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:00:00. > :00:11.silver medal position. -- moves him up. Viviani is down. Cavendish is an

:00:12. > :00:18.his own. He could get a warning, he swung down and that could be a real

:00:19. > :00:23.problem for Mark Cavendish. With just a final sprint remaining,

:00:24. > :00:28.Cavendish in the silver medal position, Viviani, is he going to

:00:29. > :00:35.land a big Olympic title, it is getting closer, he is on the hunt,

:00:36. > :00:40.we still have a Germany, France and Colombia in the lead. Mark Cavendish

:00:41. > :00:46.at the back and he is marking the one man, Viviani has rolled off the

:00:47. > :00:55.front and no one has gone after him. He might get to celebrate in style,

:00:56. > :01:10.Mark Cavendish has made his one man. He is keeping close tabs on the

:01:11. > :01:16.Dane, Lassie Hansen. 39-macro, Boudat, what a trio at the front --

:01:17. > :01:24.Roger Kluge. None of them have the chance to become Olympic champion.

:01:25. > :01:30.Viviani, four laps to go. I think it Cavendish has moved ahead of Hansen

:01:31. > :01:35.but he will rush and try and attack, it is his only shot and Mark

:01:36. > :01:41.Cavendish been watching him carefully. He has let Hansen get

:01:42. > :01:47.behind him, I think he has the legs, two laps to go.

:01:48. > :01:57.The long sprint is on. Cavendish is on his wheel now.

:01:58. > :02:09.They take the bell. Gaviria is not contesting the win overall here.

:02:10. > :02:13.Lasse Hansen is on the attack and Mark Cavendish is on his wheel. He

:02:14. > :02:20.moves ahead. He's making sure he can get the final point on the line to

:02:21. > :02:25.get the silver medal! Over the line comes Gaviria. The rest of the world

:02:26. > :02:29.comes in to finish. Mark Cavendish takes up the final point on offer

:02:30. > :02:33.which makes sure that he has the silver medal for Great Britain,

:02:34. > :02:37.after all the effort and after all the Olympic heartache. Mark

:02:38. > :02:44.Cavendish has an Olympic medal. It's a silver one and it is a richly

:02:45. > :02:49.deserved one. But Elia Viviani of Italy has the

:02:50. > :02:53.gold medal as Olympic Champion. To see you get the medal with the

:02:54. > :02:57.family what does it mean to you? It's really nice, you know? I still

:02:58. > :03:01.think gold would finish the collection but that's just me, you

:03:02. > :03:05.know. Elia was the best guy there, actually. If if you take the points

:03:06. > :03:09.I lost in that elimination, it would have put me right there with him.

:03:10. > :03:13.It's usually my strongest event, the elimination, so I'll be ruing that.

:03:14. > :03:17.But there was nothing I could do there. He was strong. Tokyo in four

:03:18. > :03:22.years' time? I don't think so. I'm tired. I can't do that cycle thing

:03:23. > :03:27.again, you know, that Olympic cycle. But I said that eight years ago. You

:03:28. > :03:30.never know, you know? I say I'm going to retire at some point but

:03:31. > :03:34.I'll have a month at home and people will get sick of me and tell me to

:03:35. > :03:39.go back out on me bike. It's so funny, the look on his face when

:03:40. > :03:44.Jill said, "Tokyo?" At the end of 160 laps. He's like, "You must be

:03:45. > :03:46.kidding me!" There was criticism of Mark Cavendish even being selected

:03:47. > :03:49.for the team out here. Some people thought it wasn't the right

:03:50. > :03:53.decision. He's ended up with a silver medal. Back in February at

:03:54. > :03:57.the World Championship. He was sixth. And there was questions of

:03:58. > :04:01.bringing in John Dibben who performed so well in the scratch

:04:02. > :04:04.race but he's justified his selection. A silver medal is

:04:05. > :04:08.incredible. He was disappointed there. But I think he'll reflect on

:04:09. > :04:13.that tomorrow and realise that was actually, you know, a frmdable

:04:14. > :04:17.performance. So many people on social media talking about the

:04:18. > :04:21.crash. How did you view it? Was it the right decision in the end that

:04:22. > :04:23.he continued to race? All sorts of rumours were flying around about

:04:24. > :04:26.what happened, warning, disqualification and all other

:04:27. > :04:30.things. It's different if it happens in a sprint or a situation that was

:04:31. > :04:34.going to directly affect the result. It was in the middle of the race.

:04:35. > :04:38.There was no sprint on at the moment. I don't think it was on

:04:39. > :04:41.purpose. It was careless, an error and he should have got a warning,

:04:42. > :04:44.probably, for dangerous riding. He swung up to change and came back

:04:45. > :04:48.assuming the rider wasn't there. He's taken him out. You've got to

:04:49. > :04:52.feel sorry for the Korean rider who was looking backwards when Cav came

:04:53. > :04:57.back down he should have been looking forward. Just one quick

:04:58. > :05:03.thing. The other rider there, with Italy on his shorts, to come down

:05:04. > :05:07.behind the Korean is the eventual winner, Viviani. He got up and

:05:08. > :05:13.carried on. It happens quite often in the bunch races. That's Viviani

:05:14. > :05:17.saying he was sorry for that. It wasn't intention. Things can get

:05:18. > :05:21.physical and you can get aggressive in a race but that wasn't an

:05:22. > :05:24.aggressive move. If he was being aggressive, he would have stuck the

:05:25. > :05:28.shoulder or elbow in. It was careless and I'm sure he'll be in

:05:29. > :05:31.touch with the Korean to say sorry. Is that a matter of course sometimes

:05:32. > :05:36.that elbow comes out or the shoulder comes in. It's for safety. If you're

:05:37. > :05:40.riding along and put your hands on the handlebars, if someone hits your

:05:41. > :05:43.handlebars, you'll go down. If someone is coming in towards you,

:05:44. > :05:48.you lean on them to stop them leaning on your bike. It happens in

:05:49. > :05:52.the sprint and kierin where the riders are closely packed together.

:05:53. > :06:02.It's just a hazard of the job. I thought you were going to do it too!

:06:03. > :06:07.So did I. The Omnium is like the heptathlon of

:06:08. > :06:12.cycling. Laura Trott leads at the halfway stage. She's done so well

:06:13. > :06:16.today. She was, I think, most impressive in the pur sued. She won

:06:17. > :06:20.the elimination race, which we expected. In the pursuit she did a

:06:21. > :06:24.national record, personal best, only 1.5 seconds off the Olympic record

:06:25. > :06:29.and that was Sarah Hammer's favourite and strongest event. That

:06:30. > :06:33.might have broke en sayer ia's belief that she might win this gold

:06:34. > :06:37.medal. Laura has three more events to go. She's in a fantastic

:06:38. > :06:42.position. It rests on the points race. She looks to be enjoying it so

:06:43. > :06:45.much. She celebrated as if she already had the gold medal. That's

:06:46. > :06:49.the crowd-pleaser really. You'll see her gaining a bit of height before

:06:50. > :06:52.the sprint, launching it here, the Belgian rider didn't have the looks

:06:53. > :06:55.to attack from the bottom of the track and you'll see her when she

:06:56. > :06:58.comes round the last corner and on to the straight, the hand comes up

:06:59. > :07:01.and the celebration begins and it's great to see her enjoying herself,

:07:02. > :07:04.you know. This is the Olympic Games but it's also a lot of fun. She

:07:05. > :07:09.looks like she's absolutely loving it, which is one of the keys to it.

:07:10. > :07:12.It is. It's about confidence in your ability but also about enjoying the

:07:13. > :07:15.process and taking it one race at a time. We've got the flying lap

:07:16. > :07:20.coming up tomorrow. There's the 500m and then the points race at the end

:07:21. > :07:23.which will be the decider. Well, for the last two Olympics, cycling has

:07:24. > :07:26.been the most successful sport of the lot for British athletes. It

:07:27. > :07:31.could be going that way again. Four gold medals already, three silvers

:07:32. > :07:35.and a definite chance of three gold medals tomorrow. Come to the

:07:36. > :07:38.Velodrome. I am in the Velodrome tomorrow! I am in there tomorrow.

:07:39. > :07:42.Just on that, are you surprised at Great Britain's success? I know that

:07:43. > :07:46.might be a daft question but being at the top of the tree for so long,

:07:47. > :07:48.Great Britain are there to be shot at by other nations who are

:07:49. > :07:52.desperately trying to catch them up. Absolutely. In the last four years,

:07:53. > :07:55.Britain have really been, you know, kind of under pressure from other

:07:56. > :08:00.nations. They've not been dominating. They haven't won world

:08:01. > :08:05.gold medals, you know, left, right and centre. People who may only see

:08:06. > :08:08.track cycling every four years might assume we're dominating all the

:08:09. > :08:12.time. It's been a tough four years but they've bounced back. I'm not

:08:13. > :08:15.surprised, having seen the holding camp in Newport, with three weeks to

:08:16. > :08:18.go, they from flying and I was confident for them. Six months ago,

:08:19. > :08:21.a year ago, I don't think I'd have predicted four golds and three

:08:22. > :08:24.silvers at this stage with the potential for three more golds

:08:25. > :08:28.tomorrow. That would be quite incredible. It would match London,

:08:29. > :08:32.or it would be better than London because we only got seven golds

:08:33. > :08:35.plus, I think one or two minor medals - I can't remember. Beijing

:08:36. > :08:38.eight gold medals. We never thought we'd even get close to that. It's

:08:39. > :08:42.looking exciting. And it's on the back of a troubled build-up, let's

:08:43. > :08:47.be honest, with everything revolving around Shane Sutton. Exactly. The

:08:48. > :08:50.team, I think, in that particular instance, they just, you know,

:08:51. > :08:53.knuckled down and focused on their job and they didn't comment in the

:08:54. > :08:56.press. They stayed out of it and they're all going to contribute to

:08:57. > :09:00.an independent review and let that take care of itself whilst focusing

:09:01. > :09:04.on the job at hand and they've clearly done it very well. It's

:09:05. > :09:07.just... You can almost see that the other nations' heads are dropping as

:09:08. > :09:12.soon as the medals start to come in. They're thinking, "Oh, no. Not

:09:13. > :09:16.again. The Brits are going to dominate." So far busy been a fer

:09:17. > :09:18.effect week. The schedule for various sports at these Olympics has

:09:19. > :09:22.changed from previous Olympics. Boxing is one with finals dotted

:09:23. > :09:26.throughout the week. Athletics is another with some finals takes place

:09:27. > :09:31.during the morning sessions. The women's hammer was one of those

:09:32. > :09:34.competitions. And Britain's Sophie hitchen was right in the particular

:09:35. > :09:50.of the contenders. She winds it up in the third round!

