Day 2, Part 1 Athletics: World Indoor Championships

Welcome to Sopot in Poland on day two of the World Indoor Athletics

Championships. Yesterday, the male sprinters began their quest for

gold, this morning it is all about the fastest women in the world.

Hello from Sopot, good morning to you. We have a mouthwatering amount

of action coming up in the morning session, including the women's 60

metres. This is what else is coming up throughout this morning 's

session. Andrew Pozzi and Will Sharman are in the men's 60 metres

hurdles heats. We have Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and there is the

return of Veronica Campbell-Brown. In the field we have Robbie Grabarz

and Tom Parsons in the high jump qualifying. Katarina

Johnson-Thompson in long jump qualifying. Then there is the

excitement of the 4x4 100 metres relay heats for men and women,

Britain has teams in both. Time to bring in our guests for the

day, Denise Lewis and Colin Jackson. We have touched on it already, the

60 metres will be fantastic. Colin, let me ask me about the men's 60

metres hurdles, Will Sharman and Andrew Pozzi going for Britain, what

do you reckon about that? I think we could reach the final.

Both are in very nice form, they enter a groove and when you get that

nice time and with on the hurdles it can make a difference. The Americans

and Cubans are not very strong and it will give chances. It will be

dominated by Europeans and our boys are certainly some of the best

Europeans. Obviously we have Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce, Veronica Campbell-Brown is back and Asha

Philip. Yes, Asha Philip has had a great

indoor season so far. She is confident at the moment. She is not

fearing the girls around her, that bodes well. If she can just make

sure she starts well, which usually does, she's in a shot.

The relic Campbell Brown commit is controversial she is back, there is

no controversy around Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, three gold medals in

Moscow last year, and Olympic champion, great to have them here. I

like to see that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is enjoying her indoor

running, it excites, because it is new territory for.

It will be a challenge, interesting one, and she may go to that magical

seven seconds mark. She does not have a world indoor title at all.

She has won so many things, what does she for? But she will have to

negotiate Muriel Rudy from the Ivory Coast who is in great form at the

moment. You have some news fresh from the

Great Britain team, the 4x4 men and women... The men's team, Conrad

Williams, Michael Bingham, Jamie Bowie and Luke Ford. No Nigel

Levine, arrested after yesterday. We have Eilidh Child for the women,

Shane Cox, and the sisters, Victoria and Christine Ohuruogu. -- Shana

Cox. I love Christine's attitude. She is

moving her sister into the team very well. It will be interesting to see

how they all get on. Absolutely, and Victoria was there

in Moscow last year so she has a flavour of what is to come, she

knows the girls really well. I am sure she will integrate perfectly.

Obviously Eilidh Child is strong in the lead. That is coming up later

this morning. Before we move on to today, let us

reflect on yesterday. The men's 60 metres, first of all. Dwain Chambers

and Richard Kilty - what a performance from the pair of them.

Denise. I was delighted. We always have had

a great tradition in the 60 metres, Jason Gardiner has been a strong

performer for us. But Richard Kilty really rows ice rose to the

occasion. He got off really well, -- he really rows to the occasion. He

has come here really confident and knows what he has to do. I am

pleased he is developing well. All we can ask is for our graphics

to produce their best at the championships and Richard has

already done that. He has gone and delivered and he is heading the list

going into the semifinal, brilliant. Wonderful.

Possibly semifinals, and it will be final for those guys later in the

day, the same for the women's 60 metres hurdles. Tiffany Porter and

Sally Pearson going first, but we will have a race first to whet our

appetite for the final. Tiffany is in good form.

She is looking good in this indoor season, but Sally Pearson already

setting the world alight. She did not have the best of years

by her standards yesterday, but her hurdling was faultless as always.

She wins from those first two strides out of the blocks and

maintains form on the way. She is brilliant.

When you have the start Sally Pearson has and technical ability,

that is why she runs so well all the time, consistency.

That is the good thing Sally always shows and demonstrates. She enjoys

indoors, as well, because she has that explosive start. I think she is

good to be the one everyone will try and beat if they want the title

later on. Obviously yesterday's successors

were tinged with disappointment, Laura Muir perhaps the biggest. She

was barged early on, thrown off stride, she was tearful afterwords.

But there is not a lot you can do, you cannot legislate for that kind

of thing. You cannot. This is senior

internationals, you have to be tough. Just unfortunate, she got

barged, she had to work so hard to get back into contention, and it was

just too much for her. Bitterly disappointed, but, as Colin told her

yesterday, you do not become a bad athlete overnight. She will learn

from this and move on. That was nice to see. Andrew Osagie

went under 1.46, we are excited to see what he can do, and he is always

full of confidence, and he will enjoy running later on, as well.

Good championships so far. Thank you for now.

From our great multi-event runner dear, two Americans, Ashton Eaton,

the world record-holder out of doors can indoors, all champion at the

decathlon and wobbled champion indoors and out. How has he been

doing in the first four events of the heptathlon?

This will give us a very good idea as to how well this team is going.

Ashton Eaton gets away along with Damian Warner on the far side, but

Ashton Eaton is flying. 6.66. Just 100th down on his lifetime death --

best. He has to produce something here, he

has a lot of acceleration, but... That is much better. 7.884 Ashton

Eaton. -- 7.8 eight, four Ashton Eaton.

This is Andre Kravchenko. It is good, it is just up towards

15.5 metres, thereabouts. 15.42, a massive lifetime best. I wonder if

we will see the shot put go over 15 metres -- 50 metres for the first

time. -- 15 metres. 14.88, that is very good.

Ashton Eaton going for 2.06, and makes it. Andre Kravchenko, sets a

Championship best with 2.21. But he is still trailing behind Ashton

Eaton, who holds onto the lead with 3653 points after four events.

There are three more events today in the cap tough on. We will see the

1000 metres concluded later in the day, but the first event of the day

is the 60 metres hurdles. We can join Paul again to see how Ashton

Eaton fares in this one. They get away first time, Ashton

Eaton going well, Damian Warner, as well. Ashton Eaton is absolutely

powering away. Ashton Eaton, Damian Warner and Oleksiy Kasyanov.

Well, that was exceptional. Just a shade behind, Damian Warner heading

the first hurdle, and the second command and the third. Ashton Eaton

finishing strongly. Slightly slower than when he ran a

world record 7.60, but, nevertheless, it is an excellent

performance. 7.64 he has been given. Well done. Ashton Eaton, 7.64

seconds, 1074 points. Damian Warner was around about 15 points behind,

and Oleksiy Kasyanov, 7.85, 1020. From the men's 60 metres hurdles as

part of the heptathlon to the event in its own right. We have two

British guys going in this, Will Sharman, we have seen him many

times, finished fourth, fifth and fifth -- sixth in the last three out

of doors. He does not often compete indoors

but he has made the team. What are his prospects?

I think one of the reasons he has not done much indoors is because he

has struggled with injury in the last few years. He is well suited

for indoors committee is quick out of the box and his technique is

good. He needs to get into a rhythm of competing and be injury free. He

could be one of our best hurdlers, he could shave his time indoors and

outdoors without consistency. He has been doing that by increments

this year. Hopefully he is improving again after an injury, someone else

improving is Andrew. Again, Andrew is a flawless hurdler.

Still very young, still getting into the groove, but his opportunity is

now. He is in heat four, a very good heat for him. He is in lane one, so

he will do really well here, and he needs to just improve.

We saw him in Birmingham on his way back on the road from injury,

beating David Oliver, the world champion outdoors, a stellar field.

Will he find it tough to come back for the final and deliver again?

When I spoke to him afterwards he had a glint in his eye thinking, I

am getting that again. As Colin has hinted some any times,

hurdling is about rhythm and getting that cadence and feel, and you can

only get that through competing, and that is what he has been missing. It

will be interesting to see how he gets through this heat, and Harry

even recovers to compete. He is still so young. When he burst

onto the scene a couple of years ago and took fourth place in this event

as a real newcomer, he is not fazed by the big stage at all, never has

been from day one. No, but we have not seen the best of

him. He had a breakthrough in 2012 then picked up a hamstring injury

that wait him out. 2013 was a nonstarter for him, so it is

starting now. This is the championships that could be the

making of Andrew Pozzi. One strong runner, Pascal

Martinot-Lagarde, is there today. Now we join Steve Cram.

Good morning everyone. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde is perhaps the

favourite, we will negotiate through the rounds first of all and see who

gets to the final. He is the fastest man in the world this year. There he

is, the Frenchman who is having another very good indoors season.

