Day 8, Part 1 Athletics: World Championships

A very good morning, and it is a glorious morning here in east London

at the London Stadium, we have the first morning session for quite a

few days now, we are not expecting the crowds to be a sell-out this

morning, but there will be plenty of fans out to see the start of the

decathlon, always an exciting moment, two days of gruelling

action, so who better to join us on the sofa than the man himself, Daley

Thompson? And it is more than just a cushion today, we have the real

thing, Daley Thompson is in the house, we are delighted to see you,

Denise is here as well, a multi-eventing pantheon of talent,

and we are always happy to see Daley. Love seeing the legend coming

into town, he brings an air of... What is the word I am looking for?

Unexpected ness! What has been the highlight for you? So far the

highlight has been cursed and Warholm in the men's 200m finals,

two years ago he was an OK decathlete, decided he wanted to try

something else, and now he is a world champion. 21 years old, the

Norwegian, and he came in the studio last night and said, I think I have

found my events now! Denise has talked about this as well, the

multi-eventing platform, he might not end up world and Olympic

champion in the decathlon, but you might find something else you can

take on, and the other skills you get from competing are only going to

stand you in good stead. You learn so much about yourself, your

strengths and weaknesses, and because athletics is so varied,

there is nearly always something else you can hook into and be good

at. There is about 30 women that have done combined events, competing

in single event is here, about eight or nine male athletes who have done

the cat long, so it is quite varied, great to see that you can get to

this level. Yeah, and if you have got a short attention span and you

have got lots of things going on, it is perfect, that is what he said, he

likes to keep challenging himself. Wayde van Niekerk was going for the

double in the 400 under 200 coming goddess 400 a couple of nights ago,

and last night was the 200m final, and he has been dominating the

papers. Guliyev of Turkey won, Wayde van Niekerk got the second. Some of

his comments in the papers come he feels disrespected by Isaac Makwala,

who has inferred that there was some kind of conspiracy to push Van

Niekerk to the top of the tree. Let's hear from Wayde van Niekerk

now. I worked just as hard as every other competitor, I showed everyone

else respect, and I think I didn't get the respect that I deserved

after the 400m, and I am glad that I came through today and put on a good

show, but like I said, I believe this is only the beginning of so

much more that I can provide. Like I said, it is only the beginning, I am

going to put in so much more work and show my dominance. It seems

strange that anyone could remotely question you, Olympic champion,

world record-holder, that they would not view you as a worthy winner,

where were you that sense from? It was... It was no secret that a lot

of people felt that the results should have been the other way, but

I have proven everyone wrong today. Like I said, I am going to prove it

over and over again, that I deserve where I am, I deserve what I have

achieved, and I thank God so much again for such a great competition.

So the luck as he crossed the line in the 400m, a little bit

nonplussed, not a massive celebration, and we thought maybe he

was feeling it would have been great to have Makwala there. Obviously, he

didn't get the enjoyment out of it. Clearly, he is unhappy, but he is a

great champion, I am surprised he feels that way. But when he crossed

the line, he seemed a little subdued, he gave a little clap, but

he didn't do a lap of honour. I don't know, there is great rivalry

amongst the African nations, they have been competing together for a

good few years, but no, listen, he was the favourite coming in, he

delivered, he did the job. Gold and silver, he didn't complete the

double, 22 years since Michael Johnson has done it, but Michael

explained last night and is not just a matter of saying, I am a good

forward and metres runner, I get to 280 since time, it is adjusting all

your training. -- I am a good 400m runner, I get to 200m in a decent

time, it is about adjusting all your training. I think Michael is right,

it is a really stressful situation, and you want Abebe Lee happy

afterwards, and you start getting the feeling that people are

disrespecting you. -- and you want to be really happy afterwards. He

has come away from here with gold and silver, and it might not be

everything he wanted, but it is a really good start, and there is no

reason he cannot do the double at the next major championship. It is

an event rich in talent, 200 and 400, and it is a shame that Makwala

is in urging the wrong side of 30, because that rivalry would be

exciting going forward. But hopefully that will come from the

Brit, who really pushed himself onto the podium, even gold he said he was

going for. Is not a million miles away, and sometimes, as we all saw,

these races can be really close. Just looking the wrong way at the

wrong time, relaxing at the wrong time can slow you up by 100, and

that can make all the difference. Hopefully he has learned from here,

and leading up to Tokyo he will get on the podium. I was really

impressed by his interview. Yes, his second major championships, still

only 23, still so much to learn, you do not get to the top of the sport,

some are very lucky if they do it in their first championships, but the

vast majority have to learn how to navigate the rounds, deal with the

situation is presented to them, the emotions. Curbing your mind is such

a powerful thing, he will get there. Great runner. We will move on to the

women's 400m hurdles final, which took place last night, let's relive

it. Away they go, great strength in the

second half of the race, the leader Mohammed is flying already, moving

along so well, Eilidh Doyle with a bit of ground to make up on the

inside. -- Delilah Mohammed. Good run from Kori Carter, the Americans

rise almost together, Kori Carter on the inside. Muhammad, headshaking

from side to side, leading them along the home straight, Kori Carter

is challenging her now, Muhammad, Kori Carter it is Kori Carter who

will take it, and Kori Carter, by a distance the champion from Muhammad.

It is America's gold, but not the American we expected. Kori Carter is

the champion. That race also finished Eilidh

Doyle, the British captain, and Phil Jones spoke to her afterwards. And

other world final, you would have hoped for a better result, no doubt,

but with this kind of quality, it is an achievement in itself, how would

you assess your season and the race? It was hard to make the final, I

would have liked to have given a better account of myself in that

race, but I mucked up the top bend, I was all over the place coming into

the home straight. I wish I could have run a better straight part.

World finals again, I cannot be too disappointed. As for your role, we

have talked about it already, there has been a lot of feedback from the

others, saying how inspired they are by you, the things you have been

able to help with, making finals time after time, you are an

inspiration, by the sounds of it. Very kind of them to say that, I am

a consistent at least, I have been very lucky in terms of no real

injuries or anything like that. -- I am a consistent athlete. I will keep

going and see what happens. And you are not finished here, relay duties

to come, the team have high hopes, what is it like a transition from

this do that? It is always great, especially with my individuals not

going as I would have liked them, the girls are great at lifting you

up, picking you up, I hope we run well again.

Yeah, Eilidh Doyle always someone who, even if her season has been

fairly average, pushes herself in championships to get into those

finals, but well off the pace in terms of time is coming into this

compared to the top girls, so expecting a medal was a big ask.

Definitely do push into the medals, but like I said yesterday, when you

come to the championships and you do not run the race you would like to,

you leave feeling disappointed, and she is better than what she showed

in that final, so she will be bitterly disappointed with the way

she ran. We expected her to get to the final, but it was the how bit

that was disappointing. If anything personifies these championships so

far, it is shocks, near misses, champions from Rio not performing

here, and again last night there was a surprise winner in Kori Carter.

Absolutely, one of the things at this championships is that there has

been no incredible marks, but lots of close competitions, and I think

Carter is a case in point. I don't think anyone was expecting her to

win, we were expecting Muhammad to win, budget was fabulous. One of the

nice about being on the outside, you want to be able to execute your

stride pattern and your rhythm, and if you have got nobody to see, you

can get on and do it, and she was fantastic last night. We might be

having her in the studio later, hopefully we will get a chance to

talk to her. Christian Taylor might be popping in, he sees itself as

something of an honorary Brit, and he was out wearing his 1830 band. He

didn't get close to that, but his third round jump was close enough to

give him is third world title. He is such a competitor, single-minded

about not only winning, but he wanted to jump really far, get that

world record. But it was not meant to be, he has got his team, his mum,

his dad there, and I thought this was really special, he was quite

emotional after his performance. His coach there. Yes, he has been

working with him for years now, taken in through to the double

Olympic champion titles and now another world title. Really good

scenes, very dedicated athlete, very committed. He spoke to Phil Jones

afterwards. Christian, congratulations on another gold

medal, your third at the World Championships, quite a competition.

Yeah, Phil, it was a wonderful night, I really had big

expectations, big goals, and to come out with a win is wonderful. I can

never take that for granted. It was a wonderful night, adding to the

medal count and coming out healthy. Will play put out a decent job

early, a bit of nip and tuck between the pair of you. -- Will Claye. You

always pull it out when you need to. I tried to put myself in the best

position for the final, this is what we trained for, every round he said,

be ready to respond. Claye's fifth jump was pretty scary, but I stayed

ready, stayed alert, and I came out on top.

So Jonathan Edwards' world record is safe once more, we will have to wait

another day to see if he gets there to take that world record, Christian

Taylor. Let's go to the women's 200m semifinals, three heats, and world

champion Dafne Schippers, who got a bronze in the 100m, looking really

strong in what appears to be her favoured event now. It is the event

she has been doing the longest, part of the heptathlon, so we have come

to expect this beautiful style from Dafne, looking so relaxed there!

Just able to shut it down 60m from the line, she looks really good.

