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Good evening and welcome to stop,'s stadium. A perfect setting and | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
leaving for live Diamond League athletics receiving. Colin and I | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
are looking to the best of the rest in the world because we have no | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Brits here this evening. We are going to go racing straightaway | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
because the athletes are out on the track for the men's 400 metres. And | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
400 metres has not been setting the world alight so far but it takes on | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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unseen more this season but LaShawn Merritt is returning to the track, | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
so I think all eyes will be on him. It is a little bit controversial at | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
this moment in time. Some are happy, some are not savvy, but this man | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
will try to get everything off his shoulders. -- not so happy. Why was | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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he banned? He took a drug, a social drug, let's say. They decided that | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
21 months, which is a ban we have never heard of, has allowed him to | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
come back and complete here today. Here's the defending world champion. | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
If you keep that in mind, we are surprised that the USA has let him | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
have competed. One of their roles is that you must compete in the US | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
trials to compete here. And of course he was off when they were on. | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
It was talked about as their male enhancement product and that is why | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
it was not so bad. Some people say has he brought the sport into drug | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
-- disrepute? Some people say, a drug ban is a drug ban and we do | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
not want that reputation in our sport. But the walls are the rules. | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
Let's go over to our commentary team now. | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
His national record, it is mighty impressive but it goes back four | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
years to the championships in Japan, in Osaka. A lot of attention | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
focused on this man, sure no merit. What sort of shape is in? Only a | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
few men have broken 13 seconds this year. Merritt, who has run many, | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
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many times under the world-leading time of 44.65, goes in at lane to. | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
The world's fastest this year, Bartholomew, is in lane six. Brown, | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
he appears to be complaining about his number coming off. I suspect he | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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felt the pain digging into him. -- the pain. I used to get numbers put | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
on to my best when I was wearing it, so they were put on in a stretched | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
shape. Maybe some athletes have not learned that particular trick. A | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
lovely evening. It has been a very windy Bay, though. Here we are just | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
hoping this that wind does this. It is easing off a bit and it has | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
almost got chilly here. It has been 24, 25 degrees for much of the day | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
in the Swedish capital. Into their blocks of the second time. The | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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men's 400 metres or stop Quow is in lane one. Christopher Brown is in | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
three for the Bahamas. Jermaine Gonzales is in five. Bartholomew | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
goes in six. Angelo Taylor is in seven. And a local man, Wissman, in | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
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Taylor has gone away very quickly. Wissman is really aggressive. How | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
is Bartholomew going? He is a big powerful man. Jermaine Gonzales is | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
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going well as well. Bartholomew is leading this very late now. Look at | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Merritt in two. What a measured performance from the world or | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Olympic champion, trying to come through on the outside. Look at | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Merritt. Is he going to come back? It is going to be very tight. I | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
don't know if he got it or not! It was very tight. The winning time, | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
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44.70. Just outside the world best remarkably in the last few minutes. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Is surprising performance from Bartholomew, but what a good a run | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
it from at Merritt. Yes. I think Gonzales looked as though he had | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
got that, though. A big fellow. He has been running well this year. He | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
has got some good times to his name this season. That is a big | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
improvement indeed for this fellow. He has promised and delivered, at | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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last. I think, yes, he has won it. What about that? Christopher Brown | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
gets the third place. My goodness! A tough finish. And they all closed | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
down on each other in the final stages. Brown was in the mix as | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
well. Angelo Taylor on 44.82 in 4th place. Almost seven, we have a | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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decent 400 metres race here. -- all of race son of. 45 seconds had not | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
been broken before tonight. Jermaine Gonzales has broken 45 | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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seconds for the first time, beating Well, 44.74 in his first race back? | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
Very impressive indeed. But you must remember, he is the Olympic | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
champion and world champion, so for me, a solid opening and good | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
performance and he has made it clear Bobby he is a threat for the | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
World Championships. He has done all of those things and is a class | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
act, but nevertheless, to have been out bore all that time and to come | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
back into the next, it is tough? went up quite gingerly for him. For | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
me, I was expecting him to go a bit more aggressive to test himself, | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
but to finish second in that field, it is not going to be much tougher | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
at the World Championships because he has done such... It has been | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
such a weak event and he has turned it into such a positive event. And | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
here is the man himself. Thank you for coming to speak to us. Can you | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
describe your emotions being back on the track after the ban? | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
man! I wanted to knock some of them out. I feel good physically and now | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
I am getting ready for the Worlds. What response to fill you have been | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
getting from the crowd? Some people have strong feelings about what has | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
happened? I just want to thanks .com person before inviting me to | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
this meet. I need to work on a couple of things and get ready for | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
the championships. People are a bit cynical about the reason for a | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
positive test. What would you say to them? My mum, my team, they | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
believed in me. They keep believing in me. I am clean, and likewise | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
said, I am just getting ready for the World Championships. -- and | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
like I said. You must feel like a contender? Yes, I never felt I | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
wasn't. I can't complain. It is kind of chilly. No excuses. But I | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
got it out. The other thing is, no drugs ban finished on 27th July. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
One year to go till the London Olympics. Do you get a sense of how | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
that appeal might go? I am just keeping it up to got to figure that | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
thing out. Right now, my focus is on the World Championships. And the | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
title. I mentioned the event director, Rajne Soderberg, who is | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
also the president at for the Euro meet. Caff are the ones who put the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
ban for athletes. -- they are the ones. We looked over the situation | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
and we said, he has not put the sport in real disrepute with what | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
he did. He has not been caught with any kind of doping substances in | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
his car or anything else. So I think in this case, it is OK. I | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
think we should let him run. Because the American Federation | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
also let him compete in the World Championships, even though he was | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
not able to compete in the trials, which is their strict rules for | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
years and years. He was exempt, in this case. So that says something | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
about the sports world and what it thinks about his specific case and | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
that is why we decided he could run here. | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
It is worth just clarifying the circumstances around these European | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
meets. It was a court case that took place in Switzerland. They | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
wanted to step back and realised they did not... It seemed to be | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
like a cartel and they were ordering people that they shouldn't | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
invite. They have eased back now and are abiding by the rules. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
said, Dwain Chambers has now not got an invitation? No, it is still | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
going to be down to the meet directors to decide. Her a pretty | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
dramatic start to events here in Stockholm. But plenty more to look | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
forward to. Impossible to miss David Oliver. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
The American is the biggest and best when it comes to the 110-metre | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
hurdles. The women's 800 metres will be | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
competitive, as always, and features world's reigning champion | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Caster Semenya. And she's the quickest woman around | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
on two legs at the moment. Carmelita Jeter runs her first race | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
since the American trials. But these days, everybody plays | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
second fiddle to the bold. It is Usain Bolt. | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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action, and just to remind you, we don't have control over the | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
