London Grand Prix

:00:48. > :00:53.Welcome to the centre of the sporting universe for the next six

:00:53. > :01:03.weeks. Just 14 days now and three hours for all of us, but especially

:01:03. > :01:25.

:01:25. > :01:35.Mo Farah takes the gold for Great This is real class by Tiffani

:01:35. > :01:45.

:01:45. > :01:48.Christine Aaron Cook takes the gold Most of the Olympics' glittering

:01:48. > :01:53.superstar start arriving on Monday, I hope they have packed their

:01:53. > :02:03.brollies. Some have got into town early to be here at Crystal Palace

:02:03. > :02:03.

:02:03. > :02:50.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds

:02:50. > :02:53.tonight for the latest Diamond Evening. We have left the track and

:02:53. > :02:57.the infield to the athletes and sought solace Belleek the shelter

:02:57. > :03:01.of the grandstand, another Sunday sporting event on this most

:03:01. > :03:09.wretched of summers, but we have some fantastic athletics ahead to

:03:09. > :03:14.Topping the bill tonight, two of the big four for Great Britain, Mo

:03:14. > :03:18.Farah Chase is a good time in a 5000m as his final preparation

:03:18. > :03:22.before the Games themselves. -- chases. And Dai Greene will captain

:03:22. > :03:27.the Great Britain team at the Games, the Welsh minister might have

:03:27. > :03:31.against one of his great rivals in the 400m hurdles. -- the Welshman

:03:31. > :03:35.tonight is up against. The overseas contingent is headed

:03:35. > :03:42.by Liu Xiang, one of the biggest of all sports stars in the Far East,

:03:42. > :03:46.who makes his Crystal Palace bow in the 110 metres hurdles. Top US

:03:46. > :03:50.sprinter Tyson Gay won the Last Diamond League 100m race in Paris.

:03:50. > :03:55.Amongst those lining up against him tonight is Dwain Chambers, who has

:03:55. > :03:59.not run against him at this meeting for nine years. And Vivian

:03:59. > :04:02.Cheruiyot of Kenya, Kenya sportswoman of the year, will put

:04:02. > :04:12.down a marker for the rest of the distance running world in the

:04:12. > :04:43.

:04:43. > :04:49.Denise and Colin are here beneath the grandstand as well, and it is

:04:49. > :04:53.now 14 hours -- 14 days! I do not know how the athletes are feeling,

:04:53. > :04:57.but I am really excited. This meeting is always great, we have

:04:57. > :05:03.got some fantastic athletes coming, but from the British perspective,

:05:03. > :05:08.my goodness, the send-off they want from this crowd tonight will set

:05:08. > :05:13.their heart and body and mind ready to go. Set the sort of base here

:05:13. > :05:16.for an event like this, two weeks before the big event. What are you

:05:16. > :05:21.trying to do? Frighten a few people? Try not to get injured?

:05:21. > :05:25.What are the priorities? It is a combination of things. You are here

:05:25. > :05:29.to compete and practice what you have been doing all window. You

:05:29. > :05:33.come to these conditions, you might not be able to run very quickly,

:05:33. > :05:37.but you still want to go head-to- head with a major rivals, and if

:05:37. > :05:41.you can put one over on your rival before the Olympics, it puts you in

:05:41. > :05:43.a good place. A lot has happened since the trials are a couple of

:05:44. > :05:48.weeks ago, not least the announcement of the Great Britain

:05:48. > :05:51.team, which we will discuss over the course of the next 48 hours,

:05:51. > :06:01.but at the European Championships Mo Farah, who we are seeing later

:06:01. > :06:03.

:06:03. > :06:07.job done. At this stage, you want to feel your legs, you want to feel

:06:07. > :06:13.how everything is connecting, and I think he just retained his title,

:06:13. > :06:17.which is always important. You know, or me, it is about what he does

:06:17. > :06:22.tonight. Two very good Ethiopian as far ahead of him, and he has his

:06:22. > :06:25.work cut out. You always want to have a test. As an athlete, you

:06:25. > :06:31.work hard to deliver a good performance, and that the European

:06:31. > :06:36.Championships it was a nice run out, but this will be more of a test.

:06:36. > :06:39.know you are proud to have a Welshman as captain of the GB

:06:39. > :06:44.athletics team, an interesting race for him, a repeat of Paris last

:06:44. > :06:48.week. Absolutely, we saw him run a personal best in Paris, which was

:06:48. > :06:53.great to see. At the end of the day, it is all about the Olympic Games

:06:53. > :06:57.for him. He has won Diamond League events before, beaten everyone

:06:57. > :07:02.before, but the most important thing is to dusted all off, focus

:07:02. > :07:05.on the games and deliver there, because we know he can do it.

:07:05. > :07:10.going in the right direction after all the problems at the beginning

:07:10. > :07:14.of the season. It is now that he needs to know how he is going to be,

:07:14. > :07:18.because he is one of the genuine head to head of the Olympic Games.

:07:18. > :07:23.I'm sure people are the same, captain of the athletics team, what

:07:23. > :07:27.do they do? They do not squeeze the half-time oranges! They lead by

:07:27. > :07:31.example, and I cannot think of a better role model than Dai Greene.

:07:31. > :07:35.Over the last two years we have seen him grow in stature, his

:07:35. > :07:40.performances have been brilliant, and he wants to walk into that and

:07:40. > :07:45.a big stadium and say, guys, it can be done. From seasoned campaigners,

:07:45. > :07:48.let's talk about our sprint sensation may be, I was talking to

:07:48. > :07:52.Michael Johnson, who was saying that he is really impressed by Adam

:07:52. > :07:55.Gemili and thinks he could go a long way, but he is a bit concerned

:07:55. > :08:01.that we might be getting ahead of ourselves and expecting too much,

:08:01. > :08:05.too soon. That is exactly true. He is a young man, he won the world

:08:05. > :08:10.junior title, fantastic performance with a new personal best, going

:08:10. > :08:14.around 10.05. This is a good performance, but we have seen it in

:08:14. > :08:17.the past. Dwain Chambers ran that kind of time, Mark Lewis-Francis

:08:17. > :08:22.ran that kind of time, and we waited to see what they could do.

:08:22. > :08:26.Harry Aikines-Aryeetey. We have just got to see, let them develop.

:08:26. > :08:32.So is the key thing to set the expectations at a realistic level

:08:32. > :08:35.for the Olympics? Semi-final at best? I think at best. He has not

:08:35. > :08:39.gone under 10 yet, but it is more important that he restores our

:08:39. > :08:43.faith that we have young talent coming through, because for a few

:08:43. > :08:48.years now nothing has happened, and so for him, going to the Olympics

:08:48. > :08:52.is about doing the rounds, getting used to the atmosphere, you know,

:08:52. > :08:57.standing alongside Bolt, which is very possible, dealing with those

:08:57. > :09:01.nerves and emotions, it is a big deal. Unequivocally the right call

:09:01. > :09:05.to actually go to the Games? There was some debate about he would be

:09:05. > :09:08.better keeping his powder dry for the future. It is up to him and his

:09:08. > :09:13.coach, at what they wanted to do was the most important thing for

:09:13. > :09:17.them as a group. If he is good enough to go, why not go? Enjoy it,

:09:17. > :09:21.it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Let's move on to the

:09:21. > :09:24.people we will see action this evening, and we may not have the

:09:24. > :09:34.face of London 2012 in Jessica Ennis, but we have the face of

:09:34. > :09:37.

:09:37. > :09:41.Welcome to London. How this is the event it into the Olympic planning?

:09:41. > :09:44.TRANSLATION: This competition will be the last one before the Olympic

:09:44. > :09:49.Games, and it happened that for this competition there would be two

:09:49. > :09:52.rounds. It is very similar to the semi-final and final in the Olympic

:09:52. > :10:02.Games, so I will enter this competition as a rehearsal for the

:10:02. > :10:06.Let me ask about what it is like to beat part of an event that is one

:10:06. > :10:10.of the biggest on the track in terms of the people involved,

:10:10. > :10:18.yourself, Dayron Robles, the American trio, past some British

:10:18. > :10:22.interest. -- perhaps. All of these athletes are great athletes, all

:10:22. > :10:27.very strong. Everyone could have a very good result in the competition,

:10:27. > :10:32.but I just want to focus on myself, try to clear every hurdle as fast

:10:32. > :10:35.as possible, try to finish as fast as possible, that is my goal. I

:10:35. > :10:41.have not thought too much about the result. I just want to enjoy the

:10:41. > :10:51.occasion. If I have tried my best and I have worked hard, no matter

:10:51. > :10:52.

:10:52. > :11:00.Hopefully, no interference like what happened last year, that is

:11:01. > :11:05.where things can get taken out of I have not thought too much about

:11:05. > :11:12.that. The most important thing in the competition is to focus, Focus,

:11:12. > :11:16.focus on yourself. Of course, nobody would like to have that

:11:16. > :11:23.happen, but it happened, and I have learnt from it, and I can try to

:11:23. > :11:27.There is not much you can do as an athlete to avoid it. It is

:11:27. > :11:32.difficult sometimes. That the only way is to run so fast that nobody

:11:32. > :11:35.can touch you. Liu Xiang. I have just been thinking, the people who

:11:35. > :11:43.are the face of the games have had a chequered history over recent

:11:43. > :11:48.Olympics. At the Freeman in Sydney, obviously, in Athens there was not

:11:48. > :11:53.a lot good coming from them. Liu Xiang was the face of Beijing, he

:11:53. > :11:56.did not get to compete, so he has a lot to prove, through no fault of

:11:56. > :12:01.his own, in two and a half weeks' time. He was one of the athletes

:12:01. > :12:05.who could have made history by winning three Olympic titles, he

:12:05. > :12:10.won in 2004, equalled the world record, but he was injured in 2008

:12:10. > :12:15.and cannot do that. He was capable of winning that year. This year he

:12:15. > :12:19.has attended all around, and he is still the most beautifully finessed

:12:19. > :12:23.athlete over those barriers, and it is great to see that. I am pretty

:12:23. > :12:28.sure he is going to be a red hot favourite when it comes to London

:12:28. > :12:31.very soon. OK, well, let's see what shape he is in, because a few

:12:31. > :12:41.moments ago the semi-finals of the 110 metres hurdles took place, and

:12:41. > :13:12.

:13:12. > :13:18.holder and former Olympic champion, is only the first three who will

:13:18. > :13:25.qualify for the final, and Liu Xiang is coming away. You will win

:13:25. > :13:33.it comfortably, and a late run by Porter and Brown of the United

:13:33. > :13:38.States. But Liu Xiang was certainly the man to beat. He did it at a

:13:38. > :13:41.stroll. That looked very impressive, Colin Jackson. No, you are very

:13:42. > :13:46.right. You can see why this man used to be the world record holder

:13:46. > :13:50.and the holder of the Olympic title. He was very aggressive off that

:13:50. > :13:53.first hurdle but then settled down into his running quite nicely. It

:13:53. > :13:58.is wet, we do not like running in the wet, you have to be more

:13:58. > :14:08.cautious than if it was dry, but you can see he just takes his time,

:14:08. > :14:13.technician I have ever seen, and when you think of him at of

:14:13. > :14:17.hurdlers I have no, to me, he is certainly the most balletic. He

:14:17. > :14:27.shows a lot of agility and skill and speed to run the performances

:14:27. > :14:30.

:14:30. > :14:34.focuses very well indeed. He has worked a lot on his technique and

:14:34. > :14:38.form, running off that barrier. I know how much time and effort he

:14:38. > :14:42.has put into that because he wants to get back his world record. He

:14:42. > :14:52.thinks he is capable, and if there is any it to be top of the crop, it

:14:52. > :15:04.

:15:04. > :15:14.see if he can go through as a fastest loser. The start list for

:15:14. > :15:31.

:15:31. > :15:39.through. The top two from the American trials. If they get a

:15:39. > :15:49.always smartly. Particularly Richardson. He Richardson b in a

:15:49. > :15:59.

:15:59. > :16:05.run down now if by merit. Dash COLIN JACKSON: You are right. That

:16:05. > :16:14.was very, very impressive indeed. They are used a far better but, boy,

:16:14. > :16:21.it was a race. The top two of the United States were again the top

:16:21. > :16:30.two here in London. Lot of expectation. Easing themselves a

:16:30. > :16:35.way from the world champion. He has been around for a long time now,

:16:35. > :16:45.this man. Taking his time a little bit to get into the senior ranks

:16:45. > :16:45.

:16:45. > :16:53.but now she has certainly arrived and he is the US champion. -- he

:16:53. > :16:58.has certainly arrived. He must be feeling very proud indeed. So, the

:16:58. > :17:08.American winning that with a very quick time. A new personal best for

:17:08. > :17:16.

:17:16. > :17:21.Andrew Pozzi. He will go through as backyard and she is running in the

:17:21. > :17:26.women's 400 metres hurdles. That is Perri Shakes-Drayton. That race are

:17:26. > :17:33.coming up in a few moments. But let's reflect on the finals of the

:17:33. > :17:38.men's hurdles. Given the conditions, what on the track, that was

:17:38. > :17:43.tremendous. A great run and a man that has come into form in the year

:17:43. > :17:48.we want him to. It is refreshing to see that. He took advantage of

:17:48. > :17:53.being next to Richardson, one of the top Americans at the trials,

:17:53. > :18:02.and he just delivered what we expect him to do. I hope he raises

:18:02. > :18:09.his game when we come to the finals. You reverted to Strictly speaking

:18:09. > :18:13.in that commentary. You talked about him being a balletic. When

:18:13. > :18:19.you talk about somebody who has done something by computer study in,

:18:20. > :18:26.Lu Xiang has worked out the most effective measure. Before, he was

:18:26. > :18:31.very excited but now it is nearly perfection. Do us tell us, the

:18:31. > :18:35.conditions, how do they impact on how you go into a race like that?

:18:35. > :18:41.You do not enjoy it. It is windy but it is something you have to

:18:41. > :18:47.deal with. You have to compete. is the same for everybody on the

:18:47. > :18:50.track and the field. Let's join Paul Dickenson.

:18:50. > :18:58.The athletics world is saddened to learn of the death of a field coach

:18:58. > :19:06.this week. Bruce Longden. Among many he coached to success would

:19:06. > :19:10.David Thompson and a former colleague at the BBC, Sally Gunnell.

