Day 3, Part 2 Athletics: World Championships

Kenya defends her world title in champion again. Usain Bolt is going

to take the gold medal again. Unbeatable, unsurpassable. Mo Farah

Russian architecture and imagery will stop and tonight, on the third

day in Moscow, it's time for the women to take centre stage. Last

night it was Usain Bolt who lit up the stadium. He's going to take the

gold medal again! And tonight, over the high hurdles, we will see Aries

Merritt and David Oliver. And there's the young Prince of the

400m, Kirani James. But tonight it is the women who are set to be the

star attractions, from the strongest to the fastest. They promise to make

this a night to remember at the session for you. And an added

sprinting -- sprinkling of stardust sprinter. Johnson on the inside,

charging into the straight. Johnson coming away. This is a marvellous

performance by the favourite, Michael Johnson. Johnson wins it.

What a performance! Johnson storming through. He's got to be the world

champion again. It's the second fastest time of all time. Michael

Johnson promised it all and delivered. Michael Johnson, yet

another gold medal. Johnson, storming away to another gold

medal, another World Championships title. The world record beckons...

And it's gone! He said he would come here and try and do the one thing

he's not been able to do. What a Michael Johnson is back in the fold.

Welcome to Moscow. Thank you, it's great to be here. I'm excited, it's

going to be a great Championships, it already has been. I'm so happy to

be here. United! We were here last night enjoying Usain Bolt, but we

were focused on the track. When you see the shots afterwards, it was

almost biblical. The rain came down the second before the gun went in

the 100m. The lightning bolt that appeared as well. Somebody up there

is a big fan of athletics! He was anointed last night. It was amazing.

When it was time to do the business he said, it's my time and claimed

his crown again. Going back to that fabulous montage of your World

Championships wins, I'm guessing from the facial reaction and what

was going on with the mouse, the final win with the world record was

your favourite. It was my favourite. The one that we just saw, 1997. I

shouldn't have even been at that Championships. It was a very slow

time, I was injured. I was very proud to be able to pull that one

out as well. It's good to have you back. This is what we have in store

Lavillenie is after the full set of medals into night pole vault final,

and he looks unstoppable. Another Olympic champion, Kirani James. He

is a class act over 400m. It's the night, we have another of

athletic's all-time greats. Valerie Adams is after a fourth shot at the

Crown. Also going for gold, Christine Ohuruogu. Has she timed it

just might once again? Montsho what Botswana is the woman to become --

the woman to beat. The women's 400m finals followed by the men's

hurdles, where Aries Merritt hopes to add world to Olympic gold. And

our climax comes with the women's 100 metre final. Will Shelley and

Fraser-Pryce make it another glorious night for Jamaica? This is

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how to plan your evening. Lavillenie hoping that Christine Ohuruogu will

get back on the podium tonight. There's one lady who looks like she

is in the form of her life, and that is Montsho. She has previously not

read championship racing quite right. She didn't get to where she

wanted to be last year in London, but this year she is doing the

business. Yes. She looks an amazing form. She will pose a lot of

problems for Christine. The lane draw, I don't know who to say it

favours. Christine, perhaps. She will be hoping that mantle goes off

really hard in the first 200, and Christine has to stay in contention

if she has any chance. The way that Christine runs, she will look like

she is not in contention because that's just the way her first 200

is. She's got not panic and stick to her game plan. Christine never

panics. I think the lane draw actually does favour Christine with

Montsho on the outside. Montreal does go out hard, and we know that

Christine finishes brilliantly. The problem is, we are missing Francine

and McCrory, who is probably sitting very pretty because everyone is

talking about Montreal and Ohuruogu. She's never won a championship,

she's in great form this year and has been consistent throughout the

year. This is a great place for her to make a mark. That tends to happen

quite a bit in the year after an Olympic Games. We were marvelling at

Montsho the other night and her form. If you put it next to

Christine, Christine is a consummate runner, but you see the composter of

Montreux. She appears not to be breathing. I can assure you, not

being the most experienced 400m runner, but she is breathing! She is

composed, relaxed, well within herself. That is what you need at

that stage of the rounds. She is trying to conserve as much energy as

possible, doing just what she has to do to move on to really deliver in

the final. Christine looks like she's working harder at this stage.

A little bit harder. This is a preliminary round, so we don't know

what type of effort each athlete puts out. But they are both there

really -- very similar runners, very similar build. Both of them are very

good finishers. That is what sets us up for a very good race this

evening. We should look at the other contenders, maybe. In the 100m,

Shelley Anne Fraser-Pryce is the Jamaican to beat. She's always the

one to beat. She so consistent. To come out here and win the Olympics

twice, win World Championships, now she is here again and very good

shape. She's got a little bit of competition, but what we are seeing

with Fraser-Pryce is that she handles competition very well.

Consistent with the Jamaicans, they are very relaxed. They come into it

without a lot of pressure. Even someone who is as heavy a favourite

as she is and with all of the hard way she always # all of the hardware

she already has, it is just built into the Jamaican society that it is

this relaxed atmosphere. They bring that over to track and field.

Championships don't faze them. I know you were flying overnight last

night, so you missed a couple of really key races. Tirunesh Dibaba

was invincible in the 10,000m, but it was the shorter, sharper and

always more showbiz Usain Bolt time Could you ever doubt him? After the

semi-finals I wasn't feeling good, my legs were sore. I knew it wasn't

going to be a world record, so I just came out here to give a great

show. There were a lot of Jamaicans in the crowd, it was beautiful. My

parents were here, it's great. must be so proud of you. I know they

expect me to come out and dominate, no matter what. They always want me

to win. How do you stay so relaxed? I saw you putting up an umbrella

metaphorically as the rain came down. It just came to be, I'm just

spontaneous like that. Is any sport has a bigger star than please show

me him. He is supreme. You other person to

ask about expectation. When you are consistently winning Olympic and

World Championships, I just get the feeling this season, that pressure,

he deals with it very well, but being beaten early on in the season,

as he was, it changes his mind set a little bit. You see a bit more of a

serious side to him. I think that's become the model for Usain Bolt. It

was the same situation, being beaten at the Jamaican trials by Johan

Blake and then not performing very well after that and taking time off.

When you put yourself in the shoes of Usain Bolt, who is such a huge

star, he is head and shoulders better than everyone else. If he

goes out there and he's healthy, he wins the races. It's very difficult

for him to really get focused and to really get himself into great race

shape until there's something significant at stake. We didn't win

the last World Championships because of a false start. This is really

something he wanted. It was just about the championship. I think that

is what we are going to see. One of the things I said earlier about

winning the Olympics in Beijing and then breaking the world record, him

doing everything he can possibly do in the sport within a short period

of time, where is the motivation coming from? What we've seen over

the years is it's all about championships for him now. To expect

that he's going to be running up the track on Diamond League events every

year when he's got appearances and all sorts of other things to do, we

are probably not going to see that. As he gets older, this will not bode

well for him just to focus on Championships. It will become more

of a priority to peak at World Championships. He mentioned the

record, that was obviously in mind, London was an opportunity. Does that

mean we've seen him run as fast as he was going to run this year?

not sure. There's still a lot of running post these championships

left. What we talked about his motivation. He wants to have the

complete dominance. He might be looking to have be the most medalled

athlete ever across all sports. I just think that must be possibly the

motivation. Hopefully we will see him go through to Rio and achieve

that. He could equal Carl Lewis RAPt ten golds here if he continues with

the 200 and the relay. He's got a lot more running in him yet and we

are loving seeing him. Before Usain Bolt took to the track last night,

another of the sport's superstars. Perhaps not nearly as well known,

but in athletics circles he -- as revered. Tirunesh Dibaba gave us

majesty... . Dibaba kicks again, a majestic performance, world medal.

because Dibaba does not speak English to the press, and she is not

the show man that Usain Bolt is, she does not have that recognition, and

that is a choice as much as anything else, but a 59 second lap the last

one, and the way she ran the 10k last night, she is an unbelievable

professional. Obviously it will be difficult to have the type of

stature that Usain Bolt has as a distance runner. Only Haile

Gebrselassie has been able to do that over the years but I think it

is one of the things that's the supposedly about the sport, we

cannot have the Tirunesh Dibaba of the sport and have the public know

how incredible she is and how special she is. And that is not up

to Tirunesh Dibaba, she should not have to go out and figure out how to

create a Mobot or a lightning Bolt to bring attention to herself, she

should be able to do that with her running. Surely with Dibaba, she

should do a haircut thing? I am sure she will take that on board really

well! We loved it last night, she will be in here tonight receiving

her gold medal and I am sure the crowd will show their appreciation.