Heptathlete, and the sprinting was the thing she wanted to pursue and

she was a really good heptathlete. A bronze-medallist at the last World

Championships. I did hear a great quote, she said, I was going to do a

Dutch accent! It's great because I don't have to do so much technical

training in other offence and I can focus on that, so it is much harder

being a hacked athlete, she was saying. Most of us if we had the

choice would be better at something else because you have to spend so

much time, Dafne has grown into being one of the world's best

sprinters and there is no reason she can't win tonight. You fancy her

tonight to retain her title? Again, it is going to be really close. If

she does a really good race, I think she can win it. Let's look at the

second heat. Maybe the challenge will come from Sean a Miller who got

hurt toes stumped a couple of metres from the line.

Looking majestic last night. She did not come off the bend in the lead

but because she has the 400m strength behind her and the speed

endurance, she is able to Coast her way through the field and she took

her time. She took her time and conserving energy for the final.

Looking very good. And she has a point to prove now. Whatever went on

in the 400, she has got to show the world that is not really her and she

is a much better athlete. She said J looked up at the screen in the 400

and that Forster, that tiny movement but are off-balance and she got her

toes stumped. I imagine she will never look at this screen again in

her life! To go from a considerable lead in

the 400, it is incredible the way she moved back and not even out of

gold medal but out of the medals. Nearly everybody has exhaustion with

20 metres to go and if anything goes wrong and your timing goes off, you

look like a lamb are learning to walk. It is really difficult. You

did like to look at the screen occasionally. When I was on it! That

is what I mean! Bianca Williams was in that heat as well. Not making it

through, what did you make of her run? She will be disappointed. But

she has done very well to come back to get to this level. A couple of

pens down years but she has been running well. But she just is a

couple of tenths away and she needs to stay focused.

Dina Asher-Smith in this race and six months ago, she couldn't walk.

And here she is. Qualifying for a final of the World Championships. It

is remarkable how she has stayed level-headed and got enough work to

get her to this level. I think she is looking as good. Tying a little

bit here because she had to run hard because she does not know what she

has got so she has to give it everything. But really good. Talou

looking strong, this is going to be a good matchup.

Of those, you would say Dafne Schippers was easing up the most,

but that shows you what an even race it is. How long has it been since we

have not taught about an American in the sprint 200? That is the other

thing, so many people from so many countries seem to be picking up and

winning things. It is brilliant. Is that partly a post-Olympic thing? A

new settling down of the order. Is it just other countries are adopting

training methods. Adopting other practices that have perhaps been the

preserve of the Jamaica and the America? For too long, there has

been a big head-to-head between the Americans and the Jamaicans,

especially in the sprint. We have to realise the world order has changed

in track and field. It is getting more balanced. We have seen that

from the times. Coaches move around, athletes change their training base.

I think it just makes for a much more level playing field. Every

country has aspirations to get onto the board and they will do

everything to make sure they do. A country like South Africa suddenly

has a number of gold-medallists coming through and it is very

inspiring. It is brilliant. You are right, it does inspire the other

little countries. They can make a statement in the world by putting a

bit of resources behind a long jumper or Pole Vault. It's great it

is spreading around the world. It would be nice if we did not have so

many for places, Great Britain! But our fourth positions... Am hopeful!

Our fourth places have been from our younger athletes, which bodes well

for the future. Absolutely, the fact they are so disappointed and really

feel they have got more in them and they feel they can be is wonderful.

One of those was Laura Muir in the 1500m and she was trying to qualify

for the 5,000 metres final. She has not even run one this year

and she had a tough challenge after that difficult 1500m and it was

really quite a pain in the last 100 for her, Denise. Because she has

been so successful the less two years, we used to seeing her winning

and breaking and getting personal bests, and it was important the

expectations were lowered for this event. She has only run two in her

life. This was a tall order. She looked so tired. So tired. Bless

her. On reflection, do you think we should have, she should have done

both? It is a bonus now because she has

got one 5K left and anything can happen as we have seen, races do not

always go with the form. Just enjoy it. She is stepping up in class and

moving into a place where her and her coach have never been and if you

do not try it commit you will never know. And she will come away from

this Championships and she will know where she is. The W normally see,

especially Dame Kellie Holmes -- the double. In the second heat was

Eilish McColgan. Previously a steeplechaser and riddled with

injuries. No injuries this season and able to

train and is delighted with her performance. It's great to see her

realising that potential. It is a blessing when an athlete comes into

this Championships giving their best and being at their best. This was a

fantastic run from Eilish. One of the athletes that have made a

stunning comeback, Stephanie Twell we know also had injuries, but not

only does Eilish only have the physical challenge, she has the

weight of being the daughter of a very successful British athlete in

Liz McColgan. So to have that burden for some many years and stand alone

in her own right is fantastic. Absolutely, well said.

You had been in many teams with Liz McColgan. Down the years and she is

a tough test massacre, expect. Great role model. Interesting morning

coming -- a tough task master. This is what you can expect.

Germany's Rico Freimuth and Damian Warner will attempt to fill the

Deepcut on Boyd left by Ashton Eaton, Ashley Bryant goes for Great

Britain. A British duo, 2013 bronze-medallist Tiffani Porter and

Alicia Barrett, the National Champion, take to the track. The

Brits will be joined by world-record holder Kendra Harrison. London 2012

Champion Sally Pearson. And reigning World Champion Danielle Williams.

Britain's London 2012 runs medallist Robbie Grabarz is in High Jump

qualification action. Favourite to take that title is the athlete from

Qatar who has the top four jumps in the world to his name this year. So

things cook off with the 100m men's decathlon to stake a claim after

Ashley Eaton. Followed by the discus qualification with Sandra Perkovic

among those on show. The heats of the women's 100m hurdles with

Britain's Tiffany Porter, a world bronze-medallist in 2013 and

world-record holder, sorry, 100 hurdles. And world-record holder

Kendra Harrison. Active and 's did have one for the Long Jump. And then

the qualification of the men's High Jump. The second group of discus

qualification gets under way at 1135 a:m.. And we end with the shot-put.

A gruelling two days for those decathletes, ten events. They really

put their bodies and their minds and their souls on the line and we

enjoyed watching daily doing that time and time again. But let's go

down memory lane and remind you how he won the very first World

Championships. Daley is away, Thompson coming away

on the near side and holing up -- holding up at the moment. Leading by

a long margin. 10.62. A good start for daily.

And that is better. That is better. What a response from the man. Can

Daley get somewhere near 50 metres and 44 centimetres that we know he

is capable of? Oh, yes! That is enormous from Daley!

Oh, good, oh, good. Big smile, it is back again. Thompson now driving

hard but they are catching him and he is tying up as they come to the

line. Thompson. And Thompson, Hickson... Daley having a good one

so far. A bit of a disaster for the Russian. Daley coming through. It is

a good run. And Daley has run well. This would be a throw from Daley

Thompson. That is nice, solid, what a good piece of throwing.

The second attempt at five metres ten. Oh, he is clear!

Daley needs a better cushion if he can get it. About 15 seconds to make

up in that 1500m but he has thrown well, and providing he is fit... A

long throw! Oh, absolutely on the nail. Putting him to the test and he

comes through it every time. Daley Thompson dragging himself up to the

line and he has done enough. And that is our first World Champion!

And that is quite magnificent! What are you doing? The guy who is

the world leader at the moment, his dad was competing against me. Rico

Freimuth. So you are just checking what he is up to? No, just making

sure he was there so I can attend I remembered! Great memories for you.

Absolutely. It was one of my finest moments. To be at the first World

Championships. And to have all the best guys in the world there, it

is... Very special. But who was that guy? Did not have any grey hair! You

are not looking too bad! That is what I was waiting to hear! Daley on

good form, Steve Cram, as we start this to Gabon. Day one, 100m to get

them going, over to you, good morning.

Good morning, some of us have aged better than others since 1983. No

grey hair here. First event of the morning. It is a pretty good crowd,

a special day, the Olympic Stadium, get yourself ready. Just pointing

out over on the far side of the stadium, the men ready, four heats.

Lining up in the first. Kurt Felix from grenade, silver-medallist.

Dudas a good sprinter. Thomas van der Plaetsen is a good Pole Vault to

come he was third in the national championships this year. And the

European champion. Good conditions, the decathletes would be delighted

the weather has changed for the better over the last 24 hours, 36

hours. The sun is shining, no wind in the stadium.

So Tonnesen of Spain, Auzeil of France, Oiglane from Estonia,

Bourrada of Algeria, Ushiro of Japan, the Japanese record-holder,

Felix Dudas, Van der Plaetsen. Bourrada in lane five was fifth in

Rio and Beijing after having had a two year ban, he came back in 2014.

He may be the quickest here. They get away safely, Bourrada does

get a good start in the middle, in the green, and Dudas going well,

they are coming away from the rest, Dudas wins, Bourrada in second,

10.77, it is a pretty good start for the Serbian. The last time we saw

him was at the European indoors. Bronze-medallist in Amsterdam in the

European Championships that were held before Rio. That is a very good

start for him. Solid start, Steve, you are right, personal best of

10.67. If you open your the catalogue with 10.75, you have got

to be pleased. The key thing is keeping his form, trying to save as

much energy as you can, nice little dip at the finish, grabbing those

hundredths, hoping that it will make a difference, you never know.

I was just saying to Daley, the times of the men's 100m, a bit more

mixed up than the women's hurdles. The quickest women going in the very

last heat, the slowest in the very first, but men like Dudas, in the

next heat Santos. It is down to how they have been doing this season,

some have better personal bests, it is a mix, but it doesn't matter that

much, you run in your lane, you have got to focus, and the best

decathletes are still going in the last heat. It is like a time trial.

