Day 1, Part 4 Athletics: World Championships

have a look at how the decathlon is the decathlon is not going well

because Hardy, the defending world champion, failed. He only cleared

1.92, but Nixon here, 20 years old... That is 2: 14. Massive points

for the young American. So an understated start to his decathlon

campaign here. Nixon, 10.8 four on the 100. Pretty solid performances

and now he has produced something special. Big points for Nixon. He is

only 20 years old. That was the best jump that we saw in the decathlon

high jump competition. All change at the top of the table. Nixon came

here as the second string and that was because Hardy got a while, entry

-- a wild card entry. And the German trader is now in second place but

some way behind the young American place. Krisztian Pars almost had the

perfect season last year. He won the European Championships and the

Olympic final. He is trying to qualify for the World Championship

final here and then go for gold tomorrow. That could be the longest

we have seen throwing so far. The Hun Carey and have done well in

hammer throw ring in recent years. It is probably their strongest

event. But only Lukas Melich of the Czech Republic has qualified

automatically so far. Krisztian Pars 379.06. He is through to the final.

McColgan's mother. Eilish is relaxed about the race. She has had a tough

line to even stand on the start line. Post race she's cheering! She

did it! I knew she could! Gutsy, gutsy girl! Be proud mother. It is

lovely to see. Can you imagine if you have worked with somebody it can

be held. She has seen it right the way through and she is a proud

mother. Are great Britain performance director, Neil Blackett,

reckons the squad of athletes might just be as strong and well prepared

as the athletes were in London last year. He has beans begin to Phil

Jones. There is that great mixture of experience and youth. Yes, that

is good. 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 kind of

embracing being become in and supporting in a really kind of

comforting and directive way with the younger kids. It is good to see

their excitement. It is good to see them interacting and gelling with

each other. It feels like a nice blend. Last year there was so much

intense pressure just to make the team in the London 2012 team. This

year there is that ramping down a little bit, in pressure terms. Do

you get a sense of that? I think that is there. We have going to call

it a transition year or a post-Olympic year. The targets feel

a little bit different. National lottery, in terms of funding the

program... Be long-term target is Rio 2016. And also a target of 6-8

medals for these athletes. How do you view that? We will never get

away from the performances being the measure of what we are doing. It is

one of the criteria that everyone uses relative to doing well. We are

looking at the attitudes of the athletes, the support staff, the

coaches. We have made a decision not to set a specific target.

fundamental end is everyone is looking to improve their game and

performance, to do as well as they can but everyone will always be

measured on the number of gold medals and comparison with the past.

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

maintained? In terms of the Super Saturday it is a tragedy that

Jessica is not going to be there but I know it was essential not to take

that unnecessary risk. Greg, we are optimistic and open-minded. The fact

that money is performing as he is -- Mo Farah is performing as he is

shows as he can be even better. All things going well, there is a

reasonable number of potential medals that that will keep this kind

of where we should be in this transitional year.

So not committing to specific numbers, although UK Sport have said

6-8. Is that realistic? Wherewith they come from? We can be happy with

five. Eight is probably stretching it but you think of the likes of

Perri Shakes-Drayton, Christine, the women's four x four, Mo Farah, maybe

two for him. Shara Proctor, and outside in the women's long jump...

A bit light on the ground but it is a transitional year and what you

want from 18 coming to Moscow is building for the future. He is right

to say that. -- the team coming to Moscow. You have come out of juniors

and the under 23 is and this can be very shocking for you. It can be

different with the senior athletes and you have to get used to that

different climate. So you need time to grow in it and if you are just on

the fringes and able to perform under the circumstances, it goes

well for you in the future. There is always a surprise, I know it won't

be a surprise if you tell us! But where would that come from, do you

think? I was looking at some of the predictions and in the women's four

x four, a really strong chance for not just getting a medal, they may

be able to win it. The predictions are not even in, they go in US,

Jamaica, Russia. I am thinking... I think Team GB will put on a good

performance. One of them is about to go in the heats, not in the first

heat but very strong line-up for the heats now in the 400m. Let us join

Steve Cram and Andrew Cotter. COMMENTATOR: The first round coming

up shortly. Tidying up the qualified with a personal best. You

can see the qualifiers, Lydia going through. And that's is a list of

times, the other fastest losers were Martine and the sixth placed athlete

in the first semifinal. And so the first heat of the women's 400m so

Ashley Spencer is twice already collegiate champion and Christine

Ohuruogu goes in the next heat and the Russians are hopeful that so

steadily increasing crowd expect great things from Antonina

Krivoshapka, she goes in lane three. She has a tendency to show her hand

early on and that does not lead too much out there early on. But

Antonina Krivoshapka does run early early on. There she is. And below 50

seconds this season and only six women have done that. But Ashley

Spencer and Antonina Krivoshapka the two quality athletes in this. The

five heats in total here. And I mention just 20 years old, Ashley

Spencer. Twice-daily gypped -- twice the collegiate champion. Kadecia

Baird, Agne Serksniene in the be dawdling in her blog but the way

she goes and the cheers of the crowd as she hunts down and start the run

of the St Vincent & the Grenadines. Also the Green of Nigeria for

Omotoso but Krivoshapka will lead coming round. Making her presence

felt. This is where Krivoshapka should start to conserve a bit of

energy, the first four go through in the heats. Automatically. And Kineke

Alexander is trying to work with their bets Krivoshapka clear at the

start. These three will go through and Ashley Spencer coming through to

take second so it is Krivoshapka who does what it done a little bit,

51.28 the time. Didn't she look to agree with you. The first four go

through, I know Colin talks about winning it but you keep a bit, you

have got your rounds to get through, three rounds and he wants

to keep everything you can. -- and you want to keep everything you can.

She made the others run hard, that is a good thing, Spencer had to dig

deep because Alexander had got a good bend and put herself in the mix

and Spencer suddenly woke up and thought she will come third or

fourth and she would prefer second but you have to say that

Krivoshapka, we talk a lot about Christine, let's not ignore the

Russian. And as Christine Ohuruogu knows, a home crowd can do a lot to

lift you. Omotoso held on to go through as the fourth of the

automatic qualifiers and the rest GABBY LOGAN: In just over an hour or

so, Mo Farah will take to the stadium as the final and only race

of the ten kilometres. It is straight off and a gold medal is up

for grabs. Mo Farah just outside the stadium at the moment, warming up,

just standing out there for normal human beings would be warming up in

this temperature. It is pretty fierce out there. Just walking

around as a normal civilian, it has been difficult. I didn't include you

it and that he is looking casual as is Christine. They know what they

have to do and it is the first run, let's see how they do.

Krivoshapka's technique as a heat run all out and then with about five

to go realising she can practically walk to the line, she ran two

seconds slower than she run this year. I was watching her 200 metres,

Woody Swift -- pretty swift. She has already the lactic acid in her legs

and she might as well slowdown. Nothing particularly special, 51.2,

I think we will see a lot more in the semifinal because you have to

run a far more balanced race. only seven in that heat, not the

most difficult to come through. at all but like Colin says, it is

important to establish yourself in the 400m, make sure you are in a

good position. But it will be interesting to see what tactics

Christine adopts. She will do just enough, well balanced race and she

certainly has the experience. has been your time and time again,

not a positive experience overall in debut, she wants to hark back to

better times -- in Korea. She was disappointed because she expects to

win on this stage. Let's get back down to Andrew and Steve in the

commentary box. COMMENTATOR: There is Christine

ready to go and she will be nervous despite all her experience. Thoughts

of the press conference yesterday, she had to deal with a few questions

which she was not happy with and had every right to be when people asked

her about the runner in the 400m hurdles. Hastings will be the main

rival here. And Christine is in a good lane in lane six. You can see

where you are at round the bend. And see what energy will you want to

expend in the home straight. Marie Gayot, Natasha Hastings, Ndzinisa

from Swaziland. Taslakian and Joelma Sousa of Brazil. Just to remind you,

the first four will go through automatically. Hastings, the

American champion this year, no sunnier Richards Ross

unfortunately. I saw a message from her saying that she would have an

operation on her toe, Sanya Richards stadium here has got so few people

in, it is Saturday evening, we have got a big final coming up on the

track and Usain Bolt in the 100 metres heats. Well, wherever you are

in the world, thankfully the Brits will always find a way to get here.

