Glasgow Grand Prix - Day 1

:00:55. > :01:07.This is a city of contrasts. Of originality and resilience. Of pride

:01:08. > :01:14.and warmth, divided, and also united, by sport. A city with a past

:01:15. > :01:21.of both industrial might and dramatic decline. Today, determined

:01:22. > :01:26.are the generation. This is Glasgow, a city transformed, and

:01:27. > :01:33.preparing to welcome the world for a summer of sport. But here at

:01:34. > :01:35.Hampden, the stage is set for the perfect prelude to the Commonwealth

:01:36. > :01:45.games. A chance for athletes to test their

:01:46. > :01:52.mettle, to strive for excellence, and prove they are ready to take on

:01:53. > :01:59.the world's greatest. Welcome to the Glasgow Grand Prix. COMMENTATOR:

:02:00. > :02:10.Watch the clock, that is the world record! It is big, Shelly-Ann

:02:11. > :02:15.Fraser-Pryce hangs on! A very warm and sunny welcome to Hampden Park in

:02:16. > :02:18.Glasgow over two days of top-class athletics and what should be the

:02:19. > :02:25.perfect dress rehearsal for the cheque and field -- track and field

:02:26. > :02:31.competition of the Commonwealth Games. It will welcome 4500 athletes

:02:32. > :02:39.to the Games, and what a Gains it promises to be. Before it gets

:02:40. > :02:42.underway, -- the Commonwealth games. Some of them will just test

:02:43. > :02:48.themselves against those they will compete against at the Commonwealth

:02:49. > :02:51.Games. It is normally the home of the Scottish football team, but

:02:52. > :02:55.athletics has very much made its mark. It is looking fantastic and we

:02:56. > :03:01.are just in the corner there. If you have a look, you can see us waving

:03:02. > :03:06.up their to the camera that will hover over us for the next two and a

:03:07. > :03:09.half hours or so, getting some fantastic shots of the stadium and

:03:10. > :03:14.hopefully the athletics, which will cover the next two and a half hours

:03:15. > :03:19.or so. Alongside may come I am delighted to say ball allowed Chris

:03:20. > :03:25.-- I am delighted to say Paula Radcliffe and Denise Lewis. Basking

:03:26. > :03:29.in the sunshine. There will be a lot of shocked athletes out there, but

:03:30. > :03:33.what a transformation. I was here a year ago, and what they have done to

:03:34. > :03:38.the place, it looks like it has always hosted athletics. Absolutely,

:03:39. > :03:42.I walked in this evening and thought they had done a great job. Something

:03:43. > :03:46.to be proud of. It really has a Championships feel about it. And a

:03:47. > :03:49.lot of the athletes that will be preparing for these Games, it is a

:03:50. > :03:53.dress rehearsal and the track looks quick, we will see about the

:03:54. > :03:57.performances tonight but a great job. We cannot guarantee the

:03:58. > :04:01.sunshine, of course, that is not always a in Glasgow, but it will be

:04:02. > :04:07.a fabulous evening and hopefully a weekend as well. What are you most

:04:08. > :04:13.looking forward to? Tonight is the women's 1500 metres. I am excited to

:04:14. > :04:19.see Laura Weightman get in there and act like she belongs. We saw last

:04:20. > :04:23.week in Paris her coming oh so close to breaking through four minutes and

:04:24. > :04:26.establishing themselves as genuine medal contenders for the

:04:27. > :04:30.Commonwealth Games and the European Championships. She needs to act. She

:04:31. > :04:44.is up against Hassan, who won in Paris, and the young I would.

:04:45. > :04:52.Moving towards the possibility of two podium finishes this summer,

:04:53. > :04:56.what great progress she has made. We must ask a coach about that later,

:04:57. > :05:02.but great progress over the last 12 months. Yes, she is still

:05:03. > :05:04.developing, getting stronger, she is young still. It is the age where

:05:05. > :05:14.they are really putting down the ground work in the winter and

:05:15. > :05:17.putting down great performances. The Scottish athletes, Laura Muir

:05:18. > :05:24.tomorrow, we will see child later, it will be lovely to see whether the

:05:25. > :05:29.Hampden Park roar can cut its way through to the athletics. But there

:05:30. > :05:36.are plenty of stars on show tonight. What a great run this is! David Weir

:05:37. > :05:47.streaking away to take victory. Ashton Eaton, he now brings it home!

:05:48. > :05:56.Six metres 81, a lifetime best! Blake is going to take it, he wins a

:05:57. > :06:01.9.95. James Dasaolu, look at him go! The action is already underway. Just

:06:02. > :06:07.before we came on air was the first of two heats for the men's 110 meter

:06:08. > :06:09.hurdles. Great Britain's William Sharman has already qualified of

:06:10. > :06:12.course for the European Championships, and will represent

:06:13. > :06:16.England in the Commonwealth Games. He got a silver medal four years ago

:06:17. > :06:18.in Delhi at the Commonwealth Games will stop he will be up against his

:06:19. > :06:23.two main rivals in those political Let's hand over to Andrew Cotter,

:06:24. > :06:43.who saw this. COMMENTATOR: First heat, three to go

:06:44. > :06:51.through, plus the three fastest over the heats to the final.

:06:52. > :06:59.Will Shaman inside, as is Shane Brathwaite. Those two are pulling

:07:00. > :07:06.away. These three should go through, they do automatically. Again, a good

:07:07. > :07:08.run for will shaman in the sunshine at Hampden Park. Hansel parchment

:07:09. > :07:37.with his applause for will rather sleepy out he came to Bath,

:07:38. > :07:41.spent a bit of time with Malcolm Arnold to see figure fixed that

:07:42. > :07:50.start. When needed, the 12.94 everyone what he could do. Will

:07:51. > :07:55.Shamen has been the man domestic Lee. He has shown everyone in the

:07:56. > :07:59.world he is a quality hurdler and can hold together under pressure

:08:00. > :08:18.when it matters. This is a good qualification for him.

:08:19. > :08:24.That was a few moments ago. Live now, the second heat of the men's

:08:25. > :08:37.110 hurdles. This is how it lines up.

:08:38. > :08:41.There will be three fastest losers going through the final. There are

:08:42. > :09:12.nine lanes in the Hamdan Park track. Ryan Wilson, the evergreen

:09:13. > :09:15.American, 33 years of age, a silver medal in the twilight of his career

:09:16. > :09:21.at the World Championships last year.

:09:22. > :09:50.This is a new man, Wayne Davis one to watch. Laurence Clarke. And then,

:09:51. > :09:53.on the outside, Alex Al Ameen. He has recently been cleared to run for

:09:54. > :09:56.Nigeria at the Commonwealth Games, yet still able to run for Great

:09:57. > :10:02.Britain in the European Championships. I can't quite work it

:10:03. > :10:05.out myself yet, but we will maybe explain it sometime tomorrow when it

:10:06. > :10:09.is raining. Cross our fingers, hopefully it is not. Beautiful night

:10:10. > :10:14.tonight, great conditions. If they want to get through to the final,

:10:15. > :10:21.they will have to run around 13.45 was the fourth place in the first

:10:22. > :10:36.semifinal. The first three to go through.

:10:37. > :10:47.Shubenkov gets a good start. In lane one, Stewart takes a tumble. Ryan

:10:48. > :10:53.Wilson try to get in, might just get through with Shubenkov and Riley,

:10:54. > :10:57.they are the top three. With a following wind, it wasn't that good,

:10:58. > :11:00.to be honest, Colin. You have high standards, I guess they want to get

:11:01. > :11:04.through, and hopefully we will see something a bit better in the final.

:11:05. > :11:12.But Ryan Wilson did not get the best of starts. Shubenkov and Riley were

:11:13. > :11:16.better. He is having a good year. Nice to see Ryan Wilson back, I

:11:17. > :11:20.remember the days when he was running close to 13 seconds

:11:21. > :11:24.regularly. I expected the times to be a bit quicker. These guys have

:11:25. > :11:31.all run yards quicker than they produced here. Lane one, Ray Stewart

:11:32. > :11:38.took a tumble, he was out of that. Shubenkov, he was European number

:11:39. > :11:40.one for many years. But yes, I expected the times to be a bit

:11:41. > :11:49.swifter, but they are very competitive. 13.3s we are seeing in

:11:50. > :11:53.this race. It tells us that it will be all to play for in the final

:11:54. > :11:56.later on. I am pretty sure they will get some racing under their belt.

:11:57. > :12:03.They know each other very well indeed. They have been racing all

:12:04. > :12:07.year. I do know who I would put my money on with experience. They are

:12:08. > :12:13.all a bit of a mixed bunch, right? I can tell you mean they are running a

:12:14. > :12:17.bit slower than we expect! It is interesting, Colin, because we have

:12:18. > :12:24.a chap in chip coming on, the athletes want to come and feel this

:12:25. > :12:29.track. It is fast. Maybe they will come on in the final. The final will

:12:30. > :12:44.be later at just about 8:30pm. If Colin doesn't know who to pick, then

:12:45. > :12:52.we will wait to find out. COLIN JACKSON: They might be a bit knot

:12:53. > :13:00.with it in their brain, come the final, it is all to play for. It

:13:01. > :13:18.will be a bit of a rehearsal with Parchment and Riley and Sharman.

:13:19. > :13:32.GABBY LOGAN: This is how it is looking for you, David Weir coming

:13:33. > :13:38.up very soon. Danny Colbert of Great Britain as well. Johnson-Thompson is

:13:39. > :13:44.jumping in the long jump this evening, having a flyer at the

:13:45. > :13:49.moment, a very strong men's 5000 later on with two pacemakers. The

:13:50. > :14:00.conditions of the track are looking conducive. A

:14:01. > :14:05.The women sprinters are pushing the boundaries. Can they keep it

:14:06. > :14:10.together, and hopefully get it around in a great time. Sadly no

:14:11. > :14:19.Christine Ohuruogu, but we have a really strong field.

:14:20. > :14:31.At 8:45pm, the last event of the evening, the men's 100 metres. Yohan

:14:32. > :14:38.Blake in a very strong field with James Dasaolu hoping for a good

:14:39. > :14:43.time. A number of the athletes will be back in a few weeks time, pitting

:14:44. > :14:46.their wits against the very best of the Commonwealth Games. To get the

:14:47. > :14:47.stadium to that stage, it took a little bit of work from last

:14:48. > :14:59.November. It involved taking eight rows of

:15:00. > :15:06.seats outcome of the capacity being reduced by about 10,000, to 44,000.

:15:07. > :15:14.They had to raise the level by 9.1 metres. They used 1000 panels to get

:15:15. > :15:21.that level exactly where they wanted it. There was a time when 149,000

:15:22. > :15:25.watched Scotland play England here in 1937. It has also been a stadium

:15:26. > :15:31.that has hosted a couple of European cup finals, won by Real Madrid in

:15:32. > :15:35.1960 and 2002, the now with the white lines, the blue outfield and a

:15:36. > :15:38.bright green infield, it very much looks like an athletics stadium.

:15:39. > :15:42.Jonathan Edwards is down there, track-side, no doubt testing out the

:15:43. > :15:46.surface and he will tell us whether or not it is going to be conducive

:15:47. > :15:49.to some quick times, but this weekend and the Commonwealth Games.

:15:50. > :16:00.If I said to you what is the score, do you know what I am talking about,

:16:01. > :16:04.Jonathan? I don't know what you mean. It is rhyming slang for

:16:05. > :16:09.Hampden roar. You would never know this was a football stadium. I am

:16:10. > :16:12.suspended two metres above the hallowed turf. I think the

:16:13. > :16:15.organisers have done a remarkable job of creating an intimate

:16:16. > :16:19.stadium. Not least because the triple jump its on the inside of the

:16:20. > :16:24.track and then the crowd are about ten or 15 metres closer. We are used

:16:25. > :16:30.to seeing temporary services. It is like the great city games in

:16:31. > :16:33.Manchester and Gateshead. But the difference is, six inches of

:16:34. > :16:36.concrete is on the top to try to create a service which is the same

:16:37. > :16:42.as outdoors. The proof in the pudding is to ask one of the

:16:43. > :16:46.athletes. Alongside me, Stef Reid. She has just broken the world record

:16:47. > :16:52.in the F 44 long jump. Congratulations. An amazing

:16:53. > :16:55.competition for you. It was, I walked out and for me the track felt

:16:56. > :16:56.like it did in London, the people were amazing and it was

:16:57. > :16:59.like it did in London, the people were amazing a great atmosphere. It

:17:00. > :17:02.was hard because I broke the world record in the first round and I

:17:03. > :17:07.wanted to celebrate but I still have five rounds and I knew that the

:17:08. > :17:12.second place goal was all is dangerous. I am so glad and I will

:17:13. > :17:17.meet her again in London and Swansea. It is good to have one. You

:17:18. > :17:22.turn things around after last year, which was really tough for you. Last

:17:23. > :17:27.you was hard for a lot of reasons. You come down of the Paralympics and

:17:28. > :17:30.we had a lot of questions. My husband and I had been living apart

:17:31. > :17:34.two years and it was difficult. We had to think about how we wanted the

:17:35. > :17:38.next four years to go. We had to make some hard decisions. He moved

:17:39. > :17:42.with me to England full-time which was great. I picked up a back injury

:17:43. > :17:47.and we had other personal problems. It was a hard year. Things did not

:17:48. > :17:51.work out. I don't think I have ever jumped more poorly. When you are

:17:52. > :17:56.29, people ask if it time you to move on but I knew I could run

:17:57. > :18:00.further and jump faster -- run faster and jump further. I took a

:18:01. > :18:09.huge chance, switched closes to run a rider, and we have been together

:18:10. > :18:14.for year. What is the surface like? It is amazing. I did not realise. On

:18:15. > :18:17.the street races in Manchester, you can feel it is not a permanent track

:18:18. > :18:22.but this one is fast. I was struggling on the runway because I

:18:23. > :18:28.had so much speed. Even my coach said it was crazy that I had so much

:18:29. > :18:33.speed and did not know what to do with it. Part of it was the crowd

:18:34. > :18:36.but the service was amazing and I'm excited and a bit jealous the

:18:37. > :18:40.athletes are coming back to compete in two weeks time. You agree or

:18:41. > :18:45.husband is about to go on track, in the 1500 metres, so you must be

:18:46. > :18:50.excited. Use typically a sprinter, Brent, his biggest asset is

:18:51. > :18:53.acceleration. He stepped up to 1500 this year. It has been huge change

:18:54. > :18:58.in training and a huge adjustment, he coaches himself and is learning

:18:59. > :19:02.as he goes. He had a big win in the nationals in the 1500 which was his

:19:03. > :19:07.first. He is about to take on David Weir. He is excited and I'm excited

:19:08. > :19:13.for him. He is the one in the blue top. Yes! I know how hard he has

:19:14. > :19:18.worked and I'm excited to see what he's going to bring out. We are

:19:19. > :19:27.excited and David Weir is in this one as well. Let's go to Andrew

:19:28. > :19:31.Cotter. ANDREW COTTER: A few eyes on Brent Lakatos, including Stef Reid.

:19:32. > :19:35.Congratulations on her world record. It would have been nice to see a

:19:36. > :19:39.battle between David Weir and his great Swiss rival but just David

:19:40. > :19:42.Weir here, but stronger petition from Tomasz Hamerlak and Masayuki

:19:43. > :19:56.Higuchi -- strong competition. A couple of young British athletes

:19:57. > :20:02.attached to the David Weir Academy as well. David Weir was so

:20:03. > :20:05.impressive in Paris last week. He did so coming through strongly in

:20:06. > :20:09.the last 200 metres. Quite often he goes out at the front but he decided

:20:10. > :20:14.to test his pace and see what kind of finishing had in Paris. He sat at

:20:15. > :20:22.the back, stayed out of trouble and then came roaring through. He sits

:20:23. > :20:25.and waits coming here, he and the Swiss will come together in the

:20:26. > :20:28.European Championships in Swansea next month. David Weir is very

:20:29. > :20:32.excited that the Commonwealth games on this track at the end of this

:20:33. > :20:40.month and the beginning of next. -- for the Commonwealth Games. Various

:20:41. > :20:43.Brent Lakatos. He won the Canadian championships, beating the two

:20:44. > :20:46.athletes who had been selected for the Commonwealth Games team but

:20:47. > :20:50.because he does not have the standard, all the time, you was not

:20:51. > :20:54.selected. Stuart Bloor and Will Smith on the inside, the young

:20:55. > :21:01.Britons, both very talented. Will Smith is a multiple world junior

:21:02. > :21:06.champion, the number two, there. So, 1500 metres. David Weir gets ready

:21:07. > :21:11.to go through it all again. Three and a half laps of the track.