:09:51. > :09:57.Oh, she's let rip here! It's enormous! Oh! It's a world

:09:58. > :10:04.record! The yellow line, her lead, way beyond 80m. Highly anticipated,

:10:05. > :10:11.a world record, 81.08m, that's at least two metres beyond 80m. That's

:10:12. > :10:16.got to be a world record. And Anita Wlodarczyk, well, she said

:10:17. > :10:21.she's unbeatable. I heard a rumour she had nine boiled eggs for

:10:22. > :10:27.breakfast! That's what it does to you. Absolute perfection. Look at

:10:28. > :10:31.this. Wonderful technique, power, balance, poise, rhythm, kept her

:10:32. > :10:35.angles, hugely strong and powerful. And a throw in the four kilograms

:10:36. > :10:47.ham Erfurt than any woman in the history of the sport at the Olympic

:10:48. > :10:52.Games. 82.29m, a new world record. In four place, Sophie Hitchon, 11th

:10:53. > :10:56.four years ago, that's the best ever a female hammer-thrower has done at

:10:57. > :11:00.the Olympic Games so she's already set to make history here if it

:11:01. > :11:05.stands as it is. But she won't settle for this. Winds it up. Last

:11:06. > :11:12.roll of the dice for Sophie Hitchon. Oh, it's down the middle. The hand's

:11:13. > :11:19.in the air. Is it big enough? It is! Sophie Hitchon has saved her best

:11:20. > :11:30.for last! What an effort! That's close to 75m. It's a new lifetime

:11:31. > :11:38.best. It's 74.54m in the last round, a British record for the 25-year-old

:11:39. > :11:43.Brit. What a wonderful throw! She's guaranteed the bronze medal. Only

:11:44. > :11:52.two throws remain and they've already gone past her. 74.54m for

:11:53. > :11:58.Sophie Hitchon. Her coach can hardly believe it.

:11:59. > :12:05.Here's her reaction to that distance. Absolutely brill iant.

:12:06. > :12:08.Fourth a year ago in the World Championships. She's gone one

:12:09. > :12:16.better. That... Well... What an effort as well. It was the last

:12:17. > :12:20.round of the competition. There's the reaction from coach. We've seen

:12:21. > :12:26.a world record and a medal for a Brit, the first time ever Britain

:12:27. > :12:33.has taken a medal in the women's hammer. And it's Britain's Sophie

:12:34. > :12:38.Hitchon who's done it in style, a competitive effort. It makes it all

:12:39. > :12:43.the more impressive with a new national record. She's already

:12:44. > :12:48.celebrating. The competition isn't over yet.

:12:49. > :12:52.To pull it out in the last round like that, the performance of a

:12:53. > :12:55.champion. Um... Yeah, I mean I've said before training's been going

:12:56. > :12:59.really, really well so the distance wasn't really expected but, I mean,

:13:00. > :13:03.to get a bronze medal, I'm just absolutely over the moon, yeah. You

:13:04. > :13:06.took the tone early on with a really big throw and got in the medal

:13:07. > :13:10.positions early so you're thinking it could be your day. Um... You

:13:11. > :13:13.never know in hammer, you know, like, the girls are all throwing

:13:14. > :13:17.really well and, you know, they can always produce their best in the

:13:18. > :13:20.last round so I didn't expect that it would hold third. I just knew I

:13:21. > :13:24.wanted to throw further and, yeah, just trying to execute my technique.

:13:25. > :13:29.Missed it on a few but I knew it was going to go if I just, yeah, kept it

:13:30. > :13:31.going, yeah. So you got the last round, dropped to fifth at that

:13:32. > :13:35.point so what are you thinking going into the circle? Um, I'm thinking

:13:36. > :13:39.just this is it, last chance, just do what I've done in training again

:13:40. > :13:44.and again and again and just execute and, yeah, I did it. And I can't

:13:45. > :13:49.believe it! Such amazing scenes of sell are

:13:50. > :13:53.operation from Sophie. Let's talk to Denise Lewis, who is at the Olympic

:13:54. > :13:55.Stadium. This could be a momentous moment for track and field,

:13:56. > :14:01.particularly obviously the field part of it, Denise. Britain's first

:14:02. > :14:05.ever medal in the hammer at an Olympics and our first Olympic

:14:06. > :14:09.throwing medal since Fatima Whitbread in 1988. It is a momentous

:14:10. > :14:14.time for athletics and particularly for... For Sophie. I mean I can't

:14:15. > :14:18.begin to explain to you how outstanding her performance really

:14:19. > :14:21.was. I mean to have that competitiveness, that competitive

:14:22. > :14:25.brain to react the way she did on the final throw in the competition

:14:26. > :14:30.was just, just remarkable and, yes, as you said, you know, no-one has

:14:31. > :14:35.got a medal since Fatima, the heady days of Fatima and Tessa and how

:14:36. > :14:40.great they were for the country and I'm just really hoping that this

:14:41. > :14:44.will inspire a whole load of young girls at local clubs around the

:14:45. > :14:48.country back home to say, "You know what? I could give that go." Because

:14:49. > :14:51.often throwing, the long throws in particular for women, are just

:14:52. > :14:56.neglected, you know? No-one really gets involved. No-one encourages

:14:57. > :15:00.them, but that single performance from Sophie Hitchon might just do

:15:01. > :15:05.the job. And one of the interesting things about her is that she was a

:15:06. > :15:10.ballerina. So... Does, does that technique in some ways help with the

:15:11. > :15:14.hammer? I mean she was a ballerina a long time ago but that posture and

:15:15. > :15:18.the poise and the awareness of where the body is whilst you're in the

:15:19. > :15:22.circle, I'm sure, has aided to her progression. Because you think back

:15:23. > :15:27.to London and she was, you know, a finalist there. She finished 11th

:15:28. > :15:32.and in those four years, she's managed to produce this sort of

:15:33. > :15:38.performance. I mean it's just incredible. I mean she just... Betty

:15:39. > :15:41.Heidler who has been World Champion on several occasions, she just put

:15:42. > :15:49.her to bed. It's just wonderful. Really, really sensational.

:15:50. > :15:52.The reaction of her coach, Thor Gustavsson as well when he sees the

:15:53. > :15:57.distance she threw is just a great picture as well. So as we, as we

:15:58. > :16:02.enjoy this final throw and the reactions as well, the future must

:16:03. > :16:07.be very, very bite for her. She's only 25 and the other three in the

:16:08. > :16:10.top four as this Olympic competition are all in their 30s. Yeah,

:16:11. > :16:15.absolutely. I mean this is... There's Thor. I mean look at him!

:16:16. > :16:19.He's just... You know, he's put in a lot of work and her post-competition

:16:20. > :16:23.interview was just... Just said it all. That relationship has forged.

:16:24. > :16:27.They've been working so hard together to try and just work that

:16:28. > :16:31.technique, hone it, to make it a good one for these... This

:16:32. > :16:36.competition and she said, you know, "I know I'm in good shape. I know I

:16:37. > :16:40.can do it," but to be able to deliver it on this sort of stage is

:16:41. > :16:45.just incredible. A great amount of self-confidence and self-belief.

:16:46. > :16:47.Thank you very much, Denise, enjoy the evening session at the Olympic

:16:48. > :16:51.Stadium. Do stay tuned in because Sophie

:16:52. > :16:54.Hitchon will be receiving her medal tonight, her bronze medal and also

:16:55. > :17:00.Usain Bolt's gold medal ceremony is tonight as well. Now, what about

:17:01. > :17:08.badminton? We have a very exciting men's doubles pairing. They came in

:17:09. > :17:15.not with high hopes but have been performing way above their rankings

:17:16. > :17:35.so far. Today in the quarterfinals, they were up against Japan.

:17:36. > :17:42.Yes! Super finish. The bulk of the work from he he but Langridge with

:17:43. > :17:45.the finish. -- from Ellis but Langridge with the

:17:46. > :17:49.finish. Ellis but Langridge with the finish.

:17:50. > :17:51.-- from Ellis but Langridge with the finish.

:17:52. > :17:55.And he's pulp eling it down on the right hip of Hayakawa.

:17:56. > :19:01.And at the end of Langridge with the finish. And the lead back to two.

:19:02. > :19:06.Yeah. He managed to get Langridge away from the net and the Japanese

:19:07. > :19:11.are back level. Yeah, there was a raucous cry from them in the

:19:12. > :19:15.penultimate point. At the sharp end of the game, they're putting

:19:16. > :19:19.themselves very -- they're acquitting themselves very, very

:19:20. > :19:43.well. And then the big finish.

:19:44. > :19:49.They continue to amass points and that may turn out to be crucial.

:19:50. > :20:38.Yeah. We've seen a couple of service faults from the Japanese team.

:20:39. > :20:44.Another monster rally! CHEERING

:20:45. > :20:49.Langridge again with the punishment. He was a blistering point from both

:20:50. > :20:53.teams, wasn't it? Incredible. Spreading the court well, both of

:20:54. > :20:57.them, and Ellis setting that up wonderfully and Langridge then

:20:58. > :21:11.sticking the knife in here, closing the net down. Two points away.

:21:12. > :21:16.Can they hold their nerve and keep that kind of form going?

:21:17. > :21:40.CHEERING Well, a miss from Endo. Expensive.

:21:41. > :21:44.So three points from the semifinal of the Olympic Games.

:21:45. > :22:00.For Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge.

:22:01. > :22:52.It's out! And the Brits are through! And they look so confident at the

:22:53. > :22:58.end -- looked so confident at the end. What a result for British

:22:59. > :23:02.badminton! I love that reaction! Falling on the floor and banging it

:23:03. > :23:05.hard and also Chris Langridge said something good afterwards. He said,

:23:06. > :23:09."We're not the best team here. I'm not the best player but we work

:23:10. > :23:12.together as a team," and he sort of said, "I hope everyone can believe

:23:13. > :23:15.that if they put the work in and work together, they can pull off

:23:16. > :23:20.surprises." They're into the semifinals. They are. You find that

:23:21. > :23:25.with a lot of teams. The rowers said that as well. Individually, they

:23:26. > :23:27.might not be great or individually they are very different

:23:28. > :23:32.personalities but put them in the same boat and away they go. Let's

:23:33. > :23:37.catch up on some of the other British headlines from today.