I saw a couple of those gentlemen on the train coming in this morning.

am wondering if Vladimir Putin is here himself. He is coming tonight

apparently. It needs to be a 30,000 strong entourage to fill up. He does

have a big entourage, though! He is not here yet. Just a little delay

Diamond league, and you will go to the meeting in London and then go to

the big World Championships and then the atmosphere was at the Olympic

Stadium and Christine Ohuruogu rose to the occasion once again, 50

seconds flat she ran there. Good cheers around the stadium, the Brits

are very well represented. You do not look silly at all, that is

am not sure it is meant to but they only come in one size. Christine

gathering her thoughts. In the last few seconds, always the most nervous

for any athlete. It does not matter if you have won the Olympics or got

this world title before. Always nervous moments, you want to get it

over and done with. The likes of Christine Ohuruogu and Hastings,

things can go wrong in heats and don't forget, a false start at the

last World Championships for Christine Ohuruogu. Let's have none

of that, please. She is not happy, is she? She's having a word with the

starter's marksman. He had said something to her, she has got to put

lane six, Hastings has started quicker in lane three in all the red

of the USA. These two closing down on Christine Ohuruogu, right on the

outside, Joelma Sousa going well of Brazil. Pulling away from the rest.

To be honest, when Christine Ohuruogu gets through the first 200

metres, forcing through that bend she will be able to sense that

Hastings is coming alongside her. She will then work out whether she

lets the American take this one and that is what she is allowing her to

do. Hastings has gone hard rubber band, taken four metres at Christine

and asked us to come back as is their won't. Christine Ohuruogu

judging this very nicely indeed, doctoral qualification, making 50.2

to look incredibly easy. Let's not forget, Christine only runs under 50

in the championships as he was not far off it there. That is going to

make them quake in their boots a little. It is a thing of beauty to

watch if you are a fan of hers, it is always timed to perfection when

he thinks she is -- when you think she is sitting back in second. It

has been rounded down to 50 point two, it is remarkable -- 50.20.

Looking strong but look at her real in the American here. And in the

end, it was a victory by a good few metres. You wonder how much she was

leaving there, how much she has going into the semifinal, that is a

wonderful start from Christine Ohuruogu. I was saying before the

race, you could get out solid, run your bend and then you see where you

are and look at the length of Christine's stride, that is not an

athlete flat out, that is well controlled, yes it is 50.20, that is

working whoever you are but that is really comfortable looking for me,

if at the most anxious moment was at the start what you have a word with

the marksman. A strong 200 metres to the start, Hastings was quick, she

has been here before, she knows to keep relaxed, strong enough in the

first 200 metres, she is not out of the race, she knows she is in great

form so she can run easily through here. At this point, he will be

aware that the American is starting to come outside her and she keeps

the pressure on and keep the foot down but what she can't do is what

Christine always can do is coming to the home straight and know that

there is something else that she can dip into and she can wants to win

this race -- and she wants to win this race, that is the end of a race

where it is really strong. She may have one Olympic and World

Championship title but I am not sure she has ever come into a

championship looking in better shape. I would agree, and I think

she knows that as well. It is her first round... I will not save

safely negotiated, I will say very impressively negotiated, by

Christine Ohuruogu. 50 point 20. Quickest so far of course. There are

more heats to come. Hastings, Gayot wasn't even that. It was the way she

ran it. She made it look so easy. was wonderful. She ran a really

controlled 400m. It is about pacing, judging your race well from

the word go. You tackle all different systems, fuel systems in

your body. When you kick off into the first end, you can afford during

-- afford to run a little bit aggressively. Once you establish

your tempo, you can think about relaxing. At this stage Christine is

now, on the crown of the bend, when you think, I can start to open my

stride a bit, lift up my knees, but not accelerate. It is about the

pacing. Christine extended her stride length in a very relaxed

manner and that just eight the track and took her to this wonderful

victory. 50.20 is an incredible time. I am looking forward to seeing

her in the semifinal and going under 50 seconds. She looked like she

could do it. She is almost a round ahead of herself. She is but

together with her coach, who has guided her magnificently over the

years, they have a great relationship, so she would have had

the strategy of how to run this race. She got to 1.50 and she

extended her stride. She was cruising. She looked so comfortable.

You see her there and look across to Hastings and go, OK, I can get you.

It was a great race. Captain Christine safely through to the

semifinals. There are a few more heats to go. Andrew and Steve will

take heed three. COMMENTATOR: Rates hit three of the

women's 400m. -- it is hit three of involvement. Francine McCorory. She,

too, has gone below 50 seconds this year. McCorory is one of 22 children

and she wants to become an undertaker. I am not sure what to

make of that. There is Stephanie McPherson. Almost a second she has

taken off her personal best this year. She goes in lane four. Inside

her, Libania Grenot, the former Cuban, who races for Italy. McCorory

has been in very, very good form this season. I am sure in the warm

up area you take note of the seats that are going in front of you. --

the heats one. Again, a reminder, the first four go through

automatically. The next four fastest go through to the semifinals. At the

moment 53.01 is the last of those. MacPherson in lane four and McCorory

in lane seven. McCorory has gone very quickly indeed. These two are

going to make a good impression on the Frenchwoman, and on the inside,

Libania Grenot, the former Cuban, now racing for Italy. It is not

quite as fast as Christine Ohuruogu. A race which goes to form. McCorory

certainly breathing hard at that. Not quite so much Stephanie

McPherson. McCorory may be overcooked this a little bit. She is

watching the big screen so maybe she had this under more control than it

suggests. I do not think that was easing up. I think that was her not

being able to hold off McCorory. She He just cannot help it, he looks

cool where ever he is. I would love to know what he is listening to.

Have a crack! Some dance music.Not taking in a bit of Tchaikovsky while

he is in Russia? Whatever it is, it is certainly chilling him out. And

the heats for the 100m are around 5:15pm. Plenty more coming up but

sadly some news is just reaching us about Kelly Ann Baptiste, the bronze

medallist from Daegu in the 100m, saying she has tested positive for a

banned substance and has withdrawn voluntarily, this is from the

Trinidad and Tobago team manager who told the Trinidad Express newspaper

he refused to confirm that she tested was achieved at a reliable

source later confirmed this. Other sources are confirming this as well.

The president said they will release a press release in 48 hours. So not

great news, but she is from the same training group as Tyson Gay. I know.

You just deep read, don't you, and go, yes. It is always bad news when

you have a drug test result like that. Some of these young sprinters

were probably looking up to them and thinking they would like to be like

them. It does not lead a good flavour in your mouth at all.

Somebody high profile Mike Gay, it is like a house of cards. -- like

Gay. Yes, and in her case is is yet to be confirmed that it upsets you.

We have had to talk about this more than the athletes' performances over

the last few weeks. We were hoping not to have to deal with another

case and here we are again. It is disappointing and sad. Indeed. We

have more 400m heat action for you. reverberating, and Kelly Ann

Baptiste, one of the big names of women's sprinting. Again, they have

got to do it. It has got to be done. It has got to be as stringent as it

possibly can be and while every positive test will be looked upon

negatively, we should also look at the positive side that is about,

yes, we have got to catch people. If they are going to cheat, they need

to know they are going to be caught. So hit four. -- heats four.

Williams-Mills was pipped at the post by Christine Ohuruogu back in

2007. The Ukrainian herself is not long back from a two-year doping

ban. There she is. Novlene Williams-Mills. Last time I was

watching her, if you can remember the Monaco and Diamond league, she

was storming down and on the 200m mark she pulled up, seemingly

injured, but whatever it was, if it was a precautionary stop, it was a

good thing to do, the cos she is here. We will have to wait to see

exactly what sort of shape she is in. No clear sign of an injury

although she has a little hand around her knee. Pygyda will be

outside her. The Russians will be hoping... Ryzhova has thrown herself

into it. Williams-Mills. Just with nothing more than a plaster just

below her knee. Pygyda will be in lane three and this young lady here,

Ryzhova, 26 years of age. In the Championships at the end of June she

threw in a 49.8 . Four. -- a 49.8 will stop Cremer of Germany, we know

a fair bit about her. She is in lane seven. We are jumping around the

lanes here. I do apologise for that. And Bazzoni of Italy, on the

outside, who is the Mediterranean champion this year. So interesting

to see how Williams-Mills goes here. And the Russian, Ryzhova, with a

sub-50 clocking. On paper they should be the top two.

Williams-Mills was slow out of the the moment on the inside lane.

