:00:00. > :00:52.Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the world indoor
:00:53. > :00:58.athletics championships from Portland in Oregon. It has always
:00:59. > :01:03.been a pretty successful day for British sports, England winning the
:01:04. > :01:06.Grand Slam, so let's hope more success here. It was a thrilling day
:01:07. > :01:12.yesterday with a fair share of ups and downs. Success in terms of two
:01:13. > :01:18.bronze medals, Tiffany Porter and Lorraine Lugar, and we're hoping for
:01:19. > :01:24.more today. The men's will be going through all day. First, the hurdles,
:01:25. > :01:34.then the shotput final, then the semifinals of the women's 60
:01:35. > :02:01.metres. Robbie Gray bark is coming back to some great form. Muhamed
:02:02. > :02:18.Amman coming back. Ashton Eaton should have the gold medal, but can
:02:19. > :02:22.he break the world record? As we said, we begin with a 60 metre
:02:23. > :02:37.hurdles. Martin Vogel of Germany, Jarret Eaton. Eddie Lovett from
:02:38. > :02:40.Virgin Islands, Antonio Alkana. Qualification not too difficult in
:02:41. > :02:47.this first round, the top three will go through, and the four fastest
:02:48. > :03:15.into the semifinals. It will be a tough event. Eddie Lovett, now
:03:16. > :03:16.running for the Virgin Islands, and quite a few Americans have
:03:17. > :03:24.disappeared off the Caribbean Islands and other places to find
:03:25. > :03:30.opportunities. He has had a good year so far this year, but he needs
:03:31. > :03:41.to rediscover form of old if he is to get anywhere near the medals.
:03:42. > :03:48.Balazs bhaji of Hungary. Watch out for Jarret Eaton in lane three. --
:03:49. > :03:59.Baji. The new American indoor champion. Next to him, Khartoum --
:04:00. > :04:49.Shamatryn of the Ukraine. A good start from Ashton Eaton. Baji
:04:50. > :04:55.takes third spot. A season best for Eddie Lovett. We haven't seen too
:04:56. > :05:05.much of Jarret Eaton. We have been chatting about starts and things,
:05:06. > :05:11.and after what we saw yesterday in the hurdles, look at Jarret Eaton,
:05:12. > :05:17.look how high his set position is. I think a lot of that is caused by if
:05:18. > :05:21.you look at how close his feet are together. He has something like a
:05:22. > :05:27.bullet start when his feet are very close together. A lot of people tend
:05:28. > :05:34.to feel that gives them more power if they are trying to make the 13
:05:35. > :05:42.metres to the first hurdle. I just wonder how effective it was, because
:05:43. > :05:46.he is a tall athlete, quite rangy, which is not a bad thing to have,
:05:47. > :05:55.but I was watching his start and it is almost as if he was cramped
:05:56. > :06:06.little bit. The men's triple jump in its early stages. And many might
:06:07. > :06:16.have seen earlier. Very good, Tosin Oke. We have only had a couple of
:06:17. > :06:36.athletes make a mark, it is very early. Tosin Oke of Nigeria, the
:06:37. > :06:45.best of 16.48. Season best, 16.73, that takes the lead. A great start,
:06:46. > :06:50.and a great start for Steve for what will be another busy night in the
:06:51. > :07:18.field. Confirmation of the result of that first heat, 7.63 the winning
:07:19. > :07:27.time. Has the competition builds, each of the field events, three
:07:28. > :07:35.horizontal jumps, and a throw of the shot. Only indoors, of course.
:07:36. > :07:49.Jordan of USA. Looking at the lead of Tosin Oke. Somewhere around the
:07:50. > :07:57.low 16s for the American. Possibly around his season best, 16.28 four
:07:58. > :08:14.the 23-year-old. Only two athletes in the field have gone beyond 17
:08:15. > :08:35.metres. 16.11. This is the second heat, Lawrence Clarke in lane seven.