:21:12. > :21:15.Again, we wonder how David Weir will go out. Just looking across at his

:21:16. > :21:21.main rivals, Kenny Van Weeghel of the Netherlands inside, and again,

:21:22. > :21:27.jockeying for position. It is instead Will Smith who takes it out

:21:28. > :21:31.for Great Britain. David Weir just tucking in behind. When he won the

:21:32. > :21:37.Olympics come he came through in the final lap, a huge burn up and he

:21:38. > :21:41.came through in 43.44 seconds in the final lap. The pace he showed in

:21:42. > :21:44.Paris over the last 200 last week, he says he is quicker and has better

:21:45. > :21:50.sprinting speed at the moment than he did in 2012. In the Olympic year,

:21:51. > :21:54.he had to get ready and train for the marathon as well. He knew it was

:21:55. > :21:59.coming. He does not have that this year. It is all about track speed

:22:00. > :22:03.and he has a bit more raw speed at the moment, David Weir. This is a

:22:04. > :22:06.chance to lay down a marker, test the track and see how he's feeling.

:22:07. > :22:13.He said after Paris that he is feeling very good and he looks at

:22:14. > :22:17.the moment. I was in Paris that night, Andrew. He was toying with

:22:18. > :22:21.the field. This is in contrast to what he's doing tonight. He has set

:22:22. > :22:24.his stall out. Chatting to him yesterday at the hotel, he

:22:25. > :22:28.reiterated everything you have said. He is in great shape and looking

:22:29. > :22:32.forward to racing. He asked if I knew how fast the track was. I said

:22:33. > :22:38.I did not know. He obviously wants to come and do well. Moving inside

:22:39. > :22:42.to get a bit of help, not wanting to guys all the way to a good time. He

:22:43. > :22:46.is so quick on the last 200. The others know that. But they are

:22:47. > :22:49.trying to stretch this out and make it a good race. It was bunched up

:22:50. > :22:54.the other night and played right into his hands. But they are setting

:22:55. > :23:01.a good time. Just letting Higuchi come through and take some more of

:23:02. > :23:07.the effort. Second quickest in the world this year, Higuchi, just

:23:08. > :23:12.outside three minutes. In behind, the aforementioned Brent Lakatos. As

:23:13. > :23:14.we mentioned, you will not be in the Canadian team despite winning the

:23:15. > :23:21.Canadian Championships because he did not get the standard, which is

:23:22. > :23:25.quite demanding, 3.06 minutes. He is tucked in nicely behind Higuchi at

:23:26. > :23:29.the moment. David Weir, sitting in third place. The crowd begins to

:23:30. > :23:34.make a bit of noise, and they are expecting the man in third place to

:23:35. > :23:38.produce a famous finish. They want him to come roaring through. But at

:23:39. > :23:42.the moment, Higuchi is still in front. David Weir just easing up

:23:43. > :23:46.alongside, passing Brent Lakatos, and the noise grows, as he sits

:23:47. > :23:51.right alongside Higuchi. And then David Weir hits the front. The

:23:52. > :23:56.others try to stay with him but his arms are pumping and David Weir is

:23:57. > :24:01.moving clear. Only Higuchi shows any sign of being able to stay on his

:24:02. > :24:06.wheels. David Weir is going to win this one, and at a canter.

:24:07. > :24:10.Stretching his lead as he comes into the home straight. And David Weir,

:24:11. > :24:12.on the track where he hopes to have Commonwealth success for England,

:24:13. > :24:17.wins for himself this evening, posting over the line, in a modest

:24:18. > :24:25.enough time but no one was able to get close to him. He looked well

:24:26. > :24:28.within his comfort zone. He is one of the standout athletes in this

:24:29. > :24:32.discipline. In fact, over most of the distances from 400, through to

:24:33. > :24:37.the marathon, and David Weir take the spoils to write. Masayuki

:24:38. > :24:45.Higuchi with a smile and a word of congratulations. David Weir, an

:24:46. > :24:52.emphatic winner in the men's T 53-54, 1500 metres. He waves to the

:24:53. > :24:58.crowd. He simply had far too much on the final lap. He can win it almost

:24:59. > :25:01.any way he likes against the guys in this field. He could have gone out

:25:02. > :25:05.harder. He made it a reasonable pace and in the last lap, did what he can

:25:06. > :25:10.do. He has so much pace to burn. The others cannot live with it. He can

:25:11. > :25:13.relax a bit in the last 50 metres, looking between his arms, checking

:25:14. > :25:16.there is no danger. There never really was going to be anybody. We

:25:17. > :25:21.look forward to him racing the rest of the summer because he's in great

:25:22. > :25:24.shape. Yes, he is, the kind of condition which should be far too

:25:25. > :25:28.strong for the rest of the field in the Commonwealth. A couple of

:25:29. > :25:32.rivals, like Richard Colman the Australian, racing tonight but he

:25:33. > :25:34.looked a bit off the pace. It is the European Championships next month in

:25:35. > :25:39.Swansea, which should be interesting, as he's racing quite a

:25:40. > :25:42.few of the distances but I suspect in the Commonwealth Games, he will

:25:43. > :25:46.be untouchable, much like he was this evening. Not the quickest time

:25:47. > :25:50.but he had much more in the tank if he wanted it, David Weir, a very

:25:51. > :25:56.comfortable winner of the men's 1500 metres. In the Commonwealth Games,

:25:57. > :26:00.not quite as many disciplines as in the Olympics, so fewer distances to

:26:01. > :26:04.race, for David Weir, but he will reap some gold, you suspect. The

:26:05. > :26:15.emphatic winner of this race. And he can give us his thoughts now.

:26:16. > :26:19.Congratulations, David. Tremendous performance. Getting a taste of the

:26:20. > :26:23.stadium and the track before the Commonwealth Games. That was the

:26:24. > :26:27.plan, too and see what the track is like and see what the crowd like. It

:26:28. > :26:32.is a great track. A good atmosphere and are reaping else. It is great.

:26:33. > :26:36.You can imagine when this place is full for the Commonwealth Games, it

:26:37. > :26:40.is going to be like the Paralympics revisited in London. I think so.

:26:41. > :26:44.Maybe when I have an England vest on, it might be a different story

:26:45. > :26:48.but I think the crowd will be behind us. It is all the British Isles. I

:26:49. > :26:51.am looking forward to coming up here and racing for England because I've

:26:52. > :26:56.never done that before. We look forward to that. A word on how you

:26:57. > :27:00.have found the track? It is strange to think that the Hampden Park pitch

:27:01. > :27:04.is beneath us and it has been raised up for this fantastic track which

:27:05. > :27:10.looks pristine. How is it? Very good. It feels fast. It is newly

:27:11. > :27:14.laid so it takes some bedding in. But it felt good. The speed was

:27:15. > :27:19.good. We were rolling pretty well. It is a fantastic track. They have

:27:20. > :27:31.done a good job. Great work by you to night and we will see you at the

:27:32. > :27:35.Commonwealth Games. GABBY LOGAN: And intense competitor, David Weir, six

:27:36. > :27:39.London marathons to his name, and currently, everything from 400

:27:40. > :27:42.upwards, supreme in the 1500. We spent some time with him in Portugal

:27:43. > :27:46.doing warm weather training, a tiny little group in the middle of

:27:47. > :27:48.nowhere. People think they go off together and staying glamorous

:27:49. > :27:54.places with massive support networks but it is just him in the open road.

:27:55. > :27:58.When you see the determination and the hours and the work he puts in,

:27:59. > :28:02.you deserve is what is going to come hopefully this summer. He does and

:28:03. > :28:06.it is looking really excited. As Steve Cram said, we can't wait to

:28:07. > :28:09.see how he comes and performs in the summer. He's in great shape and he

:28:10. > :28:13.is a class apart in the closing stages of the race. He had a wobble

:28:14. > :28:16.after the Olympics, was not sure where he was going and wanted to

:28:17. > :28:26.reassess. That is normal when you have such excess at a long time,

:28:27. > :28:31.covered Sony distances. He is so clinical about what he wants to do.

:28:32. > :28:37.He is so determined to raise his game every time. I think he will

:28:38. > :28:41.have a fantastic camping trips. He makes a good point about the England

:28:42. > :28:45.shirt but I think he will transcend that. Let's look at the next event,

:28:46. > :28:50.the men's 400 metres hurdles. Ashton Eaton has dominated the decathlon,

:28:51. > :28:54.in the Olympics and the World Championships, a supreme athlete. He

:28:55. > :28:57.has turned his legs to the 400 metres hurdles this season and is

:28:58. > :29:02.enjoying being out on the circuit with no major championship. Now we

:29:03. > :29:18.are going to hear from one half of undoubtedly sport's super couple.

:29:19. > :29:39.Ashton Eaton now brings it home. She is coming on strong as well. The

:29:40. > :29:55.Canadian athlete is flying. And it is a silver and gold for the

:29:56. > :29:59.Eaton family. Is she here this weekend? Yes, she's watching me and

:30:00. > :30:03.then we are going to go back to Belgium to train and then come back

:30:04. > :30:07.here and will face off against the other heptathlete. Will you get a

:30:08. > :30:12.chance to watch at the Commonwealth Games? Absolutely, I will get a

:30:13. > :30:18.chance to watch. Because there are great athletes competing, we are

:30:19. > :30:21.going to watch Katarina Johnson-Thompson this weekend, see

:30:22. > :30:27.what kind of shape she is in. When I go to watch, it will be more for the

:30:28. > :30:30.mental aspect because I understand the pressure of really wanting to do

:30:31. > :30:32.well and having a competitor like her, they are going to push each

:30:33. > :30:37.other, both going for gold. well and having a competitor like

:30:38. > :30:39.her, they are going to push each She wants to come back and win the

:30:40. > :30:50.Commonwealth. I think it will be fantastic.

:30:51. > :30:56.have taken like a duck to water to the hurdles. How are you enjoying

:30:57. > :31:00.the experience? I have been fortunate enough to lead the circuit

:31:01. > :31:03.life of an athlete, which I think is very interesting. With the

:31:04. > :31:07.multi-events, we train to quite a lot of time. We do small, tensions

:31:08. > :31:18.that don't matter very much, they are small -- also training. The race

:31:19. > :31:24.in particular, and the races have just been really fun. I have been

:31:25. > :31:28.well received by the other 400 metre hurdlers, which is awesome, and I

:31:29. > :31:34.think we are pushing each other and having fun.

:31:35. > :31:39.Ashton Eaton will be going in the 400 metre hurdles. He is by no means

:31:40. > :31:44.the fastest or strongest runner in the field, it is a very strong

:31:45. > :31:48.field, with Olympic medallists to boot. There he is looking very

:31:49. > :31:52.comfortable, and he says he is loving life on the circuit, which

:31:53. > :31:56.for people like him, the multi-event is like yourself, it must be a nice

:31:57. > :32:01.feeling to break free and have one thing to think about? Yes, and see

:32:02. > :32:06.what it is like on the circuit, but is multi-event athletes don't tend

:32:07. > :32:08.to do it. So it is rare. You can relax a bit. Being involved in

:32:09. > :32:11.combined events, relax a bit. Being involved in

:32:12. > :32:17.combined it is tense. You train all year for maybe one or two

:32:18. > :32:21.competitions a year. He has taken to this event greatly. We know he can

:32:22. > :32:24.do in the 400 metres, he is great, and his hurdling is supreme, so

:32:25. > :32:29.together make sense he is doing this event and he has taken some really

:32:30. > :32:32.good scalps. He won't be not training in the other areas, will

:32:33. > :32:38.he? He will still be working his throws, and the technical events.

:32:39. > :32:43.Absolutely, he is still working on the decathlete events, but just

:32:44. > :32:50.enjoying it. He will be free. It is just a challenge. He was the world

:32:51. > :32:54.record holder. He has done it all, outside, indoors, the world

:32:55. > :32:58.record-holder, so he needs to be free, to recharge the batteries, so

:32:59. > :33:04.he can go on and possibly win again in Rio. He will not be competing in

:33:05. > :33:10.the Commonwealth, but he mentioned his wife, Brianne, she very much is.

:33:11. > :33:16.And he mentioned the head-to-head with Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and

:33:17. > :33:19.she clearly sees her as her biggest rival, which is great for the

:33:20. > :33:26.accommodation, to have two people pushing themselves like that.

:33:27. > :33:32.Absolutely, to have those people pushing each other, coming in with a

:33:33. > :33:36.bit of fire. He says how nervous he is watching her going out and

:33:37. > :33:41.competing. Watching your other half going out and race, it is hard to

:33:42. > :33:44.do. You are not in control, you don't know what they are feeling and

:33:45. > :33:48.the emotions they are going through but you want them to perform. Had a

:33:49. > :33:52.husband who shouted very much from the stands, you know exactly what

:33:53. > :33:56.that is like. For Katrina Johnson-Thompson to get the edge,

:33:57. > :34:02.she will need Daley Thompson or someone to shout her. She will have

:34:03. > :34:06.the crowd, but that guy, her husband, Ashton Eaton, is a great

:34:07. > :34:11.motivator to her. He inspires her. He will be the one whispering in her

:34:12. > :34:16.ear, picking her up if things don't go to plan. Don't expect Ashton

:34:17. > :34:19.Eaton to cross the line first because Felix Sanchez is in this one

:34:20. > :34:28.as well. It is a really strong field. COMMENTATOR:

:34:29. > :34:36.Niall Flannery has a big test in lane five. He is not getting much

:34:37. > :34:41.attention, that he is a man who is one of only nine British athletes

:34:42. > :34:45.ranked in the world's top ten in 2014. He is having a fantastic

:34:46. > :34:54.season and he has a chance in this brilliant field here. We have Tom

:34:55. > :34:57.Burton, Roxroy Cato, he was number one of the world at the beginning of

:34:58. > :35:06.the season. Felix Sanchez, Olympic champion, lane three. Javier

:35:07. > :35:12.Culson. Niall Flannery in five, Michael Tinsley, Olympic silver

:35:13. > :35:16.medallist. Ashton Eaton in number seven and Rhys Williams, the

:35:17. > :35:22.European champion from 2012 in lane eight. Running for his spot in the

:35:23. > :35:27.European team as well. A mention of Dai Greene, who ran earlier in the

:35:28. > :35:31.week, the 2011 world champion am plagued by injuries over the last

:35:32. > :35:37.couple of years. It was great to see him back in form. He had a bit of a

:35:38. > :35:39.scrap in Hungary. Just got the win, missed the qualifying times for the

:35:40. > :35:46.Europeans, I am told he is still struggling a bit. He is not here

:35:47. > :35:52.tonight and I suggest that might be it for his chances of being

:35:53. > :35:55.selected. Tom Burton will be going, Roxroy Cato will be coming to the

:35:56. > :36:02.Commonwealth Games for Jamaica. He hasn't raced very much. He had a big

:36:03. > :36:05.personal best in the Jamaican Championships. Watch out for him.

:36:06. > :36:12.Sanchez getting quicker and quicker as the season goes on. Culson will

:36:13. > :36:18.be outside Felix Sanchez. There he is, the tall Puerto Rico. He will

:36:19. > :36:26.start quickly. -- the tall man from Puerto Rico. He ran in Ireland last

:36:27. > :36:30.week, not a great night apparently, weather-wise. Flannery is chuffed to

:36:31. > :36:33.be here. He got his first Diamond League chance in Paris was that he

:36:34. > :36:38.was unbeaten all season in that race. Lane one. Sometimes you have

:36:39. > :36:45.to served your apprenticeship, he has been awarded with lane five

:36:46. > :36:53.here. Michael Tinsley, Olympic and world silver medallist, he won in

:36:54. > :37:00.Paris on Saturday. Let's not forget this is a Diamond League event, some

:37:01. > :37:04.of the events are not. This is the ninth event of the summer. Ashton

:37:05. > :37:09.Eaton concentrating on the 400 metre hurdles throughout this year. A big

:37:10. > :37:13.night for Rhys Williams. He has to do better than he has done in his

:37:14. > :37:18.last couple of races will stop in laws and, he was inside Culson and

:37:19. > :37:21.he was spooked a bid by that -- in-laws and

:37:22. > :37:35.he needs to get it back on track and he will want to cement his place in

:37:36. > :37:48.the European team. Culson sandwiched between Flannery and Tinsley.

