Day 1, Part 1 Athletics: World Championships

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to deal with the spin in the He wins gold! In looks a bit

different today from the boycotted Cold War Games of 1980. In the next

nine days a whole new set of Moscow memories or will be created,

starting today. Olympic champion and world record-

holder Ashton Eaton gets under way in the decathlon against Trey

Hardee. Ashley Bryant is Britain's sole representative. The men's 800m

heats feature an Ethiopian alongside a strong American

contingent led by Duane Solomon. Andrew Osagie is looking to

rediscover his Olympic form while Michael Rimmer is the fastest rate

this year. The first medal to be decided will be the women's

marathon. This evening's sessions is Christine Ohuruogu begin her

campaign to regain the world title she won in 2012. The big man gets

under way today. Can anyone stop the lightning bolt? 10 James

Dasaolu maintain his support 10 seconds before. Can Britain

finished day one with the first champion? All eyes will be on Mo

Farah. No gold Merit Medal -- no gold

medals this morning just qualifications all the way. We have

the decathlon and going on throughout the morning. We have

Steve Lewis going in the men's pole vault qualification and also the

800m heat with Andrew has largely at 820. -- Andrew wasabi.

Welcome to an empty Luzhniki Stadium. Lots of people are getting

ready to start but no spectators. This is like the World

Championships of old when nobody turns up for the qualifications.

But action is on the way. They are waiting outside and they might be

watching the warm-up area. But there are about eight people in

white T-shirts over there and that is it. It is like a football match,

maybe there will be a last minute rush one a minute before the kick-

off. We hope that will be the case but

we are looking at the security all around and people have got to get

through it. A certain President is coming later on and I think they

are diverting traffic. The stadium looks fantastic.

Yes, it is super. I was down on the trackside earlier on and when you

look at this magnificent stadium it gives you the feeling there was

something great here. The Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 was

outstanding and this is a beautiful stadium. I wish I had raced clear.

I have never competed here. Paula, you would be too young. Do

you have any memories of Moscow? I have a lot of memories of hearing

the stories and seeing the video clips but actually of watching the

Olympics, no. My first memories of Los Angeles. I would have been six

years of solid do not remember Moscow. A I was 12 for Moscow and I

remember watching the Olympic Games on my mum and dad's black-and-white

portable TV. That is how long ago was for me.

These two do not remember much about the Moscow Olympics but there

are two guys in the commentary box to certainly do. They competed here.

Steve Cram and Paul Dickenson. Is it good to be back?

It is great to be back. I was only 12 years old when I competed! I

wish! How old were you?

It is so long ago, I cannot remember.

For nearly enough, I have been talking to a few people about

Moscow memories of this week. They are actually much more vivid than

many other memories in my career and I do not know about you but I

was a teenager and you have talked about the Sebastian Coe and Steve

Ovett thing and but Boycott. I had never been to Russia or ever been

to Moscow and it did lead some very strong memories for me. One big

memory that I had was the fact that prior to coming to Moscow I

received a few letters in the post that said I should not go and it

came mainly from members of the armed services. Also I had a man

that did not live too far away from me and he put his address on the

letter which I think was a bit of a mistake, threatening to firebomb my

house so I went to the Olympics. That was not a good start for me.

This stadium now looks like a totally different stadium. They

used to be ringed with gold all around the top of the stadium. Of

course we now have a roof to stop any rain coming end but it did look

a lot different. It is much more colourful. I remember as well the

whole inside, the bottom row of the stadium, was reserved seats for

members of the army with the their B caps on.

I guess it was the first Games are really that impacted upon the

collective consciousness of the UK. It is something that we all

remember, Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett, Daley Thompson.

Yes, it was a great Games. There was a Games before them but each

Olympic Games is remembered by its generation. In 1972 I remember

watching Munich which had a big effect on me. The big issue was the

fact that it was headline news for six months leading up to the Games

because of the boycott and because of the strong feelings at home and

around the world and in the United States about whether we should be

here. I must admit a lot about went over my head to some extent because

I was just desperately trying to make the team but I think once we

got here, although we were not allowed to come to the opening

ceremony, I certainly felt I was at the Olympic Games and it was an

incredible experience for all me. I had a slightly different

experience in that I flew in two days before the competition.

Unfortunately at did not qualify for the final and then I flew out

the following day so it really was a case of, that was your

competition over. It was like going to the British league or something,

in a slightly bigger stadium, I have to say. You were away for a

couple of days and then back home and back to work. Slightly

underwhelming them. Was there any sense of feeling intimidated with

are the political and rest and coming to a communist country

behind the Iron Curtain? I had been to the junior championships the

year before in Poland and at that time it was at the height of the

uprising in Poland and there was rationing and all sorts of things

going on. When you are an Afellay is, I learned at an early stage

that you have to go there and do nothing and compete and shut all of

that out. It was certainly different. Let us say there were

more military people than you expect and they were watching you

in the lifts and things like that so you knew you were in a different

place and a different way of operating but as far as competing,

for me I learnt a lot watching Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett in

those Games and the experiences that they went through and dealing

with other media. Actually I did qualify for the final which was

like winning a medal for me so I have pretty happy memories of

Moscow. A OK, let us move on to the present

day and start to put the British performances here into some sort of

context. Starting with our Olympic medallists and a health check on

them. The obvious place to start his Mo Farah. We will see him in

the final of the 10,000m. Yes, I he is really coming in in

the shape of his life. Before last year he was in the best shape he

has been in by he has shown that this far this year he is in better

shape. He is more confident and that is helping. He has the

intimidation factor over the rest of the field. Not only does he

believe he can win the race but the others believe it as well and they

are scrambling around and looking for ways to beat him. Two years ago

he lost to someone he claimed he had not heard of. Could that happen

again? Something like that is always a danger. Always in distance

races you have to look at the unknowns and find out who was

coming in in shape and Hill and is tucked away just getting ready for

this race and can come out with no pressure on them and just watch the

main targets and then attack them. He needs to be aware of that but I

don't think he will make the same mistake twice. He did not do

anything wrong there, there was just someone who had a little bit

more than him in the closing straight but hopefully this year he

has shown that he can finish and he is the one with the most left.

Let us head back to the commentary box and talk to Steve Cram. As

Paula has said, he is a different athlete to what he was even two

years ago. Yes, I think that loss actually was

one which was almost a good thing for him. You never want to lose a

race that you are hoping to win but he had come on as an athlete in

2010 and he was in brilliant shape in 2011 and really bearing the

fruits of working with Alberto and I think he just miscalculated that

last lap. He was capable of winning the race but he pushed a bit hard

with 50 to go and he gave someone an inkling of they could be caught

and he learned that. He judged his effort better in the last lap and

then we saw him improve last year and take the confidence from the

world title in the 5,000m and win two golds. As Paula says he is even

better now. He is better because the is and physically great shape

this year but he is just more confident. The aura is so important.

You should never say, you should be able to see a possibility of how he

can get beat, but all of the ways in which he could possibly get beat

are going to be very hard for somebody to deliver. At the moment

he will be sitting there today in nervous. He will not be taking

anything for granted to but there is a gold medal for him to take. Is

there any possibility of some team tactics and people might gang up on

him, the Africans particularly, and try to look round the kick out of

him? How would they beat him if they were employing team tactics?