Two years ago at these World Championships he was a surprise when

he picked up a bronze medal, but not now, he is well-known in terms of

his ability. Not only indoors, but outdoors, as well. Former world

junior champion. Still just 22 years old. You would imagine lots of

improvements still for him to come. Next to him you can see Erik

Balnuweit. Firstly we'll go through and for fastest to the semifinals

which are tomorrow. Will Sharman is in the third heat, Andrew Pozzi is

in the fourth. On the far side, we have ten one

from -- Shaker from Iraq. The best of starts for

Martinot-Lagarde. And possibly third place for Sherwin

Journal of China. Not a great start for the Frenchman. He is a tall

athlete. I have seen him start better than that. Paolo Dabo is

still on the track. I hope he is not hurt badly, maybe

disappointment rather than anything else there. This young Frenchman has

been improving over recent years. That was 7.56, which is not bad at

all. If he is really going to do something, he is going to stand up

out of the blocks are bit. He prepares and self. He has to stride

out in longer loping strides. That is the reason he stands up, because

he prepares for the hurdle. Watching from here, he is already standing up

there, striding and not sprinting into this first barrier. To get huge

improvement, he needs to speed up his cadence into that first barrier,

and that will set him up much better for the whole set of hurdles, the

whole series, which will lie in front of him. A good performance,

7.56 is a competent piece of hurdling, even with that start. I am

not trying to be too critical, just to say that to get a better time,

you really have to get out quickly. Yes, when you are taking on the best

Americans, they are fast out of that barrier, and you need to be more

aggressive to put yourself in that position over the first hurdle. A

bit of drama on the track with the Portuguese athlete, Rasul Dabo. Yes,

he hit the hurdle next to him as he was trying to take the first flight

and had a very heavy fall. Hopefully he is not badly hurt. While they

tend to him, there might be a bit of a delay, and we have the triple jump

going on in the field this morning. Yes, this is Marian Oprea, the

Olympic silver-medallist back in 2004, and a bronze-medallist in

2005. He is the old stage of triple jumping. 31 years old now.

He needs 16.90 in order to qualify for the final. The second phase

there was not terribly good. Satisfactory take-off, 13

centimetres behind the plasticine, which lies in front of the board.

16.68, he is in first place. As Rasul Dabo is taken off in a

stretcher, hopefully not too badly hurt, these are the full results.

Pedro Pablo Pichardo of Cuba. Being Cuban, you will expecting to be

good, and indeed years. That looks like it is one of the longest jumps

we have seen so far this morning. Just stuttered a little bit before

take-off. That is not bad. I would not be surprised if he moved into

first place. 16.76. Indeed, he is in first place and quite happy with

that. 60-metre hurdles heats are going to

continue. I have been watching him in many

races in France. He has been spending a lot of time with his

competition in preparation, but that will always be difficult if you are

just racing with no real goal in mind. When you have no nation to

represent, you can imagine how frustrating it is to him when he is

so talented, Olympic champion, former world record-holder. You

would expect him to have sorted out that situation, but he is still in

dispute, and I am not sure we ever see him again wearing any nation's

Kulars at any major championships, which is a huge shame. The full

line-up for seats to. Martin Mazac at the Czech Republic, Dominic

Berger of the United States, Andrew Riley of Jamaica, Jackson Quinonez

of Spain, should bank of Russia, Yordan L O'Farrill, and Koen Smet of

the Netherlands. Some of the fastest men in this

field. There is one of them. Dominic Berger, placed second in the 2006 US

Collegiate Championships, represent -- representing the University of

Maryland. He is around the 7.55 area. Shubenkov have a low -- has a

lifetime best of seven point 49 -- seven .49.

Yordan L O'Farrill is the reigning world junior champion, still only 21

years old. And Koen Smet, nearest the camera,

and we switch back from the starter, he has a best time of 7.67.

Yordan L O'Farrill is taking a long time to settle.

Jackson Quinonez is still moving about.

They get away this time. Andrew Riley is going well, should bank of

coming through, and she bank of, Berger and Quinones, sorry, Andrew

Riley crossing the line together. That was an uninspired race, I would

say. I would agree. Andrei should bank of I would imagine is one of

the medal favourites. He's consistent and hurdles well. You can

make a couple of mistakes of a man like him. That is an average

performance for Shubenkov. He takes some time to get into his groove.

That is why it is a bit slow for him. But he is a clean hurdler. Even

when he rattles the hurdles, it doesn't faze him at all. He is tall

and heavy, so he can plough through them, and you can get away that type

of style indoors when you are the size of Sergey Shubenkov. So,

Shubenkov, it looks as though he is the winner, but the cameraman is

looking at Dominic Berger at the moment. That is probably because

Shubenkov has run off down the stairs. Yet to have the time

confirmed, although I can tell you dominate Berger, 7.61, sorry,

Shubenkov, 7.62, and Andrew Riley, 7.66.

Will Sharman's has finished in the top five in recent championships,

but this is his first for a into indoors competitions.

You thrive on the Championship conditions, the arena and the

crowd, so hopefully you will do the same this weekend. I am looking

forward to competing. Like you said, it is five hurdles instead of ten,

and typically I am known for being a good 110-metre hurdles. The indoor

season for me is a way of working on the outdoor season by making sure

that the first five hurdles can be even faster, and that is exactly

what I am doing. I have had three competitions and I have run three

personal bests. It is working and it is improving, and I am really

looking forward to using that improvement in the outdoor season

over the longer distance. You have a big summer to come with the European

Championships and the Commonwealth. Yes, a lot to do. Are you targeting

one or the other in the summer? It was my plan to the three major

championships this year, the world indoors, the Commonwealth Games and

the Europeans. All things going well, I am targeting to be at both

of those championships. We will talk about targeting all three major

events this year, this being the first of them, the Europeans and the

Commonwealth to come. It goes back to what he was saying earlier Tom

Heath injury free for once. He has had a good run this year and he is

taking every opportunity. Absolutely. He needs to get healthy

to race. The event has not moved on terribly since he was at his best,

so I think it is important that he does indoors, that he attacks and go

into his speed abilities really early, which he is doing by being

himself, but then that he progresses and make the transition to the

outdoor season, because he knows there is a shot of medals. He won't

be far away from the other European athletes. I think he is someone, as

much as he wants to do well, he will not be 2-faced if he does not come

away -- he will not be too phased if he does not come away with a medal.

He has to work on his speed. It is the set-up. You need the sharpness

out of the blocks. You need the fluidity and the hurdling really

down pat. I think it is important that he is here and I am pleased to

see that. He needs to race well, keep focus and let his legs do the

talking. He has also talked about him being somebody who liked to play

for the crowd, a bit of a showman. That is an understatement! He likes

the amphitheatre typesetting we have got here in Sopot. That is going to

play to the inner drama in him. I adore him. He is a great character.

But sometimes you have to make sure that your performance leads, and I

think he has mature the lot. Sometimes injury is a great

leveller, because sometimes you are not as great as you think you are,

and you have to go back to the drawing board and think about, OK,

two years have passed out of my career, I am getting older, I need

something to show for it. All athletes want to get the best out of

their careers and he knows he has underachieved a little bit so far.

But I still think there is so much more to come from him. He's a great

character, a good hurdler, and we have got a good crop of athletes who

are coming through. Thank you very much.

We can hand back now to Steve Cram. Really interesting to see how Will

Sharman is going to go here. He is probably not in the easiest heat.

Look at the line appear. Will Sharman needs to be on top of

his game to get through. There is Shabanov. He was second to Shubenkov

in the Russian championships. Not quite as quick as he ran last year.

A couple of years ago, he ran his best of 7.52, but he is very close

to that. That's 7.56 clocking is quicker than real -- Will Sharman

has run. What was interesting for me is that Sharman came here to Sopot

and running the Polish championships and win his seat. I think he is

taking this seriously. He is the only person I know who came here and

had a go at that. He said earlier, I think that Will Sharman knows he can

make this final, when you're in pressure in the final with lots of

people around you can make a mistake.

He just needs to be on his game here, because the man who won the

Polish Championship is beside them. Will Sharman just yet himself ready

for an important each year. Actually, Andrew Osagie in the UHF

-- US championships around 7.56. Dominic Berger, then he was given

the nod. He is in seven. The Polish runner closest to us, only three

guaranteed to go through. Will Sharman gets a very good start,

and what -- Omo Osaghae, the American. Dominik Bochenek joins

them, too. Will Sharman, very good indeed. The American as well, just

carefully nearly stumbled coming down the ramp. I'd of those four,

one of them was going to fade and not run well, thankfully for Will

Sharman it was not him. Solid run, excellent performance form and --

from him, the year's quickest so far. Will Sharman, all very good.

Quickest indeed, Steve, that is a personal best for Will Sharman.

He had more problem coming down the ramp, didn't he? Competent piece of

hurdling, smooth, silky, that is exactly what he is known for. He has

a flawless technique and, certainly, at the back end of the

race and that is why he is so strong, because he makes very little

mistakes in the back end. He keeps a nice, sensitive rhythm, always

switched on and he is applying that indoors now, as well. A good victory

for Will Sharman. Just watching him ahead of us,

Colin, he has not gone down the stairs because there is a camera

there and he has given it a big thumbs up. There he is, why not

indeed? That is an excellent performance to start of his

campaign. Dominik Bochenek to won the championships, that is the

second heat he has won here in this arena, this one of course much more

important. Disappointing for the Russian, Konstantin Shabanov comedy

hit that hurdle mixed to Will Sharman, I think that put him off

because we'll was going so well in his technique. -- Will Sharman was

going so well. This is Marian Oprea in the second

round. He took the lead early on in the first round. What can he do this

time? That looks good.