:23:38. > :23:42.As you saw earlier, Great Britain won their sixth game on the spin in

:23:43. > :23:45.Rio in hockey to sail into the semifinals, a 3-1 win over Spain

:23:46. > :23:55.sets up a semifinal against New Zealand, the team they beat to win

:23:56. > :23:59.bronze in London 2012. The canoe sprint got going today but

:24:00. > :24:06.there was disappointment for the Brits in action. Neither Jess Walker

:24:07. > :24:13.in the K1 or lany Belcher and Angela Hannah in the 500m progressed to the

:24:14. > :24:17.final. A gold medallist in the three metres

:24:18. > :24:19.springboard last week is through to the individual semifinal in a pool

:24:20. > :24:27.that is definitely back to being blue. Over, his -- however, his

:24:28. > :24:30.British team-mate, Freddie Woodward agonisingly missed out on a finals

:24:31. > :24:35.spot finishing 19th. Only the top 18 went through. So let's look at the

:24:36. > :24:39.medal table as it stands. Halfway through day ten and Great Britain

:24:40. > :24:45.maintaining their position in second. 16 golds now with a dressage

:24:46. > :24:52.gold added today. 41 medals in total.

:24:53. > :24:55.And we began with a graph so let's end with a graph, comparing how

:24:56. > :25:01.Great Britain are doing in Rio compared to London and Beijing on

:25:02. > :25:06.the same day so, as you can see, after day ten, more British medals

:25:07. > :25:10.than in London or in Beijing, as you saw with the total on the actual

:25:11. > :25:17.medal table, up to 41. Can we go how? Yeah, please. Please. Jason

:25:18. > :25:20.Mohammed is in a lovely studio. I know! There's no rain at all in the

:25:21. > :25:24.studio, Jason. Thank you very much indeed. Lovely and warm in this

:25:25. > :25:30.gorgeous studio. Well done, well handled. Thank you very much indeed

:25:31. > :25:33.to Mark Chapman and Claire Balding. Good evening to you. Athletics

:25:34. > :25:38.topping the bill once again. We'll go live to the Olympic Stadium

:25:39. > :25:39.shortly. First, a reminder of all today's Rio top

:25:40. > :25:49.stories: Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro put

:25:50. > :25:54.in a sublime display to retain their individual dressage be title, a

:25:55. > :25:58.third Olympic gold, a 16th at these Games for GB and she becomes the

:25:59. > :26:06.first British woman to successfully defend an individual Olympic title.

:26:07. > :26:12.Mark Cavendish finally claimed his first Olympic medal with a silver in

:26:13. > :26:15.the men's Omnium, despite an illustrious career which includes 30

:26:16. > :26:18.Tour de France stage wins and a World Championship title on the

:26:19. > :26:28.road. He arrived in Rio without an Olympic medal to his name. But no

:26:29. > :26:35.longer. The Manxman claimed silver mind Italy's Elia Viviani. Laura

:26:36. > :26:41.Trott well placed to go one better than him.

:26:42. > :26:47.Biles was forced to settle for a bronze, her first defeat on the boom

:26:48. > :26:58.since -- beam since 2013. Slight mix-up with the pictures.

:26:59. > :27:03.Apologies for that. British badminton players Marcus Ellis and

:27:04. > :27:05.Chris Langridge reached the semifinals of the men's doubles,

:27:06. > :27:09.upsetting the world niece world number eights. A medal is now within

:27:10. > :27:13.their grasp. So we have a lot of live sport for

:27:14. > :27:17.you this evening. We will be heading to the Olympic Stadium very shortly

:27:18. > :27:22.but on BBC Four, there's the fourth quarterfinal from the women's hockey

:27:23. > :27:25.competition, the reigning Olympic and world champions Netherlands,

:27:26. > :27:28.they are a terrific side, they are going for an unprecedented third

:27:29. > :27:32.gold medal in a row. They are taking on Argentina. That is live on BBC

:27:33. > :27:36.Four right now. That should be a cracking match. Meanwhile, on the

:27:37. > :27:40.red button - this has been one of the most entertaining sports of Rio

:27:41. > :27:46.2016, the weightlifting. We've had some incredible scenes in the arena.

:27:47. > :27:52.There is the men's 105kg category taking place right now. Press your

:27:53. > :27:56.red button if you want weightlifting drama. And don't forget there are up

:27:57. > :28:00.to 24 live streams available online on the brilliant BBC Sport app and

:28:01. > :28:04.depending on your satellite and cable provider, you can watch up to

:28:05. > :28:08.eight channels on the red button. Do check your Freeview red button

:28:09. > :28:12.service too. There are two streams available.

:28:13. > :28:17.So we have lots of sport to catch up on. I shall see you later, but now

:28:18. > :28:22.we head to our very special Olympic team at the stadium for a top night

:28:23. > :29:12.of athletics. This lot can certainly go faster, higher, stronger.

:29:13. > :29:19.I remember it well. Anybody want to open the show? Where did that come

:29:20. > :29:26.from?! That is absolutely fantastic. Brilliant. The A-Team. Andrew

:29:27. > :29:30.Cotter, apologies to you. Sophie hitch qulon is here. Let's start

:29:31. > :29:34.with that. Hurrah! Well done, Sophie Hitchon. We're thrilled for you. It

:29:35. > :29:37.was the most fantastic hammer competition and we're delighted that

:29:38. > :29:41.you're here with us to share your brilliant bronze. Steve, you were

:29:42. > :29:45.thrilled, weren't you and where it's taken the field events? No-one has

:29:46. > :29:47.ever done what you did today. I thoroughly enjoyed it start to

:29:48. > :29:52.finish. Congratulations. Thank you very much. It was incredible, wasn't

:29:53. > :29:57.it? It captured everyone's... The dreams and all that stuff. Loads of

:29:58. > :30:02.questions for you, throw. Um, but I don't want to steal your thunder,

:30:03. > :30:07.Gabby, but that last throw, going into the last round, in fifth place.

:30:08. > :30:12.Yeah. Talk us through what was going through your mind? Um, you know, my

:30:13. > :30:15.coach was just, like, just keep it simple - because I've done it in

:30:16. > :30:19.training so many times and just to bring it into a competition, we all

:30:20. > :30:22.know, it's very difficult and, um, like I said, I've done it in

:30:23. > :30:26.training and I've been in great shape and I knew if I could just put

:30:27. > :30:31.my technique together, then, um, you know, I'd go far and, yeah, it did.

:30:32. > :30:36.It always amazes me, you girls, you women, you know as soon as you

:30:37. > :30:41.release that that - I said to Denise - "How do they know before you even

:30:42. > :30:45.look?" You just know? You can deal the tension on the hammer and it

:30:46. > :30:49.doesn't drop at any point. It feels good as soon as you let go and I

:30:50. > :30:52.turned around and I see Thor screaming as well. So I knew it was

:30:53. > :30:55.good. Tell us about your relationship with him. First of all,

:30:56. > :30:59.I think he's winning best reaction for a coach in the Olympic Games. He

:31:00. > :31:02.was fantastic and obviously what you said to Phil afterwards, your

:31:03. > :31:06.relationship with him is so special. You've got a brilliant dynamic

:31:07. > :31:10.between you. How has he helped you move from fourth in the world to the

:31:11. > :31:17.rostrum in the last year? He's been with me for the last four years

:31:18. > :31:23.after, um, 2012. And, um, you know, it's been a difficult time since

:31:24. > :31:29.then but, you know, after my rough year in 2014, we came out and he's

:31:30. > :31:31.always believed in me and I just appreciate that because there's been

:31:32. > :31:35.times where I've not believed in myself and, you know, I've wanted to

:31:36. > :31:39.give up and it's just been too much but he's been there and, and pushing

:31:40. > :31:46.me as far as I can go and hopefully, you know, we'll be able to go even

:31:47. > :31:49.further. He gives up so much to coach us. He just got married this

:31:50. > :31:53.year and left straightaway to come to Europe and just follow me around

:31:54. > :31:56.basically to competitions and, um, you know, he has three daughters at

:31:57. > :32:01.home that he leaves for the summer and, you know, he gives up a lot to

:32:02. > :32:05.coach us and I'm just very appreciative. Sophie, this is, you

:32:06. > :32:10.know, a huge moment for field because obviously we have to go back

:32:11. > :32:15.to Fatima and Tessa days and 1988 for the last field throwing gold for

:32:16. > :32:18.a woman and a medal for a woman - of course last year in the worlds we

:32:19. > :32:23.had a field medal - but this could be that moment where women in

:32:24. > :32:27.Britain, girls in Britain at school think, "I'd like to give it a go."

:32:28. > :32:30.How did you find the hammer? Everyone goes on about ballet and

:32:31. > :32:35.netball but at what point did you Mick up and hammer a go "this is for

:32:36. > :32:39.me". Well, my parents were involved in athletics. They took me to the

:32:40. > :32:43.local club and I was doing different events like shot and sprints and my

:32:44. > :32:47.granddad was a field official and that's basically how, um, he said,

:32:48. > :32:52."You know, I think you'd be good at this. Have a go." We never looked

:32:53. > :32:56.back, really. Why do you think it is that girls gravitate to the long

:32:57. > :32:59.jumps and sprints and the more, I guess the ones that get more air

:33:00. > :33:06.time? What it is about hammer that you'd say is so great? Um... It's...

:33:07. > :33:12.Very unique event. I mean it's the only, um, event here that you keep

:33:13. > :33:17.one foot on the ground at the same time, um, except for walking.

:33:18. > :33:22.It is just very different. Those events... It's amazing. You've got

:33:23. > :33:27.to try it to believe it. How do you train for the hammer? You

:33:28. > :33:33.can't just throw it all day long. Give us a breakdown of the kind of

:33:34. > :33:37.stuff you do. We pretty much do throw all day

:33:38. > :33:40.long. Basically during the winter, we'll have double sessions during

:33:41. > :33:44.the morning and evening and we'll throw in every single session.

:33:45. > :33:49.Hammer is unique in the aspect that it's not a high impact event so,

:33:50. > :33:52.like, javelin is very, you know, stressful on the body where you

:33:53. > :33:57.can't do it all the time but hammer you can, you can throw all the time

:33:58. > :34:04.and work on your technique and, um, so we throw a lot and then obviously

:34:05. > :34:07.biometric kind of things and we're only throwing for less than five

:34:08. > :34:11.seconds so it's very explosive things that we do. Can I just in?