:19:10. > :19:15.He is said to have been one of the best coaches this country has ever

:19:15. > :19:25.produced. Daley Thompson said it was an honour to have him in his

:19:25. > :19:31.

:19:31. > :19:36.next race on the track - the women's 400-metre hurdles. Then it

:19:36. > :19:41.-- they really need a good race going into the Olympics. They need

:19:41. > :19:51.to boost their confidence again some of the world's best opposition.

:19:51. > :20:01.There's the line at a. Devan Lee Williams in lane number two. --

:20:01. > :20:20.

:20:20. > :20:25.Nickiesha Wilson. Tiffany Williams twice the United States champion

:20:25. > :20:33.but this time she only finished 4th, missing out. And then Perri Shakes-

:20:33. > :20:39.Drayton. The European medallist back in 2010. Can she get down to

:20:39. > :20:43.the 54s in terms of time? She needs to do that if she is to fulfil her

:20:43. > :20:50.aspirations of doing well in the Olympics and the whole of British

:20:50. > :20:57.athletics, too. The new European champion. Davydova of Russia. She

:20:57. > :21:06.has reduced her personal best to 53.77 this year. Certainly one of

:21:07. > :21:16.the former athletes. And what about this lady? Melaine Walker ut of

:21:17. > :21:17.

:21:17. > :21:23.Jamaica. She will be defending that crown and a few weeks' time. And

:21:24. > :21:27.then Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica. In two of the World Championships. Her

:21:27. > :21:33.Gabriel race at Crystal Palace, where she set the fastest time and

:21:33. > :21:38.the world. And Eilidh Child, second in the UK Championships. She

:21:38. > :21:48.finished in the Europeans recent people stop and a brilliant last

:21:48. > :21:49.

:21:49. > :21:59.leg. If and T'Erea Brown. A third in the US Olympic trials. 54.81

:21:59. > :22:06.

:22:06. > :22:10.back into form this time last year. A personal best of 54 point 18. So,

:22:10. > :22:16.looking for a repeat performance and certainly looking to rubber

:22:16. > :22:23.stamp her credentials going into the Olympic competition. That is

:22:23. > :22:33.Davydova, the European champion. She runs in the lane outside Paris

:22:33. > :22:33.

:22:33. > :22:39.named. -- outside Perri. Perri Shakes-Drayton, she has got a

:22:39. > :22:44.really good athlete outside on her chase and to fix her sights on. The

:22:44. > :22:52.rain has stopped a little bit. Still very damp. Perri Shakes-

:22:52. > :22:57.Drayton is going well. Spencer is going very well. May go through the

:22:57. > :23:03.200 metres and Perri Shakes-Drayton still in touch with the big names.

:23:03. > :23:09.-- they go. She has already gone past Walker and Spencer. And this

:23:09. > :23:14.could be a great race for Britain. She normally comes strong on the

:23:14. > :23:20.lead. But well ahead of everybody in the home straight. This is a

:23:20. > :23:30.brilliant run from the youngster. She has taken this field apart.

:23:30. > :23:32.

:23:32. > :23:40.What a race! If 53.7 D8! Any doubts about her form are totally gone.

:23:40. > :23:47.She is in form at exactly the right time and her live for. -- in her

:23:47. > :23:51.life. If she has seen the clock and she can't believe it. Eilidh Child

:23:52. > :24:01.congratulates her, her fellow Briton. A magnificent performance.

:24:01. > :24:04.Brilliant! Second fastest ever by a British athlete. Only send a --

:24:04. > :24:08.Sally Gunnell has gone quicker and she has possibly beat and one of

:24:09. > :24:13.the bigger medal contenders. A great performance from Perri

:24:13. > :24:17.Shakes-Drayton. There have been so many doubts for Perri and all opera

:24:17. > :24:23.supporters, worried about her form and where the big performances were

:24:23. > :24:31.coming from. Was due leaving it too late? With perfect timing, she has

:24:31. > :24:36.come good here in of him he London. She rarely attack them. She

:24:36. > :24:42.sometimes struggles with her stride pattern but today she got to tell

:24:42. > :24:46.her 200 metres right in touch. And she is always so strong in the home

:24:46. > :24:52.straight. And you can see the confidence. She attacks the last

:24:52. > :24:57.hurdle really well. Just the fact she was in the lead, she knew she

:24:57. > :25:01.was going well. Not sure she could have believed it would be as quick

:25:01. > :25:07.as this, though. And to me, it was every bomb will be done in the

:25:07. > :25:14.first part of the race. She went into the Diamond League knowing she

:25:14. > :25:20.needed a big performance. -- it was all done in the first part of the

:25:20. > :25:26.race. What a way to start the evening of pop. We have talked and

:25:26. > :25:32.talked about the potential of this young lady. She has carried all of

:25:32. > :25:36.that pressure. All of a sudden, maybe the talk is finally being

:25:36. > :25:44.replaced by the sort of football and that might just get her a medal.

:25:44. > :25:51.-- the sort of talk that might just get her a medal. Wonderful stuff by

:25:51. > :25:55.Perri Shakes-Drayton. Only Sally Gunnell has ever run faster among

:25:55. > :26:02.some British athletes and of course you know what happened to her.

:26:02. > :26:09.European, Commonwealth and Olympic champion. A massive lifetime best

:26:09. > :26:19.for Perri Shakes-Drayton. Davydova, who recently won the Europeans, a

:26:19. > :26:21.

:26:21. > :26:24.distant second. And Spencer in Perri is with me now. That is a

:26:24. > :26:30.second fastest for Great Britain after Sally Gunnell. Tell me about

:26:30. > :26:33.it. I am over the moon! Today, I thought it was an opportunity for

:26:33. > :26:39.me to race against the best girls. I haven't really had that

:26:39. > :26:46.opportunity this year. I have always had a nickel. So today I was

:26:46. > :26:53.like, come on, girl, pull your socks up of! And I just went for it.

:26:53. > :26:59.I had aggression on me. I believed in myself. This week, added just

:26:59. > :27:04.kind of belief in myself and remind myself of what I had done. My first

:27:04. > :27:09.thought was my coach. I had a very good day in the office today!

:27:09. > :27:14.certainly did. We were hoping for you to get 54 or maybe something

:27:14. > :27:19.like that. That is what I was hoping for. I wanted a season's

:27:19. > :27:25.best. Where does this leave you now for jutting forward to the

:27:25. > :27:31.Olympics? Now we have a gold medal contender in our hands! It gives me

:27:31. > :27:36.a conference. But higher not going to let that get to me too much. --

:27:36. > :27:41.I am not going to. I just have to keep going and I am going to remain

:27:41. > :27:44.level-headed because it is not finished yet. That is great to hear.

:27:44. > :27:54.Go and enjoy the applause from the crowd that you are undoubtedly

:27:54. > :28:00.

:28:00. > :28:07.running into form at the right time, because Dai Greene, just behind the

:28:07. > :28:11.record of Chris aka Brucie's record him Paris. And his showdown coming

:28:11. > :28:17.up in a few minutes' time. Where did that performance come from from

:28:17. > :28:22.Perri? Who knows?! But she has always been capable of raising her

:28:22. > :28:27.game. I have always said this place has the ability to inspire home-

:28:27. > :28:31.grown athletes and Perri has used it to the best of her advantage.

:28:31. > :28:36.She looked slick and great to 200 metres, and when she had to make

:28:36. > :28:41.that change, her technique seemed much improved. There were concerns

:28:41. > :28:49.about her shape and whether she was in form but we know she is great in

:28:49. > :28:55.the flat for. She has come far -- combined that speed. If where did

:28:55. > :28:59.that gap appear in the last 200 metres? I watched her from 200 to

:28:59. > :29:05.300 metres, which is an interesting time because you have got to change

:29:05. > :29:10.down but still but -- still be very aggressive. She kicked that like a

:29:10. > :29:15.400 metres runner would do. The others struggled from there on in.

:29:15. > :29:19.I hope she remembers the rhythm of that race because she has got to

:29:19. > :29:23.repeat that at the Olympic Games and if she can, she will not be far

:29:23. > :29:32.away from that medal. And it is how you feel going into the game

:29:32. > :29:37.psychologically. She will feel great after that. Yes, she will.

:29:37. > :29:44.And she knows it is in her body, has system, and she just has to

:29:44. > :29:49.believe. Still in her interview, there was there since she did not

:29:49. > :29:59.quite believe it. I mentioned the fact that Dai Greene is down on the

:29:59. > :29:59.

:29:59. > :30:03.track just in front of us and he But first of all, congratulations

:30:03. > :30:09.on being made captain for the Olympics team. What does it mean

:30:09. > :30:13.for you? It will be my first Games and to be going in as captain, it

:30:13. > :30:17.is such a great honour. We get so much support and I was very

:30:18. > :30:23.flattered when I got a phone call, and so happy to say yes. Obviously

:30:23. > :30:29.I have got to work on my speech but that is a small part of it. I am

:30:29. > :30:35.looking forward to leading the team out on the first day. We have got

:30:35. > :30:40.about a week before the Games and I have to speak to all of the

:30:41. > :30:44.athletics squad and staff. I guess I have to motivate people and sort

:30:44. > :30:50.of... I don't know, cracking a few jokes, tell a few stories and set

:30:50. > :30:54.the tempo and the mood for the Games ahead. This is a pretty big

:30:54. > :30:58.competition as it is the last before the Olympics for most

:30:58. > :31:03.athletes. For myself, it is the last time there will be racing, so

:31:03. > :31:07.I want to put in a good performance. And had a few injuries over the

:31:08. > :31:12.winter and it meant I would be peaking a lot closer to the Games

:31:12. > :31:15.and certainly not very early in the season, so to run really well in

:31:16. > :31:19.Paris was a great boost. Just testament to the training I have

:31:20. > :31:24.been doing and the faith I have in my programme. We knew we were going

:31:24. > :31:28.to get ready for the Olympics and I just seem to be coming good at the

:31:28. > :31:32.good -- at the right time. Hopefully a good performance in

:31:32. > :31:40.London and then the Olympic Games and running a personal best would

:31:41. > :31:45.This is a good rivalry, isn't it? It is a genuine rivalry that has

:31:45. > :31:49.been going for some years. Dai seems to come out on top in the

:31:49. > :31:54.championships, which is the best thing to do. His fingers crossed

:31:54. > :31:58.that he keeps that record. It is not about winning, it is about

:31:58. > :32:02.performance, it is about technique, getting in the right shape for the

:32:02. > :32:07.big battle to come. Absolutely correct, it is honing everything

:32:07. > :32:17.you have worked on this winter, so fingers crossed he can win. It is

:32:17. > :32:24.

:32:24. > :32:34.the same for the commentary team, the two men who have held the

:32:34. > :32:48.

:32:48. > :32:56.opportunity to get into the American team, only 5th in their

:32:56. > :33:01.trials. There he is, Felix Sanchez, for so long the man that everyone

:33:01. > :33:05.was chasing, two world time champion, still a force to be

:33:05. > :33:10.reckoned with in world 400m hurdling. A surprise winner of the

:33:10. > :33:17.American trials, Michael Tinsley. Anyone who wins that title in this

:33:17. > :33:27.event has got to be considered a medal opportunity. The world

:33:27. > :33:28.

:33:28. > :33:33.champion and the man who will to take a little step further than

:33:33. > :33:38.he did in Paris, where he was just behind that man, Javier Culson,

:33:38. > :33:48.twice silver medallist at the World Championships, number one in the

:33:48. > :33:50.

:33:50. > :33:55.little bit in the closing stages of the American trials and lost the

:33:55. > :33:58.title. But he will put that behind him, so much experience. At the

:33:58. > :34:03.other end of his career to this young man, Jack Green, what a

:34:03. > :34:07.superb talent, part of Dai Greene's Training Group, the under 23

:34:07. > :34:15.European champion from last year. He will represent Great Britain in

:34:15. > :34:19.the Olympics. Jackson, on occasions, has teased Greene a little bit,

:34:19. > :34:29.cast aspersions on occasion as to his true world champion status. He

:34:29. > :34:38.

:34:38. > :34:43.has been a bit quiet recently. He Paris, he ran a personal best,

:34:43. > :34:53.chasing down this man, who goes out hard. He will be pleased to be

:34:53. > :35:18.

:35:18. > :35:21.look around the commentary box for a bit of help, but not getting any

:35:21. > :35:26.looks of wisdom at the moment! They're all shrugging their

:35:26. > :35:31.shoulders. I'm not sure, there is shrugging of shoulders and there as

:35:31. > :35:36.well. The reaction time comes up, and Jack Breen is the only one with

:35:36. > :35:41.a minus time against him, Jack Green in lane 7. It is not showing

:35:41. > :35:51.that he was under the 10th of a second which is the aloud reaction

:35:51. > :35:56.

:35:56. > :36:00.of weeks for Bershawn Jackson, and if he is disqualified here, which

:36:01. > :36:06.it looks as though he could be, it will compound what has been a

:36:06. > :36:11.disappointing period for the former world champion. As I said, a poor

:36:11. > :36:15.US trials, and if he were to go, he is looking anxiously, that is not

:36:16. > :36:23.the look of an innocent man, is it? He is looking a little furtive. He

:36:23. > :36:33.is waiting anxiously. The athlete in lane 8 is disqualified. Well,

:36:33. > :36:41.

:36:41. > :36:51.fairly cleanly on the computer, and he really cannot protest that, so

:36:51. > :36:54.

:36:54. > :37:00.he has to be fair to the athletes, did not hear it. It is always

:37:00. > :37:08.difficult, Paul, When You Are the at site in lane eight, there is

:37:08. > :37:18.often some noise. -- when you are on the outside. Just to repeat,

:37:18. > :37:45.

:37:45. > :37:50.needs to stay closer to Culson than he managed in Paris over the first

:37:50. > :37:55.200m. The tall Puerto Rican quickly into his stride and going well down

:37:55. > :38:03.the back straight, he has a Mido or two on Greene, chasing down Angelo

:38:03. > :38:07.Taylor. Jack Green being passed by the two of them. Taylor, Culson and

:38:07. > :38:12.Greene into the bend. Greene was strong into the home straight, and

:38:12. > :38:17.he will need to be here. Javier Culson is setting the pace. Here

:38:17. > :38:22.comes the Welshman, is the close enough to strike? Culson won at

:38:22. > :38:26.Crystal Palace and sometimes falters over the last hurdle. He is

:38:26. > :38:34.clear, Greene is not going to catch him. It is a big win for the Puerto

:38:34. > :38:39.Rican. Fast as well, 47.8. Just outside the all-comers record. That

:38:39. > :38:43.was set 20 years ago. And another solid performance from Dai Greene,

:38:43. > :38:48.but he knows, if he did not already, that is Puerto Rican is going to be

:38:48. > :38:58.tough to beat at the Olympic Games. He has got consistency, and he is a

:38:58. > :39:01.