:37:49. > :37:51.Watch out for Sanchez in lane three as well. Slowest to settle in his

:37:52. > :38:10.blocks. A good, clean start. Sanchez started

:38:11. > :38:13.fairly quickly but not as quick as Culson, who has already taken a

:38:14. > :38:19.couple of metres outside of Niall Flannery. Flannery just has to stay

:38:20. > :38:22.calm because Culson rages through the first 200 metres. Ashton Eaton

:38:23. > :38:29.going well in lane seven, and Tinsley trying to stay pace with

:38:30. > :38:32.Culson but it is the man from Puerto Rico leading this. Niall Flannery

:38:33. > :38:39.well finished wrong. Culson with a two to three metre lead. Cato going

:38:40. > :38:42.well in lane three. It is the tall man from Puerto Rico, Miles ahead of

:38:43. > :38:47.everyone at the moment, can he hold this together? Staggering off that

:38:48. > :38:52.hurdle. Sanchez finishing quickly in three. Ashton Eaton and Tinsley

:38:53. > :38:59.fighting for second place but Culson gets the win, 48.37. Ashton Eaton, a

:39:00. > :39:03.sensational second, taking some big scalps there, Ashton Eaton. Look how

:39:04. > :39:07.much that means to him. He is getting better and better at this

:39:08. > :39:10.event, Ashton Eaton, and for a decathlete to come and give the 400

:39:11. > :39:15.metre hurdler is something to think about, they are going to be

:39:16. > :39:19.embarrassed. Michael Tinsley never got on terms with Culson. He

:39:20. > :39:28.sometimes falters in the home straight. He has been criticised for

:39:29. > :39:34.that. He only knows one way to run. It always works wonderfully well for

:39:35. > :39:38.him. Culson can be aggressive over the first 200 metres but in

:39:39. > :39:42.Championships sometimes that style, that form, that technique he applies

:39:43. > :39:48.does not really come off for him. Still waiting to win his first major

:39:49. > :39:53.title. He staggered off that hurdle, down to 14 strides, and worked hard

:39:54. > :39:57.into that line. The whole field is gaining on him as he gets towards

:39:58. > :40:02.the finish line, which tells us that he blasted through the first 200 and

:40:03. > :40:07.little bit too quick. I think he can still afford to be a bit more

:40:08. > :40:14.relaxed around the first 200 metres. I am still a bit disappointed we

:40:15. > :40:18.have not seen anyone going full throttle. For someone like Dai

:40:19. > :40:23.Greene, it gives him an opportunity to say if I get anywhere near top

:40:24. > :40:28.form, I won't be far from being a world leader, yet again. A good

:40:29. > :40:34.performance by him because I guess it is all about Victor Riu is. I

:40:35. > :40:38.agree with you that Culson is almost dominating, Tinsley has had a couple

:40:39. > :40:41.of good races, but not tonight, and Ashton Eaton has taken a great

:40:42. > :40:45.couple of scalps there. Sanchez finishing quickly, still improving.

:40:46. > :40:51.Rhys Williams, a little better from him. Niall Flannery was a bit

:40:52. > :40:56.disappointing. Ashton Eaton, well done.

:40:57. > :41:04.I am loving Ashton's reaction, saying it hurts, it hurts a lot. But

:41:05. > :41:09.second place in a stacked field, incredible. I can't even believe

:41:10. > :41:14.that. I knew I had Tinsley on the inside, and I was like, this guy is

:41:15. > :41:18.just going to run up on me and take me out. When he came up on me, I was

:41:19. > :41:26.like, just use him to compete, just compete. That is what I did. Javi

:41:27. > :41:37.Rey is an animal, man! He passed us all with one 50 to go and did not

:41:38. > :41:41.stop. -- with 150. This is an experimental year for you, the words

:41:42. > :41:46.greatest decathlete and you are able to do this. The guys will be

:41:47. > :41:50.rejecting you quickly if you carry on like this. I told the guys, it

:41:51. > :41:54.has been fun, thank you for treating me like an athlete, not a

:41:55. > :41:58.decathlete, because I have a lot of respect. I respect them a lot. It is

:41:59. > :42:04.an honour to compete against them. My very last one, I wanted to go out

:42:05. > :42:08.well, I think I did. You did brilliantly. It is a great crowd, I

:42:09. > :42:15.am very happy for my wife to compete here for the Commonwealth. I think

:42:16. > :42:17.he was wishing he was in a Commonwealth nation. He is enjoying

:42:18. > :42:23.the experience of this beautiful Glasgow Sunshine, on what is now

:42:24. > :42:31.looking quite a quick Hampden Park track. I am staggered by the time,

:42:32. > :42:36.and as you saw he was blown away by it. It is just how he attacked the

:42:37. > :42:39.race. There is just something about going into a race where you just

:42:40. > :42:47.want to do your best, and he was fearless. He is a fierce competitor,

:42:48. > :42:51.and you saw it. Is it the injury and is paying off there? Remember, he

:42:52. > :43:09.runs 1500 metres at the end of two very gruelling days, -- is it the

:43:10. > :43:12.endurance paying off. He is a very popular athlete because what he has

:43:13. > :43:15.done in the decathlon. I think he has won a lot of friends around here

:43:16. > :43:20.this evening. He knows he is not going to get a medal this evening,

:43:21. > :43:24.doesn't he? But the thing is, when you have won everything there is to

:43:25. > :43:28.win in your events, to still come out and surprise yourself in an

:43:29. > :43:32.event that is not even yours, it is great. Just nice to see that joy and

:43:33. > :43:36.happiness, and unexpected performance. He has come in with the

:43:37. > :43:41.pressure off, the only drawback is it is not a track he can come back

:43:42. > :43:46.to year after year. Unless you can get himself involved in a

:43:47. > :43:51.Commonwealth nation and quick. Let's see if that happiness has put itself

:43:52. > :43:55.to the men's shot put, edition. His American team-mate, Joe Kovacs, has

:43:56. > :44:04.suddenly found himself in great form. -- shot put competition.

:44:05. > :44:14.COMMENTATOR: The man who finished in third place was New Zealand's Tom

:44:15. > :44:18.Walsh. He surprised everyone by taking a world indoor bronze. He

:44:19. > :44:23.came here in his first round and set a Scottish all colours record,

:44:24. > :44:29.21.23, that was good enough for third place from New Zealand's Tom

:44:30. > :44:35.Walsh. A new personal best, as well. Improved from 21.16. The second

:44:36. > :44:41.placed finisher was David Storl, the two-time raining world champion, the

:44:42. > :44:49.youngest ever man to take that title when he won it in 2011. Silver

:44:50. > :44:52.medallist in the 2012 Olympics. He won in Paris in the Diamond League,

:44:53. > :44:59.he will have to settle for second here, after his best effort came in

:45:00. > :45:03.round five. 21.38, the best effort for the two-time defending world

:45:04. > :45:12.champion. But they all had to settle behind the monstrous record of 21.67

:45:13. > :45:16.from Reese Hoffa. That came in round three. He was in second place in the

:45:17. > :45:27.Diamond Race coming into this event, with seven points. He unleashed the

:45:28. > :45:32.shot in ideal conditions, to 21.67, in the third round. That was the

:45:33. > :45:38.allcomers record. It is a seasoned's best and the big man

:45:39. > :45:42.liked it. When he wins global titles, you celebrate with

:45:43. > :45:52.cartwheels. He nailed this one. It was good enough for him to take

:45:53. > :45:57.first place. Four of the world's top five and six of the world's top ten,

:45:58. > :45:58.so a real high quality event. Reese Hoffa coming away with maximum

:45:59. > :46:10.points. Joe Kovacs, the world leader, could

:46:11. > :46:26.only finish fourth, but a national record for Tom Walsh in third.

:46:27. > :46:34.GABBY LOGAN: Eilidh Child, one of the faces of the Glasgow

:46:35. > :46:39.Commonwealth Games but you sense the pride of her leading her country

:46:40. > :46:48.into the home games. It is a strong field. Will we hear the Hampden

:46:49. > :46:51.roar? ANDREW COTTER: We are short of 167,000 for England against Scotland

:46:52. > :47:02.in the 19th century but the crowd are still making a noise.

:47:03. > :47:07.Both Cassandra Tate and Tiffany Williams have gone faster than

:47:08. > :47:12.Eilidh Child. Various Christine Spence, another American in lane

:47:13. > :47:18.eight. Vera Barbosa in lane one, Shevon Stoddart in lane two, then

:47:19. > :47:23.Tate, quickest in the field this year. Eilidh Child goes in for,

:47:24. > :47:26.Tiffany Williams in five, and the other three to look out for,

:47:27. > :47:29.Nickiesha Wilson, a very strong Jamaican in six, Lauren Wells of

:47:30. > :47:33.Australia in seven, and Christine Spence in eight, for the women's 400

:47:34. > :47:54.metres hurdles. And away they go. Once again, the

:47:55. > :48:01.noise grows, and mostly for Eilidh Child, in lane four. But again, she

:48:02. > :48:05.has a strong athletes inside an outsider. Cassandra Tate and Tiffany

:48:06. > :48:10.Williams, the two Americans. The crowd are willing on Eilidh Child.

:48:11. > :48:14.This is a very good test for Commonwealth preparation. She is the

:48:15. > :48:17.leading European this year and she is looking strong, Eilidh Child, at

:48:18. > :48:21.the moment, trying to get up alongside Tiffany Williams. But it

:48:22. > :48:28.is a good run also from Cassandra Tate. Tate and Child, and Williams,

:48:29. > :48:31.the three who lead into the home straight but Eilidh Child bringing

:48:32. > :48:34.them all home at the moment. As she hits the home straight, the noise

:48:35. > :48:39.will swell again inside Hampden Park. Eilidh Child is bringing them

:48:40. > :48:44.home, into the sunshine, towards the final barrier and towards the line.

:48:45. > :48:50.This is a very impressive victory. How is her time? 54.39. A big

:48:51. > :48:56.season's best, for Eilidh Child. That is the inspiration of the home

:48:57. > :49:01.crowd and the home stadium. Tate and Williams could not get near Eilidh

:49:02. > :49:07.Child in that one. That lays down a marker for the Commonwealth games.

:49:08. > :49:11.Perhaps stronger Jamaicans will come in. But Eilidh Child with a big

:49:12. > :49:21.season's best and a big victory, for the Scot. Denise was watching this

:49:22. > :49:25.as well. A dominant performance? It was a great race from Eilidh Child.

:49:26. > :49:29.You saw her round the last time at the UK trials, where she was still

:49:30. > :49:31.feeling her way with her technique. But tonight, it seems to be all in

:49:32. > :49:33.place. feeling her way with her technique.

:49:34. > :49:37.But tonight, it seems Good, strong hurdling, a great finish, down the

:49:38. > :49:42.home straight, and really, in bedding her technique, here. What a

:49:43. > :49:48.victory. -- embedding her technique. She left everyone behind. A great

:49:49. > :49:55.race and a new season's best coming just the right time in the season.

:49:56. > :49:59.We spoke about the that yes, Carter and Spencer are not here, but

:50:00. > :50:02.Cassandra Tate and Tiffany Williams are strong Americans and figured

:50:03. > :50:06.prominently in the US championships and there is the gap between Eilidh

:50:07. > :50:10.Child and the rest. She was not weakening or tiring towards the end.

:50:11. > :50:14.A very quick time. The palm of her face as she crossed the line

:50:15. > :50:18.suggested she knew it was good. She has been working very hard in the

:50:19. > :50:22.last week or so on her trading. There is still a bit more to give.

:50:23. > :50:26.She knows she is in with a shot of being on the podium in front of her

:50:27. > :50:35.home nation, and her technique looks great. Let's hear what she's got to

:50:36. > :50:39.say. Yes, that pump of the best that Denise was talking about, clearly,

:50:40. > :50:42.what this means to you in front of your home crowd, and just before the

:50:43. > :50:47.Commonwealth Games, a season's best, perfect timing.

:50:48. > :50:53.That was my best race this season. To have a grudge in, and it is only

:50:54. > :50:58.novel, such an amazing atmosphere and it got me fired up for Glasgow.

:50:59. > :51:01.I'm sure you wanted a feel of the track, and to get a taste of what

:51:02. > :51:05.the crowd will be like when they are cheering you on. There will be

:51:06. > :51:11.44,000 that the Commonwealth Games. That will be so inspiring for you.

:51:12. > :51:14.Yes, it was loud enough today but it will be incredible in the games. I

:51:15. > :51:18.wanted to get the experience, get a feel for the track. Now I have had

:51:19. > :51:22.the experience, I can't wait for them to start. The key was executing

:51:23. > :51:25.the way you wanted to, the last couple of times we spoke, you knew

:51:26. > :51:30.there was more to come in terms of getting the race right. I have been

:51:31. > :51:37.working on my stride pattern and I was happy with that race. I do not

:51:38. > :51:39.think I took a hurdle wrongly. Like you say, it is coming together at

:51:40. > :51:41.the right time. You are the Postiga for the Commonwealth Games and

:51:42. > :51:50.living up to expectations already. Fantastic to see. Well done.

:51:51. > :51:55.That was an impressive win added European terms, she is a long way

:51:56. > :51:58.clear of the best of the rest at the moment. It will be interesting to

:51:59. > :52:04.see the Commonwealth Games assault. A handsome win for Eilidh Child.

:52:05. > :52:10.GABBY LOGAN: WHAT A TIME TO RUN A SEASON'S BEST. THAT MAGIC 54

:52:11. > :52:16.she is the Postiga for Scotland, and she responded to the home crowd, a

:52:17. > :52:20.second quicker than the rest of the field. -- poster girl for Scotland.

:52:21. > :52:24.It is great to see her coming, perform well on this track because

:52:25. > :52:28.it will do her confidence a lot of good going into the Commonwealth

:52:29. > :52:31.Games. Being the poster girl and having the pressure on you can work

:52:32. > :52:35.either way. It can raise your performance or it can be too much

:52:36. > :52:40.weight on your shoulders. I think it is raising her performance. It is 20

:52:41. > :52:44.years since Yvonne Murray won gold on the track for Scotland. That was

:52:45. > :52:47.a slightly quicker event for her to do it in, hopefully, in Glasgow in a

:52:48. > :52:51.couple of weeks budget is looking good for it. If the home crowd can

:52:52. > :52:58.even give you a hundredth of a second advantage, I think she will

:52:59. > :53:01.get it. Absolutely and she has the right attitude. She has been working

:53:02. > :53:04.hard. Malcolm Arnold has guided her in the last few seasons, making her

:53:05. > :53:08.the all-round competitor she needs to be, to compete with the likes of

:53:09. > :53:13.Killie 's Spencer. Mentally, she is strong and her technique was good to

:53:14. > :53:18.night. The crowd behind her. And this is only a fraction of what you

:53:19. > :53:22.will experience in 12 days time. The time tells us the kind of form she

:53:23. > :53:29.is in but that does not matter, when it comes to the event, it could be

:53:30. > :53:32.lashing down grey skies but it is all about coming through with the

:53:33. > :53:37.goods. The sign at her and she is shaping up genie to do, the business

:53:38. > :53:41.end of the season. Very exciting times for Eilidh Child. The men's

:53:42. > :53:45.200 metres is coming up in a few moments. Colin Jackson is on the

:53:46. > :53:50.start line. RU thinking getting your spikes on? Not this time. But being

:53:51. > :53:54.down here and watching how the track is built, I find myself stamping it

:53:55. > :53:58.to see how it feels. It does not feel like an indoor track, which I

:53:59. > :54:04.imagine that first. But now it is time that the 200 metres. I am just

:54:05. > :54:07.looking at the talent on the track. Firstly, I looked around the turn to

:54:08. > :54:12.see if it is a bit tight but is a nice, wide bend which allows the

:54:13. > :54:16.athletes to run freely around the turn. In a nutshell, it means they

:54:17. > :54:21.command much faster, using less energy. But in the actual race, look

:54:22. > :54:28.at the guys lining up, we have got some super talent, Warren Weir of

:54:29. > :54:32.Jamaica is the world leader. He is in lane six. Of course, we have the

:54:33. > :54:43.GB champion, getting himself ready, Danny Talbot. And outside him,

:54:44. > :54:49.Wallace Spearmon, right on the outside, with his glasses, just

:54:50. > :54:52.getting himself ready. He has gone under 20 seconds as well. But all

:54:53. > :54:57.eyes will be on Warren Weir, in the bright, bright top. You will see him

:54:58. > :55:07.now and you will certainly see him later. But quickly, just inside him,

:55:08. > :55:12.Alonso Edward, from Panama. In 2009, he went under 20 seconds. That was

:55:13. > :55:19.the last time he has done that, until this year. Now he has gone

:55:20. > :55:24.very close, with 19.84. Plenty of people to see. I am looking forward

:55:25. > :55:28.to this. If the boys really switch, they can go very swiftly. Conditions

:55:29. > :55:35.are good. If I was going to make addiction, it has to be Warren Weir

:55:36. > :55:40.of Jamaica, the number one. Alonso Edward is an interesting story, of

:55:41. > :55:45.Panama. As Colin said, it has taken him five years to run under 20

:55:46. > :55:49.seconds again. He had a torrid time with injury and bad performances in

:55:50. > :55:53.major championships. But he is coming good. It is interesting, the

:55:54. > :55:57.life of an athlete. People appreciate how your whole seasons

:55:58. > :56:03.ago, Eilidh Child, Perri shakes trade and had to write off a year

:56:04. > :56:08.after she was pushing her England's team-mate. These 200 metre runners,

:56:09. > :56:11.time is precious because you are a sprinter and you don't have that

:56:12. > :56:17.many years to complete. For any athlete, time is precious and it is

:56:18. > :56:21.hard to miss out on any time racing because of illness or injury. You

:56:22. > :56:24.have to keep your focus and knuckle down to the crosstraining and the

:56:25. > :56:28.rehab, and just believe that you are going to be able to get back. When

:56:29. > :56:31.you start a comeback, it is rewarding. Lets see if Alonso Edward

:56:32. > :57:02.can do it. Steve Cram is watching. STEVE CRAM: Danny Talbot, looking

:57:03. > :57:06.pretty relaxed this afternoon, heading down here, and with a great

:57:07. > :57:10.opportunity with some big names inside him. It is good that Wallace

:57:11. > :57:14.Spearmon is outside, though, he is still running well and he will give

:57:15. > :57:18.him something to a mat at the top bend. All the big action is inside.