So a season's best from Dudas there, a good start. But when you are in

the blocks, your first event of ten, are you not racing? You are

literally just trying to do your own thing? Complete tunnel vision,

because the place where you come in the race doesn't matter, first or

last, you are just tried to get the points for the equivalent times,

that is all you are doing. One of the things that was nice was Steve

Cram doing some homework, I know he hates the decathlon! Of icy knew you

were coming in! Clearly! Ashley Bryant has had a good year, he is in

the next heat, he has got into some good positions, hasn't he? He has

got it together finally, Ashley has been very frustrated with niggles

here and there, he has not been able to show what he has got. So he got

that lovely, wonderful silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, but this

year, new personal best, 8173, and that will set him up. He will be

looking to get in the top eight, it is going to be very difficult

indeed, but what you don't want is to make mistakes, it is just

minimising mistakes, giving yourself an opportunity. You just need to

come here and get somewhere near his personal best, because whenever you

come to a major championships, the one thing you have to do is be at at

least you'll season's best. Olympic silver-medallist in this next heat.

Apart from Ashton Eaton, he was head and shoulders, but he has been

competing in a few events and competing very well. He won the

European indoors this year, set a new record for heptathlon, but a

very interesting individual, not one of the taller decathletes, but no

weaknesses, and I think he is the person that we look to to really

lead into this decathlon, really strong, he is a poster boy, in fact.

Ashton Eaton has dominated for so long, somebody can step up to the

plate and take the title, be the man. Do you know what? I am sure

there are two or three guys who think they can, but Kevin Mayer

would be my favourite from the start. You do kind of miss Ashton

Eaton. Yes, but Kevin will take this forward, and you need the rivalry.

And you surely will get that, back to Steve now for the final result of

the first heat. Ashley Bryant just getting ready

there, love listening to Daley Thompson's thoughts, I love the

decathlon, especially the 1500m, the toughest of all events, of course!

Just waiting for the result, Dudas was 917 points for his 10.75, so a

pretty good start for him. Kurt Felix ran well also. We will just

confirm it here, Bourrada with 10.8 was in second place, Van der

Plaetsen, not an especially good start for the Belgian, 11.35. We

might have been surprised to see Dudas run that time, but he had not

run 100m this season, the seedings are done by season's best. This is

how they line up in the second heat of the 100, Jefferson Santos is out,

the South American champion does not start. Ashley Bryant goes in lane

five. There is Ashley Bryant, based in Loughborough now, he has had a

switch to his coaching setup, 18 months or so ago he went to love

brat, and he works with individual coaches now, and he says he is

feeling the benefit. -- he went to Loughborough. His head coach, well,

he works with individual coaches in the individual events. He has moved

up to... Well, he is over 8100 or so points at the moment in the

decathlon. He had a decent event at the big multi-eventing events in

Austria in May. But he says he can find another 300 points, and that

would get him into top tens in major championships. Mayer, however, a

real contender for a medal, 8834 points. If that doesn't mean

anything to you, when Daley Thompson won with a world record in Los

Angeles, 8847, that is where Kevin Mayer is, just a fraction behind

that. So the second quickest or second slowest, four leads to come,

this is the second heat, two more after this. And we are told that is

Uibo. Kevin Mayer, the Frenchman, former world junior and world youth

champion, pushed Ashton Eaton very hard in Rio. Jorge Urena you, silver

at the European indoor championships in heptathlon in Belgrade. And

Ashley Bryant, third on the UK all time list, he is a decent sprinter,

pretty decent across all the events, although his pole vault lets him

down a bit, not a great high jumper either. Cedric Dubler, the

Australian champion. Leonel Suarez of Cuba, he had knee surgery in

2014, he has not been the same since. Kai Kazmirek, very strong

German challenge in the decathlon. Pieter Braun of the Netherlands goes

in lane nine. So, again, see how close you can get to your personal

best, Ashley Bryant is just outside 11 seconds. He has run 11.7 seconds.

So Uibo of Estonia, then Kevin Mayer, Jorge Urena, then Dubler,

Suarez, Kazmirek, then Pieter Braun of the Netherlands. Ashley Bryant to

start his decathlon campaign here in London. Away cleanly, and the

Spaniard, Urena, off to a great start, look at Kevin Mayer,

wonderful run, coming through for Germany, Kazmirek, but that is a big

personal best for Kevin Mayer, he has seen that on the screen, what a

start for Kevin Mayer. Looking at the contenders in the aftermath of

Ashton Eaton calling his retirement, Kevin Mayer may well be the leading

challenger for gold, 10.70, what a start for the French athlete to get

going in the decathlon. He will be happy with that, sets himself up for

the whole ten events of adventure. A good, competent sprinter, nice and

tall and rangy, no panic ever, and even though he is trying to set a

personal best in every event, he didn't go tight at any stage, very

confident, he has arrived here in great shape. Let's have a look at

the start, great start by Urena, then Mayer comes through, not quite

the quick turnover of the legs, but such a long stride. The the ground,

very powerful, pushing forward. -- he eats up the ground. Working,

working, working, very good to see. Not dissimilar to Ashton Eaton, who

was a very quick sprinter, but if you are at the world-class

sprinters, they have a very quick leg turnover, whereas Ashton Eaton

was a long striding sprinter. It is different in the detached long. They

do not spend that much time on specific events, they have to be a

master of many. This is a solid start for the Frenchman. The results

have not come up on our computer, oh, we have them there.

Kevin Mayer trains with KJT, and that is how you want to start with

your decathlon. It is the only way, because it gives you confidence in

the stuff you are doing, but now everybody knows he is in great shop,

they will start worrying about him. So he has done the best possible

start. The look on his face, he knows that he has delivered, what he

has been training for, what he has been working towards, he knows it is

inside of him, but to execute it is a different matter, as we have seen

time and again. They are the master chefs, the decathletes, of track and

field. They make their own formulas, what works for them, how much of

each event they are going to work on, they have to keep building, and

Kevin is quite a unique character, he is really relaxed, as you can

see, in his technique, but the way he trains as well. He is very

specific, just a natural talent, and he has got a lot of inner

confidence, and his team around him have realised that. Little and often

works best for him. He has had injuries before he came to this

world level, but he has now found his rhythm. Ashley Bryant, a

season's best, and if you can deliver the best of your season

today and tomorrow, then you will leave here feeling you have done a

job. It makes you a championship performer. To be honest, it is easy

to do personal bests at the trials and all that kind of stuff, but to

come here when the conditions are not necessarily so good, but the

competition is seriously intense, perform here, that makes you a

championship performer. Steve Cram, Daley has already pointed out that

some viewers are delighted he is here this morning! Steve, I got a

message from Alison this morning, and all it says is, all a girl be on

the morning, breakfast in bed and DT on television!

I have always known, who can argue with the greatest? I am at a huge

disadvantage here, and I have got more decorum than he has!

Breakfast in bed? Part-timers, my radio colleagues! Seriously. Daley

is good at self is. He is partial to checking himself out on camera in

the mirror. Not sure if it is free seating this morning, maybe not. It

is pretty busy on the lower level, a lot of people sitting in the

sunshine, an assume that is the way it has turned out in terms of

tickets. So there is the start list for the third heat. Shkurenev,

Martin Roe, Samuelsson. Nakamura. Daley was right about Mayer, he

started well and he has shown the others what is possible. These guys

certainly capable of that sort of time. Good morning, all.

The field event under way, the women's discus qualification. The

top 12, and this is your favourite, Sandra Perkovic. 27 years of age.

Double Olympic champion. How about that? Nerves hitting even the very

best, Perkovic has thrown beyond 70 metres this year. 62.50. Maybe

taking it too easy. Athletes sometimes struggle with morning

qualification. Perkovic had a foul in the first round. Jade Lally. The

British drummer looking to go into the qualifying. She is going to need

something close to the best. Gets ready for her first row.

The athlete watch this man here of the work, Helcelet. I am is sure he

scored more points than daily Thompson, three-time World Champion.

See how he goes. New personal best for the Czech athlete. Samuelsson,

silver medal this year. Nakamura, decent sprinter. The Asian champion,

just 20 years of age, living these championships, Singkhon, a chance

for a lot more experience for him. Not bad in the sprint. We will see

how he goes. Temp at the Olympic Games last year and he took part at

Gotzis this year and did not finish. Brugger, bronze-medallist at the

World Indoor Championships last year. And then Distelberger of

Austria, just missed out in Prague in the Indoor Championships this

year, he finished fourth. At his best, he is the quickest in the

field. Shkurenev in lane one, we did not

quite see. He might just be one to watch in terms of medals, not so

much in the 100m. New personal best this year of 8600.

Watch Distelberger. Lane nine. He may well be the quickest here.

Oh, Brugger. Unlike the non-multi- events, that does not mean

disqualification. Colin, we were remarking last night, there was a

disqualification, it was some task phone who fell over in the 200m. We

have had very few. Is. It is good to see the discipline from the

athletes. Mops who many of the -- and not too many upsets. That is a

good sign, they will now be under the caution, Steve. Caution goes

against the field. Not a grey hair between us, look at that!

We are sitting right above the finish line, an excellent view here.

It looks a bit sparse this morning. It has been incredible, the crowds.

