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Good evening and welcome to Lausanne, the Olympic capital for | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
live diamond lead athletics. Colin Jackson and I are here trackside | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
and finally the sun shining on the diamond lead after the downpours of | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
New York and Oslo. A fantastic evenings athletics to look out for. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
The men are out for our very first event of the evening, the 400 | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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metres. Let's take a look at the lookout for lane at's 7 and 8. We | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
can hand over to our commentary team for the Stevens -- this | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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Bob is Silicon to get amongst the medals in eight weeks' time. -- | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
obviously looking to get amongst the medals in eight weeks' time. A | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
very strong young man. Jermaine Gonzalez, who hit the big time last | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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year who. 44.4. A new national record a year ago. Kevin, the | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
European champion from last year, the Belgian. He, too, needs to | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
start making some inroads. David of Ireland makes the line-up. A slow | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
start of this year but he holds the national record for Ireland, but | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
that, again, is not a great draw for him on the outside. There is | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Henry. Semi-finalist in the Olympic Games in 2008. 4th at the World | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
Championships two years ago. And really, the Americans have not hit | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
their straps this year. They had their championships last week but | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
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nothing particularly special over about it, in my mind. Let's take a | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
look at it again. I'm pretty sure that was David. I was looking down | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
across the track. We have a wonderful position here at the | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Athletissima. It's a lovely evening. Quite breezy up here in the stands, | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
but I suspect a lot more gentle on the track. That would be a great | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
shame when he needs races, David, if he is disqualified here. Yes, it | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
was a clear case, wasn't it? I know we had a green card in the past, | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
but that look to to be spot-on. David is on his way out, I think. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Still waiting to be told but he has been told now, and away he goes. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
The Irish man does not get his chance. A great shame, really. He | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
has a couple of the indoor European golds, 2005 and at 2007. Looking to | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
build up to the World Championships this year. He has gone. Seven men | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
are lining up for the 400 metres, the second time of asking. The man | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
from Ireland has disqualified himself from lane eight. You don't | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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see disqualifications too often. run this one? Gonzalez, second on | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
the left, a very big man. Very steadily. Henry, in 4th. Henry has | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
the long hair. Outside him, very aggressive. Gonzalez the | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
challengers into the bend. We know he finishes strongly. Gonzalez is | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
still going strongly. Henry is coming around the bend. Gonzalez is | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
leading now. Here comes the European champion! He is putting it | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
on the line against Gonzalez. It is a victory for Gonzalez. By about | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
half a metre. Greats battle between them with every stride down the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
straight. Henry, a couple of metres back in third place. That is the | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
winning time. It doesn't threaten the stadium record by Michael | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Johnson, which goes back 15 years. A good competitive race. He had to | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
really dig deeper, Gonzalez. Yes, he ran a quick first to 200 metres. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Plenty left, I thought, at 300 metres, but then he started to be | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
run down but he had a little bit left at the end. He has a season | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
best, just outside. Kevin, the European champion, he looks in very | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
good form on the outside. Pindar not running to form, from the | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
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Bahamas. Henry in third place. A great battle at the front. These | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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are the three. This man, clearly, Not the fastest that to this | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
evening's action but very, very competitive and there is plenty | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
more to come. Here is a taste of what is coming up in the next | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
couple of hours. Dai Greene goes in the hurdles fresh from the team | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
championships. Tonight he takes on the best in the world. It doesn't | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
get much better than the men's triple jump. Phillips Idowu against | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
Teddy Tamgho. In the men's 100 metres French sensation Christophe | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Lemaitre takes on former world record holder Asafa Powell. In the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
women's getting other bidders, the world champion, Caster Semenya, | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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based is the world champion Maryam Plenty of action going on all the | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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way through. -- here is this Plenty to look forward to. The | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
weather is good, as I've said. Of for Mr Jackson, this was never the | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
happiest hunting ground, was it? I competed here seven times but my | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
best position was second, some of the best for me. As I look above | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
the camera men, there are plaques with the European world record | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
which have been broken here, and it does say, 100-metre hurdles, | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
Lausanne. Thanks. Renowned for speed here. But we have a great | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
race coming up later. The big news is that that Tyson day has not made | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
it through the US trials. We were looking forward to that head-to- | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
head clash again with Tyson and Usain Bolt but unfortunately that's | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
not going to happen. He has an injury which has been niggling him | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
for many years. He has a tiny injuries which set him back. That's | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
one of the reasons we don't see him at his best all the time, but I'm | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
looking forward to the head to head when they are both healthy and fit. | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
It will be truly exciting. Tyson, the last few years have been | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
a constant struggle against injury. You wonder whether his body will | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
keep on getting him down. It's a massive shame for him because he | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
knows what we have seen so far is not his best, and he believes he | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
can battle seriously head-to-head and be a serious competitor to | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
Usain Bolt. Perhaps we will see this year, at the Olympics, we will | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
see it in London. One athlete who will be there challenging | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
controversially is Justin Gatlin who did not make it through the US | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
trials. He has been world champion, but unfortunately has also been | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
positive up for four years and had a drug ban. He did very well to | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
make the West team, and has gone under 10 seconds a few occasions | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
this year, and will be interesting to see how we takes on the rest of | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
the world. He is used to take non- Americans. He will be taking on the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Jamaicans in. It will be a big test for him was a it's a strange | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
situation in terms of the rules at the moment for drug-taking. He can | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
compete in the Olympics. Dwain Chambers can't. There's now a new | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
rule which says you can't compete in the Olympic Games. Regardless | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
what you feel about drug-taking, we could do with a uniform rule, | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
couldn't we? It's difficult to break everything down. We have | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
athlete with different reasons why they can and can't run, and you | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
have got to take each athlete case by case. The then you will find it | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
why you can or can't compete in the Olympic Games. Dwain it can't | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
compete at all because of the bylaw. The US the Olympic Committee have | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
taken the IOC to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to challenge | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
their ruled to stop people competing. If they were to be | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
successful, you wonder whether it Dwain it could consider another | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
crack at it. It will be an interesting thing for him but I | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
think he should concentrate on his running a bar of an battling for | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
himself. He has the European Championships to compete in, | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
remember. What about Usain Bolt? Early-season form a bit shaky. He | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
looked better in Oslo. Where do you assess him at the moment in terms | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
of the build up? I watched him carefully after he ran the 200 | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
metres in Oslo to see what his fitness levels was like and he was | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
playing very nicely with the crowd. When he spoke to us, he was | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