If that is what you would do but it is easier said than done. When you

are running out of there and you have nine laps to go and your team

mate tells you to stick in a 61, you would turn around and tell them

to do it! There are medals there, silver and bronze medals as well

and people want to do as well as they can and I don't think these

days there are many team tactics. The Ethiopians, the four guys who

are here, they are not that friendly with each other either. It

is all right for the team management to say, when you get out

here, this is what we want you to do, but delivering it is something

else. I don't think there is anybody capable of making a hard

enough for long enough to really hurt Mo Farah. A question for you,

Paul, you will be calling the field events. Greg Rutherford won his

medal just before Mo Farah won his at the Olympics but he has had a

troubled build up to these championships. Yes, and he was a

late addition to this team. We are all hoping he can recapture some of

that form from London but when you look at the ranking list currently

I think everybody thinks it is going to take aid 0.3 or 8.4 just

to win a medal and whether he is capable of that, coming off the

injury and hamstring problems, whether he is in that sort of shape

we just don't know. Collen, coming to you now, Greg has

had his injury problems but equally he has had problems of the track

and I think he thought that commercially he would have more

success than he has had so it is not just the physical injuries

championships, I had less than five weeks to prepare, and I will be

ready. Will he arrived here in tiptop shape? It will be needed for

him to be in tiptop shape, because when the crowd eventually turns up,

they will be looking at men caught, the Russian who has been

consistently good this year. It is always about consistency. I think

this is the Women's Institute's day out, or the Russian version of it!

Robbie Grabarz has not had the same injury problems, but he has not

found the form. My hopes and desires that this season where that Robbie

Grabarz could get close to 2.14 metres. He joined -- jumped 2.37

last year, the top in the world. But this year, this event has exploded

yet again. We have got a Ukrainian young man who has jumped 2.41

metres. He has attempted the world record on so many occasions and has

come close. He tried to .46 in Lausanne when we went there. And he

tried 2.47 at the Anniversary Games. Hashim Amla early on in the year

great, because you are never alone! Christine Ohuruogu, she comes out of

qualification this evening for the 400 metres. She has taken a

different approach this year, hasn't she? Yes and she spoke about that at

the press conference yesterday and she said she was going to have fun

this year. She is coming in ready. She always gets it right on the big

occasion and she will build and build all through the ranks. She's

coming in very relaxed and very confident.

Montsho did post a fast time in Monaco just before the Games.

Yes, she's coming in the favourite. Christine is the danger.

Let's GOTO Steve Cram in the commentary box. We have talked about

this season until form. We were listening to Christine yesterday.

She has been having fun, definitely, and she has been very

relaxed and chatty on the circuit. She has obviously been enjoying it.

She had no expectations around... Last year was a big pressure year

for her and there was a lot of expectation. Christine had high

expectations of herself, and this year she looks like she's having

fun, but do not underestimate Christine coming into the

championships. She will be the one that all the others are worried

about. You won't get Christine shouting from the rooftops all

talking about a chances, and she quite pointedly yesterday turned

back questions about her prospects, saying that she is just

concentrating on today. She will take it round by round, and we know

she does that better than anybody else. She is in great shape. She is

in a great place in terms of her overall career. She had got nothing

to prove to anybody. I think she will be tough to beat in the final.

It is interesting that you mentioned London last year. We all believe

that the silver medal was a massive triumph, but she was hugely

disappointed. That is the athlete she is. She expectation from herself

and has shown in the past that she is incredibly good at getting the

best out of herself at major championships. I have never been

surprised when she has not done particularly well on the circuit.

When you see Christine on the circuit, you can tell it does not

mean as much to her. That is not what gets her motivated. She wanted

to win desperately in front of a home crowd. She came very close.

That is why she was so disappointed. If she had come a great second, but

she had -- was so close to winning the gold medal. I will reiterate it.

She will be standing on the start line in the final of the 400 metres

thinking about nothing else than winning.

Paul, you called Jessica Ennis -- you called Jessica Ennis-Hill's last

year... Every athletic supporter in the country will be missing her

here. There will be quite a few people who have made the trip to the

stadium. Rather like Christine, Jessica had a lot of pressure to

withstand, but she produced the goods with a two other performance.

From my point of view, she was the golden girl of the Olympic Games.

Sitting at home and watching at the -- watching on TV will not be the

same for her or her coach. Colin, I remember one of the first meetings

we were at, we were looking forward to slow wet Jessica was going to

run. You thought she might not complete the season. The danger

signs whether worrying factor. Athletes who suffer from Achilles

problems, it is hell to return from, because you do not know what the

return time is. They do not want to aggravate it with severe treatment.

If you're just going to concentrate on one event, you can imagine the

amount of training she has to do to protect those seven events in the

heptathlon. It seems to be a more serious injury than we initially

thought, because she has gone through the season saying, I might

compete, and then suddenly she is in rehab for four months. The risk with

the Achilles heel is that you do not make the injury worse but make it

ruptured, and then you are looking at surgery. It is a struggle to come

back in your career from that. Jessica does not want to risk that,

because she is very young. She is looking at four months of rehab, but

that is back to full fit this. It is not serious right now, but if it

does not recover... She competed OK in the Anniversary Games, but she

was not happy. She could have built off that are coming here, but it

obviously did not respond in a couple of days afterwards, and that

is when they made the decision that it was not worth risking her career

over. It is one man and one face which sets our pools racing above

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Gold all the way! He is one in a million. He is a man

that has had to face a lot of questions about his form and strokes

as well. There were issues with Tyson Gay and Assaf Powell and the

Russian Federation. He has been cast as the saviour of the sport. Yes,

and a lot of people have looked at him as the saviour of marketing this

board. He has taken our sport to a different level. A lot of people

come just to see him. There is a lot of responsibility on him. The danger

of ever failing that is a big danger, so that is why so many

people asking questions. But he has not shied away from it. We have seen

other athletes walk out of press conferences when they have been

asked questions, that he has so far and said every question. One year

ago when we were celebrating in London, athletics seems never to

have been in a better position. One year later, we are talking about the

sport being in crisis. How would you assess the current situation?

JEERING I am not sure I would say it is in

crisis. The shadow of drug-taking always hovers over this. The

positive that you have to take from this is that you are still going to

be caught and you will serve the penalties like anybody else, and we

have to do that, otherwise we can't get excited about Usain Bolt or

anybody else. If we don't know that we are doing everything possible to

catch drug takers and then to give them severe penalties, those issues

are always port of any sport -- part of any sport. With athletics, the

light always shines very brightly on particular individuals. At the

moment, it is shining on the 100 metres more so than it has stunned.

Because of the big names involved, Usain Bolt comes into the

discussion. The IAAF have had many discussions about rotating leading

up to this event. The big announcement is that they're going

to move to four-year bans. Yes, we were with four-year bans, but now we

have come into compliance with other regulations. That was a mistake,

because it weakened our sanctions and made the deterrent less. That is

why we need to go back to the four-year ban. They voted for that.

It won't come into force until 2015. The IAAF have said they will do it,

and their coaches and consultation at the moment. There is a

possibility that athletics might end out on a limb. We are looking at

athletes in all sports and disciplines to stand up and say,

this is what we want, and give an athlete's voice to the IAAF. The

most sought -- the move -- the more sports the come forward and say that

is what they want, the more likely to view a yard to go with it.

sort of shape is Usain Bolt in? is coming into these championships

the slowest he has ever come into these majors. 9.85 is his season's

best at the moment! We doubted Usain Bolt on numerous occasions, when he

had his bad back, when he was returning from injury. He was

speaking at the Jamaican Championships not once but twice.

Everyone has been asking if he could deliver a great performance at the

Olympic Games last year. I am expecting him to come here and take

the victories. It is not about running fast for him any more. He is

already the world record holder. He has proved he can deliver a big

championships. It is about regaining the 100 metres title and retaining

the 200 metres title. That is what he will be focusing on. He did talk

in one of his press conferences and I wanting to go sub 19. He still

thinks he can go quicker over 100. Yes, he has always said he wants to

go less than 19 seconds for the 200 metres. He had that target in

Beijing. The 100 metres, he was always dubious of that, because he

only started winning that competitively at the Olympics in

Beijing. I think that the 200 metres, that can be done. And we

have a right to his running fast, James Dasaolu. How do you see him

going here? The most important things for James Dasaolu is to get

to the semifinal stage. If he does not get there, he will have no

chance of making the final. There are many runners who can run 9.95

who will be participating, so he needs to note he can be in tiptop

shape for the semifinal stage. In the final, do get inspired and then

anything can happen. This is his 9.91 run, and I am pleased that he

got that under his belt. We always pushing to get under the magical ten

second figure. He has done that now, ticked the box. The 9.91 was at the

trials, as we saw. It is one thing running that sort of time with

no-one around you. But he is in the mix with some of the fatty --

If he is in good shape he will deliver. The crowd are working

themselves up to a file -- frenzy! They really are! The women's discus

is getting under way so we will hand over.