coverage, so we will show you what we can. Straight back on with the | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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action. There she is, the women's world champion. And there's Caster | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
Semenya. She has had a tough time. It is going to be interesting to | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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there but the Russian championship is running 1.50 6.95. Look at how | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
Sinclair has got right in. Andrianova is coming across, the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
pacemaker. Sinclair, she was 6th in the Olympic Games, only semi- | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
finalist in the last world championships. She's gone right | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
into the lead there. Klyuka is coming across, she was fourth in | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
the Russian championships. Montano is in third place. Second place in | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
the race proper. Look at Caster Semenya. She's right at the back of | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
the field. That's the best way of describing her technique, she's | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
lumbering round. She's so powerful and muscular. She's got a lot of | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
hard running today because she's probably 15 metres behind Sinclair | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
at the moment. Sinclair has sold has a good 10 or 12 metres on the | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
entire pack. Sinclair was the only one who went with the pace. Klyuka | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
is behind her and then you've got Montano. That big pack right behind | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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season. Didn't do very well in the world championships last year. With | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
200m to go, completely dominating this race. If she's got the power | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
to hang on to this, and one would expect she would have with the | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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winner over 1500m. There's a big gap. Certainly since Sinclair went | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
off and it meant business. A big win for her. Akkaoui coming through | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
to take second place. Santiusti in third place. No doubt about the | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
winner. That signals a very good, solid performance by her. She | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
really went with the pace. She was the only one that did at 400m. My | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
goodness, his season's best to show the sort of form. What about Caster | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Semenya? Once again lumbering round. It really wasn't a very good | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
performance at all. Very difficult to explain that. It's strange. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Sinclair had the form of her life. It's a season's best. She ran a | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
time trial there. Really impressive. There's a lot more in her tank. By | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
contrast, Semenya never really left the back of the field. At times in | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
the last 300 I thought you might do something special to come through, | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
but it was nothing special. She will have run away outside two | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
minutes. Her season is so inconsistent. It's astonishing. But | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Sinclair, she's the real deal and I think she might be a threat to the | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Russians come the World Championships. There's the line-up | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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That was surprising there, a great performance from Sinclair but | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
disappointing from Caster Semenya. What happened in that race, you | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
were so far off the pace? I don't know, I just felt heavy. It's one | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
of those days, you know. I couldn't race. I know it has been a long | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
time not running but from my side, I'm quite happy with the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
performance. Even though I didn't run the race I wanted to run. I was | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
expecting to run faster but from the start I felt... I just felt a | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
little bit heavy, so I just kept on going. Like I said before, if I've | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
started the race I have to finish, I don't quit. I guess next time I | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
will do well. I hope so. The World Championships coming up fast, you | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
are defending your title. It's not the sort of performance you'd want | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
leading up to that. The yeah, it's a little bit upsetting. I guess it | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
wasn't my day. I just need to go back and train, that's all. Banks | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
was speaking to us. -- thanks for speaking to worse. Yelena | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Isinbayeva in the pole vault later. The night before the main meeting | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
they have a shot put competition, men and women's, in the square. We | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
had a great men's shot put. Christian Cadwell winning that. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
They love that competition. Absolutely. What is fascinating to | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
me is that is as good as it is going to get in the world | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
championships. It's a great performance, incredible. That | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
wasn't a Diamond League competition but the women's was. Let's catch up | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
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for the competition. This is similar to the sort of thing that | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
happens in Manchester. Third place was the US competitor. Followed | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Aynho thrown in the first round with 19.87 in the second to gain | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
third place. Only two valid throws in this series. Second best was | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
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19.57. Ostapchuk was second. Look at that, nice, linear technique. | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
That's a big throw. Well over 20 metres. 20.37. But couldn't hold | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
off this woman. Valerie Adams, of New Zealand. She prevailed again, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
the twice world champion, the Olympic champion. She opened with | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
19.59 and in round two, 20.57. She's So tall and bayed and has | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
such long levers and such power that she is going to be very | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
difficult to beat in those world championships. She is an | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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ahead of the rest, but remember Stockholm, but special thoughts | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
with Thorkildsen, the reigning world and Olympic champion, he's | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
drawing tonight. We hope things go well for him. The women's 100m | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
coming up next with Carmelita Jeter, the fastest woman in the world, the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
second fastest woman of all time. Before that, let's talk about Jody | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Williams and double gold in the European Junior Championships. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
was named the athlete of the meat. It's another great accolade for her. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Great personal best in that 100m. 11.18. As a youngster, she's not | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
really out there on her own. There's an American young lady out | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
there who has run at 11.02. She will know it's going to be tough | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
out there when it comes to those head-to-head competitions with | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
people her own age. It's interesting, she's chosen not to go | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
for the World Championships. How I think it's a good idea. She | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
doesn't need to put herself under that kind of pressure. A major gold | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
this year was to do the European juniors, get those doubles under | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
her belt. Once she's achieved that, she can concentrate on her school | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
work. She has gained experience already from the senior | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
championships, the European indoors, something we have always said is a | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
great championships. She was successful there, running a | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
personal best. For me, I think it's a wise decision. She's got plenty | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
of years in front of her to really shine. Some would say, though, the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
World Championships is as close as it gets to an Olympic Games. She | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
bit mature next year come 20 tow, it might have been good to go and | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
feel what it was like at a big competition. The European indoors | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
are great for athletes but very different from an outdoor world | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
championships. Absolutely, and I understand what people may say. But | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the true experience you gain from going out in a semi-final, it's not | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
necessarily for her. She's already been very successful. We know what | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
she's capable of doing. For me, it's just taking a little bit of a | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
balance and looking forward to next year. The pressure is off, she can | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
just train, another winter behind her. I think she will raise her | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
game yet again. The women's 100m coming up shortly, but let's catch | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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up with what happened in the and then a meeting record. She | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
ended up the third on countback when that best jump was equalled | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
that the very best next jump. Here, you can see the second place, | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
Savigne, the world champion in 2007 and 2009. 14.87. She almost went | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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further but the early effort last year. Bounding out in her | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
first Diamond League meeting. She lost to so been in Oslo and Paris | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
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but her first Diamond League win, 100m. We've just seen Carmelita | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Jeter introduced to the crowd. It's going to be a fast race, Colin. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
hope it's going to be a super fast race. We are looking at three women | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
who've gone under 11 seconds this year. They are going to go head-to- | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
head. It's a good indicator for us of what 100 Mr Shaikh per jete is | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
in. The first race back after the year's championships, I'm | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds | :26:07. | :27:10. | |
interested to see how she takes on got away very well. Myers going | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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strongly. Jeter moving towards the middle. The time, 11.14. Jete | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
really held on in the end. That was some performance by Carmelita Jeter. | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
It went very much with the form book. Myers got away well and so | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