This morning's session was tolerated by the one lap hurdles, and great

fish at least came through very Sanchez started very quickly down

the back straight. Sanchez sat the pace but Williams is moving nicely,

the first 200 metres. This puts him in about third place at the moment

but in the sound him is Clement of the USA, chances for everybody.

Williams is a qualifying place, Sanchez wins it, and job done for

Rhys Williams. Difficult time for the defending champion. I am

guessing he will be wondering like the rest of us what he can produce

here. Beside him Gordon... The top four qualify by rights, Dai Greene

has started OK, trying to stay with Gordon. Phillips trying to get back

into this but it is Gordon and Dai Greene dictating things. The

defending champion starting to look a little tired here, as the figure

of Philip, through, and can he get the? Dai Greene, quick enough, I

think. Kelly Spencer of Jamaica, fourth in the Olympic Games, she has

got a tough job. Safely away and Meghan Beesley did not explode out

of the box, Kelly Spencer also started quickly, as has George and

she has to concentrate now, Spencer in the lead. And drama in this first

round, it is one of the favourites, she has gone, and Meghan Beesley has

a chance here. Spencer gets there, looking composed. Shakes-Drayton in

fantastic form. She has still got some work to do here. Tracy hits

that one sour -- that one day, and that is the quickest we have seen so

far. The final heat in this first round. Eilidh Child off to a steady

start in lane one. Powering away down the back straight and she looks

to be in a good position at the moment. Mohammed out in front. The

victory goes to Dalila Mohammed but Eilidh Child is safely through.

GABBY LOGAN: All of them safely me, really happy to see Young

Sebastien getting through, he was so nervous, just coming off be straight

under 23 win and he is through to the semifinals. White I wonder how

you feel about Dai Greene, he got through by the skin of his teeth, he

has not been in good form and pulled out of the last you will race is,

when you are defending world champion and you are defending world

champion Andy turned up, and you think about turning up without

preparation -- and you turn up. must be for thinking that he cannot

give it your best shot. Add to that, the disappointment of last

year in London for Dai Greene, it is a difficult situation for him, at

this point he is probably taking it round by round. And all these other

guys, Gordon, Felix, all of these guys around him, so hopefully he is

not saying... But as I say that and think about the 400m hurdles, it is

still at the most competitive events in this sport, it will be difficult

in a semifinal just to get into the final because so many guys are so

evenly matched. We did a programme recently that he contributed to and

said it took in a while to find out that fourth was not bad in that

field in London, he had come in as world champion and expected he would

be on the rostrum in his home Olympics, obviously a disappointment

but the event is so loaded. Yes, and when you are world champion, you

expect to take that and ride that into the Olympics and that did not

happen for Dai and I am sure he is disappointed but he is still not in

great shape and form, he has had injuries and setbacks so taking it

round by round, he could get better each round. Anything can happen here

so hopefully that is the way he is looking at it. I am sure he is

working with his coach. He will treat tomorrow as if it was the

final because he will have to run it as a final. When we were talking

about the time of Christine Ohuruogu yesterday, rumour saying she may

have to run a British record of she wants to beat Montsho tonight and we

talked about Kathy Cook, it is hard to talk about it without the great

Kathy Cook as a prefix, she really is the rest of female sprinter in

Britain and Steve Cram went to speak COMMENTATOR: Kathy Cook Great

Britain takes the bronze! She ran the 400m in a time good enough to

win at London 2012. In a period that has been considered

both Golden and a controversial area in athletics. That was just one of

four British spin -- sprint record greatest British sprinters of all

time -- Kathy. She today lives near Birmingham and teaches PE at a local

school. This is from that period? You have

not changed a bit. Kathy and I debated at our first Olympics in

Moscow. This is your gold medal -- Cathy and I competed.

These games took place in a turbulent Cold War context. After

the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, the USA and 64 other countries staged a

boycott making eight a unique sporting experience for us both.

started to feel like it would not be a proper Olympics. And you are

literally flown in, did your event and thrown -- flown home. It was

quite spartan? Yes, compared to Los Angeles which was all singing and

all dancing. But then again, it was still the Olympics and I was happy

to get to the finals of the 100 metres and I knew in the relay that

we should be in with a shout. remember walking out and people talk

about the Olympic final and I am still going... And I was last

straightaway. I was like that. You can talk yourself out of it, it is

ridiculous and my other memory is being at the start line and it was

either a Russian national anthem being played an East German one and

that Hume seemed to be playing whole time, 20 47. On a big leap. To get

your first Olympics -- 20 47 on a big leap. At the Moscow Olympics and

in the years that followed, Kathy regularly reach the podium but more

often finished her races in the wake of East German athletes clocking

some of the fastest times in the sport. I remember seeing them on the

warm up track and it looked like a week of my training. I ran against

people like my competitors and they seemed like another species of

human. What did you put that down to? I thought they were taking drugs

but I thought they were probably training harder than me as well.

That is what the drugs allow you to do. Yes, it is a circle.Even though

you are getting better, others words doing so as well. People I had

beaten I certainly could not beat and they were looking different and

you start to think, that does not write. After the demise of East

Germany in 1990, secret police files were opened up revealing evidence

that athletes have been systematically doped during the

1980s. Amongst them, many of Kathy's rivals so it is hard for her

to avoid asking, what if. In 1982 at the World Championships,

you run brilliantly and you were pipped at the post by someone who

was subsequently named as one of those who had been taking drugs and

given drugs. How does that make you feel now? That particular race is

very annoying. I have got lots of copies of that photo on the

finishing line of her tweaking the art. -- tweaking me. You could have

won a gold medal, you never got an individual one and you certainly

were a good enough athlete. Part of me thinks if I had won one, would my

life have gone a different way? But I have got sponsorship? Would I have

stopped working? I always work part-time or full-time. Who knows?

And then it is confidence, you get the winning habit so if you win a

gold medal and you know what it feels like, it must be amazing so I

definitely want that to happen again. Who's to say how that have

affected my career. We sit here in 2013 and you're still a British

record holder, 200, 400, your times are still world-class. I remember

being at school and I could not work it out, I was so much faster than

everybody else and when I was in sixth form, I run against the boys

and beat them as well and obviously that does knew no good as well! --

does you no good. I knew I was fast. It was a burden but I definitely had

to do something with that, I could not just go along and not give it my

best shot. This is the 1984 period. I was in my best shape in Los

Angeles and remember doing the 400 and being made with the performance.

And I felt like I was flying, I felt brilliant. You were two and a half

hours late at a welcome home street party! Our kids were reading in the

press and on TV of Kathy's achievements which they were not

even aware of. We got older and then realised then that what she had

achieved. To see that our mum's time would have still won gold, it was

impressive. Nice to know. I look for this headline, cool Cookies on the

boil. I cannot believe I did it, for a start, and I have got medals to

look at which is lovely for me. I am just pleased with what I did and I

am content so what is to complain life thinking, what if? But she was

just supremely naturally talented. You could even see body shape wise,

she looked like she did a quarter of the training of those Eastern Bloc

athletes. Some people are just born to run, she was one of them. I

remember seeing her on the side of a cereal packet when I was a little

girl. I collected my Olympics stars. I thought you was the most amazing

athlete. It was, like, how does she do it? This is the real crime of

drug cheats. They steal from athletes like that, they take away

that dream of what could have been. Luckily, she is not bitter, she has

moved on and has a wonderful family, but that could have changed

her life. To put it in context, in absolute terms, she could have given

up her job and been a full-time athlete, got some sponsorship and

who knows what she could have done? But the fact that Christine Ohuruogu

is still chasing that 400m record and she may have to break it if she

wants to win this goal tonight. of the things that struck me that

she said there in that piece, and this is one of the things that I

think people don't understand, the real consequences of drug cheats on

other athletes. Had she won one championship, she would have then

have the confidence from that experience of having one. Then what

does that mean for the remainder of your career? We talked about my own

career earlier. Having won a championship, it put me in a very

good position going into other championships because I'd been there

before and there was the confidence that Cathy was never able to have.