Daley mentioned it at the beginning, Brendan was talking about it

yesterday. The atmosphere last night was particularly good. So once more,

on the far side, Shkurenev. Martin Roe. Helcelet. Samuelsson. Singkhon.

Brugger and Distelberger. We have had one. Full. -- one false start.

This time, they get cleanly away, it even awake, Nakamura starting

quickly, Roe going well Distelberger on the inside. Roe is going to win

this, Distelberger second. A bit of a headwind there. The winning time

is 10.91, not a quick heat. Jade Lally, the opening throw in the

discus qualification. A foul for her, that is a disappointing start.

Just shy of 60 metres. You can see the left foot" in the edge of the

throwing circle. --" In. We will need to tidy that up. The thought

has got to, downright on the bottom. A bit sloppy as we tidy up this 400m

decathlon. Sprint. Yes, Steve, just bringing Colin N.

The wind for the first time, a bit of a headwind, that takes a tenth

off and the time is a bit slow. Yes, always in the decathlon, this can

happen when you up always edging for the points. When you get a -1.3 wind

which is what we had here, it can be a turnaround in your performance.

Good sprinting by Roe. He worked hard all the way through and he got

out. OK, the track is sprinting well, he is in reasonably good

shape. But when you are running into a -1.3, you can see how frustrating

that can be. Taking the edge off his performance.

STUDIO: heat four loaded with talent, Damian Warner and Trey

Hardee. Going back to that heat, that was

quite slow. People well outside their PBs. I think the wind played a

big part. As we have said all along, it is tough to do your best when you

get into a championship. And it is tough and new if the wind does

change in your heat. Absolutely. One thing that is going to be really

disappointing for the Russian on the inside in lane one, he was one of

the favourites and he is probably three or four tenths down already so

he has lost 100 points. Shkurenev, so he has to pick himself up for the

Shot Put. Yes, get himself, a bit like golf, forget the last shot. No

matter how bad. Now he has to get into the Long Jump. Good analogy,

probably more people watching have played golf rather than done a

decathlon! But with fewer shots! And Daley is such a keen golfer so he

would know! Excuse me! Looking forward to heat four, Damian Warner

is in there. Silver-medallist from Rio, no, that was Damian Warner.

Trey Hardee. Trey Hardee, former World Champion. And Freimuth who has

the biggest score in the world this year. Yes, this is the big one.

Three or four of the best, in the race. It should be a real test for

everybody. Normally, they do not race each other in each heat. Yes,

of course. As we have said, so it will be really nice for them to get

out there. They have been in the hold. Do you enjoy that in a heat

which is your main protagonists? It doesn't aways work-out as we have

seen with Nafi Thiam. Is it a great joy to line up with those? I prefer

to do it that way, I don't know about Denise, did you enjoyed being

in the races with your closest competitors? Yes, you want to keep

an eye on them and you want to know what they are doing. It is the best

way. Freimuth is such a talent. He is one of the tallest decathletes in

this field. This is a good event for him. He is really quick and strong

in the sprint and running events. In terms of Damian Warner... Au! He is

a joke at! He has been around such a long time, Trey Hardee. Great to see

him back fit and able to compete. Damian Warner, it in the absence of

Ashton Eaton... Thank you, Gabby. How quickly you forget! Everybody

has been looking for him to step into his shoes but he has his work

cut out. It doesn't always work out when you think it is your time to be

the King and there are other rivals for the throw and the Crown. -- the

throw. Perhaps time has moved on for Trey Hardee but he will be pushing

these guys. This is Warner, the fastest man that has ever been in a

decathlon. 10.1 best and he needs to be at that kind of speed to get in

front of Freimuth who is also a very quick sprinter. Any news on the

winds down there, on the track? It seems really calm, a lot of

chuckling going on around me. Easily amused early in the morning! It is

switching around down there. We shall see. We shall see. Well,

protected against the sun, good to see, sensible. Just about ready for

the fourth heat in the 100m, in the decathlon. Not going well in the

seating! Heavy seating. Clambering up. Poor technique! This is the

result of the previous heat. Martin Roe, 10.9. Slow into the headwind.

Distelberger. And Shkurenev, not a good start for him. Always quite a

nice way for the men the start of a decathlon with the 100m rather than

the women in the heptathlon starting with the 100 hurdles were more

things can go wrong. If you get out, you can have a nice free run at it.

Three Americans, Devon Williams, and Trey Hardee the veteran in lane

nine. This is Kasyanov, sixth and seventh at the last Olympics, Devon

Williams, 23-year-old, third at the US championships and his sister

Kendall was 12. Both good at the hurdles. Sintnicolaas, the twice in

a Daegu in 2011 and Moscow in 2013. Ziemek, seven in Rio, second in the

US Championships. Aerodynamic. Lindon Victor, the US collegiate

champion from grenade. The -- Kurt Felix is his half brother from the

first heat. Damian Warner, he ran his best in Gotzis last year. 10.15

is an extraordinary time and that is the worlds decathlon best, the

fastest ever run in a decathlon. Saluri, the Estonian, studying at

the University of Georgia. In lane eight, Freimuth, set the world lead

this year in Rattigan, in Germany, in June. And Trey Hardee, 33 now,

World Champion in 2009, 2011, but Dill good enough to win the US title

this year. -- still good enough. And a man who can run 10.40. Looping and

hollering and getting themselves ready for the first of ten events.

Kasyanov, Devon Williams, Damian Warner of Canada in six. Saluri of

Estonia. Trey Hardee in nine, three Americans in here. And Freimuth

perhaps the favourite, but he will see what Kevin Mayer did. And off

goes Lindon Victor. That is fine, as Steve was explaining, in

multi-eventing, you get one., but that is against the next one and it

is over. For that person. Did we put the kiss of death on it

by saying. Schema they are not as used to sprinting as the dedicated

sprinters, but because you know you have got that, back to the old days,

you got one, so you perhaps thinking about getting a bit of a flyer.

Perhaps that is the case, but Mr Thomson is in the studio, is there

less discipline now? Lyndon Victor has brought that up on the whole

field. Trey Hardee gets ready to settle

again, less whooping this time. Oh, somebody!

Kasyanov, Sintnicolaas, Lyndon Victor, Saluri, Freimuth. Damian

Warner, 10.15 is his quickest. 10.35 this season.

Cleanly away, and Damian Warner will start to move into a zone, Trey

Hardee struggling a little bit, Saluri going well, but Warner is

bringing them home, good run from Bryant, 10.50, so not that quick for

Damian Warner, a quizzical look up at the screen. I think he expected

better, he has run 10.35 this season, there wasn't much wind at

all against, so I think he would have expected better. This is his

strongest event by a distance, and not flying from Damian Warner. A

little bit of a quick gun, that could have caught him out. He

prefers as an athlete to settle in the blocks, not going up quickly,

you don't have the opportunity to drive as much as you would like to.

I think that has caught him out, with 10.50, he will be a little bit

disappointed, because he knows he is more capable than that. I wonder

what's Daley thinks? Daley thinks he would be a bit disappointed, he

would normally be 1.5 tenths faster than anyone in the field, but

Freimuth is probably less than a tenth behind, so good run by

Freimuth and not quite so good by Warner. He has been struggling,

Daley, with this illness that has been around, Damian Warner, I think

he was in isolation, but Rico Freimuth has come up with a season's

best, so a great start. Warner just a little bit down. Hopefully he will

not feel any bad effects, as he has actually started, he will be able to

get back on the road again. So Damian Warner the winner of the

heat, as we say, not quite with his usual zip, running 10.50, but Rico

Freimuth comes to the finish very strongly, a real power athlete, one

-- once he got into his running, a season's best.

Well, back to this women's discus got -- discus qualification, 62.50

is needed for her, this is a better throw, it is long, look at that,

what a response from Perkovic. Maybe frustrated at herself, take a bow.

Needing to take two throws, great delay of the right arm, the head

strikes, followed by the arm, perfect demonstration of how to

throw discus a long way, no one beyond 70 metres other than herself

this year. She has got the three longest throws in the world, has the

Croatian athlete, and now she has the fourth longest as well, 69.6

seven. Anita Marton with a load this cause, silver-medallist in the shot

put, competed really well, even by Gong of China. And well, Marton,

discus not quite as strong, does not get the delay, the arm comes through

at the same time as the hip, so no improvement for L, 55.96, looks

unlikely to qualify. Jane Lalli, a foul in the first round, needs a

Daley Thompson -esque response. Great memories of Daley wandering in

for his third discus throw, we will have to ask him about that. Jade

Lalli, 62.50 needed, or something close. Top 12 make it through to the

final. That is shy of 60m. That is another foul, so she puts herself

under pressure for one more chance. Fouled and voluntarily,

surprisingly, two prowls for Lally, big pressure in the third round, not

going to plan for the British champion. Under some pressure

indeed. Well, the hurdles coming out for the

women's conduct, let's just tidy up the cattle on -- the decathlon 100m.

This is how they stand at the first event.

A big personal best for Kevin Mayer, he is the man who has done best of

all, silver-medallist behind Ashton Eaton at the Olympics. A little bit

further down, a couple of the Americans there, a little bit under

par in the 100m. A season's best is time for the British athlete.