certainly under control of his breath. It didn't seem to tax him | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
in any way. It's a sign he's in great shape. He needs polishing. | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Once he gets that done, and drops a few seconds, I think he will defend | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
his world titles comfortably. think he's next in the diamond lead | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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in Paris. That will be live online. A very good win from Gonzalez. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Kevin coming back into some form, I think. It was good to see. The 400 | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
metres is quite competitive. Everybody is expecting it to be | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
alive by now. The quick runs have not happened. Every athlete | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
believes in themselves now. Gonzalez himself was only 4th in | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
the Jamaican championships, and, really, it meant to wasn't going to | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
make the world championship team when he is the world record holder | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
in Jamaica for the fortunately, the man who finished second decided not | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
to do the 400 metres so Gonzales mixed into the team. It has been a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
strange season for the 400 metres season. Maguire struggling and not | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
winning. Two or three years ago, we were talking about him being in the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
next world record holder. expected him to be dominant. Yes, | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
it hasn't happened for him from here on in. It will be an | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
interesting battle. Gone are the times when we could predict who the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
winner was clearly. Now it is a true battle and I think the world | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
of athletics, we like to see it, if we like established names but also | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
like to see people challenging them. Up from a British point of view, | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
one athlete we have looked towards looking at would be Martin Bruny. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
He has struggled, hasn't he? Yes, it's difficult for the guys to get | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
into the groove. You need to have a lot of background behind you. If | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
you can get two solid winters behind you, it seems to see you | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
through. If you can get into that magical 45 seconds, anything could | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
happen for the the women's 400 metres coming up later on. Now we | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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can get back to the action with the the leading group. All of a sudden, | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
there is a little break between the leading group and the principles | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
and those following. A little group following led by Perrera. There | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
have latched on to the back. need this sort of aggression in the | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
early stages because these ladies have got to learn to run fast. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
While Chambers can win races on the circuit, she will not be pushed | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
towards the quickest times. The pacemaker has asked to go out after | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
three kilometre us, that has to be with the collusion of the leading | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
athletes. I imagine these ladies want to start attacking the clock | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
and run fast times. This middle kilometre is crucial. A as we are | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
looking at the tail-enders coming through the water jump, a good way | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
behind the leaders at the moment. Now we have the second of the | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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pacemakers. All of the principles is no doubt about it. There have | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
certainly slowed in this medal kilometre. There coming towards two | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
kilometres now. Remember, that first kilometre was 3.02. Yes, it | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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is very much slower, this. What a shame. 3.13 for this. Pacemaking | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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has not worked at all. There was reduced to single file for about | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
the first time. This group of seven are well away. Bikinis in is | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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looking very strong. -- bit lap and a half ago. There are five | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :18:18. | :19:01. | |
or six there. A dummy looks like it has allowed the race to develop | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
as a race proper. This is where they have got to start staying with | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
the leader and put pressure on her. She loves a free run at the last | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :19:22. | :20:14. | |
world this year. We thought we might get something like that. This | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
season's best nine. Well. But that middle kilometre called all the | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
problems as well as -- as far as records were concerned. It is the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
third fastest race of the year so far. I think there is some gusting | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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Next up on-track is this man's event, the 110-metre men's hurdles. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
The British number one, Andy Turner has had a good season including | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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this recent win at the European blocks but Turner is coming away. | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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Turner gets it! Maximum points for Great Britain. 13.44. | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
So, a good win for Andy Turner 10 days ago. So he will realise the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
challenges in this event last eight with America, Cuba and it is a | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
question whether he can step up to that. Yes, it is a very difficult | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
task. The guys he is competing against our super-strong. They go | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
under 13 seconds on a regular basis. It's hard to beat that kind of | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
consistency. And you will have to keep working hard. I hope he can | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
get into the 13th were 1s because once he can do that he becomes | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
competitive -- 13.1. He can sneak in and take the medals. He has got | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
to get there first. One of the things that Andy has shown, he has | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
got a lot of character and a real will to succeed. Absolutely, he is | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
determined. He is a good quality athlete. If he did not have that | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
bad Achilles tendon, I'm pretty sure he would be running much | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
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quicker. Now, we can catch up with national junior record holder. She | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
is a seven-metre jump at her best. She was in second place right the | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
way up to the end along with Proctor, until the second jump. It | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
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was a season's best far higher. -- from. A very simple technique. Six | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
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executed very well. That was good Great Britain. The wind early on | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
this evening as several races unfold it here, was very much | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
behind the sprinters down the home straight. I remember coming here. | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
There have been many world records in this arena. In particular, by | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Lui Chuang in the 110-metre hurdles three years ago. The conditions are | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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the next race, the 110-metre hurdles. And also for the 100 | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
metres race later on. Another little glance at the end of the | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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steeplechase. You can see how close before. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Are a good performance there from Sharrock Proctor. She is from a | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
British dependent territory. Has been some controversy about | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
switching allegiance but Anglia is a British dependent territory. She | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
has British citizenship so and she could not stay in the -- she could | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
not compete in the British Olympics. Let's go back to the hurdles. We | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
have talked about Andy Turner. Will Sharman, he looked really strong | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
but he has suffered a bit from injury. In my mind, and it would be | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
good to get your view of an -- as an expert, he has a different | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
technique to Andy Turner? He is far more fluid and balletic. And uses | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
more brute force when he gets down the 110-metre straight. Whether you | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
would say one is better than the other, it is dependable. I would | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
not put my money one way or the other. They are both very strong | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
athletes. Will Sharman had 4th place in the championships. It came | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
out of the blue. We were looking for him to do something more | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
special. Injury hampers you in this event and I'm hoping that both of | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
them can get back healthy because goods domestic competition makes a | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
big difference in this event. can look at the start this now. The | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
world record holder is Dayron Robles. Injury jumped on him at the | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
wrong time in his career. So I am thinking that once again he is fit | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
and healthy. This event will be explosive. They talk about the 100 | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
metres being explosive and a great watch, but trust me, this is a | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
great event. There is Dayron Robles. He is a | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
world record holder and Olympic champion. 13.07 is his best this | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
season. Jason Richardson on his right is the world youth champion | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