Ryzhova of Russia will be along way really enjoying this. Williams-Mills

starts to run Ryzhova down. Ryzhova will win this one, then

Williams-Mills. she looks strong and then Ryzhova, 50.7, not 49.8 but not

bad in the first round. As we look at the replay, it is encouraging to

hear the stadium come to life. looks more sparsely populated than I

think it is but a controlling run from Ryzhova. Novlene Williams-Mills

had some problems with her health, diagnosed with breast cancer and

still coming back from that we understand the treatment is ongoing

so encouraging just to see her here. I think she either eased up a bit

was tied up, probably a combination of both but Ryzhova looking pretty

good. The time of 50.69, so Christine Ohuruogu still with the

really not about coming in the top four, you can do that easily but you

guys are mentioning at the beginning, you want to get a good

result because it will be much tougher in the semifinals and the

lane draw there will be important. Second place for the Jamaican and

Ryzhova winning with 15.69. Christine Ohuruogu still with the

fastest qualifying time so far. The teenager from Romania finished very

quickly as well. GABBY LOGAN: Was a gutsy woman,

Novlene Williams-Mills still to be going on after a double mastectomy

and be out here competing. I wonder if athletics is a great source of

that because having been to the Olympics and having got that relay

bronze of the Jamaican team, to get the diagnosis that you have got

breast cancer must be devastating for her so it is wonderful to see

her here and what a powerhouse of a woman to ride through that and take

some solace from the fact that she still here and able to run. Having

the routine of training and all the commitments you have an athlete,

perhaps that keeps you on a different track and keeps you focus

on something else. Absolutely. Having known people with breast

cancer, and you have known as well, it is whether she has had the

chemotherapy and how that affects your training regime. For a lot of

people, through the ongoing process, it wipes your energy out.

Some people are on the floor for several weeks. So it is amazing she

is able to come out here and enjoy athletics. And a good run for the

locals as well, got the crowd going, I was amazed at the sound the crowd

were making, it is deceptive. off my headphones and they really

gave a good bit of support, especially at this stage with the

last 150 metres, she looked in good control, good comfort but I think

she went through the first 200 metres for the early part to quick

but you have got quality athletes inside you so she is quite unsure of

where she is so she did not want to take the risk of going off too slow

and having to work too hard down the home straight. And a reasonable time

for heats. You can't argue with the time. With expected the names coming

to the fore and one of the big names, the defending champion,

Montsho, is going in the final show. It will be interesting to see the

condition she is in. I am interested to see what she is like after Monaco

because she set the world's fastest time making it the last competition

before these major championships. I am wondering if she will go out and

looking at Christine 's time. And whether she wants to say she is the

leader and this year 's budget has been beaten by Christine. -- and

there she is but she has been beaten by Christine. Just how they see each

other as the main protagonists. Would you say they are the main

protagonists so far? I would say so but this lady can run quick and it

is about delivering. Clear favourite going into 2012 but she came fourth

in the end. Handing you over to your commentators now.

COMMENTATOR: There is Amantle Montsho, final heat of the women's

400m featuring the defending champion. The last it was very

quick. Three of the four fastest losers came from but heat so they

will have to be quick in this heat if they want to come through as the

to miss out on a medal but quickest in the championships and beaten by

Christine Ohuruogu in Birmingham but generally speaking she has been

clearing up in the Diamond League. She wants to get it right on the big

occasion. Jennifer Carey also goes for Ireland in this, born and raised

in America, but Irish parents, she will need more to come off her

personal best to try to challenge here. A quick look at the line-up.

The Nigerian going in the second lane used to compete for America.

Patricia Hall of Jamaica, third in really having to respond, but a big

difference to winning the one of races -- the one off races. To know

how to do it at the major championships, conserving energy

here and there, doing enough to get through, a good lane draw, thinking

about... Not holding something back but the fact it is not a one-off, I

was going to say it is a marathon, not a sprint but that is absolutely

wrong. So the final heat, the fifth heat in the first round of the

women's 400m. Amantle Montsho blocks for a moment there and

Jennifer Carey with Herbert and easy style of running that Montsho has

come and try to pick up the pace and she has got Patricia Hall, perhaps

her nearest challenger, to use as a market in this heat but she does

now. Montsho bouncing happily down the back straight. She will come

round in the lead, four to go through and Montsho is looking

comfortable through the first 300 metres. Regina George of Nigeria on

the inside has put up a bit of a spurt. She doesn't necessarily looks

comfortable but she will take second. Montsho will take the

victory and the time... It is slower but Patricia Hall coming through,

but that was a stroll for Montsho, not more than that, she did what she

had to do. That was very comfortable. The first 200 metres,

she did not extend very much, going through the motions is the best way

to describe this. She is in such good shape coming into the

championships. In the past, she has done the best running in the Diamond

League and not prepared for the champs. She will be hard to beat

though. I think Montsho and Ohuruogu are the two to watch. They are the

best of the crop and this has showed you why. She just eased it away

again, very comfortable, 50.7, easy as you like. Good performance from

Regina George. Patricia Hall going through as well. Standout

performances from Montsho, not as quick as Christine but incredibly

relaxed, very easy. They were the automatic qualification but the

Spaniard got it, or Ruby Keister -- Aauri Bokesa. Still the longest

throw for the hammer is 79 metres and six centimetres by the Olympic

championship holder, Krisztian Pars and this guy finished in second

place behind him last year in London, Primoz Kozmus, 33 years old

now and that is long. Halfway between the qualifying line

and the 80-metre line. That is such a long way, very powerful in the

gymnasium, he has got some great videos on YouTube, good technique as

well. Just looking at the hammer as it goes around him. Building up to a

release speed of around 70 miles an hour so Primoz Kozmus looking for an

automatic qualifier which he has got, 78 metres and ten centimetres,

the Slovenian is safely through to the next round. This is his stage

and his crowd. He looks relaxed, he a glorious, glorious win! He will

make it two gold medals for Great GABBY LOGAN: About 30 minutes until

Mo Farah will be down on the track because it is just a one off race,

no heat or semifinals, told is the aim for Mo Farah and we will talk

about that with Paula Radcliffe but we have swapped a Radcliffe for a

Jackson. Speaking about Montsho, what is so fascinating about the

400m, when somebody is so supreme, how they can look so easy when all

around them are looking like they are flailing and putting everything

into it and yet she is going past them. It seems to defy the laws of

physics, the way she runs with so much ease. That is the training,

that is the calibre of this athlete. She is incredible. And the guys in

commentary were saying, this is just a demonstration... That was like a

jog, she was at that list all the way round. In control -- she was

effortless, all the way round. And even stride all the way round so

this was heard doing the job. She is here to defend her title and she

made it look easy. she will not repeat what happened last year, in

other words she will not let a big championship slip out of her grasp,

that is the message you get. She has put some fast times down on the

Diamond League and you hope that this time round she has learned the

mistakes and it was genuinely a mistake, the way she approached the

final. I do not think she will do that again this year. we hope she

has learned that we would hope that she will be neck and neck until the

very end with Christine because it looks like the two strongest

contenders, the protagonists if you like. Moving on to further afield

and further distances with Paula, she will be discussing Mo Farah, but

we have been looking into the specific areas where Mo Farah must

settle, conserve energy and make sure that he is ready to cover any

moves made. Not only does Mo Farah know he is in the best shape of his

life but everybody else is scared of pace over the final lap so far this

year. Nobody has shown they can beat him for closing speed so they need

to think about doing something before them to run the finish out of

him. Does he have a strength? So far this

year, he has not been tested in clearance -wise. I am sure he is

strong and ready and will be a very tough man to be -- tested

endurance-wise. There he is, the man they all want to beat and it begs

the question, Paula, and there is always this inference, that they

will gang up and find a way to beat him and that way always seems to be

that they will have to race quick. If you want to beat Mo, make it as

quick as possible which will nullify his kick towards the end. Would

there be that kind of plan? Would they get together? They could be

that kind of plan. The Kenyans have spoken earlier at the training

camp, speaking about their intention to run as a team and they thought

they could beat Mo if they do that. We must not forget that saying it

and doing it is a different thing. You have to go out and commit and

sacrifice your race to do it almost and that is a hard race to do. Mo is

the only British guy so you would think he is going out alone but he

is going out with his team-mates, including Galen Rupp, he is well

prepared for this. He knows that he is the man to be shot at but knows

he is in the shape of his life. It will not be easy, he will have to

keep his eyes and ears open, cover everything, be alert and big on

100%. If he is slightly off, that will not do, he has to be right

there. He has done lots of work on speed and taken the British record

from Steve Cram, we have said it already a few times! The fact he has

not run a 10K competitively this year, are you worried about that?

