saw him not in the

:17:04. > :17:05.preliminaries for the 200 metres. Who is behind this? It started

:17:06. > :17:11.immediately and it is going to start. And when an athlete comes out

:17:12. > :17:16.with a statement like you did it is difficult. Absolutely, to justify

:17:17. > :17:23.that. And there was the redraw of the 400 metres, as well. I forgot

:17:24. > :17:29.about that. That adds to it. People add all of this together and make up

:17:30. > :17:33.all sorts of figures. So, let's see. I understand they are not helping

:17:34. > :17:40.themselves, but at the same time, first and foremost, in the IAAF,

:17:41. > :17:44.they have to be protecting the athletes. Protecting everybody. You

:17:45. > :17:50.should be the spokesperson for the IAAF. Had we heard it from them we

:17:51. > :17:54.would be OK. But I'm not. It takes somebody to say what you are saying

:17:55. > :17:59.then we would understand. But they are not saying anything. We would

:18:00. > :18:03.like to have somebody from the IAAF on this sofa. We've tried to get

:18:04. > :18:08.somebody to explain exactly what the criteria is. Is every athlete who

:18:09. > :18:14.has thrown up being subjected to these tests? I'm trying to think. I

:18:15. > :18:16.have been to a couple of championships. I'm wondering if it

:18:17. > :18:23.ever happens like this before. I don't think so, Michael? I can't

:18:24. > :18:30.remember anything of this nature ever. Not that there has never been

:18:31. > :18:35.sickness, but the IAAF have gone in. He has come clean, said there is

:18:36. > :18:39.nothing wrong with me, I've not been tested for what they are accusing me

:18:40. > :18:47.of, so it is really strange. It is all very strange indeed. Paula, what

:18:48. > :18:50.you said, if they had said that, if they would come out, the point is

:18:51. > :18:55.they would give more information to us and everyone. Then people

:18:56. > :19:00.wouldn't make these assumptions. Because you are right. Public health

:19:01. > :19:07.is a concern. If they said, this is what we are doing, this -- these are

:19:08. > :19:11.the athlete it applies to. We are doing this because of this, these

:19:12. > :19:15.are the guidelines, this is why we are doing it, this is who it applies

:19:16. > :19:21.to. This is what we've done to get to this point. It's unfortunate,

:19:22. > :19:25.etc. Then people will say, that makes sense. In the absence of any

:19:26. > :19:31.of that, any statement other than the one they gave, the ambiguous

:19:32. > :19:35.one, you are left to wonder. If they had gone as far as to withdraw an

:19:36. > :19:38.athlete they would have run some sort of test to confirm their

:19:39. > :19:50.original revivalists. But he said he hasn't had any tests. Do you know

:19:51. > :19:54.that? -- to confirm there is Nora virus. He hadn't had a test this

:19:55. > :19:58.morning, when he spoke to Natalie, and you have to believe the person

:19:59. > :20:02.standing in front of you. If he says that we have to believe what he is

:20:03. > :20:08.saying to us. Fact is, he is not on the start list for tonight's

:20:09. > :20:15.400-metre final. It was a hotly anticipated race. You can see the DS

:20:16. > :20:24.next to his name. It would have been a fascinating contest between Isaac

:20:25. > :20:29.Makwala and van Niekerk. He will be sadly missed because it was going to

:20:30. > :20:31.be a sporting spectacle. Absolutely. At the Diamond League Kieran close

:20:32. > :20:37.to the line. For me it is frustrating. -- he came close to the

:20:38. > :20:44.line. We have been robbed of a sensational final. I wonder what the

:20:45. > :20:48.process is for an appeal. Ryan Krauser was here last night. He was

:20:49. > :20:51.hoping to appeal to the grand jury to sit and review his

:20:52. > :20:56.disqualification, the throw which would have won him the gold in the

:20:57. > :21:01.shot put, is there a grand jury situation he could go in for now? If

:21:02. > :21:10.there is it doesn't help the athlete because he isn't going to run. He is

:21:11. > :21:15.out on the race is done. Is he in any mental shape to come back and

:21:16. > :21:19.compete, even if they do allow him? Everything he has been through. And

:21:20. > :21:25.to be told this five hours before competing is, I mean, you know... He

:21:26. > :21:31.said he was heartbroken to miss 200 metres. Imagine. We've talked about

:21:32. > :21:35.his position. Fastest in the world 200 metres, second fastest in the

:21:36. > :21:43.world 400 metres, not being allowed to compete. We have talked about how

:21:44. > :21:46.hard he has worked for this. Of all of the years I've seen him run, he's

:21:47. > :21:49.an amazing athlete, he is in the best shape of his life this year

:21:50. > :21:52.right now. This is his best chance to get a medal and possibly even

:21:53. > :21:56.when one of those events. More so than any other point in his career.

:21:57. > :22:00.He will now miss that opportunity. There have been so many twists and

:22:01. > :22:04.turns on the story all day. I bet my bottom dollar that by the end of

:22:05. > :22:09.going off at night there will be another twist. We will bring you

:22:10. > :22:15.news when we get it. In the meantime, plenty to look forward to

:22:16. > :22:20.tonight. We will kick off with the women's javelin final. Two women

:22:21. > :23:29.with three Olympic titles between them go head-to-head.

:23:30. > :23:37.Busy night out there on the warm up track. Don't worry, I did not miss

:23:38. > :23:44.out a big race tonight, Mo Farah, of course, it is the 5000 metres heats

:23:45. > :23:48.tomorrow. Is it normal to come down the night before? Yes come he's

:23:49. > :24:00.probably doing some strides. Just to make sure his legs are turning over

:24:01. > :24:05.OK. -- yes, he's probably. Lavillenie there. Brilliant time

:24:06. > :24:15.last year in Rio in the pole vault final. The local lad ended up with a

:24:16. > :24:19.silver. Can Lavillenie do it tonight?

:24:20. > :24:34.Ship is getting ready for her 200 metres heat. -- Schippers. She has

:24:35. > :24:39.got on the podium before. Can she do it tonight? That was an epic battle

:24:40. > :24:48.last time with Thompson. That will have lifted her spirits. And that is

:24:49. > :24:54.Shannon Hylton. If she could emulate Alison Phoenix, well, because they

:24:55. > :24:59.have similar styles, that would be amazing. She is an exciting

:25:00. > :25:05.prospect. This is the biggest stage she has been on. I wonder how she

:25:06. > :25:37.will fare later on. After four days this is how things are looking.

:25:38. > :25:44.It has been the greatest of days for Great Britain. A few medals which

:25:45. > :25:49.were earmarked, or at least people had high hopes for, have gone

:25:50. > :25:53.missing. At the beginning of the medal table Denise was chastising

:25:54. > :25:59.Michael about it. You seem to have very few. You must be sitting quite

:26:00. > :26:06.smug now, because you are the closest so far. I want my three.

:26:07. > :26:14.Looking for it. I'm hoping for a couple more. Paula guaranteed me Mo

:26:15. > :26:18.Farah last night. If you guarantee me victory for Mo Farah that gives

:26:19. > :26:22.me gold, I'm just looking for a bronze somewhere. We can remind you

:26:23. > :26:27.of our predictions. Things are taking shape. Paula had seven, any

:26:28. > :26:46.regrets? I still back the athletes. Michael's three is looking like a

:26:47. > :26:55.banker. Between six - eight was the estimation. It is just Mo Farah with

:26:56. > :27:03.that medal for Great Britain, a gold medal in the ten kilometres.

:27:04. > :27:12.We knew, didn't we? Everybody was going through a transition time in

:27:13. > :27:17.athletics. We knew there would be a mix of events and victories. But it

:27:18. > :27:20.has changed so much, hasn't it? The performances from the British

:27:21. > :27:24.athletes are pretty strong. I don't think any of them are failures. They

:27:25. > :27:30.are all going through that transition. I said at the beginning

:27:31. > :27:34.there would be many fourth, fifth, six places we should celebrate.

:27:35. > :27:38.Because they are good, strong performances for the period right

:27:39. > :27:46.now. In a few years we may be don't want that, but hey. We are saying,

:27:47. > :27:50.yes, OK, in the future, but they are not happy with it. They are the

:27:51. > :27:55.disappointed ones. Callum Hawkins really thought he was going for the

:27:56. > :28:03.bronze and he was very disappointed. And Laura Muir was disappointed, as

:28:04. > :28:08.well. All of these things, they are going to gain. And they will be

:28:09. > :28:13.looking for the improvement. Holly Bradshaw was disappointed. So the

:28:14. > :28:19.kitchen -- -- Sophie Hitchon was also

:28:20. > :28:33.disappointed. She felt if she had made a slightly

:28:34. > :28:37.different tactical decision she could have done something. That's

:28:38. > :28:40.given her confidence. Those people who we thought would not finish

:28:41. > :28:46.high, they did, and people we were hoping would get on the rostrum,

:28:47. > :28:49.they didn't quite. But it is a World Championship. In athletics the World

:28:50. > :28:56.Championships truly is a World Championships. I think we have 205

:28:57. > :29:04.nations competing here. It is global level. There are few sports that can

:29:05. > :29:08.say that. Absolutely. I was talking about the spread of medals the other

:29:09. > :29:12.night. If you look at other Olympic sports like cycling and Marinko

:29:13. > :29:16.Matosevic of nations is not quite so great. I'm not decrying any of those

:29:17. > :29:28.achievements, but when you are competing against 200 nations. --

:29:29. > :29:32.like cycling and rowing not so many nations take part. I'm pretty

:29:33. > :29:36.pleased with what I am seeing from the British team at the moment. They

:29:37. > :29:41.are enthusiastic. And they have the sense of disappointment, as well,

:29:42. > :29:45.which means they will stay hungry. What you said earlier, Colin, when

:29:46. > :29:50.we put up the graphic and showed the different places and you said they

:29:51. > :29:53.are good performances. They are good performances. They are great

:29:54. > :29:58.performances, actually. Some of them performed really well. Better than

:29:59. > :30:02.should have been expected. We need to keep that in mind when we start

:30:03. > :30:05.to put the pressure on it. Because that is hope. There is a difference

:30:06. > :30:14.between what we hope that the athletes and what is probable. I

:30:15. > :30:21.used to base myself on what is probable. If I gave you my hopes, I

:30:22. > :30:22.would be just behind the US in the table.

:30:23. > :30:28.LAUGHTER But when you look at what is

:30:29. > :30:33.probable, and you think about Sophie Hitchon, the example, she had a good

:30:34. > :30:37.performance, not fantastic, but she shouldn't be so disappointed because

:30:38. > :30:40.she came into this with a tenth best performance. That meant she would

:30:41. > :30:47.have to leapfrog seven people in order to get a medal.

:30:48. > :30:57.Most people had Britain down for maybe two so it is what's probable

:30:58. > :31:04.versus what is hoped for. And getting into the final... Fantastic.

:31:05. > :31:09.I was speaking to Darren Campbell the other day about the state of

:31:10. > :31:15.British sprinting, it is in fantastic shape. When you look at

:31:16. > :31:19.people getting into the final and running a personal best, now you

:31:20. > :31:24.have to keep that going and put pressure on athletes and say hey,

:31:25. > :31:30.you are medal prospect. When they say up there in the studio are

:31:31. > :31:36.saying medal prospect, I know these guys cannot beat them. OK, we will

:31:37. > :31:39.have a look in a moment at potential medals, not probable, to come

:31:40. > :31:44.throughout the rest of the championships but real medals are

:31:45. > :31:57.being given out down there. It was the triple jump final last night and

:31:58. > :32:13.what a great ding-dong it was. Yes, here is Caterine Ibarguen, who had

:32:14. > :32:16.to give way to the youngster, Rokas, by two centimetres. She saved her

:32:17. > :32:23.best for the fifth round, the Colombian lead for the majority of

:32:24. > :32:36.the competition and she went ahead and never looked back. Coached by

:32:37. > :32:38.the Olympic long jump champion of 2000. We have the national anthem of

:32:39. > :34:11.Venezuela. So the same medallists from Rio with

:34:12. > :34:13.the gold uncivil -- silver medals reversed. A new star in Yolimar

:34:14. > :34:30.Rojas. Two centimetres, if only my feet

:34:31. > :34:36.were a bit smaller? I don't know, it is the cruellest of distances, but

:34:37. > :34:40.Caterine Ibarguen is a fantastic competitor and even last night when

:34:41. > :34:46.she lost the title by two centimetres she was still performing

:34:47. > :34:50.and she's a real showgirl, Colin. She's Latin American, she has that

:34:51. > :34:57.flair which is nice to see because we want the entertainment side of it

:34:58. > :35:03.as well, don't we? Yes, let's get over to Phil Jones now who has one

:35:04. > :35:07.of the coaches on our commentary team. Tony, from a coach's

:35:08. > :35:13.perspective we want to hear what you have to say about the performances

:35:14. > :35:25.so far. I know you are with Phil. Gabby saying will you be assessing

:35:26. > :35:33.the British performance as success or failure or somewhere in between?

:35:34. > :35:38.It is not easy but we have huge expectation, we have a huge

:35:39. > :35:48.expectation of the football team when there is any event so it is not

:35:49. > :35:54.unreasonable. 60% to 70% of the team have come here and worked hard just

:35:55. > :35:57.to be here but the other 30% make up the probabilities and possibilities.

:35:58. > :36:01.If I'm honest I think there is only one probability in this team that

:36:02. > :36:08.somebody, regardless of what would happen, would win a medal and you

:36:09. > :36:14.have to say that is Mo Farah. That should give us two medals. Men there

:36:15. > :36:18.are others who are more reliant on what the opposition do, somebody

:36:19. > :36:24.falls over or doesn't qualify. In answer to the question, we probably

:36:25. > :36:29.should be at two medals. We will come back to this point in a minute

:36:30. > :36:35.but first I will hand to Andrew who has the medal ceremony for the men's

:36:36. > :36:41.110 metres hurdles. Yes, this was the defending

:36:42. > :36:52.champion, the Russian competing as an organised neutral athlete. We

:36:53. > :37:02.will hear shortly be Jamaican athlete to the first time because

:37:03. > :37:10.MacLeod came in as the favourite. What a run it was from Omar McLeod.

:37:11. > :37:21.It was the Olympic champion in Rio and he now delivers the world title

:37:22. > :37:30.for Jamaica. He is the first medallist for Jamaica. The first

:37:31. > :37:37.gold-medallist. And Omar McLeod is the best sprint hurdler in the

:37:38. > :37:41.world, just outside 13 seconds but a very impressive performance and the

:37:42. > :37:42.Jamaican anthem for the first time inside the stadium at these

:37:43. > :38:54.championships. One of the brightest smiles in the

:38:55. > :39:06.athletics. Omar McLeod and bright spark last night with his win.

:39:07. > :39:11.Shubenkov with the silver, Omar McLeod with the gold medal. It takes

:39:12. > :39:16.us back to what we were talking about with the British team, whether

:39:17. > :39:20.it is disappointing or not. Talk about your take on the mental

:39:21. > :39:26.toughness of the team, do you think that's a factor when the

:39:27. > :39:30.championships are at home and the expectations are higher? When we are

:39:31. > :39:36.at home we do expect more and you use the energy from the crowd to

:39:37. > :39:40.lift you. Some people have performed a season 's best level and that the

:39:41. > :39:45.level you need to perform at. You should either produce a season 's

:39:46. > :39:50.best or personal-best and anything less than that you underperform so

:39:51. > :39:52.you have got to use the energy and step up at these championships

:39:53. > :39:57.because this is the pinnacle of the season, what you have worked for.

:39:58. > :40:02.We've seen a lot of tears from athletes who feel they have missed

:40:03. > :40:07.an opportunity to perform on the biggest stage of all, saying it's a

:40:08. > :40:13.once-in-a-lifetime thing. Is that a factor as well? You are naturally

:40:14. > :40:16.disappointed, you get the fight or flight thing going on when you have

:40:17. > :40:27.underperformed but we are an incredibly well funded, your job is

:40:28. > :40:35.to get medals wherever possible. Sophie Hitchon was ranked eight and

:40:36. > :40:40.finished seventh, at least she stepped up one place. Yes, be

:40:41. > :40:45.disappointed but you have to reflect. As I did with Jess when she

:40:46. > :40:50.got a silver medal, you have to reflect, and my working smart enough

:40:51. > :40:56.to take it forwards? Tony, thank you. And they come thick and fast,

:40:57. > :41:03.these medal ceremonies here in the stadium, and it is the 1,500m

:41:04. > :41:08.women's 1,500m ceremony coming up next and we were agonisingly close

:41:09. > :41:13.to adding to the tally. It would have been wonderful to see Laura

:41:14. > :41:20.Muir, out into the stadium but she was just pipped by Caster Semenya

:41:21. > :41:24.Semenya who was at the back of the pack and worked it hard on the home

:41:25. > :41:30.straight. Steve Cram will talk us through the ceremony. South Africa

:41:31. > :41:36.have never had anyone in the final. A late decision for her to come into

:41:37. > :41:42.the final and she took the bronze medal. Not quite as good, a

:41:43. > :41:51.different record for Jenny Simpson, her fourth medal in a global final.

:41:52. > :41:57.A brilliant silver medal, charging down the home straight. She said I

:41:58. > :42:02.thought I was going to win it, well that was brave because she was a

:42:03. > :42:07.long way back. She was for herself in the steeplechase, I wonder if she

:42:08. > :42:12.could picture what was going to happen in the ensuing years. Just

:42:13. > :42:18.shows commune of a quite know where athletes are headed. Laura Muir was

:42:19. > :42:23.fourth, let's hope it is a chance for her to maybe chase this young

:42:24. > :42:30.lady here. I saw her today actually, she was full of smiles and said it

:42:31. > :42:35.was a hard race. Commonwealth champion, Olympic champion, now the

:42:36. > :42:39.world champion. And she is the consummate racer. She always seems

:42:40. > :42:44.to put herself in the right place, do the right things. Really smart on

:42:45. > :42:52.the track as is Jenny Simpson and it was tactics that decided the medals

:42:53. > :43:07.in the end. So gold for Kenya in the women's 1,500m.

:43:08. > :44:15.The debate continued today amongst the endurance fraternity about what

:44:16. > :44:23.a great race it was, and about the tactics. Laura Muir fourth, Laura

:44:24. > :44:27.Wakeman six, but Faith Kipyegon again best in the world and I don't

:44:28. > :44:37.think anyone would deny her that right. Her coaches say she will be

:44:38. > :44:43.back in the 800m. A great race, a memorable 1,500m at these World

:44:44. > :44:47.Championships. It was a dramatic race. The sense of

:44:48. > :44:51.anticipation and excitement in the stadium ahead of it was intense.

:44:52. > :44:58.Let's remind ourselves of how it pans out.

:44:59. > :45:02.What a task ahead for Laura Muir, some of the fastest women in the

:45:03. > :45:05.world and everywhere you look opportunities. The person who has

:45:06. > :45:15.just added this extra frisson for all sorts of reasons is Caster

:45:16. > :45:20.Semenya Semenya. What can Laura Muir do? Is there a medal for Great

:45:21. > :45:25.Britain? Laura has gone straight to the front. It is going hard and

:45:26. > :45:35.going quick. There is only one tactic here, to run for gold.

:45:36. > :45:44.This is all about Laura Muir. She has the Olympic champion loitering

:45:45. > :45:50.on the outside. This is playing right into a Caster Semenya's hands.

:45:51. > :45:57.I don't understand about the second lap being slower. And here they go.