in 2003. He has come on a bit. Andy Turner, the European and | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
Commonwealth champion. He is next to Ryan Wilson who has not really | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
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performed this season. Daniel Kiss of Hungary, a European bronze- | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
medallist last year. A quarter- finalist in the Olympic Games in | :28:18. | :28:28. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :28:28. | :29:17. | |
2008. Certainly, all eyes will be Dayron Robles is already going away | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
from this field. He is being chased hard by Richardson on his left. It | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
will be very close. Dayron Robles gets it. Thomas from Richardson, I | :29:28. | :29:36. | |
think. It is pretty well what I expected, I must say. Andy Turner | :29:36. | :29:43. | |
was 4th. The wind speed plus one metre per second. There is a little | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
way to go before Dayron Robles will impact on David Oliver and Lui | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
Chuang. That will be one of the big finals. It is one of the big finals | :29:57. | :30:07. | |
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in the world championships. Watch really, he has a little bit of work | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
to do but there is early days. There is plenty of time to build up | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
to the World Championships. I didn't think he got out that well. | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
He looked a little bit laboured. You expected him to move away. I | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
saw him racing about a month ago and he looked a lot better than | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
this and much was a lot faster. That is a very small winning margin | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
there back to Thomas in second. Richardson to his right. That was | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
not the form you would expect. At the moment, I don't think that puts | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
him on a par with the others. Not a bad time, but I don't think he will | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
be happy with that. No, there's a little way to go. He has run faster | :30:58. | :31:06. | |
than that. 13.07. Let's have another look at this. Watch his | :31:06. | :31:14. | |
shoulders all the way down. His leg speed is good. Very fast. It brings | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
the lead leg down. You have got to be on the ground to run, and this | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
man is good at it, but, Tim, the others are a little bit ahead in | :31:26. | :31:32. | |
the preparation stakes for the World Championship at the moment. | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
Look at the Jamaican support here. It absolutely magnificent, isn't | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
it? They are everywhere. There are three great Jamaica's in the 100 | :31:41. | :31:49. | |
metres coming up. The only one missing is a certain Usain Bolt. A | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
glorious evening for the people in the sunshine. It was about a 25 | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
degrees this afternoon. Quite cold in the shade. Quite a bit of wind. | :31:59. | :32:09. | |
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But, I suspect, he is nice and warm Andy, a new personal best? Yes. | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
Obviously I'm happy to finally get rid of that personal best. | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
Technically, the race. There was quite a few mistakes. I know there | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
is more to come. It is a stepping stone. I have got to get things | :32:41. | :32:49. | |
right. I'm delighted to run a personal best. You must take great | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
confidence from being within touching that since of the world | :32:52. | :33:00. | |
record holder. -- touching distance. Yes, I beat him once but he fell | :33:00. | :33:08. | |
over! It's nice to close that gap a little bit. I Mr it on the European | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
indoors to close the gap on these types of people. -- I missed out on | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
the European indoors. You talked about the injections in your | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
Achilles heel. How is that doing? I'm doing good. It's so nice to be | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
pain-free. It's a massive relief every time I get here. I am at peak | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
condition. I'm going for it, touch wood. A great job, Andy. A tough | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
race for you. Coming back from injury, how would you assess where | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
you're at at the moment? I am lacking hurdle practice, basically | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
so, in May, I went to training camp and picked up a softer tissue | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
injury. It took longer than expected. At first, nothing showed | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
up on the MRI scans other went back into training, and damaged it | :33:58. | :34:05. | |
further. When you what training below the game line, not able to do | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
any hurdling, it takes time to go back and I think that is where I am | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
at at the moment. I think a lot will be gained over the next eight | :34:15. | :34:23. | |
weeks just by racing, so... think you have enough time? I have | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
done it before. I up have never been known for running personal | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
bests at the beginning of the season. Normally, it is there | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
latter half of the year when I begin to shine. I am optimistic. | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
It's hard against great athletes, but his champions, against the rest | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
of the world. -- British champions. You want to represent Britain with | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
pride but when you're lacking training, it shows on the day. | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
luck. I hope you get it right. Next up on the track is one of the | :34:55. | :35:01. | |
highlights of this evening, the men's 800 metres. It features the | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
world record holder who has been up expect something special this | :35:09. | :35:19. | |
evening, I think. He won the world title in the 2007. Now the former | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
world junior silver-medallist in lane five. The European champion | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
recently ran a great 250 metres. Now the silver-medallist from last | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
:35:43. | :35:43. | ||
year. A fairly modest 146. Here is Davis. Last week he ran a really | :35:43. | :35:51. | |
useful race in France just to warm himself up for this one. He will be | :35:51. | :35:59. | |
the pacemaker, Sammy. I was talking to David's agent last night and he | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
said last week he did a track session, the first one in some time, | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
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world class a run as well, David. I wonder how quick he will run | :36:32. | :36:42. | |
:36:42. | :36:51. | ||
tonight? -- he was a world class This reduces the danger. We are | :36:51. | :36:59. | |
looking for around 495. He ran up 23 followed by 23. That is | :36:59. | :37:09. | |
:37:09. | :37:14. | ||
interesting. He is so smooth at the moment and looks so cool. Rudisha | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
With just over 300 metres to run. At five-metre lead at the moment. | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
Moving into third place now. A lot of running to do. He is stretching | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
away. Look at that gap in the space of 150 metres. He has taken them | :37:35. | :37:43. | |
out of the competition. They are really struggling back. Rudisha, as | :37:43. | :37:53. | |
the comes around the bend, it's a majestic run. Second place, he is | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
kicking had. The rest of them are struggling here -- he is kicking | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
hard. I don't think he really accelerated there. He knew he had | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
done enough down the back straight. He was looking at the big screen to | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
see he had about a 12-metre leader and he knew the damage had been | :38:15. | :38:25. | |
:38:25. | :38:26. | ||
done. I'm not sure he's anything like last year when he set a world | :38:26. | :38:32. | |
record in September. 29th August. He's not in that sort of shape yet, | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
but he will be. He is coming back from injury. I understand he has | :38:38. | :38:45. | |
been doing a lot of running in the woods. Doing some strides, playing | :38:45. | :38:55. | |
at cautious. Plenty of time on his Quite an athlete, isn't he? The | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
men's triple jumper just getting under way and that features the big | :38:58. | :39:05. | |
head-to-head between Philips has to do -- Phillips Idowu and Teddy | :39:05. | :39:15. | |
:39:15. | :39:22. | ||
Tamgho. They are great rivals but Me and Teddy are cool. We get on | :39:22. | :39:28. | |
really, really well. I love him. He's like my little brother. He's a | :39:28. | :39:36. | |
very talented kid. He has made sure I can't just sit back. I can't | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
think, I am the world champions. Year by year, I know I have got to | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
keep improving, so he has pushed me to go out and think, I have got to | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
do the big races this season. It's good having in the sport. He makes | :39:51. | :40:01. | |
:40:01. | :40:01. | ||
it exciting. He is older than me. When he talks to me, I want to | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
understand because I know he has good advice. He told me I need | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
experience in the competitions. He started to be a big jumper. In the | :40:16. | :40:24. | |
2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, second in Beijing with experience. Great | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
experience. He told me, with experience, I could be better up. | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
When you line up alongside Teddy, he has the height advantage of. | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
It's difficult to answer. I think it's fifty-fifty. He has experience. | :40:43. | :40:51. | |
He is stronger, too. Unique. I have jumped further than him but I am | :40:51. | :40:59. | |
younger. It's going to be very difficult to choose a winner. | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
are both their respect to each other. We both know there is more | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
to come so we need to be on our game. I don't know where the | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
advantage lies. You just have to find it on the day. Colin, what | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
happened to the bad days when competitors hated each other? | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
days are long gone. They are good guys and they respect each other | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
which is the most important thing, but they also know how tough it is | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
to compete against each other. You going into this competition, Teddy | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
is in the lead. Phillips has got to catch him but it's about that clash | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
of. The young pretender looking to take the crown in every single | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
competition. It's going to be good today. The wind conditions are | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
ideal. Some good jumping already. The women's long jump, for example. | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
I'm looking forward to seeing the world's best mark past. Not the | :42:00. | :42:07. | |