Thank you very much. It is a lovely morning with hardly any win is in

the stadium and only a small section of the feeling is bathed in

sunshine. -- hardly any wind. A There are probably more athletes

A There are probably more athletes and officials than there are

spectators. Leading the way in the discus is your role S Barry asked.

She could be elevated into the bronze medal position from the

Olympic Games while a positive drugs test is being sorted out --

Yarelys Barrios. We also have the French record holder and the

magnificent Julia Fischer of Germany, perhaps one of the

patience -- favourites to take a medal tomorrow. Here he is Yarelys

Barrios from Cuba. She has had successive global silver medals of.

She got one in the world championships and also in Beijing.

That is a qualifying mark in the very first throw of the competition.

She has sailed over the automatic qualification distance without any

trouble at all. She tries to leave the discus long and then sinks over

the left leg. She is almost a little bit of balance but she has

such a powerful athlete that she's been that discus a way. She got

good flight on it. There we have it 63 pts 63 and she is true to

tomorrow's final. -- 63.63. Tomorrow we have high hurdles,

discus and javelin and the 1,500m. We have four heats of the 100m with

34 athletes taking part. This is going to be the slowest of the four

heats. It is arranged by the season's best. Brent Newdick got a

silver in the Commonwealth Games. Kurt Felix from Grenada won the

collegiate championships last year and it does not matter who wins the

heat. You may not be too familiar with of the decathlon. You may be

watching this for the first time and this is all about getting close

to your personal best. It is about the points so if you can get close

to your personal best in each of the events then you have achieved.

Mikk Pahapill is the 2009 indoor champion. Rapturous applause from

the smattering, as it has been defined, of spectators. Oleksiy

Kasyanov is a silver medallist in the world indoor championships in

Helsinki. He is the quickest in the field and he has run 10.5. The

Japanese athlete is a steady and the 100m, it is not his strongest

event. Ashley Bryant, the British entrant goes in the next eat. Then

Ashton Eaton goes in heat for, the world record holder, the Olympic

in the multi-sport events because it would be rather unfair if it was

one of false start and you were out for the rest of the decathlon. It

is the old false start rule way you have one. That will count for the

field and then a second one and you will be out. The first event on the

track in these World Championships. The 100m in the decathlon. This is

heat one. They got away cleanly. Brent Newdick is in lane five and

he is striding out. But Leonel Suarez, the bronze medallist in the

last two Olympics and silver and bronze in the world championships,

came through strongly. Nobody really lived up to expectations

there in that first race. The wind is slightly against us, hardly a

breath of wind in the Luzhniki Stadium this morning. It is very

still but a couple of athletes in that line-up would have been hoping

to dip under 11 seconds so it was not the quickest but we are up and

running. Nearest the camera, Alexei to sign of got a terrible start. He

is the fastest man on the field on paper and he came through in the

end but it took him a long time. -- Oleksiy Kasyanov. He was by way the

slowest out of the blocks. It was certainly an average start for all

of those guys. No great times. That was a season's best for the

was a magnificent throw by Yarelys Barrios but head team-mate is just

23 years old. It was very quick and explosive. That is just short of

the 60m line. The yellow line is the automatic qualifier. That is 63

metres. I just wonder whether the British selectors made reject not

bringing Britain's number-one to these championships. She was in

very good form. She threw over 60m. That is 60.14. She is in second

place behind a team mate. In the next heat of the decathlon is Great

Britain's sole representative. The only British man in history to take

8,000. From the decathlon scoring tables. All the athletes have been

in a training camp before coming here and Ashley Bryant spoke to

I know you are a multi-talented sportsman and you are good at rugby

and football and was athletics always going to be the one? I think

so. I think the politics in other sports, being selected for the

teams, was already the bit that push me away. I enjoyed my team

sports and I still miss them now, however my athletics was going well

and I just wanted to roll with it and give them my best shot. You are

in control of your own destiny to more of a degree. Exactly. You have

your team around you but at the end of the day it is me on the track

and I do my performances so I can only blame myself. I like going out

there and it is good. Do you describe yourself as an ambitious

person? Had you always been driven? Yes, from the first day, whatever

sport it is, I have always wanted to make it to the top. I would say

I would. I am quite realistic in where I am at. I do not like

showing off to my coach about what I think I can do each year and

where I should improve. I am probably more conservative than he

is which is a good thing because you exceed expectations and then

you know you were doing the right dominated by disappointments for

British athletes. That is the lane where Ashley Bryant was supposed to

be. We understand he has had a hamstring injury in the build up to

these championships and he has had to pull-out which will be a massive

disappointment to the young man himself and to his mum and dad to

have made the trip here and also to his coach. There is the line-up for

his coach. There is the line-up for his coach. There is the line-up for

Ashley Bryant. They are just panning across the lanes now. There

is the French indoor champion. I will give you an idea of the points.

The Ukrainian and won the last heat was confirmed at 863 points. This

is Pasqual Behrenbruch, the European champion from Germany. He

won a magnificent last year. Andre Krauchanka has an really improved

since he won his Olympic bronze medal way back in 2004. Marcus

Nillson from Sweden, a former world junior champion., a bronze

medallist, should I say. He is just 22 years old. This is one of a

group of a very young -- very good young Belgian athletes. They have

produced some lovely youngsters who are now progressing through to the

senior ranks. That is Andre Krauchanka. Pasqual Behrenbruch is

supposed to be running our alongside Ashley Bryant. He went

over 8,000 points early on this year and that is the benchmark

really, the big target that all young decathletes will be going for.

Having achieved that he will have come here for of confidence, I am

sure, but unfortunately Ashley Bryant is out. His hamstring has

not stood up to the warm up this morning. He will not contest this

event or any of the 10 events. The fastest time we have seen just

Willem Coertzen, the South Africa. There you go. The cameraman has

picked him up. He is the former African champion. Yes, it was him.

Everybody is on a warning and if he was two false starts again he would

be disqualified. -- if he was to false start again. The conditions

in the stadium this morning are so still. I was on the track yesterday

and there are some ribbons which hang down alongside the pole vault

run-up to give the pole Walters an idea as to which way the wind is

blowing because it obviously affect their run up and they take off and

in ribbons were hanging absolutely vertical, top to bottom, no

movement at all, so no wind. There is just a little bit of wind

because I am looking across at the pole vault and Steve Lewis getting

warmed up for his chance to make a world championship final. There is

a little bit of movement but hardly any at all. They will run from the

sunshine into the shade. There is sunshine into the shade. There is

set position very quickly and he is coming away on the inside. Willem

Coertzen is going away to. They will be Willem Coertzen I think.

10.97. He was running alongside Ingmar Vos. They almost finished in

a line. That is useful and it could go over 900 points. It was good to

see from Willem Coertzen after his false start. It did not faze him.

You should always keep an eye on Pasqual Behrenbruch as well because

he is strong. There is a strong German contingent in the decathlon

this year. It has been a few wilderness years since their heyday.

It is a very strong German entrant and Pasqual Behrenbruch is probably

and looking up at the giant scoreboard and waiting for the

replay but it is not coming. 10.95, he has been given to Pasqual

Behrenbruch. A season's best and 872 points. Willem Coertzen in

second place and Ingmar Vos in spectators have started to come

beautiful throw. Very tall. Four. Eight times the Lithuanian champion.

That is one of her best throws ever, and she goes into the lead.