:57:19. > :57:23.Wallace Spearmon, 29 now, it seems as though he has been around an

:57:24. > :57:36.awfully long time, picking up medals in various World Championships. He

:57:37. > :57:38.always gives his best. Second in the American championships just

:57:39. > :57:40.recently, returning to some good form and getting close to going 20

:57:41. > :57:43.seconds again. Wouldn't Danny Talbot like to do that? Adam Gemili ran

:57:44. > :57:46.20.02 -- 20.2 this week. He knocked Tolbert off the top of the British

:57:47. > :57:50.rankings but Warren Weir is top of the world rankings. The world silver

:57:51. > :57:57.medallist. Will you win gold at the Commonwealth Games? This is Jonathan

:57:58. > :58:01.Borlee. His brother, Kevin, will run in the 400 metres tomorrow. The two

:58:02. > :58:06.of them usually clash swords in the 400. Jonathan, looking for a bit of

:58:07. > :58:14.speed. James Ellington in lane three, for Great Britain. The man we

:58:15. > :58:19.have not seen, Alonso Edward, will, I am sure, be delighted to be

:58:20. > :58:24.running inside Warren Weir. In the race in Lausanne, when he ran 19.84,

:58:25. > :58:28.it was a brilliant bend. All eyes on Yohan Blake that night, and he ran a

:58:29. > :58:29.poor race but Edward, in lane five, with Warren Weir outside him in lane

:58:30. > :58:39.six. Warren Weir gets a good start.

:58:40. > :58:43.Edward has taken a metre out of him ready. He might have the advantage.

:58:44. > :58:47.Danny Talbot has run a cracking bend. Right up with Warren Weir and

:58:48. > :58:51.Edward. Edward is going ahead. These two will scrap it out down the home

:58:52. > :58:56.straight. Alonso Edward is starting to come away. Wallace Spearmon

:58:57. > :58:59.finishing quickly but Edward eases up in 20.25. He almost gave it away

:59:00. > :59:06.in the end, into a slight headwind. Well, well, Warren Weir, not getting

:59:07. > :59:10.it his way to night. This young man, we talked about his talent, you move

:59:11. > :59:14.to America in 2008 and from that point on, he was the youngest ever

:59:15. > :59:17.medallist at the World Championships in the 200 metres. It looks as

:59:18. > :59:22.though he would have a stellar career. But as we have said, injury

:59:23. > :59:25.after injury has held him back but now in 2014, years running very

:59:26. > :59:31.well, and now he is winning the big races as well. -- he is running very

:59:32. > :59:37.well. Warren Weir had a pretty good bend, for me. But Edward, like in

:59:38. > :59:41.Lausanne, look at his start, they both get a pretty good start and so

:59:42. > :59:47.did Danny Talbot, he has to be pleased with his bend. He ran 20.44,

:59:48. > :59:50.in the end. But it is the transition of the bend into the home straight,

:59:51. > :59:54.they move ahead of the field, those two. Everyone is in line behind them

:59:55. > :59:59.as they scrap it out. Warren Weir gets a bit ragged, he is normally a

:00:00. > :00:04.nice looking runner but Edward is back. He almost loses it in the end.

:00:05. > :00:08.Curtis Mitchell finished well to end in third, just ahead of Wallace

:00:09. > :00:12.Spearmon. Danny Talbot behind them, but running pretty well, right in

:00:13. > :00:14.the mix with the world's top 200 metre runners. Let's find out what

:00:15. > :00:27.he thought about the race. world-class field? It was amazing,

:00:28. > :00:31.one of the best fields I have been in. You want to win every race but I

:00:32. > :00:35.was up there for a lot of the way so I am pleased. You have a crucial

:00:36. > :00:41.taste of what it will be like in the Commonwealth Games. First up, the

:00:42. > :00:46.Commonwealth Games, what I thought on that after this experience? It is

:00:47. > :00:50.going to be amazing. There will be guys in that race, James Ellington,

:00:51. > :00:57.who I will have to race against again in a few weeks. I have a bit

:00:58. > :01:01.annoyed with myself, I did not race as hard as I could. But it is good

:01:02. > :01:04.practice for a couple of weeks. Hopefully I can get in the right

:01:05. > :01:08.mindset and believe I can beat these guys were stopped we certainly hope

:01:09. > :01:18.so, for your sake. All the very best.

:01:19. > :01:29.Alonso Edward, in the end a comfortable winner of the men's 200

:01:30. > :01:33.metres. What a cracking jump by Katarina Johnson-Thompson! Blake is

:01:34. > :01:38.storming through to win this, he is going to take it! Richard Kilty

:01:39. > :01:42.might just about get there, could he win it? James Dasaolu, look at him

:01:43. > :01:54.go, magnificent! GABBY LOGAN: There she is, Katarina

:01:55. > :01:57.Johnson-Thompson. You really feel this athlete has got the world at

:01:58. > :02:01.her feet this summer. She will be jumping in the European

:02:02. > :02:04.Championships, she has confirmed, competing over the heptathlon at the

:02:05. > :02:08.Commonwealth Games. She could equally add the high jump, if she

:02:09. > :02:12.wanted to, to her repertoire at the European Championships. Tonight,

:02:13. > :02:20.though, it is the long jump. All eyes will be on K Jaidee.

:02:21. > :02:31.I am better in the long jump than I am in the hide jump. She is a fine

:02:32. > :02:40.long jumper. That is excellent! Katrina Johnson-Thompson, absolutely

:02:41. > :02:46.superb. What a cracking jump by Katrina Johnson-Thompson. Six .81, a

:02:47. > :02:59.lifetime best. KJT is in the long jump this

:03:00. > :03:05.evening, but the jumps seem to be having this season, she is going

:03:06. > :03:08.well, she was first against Brianne Theisen Eaton, we mentioned earlier

:03:09. > :03:09.on, it just seems to be falling into place at the

:03:10. > :03:13.on, it just seems to be falling into place at right time for her. She has

:03:14. > :03:16.worked hard for it. Jumps have a whisper in her strong this point but

:03:17. > :03:21.what she is adding to it is the confidence, taking a lot from that

:03:22. > :03:25.experience at the Olympic Games. Winning earlier on in the year,

:03:26. > :03:31.which is a test bed for the best heptathlete. It is the kind of unset

:03:32. > :03:40.World Championships, the unofficial World Championships. It is. She is

:03:41. > :03:44.just in great form this year, so adding all those things together, it

:03:45. > :03:52.makes her a really difficult person to beat. You talk about the battle

:03:53. > :03:58.between her and Brianne Theisen Eaton. They battled it out earlier

:03:59. > :04:01.in the year but my money is on this girl, because she is so strong. And

:04:02. > :04:06.she is turning into a great competitor as well. It is so crucial

:04:07. > :04:10.that you keep that mental frame, and it is positive and you keep going,

:04:11. > :04:13.and she is learning how to do that all the time. We will be seeing her

:04:14. > :04:19.a little bit later on, of course, in that long jump competition. But

:04:20. > :04:24.coming up next, Paula is licking her lips, because it is the women's 1500

:04:25. > :04:30.metres. Laura Weightman is in the top eight in the world this year, a

:04:31. > :04:34.wonderful run in Paris last week, and the British Championships as

:04:35. > :04:40.well. What can she hope to get out of tonight? I think tonight it is

:04:41. > :04:43.running confidently, getting to know this track. The opportunity to do

:04:44. > :04:48.that before the Commonwealth Games. I think it is consolidating her

:04:49. > :04:53.position in her mind that she now belongs rank there in the top ten in

:04:54. > :04:58.the world. She has gone fifth and sixth with Laura Muir in the auto

:04:59. > :05:01.list so she needs to prove that and consolidated tonight. A lot of

:05:02. > :05:13.European strength in there, albeit a lot of athletes who have moved. They

:05:14. > :05:20.are important for her to absolutely. She will be looking to measure

:05:21. > :05:43.herself against and Meraf Bahta as well. It is a good

:05:44. > :06:06.STEVE CRAM: We have the world indoor silver medallist,.

:06:07. > :06:13.The women's 1500 meter running at the moment is so tough. Seven have

:06:14. > :06:20.broken four minutes, five of them under 3.59. That hasn't happened

:06:21. > :06:28.since 1998, and this lady is leading them all, Sifan Hassan, formerly

:06:29. > :06:38.from Ethiopian. She has lived in Holland. Hellen Obiri, a bronze

:06:39. > :06:40.medallist at this distance in Moscow last year, she will be a contender

:06:41. > :06:56.at the Commonwealth Games. BRENDAN FOSTER: It has been one of

:06:57. > :06:59.the highlights of the Diamond League season. Looking forward to a good

:07:00. > :07:08.race tonight. They have asked for a good pace. Molly Beckwith is a good

:07:09. > :07:12.800 metre runner, she we'll be able to do that. Do they always want to

:07:13. > :07:18.run hard? Some of these women will have already had a hard race this

:07:19. > :07:22.year. They have been some great 1500 metre races this year. Sometimes the

:07:23. > :07:25.pacemakers run away from the field and it is up to the leading

:07:26. > :07:29.protagonist to decide whether to follow that pace. I am sitting next

:07:30. > :07:34.to Steve Cram here, who has done a fabulous job with Laura Weightman,

:07:35. > :07:38.bringing her through to the top ten in the world. Steve does not get

:07:39. > :07:41.nervous in the commentary box, but he gets nervous when he is

:07:42. > :07:45.commentating and watching Laura Weightman, because it is a hard job

:07:46. > :07:50.being the coach and the commentator. I am sure Steve will handle this

:07:51. > :07:53.pretty well. I will do my best. Laura Weightman, like a lot of

:07:54. > :07:58.British athletes when they are into world contention, Paula nailed it on

:07:59. > :08:05.the head absolutely, you want to start thinking of yourself as as

:08:06. > :08:11.good as the very good athletes. Sifan Hassan, who is just moving

:08:12. > :08:15.through. In every race, as quick as she is, Sifan Hassan, she start at

:08:16. > :08:18.the back, she gradually moves through. She is in the middle of the

:08:19. > :08:22.pack at the minute, not in the picture here. Just gradually moving

:08:23. > :08:25.through the field. It is always interesting for me to watch how

:08:26. > :08:28.other athletes tackle things. She doesn't mind, she doesn't want to

:08:29. > :08:32.push things, and that tells me that when this pacemaker drops out, I am

:08:33. > :08:36.just waiting to see whether anyone will wind it up. Jenny Simpson did

:08:37. > :08:48.in Paris the other night I wonder if anyone else will here. Some athletes

:08:49. > :08:56.run like Hassan. They get rid of the nerves, then they begin to gather

:08:57. > :09:03.momentum. That is the technique. She came in over to Europe, to Holland,

:09:04. > :09:06.and then I think for 1500 metre runners, when they have a good

:09:07. > :09:11.background of cross-country, they can last a lot of races, they can

:09:12. > :09:16.run a lot of good times and continually get better. The first

:09:17. > :09:22.lap was 63 seconds, the second lap just over 64. That is a good solid

:09:23. > :09:26.time. This race is running towards the four-minute barrier and that is

:09:27. > :09:31.a big barrier, the women's 1500 metres. Laura Weightman working her

:09:32. > :09:36.way in a nice position, in the pink vest on the outside, moving nicely

:09:37. > :09:39.alongside the outside, the main athletes. Cross-country champions,

:09:40. > :09:44.indoor champions, and Laura is putting herself in contention there.

:09:45. > :09:47.The three big names are ahead of her, interestingly it is the

:09:48. > :09:58.Norwegian who is really leading the pack at the minute. Makestad Bovim.

:09:59. > :10:00.Aregawi did not run that well in Paris, but Laura Weightman wants to

:10:01. > :10:08.make sure she does not get boxed here, as they wait for the bell.

:10:09. > :10:13.Hassan, kicking from the front. As she has done before. She knows the

:10:14. > :10:18.strength she has got, the rest of them need to respond. The

:10:19. > :10:21.interesting athlete for me is Hellen Obiri. She is probably the favourite

:10:22. > :10:26.for the Commonwealth Games, which are coming up fairly soon, that is

:10:27. > :10:31.3.164 1200 metres. Now they are beginning to motor. Laura Weightman

:10:32. > :10:35.needs to put herself in a bit of a better position. These are class

:10:36. > :10:38.athletes ahead of her. She has broken through this season but now

:10:39. > :10:42.the race is really on. Hassan clicking through from the front.

:10:43. > :10:47.Laura Weightman will have to be strong in the home straight. Hellen

:10:48. > :10:51.Obiri looking a bit ragged. Makestad Bovim having a great race and stop

:10:52. > :10:56.Hassan has not got rid of Aregawi. They are great rivals. Aregawi is

:10:57. > :11:00.having to work hard to get back on Hassan, and Hassan is trying to get

:11:01. > :11:08.there, but Hassan will pull away and win this. She wins it from Aregawi,

:11:09. > :11:13.Laura Weightman coming in fourth place, her best finish in a diamond

:11:14. > :11:16.race event. That is what these women are capable of. She runs the

:11:17. > :11:21.Netherlands now, Hassan, she will be the main favourite for the European

:11:22. > :11:25.title, with Aregawi, those two. Hellen Obiri I think had a

:11:26. > :11:28.disappointing run tonight. This lady, for me, she is getting better

:11:29. > :11:33.and better and better. She made four minutes, a slower third lap, still

:11:34. > :11:38.looked fairly comfortable. Aregawi has not got an arts for her at the

:11:39. > :11:44.moment. She certainly hasn't. The twice world champion beaten. That

:11:45. > :11:48.was an impressive performance, her second impressive performance in as

:11:49. > :11:52.many weeks. Look back there into sixth place, Laura Weightman in the

:11:53. > :11:54.dark shorts and pink top. She is in sixth place coming into the

:11:55. > :11:59.finishing straight. The favourite for the Commonwealth Games, Obiri,

:12:00. > :12:06.under pressure now. Laura Weightman passing Obiri, working on through.

:12:07. > :12:10.Hassan and Aregawi at the front, two class athletes, Saab four-minute

:12:11. > :12:19.athletes, -- below four-minute athletes. Impressive in every sense.

:12:20. > :12:21.A good victory over Aregawi, Hassan representing the Netherlands, as

:12:22. > :12:26.Steve said she will be favourite for the European Championships. But, to

:12:27. > :12:30.be honest, if I am Laura Weightman, Steve, you have got to be happy with

:12:31. > :12:35.that one. The big favourite for the Commonwealth Games, Obiri, behind

:12:36. > :12:39.her. Now she can go away quietly and prepare to come back to this city.

:12:40. > :12:43.She has tasted the track, she has tasted the atmosphere, she will be

:12:44. > :12:46.formidable in a few weeks time. She is getting better and better, she's

:12:47. > :12:49.an athlete who has improved in the last couple of years, and really,

:12:50. > :12:56.when you smell medals, which I am sure she can, this is a great year

:12:57. > :12:59.for her. Sifan Hassan winning it from Aregawi. Laura Weightman, I

:13:00. > :13:03.have a feeling that she might not be as happy as you and I are, but it

:13:04. > :13:09.was a pretty good performance. Laura is with Phil.

:13:10. > :13:18.Fourth-place in a dramatic field like that, put it into context what

:13:19. > :13:23.this means? I am pleased to come forth. I don't think I ran

:13:24. > :13:28.particularly well today, the way I ran the race. I was chopping and

:13:29. > :13:33.changing my position, but I am pleased to finish fourth. I had a

:13:34. > :13:36.strong last lap to get back to the girls that maybe got me on that

:13:37. > :13:41.third lap that I should not have let pass me. Really exciting times you,

:13:42. > :13:45.you ran a personal best recently, you are in tremendous form. Brendan

:13:46. > :13:49.was saying the keys for tonight is getting a feel for this place before

:13:50. > :13:53.the Commonwealth Games and you have done that. It is fantastic to do

:13:54. > :13:57.that and get the experience on the track. It is fantastic here in the

:13:58. > :14:01.stadium. A great track and a good atmosphere. That will be really

:14:02. > :14:26.useful when I come back in a few weeks time for the Commonwealths.