:45:58. > :46:07.Caster Semenya will be the next one to go. We have just over 500 metres

:46:08. > :46:14.to go in this final. They are pushing and shoving for space. Laura

:46:15. > :46:20.Muir is coming. Can she get close enough? They are all in contention

:46:21. > :46:26.as the bell rings. Come on, Laura Muir. Caster Semenya is still

:46:27. > :46:29.coming. Simpson is coming back to take on Laura Muir. Caster Semenya

:46:30. > :46:38.is charging. It is going to be the Olympic champion. And Caster Semenya

:46:39. > :46:43.gets the bronze medal. Laura Muir was so close. And when you have the

:46:44. > :46:53.medal snatched away from you in the latter stages it is gut wrenching. I

:46:54. > :46:57.gave it everything I could. Everything was tied up. Before I

:46:58. > :46:59.knew it, she went past me. Considering the disruption I've had

:47:00. > :47:08.this year I gave it everything and that is all I could do. She was

:47:09. > :47:12.visibly upset. Her voice was wavering, Laura Muir, you got the

:47:13. > :47:16.sense she felt it was an opportunity missed. I spoke -- you spoke to both

:47:17. > :47:25.Lloris afterwards, did expressed that? -- Lauras afterwards. When you

:47:26. > :47:30.have come so close. They put everything out there. They all went

:47:31. > :47:35.through a gambit of emotions. Laura came back from a stress fracture

:47:36. > :47:41.injury. She ran it like that. She knows she made slight

:47:42. > :47:46.miscalculations. She possibly did not run her best there. But she was

:47:47. > :47:50.also missing the mental strength she needed. Probably because she did not

:47:51. > :47:53.run as well as she wanted to in Monaco. That affected her

:47:54. > :48:00.confidence. She wasn't a confident Laura Muir. I think she was just

:48:01. > :48:05.distraught last night. She was asking herself, what do I need to

:48:06. > :48:09.do? The biggest thing she can do is go away, come back, and race the

:48:10. > :48:14.5000 metres with no pressure on her. We cannot build her up too much. We

:48:15. > :48:18.can't expect too much. Perhaps we expected too much from her last

:48:19. > :48:22.night. She needs to go out, raise the 5000 metres, and see what

:48:23. > :48:30.happens, see what she can salvage from this. I think the other Laura

:48:31. > :48:35.realised in that race, actually, I am a better 1500 metres runner than

:48:36. > :48:39.I thought. But a third of the people around me think it. She was almost

:48:40. > :48:45.leaving it a little bit too late. She only felt that strong in the

:48:46. > :48:48.closing stages of the race. She wants to immediately start building

:48:49. > :48:57.on her confidence and see what she can do in the coming 1500 metres --

:48:58. > :49:02.in the 1500 metres. She signalled she was happy with it. When it is

:49:03. > :49:07.such a loaded field it is a great achievement. We were talking about a

:49:08. > :49:11.lack of medals but that is progress. Six of the world is pretty good. But

:49:12. > :49:18.when you are in one of the strongest and deepest 1500 metres we've ever

:49:19. > :49:23.seen, then that is a fantastic performance. Denise has joined us.

:49:24. > :49:29.Good to see you tonight. As always. Last night that race was

:49:30. > :49:32.bittersweet, wasn't it? It was. But confidence is everything in sport.

:49:33. > :49:38.It affects the decisions you make. In a race like that where the split

:49:39. > :49:42.seconds to make decisions, if they are slightly wrong it can cost you

:49:43. > :49:46.medals. But I was pleased for Laura Weightman because she has had a real

:49:47. > :49:51.battle to get back to the stage. She belongs on this stage. The 800

:49:52. > :49:57.metres final, always one of the great races, and the stadium played

:49:58. > :50:02.host to arguably one of the events of the 2012 Olympic games when that

:50:03. > :50:04.magnificent athlete, David radicchio, of Kenya won gold and the

:50:05. > :50:33.world record. Two to go through automatically. The

:50:34. > :50:42.rest are looking for fastest losers places. A great run from David

:50:43. > :50:47.McBride. Lewandowski is hunting him down. McBride at the front.

:50:48. > :50:51.Lewandowski is chasing. Langford digging in. Karl Langford gets

:50:52. > :51:05.second place and goes through to the World Championship final. He showed

:51:06. > :51:08.great maturity. He has a very large contingent following him here

:51:09. > :51:13.tonight. You may have already heard about his mum and dad who run a chip

:51:14. > :51:18.shop in his hometown of Watford. I think they are giving away free fish

:51:19. > :51:28.and chips if he does well. So if you are in that area do pop in. They're

:51:29. > :51:35.not frying up but they are talking to Ore. We have the Langford family

:51:36. > :51:41.here. Give a cheer, everyone. CHEERING

:51:42. > :51:48.Donald and Karen, mum, your son is in the final. Can you believe it?

:51:49. > :51:52.Come on, we love it. We can believe it, he is talented. He is going to

:51:53. > :51:56.go on to better things. It might have been different. It was only

:51:57. > :52:01.about five years ago when he chose this sport. Six years ago he chose

:52:02. > :52:07.the sport, five years ago he chose the event. He has come on very

:52:08. > :52:10.quickly and gone on to good things. It might have been different, what

:52:11. > :52:19.have I heard about him having another career. He was terrible at

:52:20. > :52:26.peeling potatoes. It was never for him. Much better at running? Yes.

:52:27. > :52:31.Let me talk to sisters and girlfriend, Ellie. We were talking

:52:32. > :52:35.before. This is the state of play. Three years ago you were dating a

:52:36. > :52:42.boy, three years later he is in the Olympic stadium running for gold.

:52:43. > :52:46.Can you believe it? Not really. He has always been a fantastic run. For

:52:47. > :52:52.him to be in the World Championship final is insane. I am shocked. I'm

:52:53. > :52:58.sure you are. What has it been like back home? You have been back and

:52:59. > :53:04.forth, what has it been like? Crazy. Everybody is watching it. Everybody,

:53:05. > :53:10.not just athletes. It's crazy. What do your friends make of it? I walked

:53:11. > :53:13.out of the stadium yesterday, I was getting loads of messages, people

:53:14. > :53:18.saying congratulations. It's amazing to think our brother is in that

:53:19. > :53:25.stadium doing what he is amazing at. I can see the smiles on your faces.

:53:26. > :53:30.You must be proud. What has Kyle told you about it being the wall of

:53:31. > :53:34.noise in there? I heard you guys screaming. What is it like when all

:53:35. > :53:39.of those Brits are cheering your boy? It was deafening, almost. He

:53:40. > :53:46.said his ears were tingling afterwards. Crazy. And one last push

:53:47. > :53:50.tonight for the final. Can he do it? If everything goes well and he feels

:53:51. > :53:55.good I think he can get a medal. But we need to be realistic. You never

:53:56. > :54:03.know. I have heard that if he gets a medal... The Langfords are giving

:54:04. > :54:10.out free fish and chips in Watford. I will be front row. Great to see

:54:11. > :54:13.all of you. Thank you. Thank you. One more cheer for them, why not?

:54:14. > :54:17.CHEERING Loads of support here.

:54:18. > :54:22.I just feel hungry now. LAUGHTER

:54:23. > :54:27.It is a chilly night, as well, a great big plate of steaming fish and

:54:28. > :54:30.chips would be lovely, anyone? What a great family. What a great feeling

:54:31. > :54:39.that they are going to be here tonight, thousands of people

:54:40. > :54:44.cheering on Kyle. He showed great maturity in that semifinal. He did.

:54:45. > :54:49.He made some great decisions in the closing stages when the decisions

:54:50. > :54:53.were crucial, putting himself in the right place, following Lewandowski.

:54:54. > :54:58.He reacted. He went back to what his coach had showed him. He talked

:54:59. > :55:02.about the cones in warm up. I think then the atmosphere and the stadium

:55:03. > :55:06.he owes a big thank you to everybody who was there. I was down there 20

:55:07. > :55:16.metres from the finishing line and it was huge, the cheering from the

:55:17. > :55:21.crowd, it was really loud. He's done so well to get to this point.

:55:22. > :55:29.Absolutely let's remind ourselves of the story of his semifinal. This is

:55:30. > :55:38.him from the beginning. He settled in fine. At a brisk pace. He just

:55:39. > :55:43.settled right in. I don't know if we can watch the race all the way

:55:44. > :55:48.through, but he did not commit too match. He went to get himself into a

:55:49. > :55:52.good position. He was lucky that McBride took it on. This is coming

:55:53. > :55:56.up to the bowel. Reasonably good pace. He always looks like he is

:55:57. > :56:04.working hard even if he is not. -- to the Bell. Lewandowski went past

:56:05. > :56:10.him. He got boxed in a little bit by the Kenyan, but he did not get

:56:11. > :56:15.bothered. He surged to go past. He did not overwork it. He relaxed.

:56:16. > :56:18.Lewandowski around. Afterwards he said he felt Lewandowski was kicking

:56:19. > :56:22.off and he said he hadn't even started. He said he thought he would

:56:23. > :56:27.wait a little bit, move out wide, then kick. And he said when he did

:56:28. > :56:31.he felt strong. Then when you are pulling somebody in, and that is one

:56:32. > :56:36.of the favourites to win this race there, who he has knocked out in the

:56:37. > :56:40.closing stages of that race. You can see how hard he is working. All the

:56:41. > :56:45.way to the line. Lewandowski knows he has made a mistake. He went a

:56:46. > :56:49.little bit too soon. He wasn't banking on Kyle Langford having that

:56:50. > :56:53.reaction and be able to come back at him. What kind of race, we've

:56:54. > :56:57.discussed not putting too much pressure on people, the difference

:56:58. > :57:05.between hopefuls and probables, what kind of race would it need to be for

:57:06. > :57:09.him to put himself into a position where he can challenge for a medal?

:57:10. > :57:14.That is a huge ask. That is a lot of pressure on his shoulders. What

:57:15. > :57:19.about a slow race? I don't think a slow race would suit him. Decent

:57:20. > :57:22.pace, not too fast. He just needs to be in the perfect position. Other

:57:23. > :57:27.people need to be tired on the home straight. He needs the noise from

:57:28. > :57:32.the crowd to give him some extra legs in the latter stages, and the

:57:33. > :57:36.extra energy to come through. It is fantastic he is in that final. But

:57:37. > :57:41.he could get a medal. It could happen. He will be out on the warm

:57:42. > :57:47.up track very soon, I'm sure. His races and until 9:35pm. Mo Farah,

:57:48. > :57:53.out on the warm up track, giving Omar MacLeod a cuddle. He will be

:57:54. > :58:00.coming up here later with his mum. We cannot wait. And he will be

:58:01. > :58:04.bringing his medal, as well. Who is that guy on the right? Usain Bolt.

:58:05. > :58:08.He is here. Obviously getting himself into a bit of relay

:58:09. > :58:11.practice, one would think. That is the next thing on his agenda. They

:58:12. > :58:17.will be practising those changeovers. Yes and they rarely

:58:18. > :58:21.dropped it. But we've seen lots of strange things here. Hopefully that

:58:22. > :58:28.doesn't happen. I would hate to be the first person, or the person

:58:29. > :58:34.making sure he gets the baton. Huge pressure. Let's get out onto the

:58:35. > :58:42.track because the first race of the night is the women's 200-metre

:58:43. > :58:52.heats. In the first of those heats, only the world champion. Nearly a

:58:53. > :58:58.full house again to watch Schippers. Three British athletes, as well, in

:58:59. > :59:02.the seven heats. We have been talking about the temperatures, it

:59:03. > :59:09.is cool. We won't be seeing some blistering times. A bronze medal was

:59:10. > :59:12.an unexpected bonus, helped in small measure by Elaine Thompson faltering

:59:13. > :59:16.badly. Bianca Williams is the first of the British athletes to go. She

:59:17. > :59:21.will be on the inside. She will get a very warm, if that is possible, a

:59:22. > :59:30.warm welcome indeed from the stadium. Gaither, the 100 metres

:59:31. > :59:39.champion. There is the defending champion, Schippers. 21.63 when she

:59:40. > :59:44.won the world title. A bit of that pace at the moment. Day from

:59:45. > :59:52.Australia, she comes from the same town as Jason Day, the golfer, but

:59:53. > :59:59.no relation. Belimpasaki I was at the championships in. Lille Forced

:00:00. > :00:03.and Bianca Williams. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work.

:00:04. > :00:11.Not just the training. -- the championships in Lille. She had been

:00:12. > :00:14.studying nearby. She had her funding cut in November. Getting her chance

:00:15. > :00:52.to line up in this first heat of the women's 200 metres.

:00:53. > :00:56.They get under way and Dafne Schippers once she gets into her

:00:57. > :01:02.running will be pulling away from the rest. At the moment Bianca

:01:03. > :01:07.Williams moving smoothly round the bend and moving strongly. Williams

:01:08. > :01:11.is real competition, Dafne Schippers was able to look around at her

:01:12. > :01:20.leisure, strolling clear. There is a fast finish from the Greek athlete

:01:21. > :01:24.as well. Bianca Williams unfortunately just fading a little

:01:25. > :01:31.bit down the home straight, but Dafne Schippers 22.63, made that

:01:32. > :01:36.look very easy indeed and she will move on with plenty of east of the

:01:37. > :01:39.semifinals on Thursday. Bianca Williams had herself in a critical

:01:40. > :01:46.position going into the bend but as she came down the home straight just

:01:47. > :01:55.began to be passed by the others. Colin, take a look. Yes, this is

:01:56. > :02:00.probably Dafne Schippers' most favourite event, she is strong and

:02:01. > :02:04.has good technique and just wants to progress with no upset whatsoever,

:02:05. > :02:09.with as little energy used as possible. At this stage Bianca is

:02:10. > :02:22.still in contention for the qualifying position but she just

:02:23. > :02:26.loses it at the end. Yes, Belimpasaki just coming through.

:02:27. > :02:36.Dafne Schippers is talking to fill. It's a cold night, Dafne Schippers

:02:37. > :02:46.is stopped to talk. How do you feel? Good, great race. Tell me about

:02:47. > :02:50.confidence, does it give you a boost for this one? Yes, a medal as a

:02:51. > :02:57.medal. And you feel you have it within you to replicate what you did

:02:58. > :03:00.a few years ago? We will see. We wish you all the best for the next

:03:01. > :03:12.round, thanks for talking. The javelin behind me is under way,

:03:13. > :03:46.here are the athletes. The reigning world champion goes

:03:47. > :03:55.last. So Khaladovich, the European champion last summer. It's a nice

:03:56. > :04:04.flight to open up for the Belarussian. In the early stages,

:04:05. > :04:09.wearing the back support. Pops it a little bit sideways, but decent

:04:10. > :04:14.control there. She got flight out of it and whoever lines up the javelin

:04:15. > :04:19.best tonight will go away champion. That's the key in the major

:04:20. > :04:30.championships. So easy to try too hard and Fawcett. 63.04, takes the

:04:31. > :04:42.lead. One of the favourites, the oldest in the feared field,

:04:43. > :04:48.Spotakova. Doesn't lie in that up. That's below 60m. She's a 72-metre

:04:49. > :04:54.world record holder when she's at her very best. Just look at this.

:04:55. > :05:00.The point goes up in the air and off it goes. That is just pointing up

:05:01. > :05:04.vertically in the air and the javelin stalls badly. Steve, where

:05:05. > :05:10.would you be looking in a stadium like this, where would you fix

:05:11. > :05:17.your... Let's have a look at this, this is her qualifying throw. That

:05:18. > :05:22.was lined up but she still has this temptation to look skywards. That's

:05:23. > :05:29.where the maybe poor flights come in. That's shy of 65. Look at her

:05:30. > :05:36.sight line, she's looking up in the air and just about catches this. She

:05:37. > :05:41.didn't in the first round final. Spotakova, she just catches that

:05:42. > :05:51.point and the javelin stalls. It's about flying it Polly, cleanly to

:05:52. > :06:00.get the distance. -- flying it properly.

:06:01. > :06:05.Only three fastest losers over the seven heats, and afterwards Bianca

:06:06. > :06:19.Williams spoke to fill. You must have been chomping at the

:06:20. > :06:24.bit to get started, how did it feel? Good, the crowd is so loud. I

:06:25. > :06:32.couldn't even tell you what happened, it was just rubbish. I

:06:33. > :06:36.can't believe I struggled that much. I had such a good season and

:06:37. > :06:45.unexpected season, I thought I could get automatic qualifying. I don't

:06:46. > :06:51.even know what to say. This year, has the drop in funding made you are

:06:52. > :06:56.hungry athlete to get to this point in the first place? Definitely.

:06:57. > :07:01.Every session I said I need to be in London, I'm not getting left behind.

:07:02. > :07:06.I had the help of my partner, my coach, my agent, just pushing me to

:07:07. > :07:13.get to this point. I feel like I have let them down. I know, it's

:07:14. > :07:23.difficult at this moment to know what to say. We appreciate you

:07:24. > :07:28.stopping in to talk to us, Bianca. It is 23.3, it's a cold night. She

:07:29. > :07:40.will be hoping not to many go quick here. Kambundji will hope to go

:07:41. > :07:42.through fairly easily here. She's got a couple of good athletes

:07:43. > :08:00.outside her. Kimberly Duncan will perhaps be

:08:01. > :08:40.quickest here. There she is, coached by Dennis

:08:41. > :08:54.Shaver at Louisiana University. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake from there

:08:55. > :09:00.as well. Kambundji gets out well. Just moving away with the American

:09:01. > :09:09.looking fairly smooth, these two. Also going well is Rosa of Rozelle

:09:10. > :09:13.in third. Kimberlyn Duncan, Kambundji and Rosa, those other

:09:14. > :09:22.three. Keeping an eye on the clock for the times, the fastest losers.

:09:23. > :09:29.No problem for those two. I was saying Colin, the qualification

:09:30. > :09:40.isn't as stretched. Pyeongchang and Hilton coming up. I wonder if Bianca

:09:41. > :09:45.thought, just a tenth or two quicker and she would have definitely been

:09:46. > :09:50.going through. Yes, but so much talent there and a big future. These

:09:51. > :10:07.two in this heat, you would expect them to go through.

:10:08. > :10:21.It is good to see, the sprinting has certainly pulled up, hasn't it? Into

:10:22. > :10:36.the second round of the women's javelin final.

:10:37. > :10:56.Khaladovich, 63.04. That's a better throw. It's below 65 metres.

:10:57. > :11:05.Expecting to go to 67 metres. She has thrown in the past beyond 68

:11:06. > :11:14.metres so lots to keep an eye on. 64.05 does extend her lead. Here is

:11:15. > :11:23.Kolak of Croatia, a big surprise winner last year in Rio. Made a

:11:24. > :11:30.massive six-metre gain last year. Again, has controlled that point

:11:31. > :11:35.nicely. There is your longest throw so far, just on that 65-metre line.

:11:36. > :11:40.Was a massive surprise winner last year but has really backed it up

:11:41. > :11:47.this summer and leads the world rankings. 68.43 she threw in

:11:48. > :11:56.Lausanne so the world leader and Olympic champion responding, being

:11:57. > :12:05.everything and the champion has taken the lead. Well, Spotakova,

:12:06. > :12:11.probably the most experienced athlete. If she keeps the site lying

:12:12. > :12:17.down, she knows she is capable. That's better, look at the flight on

:12:18. > :12:28.this. That's over 65 metres. Much better throw. It's only the second

:12:29. > :12:32.round, but the longest throw we have seen so far. Great competitive

:12:33. > :12:39.throw, and look at the flight on that. The javelin climbing cleanly,

:12:40. > :12:46.not stalling out as the first one did. 66.76, that takes the lead.

:12:47. > :12:53.Coming up in the next heat of the women's 200m, Shannon Hilton of

:12:54. > :12:57.Great Britain. She's had a fantastic year and topped it off after

:12:58. > :13:04.becoming the champion of Great Britain.

:13:05. > :13:08.Shannon Hilton leading at the moment! Pities Hilton and Henry

:13:09. > :13:20.competing. Shannon Hilton holds on to become the champion. To make my

:13:21. > :13:24.first senior individual is amazing. This year I had in mind to qualify

:13:25. > :13:31.for the World Championships. They did come off the back of last year

:13:32. > :13:38.in a bad way but I try to work so hard and I'm happy I have qualified,

:13:39. > :13:48.and I am so excited will stop I am so happy. I'm going to get emotional

:13:49. > :14:00.but she so ta... She is so talented, isn't he? -- she? It's amazing

:14:01. > :14:05.because we are both flying the flag is not only for Great Britain but

:14:06. > :14:15.Blackheath and Bromley as well so it is amazing. My twin sister is always

:14:16. > :14:19.there for me. It's like we always go through things together and it's

:14:20. > :14:23.nice to have that person alongside you. Especially through the hard

:14:24. > :14:28.training sessions and it's great to have someone there always knowing

:14:29. > :14:32.what you are going through. It's amazing to have a best friend as

:14:33. > :14:37.well as a training partner. Coming off the back of last year, it has

:14:38. > :14:41.taught me a lot about myself. I learnt a lot. It was hard but you

:14:42. > :14:48.have got to bounce back and I have shown myself I have quite a strong

:14:49. > :14:52.character and I am quite resilient. My motto in life is to turn

:14:53. > :14:56.negatives into positives because I know life as an athlete isn't always

:14:57. > :14:58.going to be plain sailing so I have just got to bounce back and that's

:14:59. > :15:07.what I try to do. It's great that British sprinting is

:15:08. > :15:10.in a really good place right now and everyone will have to push

:15:11. > :15:15.themselves because the level is getting higher and higher. It is

:15:16. > :15:20.reaching new limits, test yourself and see what you can do. She lines

:15:21. > :15:33.up in lane seven. Welcome to the stadium.

:15:34. > :15:43.Shannon Hilton has fairly fast athletes either side of her. --

:15:44. > :16:10.Hylton. We didn't see Lalova-Collio. Forbes

:16:11. > :16:22.on the inside. The major threats to Hylton come from Lalova-Collio on

:16:23. > :16:37.one side. Bianca Williams is the fastest of the losers. Three to go

:16:38. > :16:42.through over the seven heats. Hylton was a great promise a few years ago

:16:43. > :16:53.before the injury. The champion is in line seven. -- lane seven.

