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There is always talk about the future of the home of British | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
athletics. One minute it will be redeveloped, then it will go to the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
knacker's yard, but there is still something magical about Crystal | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Palace, when it is full and the biggest names in track and field | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :01:08. | :02:01. | |
This is effectively the final qualifying for the World | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Championships in Korea. Who is in the best shape? Which British stars | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
are going to take on the world and beat it? | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
And BAFTAs course is where Mo Farah comes in. Unbeaten this year and in | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
commanding form at Birmingham last week. A 3,000-metre a warm-up | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
tonight will hopefully put him in tip-top form for Korea. But on a | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
global stage, there is no question about the outstanding athlete of | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
the year: David Rudisha, world record holder at 800m, has won his | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
last 27 races. David Oliver has been one of the pre-eminent figures | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
of track and field for the last few years, but a major title still | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
eludes him. This is a big warm up tonight for him. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
And then we will focus on two British Ladies, Perri Shakes | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
Drayton, two titles in Birmingham last weekend, but how does she rate | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
against the best in the world? And the same goes for teenage | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
sprint sensation, Jodie Williams. European junior champion but can | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
she swim with the bigger fish? Unless you live within walking | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
distance, it is often a wonder that anybody makes it to Crystal Palace, | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
especially on a Friday night, but they come still and with a capacity | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
crowd of endless acres of parkland to go alongside the sports centre, | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
world famous as well. The great thing about athletics is that it is | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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but it is also part of the Diamond League series. These events, part | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
of the Diamond League, are designated by a diamond on the | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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right Tyneside. -- right hand side. There are also some domestic events | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
to help for selection for Korea. Mo Farah will be on at 9:10pm. A | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
couple of absentees, one of them is Jessica Ennis. After her five event | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
heroics in Birmingham, she is taking the weekend off but she says | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
she intends to have one more race perhaps in Loughborough before | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Korea, and also Asafa Powell is sadly missing. He pulled out a few | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
hours ago because of injury. But we still have a blistering programme | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
for the next three hours. Some of the names of the stars are | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
augmented by Colin Jackson and Mo Faroe really have suddenly | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
captured the public's imagination. The what a season! It has been | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
incredible. We talk about the atmosphere here, he could have | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
easily sat this one out. He does not need to race but the atmosphere | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
is incredible, it is a chance for him to put his spring spikes on in | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the 3000m and celebrate with the crowd. -- sprinting spikes. So why | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
does he come? Sometimes you think it is the right thing to do. If you | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
had it been a preparation for the running year, there is no reason to | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
change it. The 3000m is a crowd- pleasing event. It is not too long | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
so as a long-distance runner, Mo Farah is going into middle-distance | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
running there. It is pretty special. He would run 3000m in a training | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
event so why not do it in front of the crowd, I suppose? This takes us | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
to the other end of the Distin spectrum to Jodie Williams, who is | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
our great hope to be a major star. She has said she will not compete | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
in Korea in the world championships. What is the difference? This gives | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
her an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the big guns. She is | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
still only 17. The merest got his Bianca Knight, who is 22. She can | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
use this to get out and feel what it is like to rub shoulders with | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
the others. Jodie Williams is used to winning and that was why she | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
does not want to go to Daegu. She has dominated her age group. Let's | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
face it, she may not feature in those championships. Behind us we | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
can see we have the men in the first semi-final of the men's 110- | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
metre hurdles. This is almost an Olympic final in its own right! | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Fantastic line-up. They are in two quite a strong headwind. Without | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
being too technical, how will that impact? It hampers your rhythm. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
This event is about strength, power and the rhythm. You need the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
marriage of all of those things do get the really fast times. Early on | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
in the evening you do tend to have a headwind at Crystal Palace. Later | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
in the evening, that will tend to drop so these guys who qualify will | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
be happier when they return later for the final. And the key thing is | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
that you have to hit the first flight because if the wind impacts | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
on you there, you have problems with the subsequent ones. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
conditions are always very different indeed so they kind of | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
drive into the first hurdle and people, look at Dayron Robles in | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the green, he is of course the world record holder and Olympic | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
champion. He does a seven stride approach to the first hurdle and he | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
will appreciate this headwind. He can drive into the barrier and get | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
into his stride earlier. The where does Andy Turner fit in? A lot of | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
pressure. He knows this is the field he will be up against in | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Daegu and it is the market of when he could possibly finish in the | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
final so it is a difficult situation for him. He is clearly | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Britain's number one and I hope he can truly focused and raced to his | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
best potential. You have to remember this is a run this of our | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
domestic people. We have Lawrence Clarke in lane eight, William | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
Sharman closest to us, who are going for the times. Gianni Frankis | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
in the next heat. So this is a real race of, very exciting. It is a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
race within a race. The Great Britain's team for Daegu is | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
announced next week and for a lot of these guys, this is a last | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
chance to say to Charles van Commenee and the other selection | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
people, you have got to take us. Andy Turner will be there and so | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
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will Paul Dickenson forced a thank indeed. Alexander John, former | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
European finalist. That was a championship that was won by Andy | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Turner so he will know this man very well. Only 13.69 this year. | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
That will not be fast enough, I suggest, to qualify for the final | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
later. Will Sharman is recovering from injury. He finished third in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
the UK Championships last weekend. This is a real surprise package | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
from the USA, Jason Richardson. He won the Diamond League in Stockholm | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
last week. He beat David Oliver and everybody else but this time he is | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
up against the world record holder and Olympic champion, Dayron Robles | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
of Cuba. Brown from the USA, he finished 6th in the world | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
championship final way back in 2005. This year he got his lifetime best | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
of 13.2. Andy Turner! Great reception from the Crystal Palace | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
crowd. He had a week of last week from hurdling anyway. He got to the | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
semi-final in the 100 metres. Dominic Berger, 13.32 this year. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
His lifetime best. And finally Lawrence Clarke. The UK champion | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
from last weekend. He twice equalled his lifetime best | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
performance of 13.58. He will be disappointed if there is a strong | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
headwind. But the object of the exercise for him is to make the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
final. The top three, plus the two fastest losers from both semi- | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
finals, will go through. Lawrence Clarke did so well to win the UK | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
Championships last week. Just 21 years old. A real prospect. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Commonwealth bronze medallist at couple of years ago. But Dayron | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Robles will be the man everybody will be watching, and Andy Turner | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
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in lane six, and Will Sharman in A will have to wait and see whether | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
he goes through as the fastest loser. 13.17. Slightly less was the | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
head wind, 0.9 metres per second, but Andy Turner will not be happy | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
with himself after that run. What is start to the meeting. What a | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
surprise and what a guy this is, too. It is fantastic to see Dayron | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Robles running so well again. Aggressive into the first hurdle. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
You can see his seven stride approach, he gets very snappily | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
into his stride and he eases away from the field. He is a born her | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
lap, he has such fluid technique, they remain relaxed. He doesn't | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
worry when he is under pressure, he just presses on. As they come | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
through the line you can see Andy Turner was fourth place | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
unfortunately. It is only the first three guaranteed. We have to see | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
where he ends up. But yet again, the closest to us, you can see | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Dayron Robles, he throws his legs so neatly over the hurdles, pulls | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
them down aggressively. He always seems to do enough. You also have | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
to be careful of the guy very close to him indeed. Her on the right of | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
our screens, Jason Richardson, who beat David Oliver in Stockholm. He | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
is coached by John Smith, someone who has a vast experience in | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
getting hurdlers into great shape at the right time, and I think this | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
could be a danger man in Daegu. Even though Dayron Robles is making | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
his lead, his left foot over the barrier, you can see how Jason is | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
just sneaking back to him, slowly but surely. But you know what, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Dayron Robles proves why he is the champion. He eases himself in front | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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whether Andy Turner's time stands It is a waiting game as you say. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Assess the race of star it was generally a bit sloppy. I made a | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
few mistakes, I hit a few hurdles. It wasn't a particularly good race | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
to be fair. I think I have got a lot of work to do now. Things have | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
been going OK in training. It is one of those bad races I think. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
as the atmosphere changed when you are at an Diamond League meeting | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
with a full house and you had the likes of Richardson and Dayron | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Robles running alongside you? love it. It would have been great | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
if David Oliver and a few others were there because I love racing | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the best guys in the world. They are the pride I am trying to catch. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
I need to be racing them all the time. I hope it will be enough to | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
make the final because I can improve a lot on that, 13.41 into | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
the wind. That shows there is still a lot more there. Let's hope so. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
We know Andy Turner will be going to do what championships. If you | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
were on the selection panel and deciding whether anybody would be | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
going with him, on that evidence, Lawrence Clarke ran up really well | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
last week, would you take them? Will Sharman has the standard from | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
last year but he has been struggling with injury this year. | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Not quite in form. Lawrence Clarke has beaten him twice. It is a tough | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
one. This is what you have to do as a selective. I like Lawrence. I | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
think he is feisty. I saw him before the meat talking about | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
technical advice, he is serious and I think he should have the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
opportunity. He is a geologist at Bristol University. He loves it and | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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I loved him! I think he has done Let's move on to the second semi- | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
final. David Oliver is just behind us, the great American. He talks | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
just as well as he runs. Always quick to see you in the UK. | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
I know London has a particular place in your heart, with 2012 a | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
year away. I wonder how much the feeling of the Games and the | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
excitement is hitting you. America, we are not really on the | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
bandwagon yet, but when it turns into 2012, it will be dominating | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
the coverage. When the season ends this year, you make a push, in | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
training, all the way through to next year. I am excited to be back | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
in London next year. The fans are so knowledgeable with athletics. It | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
will be a great environment. I am really looking forward to it. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
is intensity, wherever you walk in the season, because of the people | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
in it. This weekend, it is Dayron Robles. What do you read into these | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
races? It is mainly about what I am trying to accomplish as a | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
springboard to seeing where we need to go back and get right, ahead of | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the world championships. I am sure most of the athletes here are | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
trying to make sure that they do not get injured, everything goes | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
right, so they can go home with something to build on for the big | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
dance later on this month. I assume he is under heavy training, were | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
core of the other athletes. You want to win, of course, you want to | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
give a great effort, the fans, they want to see that. I am going to | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