Hopefully we will see confidence in heats tonight from Aries Merritt. He

won the Olympic gold last year in the 110m hurdles. We broke the world

record in Brussels. He arrives after a mixed season, but he's looking for

goal tonight. Me versus the world, I he's one of the most likeable

athletes on the circuit. So let's hand you down to commentary now with

sharpness of Aries Merritt. He did his hamstring earlier in the season

racing in sham -- Shanghai, and it's always been catching up since then.

He was all conquering last season and to go huge chunk of the world

record racing in Brussels. But this is a title that he wants to complete

the collection, but this is a very strong heat. Just two semi-finals

here. The gold, silver and bronze medallists from the London Olympics

are here. This is the bronze team-mate, Shubenkov. He's the 2008

world junior champion. There is the defending world champion. The

elegant hurdler, Jason Richardson. brothers. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde

didn't come through the heats but Thomas looked pretty good. There is

the Olympic champion, the world indoor champion and world

champion, became his country's first ever world champion or indeed

championship medallist in athletics. Completing the line-up is

Baji, of Hungary. Four times the Hungarian champion. He ran a

personal best to come through his in the men's 110m hurdles. The first

three to go through automatically to the final later on tonight. The next

much noise. Yes, it's important these hurdlers can settle down into

their blocks. They have obstacles in front of them that are pretty high

and heavy, also. You want to have as much concentration adiposity can at

this very critical and crucial part of the race. Colin, Breanna Rollins

was talking about the hurdles being wooden instead of plastic, they were

too heavy and she hurt herself in training. I will bring that up

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Richardson gets it, Merritt settled for third. Merritt, what a dreadful

start from Aries Merritt. In-out will watch the clock and weight, but

I do not think, with a winning time of 13.34, that it's going to be good

enough. The Olympic champion may have gone. It was an absolutely

awful race. Scrappy on many levels. We were unsure whether it was going

to be. Oh. Look at all this different movement going on, people

reacting at different times. Aries Merritt didn't react at all. I don't

know what he was waiting for! There was a huge struggle for him to get

to the first hurdle. The Russian athlete is injured, pulled a

hamstring. Parchment starts to make his way through the field. He

clatters a hurdle and he is out. Aries Merritt, he dips. The first

three, it says. I think UNIX his way Parchment on the third. Richardson

out in front. Merritt straining to try and get there. What a mess at

the start from Aries Merritt. If that is to be the end of his

campaign, all of his own making. It was untidy from everyone. Very sad

to see Parchment there, the bronze medallist in London. He is taken off

the track. Shabanov also receiving especially the French guy there. His

leg was moving already. He's in lane six, he was twitching consistently.

I'm surprised the starter didn't pull them back or at least tell them

to stand up. He will no doubt be getting signals in his ear to say

that people are not stationary. And for the athletes to be released...

These two, one has been the world champion, from Barbados, Merritt,

from the US, the Olympic champion. I'm looking at the reaction times,

they are atrocious. I'm not going to pretend here, lane eight was 0.397.

And Aries Merritt was 0.327. Terrible reaction times. But we saw

why, lots of movement in the blocks beforehand. I was getting a bit

excited as well, I thought... Aries Merritt does go through as an

automatic qualifier. If he tidies up that start and decides to do a

proper start in the final, all will mixed season coming into this, but

that doesn't explain a start like that. I'm not quite sure it was

totally Aries Merritt's fault. I agree with Colin, there was lots of

agree with Colin, there was lots of movement by many different people.

If you look at the three athletes, maybe even four, on the right side

of your screen at the start, all of those guys are out to stop everyone

else is still in the box. That tells me that someone over on the left

side of the track moved first and everyone else moved with them. But

the guys on the right side of the track, including Aries Merritt,

didn't feel that movement, so they were sitting there waiting for the

gun. I don't think everyone was settled. A great job by Aries

Merritt, getting himself back into this race to qualify. The Olympic

champion had it all to do, Denise, from about 50, he was back in almost

six plays. Absolutely. The key at that point is not to panic. He has

to trust in his hurdling ability, his reputation. I'm staggered, he

was literally asleep in the blocks. As Michael said, the guys on his

right were wobbling in the blocks, but the guy from France was

stationary and unaffected. I'm really surprised at that. Luckily he

is through, because I think he is in better shape than he was early in

the season. When the Russian went down, I somehow had decided that map

he had decided they were going to start again. It was all very

confusing. Parchment was taken away as well. It wasn't a textbook race

from anybody. It wasn't a vintage semifinal. The Russian pulled up

injured, he was probably holding his hamstring. Parchment has had his

problems, he got injured in the warm up at the Jamaican trials, so his

preparations have also been hampered. Will shaman is in the next

semifinal. Let's hope things are a bit smoother here. Two years ago,

William Sharman came to the final but it was Andy Turner who came

through the carnage on that occasion Richardson, a man who has got under

13 seconds, qualifies in 13.34, he wins it on that time. That semifinal

was pretty tame. I'm expecting this one to be much swifter. An eye on

the fastest loser spots. Oliver would expect to be the favourite

here. The Olympic bronze medallist back in 2008. Shubenkov, the

Russian, will be the home crowd favourite. He's just seen his

fastest losers. The final in two and former European indoor champion, but

it looks like his best running is behind him now. David Oliver coming

back into good form just that the right time. In 2080 was probably the

favourite going into the final but he ended up with a bronze medal.

Dominating back then. Dash back in 2008. This is a student of

Hasn't yet to run under 13 seconds, and that is the benchmark of true,

world-class 100m hurdling. Same for Shubenkov. But the Russians have

high hopes for this man. Still just 22, European indoor champion this

year. Here is Will Sharman. So disappointed last year not to be

involved. Commonwealth Games silver medallist. Has been fourth and fifth

at the last two World Championships. British fans in the stadium to cheer

him on. Andrew Riley of Jamaica. The Jamaican in. -- champion. The first

three, if you can. Clean race, give yourself the best chance and then,

if you can't win, 13.49. They are down on the track. The second

semifinal of the men's 110m semifinal, David Oliver here in lane

Oliver, Will Sharman is fifth or sixth, I think, 13.18. That got the

crowd going, didn't it? Sharman knows he is out but Shubenkov got a

reasonable start, not the best start, watch this, Colin. Shubenkov

maybe not as good as Sharman out of the blocks but what a good race from

the Russian. That he is a very strong athlete, I have seen him

prepared and he gets into this rhythm. He is not the best

technically but he is strong and each stride he takes is very active

and that puts him very well placed. David Oliver beat in the qualifying

yesterday but Shubenkov has turned it on today. We will look at this

again, Will Sharman has got a chance here, I thought he was fifth on the

line and wedges with the bully times to come through, I thought he might

be sixth. I think he out leans Noga. If he is quicker than that, it will

be an anxious wait, but he may have a chance here. That was not the best

angle for us to check that out that while we are waiting for that, let's

watch him head on. He is a very smooth hurdler, Will Sharman, that

is a big advantage and he is a confident man and this year, he said

his reparations have nearly been flawless so he has moved his way

into really high-class sprint hurdling and it is nice to see him

here settling in. He's not worried about what is going on around him,

he can see that Shubenkov is on his shoulders but he keeps nice and

focused and ready to move on, this looks good. The good news is that by

100th of a second, he has not good enough but you are in the

final, your reaction? I was surprised because I thought I was

winning because Shubenkov and the Jamaican were behind me and I know

they are quick and then I came into the finish line, dipped and there

was a time of other guys ahead of me and I thought, oh, my goodness! I

thought they had not made the grade so I am really pleased to be in the

final. I love everybody at home because of your support, just wish

me luck in the final, I will give it my best shot, 100%, I will guarantee

I will give you my best shot and hopefully I will come away with some

jewellery. Let's hope so, all the glad that my first look, I thought

he had not mean him out but there is the evidence, very good for the

Russian, David Oliver just out leans by the Russian, and it is a good job

that Aries Merritt came through because he would not have been quick

enough because the second semifinal was much faster.