:14:27. > :14:36.That looks to be in a similar type of compass, the woman who is ninth

:14:37. > :14:40.in the world list, 6.82. The early stages of this women's long jump

:14:41. > :14:46.competition, we are still in the first round. Given we saw an F 44

:14:47. > :14:49.long jump record from Stef Reid earlier this evening, if you are

:14:50. > :14:52.just joining us, you do not see that, I am quite excited about the

:14:53. > :15:15.prospect of this long jump competition. We have Katarina

:15:16. > :15:19.Johnson-Thompson, in such terrific form, six metres 81 at the National

:15:20. > :15:21.Championships, when she took the title, matching her indoor best from

:15:22. > :15:35.earlier this year. That is not going to be as far. But

:15:36. > :15:41.it opens her account with a solid job on the board. Just a bit

:15:42. > :15:45.tentative. One of the things Stef Reid said was that it is a very fast

:15:46. > :15:48.tracked and she had difficulty finding her run-up. Sometimes for

:15:49. > :15:52.the athletes, the early rounds are just about seeing where your run-up

:15:53. > :15:56.comes out and having confidence. She is short on the board. It is having

:15:57. > :16:01.confidence to attack the board. Shara Proctor's first round was

:16:02. > :16:07.6.55. That will be an interesting head-to-head between the two British

:16:08. > :16:08.athletes, and Tianna Bartoletta, the world number one just ran through

:16:09. > :16:19.but she will have further to go. She will be a bit disappointed, the

:16:20. > :16:25.body language to that and you did that with your hand as he had the

:16:26. > :16:28.pit. What was going on. She has given away 20 centimetres on that

:16:29. > :16:35.distance. She looked straight across to the distance. She did not go

:16:36. > :16:40.through. She got through the motions and Aladdin which was a bit sloppy.

:16:41. > :16:43.But for her, it is just a big competition, the head-to-head

:16:44. > :16:48.between her and Shara Proctor and the other girls, it is a good

:16:49. > :16:51.grounding. For Laura Weightman, it was interesting what she said about

:16:52. > :16:56.the race management. She was disappointed with the way she

:16:57. > :16:59.handled the race. All the experience will stand her in good stead but it

:17:00. > :17:04.is something you have to get streetwise about in those moments.

:17:05. > :17:07.Yes, you have to raise well. She will be most happy about the fact

:17:08. > :17:11.she beat Obiri, and Sifuentes, and many people she will be up against

:17:12. > :17:16.in the Commonwealth Games. The Europeans are looking good too. So

:17:17. > :17:19.you think she was a bit harsh on herself, good. Let's get to the

:17:20. > :17:25.men's 100 metre B race. ANDREW COTTER: It maybe a B race but

:17:26. > :17:48.it is still a good quality race. Varies Mark Lewis-Francis. It was

:17:49. > :17:53.not that long ago, well it seems like it, that we were talking about

:17:54. > :17:59.him as one of the golden youth. He ran 10.04 in Paris, in 2002, as a

:18:00. > :18:01.19-year-old. Everyone thought that he was surely going to break the ten

:18:02. > :18:39.second barrier but it was not to be. the US Championships. He was a long

:18:40. > :18:41.way behind Mike Roger in that. It was a rather understrength American

:18:42. > :18:46.Championships field but he might be one to watch, in lane three. The

:18:47. > :18:53.men's 100 metres B race at Hampden Park.

:18:54. > :19:03.Well, we shall see. A nervous time, walking back to the blocks. There is

:19:04. > :19:08.always someone who knows it might be them. We will have another look.

:19:09. > :19:15.Colin Jackson will cast his expert eye. But one. And you are gone, now.

:19:16. > :19:20.It might have been a 40 start. We are looking for the reaction times.

:19:21. > :19:24.I thought you were a bit cruel to say I could cast my eyes on it but

:19:25. > :19:33.lane to seemed to move quickly, Tobias. Kieran Daly has been given a

:19:34. > :19:41.reaction time under 0.1 which does not augur well for him. Let's see if

:19:42. > :19:44.they decide if it is a faulty start, or he absolutely move before the

:19:45. > :19:49.gun. But they have to make the decision, and the starter, it is

:19:50. > :19:54.always down to him. He makes the decision if you go or not. To the

:19:55. > :20:02.naked eye, years first rise, lane eight, and it is below 0.1 seconds

:20:03. > :20:05.which is a guide. Lane eight and disqualified, it says on the PA

:20:06. > :20:14.system. That does not sound too good. Kieran Daly knows that his

:20:15. > :20:17.race is run before it has been run. It is very sad because as I

:20:18. > :20:21.mentioned, he has been running very well, making huge improvements, 0.4

:20:22. > :20:28.seconds off his personal best. His punishment is to go and stand beside

:20:29. > :20:32.the mascot, who just The Dons is, showing no sign of concern -- who

:20:33. > :20:59.just dances. The men's 100 metre B race. For our

:21:00. > :21:03.Andrew's microphone has temporarily gone, I will pick up, on that. The

:21:04. > :21:15.Kieran Daly, a real shame. I am back in the room. The mascot

:21:16. > :21:20.pulled the plug on me. A green card is shown to the field for a

:21:21. > :21:24.technical full. We're having a technical full upstairs as well but

:21:25. > :21:29.we are all good, excited and ready to go. It is the Diamond League.

:21:30. > :21:33.Let's get excited. I wanted to see how Kieran Daly would go and it is a

:21:34. > :21:41.real shame. We have talented British young

:21:42. > :21:46.-- talented British youngsters but they are up against some very good

:21:47. > :21:50.Jamaicans. And also, a guide, I suppose, as do how quick the track

:21:51. > :21:54.is running, when you see it in the purist form in the 100 metres.

:21:55. > :22:05.Bailey-Cole with 10.06, so far this season. Away cleanly this time and

:22:06. > :22:08.again, Kemar Bailey-Cole starts to use his power, rising, the tall

:22:09. > :22:12.figure in a middle, coming away with this one, the Jamaican. A good run

:22:13. > :22:16.from Safo-Antwi but Bailey-Cole was a long way clear. He was the class

:22:17. > :22:20.in the field, might have felt aggrieved that he was not in the

:22:21. > :22:25.main race but he wins the B race, 10.04 with a bit of a helping win.

:22:26. > :22:27.It is his season's best and it is legal.

:22:28. > :22:27.10.04 with a bit of a helping win. It is his season's best and it --

:22:28. > :22:29.helping winter. It is his season's best and it --

:22:30. > :22:33.helping That is all that can be asked of him, to improve his best

:22:34. > :22:37.and win the race, which he did buy a distance. Bailey-Cole looking very

:22:38. > :22:42.strong. He looked very decent, and the time has been rounded down to

:22:43. > :22:46.10.03. A handsome win. All the sprinters would love those kind of

:22:47. > :22:50.conditions with the tailwind, because it is still very mild in

:22:51. > :22:55.Glasgow. People say that is rare but I know you will not agree. This is

:22:56. > :22:58.the hottest day ever in Scottish history. Kemar Bailey-Cole is a tall

:22:59. > :23:03.man and a powerful figure so takes some time to get going but once he

:23:04. > :23:06.does, it is impressive. He is rangy. Once you have someone like Usain

:23:07. > :23:10.Bolt, who is a trailblazer in sprinting, in the sense you can be

:23:11. > :23:14.six foot five and still move very quickly, Bailey-Cole is

:23:15. > :23:18.demonstrating that yet again. He gets into the beautiful, fluid,

:23:19. > :23:24.running action that he has. No tension at all. He seems like he is

:23:25. > :23:29.full of running. Beautiful, smooth, elegant and rewarded with 10.03.

:23:30. > :23:33.Varies always someone in the B race who feels they should be in the main

:23:34. > :23:37.event. He was looking across for his time, knowing the races run, trying

:23:38. > :23:42.to sneak below ten seconds but still, a big win for Kemar

:23:43. > :23:46.Bailey-Cole. The long jump competition is in the

:23:47. > :23:54.second round. Shara Proctor is in fourth place with 6.55. She got a

:23:55. > :23:58.season's best of 6.78, as she gets the Hampden Park crowd to give her

:23:59. > :24:06.some inspiration. Some rhythmic clapping. Still the national

:24:07. > :24:12.record-holder with 6.95, from 2012. Moguenara is still leading, with

:24:13. > :24:19.6.69, from round one. That appears to be about the same distance. --

:24:20. > :24:24.the same distance Shara Proctor's first round effort. She is a lovely

:24:25. > :24:29.technician, attacks the board well, good height and extension of the

:24:30. > :24:36.board. And then a one and a half hitch kick, to stop the over

:24:37. > :24:40.rotation. It will be a fascinating head to head between her and

:24:41. > :24:50.Katarina Johnson-Thompson. A little chat with her coach, all-important.

:24:51. > :24:56.So, and identical jump to her first round effort and she remains in

:24:57. > :25:02.fourth place. Tianna Bartoletta, you may remember that she won the world

:25:03. > :25:06.long jump title in 2005, under her maiden name of Madison. An aborted

:25:07. > :25:11.first round effort but that is far better. That is going to challenge

:25:12. > :25:15.the leader, Moguenara, still leading with 6.69 from round one, but that

:25:16. > :25:18.is a similar kind of distance. Tremendous speed. We have heard the

:25:19. > :25:23.track is fast and she uses the speeds so well, to be a proficient

:25:24. > :25:27.long jumper. She is part of the relay team that broke the world

:25:28. > :25:32.record in London with the lead leg. Because of the speed from Shara

:25:33. > :25:35.Proctor, again, it is much harder to manage the over rotation. But so far

:25:36. > :25:43.this season, as you have said in the past a former world champion, so she

:25:44. > :25:45.knows how to do it and she goes into the lead. Katarina

:25:46. > :25:51.Johnson-Thompson's second jump was a foul. Hopefully things will pick up

:25:52. > :25:55.for her as the competition goes on. The men's 5000 metres is coming up

:25:56. > :25:59.next on the track and it is a loaded field with some fantastic talent.

:26:00. > :26:04.But it is missing Mo Farah. We heard earlier in the week that he pulled

:26:05. > :26:08.out with stomach amp 's. We have not heard specifically what they pertain

:26:09. > :26:13.to. Do you know any more? How long is the expected to be missing from

:26:14. > :26:17.action? I don't. For him, probably the most frustrating thing is always

:26:18. > :26:21.how to deal with illness or injury. In this case, with illness, it is

:26:22. > :26:25.not like injury where the physio can give you a timescale of when you can

:26:26. > :26:31.expect to be back. With illness, you are just waiting to see how fast

:26:32. > :26:34.your body can get better and it is a frustrating. He will obviously be

:26:35. > :26:37.racing in the two-mile tomorrow, hopefully we will see him have a

:26:38. > :26:41.tune-up before the Commonwealth and he will be OK. It is the five and

:26:42. > :26:45.ten, he was doubling up, hoping to get good experience on the track.

:26:46. > :26:50.Steve Cram is in commentary and will be calling this. Paula says, with

:26:51. > :26:53.illness and things that are not necessarily to do with muscles,

:26:54. > :26:58.tendons and bones, it is difficult to give a specific time. Could this

:26:59. > :27:03.be an ongoing effect of his marathon experience? Can you underestimate

:27:04. > :27:07.how much it takes out of the body? It may well be. Paula knows as well

:27:08. > :27:10.as anyone, when you are training for the marathon, you are putting all

:27:11. > :27:13.kinds of strain on your system which you would not normally do. It may

:27:14. > :27:18.have unearthed a bit of an underlying problem for him, which

:27:19. > :27:21.has started to recur. It must be concerning for Mo Farah and his

:27:22. > :27:25.camp. We hope he will be back next week to run on the roads, as Paula

:27:26. > :27:31.said, and reassure himself that he's OK. Obviously you can go towards the

:27:32. > :27:36.Commonwealth Games afterwards. -- he can go. We hope he will raise the

:27:37. > :27:39.5000 and 10,000 metres. But concerning times. Plenty of names

:27:40. > :27:44.coming for you to call in this one he will be hoping to dip into the

:27:45. > :28:00.post. Talk of three the start list. STEVE CRAM it does not have any of

:28:01. > :28:09.the Kennington Oval race Mo Farah but it has some very good athletes

:28:10. > :28:17.in it. Bernard Lagat is a great favourite and Thomas Pkemei

:28:18. > :28:19.Longosiwa is a medallist. Edwin Cheruiyot Soi will be disappointed

:28:20. > :28:25.because he has out kicked Mo Farah in the past and won a great race in

:28:26. > :28:32.the Paris Diamond League. The man who beat world furrow -- Mo Farah in

:28:33. > :28:36.the World Championships in debut is starting to recover his form. An

:28:37. > :28:40.intriguing 5000 metres. They have asked for a pretty good pace. I'm

:28:41. > :28:42.not sure the pacemakers are that experienced, a couple of

:28:43. > :28:46.19-year-olds, very talented youngsters but I think in this kind

:28:47. > :28:50.of race, it is always worth putting in a couple of old hats. You qualify

:28:51. > :28:59.for that, Brandon, although I'm not sure you would be able to set the

:29:00. > :29:02.pace to what these lads would like. Setting the pace, I would have been

:29:03. > :29:04.finished by now, after half a lap. The talent in this field makes it

:29:05. > :29:07.very difficult. The pacemakers, running away from the group which

:29:08. > :29:09.includes all of these talented athletes, some of the best in the

:29:10. > :29:13.world, some who have mixed it over many years with Mo Farah. That race

:29:14. > :29:16.now is spoiled because the pacemakers are going to do what they

:29:17. > :29:20.are going to do, and the race we should be concentrating on will be

:29:21. > :29:23.happening behind it. When you look at it, you can make out the

:29:24. > :29:26.credentials for any one of these athletes, or any bunch of them. But

:29:27. > :29:33.at the end of the day, we are looking at August in Choge, who was

:29:34. > :29:37.the Commonwealth Games champion in 2006. He is in third place. In

:29:38. > :29:42.Melbourne in 2006, he won the Commonwealth Games in a fantastic

:29:43. > :29:45.race, when Mo Farah was about six. These athletes have grown up

:29:46. > :29:48.together and they are watching for Mo Farah and hearing about him. We

:29:49. > :29:50.are disappointed he's not very well and we hope he gets better soon, and

:29:51. > :29:53.more importantly, his health, and we hope he gets better soon, and

:29:54. > :29:56.more importantly, his than whether he can come back to train. We have

:29:57. > :30:06.got a strange race, three athletes clear and then a big group of talent

:30:07. > :30:13.behind them. Choge has bridged the gap. The youngsters, not a problem

:30:14. > :30:17.for them, Choge has gone with them, and the pack can't let Augustin

:30:18. > :30:41.Choge let up a 100 metre lead. Up at look at the lead already,

:30:42. > :30:47.Choge with these two guys to help him. Might just have see if you can

:30:48. > :30:53.drag me away from the rest of them here. Because that, Brendan, is

:30:54. > :30:58.already a big gap. He is not running fast, just a steady pace. They keep

:30:59. > :31:04.looking around, saying what on earth is going on. Interesting. It often

:31:05. > :31:07.happens, you have so many athletes. There is choke, a former

:31:08. > :31:10.Commonwealth champion, sadly won't be representing Kenya, in fact none

:31:11. > :31:19.of these athletes representing Kenya tonight. These are some of the best

:31:20. > :31:32.athletes. The Ethiopian athletes, the parent firm, Gebremeskel. When

:31:33. > :31:35.is a much talent, sometimes there is safety in numbers. Sometimes the

:31:36. > :31:38.pacemaker, or one of the athletes who joins the pacemaker, get away

:31:39. > :31:43.from the field and stays away from the field. I have seen Augustin

:31:44. > :31:46.Choge run enough good races to know that they will have to pay him some

:31:47. > :31:50.attention here, because fairly soon he will be left on his own and his

:31:51. > :31:55.decision will then be whether to keep going or not. So, you sense now

:31:56. > :31:58.the athletes behind are gathering a bit of momentum, working a bit

:31:59. > :32:06.together, beginning to close that gap. We need to look a bit close in

:32:07. > :32:09.the field to see whether talent is. Alamirew obviously realising what

:32:10. > :32:12.was going on, that it was Choge up there, and that is his problem, for

:32:13. > :32:16.sitting at the back first two laps, he could not see who it was, and he

:32:17. > :32:22.has decided to give up chase. Lagat is right up there. Cameron Levins, a

:32:23. > :32:32.training partner of Mo Farah, has moved up to the front of the chasing

:32:33. > :32:37.group. The others will have to work hard to close that gap. They will

:32:38. > :32:45.have two run a second a lap quicker than Choge for the next five or six

:32:46. > :32:51.laps just catching. Mutai and Barusei have done their jobs.