Coertzen three of France. She likes that. And so she should. She is into

qualifying line with your first attempt, there is no need for you to

get any more throws out there. You are escorted off the track and

straight through to the final. That something that neither myself nor

can -- Chris back, the record-holder, could do in the

hammer. At 63, -- 60 3.16, a good start for Melina Robert-Michon, the

100 metres have been given 10.95, so 872 points for the leading to. Three

Russians are going in this third athlete, former bronze-medallist.

His best days are behind in. Sergey Sviridov got 10.91 in the 100

metres. We are getting to the in his day. And various Jeremy

Taiwo, third in the US championships. He has won 10.84 in

the 100 metres this season. To be the third US decathletes is no

disgrace at all. Maricel Uibo of Estonia. Estonia are fiercely proud

of their decathletes. It is a huge sport in that Baltic state. He is

just 20 years old. There is Ilya Shkurenev. And some noise from the

Luzhniki Stadium! It must be played out on a tape somewhere! The

Brazilian Carlos Chinin, the South American record-holder. He has had

10.81 this season. Kevin Mayer is a very talented young Frenchman, but

he does struggle in the 100 metres. Get ready to make some more noise.

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bronze-medallist last year. He has had 10.87 this season in the 100

metres. Pelle Rietveld is probably the weakest of two strong deck

athletes from Holland is taking part. And there is Dmitriy Karpov,

32 years old now. His better days are long in the past. He is the

oldest of all 34 taking part in Mr Kaplan. The man second from the left

bodies, as we have seen for Ashley Bryant, pulling out of the last heat

with his hamstring problem. Very sad from a British point of view. How

close can these men get to their season's best? This is the third he

Chinin. He is going to take it. 10.79. That time is a personal best.

The Brazilian does what he has been South American record-holder. The

Russians all seemed pleased with their work as well.

I was most interested in seeing Taiwo. He is in the top of the

picture there. He began to fade as the Brazilian came marching through

the pack. We are getting faster and faster. 10.78, new lifetime best.

You cannot expect any more than that. Excellent performance. There

is the defending champion. We have got the world record-holder, the

defending champion as well. A lot to look forward to. We do hear that

Ashton Eaton may have a slight drop in with one of his ankles, so we

will have to see what happens. Coincidentally, he holds the world

record, not only for the Dick Kaplan, but for the fastest 100

metres ever in a decathlon as well. That is something that some of the

British supporters here would like from 1996, welcome. Thanks for

having me. I have been running up the stairs this morning! You have to

be fit to get up and down the stairs here, that's for sure! Your memories

of Moscow in 1980? I was in middle school, so I was watching Allan

Wells win. That is about it. The Canadians sided with the Americans

and decided they would punish the athletes and let them stay home.

Howdy you enjoy watching these guys run the 100 metres, the big

decathlon? It looks like I could do it again! I am joking. It is always

amazing watching the dead cattle on, -- the dead cattle on, because

ten events is just ridiculous. Ashton Eaton is a special athlete,

isn't he? Absolutely. I saw him last year. He is a deck athlete running

ten point two. Surely tangent in there and do some incredible things.

He is world class. We can't be here in Moscow and not mention David

Caraway. He used to represent us in the 4x100 metres relay team. It is

nice to see it when the scandal do world record-holder. Guy is the

defending champion. Trey Hardee is the defending champion. He got a

wild card into the championships despite the fact that he contested

the trials. The Americans have got legs. If there was an ankle injury,

let's hope it's gone. Expect some very quick sprinting from Ashton

Eaton and the rest. 10.21 is his lifetime best. That is the fastest

ever running a decathlon. It reminds me of Daley Thompson and the fact

he's very chatty and friendly. He enjoys competing. Eelco Sintnicolaas

is the former under 23 European champion. He's very tall, lean and

strong. But Eduard Mikhan is the biggest one of the lot. He is on

good form. But watch out for Ashton Eaton enjoy picture, and Trey Hardee

three lanes inside of him. 10.39 he has one. Gunnar Nixon is the other

six. If you can get close -- if he can get close to his lifetime best

performance, we are in for a special Begovic which there from Michael

Schrader. They are called back. Trey Hardee got a great start there. It

may have been Michael Schrader. The twitch first. Certainly a twitch

warning against the field. They are going to have a chat with Michael

it is Gunnar Nixon, the American, Rico frighteners, from Germany, Trey

Hardee, Damian Warner, Michael Schrader, Ashton Eaton, me heil

Dudas, Eelco Sintnicolaas and Eduard record-holder for a long jump in the

dead cattle on -- decathlon. He will not willing to wish -- he will not

there. It is difficult to get yourself disqualified for a false

start in the decathlon because of the old rules they have. These are

edgy times for all the athletes down here. Ashton Eaton doesn't have to

get out too quickly. He has got such great sprinting speed. There is Trey

Hardee, or to give him his full in the world but when you consider

the explosive power he has, he is a man who can shot put 15 metres,

this is some Afellay it. The greatest in terms of points during,

all-round athlete that the world has ever seen. -- point scoring.

Well, Damian Warner took a long time to settle Ashton Eaton is

already into his running. Ashton Eaton has come away from everybody.

Not super-fast but very, very quick indeed in a decathlon. 10.35

seconds. That is big points for the American. No problems with the

suspected ankle injury that we had heard that he had. Damian Warner

ran very well there, it was very close to his lifetime best, so he

is in good shape. He was a man that made massive improvements in 2012

to finish 5th in the Olympic Games. There is the winner. A good run by

the USA. He strengthened his other events but this is his main state.

He has always leading in the points after this event. It will be no

different today. It was not blisteringly quick. It is quite a

long stride that he packs in there and it is more than good enough.

It's certainly is. That for a decathlon of 100m is absolutely

superb. Ashton Eaton wins it in a new season's best. Damian Warner is

second and Trey Hardee gets a good third place.

third place. Her a good start their for the

Olympic champion and world record holder. Donovan was looking on

fascinated by the style of Ashton Eaton. There clearly was no

transition there, he came out of the blocks and pushed it the whole

way. The fact that he is running 10.35 just basically pushing it

down the track indicates that he is much more talented and much more

fast than is actually indicated by their. The thing is about the

decathlon and that there are so many compromises to be made because

there are 10 events. Yes, you always try to think about training

for the 200m or any other event. Clearly these guys have so many

things that they have to do, so many transitions they have to go

through in every single discipline, it is very tough to critique a

decathlete on any specific technical things that they might or

might not do in each discipline. On there is a little bit as one of

injury protection. In the 100m you don't want to push as hard as you

can because of hamstrings and everything else. You must get

yourself through. In a championship you cannot rest on anything, you

must always work hard on it. have tough competition and to a

decathlete each hundredth of a second means more points and they

are trying to gain as many points as you can. He mention that there

was no drive phase and that is how hurdlers work as well. It is

because you have something in front of you say you look up and you just

run. What could you run if he just focused on that, he is a big guy.

You have to be a strong and powerful man to go down the track

in 100m anywhere. He could get under 10 seconds he, he is a big

and strong guy and if he pushed his way down the track at that time

then he could get under 10 if the focus just on that but I am sure he

is OK being the best decathlete that ever lived, I think he is OK!

I guess he is happy with that. We will see more of him this morning

and here is what is still to come. Next up it is the long jump for the

decathletes. Trey Hardee and Ashton Eaton, they can long jump pretty

well as well. Then in the pole vault we have a 5.7 as the target

for automatic qualification. Four Steve Lewis it will have to be an

equal season's best if he is to qualify for the final. We have 100m

heats coming up later on. A strong American trio and also Andrew

Osagie and Michael Rimmer are going for Britain.

Donovan Bailey, Olympic champion and world champion in 1995, let us

look at his medal-winning in a moment but first we will look at

how you can keep in touch with us. OK, we won't do that! We will look

back to Donovan Bailey. 1995 was a good year for both of us.