give the fans what they want to see. I am hoping it will be good enough | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
for the win. Nobody is going to go to Daegu and say, I won in London, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
that means I should be able to win here. It is always different, race | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
to race. You try to stay technically efficient and get the | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
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here, hopefully. The massive shoulders. Andy Turner was training | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
with him during the week. His children said, why are your | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
shoulders not as big as his? Big man, big talent. He will be hoping | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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Turner, 13.421. The two fastest performance in Budapest last | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
weekend. He finished in second place. He is not too well known on | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the European circuit. The Jamaican is, though. It has run the 100 | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
metres in 10 seconds flat. He has made a good move up to the hurdles. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
He made the final in Berlin. Then, the former world junior champion. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Second in the American championships. David Oliver, the | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
American champion, beaten in his last two Diamond League outings. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
One of those defeats was to Dayron Robles. The former American | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
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collegiate champion. 13.30 this saga of Tiffany Ofili-Porter, this | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
is her husband. He took the bronze at the American indoor | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
championships last year. Gianni Frankis watched what happened with | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
Lawrence Clarke and well Sharman. 13.57 is his best. If he can run | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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13.52 here, he will guarantee athlete on the circuit. He is | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
always happy to give his time. He is great with the media, and very | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
popular with the other athletes. But he will want to re-establish | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
himself here, not just in this heat, but in the final later on, against | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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Dayron Robles and the new threat of for Andy Turner. I am pretty sure | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
his 13.421 will be good enough. It was not the best of starts for | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
David Oliver, but he always makes up for it. When you are built like | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
David Oliver, the wind does not effective. -- does not affect you. | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
He did not get out of the blocks as explosively as I thought. He is not | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
first to the first hurdle. He is sandwiched between his two | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
compatriots. It will come a long time to work his way through the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
field. But when he started moving it, he moved smoothly and cleanly. | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
That is going to be crucial. Seven strides to the first barrier. He | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
works really hard to make sure he is on top of the barrier, with as | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
much speed and precision as he can muster. Then he gets into a very | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
smooth, silky rhythm and timing, which is going to be very important. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
I am watching his face to see if there is any signs, but there is no | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
problem. Making sure he qualifies. There was quite a strong headwind | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
as well, so it was a good performance. It looks like he is | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
A strong headwind, a decent time, what will you improve on in the | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
final? Just to win more of the same. It was a decent time. And OK race. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Just try to get into the top three. What is it like when you have a | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
heat and a final? You cannot hold back. You can still run under | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
control. That is what I tried to do. I think I did a pretty good job. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Just try to improve the technical aspects in the final. You have got | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
a head-to-head with Dayron Robles in the final. It will be a great | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
final. We have a great competitors, and I would hope to come out on top. | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
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semi-final. About 0.1 seconds for will qualify for the final later on. | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
Perri Shakes-Drayton became the first person to win the 400 flap | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
and 400 hurdles national championships, but she is stepping | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
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She is up against the best two was fourth in Beijing. She will be | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
looking to push towards the medals in Daegu. You look at the world | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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rankings, the top three are ahead metres above her season's best to | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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head this year. A couple of European Cups and European team | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
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championships. She was the European lead is over 66 metres. It has laid | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
down the gauntlet. It certainly has. There are two athletes ahead of the | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
British athlete who of the best in the world, but I think a medal is | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
up for grabs by the time we get to the world championships. Goldie | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Sayers has got every chance of getting it. That was a good | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
response. She needs more, though, if she is going to overtake the | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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happened just before. There is no other forever that hits the javelin | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
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so hard. -- no other thrower. She creates the platform, then pours | :27:27. | :27:37. | |
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through very fast. We saw her fro over 70 metres in 2007. These two | :27:38. | :27:48. | |
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the world indoor champion. She jumped 15 metres and 25 centimetres | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
in 2010. She has not been in that form so far this summer, but that | :28:18. | :28:28. | |
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round. Sorry, the first round. A We are still here at the start of | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
the home stretch, but at the far end, they are getting ready for the | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
400-metre hurdles. Amongst them, Perri Shakes-Drayton. She won the | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
400 metres last weekend so emphatically. Is it because she is | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
getting better or of the rest getting slower? I think we have got | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
a real demonstration of how much potential this girl has. She is | :29:05. | :29:13. | |
incredible. Her races last weekend were amazing. She. Against | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
Christine are eroded, specialists in the event. But look, she moved | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
away from the field. So much power and strength. I thought she was | :29:23. | :29:31. | |
sensational. It is great to see her do that. I will be honest, this | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
race tonight is going to be of a different level. Do not be | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
surprised if she is 10 metres adrift of the women she is up | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
against, she is up against the best in the world. Kaliese Spencer will | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
win this race, and I think she will be the Olympic champion next year. | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
She is taking on Melanie Walker as well, the Olympic champion. This is | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
not easy! And a Zuzana Hejnova. It is a tall order. She needs to find | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
a second to be in the next. But with improvements to her hurdling | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
technique, which has not command, I think in the next couple of years, | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
could what are the areas of her hurdling technique that she should | :30:20. | :30:30. | |
:30:30. | :30:32. | ||
She is a tall girl but she needs to get headlines down quickly and into | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
her stride. She has clearly got good Flat speed but her hurdling | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
technique is letting her down. needs a ribbon she can rely on | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
every single time and if you can get that timing, when I talk about | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
how many straights, when you change down as you approach, lots of | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
things she can still learn which is always great. We can see there will | :30:58. | :31:05. | |
be getting on their blocks very shortly. Paul Dickenson. Thank you. | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
Everybody I am sure of in the Crystal Palace stadium will be | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
looking forward to seeing Perri Shakes Drayton. She ran six races | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
last week in? Not quite as many, five. She won the title on very | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
tired legs and the 400-metre hurdles, an absolute bruiser of an | :31:25. | :31:35. | |
:31:35. | :31:55. | ||
fourth place, she has won every race since then -- ever since | :31:55. | :32:05. | |
:32:05. | :32:09. | ||
that is for sure. She won in Paris. Eilidh Child of Great Britain is in | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
:32:19. | :32:19. | ||
lane eight. She is chasing a what championship standard. -- a world | :32:19. | :32:27. | |
championship standard. Melaine Walker, the Olympic champion from | :32:27. | :32:37. | |
:32:37. | :32:44. | ||
collegiate champion on 400m hurdles. She has made reasonable progress | :32:44. | :32:53. | |
over the last couple of years. Tracey, Central American junior | :32:53. | :33:00. | |
record holder, just 18 years old. 54.58, lifetime best. Then Perri | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
Shakes Drayton, European bronze medallist last year in the 400m and | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
the hurdle and she is in good shape. Personally I can't wait to see her | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
race at the World Championships. This would be a nice stepping stone. | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
Zuzana Hejnova, she will provide a fantastic target. Abating Olympic | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
finalist and quite dominant in the Diamond League this year -- a | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
Beijing Olympic finalist. She won in Oslo and Paris. Kaliese Spencer, | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
finalist in the last world championships, where she finished | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
fourth. She has a cracking time this year already off 53.45. | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
Melaine Walker, the Olympic champion, world champion the year | :33:43. | :33:51. | |
after, looking very relaxed indeed. Zuzana Hejnova, fastest woman in | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
the world this year. Queen Harrison, she has been making progress, tit. | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
54.78. Almost on equal terms -- she has been making progress, to. | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
Eilidh Child finish second in the UK Championships last week. This is | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
where she did her lifetime best last year of 55.16. If she can | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
repeat that, she will also be on the plane to Daegu. Perri Shakes | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
Drayton has a good lane draw. The bend is slightly tighter in lane | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
three than it will be for Eilidh Child in lane eight but Eilidh | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
Child is running blind and everybody will be running down on | :34:32. | :34:42. | |
:34:42. | :34:57. | ||
on the outside lane. Safely over the first hurdle. Perri Shakes | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
Drayton is running strongly but inside Tower is Tracy of Jamaica, | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
who is running well, too -- inside her. Zuzana Hejnova is having a | :35:09. | :35:17. | |
storming first 200 metres. Spencer Walker and Harmison have gone down | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
Eilidh Child. This is a very competitive race. 150 metres to go | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
into the home straight. Perri Shakes Drayton, about 5th place at | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
the moment! Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica is way ahead of the Olympic | :35:35. | :35:45. | |
:35:45. | :35:48. | ||
52.8! Absolutely massive in terms of times. That is one of the | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
fastest times in history! Absolutely superb! She ran her | :35:54. | :36:04. | |
:36:04. | :36:06. | ||
socks off! 52.8. 9th fastest time in history. Two places behind Sally | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
Gunnell on the all-time list. I know that Sally is watching tonight. | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
She must have been impressed with that. That is the sort of target | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
that Perri Shakes Drayton and everybody else have to try to go | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
for in the future. A real step forward for Kaliese Spencer. Of | :36:24. | :36:32. | |
Jamaica. This was always on the cards. She has been in supreme form. | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
I know that Colleen is a big fan of hers -- Colin. When she gets it | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
right, she's superbly. She started quickly and must have taken six | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
metres out of everybody else in the first 200 metres. She was format we | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
meet is ahead in the first couple of hurdles, which is unusual -- she | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
was a four metres ahead. She was not looking as tired as some of the | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
others. Look at the distance she put between herself and Melaine | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
Walker. Perri Shakes Drayton came in third place and this season's | :37:09. | :37:18. | |
best, around 54.6. She is so full of running in the home straight... | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
Spencer. It is a world lead, a meeting record, a personal best. It | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
is not a national record, that is still held by Melaine Walker, but | :37:30. | :37:40. | |
:37:40. | :37:40. | ||
Congratulations, up to do that so close to the world championships! | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
am in great shape. I came here today wanting to get a personal | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
best and added that. Three more weeks for the World Championships. | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
Hopefully I will be running a faster time. How much more do you | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
have? I hope lots. I have been training hard. A world record would | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
be great but I am focused again when first. But to get such a huge | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
personal best, half a second off, that must be amazing. I am very, | :38:10. | :38:17. | |
very happy. I came here to do just that and I did so. Congratulations. | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
Perri Shakes Drayton. What a finish. An amazing finish to take third. | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
Yeah, very happy with that performance. A season's best over | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
the hurdles this year. Hopefully more to come when it comes to the | :38:35. | :38:41. | |
world championships. Some people there got personal-best so I think | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
I have done very well actually! saw the article in the Telegraph | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
for you, you are the poster girl for the East End going towards | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
London. How does that fit? It is a nice feeling getting attention but | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
I will not let that get to my head too much. I will let them running | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
do the talking, that is my failings. Until I get the medals, you can | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
save them type of things. I am chasing, trained to be number one | :39:09. | :39:19. | |
:39:19. | :39:26. | ||
in the world. Enjoy the reception Spencer. It certainly was. In fact, | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
equal now with Sandra Farmer- Patrick, we all remember that name. | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
Melaine Walker, the Olympic champion from three years ago, in | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
second place, and Perri Shakes Drayton, certainly in form, beating | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
the former world No. 1 Zuzana Hejnova. Eilidh Child slightly | :39:47. | :39:54. | |
outside what she requires. To get to the world championships. And | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
there is the Diamond League situation. Kaliese Spencer his way | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
up the top and Zuzana Hejnova will be disappointed with that. Perri | :40:05. | :40:14. | |
Shakes Drayton, on the board, in All sport is full of teenage | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
shooting Stars 24-worth but Jodie Williams could be our first female | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
sprinting star for 30 years -- teenager shooting Stars, who fall | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
down to worth. We will speak to her in a moment. That was an immense | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
performance in the 400 of stock fantastic! I haven't seen times | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