:16:54. > :17:02.Lalova-Collio on one side and Stevens on the other side of

:17:03. > :17:10.Williams. Stevens is going now. Hylton try to keep pace. Hylton is

:17:11. > :17:17.starting to struggle. Stevens takes the first position. Two British

:17:18. > :17:25.athletes have gone. They have both finished fourth. And the stadium

:17:26. > :17:36.falls near silent after the big support from Hylton. I don't think

:17:37. > :17:39.she will be quick enough that 23.30. I don't think Bianca Williams will

:17:40. > :17:47.be quick enough either. Take a look, Colin. Much better in this 200

:17:48. > :17:51.metres that she was in the 100 metres. Nice, controlled race. I

:17:52. > :17:57.think she just chased Shannon. She did not put her under much pressure.

:17:58. > :18:01.She just glided around. She just kept going at a lovely rhythm.

:18:02. > :18:06.Shannon may have committed herself a bit too much over the first 100

:18:07. > :18:10.metres. She paid for it down on the home straight. She is young. She

:18:11. > :18:14.doesn't have this type of experience yet. And this is a big crowd and a

:18:15. > :18:19.big stadium. Plenty more to come from this young lady. Keep your

:18:20. > :18:26.fingers crossed and we will keep our eye on the clock. A look round the

:18:27. > :18:31.bend. Round the bend in the 200 metres is so important. It is a

:18:32. > :18:35.vital part. You've got to set yourself up to come off the bend

:18:36. > :18:42.well. You are not going to demand more. You are looking for turnover

:18:43. > :18:46.off the bend. So it is important you have that good transition off it.

:18:47. > :18:52.Shannon, coming through in fourth place, and she can speak to us now.

:18:53. > :18:57.A sense of bemusement. You say you were really disappointed. Yes I

:18:58. > :19:06.don't know what happened. I know I had to get out. I stumbled a bit on

:19:07. > :19:11.the top bend. And then I just lost it on the home straight. I am

:19:12. > :19:17.disappointed to be honest. One of my slowest times of the year. I am

:19:18. > :19:21.gutted. This is all new to you. We were talking about what you've been

:19:22. > :19:25.through last year. You came through a lot. UK champion. Did you put a

:19:26. > :19:32.lot of pressure on yourself tonight? I didn't, I just wanted to enjoy

:19:33. > :19:37.myself. I am a bit disappointed with how I ran that last 50 metres. Yes.

:19:38. > :19:44.I wasn't the best. I don't think it is going to be enough to get through

:19:45. > :19:48.at all. So. That's how it is. Learn, I guess, see how it goes. Thank you

:19:49. > :19:56.for talking to us, Shannon. Shannon Hylton surprised with the

:19:57. > :19:59.way she ran that. I think a lot of the athletes are running a little

:20:00. > :20:05.bit slower tonight, probably because it is a bit chilly. Hylton's time is

:20:06. > :20:13.just outside the fastest losing places.

:20:14. > :20:18.She won't be making it through. And very disappointed, Hylton, with her

:20:19. > :20:21.own performance. She is part of the next generation. We are looking to

:20:22. > :20:25.these youngsters coming through to be over the next cycle, coming

:20:26. > :20:30.forwards over the next few years. They will be the ones we are talking

:20:31. > :20:33.about for medals. But these are early days. She has a twin sister.

:20:34. > :20:42.She ran the 400 metres in the trials. This is what experience

:20:43. > :20:47.means, it is so valuable. It really is. You don't just become a champion

:20:48. > :20:52.or a finalist like that. There is so much to take in, so much to learn. A

:20:53. > :20:55.lot of athletes, especially when you run a quick time, there is an

:20:56. > :21:01.expectation that you always tap into that. It always there. Which looks

:21:02. > :21:05.back at the race. She says she can't remember what happened, but she will

:21:06. > :21:11.see a lot of analytical errors in the race which she may not have

:21:12. > :21:16.picked up. Michael did. She looks nice around the bend. Look at her

:21:17. > :21:22.stride. Nice, long stride. Really reaching out. Stevens wasn't making

:21:23. > :21:26.much ground on her from the US, but now she is. The stride now is much

:21:27. > :21:33.different. It is choppy. Look at her as compared to the others, it is

:21:34. > :21:39.much shorter. That could be an issue of speed endurance. You don't see

:21:40. > :21:45.much of a difference between hers and any others here. On the other

:21:46. > :21:49.side of this, now coming off the bend, the stride has shortened up a

:21:50. > :21:54.little bit. She talked about getting out. She did that. This could be an

:21:55. > :22:00.issue of once you start to fatigue the stride will naturally shorten.

:22:01. > :22:05.This could be a matter of a lack of speed endurance, the ability to hold

:22:06. > :22:08.that speed for the entire 200 metres. And if that is the case it

:22:09. > :22:11.is something you have to work on in the autumn. But if you already know

:22:12. > :22:17.that going into it you have a different strategy. Some athletes

:22:18. > :22:21.can come down from the 400 metres. Those athletes will be able to run

:22:22. > :22:24.the same speed for the entire 200 metres. An athlete going up from 100

:22:25. > :22:29.metres might not have that speed endurance and will need to go for

:22:30. > :22:34.something like 400. You get out, you relax, then you get back into it. I

:22:35. > :22:39.think a lot of these young athletes and coaches, her coach probably

:22:40. > :22:44.hasn't got, and this is with respect, experience at this level of

:22:45. > :22:48.how to deal. She has come into these championships. She has prepared for

:22:49. > :22:53.the trials particularly. This is what she's done in a few weeks. We

:22:54. > :22:56.talk about sharpening up and making sure. But some athletes need to do

:22:57. > :23:05.the background work and maybe look at some of the lifting. Along with

:23:06. > :23:09.that, when an athlete is 20, it may be 22, 23 before you figure out what

:23:10. > :23:13.you need to do with that athlete. I'm sure it is early days for her

:23:14. > :23:19.and her coach in trying to figure out you get this athlete, you know

:23:20. > :23:22.there is potential, but how you get the athlete their potential and it

:23:23. > :23:30.can take a few years. That takes guts. Lots of padding. I was going

:23:31. > :23:33.to say, Usain Bolt bombed out of his first Olympic Games. He was a young

:23:34. > :23:39.lad. He did not make it all the way through to the finals. That's a good

:23:40. > :23:43.example. It took while. They knew that he had talent. He was

:23:44. > :23:47.sensational at 400 metres. It took a while to figure out how to get the

:23:48. > :23:53.athlete to the potential. That's the case with every athlete.

:23:54. > :24:04.We have just gone through the athlete on the inside lane. Clarke,

:24:05. > :24:11.and Odiong of Bahrain. Williams of Barbados, just 19. As one of the

:24:12. > :24:29.favourites, we just saw a glimpse of her, Miller we go -- Miller-Uibo. If

:24:30. > :24:33.she won the 400, all with the winner of the 100 metres coming together,

:24:34. > :24:38.getting ahead of myself, but you just want to see her nicely go

:24:39. > :24:39.through. The Olympic champion at 400, taking on both events, don't

:24:40. > :24:54.forget. 21.91 she has run this year. A new

:24:55. > :25:00.national record. Not settled there. The way she goes. For a tour athlete

:25:01. > :25:06.it takes her longer to get up and going in the 200 metres. -- tall

:25:07. > :25:14.athlete. Once she gets her long legs moving come here she goes, on the

:25:15. > :25:24.inside. Miller-Uibo, looking around, taking it easy, making it look very

:25:25. > :25:30.serene. 22.7. Odiong taking the other spot. It was like one of those

:25:31. > :25:39.change of strides. When we get going around the bend, then off we go. No

:25:40. > :25:42.risk. She is tall. Probably never going to start as quickly out of the

:25:43. > :25:48.blocks are some of the real sprinters. But once she gets into

:25:49. > :25:52.full flow, goodness me she can move. It's really nice to see, isn't it?

:25:53. > :25:56.When you are talented like that you can do that in the first round. Come

:25:57. > :26:01.the final she will have to put her foot down. And have a much more

:26:02. > :26:06.positive bend. It is lovely to see her go in full flow. This double

:26:07. > :26:15.arrangement isn't unusual in the women's event. Many have done it in

:26:16. > :26:19.the past. What she is attempting this pretty phenomenal. But not

:26:20. > :26:25.unusual. It will be good to see because she is a strong athlete.

:26:26. > :26:30.Very talented. She is definitely going to be one of those athletes to

:26:31. > :26:35.focus on. And remember she is still only 23. A very easy qualification

:26:36. > :26:56.for her. Another great field events underway.

:26:57. > :27:01.The men's pole vault final. The event which gave us so much

:27:02. > :27:13.entertainment last year in Rio. And it is stacked. Barber is the

:27:14. > :27:19.reigning world champion. Lavillenie, the world record-holder there, and

:27:20. > :27:25.this one is set out to be a belter. First up we get to see Kendricks of

:27:26. > :27:38.the USA. Second Lieutenant Goldin the Army. That is more like it. --

:27:39. > :27:41.Second Lieutenant in the Army. Unbeaten in 2017, Kendricks. He

:27:42. > :27:49.comes into this probably has the favourite. He gets off to a good

:27:50. > :27:54.start. I'm going to bring Tony in on Kendricks. I know you have been

:27:55. > :27:57.watching his technique closely. He has an upright position. Take a look

:27:58. > :28:02.between the right foot landing, and of the left, getting the pole above

:28:03. > :28:09.his head, it needs to be out within tenths of a second from the right to

:28:10. > :28:14.the left. He swings the left lane leg long. By the time the poll is

:28:15. > :28:17.fully extended he has to continue going straight up. -- he swings the

:28:18. > :28:23.left leg long. A lot of athletes get into that position, and when they

:28:24. > :28:29.haven't finished uncoiling big over the bar and they are more likely to

:28:30. > :28:35.knock it off. You can see here. The pole extends. It helps him go up and

:28:36. > :28:40.over. As simple as that. It sounds simple. Immensely technical. A

:28:41. > :28:44.three-dimensional event. And one guy who has got it extremely right in

:28:45. > :28:50.the past, Barber. The reigning champion. He did almost a western

:28:51. > :29:03.role in qualification to manoeuvre himself very athletically over his

:29:04. > :29:14.qualifying height. Barber, 23, 5.72 his season's best. Well. Exactly

:29:15. > :29:32.what you are explaining, Tony. That is what Barber didn't do, I suspect?

:29:33. > :29:52.Short. Smiley. Probably short again. A new British record. Great Britain

:29:53. > :30:01.have the bronze medal. She has ruptured her foot. Surgery, a couple

:30:02. > :30:13.of pins in it, now I need to get on in it. But seriously. By. --

:30:14. > :30:14.goodbye. She is in heat five, the British record-holder, big on

:30:15. > :30:32.talent, big personality. Yes, she has been coming back from

:30:33. > :30:39.the foot injury. It is coming back, but the lack of training, she was

:30:40. > :30:44.only running on grass back in June so it's a little bit too early but

:30:45. > :30:49.she's getting there and I think the most talented of British sprinters

:30:50. > :30:55.to come through in recent years. The record-holder At 100 and 200 and she

:30:56. > :31:19.goes in lane two. Crystal Emanuel, broke the Canadian

:31:20. > :31:36.record in Ireland in Cork in July, 22 point 50. Nobody in

:31:37. > :31:50.lane five. And on the inside, Dina Asher-Smith. Fifth in both Beijing

:31:51. > :31:53.and the Olympics in Rio. To make the final here would be a huge

:31:54. > :32:05.achievement, bearing in mind where she has been this year. Estelle

:32:06. > :32:11.Raffai we didn't get to see, she has had some medals at the Junior

:32:12. > :32:21.Championships last year. But the complexion of this has completely

:32:22. > :32:27.changed without Michelle-Lee Ahye, who was sixth in the 100m. She is a

:32:28. > :32:50.nonstarter so Dina Asher-Smith... Bianca Williams still the fastest of

:32:51. > :32:58.the losers. Dina Asher-Smith got off to a very good start. Moving well.

:32:59. > :33:09.Crystal Emanuel also moving smoothly. Dina Asher-Smith pulling

:33:10. > :33:21.away. These two long way clear of the rest. 22.73, and that is a

:33:22. > :33:30.season 's best time for Dina Asher-Smith, and in cool conditions.

:33:31. > :33:38.22.73 for Dina Asher-Smith and she's looking like the Dina Asher-Smith

:33:39. > :33:42.old. Cool is an understatement, it is nearly autumnal. She gets out of

:33:43. > :33:47.the blocks and puts herself in a good position straightaway. We all

:33:48. > :33:53.know what she is capable of, she's the British record-holder so she's

:33:54. > :33:56.highly skilled, highly capable. We have seen the problems she has been

:33:57. > :34:00.dealing with this season so it's so nice to see her returning to this

:34:01. > :34:06.type of form. Controlled aggression gets her through that line very

:34:07. > :34:12.comfortably indeed with an easy season's best and I think there's

:34:13. > :34:21.still a couple more tenths to come off that. Yes, there is no

:34:22. > :34:25.Michelle-Lee Ahye. Sometimes that does help you run more quickly. She

:34:26. > :34:31.has a couple of months' droning under her belt so she's not far off

:34:32. > :34:39.her best. Yes, remember she's gone close to the 22 second mark so she's

:34:40. > :34:44.running a well-balanced race. Lots of experience. She runs in the

:34:45. > :34:49.Diamond League, she knows how to compete at this level. And after the

:34:50. > :34:53.fact because she's such a beautiful, talented runner, where running fast

:34:54. > :34:57.is really effortless for her, when she can get back onto her game it's

:34:58. > :35:03.going to be really easy for her to do that. I want to know how close

:35:04. > :35:14.she feels to her best. Let's get her thoughts, she's talking to Phil. I

:35:15. > :35:17.will ask that straightaway then. Andrew Cotter in the commentary was

:35:18. > :35:19.asking how close you feel to your best. We will have to wait and see.

:35:20. > :35:23.Obviously breaking my foot this year wasn't great but I just want to try

:35:24. > :35:26.and make the final. It is a minor miracle you are here performing this

:35:27. > :35:30.way when earlier in the year you were having to learn to walk again

:35:31. > :35:35.basically. I am so grateful to be here because I thought there were

:35:36. > :35:39.points when I wouldn't and you have to get over that but to be wearing

:35:40. > :35:43.this kit and in front of this incredible crowd feels so good. When

:35:44. > :35:49.do the thoughts transition from being happy to making the team to

:35:50. > :35:57.competing in Monaco and winning and getting a boost... I have to be

:35:58. > :36:06.realistic, it might not be possible but I'm going to try my best. Great

:36:07. > :36:14.start, Dina, keep it going. Thank you, have a good evening.

:36:15. > :36:21.Bianca Williams is still the fastest of the losers at the moment but Dina

:36:22. > :36:55.Asher-Smith is safely through, season 's best time.

:36:56. > :37:01.That was a fairly inspiring performance from Dina Asher-Smith

:37:02. > :37:05.because she was out of the picture a couple of months ago and then got

:37:06. > :37:10.herself to the trials, didn't do what we expect from her there but

:37:11. > :37:16.has raised herself into what looks like a bit of form there. I am

:37:17. > :37:20.really staggered. The injury she had was really serious. I'm amazed that

:37:21. > :37:25.not only her skill but mental strength to come through and be so

:37:26. > :37:28.determined to be in these championships. Naturally she is

:37:29. > :37:33.listened to medical advice but she wanted to be here so she has almost

:37:34. > :37:38.willed herself and the racing has been staggering. That time is

:37:39. > :37:41.outstanding. She only did the hundreds in the trials because she

:37:42. > :37:50.was worried about her foot in the bend. She's not racing 200s. Some

:37:51. > :37:55.athletes overcooked themselves through the season, it may be to her

:37:56. > :37:58.advantage that she's raising herself into fitness through this

:37:59. > :38:03.championship? I think she would prefer to do it the other way, to

:38:04. > :38:07.get some races under her belt before coming to this Championships. Given

:38:08. > :38:14.the setback she had, I believe anything she can get here is a bonus

:38:15. > :38:18.so 22.73 is a good time, it's not anywhere close to her best which she

:38:19. > :38:23.would need to be at to get medals but she would want to take this and

:38:24. > :38:28.if I were her coach I would say take this round by round, see what we can

:38:29. > :38:37.get out of it and work on things, use this as an opportunity but not

:38:38. > :38:42.to be doing things like that! Dina was just below him a moment ago and

:38:43. > :38:52.I think if he falls on her he will have to deal with a lot of athletics

:38:53. > :38:56.fans! Lynch the hedgehog! I have seen plenty of squashed hedgehogs in

:38:57. > :39:01.my time, if we are not careful there could be another one there. Let's

:39:02. > :39:12.take in some javelin action. Steve Backley.

:39:13. > :39:31.Lingwei Li of China in the third round of this competition. Look at

:39:32. > :39:38.that! That's almost on top of Spotakova's lead. Her best ever is

:39:39. > :39:44.only 65.11 so what an effort, what the time to produce your lifetime

:39:45. > :39:50.best. One of the trio of Chinese javelin throwers. A strong trio at

:39:51. > :40:02.that as well. Fifth in the last World Championships but did not

:40:03. > :40:17.qualify at the last two. Goes into second place. A nonstarter is Laura

:40:18. > :40:29.Muller and she has been going well at the 200m this year so that makes

:40:30. > :40:34.this a little bit easier. It will be Ta Lou everyone will be watching.

:40:35. > :40:41.She was just pipped to the gold medal at 100m. Every chance of a

:40:42. > :40:48.medal in the 200m for the Ivorian as well. So the top three to go

:40:49. > :41:07.through. Strong on the outside, we have Atcho as well. The Bahamian is

:41:08. > :41:21.nowhere. Look at this, so late, she will get third! Ta Lou wins it. She

:41:22. > :41:26.slept round the bend, she was so far back then suddenly got moving. You

:41:27. > :41:34.could maybe say yeah, OK, she knew she was going to get into the top

:41:35. > :41:37.three. Ta Lou one of the real medal contenders. I will let Colin have a

:41:38. > :41:55.look at this. She was so wide, she took a long way

:41:56. > :41:58.around the turn, so to put her foot down on this home straight, which

:41:59. > :42:06.she really did, says something about the quality of the athlete. We know

:42:07. > :42:10.she is very talented. I stopped you before talking about the Swiss

:42:11. > :42:15.athletes, they are having a good championships, coming through very

:42:16. > :42:21.strong. Ta Lou, we expect her to do this and she has done it. What will

:42:22. > :42:30.she get in the final? That's the big question. The little bit earlier we

:42:31. > :42:36.told you the news that Isaac Makwala of Botswana is not going to start

:42:37. > :42:43.the 400m final later, hotly anticipated of course. A great

:42:44. > :42:52.rivalry with van Niekerk. He didn't compete in the heats last night, we

:42:53. > :42:55.were told he had a bug. He told our news correspondent who was

:42:56. > :43:01.heartbroken not to raise, he felt fine even though he was sick. As we

:43:02. > :43:06.came into the stadium tonight, we heard it was official from the IAAF

:43:07. > :43:09.that he was not going to be racing tonight. We hadn't heard from the

:43:10. > :43:17.Botswanan delegation at that point, but we then heard from the Botswanan

:43:18. > :43:21.delegation that he was going to come tonight and try to get into the

:43:22. > :43:27.stadium, and so it appears that is exactly what has happened. You see

:43:28. > :43:30.him there in the blue top with the headphones and rucksack and he's

:43:31. > :43:35.trying to get in but it would appear his accreditation has been voided,

:43:36. > :43:40.somehow negated, and he's not allowed to come into the stadium.