When it is your best event, Daley, and you don't give your best, as

Damian Warner did there, going back to what we were saying before,

compartmentalised in and moving on, but there will be a niggle in his

mind, thinking he hasn't posted this cool he should have. Absolutely, two

things have happened, he knows he has to work really hard just to get

back to level, and everybody behind him that has done OK, they are

thinking, we might have a chance here. We are going to be able to

push him out. So two things have changed, and he will have to do a

really good long jump and shot, maybe get 20 or 30 points extra in

some of the things. You know, Damian Warner would have expected to be 50,

maybe 70 points in front of everybody here, and he is only ten

in front. So the pressure is on him now, you will have to really... And

you can't help but think that if this norovirus has taken a bit out

of him, is it going to be a few percent down on the other events,

the events that involves speed on the runway, for the long jump?

Obviously the 400 as well. The trouble is, apart from Kevin Mayer,

who was head and shoulders above everybody, everybody else is

actually quite close. When you are losing ten or 20 or 30 points here

and there, it is really difficult to get them back, because you are

already expecting to do a good performance in the next event.

Damian Warner probably thinks he is in a little bit of trouble, but

Kevin Mayer is obviously in pole position, he has done a personal

best, and shown everybody else... At this point in the decathlon, are you

communicating with each other? Did you stay completely on your own in

the zone? I know you were joking around and smiling when things were

more relaxed, but... I think everybody has their own way of doing

it, and I think you are right, wait until two or three events have gone,

then everybody is relaxed, they can see how they are going. But I think

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from 11 o'clock tonight. We are about to start the women's

hurdles heats, and in the first of those heats, Olesya Povh it, she

qualified as champion in the trials. -- Alicia Barrett. She is the

Prodigy and some time hopeful future champion for Toni Minichiello. --

the protege. What kind of shape is she in? She is in good shape, she

was invited to this as an addition, she hadn't won with the qualifying

time, she didn't have that, but they were sending out invitations, so

this was a bit of a surprise. She had just come out of the European

Juniors, where she got a silver medal, and the plan was to go to the

world student games, but if you get the opportunity to come to the World

Championships, what you have cleaned up, difficult to say no. Was it

difficult? Did you wrestle with that in terms of their progress as an

athlete? Or was there no doubt that coming here would be instrumental in

informing her going forwards, how to behave, this kind of stage? We did

wrestle with it, we took a day over making a final decision, whether to

accept the invitation or not, because she had come down out of the

European junior championships a little bit beaten up, so we needed

to make sure that she was fully fit coming into here. But this is what

kids dream of, this is the level you have got to be, so chuck them in,

see if they swim or trout. And she did well in the British

championships, and it was a great opportunity for her. It is nice to

win a senior title when you are still a junior, but without the

sisters being there, it is a lower-level championships, but the

best of the rest at that point, British champion, nice to have that

in your CB. Thank you, Toni, any nerves for you? Not really, it is

all about trying to normalise this, 30 metres to the first hurdle, it is

no different than what you have done 15 times before, so no, we will just

see how we go, BELL RINGS

Huge expectations. Thank you, Toni! People inside the stadium will be

excited at the sign of an athlete in a British vest, but those

expectations have to be tempered because this is, as Toni was saying,

it is a learning process, a great experience for her to be here

alongside some of the best in the world. That is how they line up for

this first heat in the first round of the women's 100 hurdles. The

first of five, four go through automatically, Isabelle Pedersen,

former world junior champion, new personal best this season, 12.75. If

you look at times, you can see that Barrett has run a very quick time,

13.0 seven. Zagre was at 12.96. Alicia Barrett goes in lane four.

Danielle Williams, 12.56, a new personal best this season, the

defending champion, a surprise win in Beijing a couple of years ago.

Pamela Dutkiewicz of Germany, she is running well this season, the German

champion, down to 12.61. Girona back of the Netherlands, Moraes of

Brazil, the new South American champion, then Kerekes of Hungary.

So what an experience this is in the sunshine inside this grand stadium,

to be running in the World Championships. Anything after this

is a bonus. There will be many championships to come, but in

hurdles there is always a chance, four go through automatically.

Pedersen, Zagre. Danielle Williams, the World Champion. And Kerekes.

Cleanly away and Danielle Williams going quickly, Barrett left. Also

going strongly is the German, Dutkiewicz. Four go through

automatically, Zagre makes up the four, into a slight wind, a good run

by Danielle Williams. Good run by the Jamaican. We will see what time

Alicia Barrett managed, because it is about this experience they might

have hoped to progress to the semifinals but that was always a

tall order against this calibre of athletes. Danielle Williams

alongside the World Champion. She goes through, Dutkiewicz and

Pedersen and Zagre. Colin. Williams was brilliant, I was looking forward

to see how she would arrive at these championships, defending her title,

in yellow, from Jamaica, very good. Competent when it comes to the

technique. Happy to run on the these barriers. Takes the risk of getting

close. Because she is so good technically, she can afford to do

that. Very good to see she is working hard and into this wind, a

very solid performance by the Jamaican.

Your assessment of that race? It wasn't great, I did not get the best

start. But it was really fun! It was awful, but it was kind of fun. Happy

with it can solve. Gabby has been talking to your coach Tony about how

you got here and the invitation came and you debated it. You're going to

learn a lot from it. Yes, definitely. Not sure what to do but

that helped, not being ready, because I was not overthinking it

which was a good thing. I was really shocked, I was like, what?! Well

done on the silver medal at the Europeans, fantastic. What are you

learning from this experience compared to the junior stage? With

the juniors, you kind of focus on your own race to take into the

seniors, instead of being distracted by people around you, that is what I

want to learn. I did not do that today, but hopefully next time.

Thank you, this is just the start for you.

That is a good way of describing it, awful but kind of fun at the same

time, Tony. Yes, looking at the foot on the hurdles are not running as

efficiently as she should Comey you should drive your need more at the

hurdles than her but, I'm sure she would be a disappointed, into my

nice 1.4, it is about the average she has been running over the

season. If you look at the best for her, 13.07, what can be done? Does

she have the tools to get below 13? That is the thing. It is about flat

speed for her and learning. You have run 13.07 and you average better

times this season compared to year before. You need to get under 13

seconds readily. So it is all about improving that speed. She's not the

greatest flat 100m runner but we need to work on that. A lot of the

best hurdlers over the years have been very good sprinters. Danielle

Williams at the top and 1312,66. Alicia Barrett in her World

Championship debut. So Jade Lally, the six time British

champion Rams medallist in the Commonwealth Games. She has the

experience to cope with the situation, two fouls and she needs a

throw in excess of 60 metres. She has saved that, I think, but dipping

shy of the 60-metre line. Jade Lally carried those fouls and just maybe

tries to force that in the third and final round. She auto qualifies, but

the first pool with 15 athletes in each. It is a better throw, the

sequences better. Did not quite get onto the left side is to get it

down, almost pulling up into that. 57.71. That is eighth place, that

will not be enough, I don't thing. Another athlete under pressure is

the reigning champion of Cuba, Denia Caballero. In sixth place. Very

fast, the active reverse. That is better. Maybe just needed that

pressure of a third throw. High-fives all round in the Cuban

camp and Caballero puts her mark out beyond auto qualifying. The final on

Sunday. She is under pressure to retain her world title with the form

we have just seen early on of Sandra Perkovic. Just shy of 70 metres from

Sandra Perkovic. Caballero. 63.79. She auto qualifies. So real

disappointment and Jade Lally is left to ponder and wonder what the

future holds. And another championship slips between her

fingers. She will likely take no part in that final, eighth place,

she slips the ninth after the throw from Caballero.

Disappointment, let's hope things are better for Tiffany Porter. A

difficult season, World Championship record is excellent, in the top five

including the bronze medal in 2013. Fourth in 2011 and fifth in 2015.

She was not at the trials. She had a bit of time away and her last race,

she was 13 flat. To give you an idea of her form. Her sister Cindy is

injured and out for the season. Megan Symmonds finished second in

their championships. Semifinalist at the Olympics last year. Four

Jamaicans. Nia Ali the Olympic silver-medallist and USA, as ever,

in credibly well represented. Phylicia George of Canada. And on

the outside, European junior silver-medallist Kozak, 21 years of

age. The top four go through. Boons. Mulern Jean, another former American

running for Haiti, decided it is an event where if you are an American,

it is so tough to make the team. She is competing for Haiti, a former

American herself. She needs a top four, I hope, that should be all

right. It is what happens when you get to the semifinal stage. Nia Ali

in the middle and Megan Simmonds. Tiff Porter in four. Tiff Porter

gets out well and so does Simmonds of Jamaica and Ali got left. Tiff

Porter just run out and might not get the four. Simmonds, Phylicia

George. Tiff Porter is in sixth. Into that headwind, 12.7. I said,

Colin, she has been struggling all season. Even that was not a

performance... Tiff Porter run 13 flat in her last race and she has

not even got under 13 seconds. She is looking up at the screen, sixth

place, only the top four go through. It sure she will not advance, Colin.

Really disappointing for Tiff. So good at these championships in the

past. She will be disappointed, but we have to keep a clear head.

Difficult season, trying her best to get to top form. But obviously

running out of time. Let's have a look. Here she is out of the blocks

and we are used to seeing Tiffani explode out and be very aggressive.

She clattered the barrier. When you have not been able to go to all the

races, that is when the mixed event is tricky and difficult because you

are unsure of what you can do and how you can push on, your legs

moving the right way, can you drive off the trail leg? These things are

really complicated. They have got to get them right at these

championships. Tiff missing that time during the season, really, that

has caused this performance from her.