GABBY LOGAN: By the same token, good job that Will Sharman was in the

semifinal he was because that disrupted first semifinal not being

as quick, and him being further down the field than he thought he was,

because he thought he was winning, he goes from hero to zero and zero

to hero very quickly. We are delighted he has got himself into

the final. Yes because he has had his injuries and it pays off Micro

to be patient and work well and he has he has got his reward and he

deserves to be in the final. Andy Turner, a bronze medallist in Daegu

has given his prediction and he reckons the USA will take a clean

sweep, do you agree? You have got the wild card that the Americans

have four, a real good chance there but they will all have to do a lot

better than they did today. So David Oliver did not have a great start,

and Aries Merritt, he is caught up in a bit of a situation the weather

the start was fair or not great so all of them will have to do better

in the final. But I think that they will wipe the brow and say at least

it was a good thing it was a semifinal. I think that Shubenkov

will get in there and makes that up because he will be pumped up.

crowd love that. He shows that there are more ways to skin a cat, more

than one way to do the hurdles and more than one technique that works

because he is very compact and yet not quite as elegant as some people

next to Aries Merritt, if you put it like that, his style is not as

aesthetically pleasing. That is not very nice! We have seen him indoors,

he is tight and compact and what he does really well, he can sneak up on

you because he is always there, he can hurdle nine and ten and creeps

up on you. He is effective, he is a tall athlete and he is a tidy

hurdler. And I agree with Mike, he will upset the party. It will not be

a clean sweep, I don't think. final later on, made all the better

that Will Sharman will be there for us and add a British interest. You

see the successful lean from Sharman. One 100th of a second, the

margins of the sport can be so cruel it can work against you or against

you, when it works for you it is brilliant. We are delighted for him

and that sport, it is sometimes very painful when you at the other side

of that decision. But great for Will Sharman. We have got plenty coming

up for you this evening, lots of finals. If you have just come in and

wanted a reminder of what they are, have a look at this. At 4:35pm, the

women's 100 metres semifinals and the heptathlon going on with 200

metres, the semifinals of the 400m with Kirani James and LaShawn

Merritt going on as well. We have got a packed evening, Valerie Adams

in the shot put, just about everything available, she has won

back twice but denied the gold in London last year. If she wins it

tonight, it will be doubly celebrated and Christine Ohuruogu

and Amantle Montsho, the two main protagonists going in the 400m later

on which is probably the race we are most looking forward to, Denise,

would you say? Absolutely! I will endeavour to stay in my seat because

I really hope Christine... It is safe to say that she will get a

medal but which colour, I am still not sure. Let's hope it is gold!

multi-event for the women started today, and we are without Jessica

Ennis-Hill who is out because of injury but we have Katarina

Johnson-Thompson going very well at the moment but it is Jess's Olympic

gold that we all remember last year and hoped we could see her once

again becoming world champion in That from the left-hand side and she

is away strongly here. Belgium is going well but it will be a very

good time indeed, that is a cracking start to her aspirations to win this

watch the clock, it could be crucial, she is flying and she

certainly has produced a lifetime throw. Not very quick and it is not

very long but 43.54 is a very solid start indeed. It has been a long,

hard, gruelling two days but if things stay the way they are, we are

looking at a world champion and she's coming once more. Great

Britain has found another great star. The girl from the city of

steel came to Berlin hunting for ago in Burling, so much has happened

since Angie is missed, isn't she? Not just us, the whole event because

she is such a golden girl and a great athlete and we miss watching

her. Yes, she lifts the spirits but that performance in 2009 was really

the start of the Jessica Ennis-Hill dominance over the event and

considering she has had that dreadful setback in 2008, the

injured foot and ankle, that cost her a place in the Olympics, she

could not go, her season was wiped out, she came back and is completely

annihilated the field. Was that the first time... Because she had to

change her lead off foot in the long jump, because of the injury before?

She would have competed in May, but that was the first major

championships and so it is great to see her and she went from strength

to strength, building on her strength and her throw has got

better. We saw that athlete in her in the Olympics, the darling of our

nation. She has revealed today or in the last 24 hours that she will

compete in the Commonwealth Games next year in Glasgow which is

fantastic news. Let's have a catch up with the heptathlon, two events

COMMENTATOR: Not only Jessica Ennis-Hill missing, but the Russian

defending champion who is also not there. We had to wait until he'd

four of the hurdles before we saw the first sign of Katarina

Johnson-Thompson who faded a little bit in the mid-race but came through

strongly in the end, it was completed by the Russian and...

Ashton Eaton, the leader's husband who won the decathlon and is the

world record-holder supporting his wife and she obliged in the high

jump. 1.86 metres, she was followed by Katarina Johnson-Thompson, 1.83

metres. And she was coming on stronger as the event progressed.

1016 points for Katarina. The Ukrainian had a huge amount of

support in the stadium. She jumped 1.86 metres. And then 18-year-old

Amy Kiam from Belgium -- Tian. And then they shot but, 4135, some big

points for the American. And she would have climbed up the table with

that, she was lying in fifth place after the first two events and then

we had the lady in second place, Theisen Eaton and then still waiting

for Katarina Johnson-Thompson to pretty something because she fouled

in the first round, this was the second round and which is pretty

Phil Jones out in the training camp, it was going to be a weak event and

so it proved to be, 11.37, her best stadium, she is waiting to take her

third round throw. If she can get another 50 centimetres or so, that

would be very good indeed for the British number one here in Moscow.

Katarina moves into fourth place after the high jump. So certainly in

with a shout of finishing in the top six but she has to get through day

two, and after the shot put, we have the final event of the heptathlon on

day one, the 200 metres. GABBY LOGAN: Katarina

Johnson-Thompson, at the beginning of the year, she thought she was

getting more experience under the tutelage of Jessica Ennis-Hill,

seeing her as her mental, who she can follow up behind. It gives her a

different dynamic and responsibility that you maybe wasn't expecting.

wasn't sure if it was a positive or negative, but it thrusts her into

the limelight which I am not sure if she is ready for. She competed very

well in London, she loved that stage but looking at her body language

right now, in an event she does not like, particularly. I do not get

positive vibes from her but I hope she really gets a positive throw.

She was waiting for another athlete to finish but she certainly looks

pensive. Guess, because she knows that other girls are much stronger.

It is a really turning point for this event, she happily will throw

it better. 619 points for Katarina, come on. Drive across and hit it.

Well... I honestly don't know, I think it is maybe a little further

but this is an event where she does struggle and so her body language is

all wrong. She was confident in the high jump, she is a 1.89 metres

performer but 11.52, that is an improvement that she is down in 14th

place. -- but she is down. We are getting excited for the semifinals

of the women's 100 metres, we have got Cribari but is there a chance we

might get our first British woman in a World Championship ever final?

It will be really tough and I am being honest. She will have to run

her heart out. She will have to run a personal best to do it. She has

got opponents in very fine form. A couple of Jamaicans to perform

against so she must try to repeat what she did in that opening round

where she got a great start and she needs that now. She has had a hard

time of it after an horrendous injury, she is on the start line.

Fantastic experience of nothing else. Yes and hopefully she is

looking at it that way. She is looking there and I would be running

against the light of Blessing Okagbare. She can actually get

caught up in that and run a good phrase, she has had a good track,

next to Calvert who has a good start every time. If she gets a good start

and gets into the drive and runs her own race, she will have to deliver

that. Asha Philip looking a little nervous. This is obviously the level

of competition she will have dreams of getting into, through all of

those injury problems. She is finally here. But this is really

tough. Three semi-finals, the first two and two fastest will be going

through to the final in a couple of back in April and then ran 11.06 in

the final in the Trinidad Championships. Povkh of Ukraine in

lane three. She is a fast starter. Gold Cup what does not club Bari,

when she worked #. She is in the form of her life and will be the

busiest athlete in these her dad was a big influence on her

early career. He was a bit of a basketball player. A brilliant

sprinter. From Florida. Sailer finding some form. She's been around

getting a chance on a big stage. Calvert was third in the Jamaican

rounds, we saw Gardner running a very different sort of heat to

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. This time, there's not too much room for

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messing around. The final later on. Freeman is there, Sailer is there.