like that for a long time. I was particularly impressed with Perri | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
Shakes Drayton. It was a very difficult race, she acquitted | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
herself extremely well and it is great to see her doing so well. | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
hard is it psychologically? On the bend, 200 to go and Perri Shakes | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
Drayton was clearly several strides from the people up front. Mentally | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
you have to keep your pattern and rhythm. You have to say you will | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
close that gap rather than think you cannot possibly catch them and | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
that is the find of somebody who can achieve a lot. Absolutely, and | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
somebody who is mature ring. She did not panic. She knew those women | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
could be tear. She kept her own mind and ended up with a season's | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
best. -- she knew those women could beat her. As long as she learns on | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
experience of what others have done a Roundhead, that is the most | :41:33. | :41:42. | |
important. -- done around her. Jodie Williams, 17 years old, born | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
in 1993. What do you say to her? for it. She has nothing to lose. | :41:47. | :41:56. | |
She looks amazing. She has a brand new haircut. Crucial! She looks | :41:56. | :42:06. | |
:42:06. | :42:06. | ||
great. She also could go for Kathy Cook's world junior record. | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
looks to be in incredible shape. She has a very wise head as well. | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
It will be interesting. If she runs really well, let's just say she | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
comes third out of the blue, surely there has to be a rethink about the | :42:20. | :42:28. | |
world championships Oster not necessarily because she has already | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
had 10 per major championships this year. And she won them. It is about | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
gaining experience. It is exciting for all of us because not many of | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
us have seen her run at this level. Opportunity knocks for Jodie | :42:42. | :42:52. | |
:42:52. | :43:03. | ||
decision that Jodie Williams should not go to the world championships. | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
Jodie Williams is in lane three. Shalonda Solomon, a fast as in the | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
:43:17. | :43:18. | ||
world this year, is in four. -- fastest in the world this year. If | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
Stephanie gets around without being disqualified, she has done well. | :43:22. | :43:30. | |
She have been disqualified twice this season and twice at Crystal | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
Palace before! Aleen Bailey in A, fourth in the world championships, | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
excuse me, the Olympics in 2004. She is 30 now. This brilliant | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
talent. Wonderful European Championships and Junior | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
Championships, running the 102 hundred. That junior record is held | :43:51. | :43:59. | |
by Kathy Cook, 1979. -- the 100, and the 200. Solomon is the fastest | :43:59. | :44:09. | |
:44:09. | :44:09. | ||
in the world this year. 22.15. Bianca Knight, she has run well on | :44:10. | :44:16. | |
the European circuit. She won the Diamond League. Missed out on the | :44:16. | :44:25. | |
American trials in fourth. Tiffany Townshend, she is a new name. She | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
got 22.5 back in June, a season's best. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is | :44:31. | :44:38. | |
just about exactly twice the age of Jodie Williams. Get your calculator | :44:38. | :44:45. | |
out and work that out. Shimon Simpson of Jamaica, Olympic silver | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
medallist at the 100 metres. Conditions are pretty good. It is | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
still warm but a slight breeze in the home straight. Let's hope that | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
can settle a bit and let the athletes really let rip in the home | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
straight. For Jodie Williams, the nerves will be there but she is a | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
great competitor as well as a huge talent. She is up against some top, | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
top opposition. Solomon, fastest in the world, outside her and Bianca | :45:17. | :45:27. | |
:45:27. | :45:46. | ||
Knight is in five. Williams is in looks ragged. Jodie Williams his | :45:46. | :45:56. | |
:45:56. | :46:03. | ||
fifth or sixth. Bianca Knight wins better athletes, but Jodie Williams | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
will have enjoyed the experience. Not far away from her 18th birthday, | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
and her first taste of the Diamond League athletics. It will be | :46:14. | :46:20. | |
interesting to see what her reaction was. Solomon was really | :46:20. | :46:28. | |
disappointing. Bianca Knight wins her second Diamond League event. | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
thought Jodie Williams got a solid start. Not spectacular. You can see | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
daylight between her and Solomon. She was being pressured from the | :46:38. | :46:48. | |
:46:48. | :46:53. | ||
beginning to stretch away, but she hung in there. She is not in the | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
top five, but she started this race with the slowest time of any of the | :46:58. | :47:08. | |
:47:08. | :47:11. | ||
competitors. I fear she may be the top two. Solomon came here as | :47:11. | :47:19. | |
the fastest woman in the world. Disappointing. But Bianca Knight is | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
:47:29. | :47:31. | ||
a true powerhouse. 22 pts 69. Jodie Williams, 22.95. Not bad. Into the | :47:31. | :47:41. | |
:47:41. | :47:45. | ||
headwind. Let's see what she has A tremendous effort, you were so | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
close to them. By Ben was appalling. Why was a bit fazed by everything. | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
It was an incredible experience. I thought, well! I am quite happy | :47:59. | :48:07. | |
with it. I cannot complain. 22.95. The conditions are not perfect. | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
Plus, you said on Twitter that you were nervous. You acquitted | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
yourself very well. I was hoping for a personal best, but it was not | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
to be. There was a head wind. They are so fast. I just came here for | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
the experience, I am really happy. Does this give perspective to the | :48:28. | :48:35. | |
four will reap about you being at the World Championships, etc? | :48:35. | :48:42. | |
proves I should not be there! I am not ready for it. This atmosphere | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
was perfect. Just building me up gradually, rather than going | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
straight into the world championships. That is what I am | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
trying to do, gather experience, before I go to the Olympics. | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
understand what has gone on around the selection process, because you | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
are such a talent. I have had a good year. I am happy with how | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
everything has gone. Thank you to everyone for believing in May. I am | :49:11. | :49:21. | |
:49:21. | :49:28. | ||
British athlete has run under 23 seconds this year. She is a big | :49:28. | :49:38. | |
:49:38. | :49:48. | ||
A few minutes away from the major clash of the night, 800 metres. The | :49:48. | :49:58. | |
:49:58. | :50:03. | ||
British all-comers record under javelin, this thriller is still in | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
second place. -- this thrower. That is further. The Olympic champion, | :50:11. | :50:21. | |
:50:21. | :50:23. | ||
the world record holder has fiddle on the Diamond League | :50:23. | :50:33. | |
:50:33. | :51:02. | ||
attempt. Finishing off the fifth round. She is down in second place | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
now. She screams. She keeps screaming! That is the beauty of | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
the field events, the immediate chance to respond, the adrenalin | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
flowing in the way that it has not been for the last three or four | :51:16. | :51:26. | |
:51:26. | :51:35. | ||
aerodynamically. She leads the Diamond League rankings. Quite a | :51:35. | :51:45. | |
:51:45. | :51:52. | ||
We are standing close to the javelin, and we hope to hear from | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
Goldie Sayers soon. Let's focus on the men's 800 metres. He is a | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
mouth-watering clash, falling to -- including David Rudisha, the most | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
complete middle-distance runner of all time. He is not flamboyant off | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
the track. I wonder, as an international | :52:13. | :52:22. | |
athlete, where does the Olympics sit with you? Are you excited? | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
Olympics is a special sport. Everybody, every athlete, is | :52:28. | :52:37. | |
focused to see that he wins the Olympics. My father won a medal in | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
1968. He is still remembered because of that. That is the thing | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
for you now, to start winning medals. Yes, breaking the world | :52:50. | :52:57. | |
record twice last year, it was a great achievement for me. It was a | :52:57. | :53:06. | |
great feeling. But also, winning the world title and an Olympic | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
medal, it is also some think that will boost my career. That is what | :53:12. | :53:20. | |
I am focused on. Having the world record is like having one part of | :53:20. | :53:26. | |
some think, but still missing two other things. The world title and | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
the Olympics. That is why I am focused to see that. I want to make | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
it balance. Here in London, you are racing against one of your great | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
rivals, Abubaker Kaki. Where does this race fitting for you into the | :53:43. | :53:50. | |
overall plan of winning the world title? Remained here, for the first | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
time, meeting together this year, it will be geared to them together | :53:56. | :54:03. | |
and to compete together. -- it will be good. He will give me a stiff | :54:03. | :54:08. | |
competition in Korea. We are standing wide by the track, | :54:08. | :54:14. | |
10 yards away from David Rudisha. He is so tall. When you think about | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
Kenyan athletes, you think they will be short. He has got to be 6 | :54:19. | :54:27. | |
ft plus. He is hoping to take Steve Cram's recorder. To a selling job | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
of him. He is still relatively unknown, yet he is a phenomenal | :54:32. | :54:42. | |
:54:42. | :54:46. | ||
lovely running action. He has had a few problems with injuries. He is | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
still not proving yet. We all know he can run fast, but he has not | :54:52. | :54:58. | |
proven it in a major championships. He has not proven it across three | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
rounds. He is an incredible talent, but he has to win the World | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
Championships and perhaps the Olympics. Tonight, he has got a | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
great athlete against him, Abubaker Kaki. We will see a fast race | :55:11. | :55:21. | |
:55:21. | :55:21. | ||
tonight. The all-comers record should have gone years ago! 1:33.2 | :55:21. | :55:31. | |
:55:31. | :55:43. | ||
is well within their compass. Let's week. He went to Sweden and ran | :55:43. | :55:53. | |
:55:53. | :56:14. | ||
back to the be standard. -- to the -- he has had an illness. He has | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
been struggling this year. The Commonwealth champion, the Kenyan. | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
He also won a silver medal at the world, not -- the Commonwealth | :56:26. | :56:35. | |
championships. I am so pleased. I saw him in the hotel yesterday. | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
After these huge disappointment of falling at the trials last week, he | :56:39. | :56:49. | |
:56:49. | :57:05. | ||
picked himself up, and Ivan 1:45 1:45 point four. The American | :57:05. | :57:15. | |
:57:15. | :57:30. | ||
that race. I will talk more about Abubaker Kaki. Three minutes 31 for | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
1500. It will be fast, it will be a right scrap over the first few | :57:38. | :57:45. | |
hundred metres. They both like to go out harder. The world record | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
holder will probably want to control it from the front. This is | :57:50. | :58:00. | |
:58:00. | :58:01. | ||
a pacemaker. 49.5. If he was not there, they would go that hard | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
anyway, I am sure! Abubaker Kaki against David Rudisha, the 800 | :58:08. | :58:18. | |
:58:18. | :58:25. | ||
the pacemaker. I thought it would be a race for the first 200! | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
Abubaker Kaki heads out as fast as he can. The pacemaker is sprinting | :58:31. | :58:40. | |
to get to the front. I think that was inside 24 seconds. Yes, that is | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
why the pacemaker had to sprint to get to the front. Le Cap David | :58:45. | :58:55. | |
:58:55. | :59:14. | ||
Rudisha, the world record holder. - action. Can he be strong enough in | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
the back straight? Abubaker Kaki is in a great place. The strength and | :59:20. | :59:30. | |
:59:30. | :59:39. | ||
stamina will tell. Abubaker Kaki action. It never changes. There is | :59:40. | :59:48. | |
a two-metre gap. David Rudisha has the advantage. Abubaker Kaki has | :59:48. | :59:57. | |
defined a bit more. David Rudisha is handing on. -- hanging on. It is | :59:57. | :00:04. | |
a new meeting record, and the British all-comers record. David | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
Rudisha and Abubaker Kaki giving us a real display of 800 metres | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
running it. Abubaker Kaki has got to get in front of him. You have | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
got to have a plan to beat David Rudisha. At the moment, he can | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
control it, and he has the speed and ability to run those times at | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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will. It is good to see them race David Rudisha. That is a UK records | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
that Steve Cram set back at the Commonwealth Games in 1986. He is | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
following the pacemaker, David Rudisha. To 26 seconds for their | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
second so 200 metres. Then he sort for the third 200 metres. -- then | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
he slowed down. At this point, Abubaker Kaki needed to be a couple | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
of inches closer. Look at that stride and the power. His arms are | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
driving and he is pumping away there. He is not giving Abubaker | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Kaki any chance. It is a narrow victory, but he has just run the | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
:01:38. | :01:39. | ||
legs of Sport 8 mac. A fine performance by David Rudisha. A | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
really good performance also for Andrew Osagie. There will be a very | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
happy British athlete out there because Andrew Osagie has managed | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
to just scrapped -- it's great inside the A Standard. He is in 5th | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
place. Andrew Osagie will be over the moon. He ran so well last week, | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
so he will qualify for the team in Daegu. Now we can speak to David | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Daegu. Now we can speak to David Rudisha. You have just taken the | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
records from Steve Cram. How do you feel? I feel great. It was good. I | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
was in good shape. I knew I was going to take that recurred. | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Yesterday, I said I would do it. You controlled the race from the | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
front and you knew that Abubaker Kaki would be your greatest rival. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
I tried to control the race all the way. I knew that if I had a good | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
finish at the last bend, then I would take the race. You want | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
you're first world gold title, surely? That is my target this year. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Good luck with that. Great to see you in Britain at last. Thank you | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
:03:18. | :03:21. | ||
you in Britain at last. Thank you good performance from Abubaker Kaki. | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
A personal best in 5th place for Andrew Osagie. Let's get his | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Andrew Osagie. Let's get his thoughts now. I am sure you are | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
delighted. You take all the boxes that you needed to do make your way | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
to Daegu. That was always the plan. I am pleased that I have ran the A | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
Standard. Mycock has put in a lot of effort. -- my ego coach has put | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
:04:07. | :04:08. | ||
You get caught up in the moment. You have to just go with that. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
Luckily, I did. At this early stage in your career, when you are racing | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
against the likes of David Rudisha, is there an element of longing for | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
you? At the back of my mind, I have always thought that I could get | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
there. It is finally taking its toll and coming into shape. | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
:04:41. | :04:43. | ||
Wonderful to see. Enjoy Daegu. is one happy man there. Can we have | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
a quick thought on Andrew Osagie and sport and nine mac? -- and | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
David Rudisha. Effort less -- effort Lewis is the way to describe | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
that. At that level, he makes it look so simple. If you watch | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Abubaker Kaki, he was working like a horse, but it was not going to | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
happen. 0 Dwain Chambers at this meeting. Is this not the hypocrisy | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
of the worst sort, where some people who have been done for drugs | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
