Day 4, Part 1 Athletics: World Championships

The story so far... Farrah is going to get there, this is world

domination for Mo Farah. Usain Bolt is going to take the gold again.

Unbeatable, unsurpassable. Christine Ohuruogu is the world

champion again. Shelly-Ann Fraser- Pryce by an absolute mile. She is

the best by a long way. They say that sport is the great

metaphor for life. It embodies all the same values and teachers all

the same lessons. It works the other way as well because they also

say that life is about timing. Christine Ohuruogu has been our

number one for a long time now. The Supreme, big-time competitor.

Round the top bend, Christine Ohuruogu will have to try and stay

in contact the. Christine Ohuruogu will start to run her down. She is

coming fast and quick buck will it be quick enough? Kristin is coming.

She might just make it. She might have just made it. Did she get it?

We are waiting. She is looking, we are looking.

She has got it! Another gold medal. Christine

Ohuruogu is the world champion again.

Of I do not feel as though I am here. It feels really surreal and

really strange. I cannot believe that. I really kept trusting that I

could do it. As team captain you have done the team and the nation

proud. You will rush off again, on that. Congratulate shins, enjoyed

the moment. Up -- congratulations. A stunning performance from

Christine Ohuruogu. Two world titles now and an Olympic title and

a new national record and surely a claim for her to be called the

greatest British female athlete of all time, a point we will be

debating in this morning's session alongside our live-action.

It is day two of the women's heptathlon and go Katarina Johnson-

Thompson is in 6th place overnight. First up this morning it is the

long jump. It was Brom's for Robbie Grabarz in

London last year and he begins his campaign for a global medal this

morning. But from bouldering Co is the outstanding world No. 1.

Mo Farah is back on track after his exploits and gold medal on Saturday.

It is qualification for 5,000m. It we might not see a mobot after we

presume he qualifies. This is the timetable for this

morning's session. Katarina morning's session. Katarina

Johnson-Thompson is very strong in the long jump. We have the women's

20km race war. Do the first time that Elena Lashmanova will be

featured on a BBC graphic. Bohdan Bodarenko has been in

stunning form so far on the high jump so far this morning.

The heptathlon javelin will be a little bit later on and the women's

triple jump qualification. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will probably be

in group A of that heptathlon... In fact I have been told she is in

fact I have been told she is in group B despite being not the best

javelin thrower. Of course yesterday morning she was

in the heat three rather than heat for of the hurdles. Good morning to

porn and to Denise. We have got a place to ourselves. Keep in touch -

- Paul Weller. --Paula. First of all, last night and

Christine's run. It was incredible. I don't know how she must be

feeling today because last night she was totally mesmerised and

completely thrilled with and the ambition of a finally getting

that's run. It was scintillating and judged and timed to perfection,

as we have come to expect from Kristin on the big occasion. She

always seems to get it right at the championships. For Christine, she

actually ran a very quick 200m. We always said that if she was in

contention, with her strength in this closing stages, the title

could be theirs. The mistake really came from mum showed. In the last

50m she was just looking for Christine, a watching the big

screen, where she? And waiting for her. And she did not know that

Christine was right on her shoulder and waiting to pounce. They have

the big screen as they are running down the home straight and it is

very difficult to say what is in an athlete's mind when they are

running flat out but you almost felt that she thought she had it

won and she could not get the perspective of where Christine was

from head on. Yes, in its first though she is

further back than she is. In a distant race it can make them see

closer but there it almost seemed as though shot further away and

Christine and body that the races not won until you have crossed the

line and you do not show any sign of weakness. If Christie never did

look at that screen it was because she was coming to get her. --

Christine. Christine has one of two world titles by a combined a margin

of 44 one-hundredth of a second. She will wake up this morning with

a big smile on her face but her competitor will think she was an

idiot. The foolish. She was shocked. She exclaimed when she saw

Christine's name come up in first position. She could not believe it.

She should know that Christine would be right on her shoulder. It

was bad judgment for someone so experienced and it shows you that

even at this level you can make mistakes. Using normally a

qualifying rounds and you say that people will learn their lesson but

in a final? To do it in the final and to do it with Christine, it is

no like it is some just unknown who came from somewhere and they

suddenly learned she could finish a race. Everybody knows that

Christine can finish like that. Down the home straight! I was about

40 metres from the finish last night and Christine had a lot to do.

The difference in pace was a sound game. It was like the two of them

were in a different race. The thing is, at that vital moment, which is

three metres from the line, Amantle Montsho did not look tired or

fatigue. It was literally a case that she was not dipping and she

was not working through the line. We said earlier on, you have to go

through basics -- go back to basics, run through the line and she did

not do it. Christine is quite a private character but we did see an

outpouring of emotion when she got a medal. Yes, she is very composed

and whether she is successful or not she tends to be very measured

about what she says but this time the floodgates opened and you could

tell how much this really meant to but. As I said last night, she has

been through so much, a lot of lows in her sporting career and I

remember that going into Deighan she ran our British trials and she

looked out of sorts and I wondered if it could be a turning point in

her career. -- they do. --Daegu. I have never seen you so emotional

before. I do not know what to say. I thought I was going to pass up.

Let us have a close-up look at the medal. For me, a national record,

that has been great to be world champion before and Olympic

champion and Commonwealth champion but I needed the national record to

kind of cement my 400m rain. have done that and more besides.

am so happy and that PB, I am so happy. I told my coach earlier

today that I thought I was going mad. I think you go through a whole

load of emotions that you cannot quite explain. It is so weird, it

is not very nice. Thank God they came through the other side. Two

got be the glory, and everything, it is that that got me through. My

sister is here so I can celebrate with her after was. There has been

a wonderful occasion for us all tonight and your family especially.

Yes, I know, I am so happy. I just don't know what is said. It is

really hard, I am just so grateful and thankful... I think your

emotions say tour. Thank you for talking to us.

You just get an idea of how much she did mean to have. Absolutely,

and she went on to find a lot of people but the person she should

really be congratulated as herself. She has had to really dig deep and

confined -- and find it rekindled passion and drive for this event

and she has done that, she has defected it and got it right and

changed up a season of it and those are the result of hard work.

know all about perseverance and sticking at it and it is five years

since you one in Beijing. It has been five years and has not been

five easy years. She was the person who was hardest on herself last

year. A lot of people were pleased for her and her silver medal but

she knew she could have done better and that is what this year has been

about. I don't think she realised when she had finished, she was so

concerned when she won the race that she had not seen the time.

will talk that a more about Christine later and told Raku is

the greatest British female act rid of all time but we will focus now

on the athlete -- on the heptathlon. on the athlete -- on the heptathlon.

-- greatest British female athlete. The first event of the heptathlon

was the hurdles yesterday morning. The defending champion from Russia

and no Jessica Ennis-Hill. It is up to Katarina Johnson-Thompson to

hold British hopes five. It was Brianne Theisen Eaton that came

true to one. -- came through to win. Her husband won the decathlon a few

days ago. In the high jump Brianne Theisen Eaton, one metre and 83 and

1016 points. Katarina Johnson- Thompson was having a tough time in

the high jump, below her lifetime best. That too was 1.83. Ganna

Melnichenko of the Ukraine had tremendous support in the stadium

and produced a lifetime best. Pride of place in the high jump went to

the Belgian athletes, she was the biggest scorer in the second event.

Left estate them. -- Nafissatou Thiam.

There were poor points for the Canadian them. Ganna Melnichenko

improved. It was always going to be at a test for Katarina Johnson-

Thompson. By her own admittance, the throes are not the strongest

discipline. She has got the javelin today but she lost a lot of points

and went down the table. In the final event, the 200m there was a

chance again to see Brianne Theisen Eaton of Canada. She will certainly

figure highly on the Commonwealth - - when the Commonwealth Games come

to Glasgow next year. She ran well in the outside lane. She was

looking close to something like four -- 24 seconds. She held off

the opposition and in the end it was 24.18 and 963 points and a good

finish to day one for Brianne Theisen Eaton. On to the last heat,

the last event in the heptathlon on day one. This included Katarina

Johnson-Thompson, determined to make up for lost ground in the shot

put. Right on the outside lane though it was Dafne Schippers of

the nether lands who was absolutely flying. She is a specialist

sprinter but she chose they had the Avalon to shine in and went under

20 seconds. -- heptathlon to shine in a. Katarina Johnson-Thompson got

a new lifetime best. At the end of day one it was Ganna Melnichenko

who is at the top of the table with 75 points. She is ahead of Dafne

Schippers. The Dutch lady finished seven places higher after the third

event to end the day in second place. Sharon Day of the United

States was hanging on in the medal position in third. Rihanna thighs

and eaten was in fourth place after leading after event one. Katarina

Johnson-Thompson was the biggest mover, moving up eight places after

mover, moving up eight places after a personal best in the 200m.