:39:01. > :39:07.man who was at the top of his game hate to say it, but possibly the

:39:07. > :39:11.favourites to take the Olympic title ahead of this man. But look

:39:11. > :39:16.at the distance that Javier Culson had ahead of Dai Greene with about

:39:16. > :39:22.four hurdles to go. A good couple of strides ahead of him, and still

:39:22. > :39:26.hurdling well, hurdling beautifully, in fact! But Dai Greene was closing

:39:26. > :39:32.on him all the time in Paris at the last Diamond League meeting to be

:39:32. > :39:42.held. He goes past Angelo Taylor, but Culson, although untidy of that

:39:42. > :39:43.

:39:43. > :39:49.last hurdle, just manage to sprint athlete Angelo Taylor is as well,

:39:49. > :39:53.twice and the Olympic title, one of the fastest in history. And Dai

:39:53. > :39:57.Greene was very, very generous in his applause of Javier Culson right

:39:57. > :40:00.at the end, but he knows he is a class athlete. He knows that at the

:40:00. > :40:06.Olympic Games he might have to alter his strategy a little bit if

:40:06. > :40:11.he is going to stay close to them and pressurise the guy from Puerto

:40:11. > :40:21.Rico and win at Olympic title. Nevertheless, a good result for

:40:21. > :40:24.

:40:24. > :40:32.Greene, a very good result for well, who finished very quickly.

:40:32. > :40:41.is only 20 years of age, just behind the let title, Angelo Taylor.

:40:41. > :40:47.Jack is here as well, another fantastic performance from both

:40:47. > :40:50.argue, a big personal best. Your verdict on that race? I wanted a

:40:50. > :40:55.bit more, to be honest. I would have loved to have taken the wind

:40:55. > :41:00.in front of the home crowd, my speed has been better over the last

:41:00. > :41:04.few weeks, but it needs to improve before the Olympics. Jack, that

:41:04. > :41:07.must give you a huge confidence boost. Yes, it was a brilliant

:41:07. > :41:11.field, the best I have ever run against, and I have proved that I

:41:11. > :41:16.can run with those guys. By hit a few hurdles as well, hopefully

:41:16. > :41:21.there is more to come. You know you can do it now on a bigger stage.

:41:21. > :41:27.soon as I am in a field like that, I feel like I raise my game, and at

:41:27. > :41:30.the Olympics it is going to be tougher than that. Dai, for you,

:41:30. > :41:34.going forward, what is the next step before the Games? What will

:41:34. > :41:37.you be doing between now and then? Just continuing what I have been

:41:37. > :41:41.doing over the past few weeks, improving every week in training,

:41:41. > :41:46.so more of the same. I have run faster than last year already, so

:41:46. > :41:49.it seems to be going well. In a few weeks' time, I may be tiring,

:41:49. > :41:57.hopefully I'll be running faster, it should be a good final. Thank

:41:57. > :42:01.Not inconceivable that will be the gold, silver and bronze finishing

:42:01. > :42:05.line-up in three weeks' time. would like the first two to swap

:42:05. > :42:15.places, obviously! Javier Culson is in incredible shape, no two ways

:42:15. > :42:18.

:42:18. > :42:22.about it. But Dai is at his stage, Carmine off the last bend,

:42:22. > :42:26.that is when he gets stronger, and that is where Culson can be very

:42:26. > :42:31.vulnerable. If he can get within a metre of him going into Hurtle

:42:31. > :42:35.Number Ten, it will make a big difference. Having said that, he

:42:35. > :42:42.has been beaten twice Macro consecutively, and it is all that

:42:42. > :42:46.consistency. He must know, Paul said in the commentary, he is

:42:46. > :42:49.second favourite now, isn't he? would have to say that based on the

:42:49. > :42:53.performances, and I have to say that he had the advantage, the

:42:53. > :42:58.advantage was his. He could have chased Culson. I don't know, from

:42:58. > :43:05.his interview, bitterly disappointed, and if anybody knows

:43:05. > :43:09.Dai, he will be thinking about how he can beat Culson, because he was

:43:09. > :43:15.quite impressive, quite impressive indeed, so we will just have to

:43:16. > :43:21.wait and see. He needs more speed work. I do not believe it, blue sky,

:43:21. > :43:27.the sun, shadows! Where has this come from? The field events are in

:43:27. > :43:31.slightly better condition now, let's go to Steve Cram. Thank you

:43:31. > :43:37.very much. We will be catching up with the field shortly, but we have

:43:37. > :43:41.got two heats of the men's 100m to come, Dwain Chambers in the first

:43:41. > :43:51.of two very high quality field. Unfortunately, no Asafa Powell, who

:43:51. > :43:57.

:43:57. > :44:03.has had to pull out with a groin two needs and the two fastest

:44:03. > :44:08.losers to qualify for the final later. -- heats. Simeon Williamson,

:44:08. > :44:15.well, he will be part of the British relay squad, and of course

:44:15. > :44:18.we all saw what happened at the European Championships. A lot of

:44:18. > :44:22.suggestions as to line-ups, of course, at the Games, but all that

:44:22. > :44:26.to come. Nesta Carter did not make the Jamaican individual team, he

:44:27. > :44:33.knows what it is like, though, at the Olympics to be part of their

:44:33. > :44:37.relay success. Mike Rogers -- Rodgers, an athlete who is having a

:44:37. > :44:42.pretty good season, he was 4th in the American trials, again part of

:44:42. > :44:47.their relay team. This young man here, Keston Bledman, has suddenly

:44:47. > :44:52.thrust his name forward as an outside contender. He won the

:44:52. > :44:55.Trinidad Championships, which is never an easy thing to do. Ryan

:44:55. > :45:00.Bailey of the United States, perhaps again a surprise member of

:45:00. > :45:04.their Olympic team. He is a very talented young man, though. Kemar

:45:04. > :45:11.Bailey Cole of Jamaica, you might not have heard of him before either,

:45:11. > :45:15.but guess what, another man under 10 seconds. He has run that time

:45:15. > :45:20.exactly. Well, Dwain Chambers, the first chance to compete in a

:45:20. > :45:25.Diamond League meeting in Great Britain, he won the trials, 10.

:45:25. > :45:30.Twenty-five, the fastest he has managed this year, and this is a

:45:30. > :45:34.difficult heat for him and Mark Lewis-Francis in lane 8. Bass

:45:34. > :45:40.conditions might help them a little bit here, a very British Night,

:45:40. > :45:44.isn't it? -- apps. It is not too cold, to be fair, but these vendors

:45:44. > :45:54.would prefer the conditions to be better than this. No wind really to

:45:54. > :45:54.

:45:54. > :46:34.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds

:46:35. > :46:40.Perhaps Bailey the best, in the middle. Here comes Bailey in the

:46:40. > :46:45.middle and Carter Bobby second. Know where for Bledman, who was...

:46:45. > :46:51.You talk about a crash start. He almost toppled over coming out of

:46:51. > :46:59.the blocks. But this man is a big, strong, powerful athlete, so a bit

:46:59. > :47:02.of a surprise. A fairly stiff headwind there. If not too many

:47:02. > :47:08.fireworks. Unfortunately for the British athletes, they were just

:47:08. > :47:18.too good. They were always going to struggle in this kind of company.

:47:18. > :47:19.

:47:19. > :47:25.But Bledman, a terrible, terrible start. But, Bailey, boy, oh, boys!

:47:25. > :47:35.He did exactly the same here as he did when qualifying for a pretty

:47:35. > :47:42.

:47:42. > :47:47.sensational performance because of 10.35 in 5th place. He will not be

:47:47. > :47:53.happy with that? No. And it is not good enough for somebody who has

:47:53. > :48:03.been selected for the Olympics and has not quite got the name 14 this

:48:03. > :48:04.

:48:04. > :48:09.year. I just think he hasn't shown much form for me. -- the A Standard

:48:09. > :48:14.this year. It is not quick enough. He doesn't look like he is in any

:48:14. > :48:18.sort of shape at the moment. Maybe something is going on behind closed

:48:18. > :48:28.doors. Does that sort of performance cast doubts on the

:48:28. > :48:29.

:48:29. > :48:35.validity of his selection? For me, it does. I would have liked to see

:48:35. > :48:39.him come out really quickly. But he didn't. Well, we have the second

:48:39. > :48:49.final coming up very short-lived. It features somebody who is a

:48:49. > :48:55.genuine medal contender in a few Where does this fit in your

:48:55. > :49:04.planning for the Games? Pretty well, because I want to compete in this

:49:04. > :49:11.weather in the rain, or if it is windy, sunny. It is cold double

:49:11. > :49:17.here for me. You know you always get a warm welcome. 80,000 people

:49:17. > :49:21.in a few weeks' time as well? I am looking forward to it. Coming

:49:21. > :49:26.back over here into the great crowds and getting some support,

:49:26. > :49:30.especially here, it means a lot. I am in good shape here right now. I

:49:30. > :49:35.think this will help my fitness getting ready for the round in the

:49:35. > :49:40.Olympics. That is what I am looking forward to. I had to take time off

:49:40. > :49:46.in Paris because of the jet lag and the race, so I think now I have

:49:46. > :49:50.come back around to fitness. It was a concern for you not being able to

:49:50. > :50:00.go in as fit as you would have liked? I really want to bring home

:50:00. > :50:05.

:50:05. > :50:12.the gold-medal. Even though I was not fully healthy or fit, I

:50:12. > :50:19.definitely want to make this one memorable. For what about this talk

:50:19. > :50:25.of a Jamaican one, two, three. Obviously, you want to stop that

:50:25. > :50:29.from happening? I can say anything is possible but... They know what

:50:29. > :50:35.they get when it comes to me. I give it my best and I run with my

:50:35. > :50:45.heart. So I'm going out there to get my gold medal just like

:50:45. > :50:51.

:50:52. > :50:57.Let's clear up the results from the first heat. Ryan Bailey won 10.06.

:50:57. > :51:01.These are the three qualifiers. We will have to wait and see if the

:51:01. > :51:07.two fastest losers to go through. And then watch how quick and these

:51:07. > :51:12.guys go. He and we have some of the men's discus that happened earlier.

:51:12. > :51:18.Not great for discus throwing. This man will defend the Olympic title

:51:18. > :51:25.he won in Beijing. This was the second round. The discus swung out

:51:25. > :51:35.to 64 point 85 and that was enough to win in this competition.

:51:35. > :51:49.

:51:49. > :51:54.Certainly a boost for the Games. better than his earlier rounds.

:51:54. > :51:58.This thrower put him into second place but it didn't last for long.

:51:58. > :52:08.An all-time legend of discus throwing immediate love --

:52:08. > :52:10.

:52:10. > :52:13.immediately followed and that went out to 63.71. So, Lawrence Okoye

:52:13. > :52:23.his third. And there is confirmation of the result. He will

:52:23. > :52:29.

:52:29. > :52:38.one of four men who have been under 10 seconds this year. A stellar

:52:38. > :52:48.line-up. It is Andrew Roberts and who goes for Great Britain in lane

:52:48. > :52:49.

:52:49. > :52:59.one. And then Trell Kimmons in lane two. One of the sensations of 100

:52:59. > :52:59.

:52:59. > :53:09.metres sprinting in lane five. That is Hyman. Jacques Harvey in a

:53:09. > :53:20.

:53:20. > :53:26.silver medallist. That was in the relay. -- Andrew Roberts and. And

:53:26. > :53:34.then Trell Kimmons of the USA. He will go to the Olympics as part of

:53:34. > :53:40.the relay squad. And then Kim Collins. 36 years old now. Former

:53:40. > :53:50.champion way back in 2003. The first ever to compete in five

:53:50. > :53:51.

:53:51. > :53:55.Olympic Games as a 100 metres sprinter. The world cannot wait to

:53:55. > :54:04.see this man line-up against the likes of Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell

:54:04. > :54:14.and Usain Bolt. The fastest man in the field with a time of 9.86 this

:54:14. > :54:24.year. And then this man, Hyman, who reduced his personal best this year.

:54:24. > :54:35.

:54:35. > :54:42.But an exciting applied. -- and Student Games champion last year. -

:54:42. > :54:48.- Jacques Harvey. He can only finish in the place in the Jamaican

:54:48. > :54:56.national championship, such is the depth of sprinting in Jamaica! Very

:54:56. > :55:01.interested to see Hyman, just to the right of Tyson Gay, but Gay is

:55:01. > :55:06.certainly starting here as favourite. His customary point

:55:06. > :55:16.towards the heavens. And luckily for him, the heavens at the moment

:55:16. > :55:30.

:55:30. > :55:38.are not opening. The track is losers go through. Tyson Gay, a bit

:55:38. > :55:45.sluggish to get a wave. Kim Collins is going well. Tyson Gay may just

:55:45. > :55:52.have got it! Trell Kimmons was certainly flying. But that was a

:55:52. > :55:57.pedestrian start by one of the fastest men in the world, Tyson Gay.

:55:57. > :56:01.Luckily his second 50 metres was very fast indeed. That is right.

:56:01. > :56:08.But Trell Kimmons was in lane number two and of course the other

:56:08. > :56:16.man we were looking at was Michael Frater. Between them, they were the

:56:16. > :56:21.guys. But as you see, Tyson Gay, quite pedestrian, he ambled out of

:56:21. > :56:25.blocks and went quite slowly. He started to pull himself into the

:56:25. > :56:34.contention position here. But Michael Frater, closest to us on

:56:34. > :56:43.the camera, takes the race. It was definitely him first. From this

:56:43. > :56:49.angle, you can see how poorly a way Tyson Gay was. Once he catches up,

:56:49. > :56:52.you can really start to think, who is in front? I need to qualify! I'm

:56:52. > :56:57.pretty sure he is happy just to get through because ultimately it is

:56:57. > :57:01.the final that really counts. Here are the athletes and all the young

:57:01. > :57:06.sprinters will be watching these men drive out of the blocks and

:57:06. > :57:10.works so hard over the first 30 metres. There is Tyson Gay,

:57:10. > :57:20.powering through. And look at Michael Frater on the left of the

:57:20. > :57:30.screen, driving his knees nice and high. Kim Collins working hard. And

:57:30. > :57:40.