Tiff is a little bit shocked by that performance, I think. A difficult

year for you we know. Yes, I have been really struggling this year, I

have had many setbacks. Just not in the form I need to be in and that

was massively disappointing. What can I say? Can you elaborate on some

of the things you have had to deal with? I have had a couple of niggles

and personal stuff I have been dealing with as well. I just did not

want to miss out on this opportunity, I wanted to put my best

foot forward. It is just so embarrassing to come out here and

run like that. You should never be embarrassed, you are a great

Ambassador for us and you can't legislate for injuries and the lack

of build-up you wanted. You are one of the fastest losers but not

getting through, do you regret coming here, is this something... I

would never say I would regret it, running in front of a British crowd

is awesome and I wanted to put on a show. Unfortunately, that did not

happen today, that is what athletics is all about. Thank you for being so

honest. Thanks, guys. Just to confirm that, certainly not

her usual standard. She has explained why. 13.18, she is the

fastest loser but her chances do not look good.

STUDIO: Tiffany Porter was a bronze-medallist and Olympic

finalist with her sister in Rio, not looking like she is progressing in

this competition. Denise, troubled year, disappointing

for her not to build on those performances. Yes, really

disappointed and I think her interview said it, it is a hard

decision when you know you are selected.

Of the calibre she has been that. But you do not want to turn down

your place. The London Stadium is fantastic. Maybe she was hoping for

elevation from the crowd. That is not Tiffany, that is not what we

have seen from her. When things do not go together, athletes will tell

you, when you can't get the training, this is the result. She

was searching for form and it wasn't here. She was given a dispensation

and she did not do the trials because things were not quite right

and that is when Alicia Barrett became the national champion. Things

have not been right for a while. No, she has moved back to the States and

is working with her husband who is coaching her. A lot of changes. That

reaction was like, I can't believe I have run so slowly, it is just not

her. Next, a new woman who runs very

quickly, world-record holder Kendra Harrison who got the record here in

the Anniversary Games. She is a joy to watch and we were there that

night, such a special moment, Denise. Yes, special and a flawless

race and textbook demonstration of how to hurdle. Amazing flat speed,

her technique is on point. She has run 12,28 this year. Close to the

world-record and potentially going again in the stadium. When somebody

executes a race like that with perfect over the hurdles and in

between, Daley, and chaos going on around her. I don't think she saw

that chaos, she was too far ahead. She is now having a good year. And I

think that this might be the performance of the Games if she can

step it up and break the world record. She had the bit between her

teeth because she did not qualify for the Olympic team and so she came

to London very much like, will show the world. Those American trials are

brutal. The finish in the top three or you do not go whether you are a

world-record holder or not and Harrison is a world-record holder,

she was not going to make that mistake twice, Andrew Cotter. She is

out here and ready to prove she has the credentials to be a champion.

They say this is a quick track and it has the world-record, but it has

not been reducing those times so far in this championship, is that about

to change? The US trials was the last time she

lost, 2016. This is probably why hedgehogs are endangered! Actually,

he has got some moves. Strange moves... Harrison being introduced

to the crowd, set that record at the Diamond League meeting here. Bailed

to make the team for Rio, but unbeatable since then. Yanique

Thompson, the former youth champion. Sally Pearson is the star for

Australia. Oh, we are ignoring 30 won, she likes a dance on the start

line. Lindsay Lindley, 30 Fife, Ahmed, Talay, then Charlton of the

Bahamas. You have got to run some fast times to get the camera to

stop. Kelly Harrison has not lost a race since those trials, when she

did not make it to Rio. Shortly after that failure, she came here,

taking the age-old record from the Bulgarian, going back to 1988. Ran

12.20 in hungrier last month. -- in Hungary. Four go through, four

should go through. Thomson alongside Harrison will be quick. Lindley of

Nigeria, Pesiridou, Ahmed, Talay, eejit. Cleanly away, Kelly Harrison

already out in front, so quick between the barriers, look at move

between the hurdles, also going well is Lindley, then Thompson, a stroll

for Kelly Harrison to move through, evading any of the pitfalls that can

occur in this event. She has done exactly what was required to move

through to the semifinals tonight, made it look very easy, Colin. Yes,

world leader, world record holder, she certainly brought this home, she

hit the second hurdle with the lead leg, which is a bit of a worry,

because if she gets faster, it could cause problems. So beautiful in full

flight, it takes so do lots of victories.

You always look so aggressive, tell me about doing this in a US best. I

am blessed to be here, I'm excited to wear USA on my chest, excited to

represent. You are going unbeaten, so dominant. It definitely builds

confidence, I am going to come back, run fast, make the finals. You have

got a race in the morning and you have to do it again tonight. I think

the morning, you know, it is just about getting your legs underneath

you, you know, you have got to set you read, just come out in the next

round. Well, what a rhythm, fantastic to see.

The USAID tend to dominate this event, they did in Rio, even without

Keni Harrison. -- the USA tend to dominate. She has got the raw speed

between the hurdles. She gets forced leg speed, because she is so quick,

and the barriers restrict your stride length. She manages the

cadence so well. You have to get into your rhythm quickly, because

you have not raised for a long time before the heats, so you need to get

your timing back early. She is the favourite for good reason, 12.60,

Alina Talay also goes through, Yanique Thompson, Devynne Charlton.

That has knocked Tiffany Porter loses. -- out of the fastest losers.

If Keni Harrison did look good, she was disqualified in the semifinals

in Beijing two years ago, did not make the Olympic team for the United

States of America, she has not done that big-time performance at a major

championship, and you can just get a sense that she's not wanting to

screw this up, this is about nailing it when it really counts. It is all

right running fast times around the circuit, but getting through the

rounds is a different matter. You have nailed it, a lot of pressure,

even mentally, for her. We know she can run quick, world record holder,

budget hasn't got a global medal, she hasn't got the Olympic title,

world title. -- but she hasn't got. This will be playing on her mind,

this is why you are in the sport, records are great, but those medals

signify you are in history for life. It is about being professional,

making sure you do all the things right and get to the final, then you

can let loose. But there is no point being all fancy and not making it.

So she looks like she is in the right sort of place mentally, in her

interview she was nice and calm, yeah, she just wants to get off and

get ready for tonight and the final. Tonight, when it is packed, the

atmosphere ramps up a little bit, and she get that feeling, it really

will feel like a major championship, whereas this feels more subdued this

morning, doesn't it? Sally Pearson coming up in the next heat, she

knows what it is like when the stadium is electric, the winner from

the London Olympics, and since then she has been troubled by injury.

Very much like Keni Harrison, they are both running with pins in their

hands and wrists because of these nasty balls they have sustained, but

this race was just incredible. She is a real favourite of the British

public, you know, she has got family here, look at that reaction! Just

waiting, have I won it? It was so close, and Nelson gave her such a

run for her money, but she is back to best, Sally, she really well in

London in the Diamond League. That was, for me, the test that Sally is

back, really sharp, really quick, just on the shoulder... I love that

reaction! In the same heats today as Dawn Harper Nelson, who is the

Beijing Olympic champion. We saw her coming close to Sally Pearson in

2012, so women with great experience in this heat, Steve Cram. Yes, a

little bit of that yesterday, but Sally has come back into good form

yesterday, 12.48, chasing Keni Harrison home. Harper Nelson making

it onto the US team, I think 33 years of age, it just shows what a

redoubtable character she is in terms of the competition. A very

good youngster from Jamaica, Rushelle Burton, she has just gone

to America, the silver-medallist in the world junior championships.

Alicia Barrett was sixth in that race. Burton is a real talent,

12.65, new personal best this year. She ran that at the NCAAs. Dawn

Harper Nelson, then, the Olympic champion, silver medal in London,

the Olympic champion from Beijing. Never been great in the World

Championships, never been too kind to her over the years. Sally

Pearson, world champion, Olympic champion, twice Commonwealth

champion, world indoor champion! Yeah, when she is fit and healthy,

she is going to be there or thereabouts. 30 now, Sally, 12.48

this year puts her right up in medal contention. Portier two of Ukraine

on the outside. So four, as we have said earlier to go through. -- 40

the Australian contingent. Has that Kangaroo paid for a seat?

So Pearson in six, Harper Nelson in three, Burton on the far side in

two. Burden does get a very good start,

the young Jamaican, Harper Nelson trying to run her down, but now

Sally Pearson stamping her authority over this, hurdling beautifully,

look at the Australian go, Harper Nelson third, 12.73, not quite as

quick as a couple of the previous heats, but Sally Pearson looking

very good indeed, very smooth. Harper Nelson just got add of the

youngster in the end. Colin, she has put herself right back in the mix,

we are all talking about Keni Harrison, but she has got the

experience. Yes, world champion, Olympic champion, she has the

championship record, Sally, so we know she can deliver on this stage,

for sure, and it is nice to see that she is believing in her performance,

running hard, pushing into every single one of those barriers, a sign

that she is feeling more confident in her form. Out of the blocks well,

sprinting very sharply this year, back to her best there. Nice to see

that she is working on all these areas, good focus, always beautiful

technically. Look how she is moving through the field, showing her

dominance. Really announcing herself again, that she is back to her very

best, fingers crossed that it goes well, looking down stairs, she is

with Phil. What an impressive performance, what

is it like to be back at the plays of your greatest triumph? It was

funny at there today, I was really, really nervous, because it has been

a while since I have been on a championship team. I felt really

comfortable out there, I thought I was running faster than that. I am

used to going through the rounds at the fastest, not today, but I feel

like I have got more to give, so I am really intrigued to see what I

can do through to the next round, and hopefully into the final.