People run a fast time, and people think he has just worked on speed. I

think Monaco came from strength. He has got the speed and he works on

the training, doing sprint drills and things like that with Alberto

and Galen Rupp at his endurance is there and it is that, holding it all

together that enabled that 3.28 so hopefully he will be fine. If he

does come through here in the way he would like the body he has prepared

to do, to win two medals. This could put him in completely different

stratosphere in terms of global icons of the sport. Absolutely and

as a British man, elevating his status even further and you know

what? You have to understand with him, it has only been his

progression in the last four years where he has got to this real iconic

person, maybe even three years. But it gives hope to everyone else that

if you work hard enough, do the right things, you can get there.

don't underestimate it, one is great, two is massive and so all he

is focusing on... One at a time? He never really fully commits until he

finds out how he will be running and so he never says he will definitely

do two but we expect him to run in the 5K. Guess, but this is the race

he has come for. He is already thinking about the next race and if

he does that he may well lose it. There he is, he has his shades on,

out on the track. A nice breeze blowing through now, not as hot as

earlier in the afternoon, conditions the nice breeze down here. Just

watching Mo going out there, he has a lot of stuff on his back! It looks

a heavy bag! There are plenty of British bands spread all around the

stadium. Those two look like they are having a good time. And their

hero, I am sure he is one of their heroes, will be out very shortly.

They have just been given the chance to go and get their spikes on and

these are nervous moments for all of us, I guess, but British fans are

very well represented. As many people as we have seen in this

stadium this is. It is still not a lot. But there is still an

atmosphere. Here is the. Missed. Quite a few more than ran in the

Olympic 10,000m final. Ritzenhein is one of Mo Farah's training partners.

Levins is also a training partner, not running for Ethiopian. A lot of

Americans are really not quite sure whether hailing Rob can produce the

sort of performance he did at the Olympics last year. -- whether Galen

Rupp can produce the sort of performance he did at the Olympics

last year. Mahbood is not starting. And Al Al-Outaibi not starting.

Merga is formally the world cross-country champion. So that is

the full list. Three or four nonstarters. What a good vantage

point. Not even short you need that lens. -- not even sure. We have all

been talking about the hammock Mack winning the gold medal and the press

conference... And Neil Black, the performance director of British

athletics said we have to accept he is the favourite but of course

nobody hands out gold medals. He has got to come here and turn all of

that early and form into a win. And of course, he was beaten in the

World Championships a couple of years ago. He was beaten earlier

this year. He is certainly not in principle. He is outstanding. He is

better than he has ever been. Faster than he has ever been. Fitter than

he has ever been. More determined than he has ever been. When British

athletes run these days, the fans do follow them. There are not quite as

many as he got when he ran in London last year, all the other week. The

athletes are coming out onto the track, getting ready, lining up.

They are all anxious to go. They are waiting around. These athletes know

each other extremely well. Some of them train together. They often

compete together all around the world. The first two from last year

's Olympic Games, Mo Farah and Galen everyone has their eyes on, not just

us that the athletes themselves. All he has got to do now is concentrate

on his own race. Forget about hanging a medal around his neck. It

is 25 laps. It is warm. He is cooling himself down, which is

extremely sensible. This should be great. Well, Mo has been training in

San Moritz. He made a couple of breaks. He came down to run in

Monaco. He made a new British record. He shocked the world with

that performance. I think he even surprised himself a little. He went

back up to San Moritz, came back down for London. Had a big training

week that week. No records in prospect for him. It was a case of

7.36 and that was all he needed on the day. I watched him do a warm

down session which many would be happy to do as a training session

after that. Those races were part of the plan budding towards these

championships. This Kenyan team, it is really hard to put your finger on

how they are going to be. They have a great personal best but very

little Championship experience. Muchiri might be the biggest threat.

What about Jeilan? Sorry, I caught you at an inopportune moment there!

He is a very popular boy in Moscow. Yes, Jeilan, the defending champion.

He shocked Mo when Mo seemed to have got away, seemed to be heading

towards his first global gold medal and Jeilan ran him down. Kuma. And

the Ethiopians almost had not a trial as such, but Cooper and

Deborah Meskill and Marco, they went to Finland -- and Merga, they went

to Finland. Mo is trying to feed of the British support here in Moscow.

-- off the British support. MIDI in He has managed to translate some of

their early form. I think they are cheering him. And there he is, Imane

Merga. He used to be the man to beat. Now the look is a little off

the pace. His personal best goes back a little before the other

figure. But all the introductions have been made. All of the

preparation is behind them. Ahead, 25 laps of the World Championship

it was all about the support of the home crowd and the quest for Olympic

gold. This is about some unfinished business, payback for a gold medal

that slipped away in 2011. An intriguing race. We have already

been talking so many times already today about what could and might

happen and how did they beat Mo Farah? Now they have to do something

about it. They have got to give a really good 10,000m Championship

final but we can remember. This is the technique that Mo uses these

days. The gun goes, Mo Farah goes to the back of the field, relaxes, gets

into the rhythm. The Africans, the canyons in particular, have been

using this technique for a long time. We have observed it. The lead

at jogging around the first lap, pretty quick. Mo is just letting the

nerves settle, just getting into his running, taking his time. He does

not have too you at all yet. He is relaxing into the race. He is on top

of his nerves. He was desperately unhappy when he lost the World

Championships in 2011. Here today he wants to atone for that at this is a

raise in itself. There are some very good athletes here and they all know

there is one man to beat. And guess of the Diamond League races. It is a

very big field so from front to act covers about 25 metres, I would say,

or there about. -- from front to the way, that would be a fairly

comfortable 27.30. But over the years, we have Zoe in some great

10,000m races in championships. -- we have seen. We have talked about

the Ethiopians and you remember when Selassie and Bekele rant and they

went lap after lap after lap. If they did that, yes, it would put Mo

Farah under pressure, but they are not Selassie and -- they are not

Gebrselassie and Bekele at their best. But tonight, who knows. Jeilan

is the world champion. He is not running as well as he has been. Mo

Farah is just beginning of ones and twos at the back. Just making his

move. This is the first time in 20 years when two of the greats, Haile

Gebrselassie, and acutely, have not contested this 10,000m. -- Bekele.

Tonight there are four athletes in the race from Ethiopia, including

the champion, but we have one athlete from Great Britain and he is

working his way through the field. None of the all-time greats at the

moment are in the field but there is Mo Farah. Can he win this 10,000m

title to go with his Olympic gold medal for the 10,000m? This will be

a competitive race. Mo looks like he is well into his running, relaxed,

untouchable. They are linked steadily but not exceptionally fast.

We are ready. It is going to be a good race. The canyons are doing a

little bit. They are keeping it steady. 4.274 four laps. Look where

the Ethiopians are. Galen Rupp moving up in the red. Galen Rupp

just wanting to get a little further up the field, he may be feeling that

there is a bit of push going on as Tanui of Kenya picks things up a

bit. Mo Farah is still content to be three from the back. I was chatting

yesterday to Alberto Salazar and I was talking about this team thing

that everybody has been talking about and he said there is only one

team out there, Mo, Galen Rupp, they are a team, they train together. The

Ethiopians don't. Two or three of them don't even like each other, the

Kenyans can come together. There is a team out there that they will not

be team tactics but there is a team. We are not seeing any real team

tactics here. The time for 2,000m, that is pretty easy, that is an

average pace which is about 28 minute pace so nothing exceptional

here. Mo will not be disappointed with this, the tactics are clearly

that they are running steady but not exceptionally quick and as we have

seen in the history of this event, we have seen some brutal races, Mo

going across for a sponge and Mo is the opportunity to nip across for a

sponge to start letting them know he is there. That is one thing he would

do. You let them know you are amongst them. Move your way to the

front, but necessarily go to the front but the amongst them so they

start thinking that he is there. The Eritrea and athlete, Goitom Kifle A,

he is following Mo Farah -- every -- every . Mo Farah hits the front, 19

laps to go and I will tell you, this is not him making a long run for

home, this is Mo saying that he is the Olympic champion, and if you

want to go faster than me, you have to go round me and passed me, and

that is a clever way of encouraging the pace to move up a little. Really

clever. A great move by Mo, grabbing a sponge and working his way round.

A bit of a stretch of the legs. Show your face, show the fact you are

there, he had no intention, he started to slow it down as soon as

he got to the front and then the Ethiopians are thinking they are not

having that, Imane Merga and Abera Kuma having a chat and Imane Merga

saying that if he wants to start the race, let's started, we have waited

a little while and for the first time, we have got a bit of pace on.