are allowed to come back and others are not? Personally, I think it is | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
a farce. The rules say that you are banned and you have to serve your | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
time. He should be here. The promoters are so inconsistent. It | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
infuriates me. It also confuses the audience's. The promoters decide | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
who they're going to invite. Unfortunately, Dwain Chambers is | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
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not flavour. This is a pretty hot who is in there. Craig Pickering of | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
:06:31. | :06:33. | ||
Great Britain is on the outside. Remaldo Rose is another Jamaican. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
At the Commonwealth Games a couple of years ago, we saw him in the | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
relay race. Harry Aikines-Aryeetey. He is a long way of the very best | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
in this heat and only three will go through to the final. Gerald Phiri | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
is running for Zambia. Yohan Blake of Jamaica. He has developed | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
:07:11. | :07:21. | ||
wonderfully. Sport 25 mac of Trinidad and Tobago. Trell Kimmons | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
:07:31. | :07:38. | ||
of the United States. He is a very quick starter. Four Ana world | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
champion Trell Kimmons. Craig Pickering did not start in the | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
final last weekend, but is here tonight. There is a third spot in | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
:08:02. | :08:12. | ||
athletes would desperately love to make what is going to be a top- | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
class final later on. Despite the fact we do not have Asafa Powell | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
:08:31. | :08:54. | ||
there. Yohan Blake is looking beautiful. It was very easy indeed. | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
Yohan Blake was super us move there and made that look easy. -- was | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
very smooth that there. It is a shame there is a slight breeze. It | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
:09:19. | :09:20. | ||
has taken the edge off a little. Trell Kimmons not too far away. An | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
:09:30. | :09:31. | ||
embarrassment of riches that the Jamaican team have. When you see | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Yohan Blake moving away and that middle section, the others were not | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
:09:46. | :09:47. | ||
able to move through. Will wait to see what happens in the second race, | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
:09:57. | :09:58. | ||
but Craig Pickering has done well. Yohan Blake is being nice and | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
:10:08. | :10:11. | ||
relaxed. He looks pretty comfortable. Very relaxed indeed. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
comfortable. Very relaxed indeed. Hopefully he will get below 10 | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
seconds in the final. If the conditions are favourable for the | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
final, pillow 10 is within your reach? I just want to keep focused | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
in the final. Tell me about a 100 metres seen as you see it this year, | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
:10:44. | :10:51. | ||
without Tyson Gay? Anything is possible. It will be an interesting | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
one. Up at the final, much more to come from you? Definitely. I will | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
call out there, keep focused and do my thing. All the best for that. | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
:11:14. | :11:14. | ||
my thing. All the best for that. Thank you. Yohan Blake easing down | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
at the end. Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is the fastest loser so far. He | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
will have to wait and see whether he will make it through to the | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
:11:36. | :11:42. | ||
final later. Can Goldie Sayers improve on her previous attempt? | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
:11:52. | :11:52. | ||
That is better. She needed something beyond 61 metres. That | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
was a good competitive performance from her. Real model of technique. | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
She is consistent and have a big throw. She hits it hard. It is not | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
:12:18. | :12:20. | ||
in on the door of 63 metres. Good effort. Called Rose has finished in | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
:12:30. | :12:32. | ||
third place. That is a good way to third place. That is a good way to | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
go. After words, Goldie Sayers spoke to us. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
A tremendous performance, finishing third in the javelin. A tiny taster | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
of what is to come next year. was a promising performance, | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
especially in the last round. Unfortunately, I am around at the | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
same time as some of the best ever. It is tough competition. To come | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
third in a medal position before the World Championships is good. | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
Very promising. What about your overall feeling? I know you have | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
had injury problems the four major championships before. Do you think | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
you have more to do? There is a lot to do. And had an injury in April. | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
My team are fantastic. It is nice to be healthy before or major | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
:13:41. | :13:41. | ||
championships. It is quite exciting. It is nice to do well at Diamond | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
League meetings. The crowd was fantastic and I gave me an idea of | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
what it will be like next year. It comes down to September, though. | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
are right behind you. All very best. are right behind you. All very best. | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
:14:10. | :14:14. | ||
Thank you. Now let's look at that triple jump. This season best was | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
:14:24. | :14:26. | ||
for the athlete in third place. Here are the diamond race standings. | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
The finals from Zurich will be on the BBC. Now it, the men's long | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
:14:45. | :14:47. | ||
jump. Nobody is over 8 mac metres so far. Greg Rutherford is, though. | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
There is a battle between him and Chris Tomlinson. The last two | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
British record holders are going head-to-head. Some pride is at | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
:15:08. | :15:09. | ||
stake. Chris Tomlinson had a massive jump earlier this season. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
When you look at the likes of Irving Saladino and Mitchell Watt, | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
great competition. Chris Tomlinson has a chance to respond immediately. | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
The gauntlet has been laid down by his British rival. I tell you what, | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
:15:42. | :15:50. | ||
it is blow for blow in the men's Rutherford or Tomlinson, if they | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
get it right in Daegu, they could come back with a world championship | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
mettle. 8.14 metres, just a few centimetres behind, and that set | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
:16:10. | :16:25. | ||
the scene for a great long jump time of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
:16:35. | :16:36. | ||
Championships, Mark Lewis-Francis disqualified for a false start. | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
Just when he needed it most, or when he didn't need it most. Marlon | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
:16:56. | :17:02. | ||
Devonish is in the best seat for Daniel Bailey. Nesta Carter, gold | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
medal winning relay member. 19 men this year so far under 10 seconds | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
:17:19. | :17:26. | ||
in the world, that is a lot. Thompson it is surprising in one of | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
the few men coming to run in this Diamond League event you are not | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
British who have not run under 10 seconds. Great performance Fort | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
Marlon Devonish last week, 10.14. So many British sprinters running | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
the A Standard, the top two got selected. He is in with his third | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
:18:00. | :18:27. | ||
French record. Neston -- Nesta prove, could he have got in among | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
:18:37. | :18:53. | ||
the top three last week other than start, and also Daniel Bailey. But | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
in his head, Nesta Carter leading them, Richard Thompson finished | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
:19:08. | :19:10. | ||
quickly. But the Brits behind these four, 10.03. The wind is zero. I | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
suggest that Thompson will make it through as either the fastest loser, | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
almost definitely well, and then they will have to fix it after that, | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Carter, not quite as fast as Michael Rodgers but pretty | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
impressive once he got moving. A good time for a heat as well. | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
it certainly was. 10.04. Certainly driving here. In lanes 3 and four, | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Mark Lewis-Francis being left a little bit as was Marlon Devonish. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Was a final it will be but what about Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, or | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Marlon Devonish for that matter. Have they got a chance of making it | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
through? We will know in a moment. Colin, what do you think about that | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
An opportunity for new faces, but Nesta Carter is more than capable | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
of taking his time. He has got a massive stride when he gets going, | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
he goes down the track and in unusual fashion but he is running | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
very close this year, he has run a Asafa Powell close this year. A | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
real quality athlete. From the Jamaican school of sprinting, a | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
powerful runner. Right in the centre of the field. Watch how late | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
he takes it. Everybody else is looking ahead. Now Nesta Carter | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
gets into his flow. He has a very, very unusual stride. Very long. And | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
to the left of him, the contrast, Michael Rodgers from America, again | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
under 10 seconds and more than capable of doing something special | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
:20:55. | :21:12. | ||
in the final. My man may is on Not the best way to end the night's | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
work, you are just one hundredth of a second away from making it. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
to hold back on my start. I got a false start last week and if you | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
look at the race, I was one of the last out of the blocks. It is not | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
an excuse but it is my 6th race of the season, I am walking away | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
without injury. What has been in your mind this week bearing in mind | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
what happened last week? I needed to be with a good time to get into | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
the world championship team. I ran 10.03 today, not the world's best | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
but I wish I had one more race to go to see if I could do better than | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
what I just did. Individual out of the way now, relay all the way? | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
their, man. I will fight all the way. I still think I can do it -- | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
no way, man. For I have only been fully fit for the past three weeks. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
It is progression. This is what you did last year at the championships. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Exactly, I need to raise my game, I need an opportunity but we will see. | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
I appreciate that. Thank you. We have more than Mo Farah in the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
distance events, Chris Thompson ran so well last year, but will have to | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
run well this evening if he wants Interesting selection than the 100 | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
metres, what would you do Colin? is very tricky. Marlon has done | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
himself to get through it. Someone for the relay as well, a 10th | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
athlete to consideration. Hand on heart, most of us are looking at a | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
relay medal. I think so. I think we need the strongest, most | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
experienced people in the field. stock about the distance buzz. | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
Brendan Foster is in our commentary position. How much can Mo Farah be | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
a catalyst to what has been a fairly dormant sector of track-and- | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
field over the years? To be honest, last year in the European | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Championships, he did galvanise it. They finished first and second in | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
the 10,000 metres and Chris Thompson took it on from there. A | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
really good performance and then earlier this year, he ran faster | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
over 10,000 metres than Mo Farah had ever run. We look like we had | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
two world-class distance runners, but sadly Chris Thompson got | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
injured and is now struggling. Mo Farah has gone faster by second -- | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
by half a minute. We saw him challenging Haile Gebrselassie and | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
now he is nervous, concerned, he may not even run fast enough to get | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
on a plane to Daegu so it just shows you the contrast in the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
fortunes of two outstanding athletes actually. So in terms of | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
tactics, what would you advise him to do? Run as hard as the can for | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
as long as he can to be honest! Straight forward! A simple thing, | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
this running! If it had not been a simple thing, me and Steve Cram | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
:24:36. | :24:47. | ||
this man's 5,000 metres. Andy Vernon in there. He has got a | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
chance of running a B Standard. Great Mottram in there, he is also | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
in the 3,000 metres later on with Mo Farah. Chris Thompson has got a | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
real job on his hands and Mo Farah in introduce any of this week he | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
said maybe not as clear as he could have done, that 10,000 metres is a | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
priority and if things go well in that he feels he will do the 5,000 | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
metres. You cannot therefore take somebody with eight B Standard if | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
they have got a A Standard. Chris will want to run the A Standard | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
:25:38. | :25:46. | ||
around and a reason why this 5,000 metres perhaps was included in this | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
programme schedule, Chris Thompson is delighted it is here, but we | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
were hearing rumours that Kenenisa Bekele might want to have a run out. | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
It has not materialised. We will have to see if Kenenisa Bekele will | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
be there to defend at least his 10,000 metres title, may be the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
5,000 metres title as well in Daegu. Andy Vernon there, former UK | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
:26:21. | :26:29. | ||
the German team with that qualification time. Chris Thompson, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
his partner Gemma Simpson, will be running in the 800 metres later. | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
She has had problems as well. But it is Chris's turn first in the | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
5,000 metres. So lapse of about 54 seconds would give them an even | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
paced run. I suppose Chris will be hoping he is not the anyone wanting | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
:27:03. | :27:04. | ||
to at least wrong with the pace a little here. Our pacemaker will be | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
Titus, the Kenyan. It is always easier said than done going through | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
the first few laps. When you have got the likes of Craig Mottram in | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
the race, he is in pretty good form, in Birmingham. He got the | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
qualifying time under his belt. is lucky that Titus who is a good | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
athlete in his own right finished just ahead of Chris in the | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
Commonwealth Games last year. He was 4th in the 10,000 metres. He | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
said a good pace, 61, 62 seconds for the first lap. And Craig | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
Mottram and then Chris Thompson a bit further down the pack. | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
Everybody has been in the position of Chris Thompson. You know you're | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