Donovan Bailey, the final of the world championship of the 100m. A

way first time. They got a good run their. Flying in the same care --

centre is Donovan Bailey. He wins it. Look at the time. Donovan

Bailey is the world No. 1 on the clock this season and now he is the

Memories of that race. The for you even say anything, I know where you

are going here. He used to wind up Ato Boldon something chronic can

call him the fastest pace Mae Katt out there! A did I say that? Never!

He always had an amazing start and I thank him for that. Watching

Gothenburg, that was amazing, really. I am watching it and are

thinking that it is such an ugly race. My drive phase was terrible

because I was sweeping across the track from line to line and then

when I finally straightened up it was actually in my acceleration

phase but you know I am happy because I was crowned world

champion so it wasn't a bad 10 days, I guess. That is right. He followed

it up the next year in Atlanta in the American's backyard, taking the

sprint title. I really look forward to Atlanta's -- I really looked

forward to Atlanta. Obviously when you are competing you want to win

titles. If you are going to compete any -- achieve any legendary status

it is all about titles. There were so many people that thought that

1995 was a fluke so I was hell-bent on ensuring that I was prepared in

1996 and that I was going to be the Olympic champion. I did not expect

the world record although based on what I was running in practice,

have I executed well and not had for false start, then I should have

got quite fast twitch and it hurts today.

Let us head back to the commentary team. The pre-empt heats of the

men's 100m are coming up. men's 100m are coming up.

As we have been see all morning, it is not exactly round here in the

Luzhniki Stadium. But the conditions are beautiful for the

100m. Just to reiterate, this first round is a qualification round. We

know all about the a standard and that the standard is 10.21 and if

you have not done that you have to appear in this first round. A lot

of countries send their athletes to compete in this because they can

send one athlete and this is often the event which is chosen and that

is why the better athletes get the chance to miss this preliminary

round. Talking about that athletes, Daniel Bailey would not normally be

here. He started his season pretty well. He has fallen away since then.

It would be great if Holder da Silva won a medal or a championship

title. He is from Guinea Bissau. He has run 10.55 this year, not far

off his personal best. The first two of these next four races will

go through to tonight's first round proper and the two fastest losers -

not a false start. It was just that as they were about to be called

into the set position, somebody decided not to. Daniel Bailey was a

semi-finalist at the Olympics last year but he has been 4th and 5th at

the last two editions of these are world championships and at his best

he can get under 10 seconds. His best opportunity would have been in

Lucerne. There was a false start there and he ended up getting

disqualified. It was a bad night in Lucerne. The chance of a fast time

passed him by in that occasion. There is the green card for

everybody, so no warning. The starters are under pressure as well.

It is the first morning, get it right. It is interesting. His sets

the tone. A lot of athletes will come and watch the early round to

see how the start operates if they should be the two to go through.

The nineteen-year-old from Macedonia might not be far away.

Daniel Bailey gets away pretty well. Riste Pandev gets away as well.

Holder da Silva is coming through to take second place. Daniel Bailey

eased back and the silver -- Holder da Silva is well clear. There was a

slight headwind. Where did they come thick -- where did that come

from? Maybe it was the big doors at the end! Daniel Bailey is safely

through and that is the job done for him. He will be back this

evening. That race will start at a 5:15pm in the UK.

It is separating wheat from chaff. The other athletes are he to have

their moment in the sun. Daniel Bailey has had a lot of moments in

the sun but he is not quite in the form of oil -- form of old. He

looks quite comfortable. But how much further can he go? He knows he

does not really belong in the preliminary rounds. There is the

confirmation of it. The two automatic qualifiers there, Daniel

Bailey and Holder da Silva, by a distance.

The decathletes are already out in the stadium for their second

discipline, the long jump. There is the summary of points after event

one, the 100m. A clear lead for Ashton Eaton. 19 points ahead of

Damian Warner from Canada and Trey Hardee is 22 points behind the

Canadian. It is interesting to see Carlos Chinin of Brazil in a new

lifetime best in 7th place. It is Ashton Eaton who leads the way.

Julia Fischer is struggling just a little bet. She has thrown 66

metres this year. Very graceful. Across the circle, and that discus

just seemed to die as it reached a high point there. There is no wind

here at all. If there was a slight headwind going into the discus K

Ager there, that would help the aerodynamics of the discuss. Discus

cage. The official qualifying distance is 63 metres. If that is

over 60, which it is, it could be enough to take her through to

tomorrow's final. This Chinese athlete was a very promising a

thrower for so long. She collapsed on delivery there. It was a foul.

Her East German coach, eastern German coach, not east German. She

fought to stay in the circle there but it was a foul. She was a

favourite but she is out and that is not the start China would have

automatically. The others will go through to the first round proper

tonight. That'll be tonight at just after 8pm local time. We spoke about

quality athletes. This plan, Alexander Brezhnev, has run ten

point 33 this season. He should be fairly comfortable going through

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champion. There is Bologo in lane men's 100 metres. And again,

stand-up. We're just getting some teething troubles out of the system

early on. The pressure once again falls on the man with the gun. You

can't exactly blame crowd noise. One of those venerable ladies we saw

earlier. I think a lot of people are talking about the London Olympics

and the morning session is being sold out. This is not normal. The

morning sessions are most sparsely populated. It is such a cavernous

stadium. There are a few thousand of them now, I expect. It looks a lot

emptier than it actually is a lot of people will be here supporting Roman

Cress. A good clean start this time. Brednev got there in 10.50. He goes

through with Bologo. The crowd got going a little bit there. That warm

to them up. A bit of Russian success at these championships. We will be

expecting more. Bologo has been racing a lot this year. He has got

pedigree. He did not get a good start, but he was catching up at the

end. I think we will see Bologo in the 200 metres as well. Those two

finish line, about halfway up, and our radio colleagues are right at

the top because they have to get fitter with the stairs to crime.

That is our studio crew up there. Bright lights as ever shining on

them, making them look even more beautiful than they already are.

beautiful than they already are. Enough sarcasm! The stadium is not

as empty as it looks. What do you make of these descriptions? It is

different and new. I am getting used to it. And how about some of the

form we have seen. These athletes, the IAAF allies won athlete per

country to come in an event where they have not got a qualified

athlete, and the 100 metres is one of the favourites. What you make of

it? I really shouldn't laugh. Every country has a 100 metres guy,

regardless of what the time is. Some of these kids that you see competing

here, if you had a number one sprinter in the world, these kids

are your biggest fans. Looking at some of the athletes competing here,

you can actually see talent. You can see if you can get some of the kids

and harness the coal that could become a diamond one day.

athletic is developing in those countries. Yes, Bologo, he had -- he

is not faith at all and has no clue about what he's doing. He looks

like, with some work, he could be a kid that dot mac so back in the day,

you would be out here. I love competing where there were

preliminaries. One of the things you always saw was your comp editors'

mental capacities. I like the idea of competing against the people in

the first round where there is zero stress and not someone who is going

to try and run fast. They just have to go through the motions. Let's get

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side. He clocked his season's best and took the bronze medal in those

two. Tabakaucoro is having a good race. Al-Harthi will just win it.

And I think Tabakaucoro holds on for a surprise second place. A good

forms from him. Just 20 years old. The man from Fiji. This is the first

real race we've had, I guess. The previous two have been done and

dusted by about 50 metres. This was closer. Yes, this was a good start.