Imane Merga and Abera Kuma and Tanui working together. They will not

stress too much about this because it is not a big push, they will just

wait and see if they can keep this pace on and if they do, they will

start to work their way back. is a bit serious, a big lap there. I

remember watching Imane Merga racing in Addis Ababa, and on a road race

and it was staggering how well he ran, that was a few years ago and I

have never seen anybody run as quickly by Hill especially with

altitude. He has been a bit off since then but he has got good

talent, he is a strong man, he likes running hard and working hard and he

does very hard and I tell you what, he is a good athlete he has run well

already this season, in the world cross-country, he finished second

there and he is starting to make this move. I will be interested to

see, this looks faster. 17 laps to go in the men's 10,000 metres and

the pace is beginning to lift. 64 seconds for the last lap, that is

lifting it. It is a bit quicker but still the sort of place that is

fairly comfortable and when thing that Alberto said to me, he said

what would happen if somebody went off really hard and he said Galen

Rupp and Mo will run six or seven seconds behind and work their way

back but this isn't really hard, this is a comfortable place, it was

really eight case of what if somebody decided to make this a

26.50 race right from the beginning and they are so confident this lot,

they can run the second half of the race, they will not be too stressed

about letting things go a little bit and just hanging off and he said we

can work together and these guys will chat with each other, and if

they are yet to a point where they need to work to get to that, they

can do it but they are stretched out which is good to see, the turn at

the front from Kenneth Kiprop Kipkemoi, and then behind them, the

leading group. Mo encourage them to go further, he is running with his

team-mates, Galen Rupp just ahead of him and the three guys there on

screen run together in Oregon on an almost daily basis so they have been

in this position several times. If there is a team race, like you said

earlier, it is those three, the American -based Briton, Mo Farah,

Galen Rupp and their training partner. The double champion, Mo

Farah, and I love saying that! Dathan Ritzenhein behind him and the

pace continues to be steady. There is no real serious tactics emerging

but he would not expect it yet, there are 15 laps to go, the second

half of the 10,000 metres especially in warm conditions like this make it

a brutal distance race. The one message that went out from the

athletes particularly the Ethiopians when they left for the track is run

a hard race today, and tyre Mo Farah out for the 5000 metres. There was a

school of thought that yes, the Kenyans thought the best chance was

in the 5000 metres when you have got the likes of Edwin Soi, and other

runners and Koech and if the Kenyans can make it tough in the 10,000, I

am not sure they are out to do that but whatever, you carry some of it

with you next week, but let's bear in mind, Galen Rupp and Mo Farah

doubling up, assuming everything goes OK, none of the big names have

doing that so he will take on the best here and then take on the best

in the 5000 so maybe people will think that but it is easier said

than done. Team managers love the idea that you can say, go on, guys,

make it work, but it doesn't work like that it really doesn't win you

get in the race. You have to get out there, run how you are feeling and

it is easy for somebody to sit in the stands and say, "throw in a 61"

but it is not that way that it works. There is safety in numbers

and you need to be a brave and ambitious and confident athlete to

step outside of that and drift away from the pack but Mo Farah is the

only athlete in this field tonight who has got real supreme confidence

and you are looking at him relaxing am running steadily, he is in the

middle of a purple patch, he is in the best form of his career but

tonight, we will fully expect him to win this race but it is unfair to

say he will win it without a struggle, it is 10,000 metres, 25

laps of the track, you cannot win that without hurting. You cannot win

that without exerting some influence on the track at Mo Farah is moving

into a nice position here, they are coming up to the halfway point.

13.16 and looking about, and then people's plans will emerge. People

start to say, get to the halfway point, coaches will say that and

then make a move will stop so we will see them move beyond this

point, there is Mo, I have honestly never seen him look so relaxed in a

big race. To me, this is more relaxed than he was in the Olympic

Games and let's face it, we thought he was supreme last year. 13.49 for

5000 metres and I would suggest it will get quicker in the second half

of this race. That is a job for Mo Farah. 13.49 is not hurting any of

the good guys. I think that is about what you would have expected in

these sorts of races. The question for me is the second half of the

race. Is anyone brave enough from ten or seven or even five laps out

to hit it really hard? As long as they are running close to 64, that

is not enough, they must really hurt Mo Farah to get a chance and I keep

making this point and I don't think anybody well. The man who had kicked

him in Daegu two years ago, and he moves out, not the runner he was,

but he will be a threat, Ibrahim Jeilan. And he will be thinking of

those good thoughts in Daegu but Mo Farah is a different athlete now.

is, and the last three laps, 66, 66 and 67 so nothing really happening.

As the most confident athlete with the pedigree leading up to this race

suggests, here's the man beat. Galen Rupp starts moving up as the come

down the home straight, the double Commonwealth champion, Moses Kipsiro

next to Mo Farah, 11 laps to go. And the race starts to get serious.

Everybody is gathering at the front but nobody is doing anything when

they get there. That means it is starting to play more into Mo is

fast finishing hands. But there are some fast finishes there, Dejen

Gebremeskel was runner up in last year's Olympic 5000 metres. Tanui

leads and Imane Merga and Kuma, Mo Farah is still in the middle of a

pack. Settling in and relaxing and just doing enough. We can talk about

Dejen Gebremeskel in a moment or two, while the backpack are still

together, he won the silver medal, Dejen Gebremeskel, didn't have too

good a run, I saw him in the Diamond League in New York but he really

bounced back with a pacemaker for the first few laps and then he took

it on and pushed it and pushed all the other men and the Ethiopians and

27 minutes and still outkicked them at the end. But he outkicked them

with a lap of 57 seconds at the end and admittedly it was subbed 27 but

that is not Mo Farah's style. If he was in a race that was running

roughly 27 .5, it would not be a 57. It will be a lot faster than

that. This man we have seen demonstrating the ability to run 50

for a lap. But there is his team-mate, Galen Rupp moving up, the

three Ethiopian team-mates gathering together. Mo Farah following Galen

Rupp and still, the pace is not doing anything essential. Another 67

lap and that is fine, that will do and now when you get into the single

laps, when you are running a 10,000m race, you are starting to get single

figures and you start to think, " OK, I can think about this now". Mo

Farah will be watching what is going on around him and now it is about

concentrating, getting your mind ready. The race is starting to look

as if it is a bit predictable, you can tell what will happen unless

somebody goes mad now in the last nine laps and Mo has just got to

keep his head together. This is a physical race but also a mental

race. He slips in behind his team-mate, Galen Rupp. There is a

bit of comfort in that because when they do that in training, and if

they do that in a race, it is just like a training race, you are beside

your team-mate, blocking off anything from behind and then Mo

Farah moves into third place and into second place. And when he comes

into the finishing straight this time, he will see the laps score

telling him it is eight laps to go. Tanui leaving. Mo just there

positioning himself where he wants to be, he has run a perfect race but

now he must concentrate on keeping fairly close to the front. He cannot

be at the back any more, he has to stay in contention. It doesn't

really matter if you are running a lap wide. 67 again, thank you very

much! This is the point of no return, isn't it. This is when

somebody has to be brave. Somebody has to grab the race by the scruff

of the neck. When they run down the back straight, they will reach the

3,000m to go mark. And that means, once you are inside the last 3K, if

you keep on running 66 seconds, you are asking for one thing and one

thing only. Tanui has had to do a lot of the work himself, nobody has

been that interested. The closer we get to two or three laps to go, the

closer Mo Farah gets to the front. We see Muchiri, just for the first

time, just get a little bit closer, the Kenyan moving into fifth place.

Galen Rupp moving into that group. The Ugandan just on the inside. And

the Rwandan in the yellow vest, just ahead of Rupp. You can tell Muchiri

wanted to go and this is the first time anyone else aside of two new

that has really gone for it. -- aside of Tanui. But there is still

no real pace here. Galen Rupp is doing it cleverly there. He is on

the shoulder of Mo Farah, so if you want to get in front of those two,

you have to go out to the side, go wider. Farah and Rupp on the first

and second in the Olympic Games, and they are being tracked by Merga. Six

laps to go in the men's 2000m. Mo Farah, our favourite, our hope. The

champion of the World Championships in the 5000m and the double Olympic

champion from last year. He did not quite get the reception tonight that

he did last year but he is getting quite a good reception. Just

watching the defending champion, Jeilan, in the back of this group,

it looks to me that he is not responding to these changes very

well. Gebremeskel is. Jeilan was a little slow. He has just come around

the outside. He was a slope when that bit of injection came. I like

to see athletes ready to respond. -- he was slow when that had of

injection came. Jeilan has realised his mistake and is trying to get

back involved now. But he has expended energy doing that.