:57:40. > :57:48.given the same time but you will certainly have to get a better

:57:48. > :57:53.start in the final. Trell Kimmons in third. Dwain Chambers does not

:57:54. > :58:00.make progress. JOHN INVERDALE: Interesting, and I

:58:00. > :58:07.am sure we will have more on that later on. Our commentator team has

:58:07. > :58:11.Bentley last few weeks with the Biro mechanical unit trying to get

:58:11. > :58:18.into the many a time that helps you understand how each discipline

:58:18. > :58:28.operates. So here is an insider's guide into the workings of the long

:58:28. > :58:31.

:58:31. > :58:41.impacts massively on the human body with only a minuscule amount of

:58:41. > :58:45.time separating success... And failure. Athletes have to be quick.

:58:45. > :58:49.A lead men approached the board at nearly time 0.5 miles per second,

:58:49. > :58:55.was the women can reach speeds of up to 21 miles an hour. Once they

:58:55. > :59:02.get to the board, they have about 0.15 seconds to hit their mark.

:59:03. > :59:08.Less time Bennett takes to click your fingers. -- less time than it

:59:08. > :59:15.takes. All the momentum is transferred to a single leg to

:59:15. > :59:22.propel the body upwards. Huge forces come into play. A male

:59:22. > :59:28.athlete running at optimum speed has an impact force of over 750

:59:28. > :59:38.kilograms, powering through one leg. Get it right and a jump can be 2.5

:59:38. > :59:45.

:59:45. > :59:52.times the distance of a small put that into action shortly, and

:59:52. > :59:55.Colin Jackson was not bad either, 7.96. We will catch up with the

:59:55. > :00:05.Men's pole vault, this happened earlier. This competition was

:00:05. > :00:06.

:00:06. > :00:16.delayed because of the bad weather. This is Steve Hooker. This was his

:00:16. > :00:16.

:00:16. > :00:26.opening height of 5.40, his final attempt. He has lost his mojo big-

:00:26. > :00:44.

:00:44. > :00:48.looked likely at the height, but he did not get a high point at the

:00:48. > :00:51.right time. I think for all of the pole-vaulters year, it is eight

:00:51. > :00:58.case of putting this one down to experience because of the

:00:58. > :01:01.conditions. -- a case. So the men's long jump under way. This is the

:01:01. > :01:11.former world indoor champion and Commonwealth Games champion, out

:01:11. > :01:19.

:01:19. > :01:29.very smooth through to the board, the transition into take-off very

:01:29. > :01:37.

:01:37. > :01:42.Greg Rutherford, he has pulled out, that is precautionary. He did not

:01:42. > :01:52.fancy the thought of it being wet here. We would get back to this

:01:52. > :02:26.

:02:26. > :02:30.the women are already stretched off the Jamaicans' trials were of the

:02:30. > :02:34.highest quality, and if he did not make the individual, a slot in the

:02:34. > :02:41.relay tame is the best you could hope for. Margaret Adeoye inside

:02:41. > :02:46.her, though, the Enfield Athlete, really found her form at the right

:02:46. > :02:51.time, that the A standard required. She is the UK champion at this

:02:51. > :02:57.event and will be representing us at the Olympic Games. Anneisha

:02:57. > :03:01.McLaughlin, a former world youth champion, 26 years of age, she has

:03:01. > :03:05.run 22 points 61 this year, just outside her personal best. Charonda

:03:05. > :03:14.Williams, did not even make it to the final of the American

:03:14. > :03:20.championships. She has run 22.69. Sherone Simpson, the let silver

:03:20. > :03:25.medallists at 100m, 200m she contested to good effect at the

:03:25. > :03:33.Jamaican trials, finishing second. That will be her event at the

:03:33. > :03:38.Olympic Games. Bianca Knight is in the relay team, or the relay pool,

:03:38. > :03:41.if you like, for the Americans. Myriam Soumare, you might have

:03:41. > :03:47.watched her at the European Championships, defending her title.

:03:47. > :03:51.She took the bronze medal at Helsinki. And the 36-year-old

:03:51. > :04:01.Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, still going strong, struggling a little

:04:01. > :04:04.

:04:04. > :04:08.country again, the Bahamas, in London. Well, we have had a little

:04:08. > :04:14.bit of wind in the home straight, conditions definitely better now.

:04:14. > :04:24.It is not due chilly, as I said, plenty of blue sky overhead. -- To

:04:24. > :04:27.

:04:27. > :04:37.the world this year, but she is the only woman to have run under 22

:04:37. > :04:54.

:04:54. > :05:00.favourite here. Bianca Knight best of starters, William's quicker

:05:00. > :05:04.out of the blocks, but it is fairly even. -- since then. Charonda

:05:04. > :05:07.Williams may have a slight advantage coming into the home

:05:07. > :05:13.straight, but Bianca Knight is going well, and since and is

:05:13. > :05:18.absolutely nowhere. McLaughlan going well, it will be close at a

:05:18. > :05:23.line, and just Charonda Williams has enough to beat the Jamaican.

:05:23. > :05:30.22.7 the five, not by the tour, but the story was watching for Simpson

:05:30. > :05:35.to make a move. -- 22.75, not bad at all. Williams was pretty good

:05:35. > :05:39.out of the blocks, ran a good vendor, game and they a bit of

:05:39. > :05:46.thread from McLaughlin but had enough strength to last it out. --

:05:46. > :05:54.came under a bit of a threat. he said, Steve, you mentioned

:05:54. > :05:59.Allyson Felix in the introduction. -- as used said. 22.75 is not a bad

:05:59. > :06:04.time, but she ran 21.69 in the American trials, the 4th fastest in

:06:04. > :06:10.history. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, the great stalwart of sprinting

:06:10. > :06:14.from the Bahamas, on the inside line, totally left. Charonda

:06:14. > :06:20.Williams was fighting all the way, chased down by Anneisha McLaughlin

:06:20. > :06:23.of Jamaica. Those are the first two. Bianca Knight finishing strongly

:06:23. > :06:33.from the United States. Over to the long jump, and the first appearance

:06:33. > :06:34.

:06:34. > :06:38.at Crystal Palace this year of the equal British record holder

:06:38. > :06:48.with Rutherford, who is not here. Chris Rooney has not found the form

:06:48. > :06:57.

:06:57. > :07:03.he would want in this Olympic the 80 metres line. The lead is

:07:03. > :07:10.still 7.86. Chris's distances have been around the eight metre mark,

:07:10. > :07:20.but he will be looking at the world list, to see his teenage mother

:07:20. > :07:29.

:07:29. > :07:39.third leading it with a Russian who just shy of his season's best, a

:07:39. > :07:50.

:07:50. > :07:54.solid start for Chris, he will hope Sherone Simpson is with Phil.

:07:54. > :08:01.Thanks a lot, Steve, thank you for talking to us, we were expecting

:08:01. > :08:06.you to set the pace tonight, what went on? Well, it was not a good

:08:06. > :08:11.race, but I have been training hard, so really working towards the

:08:11. > :08:15.Olympics. We have seen you have success at the Olympics, the 100m,

:08:15. > :08:21.but this is your Advent this year, so what will you be working on

:08:21. > :08:27.between now and then? -- events. Well, we're working on everything

:08:27. > :08:32.in training. I mean, I am very confident, I want to stay healthy,

:08:32. > :08:37.just look forward to the Olympics. As is giving you a taste of what is

:08:37. > :08:47.to cover in London? The ash has these didn't you? Yes, the weather

:08:47. > :08:52.

:08:52. > :08:56.is not so good, but we have to go outstanding distance runners in the

:08:57. > :08:59.world, and she has a real sunshine personality as well, as you can see

:08:59. > :09:09.from this little clip of an interview she did a couple of days

:09:09. > :09:09.

:09:09. > :09:18.I like racing in Crystal Palace, and are so I like London so much,

:09:18. > :09:22.it is my second home. And to come here, for me, to race, I would come

:09:22. > :09:27.any time, because the Olympic is so near, and I was coming here to test

:09:27. > :09:31.myself and see the way my body is going to move. I know this year I

:09:31. > :09:37.will not go back home with at any medal, I know I am going to get it

:09:37. > :09:41.this time, despite that the competition will be very tough, my

:09:41. > :09:47.fellow Kenyans and Ethiopians and some other people. For me, so long

:09:47. > :09:50.as I'm fit, I'm going to try my best. Let's have a chat with

:09:50. > :09:56.Brendan and Steve about this extraordinary athlete. She has won

:09:56. > :10:00.10 in a row, she has not lost for two years at this distance. If you

:10:00. > :10:06.are running at well, you almost get a feeling of invincibility? If you

:10:06. > :10:10.do, is that when you are vulnerable? As good as her, you win

:10:10. > :10:13.the World Championships at 10,005 1,000 and the World cross-country

:10:13. > :10:17.Championships, and you then start winning all the races on the

:10:17. > :10:21.circuit, as she has done, but you have got a sprint finish like she

:10:21. > :10:25.has, then you do feel invincible, but she knows that the Olympic

:10:25. > :10:29.champion, Tirunesh Dibaba, is a big athlete with a fantastic finish.

:10:29. > :10:32.She has been injured for the last couple of years, so she has taken

:10:33. > :10:39.the opportunity and has been unbeatable, but you cannot allow

:10:39. > :10:44.yourself to feel as though you just have to turn up and do it, because

:10:44. > :10:48.5,000 and 10,000, long races, a hurt, you need to keep the

:10:48. > :10:52.concentration going. They are wide open fields, difficult to win. You

:10:53. > :10:56.have got two class athletes, and the good news for Vivian Cheruiyot

:10:56. > :11:00.is that Tirunesh Dibaba has not even been selected for the

:11:00. > :11:03.Ethiopian team. If I was there, I would be really excited, but the

:11:04. > :11:06.management team around there are clever, which I think they are,

:11:06. > :11:10.they will be warning her that the Ethiopians will change that

:11:11. > :11:15.selection, and I would not be surprised to see Tirunesh Dibaba or

:11:15. > :11:19.on the track, running at Vivian Cheruiyot in the 5,000 and 10,000,

:11:19. > :11:23.and they could be the class events of the Games. I'm sure you would

:11:23. > :11:27.agree. We have had this conversation about Paula Radcliffe

:11:27. > :11:32.and other athletes, that if you are involved in the five and the 10,

:11:32. > :11:37.the marathon, they are hard miles, and you have got to keep doing the

:11:37. > :11:41.hard graft to be winning as she does. Well, obviously, it goes with

:11:41. > :11:44.the territory of any distance runner. There is years of

:11:44. > :11:48.preparation, and Vivian Cheruiyot has been, as Brendan was saying,

:11:48. > :11:54.coming to the pinnacle of her career at the right time. And also

:11:54. > :11:57.at a time while Tirunesh Dibaba has been injured, Meseret Defar not as

:11:57. > :12:02.good as she has been, and the difference is that the Ethiopian

:12:02. > :12:05.has always thought that whatever happened, they would be able to out

:12:05. > :12:09.Kate Vivian Cheruiyot, but not any more. She has improved her finish,

:12:09. > :12:13.she has managed to make herself better at the finish of the race,

:12:13. > :12:23.which is the most important thing. She is very difficult to beat,

:12:23. > :12:27.

:12:27. > :12:32.whoever is there. She is the girl hoping to get good performances

:12:32. > :12:38.here, one or two of the youngster's. Julia Bleasdale, of course, will be

:12:38. > :12:43.at the Games. Eilish McColgan as well, going in the steeplechase at

:12:43. > :12:48.the Games, but looking for a personal best over 5000m here.

:12:48. > :12:51.Linet Masai and Vivian Cheruiyot are the most famous names in the

:12:51. > :12:55.race. Emma Pallant will be the pacemaker, incidentally, there she

:12:55. > :13:01.is. We have been talking about Vivian Cheruiyot, she started the

:13:01. > :13:08.season so well, I thought. We will talk about the race in a second,

:13:08. > :13:14.she raised Meseret Defar in Doha, it was a very close race, and there

:13:14. > :13:19.is Linet Masai, really better over 10,000m. She will be hoping to stay

:13:19. > :13:23.as close as you can do Vivian Cheruiyot today. Eilish McColgan, I

:13:23. > :13:29.was chatting to her earlier today, looking for a personal best, that

:13:29. > :13:32.is what mum asked her to do! And of course Julia Bleasdale also

:13:33. > :13:36.representing Great Britain at the Olympic Games. Charlotte Purdue has

:13:36. > :13:39.come through some horrendous injury problems over the last couple of

:13:39. > :13:44.years and had a couple of good attempts to make the 10,000m team,

:13:44. > :13:47.she did not manage to do that. Louise Wellings will be competing

:13:47. > :13:57.for Australia in London. Kate Avery from the Shildon club in the north-

:13:57. > :14:01.

:14:01. > :14:07.east. Katrina Wootton from Bedford has not been causing Vivian

:14:07. > :14:11.Cheruiyot a lot of sleepless nights, but in your last performance before

:14:11. > :14:15.the Olympic Games, she will be looking, like everybody else,

:14:15. > :14:20.really, in his last couple of weeks for a bit of a confidence booster,

:14:20. > :14:24.feel-good, maybe exercises are over the last two laps, may be just as

:14:24. > :14:29.tech kick. Emma Pallant is the pacemaker, but I'm not sure she

:14:29. > :14:33.will be able to set a strong and a pace that will push Vivian

:14:33. > :14:38.Cheruiyot. Brendan, continuing the conversation we were having, she

:14:38. > :14:42.has got all the weaponry now. certainly has, but now she is

:14:42. > :14:46.running so rarely and so well whenever she appears that you sense

:14:46. > :14:50.tonight she wants a little bit from this race. We all think that Vivian

:14:50. > :14:54.Cheruiyot can win this race, will think she is the class athlete of

:14:54. > :14:58.the field, but also she is getting ready for the Olympic Games, she

:14:58. > :15:02.wants to run well, get a good feeling with a good time going into

:15:02. > :15:08.the Olympic Games, and I think you'll have a race on her hands,

:15:08. > :15:18.even though it does not like Nigel at a competitor in the 5000m. --

:15:18. > :15:27.

:15:27. > :15:37.year and not good enough to make the Kenyan team. That should tell

:15:37. > :16:15.