Just the first two. It's going to be the two big names, Okagbare and

Freeman. Sailer ran well but couldn't hold onto these two. Not

particularly fast, but it was good enough. Povkh gets out so quickly.

It was always going to be difficult for Asha Philip. Okagbare is a

danger, you cannot write her off. I know with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

and Camilla Jeter and the rest of it, but when she comes through this

strongly, if she gets it right at the start, she will be a big danger

in the final. She is strong, she proved that in the long jump

yesterday. She's already got that silver medal in the bag. But I think

the focus will now be on this 100. She's got a really lovely running

gait. She always looks very relaxed. As it comes to the back end of the

race, she opens up her stride. Cruising across the line to take the

victory in 11.08. I think she still will have her work cut out unless

she can really sort out that start. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has got that

bullet like start in comparison. Let's have a closer look at Asha

Philip. Out of the blocks well, the drive is really hard, head still

down, working all the way through. Watch when she pops head up and

starts to focus. She needs to keep her relaxation, keep working well,

try and put herself through. She manages to finish seventh in that

semifinal. Not sure how she will feel about that. Of course, that's

what she wanted to do, a personal best here. But I think it's

important that you still work hard and concentrate. Now she's talking

with Phil. Colin Jackson making the point about there may be some mixed

feelings, the fact you are here at all is tremendous. But you wanted a

personal best. How would you sum it up? I'm slightly disappointed. I

came here to run a PB and I didn't achieve it, but it's a learning

curve. I'm learning as days go on a the Championship, it's lovely to be

here. I am disappointed but I can only work from this. What was going

through your mind at the start, have the nerves settle down? I was

nervous. I was more controlled and thought, yeah, I can do this. My

race wasn't as great as I thought it would be. My coach will moan at me.

But I don't know, I'm not in that complaining good because I

experienced it, I've done it once now. So the next time, hopefully I

can make a final. And you want more There are two men in the competition

called Lavillenie, one is the Olympic champion, Renaud Lavillenie.

This is his younger brother, Valentin Lavillenie. This is an

important job for this youngster. Third and final attempt at 5.50. His

brother, who hasn't started yet, is halfway down the runway, just

bar. He certainly has jumped this will attempt to win his first ever

world title here. He's very upset didn't have the depth over the bar.

here. Only this woman went below 11 seconds in the first round. It was

extraordinary, she went out hard and fast, left nothing out there. She

ran 10.94. The intensity was to the crowd, but her focus is

absolute at the moment. The South American champion also looked good

for the first time, she's not wearing all the strapping on her

right thigh that she did yesterday. She struggled out of the blocks

yesterday, she has struggled all season with a quad injury. She's not

in the kind of form to go to the world title two years ago. Brooks,

former Commonwealth champion. Perhaps the weakest of the Jamaicans

on display in this 100m, fourth in the Jamaican Championships. The

line-up completed by the Nigerian English Gardner got out so quickly

just two to go through automatically. Jeter dips and comes

back, she is still strong. Jeter takes the victory. The defending

champion is into the final. She timed that well. We worried about

her. Worry no more, perhaps. English Gardner started well but faded a

little as the race went on. Not so, Carmelita Jeter. It's really great

to see, leader Jeter back. We saw her run the last leg in Monaco and

she looked very good, but then she was struggling with her form. Now

look how she relies on this wonderful technique that has been

honed by her coach, John Smith. She calls herself through and then just

out leans her and going sub 11 seconds. That is a very important

thing for us to see. English Gardner exploded, but I don't think she had

the same pick-up as she had in the heats. She was under pressure quite

early compared to the heats. But look at this, this is good, strong

running by these women. It's nice to see that. Very competitive. Coming

towards the line, let's have a look at this. As they came to the line,

if you watch Jeter... I think she clashes. They are coming closer and

closer to each other. She avoids are there just. Jeter very close to the

inside of her lane there. Gardner run out of it. She is on 11 seconds

where she ran 10.94. 11 seconds flat might still be good enough, two

impressive was the weather at Carmelita Jeter came through and the

way English Gardner finished. GABBY LOGAN: English Gardner might

have had a late start that it is how you finish and Carmelita Jeter,

almost out of her lane. Yet this, wasn't she just. Yes, wasn't she

just. This is a different woman to the one we saw yesterday. She is

favouring that side, the whole race. I do not know if that is her quad

injury but if she tries to hold that but also another athlete, Ahoure is

close to her line but it is great to see them both get through. We have

seen Ahoure run very well, she was winning in Monaco and she will be

one to watch. English garden will be hoping that the next race, the final

semifinal is not the quickest and she will make it through as the

fastest loser. -- English Gardner. Pleased with what appears to be

Carmelita Jeter's comeback? Five metres from the line, she felt

herself started to go over into the lane of Ahoure and basically shut

down, and still run under 11 seconds so when I look at this final, later

this evening, she has to be the favourite at this point. It will

give Carmelita Jeter a tremendous amount of confidence going into this

final, especially after a quad injury which is one of the most

difficult to overcome. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce goes in the final of

the semifinals which is just over my shoulder, you can see they are

lining up on the track, getting ready for this, she will no about

that race, and she will know that 11 seconds was set, they will want to

be one of the fastest losers, and it puts added pressure on to these

girls. Not in the mind of this young lady! She is fierce. She is very

confident and I think she will know what she has to do. She is

experienced, a double Olympic champion so she is ready to go.

Let's hand down to Steve Cram. COMMENTATOR: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

looked very comfortable in qualification, and what does she

have installed today? She will have just seen Carmelita Jeter run very

well the and we have got the result from the second semifinal.

Confirming that the two women were given the same time, Carmelita Jeter

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be joined by a team-mate, Stewart,

form as she was in last year. Pinto of Germany having a good year. She

is sitting in the mixed zone in the steps, the fastest loser. Ivet

Lalova, she qualified probably. But is not far of the season's best.

Stewart, it was said back in 2008, Silver medal, it was looking that

she might win it but Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce came through to take

the victory. Anderson, the fourth American. Or to make it through

here? Carmelita Jeter beating English Gardner, and English Gardner

the fastest loser. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was the impressive one

in qualification, the most impressive. Double Olympic champion.

World champion in 2009, and Gloria of Nigeria. . Okagbare won the first

semifinal, her team-mate, Okagbare based in the US these days, though.

Ferguson, of the Bahamas, where have all the sprinters gone. Not related

to Debbie Ferguson who led the team so well for so many years,

the two fastest losers spots. We might not need to go under 11

seconds here but I am sure if she can, it will be Shelly-Ann

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easy. That is head and shoulders above what we have seen so far.

Fraser-Pryce cruised through the qualification round and that didn't

look that much more difficult for her, a decent start, pretty good

start but after that, it is serene sprinting. Steve, I don't even think

she put her down onto the blocks. A reasonable reaction but nothing like

we were next back but what we have seen this year, we have seen have

holding on the speed endurance, giving her the opportunity to get

the back-end of the race and just hold form to get these real fast

times and we have already seen her run 10.7 this year, I am thinking

she could run under 10.70, this is great sprinting once again. Stewart

from Jamaica also under 11 seconds with 10.97. But look at the

favourite for this title, the Olympic champion, one of the fastest

woman we have ever seen on this planet. And look how she qualifies

for the final. Good, nice form. So solid and championships and I am

wondering if all these women will be thinking to themselves, let's make

it more than five women under 11 seconds, two equalled the men's

statistics. Only one time when the championship final has not been won

in under 11 seconds, that was in a saga and I have a feeling that will

not happen tonight. There you have it. It means that Alex Anderson will

join English Gardner as the fastest loser in that final, four

Americans, two Jamaicans, one from Ivory Coast and one from Nigeria.