Something has got to break. Mo Farah could not have wished for a after

opening up here, to get five lap to go, in the form he is in, with the

speed he has got, with this level of the, which is not brutal in any

sense. We have seen many of those kinds of races in the World

Championships in the past, so Mo will be grateful. Gebremeskel has

not done anything yet. There goes Mo Farah! This is smart, tactical,

clever. When he comes into the finishing straight he will see the

sign saying four laps to go. And Merga and his team mate Rupp and

Tanui now, have they come undone? Debra Meskill, the athlete who was

runner-up in the Olympic Games, is going at the back door here. --

Gebremeskel. The did not respond and is right at the back of the group.

He does not look like he has anything to offer. But this could be

a demonstration. This could absolutely be a show from Mo. There

is Gebremeskel. He looks comfortable enough that he is struggling. He is

five metres behind that group. That is not where he wants to be. He is

out of reach. Muchiri has tried a couple of times to beat it up but he

does not have the pace. Debra Meskill, the Silber champion in the

8000 metres, is fading. -- silver controlling it. He is the boss.

Three laps to go. Well, the boss has got to control it now. He has got to

hold his position. His confidence must be sky-high. They have not

really tested him and that was only a 66 - second lap. He is not hurting

at all. He will be tired, they will all be tired. Mo Farah begins to

control this race like the champion we know he is. Muchiri and Rupp are

a bit of a challenge. Ritzenhein takes over. Tanui follows in. Mo has

just got to be a little bit careful here. He needs to be just a bit

tighter on those athletes. They are now getting into an area where the

sprinters can take over. That is dangerous. That was a little bit of

a bump. A little bit of a problem. 800 eaters to go. Mo is in a

position where he can win it from here. -- 800m. He has got Tanui and

Rupp for company. Rupp was meant to protect him on his shoulder, to make

them run wide. He could not do it. Mo Farah, 600 to go. He is looking

for Rupp, looking for his training partner, for his friend. He wants

him on his shoulder. And he has got him there with 600 metres to go.

does not have to think about anyone else now. He has just got to think

about his own running. Mo Farah, the Olympic champion of 10,000m... Tanui

moving. Come on, Mo. We have seen you do it all year. We have seen you

sprint on the last lap. Now let's see what you can do today. The bell

sounds. 26: 27. And Mo has to grab this last lap. He is strolling down

the back straight. He has two more opportunities down the back

straight, on the top end. Tanui with him. Now, Mo Farah, show us the

speed you have shown us all season. Here comes Jeilan, the defending

champion. Jeilan who won it last time, who hit him in the home

Farah. He is the world champion. Gold once more! It was hard. It was

tough. It was meant to be easy and it was not. It was meant to be a

smooth last lap where he turned on the burners and he did it but they

were all still there. Mo Farah, his third global gold medal. He has done

it. He has done it. And goodness me, he gave us a few anxious moments in

that last lap. You suddenly thought, this guy has got the pace, Jeilan.

He has beaten Mo Farah in the past. But he had time to eat well, he

saved just enough. -- he had time to it while. And he stood the test.

When you are a champion as he is, a double Olympic champion, and the

expectation is there an deep pressure is there, it is so easy to

think, I am just to go there and do it. But we were saying they were not

hurting him, they heard him on the last lap and he had to dig deep.

noticed he was controlling the race all the way. Sebastien Coe will be

delighted with that. Mo Farah, the world champion at 10,000m. The

Olympic champion at 10,000m. The European champion at 10,000m. But

Jeilan, the defending champion, showed you today he was not a fluke

last time. That was a great race by Jeilan. Mo Farah, our champion.

Tanui ran a great race two, third place. A great competitive race. The

further the race went, the steadier it became. And here they come, into

the finishing straight. He has stretched them, he has hurt them.

And now here comes Jeilan with a run on the outside. This is what he has

been training for. This is the speed in his legs. And he has beaten the

champion, Jeilan first and Mo Farah second in Daegu. That is a brutal

last lap. The time tells you they were able it tired there. Mo Farah

thought he could win this race and he did. Jeilan hoped he could win it

and he didn't. That is the difference between champions and

runners up. Look how desperate he is. He wants this one. He is a

winner. There are a lot of people at CHEERING

10,000m races over the years have given us all sorts of stories and

dramas. Not a lot happened in this one until somebody set the

touchpaper alight right at the end. 59-44 in the last lap. Not the

fastest lap he will ever run but it was enough. Mo had to really be

there. Jeilan defended his title resolutely. A hammock that knows he

has hidden in a race there. -- Mo knows that he has had a race there.

But he finished with the result that he and all the rest of us so dearly

wanted. He is the greatest distance runner we have ever had in Great

Britain. It is a pleasure to be around him because his work ethic is

he could win it. Jeilan wanted to win it. -- Mo thought he could win

it. He does not need to get any better than that. These are crate

now, world champion at 10,000m and 5000m, the Olympic champion. The

European champion. He is on the edge of the very greats. Haile

Gebrselassie, Bekele. And the British champion is now only a few

steps away from joining the list of the all-time greats, and he can

become the greatest of all time. He can win a few more things, break a

world record or two, win another title or two, and this man could

become... He is the only one in that list who is actually still

performing. Very kind of you not to mention that he is also the British

1500m record-holder. He wins the gold medal in the 10,000m at the

World Championships. A great start for Great Britain. Mo Farah, the

champion. Mo's ceremony will be later this

evening. We had an intriguing, enthralling marathon today, in

brutal conditions, the middle of the afternoon in Moscow, where

temperatures got up to 30 degrees. Very little shade on a course which

offered little respite for the its marathon performances, men and

women. But in particular, its women have done so well in these World

Championships since 1991, and it was another medal today. Fukushi came

here. Perhaps not the best known of the Japanese. But she probably had

the biggest smile when she crossed the line, because for a long time,

it looked like she wasn't going to win a medal. But then the Ethiopian

faded, and Fukushi had it all to herself. Stunning performance from

Valeria Straneo. She led almost from the very beginning, Brendan, almost

every step of the race until the last mile or so. A very

well-deserved silver medal for the Italian. We were so pleased to see

the way she ran today. She deserved that medal. But last year's champion

proved again that she is the best. She won two years ago by going to

the front with a couple of kilometres to go, and that is the

first time that she hit the front again today. It is her trademark.

She has done it in a couple of half marathons. She can finish so

strongly. Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, the first woman to defend the world

title in the marathon. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 69 seconds

national anthem of Kenya. The first gold medal for Kenya at

these World Championships. And Edna Kiplagat is a great championship

marathon runner. Fukushi, just having a little stumble there. They

are bound to be a little tired. She can be forgiven. Three very happy

medallists. All can be proud of their performances. Susan Partridge

finished 10th in that marathon, which was a really strong run. And

Sonia Samuels finished in 16th place on a day when many of the big names

did not manage to get to the finish, including the Olympic

champion. There is one Olympic champion who did produce today. Now

the world champion at 10,000 metres as well. Still on his lap of

honour. I know his wife is here. The two twins are not here. When they

are older, dad will be replaying things. "Here is another race I

won". And they will pretend to be interested and impressed. And so

they should be. A bit of family time for Mo Farah as

he takes stock of that race. Revenge is sweet, Paula, hey? That last 50

metres, you think, this lightning is not going to strike twice? I was

probably the most nervous in the first few laps. I knew he had it,

but he did not look as strong as he has done. He had to work hard for

that. They did not necessarily get together and make the race as quick

as they could have done, but they did disrupt him a bit. There was a

bit of pushing and it did not get into the fluidity he would have

liked. There was a lot of toing and froing. There were a couple of

incidents where one of them run up the back of him. This was one of the

stumbles. But he survived that and he was fine. He was having to force

his way out. Steve alluded to it in commentary that Galen Rupp's job is

to be the enforcer, and that did not quite come off. His opponent was

trying to block him in. That was a calculated move, it was not an

accident. I find it extraordinary, running at the pace they are going,

that they can communicate their strategy so effectively. When Mo

made that swiping move, Jeilan reacted straightaway. It is like a

very fast-moving game of chess. You have to watch everything and be

prepared to react. You have your own race, but be prepared to react. If

Mo was expecting Jeilan to be at a certain point and he was not, Mo has

to make sure he still goes ahead with his own plan. Which he did. It

is humid, and the pace was not slouching before. So he is reacting

well. He is looking comfortable here. But he has also got that

bugbear of losing the 10,000 metres two years ago and desperately not

wanting to do that. It is a bit of deja vu, because it is Jeilan

again. These were anxious moments. He is checking both sides, but there

is another gear there. Shows you that you can't look at the form

books coming into a race like this. The world leader coming into this

ended up finishing 16th. And Jeilan was thought to be the main man to

challenge Mo. It was unpredictable. But Jeilan showed that he can be a

danger at World Championships. He has that ranging stride, and he is

just winding it up. He does not look like he has changed pace, but it is

hard to go with him. Mo is quicker at this stage. Is this the worst of

the last two years? If this was the home straight in day go, would it

have been the same? Is it the work of the last two years? And the

confidence of the last two years. In Daegu, he panicked a bit. He

slightly misjudged it and went to soon. Here, he wasn't. He knew what

he was doing, even if he did feel that his legs were a bit heavy.

must never take his performances for granted, because with success comes

expect Haitian. -- comes expectation.