:43:41. > :43:46.He's being told there by the security that he is not allowed into

:43:47. > :43:50.the stadium. And so he has done what he said, come here tonight because

:43:51. > :43:56.he wants to compete but this is what the IAAF are working on, the basis

:43:57. > :44:04.that an affected person must remain isolated for 48 hours after the last

:44:05. > :44:09.episode of vomiting or diarrhoea. This is not law, it is what they

:44:10. > :44:16.suggest and the IAAF are taking this to the letter and saying it is not

:44:17. > :44:23.48 hours since he was last ill. So, Denise, an athlete being refused

:44:24. > :44:30.entry into the competition. You've got children, this is like school

:44:31. > :44:35.ground. You keep your child away from school. This is the World

:44:36. > :44:39.Championships, I haven't seen anything like this, ever. I don't

:44:40. > :44:45.know about you. I understand he's got to protect other athletes but if

:44:46. > :44:49.he feels strong enough, well enough to compete surely he should be given

:44:50. > :44:56.an opportunity. Had he been staying on his own in a flat somewhere and

:44:57. > :45:03.not told anyone who -- told anyone who was sick, he would be here

:45:04. > :45:06.tonight. It seems over the top. He's planning on staying in his lane, not

:45:07. > :45:10.coming into close contact with anyone else and this sends out a

:45:11. > :45:14.dangerous message because other athletes who get ill will not be

:45:15. > :45:18.giving away any sign of that. They will be hiding it and it is then

:45:19. > :45:26.dangerous to their health because if they need medical support they will

:45:27. > :45:31.not be telling you anyone now. And this is a regional vagary because

:45:32. > :45:32.this is Public Health England. Everyone has different regional

:45:33. > :45:41.recommendations. Lack of preparation for this sort of

:45:42. > :45:46.thing. A lack of good decision-making. These things will

:45:47. > :45:52.happen. If it isn't this, next time it's something else. You need people

:45:53. > :45:56.able to make good decisions and responsible decisions on the fly in

:45:57. > :46:02.the moment, and this represents the lack of preparation and lack of

:46:03. > :46:06.ability to respond in a way that... Look, if this was something that we

:46:07. > :46:12.talk about, we talk about taking things to the letter, OK? That may

:46:13. > :46:15.be the principal. But are you doing not for everyone? Because all we

:46:16. > :46:19.know right now is that it just applies to Isaac Makwala. They

:46:20. > :46:25.haven't put out a statement everybody saying, this is what we've

:46:26. > :46:27.done. This is what is happening in other situations with other

:46:28. > :46:41.athletes. They've not told us anything. More big news. Tory Bhui

:46:42. > :46:46.is out. She said she would make a decision about whether she would

:46:47. > :47:02.double up or not. It appears she is not. -- Tory Bowie.

:47:03. > :47:07.We don't know if it is an injury. That is where she was supposed to

:47:08. > :47:11.be. Bowie, the champion, with the quickest time this season. She isn't

:47:12. > :47:24.going. Suddenly this event is very open. No Tori Bowie. Haase got a new

:47:25. > :47:30.personal best this season. Santos was impressive in the 100 metres.

:47:31. > :47:38.Great progress, down to 10.90 one. Only seventh in the final. The times

:47:39. > :47:49.in the 200 not quite so good. Schippers goes in the fourth game.

:47:50. > :47:56.Bass can go below 23 seconds. Hackett has served doping bans. She

:47:57. > :48:01.had a two-year ban which ended in 2015. She was Olympic finalist in

:48:02. > :48:09.2012. That was one of the results that has been annulled. But she

:48:10. > :48:13.should go through here. Incidentally, Bianca Williams, just

:48:14. > :48:21.doing the maths, there are only six now, seven to go through as one of

:48:22. > :48:28.the fastest losers, Bianca Williams. You look at somebody like

:48:29. > :48:43.Asher-Smith running fast again. And no Bowie. So it is an open event.

:48:44. > :48:56.Haase of Germany to keep an eye on. Look out for Hackett and Santos and

:48:57. > :49:01.Haase. Already making a good move. Hooper moving nicely around the

:49:02. > :49:04.outside. This is close. Three will go through automatically. Hackett

:49:05. > :49:07.trying to get back. But she's struggling now. Santos comes

:49:08. > :49:15.through. Hooper almost gets third place. It wasn't the most impressive

:49:16. > :49:23.of the heats. That was because we lost Bowie. Haase is through. Santos

:49:24. > :49:28.was finishing strongly. But not the quickest of those heats.

:49:29. > :49:32.Confirmation that Bianca Williams will go through, hopefully, but

:49:33. > :49:37.Colin will talk us through. I can confirm Bianca is through. Santos,

:49:38. > :49:43.she has gone under 11 seconds at these championships. Improved

:49:44. > :49:47.dramatically. There she is in green. You would expect her to run harder,

:49:48. > :49:52.put herself in contention so she wouldn't have to work so hard to

:49:53. > :49:58.qualify. I'm disappointed in her 200-metre form. But it is early

:49:59. > :50:01.stages. And, of course, they will all have to come back and put their

:50:02. > :50:08.foot down a little bit more for the next round. Let's have a look. Haase

:50:09. > :50:12.from Germany. Nice, controlled wrong, isn't it? And does not look

:50:13. > :50:18.like she is stressing. I is completely focused. Working towards

:50:19. > :50:24.the line. And guarantees have victory -- and guarantees her

:50:25. > :50:30.victory, which also guarantees a good semi-. Nice action from Haase.

:50:31. > :50:43.Just maintaining her form through the line. And we move over to the

:50:44. > :50:51.pole vault. Art struggling. Oh my goodness. Did it snap? It didn't.

:50:52. > :51:00.You could see his top hand. There is take on the top. -- there is tape.

:51:01. > :51:06.The force of him running income he might have got underneath it. He has

:51:07. > :51:10.let go with his top hand. He is limping from the shin. Because I

:51:11. > :51:18.think as it kicked back it gave him a real slap on the shin. It isn't

:51:19. > :51:25.pleasant. It is a little bit scary. But he looks all right. His top hand

:51:26. > :51:30.slips. He is using chalk. His right hand slips a little bit. Off he

:51:31. > :51:32.comes. And then the pole flies past him. Thank goodness he has the

:51:33. > :51:41.momentum to carry him through, because he is heading headfirst onto

:51:42. > :51:48.metal. That can be very dangerous. Unfortunately for Art there. Another

:51:49. > :51:55.athlete in a similar situation is another former champion, six tee of

:51:56. > :52:14.Germany. He won in 2013. He took silver. --

:52:15. > :52:30.holds up -- Holzdeppe. He is out. A previous champion in the very early

:52:31. > :52:38.stages. Barber, the reigning world champion, did go clear. We saw him

:52:39. > :52:43.fail earlier. It wasn't his arms. The stands were too far back. You

:52:44. > :52:52.can move them closer to you. And his body has just come down on it. Two

:52:53. > :53:02.great field events underway. We are in the fifth round. She came so

:53:03. > :53:10.close to Olympic glory. She has produced something very good in this

:53:11. > :53:17.fifth round. Her team-mate is in second place. This may challenge.

:53:18. > :53:26.Runs off nicely. Control is the point. Gives it an almighty whack.

:53:27. > :53:29.It is a clean thump. Looking to get the javelin to fly like it is going

:53:30. > :53:40.down the drain pipe without touching the sides. Goes into third place.

:53:41. > :53:49.China in three and two. Spotakova is being challenged here. Nice throw in

:53:50. > :53:53.the fifth round. And the Olympic champion, the previous Olympic

:53:54. > :53:59.champion, that is, Spotakova, won here five years ago. She cannot

:54:00. > :54:13.quite extend her lead. She may not need to. She is ahead of Li. She

:54:14. > :54:19.will go into the six round. I have seen some tough battles for

:54:20. > :54:36.Spotakova in the past, but she goes through to the next round.

:54:37. > :54:40.This was the seventh heat. No Bowie. Haase and Santos going through

:54:41. > :54:44.automatically. The semifinals will take place on Thursday. Asher-Smith

:54:45. > :54:58.looking good again. Got a season best. Asher-Smith might not be 1

:54:59. > :55:02.million miles away. We go further down, as well. All of these

:55:03. > :55:07.qualifiers. But there is another page which includes the name of

:55:08. > :55:20.Bianca Williams. She was actually fastest of the losers with 23.30.

:55:21. > :55:27.Hylton was just a fraction of a second behind one of the fastest

:55:28. > :55:30.losers. We have been joined in the studio from the Chief Executive of

:55:31. > :55:34.the Botswana Olympic Committee. Thank you for coming up. You have

:55:35. > :55:39.just come up here a moment ago. We didn't know you were coming. I'm

:55:40. > :55:45.assuming you've come to give us news about Isaac Makwala and the current

:55:46. > :55:51.situation. Absolutely. We saw him being refused entry into the

:55:52. > :55:56.stadium. Where is he? He has been denied entry to the studio. He's

:55:57. > :56:02.been taken back to the hotel. What did the IAAF say to him? We don't

:56:03. > :56:13.have any official communication from them. We are waiting for the reasons

:56:14. > :56:19.as to why he has been barred. Do you have any right to appeal? I haven't

:56:20. > :56:25.gone through the rules. I believe I am able to appeal. Effectively this

:56:26. > :56:29.afternoon we wrote a medical condition to the IAAF, seeking

:56:30. > :56:32.extradition. There were communications from the media that

:56:33. > :56:39.Isaac Makwala would not be able to compete. Up until now we don't know

:56:40. > :56:43.why. Up until now, and is the final is later this evening, you feel like

:56:44. > :56:47.you haven't had any clarity on the situation as to why he cannot

:56:48. > :56:52.compete? That's right. There has been no communication. Except from

:56:53. > :57:04.the fact he was barred because of a medical condition. It would appear

:57:05. > :57:16.that it is a generalised assumption. It could be possibly related to

:57:17. > :57:20.norovirus, we have heard. He said he was heartbroken that he didn't

:57:21. > :57:25.compete last night. He said he was absolutely ready to compete tonight.

:57:26. > :57:31.Is he physically ready to take part in the final? I'm that Isaac Makwala

:57:32. > :57:35.this morning. I also met him around three o'clock. Communication is why

:57:36. > :57:40.he was ready and raring to go and take this on in the final. The

:57:41. > :57:45.recommendations the IAAF have put into place are based on Public

:57:46. > :57:50.Health England. They are not law of the land. They are recommendations.

:57:51. > :58:00.As far as you are aware, are they legally binding? Have you any legal

:58:01. > :58:04.recourse. The important thing is the fact they should have been some

:58:05. > :58:11.communications from IAAF. There hasn't been any communication. We

:58:12. > :58:19.only heard from a leak from the media about him not being able to

:58:20. > :58:26.participate. He has been working for years to get here. You know how well

:58:27. > :58:34.he has been performing. He was looking forward to this. A gold

:58:35. > :58:40.medal contender. He was. We thought he would get a medallion.

:58:41. > :58:45.International athletics, communication is so poor. This is

:58:46. > :58:51.why we are in the situation on so many problems. This is appalling.

:58:52. > :58:56.Exactly. For us it is a basis of effective communication. We want

:58:57. > :59:03.them to communicate effectively and formally. If they felt this was a

:59:04. > :59:06.public health outcry, we therefore will not be able to have Isaac

:59:07. > :59:17.Makwala to have access to the stadium. There are many officials

:59:18. > :59:25.around the globe. Did they request that he be put in quarantine? No. We

:59:26. > :59:28.haven't had that communication. We haven't had communication to the

:59:29. > :59:34.effect that he should be separated from other athletes. Even if that

:59:35. > :59:39.was done, we don't even know how long that would have to be done. He

:59:40. > :59:42.has been informed that he cannot compete, cannot enter the stadium,

:59:43. > :59:45.but he has not been informed if he needs to stay away from other

:59:46. > :59:51.athletes. Have other accommodation is being made for him? No. On the

:59:52. > :59:58.200 metres, we were told last night that he had taken himself out. Was

:59:59. > :00:03.he taken out of the 200 metres by the IAAF and told he couldn't

:00:04. > :00:04.compete? All of that seems to be allegations that cannot be verified

:00:05. > :00:20.at the moment. He had already started warming up

:00:21. > :00:29.for the event yesterday. So he was physically active? Yes. He

:00:30. > :00:36.was told he could not. What he said in his interview to Natalie Pirks

:00:37. > :00:40.today was that no one had tested him and yet under their rules he was not

:00:41. > :00:45.fit so what medical basis have they got? Have they done any test since

:00:46. > :00:51.this morning to say he's not fit to compete? No, there has been no

:00:52. > :00:56.medical tests and in fact as we speak we are expecting a medical

:00:57. > :01:00.certificate indicating clearly what the concerns are. Right now we are

:01:01. > :01:12.working on the basis of generalised assumptions. Even though there was

:01:13. > :01:23.an outbreak of the norovirus, it is on the basis of one symptom he has

:01:24. > :01:28.exhibited. It could have been the result of many other conditions. We

:01:29. > :01:35.are firing all kinds of questions that you and I apologise. That's all

:01:36. > :01:40.right, don't apologise. Have you heard from any other coaches, teams

:01:41. > :01:46.or officials that athletes from other teams have been put in the

:01:47. > :01:52.same situation as Isaac Makwala? No, in fact the communication from the

:01:53. > :01:57.IAAF I'm sorry to say has not been effective. I believe this is a

:01:58. > :02:03.concern. Many are looking forward to see Isaac do the best today. Sport

:02:04. > :02:10.has a lot of positive effects, and that we have been denied, his

:02:11. > :02:15.contributing to the National identity. The final is in one hour

:02:16. > :02:20.and 20 minutes time, would he be ready to race in that final? I

:02:21. > :02:24.believe given the chance he would be ready to race but there are also

:02:25. > :02:31.lots of psychological situations he has been going through. Would you

:02:32. > :02:36.stay with us? We appreciate you being so candid because nobody from

:02:37. > :02:42.the IAAF has come to give their side so thank you very much. Let's get

:02:43. > :02:45.back out on the track because it is the women's 400m hurdles semifinals

:02:46. > :02:52.and Andrew Cotter has the first of these for you.

:02:53. > :03:07.The men's steeplechase is not too far away, about 9:10pm. That will be

:03:08. > :03:10.cleared away. Oh! That's unpleasant. His lineage ends here. Anyway we

:03:11. > :03:19.move onto the first of the semifinals the women's 400m hurdles.

:03:20. > :03:33.Two Americans. Little has scraped in. Hejnova, the defending champion.

:03:34. > :03:38.The good news is that everyone has turned up for this one. We have had

:03:39. > :03:59.a couple of dropouts in the women's 200m but here in the hurdles varies

:04:00. > :04:09.Kori -- there is Kori Carter. Shamier Little gave Muhammad a great

:04:10. > :04:24.race but yesterday it went horribly wrong and she almost crawled home to

:04:25. > :04:36.sneak through. Carter, as mentioned, third behind Shamier Little. Hejnova

:04:37. > :04:41.has won the last two world titles. She delivers on the big occasion,

:04:42. > :04:55.gets it right from the world stage. She looked good in her first-round

:04:56. > :05:13.heat. The strong growth -- stronger athletes in the outer lanes.

:05:14. > :05:23.Silver-medallist aptly Polish Championships in Amsterdam last

:05:24. > :05:30.year. Nugent, the Jamaican. She used to run for the United States but has

:05:31. > :05:34.always held dual citizenship so running for Jamaica now. Third at

:05:35. > :05:56.the Jamaican Championships. So Hejnova, the defending champion. And

:05:57. > :06:03.Shamier Little trying to get it right after a horrible first round,

:06:04. > :06:11.goes on the outside. Eilidh Doyle will go in the third semifinal, but

:06:12. > :06:26.first the first semifinal in the women's 400m hurdles. So Hejnova who

:06:27. > :06:31.won the world title in the red vest and black shorts rising first over

:06:32. > :06:38.the first barrier and looking very strong although Fontanive it is

:06:39. > :06:48.keeping her company at the moment. But Hejnova does like to make a move

:06:49. > :06:57.in the second half of the race. Now Hejnova beginning to make progress.

:06:58. > :07:02.Two to go through automatically and the two fastest losers. Little to

:07:03. > :07:10.try to chase them down. Carter, just a Little check as Hejnova goes

:07:11. > :07:25.smoothly over the barrier. She will take the victory, Carter able to

:07:26. > :07:29.look round. Wenda Nel coming through for third place. I had a close eye

:07:30. > :07:35.on Little, wondering what she would do after the disastrous heat, but it

:07:36. > :07:42.wasn't good enough. She was probably in fourth place there. But Hejnova,

:07:43. > :07:47.when you are as silky smooth as she is, you rely on that technique so

:07:48. > :07:51.she doesn't stress when people go in front of her. She has the ability to

:07:52. > :07:56.change down with very Little effort which means she saves a lot of

:07:57. > :08:01.energy when she comes off the final hurdle and you need that charge

:08:02. > :08:05.towards the line. Look at Carter, this is the contrast because she's

:08:06. > :08:13.having a stutter every now and again but Hejnova able to keep that long

:08:14. > :08:20.stride. Yes, that's exactly what you want to do. Sight the hurdle early

:08:21. > :08:27.so you can take it on the right leg, put yourself in a good position to

:08:28. > :08:31.run after the final barrier and Hejnova does that time and time

:08:32. > :08:36.again. If you are competing against her, it must be very frustrating.

:08:37. > :08:41.All the time, be very accurate and deliver the performance she is

:08:42. > :08:44.capable of. Carter, don't write her off for a medal. The final is

:08:45. > :09:02.another day. We rejoin this men's pole vault

:09:03. > :09:07.final. Lisek stayed alive and has a chance now. He jumped six metres

:09:08. > :09:26.indoors, he was brilliant. Outdoors struggling slightly, maybe... But

:09:27. > :09:40.goes clear at 5.70 five. He has championship pedigree, the tall

:09:41. > :09:53.Pole. We rejoin the final stages of this women's javelin final. Kolak,

:09:54. > :10:01.the Olympic champion won in Rio. She's chasing 66.70 six. That nosed

:10:02. > :10:06.badly and went short. Trying too hard. Maybe memories from last year.

:10:07. > :10:14.Expected and hoped to repeat that performance but her best 64.95 and

:10:15. > :10:19.is knocked out of the medals. Was knocked out of the medals a few

:10:20. > :10:31.throws ago now by one of two Chinese athletes. And here is the other one,

:10:32. > :10:43.who has one last chance to close down the 50 centimetres that she is

:10:44. > :10:54.behind Spotakova of the Czech Republic. Li accelerates. That's

:10:55. > :11:03.never going to work. She decelerated in the last few strides and the

:11:04. > :11:09.hands of -- the victory to Spotakova. We see that replay. You

:11:10. > :11:16.won't see the deceleration I'm talking about at that speed. She

:11:17. > :11:28.performed well, a lifetime best and a silver medal. Li makes way for

:11:29. > :11:38.Spotakova. Champion here in 2012, to retain her Olympic title. And

:11:39. > :11:49.Spotakova absolutely fantastic, she's been the greatest ever. So,

:11:50. > :11:54.then, she's already won the competition. Almost a demonstration

:11:55. > :12:00.throw. Very supportive crowd. She's had some good times in this stadium

:12:01. > :12:03.in the past. The world champion again releases the javelin for the

:12:04. > :12:08.final time this evening in the knowledge it doesn't matter and it

:12:09. > :12:14.gets short of her lead. It doesn't matter a jot because the oldest

:12:15. > :12:19.athlete in the competition, I'm sure she won't mind me saying that, 36

:12:20. > :12:26.years of age. It's quite amazing she produces it time and time again. A

:12:27. > :12:31.fantastic athlete. I'm going to suggest it's probably her heptathlon

:12:32. > :12:37.background that makes her. It's about being athletic, this is an

:12:38. > :12:44.athletic event and being able to control it and delivered through the

:12:45. > :12:54.javelin. Brilliant celebrations. Climbed over the fence there. I'm

:12:55. > :12:57.surprised she didn't hurdle it. High five for her performance director,

:12:58. > :13:13.the one-time world champion for the cattle on. So then, back down to the

:13:14. > :13:20.opposite end of the stadium. Sam Kendricks, Second Lieutenant in the

:13:21. > :13:26.US Army, has a clean sheet so far. 5.70 five. Good plant, very clean

:13:27. > :13:32.attempt, way better than we saw in qualifying. I think he's using a

:13:33. > :13:38.stiffer pole so it goes vertical much quicker. It's interesting to

:13:39. > :13:48.know, I mean obviously a different number of poles each athlete has in

:13:49. > :13:54.their bag. The push off really is the difference between his top hand,

:13:55. > :13:58.his right hand, and where the bar is. You still need to push off

:13:59. > :14:06.physically and get over. There are the qualifiers from the

:14:07. > :14:12.women's 400m hurdles. Little will have to wait and see. So Meghan

:14:13. > :14:17.Beesley with a tough task here. Achilles surgery last year meant she

:14:18. > :14:21.missed out on the Olympic Games in Rio, managed to get herself back

:14:22. > :14:27.this year to these championships but in the semifinal here this is tough.

:14:28. > :14:38.They are all tough to be honest. Peterson of Denmark. Nathanial from

:14:39. > :14:51.Nigeria, wouldn't have reckoned on her being amongst it. Sprunger with

:14:52. > :15:03.a massive performance in Lausanne. Tracey, very experienced Olympic

:15:04. > :15:11.finalist last year. She will get a big cheer here, Meghan Beesley. That

:15:12. > :15:12.personal-best goes back to the last World Championship in Beijing. So

:15:13. > :15:29.disappointed to miss out on Rio. The fastest losers sports, 76 at the

:15:30. > :15:30.moment. Doyle is yet to race, she will be in the third of the three

:15:31. > :15:50.tonight. Folorunso is the European under 23

:15:51. > :15:56.champion. She beat Turner to the final. Turner did not make it

:15:57. > :16:07.through to this round. Beesley in lane three.