fit and then you get an injury and the struggle for weeks and it does | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
not go right. Eventually it almost comes right and then you have got | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
out and test yourself in a race. A bit of a turmoil leading up to it | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
but often if you get into the race, this is where you will want to be. | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
You want to remember how it is done and this is a good field, it will | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
:28:26. | :28:40. | ||
put together. -- it is well put my mate, Baxter. And a neat run by | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
:28:50. | :28:56. | ||
the athlete in 5th place. Titus is The second round of the men's long | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
jump. Rutherford leading, he went for it in the second round, he fell | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
short. Chris Tomlinson is having his second round the 10th. And that | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
is further... It is so simple. Takes off, hangs in the air and | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
this season as you can see from that, a rather satisfied look. He | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
has jumped incredibly well. couple of years ago when we saw | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
Tomlinson in a grand prix event, I remember you guys were interviewing | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
him afterwards and he said one day I think I will jump 8.50 metres and | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
I think we had a chuckle from some people around the world thinking, | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
Chris Tomlinson, aged pod 50 metres? But I tell you what, now | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
that he has jumped 8.35 and his confidence is up, you have got to | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
believe him. 8.25, that is a good lead for Chris Tomlinson. We have | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
got the women's pole vault, the bar at four point 55 metres. The | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
British world -- British record holder. Holly Bleasdale is becoming | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
a world-class poll also. Easy as you like it. She may figure in the | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
world championships. Mitchell what, second round, low running style but | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
an explosion on the board. It looked pretty and pretty. At | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
Stockholm in the Diamond League, he jumped and OCR that record. He beat | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
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the lead. Here is the man to beat for the World Championships. Eight | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
metres and 45. Back with the men's 5,000 metres. After a reasonable | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
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first 600 metres, it has slowed a little. Titus Kipjumba Mbishei will | :31:10. | :31:19. | |
be happy that it has picked up again. Chris Thompson is now trying | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
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to keep up the pace. Ben True is in third place. He is beginning to | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
pull away from Chris Thompson, so it is a difficult time for him. | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
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Maybe he has lost some fair as, but he must stick to the task. Chris | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
Thompson will be desperately keen to follow the position and get the | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
chance to run in Daegu. He might not be as good tonight, but in a | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
few weeks' time he will be better. He was fit earlier in the season. | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
When I watched him run in Manchester, I was impressed. I know | :32:05. | :32:15. | |
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that, having run over 10,000 metres, his basic strength is there. Other | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
British athletes are chasing him and tracking him. He is better than | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
men, but they will be encouraged by the fact that they are close to him. | :32:26. | :32:35. | |
Chris Thompson looks to be having a rough time. The time at 2,000 | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
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metres was spot on. But it was the fact that he had then thrown in 62. | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
When you are not as fit, you do not want the peace to change. You can | :32:51. | :33:01. | |
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cope with it when you are more fit. Chris Thompson is not miles away. | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
Perhaps it could be a deliberate ploy to hang back, but you would | :33:07. | :33:14. | |
want to be close to the top three. You would not want to deliberately | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
have Lagat of that size. Be gap is now getting bigger. -- you would | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
not want to have a space of that size. This space is now and getting | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
bigger. Let's return to the long jump. Just to remind you, Mitchell | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
Watt is in first place. Chris Tomlinson is in second. The | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
conditions are beautiful for horizontal jumping. Warm with a | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
slight breeze behind. Can Greg Rutherford take advantage? In will | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
not be as far as Mitchell Watt, but will its challenge Chris Tomlinson | :33:56. | :34:06. | |
in second? Both of them want to be British No. 1. Technically, I think | :34:06. | :34:16. | |
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Greg Rutherford is more solid this year. Eight metres 17. No | :34:16. | :34:26. | |
:34:26. | :34:41. | ||
a little. He looks more comfortable and the gap between the leaders and | :34:41. | :34:51. | |
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the second group mac of two is the B Standard. If he can achieve | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
that, he will improve within a few weeks. With Mo Farah already having | :35:19. | :35:27. | |
reached the A Standard, we note that Chris Thompson will get better | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
within a few weeks. He has struggled from coming back from | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
injury and adversity and worked very hard. He enjoyed his moment of | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
glory last summer in the European Championships. He is a very good | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
athlete and is an inspiration to others. As he has done before, he | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
will stick to his task now. I hope he is getting some information | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
because this is an important race in his career. It looks as though | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
he wants to go past the American. I suggest he should. He is slipping | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
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off the pace. The leaders are also slowing down. Chris Thompson is not | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
making any inroads into that. He is half a second slower than the | :36:21. | :36:31. | |
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leaders are under each laugh. -- on each lap. The gap to the leaders is | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
too much and he is too far away from the finishing line to really | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
want to push up. People are coming behind and that could I urge him on. | :36:43. | :36:51. | |
I think Titus Kipjumba Mbishei has done as much as he can. Craig | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
Mottram does not have to worry about the time as he has been | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
selected by the Australians. He ran very well in Birmingham. He is just | :37:00. | :37:07. | |
having a bit of a ride at the moment. It is good to see sports | :37:07. | :37:17. | |
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that -- Craig Mottram back false start -- back. More confidence as | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
he is winning races. That is very important for distance running. You | :37:24. | :37:31. | |
have to get confidence from winning races. Now, there is a big group | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
around Chris Thompson. He is finding this difficult. Andy Vernon | :37:36. | :37:43. | |
is running well, at the back of that group. Chris Thompson is going | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
through a torrid time. This will be a test of his mettle and to deter - | :37:50. | :38:00. | |
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- and determination. He has run out of fitness. Craig Mottram is doing | :38:00. | :38:09. | |
well. He will appreciate the crowd here. Jonathan Mellor is having a | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
great run and heading for a personal best. Chris Thompson is | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
not having a great night and will not want to be beaten by any other | :38:19. | :38:28. | |
British athletes. There is just under 600 metres to go. Chris | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
Thompson has a real tussle on to be the best British athlete in this | :38:33. | :38:43. | |
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race. Jonathan Mellor was third at the UK Championships. Andy Vernon | :38:43. | :38:53. | |
:38:53. | :38:58. | ||
is trying to get on the back of that, as is James Walsh. Well | :38:58. | :39:08. | |
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played, as we hear the bell false start -- bell. We are looking at | :39:11. | :39:21. | |
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the chasing group are now. Chris Thompson will have ate. The | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
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American is running strongly in second place. Chris Thompson with | :39:45. | :39:55. | |
Jonathan Mellor just behind him. He will have to work for it all away. | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
Strong performance from Craig Mottram. Another confidence- | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
building run. He has been finding it harder over the last few years, | :40:04. | :40:13. | |
but is coming into some good form. Ben True of America takes second | :40:13. | :40:23. | |
place. Andy Vernon is the next British athlete after Chris | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
Thompson. That was hard work for Chris Thompson. He set out with | :40:29. | :40:37. | |
great intent. The lack of fitness when you have not put a training in | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
our been able to race for three months really shows. No problems | :40:44. | :40:50. | |
for Craig Mottram. Chris Thompson is a very good athlete and it is a | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
shame to see him struggle to run a time he is normally capable of | :40:54. | :41:04. | |
doing. They were at opposite ends of the scale. Craig Mottram was get | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
out for two years through injury. Now he can go to Daegu confident | :41:09. | :41:17. | |
that he has a chance and is in good form. Chris Thompson, who we were | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
supporting, is getting ready to talk to us downstairs. We will | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
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catch up with them eventually. It was a race for third and 4th. I | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
think sport -- Chris Thompson will think sport -- Chris Thompson will | :41:38. | :41:48. | |
:41:48. | :41:48. | ||
be disappointed. We can hear from It was a fine effort. We know you | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
have had your problems with injury. At the great Manchester run, you | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
are giving the winner from last year a run for his money. | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
problem was that he was not here today, so I was not so determined! | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
Things go up and down all the time. I am great to have a -- am lucky to | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
have a great team around these. I cannot believe I am here and | :42:12. | :42:21. | |
unhappy to be competing. I would like to thank my team for making me | :42:21. | :42:31. | |
so strong that I can do this. I gave my all today. I wanted the B | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
Standard to put myself on the table and they did not happen. This | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
season continues and I will keep trying and smiling. As for every | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
athlete, it is all right next year. I wanted to be M Daegu, but you | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
have to face up to it. Tomorrow morning, I will start my training | :42:50. | :43:00. | |
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for the next 5,000. I must find a nice meat that will accept me. | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
Great to talk here. We wish you well as we head towards London 2012. | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
Let's keep in touch. Don't forget Let's keep in touch. Don't forget | :43:16. | :43:26. | |
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face. Way off what he would have wanted. If I were him, I would | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
definitely not go to Daegu. He would be in a difficult situation | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
and it would be a tough race. He would lose confidence. I think he | :43:40. | :43:50. | |
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has made a wise decision. That will make him a great athlete. Where | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
just past the halfway mark this evening. There is a lot still to | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
come. Mo Farah is on the front cover of magazines these days. He | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
is running a gentle 3,000 metres just after 9pm. They will be | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
nothing gentle at all about the men's high hurdles because David | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
Oliver is up against some of the best in the world. That could be a | :44:13. | :44:23. | |
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real cracker. Come up very shortly, eminent we even, Jennifer Meadows | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
will be up against some of the world's best here at Crystal Palace | :44:28. | :44:37. | |
world's best here at Crystal Palace How do you keep smiling when you | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
are disappointed? He is a lovely man. People warm to him because he | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
is a great person. I feel sorry for him. He has had a tough year, | :44:46. | :44:52. | |
having had such a high at the European Championships. He will be | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
back and knows what he asked to do. You do not become a bad athlete | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
overnight, but you cannot run will sort of distances with people | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
trailing behind you. Wendy you see Jennifer Meadows now, compared to a | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
couple of years ago? -- where do you see. Completely different. You | :45:14. | :45:22. | |
expect her to win at major medals. It is always hard to take that | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
responsibility on your shoulders. We just have to wait and see | :45:28. | :45:38. | |
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Do you think she is as good as she was? She is fully capable. I think | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
she is a better and far wiser athlete among the first knew her. | :45:42. | :45:52. | |
:45:52. | :46:15. | ||
This is a really competitive race. form this year. After a lean time | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
over last year's. I had just seen Chris Thompson race, her partner. | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
As far as the trip to Daegu is concerned, it is wide open. Jenny | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
Meadows is already there. There's the young Kenyan champion at 1,500 | :46:31. | :46:40. | |
metres. Two athletes outside in the next lane. We see on a clutch over, | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
and Lynsey Sharp of Edinburgh and Great Britain, under 23 bronze | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
medallist. And then Jenny Meadows. European bronze medallist last year | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
as I was saying, world indoor silver medallist in 2010. Listen to | :46:55. | :47:03. | |
the roar of the crowd. Kinnear Sinclair will be a danger here. 6th | :47:03. | :47:13. | |
:47:13. | :47:26. | ||
in the world record bankings -- week in her performance. Irina | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
Maracheva strong performance as well. Marilyn Okoro, world | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
championship finalist. Along with Molly Beckwith of the United States | :47:37. | :47:47. | |
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who has had a couple of Diamond fastest time ever by a British | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
athlete in that field. Jenny Meadows is automatically | :48:02. | :48:12. | |
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will take for the rest of them. Possibly the most competitive | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
women's 800 metres race from a British point of view that we are | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
bad for a long time. It certainly is. -- than we have had for a long | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
time. Kinnear Sinclair of Jamaica is running fantastically well this | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
year. She has gone with the pacemaker. It will be interesting | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
to see if cents and can do a thing. I was impressed with Emma Jackson | :48:47. | :48:56. | |
but they will all be battling it out, the pace is strong. Kenia | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
Sinclair is close to the front. The pacemaker will go off the track | :49:00. | :49:07. | |
fairly soon. A very quick open there. 56.5, I think the wise place | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
to be in this race is just about where Jenny Meadows is, just off | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
the pace. Running about 58 seconds and the rest of the British | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
athletes led by a Emma Jackson leading towards Jenny Meadows. | :49:21. | :49:29. | |
Marilyn Okoro might have got off a bit quickly. Just under 300 metres | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
left. Has she got what it takes to finish it off? Marilyn Okoro knows | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
this is a big race for. She is being challenged by Jenny Meadows. | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
She is in a perfect position and she is striking now with just over | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
200 metres to go. A very tall figure of Emma Jackson, she is not | :49:48. | :49:57. | |
afraid. Sinclair is being challenged. Sinclair being | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
overtaken by Jenny Meadows. Marilyn Okoro hanging on to third place but | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