world record but this season best. How important do you think of this | :42:07. | :42:14. | |
season is to Phillips Idowu in terms of getting a psychological | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
one-upmanship on a teddy? It is vital. You want to compete and show | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
your dominance. It doesn't matter how many times you can be digging | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
somebody, you have got to let them know you're a serious competitor | :42:28. | :42:34. | |
and they have to watch you. That is what Phillips wants to show over | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
Teddy Tamgho this time. Teddy Tamgho has the potential, 17.98 in | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
New York last year. But a major outdoor championship, he looks | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
vulnerable. A Phillips matured into the athlete we know he could be. | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
knew he had the potential to be the world champion. We knew he could go | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
into these big championships and win them. He had to come back last | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
year to take that title and he did it with a phenomenal job, so it's a | :43:05. | :43:12. | |
great event. Another great head-to- head. A good competition. We can | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
catch up with that men's 800 metres result. A Supreme performance from | :43:16. | :43:26. | |
:43:26. | :43:33. | ||
Rudisha, he is a class act. People are coming back from major injuries. | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
It's been a tough two years before here. They are focused on 2012 and | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
they will make sure they are polished when they get there. The | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
Olympic title is what they want and they will do anything to make sure | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
they get it. We hope you will come along and talk to us in a moments | :43:52. | :44:02. | |
:44:02. | :44:04. | ||
time, David Rudisha. We have Tiffany representing Britain at the | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
moment. How do you think she has made the transfer? She has done it | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
very well, very smoothly indeed. We have seen what she is capable of | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
doing. She came through to the European indoors, shocking | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
everybody in the European, showing what she has made of. Lowering the | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
British record, as well. She is coming it tonight in a Lausanne, to | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
wait up competition. She faces the Commonwealth and US champion, Sally | :44:32. | :44:40. | |
Pearson. Sally is an incredible athlete in great form. She has run | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
a good 100 metres, so it's a tough race for to have any tonight. | :44:45. | :44:55. | |
:44:55. | :45:12. | ||
race is coming up shortly but now here than they are wary New York. | :45:12. | :45:20. | |
An opening effort for the Frenchman. That is about 17.50 there, it | :45:20. | :45:30. | |
:45:30. | :45:32. | ||
certainly looks very big Timmy. -- to me. It is no jump. What a shame. | :45:32. | :45:42. | |
:45:42. | :45:52. | ||
That is a warning sign for Phillips championships last week. They are | :45:52. | :46:02. | |
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planning -- up against an silver-medallist. She is the | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
Commonwealth champion from last autumn. Danielle Carruthers is in | :46:14. | :46:24. | |
:46:24. | :46:40. | ||
lane four. Kellie Wells goes in a world championship team before | :46:40. | :46:50. | |
:46:50. | :46:53. | ||
but she has now. She has had a great season so far. Virginia | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
Powell-Crawford in lane six. 4th in the US championships. Then at least | :47:03. | :47:13. | |
:47:13. | :47:14. | ||
Iraq of Switzerland. She could be a surprise here -- Lisa. Derval | :47:14. | :47:24. | |
:47:24. | :47:48. | ||
Pearson leading at the moment. It will be a win for the Australian by | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
the smallest of margins! The winning time, 12.46. A very strong | :47:54. | :48:04. | |
:48:04. | :48:06. | ||
following wind there. That was a quick time. The wind is way over | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
the limit. Pearson got it, Carruthers second. It was tight but | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
the Australian has travelled as well as the Americans and that was | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
a cracking race between the two. Carruthers ran a 12.37 in the US. | :48:30. | :48:40. | |
She was leading. Virginia Powell- Crawford was going well as well. | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
Peers and has that little bit more momentum of the hurdle. It was very | :48:46. | :48:56. | |
tight for third place. Danielle Carruthers is very much quicker | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
this year. Running very strong over the flat and certainly, her | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
technique is better. Pearson clearly the winner in a very, very | :49:05. | :49:14. | |
good race. Sally Pearson just showing the Americans they cannot | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
forget about the Australians, even though they do not appear very | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
often on the circuits on the straights. Sally Pearson has come | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
out after running the southern hemisphere season and very often | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
:49:39. | :49:53. | ||
matches the best of the Americans they? Tiffany Ofili-Porter, | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
disappointing for her, that would have been a British record. | :49:59. | :50:07. | |
Certainly, Pearson, the point you made earlier on, 11.2. She has an | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
edge on the flat over Danielle Carruthers. They really attack the | :50:14. | :50:22. | |
hurdles well. Look at the way Pearson is so aggressive. 8 was a | :50:22. | :50:31. | |
very, very good race indeed between the two. Fine sprint hurdling. | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
athletes at the top of their game and the Australian coming out on | :50:35. | :50:45. | |
:50:45. | :50:54. | ||
Tiffany Ofili-Porter alongside me. 12.64, you must be pretty happy | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
with that? I would have been happier if it was not windy. But if | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
the wind is behind you, it does not make it easier? That is true, it | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
can actually help you if it is too strong. You were very competitive | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
with the best athletes in the world? Yes, that is what it is all | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
about. You cannot be satisfied running against people who are not | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
the best so it is all about competing with the best in the | :51:23. | :51:29. | |
world. You were watching the race on the slow-motion replay, what can | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
you make of your form? I have so much more to give. I cannot wait | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
for it all to come together! Just tell us what you mean by it that? | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
can't give away my secrets but it will come together! I will ask CJ, | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
he will tell me. He knows a bit about the hurdles. Thank you so | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
much. So, Colin, she has so much more to give, what would you say | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
your assessment is? Initially, she lost at the start. I think she was | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
shocked because it was the first time she has raced against Sally | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
and if you do not know people's strengths, it is hard to judge | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
yourself. We know Sally is an incredible sprinter. She won the | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
Commonwealth title. She was stripped of the title in another | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
controversy. Tiffany has a lot of fluency to come. Once she settles | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
down, because a lot has been gone - - a lot has gone on in her life, | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
changing country, getting married, missing out on titles, a lot of | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
expectation on her, once she settles down, she will get into | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
that group. Athletics is about timing and rhythm and in the | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
hurdles, it is the essence to pull the timing together. I believe we | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
have a genuine world class athlete here who will be special again for | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
us in 2012. Yes, she is really in the next there. Sally Pearson, you | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
mentioned she is in great form. She has not been racing much on the | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
circuit? First race. That is good. Everybody in Europe knows her now | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
but to come here again, the first time out and pick up from where she | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
left off last year, it sends a bit of a shock wave through people's | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
back and saying debut, watch me, I will be there. There is still | :53:21. | :53:29. | |
plenty more to come this evening. Dai Greene goes in the men's 400- | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
metre hurdles. He won the European Championships and is up against the | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
best in the world this evening. Then it is the world champion at | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
800 metres over -- Against the world champion over 1,500 metres, | :53:44. | :53:53. | |
Caster Semenya against Jamal. And then the men's 100 metres. Asafa | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
Powell up against Christophe nature of France. So, Colin, plenty to | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
look forward to there and your fellow countryman, Dai Greene, in | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
the 400-metre hurdles will be good? That will be exciting for me! I | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
believe he is in great shape. I have seen what he needs to do. The | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
400-metre hurdles will be one of the best races of the day. We are | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
going to 400 metres now. Sanya Richards-Ross is there. We can get | :54:20. | :54:30. | |
:54:30. | :54:53. | ||
world indoor champion who won the title in Doha in 2010. She was | :54:53. | :55:03. | |
:55:03. | :55:31. | ||
early on. Sanya Richards-Ross has got off very quickly indeed. They | :55:31. | :55:41. | |
:55:41. | :55:51. | ||
Richards-Ross on the outside. Hastings on the outside. She is | :55:51. | :55:59. | |
struggling. He looks like Richard's loss could come through to second | :55:59. | :56:09. | |
:56:09. | :56:37. | ||
and she has got it. That is as surprised from Amantle Montsho. She | :56:37. | :56:47. | |
:56:47. | :56:57. | ||
ran very well in gusty conditions. Shericka Williams? They were very | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
:57:07. | :57:08. | ||
tired. Amantle Montsho in contrast had a massive lead the. If it was | :57:08. | :57:18. | |
:57:18. | :57:33. | ||
not for Sanya Richards-Ross, she Montsho but also a very encouraging | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
performance from Sanya. How do you assess that? That was my best run | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
for the season. I'm proud. I wanted to run fast. I do not like losing. | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
I'm definitely progressing so I am happy. Tell us about the challenges | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
you have had, all of our viewers remain the winning and winning the | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
Golden League so tell us about some of the struggles you have been | :57:57. | :58:03. | |