Certainly around 17 metres, which would be perfectly satisfactory and

would send them home -- send him home to the athlete four' Hotel. 17

metres plus, perhaps. -- send him home to the athletes' hotel.

Just, where it -- just coming away to the right-hand side of it. 17.02,

he is in the final. Will Sharman, congratulations,

tremendous, you're getting faster race by race.

Ask it feels really good. Four competitions, four personal-bests.

You cannot ask for more. The aim for me is the outdoor season and I am

having fun while I am here. I did not think it was going to be a good

run because I off the first hurdle and missed my foot strike, so

effectively I felt like instead of having four effective steps between

the hurdles I only had three, but I thought, come on, flick on the

afterburners and leave these guys and I tried to do that. I regained

something from the race. It must be great for you to come into this

championships without the great pressure on you outdoors.

I know this is very much part of the build-up to the outdoors season, you

want to improve the first part of your race.

Yeah, I mean, you say there is no pressure, all of my supporters and

fans and everyone back home, my family, hello! The don't put

pressure on me but you often find with athletes pressure comes from

within. -- they don't put pressure on me.

So, basically you were able to deliver that kind of performance in

spate of the inner Demons, if you like?

Yes, you know, I listened to a fantastic interview yesterday from

Dwain Chambers and he said the stuff that goes on in the control room,

that spectators will never know about, my room felt as if it was

about 60 Celsius as I was sleeping last night. I was up every three

hours thinking I was going to miss the bus to the competition, I am too

excited. I did not really sleep, but I came out and managed to salvage

something. All in all, those are the things that go on behind the scenes

that people don't know about. It is fantastic to see the crowd and the

union Jack. Thank you for talking to us, well done.

Excellent performance from Will Sharman, he is obviously pumped, he

should be. He has done his first job very well indeed. Now it is Andrew

Pozzi's kernel, let's hope he makes it through this heat.

Andrew Pozzi is in lane one. Kim Fai Iong is in lane two, Philip

Nossmy in lane three, constantly dust of Alice in lane four, Garfield

Darien in lane five, Gregor Traber in lane six, Balazs Baiji in lane

seven and Michael Herreros in lane eight. Andrew Pozzi should be

through to the second round, then he is, European junior medallist. Made

a massive advancement in the net well before getting a hamstring

injury in tooth -- at the other pics. Then he missed 2013 following

surgery on his foot. -- at the Olympics. Certainly one of the

fancied runners here. Garfield Darien, European silver-medallist,

indoors and outdoors. 7.53 four Garfield Darien this

season. Gregor Traber, twice the German indoor champion. It is a real

test for Andrew Pozzi. He has no one next to him, really. Kim Fai Iong of

Macau, the Macau record-holder. 8.44, so he should be well ahead of

him by the first hurdle. Away we go, Andrew Pozzi got a very

good start, and Garfield Darien is going well, too. Garfield Darien is

leading, and Andrew Pozzi in second place. And the Balazs Baji of

Hungary, I think, stole third. What do you make of that, Colin? Good,

solid performance by both Garfield Darien and Andrew Pozzi.

They ran from gun to tape, which is good to see, and I think Andrew

Pozzi has just taken that. We will wait for the official result, but as

you said it was important that he got out and away from the athlete

closest to him so he could just focus on what he was going to do.

And he did that extremely well. Sometimes it is difficult to be

isolated, also, so it is a double-edged sword sometimes being

in lane one. You want to be next to your opponent to see what they are

doing, you can just feel them, but Andrew Pozzi does take that victory

in a new season's best and personal-best, 7.56.

There it is, confirmed equalling his lifetime best performance. He said

in 2000 and well before the injuries started that Michael is the set that

included not well before his injuries. The Stratford-upon-Avon

athlete has done well. -- he set that personal-best before his

injuries. He is doing a little bit of an

infield interview. I think it is the first time he may have done that,

certainly there in Poland. He will drift off downstairs and regroup.

Now it is over to the triple jump. Yes, Viktor Kuznietsov looking

determined. Here's a little bit shy the qualifying standard in the first

round. -- he was a little bit shy. That does not look any better. Just

like a bit of speed there. -- just lacked. Well behind the board.

However, he will have to put that right. 16.29, it is his best jump so

far, he is in seventh place at the moment so he could qualify.

Well, Andrew, tremendous start. Assess the race for me.

I think I got out really well and I got a good start. I was worried

about that because I was in lane one far from the action, but I got a

good start. Also, I think I went to high over two or three and I felt

the rhythm change, but I picked it up again. The track is really quick,

so couple of technical adjustments and hopefully I will taking

something of my personal-best. When we spoke in Birmingham, tremendous

performance for you on that road back from injury, you said you had

more work to put in and you would get better still.

Has everything but according to plan up until this point? Not entirely,

the stuff I wanted to work on, my start, include -- improved in pride.

I had a couple of training days out of my schedule, but it did not

affect my schedule too much. After the performance you had at the last

World Championships, how much did you take from that now that you rose

to the occasion? It means a lot.

I have come into these championships a lot quicker than I did in those

championships. I think there is a lot more room for improvement, which

can only be a good thing. All the best for tomorrow, well done today.

Thank you very much. Well, Chris Carter, just prowling

around and waiting for his start. It is the third and final round of the

triple jump. It looks as though he is going to go through to the final

but just wants to make sure. 16.90 is what is required.

He is the US collegiate champion. Some way down on what was expected

of him. Just coming over a little bit

towards the right-hand side, as he looks at it. You have to stay dead

between the line, 16.54, he is in fourth place, should be enough.

Karol Hoffmann of Poland now, Polish expectations are huge. His father

was also a triple jumper and he was the 1983 world champion, the first

ever world champion in triple jumping.

A little bit of balance -- off balance.

We will get some idea as to the sort of distance... 16.37, not very far,

but sixth place at the moment. If that can last in until the end of

round three it will be good enough to take him to the final.

Just reflecting on those 60 metres hurdles heats, Pascal

Martinot-Lagarde, there is the result with Andrew Pozzi, Garfield

Darien with 7.56. They join Pascal Martinot-Lagarde with exactly the

same time in terms of the fastest qualifiers. Will Sharman with a 7.59

clocking. In that last heat two of the fastest losers came through as

well, Konstantin Steve Lewis -- Konstadinos Douvalidis. Colin, who

impressed you most? It is great to see two British athletes there with

personal-best equalling. It was a strong performance by our

boys, and I am sure they can progress further into the final. For

me, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde looked the most in control. He had an

average start, jogged to the finish line. He definitely has about a 10th

of a second to spare. The real question is, can you deliver that

10th under huge pressure? That is where that young man will be tested.

Everyone else is delivering consistent performances, that is all

you need to do in hurdles. Next on the track will be busied off

the women's 60 metres. We have the likes of Murielle Ahoure, Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce and the returning Veronica Campbell-Brown in action,

and also our own Asha Philip, who set a new personal best of 7.09 at

the trials in Sheffield last month, and we have high hopes for her

delivering Britain's first medal of the championships, we shall see.

Let's hear from her. What is it like for you to be seen

as somebody that could be a medal contender? I think it is good,

because those British sprinters haven't been out there for a bit,

because -- but they are probably thinking, where has she come from?

And when you set the personal-best time of 7.09 in the trials, was that

something you were expecting of yourself? I surprised myself,

because when I ran 7.16 in the semifinals, I was like, OK,

something is going to happen today. The fact that I run 7.09 was

amazing. I was so proud of myself. I wanted to pat myself on the back! Do

you think a medal is within your grasp? I don't know. I don't want to

say that I will get one and then be disappointed if I don't. If I'm in

the final, anything can happen. Hopefully she could deliver a medal.

That is tomorrow. But Asha Philip is injured in this form. -- in

tremendous form. She was just behind Murielle Ahoure and Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce, so it was good that she was able to be competitive and

in contention. She has had a couple of really good performances in the

European indoor Championships and the world indoor Championships,

where she has made the semifinals, she has got through, but shoe eating

needs to step it up now. She is injury free and she needs to make

the most of this one. Let's hope she can deliver. She has had so much bad

luck. Fingers crossed for her. There is Asha Philip, ready to turn

the 7.09 clocking into a medal tomorrow. We have the men's 60

metres tonight, the semifinals and final. And we have the 60 metres

hurdles as well, where we hope that Tiffany Porter will be giving for a

medal as well. Dafne Schippers, relieving multi-events. World

heptathlon bronze-medallist last year. She is a very good sprinter,

particularly at 200m, but not bad at the 100m. She has run 7.17 at the 60

metres indoor this year. The first three to qualify, and in six fastest

will go through to tomorrow's semifinals. We have a full line

appear, Estefania Sebastian, love like this animal in lane five, Dafne

Schippers in lane six, Sheniqua Ferguson in seven. And we have

progressed the act of Ukraine closest to the camera.