:08:36. > :08:51.Oliveira N lane three. Maxon -- Lynsha. We need to be a bit
:08:52. > :08:59.quicker. Dominik Bochenek of Poland a bit slower than Oliveira. All the
:09:00. > :09:02.athletes get introduced when the finals are wrong, it will be
:09:03. > :09:14.interesting to see what Omar McLeod does when he comes down. Andreas
:09:15. > :09:19.Martinsen of Denmark. Lynsha of Belarus, and Lawrence Clarke. One
:09:20. > :09:21.thing you can say about Lawrence Clarke is that when he gets to a
:09:22. > :09:42.championship usually find a bit extra. Yordan O'Farrill, former
:09:43. > :09:45.Cuban champion. Top three, don't forget. It shouldn't be too
:09:46. > :10:01.difficult to qualify at this point, the indoor 60 metre hurdles, no room
:10:02. > :10:08.for error. They will have to keep an eye on Dominik Bochenek.
:10:09. > :10:17.A good crowd, the Americans certainly have taken to the
:10:18. > :10:24.championships. They have had a good one so far. Not sure they have a big
:10:25. > :10:45.contender in this event though. Omar McLeod away well, Lawrence
:10:46. > :10:49.Clarke it's a good start. Lawrence Clarke liens, did he get it? He
:10:50. > :10:57.looks across Andreas Martinsen, he thinks he might have got the third
:10:58. > :11:01.spot. Omar McLeod and Yordan O'Farrill were cleared away,
:11:02. > :11:14.probably expected. Lawrence Clarke got a pretty good start, and that
:11:15. > :11:28.lean, he knew he had to lean. What do you think Jean-Claude -- what you
:11:29. > :11:32.think? You don't want to be the fastest loser if you can help it, it
:11:33. > :11:40.is very much a loaded heat. Lawrence is really good at leaning in, where
:11:41. > :11:49.they dive under the beam. My gut says maybe he got it. Your gut is of
:11:50. > :11:57.a reasonable size, so I might go with that. Andreas Martinsen was
:11:58. > :12:03.very confident. Let's have another look. Not a bad start from
:12:04. > :12:10.Lawrence, and he is right in the mix at this point. Yordan O'Farrill
:12:11. > :12:21.beside him just moved half a yard ahead. He is ahead here, but what
:12:22. > :12:32.about online? I think my gut gets it. I think my large gut has been
:12:33. > :12:38.successful. I can see what is coming up on my computer ahead of me, and
:12:39. > :12:47.it is not good news. He has been given the same time as Andreas
:12:48. > :13:00.Martinsen, but this is the official result. That will be an anxious wait
:13:01. > :13:03.for Lawrence Clarke to see if that will be quick enough to go through
:13:04. > :13:12.as a fastest loser. Currently he is the fastest from two heats, but he
:13:13. > :13:26.will have to wait and watch. Is my gut get a pre- dominant? -- get a
:13:27. > :13:38.reprieve on that? We moved back to the triple jump competition. And
:13:39. > :13:42.German Khan -- Benjamin Compaore. We are still in the first round, Tosin
:13:43. > :13:49.Oke it of Nigeria still has to lead. Compaore has definitely
:13:50. > :14:02.challenge this. That looks like a jump that might take the lead away
:14:03. > :14:14.from Tosin Oke. Season's best, 16.88. Unusual landing. 16.77, he
:14:15. > :14:38.takes the lead. Lineup for the third heat, when they are ready. Amir
:14:39. > :14:42.Shaker is not going to start, so there will be just six men to
:14:43. > :14:52.contest this heat. The Chinese have had a good championship, some good
:14:53. > :15:04.sprinting. Xie definitely capable of getting in among the action.