All three of these men could have gone through. It was very close on

the line. It did look that Adams is just out of it. 10.53 for the

has the quickest time of the non-qualifiers. The opening salvos

of the competition are underway. Both pits in the pole vault have

started their campaigns. Valentin Lavillenie is the younger brother of

Renaud Lavillenie. He is the fifth highest fault in history. Jack Whitt

of the United States, another useful athlete. I am looking forward to

seeing him. He was a junior champion some years ago. And Steve Lewis,

from Great Britain, he will have to equal his season's tested he wants

into the competition. He given that too impressed with that. I was

talking to the Olympic champion, Renaud Lavillenie the other day in

the hotel, and he was saying, I think I am only going to require one

vault to make it through to the way, 5.25 per target. Wouldn't look

terribly impressive. Jeremy Scott of the United States. He has jumped

5.65 this season, so this should have been very easy indeed. He is

trying to crawl his way over the bar. He lacks international

experience and will need to do a lot preliminary mount -- round of the

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of the runners in those who have come this evening for the 100

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Astra tough because it get so cold here in the winter. -- Astroturf. I

think the grass is not normal. Terry slipped while playing a

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penalty on and neuter. -- on that from Mohammed Abukhousa. Calvin

Kang Li Loong is going to take it comfortably on the line on the

inside. We will confirm who has gone through in second place and

keep an eye on the times as well. That was very impressive from

Calvin Kang Li Loong. Yes, very good start. He maintained it well.

Shernyl Burns did not get away well. Ifrish Alberg looked a bit laboured.

There is no doubt about that winner. He has taken 100 of a second of his

personal best. At 10.7 Ifrish Alberg will go through to the first

round proper. He is likely to go through with someone from one of

through with someone from one of the earlier heats. We are not

convinced these are a good idea. The his are the biggest fans. It

would be awesome... We have a phenomenal vantage point. If Usain

had to run the heats then it would be wonderful to watch him in the

lane that he was put in with the other seven guys just staring at

him. That would be good TV. We were talking about why the a dub -- IAAF

has these athletes who have not tuned in to -- who have not got the

qualification standard. They have their country's tuning in to watch

them but they are not against the big names. Yes, up you can watch

them warm-up and if they are really into it, they can watch Usain Bolt

warming up but it is fantastic for these young people to stand next to

the big stars. They want to compete. When I was competing I remember

some of these kids would not even have shoes. I gave away millions. I

sold shoes of for the trainer company. I was handing out here to

a lot of these guys. They would wait outside way you were at the

village under the warm-up track and they would stay high and hello and

they would say they have been watching and they are a big fan

even though you were in the race with them. It did not matter. That

is why it is important for preliminaries like this. For me,

personally, I think some of the big guys should show up. Also, when I

completed it got the cobwebs out of my legs. You are going to head off

to do some radio work shortly. A yes, some real work! You are going

to see Usain et start his campaign here tonight, what do you think he

is going to achieve? I think he will win here. There is no one to

really test him. Justin Gatlin has had a consistent year and there are

few young guys that can do some things. James Dasaolu has an

opportunity to get on the podium if he can get through the rounds. I

know that he had a couple of niggles that he didn't compete in

London last week. All in all, Usain is going to start his campaign

tonight but he looked rusty last week but apparently when you look

rusty and you why Usain Bolt, you run at 9.85. For thank you very

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graphic across the bottom. The British team were preparing in

Barcelona before these championships. We were out there

and we caught up with the head coach, Neil Black.

Talking to the athletes, there is a great mix of experience and youth,

how do you view the set-up? It is a good summary. It is a great mixture

of experience and youth. It is great to see that kind of mix. It

is great to see people like Christine embracing being the

captain and supporting in a really comforting and directed way with

the younger kids. It is good to see their excitement and the see them

interacting and jelling with each other so it feels like a really

nice blend. Last year there was intense pressure to make the team

in the London 2012 year, it was a tangible thing. This year, they are

not taking the eye off the ball but there is a ramping down in pressure,

do you get a sense of that around the team? I think it is there and

we have begun to call it a transition year and a post-Olympic

year, the targets feel a little bit different. We still work with UK

Sport and National Lottery in terms of funding the programme but the

longer term target is real in 2016 and London 2017. There is a target

for six or eight medals in this championships. Is there something

you want to get away from? We will never get away from the

performances being the measure of what we are doing so we have to

accept that. It is one of the criteria that everybody uses

relatively -- relative to doing well, successful or otherwise. We

are looking at the attitudes of the athletes and the support staff and

we have made a conscious decision to not set a conscious target and

we will look at the pros and cons of targets in the future. At the

end of the day everyone is looking to improve their game and improve

their performance and do better and do as well if they can but we will

always be measured on the numbers and the comparisons with the past.

How important is it for the athletics to have the post-Olympic

success maintained by the superstar athlete? It is difficult to

establish how important is his but it is a tragedy that Jessica Ennis-

Hill is not going to be here but it is absolutely the right decision to

not take any unnecessary risks. Greg Rutherford is making an

amazing recovery and we are optimistic and open-minded. The

fact that Mo Farah is performing at the level that he is, it is a

surprise to many of us that he can be even better! There will be

someone up and coming who can shock us. All things going well there is

a reasonable number of potential medals there. That will keep us

where we should be in this transitional year. A very measured

Neil Black there. Paula is black -- Paula is back, as is quite obvious!

Neil Black was not expecting to be the performance director or the

head coach. Yes, he has come in and having to do two roles. He has been

very positive around the team and building them up to come here and

give their best performances. He has been non-committal in press

conferences when he is asked about medal predictions but essentially

he wants to see everybody come here and perform as well as they are

capable of doing. Some people have niggles and are not quite 100% but

as long as they go out and perform as well as they can, given the

preparation they have, that is what he is trying to ask. It is a point

that it is a transitional year. There was 2012 which was a massive

focus for all of the athletes and British athletics and then there is

a build-up to Rio and London. it is a massive expectation for

athletes to keep boy and all the time. It was exhausting the whole

journey of 2012. Next year there is the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

which will be a major focus. This year is kind of stuck in the middle.

There is no resting on that and we have come out and they will work

hard and we have seen this season's bests and personal bests. Perri

Shakes-Drayton has some fantastic things and Christine is in the best

shape we have seen her for a long time. People are delivering great

performances and this is their platform and an opportunity to

shine. Let us see how we did in Daegu two years ago. This is what

Daegu two years ago. This is what we will be comparing ourselves

against. There were gold medals for Mo Farah and Dai Greene. We have

not talked about Dai Greene. He is not really in the shape to defend

his title. Yes, unfortunately he has kind of struggled on lots of

different levels, from injury and then an illness on top of that. In

his event you need to have a sense of consistency. You will hear that

a lot during the next day's because it is important for the athletes to

get out their day in day out and practise their routine but Dai

Greene has unfortunately had a truncated season which makes it

difficult for the 400 hurdles. Farah is in fantastic form and he

does tonight. Brendan Foster will be calling the race alongside Steve

Cram. What do you make of the Cram. What do you make of the

build-up to these championships so far? You get times in an athlete's

life when you build up for a major championships and it is absolutely

perfect. His build up to these championships has been perfect. His

performances have been staggering. I am still struggling to comprehend

some of the performances he has made. When he ran 50.9 a for the

last lap in the European team championships in Gateshead's, it

was faster than people running the 400m. He did that on the last lap

of the 5,000m and then he came to monitor and broke Steve Cram's

British record. Not only was Steve a bit Stagger during the commentary,

but we were staggered watching your back home. I have always known he

was quick and he was good at the finish but he has perfected in the

last couple of years. The things he has done this year I just

unbelievable. It is such a rare time in an athlete's life. Paul

will tell you that, that you get to run in a race like that and run as

well in -- as well as that in a run-up to the championship. To be

honest to you, you are not going to meet a better 1,500m runner in the

world than Kiprop and Mo was certain to him and then he wondered

whether he should run the 1,500m. I think it was pressed talk that he

would run through races but there is a marathon next weekend and he

could have...! What do you make about Neil Black telling him not to

run the 1,500m. Was Mo Farah getting carried away? Yes, I think

he was. Sometimes an athlete has to be protected from themselves. To be

honest with you, if he wins and one gold medal it will be fantastic. If

he wins the 10,000m that would be fantastic because no Briton has

ever done that before and it would be a fantastic piece of history. If

he wins them both it would be fantastic. The world record holder

for the 5,000m is the only one that has won a double so I am excited.