:34:12. > :34:15.I'd love to know about last year. Obviously just the wrong side of the

:34:16. > :34:18.medals and fourth in the World Championships. What gave you the

:34:19. > :34:22.belief - because you could see it in your eyes that you wanted more than

:34:23. > :34:25.anything in the world - you could see that you really believed that

:34:26. > :34:29.you could do it. What gave thaw? You know, we've come a long way from

:34:30. > :34:32.last year and training, like I've said, has gone better than ever this

:34:33. > :34:38.last winter and I think I've just moved up a little bit of a step and,

:34:39. > :34:42.um, you know that, that - to produce it on the day is obviously very

:34:43. > :34:47.difficult but, um, yeah, like I said, I think I've just come up a

:34:48. > :34:51.little bit of a level. You know what I love about you? You look like you

:34:52. > :34:56.love competing, you can't wait to get in the cage and the arena. You

:34:57. > :35:00.seem to thrive in that environment. Did you relish that today? Was there

:35:01. > :35:03.time when you felt, oh, my God, the pressure is on? After the

:35:04. > :35:07.qualification, yeah. Because I knew I could perform better than I did in

:35:08. > :35:10.the qualification so I was quite disappointed in that. It was just

:35:11. > :35:13.about getting through. Once you're through, anything can happen. And,

:35:14. > :35:17.you know, after my first throw went in the cage, but it did feel... It

:35:18. > :35:22.felt, good, though, technically it felt good and I knew if I could hone

:35:23. > :35:28.it and put it together, it would go far. Where can you go, do you think,

:35:29. > :35:31.with this? You're 25. Yeah. And the women today ahead of you were in

:35:32. > :35:34.their 30s. It's a sport where you've got a bit of time to reach your

:35:35. > :35:39.prime and move from fourth to third in a year where can you take this? I

:35:40. > :35:42.hope to take it a long way. Um, you know, we've worked really hard and

:35:43. > :35:47.hopefully, you know, we'll work even harder and, you know, hopefully I'll

:35:48. > :35:50.have two more Olympics left and quite a few more World

:35:51. > :35:53.Championships. So, um, it's just about putting the work in and not

:35:54. > :35:58.getting ahead of myself, really. We've got a few steps to take. What

:35:59. > :36:01.would you say to any girls who are watching this? I would think they're

:36:02. > :36:04.up late but it will be on again tomorrow morning. What would you say

:36:05. > :36:08.to them if they're thinking about - if this has inspired them and the

:36:09. > :36:12.whole Olympics has inspired them, how would you sell your sport? It's

:36:13. > :36:16.a unique event and it's amazing when you have that feeling, you let go

:36:17. > :36:20.and you know it's going far. Um, yeah, and I think you've just got to

:36:21. > :36:24.try it to see how amazing it does feel. Is it an adrenaline surge when

:36:25. > :36:29.it leaves? Yeah, definitely. You're out there for, you know, over an

:36:30. > :36:33.hour and you get maybe three, maybe six attempts and, yeah, every time

:36:34. > :36:41.you step in, you want to produce your best. 2:35 is the medal

:36:42. > :36:45.ceremony, is it? UK time 10:35. You looked panicked there. Yeah, 10:35.

:36:46. > :36:49.I'm doing it for the UK audience so they stay up and watch you. How will

:36:50. > :36:53.you be on the rostrum, do you think? I think once I step on there, I

:36:54. > :36:57.think it will sink in a little bit more because obviously I haven't got

:36:58. > :37:02.my medal yet so it's kind of like, "Have I really done it?" But, yeah,

:37:03. > :37:06.once I step on there I'll be, yeah, really pleased. Steve wanted to ask

:37:07. > :37:10.just one more question. I've got so many questions by Sophie. I want to

:37:11. > :37:13.talk it through round by round. Of course, we've got to mention the

:37:14. > :37:18.world record. It's never every day you compete in an event where

:37:19. > :37:24.there's a world record and she threw 82m. How aware were you of the other

:37:25. > :37:30.athletes and where they were? Betty Heidlor was just behind you. Were

:37:31. > :37:34.you in your bubble? I try and stay in my bubble as much as possible.

:37:35. > :37:37.Thor tells me off when I look at what other people do. I try to stay

:37:38. > :37:45.blinkered. Even though I don't... Watch them throw I know what place

:37:46. > :37:49.I'm in. You just... Kind of know and when she threw the world record it

:37:50. > :37:52.was amazing but you've got to focus on your own performance. Huge

:37:53. > :37:57.congratulations from all of us. We absolutely loved it, didn't we? I

:37:58. > :38:03.know you're going to enjoy tonight, 10:35 local time, 2:35 in the UK for

:38:04. > :38:05.those of you who want to stay up and watch Sophie. Well done,

:38:06. > :38:09.outstanding. Well done. Thank you. Let's see where Sophie's medal

:38:10. > :38:13.presentation fits into the rest of the

:38:14. > :38:16.evening: well, at 12:30, it's the women's discus qualification, 12:35

:38:17. > :38:22.- I think that's just about started. And the men's pole vault is just

:38:23. > :38:29.about starting. On the track, it's the men's 110m hurdles going at

:38:30. > :38:37.12:40 and the women's 400m hurdles at 1:30, the heats there. And then

:38:38. > :38:40.the men's 800m final is at 2:25, the world record-holder from London,

:38:41. > :38:43.Rudisha Rudd, going in a fairly loaded feel there -- David Rudisha,

:38:44. > :38:50.going in a fairly loaded field there. He has his work cut out to

:38:51. > :38:55.retain his title. The women's 400m final goes at 2:45m so in between

:38:56. > :39:00.the men's 800m and the women's 400m it will be Sophie time as she gets

:39:01. > :39:11.her gold medal in the Olympic Stadium.

:39:12. > :39:16.The men's 110m hurdles are about to start, the heats and Andrew Cotter

:39:17. > :39:20.is calling the first one. Omar McLeod there, the world indoor

:39:21. > :39:24.champion in 2016 and the lead time in the world this year of 12.98. He

:39:25. > :39:28.will certainly, Andrew, be one of the men to beat to be the Olympic

:39:29. > :39:31.Champion in this unpredictable track event.

:39:32. > :39:35.Exactly. It's unpredictable. He's the fastest in the world this year

:39:36. > :39:39.but in his last two races before Rio he fell. He fell in the Monday

:39:40. > :39:43.co-Diamond League and he fell in Hungary as well so that's not

:39:44. > :39:50.exactly a confidence-booster. Things can go wrong in the hurdles but Omar

:39:51. > :39:52.McLeod, 12:98 this season. He became world indoor champion, as you

:39:53. > :39:56.mentioned, and was going so well. Heels not a big man but he has a

:39:57. > :40:02.wonderful Hurdling technique. Conditions, well, it's not raining

:40:03. > :40:07.very heavily but it's a sort of steady damp cloth being lowered on

:40:08. > :40:10.the stadium. It's fairly still, just a hint of a

:40:11. > :40:16.breeze whipping up occasionally. You can see it there, a smile through

:40:17. > :40:21.the rain from Omar McLeod. Jeff Porter of the United States,

:40:22. > :40:27.third at the trials. His wife goes in the women's 100m for Britain and

:40:28. > :40:32.his sister-in-law as well. Four go through automatically here.

:40:33. > :40:40.Jeff Porter and Omar McLeod would expect to be in those four.

:40:41. > :40:45.As we look at the full start list, like for Yeison Rivas and Alexander

:40:46. > :40:58.John. Antwon Hicks, who runs for Nigeria, goes in lane eight.

:40:59. > :41:04.Omar McLeod, Ali Kame, Yeison Rivas, Alexander John, Wataru Yazawa, Jeff

:41:05. > :41:09.Porter, Antwon Hicks and Jeffrey Julmis from Haiti in lane eight. The

:41:10. > :41:21.first of five heats in the men's 110m hurdles, four

:41:22. > :41:29.Cleanly away. Omar McLe, d and Rivas about to hit a couple of Porter

:41:30. > :41:34.coming through for the United States. Omar McLeod and Porter.

:41:35. > :41:38.That's a good run from Omar. 13.28. It was clean. It was safe and,

:41:39. > :41:41.again, that's what you're looking for in the hurdles. Just get

:41:42. > :41:43.through. Getting through quickly is a bonus but get through safely

:41:44. > :41:48.because we've been talking about how things can go wrong. Alexander John,

:41:49. > :41:52.we talked about him beforehand being one of the quicker men. No the a

:41:53. > :41:59.good run from him. Omar was tidy, though.

:42:00. > :42:02.Very tidy indeed from Omar. Basically, Andrew, every time he's

:42:03. > :42:06.stayed on his feet this year, he's won his races. Don't worry about it.

:42:07. > :42:14.If he's clean, he's smooth, he's the fastest man on the track. In every

:42:15. > :42:18.single one of the Hurdles events, we have new sprint hurdle kings because

:42:19. > :42:24.all the defending champions are not running. Omar has a big chance of

:42:25. > :42:28.becoming a new Olympic Champion. He's very clean over these. He's

:42:29. > :42:33.very bouncy. He's very nippy over these bars and he has the

:42:34. > :42:38.sub-10-second 100m sprint which helps him. He's not a big man. A lot

:42:39. > :42:41.of hurdlers are tall. Colin Jackson himself was not particularly tall.

:42:42. > :42:45.But if you've got that bounce and that technique, then you're fine.

:42:46. > :42:49.You're absolutely right. If you've got that real ballistic strength,

:42:50. > :42:52.where you've got the elastic strength that you need for these

:42:53. > :42:56.high hurdles, then high is not really a big issue for you.

:42:57. > :43:00.And he certainly has got that. You can see the way he approaches, the

:43:01. > :43:02.way he runs, he's full of that bounce, a natural runner, brilliant

:43:03. > :43:06.to see. I'm happy that he's returned,

:43:07. > :43:08.really, to good form this year because he suffered a couple of

:43:09. > :43:12.injuries along the way so it's nice to see him do that and be here. To

:43:13. > :43:16.me he's one of the favourites and he's with Phil downstairs.

:43:17. > :43:21.Omar, well done. What's it like out there conditions wise with the rain

:43:22. > :43:28.falling down? It was nothing. Um, I've been through this and I know

:43:29. > :43:31.how to work through, um. : Sorry, I was watching the race. I'm sorry. I

:43:32. > :43:35.know how to work through climates like this because I train in

:43:36. > :43:41.Arkansas so the weather fluctuates. So, um, I just wanted to go out here

:43:42. > :43:45.and get the first run in and just... Have a good set-up for tomorrow.