:32:52. > :32:54.Alamirew stretching hard, and they are all working hard in that group,

:32:55. > :32:59.you can always tell by the single file fashion they are running now,

:33:00. > :33:05.chasing Choge. Gaps beginning to open all the way down the field. It

:33:06. > :33:11.is a bit of a ragged field, this, the big athletes have decided not to

:33:12. > :33:15.follow. But Alamirew in the yellow vest has decided that Augustin Choge

:33:16. > :33:19.of Kenya is enough of a talent to not be left there, with eight laps

:33:20. > :33:23.to go in the men's 5000 metres. We have a group of three at the front,

:33:24. > :33:27.we have an in between athlete, and then a single file group, and really

:33:28. > :33:30.this is a case of the athletes not doing what they said they would do,

:33:31. > :33:33.because they requested the pacemaker, and they have not

:33:34. > :33:37.followed him, so it is their problem. But where would you want to

:33:38. > :33:46.be in this race? I am tempted to say you would want to be a little bit

:33:47. > :33:53.where Augustin Choge is. He has had a fairly comfortable first five

:33:54. > :33:57.laps, through 2000 metres. 2.40 kilometre, that is pretty slow for

:33:58. > :34:02.these guys. In Paris the other night, there was a big talk about a

:34:03. > :34:08.fast race. They still ran pretty quickly, I have to say, you can't

:34:09. > :34:13.argue with 12.59. He is the only man who has run under 13 minutes this

:34:14. > :34:16.year in that race. A close finish with Alamirew, got the better of him

:34:17. > :34:21.in the end. Soi has moved his way quietly through the pack. He will be

:34:22. > :34:26.keeping an eye on Alamirew, that is a sure. Soi just likes to win races.

:34:27. > :34:32.If it is fast, he will go with it, but if it is slow, he doesn't mind.

:34:33. > :34:38.We are just going through the picture here, headed Cameron Levins

:34:39. > :34:45.in the all Black. But Choge, still with a bit of a lead, they have not

:34:46. > :34:54.caught him yet. 5.20 through five laps. Coming up to six laps to be

:34:55. > :34:59.completed, and the pace, 6.23. That is not as fast as they were supposed

:35:00. > :35:04.to do. So now we have got a race on, we have an athlete following the

:35:05. > :35:07.pacemaker, Augustin Choge. A line of athletes, some of whom have had a

:35:08. > :35:14.very comfortable ride through. Alamirew has been leading them on.

:35:15. > :35:20.And others, Augustin Choge in second place, and Edwin Cheruiyot Soi, the

:35:21. > :35:33.main men. It is good to see Johnny Mela going

:35:34. > :35:42.well here. This is the sort of race, Russ Millington, starting to

:35:43. > :35:50.struggle towards the back -- Johnny Mellor. He ran pretty well for me in

:35:51. > :35:55.the European team Championships. He did OK there. Having a good race

:35:56. > :35:58.here. His personal best is only 13.36 but he is in better shape than

:35:59. > :36:08.that this year. They just need opportunities. There he is. It is

:36:09. > :36:14.hard for them to get the right sort of races. If you get in these 13

:36:15. > :36:18.minutes races, running at 13.20, it is no good for you. This is working

:36:19. > :36:23.out well for Johnny Mellor. He is running well. He is watching the

:36:24. > :36:26.pace, he is watching the lap times, he knows it is not fantastically

:36:27. > :36:32.fast in this group, so he can pick up pieces. Now Augustin Choge is

:36:33. > :36:36.left. Five laps to go. He is about 30 metres clear. He has been in that

:36:37. > :36:42.position all the way around, and now a former Commonwealth champion

:36:43. > :36:48.running that fantastic race in Australia, winning that wonderful

:36:49. > :36:53.Commonwealth Games. It was a great Games in Melbourne, and I am pretty

:36:54. > :36:57.sure we will have a similarly great Olympics macro in Glasgow. They have

:36:58. > :37:01.already given us a stadium to be proud of, the revolutionary

:37:02. > :37:08.installation of a track inside this football arena is a fantastic

:37:09. > :37:12.installation. They have made the national stadium, a football

:37:13. > :37:16.stadium, into what looks to us as a perfect bowl and a perfect athletic

:37:17. > :37:20.arena. We have seen some good times on it tonight. It is looking really

:37:21. > :37:25.good. Augustin Choge coming down the finishing straight. For laps to go.

:37:26. > :37:29.They are getting a bit closer to him now, they are working together.

:37:30. > :37:33.There is safety in numbers, and suddenly that gap has just been

:37:34. > :37:42.eaten up. For laps to go, they are going to run hard. Bett had held

:37:43. > :37:43.them up, he recognised that. The Olympic bronze medallist was not

:37:44. > :38:09.going to hang on. Kangogo has had a good year. He has

:38:10. > :38:17.had three good races. He must be a little tired but at the moment he

:38:18. > :38:24.has tracked the pack. He now knows he is in a bit of bother here.

:38:25. > :38:43.Alamirew is there, Evans having a great race. Now we will is still

:38:44. > :38:47.leading. We have some athletes who competed with Mo Farah are, silver

:38:48. > :38:52.medallists and bronze medallists in the Olympic Games, behind Mo Farah.

:38:53. > :38:58.We have athletes who have beaten far rather, Edwin Soi. Now it is a case

:38:59. > :39:04.of who has got the most efficiently -- who have beaten Mo Farah. Now we

:39:05. > :39:08.are seeing a really competitive race. Look at the figure in the

:39:09. > :39:21.back, he is almost trying to hide, I am not really here! That is Jeilan,

:39:22. > :39:25.who out kicked Mo Farah previously. He was only ninth in Paris, mind

:39:26. > :39:30.you, when it really got moving the other night, but he is at the back

:39:31. > :39:34.of that pack. So this is developing into an interesting last couple of

:39:35. > :39:39.laps here. Bett, I would not imagine, would have the pace, that

:39:40. > :39:50.is why he is trying to force it on. De Vrij wet for the first time

:39:51. > :39:58.starting to show his colours -- Gebrhiwet. This will be a fierce

:39:59. > :40:01.last 800 metres. It should be because they have run relatively

:40:02. > :40:03.conservatively. They have got themselves into a position where

:40:04. > :40:09.they have conserved all their energy, and Jeilan, who beat Mo

:40:10. > :40:14.Farah in the watch champ and chips the other year, right at the back in

:40:15. > :40:17.the orange vest, he is letting them do it, letting them move around him,

:40:18. > :40:23.just a few yards off the back of the group. Have they just done a bit too

:40:24. > :40:28.much for him? Cameron Levins, the Canadian, has just made a bit of a

:40:29. > :40:41.move. How he must be feeling of this sort of company. It is not fast,

:40:42. > :40:48.this year he has only run 13.25, but looking comfortable, Cam Levins.

:40:49. > :41:12.What can he produce now? Alamirew tries to come quickly. This is the

:41:13. > :41:13.big push. Gebrhiwet the first to break. Alamirew was right on the

:41:14. > :41:14.shoulder of his team-mate. These two pulling away, they have opened up

:41:15. > :41:15.ten metres straight away, Alamirew not hanging around. He decides to

:41:16. > :41:20.go, even though this is big sprinting. Gebrhiwet trying to hold

:41:21. > :41:27.the inside. The two of them starting to slow, Edwin Soi starting to give

:41:28. > :41:31.chase. Longosiwa as well, look at Alamirew, he has completely blown

:41:32. > :41:35.it. Gebrhiwet is kicking and Alamirew finds something a bit

:41:36. > :41:40.different, but Gebrhiwet comes away, and that is a big win for

:41:41. > :41:56.Gebrhiwet over Alamirew. 13.11, the winning time. Soi takes the third is

:41:57. > :42:04.-- the third spot. It was a big last lap. Coming down the home straight,

:42:05. > :42:07.I am just watching Johnny Mellor, because he will be around 13.30.

:42:08. > :42:10.13.35 is the time to go to the European Championships, so he will

:42:11. > :42:12.be inside that, that is a personal best, so well done to him. I think

:42:13. > :42:17.he was inside that. Gebrhiwet, he was the silver medal wrist at the

:42:18. > :42:28.world champ injured last year behind Mo Farah. -- silver medallist. He

:42:29. > :42:39.was running with Alamirew, as if every line was the finishing line.

:42:40. > :42:45.It was a terrific finish. They were going into the finishing straight

:42:46. > :42:48.now, and the race has been going, Gebrhiwet and Alamirew, neck and

:42:49. > :42:52.neck. Coming into the finishing straight now, working so hard and

:42:53. > :42:55.you never know who will win this one. 53.97 finish. Gebrhiwet wins

:42:56. > :42:59.it. Alamirew in second place, and, my goodness, it was a strange race,

:43:00. > :43:10.but a fantastic finish. And that is the way they want to do it, that is

:43:11. > :43:13.the way they can do it. Typical Ethiopian style, you always find

:43:14. > :43:19.these Ethiopians fast finishers. They are both Ethiopians, both fast

:43:20. > :43:23.finishers, but Gebrhiwet got it on this occasion. A good race in the

:43:24. > :43:25.latter stages, a strange race in the early part. They have had a couple

:43:26. > :43:30.of hard five kilometre races, and despite pacemaker is being put in,

:43:31. > :43:34.obviously Alamirew and the others did not fancy it tonight. Gebrhiwet

:43:35. > :43:45.takes the wind. A big last lap, 13.11, still

:43:46. > :43:50.You get four points for winning in the Diamond Race. Alamirew is having

:43:51. > :43:58.a good season. It moves him away from Soi.

:43:59. > :44:12.So, the women's long jump, tissue. That is big. The only woman over

:44:13. > :44:18.seven metres in the world this year, that is big. Tremendous speed,

:44:19. > :44:23.flight trajectory, soaring out to seven metres, Jonathan. JONATHAN

:44:24. > :44:28.EDWARDS: It is not pretty to watch, but she certainly gets the distance.

:44:29. > :44:37.Absolutely on the board. The athletes have found their range in

:44:38. > :44:43.the third round. She seems to like it. Looks as though she has extended

:44:44. > :44:51.her lead, Bartoletta. 6.97, the world another one consolidates and

:44:52. > :44:59.extends her lead. She actually won the US 100 metre title and you see

:45:00. > :45:03.how far is it she was on the runway. How can Katarina Johnson-Thompson

:45:04. > :45:07.respond? 6.44 in the first round is their best effort. She has just seen

:45:08. > :45:12.Bartoletta extend her lead to 6.97. Oh, and is big! A definite

:45:13. > :45:19.improvement in this competition for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. 6.81, her

:45:20. > :45:22.personal best, from the National Championships in Birmingham a couple

:45:23. > :45:32.of weeks ago, and that appears to be in a similar sort of distance,

:45:33. > :45:37.Jonathan. New British record held by Shara Proctor is 6.95. It could be

:45:38. > :45:42.close. She has a ready broken the British record in the high jump and

:45:43. > :45:47.she could be closing the long jump. She feels it is a good one and the

:45:48. > :45:54.crowd has seen a result. It is the thumbs up from Katarina

:45:55. > :45:57.Johnson-Thompson. 6.92! A personal best for Johnson-Thompson. Just

:45:58. > :46:02.three centimetres time of Shara Proctor -- shy of Shara Proctor's

:46:03. > :46:10.national record. Johnson-Thompson moves into second place. So we are

:46:11. > :46:16.into round four. Shara Proctor, the British record holder at 6.95. She

:46:17. > :46:22.has got a best so far this year of 6.59 and that is a definite

:46:23. > :46:26.improvement. Most certainly above the 6.5 realm that she has been

:46:27. > :46:34.producing in the first three rounds. What a response from Shara Proctor.

:46:35. > :46:42.Her British record is coming under threat, increasingly, from Katarina

:46:43. > :46:46.Johnson-Thompson. 6.90 from Johnson-Thompson, putting her second

:46:47. > :46:51.on the all-time British list. -- 6.92. Shara Proctor, awaiting

:46:52. > :46:58.permission of her distance. She needed to come to the party, and she

:46:59. > :47:07.has. 6.82, a season's best but still ten centimetres down on KJ T.

:47:08. > :47:15.How healthy is British women's long jump? Let's effect on Katarina

:47:16. > :47:19.Johnson-Thompson's year, six out of seven events, a personal best. It is

:47:20. > :47:23.incredible, remarkable, watches able to achieve but when you are in the

:47:24. > :47:27.zone, it is simple, competing, raising your game just comes

:47:28. > :47:32.effortlessly. What she does on the runway is phenomenal. She has got

:47:33. > :47:35.great speed. What you are looking for in the long jump is to maintain

:47:36. > :47:41.the speed all the way through and off the board. She has got height.

:47:42. > :47:45.She is rangy and the results are there, 6.92. We are seeing her

:47:46. > :47:49.develop physically as well. When she came to our attention in the Olympic

:47:50. > :47:54.year, she was rangy, long limbed, and a little bit lanky. She was just

:47:55. > :47:59.coming out of childhood, really, and now, with the work she is putting in

:48:00. > :48:02.the gym, she looks more powerful, more like she is turning into a

:48:03. > :48:07.power athlete as well, which is the area she needs to be improved. It

:48:08. > :48:12.was your forte, and that is the area that she could do with a bit more

:48:13. > :48:16.in. For the speed that she has, she has not got the most out of her

:48:17. > :48:20.hurdles. She is still not in the realms of 13 seconds. We can see how

:48:21. > :48:23.Jessica Ennis-Hill has performed and that is what she has to be aiming

:48:24. > :48:28.for. With her strengths like the long jump and high jump, 200 and

:48:29. > :48:36.800, like I said before, I have likened her to Karolina Pliskova.

:48:37. > :48:43.We have a lot of young talent getting around the night. It is the

:48:44. > :48:46.women's four X 100 metres. Great Britain 's women sprinters have had

:48:47. > :48:50.a great year so far. Jodie Williams is one of the young spreaders who

:48:51. > :48:53.will feature in this. She has shown that she has got promise and she's

:48:54. > :48:59.turning it into form. Andrew Cotter will call this one.

:49:00. > :49:07.A bit of a rehearsal for some of the teams for the Commonwealth Games and

:49:08. > :49:11.it is effectively the English team which will line up in lane for. Look

:49:12. > :49:18.out for the stars and stripes in the all stars as well to challenge.

:49:19. > :49:25.Carmelita Jeter, not long back from injury, after ten months out,

:49:26. > :49:29.leading off the Stars and Stripes. English Gardner and candies price, a

:49:30. > :49:33.couple of hurdlers in there. Asha Philip, Ashley Nelson, Jodie

:49:34. > :49:45.Williams and Henry for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in lane four.

:49:46. > :49:49.Carmelita Jeter, struggling with a quad injury for much of last season

:49:50. > :49:54.and early this season so she has lost a bit of zip. Struggling to say

:49:55. > :49:57.with Philip at the moment. Great Britain and Northern Ireland in lane

:49:58. > :50:01.for looking strong but how is the changeover? It is pretty tight from

:50:02. > :50:05.Philip to Nelson. They are looking strong at the moment. Stars and

:50:06. > :50:09.stripes, trying to get back. English Gardner, eyes bulging, but a bit of

:50:10. > :50:15.a sluggish handover to the third leg. GB and Northern Ireland, Jodie

:50:16. > :50:18.Williams, the 200 metre champion at the UK Championships, leading lane

:50:19. > :50:22.four and the changeover is good to Henry. Look at the gap from Great

:50:23. > :50:27.Britain and Northern Ireland to the rest. Outside them, the all stars,

:50:28. > :50:30.and bringing them home, Bailey, but in fact, Louise Bloor sneaks in

:50:31. > :50:36.there as well for Great Britain and Northern Ireland's B team but a very

:50:37. > :50:43.oppressive win for the a team of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

:50:44. > :50:46.in 42.75. A very good run out. It is a win this evening but a rehearsal

:50:47. > :50:49.perhaps for the European Championships and the Commonwealth

:50:50. > :50:59.games for England, they might run as. Asha Smith might be added in for

:51:00. > :51:02.the Europeans. The changeover is a pretty slick as well. All in all, a

:51:03. > :51:11.good performance from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. COLIN JACKSON:

:51:12. > :51:15.A good, strong, solid performance. The potential of the team is

:51:16. > :51:19.sky-high. They can get close to 42 seconds, when they mature. They are

:51:20. > :51:23.good, they know each other, they tremble and love each other company

:51:24. > :51:25.and they love competing as well. They are very strong individuals. If

:51:26. > :51:29.you are going to get the team to work together, they have to be good

:51:30. > :51:35.individuals. That is what we have seen from the great bridges from the

:51:36. > :51:38.USA, their relay team is made up of great individuals, and the same with

:51:39. > :51:43.Jamaica. Our women are demonstrating what they are capable of. I can

:51:44. > :51:46.assure you they can go a lot quicker eventually. There is strength and

:51:47. > :51:50.depth in men's and women's sprinting, now. And a very good

:51:51. > :51:54.finish by Louise Bloor, coming through to take second place for our

:51:55. > :52:01.B team. Great Britain and Northern Ireland dominating. Winging it home

:52:02. > :52:05.was Desiree Vranken. -- bringing it home was Desiree Vranken.

:52:06. > :52:13.-- Henry. Interesting to know how they thought it went.