We must be excited, it is not just turn up and run round, it is turn

up and run around 25 times in the heat and then a win if you can. Let

us not get into the position where we start say he has only got to run

to win, he has got to run and he has got to run really well. He has

some fantastic athletes with him. I am really excited but you could not

ever imagine being in a better place than Meireles now.

Obviously we that the turn of see that -- turn of speed that he has

got his competitors will say that they cannot leave it until the last

couple of laps, they will surely try to take it out. I think someone

needs to do that and some of the athletes are going to look at their

own performances and see that they can be beaten on the last lap.

There is safety in numbers. When the athletes get on the track and

they have these plans, maybe there is one or two of them with a plan

because the old days of athletes running as a team, we have seen

that go away a long time ago. Here, today, maybe a few will strike out

and give him a race. The guys running the 5,000m, the last

message they gave to the Ethiopian team-mates was to make it a fast

one and try and tie him out for the 10,000m later. That conversation

has already happened. He is in a great place and it is fantastic for

us to be sitting here and getting Championships the other way around,

knowing that I have got to be the one to go out and force the pace and

make it hard to be able to try to run this thing in the last lap. It

is hard mentally and you going more exhausted into that last lap when

you are trying to compete with somebody who goes as fast as that.

He needs to stay cool and calm and out of trouble and just watch what

is going on and be ready to react. And certainly the last championship

races we have seen, it is almost as if the other competitors have sat

back and let Mo Farah have his own way. Exactly. For those watching

on, we think, why are they all jogging round, are they waiting to

get second or third, or have they given up? They need to go out and

attack, but it is hard to put yourself in that position. I don't

think they have been able to get any cohesion together. We have talked

about countries working together, but we may see people from the same

management group, saying, you take five I -- you take five laps, how

will take five laps. Is there enough to get that consent is going?

Probably from different countries, but whether they have got that

organisation going, to do what is best for themselves or for the

group... Mo Farah has got to run 25 laps against world-class athletes.

How will he cope with the pressure? I think he has a desire to win this

title. When you have the Olympic title on your neck, you have a

burden on you. You need to be the best in the world. I think he has a

luxury that he has absolutely everything. He is super quick, has

good endurance, you stronger, and of course, he is winning. When you go

into the competition when you are consistently winning, I think that

raises your level. All your opponents are scratching their

heads. They are going to make him work for it. What sort of race

evening we will see this evening? don't know. If I was out there

competing, I would say, I think we will see a fast race. But I have a

doubt that anybody is actually going to put them back on the line and

risk it. It is the only way they were beaten, but no matter -- but Mo

is going to be out there. He is going to be running 20,000 metres

this week on that track, so he will be trying to conserve as much energy

as possible in the early stages and it depends whether anybody else has

got the guts to go out there and compete properly. I think we can

Moscow. I have been working hard and straining as been going well. I hope

to enjoy it. Look at this! Billion last lap! What drives you is

thinking about your positions and what you need to do. When you are at

the top, it is so easy to get knocked down, but at the same time,

you have to have confidence and belief and work extra hard. This

year, I have been working twice as hard as last year. He looks over his

shoulder! The Ethiopian runner gets there in the dying strides.

learned a lot coming second. It gives you a Drive and you work even

harder. You don't want that feeling again, so you do whatever you can to

gold medals for Great Britain! Beautiful! That was the biggest year

of my life in terms of winning two gold medals. As an athlete, I

definitely improved by about 2%. And that means the difference between

winning a gold medal or coming sixth or seventh. I'm quite laid back and

I chill out, but I still want to win the race and think about it, and

that is what I have been doing. is an absolute pleasure to watch the

double Olympic champion striding out in all his glory down the finishing

straight. Ever since I was a kid, I have always had that fight, where

you fight to cross the line all the way. I just have that Drive. I do

like to lose. It is going to be a glorious wind! Mo Farah! Gold!

would like to collect as many medals as I can and give 110% and make my

country proud. I am sure he will. Mo Farah has been

quite playful in the lead at the championships. There is the whole

thing about the 600-metre race with Usain Bolt, trying to find the

distance where they might be competitive. He has also been

talking about having a with Amir Khan. -- having a fight with Amir

Khan. They do similar training to boxes. I do know if they are in the

ring punching each other, but they do a lot of core stability work,

which is an area where Mo is very impressive. Thinking back to a

couple of years ago when I was watching him work out in the gym, he

was a puny distance runner. But then he is extremely strong and solid in

his court. Some of the things you have seen him do in terms of balance

is very impressive. You can see the results of that when he is closing

in. He is a bit rough! He is dead straight. And that 600-metre race,

Colin. What you think? Forget it!If it did happen. Come on, play the

game! It depends what time of the year you are talking about. In April

or May, Usain Bolt would win easily. He just needs to sit on Mo and kick

ass Tim. He has a background of 400 metres running. At distance man? !

Sorry, Paula. Sit on Mo? He will be way down! Sometimes distance runners

that as sprinters we do do a bit of distance running in our lives. We do

some 800 metres training as well. It would not be to distant! That is why

a city you, it depends what time of the year. -- that is why I said to

you. Mo Farah will be very aware of the history of this track. Brendan

Foster has been catching up with Sebastian Coe about everything that

happened 30 years ago. There is a truth to sport. London

2012 will inspire a generation. is the limpid champion again. One

day we will tell our children and grandchildren that when our time

came, we did it right. You talked so naturally about inspiring a

generation, because there is no doubt in your mind that is what it

does. The limpid Games has always been a love affair for you. In 1972,

I had just become an athlete, and the reason I joined a local club was

because of what I saw in the 1968 with the medals. My Olympic interest

was fired by 1976 and 1968. I had a slightly sobering view that it would

be my turn next in 1976. In 1978, we shared a room in Prague in the

European Championships. An army barracks, if you remember. Let's

look at that 800 metres, your first clash against your big rival.

Sebastian Coe is the fastest man in Europe this year. They have not met

in a major track event ever. A lead for Great Britain! The world is

coming -- beginning to cave in here. I remember this moment when he came

leading into Moscow. We know that Moscow was a personal trial for you

beforehand, because the government did not want us to go there. I was

quite outspoken, if you remember, about it. Are you still hoping to go

to Moscow? That is what I am training for, very hard.

Mercifully, the British Olympic Association were tough about it. Our

federation was tough and said no, we are going. It does not mean we

condone the system, but actually, it might mean that we are ultimately in

the infancy of change, which I like to think we probably were. I think

if we had not gone to the big Games, that would have counted against us

when we were bidding for Singapore -- in Singapore. It would have been

difficult for us to stand up and talk about our passion as a nation

for the Olympic movement having actually sat at an Olympic Games

because of political pressure. look at the 800 metres. You have

four world records going into this race. You are a nailed on certainty.

But you were a bit confused at they leaving the village. It was probably

a mixture of all sorts of things. Inexperience. It was a bloodbath of

a race, as well. Look at Steve! Talk about redefining the arms race.

was doing nothing. I am a bystander. Steve actually grabs the race by the

scruff of the neck and he won it. It wasn't pretty, but that is what he

was very good at. Sebastian Coe can't get through. That was supposed

to be your glory day, and you almost did nothing right. I did everything

wrong! You are being charitable. the ceremony, Steve is standing on

the rostrum and you are there with the silver medal. It was not your

most gracious few minutes there. Everybody said it was, because you

lost to Steve. I had run faster in training. They were difficult days.

They were the making or the breaking of Sebastian Coe, the athlete.

kept the chirpy. I remember waking up the following morning after I had

lost. I think I ass what the weather was like and Dee went over to the

window, ripped open the curtains and said, I think it looks very silver

at their! I just had the figure this out myself. I kept reminding myself

that I was lucky. I had another chance a few days later to resurrect

it. I woke up feeling different that day. The 1500 metres Olympic race.