A good start get Asha Philip going well. She has got this one in the

bag. Dafne Schippers might just be online, very close, 7.18. Really

good beginning for Asha Philip, and particularly good out of the

blocks. Dafne Schippers is strong and kept going well. Just about

quarter online. It doesn't really matter. First job done. A really

good pic about of the blocks there. I don't think Asha Philip take

anything for granted any more. She has returned to great form and

everything she does is really focused on delivering good

performances and playing catch-up. She knows she is one of the best

sprinters we have ever had. She is demonstrating that she is ready. She

ran a remarkable 7.09. Looking strong and controls here. It is

still quite early. I know I say this about the sprinters, we don't

particularly enjoy running fast early in the morning, so it is nice

to get out there and unwind the legs and get the feel of what the track

is about. A good, strong performance, and take the victory is

always important. Yes, just buy a couple of thousands. Michelle Carter

in the shot put. Michelle Carter should get this shot

put out some distance, and that is easy.

She is the world junior champion indoor bronze-medallist. That looks

very comfortable indeed. She holds the US record now. 18.79, a

season's testing the first round, and she goes straight through to the

final. Yulia Leantsiuk of Belarus. A good win for Asha Philip in the

first heat. She is downstairs with Phil now. This is exactly what you

needed. Get this one out of the way, semi-finals and finals tomorrow.

Yes, I thought it was good, I am happy with it. Hopefully I will get

stronger and more powerful for tomorrow. How nervous I use? You

know you have to negotiate this round today and the big day is

tomorrow. It is quite difficult, because there are three more

rounds, but it is more like taking deep breaths and channelling all

your energy into this printing, so hopefully I can do that all

tomorrow. I know use -- I know you have said that you feel when you

belong in this company. Yes, a couple of years ago when I missed

out on the final, I hope I am not going to do that this year, so if I

keep doing what I am doing, surely I will be there. We look forward to

seeing you tomorrow. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Very happy, Asha Philip, and so she should be. Just winging it by a

hundredth of a second from Dafne Schippers. Triple jump

qualification. 17 -- 17.02, Pedro Pablo Pichardo. That is the furthest

distance amongst them. Next up is a very interesting heat which will

contain Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Olympic world champion, going in the

60 metres. This should be interesting.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is going to retain her title! What a

competitor! She is roaring away. This is amazing from Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce for the line

am for the title, for double gold. It is gold for Jamaica. She is the

best by a long way, a really long way.

Various Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, second from the right hand side, and

she really is in great shape, we hope. Let's find out. 60 metres. She

has been under suspicion of a doping violation for some time, but that

has been written off the record books.

Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, world indoor bronze-medallist at 60 metres.

Various the line-up. -- there is the line-up.

A good bit of camera work their! And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, 7.04 is a

lifetime best performance. 7.10 this year.

My apologies, it is Fraser Brown who is suspected guilty of a doping

offence. We have Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and

Harrigan Scott nearest camera. Twice the Olympic champion at 100m,

treble world champion sprint gold-medallist.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gets away to a blistering start. Tahesia

Harrigan-Scott is in second place, and I think Yasmin Kwadwo of Germany

is in third. It was very good. When you think that Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce is actually turning up to a Championship, you have to think

that she will take this seriously indeed. She exploded out of the

blocks. Not the best start. I think she is going to use save some of the

explosive power that she demonstrates all the time and doors.

It is good to see here. It is a rare occasion to see her at a world

indoor Championships, and this is a title that she would love to add to

the many other sprint titles that she owns in this moment in time. Can

she get close to the magical seven second mark? I believe so. If she

wants to do it, she can get close to it indeed. It all looked very

simple. 7.124 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a good performance,

but what else is to come? Just mentioning that start, she

wasn't really fired up, just playing it safe out of the blocks. I would

say that is to save! I say that with a big smile. Just with a normal

reaction time, she can get a 10th of a second faster, which instantly

takes the performance from 7.12 to 7.02. There are not many athletes in

this field you can get close to that. If she can react to the gun a

little bit sharper, then she can deliver. There is the situation as

far as the heptathlon is concerned. Very little chance of them getting

in amongst the medals, they will have to fight it out between

themselves for silver and bronze. There is the order in which they

will jump in the pole vault. Ashton Eaton goes third. Damian Warner goes

third and Oleksiy Kasyanov goes fifth.

She is big... Goodness me! That is absolutely enormous.

Just makes sure she stays in and launches that shot put well over 20

metres, I suspect. 20.11. Nobody is going to be fat. -- going to beat

that. There is Ashton Eaton, personal-best

5.35 in the pole vault, his poll faulting has improved in the last 12

months. -- his pole vaulting. That is Andrei Krauchanka, whose lifetime

best goes back some way. I think that is Oleksiy Kasyanov, who is

also a very good pole vault. Just waiting for one of the jumpers

to go. There is the result of Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce's 60 metres heat. 7.12. Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, 7.20, and

Yasmin Kwadwo of Germany, 7.27. They will qualify for the second round.

Great Britain has another competitor, Sophie Papps is in heat

six and she may have an eye on the fastest loser spot, hoping to get

through around 7.31, 32 at the moment. The top three qualified for

the semifinals by rights. Verena Sailer of Germany, equalled

her personal-best that she set last year, she has been in excellent form

and is unbeaten this year in doors. She had another good win in Berlin

at that big indoor meet just recently. US-based Michelle-Lee

Ahye, just 21 years old, hasn't perhaps quite reached the heights

many thought she would a few years ago. Good performances in her youth

and junior days. She did run 11.06 last year. When you get that close

to 11 seconds, real-world class sprinting for women under 11

seconds, not too far away from that. Sub 23 for 200, as well. She has run

a personal-best this year in Houston. She is closest to the

camera, Verena Sailer in lane three. Laverne Jones-Ferrette on the far

side, the veteran from the US Virgin Islands.

Held a long time. That is just a bit too long. Yes. I could hear a child

coughing and all sorts of things going on. If I can hear that no

doubt the athletes can come as well. I am not sure what he was waiting

for, you cannot wait for the crowd quiet. No, exactly right. Nobody

went to one any of the athletes to seek a cure hand behind the line,

etc. I think slightly unfair and very

unsettling for the sprinters. They do not enjoy that type of

interruption. It is back to the drawing board for these women, they

will refocus and regroup. At least they asked them to stand

up. It would have been unfair had they asked them to go into set and

away at that point. It should be a green card for everybody, and indeed

it is. Once again, Laverne Jones-Ferrette

on the right-hand side as you look in lane one. Tiffany Tshilumba of

Luxembourg, 17-year-old come is in lane two. Verena Sailer in three,

Carina Horn in four, Joanne Pricilla Loutoy in five. Rachel Fitz, they

must come in the red. Maria Gatou, of Greece, another one who has had a

good indoor season, set a new personal best, and then Michelle-Lee

Ahye, closest to the camera. We have not had a false start yet at

the World Indoor Championships, and you know what may happen now that I

have said that. Cleanly away, Michelle-Lee Ahye gets

a good start, Verena Sailer going well, Laverne Jones-Ferrette on the

far side. Very close for third, it may have just been Carina Horn of

South Africa who nipped in there. 7.14. The German showing the

consistency of the season. I said she is unbeaten, she was pretty good

out of the blocks and maintained well through. I think Carina Horn

may have sneaked in there for the first -- third spot. I am still

looking on the screen to see who has snuck third place.

Let's concentrate on the winner, Verena Sailer from Germany,

explosive out of the box. Back in 2010 in Barcelona she took the

European outdoor title and surprised us all. She won that race by having

a quick start and she hung on in there to take that title. She dries

very low, stays low for about the first 15 metres before she goes into

that running transition phase, where you can pull up the Chinese and

settle into a nice cadence, nice bit of turnover. She did that well. She

takes that victory in 7.13. Good performance. Who takes third place?

I think you are right, Steve, it is the South African, Carina Horn.

Those are the first three. Yes, Verena Sailer, very good indeed,

equalling her personal-best, 7.13, excellent from her, and the Trinidad

and the Beagle athlete, Michelle-Lee Ahye E. Just doing enough to get the

other spot. -- Trinidad and to Beagle athlete, Michelle-Lee Ahye.

-- Tobago. Just coming to the end of this shot

put competition, and that is very good indeed. Almost on a par with

what Valerie Adams achieved a few moments ago. Opens up a little bit.

But that is absolutely safe as houses. Christina Schwanitz in

second place, but she has qualified, so that is good. We still have three

Michael Moore heats in the 60 metres to come, the 4x4 100 heats to come,

as well. -- the 4x400 heats. Edino Steele of

Jamaica was actually disqualified a couple of hours afterwards saw

Gordon will be running in the individual event in the final, it

will be interesting to see whether he runs in the relay. Britain have

two teams hoping to qualify for two events in which we hope to win

medals here, the 4x400s. Those heats are later this morning.

Certainly the athlete in lane four we will be watching very closely

indeed. There she is, Veronica Campbell-Brown. No races since June

the 1st 2013 after which it was revealed she had failed a doping

test on May the 13th and was provisionally suspended by the IW F.