Emma Jackson is coming on strong. Jenny Meadows will win this one! A | :50:05. | :50:15. | |
good run by Jenny Meadows, 1:58.61. Absolutely superb. Jenny Meadows, | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
you can ever accuse her of doing anything less than her very, very | :50:18. | :50:24. | |
best. It is one of her fastest times ever and certainly her | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
fastest in 2011. An excellent performance by Jenny Meadows and a | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
think she ran tactically brilliant tonight. She just laid off the pace, | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
it was a bit quick, 27 seconds for the first 200 metres and then they | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
slowed a bit. Here they are in the home straight. Kenny at Sinclair | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
who has been outstanding this year, it looks like she will win this is | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
leak. But then Jenny Meadows has just come quickly there through and | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
Emma Jackson in 4th place with two of them battling it out, going for | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
standard times. They will be close to those times and it will be | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
interesting there but there, Jenny Meadows taking on Sinclair and in | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
the finishing straight, Jenny Meadows driving and finding the | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
extra gear. I am a big fan of Jenny Meadows but I have been a bit | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
nervous on their behalf but I tell you what, that was an impressive | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
performance. Tactically brilliant. Performance-wise, strong and | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
determined. Driving and running on at the finish. That is the best | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
site you can see for an 800 metres runner. You know they're going to | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
be confident and Jenny Meadows can now go to Daegu excited about her | :51:38. | :51:44. | |
race. Marilyn Okoro coming down the home straight working hard and | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
looking at the Times here, we have had the information that Marilyn | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
Okoro has run a A-Standard by five hundredths of a second, it looks | :51:54. | :52:01. | |
like she is booked on a place to... Let's look at that again, is it | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
just outside? It is five hundredths of a second just outside the time, | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
oh, my goodness! A brave race for Marilyn Okoro, what a pity on her | :52:10. | :52:17. | |
behalf. Jenny Meadows, I bet she has never been more excited. Well | :52:17. | :52:25. | |
done, Jenny, she is now talking to The perfect send-off macro for | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
Daegu, a season's best for you. I'm just waiting for the World | :52:30. | :52:39. | |
Championships for me. I am coming into form at the rhyme -- right | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
time. Looking towards the championship, what will tell you | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
when you are in contention when you get there? I think it is the first | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
time Sinclair has been depicted this season so I knew it was a good | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
test for me, really, up against her. I'm really pleased to get the | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
victory. They crowd loved it as well, they were roaring all the way. | :53:02. | :53:09. | |
As they will in Daegu. I am glad you are getting used to this. I saw | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
all the cheers and we need the support, it has great to get around | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
the stadium and I am glad we did not let anybody down. You most | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
certainly did not. We wish you well for Daegu. | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
:53:33. | :53:38. | ||
what a nice interview as well. Kenia Sinclair came here with a big | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
reputation and she came second, Lucia Klocova came third. Marilyn | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
Okoro only five hundredths of a second outside of the A-Standard | :53:48. | :53:57. | |
A long road back to get back from Marilyn, and a tremendous row | :53:57. | :54:03. | |
performance, a gutsy performance but in a speech the hill to see you | :54:03. | :54:13. | |
:54:13. | :54:13. | ||
are so close to the A-Standard. Each race, receipt myself an end I | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
had so much pressure, maybe what I put on myself but also for the | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
country that knows me for how I used to be. I am just elated that I | :54:22. | :54:30. | |
was able to finish off, I am so strong at the moment, I will be so | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
confident in the next race. I am just running into shape in every | :54:33. | :54:41. | |
race and I am so happy to be under two again. A few weeks ago the for | :54:41. | :54:46. | |
Daegu, and you'll be running into shape at the right time. Exactly. | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
God's timing is the best. I just know that I have got plenty of time | :54:52. | :55:02. | |
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to put the last few tweaks in and also by might confidence to grow. I | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
would just like to thank everybody to get him into this point, my | :55:09. | :55:17. | |
coach, and the team, the Aviva team, McCain, everybody, Adidas, that is | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
why am standing here today. All the best going forward. All the best, | :55:20. | :55:28. | |
She is improving but it gives a stark choice for the selectors, | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
only one B-Standard athlete. Marilyn Okoro or Emma Jackson. Emma | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
Jackson ran a personal best behind Marilyn, and you must remember | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
Charles van Commenee's words, plenty of people have had chances | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
and people like her are getting better all the time. That is a | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
tough choice for them. Holly Bleasdale, her third and | :55:51. | :56:01. | |
:56:01. | :56:08. | ||
record earlier on, she was close but disappointment. It has been a | :56:08. | :56:16. | |
great season and I am sure, come Daegu, she will be in good form. | :56:16. | :56:25. | |
And this is the 4th round for Chris Tomlinson. That is the leading Mark | :56:25. | :56:35. | |
:56:35. | :56:44. | ||
for Mitchell Watt. By that graphic, of height there from Tomlinson. | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
Irving, the Olympic champion is down in 4th place. 8.30 metres, | :56:50. | :56:59. | |
:57:00. | :57:02. | ||
still in second place but an cracking 400 metres now for you. | :57:02. | :57:12. | |
:57:12. | :57:23. | ||
Tabarie Henry in the first line, Tabarie Henry just outside the | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
medals, a forgotten man of the last world championships, finished 4th | :57:26. | :57:32. | |
in Berlin. And then the new men, the new stars, Rondell Bartholomew | :57:32. | :57:39. | |
from Grenada. The fastest in the world this year, 44 point 65 but he | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
has been struggling to reproduce that form like that. Chris Brown, | :57:44. | :57:53. | |
world indoor champion, 4th and 5th in the last Worlds. The last | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
Diamond League victory went to this man, Jermaine Gonzales, the | :57:56. | :58:06. | |
:58:06. | :58:24. | ||
champion at 400 metres hurdles -- This is the ekes -- exciting mind, | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
his team-mate is quicker but this is where the talent is. We have not | :58:28. | :58:34. | |
seen him race in Europe, and then Kevin Borlee on the outside, | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
European champion. He will feel James chasing him down the straight. | :58:40. | :58:47. | |
But Martyn Rooney, the comeback trail continues. Still no British | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
athlete has run the A-Standard. 45.25 to guarantee his place. He | :58:54. | :59:04. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :59:04. | :59:45. | |
won the trials but only with a B- on the outside, James has not got | :59:45. | :59:55. | |
:59:55. | :00:01. | ||
Gonzalez is making up ground, Taylor outside him. And now James | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
starts to move around the top and it will be Gonzales and James | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
coming into the home straight. He will have the advantage? It is | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
James with half a yard at the minute. Gonzalez is strong but look | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
at this youngster, fighting his way to the front and staying there! Al- | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
Din form, James wins it. 44 point 62. Fastest in the world so far. He | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
takes it from his team-mate, Rondell Bartholomew is in Nisha | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
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Desai, watch this man. -- is in Sunderland next year. They will | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
surely give him a big welcome. Jeremy Wariner is out of the world | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
championships because of injury. The way has been laid forwards for | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
Kirani James. Fastest in the world now. He is still a junior athlete | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
as well! What a performance. Third from the left. Martyn Rooney on the | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
outside is struggling a little false start Jermaine Gonzales was | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
looking good, but he was pressured by a Christopher Brown. In the end, | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
:01:41. | :01:41. | ||
just one man in it. Kirani James. We always know that Christopher | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
Brown finishes quickly, but he just turned off the gas after 50 metres. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Jermaine Gonzales was the only man who stayed with him. Martyn Rooney, | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
on that performance, he is just short of a little pace. But | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
remember the name Kirani James from Grenada. Now he goes to the top of | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
:02:18. | :02:18. | ||
You have a huge smile and are entitled to it. Tell me about that | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
time. I am in good shape for the World Championships. You were a | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
fantastic junior championships those. How or where are you of only | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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been 18 years old? Everybody back, is behind me. Everybody has been so | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
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positive. What is the atmosphere like in Grenada does now? It is | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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great, having a two athletes in the 400 metres. I cannot believe you | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
are only 18 years old. Fantastic effort. The future starts here with | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
:03:28. | :03:28. | ||
effort. The future starts here with you. He will be a big name in the | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
future. Jermaine Gonzales now has a new man to contend with. It was | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
:03:48. | :03:53. | ||
tough for Martyn Rooney. Started quickly, but faded fast. Jermaine | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
Gonzales still leading the diamond race for the men's 400 metres. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
have spent much of the evening talking about a David Oliver. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Dayron Robles probably thinks that we should talk about him as well. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
we should talk about him as well. The showdown is coming your way | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
short they. One these diamond lead evenings, the races come thick and | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
fast. Jenny Meadows. Whoever could have thought that she was not as | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
good as used to be!? She proved that she is in great shape. She did | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
:04:40. | :04:41. | ||
not frighten -- she did not shy away. Kenia Sinclair was leading | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
and is a competent athlete. But Jenny Meadows was bogus. She has | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
:05:00. | :05:01. | ||
come into form at the right time. Marilyn Okoro was just outside the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
A Standard. Should she stay or go? She should definitely go. On that | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
for -- on that performance alone, it shows she is going in the right | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
:05:21. | :05:21. | ||
direction. I think she is abducts a athlete and deserves to go. -- she | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
is full of guts and it deserves to is full of guts and it deserves to | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
:05:38. | :05:45. | ||
go. Earlier, there were two semi- at the moment. He is in 4th place. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
He will have to see whether he will go through as one of the fastest | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
:05:58. | :06:01. | ||
losers. All of a got a great start. Thomas is going well. -- David | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
:06:11. | :06:22. | ||
Oliver got a great start. He comes first. There was a slight headwind. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Andy Turner did get through and is on the start line just behind us. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
This is a technical events. But it is all shapes and sizes. David | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
Oliver is a heavyweight. Then there are others who are much leaner. Is | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
:06:50. | :06:53. | ||
the rub best shape for up a hurdler? -- is there a best shape? | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
This sport allows everyone of all shapes and sizes to compete. You | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
would think it was an advantage to have longer legs? If you have long | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
legs, you end up shuffling and not getting into our real sprinting | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
stride. Taller competitors suffer and it shorter people can get in | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
and close -- sprint close to our top speed. Is there any room for | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
her tactics in this? Noel, when you hear the gun, press as hard as you | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
:07:42. | :08:18. | ||
can. Hang on in there. Who is your contest. Kevin Craddock he did well | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
in previous races. And Dwight Thomas is now the national record | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
holder for the her -- for the hurdles. Jason Richardson is full | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
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of confidence. Now, the world record holder from Cuba are. Anmer | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
:08:59. | :09:09. | ||
next to him, this American athlete, a former junior champion. David | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
Oliver is the third fastest man in history. Brown from America is in | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
the next lane. He will have to produce something special to last | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
with the best of them. Andy Turner is through to the final as the | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
:09:40. | :09:41. | ||
fastest loser. Let's hope he can do better. He has run a lifetime best | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
earlier this year. He will need to be in good shape if he is going to | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
challenge this year. The only man missing from a global perspective | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
:10:01. | :10:08. | ||
is the former world record holder. Interestingly, Colin Jackson holds | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the British record. Is the BBC commentary team about to lose its | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
:10:22. | :10:43. | ||
is knocking hurdles all the way. Colin Jackson's record is safe. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Into a slight headwind, with nobody been eased 13 seconds. No doubt | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
about the class of the winner in the end. 13.04 is a very classy | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
indeed. David Oliver is going to have to go back to the drawing | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
board. I think he got third place. Richardson has really put a marker | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
:11:17. | :11:20. | ||
down. David Oliver will have to go back to the drawing board. The | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
Cuban athlete was so close to breaking Colin Jackson's record. | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
You said he was going to win and he did. Sensational. He drove a very | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
hard and was aggressive. He got into that beautiful, fluid stride | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
of his. He took days and with him. 85 as David Oliver, I would be | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
pretty nervous because you must remember that the former champion | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
:12:02. | :12:10. | ||
is missing from this field. Richardson from the USA is the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
major threat to come from the United States. From this angle, you | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
can see them all. They all have different techniques and stride | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
lengths in between. They want to take victory here. When you are | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
against someone like the winner, who I think is born to hurdle, it | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
is very difficult indeed. On the left, David Oliver is looking | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
strong and powerful, but he is just not in this race today. When he | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
gets back to the drawing board, I think he will watch these races and | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
wonder what is going on. Great race wonder what is going on. Great race | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
:13:01. | :13:02. | ||
Colin Jackson was talking about how well you ran. Fantastic performance | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
and a stadium record. Sum up how you feel now. I feel very happy. | :13:10. | :13:19. | |
:13:20. | :13:20. | ||
That is my best time this year. Today is very good for me. I am | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
very happy. This is a very important race before the World | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