:16:15. > :16:21.we his technique. But -- he is quoted as saying he doesn't like

:16:21. > :16:31.his technique. Very good elevation and that is hard to do. Very, very

:16:31. > :16:42.

:16:42. > :16:52.strong. For this man might be past his best now. 36 years old. Just

:16:52. > :17:00.

:17:00. > :17:05.four left in. He is the first to go clear. Still a leading here. She is

:17:05. > :17:13.doing what she was asked to do but Cheruiyot does not seem too keen on

:17:13. > :17:20.this praise. She is sticking to her task. Just talk about a few of the

:17:20. > :17:25.other British athletes in the lead group. Just tucked in that lead

:17:25. > :17:29.Group, Julia Bleasdale is having a cracking season. A great personal

:17:29. > :17:38.best back in April for the 10,000 metres which cemented her place in

:17:38. > :17:44.the British team, and of course, she qualified at the 5,000 as well.

:17:44. > :17:50.An athlete who has stuck to a business and it is good to see she

:17:50. > :17:53.will be rewarded for her hard work. Before this year, she was not real

:17:54. > :18:03.top-class international athlete but now she has qualified for the

:18:04. > :18:05.

:18:05. > :18:10.Olympic Games in the 50101000 metres. -- the 5,000 metres and a

:18:10. > :18:14.10,000 metres. She has run a couple of good races earlier this year and

:18:14. > :18:19.her confidence... Her first of championships was the European a

:18:19. > :18:22.few weeks ago and she came out of 4th place, and now she can go off

:18:22. > :18:26.and enjoy a few more weeks of training. Everything is going the

:18:26. > :18:32.right way for Julia Bleasdale and the idea of running the Olympic

:18:32. > :18:37.Games in the early track finals is great news fire. If she will never

:18:37. > :18:46.have seen have been like it. We are all excited. But it must be great

:18:46. > :18:56.for the team as well. This is the German pole vault are, who finished

:18:56. > :18:56.

:18:56. > :19:06.third at the championships previously. -- pole vaulter.

:19:06. > :19:06.

:19:07. > :19:14.Tomlinson just seen his lead taken. I think that is a good start for

:19:14. > :19:24.Chris Tomlinson, seven point 98. It gives him something he can build on.

:19:24. > :19:44.

:19:44. > :19:54.will be scratching his head a little bit. Earlier this season, he

:19:54. > :20:09.

:20:09. > :20:19.the lead. A fantastic head-to-head with this man. His third and final

:20:19. > :20:28.attempt. That is a big clearance. And he moves on here after his

:20:28. > :20:38.personal best in Helsinki. We are dead on six minutes and two

:20:38. > :20:39.

:20:39. > :20:45.kilometres. This is good for Julia Bleasdale. Cherono is just keeping

:20:45. > :20:50.things going. This is good for Julia Bleasdale because normally

:20:50. > :20:55.and the Diamond League, the rest might already be well away from her.

:20:55. > :21:04.She could be rewarded with a good time like this. She is doing well

:21:04. > :21:07.to do so. This is really what we need in the build up to your first

:21:08. > :21:12.global championship, the Olympic Games, in a few weeks' time. I

:21:12. > :21:22.think it is great she's getting this opportunity. The race has not

:21:22. > :21:26.

:21:26. > :21:30.been fast so far, but Masai, the 2010 and 2011 champion... Julia

:21:30. > :21:35.Bleasdale staying at the back there. Still in contention and running

:21:35. > :21:41.mate will be good pace. If she got in amongst them and started mixing

:21:41. > :21:47.it with them, that could be good. But now you can see Masai beginning

:21:47. > :21:52.to stretch things. And Cheruiyot knows how good she is. She does not

:21:52. > :21:56.want to go off to the Olympic Games with a defeat under her belt. But

:21:56. > :22:02.look at the Stride, the style, the way she carries herself, Masai. A

:22:02. > :22:06.great, great athlete. A bronze medallist first time around editor

:22:06. > :22:09.mazes made she was not good enough to be selected for the Kenyan team

:22:09. > :22:19.for the Olympic Games this year. But they have got great athletes

:22:19. > :22:23.

:22:23. > :22:32.all over the place. -- it amazes me. Just ahead of Julia Bleasdale is

:22:32. > :22:41.Emma Pallant. And absolutely no chance of higher making the

:22:41. > :22:47.Ethiopian team. And just a word on the juniors happening as we speak

:22:47. > :22:57.in Barcelona. Britain's distance pedigree and the women's event

:22:57. > :23:18.

:23:18. > :23:24.being maintained in particular. A it right this year. I think the

:23:24. > :23:30.Ethiopians are even stranger. They had time trials all over the place.

:23:30. > :23:37.And then excluding the champion in the 5,000 metres because they have

:23:37. > :23:43.not run fast enough. Double Olympic champion and you have got to prove

:23:43. > :23:51.yourself. It is a tough school! is, and it is not just about fast

:23:51. > :23:58.times. All they look at is that. It is about championship racing and it

:23:58. > :24:08.is very, very different. They have had some fast races on the circuit.

:24:08. > :24:13.I dare say it, they are doing a lap time for us. This that -- the

:24:13. > :24:19.statisticians are taking over! Julia Bleasdale brilliantly trying

:24:19. > :24:24.to hang onto this with four laps to go. She will have to try and hang

:24:24. > :24:33.on as much as she can and hope this group breaks up so she has a couple

:24:33. > :24:38.of athletes to chase. Masai slowly trying to wind it up, not hurting

:24:38. > :24:43.Cheruiyot at all. She is very comfortable in second place. That

:24:43. > :24:51.is the best Masai can do these days. This is not going to hurt them too

:24:51. > :24:54.much for us stop he lost a little bit of pace this year. She is

:24:54. > :25:00.running at the front of the field and does not have for too many

:25:00. > :25:05.changes of pace to cope with. But she is a great runner, Masai. Not

:25:05. > :25:09.her best year but she is still young, only 22. Already a world

:25:09. > :25:15.champion. Already would have had a chance of a medal but she will not

:25:15. > :25:18.be there to exercise it. And at the same time, Cheruiyot has come a

:25:18. > :25:24.long, past Masai and gathered the weapons you need in distance

:25:24. > :25:29.running these days. You need speed at the end. Masai does not seem to

:25:29. > :25:33.have that. You can see Cheruiyot has manufactured that and trained

:25:33. > :25:36.for it and developed it, and that is what most people will be

:25:36. > :25:41.concerned about in the final and in the 10,000 metres. It will come

:25:41. > :25:46.down to the strength and also the speed. Her and the speed,

:25:46. > :25:52.eventually, these days, will be winning out. And Vivien Cherry it

:25:52. > :26:02.will be well amongst those. -- and Cheruiyot will be well amongst

:26:02. > :26:06.

:26:06. > :26:10.those. Cherono has good 1,500 metres pedigree. And she is just up

:26:10. > :26:15.in a sense of, this has not been that fast and I have a bit of pace

:26:15. > :26:19.here. But Cheruiyot knows this is the sort of thing she wants to test

:26:19. > :26:25.yourself Rover. A sort of good sprint over the last kilometre of.

:26:25. > :26:30.This is where championship races are won and lost. She will want to

:26:30. > :26:36.go away from tonight and say, that is what we did for the last two

:26:36. > :26:42.laps, the last 400. They are coming down the home straight with two

:26:42. > :26:46.laps to go in the women's 5,000 metres. Masai is on the inside.

:26:46. > :26:54.Reigning world champion at five and 10,000 metres on the outside,

:26:54. > :26:57.Cheruiyot. A 15 minutes pays for five. I bet they will run well

:26:57. > :27:02.under 15 minutes for the last couple of laps and that tells you

:27:02. > :27:06.how the women's distance races are changing. There are tests of

:27:06. > :27:11.endurance and speed as well. The gaps are opening and down the back

:27:11. > :27:16.straight, Cheruiyot but says of in a position which Cherono would have

:27:17. > :27:22.to take a long way round four. She knows when she is the bell,

:27:22. > :27:26.Cheruiyot is a fantastic performer. There they go. 600 metres remaining.

:27:26. > :27:33.A battle coming around the bend together. This will be quite

:27:33. > :27:39.interesting now. Cherono has run for two last year, not hanging

:27:39. > :27:46.around at all. She has not managed to achieve the team for Kenya.

:27:46. > :27:52.Looking around, she realises there will be no threat from Masai here.

:27:52. > :27:57.Cheruiyot can run really quit last laps but she might have to have all

:27:57. > :28:07.of high pace here. The three are still locked together. The bell

:28:07. > :28:17.sounds. Cherono, the 1,500 metre runner, knows how fast she is. She

:28:17. > :28:18.

:28:18. > :28:22.will not want a sparkling 1,500 metre runner on her shoulder. She

:28:22. > :28:27.has already won the finish out of Masai. Now Cheruiyot has been

:28:27. > :28:31.tested we have much more of a race than we anticipated. This is one

:28:31. > :28:38.that is really important for Cheruiyot was that she has got a

:28:38. > :28:43.win this to keep up her confidence level. If Cheruiyot just saving

:28:43. > :28:47.something for the home straight and she will be winding it up gradually.

:28:47. > :28:57.She will want to spring a surprise here. Does she dare to come on to

:28:57. > :29:04.the shoulder of Cheruiyot, Cherono? But if nothing else, Cherono is a

:29:04. > :29:11.real fighter. Cheruiyot wins the 5,000 metres. Tag think she just

:29:11. > :29:15.did enough to win! -- I think. I am not sure she eat -- even turned on

:29:15. > :29:20.the gas completely! Julia Bleasdale will be very close to a personal

:29:20. > :29:24.best. Just watching the clock there... A couple of seconds and

:29:24. > :29:29.that will give her a bit of confidence as well. A new personal

:29:29. > :29:39.best for higher at 5,000 bidders. No doubt about our winner. Not

:29:39. > :29:43.really a testing raise. But she was pushed by a Cherono on that last

:29:43. > :29:53.lap there and just a good test, really come off her Speedo the last

:29:53. > :29:53.

:29:53. > :29:59.few hundred metres. An interesting race overall. The last 1,000 metres

:29:59. > :30:06.was run in two minutes and 47 seconds, which is really good place.

:30:06. > :30:11.But Cheruiyot there, just stretching it. Cherono just not

:30:11. > :30:19.managing to do it. She looks as though she matched her but she was

:30:19. > :30:24.not able to take her on. Cheruiyot crop -- closes the line. A fast

:30:24. > :30:29.final 1,000 metres of two minutes 47 seconds. So she is in good shape

:30:29. > :30:34.but I thought she might have been a bit quicker, faster on the last 200

:30:34. > :30:37.metres, and maybe she was taking it easy. That was a really good

:30:37. > :30:47.performance and I just think the Olympic Games beckons for higher

:30:47. > :30:52.

:30:52. > :31:00.and we wait to see what happens many people. A new personal best

:31:00. > :31:03.for Julia Bleasdale, but I think High do indeed, she is going to be

:31:03. > :31:07.one of the stars of the London Olympics, and one of the stars are

:31:07. > :31:12.tight, tremendous performance, how important was it to win that when

:31:12. > :31:17.you were being pushed so hard by Cherono? It was important for me to

:31:17. > :31:22.win today in this event, because it has shown me that there is

:31:22. > :31:29.something that I have that is good, and at the Olympic Games, yesterday

:31:29. > :31:35.I said I came here to run, only to test myself, but I am feeling OK,

:31:35. > :31:40.and I know where I'm going to train a little bit when I go back to

:31:40. > :31:45.Kenya. And I will be ready to come to the Olympic Games next month.

:31:45. > :31:49.What is it that you want to work on when you go back to Kenya? I think

:31:49. > :31:53.and still going to work on my speed and also a little bit endurance,

:31:53. > :31:59.but mostly I am going to do speed. Thank you for talking to us, we

:31:59. > :32:03.look forward to seeing you back in London very soon. Thank you so much.

:32:03. > :32:09.Three big names to ensure you do not go out on this Friday night for

:32:09. > :32:12.at least another 45 minutes, Mo Farah in the 5000m, the culmination

:32:12. > :32:17.of this evening's entertainment at Crystal Palace. Before that, Liu

:32:17. > :32:22.Xiang looked imperious in the semi- final of the 110 metres hurdles an

:32:22. > :32:27.hour and a half ago, the final coming up before too long. And

:32:27. > :32:33.three weeks on Sunday, the final of the 100m in the UN in big games, it

:32:33. > :32:37.will surely feature this man, and Tyson Gay was a bit shaky in the

:32:37. > :32:47.semi-final, mighty not win this Diamond League sprint this evening?

:32:47. > :32:57.

:32:57. > :33:06.men's long jump, as you can see. -- into. Tomlinson is still leaving. -

:33:06. > :33:11.- leading. He has a better second jump. JJ Jegede A was not selected

:33:11. > :33:20.because he did not have an Welcome To The Pleasuredome standard. That

:33:20. > :33:30.is over 80 metres. -- Welcome To The Pleasuredome standard. That is

:33:30. > :34:03.

:34:03. > :34:07.he went on to take world silver the following year in Berlin. He has

:34:07. > :34:11.jumped sparingly, but this is a super talented athlete, very good

:34:11. > :34:21.triple-jumper. He has not done that for a while, but that is way over

:34:21. > :34:21.

:34:21. > :34:25.the leading jump. Tall, rangy, great elevation off the board. That

:34:25. > :34:31.kick reminds me of Carl Lewis at his very best. Perfect take-off.

:34:31. > :34:37.Looking straight up. He runs off it, and that is the biggest jump that

:34:37. > :34:45.we have seen today. Still Dampier, cool, 8.24 from Godfrey Mokoena,

:34:45. > :34:55.that is a big lead. -- down here. Mitchell Watt had a foul in the

:34:55. > :34:58.

:34:58. > :35:02.challenge for him, the Olympic title. Mitchell Watt knows that he

:35:02. > :35:08.has got a great chance of becoming the Olympic champion if he can put

:35:08. > :35:18.it together in the way that he did last year. Simple technique. I

:35:18. > :35:25.

:35:25. > :35:35.has not got the ranges of Godfrey Mokoena or Chris Tomlinson. A sort

:35:35. > :35:41.

:35:41. > :35:48.way he jumps off the board, the fastest runner of the night, I am

:35:48. > :35:55.hearing, 23.7 mph, that gives you an idea. 23.7 mph! He could get

:35:55. > :35:59.caught for speeding in one of those inner-city zones, Kunde? --

:35:59. > :36:04.couldn't he? That could be very close to the leading jump are

:36:04. > :36:14.Mitchell Watt. Just waiting for the distance to come up, he has done it.