But the court for Aber creation for sport upheld her appeal against the

suspension. -- arbitration. She argued that the wider international

standards for testing had been violated during the course of a

sample collection process and that meant the test was null and void.

Effectively, she has not been banned.

Marta Jeschke of Poland, Polish indoor champion receiving a huge

round of applause. Tianna Bartoletta, the former world long

jump champion outdoors. Veronica Campbell-Brown, defending

IW F world champion. Shinelle Proctor, high jump champion indoors

and out. Ezinne Okparaebo, of Norway, this particular heat is full

of stars. Marta Jeschke, Tianna Bartoletta,

Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shinelle Proctor, Ezinne Okparaebo, Flings

Owusu-Agyapong and Jamile Samuel of the Netherlands newest camera. --

nearest the camera. Flings Owusu-Agyapong, 7.23,

lifetime best this season. Compare that to Veronica Campbell-Brown at

seven seconds dead and she would be some yards back.

Veronica Campbell-Brown not away to well. Tianna Bartoletta is going

well. Ezinne Okparaebo and Tianna Bartoletta got that, Ezinne

Okparaebo in second place. I think Veronica Campbell-Brown may have got

a third but she did not have the start, certainly. That was

surprising, Colin. I was wondering, Paul, what her racing was going to

be like when she has been out for so long.

It is important to get into the groove of competition as soon as you

can. Of course, returning from the troubles that Veronica

Campbell-Brown is ad, racing is going to be lacking. It certainly

showed here. -- Veronica Campbell-Brown has had. You still

need to get into competition mode to prove to yourself that you are there

or thereabouts. When you look at the winning time it is a long way off

what would -- Veronica Campbell-Brown could achieve from

the heights of seven flat. It was a good performance by the American,

nice to see some of the athletes from the US are delivering at the

world stage. We know what they do in the USA and something they find it

difficult when they come to Europe to reproduce those performances, but

certainly you add the World Indoor Championships we have been seen some

very good performances indeed. -- certainly -- here at the World

Indoor Championships. Just tidying up, again, the fastest

loser sports probably need to be quicker than Maria Gatou and Laverne

Jones-Ferrette ran, looking at something in the low 7.30s to get

through. He and about a letter winning that

at 7.13, Ezinne Okparaebo at 7.19 and the first race back for Veronica

Campbell-Brown, looking rusty but a season 's best at 7.2 to, let's get

her reaction. -- 7.22. Back on the world stage, how was it

for you? I am happy to be black, thank God

for that. It has been a long time since I have completed, so I am

grateful that I advanced to the semifinals. I suppose that is key

for you, to get back into action to get that back into your legs in a

competitive arena. You could say so.

I'm just taking it one run at a time.

Is the overrunning emotion sense of relief order like that you were back

today? -- a sense of relief order like that

you were back today? I was happy to be back.

Good to see you back. It is a bit of a talking point about

Veronica Campbell-Brown's case, and that overturned a decision for the

band the IWF had put in place. She was thankful the IWF had sent the

case fairly quickly but she has still been out for a long time.

Those processes always take nervous energy out of people, anyway, which

as. I am still surprise she has come back so quickly to be honest,

Colin. I was wondering whether she would want to miss these

championships, to give yourself a chance to calm down and get into the

groove of trading for a purpose. That is always the most important

thing. She is a Jamaican athlete which means she has the Commonwealth

Games to focus on, so she could have come back with something a little

more low-key but also much more prepared. Interesting decision, but

she is here, and as she said, she is through to the next round.

She will have to be a little better than that if she is to improve,

because we have seen some good sprinting so far, I was particularly

impressed with the American, Tianna Bartoletta, formerly Madison. Let's

see how her team-mate here, Lakeisha Lawson in lane five, does. Their

trials are held at Albuquerque, which is at altitude, so I am not

sure that the times that she has can be equated to hear. It will be

interesting to see if she can transfer that sort of performance

into this Championships here at the level. There is no doubt we are bang

on the level. If you don't have the right, the coast is right there. It

will be interesting. There are a lot of women who are all running at

about the same time. If she can just be competitive and race herself into

this group, you never know what she can produce. This one, we have

Gloria Asumnu in lane two on the far side, Patricia Taea from the Cook

Islands, Ramona Papaioannou from Cyprus, Lakeisha Lawson, Martina

Pretelli, Geronne Black from Trinidad and Tobago in seven, and

then nearest to the camera is Ruddy Zang Milama from Gabon. She was the

flag bearer at the London Olympics for her country. She has run 7.17

this year. She should not be far behind Lawson. She's in lane eight.

Lawson is in lane five. It is very close on the all three of

them, 7.17, the winning time. No question about who the three

qualifiers are. Gloria Asumnu has produced her best run of the season

so far. To this point she had only produced 7.25. But the three best

athletes on paper going into this come wasn't sure what Gloria Asumnu

would bring to this, but a good performance from her and from Ruddy

Zang Milama. No upsets there. Good grilling by all these women. They

dominated the race. A good performance from Ruddy Zang Milama.

7.17 is her season's best. She is not too far away from that. The

victory has gone to the Nigerian, but it is all about qualification

year and all three women will be happy with their performance.

Semifinalist last year outdoors, Gloria Asumnu, with plenty of

experience, and that is her best run of the year. She is based in

America. Ruddy Zang Milama is happy to go through with Lawson there. All

given exactly the same time of 7.19. Sophie Papps is still to come

for great open in the final heat. -- for Great Britain. She will have to

run 7.35 or quicker to get through as one of the fastest losers.

I will correct myself about the four x 400m I was talking about earlier.

Trinidad have not got 18, -- a team. They have decided not to

enter. No seats at coming up not too long from now. Gong Lijiao from

China. That is getting closer and closer to the qualifying line. I

think she will qualify with that. Hit it hard. Doesn't quite get

beyond... Her lead leg. 18 point 60 -- 18.60. That should be enough.

A pretty good crowd in here this morning. It is sold out tonight and

for tomorrow's finals day. A few finals tonight as well. 60 metres

for men, 60 metres hurdles for women, semifinals and finals in

those events. Anita Marton now. Just going through the mental

preparation. She is getting in the right frame of mind to start the

throw. Rotate, and it sit, and that should

be enough to. -- and hits it, and that should be enough as well.

You see very few women doing the rotational style, because a lot of

them say that the shot is too light. All three women getting 7.19

in the seats -- in the fifth heat. One more heat to come with Sophie

Papps going for Great Britain. Indeed, Sophie Papps goes in lane

eight, right on the outside. She should be fast enough to make it

through to the final. There we go. There is Murielle Ahoure, reigning

world champion, silver-medallist, 60 metres, 100m and 200m. She had a

very good year last year. 10.91 she has done for 100m outdoors.

European under 23 gold-medallist after the original winner was

disqualified for doping. That was over 200m.

Sophie Papps right on the left-hand side of the screen. Windsor, Slough,

eating and Hounslow. -- Eton and Hounslow.

Sophie Papps, Commonwealth youth champion at 100m in 2011.

Coached by Daniel Kawczynski. -- Daniel cousin

they get away this time. Wish -- Murielle Ahoure is away well. Sophie

Papps is coming through. She gets second place. Murielle Ahoure when

it. Sophie Papps in second place. A photograph for third. A good, clean

race, and Sophie Papps is through. It was a good run by so few. You can

imagine, you are waking your body up, you want to get into the groove

and get into racing quite early. She will know all about Murielle Ahoure.

It is about all the other opponents and how close she could get to the

personal best of hers. If you can run very quickly and close to your

personal best, you are guaranteed a qualification. They have raised

their game and put themselves in a good position, the men and the

women. Sophie did not only just get qualified, she equalled her personal

best. 7.2 to four second-place -- seven .22 for second place.

We will see her again tomorrow doing battle with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

Murielle Ahoure when 7.09, just above her season's best, big

congratulations to Sophie Papps, 7.22. She pulls her lifetime best.

That is good. It gives you confidence.

That concludes the sprint. We still have the four x 400m heats to come.

There is every chance that we will get through safely. Those events

have been outlined as medal opportunities. Those heat at coming

up shortly. The only thing we have to make sure is that they negotiate

them safely. A change from the Mexican wave. I don't know quite was

going on there. Crowd entertainment in Sopot. Technically, on the far

side, believing Gdansk -- they live in Gdansk. Murielle Ahoure qualifies

easily. Sophie Papps is in second place. A good result for her.

Franciela Krasucki qualified as well, she is from Brazil. And

annexed yellow bus in scare -- Anna Kielbasinska, 7.31. Steve Cram is

laughing his head off at my pronunciation! Shall I give it a go?

Murielle Ahoure, very impressive, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce equally so.

Tianna Bartoletta looked excellent. Asha Philip, very good, and joined

by Sophie Papps, excellent indeed. On the second page, we can see the

fastest losers, including Anna Kielbasinska of Poland, who came in

fourth place. Dafne Schippers was pretty good as well. Others to watch

out for, Veronica Campbell-Brown, there will be questions about

whether she has much more improvement to come there. But she's

the defending champion. So, 24 athletes through to

tomorrow's semifinals. There will be three semifinals, eight runners in

each. There will be the top two fastest losers who make it through

to the final tomorrow night. We still have two events on the

track, the 4x400 men and women, Britain with teams in the last.