Championships. Going into the world championships, you have the likes | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
of Richardson and David Oliver. Two you think you are in good form? | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
Everybody is very good. Three years ago, I dreamt that everybody was | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
:14:04. | :14:06. | ||
here. I am looking forward to Daegu. Congratulations. Now we can bring | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
in Jason. We saw you when in Stockholm. Today, it was so close. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
You must feel like your peaking at the right time? Every very knows | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
that America has two World Championships. It was a bit rocky | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
coming off the back of USA. But I have the best coach in the world. | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
Honestly, overall, I have worked on my face and worked at staying calm. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
When everything comes together, I can get a far as time. That was a | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
:14:58. | :15:01. | ||
personal best for years. Is there more in the locker? The thing about | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
:15:11. | :15:16. | ||
the hurdles is that we have very capable people in Daegu. I have | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
gone through a lot of ups and downs. I will not give up. I do not have | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the best technique, but I have the best caught in the world and | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
believe in God. I am the dark horse. You are on the up. Thank you for | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
:15:40. | :15:40. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds | :15:40. | :16:36. | |
consistency. He is laying that tactical Foundation which means a | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
great Rutherford and also Tomlinson will go next. -- great Rutherford. | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
He finishes with eight centimetres over eight metres. I am sure Chris | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Thomas are more had to Daegu in good heart. Tomlinson with his | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
final jump here. Eight bidders and 38 -- eight metres and 30 | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
centimetres. His final attempt... Again, over eight metres but I | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
don't think it will be an improvement. If he wins this, he | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
will head to Daegu as the favourite. The good thing for those is that | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
they posh the Olympic champion down into 4th place. This gives us | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
perhaps an indication of how competitive our two top Brits will | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
be. He looks around, 8.02 metres for Thomas and to finish second | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
:17:57. | :18:00. | ||
place. Mitchell Watt takes the top victory, the second Diamond League | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
victory in a row. Thomas and and Rutherford in second and third | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
:18:18. | :18:29. | ||
place. With Irving Saladin now in British Lung jumpers in a second | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
and behind me because of the posturing 100 metres runners. This | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
:18:44. | :18:49. | ||
is what happened in the semi-finals and Yohan Blake moving beautifully, | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
he is coming through and looking very easy indeed along with Keston | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Bledman and the head wind is not 0.6 metres per second. But Yohan | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
:19:12. | :19:18. | ||
Blake was super-smooth there. He start and so does Bailey. Nesta | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Carter is leading them, Thomson finished quickly but did not go | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
:19:31. | :19:33. | ||
JOHN INVERDALE: In lane one is Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the only | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Briton into this final. Realistically he will not be on the | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
podium here but what is the aiming for here, Colin? To be as | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
competitive as he can possibly be. He has been through the learning | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
process of what all these guys are capable of doing. He has been to | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
the warm-up and seen what it is like to be at your best. Absolutely, | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
he has got these opportunities, and that is the biggest problem with | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, he's got to find that. Stick around. | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
:20:22. | :20:23. | ||
Palace and the famous amateur started to build, generated over | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
the years of floodlit meetings and the floodlights definitely on at | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
the moment. These are the men in the spotlight. Nesta Carter, | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
:20:42. | :20:43. | ||
Michael Rodgers, the quick starter. And a packed house looking forward | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
to this final. Aikines-Aryeetey on the inside, and then the other | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
:21:02. | :21:15. | ||
one of the British athletes, Mark Lewis-Francis was a one hundredth | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
of a second so did not make it through -- was one hundredth of a | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
:21:30. | :21:31. | ||
second slower. Keston Bledman, in a big competition because most of the | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
world's great sprinters come from the Caribbean. Trell Kimmons, 4th | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
in the world indoor championships last year. Yohan Blake, still just | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
21 years of age, and Usain Bolt rate him very highly. Alongside him, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
Nesta Carter and these two Jamaicans, as good as they are, I | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
only the best third and 4th, maybe not third and 4th best in the | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
country. Michael Rodgers next to them, quick starter, really good 60 | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
metre runner. Silver medallist indoors. And then Richard Thompson, | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
two Olympic silver medals, finished very quickly, looks like he is | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
:22:32. | :22:46. | ||
coming into some good form on the coached by Glenn Mills -- there he | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
is. No Asafa Powell who had to pull out due to injury. It is a mouth- | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
watering race still unsettling one that is difficult to predict. A bit | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
:23:10. | :23:10. | ||
of a shame that even in that men's 110 metres finals it wind was -0.6 | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
:23:21. | :23:36. | ||
also Trell Kimmons in lane three. Right in the middle, here comes | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
bike and storming through to win this, he will take it, like when is | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
:23:50. | :23:51. | ||
this, 1995, into a serious head wind as well. -- 9.95. Carter was | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
better but from the mid-. He stormed his way into the lead and | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
was never going to be taken. He was going away and the last 20 metres. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
The only man to get under 10 seconds in the race, and once more | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Jamaica comes on top of this time in the shape of Yohan Blake. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Equalling his season's best. Into that headwind and that has got to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
be worth close to around one 10th of a second, really. Very strong, | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
:24:32. | :24:32. | ||
quick performance. And a dominant one in the end. Colin? I am | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
watching it from the start here and I tell you what, Nesta Carter | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
exploded out of the blocks. But as soon as Yohan Blake caught up to | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
him, he was not going to hang about. He pulled through this field | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
remarkably well and with so much ease. That is what surprised me. He | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
is one, possibly the contender in Daegu. Nesta Carter has run 9.78, | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
the fastest Jamaican last year but he would never believe that today | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
because Yohan Blake got up into his running, he is very elegant. Very | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
powerful and of course, takes a nice victory today. Watch this here, | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
out of the box, drives a strong and powerful performance. Does not | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
worry what is going on to his side. Just concentrates on what he is | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
capable of doing. He gets up, works hard, tries with his shoulders, | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
:25:41. | :25:42. | ||
focuses right into the line. Paul's him away to take this great victory | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
indeed and Asafa Powell was not running, but he would be run tough | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
too. He is down with our Phil Jones He was looking down at the screen | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
there and a tremendous performance, first of all. Well done. When you | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
look at yourself back, do you expect that to be the way it would | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
be? First and foremost, I have to give God thanks. My coach has been | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
putting me me on the track and saying you can do it. Looking at | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
the screen, it is wonderful. Going out there and doing all that I | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
thank my coach and also got. losses and's best and so close to | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
the world championship. -- this season's best. It is wonderful and | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
I am feeling great. Usain Bolt have been doing such a positive word. | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
And I give him my thanks. Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell have inspired | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
you on the way, what does it feel like to be alongside them and | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
possibly challenging them in the world championships? A wonderful | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
feeling. Nesta Carter and all those guys, they are wonderful. You have | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
entertained as thoroughly tonight, all the best for the World | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
:27:13. | :27:17. | ||
Yohan Blake, into that head wind. Nesta Carter taking second place | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
but to be honest, they were never close. A rather disappointing | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
performance from Harry Aikines- JOHN INVERDALE: Interesting to talk | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
about Harry in the context of what we were talking about earlier, in | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
the hurdles, there are all shapes and sizes. No definitive right size | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
to be as a 100 metres sprinter. But I know that you want to make a | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
point about the training process. How much is it about the legs, | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
upper-body strength? If you look at Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, he is very | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
powerful in the upper body, do you think he has got too much focus on | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
that? I think so. I have spoken with Michael Johnson about it, I | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
think Colin tends to agree, he has just got too much bulk and he is | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
not utilising it to his best ability, I think. We are talking | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
about athletes and making the difference between finishing in | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
finals, making semi-finals and I think Harry is limiting his ability, | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
I really do. He is way too big. he is spending too much time in the | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
gym, do you think it is as simple as that? It is his natural genetics | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
as well. He is very big. When he was 16, he is mauled was already | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
there. You have got to keep control of flat. - Mikey shape was already | :28:34. | :28:44. | |
:28:44. | :28:45. | ||
I am not suggesting this in terms of harried but it is a crossed all | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
sportsmen, the machismo of this and bench pressing and so on, if you | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
are not careful you can get sidetracked into peripheral stuff | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
but in his instance, it is about running fast. It is all about | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
relative factors. I do not know whether he has been as effective as | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
he could have been. He is a talented guy, looking towards under | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
10 seconds, and you saw, he get out 260 metres but he has not got what | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
it takes to get to the end. -- up to 60 metres. You realise how many | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
people out there are ahead of you when you cannot get under 10 | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
seconds. They know that and they have just been slightly missing the | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
boat. As he comes closer to home, people like Christophe Lemaitre | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
running their times. They think and make people think how they approach | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
have their training because in Christophe Lemaitre can run 9.90, | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
then so can they. It is a difficult task, it really is. There's always | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
time because the applause you can hear just behind me was for this | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
lady, and this is an invitation, women's 4x100m relay and running | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
for Slovenia, if you're watching at home and you are and if this -- | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
athletics fan, you may not know about this lady but she has been | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
around since... Forever! And she is 51 years old. She ran in the Moscow | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
Olympic Games in 1998, the famous ones and there she is. 31 years on | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
and running whatever she will run. However you are, however old you | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
are, sitting on the sofa and drinking a third glass of wine, | :30:37. | :30:47. | |
:30:47. | :30:55. | ||
I asked her how it she felt. She said that she felt great. | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
Unfortunately, the baton of only did two changes that time, so she | :31:00. | :31:07. | |
did not go down the home straight. What are you doing, taking the soft | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
option! She looks fantastic. There will be some 51-year-old women out | :31:14. | :31:23. | |
there feeling depressed. She looks sensational. This is an invitation | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
race. Mo Farah will be running in the next 10 minutes, but, before | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
:31:40. | :31:45. | ||
the next 10 minutes, but, before have two teams. Their team for | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
America is not official, hence the name. It is a good opportunity for | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
some of the teams to stretch their legs. There is a qualifying | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
standard for Daegu. If Slovenia not want to be there, they must get | :32:05. | :32:15. | |
:32:15. | :32:20. | ||
within 44 seconds today. So read a Solomon is the lead runner for -- | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
Solomon is the lead runner for the second British team. Germany is | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
always solid in the changeovers. Consistently one of the best teams | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
in Europe. Stars and Stripes might not be an official team, but they | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
:32:48. | :33:21. | ||
have a lot of talent. 98 is in Britain. We do not have much | :33:21. | :33:30. | |
information about the All Stars, I am afraid. One of the famous twin | :33:30. | :33:40. | |
:33:40. | :34:15. | ||
the race for the All Stars. Britain are in lanes two and six. Stars and | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
Stripes have got off very quickly in lane four. The first British | :34:21. | :34:29. | |
team is going well. Douglas has some chasing to do. She has been | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
:34:39. | :34:40. | ||
closed down by Jamaica. There is a problem. The first British team are | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
really messed up that changeover. We will look at that later. Germany | :34:47. | :34:53. | |
in lane three are being run down by the Stars and Stripes and Jamaica. | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
The first British team is nowhere to be seen. Quite a quick time, but | :34:58. | :35:08. | |
:35:08. | :35:11. | ||
the opportunity for GBR one to get in a good practice. Their chance | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
has been lost and that is disappointing just before the World | :35:15. | :35:24. | |
Championships. I am sure we will have a close look at that, but it | :35:24. | :35:34. | |
:35:34. | :35:36. | ||
was a big disappointment, the changeover to Douglas. Down the | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
back straight, once Douglas took the baton, she lost ground. The | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
athletes inside and outside are overtaking her. She looks as though | :35:48. | :35:58. | |
:35:58. | :36:01. | ||
she is coming in tired. There was one attempt to pass the baton. The | :36:01. | :36:11. | |
:36:11. | :36:13. | ||
second attempt, they were outside the box, so not good. We need to | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
have a solid lead a team -- solid relay team that has good baton | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
changes, so that we can progress in the rounds and hope to get to the | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