:15:05. > :15:07.Douvalidis with lots of experience. Dimitri Bascou with a new personal
:15:08. > :15:14.best, getting very close to the all-time top ten. Annie French
:15:15. > :15:20.record from him. The fastest in the world for four years, so that is an
:15:21. > :15:32.indication of how good the time is. Fabio Dos Santos. Next to him,
:15:33. > :15:39.Yidiel Contreras of Spain. Cuban running for Spain. Only cleared to
:15:40. > :15:56.run for his new country last year. And at the end, Mousa Dembele from
:15:57. > :15:59.Senegal. You would think lanes to three and four will be the most
:16:00. > :16:25.competitive. Plenty of great hurdlers at the
:16:26. > :16:37.moment in France. The Asian champion over in lane two, Xie from China.
:16:38. > :16:50.Douvalidis and Dimitri Bascou, with Fabio Dos Santos in five.
:16:51. > :16:58.Another good start from Dimitri Bascou. He already has about a metre
:16:59. > :17:01.on everyone else. Yidiel Contreras going well, the Spaniard. It is a
:17:02. > :17:09.bit of a surprise for him to come through and take second. Dimitri
:17:10. > :17:14.Bascou just underlining his dominance at the moment. The
:17:15. > :17:22.question is, can he carried his right through to the final? At the
:17:23. > :17:31.moment he is certainly the best 60 metre hurdler in the world. He is a
:17:32. > :17:35.nice hurdler. A bit crouched, perhaps, but his technique looks
:17:36. > :17:41.nice and smooth. It is incredibly smooth. He does look crouched, he
:17:42. > :17:49.keeps his head down, but I think that just keeps him Compaq as it
:17:50. > :17:53.goes through. -- compact. They have three strides to fit in, and they
:17:54. > :17:57.will take off a bit further away from the hurdle than the women, but
:17:58. > :18:08.they still want to land within women. -- within a metre. Good
:18:09. > :18:11.support for Chris Benard of the US. Coming towards the end of the first
:18:12. > :18:21.round of the men's triple jump final. Benjamin Compaore of France
:18:22. > :18:30.is in the lead. This doesn't look like it will challenge, but he is
:18:31. > :18:36.capable. He jumps just short of 17 metres when he is at his best. You
:18:37. > :18:45.can't encroach on the yellow side of that plasticine. Anything outside
:18:46. > :18:52.that is no jump. Bin Dong, possibly the favourite, of China. 17.4 one,
:18:53. > :18:57.one of only two athletes in the field to have gone beyond 17
:18:58. > :19:02.metres, and he would love to take the title. Only two Chinese athletes
:19:03. > :19:07.have ever won gold here and in a World Indoor Championships. Bin Dong
:19:08. > :19:14.looks favourite to do that, certainly on paper anyway. Here is
:19:15. > :19:20.his opening jump. Good through the phases, that is the best jump we
:19:21. > :19:24.have seen so far by some margin. Just as the theory beforehand would
:19:25. > :19:33.have suggested, certainly looking at his season so far he has dominated.
:19:34. > :19:37.That middle phase is crucial, kept his speech, chewed up the ground.