did Stewart. Yes, it took a little while to really catch up and move | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
ahead from the athlete to her left, Myers, who had a really strong run, | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
considering they are running in such a strong headwind that is not | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
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it's going pretty much to form. Carmelita Jeter, I have heard down | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
as a favourite for the World Championships at 100m. There might | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
be one or two other athletes who like to see -- say a thing or two | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
about that, including Campbell of Jamaica. Nobody would break 11 | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
seconds in those conditions. She is very dominant at the moment. She | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
showed great fortitude at the final stages of the race. She must have | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
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sensed Myers coming up under her Thorkildsen in this javelin | :28:47. | :28:57. | |
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me! First round, best effort so far. 78 metres by Vesely of the Czech | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
Republic. But De Zordo, and usually a left-handed thrower, really hits | :29:07. | :29:16. | |
that hard. It's about 83 metres. Not a bad open at all. 83.14. He's | :29:16. | :29:26. | |
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Who is going to be taking the 200 metres? It will probably be Bolt. | :29:29. | :29:36. | |
But next, we have the men's steeplechase. It was explosive | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
blast time when it took place in Monaco at the last Diamond League | :29:41. | :29:51. | |
:29:51. | :29:55. | ||
A number British record for Mo Farah! A great run by Pearson. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
will be another British record. that is the Angelo Taylor that we | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
note coming into a major championship. Very clean clearance | :30:08. | :30:17. | |
from a Vlasic. That is more like it! A beautiful looking runner. | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
Look how strong she is. Look at the form she holds down the long | :30:21. | :30:31. | |
:30:31. | :30:56. | ||
world's best. But he smashes it. This is a big, big win for her. | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
quite as good has he wants yet but certainly good enough to take the | :31:01. | :31:07. | |
lead. Kiplagat. He beat the Olympic champion in his own national | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
championships and now he has been in a very good field. Oh, my | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
goodness! What is going on? That is not... I do not think I have ever, | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
ever seen that at an athletics meeting. Look how hard Usain Bolt | :31:26. | :31:36. | |
:31:36. | :31:41. | ||
is working. That is quick, very And it's hard to believe that all | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
happened in one meeting! Lot of great athletics to talk about, but | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
let's talk about the scrap, which I hope you should never see on an | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
athletics track. Yes, it was so strange to see. When I heard it was | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
taking place, I could not believe what I was seeing. It is unheard of | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
and I would hope French athletics will not take this seriously, the | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
account of what happened. And I think they should have some sort of | :32:11. | :32:19. | |
punishment, both of them are. have been apologetic, haven't they? | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
Yes, but if you have a disagreement, just taken outside of the athletics | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
stadium. We don't need to see it there. We next have the | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
steeplechase and that was probably the event of the meet there? | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
know, of all the results that night, that was the most surprising. I | :32:39. | :32:49. | |
:32:49. | :32:50. | ||
know how incredibly talented he is, and we are not used to seeing a | :32:50. | :33:00. | |
:33:00. | :33:01. | ||
seven, eight-minute steeple race. Now, not so. It was breathtaking. I | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
am looking forward to the worlds to see who can attack that world | :33:04. | :33:13. | |
record. A lot of analysis of how well Usain Bolt is run in. His | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
Susan's best, nine point 98, but only just winning. You are right, | :33:19. | :33:29. | |
only just winning. There's many, many athletes out there who might | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
believe that they are not at their best but still a world leader. It | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
will be interesting how he feels going into this World Championships. | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
:33:50. | :33:55. | ||
We will see him later on and find has been one of their favourites | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
over the years. Now, where has that gone? A long way, by the look of it. | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
That shows you that this fellow, when it comes to championships, so | :34:05. | :34:12. | |
difficult. He has got gold or silver at every Olympic, world or | :34:12. | :34:19. | |
European Championships sings in 2004. He has been a Olympic, world | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
and European champion. He sits in his hotel and has a little beer | :34:24. | :34:34. | |
:34:34. | :34:36. | ||
here or there. He enjoys himself. Let's look at the British | :34:36. | :34:44. | |
performance in Monaco. Mo Farah, once again, Supreme. Dare I say it. | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
It is good to see he believes he is the full package. You can see it | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
when he goes on to the track. They are taking very seriously and they | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
know he is full of Thailand. We have seen it from a young age and | :34:57. | :35:06. | |
we have been waiting for it to come through. -- full of talent. | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
transformation has been quite... Almost unbelievable? Yes. Winning | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
two titles at the European Championships - what that has done | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
for him is unbelievable. It has given him belief and self belief in | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
athletics is a strong thing to happen under you. To know that you | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
were doing the right thing and not to care what anybody else is saying, | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
to note it is the right thing for you. Mo Farah has proved that is | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
what has happened for him. I am really pleased for him. Now he is | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
where he is now. And he could have a shout at a bronze medal? Yes. If | :35:47. | :35:54. | |
you remember, lots of times, we always say, a new record but not | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
quite the personal best. But we will be seeing Jessica Ennis at the | :35:59. | :36:09. | |
:36:09. | :36:13. | ||
weekend. And the other race, where Angelo Taylor did so well? Yes, and | :36:13. | :36:23. | |
:36:23. | :36:23. | ||
he has done so well here as well. He still actually has something to | :36:23. | :36:32. | |
prove to himself, does dive. He will understand that when you go at | :36:32. | :36:39. | |
one major championship, you start at zero. -- does dyed green. Don't | :36:40. | :36:48. | |
write him off for a medal, or even a gold medal. His technique is so | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
good and so is his mind set. I do not think he will be deflected? | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
But he is one of these people who is quite aggressive. He knows he | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
wants to win championships and knows he is capable of going under | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
14 seconds. When you can get under that magical barrier, anything is | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
possible. I believe he is in great shape and he has been more | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
consistent than anything else. So as far as I am concerned, I take my | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
hat off to him. He has worked hard to put himself in a good position | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
for this year and next. Let's go out and join the action with the | :37:27. | :37:37. | |
:37:37. | :37:48. | ||
even better. I tell you what. Mitchell Watt, a best of 8.44, and | :37:48. | :37:55. | |
he is spot on the board. And that looked to be over 80 metres. 8.59 | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
is the meeting record set by Ivan Pedro's of. It might not be that | :38:00. | :38:10. | |
:38:10. | :38:13. | ||
far but it could be. What has he got? A new personal best, 8.54. | :38:13. | :38:23. | |
:38:23. | :38:24. | ||
Just short of that 1997 meeting record by Ivan Pedroso. Brilliant | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
stuff. And it Saladino has to follow that. The Olympic champion. | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
The world champion back in Osaka. He has been indoors and out, and | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
successful at both. But really, Mitchell Watt, he powered down that | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
runway. Totally different stature to Saladino, but he has an edge | :38:48. | :38:56. | |
which is quite impressive. What can Saladino do? And that's just over | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
eight and looks better. It has certainly got the white flag. Now, | :39:02. | :39:12. | |
Crowther has got into second place. Saladino's best so far, 8.03. What | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
has he got? Lots of lift off the board and good control in the air. | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
A little word with his coaches along the side. What's he done? | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
8.19. That is better. He is in second place. Wow! Well, this | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
steeplechase, they have gone through. In third place is Kiplagat | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
:39:53. | :39:59. | ||
and it is building up nicely. now the second round of the javelin. | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
And that is just short of 85, and that's a very, very good | :40:04. | :40:14. | |
:40:14. | :40:23. | ||
performance. He has had 81.4 p 7. - - 81.47. What has he done? He is | :40:23. | :40:32. | |
now in second. 84.21. This man has to be hungry to prove what he could | :40:32. | :40:42. | |
:40:42. | :40:42. | ||
have done. Not even a place in the Kenyan team after that poor, poor | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
run in Nairobi. These two are building up a sizable lead. | :40:48. | :40:57. | |
Kiplagat in second. Koech knows he is hurting the man behind him, | :40:57. | :41:05. | |
doing a lot of damage. And Kipchoge back in third place. But 40, maybe | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
50 metres down. This really is a measure of just how hard Koech is | :41:11. | :41:19. | |
going. That is interesting. Koech puts his foot on it. Most of the | :41:19. | :41:28. | |
Kenyans Clairette, like a 400-metre hurdle, and fly over it. -- most of | :41:28. | :41:38. | |
:41:38. | :41:40. | ||
the Kenyans clear it. The strength of the little man. He begins to | :41:40. | :41:50. | |
:41:50. | :41:54. | ||
move clear. The fastest man in history, Paul Koech. Now into the | :41:54. | :42:04. | |
:42:04. | :42:07. | ||
back straight. 15, 20 metres. He is pouring yet in. A couple of slow | :42:07. | :42:17. | |
:42:17. | :42:19. | ||
laps in the middle section, but maybe the win was not the priority. | :42:19. | :42:29. | |
:42:29. | :42:30. | ||
He has opened up 20 metres. Over this last lap. The final barrier, | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
and it is going to be a very comfortable win, as expected. The | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
time is not going to be too bad at all. It is outside eight minutes, | :42:41. | :42:51. | |
:42:51. | :42:51. | ||
but quick nonetheless. It is somewhere outside that meeting | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
record that he said four years ago, but nonetheless, a truly dominant | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
run and more confirmation of how dominant the Kenyans are in this | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
discipline generally. When you think he was 7th in the | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
championships a couple of weeks back? Yes, and thinking back to | :43:09. | :43:19. | |
:43:19. | :43:19. | ||
Monaco. We watched Kipruto hammered out a very fine steeplechase. | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
And another huge throw! He turned away from it. He knew that was good. | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
Really moved into it, hit in very, very hard. He is the champion and | :43:32. | :43:38. | |
that is a big, big throw. He is moving way out into the lead. That | :43:38. | :43:48. | |