Denise, let's die just with what -- digests what we have just seen.

Clearly they have more to come for the semis.

She had a blistering start which we have come to expect hard to deliver

on that front, but it is the consistency of that start that is

important. Coming out of the blocks as she did

set her up for the race ahead. From that point she just relaxed and let

the legs do the work. It was fantastic to see her riding to the

Caucasian. -- Caucasian. Carl -- rises to the occasion.

She just enjoys running. She comes off the track and has a smile. At

times she is disappointed, but she is celebrating what she is

achieving, that is great to see. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce never likes

to talk in between the rounds, she is one of those athletes, but went

comes to the final she will speak to everyone. Less, she has her game

face on. -- yes. She is legally behind

Murielle Ahoure so she knows she has to raise her game. -- she is

slightly behind. But she certainly knows how to sprint and she just has

to keep it together and progressed nicely, as she is. We should clarify

at this point that she was under suspicion for doping. That is

clearly not the case, but Veronica Campbell-Brown has been out of

action for a while, we saw her coming back after her doping

allegation. She has been taken a diuretic -- she was done for taking

a diuretic, not a performance enhancing drug, but that is known to

mask performance enhancing drugs. What is your take on it, guys?

I will start, if you don't mind. It seems to be a technicality of the

testing procedure but my question is, OK, it is still there, it was

still present in her you're in sample. Why are you here? I know if

I was competing athlete I would not be happy. But she looked rusty and,

obviously she has had other things her mind. But as was highlighted in

the commentary, why would you choose this commentary as macro competition

to be here? I think it has caught everyone a little off-guard. You

have just been suspended but are now cleared and now right there. It is

strange for me. Can you find that one?

It is an interesting approach, perhaps she feels the need to get

into her groove again. Athletes are always complex.

Speak for yourself! You were one of the worst!

Maybe it is spur of the moment and maybe she said, the World Indoor

Championships is a good one for me to kick off with, I have been

exonerated... She is also defending champion.

Also, I think, maybe vindication. She thinks, I have nothing to hide.

I am here and this is why I am here, I was born to run.

Down in the mix zone she actually came through and walked by, and we

were in position next to the polls, she walked by me and then kind of

thought about it again and came back.

I think she was thinking, I need to face the media show I have nothing

to hide. She went down the line edited all those interviews.

It is an unusual decision for Veronica. You know her very well in

the mix zone, she is not all the time happy to stop, usually it is

one word answers. Now she said she feels she has to because of out

there and that she has nothing to hide. A very brave to do that --

decision to do that because one wrong question at the wrong time can

mess your mind up and switch your focus. It can pick you not in a

great frame of mind to go into the semifinals. -- it can put you.

Our own Sophie Papps coming through - that was fantastic.

She was brilliant, 7.2 do, -- 7.22, new personal best. Textbook

sprinting, she got out of the blocks well and relaxed. Lane eight can

sometimes be very hard but brilliant performance from her.

When the team is in a groove, they are all coming back with successful

performances today, so when you have done your warm up and watch your

team-mates on the screen it inspires you and lifts you, and there is also

that real sense of failure, you don't want to be the person on the

team that lets everything fail. The sprinters have been very good and

the dominant here this weekend, which is great.

I find at the moment, our young British sprinters, both in the men

and women, it whispers everyone on. They feel it is possible, it is

achievable, and we are seeing that a lot in the events that we are

successful income including men's hurdles.

We can cast our minds back earlier to the men's 60 metres hurdles,

which you were calling as well, Colin, and again to fine

performances to talk about. Will Sharman.

Yes, personal best, he is enjoying his running again. He suffered from

injuries which held him back but now he is in a competitive mindset and

thinking, if I am here I want everyone to know I am here. He said

he cannot drifted over one of the hurdles badly, but he settled into

that nice rhythm he has and clocked up a personal best. You cannot ask

for any more from an athlete that a personal best. -- but a personal

best. In his interview I called them inner

Demons, he said he was up twice in the night and hardly got any sleep,

thought he was going to miss the bus. You will know all too well, in

athletics, fans probably don't appreciate what you go through.

We are not always privy to what is in their minds and the preparation

athletes go through. Athletics is not easy and at any point,

especially when you are fit, you don't want anything to mess that up.

He knows this is an opportunity to be back in the frame and those

little things kind of onset of you, sometimes. He said he was up in the

night. -- kind of unsubtle youth. -- unsettle you. There was no evidence

of that committee had a wobble on a hurdle, but he knows that he has to

be fluid and consistent and he will get the times he deserves.

No. No. The fear of the coach on my back

would terrify me! As for Andrew Pozzi, great to see

him back. He has had a nightmare with injuries, but fourth place you

at the World Championships a couple of years back and now he is getting

back into the groove. -- fourth place here.

We are all excited he is back in the groove. Years are very talented

young man. He has spent a lot of time recovering from injury, he has

switched his hurdle strayed from eight strides to seven strides. In

Birmingham when he made the mistake in the finals it was because he had

made that change and he was not quite with it, he had not clean

enough on that. -- trained enough. Very important for athletes to equal

their personal best and he can shake that out of the way, thinking, I am

running well and I have no excuses. He will look to himself to perform

better again. You have always talked about him and

his natural flat speed that he has, but his technique is so different to

Will Sharman's. He is built a little bigger, there

is more solid in that sense, she does not have that same finesse that

Will Sharman has. But, again, they are both very good and when they get

into that semifinal we will have an explosion in British athletics on

the hurdles again. Colin and Denise, thank you for now.

We can catch up on the women's shot put qualifiers. Valerie Adams, she

is a star, Olympic champion from New Zealand. She heads the list of

qualifiers for the women's shot put final. Now we can join poll to find

out what is happening in the heptathlon. -- Paul.

5.20 is his lifetime best, so he should find this comfortable.

That is much better. 4.80 gets in very good points indeed.

Tuck, and explodes over the top of the bar. Excellent.

Pascal Behrenbruch now needs this height of 4.80. Getting closer, but

not quite good enough. 4.84 the second time, just has one

more attempt left. -- 4.80, for the second time. He just does not seem

to vault off the top of the pole. I am not white sure whether you would

call that a bad push or not very satisfactory push at the very least.

-- not quite sure. It looks as though Pascal

Behrenbruch is the only athlete going to attempt this 4.80.

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That is Sport Relief, what about this weekend's rugby, a tremendous

weekend of RBS Six Nations and waits us. Today from 2pm on BBC One,

Ireland against Italy followed at 4:40pm by Scotland against France.

Tomorrow on BBC One coverage from 2:30pm of England against Wales, it

is the big one from Twickenham. Shortly we will be seeing Britain's

Robbie Grabarz in high jump qualifying action, he is the Olympic

bronze-medallist, of course. We have seen the likes of Russia's Champion

Ivan Ukhov clear the likes of 17.42 in the end -- indoor camping. --

indoor campaign. It is relentless at the moment, last

year we were dominated from the get go and this year Ivan Ukhov has come

out to prove a point that he was not in great shape last year so he wants

to show and they put single who is boss. You cannot rest on your model

-- laurels, and scraper medal here. You have to do your best.

In light of what were doing, does that take a bit of pressure off you

this weekend? Is this another stepping stone on the journey to

what he wanted to do summer? In a way, but at the same time I

want to perform at my absolute utmost. It is never that kind of, I

will get there and go, come here, because it will, do what I can to

qualify and win the finals I beg you can never say never to anything. It

is just a matter of letting it happen, enjoying the experience and

performing well. We will see Robbie Grabarz and Tom

Parsons in qualifying at the high jump later on, but now it is time to

see the action from the pole-vault as part of the heptathlon, let's see

Joe Ashton Eaton and the guys are doing. -- let's see how Ashton

Eaton. It seems to take him an absolute age

to get in the groove. Then, when he gets in the groove, he pushes beyond

what he normally does. That's good. A little bit crunched up, but

nevertheless, a very good fault. By gun, he's had his trials. He went

all the way through to 4.70 and 4.80. We will see the heptathlon

champion crowned in the evening session with the 1000 metres. That

is ongoing. Rab -- Robbie Grabarz there, how would USS this season --

would you assess the season for him? In my opinion, it is in his head. He

has really got to unlock the person that he was in 2012 where it was

just free and easy. He knows he can jump high. He has proved it. But

something has happened to him after the Olympics when he just could not

find it. Hopefully it will start again for him at these

championships. That event was fiercely contested and probably one

of the best events that year. Bondarenko was amazing. So

competitive. He cannot afford to sit back off that and he needs to get

back in the mix and start jumping high again. We've got the 4x400m

coming up for men and women, British teams involved in both. Let's talk

about the men's race. I am pleased to see Jamie Bowie getting an

outing. He ran such a great leg in Moscow last year but then did not

get to run in the final, whereas with him in the team, we will never

know. It will be good to see the boys back in there being

competitive. They do believe in themselves and they enjoy running as

a team together. When you enjoyed the event, it makes a difference to

your overall performance. The first rate is just about to happen with

Jamaica and the USA. I was just about to say, ultimately, the

frustrations that they have in the individual event makes them

stronger, because they want so much more to prove how successful they

can really be. I could you off! Let's get out and see the first

4x400m heat, which involves the United States.