The pole vault bar has moved up to 5.65 metres and this is Renaud

Lavillenie. We have seen his younger brother be eliminated, there he is,

watching. Making his entry into the competition. Speeding down the

these French brothers had for breakfast? Things not going too well

in the liver Lunny household when it comes to pole vaulting. But he has

got two more attempts. -- in the liver household. But could count

against him, normally he would sail over that sort of height. So problem

early doors for the French favourites, we saw Sergey Bubka

earlier on today and he reckons this guy will win.

GABBY LOGAN: Lavillenie will not worry too much, we saw him go for a

world record in London, an early wobble for him. He saw his brother

crashed out, and he was in tears. If he wants to cheer up, the last time

a parent brothers appeared in the watcher midget finals, one of them

won gold. Sergey Bubka in 1993 was joined by his brother Vasily and

Sergey Bubka one. I do not need to worry too much. Let's talk

sprinting, though. Will it now be Fraser-Pryce and Carmelita Jeter,

the main two to watch? Those two are obviously two of the best in the

world and have been for the last couple of years. I was impressed by

the Jamaican who now has experience, and we're now seeing the young

sprinters who have come along in the last of years, Octavius Freeman.

could either of those the antelope is tonight? Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce, it looked like a coach was sitting in the stands and pushed

a remote and she started running! There was no effort at all. It was

unbelievable. This is like Usain Bolt where he runs for 30 minutes

and then can shutdown -- runs for 30 metres. I would agree with Colin, I

am not sure she put her foot down completely coming out of the blocks,

this is textbook, a form is incredible, technique is flawless

and there is very little effort and so it is easy for her. Out of the

blocks, she did not put her foot down but she did everything right in

this race and this is not 100% so this will be an incredible final and

this, obviously, it is hers to lose at the moment. You mentioned the

others and there are names who have been pushing these two. Is it

another year they have got to hold the crowd before those girls then

assume the mantle? I think that Jamaican was good, Carmelita Jeter

as well and shutting down was still very impressive but I think the

Jamaican could push for the silver against Carmelita Jeter. Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce, it is hers to lose but then these new sprinters, some of

them have had long college season from the US. We'll talk more about

that, the fanfare behind this means we are moving from 100 metres to

10,000 because Tirunesh Dibaba is back in the stadium and Steve will

COMMENTATOR: The medal ceremony was not going to be held last night so

it is very nice for these three athletes to receive the medal is in

now a decent crowd, not as many as 4000 metres last night. -- as for

the 100 metres last night. Japan led for so long and constructed the race

for the three to come on. But there is one other big race and this was

the result, she finished behind her illustrious team-mate. She just,

just pipped Emily Chebet on the post, and just missing out on a

glances to see, Gladys Cherono who was flying the flag for Kenya and

Dibaba will have watched a few years ago when Linet Masai came and beat

her, Meseret Defar came and claimed the world title but this time, Kenya

could not find a way. She has never lost a 10,000 metres race, Tirunesh

Dibaba. It was ten years ago, she won her first world title in Paris.

Climbing onto the rostrum, that is a big step for someone of her

diminutive stature but she has done this so many times. If she is not

already the best we have ever seen, then she has continued to amass gold

medals which heavily weigh the argument in her favour as the

greatest all-time female distance runner. Tirunesh Dibaba, the world

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she will not be going for the double this championships, she is capable

of winning a gold in the 5000 metres as well but the Ethiopian team

management decided only one race, leading the way for Meseret Defar to

take gold perhaps in the 5000 metres so that is the work done at these

World Championships, but it was second attempt. This is Bjorn Otto,

first line says, if it wasn't for Reynold Lavillenie, this man would

be the champion. He must hate the French man! Is it time for revenge?

That was good, that will give him semi-finals next. Without LaShawn

Merritt and Kirani James in the first heat, it's the second two that

are the juiciest. There is nobody that can beat them, the two of them

have ran the fastest 11 times this year. It's a bit like the women's

with One Show and Ohuruogu, they are the two to beat. There's a huge gap

between Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt and the rest of the field.

They are the only ones that are capable, the only once you've ever

ran under 44 seconds. There's been a huge void in that event over the

last few years, but for the fact that we have LaShawn Merritt and

Kirani James. They make it interesting because they are quite

evenly matched. They are both high 43s right now, that's what I'd

expect on a really good day from either one of them. Both of them can

much -- and much faster. They both have World Championships, they both

have Olympic gold medals. They are both very nice guys from what I can

tell. But they don't quite likely to that, I don't think. That's very

good because it will bring out the best in both of them. Very nice guys

both of them, very humble and great competitors. The only thing is, I

would give, in all honesty, in terms of pure ability, I would give a

slight edge to LaShawn Merritt, because he can run a very fast 200m.

There is Kirani James is not a 200 runner. Kirani James's form, kind of

like a hurdler we were talking about earlier, it's not quite tidy. But

he's a great athlete and a great finisher and an incredible

competitor. If he is leading, it's very difficult for anyone to pass.

We haven't seen that. It will be a very interesting race. Neither of

them are in the first heat. We do have one of the Borlee Brothers,

Kevin, to look out for, and McQuay of the USA as well. Let's hand you

the Belgian champion this year, bronze medallist at the World

Championships two years ago. Henry cares has really started to emerge

this year. Just missed out at the going to have to go some. Brian

Gregan, like everybody here who is not amongst those big names, McQuay,

Borlee, looking for perhaps a personal best out of this semifinal.

The first two and the first -- two fastest for the semifinal. Nigel

Levine goes in the third of the go out hard Lane eight and try and

keep themselves involved in the race. It is Henriques who has

started the quickest through the might put himself right in this as

takes it, 44.61. That's a big personal best. I said he had to be

much better, he looked really rabid in qualification. Maybe he will

say, well, I needed that run to get it out of my system. But this man,

out in lane eight, that is really, really impressive. I don't know if

you know Masrahi very well, but that is a big run out in Lane eight.

don't know him very well but his coach, John Smith, I know him very

well. John Smith will coach an athlete to his best ability. This is

very good running for Masrahi out in Lane eight. It is a very difficult

lane to run from. He took it out very well for the first 200, then he

relaxed. He checked to see where everyone else is will stop he will

find out when he comes of this curb that he is in a decent position.

Good running by McQuay, the American, who we have had lots of

big hopes for over the past couple of years, but he didn't live up to

that. Now he's coming back a bit. Not many people can say they ran

their personal best out of Lane eight, and that is what he did here.

Very good form, very efficient running. You can see there's not a

lot of wasted motion here. You can see a bit of a shutdown right there,

you wouldn't normally do that in the middle of the track, but in Lane

eight that's the best thing to do. Now he just relaxes and brings it

home. Very relaxed coming home because he has conserved. That tells

me there may be a little bit more from him. They could be more from

him and another personal best, which could put him in place for one of

those medals. After Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt, it's pretty much

open. Very impressive, a new national record for the American

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vault. Reynold Lavillenie has this my mind, he is still the favourite.

That his younger brother, who has been eliminated. That shows you the

sort of form that has taken him out to six metres plus this year. Brad

Walker is a former world champion Cool, calm and collected celebration

and looked down, you'd just see how high that is. We used to make the

comparison to a double-decker bus, 400m later this evening. Already,

many suggesting that tomorrow's final in the men's 400 will be a

duel between this man, LaShawn Merritt, and Kirani James. That

performance by Masrahi in the previous semifinal alters the

complexion slightly, but realistic, Merritt and Kirani James are a

strength in the 400 as they do in the shorter sprints. Jonathan Borlee

is the Belgian record holder. The younger brother still, Dylan, is

drugs test is it should be mentioned. But competing again,

running well. Former Olympic and world champion. Melendaez is the

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automatically and the next two to take care, first two only to go

through automatically. Jonathan Borlee going well around the bend.

Borlee leads them into the home straight. LaShawn Merritt knows what

he has to do. He eases up a gear. LaShawn Merritt comes through.