Day One ended well for Katarina Johnson-Thompson and we hope that

the day two will begin well with her strongest event. She is a good

long jumper. She is the reigning world junior champion for that

event. She has jumped a slightly windy 81. If she can produce

something like that, it is a big ass because she is on tired legs

but, but she will catapult up the leaderboard. 6.8 to one a medal

here but the conditions were different, it was wind-assisted.

Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach has said that Katarina Johnson-Thompson

could be an even better heptathletes than Jessica Ennis-

Hill. Yes,. You have seen the heptathlon field and they come in

all shapes and sizes. Katarina Johnson-Thompson I think is the

quintessential heptathletes, she is long and rangy and has decent speed

abilities and is a good jumper. You can see by her body that there is

still a lot of work to do because she is still very young so she

needs more conditioning and more weights but look at their results.

Look at her performances, she is better than Jessica Ennis-Hill was

at this age. I like these comparisons by really have to do it

on the day and you don't know what they Korea will look like, whether

there will be injuries and what- have-you but there is a long way to

go for her. Yes, there is that development of an athlete. That is

where Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach has done so well with her. He has

taken every from junior amateur to become the athletes she is today.

Absolutely. That is why we talk about the effects of the legacy,

looking after the club coaches to recognise that talent at work on it

and hone it to reach the top level and be at that level. Caterina have

that. She has that guidance and it is the long-term plan and the coach

that can take the the junior with a long-term plan for them to reach

the peak at that age and not too soon until they are burnt out but

not too late either. There must be First, to the woman's 20km walk.

There is more than 60 of them. There is Elena Lashmanova. She is very

much the athletes to watch. There is a trio of Russians. The Russians

have a tremendous tradition in walking. They have won seven

championship gold medals in the past, a phenomenal achievement.

There are also quite a few Chinese athletes in this race. Over 60 of

them competing, what they will do is start in this medium, then they walk

550 metres, nine laps of a two kilometre circuit after that. The

powers that be realise that quite often in walks, but it wasn't really

a spectator event. Since then the half put these walks on looked

courses and it is far more spectator friendly now. There is a tremendous

field of 60 odd walkers. No defending champion this time. The

Russian who held this title three times in all, she has health issues,

is a she will take part. Elena Lashmanova start as favourites. Away

we go. Well, there are judges out on the course. There is a real hold-up

right at the back there. That is the problem with so many walkers. They

will soon settled into their rhythm. You will soon see who starts

to emerge. It is bright above us here in the stadium, and when they

come round towards the hundred metres starts, you will save the

athletes be often sunshine. It is not desperately warm or desperately

humid, and that will be much kinder conditions for these walkers. When

the men's competition was held, which was run by a Russian who had

tremendous support, it was very humid and very hot, too. We have an

Irish competitor in a months the athletes there, Laura Reynolds. She

finished sixth only a few weeks ago at the world student games, so she

is in pretty good form. Already the athletes are strung out. I will go

once more around the track, then leave the stadium and get onto the

two kilometre looked course. You can imagine the situation arising when

we get to the 50, to walk for men who are also on that course, that is

a nightmare for the judges. Once athletes start slapping each other.

It is a very steady pace early on. It'll be about one hour 30 minutes

to go before we see them back in the stadium. Hong Liu there has one

medals at world championships before. You could say that Hong Liu

is one of the unluckiest athletes, twice she has finished fourth at the

Olympic Games. Now they leave the stadium. Just over 19 kilometres to

go. We will be joining the race walkers periodically around the

track to give you progress. Also, there can be warming subjected to

the athletes by the judges that are placed discreetly around the course

for a listing. In other words, are the athletes breaking contact with

the ground. That was the problem we had just after the start, one of the

athletes fail. There is one of the judges they are. He is having a

close look at one of the athletes are there. Surely no warnings so

early. It really is a magnificent stadium. Set in parkland. A very

popular place for the residents of Moscow to come and spend their time

on a Saturday or a Sunday. Nice to see some spectators out on the

course, too. Back inside the stadium we have the habitat: Long jump

pretty much under way now. The heats of the 5,000m, where we will be

seeing the world 10,000m champion, Mo Farah, later on this morning. The

Olympic bronze purpose back in 2008 is just leading right on the inside

there, wearing the blue strip of Italy. She finished fourth in the

last world championships. The Italians have a tremendous record in

racewalking. The Russians are the nation that have dominated the

women's event for Sue, so long. The Chinese are catching quickly. The

Spaniards have always been very strong, too. A couple of latter

Mallon athletes there. Elisa Rigaudo leads. Just over five minutes gone

in this 20km walk. That will keep you updated as time goes on. So come

back to the habitat and long jump. All the athletes here expecting to

go beyond six metres. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be open to do

a lot further than that. She is the reigning world junior long jump

champion. That was a title she won surprisingly last year. 6.81 metres.

After long long effort. If she can, I fully expect her to stay in the

top six, if not move higher. Now we have Brianne Theisen Eaton. That is

a very solid starts, but she gets the red flag. That is not what you

want at the beginning of the heptathlon long jump, as I'm sure

Denise Lewis will confirm. Perhaps a bit overanxious. She is just having

a look at the board. No clues being given by the judges. She clearly

broke the line that goes from the board to the plasticine. Only two

attempts left with the Canadian. We talked about the weakness of

Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the shot put. No such problem for

Valerie Adams. Last night, again, she retained her world title.

This is total domination by Valerie Adams. She is getting better and

outdoor world championship titles in a row! I am stoked on today. I am

really happy to get it in the bag and claim my fourth world title. I

dedicate this to my coach, he was 70 this year. Without that money

wouldn't be standing here today. It has been an amazing evening. I

wanted to dominate the competition from the work go, and I did that. I

am stoked! You seem so calm, so it shouldn't deliver every time.

can be deceiving! I did try to stay cam and think about the things that

I know that I can do. I was very consistent today, my fourth world

title! And other magical moment. Congratulations.

She has been totally dominant. Sometimes with the big tourist you

don't get their personalities, but whether her, you do excavation work

she lets it all out there! personality is so infectious and she

is so determined to do well. She just dominated it. She got better

and better when the competition went on. You can see her much that fourth

world title means to her. On Twitter last night she had a lovely picture

of her medal to show everybody. You can see how proud she is. Go and

have a quick look! Fourth in a row for her, Paula. It is hard to keep

your motivation going. Definitely. I think your motivation is that you

love is that she loves what she was doing, basically. She wants to keep

coming back and performance. She said Gooch was 70 this year? Yes.

That is someone who has really inspired her. I think she is still

enjoying watches doing, and she might be back for her faith! She has

gone through that same preparation, lifting the same weights in the same

gym, jumping over the same hurdles, jewels and she might be back for her

faith! She has gone through that same preparation, lifting the same

weights in the same gym, jumping over the same hurdles, choose

incredible mental fortitude. You do need that to retain titles. She is

quick, dynamic, she has broken that stranglehold of the Europeans on

that event. She is better than ever! She is enjoying it. People forget is

that it is hard work out there, but if you enjoyed with judging you can

She was denied the chance to get the gold medal at the Olympic Games

yesterday because the winner was proven to be a drug cheat. It is

such a shame. The Olympics should do something about that. There

should be a proper ceremony to honour her true victory. Two we

will go live now to the women's heptathlon at long jump. We just

missed Katarina Johnson-Thompson. It was a foul but it look like a

long jump. Yes, I will be interested to see how much over the

board she was because that looked very good indeed. OK. She will have

to make that adjustment. She is looking good and she seems relaxed

and that is really important at this stage. The legs are heavily

but this is worthy fight starts for the heptathlon. If she wants to

finish within the top eight, this is where it really does start for

have. There is a lot of pressure. There are only three jumps. She

performed a personal best last year in London but this is not stodgy

one. It isn't, but she is quick and she will have to make the

adjustment early and not put herself under pressure for her

third jump. She will need to be a bit more measured and still keep

their discipline on the run way to make sure she has got the accuracy

on the board. We will go back to what Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach was

saying about Katarina Johnson Thomson. He said better than

Jessica, pound-for-pound. It is a big call. Yes, but she has proved

that she is strong and she is quick. We have talked about the

development and that is the most crucial thing. We have seen a whole

host of events where athletes are greater juniors and they come

through but to be a decent heptathlete, you have got to grow

with the events. There is still so much to learn out there which

Katerina is only just on the first tentative step. Two more jumps for

Katrina Johnston Thomson. We have also got Robbie Grabarz out on the

infield, he is qualified for the man's high jump. We can catch up

now with his thoughts ahead of these championships.