Come on ! I actually found that very difficult

to watch. With 200 metres to go, I really wasn't sure. Look at that !

But he does that to us now. Ashamed and embarrassed as an describe it.

Let's hear from Mo. This is the one that got away two years ago, but not

today. You were not going to lose this one. I definitely had the

experience from a couple of years ago. This time, I saw Jeilan

coming. I knew he was behind me. It was important that I had something

left. It was nice to beat him this time. Tell me about the race and the

tactics. You had your heels clipped a couple of times. I nearly went

down a couple of times, but thank God, I didn't go down. I managed to

cover every move. Me and my training partner Galen Rupp managed to work

together. Your face is always a big in the home straight. If you look at

this monitor, you can see yourself. Look at the determination on that

face. I didn't want to lose again. A couple of years ago, I remember when

I was second. I kept looking across, as you can see. When did you realise

you had it won? Just as I was crossing the line. What is the

feeling as you cross the line? Is it a sense of relief? You have all four

medals over 5000 and macro 10,000 metres. It was nice to come and win

it. That was the one that was missing. So it is worth it. Training

has been hard and I have spent a lot of time away from the family. When I

went back to compete at the London games and my little daughter didn't

recognise me, one of the twins, she did not, to me because I have been

away. So it is hard because you don't want to be away from your kids

for that long as a parent. But I am proud for my country. We are proud

of you. One final word on what it is like to be the man with the target

on his back 's last time round, we hoped you would win. This time, we

expected you to win will stop what is it like? It is hard work.

Sometimes, it is just easier to go out in a race like in Monaco where I

ended up running a personal best. It is harder, but it is nice to have

the nation behind you. I get great messages from Twitter and Facebook,

so it is nice to see so many people still cheering for me and who still

believe in me. Thank you for keeping on delivering. Well done. I just

want to say hello to my grandma. She is in the UK now. And my parents and

everyone in the UK who gave me great So, day one, second medal available,

gold for Great Britain. We have won 50% of the gold medals available at

this championship so far. To see him there, chatting about the

sacrifices. It was a fantastic race, but when you put into context that

one of his twins didn't recognise him, it is about compartmentalised

your life isn't it? Right now, I am 30 years old, I have to go for it

this opportunity will not come again. People bubbly had to work

harder this year than any other so tough to get the balance right.

But to be the champion, you have to give it everything. And he does

that. It is extraordinary after last year. One of the factors was

intimidation. But there is also expected, and the field around him

one to beat him. There is expectation from all of us that he

will just go out there and win gold medals, and balancing all of those

emotions, you have been there. You have been the golden girl that

everyone said would win. That is tough. It is tough, but however much

pressure comes from outside, the biggest pressure is from yourself.

Right now, as Mo said, he is happy because he is running well. He is

having fun. He is running a lot of PBS Mac. Everything is coming

together. He is in that double patch where he believes he is going to win

and no one will beat him. And everyone else is looking around

thinking, I am running for second here. I don't really believe. Jeilan

was closest to be leaving, but he did not believe he would get past

Mo. I am glad he said he did not know he had won until he crossed a

line, because he did need to keep running through the line. He is

happiest when locked away in the training camp, but that is a

sacrifice as a parent. At six o'clock, he will get his medal here

in the Luzhniki Stadium, so make sure you are around. We need you at

home standing up, because there are not as many British supporters as we

would like. Last year, one of the factors he felt got him through

those gold medals was the home support. You did not have a 12 man,

so to speak, from the crowd here. You were doing this on your own. No

other British athlete on the field. It felt like a solo effort. He needs

to do what he does on the track and there are pockets of great British

support out there, he would have heard that but primarily, Mo has to

do the job. And he did, Mo done it. And the producer of that clip, he

expected to work with him for the next eight days. I will keep my

emotions to myself next time. Paula, you were very cool there. They did

not have a camera on me in the first five laps! I haven't got the video

evidence to prove it! Let's go back to the field events, Shara Proctor

metres to make it through to Tamara's final and the first person

we will see is letting Okagbare. One of the best sprinters and jumpers --

blessing Okagbare. She has got so much flat speed. She took off well

as well. It is the longest jump we have seen so far by the looks of it.

6.75 should not be a problem for her. But known over the last couple

of seasons as a sprinter where she really has set the world alight with

sub 11 100 medical kings. That is good, 6.83, the furthest we have

seen. -- sub 11 100m clock timings. I'm now Shara Proctor. She broke the

British record -- and now Shara Proctor. She has had some fantastic

no jumps but she gets a white flag this time and that looked to be a

very promising start in deed for the Birchfield Harrier. Watch this. She

is fast. She is flexible. And look at that, my goodness, 26 centimetres

behind the maximum take off point. So certainly making safe because she

has had some big no jumps close to seven metres this season and she

certainly looks in that sort of shape. We could be in for a surprise

medal at these championships if she nails one in the final but has she

made it through? Yes, she has. The longest jump we have seen, beating

Okagbare. 6.85 and Shara Proctor is safely through to the final. A new

name to most of us is the United States jumper Polk, finished second

in the US trials. Fairly successful in the Diamond League trials,

finished fourth in London. That is good, that is very good indeed and

that is certainly up with Okagbare and Shara Proctor. Very promising

athlete indeed. She has been around for a long, long time domestically

but she lacks international major championship internationally

for the United States but she is certainly proving her worth here.

Tori Polk being applauded by her coach and that is a massive lifetime

best performance. GABBY LOGAN: Shara Proctor safely

through to the final of the long jump. Going back to the track, it is

now the decathlon 400m heats, the COMMENTATOR: The athletes are out on

the track for the second heat. We had a good heat a little while ago.

Through Michael Schrader who goes in lane five in the second heats.

Suarez and 48 seconds as well as Dudas. But Michael Schrader is the

one to watch, 110 points behind the overall leader which is not Ashton

Eaton. More about that a little later on. Converting time into

points is exactly what these guys want. At this stage of the day, the

last event on day one of the decathlon and it is Michael Schrader

going quickly into the back straight. Mikk Pahapill on the

outside to the left-hand side of your picture being chased by

Schrader, the former world and European youth champion. One of a

crop of good multi-events athletes coached by the last German to win

pressure on everybody including the overall leader, Gunnar Nixon.