Borlee now looking round. Chris Brown coming through to see and hope

if he can make it through to the final. And officially, 44.61, a

stroll for LaShawn Merritt. Michael Johnson is watching, what did you

make of this? A very controlled race with LaShawn Merritt out in Lane

six. This is really hard way to do it. You mentioned about this point

in the race, he is a 200 metre runner, so he could run the first

200 a little quicker, making it easy on himself in the home stretch. I'm

not sure I'm crazy about the way he ran this race, but some athletes

really struggle with how to run the race in the rounds, when they know

they can win the race either way. He knows he can but at this point he's

got Borlee out in front of him. Now he's got a bit of work to do. This

takes more energy, to have to pick up a gear with 100 to go, than it

does to be able to just shut it down when you are ahead and just cruise

on for the finish line. LaShawn Merritt will be in good shape for

the final tomorrow. He knows he will have his work cut out for him. He

got a good start. I would have cut that pace. I would have liked to

have seen him keep pace at 200m. Sometimes he has a little bit below

knee lift, and that concerns me as well. I think he can get a lot more

power out of that, would you do see in him when he runs the 200m. Very

relaxed here. He's a very powerful athlete, and that's what makes him

so great. An incredible combination of speed and strength. I think

LaShawn Merritt will be happy with that, but I think his coach will

definitely want him to run a different strategy in the final

final, you against Kirani James, is that how you are viewing it? I have

my spots now! He's coming up and there will be six other men in

tonight which is disappointing, still going to be some cracking

athletics in both the track and the field here. The pole vault continues

and Augusto de Oliveira, he has got a problem, took three attempts to

get 5.50. He has had his third and final attempt. The South American

record-holder. And somebody who will just be coming into their prime when

Rio de Janeiro host the Olympic Games. Last attempt. That was good,

who have cleared 5.65, only one athlete has been eliminated, and

that is the Chinese competitor. January issue. And the same of

Yamamoto of Japan, a few first-time clearances and that is far too many

failures, his downfall at the memorability is in there fighting.

From where this camera is sitting, it is directly opposite the finish

line and the start of the 400m. Kirani James in this final

semifinal, defending champion. And of course the Olympic champion as

well. On the inside will be the Costa Rican and then Armen Hall who

was only forth in the semifinal and finished third in the final so

presented the US. The Jamaican and then another 20-year-old, he has

already got his world title, his Olympic title, Kirani James and

grenade. Only beaten once this year by LaShawn Merritt, that was in

Eugene. Solomon of Trinidad, his father ran here in Moscow in 19 80,

sixth in the 400m. Santa was still a teenager, 19 years of age, was

behind Kirani James and took the silver medal at the other big games,

struggling a little bit this year. -- Santos. The cheque competitor and

45 last year. He has got to make any inroads like Nigel Levine, needs to

run a big race. The personal best of 45.11, will he be to get close to

that here? The fastest loser spot at the moment held by Borlee and

another roller from the first comfortable and this should not be

too difficult for Kirani James in the form he has been in this year.

There he is, almost rubbing his right on the outside. A couple of

the second out of him in the first couple of metres by the by the

cheque competitor. Outside in lane seven, Maslak, Kirani James are

starting to move through, and the America has got work to do in lane

two, just the top two to qualify. Here comes Santos. They have to

change gear a bit, they see the danger, just picks it up enough and

it was close in the end, it is Santos, almost casually, as was

James there, not even a lean from Santos or Maslak. I would imagine

that Maslak will be very close to his best and may have qualified for

the final. What do you make of that, Michael? Kirani James, a bit

relaxed? Edit to relax. He was running a slow race from 200 metres

and then backed off a little bit. At this point, he is very good. A

massive strides that he has, tall athlete, he is in a great position

here but he leaves himself a bit of work with 100 metres to go. Because

of what happens right here, he did not press here on this turn relaxed

a bit too much. I admitted here for him to put it on a bit but he didn't

do that and Santos makes a mad dash. A very good race here. He was

outside so he didn't know where Kirani James was. But now we know he

has him in his size, he runs well, an impressive race by Santos but

Kirani James, that was again like we saw in LaShawn Merritt, really did

not know how to approach this semifinal. And Nigel Levine was

always going to have a difficult time out there in lane eight but he

looks very good right here. Great strides but when you see this

athlete, the Polish athlete, Maslak, you have to respond. The

400m is a race we need to go out with a strategy, but you need a

strategy. You have also got to race and the problem is Nigel Levine is

not racing, he is executing a strategy which was not working, you

must make that change and adjustment. Very difficult day for

him, you can see the strain on his face at this point and that last 100

metres is tough and may be more difficult when you are not in it for

the advancement for the next round, he will take that and learn from it

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and very good experience for him to Didn't execute the race he perhaps

needed to if he was going to get into that final.

How would you assess your race from the outside lane? It's quite tough

not seeing everybody. It was a terrible race. I didn't expect to do

that bad, but I wanted to come in top two in that race. I believe I

could have done it. I tried my best. As you can see by the replay. I

guess my best wasn't good enough for today. I have to go back and assess

what happened and come back next year for the Europeans and the year

after. Two years ago I was on the relay and now I've made individual,

so it shows I'm progressing. I can't complain. I've just got to be glad

I've got the opportunity to compete for my country individually at the

World Championships. It shows I'm progressing. What's the biggest

lesson learned? Just take it in your stride, don't try and rush things. I

made the semifinal, it's quite good because two years ago you didn't

even see me, I wasn't good enough. But this year I'm good enough to

make the semifinal. Hopefully I need to be stronger and learn a bit more

to make the final and compete with these guys. We are moving into some

field action soon. It's the women's shot put final tonight. You would be

hard-pressed to find an athlete at -- more loved by her fellow

competitors and Valerie Adams. She's won every major championship at

least once, most of them twice. She was denied the gold last year. She

was denied the moment of getting the gold medal in the Olympic Stadium in

London, which has even kind of elevated her further into the

consciousness, as somebody who to recover. It's always very special

after an Olympic year, because the two years leading up to that is just

Olympics, Olympics, Olympics. Then we have to recover really quickly

and get back. My love and my strive to be the best in the world is still

there. I'm not getting any younger and I've got to train accordingly.

I'm looking forward to the challenge. There are a lot of young

girls coming up now. They are trying to get the down but I would go down

without a fight. You have got this phenomenal record now, 38 victories

in a row? You must be so proud of that. Yes, pretty happy, I must

thank my coach. He started it with me and we haven't stopped. That is

something that we have succeeded together as a team. This is my third

year with him and without him, my career would have been done and

dusted back in 2010 so I am happy to still be around and I hope to keep

that winning streak going for as long as possible. To win, country is

enough motivation for me and to have New Zealand up there with the other

countries in the world, it is quite amazing. I am dominated by

Europeans, by America, by the Chinese and it is great to be

someone from New Zealand coming up and beating the rest of them. It

coach of mine, he has given me more motivation because I can see the

progress as an athlete and I think when you see it, it is easy to

continue, to train and go for the gold medals.

GABBY LOGAN: There she is, New Zealand's Valerie Adams, she is a

huge star back home, she is one of 18 children, her brother is the

first Kiwi to be drafted into the NBA. The jeans are good in that

family. But she really is a beacon of light in terms of the Kiwi

athletic ability -- the genetics are good. Absolutely and for fellow

European athletes. The struggle to get amongst sorry, I correct

myself, the European athletes have dominated so much and she has come

through and become this global icon in an event that most people turn

their nose up to. Even within the sport, it is a great event, the shop

at. You love your shot put!Yes, I love it and she displays

athleticism, strength, power, in such a confined space, it is

incredible and she is a wonderful ambassador. Indeed, she is. And I

guess, Michael, it shows the kind of variety of athletics. All shapes and

sizes and heights. There are many, many disciplines. And lots of people

will be watching these championships and will have got engaged in sport

last year watching the Olympics as well, and it is important that we

are still having this inspirational legacy, if you like with the BBC

itself running a campaign, you can find out about it, find out and join

clubs but people might be watching this and think they are a big, tall

girl and that could be the sport for them. Yes, and Valerie has been a

great ambassador for the sport. She is a phenomenal athlete, very

elegant as well in addition to the speed and power that she displays.