through? In 2010 I had the season- ending injury. I pulled my quad | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
muscle. I did not think it would be hard coming back that missing the | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
he season was tough. My training has been going great. This race is | :58:13. | :58:19. | |
encouraging. It is great to see you back on form. We wish you the best. | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
She is one of the real stars of the sport. Let's hope she can really | :58:23. | :58:29. | |
get back to form. It is very difficult when you take a whole | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
season off to return instantly to your winning ways. She's very | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
grounded, she understands what she needs to do. She's getting there | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
slowly but surely. Each race is getting better and better and | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
better. I hope she can get to under 50 seconds again. There is no Usain | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
Bolt here this evening but the men's 100 metres will still be a | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
:59:02. | :59:32. | ||
That men's 100 metres coming up very shortly indeed. I have got | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
David behind me. It's great to see you back and healthy. Were you | :59:36. | :59:44. | |
pleased with that run? Yes, I'm pleased. This is my second race. I | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
am feeling very strong. I am coming back nicely from injury. Today I | :59:49. | :59:54. | |
expected to run even better but I just felt the wind was strong on | :59:54. | :59:59. | |
the back stretch. It's amazing how quickly you found your form after | :59:59. | :00:06. | |
injury, particularly in your first race. Yes, when I got injured, I | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
was really in good shape at the time but just before, I was injured. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
I just went out to serious training for two months before I started | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
coming back and then I felt my body responding. David, thanks for | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
speaking to us. Thank you. Great stuff. Unbelievable. Here is the | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
:00:42. | :00:47. | ||
men's 100 metres. Colin, it's quite to him running at home, Christophe | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
Lemaitre. The support from the crowd will push Ramon. Asafa Powell | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
is the Jamaican champion, a strong athlete, and you can imagine what | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
is looking forward to, too. Here is Phillips Idowu. I think this might | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
be around one. No, the second round is in, obviously. What can he do in | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
:01:27. | :01:28. | ||
the second round? Good, strong, running. It is over 17 metres. I | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
think the wind is blowing backwards and forwards and it's very | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
difficult for the athletes. Yes, it's very tough here. The wind has | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
picked up. It is unusual for Lausanne, that the wind is so | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
blustery. The athletes are struggling. In the women's long | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
jump, it was to and fro, plus two down to minus one. It's difficult | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
for them. I'm pretty sure he will be able to pull through. That was | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
17.26. It was the first round. were right. There would have been a | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
time when it could be a foregone conclusion for Christophe Lemaitre. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
I'm really pleased for him, you know. It's nice for us to have a | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
European back in the 100 metres and seriously in the next. It will be | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
interesting to hear what the home crowd is going to be like a. It's | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
:02:43. | :02:44. | ||
going to be explosive when they announce his name. Asafa Powell. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
One of his team mates holds the record. He is only number five this | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
year, but I feel it the wind speed stays inside the legal limit, he | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
may improve his ranking this evening. His agent said is in very | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
good shape. This man is in good form, Christophe Lemaitre. 999 and | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
:03:16. | :03:17. | ||
then 995 in the last week. The European fans darling. Nesta Carter | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
in lane six, another Olympic champion. Churandy Martina goes in | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
lane seven for the Netherlands. And then the Pascal Mancini. He has a | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
best of 10.41 this year. His lifetime best. He and Felix Goltl | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
in lane one might be struggling in this company. Three Jamaicans in | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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this. No doubt, part of the A squad with a hamstring problem. Nesta | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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Carter, six. Pascal Mancini in lane eight. Good start. Not a great | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
start for Christophe Lemaitre. He has gone all the way down at the | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
:04:41. | :04:41. | ||
moment. He was coming through late, Christophe Lemaitre. One metre per | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
second there for Asafa Powell, the fastest time in the world this year. | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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It knocks Gate of the rankings. -- it knocks Tyson Gave off the | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
rankings. He has improved on the world best. Will it this man beat | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the jinx he has been the championship and get a world | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
championship? There is a certain matter of the Usain Bolt are to be | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
overcome. He will give him a tough run for his money. That's one of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the best runs we have seen from a Asafa Powell for a year or two. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
It's the first time he was up against Christophe Lemaitre, who | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
had a lot of publicity. Asafa Powell, though, just for once, | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
being the favourite. We always call him the nearly man of. He was | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
supposed to win an Olympic title, a world title and didn't do it. This | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
time, you never know. He has got Usain Bolt have to contend with. He | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
got away very well. So did Nesta Carter from Jamaica. Christophe | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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Lemaitre was under pressure. A good run by a Michael Frater. 995 for | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Christophe Lemaitre, equalling his national record. In third place, in | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
the end, what a return for him, Michael Frater for the personal | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
best. He has been there so long, Michael Frater, and all of a sudden | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
he is back again. An astonishing recovery. He had an awful start. | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
After 30 metres, he was three metres down. He was so poor but his | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
second half was astonishing. It indicates the best event for | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Christophe Lemaitre will be 200. certainly was under pressure but | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
this is the kind of races has got to get into. He has got to learn to | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
cope with the pressure. Nesta Carter, good going, but this fellow | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
was well ahead. Christophe Lemaitre, he is only 20, he is learning his | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
trade. He is top of the tree in Europe but still some way to go in | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
terms of the world. They got what they wanted, the French fans. What | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
a second half for the young French man. The fastest time in the world | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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What a race. We thought it is going to be faster but did you think was | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
going to be that fast? Sensational. Asafa Powell did not mess at all | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
out of the blocks. He drove up the track and ended up with 978 | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
performance. The fastest time in the world. Only plus one would the | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
wind speed. When they came out of the blocks. Four men under 10 | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
seconds. There are two national records, Norway and France. Another | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
personal best there for Michael Frater from Jamaica. 988. I can | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
assure you, what an amazing 100 metres. This place is coming alive | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
and they love the sprint here. We see so many world record in the 100 | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
metres run on this track. You know, what Asafa Powell out of the blocks. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
He keeps going. As he approaches the line, he glances over to see | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the time. We know what is looking for. The that start was | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
breathtaking. Christophe Lemaitre was just left. Absolutely. He has | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
start against Asafa Powell on numerous occasions but today was a | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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special day. It's nice to see Asafa Powell back to his best. Only 600 | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
twos passed his personal best. That a mouth-watering prospect. Can the | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
Americans get involved? Exciting times. Christophe Lemaitre showed a | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
lot of composure there. A year ago, had he been left in the blocks like | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
that, he perhaps would have given up a but he ran nine and 95 come | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
equal to the national record. is what we strive for in athletics, | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
consistency. It is your platform and that is where you were going to | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
trample lean yourself from. 995, he has run a bad time three or four | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
times this year. It will be a big breakthrough for him soon enough. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
He will get close to the European record and will probably break it, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
because he is on that plateau right now. A lot is happening in this | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
stadium tonight. Hopefully we will speak to Asafa Powell and | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
:10:13. | :10:13. | ||
Christophe Lemaitre shortly. Let's struggling. | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
So much is expected of him. In that New York last year, bounding out | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
17.98. He so nearly became the third man ever over 80 metres. | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