:43:46. > :43:49.Obviously, it goes up a level tomorrow, semis and final. Yeah. But

:43:50. > :43:53.you're coming in as as the world-leader. You must be full of

:43:54. > :43:58.confidence? Oh, yes. The confidence is always high. It's good to have

:43:59. > :44:01.confidence, especially in a hurdle race like this regardless of what

:44:02. > :44:05.happens. I'm ready to go out and have fun. In terms of the overall

:44:06. > :44:08.Olympics experience, what are you taking out of it? It's amazing.

:44:09. > :44:11.First time at the Olympics, I'm trying to seize every moment and

:44:12. > :44:14.embrace every opportunity and just have fun. You know, that's what I've

:44:15. > :44:20.been doing. Um, you know, competing was long overdue. I was ready to go

:44:21. > :44:23.out there and start competing. But, the time is now, so let's just go

:44:24. > :44:27.out and have fun. That's a great start. Well done. We'll see you

:44:28. > :44:34.tomorrow. Thank you so much, goodbye.

:44:35. > :44:43.Well, it is chucking it down now. Omar McLeod safely through with Jeff

:44:44. > :44:48.Porter, Jeffrey Jul mirks, s and Antwon Hicks. Alexander John was

:44:49. > :44:52.disqualified. It is tipping it down which, of course, I think for the

:44:53. > :44:55.pole vault is far more significant than it is for some of the other

:44:56. > :44:59.events. Yeah, look, it's absolutely the

:45:00. > :45:19.worst possible conditions for pole vaulting. The athletes huddled under

:45:20. > :45:23.the shelter there. You can see Renaud Lavillenie who won't come in

:45:24. > :45:26.at this height. If it worsens, I won't be surprised if this is

:45:27. > :45:30.suspended because there comes a point where it's dangerous, quite

:45:31. > :45:48.simply. It seems to have stalled the event.

:45:49. > :45:52.This was Xue, the first jump of the competition. This is before the rain

:45:53. > :45:55.really started to come down. You can just see it starting to come down

:45:56. > :46:02.there but it's much stronger now and it seems as though the event has

:46:03. > :46:10.been halted. Lavillenie third up. We got World Champion from last year,

:46:11. > :46:16.Shawnacy Barber. It's a great final in the making but, of course, we

:46:17. > :46:24.want to see it on a safe and level playing field. Balner kept his grip.

:46:25. > :46:27.The grip is where the athletes are challenged. There's two ends, on the

:46:28. > :46:30.floor with the spikes but more importantly the grip on the pole. If

:46:31. > :46:36.you question there or doubt it in the slightest, you're in a bad place

:46:37. > :46:42.and that's probably what was going on in the Czech-at-Leith's mind

:46:43. > :46:53.there, an-at-lease who has jumped 5.82m at his best. It's difficult

:46:54. > :46:57.conditions. As we see German Chiaraviglio of

:46:58. > :47:02.Argentina and he bailed out so it's really... And it's not getting any

:47:03. > :47:07.better. In fact, the track is beginning to flood.

:47:08. > :47:10.Yeah, Steve and you can see one of the athletes, he's picked up...

:47:11. > :47:19.That's in lane three, he's picked up his lane

:47:20. > :47:23.marker, Baji of Hungary, and put it over his head. He's making a point,

:47:24. > :47:27.I think. While it's coming down this heavy - next to the pole vault, this

:47:28. > :47:33.might be the worst event to take part in under this deluge we're

:47:34. > :47:37.experiencing just at the moment and there's Orlando Ortega, certainly a

:47:38. > :47:42.medal contender. Recently, very recently given clearance to compete

:47:43. > :47:46.for Spain, a former Cuban. I'm just wondering whether the starter might

:47:47. > :47:51.just hold this a little bit. No, he's climbing up on to his

:47:52. > :48:00.rostrum, I can sey from where I am. There he is.

:48:01. > :48:13.So top four to go through if they can negotiate through these hurdles

:48:14. > :48:19.here. Cabral Baji Anousone, Trajkovic, Buhler, Carter, Ortega

:48:20. > :48:23.and Portilla out in nine. Ortega has run close to 13 seconds

:48:24. > :48:27.this year. He won't do this here. It's treacherous conditions. These

:48:28. > :48:31.tracks are slick at the best of times anyway and look at that, the

:48:32. > :48:35.water is just running off. I can see where I am in front of me.

:48:36. > :48:41.They're shaking their heads and why not? You come to the Olympics games

:48:42. > :48:46.and in Rio it's not what you expect so you've got to focus. Ortega

:48:47. > :48:57.trying to do that. And they're being held a little. Just as they go to

:48:58. > :49:01.the blocks, Colin, tough conditions but they've got to get on with it?

:49:02. > :49:04.Yeah, these are awful conditions for the hurdlers. Under the

:49:05. > :49:07.circumstance, the track looks like a mirror to you because the light is

:49:08. > :49:12.coming from all angles and it's difficult to spot the hurdles

:49:13. > :49:16.properly. So Deuce Carter in lane seven next

:49:17. > :49:20.to Orlando Ortega, the favourite to go through. Baji should go well. He

:49:21. > :49:25.won silver at the European Championships recently in Amsterdam.

:49:26. > :49:28.These in lane three in the green of Hungary.

:49:29. > :49:31.They get out safely. Ortega not going too badly. Baji isn't going

:49:32. > :49:37.well. They're already hitting hurdles. Carter going well. It's

:49:38. > :49:44.damagy, Ortega. Deuce Carter is struggling. Cabral comes through for

:49:45. > :49:48.third and right in the middle, Trajkovic, the Cypriot, top four to

:49:49. > :49:54.go through. Ortega was OK. You got the feeling that somebody was going

:49:55. > :50:00.to mess up then and this is who it was, Deuce Carter, 13.2, best this

:50:01. > :50:03.year 13.20, second in the Jamaican Championships and, well, these

:50:04. > :50:08.conditions might have put paid to - well, they have - there are some

:50:09. > :50:12.fastest loser spots available and it's fairly generous qualification,

:50:13. > :50:18.but he clattered, I think, about the seventh hurdle, Colin and that was

:50:19. > :50:23.it for him. Yes. Ortega out of the blocks really well. He's a beautiful

:50:24. > :50:27.technician. Obviously a former Cuban, now running for Spain. What

:50:28. > :50:30.is impressive about him is that he keeps a cool head. You could see on

:50:31. > :50:33.the start line that even with the rain pouring around him, he was not

:50:34. > :50:38.going to get distracted. He knew he had a job to do. He had to qualify

:50:39. > :50:42.well and get through the race. Baji has been running very well all

:50:43. > :50:46.season. Good performance. Slick, smooth. Shame that the weather is

:50:47. > :50:50.not matching his skills at this moment.

:50:51. > :50:54.He's out of the blocks as well, as I -- as well -- out of the blocks

:50:55. > :50:58.well, as I said. He didn't really hurdle that. He pushed it so hard

:50:59. > :51:02.that he got a little bit close to it so when that happens, you throw

:51:03. > :51:05.yourself up in the air to take a little bit of speed off your

:51:06. > :51:09.performance and every time you see somebody go over a little bit high,

:51:10. > :51:11.they're recovering from what's happened previously. In these

:51:12. > :51:16.conditions, we will forgive him. He'll be much tighter come the next

:51:17. > :51:26.two rounds, so watch out for Mr Ortega.

:51:27. > :51:30.I've just seen Deuce Carter being consoled by Omar McLeod. The rain

:51:31. > :51:37.continues to go down. We might have a delay here. Ortega won that one.

:51:38. > :51:41.Baji goes through. Trajkovic finished quickly. Cabral hit a

:51:42. > :51:46.couple of hurdles but hung on for fourth place. But, um, the officials

:51:47. > :51:50.have walked off now, I can tell you. So the officials have picked up

:51:51. > :51:54.their chairs and walked off. We've got no action currently going on.

:51:55. > :51:58.And that's understandable. These are very treacherous conditions for

:51:59. > :52:03.hurdler and, indeed, for the pole vault and it's not fair to athletes

:52:04. > :52:08.who've had to come all this way to compete in these conditions. So a

:52:09. > :52:13.little bit of a delay here, guys. Understandably, Steve. And there

:52:14. > :52:17.couldn't be a worse mix, could there - it's kind of like the perfect

:52:18. > :52:21.storm of events that's come together tonight, the pole vault - dangerous.

:52:22. > :52:24.The hurdles, makes it almost impossible to see your hurdles and

:52:25. > :52:28.obviously dangerous again as well. And, of course, the discus slipping

:52:29. > :52:32.out of the hand. So suspension of those events at the moment. Carter

:52:33. > :52:34.was shaking his head before the race, Colin. He clearly felt that

:52:35. > :52:38.these weren't conditions to be Hurdling in. No. They're not

:52:39. > :52:43.comfortable conditions whatsoever. And, you know, for the hurdlers

:52:44. > :52:45.themselves, when you're trying to qualify for an Olympic Games

:52:46. > :52:48.semifinal and you know it's a competitive race, you want

:52:49. > :52:51.everything to be as good as you possibly can so you don't make any

:52:52. > :52:55.mistakes. You're just relying on your ability to do that. And when

:52:56. > :52:58.the climate goes against you, you have to add another dimension to how

:52:59. > :53:02.you're going to approach the race. This becomes very complicated then

:53:03. > :53:06.for hurdlers. I mentioned before about the mirror effect from the

:53:07. > :53:09.track. Because lights are coming in from every single angle and when you

:53:10. > :53:12.have half an inch of water on the track, it's very difficult to see,

:53:13. > :53:15.so that could have been one of the things that caused a little bit of a

:53:16. > :53:21.problem for Carter. We're nice and dry. Yeah!