Because I have not had such a great run in, I feel I have taken the

pressure off myself but training is going very well so I have high

expectations. I have had a couple of annoying setbacks this year with

my knee and I have managed to not lose too many competitions but I

had missed the technical bits between the competitions which is

where I have fallen down but I have managed to string a few sessions

together so now I am looking forward to it. These guys have

turned it on another level. Two guys over 2.40 and a guide tent in

the world record is not messing around, especially with that world

record where it is, I could get a personal best and not medal here.

The standard is very high. Very good from Robbie Grabarz. Since I

won a medal, there seems to have been a press on the fast-forward

button and things are going faster than ever before. I have finally

slowed it down and I'm getting back on my feet now. Everything has been

busy. I am actually a bit of a clown a lot of the time and that

actually works for me. I need to be that person because that is when I

perform well. Robbie Grabarz had a great year

last year. It has not been a great season so far this year. It has not.

It has not been easy at all. He has really struggled to find form. I

don't know if he has had setbacks and niggles but I think it has been

the mental adjustment that he has struggled with. Such a fantastic

year for him when he has that numerous personal bests and got an

Olympic bronze medal. He wants to capitalise on that but it all got

the better of him. It is good to see him here because there was a

time when I was worried he might not qualify for these championships

but he is in a better frame of mind and the qualification at 2.31, that

is probably the best jump he have done this year so he must keep

focused. This is going back to Valerie Adams, you can take it for

granted that she keeps winning world titles but he has got the

bronze medal match can take a bit of adjustment for him. Yes, we are

talking about the adjustment period after the Olympic Games and

especially where has gone really well, there is a lacking... Not so

lacking in motivation that an adjustment to a new level and

enjoying the moment but then putting it in a box and moving on

to the next target and not just dwelling on what you did last year

because it is not as -- it is not about that any more. You're only as

good as you are right now. He can do it, he is a bit and performer

and he will lifted for the championships. He does, and it is

more about adjusting to the new expectation and yet everybody talks

about the expectation for yourself up the blood talking about you.

Robbie Grabarz was relatively unheard of in the UK and he has

been thrust into the limelight along with our other medallists and

you have to learn to deal with that and learn to deal with the fact

that there is a benchmark now and an unacceptable level that she

cannot fall below and I think he has had to adjust to that. He has

also seen the other bronze medallist that he has shared that

medal with go on to perform. He has gone on to jump 2.40 at this year.

Mutaz Essa Barshim. He has just embraced his success. The high jump

has moved on somewhat. 2.29 for a bronze medal in London but the 2.29

will be off the pace here in Moscow. It could well be. You have got

Bohdan Bodarenko in there who will probably try to challenge for the

world record. Robbie Grabarz has got to be on his game. His run-up

has got to be right and I hope his preparation has gone well. He has

got a great relationship with his coach who has guided him to this

success and he has got to want it enough. The high jump qualification

is getting under way and also under way is the women's heptathlon long

jump. jump.

A disappointing for Katharina Thomson to -- Katarina Johnson-

Thompson who got a foul in the first round. Only two jumps left.

Ganna Melnichenko is there a surprise lead after the first day

and she has got big support in the stadium. A new lifetime's best in

the high jump yesterday. What is her long jumping like? Quite

powerful at take-off. A six-metre long jump in the heptathlon is 850

points and that would be a very useful addition to her 75 point

lead over a Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands. Dafne Schippers is yet

to jump in this competition. That looks a little bit further than six

metres. Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a 6.80 jumper when she is at her

very best. If she can achieve that kind of distance today that would

be a tremendous points total for the young and Britain. Ganna

Melnichenko is still waiting for her distance. It is 6.23, good

point for the Ukrainian who is still in the lead.

Robbie Grabarz is taking an early entry into this high jump

qualifying competition. Two metres 31 is what is required to go

through to the final on Thursday. 2.31. As the guys in the studio had

been saying, the high jumping in the last 12 months has really moved

on. In the same pool as Robbie Grabarz is Mutaz Essa Barshim and

the brilliant one-day it -- Bohdan Bodarenko attempted a world record

recently. That was Robbie's first attempt at 2.17 and he is safely

over. A real confidence boosting efforts for Robbie Grabarz there.

Very comfortable at his opening height.

Dafne Schippers ended yesterday with a blistering 200m. The it took

her up to second place in the standings of the heptathlon. That

she could employed at speed into the long jump she could jump a long

way. That certainly seems as though it is in excess of what Ganna

Melnichenko achieved. It could be a bit further. She would close the

gap. There is only the javelin and the 800m to come later today. 6.35,

she as close the gap. She is still in second. Sharon Day is in a

similar situation to Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She gave it

everything in the first round but fouled. She is in third place. Just

a single point behind Jackie shippers. As you can see, a bit of

a novice when it comes to a long jumping. She has jumped 6.15 as a

lifetime best. A good take-off which is what Katarina Johnson-

Thompson will require when she takes her second jump. That is a

5.66 long jump and she has moved down into 5th place. Brianne

Theisen Eaton is still hanging on to third place overall. The Alice a

bit of rhythmic clapping from the crowd and that is long. She is the

top ranked Commonwealth athlete in this heptathletes -- heptathlon

competition. No defending champion at the moment which is a big

disappointment for the Russian crowd. No Olympic champion in the

shape of Jessica Ennis-Hill and we all wished Geoff Wicker a speedy

recovery. -- Jessica or. That is her new lifetime best. Well done.

She stays in fourth place. Well, back out on a course for the

walk. I think they are just approaching the five km point. Inez

Enrique has of Portugal is just leading there. -- Inez Henry tears.

The spray Mist is being used by just about everybody. It is getting

hotter and hotter as time progresses. There are no split the

being put up yet so I think I am right in assuming that five km has

not quite been reached just yet. It is the Italian who was leading when

we left the stadium about the 90 minutes ago. She is still looking

very strong. There is a gap just opening up with two athletes at the

front. Five km has been reached in 23.16. That is quite quick but not

world-record pace by any stretch of the imagination but there is no

wind to trouble the athletes. It will only be the heat and the

increasing humidity that will give any of these athletes a problem

that the Olympic bronze medallist from 2008 in Beijing is our leader

at the moment. The field has been quite strung-out over that first

five km. The split will give us a very good idea indeed as to the

pace when they reach the halfway point and no sign of the Russians

yet, particularly Elena Lashmanova who we were expecting to figure in

the final standards from, at final standings. She is the Olympic and

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds

out on the course. They will get a very good view. Regular public

heptathlon long jump. Katarina Johnson-Thompson is done in six

place. Another solid jump by Ganna Melnichenko. She certainly seems to

be on a real high, ever since the high jump. She was solid in the shot

put, close to her lifetime best in the 200m. There is good support by a

lot of Ukrainians here. Ganna Melnichenko, 6.49 metres, the best

she has achieved this year. A lot of people are quite disappointed that

Karolina Tyminska has not put up more of a fight here. He she goes

with her second attempt in the long jump. She gets the red flag! It will

be interesting to see... That was only just! I think she was a bit

unlucky there. Her to may have just been over the end of the board, but

as long as it did make an impression in the plasticine that would be OK,

but it obviously did. She has been tremendous speed and this she could

employ that in the long jump, she would jump out of the stadium! So,

Dafne Schippers looking to capitalise on her speed. She was

glad that take off, and that doesn't look as good as she achieved, the

6.35 metres she achieved in the first round. The longest jump we

have had this morning has been six point 67 metres by Claudia Rath.