:16:08. > :16:18.Peterson has been having a consistent season. Tate started

:16:19. > :16:22.quickly around the outside. And the Nigerian is fast, as well. Athletes

:16:23. > :16:27.have been trying to get into the top. It is all about judging it

:16:28. > :16:31.right. Tate has got it hard over the first 200 metres. Petersen tends to

:16:32. > :16:36.judge her efforts very well. Also going well is Tracey, the Jamaican,

:16:37. > :16:40.in the yellow. Tracey and the American on the outside are one and

:16:41. > :16:44.two at the moment. Surely it will not stay that way. There are others

:16:45. > :16:49.with a chance on the home straight. Tate looks like she may have

:16:50. > :16:55.misjudged this. Tracey in the lead, then sprung. Petersen trying to get

:16:56. > :17:03.back. Tracey climbs over the last one. Sprunger will get the second

:17:04. > :17:10.spot. Tate will hang on for third. We were chatting on the way in about

:17:11. > :17:14.this 400-metre hurdles. Doyle to come. Super fast times from the

:17:15. > :17:19.Americans in the trials. Not being reproduced. I might not have been

:17:20. > :17:24.talking to you about it, Colin, but the point is, the standard is so

:17:25. > :17:28.high. It is hard to reproduce. Just getting under 55 is proving

:17:29. > :17:35.difficult. It has been a real struggle for the ladies. There is

:17:36. > :17:43.Megan. I was watching her today going around here. She clattered the

:17:44. > :17:47.eighth hurdle. That really held her back. I was hoping she would be

:17:48. > :17:51.rewarded with a season's best because she has been battling all

:17:52. > :17:56.year to get these championships. I hope she keeps faith in herself and

:17:57. > :18:01.phase in her ability. Because she is very talented this event. -- and

:18:02. > :18:04.phrase-macro in her ability. If she can get all of that behind her and

:18:05. > :18:09.have a good winter she will be phenomenal. Out in front, the

:18:10. > :18:13.Jamaican and the Swiss, they really ran the best race, didn't they? In

:18:14. > :18:17.the sense that it was the most controlled. They did not break too

:18:18. > :18:25.heart. And they have been rewarded with the first two places. -- too

:18:26. > :18:30.hard. The Isaac Makwala story has taken yet another turn. A moment ago

:18:31. > :18:33.you will have seen the chief executive of the Botswana athletics

:18:34. > :18:37.Federation explaining to us that they've had a complete lack of

:18:38. > :18:40.information coming from the IAAF about the reasons, the real reasons,

:18:41. > :18:44.why they thought Isaac Makwala should not have been competing both

:18:45. > :18:48.last night in the heat and a night in the final. In the last few

:18:49. > :18:53.moments, Simon O'Brien, sitting to my right, has been given an e-mail.

:18:54. > :18:58.It comes from the IAAF. It further expands those reasons from the

:18:59. > :19:03.medical team. Let's remind ourselves what happened. About one hour ago

:19:04. > :19:07.Isaac Makwala, a gold-medal contender, the second fastest man in

:19:08. > :19:12.the world this year at 400 metres, he was a contender for the 200, as

:19:13. > :19:18.well. The fastest man over 200. He was trying to get into the stadium.

:19:19. > :19:22.He was refused entry. This was an hour ago. He said that his

:19:23. > :19:31.accreditation wasn't working. He was taken to an IAAF office. He has been

:19:32. > :19:34.taken back to the hotel. Simon has just given me this e-mail which has

:19:35. > :19:37.come from the IAAF to the president of the Botswana Federation. Within

:19:38. > :19:43.this e-mail it says the diagnosis Isaac Makwala has, he has a

:19:44. > :19:50.notifiable infectious disease. He has to be quarantined. These

:19:51. > :19:52.procedures are mandated by Public Health England. They were clearly

:19:53. > :20:00.explained in the terms on Sunday to the Botswana delegation in person.

:20:01. > :20:04.Contrary to the assertions, the decision to withdraw him was based

:20:05. > :20:07.on medical examination conducted in the warm up medical Centre by a

:20:08. > :20:12.qualified doctor on Monday and recorded in the electronic records.

:20:13. > :20:16.The copy of this medical record was given to a member of staff following

:20:17. > :20:19.the examination. It goes on to say that they are sorry he isn't

:20:20. > :20:24.competing. This arrived this evening. You were not present.

:20:25. > :20:29.Nobody was present when that examination happened yesterday?

:20:30. > :20:34.That's correct. There was nobody present. Isaac Makwala was in the

:20:35. > :20:38.tent. We were informed only when one of the officials from the IAAF came

:20:39. > :20:43.over and tried to search me. When I went back over to the medical centre

:20:44. > :20:47.Isaac was walking out of the medical centre and said he had been trapped

:20:48. > :20:51.there for 30 minutes on his own, having had an interview, spoken to

:20:52. > :20:55.somebody, then he wanted to go and warm up. He was just left and there.

:20:56. > :21:00.Nobody on our team was notified until I got there. This medical

:21:01. > :21:06.examination has now been sent to you today. It showed what? I received

:21:07. > :21:12.medical information from one of the team from the IAAF at 10am this

:21:13. > :21:17.morning. On there it said of all the symptoms he was experiencing it was

:21:18. > :21:23.just sickness. Vomiting. Don't get too graphic, but he was sick once?

:21:24. > :21:28.Yes, as he stepped off the bus. Before his 200-metre heat. Sick once

:21:29. > :21:39.on Sunday evening. This examination was yesterday. I -- any other tests?

:21:40. > :21:46.If had its body temperature taken. It was 36.9. Completely Norman. --

:21:47. > :21:51.he had his body temperature taken. With those measurements would you be

:21:52. > :22:00.happy? Completely normal. -- completely normal. You are fine.

:22:01. > :22:06.There is nobody else around him who has been sick? Exactly. What is your

:22:07. > :22:10.summation as to why he isn't competing? It's difficult to say. He

:22:11. > :22:16.is fit and very well. He is prepared to run. He has been kept away by the

:22:17. > :22:19.IAAF. Meanwhile the IAAF have said this. There is an electronic medical

:22:20. > :22:26.record which was handed over late last night. Three team members that

:22:27. > :22:31.it went to were present, it says, who was present? At the medical

:22:32. > :22:38.examination. There was nobody present. They said the team leader

:22:39. > :22:41.physio and Doctor. They were all notified by the quarantine period.

:22:42. > :22:45.We read that statement out that there has been a generic statement

:22:46. > :22:49.about 48 hours of quarantine. At the moment it is he said she said.

:22:50. > :22:57.Except one side is saying more because they are here. The other

:22:58. > :23:02.side is, kind of, batting back. Taking the IAAF at their word, that

:23:03. > :23:05.medical officials from the Botswana team worked there, and that this

:23:06. > :23:13.information was that the team doctor, or team medical official

:23:14. > :23:19.last night, and they were recommended by the NHS that he has

:23:20. > :23:22.to be quarantined for 48 hours and all of those things. If that had

:23:23. > :23:28.been in the statement they initially sent out to us, we would be thinking

:23:29. > :23:32.different, and thinking different about the situation. What we are

:23:33. > :23:35.criticising now is the lack of communication. We have a problem

:23:36. > :23:39.with the lack of communication. Nobody has a problem with the IAAF

:23:40. > :23:44.acted in the interest of public safety. Separate of that, if Isaac

:23:45. > :23:47.Makwala and his team had been given this information then maybe you

:23:48. > :23:52.would not have shown up tonight. We have to go down to the track. It is

:23:53. > :23:56.the 400 metre hurdle third and final heat. The British team captain,

:23:57. > :24:01.Doyle, is taking part, but we will continue with this.

:24:02. > :24:11.We are enthralled, as much as everybody else, Doyle here. On the

:24:12. > :24:26.outside lane. She was just edged in the first round. Claxton of Puerto

:24:27. > :24:29.Rico goes on the inside of her. Rosolova, not as good as her

:24:30. > :24:44.team-mates, but very impressive in that first semifinal. Keep an eye on

:24:45. > :24:50.Whyte here. Just a couple of seconds off her personal best before. The

:24:51. > :24:55.favourite for this title is the American champion, the Olympic

:24:56. > :25:03.champion, Muhammad. She seems to be clear of that hamstring problem

:25:04. > :25:13.which affected her previously. Watson is getting close to an old

:25:14. > :25:22.Canadian record in this event. Pedro so, a famous name in athletics. She

:25:23. > :25:33.has a famous cousin who now runs for Italy. And Woodruff will be up

:25:34. > :25:36.against it here. To put things into perspective, people expect great

:25:37. > :25:41.things of Doyle. She's the team captain. Ranked 12th in the world

:25:42. > :25:45.coming into these championships. Only seven of the women who have run

:25:46. > :25:50.faster than her Art in these semifinals. It is nipped and tucked

:25:51. > :25:55.to make the final. Two through automatically. -- are in the

:25:56. > :26:20.semifinals. Doyle on the far side. She always

:26:21. > :26:31.tends to run a tidy race. She gets her stride right. Whyte, with all of

:26:32. > :26:35.that strapping, has been going well this season. Muhammad trying to get

:26:36. > :26:40.herself into good position. Taking it a little bit easy. Doyle running

:26:41. > :26:43.strong at the moment. Only two go through automatically. Great from

:26:44. > :26:49.the Canadian, Watson, inside Muhammad. Watson is chasing down

:26:50. > :26:52.Muhammad. Doyle in a good position at the moment. Muhammad will be

:26:53. > :26:58.clear. Doyle and Watson to have a battle. But you're so trying to come

:26:59. > :27:02.back. Doyle has to chase second-place or the time. Muhammad

:27:03. > :27:11.stretching for that. Stretching out towards the line. Doyle trying to

:27:12. > :27:15.get there. Doyle just out of the automatic confirmation places. She

:27:16. > :27:21.has to be inside 55.40. That is a stretch with that gap. It is going

:27:22. > :27:26.to be very close for Doyle. Watson has been impressive this season, the

:27:27. > :27:31.Canadian champion. Muhammad and Watson are the automatic qualifiers.

:27:32. > :27:38.When you see the time come up let me know. It's good. She is through.

:27:39. > :27:44.Great stuff. Big relief for all of us. She will be the last of the

:27:45. > :27:51.fastest losers. She doesn't know yet. She will go through with Tate.

:27:52. > :27:55.We knew it was going to be close for her. It had to be a great race from

:27:56. > :28:00.her. It was tidy. In the closing stages she wasn't able to get back

:28:01. > :28:05.up to Watson in particular. My eyes were scanning all over. So much

:28:06. > :28:10.potential. So many people with different races. The most important

:28:11. > :28:13.thing for me is to get the rhythm. Sometimes you can get the rhythm and

:28:14. > :28:18.timing right. Even if you cruise in the early rounds are you still keep

:28:19. > :28:23.that same stride pattern. All that changes is the frequency. That is

:28:24. > :28:28.what gets you faster times. Keeping the stride pattern and believing all

:28:29. > :28:32.the way. Muhammad, we expected this from her, didn't we? The world

:28:33. > :28:36.leader. Fastest Olympic champion. We expected her to be a bit more

:28:37. > :28:45.dominant than she was here. Victory, guess, but for me it looks like

:28:46. > :28:48.there will be another favourite. A nice, controlled, balanced run. All

:28:49. > :28:52.of the action will happen inside her. She needs to rely on her stride

:28:53. > :28:56.pattern. She needs to know that the timing and rhythm is right. As well

:28:57. > :29:00.as the frequency. All of these things to think about. As she pushes

:29:01. > :29:04.round, remembering the conditions around you, whether you think it is

:29:05. > :29:11.time to change it down a notch. You get the stride of the Trail Lake.

:29:12. > :29:17.Tuck it insured and it allows you to chop the stride, add another one,

:29:18. > :29:21.and keep the fluency. -- the trail leg. Doing that keeps your energy as

:29:22. > :29:25.high as you can. At this stage it's the only moment when she sees what

:29:26. > :29:30.is going on in front of her. She thinks I still have the energy, I

:29:31. > :29:33.still have the drive, but she mustn't get over excited. She didn't

:29:34. > :29:38.know her finish, she does now, she is through to the final which will

:29:39. > :29:44.take place on Thursday. It has just been announced to the

:29:45. > :29:50.crowd that you are through. What a reception. You must be thrilled. I'm

:29:51. > :29:54.over the moon. These ones are always difficult to qualify for. Outside of

:29:55. > :29:57.the top two you are not guaranteed everything. I'm so glad I'm in the

:29:58. > :30:04.final. I can enjoy tomorrow and get ready for Thursday. The standard of

:30:05. > :30:07.your event has gone even higher, it seems, to still be in contention at

:30:08. > :30:11.this stage of your career, you've been here so many times and you are

:30:12. > :30:18.still doing it. It's great. I've been consistent over the years. I've

:30:19. > :30:24.made the step up. I haven't run a quick time. I'm just glad I will be

:30:25. > :30:27.a part of it. What is it like as team captain, having to consult the

:30:28. > :30:32.people that have been taking part this week and maybe not done what

:30:33. > :30:36.they wanted? I try and do that anyway, regardless of being captain

:30:37. > :30:42.because I've been there myself. We have ups and downs in athletics.

:30:43. > :30:47.People picked me up in the past. I try to do that, pick people up, chat

:30:48. > :30:49.to them. This performance will have given everybody a left. Well done.

:30:50. > :31:03.-- lift. The noise in the stadium went up a

:31:04. > :31:10.few decibel is. Renaud Lavillenie for once not the favourite, burdened

:31:11. > :31:18.by the expectation may be of taking the title, it has eluded him. He has

:31:19. > :31:24.had a troubled summer in his pole vault. Two weeks ago his wife gave

:31:25. > :31:28.birth to his first child, maybe a renewed sense of purpose and

:31:29. > :31:36.perspective because he looks as good as we have seen him all summer. The

:31:37. > :31:43.first time clearance there of 5.75, clean sheet so far. The world record

:31:44. > :31:44.order looking really good in warm up and his first two attempts. Good

:31:45. > :32:00.start for him. The same height but he's carrying a

:32:01. > :32:14.failure at this height which will penalise him slightly. He did go

:32:15. > :32:19.clear at the second attempt. Wojciechowski goes fifth. So

:32:20. > :32:29.important not to get fouls. Yes, he failed on his first attempt. Crosses

:32:30. > :32:35.galore across the world champion, look at his scoresheet, it's a bit

:32:36. > :32:51.of a mess. First time at his first height, has to do that again to stay

:32:52. > :32:55.involved. Barbour. No. He's out. Unfortunately too much for the

:32:56. > :33:02.reigning champion and has had a bit of a scrappy summer with a mixture

:33:03. > :33:09.of results really. As unloved as consistent as we have seen him in

:33:10. > :33:17.the past. And down on his lifetime best. So, a new champion. Or another

:33:18. > :33:23.champion, I should say. Barber cannot retain but there are other

:33:24. > :33:28.previous world champions involved so the Canadian, his work is done, he's

:33:29. > :33:32.out. There is the result of the last of

:33:33. > :33:42.the semifinals in the women's 400m hurdles. Eilidh Doyle is through to

:33:43. > :33:49.that final as well, and these the qualifiers. Looking at the

:33:50. > :34:00.favourites, Muhammad, although she's pushed hard, Watson should still

:34:01. > :34:04.start as favourite. But Hejnova is the one they will be trying to

:34:05. > :34:10.catch. Simon O'Brien is on the medical team

:34:11. > :34:14.to the Botswana medical association, and the chief executive of the

:34:15. > :34:19.Botswana Federation are still with us. I just want to ask, there's

:34:20. > :34:25.nothing in the medical report as far as you are aware that could come to

:34:26. > :34:31.light later that will examine right the IAAF? Not at all, he has normal

:34:32. > :34:36.heart rate and body temperature. He said he was sick whilst leaving the

:34:37. > :34:41.bus whilst getting to the stadium, that is it. As far as you are aware,

:34:42. > :34:47.there's no reason. Have you got a reason why you think this is

:34:48. > :34:52.happening? There has been slight confusion. On the medical report I

:34:53. > :34:56.collected this morning, at the beginning it said Isaac had said to

:34:57. > :35:00.the doctor that he vomited at 10pm the previous evening. At 10pm the

:35:01. > :35:05.previous evening he was sitting with me receiving treatment and I have

:35:06. > :35:11.pictures on my mobile phone that proves he was with me at that time.

:35:12. > :35:15.When we confronted him yesterday evening, he said I never said that

:35:16. > :35:22.to the doctor, I never said I vomited at 10pm. And at no point did

:35:23. > :35:25.they take any blood test to check he was ill? No, no testing has been

:35:26. > :35:37.done. We have sent enquiries to the IAAF

:35:38. > :35:42.to say we want him to compete. We haven't heard a conclusive statement

:35:43. > :35:46.from the IAAF, we have had drips and drugs. If they come forward with

:35:47. > :35:51.something medically that proves they have done the right thing, it has

:35:52. > :35:54.been a mess in terms of communication. Yes, the

:35:55. > :35:59.communication needed to be handled. Yes, they will say they don't want

:36:00. > :36:04.to get into a live argument on air, that they preferred to have the

:36:05. > :36:10.documents there. I'm assuming you have kept records of everything you

:36:11. > :36:20.have, so I guess this will play on. The big thing is making sure the

:36:21. > :36:24.athletes' interests are protected because once the boat has sailed

:36:25. > :36:29.they cannot do that. Is he going to be available for the relays?

:36:30. > :36:37.Hopefully he will compete in the relays and we believe he is a very

:36:38. > :36:42.strong guy, he should be able to. But tonight, one of the favourites,

:36:43. > :36:47.one of the contenders for the gold medal will sit in the hotel room

:36:48. > :36:52.watching the final that he was hoping to be pushing van Niekerk,

:36:53. > :37:02.the Olympic champion, all the way to the line. For him, for Isaac Makwala

:37:03. > :37:07.it is a sad situation. It will be some small consolation to get him

:37:08. > :37:16.back on track, you know? It is the manner in which this decision was

:37:17. > :37:20.arrived at, and as we have indicated this has been communicated in drips

:37:21. > :37:28.and drugs. We hope it gets resolved in a way both sides feel the right

:37:29. > :37:34.thing has been done. It is of course for van Niekerk the attempt to do

:37:35. > :37:38.the double, the 200m, 400m double, something that certain Michael

:37:39. > :37:41.Johnson knows all about. Let's go down memory lane to 1995 when he

:37:42. > :37:57.king of the world. # This is how we do it... #.

:37:58. > :38:07.COMMENTATOR: Already going away from Barber. Black being pressed, and

:38:08. > :38:09.Johnson looks majestic. The world-record holder outside him a to

:38:10. > :38:22.300 metres if he's got a chance. They come round to the 300-metre

:38:23. > :38:27.mark and Johnson leads into the straight, and the number one is

:38:28. > :38:32.leading by a big margin. Orton of Jamaica coming through in the bronze

:38:33. > :38:41.medal position, and Johnson storming through will be the world champion

:38:42. > :38:46.again. 43.39! It is one tenth outside the world-record, the second

:38:47. > :38:49.fastest time of all time. The new championship record, and Michael

:38:50. > :38:53.Johnson promised it all and delivered.

:38:54. > :39:02.So the World Championship 200m final. This time he gets them away

:39:03. > :39:11.and Michael Johnson going well, Williams going well but in lane

:39:12. > :39:14.three it is Frankie Fredrickson. Fredrickson the champion is

:39:15. > :39:22.trailing. Coming through is Jeff Williams. Johnson wins. And the

:39:23. > :39:27.time, 19.79. The fastest time in the world this year by some distance.

:39:28. > :39:40.And Johnson has done the double. The fascinating final in prospect in

:39:41. > :39:45.the men's 3000 metres deep chase, sometimes overlooked in the UK

:39:46. > :39:50.because of the lack of British interest but the story here make it

:39:51. > :40:05.intriguing. The Olympic champion has been hindered by injury of late.

:40:06. > :40:09.Chem -- Kemboi retired after the Olympic final when he thought he had

:40:10. > :40:14.taken the bronze medal and then was disqualified because of the tiniest

:40:15. > :40:18.of infringements am so he decides to come back and run again. He says

:40:19. > :40:25.that's not the way he wanted to end his career but is he in the kind of

:40:26. > :40:38.form to challenge? The Canadian was a real talent as a youngster. It was

:40:39. > :40:47.a surprise when Elbakkali finished fourth in Rio. There is Kipruto and

:40:48. > :40:56.he is the Olympic champion. Twice silver at the World Championships

:40:57. > :40:59.behind Kemboi. He's only just come back from an ankle injury to full

:41:00. > :41:14.training. There is another Kenyan who now runs for the United States.