is his Susan's best. 88.4 D 34 Andreas Thorkildsen. -- season's | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
best. He is getting better and better and will be very difficult | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
to beat. And now Koech, third in that super | :43:59. | :44:06. | |
braise in Monaco. He went under eight minutes. -- in that superb at | :44:06. | :44:16. | |
:44:16. | :44:18. | ||
race. Another good win. It is very blustery out there and may have had | :44:18. | :44:28. | |
:44:28. | :44:32. | ||
an effect on them. But nevertheless, A special performance there from | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
Thorkildsen in the javelin. Next on the track, this man's favourite | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
event, the hurdles. It features David Oliver Paul Stout hears an | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
insight into the things he likes and the things he doesn't. Hello, | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
I'm David Oliver, her love for the United States. I don't have any bad | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
habits, you might have to ask somebody else about that one. The | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
last time I had junk food was about five minutes ago. It felt good | :44:56. | :45:03. | |
going down. If I wasn't an athlete I would probably be a firefighter | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
wherever I lived at. That's something I want to pursue when I | :45:08. | :45:18. | |
:45:18. | :45:18. | ||
One of track and Field's real characters. The disappointing thing | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
about this evening is we had expected the head to head but when | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
him and Dayron Robles, but Robles has this not at the moment of | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
getting injured. The yes, he seems to be a bit fragile at the moment. | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
But he's protecting himself because they're rather major championships | :45:34. | :45:41. | |
that he wants to go out and win. Dayron Robles injured himself in | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
Barcelona. He hit his foot but he's still hoping to be in London. We | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
will see the big clash hopefully in London. And very close in Paris, | :45:52. | :45:59. | |
wasn't it? Paris was a brace indeed. I always love watching that type of | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
competition. You have two complete the different runners technically. | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
David is far more aggressive, Dayron is far more fluid and | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
natural as a hurdler. To get to that line and not be able to call | :46:12. | :46:19. | |
the victor was a great thing to see. Adding to that the Chinese athlete. | :46:19. | :46:26. | |
We've got a really hot race that I'm anticipating. It could be one | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
of the great races, the three of them all looking 12.9, running | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
incredibly quickly. As someone who knows this event Inside Out, where | :46:35. | :46:42. | |
would you analyse the strengths and weaknesses? Who is going to blink | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
their -- first? You have three completely different hurdlers. Luge | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
Yang is more of a crafted hurdler. He's been crafted and he's very | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
effective. I love that about him. Then you have David, or aggression, | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
he's big, strong and fast. He loves going at those hurdles. Next to | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
that you've got the floater, Dayron Robles, who takes the event in his | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
stride. There's absolutely nothing you can call. You choose your | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
technique. But if you are asking me to put some money down on the | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
victor, I would go for the Chinese competitor up. He is so perfectly | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
technically great. That's the reason why I'm going for him. When | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
you are under pressure, when the real pressure is on as you are | :47:30. | :47:31. | |
real pressure is on as you are coming to the final barriers, | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
that's when you rely on the technique. Because he has been | :47:35. | :47:36. | |
technique. Because he has been drilled so well, I'm leaning | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
towards him at this moment. That said, David Oliver had a great | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
season last year and he's been running well again this year. The | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
other two have injury issues. Perhaps they might be a bit rusty. | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
Oliver is the one who has the consistent form, the confidence | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
that we talked about. That is very true. The beauty of hurdles is when | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
you Trai you can Alter the distance between hurdles to absolutely get | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
an accurate reading, how you will be at different parts of the race. | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
You can prepare very easily without racing. That's why am still leaning | :48:13. | :48:21. | |
towards Agen, even though we haven't seen him raise too much. | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
It's going to be tight but I think that it's still him. I'm really | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
calling him. Let's play fantasy 110m hurdles. At their very best, | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
in the perfect race, he would go the fastest and where could they | :48:38. | :48:44. | |
put the record? The perfect race, everything going on. Because of the | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
natural ability of Robles, I would call him. He's the current world | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
record holder. If he stayed completely injury-free, he could | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
lower the world record to around 12.80. Because he's such a | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
naturally fluent hurdler. But, unfortunately, as we've seen, he's | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
very fragile. That is what has set him back. Because you still need to | :49:08. | :49:15. | |
keep her bling as much as you can to progress in the event. -- keep | :49:15. | :49:25. | |
:49:25. | :49:28. | ||
hurdling. Can you expect something quick tonight? Yes. If you think | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
about what can be done. I'm looking... The conditions on a | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
little bit chilly but I think he could get to 19.7 mark. He's more | :49:39. | :49:44. | |
than capable of doing that. But what a luxury to be nearly half a | :49:44. | :49:50. | |
second off your best and still be a world leader. Fantastic for him. | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
Diamond is on offer for a stadium record, to a certain Michael | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
Johnson. I think he'd like to take that record - for good reason! | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
old Michael, Usain Bolt taking every single record that he's got. | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
Yes, but life moves on. Even one day your record will go. Bad news | :50:11. | :50:21. | |
:50:21. | :50:22. | ||
for you there! Let's go to the tonight but married macro is | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
running very well indeed. -- Merritt. David looked very | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
comfortable in qualifying. He ran 13.38 to qualify for this final. He | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
knows all his big American opponents. With that in mind, he | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
should take a comfortable victory. He'll be disappointed that Robles | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
isn't here. That could be a bit of a downside. When you prepare | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
yourself for a head-to-head competition at all of a sudden | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
you're major rival this appears, you can slightly lower your mental | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
state. That could be tricky in this event. But he would want to put one | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
on all of these guys and show why he is the number one American and | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
white he possibly could take this title. -- why he could possibly | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
take this title. The conditions here, into a headwind. What kind of | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
effect does that have on the hurdlers? Judging between hurdles | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
cover the distance is very important. Someone like David is | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
very big and strong, he is fine. He can open up his stride and make it | :51:30. | :51:40. | |
a bit more aggressive and closer to a sprint stride. We can look for | :51:40. | :51:49. | |
him running pretty quickly. They are a very different build. Yes, | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
Merritt is very spider like. He took my metre record. This man we | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
are about to see, Richardson, he actually beat Merritt in the | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
qualification round and round it very well indeed, 13.20. Watch out | :52:04. | :52:11. | |
for him also. The men's 110m hurdles. Back over to tame and | :52:11. | :52:21. | |
:52:21. | :52:34. | ||
big man, a rugged, dynamic, in total contrast to Dayron Robles. He | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
has such a powerful technique. Hit hurdles and he can get into trouble. | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
That's been proven in the past. Unbeaten last year, he really was | :52:45. | :52:55. | |
:52:55. | :53:32. | ||
well. Oliver is coming back at him. Richardson has got it. Oliver in | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
second place. In lane three was Thomas. Its 13.17. What a scalp | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
that was by this man. He won his heat in 13.20. I have a Phelan | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
David Oliver really wasn't looking with great edge. Jason Richardson | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
of the United States of America. He was third in the American trials. | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
Have a look at this. He got away brilliantly. Makes room for the | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
hurdles well. His trail leg his quick. Look at the way in which | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
David Oliver is hitting hurdles, trying to get his technique and the | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
them back. He never recovered from a dreadful start, David Oliver. | :54:11. | :54:19. | |
13.17 for Richardson, his personal best is only 13.15. That was into a | :54:19. | :54:29. | |
:54:29. | :54:32. | ||
headwind. Now all over to the pole character. It is the one and only | :54:32. | :54:42. | |
:54:42. | :54:46. | ||
to me. That wouldn't have done her confidence any good at all. I think | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
she should have come in for a sighting of vault, something to get | :54:51. | :55:01. | |
:55:01. | :55:05. | ||
She is not alone. The only difference is that she hasn't | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
cleared a single high to get. at the hurdles again. I'm very | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
impressed with Jason Richardson, second from the left. He really is | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
a fluent hurdler. Terrific read them. That trail leg is as good as | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
I've seen. It's so fast. That means that the lead leg comes down quick, | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
too. He attacks the hurdle brilliantly. Leaning into the | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
hurdles. Look at the way David Oliver is hitting hurdles, trying | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
to come back at him. Merritt is under pressure as well. Just a | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
couple of hundreds of his personal best into a headwind. Watch out for | :55:47. | :55:57. | |
:55:57. | :56:23. | ||
him in the championships because Impressive it was and a bit of a | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
shock, David Oliver alongside us now. Not the result we were | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
expecting. Talk us through the race. I got a decent start but I hit the | :56:33. | :56:39. | |
number four Hurdle. It knocked me out of the race with them. It's one | :56:39. | :56:47. | |
of those things that happens. I've just got to get a bit better. I'm | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
getting ready for next week in London. The fact you didn't have | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
Robles in the race, was that in any way a lack of concentration on your | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
part because you thought you'd probably win it anyway? Whenever | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