Ganna Melnichenko has the second long as jump of the day. Here goes

Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Let's have chicken meal one this time. --

let's hope she can kneel one this time. There is my columns, who has

been a tremendous coach over the years. Well, that look pretty

useful! She has the white flag! Thank goodness! It is a simple

technique, but she deploys Goodspeed. She slammed down that put

on take off. That looks long. She is not the world junior long jump

champion for nothing, is she? Little smile comes across her face. 6.56

metres. Her world Jim Green -- her world junior champion jump was wind

assisted. That is a cracking jump by crowd will be hard to beat. This is

only the qualifying. 2.17 metres, the Olympic champion from London is

safely through with his first jump. The men's high jump, when we get to

the final stages will be incredibly Johnson Thompson. She soon needed

that. She needed to be competitive and respond to other competitors and

she has done that. A new personal best, 6.56 metres. It is brilliant.

She showed no fear, Paula. We were waiting for the white flag to go

up. She went for it! She wasn't happy with it either, she looked as

though she was reassessing and thinking, I didn't do that quite

right and I can go further. She can really go for it. Yes, she can. She

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later on to see if Christine Ohuruogu is the greatest female

Mo Farah, double dash double Olympic champion stepping out hopefully take

his place in world championship history. We are all set for the big

race with one of the best views in medal that slipped away in 2011.

few laps in, Mo Farah is staying out of trouble. Just going on the

shorter on the man who beat him at the last world championships.

after half way the field is spread out, Mo Farah is ideally positioned.

There was talk of someone taking a hearts. The closer we get to three

or four laps to go, because he gets to the front. His skipper of victory

two years ago came to leave. Surely this time he will bide his time.

This is smart, this is tactical, this is clever. Mo Farah is in

front! One lap to glory! Mo Farah digging deep! He is going to get

there! This is world domination! The first Briton ever to win the world's

10,000m gold, it is glory upon glory of one of the undisputed greats of

Ohuruogu, the greatest British female athlete of all time. What you

think about Mo Farah the way he is going now? He is certainly the

greatest distance runner we have ever had. He has won more medals

already than athletes in the world sense, he is amongst the best. He is

the only one of the applicants whose name you would put in amongst the

all-time greats who still has things to do. We can improve on his

position. His only a few fast races were a medal or two away from

literally one of the all-time greats. He has a depth -- difficult

group of people up against him. You need to break world records. That is

what's people say to us, he hasn't broken the world records. You still

has lots more to come. Someone asked me the question about Christine last

night as well. It is a great debates. You can debate these

things, that is the great thing. When you do debate them, you need to

debate them with proper information, look at the records, the titles, and

away the way they won those events, look at the range of events. The

names that you said, highly dubious Lassie, Vladimir dates, but at the

end of the day you're looking at rate athletes. I am with treat by

his partner, Galen. His partner is extremely nice, extremely generous,

one of the few athletes in the world who does things come he sacrifices

as performance sometimes, for the benefit of his team-mate. I was

chatting the other day about coaching. Coaches need to cut their

teeth the little bit as well. It is almost as though that Alberto has

learned to his time with Galen, and has passed on that knowledge to Mo

Farah. Mo Farah has popped in that little group are just the right

time. I think the problem with Galen is that he is always number two. I'm

not sure he always runs his own race. It will be interesting to see

what happens in the 5,000m. That is a harder race for Mo Farah. If he is

the boss and training, it is really difficult to try and beat him in a

race. You have been in that position, I have been in that

position. Alberto always tries to lift up Galen. Galen eyed kicks Mo

Farah in training, back and think. I think that is to give healing a

better position. The pair of them will be out shortly.

Those 5,000m heats up very shortly. Now down to the high jump

qualification, Robbie Grabarz because of the protest by one of the

jumpers to the judges. The bar has moved up to 2.22 metres automatic

qualification for at least the top 12 athletes will go through to

Thursday's final. 2.2 to metres is the target knife or Robbie Grabarz

and the rest. It really is a star-studded field. Everybody is

hoping, maybe not expecting, but opened by the time you get to the

final week could see some real fireworks and some very high jumps.

Conditions in the stadium generally have been very good. Robbie Grabarz

is just pausing for a minute. We might have to wait to see what

Moscow Olympics in 1980, but came but has he made a mistake? He must

live with them around this band and attack the cant of the last bend. He

looks in desperation at the big Tanzanians. Coghlan is beaten. I

The attacking point will come on the bend. He says, watch me go! Go

he does, Eamonn Coghlan on his way to a major title for the first time

in his life. Brilliantly run, the champion of the world. He got his

tactics wrong in the 5,000m in 1980 that he did not panic them. He

waited and waited. At this moment the Irish man is smiling. Look at

this, he knows he is going to win What do you make of all that on the

top bend? A bit cheeky. That was the world record for celebrating

early! He had a great career. It was wonderful that he eventually

became world champion. We have to be really nice to him because the

Irish to looking company is not covering that these championships

and relying on our coverage. For Mo Farah to become the greatest ever,

you think he has to break some records, which record you think he

is most likely to break? Personally I think he is capable of breaking...

If you look at his 1,500m which she runs faster than Steve run or

Sebastian Coe or Steve Ovett, when he runs up the distance, then

5,000m... But it is a great record at the moment. It will be difficult

for him because if his attention turns to the marathon next year,

when does he do it? When will he attacked the fast time? He can run

fast times but if he has a world record in him, I hope so but we

record in him, I hope so but we will wait and see. This is the

first hit. Mo Farah is in the second hit. Bernard Lagat, a former

world champion is going to go in the first heat. The should be

fairly straightforward qualification I would imagine.

Paula Radcliffe, how do you see this going? This is going to be

interesting one. There are some youngsters are Brigades Bernard

Lagat who is 38 but he has the pedigree. He has bronze and silver

medals. Bernard Lagat, a big name here but

he has got the two best Ethiopians against him here. There is the

Olympic bronze medallist as well and the first five will go through.

That is the first five from the two races and the five fastest losers.

John Kipkoech was an interesting selection from the Kenyans. They

have so much choice. He was given the nod. Yenew Alamirew, if you

look at whether threats are going to come from, he would be one of

them. His team mates is perhaps the best. Bernard Lagat is 38 but still

going strong. A great 1,500m pace. When he was at his best he was the

world champion at but to distance us, a remarkable achievement. Hagos

Gebrhiwet has 12.47, that was last year. He did not run so well in the

Olympics but this man do. Thomas Pkamei Longosiwa. He is always a

threat. Actually the man next to him, Jane

Robinson, the two brothers from New Zealand are now based in Kenya. --

Zane Robertson. 12.5 laps of the track, as usual. The 5,000m his son

never enjoyable. Actually, it is the worst distance race of the lot.

When you come here, every step of this event, when you are her

favourite athlete and you expect to go through to the final, it is a

step you do not want to take. You are tired and you are trying to

save energy. Remember how Mo Farah came off the track after the first

round of the 5,000m at the Olympics? He said he was tired. You

are always tired because your body is trying not to exercise and are

not to hurt too much because you know that there is the big one.

There was no prize for this one. The only prize is that you get to

run again and if you do not make it they can destroy your and Mo Farah

has been in the position in the Olympic Games in 2008 when he did

not make the final so he knows it is risky and he knows what he has

to do and at the end of the day this is the toughest distance race

of the lot. It is the heats of the 5,000m. 65 is a pretty good pace

early. It is sensible. Ten men could theoretically go through if

fast races around Europe with people running in teams, it is good

running and we get so sucked into the times beneath A13 but if you

run 13.1 of 45000 metres, that is not bad. It is extremely good. We

nearly had a little bit of a situation on our hands. The

Ethiopians you can see running at the back of the field, we have just

been told that the Ethiopians arrived at the stadium as the bus

was leaving to take the athletes through to the track so they have

had no time to warm up. They were laid here and they were all

panicking and the information is that we heard they nearly missed

the bus from the warm-up track to the stadium so that is unfortunate.