:52:14. > :52:18.Congratulations, a commander 's performance. He brought the team

:52:19. > :52:22.home in fine style. You sound relieved but you should be proud of

:52:23. > :52:27.what you have just done. I'm very relieved. It was quite scary. On the

:52:28. > :52:30.last day, anything can happen. I wanted to run as fast as possible

:52:31. > :52:36.and bring it home in the first place so I'm happy I've done that. The

:52:37. > :52:40.handovers looked pretty slick. They were really smooth, they all went

:52:41. > :52:46.very well. As you can see, it paid off with the time. Going up against

:52:47. > :52:51.a stellar team, the all stars, the US team stars and stripes, and yet,

:52:52. > :52:55.you obliterate it the field. That is tremendous. I think the girls here

:52:56. > :52:59.are the four which finished first, second and third in the 100 metres

:53:00. > :53:02.trials. We have come out this year and we are running well on the flat

:53:03. > :53:06.and we have come together as a team and all we have to do is get the

:53:07. > :53:09.train Job is right and we should be OK. When you look at the time, I'm

:53:10. > :53:13.sure you know you will get closer to 42 seconds with this kind of line up

:53:14. > :53:17.performing regularly together. Definitely, it's the first time we

:53:18. > :53:20.have been together and the more we do it, the better we will be. The

:53:21. > :53:24.Europeans and the Commonwealth games coming up so it will be a high

:53:25. > :53:28.standard. I believe in these girls and I know the record will go this

:53:29. > :53:32.year. To Mendis to see you performing so well tonight,

:53:33. > :53:39.congratulations, one and all. -- congratulations.

:53:40. > :53:44.Tianna Bartoletta, the event leader, the only woman in the world this

:53:45. > :53:49.year over seven metres and that appears to be a similar type of

:53:50. > :53:53.distance. We have mentioned what a proficient sprinter she is, the

:53:54. > :53:58.reigning champion from the US championships a couple of weeks ago.

:53:59. > :54:02.She has been added to the B race at this Hampden Park athletics meeting.

:54:03. > :54:07.We will see her in action tomorrow in the sprint. She is producing some

:54:08. > :54:13.consistency, here. When she jumped 6.97, Ron, she would have thought

:54:14. > :54:17.she had put the competition to bed and then Katarina Johnson-Thompson

:54:18. > :54:19.jumps 6.92 and the event comes flooding back but she has improved

:54:20. > :54:36.by one centimetre, 6.98. So, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now

:54:37. > :54:40.the second all-time on the UK all jump -- long jump list. The only

:54:41. > :54:45.name now ahead of her as Shara Proctor, who is in this competition

:54:46. > :54:51.with her 6.95 national record. That is a foul. No improvement but it was

:54:52. > :54:54.pretty long. It really was. She did this in the British trials, without

:54:55. > :54:58.any question, she was jumping well but she is a long way over the

:54:59. > :55:01.board. I will stop to say what I was going to say because it was nowhere

:55:02. > :55:29.near seven metres with that kind of foul but she is going for it.

:55:30. > :55:36.So, a great performance from the four women in Great Britain and

:55:37. > :55:39.Northern Ireland, taking victory with 42.74 seconds. As they said,

:55:40. > :55:42.the first time they have run together. I know you are incredibly

:55:43. > :55:47.excited about the state of British women spreading at the moment and

:55:48. > :55:50.that is the reason why. It has been a long time coming, just to have the

:55:51. > :55:55.depth that you require at this level, for the girls to be close to

:55:56. > :56:01.the 11 second barrier. That is what they are aiming for. And then to put

:56:02. > :56:04.it together, running quick individually is pointless if you

:56:05. > :56:08.cannot translate it into the relay and potentially winning medals. They

:56:09. > :56:12.are capable, young, hungry, and they want to put to bed all the doubts

:56:13. > :56:15.that British printing is on the floor because it is not, it is

:56:16. > :56:19.healthy and they can take it forward. I'm sure the men will prove

:56:20. > :56:23.me wrong but tonight has been all about the women. The women sprinters

:56:24. > :56:28.have done well there, and Eilidh Child. It has been like that for

:56:29. > :56:32.years! When success happens, it seems to spread and it must be a

:56:33. > :56:39.great feeling inside the women's squad. Definitely, they can work

:56:40. > :56:41.together, get to know each other as a team, support each other and

:56:42. > :56:44.really just practice getting the battle ground and then they can show

:56:45. > :56:49.the technique to go with the talent. -- getting the baton round. A chance

:56:50. > :56:54.for a British man to shine right now because it is time for the 110

:56:55. > :56:59.metres hurdles final. Andrew Cotter will see of William

:57:00. > :57:08.STEVE CRAM: Andrew has gone for a couple of tea so I will take this

:57:09. > :57:15.one. William Sharman has a great opportunity here. Right on the

:57:16. > :57:16.outside, surprisingly, the world number one, Hansle Parchment of

:57:17. > :57:25.Jamaica. Sharman is having what I think it is

:57:26. > :57:29.most consistent season. He has been running very well. He knows it is a

:57:30. > :57:32.big opportunity for him. If he is going to take a medal at the

:57:33. > :57:37.Commonwealth Games, he has to like this track. He went and ran at the

:57:38. > :57:42.world indoor venue beforehand last time around. It did not quite work

:57:43. > :57:47.for him, but he likes to plan his season. I think this season, things

:57:48. > :57:51.have gone pretty well for him. Colin will go through the line-up in a

:57:52. > :57:56.second. Interestingly, the way the top three worked in the heats

:57:57. > :58:01.earlier, the fastest losers, Sharman is in lane for, and then we have got

:58:02. > :58:06.you beg Cox, Andrew Riley in six, Shane Braithwaite in seven, Wilson

:58:07. > :58:12.and Hansle Parchment on the outside. Is it better to get him out of the

:58:13. > :58:15.way, concentrate on yourself, Hansle Parchment? Do you worry about him

:58:16. > :58:21.out there? Parchment is a strong finisher. William is also strong in

:58:22. > :58:25.that part of the race because he is so fluent and consistent. If Hansle

:58:26. > :58:28.Parchment get out of the blocks recently well, we'll will not see

:58:29. > :58:32.him and will not be able to respond. -- William will not see him. He

:58:33. > :58:36.would be much better off having Hansle Parchment next to him so he

:58:37. > :58:43.could put him under pressure early. Only two men under 13 seconds this

:58:44. > :58:48.year. David Oliver is not at the top of his game. One or two new American

:58:49. > :58:52.hurdlers are starting to come through, though. Look out for them

:58:53. > :58:58.in the next couple of years. Parchment is the world number one,

:58:59. > :59:02.then, to the camera. Wilson, Braithwaite, Andrew Riley, the

:59:03. > :59:05.Jamaican champion, should beg off and then Sharman, going away from

:59:06. > :59:22.this side of the track. A pretty good start from Parchment.

:59:23. > :59:26.In lane two, also going well, Jeff Porter. William Sharman is coming

:59:27. > :59:30.right through. Can he get the victory? It would be great if he can

:59:31. > :59:35.and he does X commissioner Mark 13.22. Once again, William Sharman,

:59:36. > :59:39.consistent, not flashy, not doing anything other than what he has been

:59:40. > :59:42.doing all year, nice, clean hurdling, did not get out as quickly

:59:43. > :59:46.as he has done on one or two occasions, but he has run his own

:59:47. > :59:51.race, did not worry about what else was going on. What a confidence

:59:52. > :59:57.booster that is going to be four will Sharman. He has got Andrew

:59:58. > :00:01.Riley in there, Hansle Parchment, for the Europeans, so that you Ben

:00:02. > :00:02.Cox, the man who beat him in the European team Championships. -- said

:00:03. > :00:11.they should beg off. It has been taken down to 13 hot --

:00:12. > :00:17.13.21, which equals his personal best, and the wind was legal. The

:00:18. > :00:21.most important thing is that you get out strongly, bold, and be brave

:00:22. > :00:25.into the first hurdle. Go into it aggressively and that is what he

:00:26. > :00:29.did. Caught the second hurdle but still held it together. There was

:00:30. > :00:32.pressure left and right around him but he managed to hold it all

:00:33. > :00:36.together. That is what you need to do. He knew this was an opportunity,

:00:37. > :00:41.a big opportunity for him to show to the world that he is a class

:00:42. > :00:45.athlete. Now he has beaten the world's best. There's only one or

:00:46. > :00:49.two missing from the field. William Sharman is proving yet again that if

:00:50. > :00:53.you are consistent, around the 13.2 Mark, you can take big victories and

:00:54. > :01:06.he has demonstrated it wonderfully well. Well done.

:01:07. > :01:10.taken the adulation of the crowd on the backs rate. Equalled his

:01:11. > :01:14.personal best as well, I'm doing the laces, getting more, the ball. Your

:01:15. > :01:19.form gets better and better, you have equalled your personal best and

:01:20. > :01:26.taken the victory. How was it? It is going well. As you can see. I am

:01:27. > :01:28.still training hard, because I want to do well when we come to the

:01:29. > :01:33.Championships this year, so I can't rest off too much. I am trying to

:01:34. > :01:39.work on certain things of my race, and it is coming together there. I

:01:40. > :01:43.had a good start. I became conscious, pushed again. It is OK.

:01:44. > :01:50.When your confidence is so high, you must feel unbeatable? I have been

:01:51. > :01:53.doing some interesting work when I was in the States earlier this

:01:54. > :01:56.season, and one of the things they were trying to teach me was that

:01:57. > :02:02.confidence doesn't come into it. You have a job to do, just get out there

:02:03. > :02:08.and do your job. Regardless of how I feel from day-to-day, I try and stay

:02:09. > :02:12.in motionless and just do my job. That is great, it is working for

:02:13. > :02:14.you. You have had a taste of what the Commonwealth Games will be

:02:15. > :02:20.like, 44,000 people. This is a tremendous crowd, but imagine what

:02:21. > :02:23.that will be like. Yes, in the warm up area I found the surface quite

:02:24. > :02:28.difficult to adjust to. I hit every hurdle in the practice area. And

:02:29. > :02:34.lots of people would worry about that and do more runs until the get

:02:35. > :02:38.it right. I just thought, well, I have finished my warm up, I am warm,

:02:39. > :02:43.I am hot, it's time to go, I am sure it will come together and luckily it

:02:44. > :02:46.did. Like everyone, I still have difficulties and it is just about

:02:47. > :02:51.overcoming them before the race. Good luck going forward, great to

:02:52. > :02:56.see you winning tonight and go and enjoy tonight with the crowd. Thank

:02:57. > :03:02.you guys, thank you for tune in. Thank you.

:03:03. > :03:09.GABBY LOGAN: I always love hearing from Will Sharman, he just gives

:03:10. > :03:12.such complete answers. We wanted the boys to come out and show the girls

:03:13. > :03:17.what they can do in the British squad, and then he was, leading a

:03:18. > :03:21.very strong global field, a personal best, not getting too carried away,

:03:22. > :03:28.he says, because he smells medals this season. He has set his stall

:03:29. > :03:31.out, taking the box is, he wanted to qualify for the Commonwealth, the

:03:32. > :03:37.Europeans, and he wants to medal at both. Make no mistake about it. He

:03:38. > :03:39.is a confident man. Like you, I like his interviews because you get a

:03:40. > :03:42.sense of what he is really about. He loves competing, and he is a little

:03:43. > :03:46.bit of a showman as well, and we like that. We can have a look at his

:03:47. > :03:58.new personal best. He will get such confidence from

:03:59. > :04:00.that, won't he? He will. He will be coming into the Championships

:04:01. > :04:04.hopefully even sharper, more rested, and really fired up from

:04:05. > :04:09.these performances to go and perform as well as he is showing he is

:04:10. > :04:13.capable of. To go ahead and beat people like Parchment, who is the

:04:14. > :04:18.world leader at the moment, to do that, for me, shows he knows he is

:04:19. > :04:22.in the mix. He knows he can race against these guys and make a

:04:23. > :04:26.difference and win. It is the women's 400 metres, the next race on

:04:27. > :04:30.the track, and after that, the last race of the night, the men's 100

:04:31. > :04:32.metres. The star of the show tonight, it has to be Yohan Blake.

:04:33. > :04:42.We spoke to him earlier. He was specifically talking about

:04:43. > :04:43.why he would not be here for the Commonwealth Games in a couple of

:04:44. > :04:51.weeks time. Yohan Blake became the world

:04:52. > :05:01.champion at the age of just 21. He likes to be known as the Beast.

:05:02. > :05:08.Blake storming away! That is the second fastest of all time!

:05:09. > :05:20.Great to see you running in this, well, new arena to athletics,

:05:21. > :05:26.Hampden Park, a football arena, it is sad that we won't see replicated

:05:27. > :05:33.in the Commonwealth Games. I don't want to go there and lose. People

:05:34. > :05:37.will be saying if he can't win at Commonwealth level, what will happen

:05:38. > :05:42.next year? It is not that I don't want to go, I would love to go of

:05:43. > :05:48.course, but it is in my best interest just to get back to the

:05:49. > :05:51.level I was at, because it will be truly hard. The Olympics will be

:05:52. > :05:57.released- and everyone wants to be number one and it is not easy. So to

:05:58. > :06:01.get back that sharpness and that mindset is the key. You are someone

:06:02. > :06:07.who loves training, number one. You like putting the work in.

:06:08. > :06:12.Definitely. When you can't do what you want to do, how frustrating is

:06:13. > :06:18.it? It is frustrating, but my coach told me you can't rush your body too

:06:19. > :06:21.much. You have to just wait. I am patient. Was there ever a a

:06:22. > :06:31.suggestion you could run the relay at the Commonwealths? Just the

:06:32. > :06:34.relay? Yes, but I don't want to blight anybody, I don't want to put

:06:35. > :06:38.my name down and say I want to run the relay. I know that guy earnest

:06:39. > :06:47.but. There will be a lot of disappointed

:06:48. > :06:51.athletics fans that Yohan Blake does not feel fit enough to compete in

:06:52. > :06:54.the Commonwealth Games. We will see just where his fitness is a little

:06:55. > :06:59.bit later, because the men's 100 metres is the last race of the

:07:00. > :07:03.night, at 8:45pm. We will talk more about him later, but that is smack

:07:04. > :07:09.the first go to the women's field events, specifically the long jump,

:07:10. > :07:17.where Katarina Johnson-Thompson has her last jump of accommodation.

:07:18. > :07:22.COMMENTATOR: Katarina Johnson-Thompson on the runway, head

:07:23. > :07:26.of her final-round jump. The leading mark is 6.98, can she take that form

:07:27. > :07:30.and confidence? It is another big one. I don't think it will be an

:07:31. > :07:34.improvement on the brand-new personal best she has launched this

:07:35. > :07:42.evening, but what a series Qatar Ronson Johnson -- Katarina

:07:43. > :07:46.Johnson-Thompson had put together. A remarkable season she is having,

:07:47. > :07:50.without question. That attack from here for the Commonwealth Games and

:07:51. > :07:55.then she will go for a medal. In this kind of form she will be a

:07:56. > :07:59.serious contender. Everyone will need to look out for Katarina

:08:00. > :08:06.Johnson-Thompson. Most certainly an athlete on the rise. No

:08:07. > :08:10.improvement. 6.85, but a brand-new lifetime best, second of the

:08:11. > :08:15.all-time British list of 6.92, she will finish in second place.

:08:16. > :08:25.Ronald McIntosh with a commentary. The same reason that Ashton Eaton is

:08:26. > :08:29.enjoying his meter hurdles, for the multi-event athletes to compete, not

:08:30. > :08:31.just go through the motions but to get up there and mix it with the

:08:32. > :08:39.worlds best in one of the disciplines, it must be another

:08:40. > :08:44.string to their bow. It just makes them great! They are just supreme

:08:45. > :08:47.athletes but it is all down to the training, and the very training. It

:08:48. > :08:52.makes a rounded athlete. She was fantastic tonight. Second at a

:08:53. > :08:57.Diamond League event it a big deal for a heptathlete, especially one

:08:58. > :09:01.who is still aspiring and learning her way through this great athletics

:09:02. > :09:09.that we love. And of course the high jump as well, she is so strong at.

:09:10. > :09:13.She will be weighing up the idea of whether she should go for that in

:09:14. > :09:17.the European Championships. Yes, I think some of that will depend on

:09:18. > :09:22.how she recovers coming out of the Commonwealths, and what it takes out

:09:23. > :09:26.of her, because it is quite a short turnaround before she comes back for

:09:27. > :09:29.the European Championships. Let's go back to the track, the last event

:09:30. > :09:37.for the women tonight is the 400 metres. Andrew Cotter, I believe, is

:09:38. > :09:45.calling this one. ANDREW COTTER: You believe correctly. One of the best

:09:46. > :09:49.fields here for the Americans. The Jamaican champion Williams-Mills

:09:50. > :09:57.leading the way. A quick glimpse of Natasha Hastings.

:09:58. > :10:03.There is a mantle on show. A quick glimpse of Natasha Hastings.

:10:04. > :10:23.There is a mantle She has dominated the Diamond League -- on show.

:10:24. > :10:27.Francine -- Montsho. Sanya Richards-Ross, first time in

:10:28. > :10:30.Scotland, all sorts of problems with the big toe in her right foot. She

:10:31. > :10:38.had an operation last year, it seems to have worked. She is back below 50

:10:39. > :10:52.again. Stephenie Ann Mcpherson, also from

:10:53. > :10:56.Jamaica, Peking nicely. Like last year, getting quicker with every

:10:57. > :11:03.race. Second in Paris last week. 50.4. Outside, trying to stay with

:11:04. > :11:15.this field, that is the standard, Kelly Massey. It is a tall order.