you go into a race you can't really think you are going to win. There's | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
always a high level of talent in these races. I did what I could. At | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
the end of the day it just wasn't good enough. What about the head | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
wind, the fact you hit a hurdle with a head wind made it more | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
penalising. I'm not sure. It's the same headwind for everybody in the | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
field, you can't really use that as an excuse. I didn't run up to my | :57:24. | :57:33. | |
level today. I just need to get a Very equitable about it but a bit | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
of a shock none the less. Yes, it was interesting what David said. | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
was interesting what David said. Sometimes when you do not have | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
quite the right rhythm then it does completely knock you off. I saw | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
Andy Turner suffered from the same thing a couple of times at major | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
championships. But David seems to not be in the group today. That can | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
have a real detrimental effect. You Sky hurdles at it and the next one | :58:01. | :58:09. | |
you end up hitting. This can happen. It still was a sensational run by | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
Jason. A tremendous performance. A very strong headwind and a great | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
time. It does kind of signify that he could possibly, in good | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
conditions, get under that magical 13 second barrier, which would put | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
him right in the frame for a gold medal. We talked about the big | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
three. Potentially four now. Absolutely. No doubt. Someone like | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
Andy Turner would watch that and think to himself, there's | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
competition all the way through, not only with the big three. It's | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
going to be tight, we've always said that. But when you go to win | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
championships, everything kind of changes. Talking about David | :58:47. | :58:50. | |
Oliver's mental approach, even though he denied it was the case, | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
if you are expecting a head to head and you think it's just the two of | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
you, sometimes you can sometimes subconsciously take your foot off | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
the gas. Yes, the edge comes off because all day you been preparing | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
for this big clash and then all of a sudden someone sweeps your legs | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
away. You don't need to worry about that any more. So you do come to -- | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
start to come down a little bit. Let's see what happens in London. | :59:15. | :59:18. | |
He will get back to training and get back in that group, and I'm | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
pretty sure we will see the 13th second barrier when broken a couple | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
of times again. The countdown continues to Usain Bolt in the 200m. | :59:27. | :59:37. | |
:59:37. | :59:46. | ||
is flying! It is gold for Bolt, and again, he has done it again! | :59:46. | :59:56. | |
:59:56. | :00:01. | ||
about that. But we have mentioned it. The question marks still | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
persist. At his press conference at Stockholm here, he did sound more | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
upbeat than previously? Well, we will run in Paris that he was a | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
little bit under the weather. He had that cold. He ran quite | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
comfortably but then he had to come back to Monaco and have a race | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
under his belt. He has always been tested and come out on top. Today, | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
he is in his favoured distance, the 200 metres, and I think he will | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
want to silence a lot of the doubt. People have been saying, you might | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
not be in great shape... By the victories are the most important | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
thing. He said that, didn't he? It is about titles, not times. Was | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
that a bit of expectation management? He just wants people | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
not to be disappointed if body cannot do those times he did in | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
Berlin? It is all for four in. Everybody expect him to produce | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
these sensational performances whenever he runs. And when he looks | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
at the clock, he looks disappointed. I wonder if he should switch off | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
the clock when he runs and just run his best. Let's catch up with | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
:01:41. | :01:48. | ||
coaches now, Isinbayeva. Ooh, it is going to stay, it is going to stave. | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
:01:59. | :01:59. | ||
She is there. She has got it. I say! That was close. Almost did a | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
full twist at the top. That was survival! It may be the best on | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
paper, but, my goodness, a lot of work to do before she get back to | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
:02:22. | :02:24. | ||
those five-metre vaults. 5.6, the world record, set in Zurich. | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
:02:34. | :02:34. | ||
Here's the men's start list for the 1,500 metres. A good sprinkling of | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
Kenyans in there. Kiplagat of Kenya, the fastest in the field so far | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
:02:53. | :02:57. | ||
this year. OK. Now to your commentators. | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
:03:07. | :03:19. | ||
There is Silas Kiplagat. He ran 3:29 in Monaco. We are looking for | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
1: 51 in the first stretch. Just looking at the flags to our right. | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
Just for the moment, a lull in the wind. A big field, 15 men, who head | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
:03:48. | :03:57. | ||
into the first bend. A very good season already for David. Kiprop is | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
in great shape after that 800 metres in Monaco last week. The | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
main pack, not much inside 43. A little bit slower than they might | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
:04:21. | :04:25. | ||
have wanted. Yes, it is interesting. As memories go back to Monaco and | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
that wonderful race between Kiplagat and the Beijing Olympic | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
Games champion. Assuming we see the Kiprop we want to see, because he | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
has had some erratic performances this season. And slightly erratic | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
pacemaking as well. It was not good. It is slow. He knew the pack would | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
be behind him by around a second, a second and a half. They come | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
through below us now. There's a ten-metre gap and it is | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
disappointing because the wind is not strong in the arena at the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
moment. As they go through 800 metres they are in the back | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
straight. Still no takers from the pack. You cannot blame the | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
pacemakers all the time. If the pact choose not to go with it, very | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
but what can be done. Now, Chepseba at the front there. Just beginning | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to move through in the white and blue. A lot of bodies in the middle | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
of the pack there. And it has been slow up to 800 metres. They now | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
come into the straight, and Willis just beginning to move into a good | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
:06:04. | :06:08. | ||
position. They get the final at Split. Ndiku, looking very, very | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
comfortable, and just looking behind him. It is anybody's race, | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
:06:23. | :06:28. | ||
this. Look out for the Australian, Jeffrey Riseley. Oh, my God! Ndiku | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
palls beside and does it slowly. Into the final 200 metres and this | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
really has turned into a test. It is a test of 300 metres. It has not | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
been a test of 1,500 metres at all. It has been a strong run from | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
:07:00. | :07:07. | ||
Kiplagat. He is really going away here. That, well... It just | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
indicates with splits that were quite lumbering by the standards of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
these men. They could have gone several seconds quicker for my | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
money. But you get into this frame of mind where you expect the | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
pacemakers to lay down a quick- tempered all the time. Perhaps the | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
time should be of secondary performance and it is just great | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
racing that we should be witnessing. We have the tall figure coming past | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
Willis there. A repeat of the result in Monaco. And Kiplagat, as | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
you say, is there such a consistent performer. His time follows that of | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
Monaco. A very, very good season. He was 4th in Shanghai. Not a great | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
mile there, but to have the world rankings with of that time for | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Monica, absolutely superb. He has done it again, two in succession. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Nothing particularly special about his finishing speed bomber last 300 | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
:08:24. | :08:29. | ||
metres. Willis thought he could have Kiplagat but he couldn't. | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
:08:39. | :08:47. | ||
performance indeed. That is from Barsham Ahmed. He runs in a very | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
wide and just turns in, drives money. A lovely technique. So light. | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
:09:06. | :09:12. | ||
-- drives in his knee. So, five men clear at 2.30. Well, we have this | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
woman in a bit of trouble. That is Brathwaite. Struggling at 4.64. | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
:09:31. | :09:43. | ||
Richardson. Jason, a fantastic race. How much of that was a surprise to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
you? It was not so much of his surprise. I have put everything | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
into my training. This is what we are trying to do. I have one of the | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
best coaches in the world. Lots of people talking about 110-metre | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
hurdles as a big event. We have those three big names, in with | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
David Oliver. Perhaps now a fourth? They have the credentials and have | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
done the hard work. I just hope I can get in there ahead of them. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Congratulations. Thank you so much. A really outstanding victory for | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Jason Richardson in the 110-metre hurdles. Now we go to the men's | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
discus competition. COMMENTATOR: De wind three was | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
:10:49. | :10:50. | ||
gusting around this afternoon. -- the wind was gusting around. This | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
was his best effort by over a metre. Some consolation for no mark in his | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
last Diamond League in Paris. This man from Poland ended up in second | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
place. He opened with a narrow throat and then gave three | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
:11:22. | :11:22. | ||
consecutive throws over 64 metres. This was round for and that is big. | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