They are running at the back and we have had the explanation why.

The coach looks on, not anxiously because he must be delighted with

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's second round jump of 6.56 which will get

her a lot of points. Here we go. She hit the board well. Does she

get the white flag? Know she does not. That was certainly well over

6.50. She will have to be satisfied, and I am sure she will be, with a

new lifetime legal best. She has jumped longer with wind assistance.

6.56 his good points and she moves up one place in to 5th overall.

Arne Gabius of Germany is leading. The first, to was 2.40.

A talking about late at the track, didn't you get nearly locked in the

toilets at the Olympics? What was the story? When I was running?

did happen at the Olympics, in 1972, a favourite for the event he went

on to win in 1980, he was locked off the track, he was stood on the

trackside and he could not get through the security and he watched

the 5,000m race from the side of the track with his kit on and his

number on Monday was not able to run. That was 1972 and in 1976 they

boycotted and it was not until he came here and run the double in

1980. I had the key for the toilet when I was a runner. He would

definitely in there! Can we stop talking at personal habits?

pace has been pretty good here which is why they are stretched out.

They are sorting themselves out. John Kipkoech is just in front of

Abdouleye Abdelkarim. -- you know Allam Carew -- Yenew Alamirew.

We hear that Zane Robertson has gone to Kenya and is very happy

there. That really shows commitment. In distance running used to be able

to stay at home but those days are gone. This young man has got the

improvement to go along with it. He knows where Kenya -- he knows that

Kenya is where the best distance runners come from and if he wants

to run their them that is brilliant. Just behind him is Bernard Lagat

from the United States. He is a true inspiration in this sport. He

is a gentleman and a really nice guy and he shares his information

and advises people about how to improve their running all of the

time and I just think this man is a great example of an international

sportsman. He is a wonderful character and he has a great

attitude and he still, at the age of 38, he is still running really

well but I am not sure he is going to be close. He has been champion

of the world but I think those days may be behind him. He was telling

me that when he ran in his last two big races in the championships, he

feels as though he got his tactics log. He said his tactics were

better when he was younger. Funny that. When you are fitter you

have better tactics, that is what I always say! It is when you are not

fit and you cannot put yourself in the positions that you want to or

get out of the positions that you get yourself into. Actually, in

distance running, you know what you are supposed to do but your body

actually so -- actually stops being able to do it but Bernard Lagat is

in that position these days but it is great that he is here. I'd love

to be completely wrong and he would be among the medals. He is good

friends with Mo Farah. The two of them get along well. 65. That

second, to float. Aziz Lahbabi of Morocco is just picking it up again.

Zane Robertson of New Zealand is tucked behind him. John Kipkoech,

Bernard Lagat and Yenew Alamirew are all up there. Hagos Gebrhiwet

has been at the back but he has moved up a bit. He is a danger.

I think he is an outstanding athlete. But the interesting thing

was that we that the panic behind them, the two if he appears started

at the back of the field and took their time and they have moved

their way through and forgotten about being late for Transport and

here they are moving through the field, literally as we speak.

is Yenew Alamirew. Bernard Lagat moved out as he moved through. The

Moroccan Leeds. Yenew Alamirew is on his shoulder and his team-mate

is looking for a better place but having to let others go through.

There is a little bit of jostling there. It was Elroy Gelant of South

Africa in the yellow. The pace is just slowing a little bit. They are

coming around with five laps to go and they know there is a lot of

people there still but only five will go through. Five laps to go in

the first heat. It is still steady and they can run a decent time

office but a few of them have decided, they have done what we

have done, and they know they Ethiopians are pretty good and the

Kenyans are also pretty good. Bernard Lagat can always be counted

into the final so if they want to get in amongst first, and the

German has got that on his mind, as has the Moroccan, they need a fast

time to have an extra chance. They have taken up by the scruff of the

neck and they are still moving steadily and that will bring them

We can see a little bit more pushing their after Phillip Kipyeko just act

on the inside. Hagos Gebrhiwet has so much confidence in his kick.

has got rid of all his nerves because of the late arrival. When he

gets into the position -- into the finishing straight, he is just find

the position he wants to be. Night it is all just about containing your

position, not getting crowded out. There is burner the gaps, running

into Yenew Alamirew there, which was a bit unnecessary. -- there is

Bernard Lagat. Phillip Kipyeko of Uganda, and the smaller of the

canyons are just pushing and shoving all over the place. -- the canyons.

is going to break from here, someone is going to Bush and make the first

big hit. Bernard Lagat has got to be careful here, look after his

38-year-old legs. He is just putting himself in a place where he can

strike from. Now they are making moves. Robinson, the Australian.

There we saw exactly what we are talking about. John Kipkoech got

himself in a pickle, and I watched race down the back straight. He has

decided he has got to get there. This is too quick! He could pay the

penalty in the last lap for that. There is another push! Robinson

involved that time. There are too many here, Steve. Only five to go

through and then five fastest losers. The two Ethiopians have

found themselves back in the position. John Kipkoech is now back

in position. He is on the shoulder of the experienced Bernard Lagat.

Now they come down the finishing straight with one lap to go.

The Australian Robinson is leading them. Ryan Hill from the USA has now

got involved. John Kipkoech is all over the place. He has been in,

heights, on the ground. You still fighting. Hagos Gebrhiwet is

starting... Bernard Lagat still with lots to do here. Look at John

Kipkoech, that big effort he made to get back with the grip, it looks as

if he has put paid to his chances. At the front it is the two

Ethiopians, then the two Americans. Here is the sprints! Just testing

each other rights. Hagos Gebrhiwet loves to do this. He thinks he has a

big kick, and that is the evidence of it. One of the canyons, John

Kipkoech, just crossing the line. Is Ian Robertson of New Zealand was

just time to work that is still had a chance. That was a disappointing

race for the young man, John Kipkoech. As I said in commentary,

he panicked. He stumbles, then unfortunately it took its toll.

Hagos Gebrhiwet was comfortable. That was an interesting run. Out of

the fight we selected, one of them didn't qualify. There is 200m to go.

Bernard Lagat is... There is John Kipkoech just fading away. There is

Ryan Hill, Bernard Lagat. The two-year field beans, Hagos

Gebrhiwet Yenew Alamirew. Bernard Lagat is just feeling his

38-year-old legs on that occasion. So, the two Ethiopians and the two

Americans. They managed to control themselves, the Ethiopians, after

next five will have to wait until the next heat is finished to save

they will qualify. There is Robbie Grabarz. Still a

long way to go in this qualifying competition. This will give us an

indication as to how well he is going. That is good! No problem at

all for the British number one. He jumped 2.37 metres last year at a

phenomenal competition, so we know this guy has springs in his legs

when the pressure is on. Joe jumps on two successive clearances. He is

looking really good, the Ukrainian. It is the first time anyone in the

world has jumped 2.40 metres in a long, long time. He has won eight

out of nine times. Aleksey Dmitrik really needs to stay... He has gone!