:41:15. > :41:19.Birech is in the final although he didn't look too impressive in

:41:20. > :41:26.qualifying. Couldn't replicate his form from 2014. But this is the man,

:41:27. > :41:29.the great American hope, Jager is the quickest in the world this year

:41:30. > :41:34.and for so long he's had to give second best to Kenyans in various

:41:35. > :41:42.guises and at World Championships it has been Kemboi. An astonishing

:41:43. > :41:51.record, 35 now, four times world champion, twice Olympic champion. No

:41:52. > :41:55.relays at other events to pad out his CV. It's an extraordinary record

:41:56. > :41:59.he has produced but can he do it one more time? The final of the men's

:42:00. > :42:22.3000 metres steeplechase. Mekhissi has been a controversial

:42:23. > :42:25.figure but what a talent as well. And the other French athlete in

:42:26. > :42:37.about eighth place was given the title after Mekhissi was

:42:38. > :42:42.disqualified in his last race. For me, I'm looking at this race today

:42:43. > :42:56.and I'm thinking back to the first World Championships in 1983.

:42:57. > :43:04.The first two races were won by Europeans, since then it has been

:43:05. > :43:09.dominated by Kenya. Tonight we may see a break in the stranglehold. The

:43:10. > :43:18.man everyone is looking at, the tall figure of Jager of the United

:43:19. > :43:21.States. This event is a poor relation of distance running, I

:43:22. > :43:25.don't really know why because it's fantastic event. There will be a lot

:43:26. > :43:29.of people in the States watching this race, and I hope people will be

:43:30. > :43:32.excited about the challenge to the Kenyans because they have dominated

:43:33. > :43:46.it so much. This race will be exciting from every point of view.

:43:47. > :44:00.The steeplechase picks up a Little bit of pace. Elbakkali making a move

:44:01. > :44:05.now into sixth. They are gathered over a few metres. The danger, well

:44:06. > :44:11.we all know about the strength of Kenya, there are some good

:44:12. > :44:15.Ethiopians too. We are getting towards the business end of the

:44:16. > :44:29.men's pole vault final and a perfect card so far for Xue. First attempt

:44:30. > :44:39.at 5.82. This will be a new lifetime best. He gets it! Xue has produced a

:44:40. > :44:48.beautiful jump, a new Chinese record. Look at that, clean sheet

:44:49. > :44:58.National record. So then, Kendricks, also with no foul is looking to

:44:59. > :45:02.match that clearance of Xue, 5.82. First attempt. Also goes clear

:45:03. > :45:10.comfortably. Probably the most impressive pole vault so far.

:45:11. > :45:16.Perfect card. His bid to become world champion going very nicely

:45:17. > :45:20.indeed. Drives even really well, rocks back, throws his head back a

:45:21. > :45:28.Little bit as well and goes straight up towards the 12 o'clock.

:45:29. > :45:43.things boding well for Kendricks for the rest of the competition. Kowal

:45:44. > :45:48.came a cropper at one of the barriers. But he is way behind.

:45:49. > :46:00.Seboka was there but he is slipping back. Kemboi is not too far-away.

:46:01. > :46:07.The Kenyans are on the outside. Jager out in front. The Olympic

:46:08. > :46:15.champion not too far-away, either. The pace is beginning to left. It

:46:16. > :46:22.has to do now. For the opening 1000 metres the American was at 2.50 one.

:46:23. > :46:28.Pretty slow. He's starting to test the other athletes. And immediately

:46:29. > :46:30.he is trapped by the trio of Kenyan athletes, the Olympic champion and

:46:31. > :46:42.world champion in there, and some competitiveness. Araptany has also

:46:43. > :46:45.been on the floor. We are looking at the American, coming into the water

:46:46. > :46:50.jump, trying to do his business from a way out. Jager is stretching his

:46:51. > :46:59.legs at the moment. The Kenyans are chasing him down. And Elbakkali, the

:47:00. > :47:03.Moroccan, who has been so quick this season. Jager is going to have to do

:47:04. > :47:17.this the hard way, eating things out with the Olympic champion just

:47:18. > :47:23.behind him. How hampered has Kipruto been by that ankle injury? A setting

:47:24. > :47:28.himself up as a target. He is stretching them now. He is beginning

:47:29. > :47:37.to gain ground. Kipruto is tracking him. He looks strong. Is he strong

:47:38. > :47:44.enough to do it? Can he dictate? 2000 metres done. Still not

:47:45. > :47:51.particularly quick. He has got a bit more to do this last just over 800

:47:52. > :47:57.metres. It is going to be a burn up. Now it is down to four for the

:47:58. > :48:03.medals. Just two Kenyans. Birech really faltered. They are just

:48:04. > :48:07.stretching into the barrier. Kemboi back and forth. And Elbakkali, still

:48:08. > :48:11.there, the Moroccan. Jager looking comfortable. But this is anything

:48:12. > :48:16.but comfort as he again picks up the pace in the men's 3,000-metre

:48:17. > :48:21.steeplechase. A couple of minutes of hard work for Jager. Campbell is now

:48:22. > :48:27.struggling to maintain contact. Jager of the United States is

:48:28. > :48:31.pouring it on now. Going well over the hurdles. Running well. Between

:48:32. > :48:35.the barrier is doing everything he can. Putting the pressure on.

:48:36. > :48:43.Testing them all. When you look at this, he is the best runner. This is

:48:44. > :48:47.a flat race. Can he be the first American to win the steeplechase?

:48:48. > :48:51.Can he be the first non-Kenyan to win the steeplechase for 30 years?

:48:52. > :48:58.He goes clean over the water. Putting pressure on Kipruto and

:48:59. > :49:02.Elbakkali. He is checking to see what is happening behind him. If you

:49:03. > :49:08.look at their paces, you would think Jager is the most comfortable.

:49:09. > :49:15.Consistency there. Elbakkali with a big expression on his face. Can any

:49:16. > :49:18.of the others make a move? Jager has his chance now. The bell has been

:49:19. > :49:23.wrong. The crowd roaring. They want to see the American do it. Elbakkali

:49:24. > :49:30.is under pressure. Kemboi is behind Jager. Kipruto moving out, giving

:49:31. > :49:38.himself a chance on the other side of the barrier. But down the back

:49:39. > :49:42.straight it is Kipruto. Does Jager have a response? The Kenyans have

:49:43. > :49:47.dominated this event. He has battled injury. Now he is out front.

:49:48. > :49:55.Elbakkali looking strong. Around the bend they come. Is Jager spent? Cani

:49:56. > :50:01.challenge the Kenyan? Sometimes the water can be a factor. A little bit

:50:02. > :50:05.of a cheque from Kipruto. He senses his opportunity. Jager is perhaps

:50:06. > :50:08.settling for bronze. One more barrier to go. The Olympic champion

:50:09. > :50:15.flies into it. Big challenge by Elbakkali. He knows. He knows he is

:50:16. > :50:23.world champion. Elbakkali settles for bronze. Jager has the bronze,

:50:24. > :50:33.sorry, Silver for Elbakkali. It was a fast finish. It looks like... We

:50:34. > :50:37.doubted Kipruto because of his injury problems over the last few

:50:38. > :50:43.months. We should not have doubted him. He is world champion. He has it

:50:44. > :50:46.all now. And Kenya, once again, have the title. We thought it might be

:50:47. > :50:54.the end of the domination after 30 years but no. They can always find a

:50:55. > :50:58.good steeplechase from Kenya. Almost by definition. Kenya wins the

:50:59. > :51:02.steeplechase. Kemboi has done it four times before. He is with his

:51:03. > :51:10.team-mate. A very close race to the finish. Elbakkali celebrating.

:51:11. > :51:14.Jager, I am pleased he held on for the bronze medal. Again, a Kenyan

:51:15. > :51:19.celebration once again. On a night when they run the steeplechase the

:51:20. > :51:24.Kenyan spring a few flags. They usually need more than one. Tonight

:51:25. > :51:27.they only need one. But it was a great race and a great victory.

:51:28. > :51:35.Really interesting from every point of view. That was the decisive move

:51:36. > :51:41.when he made it. It was just a change of pace. Jager had no

:51:42. > :51:45.response. There is Elbakkali. Kneeling on the track. In tears

:51:46. > :51:53.after his performance tonight. Very good. Very good performance there.

:51:54. > :51:59.And the three Kenyan is celebrating. One place on the rostrum tonight. It

:52:00. > :52:04.has been won, it has been two, it has sometimes been three, but

:52:05. > :52:13.tonight they are sharing it. Kipruto there. And there is the brave Jager.

:52:14. > :52:16.And here we are. Here is Jager. Leading for a couple of laps. The

:52:17. > :52:20.pressure of leading catches up with him as he goes down the back

:52:21. > :52:24.straight. There is the burst from Kipruto. The Olympic champion

:52:25. > :52:28.desperately wants this one. He has been injured. He has not had a great

:52:29. > :52:34.season. Suddenly, as he was passed, Jager really struggling. Coming into

:52:35. > :52:40.the water jump, Elbakkali attacking. He looks promising at this point

:52:41. > :52:44.Elbakkali. Jager there is a tired man. He has done a lot of running,

:52:45. > :52:50.he has done a lot of leading. Over the water jump you could tell. His

:52:51. > :52:56.body slumped. He was no longer a competitor. Kipruto clears that one,

:52:57. > :53:00.and clears that one. Then Elbakkali is tempting him. He is listening to

:53:01. > :53:04.the crowd, he is encouraging the crowd, he probably watched Mo Farah

:53:05. > :53:09.the other night. He just cruises to victory. Crosses the finishing line.

:53:10. > :53:15.And Kenya once again wins the steeplechase. Here it is. Head on.

:53:16. > :53:19.He is looking, listening for the crowd. Elbakkali doesn't want any

:53:20. > :53:24.messing about. He is looking at him, he is telling him, I am the boss.

:53:25. > :53:31.Kenya is the boss tonight. And the Olympic champion becomes the world

:53:32. > :53:36.champion. He wins it again. I don't know exactly what he is saying but

:53:37. > :53:40.that is some celebration. Well done, Kipruto, and well done, Jager,

:53:41. > :53:48.coming back and getting the bronze. He sort of got a bronze medal by

:53:49. > :53:55.default before. After the infringement of Kemboi, that was. A

:53:56. > :54:05.bit of effort from Elbakkali. Kipruto, gold medal. Kenya's gold

:54:06. > :54:07.medal again. You have to have the confidence that you are going to win

:54:08. > :54:16.a few celebrates like that coming down the home straight. -- you are

:54:17. > :54:20.going to win if you celebrate like that.

:54:21. > :54:30.This sex failed on his first attempt. His name translates as fox.

:54:31. > :54:45.-- Lisek failed on his first attempt,

:54:46. > :54:55.his name translates as fox. His record was 5.85. 5.89 when it

:54:56. > :55:02.matters most is the terrific jump. Have a look at this. Some margin, as

:55:03. > :55:07.well. He is working so hard off the top of the poll to get his body out

:55:08. > :55:14.of the way. He pulls his body away. That is fantastic gymnastic ability

:55:15. > :55:18.at the top. And look at his shoulders. That is how he is doing

:55:19. > :55:29.it. That might put him in the medals. So, Kendricks, with a keen

:55:30. > :55:40.eye on what Lisek has just done. He can go into the lead. He hasn't had

:55:41. > :55:47.any fouls. He has got it, as well. Well, what a brilliant job.

:55:48. > :55:52.Kendricks almost doing a lap of honour. Not quite there yet. I

:55:53. > :56:04.suspect there is more drama to come. He must control himself and stay

:56:05. > :56:11.focused. Congratulations to Xue. Great camaraderie amongst these

:56:12. > :56:15.guys. Pushing skywards here. Kendricks has been brilliant all

:56:16. > :56:21.year. He has brought that same form here to the World Championships.

:56:22. > :56:28.Wonderful athleticism. First time clearance. Out in front. Xue having

:56:29. > :56:38.a great night, as well. Kendricks of America looking imperious.

:56:39. > :56:47.Lavillenie, it has eluded him over the years. Two crosses against his

:56:48. > :56:57.name. He must go clear to remain. We know he can do it. Look at that.

:56:58. > :57:01.Lavillenie, well, I mentioned earlier he has had a troubled

:57:02. > :57:09.summer. He really has not looked his best. But the pressure on here in

:57:10. > :57:14.the World Championships. That pressure has produced his season's

:57:15. > :57:22.best of 5.80 nine. He has some fouls, but he is in bronze medal

:57:23. > :57:30.position. -- Susan's best of 5.89. World record-holder. That was an

:57:31. > :57:34.indoors record standing at 6.16. A great response from the flying

:57:35. > :57:46.Frenchman. The next jump is going to be so important.

:57:47. > :57:56.And it is a new world record! No matter where you look there are

:57:57. > :58:05.challenges. It is still going to be an

:58:06. > :58:09.incredible final. But it will take place without Isaac Makwala as you

:58:10. > :58:15.have been hearing all night tonight. Next up on the track, the men's 800

:58:16. > :58:18.metres final. A fantastic line-up, featuring Kyle Langford of Great

:58:19. > :58:24.Britain. It has been an incredible season for the young man. He sneaks

:58:25. > :58:26.through in the heats. He had a fantastic semifinal. What a season

:58:27. > :58:31.it has been. He spoke to us earlier...

:58:32. > :58:39.Kyle Langford coming, as well. Lewandowski chasing... Langford

:58:40. > :58:43.digging in. Kyle Langford get it and he goes through to the World

:58:44. > :58:48.Championship final. This is the best race he has ever

:58:49. > :58:53.run in his life. This year for me has been a learning

:58:54. > :58:58.curve. Not the season I wanted. I even came up with a personal best

:58:59. > :59:02.and I made the world champs, I still don't feel I've achieved what I

:59:03. > :59:09.wanted to achieve. Bittersweet, I find it, almost. I had a hard start

:59:10. > :59:15.to the year with family members, and a friend passing away. When you go

:59:16. > :59:19.through those difficult times like that it gives you perspective on

:59:20. > :59:21.other things. Has it given new perspective on your career?

:59:22. > :59:28.Sometimes there are bigger and more important things in life. Yes. The

:59:29. > :59:32.thing with that is, my grandmother and friend would have wanted me to

:59:33. > :59:40.pursue this and give it 100%. Not waste everything. I didn't really,

:59:41. > :59:44.probably, grow up in the best of places. It wasn't bad but there were

:59:45. > :59:51.not many opportunities. My parents were really helpful. They love

:59:52. > :59:56.seeing what I am doing. I just want to take motivation from it. Keep

:59:57. > :00:01.pushing forward. Obviously it is hard when things like this happen,

:00:02. > :00:05.people passing away, and it, kind of, takes a toll on you a little

:00:06. > :00:11.bit. But I think you've got to let it out. Speak about it. Come out the

:00:12. > :00:16.other side. Use it as motivation. That is what I plan to do. I plan to

:00:17. > :00:20.be relaxed and take the whole experience in and enjoy it. Because

:00:21. > :00:27.I think if you don't enjoy it what was the point.

:00:28. > :00:35.What an experience this is going to be for Kyle Langford, in his first

:00:36. > :00:39.major championship final. A really talented field, Paula Radcliffe, and

:00:40. > :00:44.I guess he will have his own tactics. What kind of race are you

:00:45. > :00:49.expecting? I think what Kyle should be thinking is there's not really

:00:50. > :00:55.any pressure on him here. He just needs to go in, race hard, not even

:00:56. > :00:59.think too much about the fact he's in the World Championship final.

:01:00. > :01:03.Treat it like any other race, finish as high up the field as he can and

:01:04. > :01:11.not overthink it. Away from him, looking at the rest of this field,

:01:12. > :01:30.where do you see the medals going? I think one of the prerace favourites

:01:31. > :01:36.went out, but Amos, and Boss is dangerous too.

:01:37. > :01:43.We have noticed the sprinters seem to like this entrance more than the

:01:44. > :01:48.middle-distance runners. The theory as they need to do a few more

:01:49. > :01:53.strides in the stadium. Kyle Langford raising his hand and taking

:01:54. > :01:59.in the moment. And what a moment it is for him.

:02:00. > :02:07.What kind of experience can he gained? What can he say is a good

:02:08. > :02:12.results? He has gained experience with every stage. He needs to take

:02:13. > :02:27.that step up and it might as well be tonight.

:02:28. > :02:35.He's a young, ambitious athlete, cannot wait to see him in this one.

:02:36. > :02:41.Steve Cram and Foster. And a measure of the fact he's in this, you have

:02:42. > :02:49.to go all the way back to 1993, Curtis Robb was fourth, then no

:02:50. > :03:00.British athletes with the exception of Asaje in 2013. So just to be

:03:01. > :03:05.here, you measure him against the 800m laughs we have lost in the 20

:03:06. > :03:11.years, that's a big achievement to get to this final. What he can do

:03:12. > :03:22.from here, as Paula said there's no pressure. It has been blown open a

:03:23. > :03:34.bit by no Rudisha. The fact there are eight different nationalities

:03:35. > :03:53.represented here. Have a former world champion, Adam Kszczot.

:03:54. > :04:08.Anything could happen here. And we will just have a look at the full

:04:09. > :04:22.start list. McBride the front running Canadian may well take it

:04:23. > :04:28.out. Amos will want it quick. Bosse Won't be too far from the front

:04:29. > :04:33.either. There is a medal here for somebody. It's very high-quality

:04:34. > :04:40.field. And Amos will have memories of 2012, chasing home Rudisha when

:04:41. > :04:46.he broke the world record. Amos was just a junior himself on that day.

:04:47. > :04:51.He broke the world record for a junior and here he is with a chance

:04:52. > :04:57.to win. McBride isn't wanting to go to the bathroom, I think he's OK.

:04:58. > :05:14.That's his normal warm up routine, he does it every time. Andre,

:05:15. > :05:21.another great talent. He has had a new best this year. Adam Kszczot,

:05:22. > :05:26.incredibly dangerous if they don't take it out hard. This is the man

:05:27. > :05:30.everyone expects to do that, the Canadian has had an incredible

:05:31. > :05:40.season. Semifinalist in the Olympics last year. Great talent, Kenya just

:05:41. > :05:46.keep producing them and Bett is just 19, as indeed was Amos in the

:05:47. > :05:53.Olympics in 2012. In fact he was 18 then, I think. Could well be the

:05:54. > :05:58.favourite now. Coached by Mark Rowland, and he said I hope he gets

:05:59. > :06:03.through the rounds. He has been building his injuries after a year

:06:04. > :06:09.or two when things haven't been going well for him. So Bosse has

:06:10. > :06:17.looked almost back to his best, the French record-holder. Yes, soak it

:06:18. > :06:23.up. This is a great atmosphere and he's done incredibly well to be

:06:24. > :06:32.here. The European junior champion from 2015. Then the world champion

:06:33. > :06:37.from 2013. Slowly getting back to that sort of form. Eight men from

:06:38. > :06:54.eight different countries to contest the 800m final.

:06:55. > :07:01.As ever in middle-distance running, tactics are crucial. You have got to

:07:02. > :07:05.get it right, you have got to have a plan. You watch what others do and

:07:06. > :07:12.maybe change the plan if you have to. McBride will be thinking of

:07:13. > :07:17.getting out. That is the Canadian who leads it. There you go, there's

:07:18. > :07:23.the pushing and shoving we were worried about. As always in the

:07:24. > :07:28.men's 800m, the opening 200m is very testy. You have got to be careful,

:07:29. > :07:33.you cannot go to quit because it catches up with you later and there

:07:34. > :07:37.is bumping going on already. Amos decides he doesn't want any more of

:07:38. > :07:46.that and moves to the front running Canadian. Kyle Langford in a good

:07:47. > :07:51.pace. The pace is strong. 50.7 is too quick, they will slow down from

:07:52. > :07:55.here and I think I'll Langford will get some opportunities here, let's

:07:56. > :08:02.hope he can take them. He has been sensible through the first 400 but

:08:03. > :08:07.he has to stay in touch. The Paul has the best finish of anybody. Look

:08:08. > :08:13.at the Frenchman trying to attack, Amos realises it, cannot get

:08:14. > :08:19.through. He holds off Amos so the charge is on and the Frenchman has

:08:20. > :08:26.got to the front. Kszczot is a long way back, it is Bosse leading it.