Through the darker days of recent years, did you doubt this moment

would come again? Oh, yeah, of course, when you go through those

moments, you retire about a hundred times over, but something deep

inside of you know is that you have got more to give, so I listened to

that, and here I am today. Good luck tonight. Thank you very much, see

you. Very good indeed, 12.72, interesting

that she thought she was going quicker, it looked like she was, a

slight headwind. Harper Nelson was looking relaxed, Rushelle Burton,

the 19-year-old, going through, the fourth spot going to Plotitsyna.

What is it that keeps you going when your body says it is not going to

come back to what it was? The difference between champions and

those that fall by the wayside. Absolutely, all athletes, by

definition, they are optimists, and if it is not working today, well,

maybe tomorrow. And when you are summary of Sally's age, you haven't

got a lot else to sort of go off two. She is dirty, so the times of

running in major championships are slowly coming to an end. -- she is

30. A lot of it, when you are injured, it is only hope that keeps

you going, to make it through the injury, and she is a really tough

cookie. I do believe that those missed years, she has tried to make

up for the bad hamstring she suffered, the wrist injury, they

kind of came back to back, so she knows that she has been robbed of a

couple of years, and she wants to go out on a high. It is good to see her

back to her best. The technique is pretty much faultless, it was just

finding that speed again. And then, of course, when she has been away,

injured, you see this woman coming onto the scene in the shape of Keni

Harrison, yeah come on, I want to race her, I want to be racing the

world record-holder. Absolutely, when you of the stature of Sally,

you only want to raise the best at the big championships, and I think

she will be tested. I don't know how she does it, because I don't think

she'd up they say she has self coached, and I think that is really

hard, and the women hurdlers do not avoid each other, they always race

each other. She is another one that will love the atmosphere in the

semifinals tonight, really a crowd favourite, they love her, they

appreciate her in this London Stadium. We were talking earlier

about her athlete and decathlete who starred in the multi-events and move

into other events, and Nadine Visser, who was competing in the

heptathlon here, like Katarina Johnson-Thompson, she is going for

an individual event as well, a world class hurdler.

A personal best of 12.78 and she belongs in this territory. Really

good heptathlete, but this is her strength. Andrew Cotter is calling

this, the final of these heaps. Nadine Visser seven in the

heptathlon, but you think of Jessica Ennis-Hill running a 12.54 at the

Olympics, outstanding and world-class hurled. Christina

Manning. And Amusan the two to catch.

There is Angela Whyte, 37 now, the Canadian champion. World junior

champion Herman Belarus. Hildebrand of Germany and Nadine Visser,

seventh in the heptathlon. Winner of the 100 hurdles at the under 23

championships, so whether she continues in heptathlon or

specialises in the hurdles or does both. The Asian champion of career.

And the US collegiate champion, the winner of the collegiate title in

Eugene. And Christina Manning. Third in the US trials, hanged Keni

Harrison and Nia Ali, new personal best in Lausanne, in the Diamond

League, of 12.58. Four automatic qualifiers in the final heat. The

fastest losers, the four fastest losers, it is Sharona Bakker of the

Netherlands at the moment. Six women here have gone below 13 seconds this

season but not quick times this morning so it might be a stretch.

13.1 is the last of the fastest losers at the moment, not a quick

time. No British involvement in the semifinals tonight. Alicia Barrett

could not make it on her championship debut and Tiffany

Porter, disappointing. Who will make it through from this last heat in

the first round? The two on the near side, Nigeria got away poorly,

Manning going well and leading them out, and so to Nadine Visser coming

out. Nasty from the athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. Manning takes

it, Amusan tidied things up after a dreadful start. The time is modest

by her standards 12.86. And still down on the track is Deborah John

and that looked very unpleasant, tangled up in the barrier. Christina

Manning the winner. The times had been fairly modest this morning,

Colin. 12.87. Yes, they have been modest. I expected better hurtling

from these ladies. If you look at the qualifying, the challenge for

them, Andrew, it is quite reasonable. Especially for the top

ladies. More than capable of doing the top four, but I think they all

have to speed up rapidly. Later this evening in the semifinal. We expect

that from them. Nobody is going to go through as the fastest loser.

Terrible start from Amusan alongside Christina Manning, got back in the

end, but left on the blocks. And she was so far behind, she still got

herself under 13 seconds. Showing the real potential of the Nigerian.

But she has to be much sharper in the semifinals. If you are not, this

is an event where it is a real blanket finish and with that in

mind, no mistakes can be made. STUDIO:, Manning with a great

qualification. We expect her to be pushing Keni

Harrison in the final. Yes, to be honest, this is looking good for

Keni Harrison, she looks head and shoulders above the field. The rest

of the girls probably more tightly packed between two and five. Yes, it

is going to be interesting. What you make of what they were saying,

Andrew said a little bit slower this morning? And it is dry and it is

warming up. Do you think it was a little bit below par? Is it harder

to get going. And there was headwind as well, Daley is right. But

sometimes, the ladies are not used to racing at this time, the warm up

would have started four hours ago, they would have arrived at the track

and started their warm up, it is kind of early. But you have got to

race, that is the way it is. Most of the Diamond League competitions are

in the evening so it is a bit of a difference. You can never use that

as an excuse. They used to hear people in the British team saying

they did not do well because it was ten o'clock. You know a year before

your biggest race is at ten o'clock, even if it is just the qualifying

round, so you have got to prepare yourself. You are right. You guys

had to get up really early. Yes, what Daley is saying, specifically

when you have a time zone change or you know your programme early, I

used to get up earlier, at 5am and get my body used to the being up and

being alert at that time. And hurdle at seven a:m.. Bet you on your own!

Yes, me and my dog! We had to get up early this morning as well for this

session, in make up... Joking, joking! I know that is not hard

work! Of course, it is Friday and that means tomorrow is Saturday, and

it means that is the start of the new Premier league season.

It has been a knockout stay in the Premier league.

The second half, very much... The Premier league is back. Much of

the day returns on Saturday at 10:30pm on BBC debt -- on BBC One.

Gary and the gang back for you on BBC One at 10:30 p:m., I can't

believe it, can you, football? No, back so suddenly. It is Arsenal and

Leicester this evening. Denise's team, Arsenal, not Lester! Going to

finish in the top four this season? You can only hope and pray! Let's

continue with the athletics and the last of those heats for the women's

hurdles, back out in the field and plenty of action to get your teeth

into. Tony and Steve. Those are the standings after the

first event. The 100m, Damian Warner out in front. The world leader of

Germany, Freimuth. Kevin Maher the civil medallist, early days to thing

of medals as the athletes have moved across to the Long Jump. Beautiful

sunny day in the stadium. Des eight of these World Championships. Damian

Warner, bronze medal last year. An eight-metre jumper, you can see his

personal best 8.4. Three attempts. Here comes your first. Warner

looking to get a good mark on the board. He has run three. In his best

to catch on, he did 7.6. I had conversation with his coach, new

coach this year looking after him. Damian has had this norovirus and he

has been in isolation two days. So because of the nature of the

illness, he has probably not been eating and drinking. The major

concern is whether he has enough energy. You will be storing up like

a jewel in your muscles ready for the competition. Just going off the

board with 5.72. Hopefully he will get himself going. Beautiful morning

inside the stadium. The crowd filling up towards the end of the

session. Sadly, Deborah John is still down and receiving treatment

after the final heat in the women's 100m hurdles, a nasty fall and she

has been down for ten minutes. Care and attention being taken and we

hope for the best. Deborah John, from Trinidad and Tobago. A very

nasty fall. Christina Manning took that heat. The heptathlete Nadine

Visser also going through under 13 seconds and also Amusan after that

poor start and Herman. Nobody went through from that heat is fastest

loser. These are the qualifiers for the semifinals tonight. No British

athletes. Alicia Barrett and Tiffany Porter failing to go through, but

strong American challenge and Jamaican challenge. Sally Pearson

looking strong and Keni Harrison quickest qualifier. Four Americans

going through in total and four Jamaicans. They have defending

champion Danielle Williams. And further down, those are the

contenders for the semifinals in the 100m hurdles. And they will go

tonight. Back to this decathlon Long Jump, Kevin Mayer, and daily

Thompson said he thought he was favourite to take the title here. He

pushed Ashton Eaton so hard in the Olympics. Can Mayer take his first

global title? First attempt at the Long Jump. Nice, he reached out long

with his legs and he sat back behind his feet and nodding his head, but

that is not a bad start for Kevin. Goodspeed on the runway. Reaching

out ahead of him to try and hit the whiteboard. When you are coaching,

the whiteboard is not a target. A lot of people try and hit the

whiteboard. You want to take off with your foot and your hips. Into a

slight headwind. 7.33 is not a bad opener. The oldest man in the field,

33 years of age. And Trey Hardee, of the USA shy of his lifetime best by

some margin. His season's best, you can see. It is all about the points.