:53:22. > :53:25.Deuce Carter, if they decided now, would there be a situation where

:53:26. > :53:29.they say they cannot go on with the hurdles competition, how is that far

:53:30. > :53:33.for Deuce Carter because everybody from that heat onwards gets another

:53:34. > :53:37.go. We were all saying up here that we need a decision quickly so the

:53:38. > :53:41.hurdlers get off the track or they state out there and run. They made

:53:42. > :53:45.the decision to go out there and run so unfortunately for him, the result

:53:46. > :53:48.will stand. Well, here's deuce Carter's race beforehand. This is

:53:49. > :53:53.him. Look at him. He's not happy with it. No. You can see he's

:53:54. > :53:59.frustrated, Denise. Yeah, completely and in contrast to Ortega, he was

:54:00. > :54:04.focused. You have to stay in the moment and, unfortunately, Carter

:54:05. > :54:08.had already almost given up mentally that it was just not fair. Omar

:54:09. > :54:12.McLeod had a different attitude to the weather. I don't think it was

:54:13. > :54:17.raining quite as heavy for his race. It was still wet. But you make a

:54:18. > :54:21.great point, Denise. Look at Ortega. He's approached it and says, "Hey,

:54:22. > :54:25.it's raining but it's raining in everyone's lane and I know what I've

:54:26. > :54:29.got to do." And like Colin said, he went high above the hurdles, being

:54:30. > :54:32.careful, popping up and making sure he's got good clearance and, you

:54:33. > :54:36.know, you have to, you have to get out there and just do T I was saying

:54:37. > :54:41.earlier today when we were on our way out here that I hated warming up

:54:42. > :54:43.in the rain but it was always, OK, it's raining, it's raining for

:54:44. > :54:47.everyone and get on with it. It would take me a few minutes to sort

:54:48. > :54:51.of get around the fact that it's raining and I don't like it but once

:54:52. > :54:55.I got into it, it was, you know, you ignored it and did what you have to

:54:56. > :54:58.do. You know what, Michael? One of the key things for all the

:54:59. > :55:01.world-class athletes that take you up and beyond everything else is

:55:02. > :55:03.your approach in these kinds of circumstances. It's to remain

:55:04. > :55:07.focused in the job in hand. You summed it up nicely and said it's

:55:08. > :55:10.even for everybody. Nobody has an advantage in the circumstances. It's

:55:11. > :55:14.only about your mentality here that will put you. It is even in that

:55:15. > :55:18.race but obviously the variables go through the evening, don't they? And

:55:19. > :55:22.if you're unlucky enough to be in a heat that is in the absolute deluge

:55:23. > :55:27.we have now, your times might be slower and if you look at slowest

:55:28. > :55:34.losers, that's a problem. For slowest losers... Fastest losers.

:55:35. > :55:37.Yeah, exactly. That is the issue but it's one of the things that is just

:55:38. > :55:40.left to nature. I've been in situations where I was in a

:55:41. > :55:43.semifinal heat where the wind was blowing against us and the heat when

:55:44. > :55:48.the wind was not blowing against them so I was bottom of the pool and

:55:49. > :55:51.ended up out in lane eight. It's what happens. It's part of it.

:55:52. > :55:55.There's no sign at the moment of this rain going anywhere. It, um, it

:55:56. > :55:59.started just as we from getting into the stadium a little bit earlier and

:56:00. > :56:04.it was fairly light. It was nothing to trouble the hair do, was it,

:56:05. > :56:07.Denise. We were all right! And then it was absolutely coming

:56:08. > :56:11.down. And it's tropical because, you know, I'm sitting here without

:56:12. > :56:14.jackets on. It's 22 degrees still, it's not cold but they get this kind

:56:15. > :56:18.of weather. About four o'clock this afternoon, the winds got up, didn't

:56:19. > :56:23.they, and it was like something had blown through Rio. Yeah, it was... I

:56:24. > :56:27.mean I think this is what happens in the winter in Brazil. You get these

:56:28. > :56:30.huge swings. We had a huge temperature swing. It was balmy this

:56:31. > :56:36.morning. It was hot up here. 35 it got to in the in field. What's that?

:56:37. > :56:40.35. Yeah. It was really hot, really warm and now it's cool but that wind

:56:41. > :56:43.earlier today, you see such temperature swings throughout the

:56:44. > :56:47.entire day and athletes don't know what they have to do and what to

:56:48. > :56:50.expect in the evening. That makes it difficult but at the end of the day,

:56:51. > :56:53.like we said, it's the same conditions for everyone. Well, last

:56:54. > :56:58.night, conditions here were a lot warmer, a lot drier and a lot more

:56:59. > :57:04.electric in the atmosphere because, of course, it was Bolt time. His

:57:05. > :57:08.100m assault, his third gold Olympic medal for the 100m was on, so let's

:57:09. > :57:19.go back a little bit shall shall we, and see where it all began?

:57:20. > :57:29.Usain Bolt lives and breathes Olympic titles, gathering them up as

:57:30. > :57:34.though they were daisies in a field. This is his arena. This is his

:57:35. > :57:38.stage. He's attempting to become the first

:57:39. > :57:42.athlete to win three consecutive gold medals in the same event,

:57:43. > :57:46.competing at a level which nobody else has ever done before. Look at

:57:47. > :57:54.the impact it has here and look at the impact it has around the world.

:57:55. > :57:58.Getting ready to rumble in Rio! The Olympic 100m final.

:57:59. > :58:05.Gatlin gets away well. Bolt left a little bit in the blocks. Gatlin is

:58:06. > :58:12.charging but here comes Usain Bolt and Bolt is going to take it! Usain

:58:13. > :58:14.Bolt gets it! 9.80, a magnificent seven snrsmt the odyssey continues!

:58:15. > :58:29.-- seven! The odyssey continues! Listen to the noise in Rio de

:58:30. > :58:38.Janeiro! Listen to the adulation! Look at the love for this man!

:58:39. > :58:47.The triple-triple is on. His already massive legend was

:58:48. > :58:51.extended further last night. He would have been fine in this. We saw

:58:52. > :58:54.him run in the lightning bolt in Moscow for the World Championships

:58:55. > :58:58.in 2013. This would be OK for 100m running. For sprinters, the rain

:58:59. > :59:01.doesn't really matter. When you have to go over hurdles, it becomes

:59:02. > :59:07.dangerous. For sprinters and distance runners, going out there

:59:08. > :59:11.and running, it's just the splashing of the water and what's bothering is

:59:12. > :59:15.warming up in it, making sure you're getting warm, trying to stay dry and

:59:16. > :59:19.then eventually you decide, "I'm going to get wet, I'm going to be

:59:20. > :59:22.wet. Just go with it." He would have been fine in this. I can't believe

:59:23. > :59:26.it was 24 hours ago. What a crazy evening it was, Colin. It was

:59:27. > :59:31.absolutely nuts, wasn't it? It was an incredible 24 hours for us. We

:59:32. > :59:39.saw a world record. How many times in your life does a world record go

:59:40. > :59:44.to somebody by just winning. That's fantastic. French are in the

:59:45. > :59:48.house for Lavillenie, of course, who was supposed to be in the pole vault

:59:49. > :59:52.competition. He still is in the pole vault competition. It's just not

:59:53. > :59:56.happening but they're making their own herimity. We might have to get

:59:57. > :59:59.them up in the studio if it carries on like this. That gip in the back

:00:00. > :00:17.looks pretty good. We thought there would be some local

:00:18. > :00:24.fans, and Shawn Barba of Canada will be competing. Shall we have a look

:00:25. > :00:33.at the 400m from last night? We will have a look at the 100m, with Usain

:00:34. > :00:41.Bolt. You have had a look at this one. Always fun to watch Bolt and

:00:42. > :00:47.analyse him, versus Gatlin. This is Bolt just... Gatlin already has a

:00:48. > :00:51.lead and this is what we are used to. The difference in this race is

:00:52. > :00:55.it didn't immediately switch. Gatlin still had the lead at 60 and that is

:00:56. > :01:00.odd. That is not what we normally see. Bolt left it late this time and

:01:01. > :01:07.that is God. We haven't seen that before and he said that he was a

:01:08. > :01:11.little bit tired. -- that is odd. That is what we saw on the 2013

:01:12. > :01:14.championships, but this time it was a little bit later and it wasn't so

:01:15. > :01:19.much because Gatlin was running so fast. He did get a good start but it

:01:20. > :01:23.was because Bolt took a little bit longer this time to really get into

:01:24. > :01:27.it. He said afterwards that that quick turnaround, he only had about

:01:28. > :01:30.1.5 hours to prepare for this final and was unsure as to how he might

:01:31. > :01:35.structure his warmup because he had never done that before. Normally

:01:36. > :01:39.they have two hours and in that situation what you would do is you

:01:40. > :01:44.would do a full cooldown and then you would do a modified warmup. With

:01:45. > :01:48.only 1.5 hours, it makes it really difficult to figure out what to do.

:01:49. > :01:51.You have to just basically maintain your warmup and keep trying to stay

:01:52. > :01:55.warm the whole time and that is not the optimal situation and that is

:01:56. > :02:00.why we saw the times were not as fast as what we would expect. And he

:02:01. > :02:03.said in his post race press conference that he was looking to

:02:04. > :02:06.bring down his 200-metre world record time but made a pointed

:02:07. > :02:12.comment that he wants a bit more time between the semi and the final.

:02:13. > :02:18.Hoping that they are going to help him out on that. A couple of weeks

:02:19. > :02:25.ago when I talked with him about that he pretty much put that to bed,

:02:26. > :02:30.that the whole... I think he was being a bit cheeky, then. The whole

:02:31. > :02:33.sub 19 seconds, that was two weeks ago at the anniversary games when I

:02:34. > :02:38.talk to him and he said due to the injury, the whole idea of running

:02:39. > :02:43.sub 19 at this point is probably not going to happen. But I think that

:02:44. > :02:47.when he went back after the anniversary games he felt really

:02:48. > :02:51.confident coming in here after the work he did between the anniversary

:02:52. > :02:56.games into here. So he may be back on that again, thinking I feel

:02:57. > :02:58.pretty good. So if he is having some really good training sessions and

:02:59. > :03:03.that could mean that he feels that he can lower it. That would be his

:03:04. > :03:08.opinion. My opinion would be that that is not going to happen. Maybe

:03:09. > :03:12.he has been inspired from what he saw earlier in the evening, he has

:03:13. > :03:16.seen Barba and might be thinking he might get a world record here.

:03:17. > :03:20.Depending on how you look at it, some people felt like old got

:03:21. > :03:25.upstaged last night. Saying you know what? I want to get back on top and

:03:26. > :03:29.I want to be the man again. I am not quite comfortable with this. Maybe I

:03:30. > :03:33.need to throw down another world record so I can get back on top. We

:03:34. > :03:38.would be quite happy if he got inspired like that. And so far the

:03:39. > :03:43.world records have been amazing. I was going to ask about Justin

:03:44. > :03:48.Gatlin. You said that Usain was slow to come through but we saw last year

:03:49. > :03:53.that Gatlin started to over stride a little bit. Was there a touch of

:03:54. > :03:57.that last night? Gatlin has been in the shape he was in last year. He

:03:58. > :04:01.got out quickly last night what he doesn't have that speed once he gets

:04:02. > :04:06.up and into his stride that he had last year. This time he ran the race

:04:07. > :04:11.about as well as he possibly could. I couldn't see any mistakes that

:04:12. > :04:15.Gatlin made in that race last night, it was just that it was not to be

:04:16. > :04:18.because he is not the shape this year that he was last year. If you

:04:19. > :04:23.remember last year he was running the fastest times it his entire

:04:24. > :04:27.life. And I think that he knew, just as I had been saying all year long,

:04:28. > :04:29.that the opportunity was last year and that opportunity was gone this

:04:30. > :04:35.year because the issue with last year was that Bolt's training

:04:36. > :04:36.throughout the entire winter had been interrupted, starting and

:04:37. > :04:40.stopping and starting and stopping, with all those injuries, and he

:04:41. > :04:46.didn't have the time to prepare and get into decent shape for that race.