:08:27. > :08:29.They are all going to try to chase for a medal and Kyle Langford is

:08:30. > :08:41.coming but it might not be enough time. Kszczot will come through for

:08:42. > :08:46.the silver. Bosse gets the gold, Kszczot gets the silver... And Kyle

:08:47. > :08:55.Langford almost, almost got the bronze. He's looking, I wish you had

:08:56. > :09:07.got it, mate, but sadly a couple of inches. Kyle Langford, by four

:09:08. > :09:14.hundredths the second with a new personal best. First of all Bosse

:09:15. > :09:19.was absolutely brilliant. Kszczot left it too late, Kyle followed him.

:09:20. > :09:28.I said at the start there was going to be somebody getting in there, it

:09:29. > :09:31.was nearly Kyle Langford! Doesn't matter, fourth was brilliant.

:09:32. > :09:37.Sometimes when you get that close, when you are charging like that, you

:09:38. > :09:49.think what is. We should applaud him for for. A shake of the head. He

:09:50. > :09:53.will be lying in bed going what if, it was so close, I nearly had it. He

:09:54. > :09:58.has got to be really pleased with that. He had a great reception, it's

:09:59. > :10:03.a wonderful stadium with a brilliant crowd here and when they received

:10:04. > :10:09.it, it was brilliant. McBride was leading and look at this point, they

:10:10. > :10:19.are going to quit at the front. 50.7 is too fast so him staying off the

:10:20. > :10:25.pace was very sensible. Then Bosse moves out. There is Kyle Langford

:10:26. > :10:32.being overtaken by Kszczot who's having a real go. They're on the

:10:33. > :10:37.bend goes Bosse, past Amos. There goes Amos again, Amos thinks he can

:10:38. > :10:41.win this but Bosse is driving. Langford is last coming into the

:10:42. > :10:46.finishing straight, really coming from an awful long way back. But

:10:47. > :10:52.there is Bosse and Langford, this home straight is magical for him.

:10:53. > :10:56.He's so much quicker than anybody else on the home straight. He hasn't

:10:57. > :11:07.got very much experience but he's full of talent. His coming -- he is

:11:08. > :11:13.coming past Amos. Look how close Kyle Langford is there. There is the

:11:14. > :11:23.winner, Kszczot in second place, and look how close he is to Bett off

:11:24. > :11:26.Kenya. His downstairs, how wonderful was that?

:11:27. > :11:31.Brendan asking how wonderful was that? It's a tremendous performance.

:11:32. > :11:33.It is bittersweet because I knew in my head I wanted to medal coming

:11:34. > :11:42.into this tonight. I thought it was going to be fate

:11:43. > :11:47.but you know, maybe I didn't raise the best I could have. I finished

:11:48. > :11:53.strong. Just a bit gutted to be honest. It is hard being so close of

:11:54. > :11:59.the medals. I proved it on the world stage and I'm only 21, I came for so

:12:00. > :12:03.hopefully in the years to come you will see me taking on Mo Farah. I

:12:04. > :12:07.want to say a massive thanks to the national lottery because without

:12:08. > :12:13.these guys I would not have been here. All of those lottery players,

:12:14. > :12:18.you are helping me fulfil my dreams. It might be your son or daughter one

:12:19. > :12:28.day given the chance to train. I'm going to say thanks to Nike, my

:12:29. > :12:33.parents, my coach, my old coach, and the fans have been amazing. Team

:12:34. > :12:38.Langford are all cheering you on, you have done them proud tonight,

:12:39. > :12:42.don't you think? Yes, I would love to have come away with a medal at

:12:43. > :12:45.the home Championships in front of this crowd would have been amazing

:12:46. > :12:53.and I know Great Britain need some medals so I wanted to get one, but

:12:54. > :12:59.it wasn't to be today. I think I'm stamping my authority on a

:13:00. > :13:06.world-class field now so I feel like stepping stones. So hopefully by

:13:07. > :13:10.Tokyo he will see me there contending for the gold. The

:13:11. > :13:18.tremendous performance tonight. Thank you.

:13:19. > :13:29.Renaud Lavillenie has a chance here tonight. Kendricks is still out in

:13:30. > :13:35.front, the American is the leader. Only three athletes remain. This is

:13:36. > :13:42.an opportunity to close the competition out possibly on this

:13:43. > :13:50.jump. 5.95, first attempt. That was really close but it is a foul for

:13:51. > :14:01.Renaud Lavillenie. So he's in third place because of the previous fouls.

:14:02. > :14:08.All first time fouls at 5.95. This was so close. Amos, and maybe

:14:09. > :14:16.his coach was right, 55 seconds for Amos on the second lap. Bosse was so

:14:17. > :14:22.strong, but Kyle was charging charging charging. He learnt a big

:14:23. > :14:27.lesson in Beijing a couple of years ago, Rio, all part of the process of

:14:28. > :14:35.the young man developing belief. He doesn't lack confidence, Kyle, but

:14:36. > :14:40.goodness me. He probably thought at that point, did I? You start to

:14:41. > :14:45.maybe convince yourself you got it, but I think he knew deep down. And

:14:46. > :14:49.that he mentioned his old coat as well, George Harrison, he's done a

:14:50. > :14:53.great job at setting him up and hopefully he will go on to win

:14:54. > :14:59.medals in the future. Personal best for Kyle Langford in fourth place,

:15:00. > :15:08.you cannot ask any more of any young athlete than that.

:15:09. > :15:22.Where is Kendricks. 5.95. That was his second attempt. Kendricks is

:15:23. > :15:29.still in the league. We are at the business end of this pole-vault

:15:30. > :15:34.final. -- Kendricks is still in the lead. Kendricks was flawless until

:15:35. > :15:40.this new height. He has opened the door again for Lavillenie. Let's see

:15:41. > :15:47.if we can see if he does get himself over. It might be that he just wants

:15:48. > :15:51.to adjust something. He can push them forward and backwards. Looks

:15:52. > :15:57.like it needs to come towards him. It is too far away from him. He can

:15:58. > :16:02.pull the uprights towards him. That will give him a chance. His high

:16:03. > :16:08.point is in front of the bar. He will check that with his coach. He

:16:09. > :16:13.has the side on view. Checking his take-off foot is directly below his

:16:14. > :16:17.hand. It is a very technical event, the pole-vault, in every aspect,

:16:18. > :16:23.during the run-up, the take-off, then it gets gymnastic as they go

:16:24. > :16:33.into a one-handed handstand at six metres in the air. It's an

:16:34. > :16:37.incredible event. Lavillenie, as I say, the door has been opened for

:16:38. > :16:45.him because Kendricks, although he is in the lead, has two fouls. Lisek

:16:46. > :16:50.of Poland also has two fouls. Lavillenie only has one. This jump

:16:51. > :16:57.would take them world record-holder into the lead, despite the previous

:16:58. > :17:03.fouls. He's never won a World Championships. It has almost been a

:17:04. > :17:07.bit of an Achilles' heel for him. Kendricks supporting the world

:17:08. > :17:20.record-holder. Lavillenie, second attempt, 5.9 five. Oh! -- 5.95. He

:17:21. > :17:25.was over it again. He knows. He knows. He will also need to adjust

:17:26. > :17:31.the uprights. It is going to go down to the third jumps for all athletes

:17:32. > :17:38.still in contention. A cat and mouse for Lavillenie. It will go to the

:17:39. > :17:47.third jumps, possibly to passes. We will update you in a second.

:17:48. > :17:53.As we anticipated, a fantastic pole vault competition underway. Watch

:17:54. > :18:01.out for Lavillenie. But there they come, the 400 metre men. For a final

:18:02. > :18:07.that van Niekerk hopes will be a double. But he needs to content with

:18:08. > :18:20.Gardiner. Now that Isaac Makwala is not lining up because of illness and

:18:21. > :18:27.the IAAF has said he cannot run, do you think it is between those two I

:18:28. > :18:30.don't think you can rule out Kerley. He had a horrible semifinal but

:18:31. > :18:37.there is still a possibility for him. They had a day off, as well.

:18:38. > :18:42.Van Niekerk didn't. That may have done Kerley some good. In Rio when

:18:43. > :18:51.he ran the world record in lane nine. Or eight. He ran his own race.

:18:52. > :18:56.Do you see those tactics being used to like? It will still run his own

:18:57. > :19:02.race. With Kerley on the inside, he'll have to wonder where he is, so

:19:03. > :19:12.I think he will run his own race. This is a compelling one. Lisek, he

:19:13. > :19:16.has jumped six metres indoors. He knows he has the physical

:19:17. > :19:22.capabilities to go over. Putting the pressure on Kendricks and the

:19:23. > :19:31.villainy with 5.95. -- and Lavillenie with 5.95. Good

:19:32. > :19:33.territory. But a third time failure. He is in silver medal position as we

:19:34. > :19:46.stand. Let's have a look at Gartner, the

:19:47. > :19:51.man who has looked fantastic. A majestic runner throughout these

:19:52. > :19:59.heats and semifinals. He has looked very easy indeed. And has also not

:20:00. > :20:03.been going for the double. Looking good. A young 400-metre runner. I've

:20:04. > :20:08.seen him in the past. When I first saw him a couple of years ago I

:20:09. > :20:16.thought he had tremendous ability. There he is. Very tall. An efficient

:20:17. > :20:21.runner. You don't see much difference between the first part of

:20:22. > :20:25.his race and the second part of it. He has got a lot of experience over

:20:26. > :20:32.the last couple of years. He will be feeling confident in his position.

:20:33. > :20:39.Because he is over in lane four. Two over inside of van Niekerk. He has

:20:40. > :20:45.run so well in these early rounds. He will have a tremendous amount of

:20:46. > :20:48.confidence. The pole-vault competition, it is now Kendricks of

:20:49. > :20:53.the US. Possibly the most important jump of

:20:54. > :21:04.his pole-vault career. 5.95, third attempt. Oh! Look at that! Kendricks

:21:05. > :21:15.has been incredible all summer. He is unbeaten. On the circuit, that

:21:16. > :21:24.is. It isn't a winning jump yet. An event that gave us the most dramatic

:21:25. > :21:29.evening out in Rio one year ago. Also, once again, it was a bronze

:21:30. > :21:35.last year for Kendricks. He has reinforced his chances of taking a

:21:36. > :21:40.gold medal with a clearance of 5.95. He has jumped six metres this year.

:21:41. > :21:47.He may need it again in a minute because the world record-holder has

:21:48. > :21:57.a chance to also... Actually, looking at my computer, it looks

:21:58. > :22:04.like Lavillenie has passed. The strategy is so compelling in

:22:05. > :22:11.pole-vault. And whilst it is almost a rerun of last year. It is these

:22:12. > :22:21.two men. Kendricks out in front. Lavillenie, who will have to clear

:22:22. > :22:25.6.01. What a competition. Nice to see the two still chatting to each

:22:26. > :22:30.other. Lavillenie will have to wait a little bit until this 400-metre

:22:31. > :22:35.final. At least I am assuming he will wait. Here is the line-up.

:22:36. > :22:39.There is no Isaac Makwala. I'm sure you have been following the story

:22:40. > :22:49.online about that. No need for me to talk any more about it.

:22:50. > :23:03.Van Niekerk is the world record-holder. It was always going

:23:04. > :23:07.to be an intriguing final anyway. With van Niekerk having ruled the

:23:08. > :23:13.world, of course, in recent times. The questions about whether Isaac

:23:14. > :23:17.Makwala can run close. He is an there. So it is up to his young

:23:18. > :23:31.team-mates. He is only 20. He started the season not that well.

:23:32. > :23:36.Gaye has had a great season. He has set a personal best this year. As

:23:37. > :23:39.have many others. That might be significant for van Niekerk.

:23:40. > :23:42.Defending champion, Olympic champion, world record-holder, van

:23:43. > :24:01.Niekerk of South Africa. 21-year-old Nathan Allen. Another

:24:02. > :24:06.superb talent. Brilliant qualification for him. Gardiner, for

:24:07. > :24:11.the first time, on the 44 seconds. Two national records for him this

:24:12. > :24:24.year. Another 20-year-old. The world Junior champion from Qatar. Formerly

:24:25. > :24:34.of Sudan. And if incredible talent from the USA. He finds himself in

:24:35. > :24:40.lane two. He has run 43.7 this year. Kerley in his first individual major

:24:41. > :24:45.championships. Well, we saw Gardiner, not since Michael Johnson

:24:46. > :24:57.did anybody run it on the 44 seconds in a final. That was 43.89. How

:24:58. > :25:03.quick can van Niekerk go? He has run under 44 a couple of times. He did

:25:04. > :25:05.it in Beijing. And he famously did it in Rio when he won the gold

:25:06. > :25:27.medal. The 400-metre final. The way they go. The crowd rising to

:25:28. > :25:32.the night's final event. Van Niekerk has an empty lane outside of him but

:25:33. > :25:37.he's already making up the stagger on Gaye. Trying to get away from

:25:38. > :25:40.Gardiner and Nathan Allen. He goes through the first 200 quickly. He

:25:41. > :25:45.has done it again here. Nathan Allen still with him. Gardiner still in

:25:46. > :25:51.this. This is when van Niekerk starts to go away. Gardiner trying

:25:52. > :25:58.to come through. So is Kerley. But it is van Niekerk at the moment.

:25:59. > :26:02.Gardiner is charging. Van Niekerk is tiring up a little bit. He is

:26:03. > :26:12.starting to look for the line. Van Niekerk is the world champion again.

:26:13. > :26:16.43.98. They did their best. They could not hang onto his shirt tails.

:26:17. > :26:20.It may not have been the best we have seen from van Niekerk. He may

:26:21. > :26:29.still have a bit of a 200 metres in his from yesterday. -- in his legs

:26:30. > :26:37.from yesterday. He is just so much better than everybody else. Too

:26:38. > :26:41.quick, too strong, too fast, dominating this race. His second

:26:42. > :27:00.world title. Gardiner got the silver medal. Heroine finishing extremely

:27:01. > :27:03.quickly for the bronze medal. -- Harouin finishing extremely quickly.

:27:04. > :27:07.We were billing this beforehand before we came to the championships

:27:08. > :27:13.as a possible world record. That hasn't been the case. Attempting the

:27:14. > :27:18.double might have been a factor. And the whole business with Isaac

:27:19. > :27:21.Makwala adding to it. But hats off to van Niekerk, he's just better

:27:22. > :27:28.than everyone. He is. This is where it shows. Watch him around here.

:27:29. > :27:34.Very smooth. And very smooth for the entire race. You do not see much of

:27:35. > :27:38.a transition. He maintains the same speed. Great speed and endurance.

:27:39. > :27:49.Lane seven was empty, meaning he has already made up the stagger. And you

:27:50. > :27:53.see now, the young athletes from the Bahamas, Gardiner, trying to get in

:27:54. > :28:00.there. I believe all of those personal bests, I think the personal

:28:01. > :28:05.best Gardiner ran in the earlier rounds may have taken it out of him.

:28:06. > :28:09.Van Niekerk, very smooth, he started to tire up a little bit down the

:28:10. > :28:15.home stretch. He decided I've got it I'm going to get ready for the 200

:28:16. > :28:21.and just shut down at the very end. Taking the World Championship

:28:22. > :28:30.victory. Not a great time at 43.80 nine. But he won't be concerned

:28:31. > :28:39.about that. -- not a great time at 43.89. Great scenes at both ends of

:28:40. > :28:46.the venue. Great victory for van Niekerk. But the pole-vault final is

:28:47. > :28:53.heating up. Kendricks might be smiling, but he has just knocked the

:28:54. > :28:57.poll off at the new height of 6.01. Perhaps a bit of gamesmanship going

:28:58. > :29:08.on. Chatting to the opposition. Different to what we saw last year.

:29:09. > :29:17.You may remember Lavillenie and the -- and da Silva being booed by the

:29:18. > :29:21.Brazilian fans. But there is huge respect amongst this British crowd.

:29:22. > :29:25.It's amazing to think he has never won a world title. He has been so

:29:26. > :29:29.dominant. The Olympics have always gone well, but the World

:29:30. > :29:35.Championships have never gone his way. Maybe this evening his fortune

:29:36. > :29:40.can change. But at the moment, as we stand, he is in third place, bronze

:29:41. > :29:53.medal, he is assured of that. But he can improve it. Two fouls already at

:29:54. > :30:01.5.95. But then a pass for Lavillenie. As you can see, the bar,

:30:02. > :30:08.6.01. Kendricks knocked it off. But he had a clearance of 5.95.

:30:09. > :30:15.Lavillenie, the Frenchman, striding out in pursuit of 6.01. Last chance.

:30:16. > :30:22.No. It wasn't to be. And another World Championships eludes a man who

:30:23. > :30:29.has been so brilliant. The world record-holder. Congratulations from

:30:30. > :30:33.Kendricks. The realisation of a dream country for the American. -- a

:30:34. > :30:45.dream come true. So bronze medal for Renaud

:30:46. > :30:56.Lavillenie, thumbs up. After the summer he has had, to take the world

:30:57. > :31:11.bronze is some performance. And an entertaining end. The Polish jumper,

:31:12. > :31:15.Lisek, with a new lifetime best. Kendricks in his tenth competition,

:31:16. > :31:25.his tenth win and boy is that the most important. Sam Kendricks. The

:31:26. > :31:30.great competition there and it may not have been the greatest of 400m

:31:31. > :31:40.finals given what we have seen in recent years, the battles with James

:31:41. > :31:44.and LaShawn Merritt. That's a lovely shot, isn't it. Exactly what happens

:31:45. > :31:50.in the end, they are all full of lactic acid. I will talk through

:31:51. > :31:54.this. The idea the empty lane was there but Michael made the point

:31:55. > :32:00.very well, taking on the double Michael knows better than anyone

:32:01. > :32:04.else that 200m, 400m double is tough and you have to be careful how you

:32:05. > :32:09.judge your effort through the rounds. Danny Talbot pushed him

:32:10. > :32:14.yesterday, and I thought he looked tired in the home straight. He has

:32:15. > :32:18.run a good race today. The threat doesn't really materialise. You can

:32:19. > :32:24.see him working hard and he looks at the screen, seeing if there is any

:32:25. > :32:51.danger. No, there are reasons, I can pull this through to the finish now.

:32:52. > :33:01.Almost got Gardiner for the silver. He's a lovely looking runner, van

:33:02. > :33:09.Niekerk. He's looking up at the screen, watching, checking. 200m

:33:10. > :33:17.semifinals tomorrow, and this is the hard one to shake out of the legs.

:33:18. > :33:27.The 400m final. And the time by his standards was at the bottom end of

:33:28. > :33:35.him pushing himself completely 100%. He is renowned for taking a little

:33:36. > :33:39.while to recover, Wayde van Niekerk and he is living up to that

:33:40. > :33:51.reputation today because I can tell you, he is still there. Ewan Thomas

:33:52. > :33:58.knows what that feels like. I'm not sure if that's the first time he's

:33:59. > :34:03.done an interview lying on his back. The full result, Wayde van Niekerk

:34:04. > :34:19.of South Africa, the gold medal, 43.98, retaining his title.

:34:20. > :34:25.And we will get more reaction on that race from Michael Johnson in a

:34:26. > :34:36.moment but if you have been with us all evening you will know the reason

:34:37. > :34:48.Isaac Makwala didn't run was because the IAAF didn't let him. Until this

:34:49. > :34:54.point we have only had one side of the story. Now we have the head of

:34:55. > :34:59.medical services at the IAAF. Thank you for joining us. We have read the

:35:00. > :35:03.statements you put out through the evening. The questions that spring

:35:04. > :35:08.to mind from the medical team of the Botswana 's, first of all as far as

:35:09. > :35:17.you are aware was that anyone involved in the medical examination

:35:18. > :35:22.from the Botswana association? No, because he came off his own accord

:35:23. > :35:27.and was seen by one of the doctors and was examined. When he was told

:35:28. > :35:32.he had DeCastro illness he decided to leave but another member of staff

:35:33. > :35:37.brought him back in because we have an outbreak of gastroenteritis in

:35:38. > :35:43.the hotel and it is highly infectious. Which medical

:35:44. > :35:49.examinations have been conducted to ascertain that? He had taken the

:35:50. > :35:53.history, and the history is very clear on this gentleman that he had

:35:54. > :35:57.similar symptoms to the other athletes that have also been classed

:35:58. > :36:05.as having this disease. The medical team from the Botswana association

:36:06. > :36:09.said his heart rate and temperature was normal and the only thing that

:36:10. > :36:14.has happened to him was he was sick ones. For them that didn't seem to

:36:15. > :36:18.be enough to determine that it was norovirus. That was not the history

:36:19. > :36:22.we had, he had been vomiting from 10pm the evening before and have

:36:23. > :36:26.vomited at two o'clock that afternoon so that was the history he

:36:27. > :36:31.gave to our doctor and what we wrote down in the records so as far as we

:36:32. > :36:38.are concerned he is staying in the same hotel and has the same symptoms

:36:39. > :36:41.as the other athletes who have also been quarantined from mixing with

:36:42. > :36:45.other people. And you didn't take any blood test or other sample? No

:36:46. > :36:50.because we had already had confirmation as to what the organism

:36:51. > :36:53.was and advice from Public Health England was we didn't need to take

:36:54. > :36:58.any more samples because the symptoms were the same. The length

:36:59. > :37:02.of the vomiting and other aspects were the same so we didn't need to

:37:03. > :37:08.take any other specimens. We've had a lot of athletes on social media,

:37:09. > :37:12.Dai Greene for example who said he was sick in the build-up to his race

:37:13. > :37:18.and nobody stopped him racing, we have heard swimmers saying the same

:37:19. > :37:22.thing. Is this protocol you are just invoking now? No, we are following

:37:23. > :37:29.the guidance from Public Health England. As soon as I knew we had a

:37:30. > :37:33.high number of athletes with this vomiting I contacted Public Health

:37:34. > :37:38.England. What was the motivation to stop him racing, to stop the spread?