:36:14. > :36:19.

:36:19. > :36:29.This long jump competition is Dobriskey is there for Great

:36:29. > :36:32.Britain. Nancy Langat is the Olympic champion at 1500m. Crystal

:36:32. > :36:36.Palace and the rest of British athletics is delighted to see

:36:36. > :36:43.Hannah England back in action, selected for the Olympic Games.

:36:43. > :36:47.What sort of form will she have? Diane Cummins of Canada, she will

:36:47. > :36:52.act as the pacemaker. Hannah England, World Championship silver

:36:52. > :36:57.medallist last year, she was spied earlier this season, so she has

:36:57. > :37:02.taken quite a long time to rehabilitate. Laura Weightman, UK

:37:02. > :37:08.champion, a brilliant race in Birmingham, coached by Stephen

:37:08. > :37:13.Crown as quiet. Looking a bit nervous! Maryam Jamal, former world

:37:13. > :37:18.champion, perhaps not the athlete she once was, finished 10th in the

:37:18. > :37:24.Paris Diamond League. Shannon Rowbury, World Championship bronze

:37:25. > :37:29.medallist in 2009. Jenny Simpson of the United States, expected world

:37:29. > :37:34.champion in 2011. Lisa Dobriskey, another world championship silver

:37:34. > :37:39.medallist, just like Hannah England, coming back from injury, as is

:37:39. > :37:44.Nancy Langat of Kenya, one of the great athletes of recent years. She

:37:44. > :37:51.had surgery on her knee last year, a very slow season's best this

:37:51. > :37:56.season. We saw Hannah Pearce and Kaila McKnight of Australia. She is

:37:56. > :38:03.right on the inside. Everybody is delighted to see Hannah England and

:38:03. > :38:08.hope that she is in good shape, one of the poster goals of the 2012

:38:08. > :38:12.campaign -- girls. So Hannah England and the rest get this 1500m

:38:12. > :38:15.race under way, and a real opportunity for Laura Weightman

:38:15. > :38:20.from more a arrears representing Great Britain to strut her stuff

:38:20. > :38:25.against some of the very best in the world. -- Morpeth Harriers.

:38:25. > :38:27.This is a top-class field, world champion, Olympic champion,

:38:27. > :38:34.Commonwealth champion, and the three British representatives we

:38:34. > :38:38.will be seeing in a few weeks' time in the 1500m, Hannah England, world

:38:38. > :38:42.silver medallists, Lisa Dobriskey, world silver medallists, Laura

:38:42. > :38:46.Weightman, who did a fantastic job of winning the trials. She has been

:38:46. > :38:49.coached for several years now by Steve Cram, who has done a really

:38:49. > :38:53.good job in getting her ready for this, and he said, once we got over

:38:53. > :38:56.the hurdle of getting into the team, she is now relaxing a bit and

:38:56. > :39:00.looking forward to getting in amongst these athletes. What a

:39:00. > :39:05.great opportunity for the Iron Lady, and this is where you can tell

:39:05. > :39:10.somebody is going to have a bright future. -- the young lady. When

:39:10. > :39:14.they get a chance to take on these top athletes, eight of them faster

:39:14. > :39:18.than Laura in this race, I wonder how many of them she will meet

:39:18. > :39:21.tonight. She is moving up on the outside, putting herself in a good

:39:21. > :39:30.position. Great athletes around there, let's just see what happens

:39:30. > :39:34.tonight. Laura Weightman just moving alongside Jenny Simpson of

:39:34. > :39:39.the United States. The pacemaker, Diane Cummins, herself a very good

:39:39. > :39:43.athlete in recent years, just keeps looking around as if to say, why

:39:43. > :39:51.aren't these athletes coming with me? She has been set the task of

:39:51. > :39:57.taking them through 800m, in about 200m time, in about 2.08. All the

:39:57. > :40:07.main contenders are there, Simpson, Weightman. Lisa Dobriskey just

:40:07. > :40:16.

:40:16. > :40:20.bouncing along behind Laura get closer to the pacemaker. In

:40:20. > :40:25.just a minute, we will see the stock clerk at the 800m mark, they

:40:25. > :40:29.are way aside the time that was expected. -- stopcock. When you put

:40:29. > :40:34.class athletes like this, you may have a pacemaker, agents and

:40:34. > :40:38.managers may agree with it, but the athletes do not necessarily agree,

:40:38. > :40:42.because they want to run a race, and they are tonight. Not as fast a

:40:43. > :40:47.race as the crowd were led to believe, but it is a competitive

:40:47. > :40:52.race anyway. With the Olympic Games coming up, these athletes want to

:40:52. > :40:54.take something away from this event, a confidence booster, a good

:40:54. > :40:59.performance, the scalp of some outstanding athlete. Laura

:40:59. > :41:02.Weightman is in a good position there. Morgan Uceny coming up on

:41:02. > :41:07.the outside. The former world champion, they are lining up across

:41:08. > :41:16.the track, bumping into each other, and Cummins is stepping out of the

:41:16. > :41:19.way. Jamal Leeds at the bell, Morgan Uceny on her shoulder. Lisa

:41:19. > :41:23.Dobriskey of Great Britain, Hannah England of Great Britain have both

:41:23. > :41:27.got a lot to do, but this is going to wind up down the back straight,

:41:27. > :41:33.it is going to get really competitive. Uceny looked strong in

:41:33. > :41:37.that position. Jenny Simpson, the world champion on the inside, she

:41:37. > :41:40.is not responding. Laura Weightman is leading the other British

:41:40. > :41:46.athletes. Hannah England looks to be in trouble. Laura Weightman

:41:46. > :41:50.takes them on, this is what I love to see. Jamal is having one of her

:41:50. > :41:53.best races this season, being followed by the Americans and by

:41:53. > :41:59.Laura Weightman. Canon Laura Weightman strike now? Hannah

:41:59. > :42:04.England is out of it. It looks as though Lisa Dobriskey is off the

:42:04. > :42:10.pace as well. But look at this, Jamal is coming away, it is going

:42:10. > :42:15.to be a procession. The pace suited Gamal perfectly. She wins here at

:42:15. > :42:23.Crystal Palace. Just looking back for Laura Weightman, who finished

:42:23. > :42:27.in roundabout fourth place. Lisa Dobriskey a couple of places behind.

:42:27. > :42:35.Well, in consideration of the last two Diamond League races that

:42:35. > :42:39.Maryam Jamal has been in, when she finished 9th in Doha, the 3000m

:42:39. > :42:43.race, 10th in the Paris Diamond League, that pace suited her

:42:43. > :42:50.perfectly, and in some ways, I guess, that will be the sort of

:42:50. > :42:56.baize that we can expect in the heat of the Olympic Games. -- pace.

:42:57. > :43:01.A head like a Olympic semi-final. The American champion, look on the

:43:01. > :43:05.outside, the said... Lisa Dobriskey just fading, Laura Weightman coming

:43:05. > :43:08.through, looking as though she is battling for the finish. She steals

:43:08. > :43:13.fourth place on the line, what a great performance from Laura

:43:13. > :43:19.Weightman. Lisa Dobriskey on the way back, a bit of a disappointment

:43:19. > :43:22.for Hannah England coming down the finishing straight. So young Laura

:43:22. > :43:25.Weightman leads the two world championship silver medallists

:43:25. > :43:31.tonight. Hannah England will be disappointed with that. I think

:43:31. > :43:39.that is a bit of a problem for her, but Laura Weightman, the first of

:43:39. > :43:43.the British athletes to finish, is Laura's first reaction when she

:43:43. > :43:46.came off was disappointment, which is encouraging, it bodes well if

:43:46. > :43:51.you are disappointed with that. am pleased that I finished 4th, but

:43:52. > :43:57.it was a messy race, I put myself in a bad position, but I really

:43:57. > :44:02.enjoyed it, great crowd here, great last race before the Olympics.

:44:02. > :44:05.is what it is all about, getting used to this crowd, it is new to

:44:05. > :44:09.you, four times when you come to London, but you seem to embrace it.

:44:09. > :44:13.I really enjoy running in front of the big crowds, and it is going to

:44:13. > :44:18.be a lot bigger in London, but I really look forward to that, I

:44:18. > :44:22.think it is done to help us Brits get around. Tactically, a Pryce

:44:22. > :44:28.like that will have you going forward. -- race was the odd a lot

:44:28. > :44:38.of the heats will be run at a funny pace. It is good practice for that.

:44:38. > :44:44.

:44:44. > :44:54.a real battler, and that is what we love to see. She wins the Diamond

:44:54. > :44:56.League raised. Laura Weightman beating Uceny, the former world

:44:56. > :45:06.number one. Lisa Dobriskey finishing in 7th, and looking down

:45:06. > :45:16.the list, Hannah England, finishing in 11th. Certainly, the Diamond

:45:16. > :45:20.League points will be very interesting indeed. The two

:45:20. > :45:28.Ethiopian so ahead of the Moroccan, who blasted out we world-leading

:45:28. > :45:38.time in Paris this year. They are the leading scorers. And we have

:45:38. > :45:46.

:45:46. > :45:50.been watching the fireworks in this there from him, I thought.

:45:50. > :45:56.Conference is such a big part of athletics and you can see the

:45:56. > :46:03.reaction there. -- confidence. Everything indicates he is in great

:46:03. > :46:09.shape but he just has not put it together in a competition. Slightly

:46:09. > :46:19.wind-assisted. He had a bit of help behind him. Has he gone for the? He

:46:19. > :46:26.

:46:26. > :46:33.fake, but a lot of British athletes in very good form at Crystal Palace.

:46:33. > :46:38.A -- let's not tempt fate. Perri Shakes-Drayton, the fastest time

:46:38. > :46:44.ever by a British athlete after Sonny -- Sally Gunnell. She knows

:46:44. > :46:51.she is in the mix in Stratford in three weeks' time. And the men's

:46:51. > :47:01.race, Jack Green, the other of those, because Dai Greene came

:47:01. > :47:03.

:47:03. > :47:08.second, but you can see him coming in second -- 4th. And some sad news

:47:08. > :47:12.that the Chinese her is not going to run in the final coming up. That

:47:12. > :47:22.is Liu Xiang. That is because of race sought back after running in

:47:22. > :47:22.

:47:22. > :47:32.the heats. That diminishes the finals on what. -- a sought back.

:47:32. > :47:40.How will the others were Bleasdale? They will be relieved! -- how will

:47:40. > :47:45.the others take that? To me, I think he is still Britain's number

:47:45. > :47:49.one and by no Lawrence Clarke would hate me saying that. But Andy has

:47:49. > :47:56.been the one who has come through in every race that matters, so I am

:47:56. > :48:00.hoping he can rise to the occasion and get another personal best.

:48:00. > :48:04.comedy can see the runners are down at the start. I have to say, now

:48:04. > :48:09.that the weather has improved as remarkably as it has, there is a

:48:09. > :48:14.great atmosphere because it has lifted with the weather. Yes. It is

:48:14. > :48:18.a brilliant atmosphere. I always enjoy coming here. The athletes do

:48:18. > :48:25.as well. It would be nice if the weather were a bit warmer...

:48:25. > :48:35.are being greedy! We have a whole batch of finalists coming up and it

:48:35. > :48:36.

:48:36. > :48:46.is the culmination of the men's 100 metres. If but now the hurdles.

:48:46. > :49:04.

:49:04. > :49:09.This could be a foretaste of what A very tough test for Andrew Pozzi.

:49:09. > :49:18.More about him in a moment. Antwon Hicks, the former world junior

:49:18. > :49:23.champion. Andrew Pozzi broke his personal best in the heats. Nobody

:49:23. > :49:28.else was anywhere near to that. One of his training partners, Jack

:49:28. > :49:38.Green, who has also had a personal best, and both have encouraged by

:49:38. > :49:39.

:49:39. > :49:45.Malcolm Arnold. Jason Richardson, the 2011 world champion. And Aries

:49:45. > :49:55.Merritt, the fastest man in the world. Per ran beautifully in his

:49:55. > :50:00.

:50:00. > :50:09.heat. -- he ran beautifully. Porter, did so well in the trials. Former

:50:09. > :50:19.world championship finalist is Joel Brown names. A top-class race of. -

:50:19. > :50:26.

:50:26. > :50:29.- Joel Brown. A top-class racer. personal best performance?

:50:29. > :50:34.Certainly, the conditions are very bit better than they were a couple

:50:34. > :50:39.of hours ago when they ran the heats. Some great competitors

:50:39. > :50:44.around him. Just outside him in lane number three is Jason

:50:44. > :50:54.Richardson, the reigning world champion. And Aries Merritt, even

:50:54. > :51:07.

:51:07. > :51:17.great start. If Andrew Pozzi is out. Richardson being overtaken by Aries

:51:17. > :51:20.

:51:20. > :51:24.Merritt. Richardson is second with Aries Merritt in first. Just a

:51:24. > :51:33.hundredth of a second outside his fastest time in the world this year.

:51:33. > :51:41.That is one of the fastest times we have ever seen and poor old Andrew

:51:41. > :51:46.Pozzi went out very quickly. What do you think about that record?

:51:46. > :51:52.COLIN JACKSON: IM not desperately disappointed about that! But this

:51:52. > :51:59.man, Aries Merritt, equals the world lead he has set at the

:51:59. > :52:05.European, sorry, the US trials. He has this kind of rhythm and fluency

:52:05. > :52:08.where everything goes well. His timing is very accurate indeed. I

:52:08. > :52:16.hope everything is OK with Andrew Pozzi, as we can just see him

:52:16. > :52:21.leaving the frame. But Aries Merritt looks as though he is

:52:21. > :52:25.enjoying his running. But wasn't it a shame that Liu Xiang was not

:52:25. > :52:34.running, because he could have called both men to world status?

:52:34. > :52:41.Absolutely. This event is going to be electric later on. But let's

:52:41. > :52:49.see... Yeah, Great Comet Easy PC. An easy victory and I would like to

:52:49. > :52:54.find out what he is saying to Phil Equalling your own world lead and

:52:54. > :52:58.you are in dynamic form, and not doing it in a particularly great

:52:58. > :53:02.conditions tonight? The conditions are the same for everybody and they

:53:02. > :53:07.are going to be the same at the Olympic Games. So that is great. I

:53:07. > :53:13.got off the aeroplane two days ago so I still have to get into the

:53:13. > :53:17.sleeping pattern. But the crowd is great. I couldn't be more excited.