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triple jumps to his name so far. Three good stages. That is massive. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
Teddy Tamgho goes bounding way beyond 17 metres. Almost in to 18- | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
metre territory. That was enormous. He is a great show man and he | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
really plays to the crowd. He lacks consistency to know he can do this. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
That's the end of round three. A wonderful way. Can they come back | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
from that? 17.91 for Teddy Tamgho. It is the longest jump in the world | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
this year. It's the passes his own 17.67. That was in a small French | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
meeting back, 7th June. Here he is, three weeks later, and once thrust | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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17.91. This place has come alive. What do you think? I think it's a | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
long way. He's a lovely jump was -- jumper pulls up I think he could | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
break my world record. -- jumper. I think he could break my world | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
record. It will be interesting to see how he responds? What does | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Teddy Tamgho have to do now? think it's experience. I think he | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
gets over-excited at big championships. He has got so much | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
energy. He bounds around everywhere. He believes he can jump 18 metres | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
and be one of the best to triple jumpers ever. I think it gets the | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
better of him because he got so much expectation of himself. For me, | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
I'm afraid to see what Phillips does now. 17.21 in the second round. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
He is behind and I don't think he wants to give Teddy Tamgho a | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
psychological advantage. What would be a good performance? Phillips | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
would have to set a personal best to win this evening. What would be | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
a good comeback for Phillips Idowu? Over 1750, for sure. Something 57 | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
is the best this season. I think that is the bare minimum -- 17 of | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
the T7 is the best this season. -- 1757 is the best this season. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Whether he can jump that far remains to be seen. I doubt that. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
He needs do something to walk away with his head held high. For an | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
athlete like Teddy Tamgho, who has got so much feeling and relies on | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
confidence, if he wins by 70 centimetres, it's a massive victory. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Before, you have seen somebody jumper big before you. What did he | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
do when he lines up on that? What goes through his mind? Belief? | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
Phillips has not jump that far. Whatever anybody jump, I could | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
always jump a little bit further. Anyway, we'll wait and see. We can | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
go back out onto the track now for the women's for 200 metres. Caster | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Semenya or the world champion of the 800 metres against the world | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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champion over 1,500 metres, Maryam in Rome but was second in Eugene. | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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She has won this race three times before. There are two pacemakers. I | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
mentioned before with the steeplechase how ambitious the pace | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
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cannot see them taking on. SFO is maintaining the tempo. You expect | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
an acceleration in the last 300 or 400 metres. Jamal does like a hard, | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
fast pace, she does like to go and race halved so it may be her who is | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
requesting this tempo and try and run the length of the others | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
without the nicety of a sprint finish. Certainly, the pacemaking | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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the field. She very seldom runs the 1,500 metres. We will see how sheep | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
:16:30. | :16:39. | ||
fairs here. Mimi Belete of Bahrain is on the outside. They must be | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
doing some strength work here. have to remember -- you have to | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
wonder what Jamal is playing at. She is boxed now. Some 10 metres | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
down on the pacemaker, another untidy race. The big South African | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Caster Semenya at the back of the field. She is in last place and | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
losing ground and looks to be struggling to May. -- struggling to | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
me. The pace is nowhere near what was requested. We have thrown that | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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out of the window now. Youzhny, the American is there. We are in for a | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
thrilling race. We move into another pays -- phase as the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
pacemaker slows down. Jamal is now in 6th or 7th place now. Morgan | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
:17:49. | :18:02. | ||
Uceny is in second place. Everybody that was in second place, it was | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
:18:12. | :18:29. | ||
Uceny in second place. Hind Dehiba Chahyd from France has taken legal | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
action to take place in this race. Morgan Uceny is coming wide on the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
outside. This is going to be a really close finish in this 1,500 | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
metres. Morgan Uceny is coming through to win? Or is she going to | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
hold on? I think she is. It is a very good run indeed by the winner | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
of the US trials. There is a faller at the end. It was a very, very | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
strange race. Caster Semenya just coming across the line. Morgan | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
Uceny winning and winning well. It turned into a competitive race | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
which was important. The story I was making about hind it to be had | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
shade of France, she took out a legal order to take part in this | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
meeting. She was not originally invited -- Hind Dehiba Chahyd. More | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
about that on another day. A very strange race indeed. Morgan Uceny | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
finding it easy to take that one. Anna Mishchenko coming through for | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
second race. -- second place. Jamal was out of sorts. And the likes of | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
Kalkidan Gezahegne. Very strange indeed. Morgan Uceny has won a | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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tactical 1,500 metres. It was all Alongside me, the fastest man in | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
the world this year, Asafa Powell. A brilliant run. It was a fantastic | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
run. I managed to push through and I was a winner. Tell us about the | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
start because you left them for dead. I got a great start. We have | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
been practising it for a very long time now and I want to know that | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
every time. The question everybody will ask you, not just about being | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
world champion but being the best in Jamaica, do you look forward to | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
running against Usain Bolt? Definitely. Taking it one step at | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
time. One I get to the world championships, that is the best. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
And you like this track? Yes, I love this track. It is very fast. I | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
told Michael yesterday it is a good track. And the relay as well? | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
think we have got the best team. You could see a sub 37. Awesome, | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
:21:34. | :21:48. | ||
went earlier this evening. He was all over the place. He only had one | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
valid throw. In the end, it was good enough to get third place. The | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
Russian came close to the lead with 87 metres and 12. But was a fifth- | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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the double Olympic champion of 2004 and 2008, looks to have benefited | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
from the rest in the competition. The big one was good enough and he | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
knew it. Superb to see him back. Twice Olympic champion, back from | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
injury. He will have enjoyed that. Well done to him. He is back in | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
business, the champion of two Olympic titles to his credit. | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
:22:59. | :23:06. | ||
through strongly to take second place and the young woman from | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
France we were talking about a third place. | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
We can go back to the triple jump. What can be Britain did to responds | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
:23:34. | :23:42. | ||
consistent jumping from Philips. This is a fourth-round effort for | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
the Britain. The world champion, the European champion. It is no | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
where near 18 metres, it does not threaten Teddy Tamgho's Mark. It | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
might be an improvement. Phillips looking very, very serious. Not the | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
usual extrovert response after solid effort. Bids around 17.50. A | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
wind speed is plus one. A very sound to jump in did. His glancing | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
across at the distance market, whose stretching for it. -- be | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
:24:30. | :24:38. | ||
distance marker, he was stretching believe what is going on. She was | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
remonstrating with herself constantly. And gnashing of teeth | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
as she goes away from the bar. There was no elevation whatsoever | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
on that jump and that was pretty poor by her standards indeed. It | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
:25:04. | :25:08. | ||
took her three attempts at the This meeting really has come alive. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Next up on-track we have the men's 400-metre hurdles and a real test | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
:25:24. | :25:28. | ||