:04:47. > :04:51.Versus this year, Gatlin will have known that Bolt's training went well

:04:52. > :04:55.all year long, with a one little injury, and he will have known it

:04:56. > :05:00.was a very slight injury and so he knew that the opportunity wasn't

:05:01. > :05:03.going to be here. So at this point I believe Gatlin was running for

:05:04. > :05:06.silver or bronze, knowing that what is going to come through at some

:05:07. > :05:11.point and he just runs his race, which is the smartest thing he could

:05:12. > :05:15.have done. If he had focused at all on Bolt, he probably would have

:05:16. > :05:20.performed worse and been out of the medals. Absolutely spot on. And to

:05:21. > :05:24.add to that, it is the most confident I have seen Usain compared

:05:25. > :05:28.with last year. Everybody was on the edge of their seats, but he actually

:05:29. > :05:32.ran faster to win the world title last year that he ran to win the

:05:33. > :05:38.Olympic title this year so you could see a lot of anxiety for us there.

:05:39. > :05:42.But because Usain is so confident, and things have been so much

:05:43. > :05:46.smoother, it is good to see. Makes it more exciting, that is for sure.

:05:47. > :05:51.If you have just joined us, there has been a suspension to the pole

:05:52. > :05:56.vault and the women's discus and the 100m hurdles because of torrential

:05:57. > :06:00.rain. I thought it was stopping, but it is not, is it? And there are some

:06:01. > :06:04.great shots they are playing out to the Stadium of what all the athletes

:06:05. > :06:07.are doing at the moment to keep themselves busy and they look like

:06:08. > :06:11.they are in St Pancras station and the trains had stopped. They are all

:06:12. > :06:14.lying down on the floor as if they have a camp in there and they are

:06:15. > :06:19.just waiting and chatting away to each other and getting their towels

:06:20. > :06:21.out and sitting down. That must be incredibly frustrating for them,

:06:22. > :06:26.because they don't know whether to keep moving, keep warmed up, how

:06:27. > :06:31.quickly is this going to go, what do we do? This is the first time they

:06:32. > :06:37.feel like you. When you are just waiting, because of circumstances.

:06:38. > :06:44.What is that waiting like? Not quite like that, that is for sure. I am

:06:45. > :06:49.not sure there is... For us, at least we knew what time we were due

:06:50. > :06:52.to go out. These guys at the moment probably don't know at all and so

:06:53. > :06:56.this is when the mind has to take it down a notch and try to relax until

:06:57. > :06:59.you get a bit more information. Then they will start warming up again,

:07:00. > :07:08.maybe they will do a little dance like this. I had to apologise for my

:07:09. > :07:13.people! There is a bit of a Mexican wave going on as well, which is

:07:14. > :07:18.ironic given the country we are in. Maybe they will make up their own.

:07:19. > :07:23.It is time for some samba, surely. There is always a samba band just

:07:24. > :07:26.around the corner. Get them in! In the meantime, an opportunity to take

:07:27. > :07:30.a trip down memory lane and we also in the last few days have seen how

:07:31. > :07:34.clean-shaven Bolt was looking. Looking more like the man who

:07:35. > :07:40.emerged on the world stage in 2008. So why don't we go back and take a

:07:41. > :07:48.bit of a look at Bolt the Younger. They get away for the first time, a

:07:49. > :07:51.very good start from Powell, and Usain Bolt streaking away from the

:07:52. > :07:59.field. It is going to be gold for Jamaica. That is superb. It is a new

:08:00. > :08:05.world record. Bolt not very quickly out of the box, but Bolt is getting

:08:06. > :08:15.into his stride alongside Gatlin, and he is pulling away. He is going

:08:16. > :08:22.to win the gold. Nine point 64. -- 9.60 four. The champion becomes a

:08:23. > :08:26.legend! Gatlin comes away well, and it is Gatlin leaving it at the

:08:27. > :08:30.moment and Gatlin is charging but here comes Usain Bolt, and Usain

:08:31. > :08:35.Bolt is going to take it. Usain Bolt gets it. A magnificent seven! The

:08:36. > :08:49.Odyssey continues. As if you needed reminding, but

:08:50. > :08:53.there they are, the magnificent seven as Steve Cobram last night and

:08:54. > :08:59.there could be to make more as well these Olympic Games. He hasn't aged

:09:00. > :09:03.much, has he -- as Steve called them. He has evidently had some very

:09:04. > :09:09.different battles to get his gold medals. Which was your favourite and

:09:10. > :09:17.why? There are two. You can only have one! Saw those medals there,

:09:18. > :09:20.the favourite is 2008. I have never seen anyone run away from the field

:09:21. > :09:25.the way he did. That was unbelievable. Over 100m he was

:09:26. > :09:30.separated at 50 metres, 40 metres even, he started to separate and

:09:31. > :09:34.then the gap just grew. We had never seen anything like that before. You

:09:35. > :09:44.guys have seen me, but I had never seen that before. He has had more

:09:45. > :09:48.time to reflect! The other thing we didn't talk about there was his

:09:49. > :09:51.World Championships. Last year's World Championship was the most

:09:52. > :09:55.impressive race of all for me because it showed that he was a true

:09:56. > :09:58.competitor, not just the best athlete at a true competitor.

:09:59. > :10:04.Because Gatlin was winning that race for 98 metres and Bolt just stayed

:10:05. > :10:08.in it and his training had been horrible all year. No real

:10:09. > :10:18.consistency. He was still able to win that race. He put himself out

:10:19. > :10:22.there, and he didn't sit out because he was injured, which he could well

:10:23. > :10:30.have done. He decided to come out and still won it. Anything to add to

:10:31. > :10:33.that? Definitely, looking outside the Olympics, that World

:10:34. > :10:37.Championships 100m. Within the Olympics? You can't argue with the

:10:38. > :10:44.fastest, can you? That Beijing performance was stunning, and when

:10:45. > :10:53.he won the 200 back in Atlanta that was mind blowing. But Usain over the

:10:54. > :11:04.100 was sensational. As fast as was London, nine -- 9.60 three. His

:11:05. > :11:13.expectations were pretty strong in that particular moment. But I am

:11:14. > :11:19.with you. That 9.69, we had never witnessed anything like that before,

:11:20. > :11:23.and that does include you, sorry! I think the rain is stopping, we are

:11:24. > :11:26.getting some movement going on, I saw some sweeping brushes to get rid

:11:27. > :11:31.of the water that has built up in various places around the track. The

:11:32. > :11:34.officials have come back out, so they mean business. Maybe they are

:11:35. > :11:38.coming out to gauge where we are. And the good thing about this kind

:11:39. > :11:41.of weather, she says like she has some kind of meteorological

:11:42. > :11:45.background, is that it seems to move through. It doesn't just come back,

:11:46. > :11:49.it is not like being in the north-east of England where it stays

:11:50. > :11:57.all day. What are they doing? They are protecting the disk is. Keeping

:11:58. > :12:01.them dry, because obviously... Well, you can tell what it is like,

:12:02. > :12:20.throwing. I can say I have never thrown disk is... I have, actually,

:12:21. > :12:23.that is not true. -- discus. And this man has had a really blighted

:12:24. > :12:31.career with injury. Can he expect to go through? His shape is very good

:12:32. > :12:36.at this moment. Luckily, he sent me his last trading session so I have

:12:37. > :12:39.seen it on video. He is very swift at this moment in time which is

:12:40. > :12:44.great to see. Here he is at the anniversary games. He ran a very

:12:45. > :12:48.good stride, setting his personal best at what has been great about

:12:49. > :12:52.Andrew this year is he has started to run towards every single barrier

:12:53. > :12:56.well. That comes from confidence. He absolutely destroyed the field.

:12:57. > :13:02.Let's have a look at it again from this angle. Landing and pushing. We

:13:03. > :13:05.see every single hurdle, he is just taking millimetres of every single

:13:06. > :13:09.one of the other athletes, because they are going a little bit softer.

:13:10. > :13:13.That includes the champion, he is just taking a little bit from them.

:13:14. > :13:17.That is what is great to see about him this year. It wouldn't surprise

:13:18. > :13:22.me if he runs a whole metre faster than that which would take him into

:13:23. > :13:31.the zero mark and that means he could be up for grabs for one of the

:13:32. > :13:37.medals. Not here to defend his title, his opponent, and it is not

:13:38. > :13:41.raining right now but it is wet on the track. You will need to bear

:13:42. > :13:46.that in mind as he is setting himself there and working out his

:13:47. > :13:50.strides. He will do, but he trains in Bath. I have trained in Bath on

:13:51. > :13:56.many occasions and we do get wet weather. His coach will insist he

:13:57. > :14:00.goes outside. He doesn't like the softness of staying indoors. So for

:14:01. > :14:05.me I would tell him to go out there and do exactly what he knows he can

:14:06. > :14:09.do. Do not change anything, there is no need to change anything. You know

:14:10. > :14:15.the height of the barriers, just do it. And in the blocks, presumably

:14:16. > :14:21.you can get rid of surface water, does it affect the pressure from the

:14:22. > :14:24.blocks? Not when it is wet. Remember, you are pushing forward.

:14:25. > :14:28.The only thing which is uncomfortable as you don't want your

:14:29. > :14:32.hand slipping. People tend to wipe their legs, their clothes, just so

:14:33. > :14:38.they can get some purchase and feel good. We talk about the weather, and

:14:39. > :14:42.it is fine at the moment. It is just about the mind. The mind has to be

:14:43. > :14:48.strong. When there are distractions around you, you rely on that inner

:14:49. > :14:53.strength and the focus. It is so important, and Andrew was robbed,

:14:54. > :14:57.basically, due to injury, in 2012. And so now, this is his big

:14:58. > :15:02.opportunity. Now that his body is healthy, to experience this

:15:03. > :15:06.experience. It is fantastic for him. You really hope that he gets a

:15:07. > :15:10.little bit of luck when it comes to the injuries that he has been

:15:11. > :15:15.blighted by. And obviously that cramp at the anniversary games was a

:15:16. > :15:19.great shame as well. But he is here, he is fit and strong and it is dry

:15:20. > :15:21.at the moment. So unfortunately for his opponent you didn't have the

:15:22. > :15:31.right frame of mind in the torrential rain. That is the luck of

:15:32. > :15:36.the gods, that is the worst of it. Let's see if our commentary team are

:15:37. > :15:39.back. They also went off to get dry. They are giving me really dirty

:15:40. > :15:49.looks, they didn't really. Our Scottish correspondent.