:53:17. > :53:26.Where does this surging form comes to you that has taken you to the

:53:26. > :53:30.top of the world rankings this year? I decided to make a change

:53:30. > :53:36.and one-sided that, it has been night sky rockets of improvement!

:53:36. > :53:41.So I am so happy to come out here and give everybody a good show.

:53:41. > :53:45.thinking about a gold medal as you head towards London? We are all

:53:45. > :53:50.looking at you as a gold medal contender. Are still have to do it

:53:50. > :53:55.when it counts. This means nothing if I can't do it at the Olympic

:53:55. > :54:05.Games final, so we need to take it one day at a time and hopefully I

:54:05. > :54:06.

:54:06. > :54:10.can be a gold medallist. Who knows? about his form at the moment.

:54:10. > :54:18.Beating the reigning world champion, Jason Richardson. Ryan Wilson in

:54:18. > :54:23.third. Andrew Pozzi, unfortunately, could not continue his good form.

:54:23. > :54:27.JOHN INVERDALE: We saw Colin Jackson's guide to the long jump

:54:27. > :54:33.earlier, which was hugely informative given the way the

:54:33. > :54:43.competition pans out. The thing about 100 metres is there is an

:54:43. > :54:48.

:54:48. > :54:52.awful lot more to it than, Ready, has some very impressive statistics.

:54:52. > :54:57.Winning it is not about being the fastest in the field. The athlete

:54:57. > :55:02.that usually wins is the one who slows down the least after reaching

:55:02. > :55:08.their maximum speed. For women, that maximum is usually reached at

:55:08. > :55:14.around 55 metres, whilst the men take 10 metres longer. 65 metres

:55:14. > :55:19.into the race is their fastest point. Most athletes lose between 7

:55:19. > :55:24.and 10% of the speed between then and the finish line. The best

:55:24. > :55:30.runners combine long stride length and high stride frequency, and

:55:30. > :55:39.Usain Bolt has a stride length of 2.7 metres. That is 9 ft long! And

:55:39. > :55:45.he ran his 2009 world record in 41 strides, a similar race to the rest

:55:45. > :55:55.of the field. The women reach around 23 miles per hour, while the

:55:55. > :56:07.

:56:07. > :56:13.men reach 26.5. Usain Bolt's record have done a guide to every event.

:56:13. > :56:17.Have you done the shotput and discus? It has been really fun!

:56:17. > :56:22.Even you found you have learned things? Are absolutely, because now

:56:22. > :56:25.I have understood why the top people are top in their event. They

:56:25. > :56:31.pull digger that absolutely everything at the right time and

:56:31. > :56:34.produce sensational performances. - - pull together. It makes

:56:34. > :56:38.everything clearer and it is breathtaking to see what they

:56:38. > :56:44.achieved. I think it is more that the athlete understands they invent

:56:44. > :56:47.a bit more and it allows them to refocus on the detail instead of it

:56:47. > :56:51.just been instructions from the coach. The athlete is also

:56:51. > :56:56.reviewing this from mechanical analysis and understanding how the

:56:56. > :57:02.body is performing. I think from seeing the first of the semi-finals

:57:02. > :57:06.when Dwain Chambers didn't make it, the sub-plot is in a number seven.

:57:06. > :57:10.But do you find that having done this analysis, Colin, of the

:57:10. > :57:15.technique of running and sprinting, that you are watching races in a

:57:15. > :57:19.different kind of way? Yes. Because I focus on the start but also I

:57:19. > :57:23.look at the deceleration of phrase. They have got to maintain the speed

:57:23. > :57:29.for as long as possible and that is the difference between winning and

:57:29. > :57:33.losing. As simple as that. Denise was very forthright about Dwain

:57:33. > :57:40.Chambers, saying she did not feel he justified his place in the team

:57:40. > :57:50.in the individual 100-metre remained. What do you think? To me,

:57:50. > :57:56.

:57:56. > :58:05.he did justify it because he went nothing at all! So, to the men's

:58:05. > :58:11.100 metres final. -- you say it best. This is the man I guess most

:58:11. > :58:21.will be watching. Tyson Gay. He was beaten in the American trials but

:58:21. > :58:28.

:58:28. > :58:38.rarely an impressive victory. This could just sued him. Michael

:58:38. > :58:58.

:58:58. > :59:04.after getting through as the 2010. He came back this year and

:59:04. > :59:10.has been part of the American relay squad. Trell Kimmons, a pretty good

:59:10. > :59:15.indoor run as well. Has missed out in the championships. He was 6th in

:59:15. > :59:22.the trials and part of the relay squad. He will be strong. If

:59:22. > :59:30.Michael Frater won silver medal all the way back in 2005. Looked pretty

:59:30. > :59:37.good in qualification, actually. The former world champion and he is

:59:37. > :59:41.still the second fastest man ever on the 100 metres. Tyson Gay! So

:59:41. > :59:46.many injury problems seem to be behind him at the moment as he

:59:46. > :59:55.approaches the Olympic Games. Ryan Bailey, this powerhouse of a

:59:55. > :00:05.sprinter. 23 years of age. 9. 93 this year and will represent the

:00:05. > :00:12.United States. Carter, a key man in the relay team. Had an Olympic win

:00:12. > :00:19.in Beijing in 2008 and last year at the World Championships as well. No

:00:19. > :00:26.lane seven, so Hyman has recently taken the Cayman Islands 100 metres

:00:26. > :00:31.record. Just to underline the quality in this field. Six of these

:00:31. > :00:41.men, six of the seven, have broken 10 seconds this year. Trell Kimmons

:00:41. > :00:46.

:00:46. > :00:51.has not been able to do that though say with ease, but it was certainly

:00:51. > :00:55.a little wetter earlier when that happened. Conditions have these

:00:55. > :01:01.somewhat, although it is not exactly the sort of weather that

:01:01. > :01:11.these printers would have wanted for quick times. We have seen other

:01:11. > :01:22.

:01:22. > :01:32.events showing that it is not a bad does Michael Frater. Trell Kimmons

:01:32. > :01:33.

:01:33. > :01:39.is going well, Tyson Gay get set, 10.03, not that fast. -- gets it.

:01:39. > :01:46.But out of the Fogg of that 100m, a bright light at the very end, and

:01:46. > :01:55.he does what he always does, just keeps going, and in the last 15

:01:55. > :02:00.minutes, the use so Colin's analysis. If he was slowing down,

:02:00. > :02:06.he was still going quicker than the rest. He Azad two wins in the last

:02:06. > :02:10.couple of weeks, which have been very similar. -- he has had. He

:02:10. > :02:15.does not get into his top speed quickly enough, Colin. I think that

:02:15. > :02:19.has got to do with a lack of racing, it takes a lot of time to get the

:02:19. > :02:23.start right, and then working all the way through to the finish.

:02:23. > :02:27.Right in the centre of the field, he just struggles to get with these

:02:27. > :02:33.players by 60m, but he keeps pushing, he believes that his

:02:33. > :02:40.training has gone well, and it pulls him all the way through.

:02:40. > :02:44.We were just watching some of the race back, bad conditions,

:02:44. > :02:50.tremendous performance. Tell me about it. I feel pretty good, the

:02:50. > :02:54.crowd was great, the weather was not that bad. You said you wanted

:02:54. > :02:58.to come here and get used to these conditions, I know you have run in

:02:58. > :03:04.Britain many times before, but how important to acclimatise, get used

:03:04. > :03:07.to the crowd? It is very important. I feel that I know how to mentally

:03:07. > :03:11.prepared for this type of weather, this is the greatest place to get

:03:11. > :03:15.ready for the Games. What does it tell you about the kind of shape

:03:15. > :03:19.you are in? I am in pretty good shape, I need to get with my physio

:03:19. > :03:25.and work out some things with my groin area, I should be good to go.

:03:25. > :03:35.You want that Olympic metal desperately, I know. Yes, sir!

:03:35. > :03:43.

:03:43. > :03:50.time of anybody, almost a false start, 0.107. He maintains better

:03:50. > :03:54.through the line. The reaction is good, but he is really trying to

:03:54. > :03:59.push at a point where the injury that he has had in his groin

:03:59. > :04:07.etcetera are stopping him doing that. We are told he does not hit

:04:07. > :04:12.top speed until 64 metres into the race, 26.53 mph. Get out in your

:04:13. > :04:19.car and look out the window, try to work that out. Very good reaction

:04:19. > :04:23.times. At the Olympic Games, that will stand him in his favour, but a

:04:23. > :04:33.little bit more work to do for Tyson Gay. But it was a good

:04:33. > :04:39.

:04:39. > :04:43.victory for him today, and that is Well, what a good race that was,

:04:43. > :04:47.and Ryan Bailey looks like a linebacker or something, absolutely

:04:47. > :04:52.vast, he should be in American football. Coming up to round of the

:04:52. > :04:54.evening, I mentioned the big four at the start of the evening, four

:04:54. > :04:59.athletes who are standard bearers for track and field going into the

:04:59. > :05:03.Games, and one of them obviously is Mo Farah.

:05:03. > :05:08.Tell me, Mo, where this fits in with your plans in the build-up to

:05:08. > :05:12.the Olympics. I love to compete at Crystal Palace, I have got great

:05:12. > :05:19.memories of the last three years, the crowd get behind you, one last

:05:19. > :05:23.race and that is it. Hopefully get a good race, talk to my coach, June

:05:24. > :05:27.in a little bit, see what we can do. We saw one part of the jigsaw

:05:27. > :05:31.puzzle for you accomplished very nicely in the European

:05:31. > :05:35.Championships, when you reflect on how the build-up has gone, that

:05:35. > :05:39.raised included, are you satisfied with where you at? Yeah, no,

:05:39. > :05:46.definitely, it would nice to have gone quicker, but that is where I

:05:46. > :05:49.was a couple of weeks ago, and I'm looking forward to it. When you see

:05:49. > :05:56.what you're likely rivals at the let's are doing, how does that make

:05:56. > :06:01.you feel? As an athlete, it gives me good confidence. If they can run

:06:01. > :06:05.that fast, I am capable of running faster and beyond that. It gives

:06:05. > :06:08.you good confidence, but at the same time, in the championship, it

:06:08. > :06:13.is going to be completely different, it is not going to be as fast, it

:06:13. > :06:17.is more tactical, it is important to work on that. What is the

:06:17. > :06:21.difference between the states and here? Yes, we can just get on with

:06:21. > :06:31.it, get on with the training and not worry about anything else, eat,

:06:31. > :06:35.

:06:35. > :06:39.before his start. I am sure the crowd have all come to see this man

:06:40. > :06:44.tonight. He is turning into such a big favourite of athletics fans all

:06:44. > :06:49.over the country. We cannot wait for the Olympic Games. The 500m is

:06:49. > :06:55.due off very shortly. Wrapping up the men's pole vault, very

:06:55. > :07:00.difficult conditions, Bjorn Otto won, this was his third attempt, he

:07:00. > :07:03.was the only athlete to go clear at this height. He came second in the

:07:03. > :07:13.European Championships at Helsinki, won the Diamond League here in

:07:13. > :07:23.

:07:23. > :07:27.London, and he is pretty happy struggled with the conditions. It

:07:28. > :07:32.was Chaunte Lowe of America, probably one of the favourites

:07:32. > :07:39.going into London, this was her third and final attempt at two

:07:39. > :07:45.metres. She's certainly cuts a --, -- she's certainly cuts a dash,

:07:45. > :07:49.doesn't she? In these conditions, a perfect send off to London for the

:07:49. > :07:55.American trials winner and one of the favourites. Tia Hellebaut, the

:07:55. > :08:05.Olympic champion, you have got to love that, haven't you?! You have

:08:05. > :08:16.

:08:16. > :08:22.Hellebaut, coming into some form, a for a future career in one of those

:08:22. > :08:25.dancing shows, who knows?! Well, the men's 5000m is about to get

:08:25. > :08:32.under way, perhaps one of the highlights of the evening,

:08:32. > :08:39.certainly a chance for Mo to stretch his staff. -- strut his

:08:39. > :08:43.stuff. Mo Farah knows a lot of these athletes pretty well, and

:08:43. > :08:47.were he not to win this, it would be a bit of a shock, to be honest,

:08:47. > :08:51.because although it is a good quality field, he should contend

:08:51. > :08:56.with it reasonably comfortably. He has asked for some pacemaking, I do

:08:56. > :09:01.not think it will be super-fast, and Mo does not really need to dig

:09:01. > :09:05.too deep into well. You heard Vivian Cheruiyot talk about the

:09:05. > :09:14.last part of the race, and I think that is what we will see from him

:09:14. > :09:20.tonight. Emmanuel Bett and Mark Kiptoo, well known. Craig Mottram

:09:20. > :09:24.had a season's best not that long ago, a few days ago, 13.16, coming

:09:24. > :09:34.into some decent form. Aunt and supply that Dathan Ritzenhein

:09:34. > :09:39.

:09:39. > :09:47.finally made the American team. -- 5,000 and the 10,000 at the

:09:47. > :09:51.Commonwealth Games in Delhi. So 12 1/2 laps of the track as usual, a

:09:51. > :10:00.couple of Aussies in here as well, Collis Birmingham, and then Juan

:10:00. > :10:10.Barrios of Mexico. They were asking for 62-second laps, but I think

:10:10. > :10:18.

:10:18. > :10:24.they will go slower than that Saturday night at the Olympic

:10:24. > :10:30.Stadium, the 10,000m final, there will be no heats on that day,

:10:30. > :10:34.perhaps it will be Mo's best chance at the Olympics, and his

:10:34. > :10:38.preparations have been very well planned by himself, Alberto Salazar,

:10:38. > :10:43.so tonight, it is part of that planning, what you think they will

:10:43. > :10:48.have been talking about? Well, I think this is a race that is really

:10:48. > :10:54.important for Mo. I think he has to go out of you with a victory. It is

:10:54. > :10:59.a bigger race, the first one is the 10,000m, he is probably equally

:10:59. > :11:02.favourite for the 5000m and the 10,000m, but the first one will set

:11:02. > :11:07.the tempo. I think he will win medals in both events, it depends

:11:07. > :11:12.what he does in the 10,000m. He could even win two gold medals. It

:11:12. > :11:19.is even break that we are looking forward to the let's with an

:11:19. > :11:27.athlete who has got a real chance. -- the Olympics. Will be history,

:11:27. > :11:37.we have had great champions, Chris Chataway, Derek Ibbetson in the

:11:37. > :11:42.1950s, and in the 1960s and 1970s. And then in the 1980s, Mike McLeod

:11:42. > :11:47.won a medal at the Olympic Games in a 10,000m, and Mo is following a

:11:47. > :11:51.great tradition. We have never won a gold medal at the Olympic Games

:11:51. > :11:55.in 5000m or 10,000m, and everyone feels this is the man who can do it.