:19:38. > :19:44.Executed very well with the pressure of the first round. 17.18, that
:19:45. > :19:51.takes the lead for Bin Dong. A great start for him. That is exactly what
:19:52. > :19:55.you want to do, first round, put something out to make the other
:19:56. > :20:02.athletes think. Put the pressure on and take the impetus. Here is an
:20:03. > :20:06.interesting athlete, Omar Craddock. Possibly the most exuberant entrance
:20:07. > :20:17.to an athletic Stadium I have ever seen about half-an-hour ago. The
:20:18. > :20:24.crowd is going along with it now, looking to respond from that big
:20:25. > :20:32.effort of Bin Dong. Craddock looking to rally the support of the home
:20:33. > :20:38.crowd. The hurdlers have to wait. All eyes on the triple jump runway
:20:39. > :20:42.for Craddock's first attempt he hit the ground hard, forced himself in
:20:43. > :20:48.the air. Not quite sure what that means... I think those are leaps of
:20:49. > :21:00.frustration. He knew that went wrong. Triple jump final will be
:21:01. > :21:09.continuing. Craddock has plenty of energy. To the final heat in the
:21:10. > :21:30.first round of the 60 metre hurdles. Mikel Thomas from Trinidad Tobago
:21:31. > :21:44.in lane two. Next to him, from Cuba, Portilla. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde,
:21:45. > :21:53.Shane Brathwaite Nick the indoor champion. Spencer Adams of the US
:21:54. > :22:02.will be in seven. He finished second in those US championships behind
:22:03. > :22:25.Jarret Eaton. Two new names in terms of American hurdling. Sir Heath --
:22:26. > :22:40.Lynsha from Ukraine. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde can be very
:22:41. > :22:43.good, but on occasion can get it very wrong. He missed out on the
:22:44. > :22:48.medal when many thought he should get one. Or that he was heading for
:22:49. > :22:55.one in terms of his season performances in Beijing last year.
:22:56. > :23:05.The European indoor champion last year.
:23:06. > :23:21.That was a bit weird... Triple jump up on the runway, I don't know if
:23:22. > :23:35.that affected things. There was a twitch from Adams, but out pull
:23:36. > :23:45.shot, just watch the triple jump -- just out of shot, I wonder if it was
:23:46. > :23:56.put off. With their heads down, they shouldn't see that. It was a noise,
:23:57. > :24:11.a slap. The Green card, that is nice of them. I think the referee is very
:24:12. > :24:17.fair. The Green card means it is not a warning for any athletes in
:24:18. > :24:22.particular, so they are all starting with a clean slate, as it were. We
:24:23. > :24:29.were explaining yesterday the rule about how you can't twitch, you have
:24:30. > :24:36.to be absolutely still as the gun goes. There are pressure pads on the
:24:37. > :24:43.block. I think there, you have seen an official using their discretion.
:24:44. > :24:55.They might have noticed the man on the triple jump runway. Safely away
:24:56. > :25:02.this time. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde going well, he wins it, Spencer
:25:03. > :25:10.Adams came through late. Athletes tumbling all over the shop. Portilla
:25:11. > :25:14.of Cuba took a tumble. He is a much better starter than he is sometimes
:25:15. > :25:21.given credit for. He can get it wrong at times, but he does start
:25:22. > :25:30.well. Into his stride nicely, very familiar action, not terribly pretty
:25:31. > :25:32.but certainly very effective. That is a good performance from him. He
:25:33. > :25:51.will be delighted to have started like that.
:25:52. > :26:06.7.48 the winning time. That was swift, he wants to see the replay.
:26:07. > :26:23.Back to the triple jump. The lead Bin Dong of China. Nazim Babayev.
:26:24. > :26:25.The 18-year-old is one of the younger athletes competing at the
:26:26. > :26:34.World Indoor Championships. He held onto that well. A bit scrappy, but
:26:35. > :26:42.kept the momentum going. That is just what you need after a foul in
:26:43. > :26:45.the first round. Tosin Oke. They have been quick at getting the
:26:46. > :26:52.athlete out and into their next attempts. He had the lead early on,
:26:53. > :26:57.now in third place he's second jump. Very high through the second
:26:58. > :27:06.phase, but good. Possibly an improvement. He takes off, then the
:27:07. > :27:10.step is higher. He held onto it, and it is all about keeping that forward
:27:11. > :27:19.momentum. Keeping the speed going through the phases, which here did
:27:20. > :27:31.really well. Good improvement, still second place for Tosin Oke. Spencer
:27:32. > :27:39.Adams and Shane Brathwaite finished quickly, getting themselves through.
:27:40. > :27:56.Mikel Thomas with 7.72, he will go through as fastest loser. The triple
:27:57. > :27:59.jumpers composing themselves. Craddock is