-- round four. When the winner was the Lithuanian. 39 years old. He | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
took that in round three. Double Olympic champion, both in 20021004, | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
:11:51. | :11:55. | ||
and their world champion. One of the greats in this event. -- both | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
:12:05. | :12:13. | ||
the discus competition. Lawrence. He is ranked four in the world. A | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
huge, huge find. Yes. He took up this sport 18 months ago, and what | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
a surprise. Everybody who has seen him, has said, physically, what a | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
man mountain. I am looking forward to seeing him at the trials. I | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
think he is going to tower over everybody. A great thing to see, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
the emergence of talent in new events, because we never really had | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
a true world class male discus thrower. This is a great sign for | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
us. I don't think we have won discus in the 100 years of the | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
Olympic Games. The women have of. Now we have four a great athlete. | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
Yes. All we can ask for is to have a great level domestically. And | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
then it pushes everything else up. Then we are going to have great | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
trials, which we normally don't see outside of Germany, for example. It | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
is an exciting moment in time in athletics. And to come so far in | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
such a short period of time, Lawrence. We always talk about | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
years of conditioning and he has just come through so quickly? | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
Who would have thought. You never know if you are a natural discus | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
thrower before you try it. We have about half-an-hour to go before we | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
see Usain Bolt. Just getting those muscles warmed up and into the | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
right frame of mind. Getting a bit chilly... Yes. I am hoping he | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
realises that. I hope he prepares himself well because we need him | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
Abbas World Championships. We don't want anything risky to happen. But | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
the next event to happen, the women's 400-metre hurdles. The | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
person I am looking forward to his Spencer, also from Jamaica. I think | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
this young lady has more talent than any body I have seen in this | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
event and next year, watch out in those Olympic Games. I think she | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
has the ability to come under 53 seconds. One applied to is not here, | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
Perri Shakes-Drayton. How do you rate her development through to the | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
:14:59. | :15:02. | ||
event where you need to get the technique right. You can only home | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
that with practice. And you need to practise it under pressure, too. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
Perri, she's a great, talented athlete. I'm looking forward to her | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
sneaking under 54 seconds, getting close to around 53.5 on a regular | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
basis. Once you do that, you can elevate yourself into a true world | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
class and be competitive against the rest of these women that we are | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
just about a bit -- just about to see. I also think she wants a place | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
in the relay. Yes, that's a good move. It's what she wants to do. If | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
you can get two Metals, why not? Christine Ohorougu running the 400m. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Yes, it will be nice to see her running again. We saw her run quite | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
quickly in Barcelona. She's qualified in the A list when it | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
comes to the actual Championships coming up. Let's have a look at the | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
:16:06. | :16:11. | ||
start list for this women's 400 draw. It's going to be a battle | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
between the two Jamaicans. It's a national event that we are going to | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
take place here, but it could be a very quick one indeed. If you take | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
that into consideration, it's a little bit blustery... We are | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
looking at the flags behind us now. These women, they look ready, they | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
look competitive. Let's see what the time will be. The wind does | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
make a huge difference. It plays havoc with the rhythm, whereas you | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
want to relax. You can relax into the back straight, certainly, but | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
:16:53. | :17:12. | ||
we are looking forward to. Let's season. She ran in the Commonwealth | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Games lasted just outside 56 seconds. Then you've got Queen | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
:17:28. | :17:30. | ||
Harrison of the United States. 54.78 this season. Walker, the | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
Olympic champion. Drawn in the fifth lane. Always difficult to | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
beat. 53.56 this season. A slight hiccup in Paris, she was fifth on | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
that one. Spencer and Walker, two formidable athletes. Former world | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
junior champion here. Seven times and a 54 seconds is Spencer of | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
:18:07. | :18:08. | ||
Jamaica. This is Yaroshchuk of the Ukraine. 54.77. Pretty good, going | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
well. Boden on the outside, the Australian. She was fourth in the | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
Commonwealth Games, fifth in Shanghai earlier this season. We | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
shall see now whether the Jamaicans are showing the sort of form that | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
will see them through to the medals. That is Spencer. She is 50.55 400m | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
:18:46. | :18:46. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds | :18:46. | :19:40. | |
it's the fifth round blow for De Zordo, the German. His best to date, | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
83.14. That looks big - it's better, much better. That's around 84 | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
:19:56. | :20:16. | ||
83.36. He finds another few centimetres but he's in third place. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
:20:26. | :20:26. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 63 seconds | :20:26. | :21:07. | |
No change to his position. The 400m amongst the hurdles quickly. | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
Spencer has gone off a very quickly. She's already past Yaroshchuk. She | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
is traced by Walker down the back straight. -- chased. It's Jamaica | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
:21:35. | :21:57. | ||
Wilson in third place with Harrison Spencer is awake. Spencer takes it. | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
53.74. That's a terrific time. It's just outside the world's best. It's | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
:22:15. | :22:23. | ||
a new meeting record. The record was set in 1985. There was no | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
chance to let up. But she was the strongest of the final barrier bed. | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
-- barrier there. That time was impressive. Any stadium record here | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
is one that has to be given the greatest respect. She's just broken | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
:22:51. | :22:58. | ||
one of the oldest. The Jamaicans the defending world champion in | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
second place here, Walker. But coming good as it matters most. | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
:23:14. | :23:19. | ||
That's -- that last hurdle with the last world championships. I'll | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
:23:29. | :24:05. | ||
have a feeling it will change this do. Come on, match that! He enjoys | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
his jumping. He wears his heart on his sleeve. His season's best is | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
only 2.34. British athletes focusing on | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
selection for the World Championships this weekend, but | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
they can't have failed to notice, along with a Olympic athletes of | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
all disciplines, that there's only one year to go until 2012. A year | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
to go till 2012. Everyone wants to be there, everyone wants the chance | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
to compete at a home Olympics. you are treating it - at dreaming | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
about it, it still gives you goosebumps. It's a special moment. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
It's pretty exciting to think what could happen. Having it on your own | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
doorstep is amazing. It is exciting, and it's not too far away. If I | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
qualify for the Olympics then I am going to be the most happy girl on | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
the planet! I'm just hoping I can do myself proud now. Thinking about | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
winning, thinking about desire, passion and motivation. Get to the | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
start line in one piece. I've got a silver medal in Athens, I can only | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
imagine what getting a gold one would feel like. To win a fourth | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
gold medal on home waters would be an incredible achievement. Still | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
really excited, still absolutely loving the journey. It's just a | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
privileged to be able to do this again. When you say a year to go, I | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
think you get bats like rush of adrenalin and think - to bring it | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
on! I think we just need to go out there and enjoy it and make the | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
most of it and do what we know we are capable of doing. Absolutely | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
:26:02. | :26:08. | ||
fantastic. I can't wait until the the next episode of British Olympic | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
dreams next Saturday. We've got a profile on the Bramley Brothers. | :26:18. | :26:28. | |
:26:28. | :26:34. | ||
Isinbayeva in the pole vault, over tell you what, she's got it! That | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
is a fantastic vault. That is so different. The confidence of this | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
woman. For 0.76, goes straight into the lead. She came in here with a | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
:26:56. | :26:56. | ||
personal best of all 0.60. She came into the competition at 4.64. | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
:27:06. | :27:17. | ||
soon as I saw that I thought, she's out without a fight. He leads | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
jointly with Ukhov. They have identical cards, apart from the | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
:27:31. | :27:34. | ||
fact that Ukhov came in at 2.15 and and 2812 and retaining her Olympic | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
title. We were both involved in the celebrations earlier in the week. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
There was a huge level of excitement and expectation. It was | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
amazing. We were both at the Aquatics Centre, different times of | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
the day. What was the excitement was from the journalists that were | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
there. At long last, I felt that we've engaged them. Once we've | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
engaged the press and television media as well at the same time, we | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