:11:55. > :12:05.I would like him to go away from him with a victory which shows a

:12:05. > :12:07.

:12:07. > :12:15.bit of his class, and I think he is his Eusebio Caceres are Spain,

:12:15. > :12:23.just 20 years old. He is not in his best form, just 8.06, struggling at

:12:23. > :12:28.the moment, best of 7.89 in the second round. Round three, that is

:12:28. > :12:33.a lot better from the young Spanish athlete. All a bit frantic, wasn't

:12:33. > :12:43.it? The hitch kick technique off the board. I think he could be in

:12:43. > :12:50.the mix. He is not going to challenge Mitchell Watt or

:12:50. > :12:56.Mokoena... But JJ Jegede, it is that kind of distance. All the big

:12:56. > :13:05.jumpers are still to go in his round. 8.16, wind-assisted, but it

:13:05. > :13:15.is third. Well, Chris Tomlinson, his final attempt, I think his

:13:15. > :13:16.

:13:16. > :13:26.final competition before he goes to the Olympics. 8.12, wind-assisted.

:13:26. > :13:30.

:13:30. > :13:35.think, from anything he has achieved so far and as competition.

:13:35. > :13:43.Paul Dickinson has news from the world junior championship long jump.

:13:43. > :13:51.Katarina Johnson-Thompson has won the world junior long jump title,

:13:51. > :13:56.6.81, a windy performance, and jasmine saws, coached by Alan, wins

:13:56. > :14:01.a bronze. Great news from Barcelona, and it could be great news here,

:14:01. > :14:09.his longest jump, 8.26, perfect send-off for London for Chris

:14:09. > :14:12.Tomlinson. Well, good news in the long jumping, and from the World

:14:12. > :14:18.Junior Championships, and the news from the 5000m is that the

:14:18. > :14:22.pacemakers are asked to wait, because they went through 2.35, not

:14:22. > :14:28.super-fast in terms of the 5000m races we have seen, but it was a

:14:28. > :14:31.bit quicker than they were being asked for tonight. They have slowed

:14:31. > :14:35.down, and Mark Kiptoo, who was leading the pack, has now brought

:14:35. > :14:41.them back to the pacemakers. Mo Farah has tapped himself a little

:14:41. > :14:44.bit further back. These really fast races I mentioned, the Ethiopians

:14:44. > :14:50.have been really pushing their guys in terms of selection, making them

:14:50. > :14:55.run hard races, Last man Standing, that cannot be helping their cause.

:14:55. > :15:01.Mo has been able to plan his own route to the Games. It has been a

:15:01. > :15:05.clever route to the Games. He has run steadily, he has won races, he

:15:05. > :15:09.has not been extended to match. The ambition of this raised by the

:15:09. > :15:13.organisers was to make a really fast one, but I do not think Mo was

:15:13. > :15:17.terribly interested. When you're coming up to the Olympic Games, you

:15:17. > :15:23.do not want to run fast times and time-trials over the race distance.

:15:23. > :15:27.You may want to stare down your distance, run 3000m, but I do not

:15:27. > :15:32.think there is any prizes for winning a big fast race and a

:15:32. > :15:36.brutal fast race only a couple of weeks before the Olympic Games.

:15:36. > :15:41.5.16 through 2000m, and the leaders are miles clear, the pacemakers a

:15:41. > :15:51.long way away. The athletes are ignoring him, the moral of the

:15:51. > :15:58.

:15:58. > :16:05.stories do not bother with it's those last two laps that he

:16:05. > :16:09.finally understood after doing well in the World Championships in 2007,

:16:09. > :16:15.2009, getting into the top 10, butter was another thing at the end

:16:15. > :16:21.of the race being able to compete. But he ran disappointingly in the

:16:21. > :16:27.rounds in Beijing. We knew he was better than that. 2008 was a good

:16:27. > :16:37.one. European champion in 2010 in the 5,000 metres and attend 1,000

:16:37. > :16:37.

:16:37. > :16:42.metres. And then in 2011, European Championships. 2000 world, he has

:16:42. > :16:48.won the Europeans already and I think he could have a metal beside

:16:48. > :16:53.his name and it could be the big one. He has been strong and done

:16:53. > :16:57.everything right. He looks good in action. We always knew he had his

:16:57. > :17:02.sprint finish. It is now more sustained and more controlled.

:17:02. > :17:06.There is not another athlete that has a faster final 400 metres, so

:17:06. > :17:13.it is all for Mo to do and I think he has been really clever to stay

:17:13. > :17:16.out of the UK. He has been in the USA. He has not been involved in

:17:16. > :17:22.all the hype around the Olympic Games and I think that has been

:17:22. > :17:31.very sensible, very wise, and he is a mature young man now. We were

:17:31. > :17:40.just quickly tell you the long jump result. Great news, Chris Tomlinson

:17:40. > :17:45.is in second place. A bit of a sprint finish from Chris Tomlinson,

:17:45. > :17:50.if you like, in the long jump, leaving things to will the last

:17:50. > :17:56.round! And I am sure Mo Farah will leave things to the last part of

:17:56. > :18:04.this race to release stretch things out. If after this, she will go

:18:04. > :18:09.back to training. -- he will go back to training, altitude training.

:18:09. > :18:14.He wants to get back into the hard training. He has another good few

:18:14. > :18:19.days, couple of weeks, really, to put some hard work in and then the

:18:19. > :18:23.easing down will start as we go towards the Games themselves. So

:18:23. > :18:29.tonight is really about testing at speed. And that is so much part of

:18:29. > :18:35.his weaponry. And it is so much what people feel as well. One of

:18:35. > :18:39.the things he has changed, if we go back to those early days, there was

:18:39. > :18:44.always a feeling that he was over striding up and he has worked well,

:18:44. > :18:50.almost chopping it, getting more power in his sprinting, and we have

:18:50. > :18:55.seen the great effect. That is true and he is now the most scientific

:18:55. > :19:01.sprinter we have about had. He has got a tent where Bobby simulates

:19:01. > :19:07.the feeling of altitude, the changes in gravity. -- where he

:19:07. > :19:13.simulates. He has got all the mod cons of a scientific approach to it

:19:13. > :19:17.but he also now has a very much a mental approach to it. As a kid, he

:19:17. > :19:23.was a talented young man. We always knew he was a good sprinter and

:19:24. > :19:28.could finish fast. Now he is tying it all together. There is only one

:19:28. > :19:33.in this race who has ever run faster, and that happens to be

:19:33. > :19:37.Kipsiro, who is ahead of him. He is a very, very good athlete and he is

:19:37. > :19:44.beginning to stretch down the back straight, testing Mo Farah. And

:19:44. > :19:54.that is what Mo wants. A testing last few laps. Then he can go with

:19:54. > :19:56.

:19:56. > :20:02.great confidence and come back, hopefully, to thrill us. That

:20:02. > :20:07.10,000 metres in London is a great prospect. He has been waiting a

:20:07. > :20:10.long, long time for this. I just can't wait for the Olympic Stadium

:20:10. > :20:20.in a few weeks' time and I look forward so much to commentating on

:20:20. > :20:24.him. They have been operating at around a 30-15 prays, relief. To

:20:24. > :20:30.finish at that pace, anybody would be happy if they were a British

:20:30. > :20:34.runner, but Mo can run that quite comfortably. The crowd is making a

:20:34. > :20:40.lot of noise and there are already looking forward to seeing him at

:20:40. > :20:46.turn it on, and just imagine what that noise will be like at the

:20:46. > :20:53.Olympic Stadium. Kipsiro, who has not been able to stretch them too

:20:53. > :20:58.much. Birmingham is there on the outside. Kiptoo is with them as

:20:58. > :21:05.well. And Craig Mottram struggling for pace at the moment, trying to

:21:05. > :21:12.keep up with the group. A couple of laps to go and I have a feeling he

:21:12. > :21:16.might just odd to wind it up. This is his favourite part of the race.

:21:16. > :21:24.If he will not go flat out on the slab but he will wind it up and

:21:24. > :21:29.leave it first for the last quarter. This is the difference with Mo

:21:29. > :21:33.Farah now. When he goes to the front, he goes there for a reason.

:21:33. > :21:43.He used to spend a long time at the front of raises previously but not

:21:43. > :21:45.

:21:45. > :21:51.doing anything. BA-American in 4th place, working hard now. -- the

:21:51. > :21:57.American. If this crowd here tonight of roaring him on. I just

:21:57. > :22:00.hope they will be supporters at the Olympic Games and I had lots of

:22:00. > :22:07.them have tickets. They have supported athletics through thick

:22:07. > :22:14.and thin and the Olympic Games is the goal for us all. This man will

:22:14. > :22:19.give us something to shout about on the final day of the Olympic Games.

:22:19. > :22:23.The world champion from Great Britain, coming down the straight...

:22:23. > :22:33.Birmingham is going with him. And now Mo Farah begins to attack,

:22:33. > :22:36.

:22:36. > :22:46.begins to work hard and dig deeper. Kipsiro has moved away. That was a

:22:46. > :22:47.

:22:47. > :22:52.son but 67 final lap. -- he below 67. This one will be even quicker

:22:52. > :22:58.than the last because he is really turning the burners on now. He is

:22:58. > :23:06.sticking by Lely to his task. Mo Farah already has half an eye on

:23:06. > :23:11.the finish line. The crowd, loving this! A huge noise here. Cole ready

:23:11. > :23:20.to give Mo Farah a send-off as he hopes to repeat his victory at the

:23:20. > :23:30.Olympics! Willow Orchard Farm storming away to take the win. --

:23:30. > :23:37.

:23:37. > :23:41.Farah storming away. The noise, well, it was deafening! There's

:23:42. > :23:47.plenty of 800-metre runners or country club runners would be happy

:23:47. > :23:54.to do that, never mind the 5,000 metres! He is in good shape, he is

:23:54. > :24:03.confident, he is winning, and that is exactly what he wants as he goes

:24:03. > :24:10.away and give see us v Mo shape. He will go away now. A bit more hard

:24:10. > :24:15.work to do but he is in a good place. Mo isn't a great place. That

:24:15. > :24:20.is how much these guys respect this man. We have watched him mature

:24:20. > :24:30.over the last four years and come from being a dejected figure in

:24:30. > :24:31.

:24:31. > :24:41.the concentration in his eyes. He has destroyed them in the last two

:24:41. > :24:42.

:24:42. > :24:47.laps. A 52nd last lap. Before this man is heading towards a world...

:24:47. > :24:51.Well, an Olympic title is what I was really going to say! He will go

:24:51. > :24:57.for the 10,000 metres in a few weeks. And you will almost

:24:57. > :25:07.certainly follow that up with 5,000 metres. -- he will. He is a

:25:07. > :25:08.

:25:08. > :25:13.pleasure to watch. He is now Thank you. What a send off for the

:25:13. > :25:20.Olympics! The crowd has given me such a good boost. It is the one

:25:20. > :25:24.last time here at home and then the Olympics. So it is incredible.

:25:24. > :25:29.was such a dominant, emphatic performance tonight. Where are you

:25:29. > :25:34.heading for the Olympics? It is now on board and I work on speed.

:25:34. > :25:38.Tonight, the conditions were not great but it was a good race and

:25:38. > :25:44.enough to raise at home. It is a good track and a good crowd. Not

:25:44. > :25:50.long to go! To you might get these conditions for the Olympic Games? I

:25:50. > :25:54.am used to them, so it would be good for me. Imagine that a huge

:25:54. > :26:01.80,000 person crowd and the goose a moment. Can you imagine what that

:26:01. > :26:06.will be like? Not yet. I just have to take it as I go. Obviously, the

:26:06. > :26:13.Olympics is the big one. But I am quite looking forward to it. Well

:26:13. > :26:23.done tonight, Mo, and all the best for the Olympics. Thank you. Well

:26:23. > :26:32.

:26:32. > :26:36.he? And Collis Birmingham, a JOHN INVERDALE: Well, the first

:26:36. > :26:41.days of two fantastic day's athletics. The headlines, well,

:26:41. > :26:44.lots of people to tell you about. The first race on the tracks or

:26:45. > :26:48.Perri Shakes-Drayton getting a personal best and running the

:26:48. > :26:57.second fastest time ever by a British athlete in the 400-metre

:26:57. > :27:01.hurdles. Javier Culson might be a step behind but you have the

:27:01. > :27:06.feeling they were running in perfect synchronicity. Dai Greene

:27:06. > :27:11.might have his number in London. Aries Merritt of the USA equalling

:27:11. > :27:16.his best time for the year in the high hurdles, though we should say

:27:16. > :27:21.that the Athens gold medallist, the great Chinese medallist, had to

:27:21. > :27:25.drop out because of a back injury. And Tyson Gay coming home in the

:27:25. > :27:30.100 metres final that actually do not include any of the British

:27:30. > :27:34.athletes who had taken part in the semi-finals earlier on. But on the

:27:34. > :27:39.subject of British athletes, a season's best for Chris Tomlinson,

:27:39. > :27:44.and he was only beaten by two centimetres or stop things looking

:27:44. > :27:50.good for him in second. But the performance of the day goes to...

:27:50. > :27:54.It has to be Perri Shakes-Drayton. A season's best, personal best. Her

:27:54. > :27:59.excellent work from have lost up and Mo Farah, I think it is worth

:27:59. > :28:02.saying, you can still hear the applause. He was fantastic and we

:28:02. > :28:08.can only imagine what it might be like with 80,000 people making that

:28:08. > :28:13.kind of noise? Such an exciting time for Mo Farah. He came here and

:28:13. > :28:18.he has loved the atmosphere. He is totally looking forward to London

:28:18. > :28:24.2012. We are back tomorrow for the second day of this Grand Prix. And

:28:24. > :28:30.Olympic dreams from 1:30pm Features Jessica Ennis. And Usain Bolt - a