That is a big shock. We fully expected the Russian high jumpers to

go well here. Ivan Ukhov is still in let's hope there is no surprises for

Mo Farah. Just a little fist pump with his friends and training

partner Galen Rupp. Not a lot of love lost between Mo Farah and Edwin

Cheruiyot Soi, they have had a few run-ins, but they will hope -- be

both just hoping to make it through seeing Robinson, who we just saw in

the first heat. -- is Ian far side, but their butchers are not

too bad today. Edwin Cheruiyot Soi is introduced. Isiah Kiplangat Koech

is still just 19 years of age. Aelemayehu Bezabeh is the Spanish

record-holder. A big cheer for Rinas Akhmadeev. Do we need to talk about

fastest losers, Brendan? You would that pace that the first heat went

out. Weather and we once did take it on early to guarantee a sub 30 pace

remains to be seen. It doesn't look like it. I said to Mo Farah when

they spoke to him after his win in the 10,000m, he said it was really

hard. You said it was a hard race. As soon as he finished that hard

race, he met with Barry Fudge, part of the setup that surrounds Mo Farah

and they go straight into recovery mode. Ice bats, carbohydrate

drinks. When you finish a race, Barry said your muscles are like a

sponge and you need to replace the glycogen, you need to repair the

muscles, get the energy back into the system. As soon as you can have

to raise, that is the optimal time to do that. The physio was giving

his red -- has led to rub before the 10,000m. The understanding when your

body is trying to run, but you want to try to conserve your energy for

the final, that makes it quite difficult. Galen is up there, his

training partner, and also his inspiration. There he his -- there

he is, just talking to Mo Farah. 64 second laps, 65 second laps, that is

what they need to do, keep it going at this pace. Ben St Lawrence just

leaving at the moment. It is not too quick, really, but keeping

themselves within range. So, they could still get within range here of

the first heat times. They are just giving it at a steady pace, not

today! He said the other night in the 10,000m, the reason he went to

the front was to slow it down. I think he is doing the same thing

here. The athletes are bunching together, crowding around. You will

see his team-mates, Edwin Cheruiyot canyons might try to make Mo Farah

run three hard races. So, in the heat they would make it hard, so

that when he gets to the final he is tired. The lads in the 10,000m will

be saying, hang on a minute, I have got is a 10,000m to run here! It

less of a concentrated effect. These athletes compete against each other

all the time on the circuit. In the 10,000m the only effective teamwork

was being done by the team partners, Galen, Edwin Cheruiyot

Soi. You know, when you train together every day, when you come to

a race in this position, trying just to qualify, there is a lot of

comfort in that, you know? It is like a training run, you're right

with your mate during a track is a long way on a track. Is much

easier when you are looking at that lap score and it says only two or

three and then you can start thinking about the finish but these

are the collapse were the athletes who want to get fast times need to

get involved and position themselves and get something going.

Muktar Edris from Ethiopia, he is a young man and a successful junior

athlete but he could be another good one. Edwin Cheruiyot Soi is

the athlete to beat Mo Farah in the big race in Oregon. If you look at

these athletes, if you would pick of the qualifiers, you would

include Mo Farah and Galen Rupp. You might pick those top five are

now actually. Yes, but there are six laps to go. Every time a Mo

Farah goes to the front it causes a bit of consternation amongst the

others and understandably, but all he ever does is go to the front and

has an easy lap and slows it down. He is doing it again. Muktar Edris

is on the inside and right there and they are letting Mo Farah bunch

the mark. The Kenyans are hoping to stop him dominate the race. Slowing

them down is to his own physical advantage but also when he goes to

the front and dictates the race, that further establishes his

persona as the boss. If a man -- when a man is in that form, he is

the boss of middle-distance running and long-distance running these

days, and they are all bowing to his performances and it makes it a

little bit easier. He is going to tell them what he wants to do and

if you take the psychological advantage in a race, that often is

a big advantage. They are going to have to move some of they are going

to give them qualification off this. They are five seconds down on the

qualification point from the first hit. They guy is have a back-up -

run the guys at the front are not bothered but those are the back...

That Spaniard looked as though he was going to make a move. He looked

to me as though he was limping. I'm a Labour sabre used to be possible

-- one of their Spanish afflicts looked as though he would have the

beating of Mo Farah few years ago but he has faded off. Mo Farah is

just moving out. There are four laps to go and their two Kenyans

are in the front. Ethiopia, United States, Great Britain, Morocco on

the inside. There are still plenty with an opportunity but somebody

has got to really push on it they are to have a fastest loser spot

out of that group at the front. The five expected qualifiers are in the

top conditions. Mo Farah is looking over his shoulder and checking for

a Galen Rupp. Mo is helping Galen Rupp in the heats and hoping that

he will help him in the final. It will Kenyon is in at the front. --

ones at the front, you know they can kick but you sometimes wonder

why they want to wind it up so much. I think it is better to run

strongly in the last few laps than have to sprint and dig deep on the

last lap. There are six of them in that front group which is one too

many. They still do not have the qualification in the back. Mo Farah

is beginning to stretch them a little. Five are beginning to draw

away. Dejene Regassa is coming under a bit of pressure. There is

1,000m to go. These guys just need to finish in the first five. Galen

Rupp and Mo Farah are becoming a more familiar sight in distance

running. Mo Farah in the lead with Galen Rupp on his shoulder. Mo

Farah looks as though he is really into the race today and really

enjoying it, more than he did the Olympic semi-final. That was his

first experience of heats and a world championship or the Olympic

Games and he founded a bit difficult but I think today looks

to me as though it is a bit easier and more comfortable. He is

striding out and stretching and looking good. It is a great side

for British distance runners and British distance running fans. The

double Olympic champion is striding out on the back straight. There are

just over 600 metres to go. The world champion at 5,000m here is

attending to regain his title but you have got to qualify first. He

has got some athletes to have beaten him before around. There are

still six of them, just one too many, before you can relax. You

know where he is going to do from here. He is going to try and

control it. When he comes down the finishing straight you have seen it

so many times. It is such a pleasure to watch. An athlete that

beat him earlier this season is on his these -- on his shoulder. The

five, including the young Muktar Edris from Ethiopia, are moving

clear. It is now a psychological barrier. Do not give too much away

but if you slowdown make it obvious you have slowed down because you do

not want them to think you're tired. He has running like a champion and

looking at the cloud. He is looking up at the Screen on the back

straight. He is not showboating. These five are finally clear. The

man from Bahrain tried to hang on but he could not quite do it. You

do not need to expend energy here. Bragging rights in the heats really

do not matter. Edwin Cheruiyot Soi, is -- Isiah Kiplangat Koech. Muktar

Edris, that his youthful exuberance. Mo Farah and Galen Rupp can jog

across together. Dejene Regassa will definitely go through. The

Moroccan will be close but I think Ben St Lawrence will be too slow.

Most, if not all of the fastest losers, will come from that first

semi-final so no problems for Mo Farah, easy qualification. Well,

five of them career. No did enough to let everybody know that he was

in complete control and they knew it wasn't easy one for him. He

looked around and had a smile and a chat and told them he was not

bothered. Muktar Edris, the world junior champion won their heat.

Edwin Cheruiyot Soi was there in second place. Isiah Kiplangat Koech

came in third. Mo Farah looked as though he was out for a training

run but 13.20 is not bad for a training run. You have not had much

time to say the of victory but job accomplished this morning. It is a

race where every step you don't want to take, you just want to get

the job done. Yes, you just have to the job done. Yes, you just have to

get the job comfortably without going go crazy. You have to run as

a minimum as you can. How is the body feeling? It feels good, thanks

to Neil Black and the rest of the team who are looking after me

really well. It is recovering well. What is the process between now and

the final? Ice bath and rest as much as I can and get ready for the

final. How much are they help having Galen Rupp with you? Does it

put you in a convent gut -- does it put you in a convoy -- a comfort

zone? We do everything together. Our coach told us to run as easy as

possible and comfortable as we can. What would it mean to you to be a

double champion at the Olympics and the world at both distances?

would mean a lot to me and my family and all of the people in

work helped me. I want to do the best I can for my country and make

everyone proud. You always do. Very everyone proud. You always do. Very

best for the final. Thank you. We can tidy that up. There are the

five qualifiers. I can tell you that Dejene Regassa will go through

as a fastest loser and there are four others from the first semi-

final. It has been a poor second day of

four Sharon Day in the heptathlon long jump. Only 5.66 so far. She is

a six-metre jumper and she could do with something in excess of that to

maintain her pressure on the rest and try and stay in a medal

position. That is certainly less than six metres but it could be an

improvement. Katarina Johnson- Thompson is prowling around in the

background as well as Dafne Schippers, the Dutch athlete who

has jumped 6.35. Katerina, the second-longest of the morning so

fire -- so far at 6.56. She will probably move up a place overall.

Sharon Day's best jump is a poor one and she is down in sick.

Back out on the walking course now. The Afellay there in the foreground

is over a lap behind the overall leader. -- of the athlete and there

in the foreground. We are just having a look at the

battle for third place. And little caption there is showing the

afflicts are out in the Leeds so it is gold and silver for the host

nation, at Russia, and that is the leader, Elena Lashmanova. For a

while Anisya Kirdyapkina held the line it -- held the lead. I am not

sure where the 18-year-old Czech athlete is at the moment. Elena

Lashmanova or is well ahead. It will be a massive cheer when they

come back into the stadium. They then have about 1 1/4 laps to race.