can start to bring the Olympic Games allied to the general public. | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
I was mesmerised seeing the amount of Olympic champions that were | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
wandering around the stadium. It was fantastic to see. It's still | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
inspired me, that's for sure. I'm looking forward to seeing what it | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
can do to some of our youngsters. You've got a number of British | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
athletes looking forward to that. Where would you assess our chances | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
in terms of track and field? I think they've said eight medals, at | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
least one gold. Where are we? year out is still a long way to go | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
up. There's a whole winter you have to do before you even consider | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
getting out there but 2012. I think what we've got on A-team level | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
right now is more than adequate. Let's see what happens. A year to | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
go, let's see. Plenty of time for them. Next up on track is the | :28:52. | :29:02. | |
:29:02. | :29:19. | ||
We will look and see what happens until this race settles down. If | :29:19. | :29:29. | |
they are going to have any chance of going underneath that world time, | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
at 14. When did you. It is frustrating that the wind has | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
stayed with us. Flags are still blowing quite healthily next to us | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
in Stockholm. Let's see how they cope with those of gusting | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
conditions. We go back to the javelin, which is just getting into | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
:30:02. | :30:06. | ||
its final stages. This man's best to date, just over 80 metres. Can | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
:30:16. | :30:16. | ||
he improve? He can! That is around 83 metres. He lives himself up. I | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
would say a lift of two places with that effort. Remember, Andreas | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
Thorkildsen is leading for the second round. But that's not bad at | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
:30:40. | :30:48. | ||
all. 83.4 p for, and a great effort to move into third. -- 83.44. | :30:48. | :30:58. | |
:30:58. | :31:00. | ||
third and final attempt in the high jump for this man. But he did not | :31:00. | :31:10. | |
:31:10. | :31:12. | ||
attack it, Andrey Silnov. And back to this race, the 5,000- | :31:12. | :31:19. | |
metre women's. So often this season we have had pacemaking that the | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
:31:29. | :31:31. | ||
runners have not responded to. And now the pole vault. A third | :31:31. | :31:40. | |
time fail for Silke Spiegelburg. I am tempted to say normal service is | :31:40. | :31:50. | |
:31:50. | :31:52. | ||
resumed. The champion has seen off Momanyi of Brazil, who has | :31:52. | :32:02. | |
:32:02. | :32:03. | ||
certainly been prominent this season. But the Russian is there on | :32:03. | :32:13. | |
:32:13. | :32:15. | ||
top, and now a final effort from Matthias De Zordo. It has certainly | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
been made a profit for the others. His best to date, 83.36. That it is | :32:22. | :32:31. | |
much better. No Winnie the 88-metre mark that Andreas Torquil son has | :32:31. | :32:40. | |
hit tonight. -- no where near the 1880 metre mark that Andreas | :32:40. | :32:50. | |
:32:50. | :32:50. | ||
Thorkildsen has hit tonight. This is an improvement. The best effort | :32:50. | :33:00. | |
:33:00. | :33:15. | ||
slower than they wanted in this 5,000 metres. In the lead, of | :33:15. | :33:25. | |
:33:25. | :33:31. | ||
course, at Vivian Cheruiyot. final attempt in this women's pole | :33:31. | :33:41. | |
:33:41. | :33:43. | ||
vault. But it is not to be. Spiegelburg and Feofanova, as well | :33:43. | :33:53. | |
:33:53. | :33:57. | ||
as Momanyi, all finding this height beyond them. -- Fabiana Murer. | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
certainly looks to me as though Vivien Cherry it is going along | :34:01. | :34:11. | |
:34:11. | :34:17. | ||
with the pace. -- Vivian Cheruiyot. You can now see for yourself. | :34:17. | :34:27. | |
Cherono is there in second place proper. -- Ngetich-Cherono was | :34:27. | :34:37. | |
:34:37. | :34:48. | ||
stopped and then you have Mercy there. It is coming up for two | :34:48. | :34:58. | |
:34:58. | :34:59. | ||
kilometres. And Cheruiyot has great speed. The speed is now quick. | :34:59. | :35:09. | |
was very much quicker. They had that too many is 55 to start with. | :35:09. | :35:19. | |
:35:19. | :35:28. | ||
-- 2: 55. And to the men's high jump, and | :35:28. | :35:37. | |
Ukhov holds the second. A very, very tight jumper indeed. And now | :35:37. | :35:46. | |
Ukhov gets it. He calls his season's best to boot. Now, | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
Williams, there's no point in attempting any more. Williams has | :35:54. | :36:03. | |
:36:04. | :36:05. | ||
cleared 2.37 the sea and leads the world rankings. | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
Now, Cheruiyot, the African champion, is moving well. She won | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
in a 14.33, and look at this. This is a dramatic race. Clearly she has | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
come here to try to get a season's best. | :36:27. | :36:35. | |
And now second attempt for Jesse Williams in the high jump. No! If | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
he had cleared that, he would have stayed in first place with Ukhov. | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
It would have been, again, a copycat series of jumps from | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
Williams, along with the Russian, Ukhov. But Ukhov now holds pole | :36:50. | :37:00. | |
:37:00. | :37:01. | ||
position. Checa is now in second. They are | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
now going into the back straight and they are still about 50 metres | :37:04. | :37:14. | |
:37:14. | :37:14. | ||
behind. Dolores Checa of Spain is going well. She is leading the | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
trading group, which is the race, but the real demonstration is going | :37:19. | :37:27. | |
on about 50, 60 metres ahead. Ngetich-Cherono is now moving ahead | :37:27. | :37:36. | |
of Cherono. The two Cheronos. But this is going to be a very, very | :37:36. | :37:46. | |
:37:46. | :37:50. | ||
good one indeed from Cheruiyot. She is going very, very strongly enough. | :37:50. | :38:00. | |
:38:00. | :38:00. | ||
Another very, very quick time. They have come back from that two-minute | :38:00. | :38:10. | |
:38:10. | :38:14. | ||
is 55. That is very strong. -- 2: 55. She is moving down the back | :38:14. | :38:24. | |
:38:24. | :38:31. | ||
straight so well there. Her rhythm is so good. And now, Isinbayeva. | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
No! It did not look close, frankly, and I wonder if this is one ask too | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
much. But it has been a great night after a difficult period for her. I | :38:46. | :38:56. | |
:38:56. | :38:59. | ||
think she was burnt-out and needed a break. | :38:59. | :39:07. | |
And now back to this race. Checa is there. And we have Kipyego on the | :39:07. | :39:16. | |
back of that group. Certainly now, she is on for roundabout 14: 23 or | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
:39:26. | :39:31. | ||
thereabouts. I am a little puzzled. Why did he | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
:39:41. | :39:42. | ||
not take it at 2.36? Ukhov cleared the second time. He is in second | :39:42. | :39:52. | |
:39:52. | :39:53. | ||
tonight to this man, Ivan in, who will equal his season's best. -- | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
:40:03. | :40:09. | ||
Ivan at Ukhov. Jesse Williams will have his opportunity for revenge. | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
This race is certainly inside this season's best. The Americans are in | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
the middle of that group. Checa finds herself being overtaken by | :40:21. | :40:30. | |
four or five athletes. There are two races on. Well, one race and | :40:30. | :40:38. | |
one demonstration. She is about 150, 160 metres ahead of the rest of the | :40:38. | :40:47. | |
field. That is Cheruiyot. She is absolutely spot on again. That is a | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
very, very formidable run on her own. She is looking, actually, to | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
go close to her personal best. That was the record when she was behind | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
on that one before Oslo race. The record was torn apart on that | :41:07. | :41:16. | |
:41:17. | :41:17. | ||
occasion. Two minutes to go. will raise her game in the last | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
:41:27. | :41:29. | ||
1,000, there's no doubt about that. It is going to be very fast indeed. | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
The stadium record is 14: 12, which will not be beaten. But she is now | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
leading by around 140 metres. We are watching a wonderful exhibition | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
run here from Cheruiyot. She is throwing out a challenge to the | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
Europeans, saying, I am in shape, match this! Get your house in order | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
because mine is spot on! Flanagan seems to have gone ahead of the | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
rest and is starting to stretch them. But the diminutive figure of | :42:06. | :42:16. | |
Cheruiyot is burying them. They almost 170, 180 metres behind. | :42:16. | :42:26. | |
:42:26. | :42:26. | ||
Flanagan is in second place at the moment. She is absolutely flying. | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
She has had a 68 in there. Pretty consistent. When you have been | :42:32. | :42:40. | |
running like that, it is terrific distance running. There's Flanagan, | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
challenging the Africans. Flanagan, giving a Wii good account of | :42:46. | :42:56. | |
:42:56. | :42:58. | ||
herself. -- 8 really a good account. We focused in on the wrong athlete | :42:58. | :43:05. | |
there. That is not Cheruiyot. is coming round the bend. There she | :43:05. | :43:14. | |
is. What a run this has been! Absolutely superb. The crowd are | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
standing for this. A world-class performance indeed. It is a | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
stunning performance by this young woman. It is going to be a world- | :43:25. | :43:32. | |
leading time. A sensational run! A personal best and a world lead in | :43:32. | :43:40. | |
time. That is a sensational run all on her own, really. The pacemaker | :43:40. | :43:46. | |
worked for her. They did their job. The rest of following in now and | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
this looks like Sally Kipyego coming in, in second place. And | :43:51. | :43:58. | |
just looking, checking on third place. The race was a demonstration | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
in the end and that was a world- class performance in every sense. | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
That is the unofficial time there. World-leading, and by a | :44:09. | :44:17. | |
considerable margin. She is still the third fastest athlete in | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
history behind those astonishing runs from the Ethiopian so. Both | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
coming in in the middle of that season in 2008. But she is | :44:29. | :44:36. | |
gradually homing in. It was, as you said, an exhibition run, on what is | :44:36. | :44:45. | |
a rather cool evening. Not ideal conditions. Cheruiyot has had a | :44:45. | :44:51. | |
meeting record earlier in this season. Tonight, it has been 14: 24 | :44:51. | :45:01. | |
:45:01. | :45:09. | ||
stop a fabulous performance from Mitchell Watt, you World League | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
8.54. I'm very happy. I had a bit of a problem with my heel the past | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
month, but during the warm-up it felt really good. I knew if my heel | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
held up I'd jump really big today and that turned out to be the case | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
to. Taking a scout like Saladino, a big psychological boost in front of | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
the world championships. Definitely. It's getting pretty close now. To | :45:30. | :45:38. | |
keep coming out on top is important. Hopefully I can keep the format for | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
another month. We've got Greg Rutherford and Kris Commons in in | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
that. They are both jumping really well this year. Abbey in London | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
next weekend, it will be another good competition. The great job, | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
well done. It was a world lead in the long jump. I wonder if there | :45:55. | :46:05. | |
:46:05. | :46:25. | ||
will be a world lead in the 200m streaking away already. He's | :46:25. | :46:35. | |
:46:35. | :46:36. | ||
brilliant beyond compare. He is flying. Away he goes! He's done it | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
again! They say lightning doesn't strike twice... Stemming! Five gold | :46:42. | :46:52. | |