for Dai Greene? Yes, this is a true shape to get close to Chris at the | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
BBC's British record. It will be a fantastic race. Perhaps we can see | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
:25:47. | :25:49. | ||
a fast victory for Dai Greene. will be a fascinating one this. The | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
commentary team is Tim Hutchings and Stewart story. Felix Sanchez of | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
:26:06. | :26:24. | ||
towards breaking the British record. It is about time it happens now. He | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
:26:34. | :26:34. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :26:34. | :27:16. | |
is the only athlete to depend -- defend his title. Look at this, on | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
:27:26. | :27:32. | ||
the inside of Keren Clemence, strongly in the final stages. Dai | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
Greene is holding on. Dai Greene of Great Britain wins it! Have vehicle | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
:27:49. | :28:09. | ||
African as well. A sensible run, he the Commonwealth champion and the | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
man who can win titles. He has beaten world champions in that race. | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
:28:24. | :28:34. | ||
himself and will certainly now see himself as a threat in the world | :28:34. | :28:44. | |
:28:44. | :28:50. | ||
a measured performance from him. I got the impression he had more in | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
the tank. He won bike two or 3 metres from the Commonwealth | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
champion. You have to say he is but in himself very much in the frame | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
:29:13. | :29:50. | ||
as one of the favourites for the This was a big step up? Massive. I | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
like to run against guys like that and test myself. I did all right | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
for the now I'm getting drugs tested and I didn't even run a | :29:59. | :30:09. | |
:30:09. | :30:11. | ||
personal best! Tell us about this season. A massive breakthrough. | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
Training with Dai Greene, obviously. I'm enjoying it. He is running | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
:30:25. | :30:30. | ||
Listen to this. He is well-off what is capable of, Dai Greene. So in | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
the context of the times everybody else ran, that's a very good run | :30:35. | :30:40. | |
you just did. I'm not going to be happy until I get 48 at least, but | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
it will come. I am happy enough. You almost had to reassess what | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
your expectations are. Any thoughts? In October, I had world | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
championship finals on my wall and it's going to stay like that, so I | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
will be there. Jack, a great run. Good to see you. Colin, what did | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
you make of that young man? It's never easy to come to this kind of | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
competition and to get very close to your personal best. For me, it | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
was really important he felt he was part of this competition. This is | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
the way you develop. You get confidence from victories in your | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
own age group. He got a silver medal at the European Under 23 is, | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
but to come here now and mix in with these big guys, to really go | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
there and perform the way he did, was just sensational. I think | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
people are wondering what the crowd noise is about. They are doing this | :31:46. | :31:56. | |
:31:56. | :32:00. | ||
kind of sound -o-metre. Coming back to Jack Green, you see athletes to | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
step onto the world stage and they perform so far below what they are | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
capable of because of their confidence. For him to do that was | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
an achievement. One thing I got to add to that is when you see your | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
training partner come to these competitions and do so well and you | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
are rubbing shoulders with them day in day out, it gives you confidence | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
and belief, two, because you think, he has beaten these guys, I am | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
going to do it to. It's a great situation. Let's talk about Dai | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
Greene. Hopefully we can speak to him very soon. A very mature | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
performance. You come to expected now. Yes, when you come to a race | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
like this, things can go wrong. Things can go horribly wrong but | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
Dai Greene is very mature. He comes here, truly competitive, with the | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
respect and regard from his opponents, so when he steps on the | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
track now, they know what he's capable of, and it makes them are | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
really worried. I'm looking forward to the world championships because | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
I want there to be another Welsh champion. Next up is the women's | :33:15. | :33:25. | |
:33:25. | :33:25. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :33:25. | :34:13. | |
European champion last summer. That One-metre 95. This could become a | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
good competition. This has been a difficult one for her. She is in | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
6th place at the moment. Unless she can become the second woman Clare | :34:23. | :34:33. | |
:34:33. | :34:34. | ||
here... No, no, no. A bad day at the office, absolutely. That will | :34:34. | :34:42. | |
do a lot of damage to a confidence. Absolutely lethargic. Nowhere near | :34:42. | :34:50. | |
the heights we have seen last season. 2.05. Not so now. She has | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
cleared two metres but, my goodness me, in conditions which are not bad, | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
she has failed miserably here. 200 metres runners are in their | :35:00. | :35:10. | |
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from the winner of the European Team Championships. She leads at | :35:18. | :35:26. | |
the moment. They come round into the straight. The Ukraine, McKenzie, | :35:26. | :35:35. | |
number three. Has she got the legs here? It's the Ukraine of. She | :35:35. | :35:45. | |
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takes it. Maria, the Ukraine. The wind, not 0.2. It certainly feels | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
stronger than that up here, I can tell you. If the flags are anything | :35:51. | :35:58. | |
to go by around the arena, the wind is gusting awkwardly. Nonetheless, | :35:58. | :36:04. | |
a rare victory for a Ukrainian in the diamond lead. The 23-year-old | :36:04. | :36:12. | |
takes maximum points. 22.85. It wasn't the strongest. There was no | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
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you can do, and she has done that Alongside me, Dai Greene. When you | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
look at the field, you had the world champion in there, you also | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
had Cornel Fredericks, the South African, who had a faster time than | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
you, but did you feel you could win it? Yes, but form of the other | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
athletes, I E of knew they were in great shape. Conditions were great | :36:51. | :36:58. | |
today and I'm happy to come away from the victory. Clearly, | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
conditions tonight were not conducive. I know I'm a close to | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
the British record. I have been training very hard. I want to save | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
my best for the championships. is your preparation after today? | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
It's a long time. I feel I am ahead of schedule so there's no pressure | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
on me to trying too hard. If I have an injury, I can ease off but I | :37:22. | :37:28. | |
need to pressured if I want to be in the top three. This may be an | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
unfair question, do you realistically believe you could | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
become world champion? For the six and seven months of training in the | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
winter, I don't imagine getting a silver medal, let's put it that way. | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
You have to believe you can win. I know I've done all the hard work | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
until this point. It's a matter of maintaining it. Colin, a brilliant | :37:50. | :37:57. | |
performance. It shows the maturity of this man. He has moved on in | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
leaps and bounds and it's great to see a fellow Welshman. I have to | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
say that. He's an outstanding athlete. He's going to go from | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
strength to strength from here so I'm looking forward to seeing him | :38:08. | :38:16. | |
next. When his sharpness comes, watch out. The next competition for | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
you? Birmingham. I get a lot of support in Birmingham. My | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
girlfriend has from there. Birmingham has not too far from | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
Wales, either. Well done tonight. Thanks very much. The measure of a | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
performance was to come here and put away some of the best athletes | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
in the world. We have seen too little of British athletes on the | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
circuits mixing it with the best. Yes, what he said was clear, he | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
wasn't boast four. He said he trained hard, prepared well and now | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
he's out there to deliver his performance and he's doing that | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
week-in, week-out, which is a great thing to see. It's going to be an | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
exciting year this year for him in the build up towards 2012 and I | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
think he will want to make it a solid World Championships, and look | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
forward to the winter and preparing for the big one. We can catch up | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
now with a field event which happened earlier on, the men's shot | :39:20. | :39:30. | |
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competition. He had his work tough -- cut out for him without Dylan | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
Armstrong, who missed his connecting flight to be here. 148, | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
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he opened with. 21.83 in around three. A big effort. Seven | :39:53. | :40:01. | |
centimetres ahead of Ron Whiting. The world champion looking good | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
with the world championships eight weeks away. There are three or four | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
men who could get this gold medal at this stage of the season. It's | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
not a foregone conclusion. Dylan Armstrong 22 metres, 21. He missed | :40:16. | :40:25. | |
his flight to come here. He was the man to beat. Christian dominated | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
last year. He had an operation on a shoulder this year but now has come | :40:32. | :40:42. | |
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Well, men's 5,000 metres coming up next. We can't not mention Mo and | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