And she has been around for so long as he is one of those athletes who

really is able to be consistent year in and year out. That is difficult

to achieve. She is one of the superstars of the sport. One final

line before we move on to the heptathlon 200 metres, about the

semifinals of the men's 400m, we said before that it was LaShawn

Merritt and Kirani James of the two to beat, who are the interlopers?

think you could put Tony in their and Mizrahi, that is very impressive

and so those two and the elliptic silver medallist, 18 years old,

Santos. He is getting around to his best time. I think those other guys

are the ones who can take him on. saw the first semifinal, when you

saw the coach John Smith of Masrahi, he looks like he is very

much drilled. Yes, and some people have natural styles that lend

themselves to very efficient running. There is not a lot of

wasted motion and that is very import it, when you get into the

mode of fatigue, the most important, holding form in those final metres

when your body wants to go other places and your brain is saying,

stop! You have to hold it together, and that comes from strength and

form. He started off as an 800 metre runner and eight 1500 metre runner,

he must have realised he had great kick. It is not the normal route to

go down. He may have been misdiagnosed! And put in the wrong

event and somebody eventually figured it out. And somebody

discovered that and now he is in the right event. His dad was a

professional footballer Sir sport is in the family. After we had about

the Adams family. It seems to pass through the genes. Michelle Carter,

her dad was Olympic medallist, won the Super Bowl within 12 months.

is a legend in the states, the high school record holder as well and he

ran out of high school, he ran for his first-team and is a phenomenal

athlete. And an Olympic medal and a Super Bowl in the same family.

Valerie Adams is about to go to the moment. Over 20 metres for Valerie.

She makes it look so easy. Michelle Carter with her first throw, 19.92.

Schwanitz, of Germany, some way behind the American number one and

the American record-holder. But Valerie, there's her coach. She has

gone over 20 metres. She makes it look so easy. 20.41. I don't think

competition, she is only 18 years old. And Theisen Eaton, the wife of

the world record-holder in the men's decathlon. We have five heats of the

the final heat, considered to be one of the fastest women in the field.

She is down in 14th place at the moment. She was as high as fourth

after the high jump, but you had a pool 11.52 she threw. She was close

to her personal best in the hurdles this morning. As usual, all of these

performances will be converted into points and it will all come out in

the wash at the end of the day, in terms of who is leading. But it's

been a good first day, very good Belarussian running a good bend, but

Yfantidou was just in the lead. Marcus and of Norway driving for the

Estonian number one. Not particularly quick. But it will give

her 838 points. They are languishing down the bottom end. The Hungarian

is inside the top 20 in the standings at the moment. She

finished OK. It was Klaup who came taken off the track right opposite

where the pole vault final is taking place. We've already seen some very

good pole vaults so far. That this. -- Mohr. You get the

impression that Lavillenie and whole step have done the wise thing in

passing. They will not be going back into the competition until 5.82. But

Mohr, first man to go clear at 5.75. Brad Walker, almost an identical

doesn't celebrate widely -- wildly, he's got his emotions under control.

He calls what Mohr has done, although I think he's got one more

failure to his credit. The German will still be in the lead, Brad

Walker in second place. The best vault on display today has been

whole step. He came in the competition and absolutely flew

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consecutive pole vault world titles. were talking about Lavillenie being

the favourite, but the Germans here today looking wonderful. Such

that height in the competition so far. Michelle Carter in second place

metre mark. As you heard Michael Johnson say, her coach is a legend,

in strength training and an American football, too. He still holds the US

high school record for a inside the top ten in the world

standings. Savitskaya, it was the shot put that let her down. 11th

who can step up and fill the void, and there is a void. The top five

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from the Olympics not here. Jessica the stadium. There are two huge

groups of Ukrainian supporters in yellow and blue at either end of the

stadium. Not blaming them, but they are a rowdy bunch. They've been

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making tremendous noise throughout She's lying in 10th place at the

hurdles. Strong finish from the Algerian. She is finishing quickest

of all, the rather tiring towards the end. Some way over half a second

outside her personal best. But she does take the victory. It's all

about the time. We will do the calculations and add up the points

and see where she lives. It's been rounded down to 24.75. 910 points

for Omrani. She did exactly the same in the hurdles this morning. Started

off slowly but finished very strongly indeed. Hopefully enjoying

her experience here in this huge second-round throw. 19.22 in the

first round. It is a little way off the pace. She is a very solid

performance. The shot weighs four kg. That is �8.13 ounces. A lot of

the youngsters at home will not have a clue what I am talking about.

Everybody over the age of 40 will be, I am sure! Valerie Adams has

achieved a distance in the first round which nobody else in the

world this year has got close to. 20.401. More effort end that there

are certainly, and perhaps a little more distance as well. That is her

coach, he is himself a pretty good thrower. Shot, discus and throw up.

He comes from Switzerland, her coach. Bernard Gunther was his

first charge. If Valerie Adams wins this one, she is going to be four-

has got to get this otherwise he will be eliminated. Only two

delighted. Such relief. Yamamoto is still in there fighting. There are

quite a few athletes still in this competition. That equals his

lifetime best. That is a great effort from the 21 year-old. One of

the fastest athletes in the shot put circle and now one of the

longest as well. Right on the 20 metre line. Already the post mortem

of the throw by her coach has started. Two very good Chinese

athletes in this final. World championship bronze medal in Berlin

and an Olympic bronze medallist as well. Ranked 4th in the world. That

is getting close, she has moved into second place. This is his

eight. -- he lives to fight another the competition. You have got to

get it on the third otherwise you world goes in lane three.

Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium, the European champion. A little twitch.

That will not be recorded on the electronic system. Nafissatou Thiam

may be penalised for that. She certainly was the best high jumper

on display earlier in the day. 1.92. I have been raving about this guy

all day, but it is the first time we have seen him. Raphael Holzdeppe.

He is going so well. Olympic bronze medallist and European bronze

medallist. He never got the gold except when he was a junior. He won

the World Junior Championship in 2008. Maybe something for Renauld

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just gets it. Not as fast as seat number two. It was not tremendously

good from either of them. Nafissatou Thiam was labouring a

little bit down the home straight. She has run 24.89 before, so some

final. Raphael Holzdeppe has definitely got the advantage at the

moment. So many people expected this guy would turn up and win the

competition. That is not the case. Brad Walker, the American No. 1. Oh,

yes! That is a motion. As the bar gets higher, at every clearance

will become one further step towards a medal in these

championships. This guy knows what it is like to win the gold medal.

He did that in 2007. He has jumped 6.04 at his very best. Who knows?

He is in second place at the moment. This is totally -- total domination

by Valerie Adams. She is getting better and better. That is all the

coach can say, isn't it? Thumbs up. You are so much better than

everybody else, just keep it going. 120 kg in body weight. She moves so

smoothly across the circle and she blasted the shot out way beyond 20

metres. That surely is the gold medal. Right next to the shot put,

behind the cage, we have got the men's hammer. There is the start

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said if there is a favourite, it is this man, the reigning European and

Olympic champion. He has got a winning streak going way back some

time now. That is a cracking start. We did not see any throws over 80

metres in qualification, but we have got one-hour. He has the best

throw in the world to his credit this year. 7.26 kg the hammer ways.

He has made that look very easy indeed. That is going to be hard to

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is all about that time. Brianne Theisen Eaton is going to take it.

She delivered according to form. She is a very good runner. She is

going to be in a good position. He will have been doing a bit of

commentary for her American the 1000 points barrier, which

Jessica Ennis-Hill achieved last year in London in this event.

Dipping under 23 seconds. In the final heat, Katarina

Johnson-Thompson. She lines up in lane six. She's lying in 14th place

attempt. This man does it as well. Germany are really taking a

stranglehold on this final. Lying in first and second place now.

Lavillenie is still not clear at relief to get there. He certainly is

capable, having gone over six metres quite a few times this season.

Lavillenie is in the hunt for the medals, but he's got a bit of work

the world this year! That really has a new lifetime best. It's the

longest throw in the world in 2013. interesting situation as we lead

into heat number five of this 200m. We did see Theisen Eaton do very

well in that last heat, so something for Katarina Johnson-Thompson and

the rest to chase. Absolutely. Her team will have really lifted her

after a very disappointing shot put. She is, on paper, the fastest person

in this heat. She's going to have to prove it because this is the point

where she needs to stay in contention, she's lying in 14th