So getting jumps out. Something in excess of 7.40 would be good from

Hardee. It looks around that distance for the American US

champion earlier this year. He is doing exceptionally well, I think.

At his age, 33. He sings a bit on take-off, reaching out. A solid and

experienced performer and he knows how far to push it. Great accuracy

on the board and two centimetres. A bit of strapping, a bit of tape

around his need to give him stability. To his kneecap. 7.48, a

season's best, and that is the way to open up at a decathlon

competition, and into a headwind. A good start from Hardee. Two High

Jump mats at the end of the stadium. To our left, and that is Robbie

Grabarz, who has passed at the opening height of two metres 17.

Auto qualifying this year it is 2.31 and he has done that. So looking on

and taking his time and keeping his powder dry. So previous champion

Bohdan Bondarenko also goes clear. Good start for him. 2.22. Certainly

a contender. Hang on, is he hurting? He is struggling, is there something

in his right ankle? He might just be taking in the sunshine because it is

an early morning. Yes, we will see how that develops. So the man's High

Jump qualifying. Back to this decathlon. Freimuth, of Germany. His

best from this year, seven metres 60. He is the world leader. 10.53.

He has the speed, can he invert this? Beyond seven metres.

Accelerated into the board, got low and he threw his head back. He

jumped 760 this year with the benefit of a plus 1.5 metre wind. A

good ten, 15 centimetres on top of this job. He throws his head back

and he drops in. Is that just precaution, being safe in the first

round, 7.11? That is an element of that. You are either going to be

safe and put a safe and on the board or you just go for it. You know

you're run is accurate, put the points up early. Kazmirek missed out

by just one place in Rio last year, taking that agonising fourth place.

Looking to make amends at the World Championships. Valid jump. He jumped

7.69 in Rio after running 710.68. So Kazmirek is another contender for

the medals, we need to keep an eye on him, it is going to be tight for

medals, I suspect. A season's best, that is more points

than he has a hard all season, he will be happy with that. So Robbie

Grabarz, a championship performer, he has proved that time and time

again. Years one of the solid people in the team, he has been around the

block a number of times, he knows how to look after himself, doesn't

let things faze him at all. He has had injuries, some questions over

whether his career was in jeopardy, but working with his coach, it is a

good, tight team. He burst onto the scene in 2012 with a bronze medal in

this very stadium in the Olympic Games, here he is in that jump.

2.29, that was pretty good, got him a share of bronze with the Canadian,

who was also a contender here. Robbie Grabarz, 2.29, a beautiful

event, when you get it right, and he has a habit of that at major

championships. Here he is, looking very relaxed, back in the stadium

that he enjoyed so much five years ago. Robbie looking comfortable,

looking very relaxed indeed. How do I put this? He is one of the masters

of the field, one of the veterans within the field, everybody knows

him, he knows everybody, so he can be that relaxed, just coming to

work, high jump with your mates. Equal fourth in Rio, often forgotten

when you are just outside of the medals, he does find a way of

delivering, 2.31 is his best from this year, equal ninth. Good

conditions for high jumping, we will keep an eye on him as the qualifying

process unfolds. From one bridge to another, Ashley Bryant, good cheer

from the home crowd in this second event. -- one Brit to another. The

second event of the decathlon, the multi-eventers, the 100s were

completed without too many mishaps, pretty much went to form. Ashley

Bryant, he has specific coaches across all the events, based in

Loughborough, has a season's best which is his lifetime best as well.

So Bryant, first round of the long jump, second event of the decathlon,

that is a big effort. It is not a white flag, what a shame. Great

speed on the runway, great speed on the runway, moved up to Loughborough

to work with Ashton and the coaches there. That is the smallest, 1.6

centimetres! Just reached a little bit too far. Here is the question,

does he go safe second round would just tidy it up, be a little bit

more active on the board? Well, there is his coach, giving him the

feedback that it was a tiny margin of foul, 1.6 centimetres. He just

has to move his run-up back a tired. That finger and thumb, move it back

a little bit, the active on the take-off, I think that is what he

was saying to him, trying to interpret the signals from coach to

athlete, he will know exactly what he is talking about, a superb job.

7.79 is as lifetime best, he would have been challenging that for sure.

Two jumps remaining four Ashley Bryant. Back to the high jump, I

mentioned him earlier, Barshim of Qatar, he has been superbly

consistent this year, first attempt at 2.2 two. Wow! How much space

between him and the bar?! 2.22, I think he jumped 2.30! So much

daylight between Barshim and 2.2 to there, 2.40, he is the second best

ever. ? Back to this long jump. Trey Hardee looking to capitalise on

his first attempt of 7.48, can really release the handbrake here

and run at this. A little slow on the approach may be. May be just

feeling it a little bit, it is now that you want to capitalise, get the

extra bonus points. It is two points per centimetre for the men, three

points for the women, so if you can get a few more points, let's wait

and see what the distance is here. 7.29, a bit of a stiff wind, minus

1.3, maybe that is what he is feeling, you can hear the wind

rushing past you, feel it in front of you, it can be a little

off-putting. In the blue cap, the coach of Robbie Grabarz, helping

Morgan Lake, we saw her go through to the women's high jump final,

along with Katarina Johnson-Thompson, two women in the

high jump final, never had a finalist in the women's version.

Robbie Grabarz looking to do just that and book his place in Sunday's

final, the last day of action here at the World Championships. Every

evening session has been capacity crowd of 60,000, and I will tell you

what, he will enjoy that if he can get a place in the final. We expect

him to. A lot of waiting around in the high jump. That is what you do,

you pick and choose your heights, you might take the first height,

miss one, but he is stepping off, I assume he is getting ready to jump,

he is taking the next height. Hopefully he will remember to take

his cap off! I realised I had my accreditation of flapping around

halfway down the run up once. Good crowd here, enjoying the sunshine,

great conditions for athletics. Probably 15-20,000 people probably,

it is a big stadium, a family affair, that is it, both eyes in the

binoculars! So Damian Warner in this long jump,

second event of the decathlon. So we saw that he pressed the abort button

on take-off at the first attempt, Damian Warner, bronze-medallist in

Rio. 7.67 he jumped in Rio, looks like he is attacking this with a bit

more conviction. It is over seven metres, strong wind on the flag,

Toni, that is against them. It is unfortunate for the decathletes, it

is a pity they couldn't turn it around! Much better board. Oh, just

stretch up through the air, delayed the rotation, pulls his arms in a

bit short there. Again, over seven metres, there is is coach. 7.27, a

much better jump. That is the longest we have seen so far in this

decathlon second event. Damian Warner, good salvage job, that,

there were? Stabbed in the first round effort. -- their work question

marks after that first round effort. Much do they compete with each

other? You do not do many decathlons, probably two three at

most, so there is that opportunity to compete. Kevin Mayer chasing the

jump of one, that is a big effort, he likes it! That is more like it,

Kevin Mayer very quick on the flat, ran 10.67, new lifetime best for the

Frenchman, with space to spare. As lifetime best previously in the 100

was 10.81, said in Rio last summer, and Mayer going well. Just reaching

a little bit, big last step, leans back and take off, he needs to get

forwards. In his best decathlon, he did 7.60, so 7.37, an extra eight

pints there, accumulating the point is nice and steadily. But it is

tough into this headwind, so one third effort all out, I think. Right

then, business time for Robbie Grabarz, the smile turns into a more

considered, focused attention as he eyes up the bar at 2.20. On the

outside of the track, lane 80 is stood in there, some 25 30 metres.

-- lane eight he is stood in their funds, some 25 or 30 metres. This is

a good insight into the moments before every field event. Robbie

Grabarz, first attempt that two point 22, goes clear, nice start. --

his World Championship campaign gets and away, a little nerve settler,

Toni. Yeah, I think he has just been sitting around, good class, up and

over, no messing about, let's get this party started. Robbie Grabarz

does just that, really solid clearance. The importance of that

jump should not be underestimated, looking to find a rhythm. We talk so

much about that, I am sure that is positive feedback from his coach,

looking to boost his confidence and get him ready for the next height of

2.26. I wonder that is a lot of instruction, because Robbie is a

student of the event, he knows that, and I think he will just be

reinforcing the message is that he tells in day in, day out. The work

on the track, I am sure he has done a lot of running as well to prepare

himself for the jumping, hopping, bounding, sprinting. Robbie Grabarz

looking in really good shape, and with only one medal for the British

team, Grabarz, well, looking to double that tally. There are the two

high jump mats, two consecutive pools. So Andriy Protsenko, he

carried a foul at the opening height. Protsenjo, 2.22, first

attempt, a contender for medals, that is for sure. That is better.

They are feeling their way through these early heights, 2.31 is what is

needed to qualify outright. We saw yesterday it was 1.94 for the women

yesterday, but they only needed to jump 1.92 to get through. Protsenko

made it a Ukrainian 1-2 with his team-mate, Bondarenko. We will go

back to the high jump in a moment, because Trey Hardee is taking to the

long jump runway in the decathlon, a busy couple of days for the

multi-eventers. Hardee, then, second round. I am not quite sure what

happened there, really short step, pulling back underneath. Doesn't

look comfortable, maybe he crowded the board a little bit, didn't

really complete the take-off. What I mean is that is drive the knee up

and through. 7.48 in the first round, looks like he was taking it

easy in the second round, 7.2 nine. He said he was going to pull it