final. I am 51 years old in a few months and this woman has inspired | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
me. I am going out running tomorrow. The time is just outside the | :36:34. | :36:44. | |
:36:44. | :36:50. | ||
Steve Cram is close to your age and you have inspired him. Many people | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
will be watching. How was it? are hoping to run fast, but we had | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
problems with the exchanges. We did our best. We will try again for | :37:03. | :37:13. | |
:37:13. | :37:16. | ||
next year Olympics. Your just outside the qualifying time. I want | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
to thank the crowd for what they have done. I came here in 1980. I | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
it like to thank all of the fans and all of the Jamaicans in the | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
crowd. Wonderful to see you. You are and inspiration. I hate to say | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
are and inspiration. I hate to say this, but neither of the British | :37:38. | :37:46. | |
teams are finished the race. Stars and Stripes were the strongest on | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
paper. They ran well. Jamaica was in second place. The All-Stars were | :37:53. | :38:02. | |
brought home by Simpson of Jamaica. Now we can catch up with the | :38:02. | :38:11. | |
women's pole vault. This was the first athlete to clear the latest | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
height. Very nice clearance indeed. There are six athletes competing at | :38:16. | :38:26. | |
:38:26. | :38:31. | ||
this height. Four of them were to go clear. This was this athlete's | :38:31. | :38:41. | |
second attempt. That was a season best. There was a personal best for | :38:41. | :38:51. | |
:38:51. | :38:53. | ||
the next athlete to go clear. The Greek record holder. This was her | :38:53. | :39:03. | |
:39:03. | :39:05. | ||
third and final attempt. Great performance there from the Greek | :39:05. | :39:13. | |
record holder, with a new Greek record. Third attempt for the world | :39:14. | :39:23. | |
:39:24. | :39:29. | ||
leader as well. She has had injury problems over the years. Four | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
athletes clear at that height of four metres and 71. Then, the bar | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
moved up to four metres and 79. Only one athlete was to clear that | :39:43. | :39:53. | |
:39:53. | :39:55. | ||
height. This was her second attempt. The big news in pole vaulting is | :39:55. | :40:05. | |
:40:05. | :40:21. | ||
the battle between the top two events. We have won at track events | :40:21. | :40:31. | |
:40:31. | :40:50. | ||
still to come for some Mo Farah performance from David Rudisha. | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
Cons and it piece of tactical running from Jenny Meadows. Well | :40:53. | :41:03. | |
:41:03. | :41:14. | ||
under two minutes. -- consider that the men's 100-metre final. The only | :41:14. | :41:24. | |
:41:24. | :41:29. | ||
man to get under 10 seconds. Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt were not there, | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
but Yohan Blake could be a strong but Yohan Blake could be a strong | :41:35. | :41:43. | |
The reception you got in Birmingham was good. It almost seems like the | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
fans have a greater awareness of what you are achieving. Two you get | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
a sense of that? 100%. The crowd started cheering and it was nice to | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
have. I could not believe it. You'll get the same here again no | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
doubt. Tell me about were the 3,000 metres fit send to your overall | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
plan in the build-up to Daegu. have to stay focused. This is where | :42:10. | :42:19. | |
it matters. This race is very important. It could be my last race | :42:19. | :42:26. | |
before Daegu. I need to keep doing what I am doing. When we spoke at | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
the trials, you explain that you were going to do the 10,000 metres | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
at Daegu and see how your body shape up for the 5,000. This week, | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
there have been stories confusing that issue. Can you tell us you are | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
plans? 100%. I am definitely going to concentrate on the 10,000. Once | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
I get that out the way, I will see how I come after that race. It is | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
25 laps round the track. I will have a bath and see the medical | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
team. If I recover, I will come back for the 5,000. It just depends | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
how I come off the 10,000. Let me ask you finally about London being | :43:11. | :43:19. | |
so dear to your heart. One year to the Olympics. Is there an extra | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
resonance around this event this year? Tomorrow, it will be one year | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
until that race. The public is getting into the Olympics now. A | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
lot of people are talking about this. We will have it right on our | :43:35. | :43:43. | |
doorstep. I cannot get excited too much. I will have the World | :43:43. | :43:53. | |
Championships first. We will all look forward, of course, with | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
interest to those World Championships and what eventually | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
transpires. For tonight, he is just going to concentrate on the shorter | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
distance of 3,000 metres. It will be his last performance before | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
returning to Salt Lake City to prepare for the World Championships. | :44:10. | :44:20. | |
:44:20. | :44:25. | ||
He is an Arsenal fan. Or maybe it He is an Arsenal fan. Or maybe it | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
is Sunderland United. Mo Farah has a decent field against him. One he | :44:29. | :44:39. | |
:44:39. | :44:42. | ||
will expect, given his form. Some familiar names. Alistair Ian Cragg | :44:43. | :44:52. | |
is not in great form this year. Has it is a small but select field. | :44:52. | :45:02. | |
:45:02. | :45:10. | ||
There is David Krummenacker. This really is a race... Mo Farah is | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
receiving a great reception. He can practise his tactics in the final | :45:15. | :45:25. | |
:45:25. | :45:51. | ||
Cragg, a former European indoor indoors, still just 22 years of age. | :45:51. | :46:01. | |
:46:01. | :46:14. | ||
And then Kosgei. And then the OCR of tonight's Diamond League meeting | :46:15. | :46:24. | |
:46:25. | :46:30. | ||
here in Crystal Palace. Back again around Crystal Palace! And the man | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
who will be looking to just come away with a nice victory here | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
another confidence-boosting win. But no matter how good you are, it | :46:40. | :46:46. | |
does not matter who you are, you have got to go out and do the | :46:46. | :46:52. | |
business. And not sure we have had too much just to chat about Mo | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
Farah but you must be over the moon with the way he has been running. | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
Fantastic so far. He started the year with a cross-country win in | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
Edinburgh. Almost invincible ever since. His 10,000 metres time, | :47:05. | :47:12. | |
European record, taking 30 seconds off the British record time. | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
Incidentally, he was 6th in the world championships in 2007. He was | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
7th in the world championships in 2009 and he is definitely a better | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
athlete. Clearly, Mo Farah he would have to say it has got to be one of | :47:25. | :47:35. | |
:47:35. | :47:35. | ||
the favourites, certainly a medal expectation. I think he could win | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
it. I would be surprised if we find Kenenisa Bekele challenging. He has | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
not raced for about two years. Clearly the outstanding athlete of | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
this generation but he has not run a race before the championship. We | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
have seen him do that sort of thing before but I will be surprised if | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
Kenenisa Bekele turned out in Daegu and ran the 10,000 metres. A pretty | :47:59. | :48:07. | |
good pacemaking so far from David Krummenacker. Although Mo Farah | :48:07. | :48:17. | |
:48:17. | :48:30. | ||
does not seem interested in closing reliable pacemaker. He is doing a | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
pretty good job. And Collis Birmingham tracking the pacemaker | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
but he has got a few yards and he will know that because he looks at | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
the big screen and sees the fact that Mo Farah is leading the | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
chasing group. And that he has a good athlete, is Collis Birmingham. | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
You just wonder whether he would have a shot from here. Coming down | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
the home straight, five laps to go, Collis Birmingham tracks David | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
Krummenacker. Mo Farah has been in races with Collis Birmingham and | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
knows how good he is. Not the biggest danger in the race but if | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
he got away and got a gap, he could become a danger. But Mo Farah | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
sensibly working his way gradually back and has really grown in | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
confidence over this past year. The European double of 10,005 1,000 | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
metres. And now he is a much better after it -- a 10,000 and 5,000 | :49:26. | :49:33. | |
metre runner. We have not had a British athlete win those distances | :49:33. | :49:41. | |
on a global competition. We had women win in 1991 in Turkey but it | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
will be great to see Mo Farah see if he could get either a 5,000 | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
metres, 10,000 metres or may be even both. So the pacemaker stepped | :49:51. | :50:01. | |
:50:01. | :50:02. | ||
off, Collis Birmingham left in the lead. Collis Birmingham looking for | :50:02. | :50:11. | |
a good rock here. We will see him really put his foot down at later | :50:11. | :50:21. | |
:50:21. | :50:24. | ||
on. He has been with his training partner, Galen Rupp. There are all | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
heading back to the States earlier on and they will fly out to join | :50:29. | :50:39. | |
:50:39. | :50:39. | ||
the British team and different conditions in Daegu. They have run | :50:39. | :50:46. | |
in Monaco and Eugene, it will be perhaps more hot and more humid. | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
But is definitely ride. When they go to altitude, it is not the | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
greatest preparation for running in those difficult conditions -- that | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
is definitely right. And Mo Farah looks altogether different now, so | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
smooth and comfortable. He has progressed significantly this year. | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
Under the tutelage of his coach, I have known he has always had the | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
talent but now he has got the coach of the ability of Alberto, he has | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
been prepared to do the work and the distance and stick at it, he | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
has travelled the world and trained in Kenya and is now training in | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
America. He has always wanted to do anything that will make him better. | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
You can see him glancing at the screen, he has got Gideon Gathimba | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
behind him. Collis Birmingham working hard there as well. It will | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
be interesting to see what kind of time Mo Farah can run off that. | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
Possibly a personal best but he will have to run quickly but that | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
will be a good challenge. He wants to take something out of this. And | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
that might be the fact he has got a strong 800 metres. I agree. That is | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
something he has probably had in his head for the past two laps. It | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
is where he is really finding himself now, getting into the last | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
two laps and get into the front and he wind it up and still has enough | :52:16. | :52:26. | |
:52:26. | :52:29. | ||
pace. His personal best outdoors is only 7.38, but he has run 7.34 In | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
doors. He will have to start picking up probably about now to | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
get close to that. You cannot do everything on the last lap although | :52:39. | :52:47. | |
it will be quick. I am looking at this, he will struggle but he wants | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
the victory here. Collis Birmingham is working at it, Alistair Cragg | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
has run a good time. We rarely see him run well at Crystal Palace but | :52:56. | :53:03. | |
he certainly running well now. Mo Farah is aware of that. In are so | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
quick Alistair Cragg is. He is looking at Gideon Gathimba, he has | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
worked himself from a really good position into a really bad position, | :53:11. | :53:16. | |
giving away a few yards but he has got the confidence and ability. Can | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
he do what we have seen him do on a few occasions? Cried is trying to | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
win it from here. And now the crowd at Crystal Palace is getting | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
excited. We have a true world-class distance runner and he is showing | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
them how good he is. Now he just needs to stretch and let it go. But | :53:36. | :53:43. | |
see how quick he can run in the last 200 metres. He is off! | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
Farah is just putting on a demonstration here, a show for this | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
Crystal Palace crowd. Sprinting away almost like Usain Bolt down | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
the home straight. Look at the distance he has put between himself | :53:56. | :54:05. | |
and the others! In the last 200 metres. Mo Farah wins it, seven: | :54:05. | :54:15. | |
40.15. That is very, very quick indeed. Impressive performers once | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
again. All he had to do was win here but Brendan said he would be | :54:20. | :54:26. | |
looking for something to take away and those last 200 metres has given | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
him added confidence, if he did not have it before. The finishing pace | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
is blistering. That is absolutely right. We knew he could win this | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
race but he wanted to take something just when he is on the | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
warm-up track in Daegu, to remember how good he is. And there he is. | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
Look at him, Mo Farah is true champion, a fantastic sprint finish | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
and now we can all go away excited, Mo Farah off to Daegu. He is | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
You have excited many people and this crowd, you get better with | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
each race, it seems. I was really confident, I wanted use a different | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
tactic. Usually I want to get to the front and why did up. But I am | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
really happy. Massive support from the crowd. Awesome. You were | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
talking about the crowd having awareness of how well you are doing, | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
and tonight was the biggest indication of that. I want to thank | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
everyone coming out here tonight and giving good support. What do | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
you do from here? Between now and Daegu? Take it out there. I am | :55:30. | :55:38. | |
going to the US, to my coach and I will run with Galen Rupp and from | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
there to Daegu. All the best for Daegu. When you come back here to | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
Britain, you know what has on the agenda next? The Great North Run, I | :55:48. | :55:56. | |
am not sure yet. It depends on how things go after this. We will see | :55:56. | :56:06. | |
:56:06. | :56:11. | ||
you in Daegu and the whole country four seconds from the athletes | :56:11. | :56:19. | |
behind Mo Farah from the past 200 metres. And Alistair Cragg ending | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
in 4th place. JOHN INVERDALE: What a fantastic | :56:22. | :56:29. | |
finale to this night opening the Aviva Grand Prix. We are back on | :56:29. | :56:36. | |
tomorrow at 1:30pm preceded by the dreams ahead of next year, and | :56:36. | :56:45. | |
Jessica Ennis is a key element of And you know it is back, football | :56:45. | :56:55. | |
Focus from poor 3:00pm. What a way to round things off. The nature of | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
the beast, the atmosphere does not come through the ether some time | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
but the noise was fantastic at the end! Spine-tingling, everybody was | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
on their feet. When Mo took off, it was sensational. He is still | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
talking to the crowd, they are still applauding him. This is the | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
That is all for now, goodbye. That he is here for. The hearts and | :57:15. | :57:23. | |
minds of everybody will be with him. And Jessica Ennis. Taking the | :57:23. | :57:29. | |
pressure of her as well, two people and young Phillips in there as well. | :57:29. | :57:38. | |
We have got more than one person as a poster boy or girl. You scum a | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
crowd really bonded with these athletes. There are looking forward | :57:42. | :57:49. | |
to their performances, and they see that and we are very happy to see | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
that. And we gave her the Aviva performers of the evening, Jenny | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
Meadows. We are used to seeing her front-running and she did it | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
perfectly. Perfect race, great resource and again, she can do to | :58:04. | :58:08. | |
Daegu full of confidence. The what I'm looking forward to tomorrow? | :58:08. | :58:18. | |
:58:18. | :58:19. | ||
Goodness gracious, the triple jump, possibly something as. I would like | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
to see him do the triple jump in their shoes we saw him in! I will | :58:23. | :58:30. |