Sebastian Coe is coming at the outside. I knew when I went into the

race that I didn't want to walk off the track ever again in my career

feeling as bad as I did after the 800 metres. You were not in the race

the other day. You were in the race that day. I am coming back.

Sebastian Coe is in second place with just over 300 metres to go.

you believe now that you can win this? Yes, there is no going back

You are better with a gold medal around your neck, aren't you? You

are happier. Funny that! One of the questions you once asked me in an

interview was would I have gone on racing and training as hard as I

did in 1984 if I had not come at the right side of it in 1980, I

don't know the answer to that actually. Maybe not. There is a

picture of you when you cross the line that tells a helluva story.

a way that quintessentially sums up the gains. It is a whole a

combination of excitement, fear, terror of what you have been

through, and a huge amount of relief. The terror of what you have

been through. I think that actually sums it up.

That is the first part of a trilogy with Brendan meeting Sebastian Coe.

Absolutely fascinating stuff to hear him talk about what happened

here all those years ago. Absolutely. You remember seeing all

the film about it and hearing about the photographers following him on

his run when he went out the day after the 100m and how he turned

himself around. He definitely fight him up and he said the question,

would he have trade as hard for La if he had not run their but Una CAT

Mo Farah last year and he won them both and he has trained harder and

come in with an even bigger boost of confidence to this year so you

never know. He probably still have gone -- he probably still would

have gone on to be the Afellay that he was. A we all appreciated the

Daley Thompson a school of a psychotherapist. Yes, we have had

our times with Daley Thompson! He is an inspirational role model. He

was the man of the team and a real time it -- a real team person. He

did not stay out of the village and he was always there with you and

passing on his knowledge and advice and for me it was one of the best

things to have him on your doorstep, it was absolutely brilliant.

Brendan is in the commentary box. It was fascinating to hear you

chatting to Sebastian Coe. You were very close to him and he shared a

room with him in 1976. I shared a room with him in 1980. As I said in

that interview, when he went out to run the one -- 800m, he had been

talking to his father and as he left the room his father and I

started speaking and I guess then he was confused and you look at the

race and he was not in it and you look at the 1,500m and when the gun

went he was straight with Ed. The interesting thing for me is that if

he had not run -- if he had not one that 1,500m, he was a destroyed man.

I am not sure that he would have trade on and done as well as he did

later, I am not sure he would have won again because in the in between

days he was broken, he really was. I was nervous on his behalf as to

whether he would do justice to his own ability because he was in

Moscow, the times were tough, the press were savage with him and he

was struggling. To be fair, he showed the magnitude of his inner

strength by just coming back. When he crossed the line that day, that

is a real historic moment and that picture of the terror of what he

had been through, that picture is an essential picture in the history

of British sport. He was instrumental in winning the Games

for 2012 and he would not have been the same Sebastian Coe with the

same reputation if he had not gone through that moment of terror. I

think that was where the 2012 Olympic Games were one for Great

Britain because that was him going through, he knew he would never go

through anything as tough in his own life. He has told me since that

even the trials of the Olympic Games, being the top man, did not

match anything. He knew he was prepared for anything in life after

he had been through that. It is a hard way to learn it but he went

through it. One of the big things with that second race was that

Steve Ovett was actually the favourite for the 1,500m and

Sebastian Coe was the better at 800m runner. That is right. He was

the best 100m runner in the world. Steve Ovett was never that. He was

the best 1,500m runner in the world and Sebastian Coe could not win the

one he was supposed to win and if you read a book and now was the

plot people would say was rubbish but if you actually go through it

that is why the drama of sport will never be replaced. In the trilogy

that you were talking about he goes on to tell us are more stories so

tune in tomorrow! We will look forward to that. Thank you very

much. You could see the pole vault going on there and Steve Lewis is

out there in qualification. Let us hear from him at the training camp.

You have had great success up until this point. Now you want to take it

up a notch further, how difficult a decision is it? Well, it is tougher.

After the Olympics nothing seemed to go that well for me. I lost my

mum or eight weeks after the Olympics and then my coach left to

and everything started being hard for me. I did not really know where

to go all what to do and then towards Christmas I felt like Dan

was going to be the answer and he had the best things to say and he

is a great guy and he has done really good by the so far so

leaving family behind was really tough and getting into the mindset

of training and doing all of this with their emotions so fresh from

what happened to me after the Games and having such a successful year

athletics wise. It was hard and I think I won't really see the

benefits of the decisions I have made until the next few years to

come. I think I have got to a place in athletics now where I am

experienced enough and I know the basics of what I have to do to be

at this level so I hope that I can have a successful world

championships. I have got that feeling a lot more this year that I

am doing it for myself and it is a nice feeling to know that I have a

passion for the sport and I am actually doing it because I have

something to prove to myself. target for Steve Lewis is 5.7 for

automatic qualification. Let us find out how he is getting on.

find out how he is getting on. 5.4 is the target and that is what

is on his mind at the moment. There is the qualifying Group B.

That is his group. There are a lot of falters out there this morning

jumping in parallel. There are two vaulting pictures -- 2 were

vaulting pits side by side. There is a lot of class in there,

especially in their novella that -- Renaud Lavillenie from France,

Olympic championship and the world leader this year. Steve Lewis had

five point four at his opening height. He opted to pass at 5.25.

He is trying to make two world championship finals in a row, three

world championship finals in a world -- Road. He stalled out of

that one. It is often the case of when you come into something like

this you test the pole. He has two more attempts for this.

I wrench and Renaud Lavillenie a few moments ago. This is Valentin

Lavillenie. This is his younger brother by four years. He is a very

talented guy. 5.65 is his lifetime best. 5.40 was his first attempt

and he gets it. That was a much better attempts then he got at his

opening height where he failed it at the first attempts but he

planted the pole anti inverted and then drove as much as possible over

the top. He is actually looking very comfortable indeed. You are

not likely to see his older brother for quite a while yet. He may not

even come in until 5.70. This is an important fault for Steve Lewis. He

is the British record holder and he does not want to have to rely on a

third and final attempt. That... I was about to say that was better,

he was absolutely miles over but if you get the replay shot from side

on... There we are. Watch how high his tips are above the bar but he

just came down on top of it. -- his hips. A third and final attempt

pending for Steve Lewis and that will be a nerve-racking moment. He

has done it before. He is a class athlete. There are certainly plenty

of great British fans to cheer him on and off the other British

competitors here. They are paid in the sunshine as usual. They do seem

to have a knack of picking the right things. There is the

situation after the 100m in the decathlon. Ashton Eaton is leading

jumper, Michael Schrader of Germany. He is in 6th place after the 100m.

A big reach at the end and he was getting out towards eight metres.

That could be about 1,000 points if he gets something in the region of

7.80. He might just have the Americans in this event although,

having said that, Ashton Eaton, the world record holder does hold the

world record for long jump in decathlon. That was the best this

year for Michael Schrader. Damian Warner made huge strides in this

event last season. He is lying in second place after a very good 100m.

That looks like a little stutter before the take-off. He can see

Trey Hardee bounding around in the background. He will take his jump

in a few moments on the other runway. Actually, he did not start

at all there, it was flat out but only a 7.20 or thereabouts. He has

jumped a lot further in competition. 7.26, but he is still in second

place overall. When Trey Hardee won his first world title, he is going

for a hat-trick here in Moscow, he jumped 7.80 and are more in the

long jump so he will be aiming for at least that. That was a little

bit flat on the take-off. He got the white flag and that is the

important thing. He will have one eye on a competitor coming up in a

few moments time, Ashton Eaton, he is over eight metres when he is at

his very best. He seemed not to get the take-off perfectly right there,

he started going into the board but solid on the board. 7.30 is

actually a season's best but he will need a lot more than that. Now