Elena Lashmanova made a brilliant transition from junior to senior

level, winning the World Cup of walking last year and then the

Olympic Games and then she broke the official world record. I say

official because some years ago a Russian walked one-hour and 20

minutes and 50 seconds a in a domestic meeting to break the world

record but it has never been ratified. Elena Lashmanova, when

she won the Olympic Games, one-hour 25.2 on 11th August last year.

Those two are well ahead of everybody. This will be Russia's

second gold medal of these something to cheer. It is gold and

silver at the moment for Russia. could even be a bronze as well, I

clean sweep. There is Vera Sokolova, the European bronze

medallists -- bronze medallist from a couple of years ago. Back to the

men's qualifying for the high jump. He has been jumping very well this

morning so far. He drives in. Yes! Good competition so far for Robbie

Grabarz. The target will be 2.31 metres. That is what's should make

it through to the final. It might not be as high as that. So far, so

good for Robbie. So, they are in the stadium. Elena Lashmanova, the

Olympic champion, is about to become the world champion. It is a very

good time, as well. It is outside of the world record. Elena Lashmanova

getting terribly confused. They should really sort this out before

the start and make sure the athletes are well briefed. She has got

another lap to go. I wonder if Anisya Kirdyapkina has just sniffed

a sense that Elena Lashmanova might be slowing. The stadium is not even

a third full, but they are cheering like crazy for these two Russian to

have taken the field apart. Just looking for the third athletes, Vera

Sokolova. She is being chased very hard indeed by Hong Liu. Well, there

is a bit of controversy! Vera Sokolova has been disqualified!

Still, Elena Lashmanova does not know what is going on. This

finished, I have to say is chaotic. Elena Lashmanova is still in the

lead, but Anisya Kirdyapkina is gaining all the time. Vera Sokolova

is walking disconsolately down the home straight. Elena Lashmanova has

Anisya Kirdyapkina right on her heels. This could be one of the

closest finishes and world champion walking history. Elena Lashmanova

becomes the world champion! Anisya Kirdyapkina get the silver medal.

That is outside of the championship record. Elena Lashmanova saying

there, what on earth went on at the finish? She is walking over to Vera

Sokolova, he was disqualified within sniffing distance of a medal. There

is Hong Liu, her success of medal in world championships. Silver medal

last time, bronze medal this time. Gold and silver to our hosts here.

Here comes the bronze medallist, Hong Liu. Hong Liu of China wins the

bronze in the 20km walk. The last couple of minutes have been chaotic,

to say the least. The two leading walkers, I think Anisya Kirdyapkina

knew exactly what had to be done, but the eventual winner, Elena

Lashmanova, when she was supposed to finished, she didn't know. She

thought she had finished when she crossed the finishing line the first

time. Anisya Kirdyapkina almost caught her.

Back to the high jump. How did you concentrate when the crowd are going

nuts for a home victory in the 20km walk? It is a first-time clearance

for Robbie Grabarz! He is showing very good form here. This is some of

the best jumps I have seen from the British number one this year. He is

looking confidence. Anisya Kirdyapkina, on the left-hand side,

Elena Lashmanova, the Olympic champion and now the world champion,

just 21 years old. Anisya Kirdyapkina is only 23. This was a

sport, once upon a time, that the altered you got the more experienced

you got and the stronger you got. It is the youngsters who are dominating

proceedings at the moment. Mutaz Essa Barshim. No! When we see his

record so far, it has been pretty good. This is a guy who has cleared

2.40 metres, remember. He did that this year. That is a little chink in

his armour. Trying to see up on the giant screen a replay of that. Jesse

Williams was living dangerously at 2.2 to metres. He has to clear 2.26

to stay in. No way! Jesse Williams I think is have problems all year. He

was the defending world high jump champion. That will be a big

disappointment for him. He wasn't in good form when he came to Birmingham

when he finished in eighth place. He was way off the pace on that

occasion, as he is here. His most successful clearance will be 2.2 to

metres, and that will not be enough to get into the final to his title.

So, a little bit of glory for the host nation. Elena Lashmanova wins

organisers there. Robbie Grabarz is looking like he will make it through

to the final comfortable in. As did Mo Farah in the 5,000m. We will talk

to Steve and Brandon. What we learn in these heats, guys? We learn that

to training partners can run that fast jogging round, talking to each

other. You need to make sure you don't fall over, don't get hurt, but

just get through. It was great, Steve? Hit in the Olympics he looked

really tired when he came through the first round of the 5,000m. He

looks fresh. I think this 5,000 final will be harder than the

10,000m. I think there are better athletes in that. Edwin Cheruiyot

Soi in particular will be a big threat. Mo Farah will have to be on

his game. I think it will be competitive all the way, a last lap

effort. There will be people with in the finishing straight. He has the

extra mental strength, which is useful. Every time he goes through

this, you had a tactic, remember? Surely now people know what he is

going to do. The key is, how do you stop him, how do you beating? Edwin

Cheruiyot Soi has beaten him a couple of times and spent finishes,

so he will think, wrong be probably, but I will just a with him and then

kick at the end. Somebody will have to get in front of him and to what

Galen Rupp does from Mo Farah. His team-mates might have to put Edwin

Cheruiyot Soi in his position. Somewhere they have got to come up

with a plan that two of them can execute, in the same way that Mo

Farah uses Galen Rupp. He is looking on the big screen that's is on the

side of the track, we doesn't do that when he is running the final!

He is telling us that everything was easy, really comfortable. Let them

all know I am not bothered with a sprint finish. The psychological

thing is, the champion is ready to defend his title. Five of qualifying

easily. It is not about physical recovery. That will take something

out of him, on top of the 10,000m. He will now be into the energy

replacement, the mental preparation. The ice bats, the

massages, then get your head right. And the hypoxic tents! There is an

engineering process that is involved getting back to Moscow. Alberto, the

whole team, they no detail. There is nothing they haven't done for Mo

Farah. He understands that and you heard him thanking them. Physically

they will do everything they can to happen standing on the start line at

100%. I'm not sure the Ethiopians and the Kenyans doodads for their

athletes. He is a tiny man these days, he is then, but he is carrying

that massive bag on his back when he comes on the track. That is what we

have to do, find out what is in his bag! We are having a joke about it,

but sometimes athletes are superstitious and have all sorts of

stuff. Another are at to put teddy bears and instead that in their bag.

Maybe a bottle of water, something else. I seriously think he has the

ice bath in his bag, seriously! Any superstitions here in the

studio? Not me. I'm sure Paul had! I knew it! I did have this same safety

pins from when I was 11 to pin my numbers on. Tell me you're joking

excavation work I did. That is super organised, to keep the same safety

pins. You've still got them? I've still got them! What did you make of

Mo Farah? You saw and then -- an indication of the intimidation

factor that Mo Farah has over the other athletes. They know when they

come out that what they are aiming for is to get the fastest losers

parts, so if they have any sense and they know that they will finish in

the first five, then they will try to make sure that the pace is below

that. You saw Mo Farah just intimidating that field and just

controlling it. I think he ran that race for Galen. Not the other way

round. I think that Mo has come out fresh. I think he played mind games

at the Olympics, telling everybody he was tired. I think you will not

do that this time. Galen Rupp looked to me like he was blowing harder

than he wanted to be over the last lap. Then it was about the mind

games, just chatting, just cruising in. Mo Farah was asked how much it

would mean to him, to be a double champion? Will that be a factor in

his mind, what he might achieve? think the only thing in his mind is

that he knows he is capable of winning it. You can only think about

the race right in front of you and you forget about everything else.

His goal is very much to win the race, but to win the race, not what

it means right now. That comes afterwards. I think I did a little

bit, you can almost get ahead of yourself sometimes. You don't want

to. But you can. It depends on how confident you are in your ship, your

physical well-being. I think Mo is in the shape of his life. He is in

fantastic form. He probably can afford to think I can win this

race. Can they winner quickly? Don't think it is important to do that

here. Thereafter, the titles, the adulation some so much later for an

athlete. You can't afford to dwell on that. There is a job to be done.