his stunning performance in America and the record. Part of the reason | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
is running so well is he has changed coaches. Steve Cram went | :41:03. | :41:11. | |
out to see what is been doing Apparently at got to jump in the | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
freezing cold bath. If you don't mind, I will just watch. It is -70 | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
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degrees. Come on then. Let's go and What on earth does that feel like? | :41:34. | :41:44. | |
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Amazing. I'm so pleased by didn't have to do this sort of thing. My | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
coach made me go down to the sea and we would go and run in the | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
North Sea. That's about as scientific as we got. OK in there? | :41:57. | :42:07. | |
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What does it feel like when you come out? Are you stiff? Your body | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
is just really cold. You recover straight away. Then you feel a lot | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
better. Fantastic. I must put one of those on my Christmas shopping | :42:26. | :42:36. | |
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list, actually. Do you want to get What a chicken Steve Cram is. I | :42:36. | :42:43. | |
would have gone in there, wouldn't you? No chance! His transformation, | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
down to his new coach, sellers are. It's had a big impact. That was one | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
of the quickest runs ever. It was great to see. People have a lot of | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
faith in him. We wish him well. We thought, go to the USA, see what | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
happens, and we can hope you can improve, but to turn out that | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
performance was just sensational, I absolutely loved it. But does he do | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
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10, 5 K, it's a tough thing. What a nice dilemma to be in? I absolutely. | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
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Now the five K in a Lausanne. This the pole vote situation. It has | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
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finished now. This is the Cuban competitor, coming in at 5.63. He | :43:53. | :44:02. | |
had 5.43 and then had 5.73. He failed three times. So he got third | :44:02. | :44:11. | |
place here. Now the German, in second place. His find a result, | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
5.723, two attempts at 5.53, incidentally. He went on to attend | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
5.80 in the end. A couple of failures at 5.88 but the favourite | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
from France equalled his season best with the build you are about | :44:30. | :44:39. | |
to see. 5.83. He came in at 5.63. Then have 5.73. He cleared that | :44:39. | :44:48. | |
first time. Then went clear at 5.83. Three failures at 5.88. The French | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
accept their indoor records and outdoor records are not equivalent | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
so he is a six-metre of water overall. He won it here with a | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
fight but 83, a very good one. You can see the six-metre potential | :45:01. | :45:11. | |
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giving up, of course. Will he go all the way through, yes he is. He | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
has heavy strapping on his left calf. But I wonder if that | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
indicates a serious problem or just a problem. He is so erratic. He can | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
do big distances that he can also do Paul distances as well. No | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
jumper after no jump, just one valid jump of 17.91. Have a look at | :45:56. | :46:05. | |
this. He hits the board very well indeed. Good control, lovely second | :46:05. | :46:15. | |
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phase and almost a hit kick in the final stage. It was a world leading | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
distance. He holds the world indoor record. Still some way to go for | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
Jonathan Edwards' record. If there was a man with the potential to do | :46:26. | :46:36. | |
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it, here he is, Teddy Tamgho of Kipchoge in second place. In the | :46:47. | :46:57. | |
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orange strip is Bekele. The pace is tactical affair. By the standards | :47:14. | :47:24. | |
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of many of these men, it will be, I expect, on the slow side. Abera | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
Kuma is a relatively new name. His from Ethiopia. It is quite | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
staggering how the Kenyans and Ethiopians have this production | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
line of young runners. Even Haile Gebrselassie said there are so many | :47:39. | :47:45. | |
young runners coming through and he said he cannot keep up with them. | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
They are in Addis Ababa and he cannot keep up with all the young | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
lads who keep turning up and getting races in Europe and running | :47:53. | :48:03. | |
world-class times. You mention to Abera Kuma, he was disqualified in | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
the cross country for trading punches with another runner in the | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
home straight. He does not like being pushed around on the track, | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
batters the shore. He is in the leading group with Kipchoge and | :48:15. | :48:25. | |
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Chepkok. Gathimba has dropped out after seven laps. Someone was just | :48:26. | :48:35. | |
trying to him to push on. Clearly, he is a reluctant leader. I am just | :48:35. | :48:45. | |
:48:45. | :48:45. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :48:45. | :49:52. | |
after what happened tonight. They go through here with four laps to | :49:52. | :50:02. | |
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fast enough. Kipchoge goes to the lead and says, if you're not going | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
to do the job properly, I think he is an angry man at the moment. | :50:22. | :50:32. | |
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Mergia is in second place. Chepkok straight now. Just over 1,000 | :51:06. | :51:16. | |
metres to run. We are down to five just beginning to ease the way. | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
Kipchoge is controlling things. I think he suspects if he has got the | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
lead and no one is prepared to come round him, he will not be pushing | :51:25. | :51:34. | |
hard and they must be under pressure. I suspect he is confident. | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
When you look at Imane Mergia of Ethiopia who is in second place at | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
the moment, you will always find him in that leading pack of | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
athletes. He won in Rome, that was a world-leading time. He was second | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
in Eugene. That he has got a good finish on him as well. There is a | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
little bit of a gap. They are beginning to spread out as we | :52:03. | :52:12. | |
approach the final stages of this race. They are strung out. And | :52:12. | :52:22. | |
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Kipchoge is leading with over lap these four and Mark Kiptoo in 5th | :52:33. | :52:43. | |
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place. Kipchoge has a wonderful CV, he was world champion and Olympic | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
silver. He always produces the goods. As they come towards the | :52:51. | :53:01. | |
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bell now, it is between these four men. 61.8, that penultimate lap. | :53:03. | :53:13. | |
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Not particularly quick. We are down Is that a smile? I think it was, | :53:22. | :53:31. | |
not a grimace. Mergia in second place. Chepkok moving onto his | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
shoulder. Kipchoge is in control. He is running the shortest line. | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
They have to run wide and that is critical. It is a tactical race | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
which this one has been. He has controlled it so far. Mergia trying | :53:46. | :53:56. | |
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to come past 10. Chepkok coming through. Oh, my word! They get a | :53:58. | :54:06. | |
meeting record. It was always possible. Chepkok takes it from | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
Mergia. Kipchoge, despite doing everything right, maybe those lex | :54:12. | :54:19. | |
now I'm not quite with the same speed that they used to have, even | :54:19. | :54:25. | |
though he is certainly not in the twilight of his career. He is 20 | :54:25. | :54:35. | |
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years are. Chepkok there. Peers Well, a brilliant end to what has | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
been a brilliant meeting and here is a reminder of how good it has | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
been. Asafa Powell got out of the blocks | :54:56. | :55:03. | |
faster than anybody else and he has never looked back. He ran in 9.78 | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
seconds. It was also a world leading | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
performance in the men's triple jump. Teddy Tamgho jumped 17 metres | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
91 and was half a metre ahead of Phillips Idowu Will. | :55:15. | :55:25. | |
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In the women's 100-metre hurdles, Sally Pearce then won. -- Sally | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
Pearson. Dai Greene gave the performance of the meeting, beating | :55:30. | :55:37. | |
a world-class field in 48.44 seconds. | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
Well, Colin, it has been an outstanding meeting. I think it | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
came alive with the performance from Sally Pearson in the 100-metre | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
hurdles. You cannot argue with that. The crowd got on their feet, they | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
were cheering, it was an amazing race. That set everything up. When | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
Sally came over to us, she stood next to us to watch Asafa Powell | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
run the 100 metres and she said, do you want me now?! The way he got | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
out of those blocks, he destroyed the field, didn't he? It was a true, | :56:12. | :56:17. | |
sensational performance. It will be so amazing when he gets through to | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
date give. He has that confidence about him. I thought, this was a | :56:23. | :56:29. | |
different Asafa Powell, a man who believes what he can give. And Dai | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
Greene? He has beaten a world-class field and he will take huge | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
confidence from this? Yes, knowing he has still got something left in | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
the tank. He has still got the sharpening and polishing to do. | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
Once he gets the fluency. That just about rounds things up from | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
Lausanne but plenty more athletics coming up on the BBC. On Friday | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
eighth of July we are in Paris for the Diamond League. That is on the | :56:56. | :57:03. | |
red button. Then we are in Birmingham on the red button on | :57:03. | :57:13. | |
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Don't forget tomorrow, further Andy Murray will be playing Rafael | :57:26. | :57:30. |