Schrader finishing quite strongly... I was going to say and

46 seconds but just outside, 47.66. That is a new lifetime best for the

young German. Finishing the first day on a real high. He'll be tough

to beat tomorrow, very good at the technical events we have got discus

and pole vault to come in the field as well the hurdles and the javelin,

of course. And the 1,500m. This is a replay of the jump we saw before by

Tori Polk of the USA. Let's watch it again. Beautiful take-off, sailed

through the air. And went out toward seven metres but certainly qualifies

for that final, 6.75 it was confirmed that. Still behind Shara

Proctor of Great Britain who leaves all of the qualifiers in both the

pools at the moment. Having taken of 26 centimetres behind the board,

that could have been a seven-metre jump for Shara Proctor. Everybody

hoping that she can jump a seven-metre distance by the time we

get to tomorrow's final. That was Chris, the Commonwealth champion

with the hammer. Doing what so many hammer thrower is he doing which is

pushing the hammer up into the cage so it has taken all those officials

to get it down again, from Chris Harmse and that has caused a delay

in the second qualifying round of the hammer throwing. Dilshod Nazarov

of Tadjikistan is the president of his athletics union. And the

president of Great Britain's athletic Federation is, of course,

Lynn Davies. I wonder if he fancies coming out of retirement. Just to

show the way for British athletes but over the qualifying distance

there, one of only five athletes to achieve the qualifying distance. The

first pool we had a couple of guys, including the Olympic champion,

Krisztian Pars and Lukas Melich of the Czech Republic, both of whom

went over 78 metres. And Nazir of also produced another one. 77.93

metres. The name of Sergiy Lebid of in the history books is a man who

has won the World Championship title twice. And this is his sermon

delivered her son, Sergej Litvinov junior. There he is, the Olympic

champion and double world champion of the past and the second longest

flower in history. I would have to say, he hasn't passed on his superb

technique and speed to his son, he is pretty useful and has thrown far

this year and it is long on that occasion. The third round for him

and 77 .41, he is safely through to in qualification, that long jump

competition is still going on but because she qualified at the very

first attempt, she was allowed to leave the arena and on the way out

and do it in one job. He did just that. Oh, my God! I am so happy, I

was able to watch it and I was way behind the board. I didn't realise I

was so far behind it but just happy to get the qualification mark on the

first jump. And now it is crunch time tomorrow so I have to go back

and get ready for tomorrow. You know the seven-metre jump is capable of.

Hey, I don't want to get to confident exactly right now but I am

aiming for the stars right now, the moon actually. Like I say, go back

home and get ready for tomorrow. Reach for the stars, the moon,

everything, you deserve everything, enjoy the final. Good luck. Thank

decathlon, Gunnar Nixon is the person leading at the moment and

Ashton Eaton is a bit under par at the moment. As Paul was mentioning,

I think Michael Schrader has got himself into pole position. A big

cheer for Ilya Shkurenev, at the moment in 13th place overall. And

here is Andrei Kravchenko, he prefers the Russian name although

that is the Belarusian spelling. He is very well placed. And the man we

have not seen yet is the 20-year-old from Oklahoma who overhauled Ashton

Eaton in the high jump, Gunnar Nixon. There he is. All events

tomorrow for him are pretty weak. What can he manage here? Could he

still be leading come the end of the first day? We expected Ashton Eaton

to be out in front but still a few questions over his fitness, he is

not quite there. Can anyone take noise coming from the style of the

stadium with the long jump pit. -- the side of the stadium. He is just

20. Showing tremendous composure for a young man, or a little bit

Incidentally, Trey Hardee, the other American and the winner of the last

two World Championships, he did not start in his feet after the high

jump so American challenges left to decathlon, Ashton Eaton goes in the

next and final heat. The final event of the first day of the decathlon.

And this time we go, watch Gunnar Nixon in lane number four in the

bright red. Personal best of 40.37. Anything close to that, he will be

delighted. In pretty good shape coming down the back straight. The

quickest man in personal best is in the sixth place overall at the

moment. So if you can get close to his personal best, he will be

ideally placed going into the second day but at the moment it is the

Belarusian taking it out and he will leave coming out into the home

straight from Edward Mikan. Gunnar Nixon loving hard, trying to come

through and instead it is all about the time. 40.35 that 40 8.35. A very

tidy run from Willem Coertzen. A personal best time for Coertzen.

Yes, that will be very interesting indeed, because Nixon came into this

event on day one with a good time under his belt previously for the

season. He just missed time to that one. -- he mistimed it. He was going

until that point. Then Shkurenev came storming through to get ahead

of him, along with Coertzen. Nixon, just 20 years old, a former world

junior champion, is eight or did just talent. That was the only

glitch in what has been a perfect day for him so far. 10.84 for the

100 metres earlier today. Seven metres in the long jump and a

massive high jump, 2.14 metres. Ashley Bryant of Great Britain would

love to have been alongside Nixon and the rest to contest this

catalogue, but he did not turn up for the 100 metres this morning

the long jump as far as a British prospect is concerned.

Lorraine Ugen, as you can see there. The Blackheath and Bromley Harrier

has a problem. Two files against her name. This is the last jump. Has she

got a red flag or a white flag 's it is read. What it is appointed. --

what a disappointment. Lorraine Ugen is continuing her education in

Texas. Just 21 years old, a wonderful prospect. But on this

occasion, she has three crosses next to her name and takes no further

part in the competition. Well, it is all going to get very

short and sharp soon. Seven 100 metre heats are upon us soon. We

will take another trip down memory lane back to 2009, the when the

fastest ever 100 metres of all time was run in the World Championships

Tyson Gay alongside Usain Bolt, but it is Bolt all the way. It is gold

for Bolt ! He has done it again ! A new world record for Usain Bolt !

They say lightning doesn't strike twice. Can you believe it?

And of course, that still stands. While he has run fast, he has never

run that fast since. He has, that season, been running well within

himself. Colin Jackson has joined us in the studio. He is getting warmed

up, looking relaxed. But he has not ought to the debt that we know he

can plumb? Yes, his defeat may have shocked a lot of people. I watched

that race and scrutinised it and realised that there was not a big

problem, just that he was lacking racing. He was not in the groove

yet, but he still managed to go under that ten second figure. We

thought something special was on the cards. Last year at the Olympic

Games, after speaking to his coach, he thought Usain should have broken

the world record. He should have gone faster than 9.58. He failed.

Will his coach put pressure on him to produce a quicker time today? I

am not sure, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that we do see

something magical. We are going to go back down to the track for the

400 metre heats for the decathlon. We are certainly going to try and

answer the question as to what sort of shape Ashton Eaton, the world

record holder, is in. We had a look at his ankles earlier and there is

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no strapping on either of them, so Average, for him. Not bad in the

shot put, not add in the high jump, but this will be a real test for

Ashton Eaton could run away from everybody. He is going to have to

do. At the moment, the US athlete is leading. And Schrader of Germany is

in second place. Ashton Eaton looks as though he means business. He is

already closing down. He has left Sintnicolaas for dead. Damian Warner

Way back in lane two making good progress. But it is all about Ashton

Eaton. We could see a remarkable run from him. When he grabbed the world

record, he was close to 46 seconds. He is going away from everybody.

Ashton Eaton is running one of the best 400 metres of his life. Damian

Warner is coming through strongly. But Ashton Eaton, by an absolute

country mile. That is one of the fastest 400 metres ever in decathlon

terms. That gains him a massive total of points, 1007. He could well

be back on par with Gunnar Nixon and Michael Schrader at the end of day

one. What a remarkable run from Ashton Eaton, after a very

disappointing high jump, edition only a couple of hours ago. That was

truly spectacular. I think a few questions have been and said, a few

doubts dispelled about the form and fitness and health of Ashton Eaton.

He was an amazing sight coming down the home straight. He looks far

closer to a proper sprinter than the rest, those lumbering creatures

behind him. The distance between them says it all. Shaking his head

from side to side as he tries to keep some form. Ashton Eaton,

different class. Just tiring a little bit at the end, but you saw a

class act there. I can confirm that Ashton Eaton of the United States,

the world record-holder and Olympic champion, is back in the lead. At

the end of day one, he had one blip in his competition progressed

throughout this first day, the high jump, but he is back on top of the

Things are going well for Ashton Eaton. Just a little aside. They did

not go so well month and a half ago in training. He has just got married

to his heptathlon sweetheart, and they were doing gambling practice

together, which is incredibly sweet -- javelin practice together. But he

went to retrieve his javelin, and she actually got him with the

javelin. There are many couples together saying, why can't we

practice javelin together? But it was unintended, obviously. He still

married her. It did catch him. It just caught the top of his lip. I

hope he signed all the insurance papers beforehand. She is of course

competing here as well, and they are now married. It looks like married

life is suiting him, because that was a very impressive run. Wasn't it

just? As Paul said, he has not had the perfect first day, and his

second day tends not to be very strong, so he needs that buffer

going into the second day. But world record-holder, he is amazing.

Olympic champion, he has got it all. For his stature, he packs a punch

for the decathlon. Moving on to the 100 metres, the heats are upon us.

Seven heats in total. Obviously, there is one man everyone is excited

about seeing, but let's talk about our men, firstly James Dasaolu.

Unfortunately for him and he did not manage to make it through to the

final in the last event. We are all excited about this. He produced this

astonishing performance in the qualifying round. But in the final,

when Chambers ran on at 10.0, and so did Harry Aikines-Aryeetey. So I

imagine James was watching that. the worry in that story that, for