A quick word on how you see that 5,000m race going. I know the

Kenyans thought they had a better chance over five them tend to be Mo.

Do you think that? I think they probably do have a better chance

because Mo has already run the 10,000m. They still have to get it

together and run as a team and be committed to doing that. I don't

think they have got at. He spoke to the Ethiopians after the 10,000m and

they were meant to have a team plan but it just didn't materialise. I'm

not sure it will do that now. They seem to be scared of him at the

minutes. They let him dictate how he wants the race to be run. Indeed.

That final is on Friday, Mo Farah going for the double double. Please

keep in touch with us. We will have Michael Johnson coming in later,

talking about the Christine Ohuruogu race and asking that she is the best

British athlete of all time. It is interesting to look back to the last

time we were in Moscow, back in would not support the sending of an

American team to Moscow. Thatcher appeals again to the

British athletes. Are you hoping to go to Moscow? That is what I am

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greatest all-round athlete in the world, Thompson, the Olympic

champion! He is clear! The world record has

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able to participate. I declare the games of the 22nd Olympiad closed.

Some memories there from 1980. We will talk about them shortly.

Michael Johnson will be in the studio very soon. Here is a reminder

of when he won his medals. Michael marvellous performance by the

favourite, Michael Johnson. Johnson Winslet, Reynolds second. What a

performance! Johnson storming through. He will be the world

champion. It is the second fastest time of all time. Johnson promised

it all and delivered. Michael Johnson, yet another gold medal.

Johnson storming away to another gold medal. The world record beckons

and it has gone! He said he would come here and try and do the one

thing he has not been able to do. feature quite a lot in that

meeting. Michael, Wellcome. 1993 is awhile ago. It is starting to fade

from my memory at that point. That was my first 400m world champion

ship. In 1993, many people had said Michael cannot win a 400 world

championship because of being a 200m runner. I had been ranked number one

in the world for the last couple of years but point button had not won a

championship. In 1995 you did the double. I won that one and missed

the world record by a 10th of a second which was very disappointing.

I was very happy with the victory bit disappointed because I thought

that was my opportunity. I was in the best shape of my life at that

point. To keep on winning, when you took to the podium, David Coleman

said, yet another gold medal. He sounded bored. Did you ever get

bored? No! I had goals and I was constantly setting new goals and

that is where my motivates from -- my motivation came from. That world

championship in 1993 was history making because I was the first

person to win a world championship at 200m and 400m. In 1995I could put

them both together in the same championship. 97 was just 97. That

was a very difficult championship. I came into the championship with an

injury. I qualified on time and I am very proud of that one. 1999 was a

world record. Tell us about that world record. Beforehand, you

thought this is the race, this is the moment? After 1996I really

switched my focus to primarily being a 400m runner. I was really

considering myself at that point. After breaking the world record and

winning the gold-medal in 1996, I switched my focus. My objective was

to break that world record before I retired. In 1996, I said I have four

used to do it because after 2000 I am done. I did not want to have that

pressure going into 2000 which I knew would be my last professional

year, and I wanted to win the gold-medal that year and I did not

want the pressure of trying to win a gold-medal and break the world

record. 1999 was the year that my coach and I really focused on the

record. I was in the best shape of my life for the 400 coming into it.

I knew it was there. My semifinal was a very good race but I did not

want to give it all away in the semifinal because I knew I had the

final the next day. But I knew after that semifinal it was down to

execution that I could absolutely break the world record. I would have

to execute that race to perfection. It was not the perfect race but it

was close. How much of a trade-off is it having run all the rounds. How

much edge does that take off in the final, as opposed to the adrenaline

of being in a major? It depends on how you run the rounds. That is

something my coach and I worked on over the years. How do you get to be

in the best addition possible for the final? You want to conserve as

much as possible in the round. But you also want to use that to be race

sharp. We figured out way to do that and we perfected it quite well. That

was something I noticed last night with LaShawn Merritt and Kirani

James. It is a difficult balance to achieve. How would you conserve as

much as possible but make sure you qualify first in your heat and make

sure you are working on the things you need to. It is a difficult

balance. Both of them seemed to be a bit lost in terms of how they

accomplished that. Can I just ask, you are critical about going out to

slowly and picking it up in the last 100, is it the case you have to

drive out and work that first term? If you do not know what else to do,

run the first 200m as if it is the final and then assess where you are

and make the decision of what to do from 200 to 300. What you want to be

in a position to do is between 300 to 400, the last 100m, you do not

want to have to go back and did down. That takes a tremendous amount

of energy to dig down and kick it back in. You want to be head so you

slow down as much as you need to add you relax coming home over the last

100m or 50 metres. The last thing you want to have to do is kick it

back in. That takes a tremendous amount of energy and it will take a

toll on the following round. Thank you, Michael. The track is done this

morning but there is plenty more going on including the winning's

kept up long javelin with Paul Dickenson.

yesterday, Brianne Theisen Eaton is now in fourth place. Katarina

Johnson-Thompson moved up one place after the long jump into fifth. The

first athlete we are going to have to look at is Sharon Day. She is

down in seventh place now. Quite a strong athlete but technically, very

immature. Nevertheless, it has gone well over 40 metres. That is not a

bad throw. She has got to attack it. earlier, just five metres 79. That

drags her down out of a medal position into seven. But not a bad

start. Brianne Theisen Eaton now, Robert Bleek being watched by her

husband Ashton Eaton, the world Canadian. She is just 20 points

behind Claudia Rath of Germany. The German is not a particularly good

javelin thrower. But Theisen-Eaton here goes Bohdan Bondarenko. He gave

it a little rattled but sales over. When you are talking about

favourites, this guy has to be one of the outright favourites for the

high jump title. He has been in Sometimes a little erratic,

sometimes absolutely brilliant. He is the Russian indoor

record-holder. He had a lifetime off. Aleksandr Shustov is the

European champion from 2010. The Russians just keep producing good

high jumpers. European team champion in first place couple of years ago

as well, so always there or thereabouts in the last few years.

Donald Thomas is a former world champion, back in 2007. He turned up

in a pair of basketball boots on the world title! He is a much more

seasoned campaigner. On his day he is absolutely brilliant. That is a

good jump. He goes clear as well. Lots of the best jumpers are

likely. 2.29 metres may be enough to get them through to the final.

Donald Thomas is safely over on that occasion. The high jump will be a

brilliant final, I'm sure. That was his best jump so far! That is his

best jump, too! That was a lovely jump. He is an archrival of Robbie

Grabarz. They shared a bronze medal last year in London. I think that

will be enough to take on through to the final. Here is Robbie Grabarz

alongside me after it remembers qualifying morning. You must be

for you, why? I can't get up early come as a breakfast at seven o'clock

isn't too bad for me. With what you did in London last year, you embrace

the big stage. I have been away for a bit. I love coming out here at the

championships. How difficult is it to negotiate qualifying? You can

relax when you've made the final. Qualification is awful, it is

cut-throat. Once you're in the final you can relax. I suppose nothing

will ever be as big as the had -- as the home crowd in your own country

for the Olympics. How does that equate to this world Championships?

At the Olympics I got too excited. It might be easier to contain the

excitement, slightly. Enjoy the occasion and real beauty well.

are having fun in the sun. We are going to look back to last evening

and Britain's second gold medal, horribly will have to strike -- have

to try and stay in contact here. Christine a horrible will try to run

down and Tim on show. Will it be quick enough? Will she get there?

Christine is coming, she might just make it! Did she get it? We are

waiting. She is looking, we are looking. She has got it! Another

gold medal, Christine a horror guru is the world champion again! I don't

feel like I am here. It feels really surreal. I -- I kept believing and

trusting that I could do it. have done the team and the nation

proud. Go and get your medal. Congratulations, enjoy the moments.

difficulty articulating what is in her mind is, but what is in mind is

clear when she races. Absolutely. The other thing that is very clear

with Christine is how she needs to come in to a championship to perform

her best. I expected after she won a first world championship that she

would follow that up at the Olympic medal and then dominate. That is not

the kind of athlete she is. She is not physically as gifted as some of

the others. She knows how to get yourself to the championships and

her mindset is always I am going to go into these championships and be