Jamaica, I mentioned earlier the news that one athlete Hugh was

disqualified after we left the arena last night. He is not in their relay

team. We are expecting him to be put-in if they do make it through

here. On paper, they should do. The first two in each heat and the two

fastest losers will make it through. Poland will always be strong. Not

their strongest team they have ever had. And the same thing for the

United States. Their individual athletes not in this relay team at

the moment. They are expected to come in for the finals. Great

Britain will go in the second heat. Watch out for plenty of drama here.

We have had quite a few disqualifications already,

particularly in the fours and the eggs -- eights.

There are some inexperienced runners here. Kind Butler and Calvin Smith

has been in this sort of atmosphere before. Ukraine, Spain, Jamaica,

Poland and the United States. Poland lead on the first leg, and he

will be hoping to keep them involved. It is Jamaica who have

come up the hardest. Each athlete runs two laps. No problems there.

Jamaica are leading from the United States, Poland in third. Everyone is

close together. Spain's test runner is a bit adrift of the front three

at the minute. Even Ukraine are very close ear. The USA and Poland are

keen to hang onto their coat-tails. USA second, Jamaica third. Patryk

Dobek of Poland is against Ricky Babineaux. He is going very well

indeed. Here comes the American, looking strong. Very close

altogether. Yes, even Ukraine are still involved in this. Ricky

Babineaux looks relaxed, running well. Fothergill of Jamaica has

waited. He is looking good. Poland are still very close, as I Ukraine.

Finishing very quickly indeed. It is going to be tight on the line,

Jamaica just ahead of the USA. Spain are the only ones who are adrift

now. And Jamaica have got a big athlete on the third leg. Just

behind him, the very experienced Kind Butler in second place. No

change. Hyatt leads for Jamaica. America in second place, Poland in

third, Ukrainian fourth. It is going to be a combination of those four.

And Kind Butler is moving. He is certainly well ahead now. Absolutely

brilliant last 50. Yes, and he has given the USA a nice lead. They have

kept their two best runners to the last two legs am adjusting case.

They did not really need to. Calvin Smith, his father was a famous 200m

runner. Calvin Smith is well capable of easing back. It is going to be

about the battle for second place. Jamaica and Poland, the Polish crowd

are really hoping that they can get pass the Jamaicans. He is going to

kick away, but he hasn't given up. Poland are still trying to fight

here. The United States have got through easily. Jamaica will take

the other qualifying spot. With a time of about 3.4 -- three .04,

Poland and Jamaica. Jamaica are definitely through. The Americans

will be good in the final. A good run there from Butler and Smith.

They are going to be tough to beat. Yes, tough indeed, but I was

watching carefully the whole of that first semifinal, and it is a busy

stadium downstairs, with pole vault and high jumpers warming up. On the

third leg, one of the high jumpers got in the way of Hyatt, Jamaica and

he was in the lead at that addicted a moment in time, and he had to

storm and Colin self back a little bit. I'm not saying that affected

his overall the formance, but it is startling when that can happen.

Hyatt is a former policeman, he is a big lad. It was pretty close for the

first couple of legs. They kept their best two athletes until the

end. You can see Butler with a bit of a gap. What is important with the

first two runners is to keep your main players in contention. It is

important that you run off hard and establish your position. In a

relay, you still want a lot of clean air, and that means nobody around

you, so you can really concentrate and focus on what you are doing.

That can be a little bit complicated when you have to exchange the

batting. Poland are in a gallant third place. No disqualifications at

this point. Just checking on the computer and it hasn't gone green,

as we say here, each means an official results. But a provisional

result of that the moment, which everybody is still in place, so we

will bring you up to date with that as we move back to the heptathlon.

Ashton Eaton in the pole vault. Ashton Eaton is the overall leader.

He is also within range of breaking his own world record. It would be

quite something if he can do that. That's good! He is a very good pole

vault. He is a very good and confident young man. That is very

competent pole vaulting indeed. Very comfortable, the one thing I haven't

given you is the height. I can't give you the height at the moment

because it isn't being displayed anywhere. There you go. 4.90. Well

done. That was his first vault of the competition. Confirmation there.

You can see a new indoor record for Ukraine, and those are the two

fattest losers. USA and Jamaica were the first two places.

Great Britain are next to go, and all we want here is no drama. They

should qualify all right. Russia will be a danger. They have brought

in Vladimir Krasnov, he did not run in the individual event. It is a

busy arena, so let's hope there aren't any incidents that get in the

way, qualification actors qualifications or collisions. Robbie

Grabarz is over on the far side in that hygiene qualification. It must

be a nervous time for Robbie Grabarz, because he knows the state

of world high jumping is pretty strong. I'm pretty sure that there

is high quality in the men's shot put. The high jump for me is one of

the events of athletics at the moment, especially when we are

talking about the field. Robbie has a lot to do, but the most important

thing is for him to qualify. That is all we want. And the most important

thing is for our 4x4 and meat is meant to qualify. We will reiterate

line-up, Conrad Williams on the first leg, then Michael Bingham,

then Jamie Bowie Tom and then Luke Lennon Ford. Nigel Levine, Richard

Buck, who ran in the individual event, they are not taking part in

the seats here. They are not -- up against Nigeria, Japan, Russia and

the Bahamas. Great Britain have drawn the outside. Russia with a

dangerous team, I think, particularly with Vladimir Krasnov.

Bahamas are Olympic medallists. Chris Brown is in their team, and he

will be in the individual final. He will add to their team

substantially. Nigeria I thought might be a danger coming towards

this, but I am not sure with that team there that they will cause too

many issues. But we shall see. Japanese, led by Yam is that the. --

Yamazaki. If Vladimir Krasnov is in any sort

of shape, just watch out on the last leg. The Bahamas are close. They

have put Ramon Miller in the first leg, almost the opposite of what the

Americans have done, with their more experienced runners. Great Britain

have a squad that have been having a good season. Conrad Williams is

somebody who here is a mainstay of our 4x4 metres teams. They are more

than capable of qualifying. Let's hope there are not any issues. Our

boys very much worked together as a team.

They enjoy working together. Even though they are competitive when it

comes to the individual spot because they are up for grabs, when they

come together in a relay team they seem likely enjoy everybody's

company. You need to have that real bond as a team and know what the

players are going to do around you. I think the four there are probably

running to keep the place for the final.

If you look at Nigel and Richard Buck, by their own admission they

did not run well individually, so they do not have to bring either of

those two in if these four perform really well here. Let us not expect

them to be easing up too much. They will know that, particularly Conrad,

of course, he is on the first leg, so his split is maybe not going to

be the one competitor others. You would think he would run the first

leg in the final, but after that they are all running for a place.

Nigeria, Japan, Russia, Bahamas and Great Britain. Top two go through,

two fastest losers from the two heaps to follow through, as well. --

seats. Conrad Williams safely away, inside

him Ramon Miller started reasonably quickly, as well. Not much of a

break, but Conrad Williams has started well. He wants to try and

get out there. Is that a recall? That is the longest recall... How do

they all heard it down there, we only just heard it. I am not sure

what happened there, I think that is an accidental recall. Let's look at

our computer, there is nothing saying there is a false start there.

Nothing at all, Steve. I am scanning the whole of this very

busy arena to see what the officials are doing. They are scrapping

around. They will have to give these athletes a bit of a break. After

running virtually 150 and getting into your race groove you do not

want to be starting instantly. A wise athlete will take their time

back to the blocks, get as much recovery time as they can but also

get an explanation. Why was there a recall?

The blocks are all being replaced, they have immediately brought them

out. The blocks had been taken and moved, it was that long after the

recall. Normally if you come back after row called the blocks are

still there. -- normally if you come back after a recall. I think that

was a technical fault. They will have to wait a little bit, Conrad

Williams is opting nice and slowly. -- walking nice and slowly. The

team-mates are bringing water to the first runners. A little shake of the

head from Toby Unger mola -- Ogunmola. It is not just the

physical part, it is the nearest energy you have used up, as well.

That was just like a training run. You know the repeats you do in

training? That is what it is. Nobody wants an interval session here, do

they? We have been given the reaction

times and nobody was anywhere near a false start. The quickest reaction

time was 0.155. It was not an issue with any of the athletes.

We will have a look at exactly what happened.

It is more hearing what happened, I don't think there was anything that

happened as far as a false start from any of the athletes goes. It

was so long. You can hardly view of the recall, there it is.

Can Ashton Eaton become the first man to clear five metres in this

competition? If he does, he is on course to break what is a relatively

young world record. The world record beckons if Ashton

Eaton can get five metres at the first attempt. Yes, that is good.

Very good indeed. He keeps on going through this competition.