:37:39. > :37:46.My responsibility is to ensure the healthcare of all the athletes here

:37:47. > :37:48.it is a very infectious and virulent disease. How are you going to police

:37:49. > :37:53.this because one of his team-mates was in that race tonight? We isolate

:37:54. > :37:58.them to their own room and ask them to stay there for 48 hours, and we

:37:59. > :38:03.also ensure the rest of the team know. We called all of the team

:38:04. > :38:07.leaders together on Sunday and went through the protocol from Public

:38:08. > :38:09.Health England, and we are meeting more doctors tomorrow and team

:38:10. > :38:17.leaders to go through the same process. Has he been provided his

:38:18. > :38:21.own separate room and is he quarantined in the hotel? Because

:38:22. > :38:25.the report we got is he still has the same roommate and is still in

:38:26. > :38:30.the same room he was in prior to all of it. As far as we are where he was

:38:31. > :38:35.in his own room because we would have sent someone to check, and the

:38:36. > :38:39.hotel has been identifying extra rooms for people to stay in their

:38:40. > :38:44.roommate has got the condition. He was at the track and warming up

:38:45. > :38:49.ahead of the 200 and he said he felt OK. He spoke to one of our reporters

:38:50. > :38:55.this morning and said he felt ready to race. His doctor in the team said

:38:56. > :38:58.he was ready to race, can you understand why... Yes, I totally

:38:59. > :39:02.understand and we feel sorry for the athletes but we have a

:39:03. > :39:08.responsibility to all of the athletes. It is a very tight, close

:39:09. > :39:14.community and we need to make sure all of the athletes are protected as

:39:15. > :39:19.well. Did you contact other athletes to ask them whether they would mind

:39:20. > :39:23.him competing in the state that he has been medically diagnosed in?

:39:24. > :39:30.Because if they came back and said actually we have no problem, I...

:39:31. > :39:33.All of the teams that have had athletes that have been isolated

:39:34. > :39:40.have all been very cooperative and have helped us. We have applied the

:39:41. > :39:45.interventions we have been advised to do so this is the first time we

:39:46. > :39:53.have had... It is not a legally binding recommendation, Public

:39:54. > :39:58.Health England recommend that. But it is recommended on tried and

:39:59. > :40:01.tested experience. But his own medical team are responsible for him

:40:02. > :40:10.and they say they are happy for him to compete for his health's sake,

:40:11. > :40:15.there is no medical proof that it is norovirus, you are working on the

:40:16. > :40:19.assumption it was. But it is commonality. There were a number of

:40:20. > :40:22.athletes in that hotel with the same symptoms and we have positive

:40:23. > :40:30.laboratory results from people staying in the hotel with the same

:40:31. > :40:34.symptoms. But not him. But you cannot, it takes 36 hours for the

:40:35. > :40:39.test to come back. We were advised we didn't need to take any more

:40:40. > :40:45.tests by Public Health England because we had identified the

:40:46. > :40:51.organism causing the virus. His temperature was taken and it was

:40:52. > :40:55.normal. People have different varieties of presentations, you can

:40:56. > :40:59.have severe diarrhoea and we have an athlete today who is quite sick from

:41:00. > :41:04.the symptoms but somebody else might vomit once or twice. Some people

:41:05. > :41:08.have diarrhoea, some people have a temperature and some people don't.

:41:09. > :41:12.We have been looking at this in isolation but putting it in the

:41:13. > :41:16.context of who the athlete is and what's going on at the time, at the

:41:17. > :41:20.end of the day there was a decision made. I understand Public Health

:41:21. > :41:25.England made a recommendation but the IAAF has the authority to make

:41:26. > :41:29.the decision and has its own protocols. What was considered in

:41:30. > :41:37.making this decision, and was it ever a point where there was any...

:41:38. > :41:43.Any sympathy or empathy for the athlete, or any consideration from

:41:44. > :41:46.allowing the athlete to go ahead and complete? We have great sympathy for

:41:47. > :41:51.the athletes who cannot compete because they have contracted this

:41:52. > :41:58.infection, but we are responsible for all of the athletes' help. One

:41:59. > :42:03.case which Neil Eckhardt, who collapsed but was allowed to compete

:42:04. > :42:08.in the triple jump, on what basis does that collapse, is that

:42:09. > :42:13.overridden by being sick ones? I cannot comment on that. He may have

:42:14. > :42:18.collapsed for many other reasons and I haven't heard about this. But

:42:19. > :42:24.couldn't those symptoms be attributed to many other reasons as

:42:25. > :42:26.opposed to making the assumption it is norovirus? I cannot comment on

:42:27. > :42:36.this case because I don't know about it. I'm talking about Makwala. It is

:42:37. > :42:40.difficult, he presented with the same symptoms, vomiting the nearly

:42:41. > :42:45.18 hours in the hotel, which is exactly what other athletes have

:42:46. > :42:49.done including those which we have identified viral identification from

:42:50. > :42:53.the Public health laboratory, so you have to use the assumption that

:42:54. > :42:57.anybody who is vomiting from that period of time in that situation

:42:58. > :43:03.where the infection has got a hold, they have got the same symptoms so

:43:04. > :43:06.we protect everybody. I must tell you what the medical representative

:43:07. > :43:10.from the Botswana team said, that when they saw the report Isaac said

:43:11. > :43:14.he never said he was ten o'clock the night before and had only been sick

:43:15. > :43:18.ones that date, and at ten o'clock the night before he was having

:43:19. > :43:25.treatment and there is photographic evidence of that. I have to stand by

:43:26. > :43:30.my doctor, a qualified doctor who would not... He wrote down what he

:43:31. > :43:34.assessed from the patient. I guess the guess the thing the IAAF is

:43:35. > :43:37.creating here is president and across this championship every

:43:38. > :43:45.athlete who is sick is going to have to be pulled from their races if it

:43:46. > :43:53.is within 48 hours. Are they going to tell you now? We can only expect

:43:54. > :43:57.that we have, at the moment we have great cooperation from all of the

:43:58. > :44:00.teams that have presented with athletes who are sick. The one thing

:44:01. > :44:05.beyond all of that is the communication, and what we have

:44:06. > :44:08.understood from the Botswana team, and what we have received ourselves

:44:09. > :44:17.in trying to report to the public the situation with Isaac Makwala,

:44:18. > :44:22.we've had very little information ourselves, they have reported the

:44:23. > :44:30.information has come in late, was there any consideration by the IAAF?

:44:31. > :44:36.Because Isaac Makwala tried to get in tonight and was turned away. We

:44:37. > :44:41.have communicated with all of the teams and will do again tomorrow. I

:44:42. > :44:50.was phoned immediately, he was seen in the medical room. I was then with

:44:51. > :44:54.the IAAF medical delegate and we proceeded or Stefan proceeded to

:44:55. > :44:58.contact the team leader to withdraw him from the competition. At that

:44:59. > :45:03.point could you not have checked him again to see if it was conclusive

:45:04. > :45:11.that he was unwell to run? At that point, he believes in his heart he

:45:12. > :45:15.is ready. Many of the athletes have very acute symptoms. He described to

:45:16. > :45:20.our doctor and the doctor has noted that he started vomiting at 10pm the

:45:21. > :45:23.night before and have vomited at two o'clock that afternoon. I have to

:45:24. > :45:29.believe what the doctor has written in his notes, he's a professional

:45:30. > :45:36.clinician so we have to take account of what he has written in the notes.

:45:37. > :45:40.Ultimately it is your decision? It was not my decision, the decision is

:45:41. > :45:44.purely the IAAF, a decision is to maintain the healthcare of the

:45:45. > :45:49.athletes here. That is what I'm here to do, not to make decisions about

:45:50. > :45:53.withdrawal. I can provide advice from Public Health England and

:45:54. > :45:55.that's a very experienced highly qualified people who deal with these

:45:56. > :46:05.situations all the time. I appreciate you giving that side of

:46:06. > :46:10.the situation. It's understandable you don't want disease to spread.

:46:11. > :46:14.What is apparent is a terrible level of communication that has gone on

:46:15. > :46:19.here in terms of getting that message across. And athletes that

:46:20. > :46:25.feels shattered, heartbroken. I understand that. -- an athlete that

:46:26. > :46:29.feels. But you would risk many other athletes not competing, as well.

:46:30. > :46:34.Worse case scenario, loads of people dropping out, staff being affected.

:46:35. > :46:37.I understand. But when this started this morning, communication could

:46:38. > :46:40.have been better and would have helped both sides to come out of

:46:41. > :46:45.this with a little bit more clarity and certainty. I understand the

:46:46. > :46:53.health of all of the other athletes had to be -- has to be protected, as

:46:54. > :47:01.well. Could a simple blood test has helped? It doesn't tell you. You

:47:02. > :47:06.don't take blood for this. You take other samples. You send them to a

:47:07. > :47:12.specific laboratory in Cambridge. It can take up to 48 hours. The first

:47:13. > :47:17.test went in on Friday. I got the results Sunday morning. I'm just

:47:18. > :47:21.thinking for him. To help him psychologically deal with it. If you

:47:22. > :47:26.are actually confronted with it in black and white then it is a little

:47:27. > :47:32.bit easier. Now he is just thinking what if. It would also be easier for

:47:33. > :47:37.the IAAF if in 36 hours you can say, we told you so, this is what... But

:47:38. > :47:44.in the meantime he could have competed and affected other

:47:45. > :47:46.athletes. We are saying, and we've been talking about the lack of

:47:47. > :47:51.communication with the athlete, which is caused all of this drama

:47:52. > :47:56.and cost a great deal of pain and anguish. Not from just not being

:47:57. > :48:00.able to run, but having it not been explained why. He is extremely

:48:01. > :48:06.confused and frustrated because he has not been communicated to as to

:48:07. > :48:10.why this decision was made. My role is not to make that decision. My

:48:11. > :48:14.role is to protect the rest of the athletes as the head of health care.

:48:15. > :48:22.The issue was we were in touch with the team leader as soon as we could

:48:23. > :48:24.be. We saw him at half past five. We had great difficulty in contacting

:48:25. > :48:30.the right people at the right time because of the short period of time

:48:31. > :48:36.we had. We appreciate you coming up and explaining this from the IAAF's

:48:37. > :48:40.position and it is fair to say that nobody really ends the day, Isaac

:48:41. > :48:45.Makwala or the medical team, thinking everybody is happy with

:48:46. > :48:51.this decision. Certainly the night it felt like that. It felt different

:48:52. > :48:55.because of that lane being empty in the final. It felt like when van

:48:56. > :48:59.Niekerk crossed the line he did not look as joyous as I was expecting. I

:49:00. > :49:06.don't know if he didn't get the contest he wanted. Isaac Makwala

:49:07. > :49:10.will always have the what ifs, so will we, so will everybody, what

:49:11. > :49:14.would have happened if he had been in that race? Thank you. We

:49:15. > :49:16.appreciate it. Let's take a look at the medal table after events this

:49:17. > :49:45.evening. The medal table hasn't changed

:49:46. > :49:49.dramatically through the evening. Such a shame. Looking at Great

:49:50. > :49:55.Britain down in ninth place. We have had some near misses, haven't we?

:49:56. > :50:01.Kyle Langford was horrific the night. That bronze column for Great

:50:02. > :50:06.Britain with Hawkins, Laura Muir, and Kyle Langford, it could look

:50:07. > :50:15.different, so cruel. I think I am jinxing people. Nothing to do with

:50:16. > :50:21.me! Just in my mind. Let's go back to the 400-metre race. It isn't one

:50:22. > :50:25.of those finals like Beijing when van Niekerk had to be taken out on a

:50:26. > :50:29.stretcher, he was absolutely exhausted, he got a world record in

:50:30. > :50:34.Rio. It certainly didn't have that feel to it. It won't go down in

:50:35. > :50:43.history. It didn't have that feel. How much of that and the time was...

:50:44. > :50:47.Was van Niekerk thinking I've got a 200 metres coming up so I wouldn't

:50:48. > :50:51.put everything into this. I've got the race won. I will just do what I

:50:52. > :50:57.need to do to cross the finish line and get the gold medal. It doesn't

:50:58. > :51:03.finish here. Van Niekerk running very relaxed down the back stretch.

:51:04. > :51:07.Pushing around this bend. That is where Gardiner starts to make up

:51:08. > :51:11.ground here. Left it a little bit late. I still believe a little bit

:51:12. > :51:19.fatigued from the semifinal, which was blazing fast. I think he is

:51:20. > :51:23.starting to fatigue little bit from the 200 metres yesterday. But he

:51:24. > :51:27.realises he has a huge gap and he can relax. As you can see, he really

:51:28. > :51:31.slows down coming over the finishing line, knowing that he has a 200

:51:32. > :51:36.metres semifinal tomorrow that he will need to contest in. It's going

:51:37. > :51:40.to go without saying that he knows now that the number one 200-metre

:51:41. > :51:45.runner in the world isn't here. That's a problem. That is a problem

:51:46. > :51:54.the sport will have. It will always linger over this. Again. Isaac

:51:55. > :52:00.Makwala there, getting up to the pace. In control of this race from

:52:01. > :52:04.start to finish. Talking about van Niekerk, not just the race,

:52:05. > :52:08.beautiful stride. What makes him so good is he is super efficient all

:52:09. > :52:13.the way round. Great speed endurance. We know he has fantastic

:52:14. > :52:21.speed, as well, with a 19.84 200-metre personal best this year.

:52:22. > :52:32.9.90 4/100 metres personal best, I believe. -- 9.94 personal best over

:52:33. > :52:37.the hundred metres, I believe. Take it easy at this point without much

:52:38. > :52:42.competition. Curley did not amount to much. He had a personal best this

:52:43. > :52:46.year. But a very long collegiate season in the US. -- Kerley did not

:52:47. > :53:04.amount to much. Her van Niekerk, 25, the oldest man in

:53:05. > :53:08.that race. There is a young group of talent coming through that'll be

:53:09. > :53:11.excited over the next few years and the next cycle. This will continue

:53:12. > :53:18.to be an exciting event. Think about the last few years, what we have

:53:19. > :53:22.been treated to. LaShawn Merritt and James. Those guys were fantastic,

:53:23. > :53:32.winning it back and forth. I don't believe Gardiner and Kerley will get

:53:33. > :53:37.close to van Niekerk. As long as he is healthy I think he will keep

:53:38. > :53:39.going. And the 800-metre final which featured Britain's Kyle Langford. We

:53:40. > :53:48.can relive the race again. As ever in middle distance running,

:53:49. > :53:52.tactics are crucial. You've got to get it right. You've got to have a

:53:53. > :53:56.plan. Watch what the others do and maybe change the plan if you need.

:53:57. > :54:01.McBride will be thinking of getting out. Amos and his coach talked about

:54:02. > :54:05.pushing and shoving to get into a good position behind McBride. The

:54:06. > :54:10.Canadian in the lead. There is the pushing and shoving they were

:54:11. > :54:15.worried about. Always in the men's 800 metres the opening 200 metres is

:54:16. > :54:20.very testy. You've got to be careful. You've got to do it right.

:54:21. > :54:23.There is bumping going on already. Amos on the outside decides he

:54:24. > :54:29.doesn't want any more of that and begins to move close to the front

:54:30. > :54:35.running Canadian. Kyle Langford in a good place. Pace is strong. He is

:54:36. > :54:41.running this pretty well. Too quick. They must slow down from here.

:54:42. > :54:45.Langford, coming from behind, will get opportunities here. Let's hope

:54:46. > :54:53.he can take them. He has been sensible through the first 400. But

:54:54. > :54:58.he needs to stay in touch. Bosse moving up on the outside, the tall

:54:59. > :55:07.Frenchman. He is trying to attack. Amos realises and cannot get

:55:08. > :55:12.through. Bett has managed to hold off Amos. Langford is still in the

:55:13. > :55:19.back. France in the lead. Bett chasing. Kyle Langford is coming.

:55:20. > :55:25.There might not be enough time for him. Bosse out in front. Kszczot

:55:26. > :55:32.going for the silver. Langford is still coming. Bosse takes the gold.

:55:33. > :55:43.Kszczot gets the silver medal. And Kyle Langford almost, almost got the

:55:44. > :55:48.bronze. He is looking. I wish he got it. But sadly I don't think he is

:55:49. > :55:53.there. Yes, a couple of inches. He just ran out of track. And when

:55:54. > :55:55.you see it back it doesn't get easier. I was hoping he would get it

:55:56. > :56:04.this time. CHUCKLES

:56:05. > :56:09.Talk us through his race, Paula. Taking it on from the bell. He

:56:10. > :56:13.judged the first lap perfect. He didn't waste the energy Amos used

:56:14. > :56:21.trying to get himself out of a box and able to cover the lead McBride

:56:22. > :56:26.made from the start. Bosse making his move and he made it brilliantly.

:56:27. > :56:32.Absolutely at the right time. Kszczot Mr Ted if a bit. And just

:56:33. > :56:38.here, this is when he looked at it back, there is little to say to an

:56:39. > :56:44.athlete getting a personal best, but he just made the move a little bit

:56:45. > :56:48.too late. Had he been a little bit closer to Kszczot. Look how much

:56:49. > :56:52.ground he makes up on the athlete in front of him. He could feel the

:56:53. > :57:00.crowd pushing him. We could feel it up here. Now he feels he is gaining.

:57:01. > :57:04.He is past Amos. Had the finish line being just two metres further away,

:57:05. > :57:08.even five metres away, he would have got there. It is just that couple of

:57:09. > :57:13.seconds of just reacting early enough. He did everything perfect.

:57:14. > :57:20.Carried it through in his mind all of the drills he's been through that

:57:21. > :57:24.have brought him to this final. We told him to go out, run the race you

:57:25. > :57:27.did in the semifinals again. He pretty much did that. Now he is

:57:28. > :57:34.fourth in a World Championships final. He caved into this ranked

:57:35. > :57:39.40th in the world. He has made a huge strides. -- he came into this.

:57:40. > :57:48.We expect him to begin in finals now. -- one person we expected to be

:57:49. > :57:52.in the finals was Asher-Smith. But getting there was a medical miracle.

:57:53. > :57:56.She was told that she would be out for six months, but she came back

:57:57. > :58:00.within that and she's looking good. She is. When you are injured

:58:01. > :58:05.sometimes you have to just leave volume behind and just focus on

:58:06. > :58:10.speed endurance. This is her in lane two. We expect a bullet like start

:58:11. > :58:18.from her. She is electric over the bend. In 200 metres we always look

:58:19. > :58:24.for the transition. She made it look effortless. Coasting. She knows she

:58:25. > :58:30.is relaxed. Just track to go for. And what a simple, simple race.

:58:31. > :58:37.Great to have her in the next round, Michael. Yes. We always expect her

:58:38. > :58:40.to get a great start. That's one of her weapons. One of the things that

:58:41. > :58:45.makes her so great is her efficiency. We talk about that a

:58:46. > :58:49.lot. It's extremely important for sprinters. When she first came on

:58:50. > :58:53.the scene we noticed that was one of her strengths. Very efficient. A

:58:54. > :58:57.beautiful sprinter. Nice and relaxed there. That is another key as to why

:58:58. > :59:04.she has been able to come back so quick. She isn't one of those people

:59:05. > :59:09.who struggles to run a quick 200 metres. She is efficient with it. It

:59:10. > :59:13.has been a quiet night, not much on at the track. It's been an

:59:14. > :59:18.incredible few days. We are at the halfway point, can you believe it?

:59:19. > :59:22.We still have half of this championship to come. Still time for

:59:23. > :59:27.Great Britain to increase their medal tally. And still time for

:59:28. > :59:31.plenty more controversy, as well. It has been a fascinating evening. Five

:59:32. > :59:34.gold medals decided. We will enjoy them now. We will see you tomorrow.

:59:35. > :59:35.Good night.