:11:16. > :11:19.She will have to take a good chunk, almost three tenths of a second off

:11:20. > :11:21.her personal best to get it. Regina George in one, Natasha Hastings in

:11:22. > :11:49.two. Sanya Richards-Ross, who was again

:11:50. > :11:52.very impressive in Paris, she has been so impressive on her comeback.

:11:53. > :11:58.She has been rejuvenated by that operation. Already she is alongside

:11:59. > :12:11.Francine Makkah Rory, and going strongly. Sanya Richards-Ross

:12:12. > :12:22.alongside also going well. Sanya Richards-Ross up on the shoulder of

:12:23. > :12:26.Williams-Mills. What does Williams-Mills have in response? A

:12:27. > :12:31.good run from McCrory coming through, passing Sanya

:12:32. > :12:34.Richards-Ross, who tries to respond, but McCrory timed her run to

:12:35. > :12:38.perfection and the world indoor champion, the US champion, comes

:12:39. > :12:45.through to take it below 50 seconds, 49.93, pacing her run perfectly, to

:12:46. > :12:50.take the victory. Richards-Ross went out fast, but the faster finish and

:12:51. > :13:05.the victory belongs to Francine McCrory.

:13:06. > :13:13.-- McCorory. The victory in a high-class field is very well

:13:14. > :13:20.deserved. Seeing off Sanya Richards-Ross and Williams-Mills. At

:13:21. > :13:22.this point, it looked as if Sanya Richards-Ross had timed perfectly

:13:23. > :13:30.but McCorory coming from deep in that one to win. She came from the

:13:31. > :13:35.other end of Glasgow. A great race, well judged, to be fair. Sanya

:13:36. > :13:38.Richards-Ross had gone out so hard, but another good performance, and

:13:39. > :13:46.you have to say that she is rounding to be the world snub one at the

:13:47. > :13:54.moment. A good win, -- the world's number one at the moment. It is a

:13:55. > :13:58.warm evening, McCorory coming through well enough to win, head of

:13:59. > :14:03.Sanya Richards-Ross will stop she will take the points in the Diamond

:14:04. > :14:08.League standings. Again, Sanya Richards-Ross, it is not too far

:14:09. > :14:11.away from her best. She is at least healthy and running strong again but

:14:12. > :14:16.no doubt about the winner there, McCorory. The way she powered down

:14:17. > :14:20.the home straight, in the style of Christine Ohuruogu. She is having a

:14:21. > :14:27.lighter year this year, Christine Ohuruogu, but McCorory adds victory

:14:28. > :14:34.at Hampden to her world indoor title and her US title, and she is looking

:14:35. > :14:38.good for the rest of the season. Just confirmed, it is the first

:14:39. > :14:54.below 50 women's 400 metres on Scottish soil.

:14:55. > :14:59.What a performance from Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the long jump,

:15:00. > :15:02.ace delegate for you, now second in the all-time British list of the

:15:03. > :15:07.long jump. Can you describe what this means to you? Yes, I just came

:15:08. > :15:11.out here today, facing a really good field, the world number one, and I

:15:12. > :15:14.just try to come out and grasp the opportunity before the

:15:15. > :15:18.Commonwealths. I love the stadium, it is a very fast track, a perfect

:15:19. > :15:24.night for it, a slight tailwind. Another PB. A lot of the athletes

:15:25. > :15:28.from Britain and other nations here tonight getting a feel for the place

:15:29. > :15:33.was not was that your main aim tonight, to know what it is like on

:15:34. > :15:39.the big stage? Yes, just under three weeks now, I can imagine the stadium

:15:40. > :15:44.in my head, I can do better and have a better focus. The next, edition is

:15:45. > :15:49.the Commonwealths, hopefully I can have a bit of tunnel vision towards

:15:50. > :15:53.them now. Now you have the 6.92, is the long jump going to be the event

:15:54. > :16:02.for the European Championships? Yes, it looks that way. I can hopefully

:16:03. > :16:07.come out and do it in zero. Get the same sort of distance. A magnificent

:16:08. > :16:14.night tonight, keep it going, we look forward to seeing you in ours

:16:15. > :16:20.go over seven events. Great to see she has fallen in love with this

:16:21. > :16:23.stadium already because she can improve. Six out of seven heptathlon

:16:24. > :16:28.events, she has got personal best synergy could be the face of the

:16:29. > :16:33.athletics programme. I think so. She has earned the right. She has just

:16:34. > :16:36.put together, as you said, back-to-back performances. I know

:16:37. > :16:41.she surprised herself. But I said earlier, when you are in the zone,

:16:42. > :16:45.you have got to maximise the opportunities. That is what every

:16:46. > :16:52.athlete, no matter the event, wants to achieve. It is the purple patch

:16:53. > :16:55.to back it up, the increase in volume as she came on the screen,

:16:56. > :16:59.they are already showing the love. It is important to sense the

:17:00. > :17:02.atmosphere and the track. Yes, and that is why a lot of athletes wanted

:17:03. > :17:06.to come here today, some still chasing qualifying times but the

:17:07. > :17:09.most of the British athletes, it is a chance to get to know the stadium,

:17:10. > :17:13.the track, the crowd, the routine from the call up to the warm up, to

:17:14. > :17:17.coming out on track. To get your head around it and visualise it, and

:17:18. > :17:20.work towards performing well. Don't underestimate the atmosphere when

:17:21. > :17:24.they come out of the tunnel in front of what is going to be a huge crowd.

:17:25. > :17:28.It will be very different. Yohan Blake getting ready for the 100

:17:29. > :17:32.metres but we might want to talk about James Dasaolu as well because

:17:33. > :17:36.he still has too convinced the selectors he is the man to go to the

:17:37. > :17:41.European Championships. Do you sense that he is in the box seat going

:17:42. > :17:47.into this? If I was the sector, he would be the driving seat right now.

:17:48. > :17:49.The 10.03 he ran last week gives him the edge. He has championship

:17:50. > :17:53.experience. He has championship experience. He's ready. I'm excited

:17:54. > :17:59.to see what he will do the night. Different kinds of pressure in this

:18:00. > :18:03.race for different kinds of reasons, but this really means something to

:18:04. > :18:04.him. It is not just about Diamond League positions. Let's find out who

:18:05. > :18:13.he is up against with Steve It is a pretty good field. Nine

:18:14. > :18:32.athletes in this. Three British men in this 100 metre

:18:33. > :18:36.event. This is to finish what has been a fabulous evening at Hampden

:18:37. > :18:42.Park. Lots of things to watch out for common here. Harry

:18:43. > :18:47.Aikines-Aryeetey, 10.08, in the race when CJ ran his 9.96. He felt as

:18:48. > :18:51.though he had missed an opportunity, Harry, he was pleased but

:18:52. > :18:55.frustrated. Nesta Carter, the bronze medallist in this event in Moscow

:18:56. > :19:01.last year, won the New York Diamond League when Blake stumbled out of

:19:02. > :19:04.the box. -- out of the blocks. He will not be here for the

:19:05. > :19:10.Commonwealth Games. Nor will Kim Collins, not because he does not

:19:11. > :19:13.want to but he is still in dispute with Saint Kitts and Nevis. The

:19:14. > :19:17.former world champion, 38, ran brilliantly the other night in

:19:18. > :19:25.Paris, reliving memories of 2003, running 10.1 that night. A troubled

:19:26. > :19:30.season for Yohan Blake, coming back, the beast, as he still likes

:19:31. > :19:33.to be called. At least he has discarded the face painting had in

:19:34. > :19:40.Lausanne. When you are not running well, sometimes it can look a bit

:19:41. > :19:46.silly. Champion this year and the win of the diamond lead event in

:19:47. > :19:51.Paris. Richard Thompson, one of the big men, who looks very good, but

:19:52. > :19:55.occasionally, when they are around, the former Olympic silver medallist,

:19:56. > :19:58.he can wilt a bit. He is the quickest in the world in his

:19:59. > :20:06.national championships, sorry, second quickest. Talking about

:20:07. > :20:11.second best at the moment, the run I saw him do, the 10.03 in VB race,

:20:12. > :20:17.James Dasaolu looked brilliant. Nickel Ashmeade, next to him. A bit

:20:18. > :20:20.like 2003 in Paris at the World Championships, he was disqualified

:20:21. > :20:26.the other night and he was not happy. Richard Kilty, the world

:20:27. > :20:33.indoor champion from March. Outdoors, though, he has only run

:20:34. > :20:40.10.25 since being in America, where he ran 10.12, back in May. And that

:20:41. > :20:45.was at the trials. So, is Blake getting back to his best? How good

:20:46. > :20:52.could James Dasaolu be in this kind of company? From the far side, Harry

:20:53. > :20:58.Aikines-Aryeetey, Nesta Carter, Kim Collins, Yohan Blake, in the middle,

:20:59. > :21:02.in number four, Rogers, wearing the headband, Richard Thompson, 9.82

:21:03. > :21:04.this year, the quickest in the field, James Dasaolu, Ashmeade, and

:21:05. > :21:19.then Kilty. The men's 100 metres. A very good start, Collins and Nesta

:21:20. > :21:24.Carter, James Dasaolu a bit down, Nesta Carter leading in the middle.

:21:25. > :21:27.But he goes and it is all close explanation not it might have been

:21:28. > :21:31.Ashmeade extra measure Mark Rogers Pixie has got it, Ashmeade was in

:21:32. > :21:37.the mix, Blake has pulled up injured on the track. Well, well, all sorts

:21:38. > :21:45.going on, there. 9.97. We will have do have a photo finish to decide who

:21:46. > :21:49.one. But -- who won it. But Blake's season gets worse and worse. He got

:21:50. > :21:53.a pretty good start. Nesta Carter was brilliant out of the blocks but

:21:54. > :21:58.Ashmeade has got it and head of Michael Rodgers. He finished very

:21:59. > :22:03.fast in lane eight. Some kind of indication for him. Nesta Carter did

:22:04. > :22:07.not quite last when he was leading. But still, it is just coming up

:22:08. > :22:12.under ten seconds, the top three. Ashmeade is asking if he won it.

:22:13. > :22:16.Yes, he did. Steve Gulley you wondered if this track was quick but

:22:17. > :22:24.these boys have certainly proved it is. Three men under ten seconds. The

:22:25. > :22:28.wind only .3 following. Yohan Blake, being wheeled off the track, not a

:22:29. > :22:33.very good site. We want to see the best athletes finishing well. But he

:22:34. > :22:38.struggled out of the blocks, he came out well and aggressive but no real

:22:39. > :22:45.sharpness or pick from Yohan Blake. -- picked up. He could have been

:22:46. > :22:48.over striding and he may have targeted hamstring. But those

:22:49. > :22:52.results are all pretty swift. Yohan Blake gets out well, in the middle,

:22:53. > :22:57.in black but Kim Collins is already streaking away. That is when his

:22:58. > :23:02.hamstring goes. He leaves the race but Ashmeade just sneak through.

:23:03. > :23:06.Michael Rodgers did not quite see him. But boy, this track is

:23:07. > :23:10.certainly producing fast performances from these guys. Look

:23:11. > :23:16.at Michael Rodgers' shoelaces. Are they an done? They are. That is bad

:23:17. > :23:20.for Yohan Blake and Michael Rodgers with his shoe laces undone, then,

:23:21. > :23:25.maybe if he had tied them up, he would have won it. It is sad for

:23:26. > :23:28.Blake, he has had a troubled season. Talking to him, he stumbled out of

:23:29. > :23:31.the blocks in New York and looked awful in the 200. When you are

:23:32. > :23:35.trying to force it, trying to find form, this is what happens, instead

:23:36. > :23:40.of letting it happen. That might be the last we see of him this year.

:23:41. > :23:44.Who knows? It is awful and if his hamstring has gone again, it is back

:23:45. > :23:48.to the drawing board. He will be frustrated, Yohan Blake. But that

:23:49. > :23:51.means next year, he will have do think about what he is doing with

:23:52. > :23:56.his preparation, and make sure that he is ready ready. These guys all

:23:57. > :24:01.rolling. The good news is, James Dasaolu was not far away from the

:24:02. > :24:06.dip. He has been given fourth place. It was very close. He got ahead of

:24:07. > :24:10.Kim Collins in the end. Probably not the best start the James Dasaolu but

:24:11. > :24:14.they are good starters, we know how good Nesta Carter is an Collins

:24:15. > :24:18.flies out of the box even at 38. But James Dasaolu, at this point, when I

:24:19. > :24:24.saw him in Lausanne, he went on from this. He did not quite come on in

:24:25. > :24:30.the last 30 metres, here. Dasaolu maintains it. Ashmeade is coming and

:24:31. > :24:34.coming and gets the nod. Dasaolu equal to season best of 10.03. --

:24:35. > :24:46.equals his season's best. That might get him in the team for

:24:47. > :24:49.Z?rich. Let's hear from him. He will hope so after a performance like

:24:50. > :24:52.that. Steve Cram says that will maybe get you in the team physio

:24:53. > :24:58.Rick. You have done that back-to-back, now, 10.03. From your

:24:59. > :25:01.perspective, had the race go? It was not the best but are equalled my

:25:02. > :25:05.season's best in my second race of the season, pretty much. It is not

:25:06. > :25:13.all going to be there but I'm happy to run 10.03 and mix it up with some

:25:14. > :25:16.of the fastest guys in the world. I'm happy with the performance. That

:25:17. > :25:18.has to be so promising because you are starting your season late

:25:19. > :25:21.because of injury and it is building nicely. No commonwealth games so you

:25:22. > :25:26.will not be back for that, sadly, but you feel confident that the

:25:27. > :25:29.European place will be yours? It is not in my hands. I have done my

:25:30. > :25:34.running but whether I get selected, I will enjoy the rest of the season

:25:35. > :25:39.and try to compete at a high level, and run a personal best. I'm happy

:25:40. > :25:44.to be. Competing in this stadium. In a race like that, are you aware of

:25:45. > :25:49.what is going alongside you, like Yohan Blake's full? No, you have

:25:50. > :25:52.your own lane and you cannot look around. You have to focus on your

:25:53. > :25:56.own race, and trying to execute how you have been training. You did

:25:57. > :26:02.that, tremendous performance, all the best. He will find out if he has

:26:03. > :26:06.the place next Tuesday and we will find out what is wrong with Yohan

:26:07. > :26:10.Blake in the next few days. It does not look like his hamstring at

:26:11. > :26:14.first. Can you throw any light on it? You can never tell, it could be

:26:15. > :26:20.just a twinge or a major terror. He is hurt, that is it, end of story.

:26:21. > :26:24.-- a major tear. His season has been fraught with problems, trying to

:26:25. > :26:28.find with is not easy. He ready explained why he would not compete

:26:29. > :26:31.in the Commonwealth Games and no more explanation needed. But let's

:26:32. > :26:35.dwell on the positives because it has been a fantastic night's

:26:36. > :26:40.athletics. The women have edged it. The performance of the day has been

:26:41. > :26:45.a big debate. Where is it going? I don't know, it is really tough,

:26:46. > :26:51.Katarina Johnson-Thompson going second, with a personal best of

:26:52. > :26:54.6.19. But you have made a decision. It has to be Stef Reid in the

:26:55. > :27:03.women's long jump, a new world record. 5.47, fantastic. She jumped

:27:04. > :27:08.5.45 very recently. Again, she is improving on that. Fantastic for

:27:09. > :27:12.her, delighted. She spoke about the tough times she had in the last year

:27:13. > :27:16.but it is coming good for her. As you rightly say, Katarina

:27:17. > :27:22.Johnson-Thompson's Bibi and Will Sharman, third on the all-time list,

:27:23. > :27:23.shows he's in good form as well. Some great sporting programming

:27:24. > :27:32.coming up for you. Alan Hansen is hanging up his

:27:33. > :27:36.microphone and leaving the match of the Day studio at the end of the

:27:37. > :27:40.World Cup. At 10:35pm, there is a special tribute to him. It is sure

:27:41. > :27:47.to be a fantastic watch. Tomorrow, we're coming back at 2pm on BBC1. We

:27:48. > :27:51.cannot promise sunshine but normal service might resume with a little

:27:52. > :27:54.bit of drizzle. David Rudisha, Greg Rutherford, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

:27:55. > :28:00.all featuring in that tomorrow. Laura Muir going as well and I know

:28:01. > :28:05.you are excited about seeing her. And Lynsey Sharp as well. The crowd

:28:06. > :28:10.will be up for that. If you saw anything from Eilidh Child tonight,

:28:11. > :28:14.the athletes are getting used to the Hampden roar. It has been warm,

:28:15. > :28:16.sunny, a fast track. What more can you ask from the Diamond League? We

:28:17. > :28:21.will see you tomorrow. Goodbye.