Well above, well above. Five metres 30. That is the target he is going

for, even 5.40, who knows? It could be good. Ashton Eaton, five metres

first attempt. Ashton Eaton taking the opportunity

of getting in one of his attempts while this confusion reigns down

there. The athletes are now being brought back to the block, they are

getting a green card, which means, as we rightly suspected, was nothing

to do with any of the athletes, it was a technical fault. Somebody was

a bit trigger-happy about seven or eight seconds into that race. Conrad

Williams staying nice and relaxed, he has been acting of championships

to know that he just needs to stay calm and not get stressed out about

this. The important thing, Steve, is for

these athletes to stay calm and realise I'm still have confidence in

the system, because sometimes that can be a little unsettling when

there is a start for zero particular reason and no one gives you a reason

why that happens. Perhaps it is a bit nice to have a run out, what do

you think? I thought they did well to stop.

They were arriving at the far end of the arena when we heard at the

second gumbo. -- when we heard the second gun goal. -- go. Ogunmola of

Nigeria composing himself. Just to remind you, Ogunmola going for

Nigeria in the first leg, Kengo Yamazaki for Japan, Lev Mosin for

Russia, Ramon Miller for the Bahamas and Conrad Williams for Great

Britain. Conrad Williams is still up.

What is very obvious year is nobody is keen to get their lunch. -- zero.

With the exception of I jump qualifying still going on on

the far side, we have the heptathlon, pole vault, very busy

down there. The women are actually out for the

long jump qualifying, as well. Just going through some of their practice

jumps. Everyone just needs to be a little quiet.

Second heat of this 4x400 metres for men. The first two and two fastest

losers through to the final. Ramon Miller got completely left in

his blocks. He has a few metres to make up, but Conrad Williams has

started well on the outside. Ramon Miller started slowly, rather than

Conrad Williams starting quickly. On the inside, Nigeria trying to take

the advantage. Conrad Williams will try and get across and he does come

in the lead. Russia in second, then Bahamas easing out Nigeria for

third. Conrad Williams is doing what he has to do, get Britain out in

front. That is absolutely spot on, Steve, let's hope he can maintain

his stride rate here. He's pulling away, well ahead of the

Russians, well ahead of the Bahamas. And the Nigerians and Japanese were

absolutely nowhere. Great Britain are going well at the minute.

Very good first leg from Conrad Williams, and that means that the

rest of the team should be able to run freely. As long as they run as

well as they have been so far this year, they can qualify fairly

comfortably here. Russia, trying their best to give Vladimir Krasnov

something to run at on the last leg. Michael Bingham hanging over to

Jamie Bowie, it is a good scrap for second, Russia holding up the

Bahamas, Nigeria still there. That is the chasing group, you are

watching, Russia, Bahamas and Nigeria, but Great Britain are well

ahead. Jamie Bowie, I would suggest, will

not want to let this happen close. -- app. He is absolutely focused

their on maintaining his output and he is actually beginning to pull

away now. That is very good. Jamie Bowie looking very strong, he

is really maturing as an athlete, maturing as a 400 metres runner and

maturing as a member of this 4x400 squad. Moving away from the Russians

it is going to be a battle for second. Luke Lennon-Ford will be

bringing it home for Great Britain, they just have to make sure they get

the bat on a cross. -- the bat on a cross. Just about get it across OK.

Vladimir Krasnov is just behind input, but he is not in the same

shape we have seen in the past. That gap of five metres may be something

he can make up but I don't think this is the Vladimir Krasnov we have

seen in the past two or three years. Russia career in second place,

Nigeria no threat to them, this is not the best Nigerian team. And the

Bahamas team without Chris Brown looking pretty poor indeed. In fact,

the last leg runner, Latoy Williams, looks as if he is not bothering, to

be honest, which is a shame for his team-mates because there are two

fastest loser spots. Luke Lennon-Ford bringing it for Britain,

Vladimir Krasnov for Russia, those two qualifying. Nigeria will not go

through with that sort of time, neither will the Bahamas. LaToya --

Latoy Williams's team-mates may be having a little word with him. No

problem for Great Britain. We wanted a safe race once they got underway,

that is what we got. It was all set up by an excellent first leg from

Conrad Williams. It was a very good first leg indeed from Conrad.

46.4 on that opener. That shows he is in reasonably good shape. Nice,

controlled and composed running by him. Took the early lead and Great

Britain from here run-in just needed to hang on. Michael Bingham, 46.9 on

the second leg. He hands over to Jamie Bowie, again, all of our

athletes have been very consistent around that 46.5, 46.7 mark. For

Jamie Bowie it was 46.5. Good third leg. Luke Lennon-Ford, the glory

leg, we always call it, they bring the bat an home for Great Britain to

take this semifinal and his leg was 46.2. Good consistent running by

all. -- baton home. I just wonder what the team

selectors will make of that. I think Conrad Williams in particular, if

you run 46.4, all of the others were 46.9, 46.5, but 46.4 out of the

blocks, outside lane, lane six, etc, really good from him. It is a

question of what you do, do you bring in Nigel Levine? Let's look at

the list of men taking part in the high jump qualification there. Tom

Parsons and Robbie Grabarz going for Great Britain. In the meantime we

will have a word with our team who have made it safely through to the

final with Phil. Conrad, what was going on out of

there? You did well to hear the call-back.

Yes, with all the madness going on it was crazy. I heard the first one

but I have always been taught keep running until you hear the second. I

looked around and realised it was for us. I did not know if someone

was doing starts or 60s or whatever. I run that 100 metres hard, to turn

around and do it again was crazy. I just had to knuckle down and make

sure and focus and set up again for the guys.

You did well, and you two are so experienced as part of this team.

When you are in front you held onto it and extended it. We did what we

had to do, it was a good 1750 really that we just ran.

All of the guys did their job and we just look forward to tomorrow.

Jamie, you did a great job in qualifying in Moscow last year, what

is it like to be part of the squad again? It is great to be bad, --

back, we'll have a bit of banter, good to get out there and make the

job done and good to make a statement, as well.

Was there a battle for places for the final today?

Yes, the result is a bit of competitiveness in the team, we want

the strongest team to go through to the final, there are seven of us out

there and it is all about that seven running as best as we can in

whatever formation. There is great camaraderie among you guys and it

helps that you have Nigel Levine as a training partner, as well.

It is great training with Nigel. You saw that Conrad and there had.

Comedy run a good 150 metres and still executed a good 400 metres

straight after. That shows the kind of work we are putting in. -- he did

run a good. Like you for talking to us, guys,

all the best for tomorrow. The men are safely through to the

final tomorrow. Now it is the turn of the women, who go in the very

first heat. We have the two Ohuruogu sisters running together for the

very first time. Let's hear from Christine.

You have been one of the biggest success stories of recent years, the

British women's four x 400m relay team. What will your memories from

Istanbul? I think being at the line screaming for Perri, to date and in

-- today Dean and hold on. It will be nice to have a repeat of those

successes this weekend. How does it average to help you kick-start your

season, your summer season? I don't really do four indoors. That when

you have done the relay, you have had success as part of that team. Of

course, and for us, especially going into 2012, that was huge. It was

good team spirit and we went into 2012 believing we were good enough

to go in and contend against the best. The same thing happened in

Sweden. Knowing that you were the best in Europe, that gave us

encouragement going into the outdoor season. I think this will be

different. We losing our Scottish warrior, unfortunately, to the

Scottish team for the Commonwealth Games, but I think the girls will be

looking forward to put a let down for the individual runners. We are

looking to get a good time, because it is something positive in

projecting you into the outdoor season, and it is good to know where

you are with your times at this time in the year. Do you have a plan in

mind for what the year holds? Is it a year of enjoyment rather than

pressure? My coach always says go out and enjoy yourself. And I said,

which part of the 400 are you supposed to enjoy? Nothing has

changed. I am still training hard. With the 400, I call it more a

maintenance year than a rest year, because you cannot really rest in

the 400. You don't do half a session or half a day or half a programme,

you still have to come in and put the work in. I think, finally, rest

is a bit of a misnomer. You just strained and you see where the year

takes you. It is a big year with the Commonwealth Games. You know what

you are targeting? Definitely Commonwealth Games. I am really

excited about it. It will be great to be part of that. The Europeans

will be soon after that, a couple of weeks, so I think we will deal with

the Commonwealth Games first and then see what the future holds for

the Europeans. Shana Cox will be the other member

from that winning team with Christine, now joined by Eilidh

Child and Christine's younger sister Victoria. Victoria turned 21 just

over a week ago and will be with Christine on the last two legs, the

two of them. Eilidh Child is the team captain and is the lead runner

for Britain, taking on Italy, Romania and Russia, Italy in three,

Rumania in four, Russia in five and Britain on the outside. Easier

qualification in terms of less teams involved in the women's event. There

is no qualification, really, the teams get invited to compete. Italy

are joining Romania. It will really be the Russians who are going to be

some sort of threat to this British quartet once we get to the final. As

ever, Russia with plenty of athletes to choose from, but interestingly,

their champion is not selected for the heats. Don't forget, she got