:46:52. | :46:55. | ||
medals. Five world records. You've proudly above the stadium here. | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
Unfortunately, it's blowing in the wrong direction. It is, | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
unfortunately. But you never know with this man, what he can do. I | :47:03. | :47:09. | |
remember watching him in Oslo. I thought if he got around the 22nd | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
figure it would be sensational, but he went away and a writ. Now we | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
will see what kind of form he is in, how he feels. Do you think he wants | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
to run faster or do you think he is just happy to win? It's raining a | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
little bit. They put him on at the end of the evening but it does get | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
a bit cooler. It's definitely getting a little bit cooler. But if | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
you remember this time last year, when this meeting took place, he | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
was beaten by Tyson Gay. He's never won here in Stockholm. I'm pretty | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
sure he wants to put that right. Perhaps he will put it right in a | :47:43. | :47:52. | |
:47:53. | :47:55. | ||
big way. Anybody here who might worry him? No. You have to ask the | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
question! This whole crowd will be anticipating a great performance | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
from him. I think they were disappointed last year, because | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
when he was beaten by Thais and gave the whole stadium went very | :48:07. | :48:17. | |
quiet. -- by Tyson Gay. When he runs, and hopefully runs a world | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
best, then they will get to see the real Usain Bolt. It's an | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
interesting phenomenon. Some athletes across all sports, you | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
have this mythical atmosphere about them. You don't want to see them | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
lose. No, he's one of the champions that you want to see win and win. | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
We all know it's virtually impossible to do that for numerous | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
races, especially when he's doing two events. He's doing the 100m and | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
the 200m. He's always going to be more susceptible in the 100m | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
because that's not his natural distance. His natural distance is | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
the 200m. And, ultimately, I think the 400m is beckoning him. It's | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
great to see him in this event, the end he loves the most, and | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
hopefully going out there and keep winning at this event. The few are | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
going to put a percentage figure on what kind of shape he's in, what | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
would you think? It's difficult. There are a lot of different | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
factors. You have to have the racing in, how fresh you are, what | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
the travelling is like, where your main focus is. Now he's got to | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
focus on just winning the championships. That's what people | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
are expecting him to do. He uses these races very cleverly, he | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
doesn't stick to one event. To have their build-up to win the major | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
event. He cannot lose major championships. Those big events, he | :49:39. | :49:44. | |
cannot lose. He can come to one or two of these events and dip out | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
once or twice, and we will forgive him. But we expect the big man to | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
perform in the big performances at the right time. You say that, if | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
you felt he couldn't go to the championships and win, it would you | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
see him withdrawing? He's been pushed closed in the 100m. The 200m | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
is perhaps a bit easier. If he produced a performance tonight | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
which didn't fill him with confidence, mighty withdraw? | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
few look at what the date is now, it's still over a month to go. Four | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
athletes of this calibre, they are talking about polishing up at this | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
stage. He would take a couple of days off, a couple of days to think | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
about it, but I don't think we need to worry about that. I think you | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
will produce a good performance and really put all the doubters... All | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
the doubts out of his questions and everybody else of what he can do | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
over this distance. The women's pole vault is under way. Isinbayeva, | :50:39. | :50:49. | |
:50:49. | :50:58. | ||
attempt. Now going to 4.86. Well, I think it signals the return of this | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
young woman. She's certainly getting back to the form that we | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
know and associate with her. She wins on her first outing back into | :51:07. | :51:13. | |
the big league. There is the evidence. Season's best, 4.76. | :51:13. | :51:23. | |
:51:23. | :51:24. | ||
There's much more to come. Back to Mr Bolt. Has there been | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
perhaps a sense in which he's been holding himself back to get ready | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
for 2012? Retaining his Olympic title and perhaps doing something | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
similar to what he did in Beijing and Berlin, to put those records | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
beyond doubt. He is one of these athletes who believes in himself | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
and in his performance. He sets his own goals and objectives. If you | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
keep that in mind when he approaches every single competition. | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
For him, at the moment he doesn't believe he is a legend in this | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
sport. He believes he needs to come back to win the Olympic Games, do | :51:54. | :52:01. | |
this twice and then he will become a legend. I scratch my head! Kind | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
of a legend because of the times he has run. Let's have a look at the | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
start list. The final race of this evening, the one that everybody has | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
been waiting for. All of these men are pretty nervous. They need to go | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
out there, they are testing themselves out. With that in mind, | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
they will be ignoring Usain Bolt and thinking he is just going to go, | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
he's going to play for the crowd and run quick regardless. Alonso | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
Edwards, silver medallist from Beijing. Saidy Ndure, another | :52:33. | :52:42. | |
outstanding athlete. He's had a great race in Lausanne. He's been | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
disqualified quite recently. Listen to this reception when he announces | :52:48. | :52:58. | |
:52:58. | :52:59. | ||
this man's name. I still can't get up a quite how relaxed and happy | :52:59. | :53:05. | |
and carefree he seems. You know, behind all that the heart is still | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
pumping. He is an athlete after all. He needs to come out and produce a | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
performance. He will still be slightly nervous and anxious and he | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
won't want to let himself down. That's the key to it all. We are | :53:16. | :53:26. | |
:53:26. | :53:28. | ||
just about set to go. Let's runners because Usain Bolt is just | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
bounding into form. He hasn't been beaten this year. He's received | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
quite a lot of criticism and there's been speculation about his | :53:36. | :53:44. | |
form. He ran 9.88 in Monaco last week. He had an appalling start, | :53:44. | :53:53. | |
the slowest out of the blocks of a 100m. Bolt in lane six. He starts | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
as a strong favourite. This should be an exhibition run. The stadium | :53:59. | :54:09. | |
:54:09. | :54:27. | ||
moving away. He's only halfway round the bend. Into the straight | :54:27. | :54:36. | |
now. Now he polls at home. The rest of the field are disappearing. It's | :54:36. | :54:46. | |
:54:46. | :54:46. | ||
going to be a big victory. 20.03. It's another victory for Usain Bolt. | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
I'm sure the knockers will say, well, where's that 19... That world | :54:53. | :55:02. | |
record from -- form. But it's not a warm evening, the temperature has | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
certainly dropped. It's below 20 degrees at the moment. I've got a | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
jacket on sitting here. He's running into quite a strong | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
headwind. He hasn't really got any competition. He's one very | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
comfortably. You can't really fault it. No, he's much more comfortable | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
up at 200m than he is over 100m at the moment. He has the speed | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
endurance and strength endurance to take him away from the rest of the | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
field. Anderson of Jamaica coming very strongly through. As was | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
Edward of Panama. A little look that way, where is everybody? He | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
could just sense Anderson. The crowd quiet as he went round that | :55:44. | :55:54. | |
:55:54. | :55:55. | ||
bend. Just outside 20 seconds. It's too slow, he says. We've seen him | :55:55. | :56:03. | |
very closely run at 100m. We've seen that in Monaco. It was a very | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
close account. But here he runs the bend quite well. His transition | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
into the straight is good. He has to work off that bend. I'm looking | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
at the man inside him, who is illegally running on the line, | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
that's Anderson. In a championship he would have been disqualified | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
there. Usain Bolt comes away from the rest of the field. You measure | :56:24. | :56:34. | |
:56:34. | :56:36. | ||
his performance by what the rest did. They are close to 22nd meant. | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
-- 22nd, men. As he goes on his celebration, we will bring you up- | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
to-date with the result in a moment. We've seen the pole vault early on. | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
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Look at this. It's good to see. even a sub 20. We are a bit | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
disappointed. Yeah. The look on his face when he crossed the line, he | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
was slightly disappointed, too. But it was quite a strong headwind for | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
him. Whatever you see down the home straight, you've got to multiply | :57:08. | :57:15. | |
that. It was a decent performance. 20.03, we can't really complain too | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
much. The absolutely annihilated the field. It's what we expect him | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
to do. They are quality athletes behind him, people who've run very | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
quickly over this distance. He has still left them all trailing. He | :57:27. | :57:34. | |
himself, I don't think he's going to worry about the 200m too much. | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
When he comes down the home straight, if you notice, he is | :57:39. | :57:41. | |
glancing left, right and centre. He's not paying that much attention | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
to his performance. When the pressure is on and he has to really | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
go out there and deal with a major competition and major competitors, | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
then it should be OK. Don't worry. I still think he'll hang on to both | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
titles. That just about round things off from Stockholm this | :57:58. | :58:08. | |
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