:15:50. > :15:55.Andrew Pozzi, it was London four years ago that he was injured just

:15:56. > :16:00.before the Olympics in London, and tried to compete, had a hamstring

:16:01. > :16:03.problem, had to pull up in his heat, and then followed so many foot

:16:04. > :16:11.injuries and operations, but now running faster than ever. So this is

:16:12. > :16:15.his latest chance, he is chance at an Olympic Games. Stiff competition

:16:16. > :16:31.in this heat, for going through automatically, Dimitri Bascou is

:16:32. > :16:53.there, Andrew Riley, the South African as well, and Andrew Riley,

:16:54. > :16:56.the Jamaican, he should be quick. Joao De Oliviera is there, the

:16:57. > :17:05.Brazilian, popular with the home crowd. There is the French champion,

:17:06. > :17:16.the European champion, Dimitri Bascou. Eddie Lovett, who runs for

:17:17. > :17:24.the US Virgin Islands, Andrew Riley Jamaica, Thomas of Trinidad

:17:25. > :17:38.Tobago, Andrew Pozzi in late number nine. -- Lane. First of five hits in

:17:39. > :17:46.the 110 metre hurdles. Away cleanly, and Pozzi is cleanly over the first

:17:47. > :17:51.barrier. Pozzi going nicely, Bascou and Pozzi, leading them out. And

:17:52. > :17:57.Riley in a bit of trouble now, but comes through. Survivors are scare,

:17:58. > :18:05.no more than that, that is the knife edge that the hurdlers walk on.

:18:06. > :18:09.There was aghast from the British fans, and I am sure from Pozzi as

:18:10. > :18:14.well, but he kept his composure and his shape, and kept going for the

:18:15. > :18:22.line and one of the automatic qualifying places. He was wanting

:18:23. > :18:25.quite well -- running quite well up until that stage. Everything was in

:18:26. > :18:29.the right place, out of the blocks well, looks very focused, I wonder

:18:30. > :18:35.if this stage, he decides to get into a race with Bascou, and he

:18:36. > :18:40.caught that hurdle, he smashed it, but managed to haul himself in to

:18:41. > :18:46.get that automatic position. Let's have a look at this again. Head on,

:18:47. > :18:50.this will tell us the story. Out hard, driving seven strides into

:18:51. > :19:00.this first hurdle, he is focused on the barrier. Linz in well. Brings in

:19:01. > :19:05.that trailing leg. -- leans in. Just the hurdles in front of him, as he

:19:06. > :19:10.starts to move away, you start to see a couple of leading legs, and he

:19:11. > :19:15.would be wondering to himself, "Am I in the right position? He comes of

:19:16. > :19:18.this hurdle badly. He stands on that one, that is what causes him to be

:19:19. > :19:22.pulled all the way back, and he manages to just keep himself upright

:19:23. > :19:27.to get into the automatic qualifying position. Something wanted to have a

:19:28. > :19:32.look at, he used to stoop low to try and get across the line, but when I

:19:33. > :19:38.watch the finish here from the Brazilian, you can see Bascou is out

:19:39. > :19:41.in front, but four go through automatically, and you see him in

:19:42. > :19:46.the shot here, Superman style, this is the way to make it. This gets in

:19:47. > :19:54.fourth place, because his upper body is somewhere across the line. He

:19:55. > :20:01.timed that so well. If he was half a metre back, he would not have made

:20:02. > :20:10.it. Andrew Pozzi made it, safely through. Congratulations. I went

:20:11. > :20:13.into recovery mode. I made a stupid mistake and you cannot afford to do

:20:14. > :20:17.that here. I just gave everything they could to make sure a qualified.

:20:18. > :20:21.Fully I did, so we can do more tomorrow. How was it with the rain

:20:22. > :20:25.and the delay you had, the conditions were awful just a few

:20:26. > :20:28.minutes ago. We were waiting to come up onto the track, we were told we

:20:29. > :20:35.would be delayed, but it is no bother, it is only 15 minutes, so we

:20:36. > :20:39.just keep warm in just keep ticking over. You look in great shape, you

:20:40. > :20:42.hit a couple near the end, but you are looking in fantastic form,

:20:43. > :20:47.compared to four years ago when you came in injured. This must be a

:20:48. > :20:52.great opportunity to be in the shape. I have come into the Olympics

:20:53. > :20:58.in the best shape in my life, it is just at this cannot afford to make

:20:59. > :21:04.those mistake tomorrow. All the best for tomorrow.

:21:05. > :21:18.Great relief here by us here, because he was running so well. He

:21:19. > :21:22.just hit that hurdle which caused him to crash through the next few

:21:23. > :21:26.barriers, but he is so much in shape and he was running really quickly,

:21:27. > :21:32.so he managed to recover and not do too much damage. We see Bascou

:21:33. > :21:42.looking so smooth, and one of the favourites here, hopefully,

:21:43. > :21:50.hopefully you will see those cricket times, but you see that Superman,

:21:51. > :21:55.Bascou literally, both feet off the floor, is he allowed to do that? He

:21:56. > :21:59.did not seem to hit the hurdle there, or did he. I don't think he

:22:00. > :22:06.hit the hurdle, but he can say that he was actually just leaning for the

:22:07. > :22:10.tape, that is what he could say. I mean, it is objective in the end,

:22:11. > :22:13.they would have to make a decision. I don't know if there is any rule

:22:14. > :22:18.that says that you cannot relieve, your feet cannot leave the track as

:22:19. > :22:23.you cross the line. It has to be quicker to keep running, it can't be

:22:24. > :22:29.a new trick that comes in. I learned that early on. Sometimes if you do

:22:30. > :22:35.not time your lean right, it can take away from your time. You are

:22:36. > :22:40.better off to shore staying upright. -- to shore. -- for sure.

:22:41. > :22:49.He is a star of hurdling, he is not in the NFL yet, but he is a star of

:22:50. > :23:02.American football, University of Warwick on, -- Oracle on. --

:23:03. > :23:06.University of Oregon. Devon Allen, he comes here as one of the medal

:23:07. > :23:16.favourites, are very confident young man. He goes in Lane nine. And he is

:23:17. > :23:19.so inexperienced at this level and indeed in terms of international

:23:20. > :23:23.competition, he will not know too much about any of these athletes,

:23:24. > :23:27.I'm not sure he has even raced against many of them. It is not the

:23:28. > :23:48.easiest of heats, although the top four should be OK to him. Belocian

:23:49. > :23:54.in lane three from France, there he is. He had a big knee injury playing

:23:55. > :23:59.American foot or last year he was actually playing in the Rose Bowl

:24:00. > :24:03.are the big college game, he blew his knee at when returning the

:24:04. > :24:09.kick-off, and no track season last year to speak of, really. Managing

:24:10. > :24:14.somehow to play both sports to a very high level. He says he would

:24:15. > :24:17.like to do that for the rest of his career. I wonder if he won a gold

:24:18. > :24:23.medal, whether that would change that. His cousin won a silver medal

:24:24. > :24:33.in boxing in 1988, a real sporting family. Allen in Lane nine. Belocian

:24:34. > :24:41.of France right over far side in lane three, he won a bronze medal in

:24:42. > :24:44.the recent European Championships. Traber from Germany in lane five, he

:24:45. > :25:04.is in good form as well. That was the Frenchman. Belocian

:25:05. > :25:15.very clearly, he held his hands as well, he had his hands to his head.

:25:16. > :25:20.He can jump up and down, Colin, you are a great start, there are nerves

:25:21. > :25:24.out there, but this is top four, it is not a difficult qualification,

:25:25. > :25:32.you understand it in a semi-final or something. And he is a champion. In

:25:33. > :25:36.big races we have seen him do well. He will be devastated. He is a

:25:37. > :25:40.potential finalist, and he does that. He will be absolutely furious

:25:41. > :25:45.with himself. He is now just going to have to wait because I think

:25:46. > :25:49.there will be no excuse, the card is going to come. That is not fair to

:25:50. > :25:54.everybody else. We know he would be distraught, and he is upset, but he

:25:55. > :25:59.just needs to move away and deal with his emotions away from the rest

:26:00. > :26:10.of the guys, and he is doing that now. A lot of French supporters, we

:26:11. > :26:11.saw earlier on in the crowd, he has gone from being distraught to being

:26:12. > :26:31.furious with himself, I am sure. I don't think he is really

:26:32. > :26:34.listening, honestly. He just needs to keep away from the start, to be

:26:35. > :26:48.honest. He does not know where to go. All right, we have got Traber,,

:26:49. > :26:52.the rest of the field, and Devon Allen at the American sensation.

:26:53. > :27:14.There he is. Away cleanly this time. Allen gets a

:27:15. > :27:21.good start, so does Traber. Allen is just about leading this one. It is

:27:22. > :27:29.the Greek athlete just taking it from the American, Douvalidis, has

:27:30. > :27:35.an awful lot of experience, and despite the empty lane either side

:27:36. > :27:38.of him, he was fine. Just assess this young man. Not somebody we know

:27:39. > :27:42.that well, a lot of things being said about him, he is a very

:27:43. > :27:47.confident young man, and the new American champion, but we have not

:27:48. > :27:51.releasing in much on the as well. Certainly my first proper look at

:27:52. > :27:56.him, apart from what I have seen, the first have seen him live. The

:27:57. > :28:03.first I have seen him live as well. I like him straightaway. Just to get

:28:04. > :28:07.into the rhythm, you need to get your cadence going, you can see how

:28:08. > :28:13.he takes the hurdle there, his hips completely dropped. He is not as

:28:14. > :28:17.tall as some of the other athletes, his body composition and his legs it

:28:18. > :28:23.in very short in comparison to his upper body. -- his legs seem very

:28:24. > :28:36.short. Out of the blocks, he is a bit taller then Andrew Pozzi, you

:28:37. > :28:40.can see when he hits that barrier, his whole hip struck, and that

:28:41. > :28:44.caused him to hit the next hurdle, now he has to pop up a little bit

:28:45. > :28:48.and give himself someone to recover. Otherwise you will keep hitting the

:28:49. > :28:51.barriers and pulling yourself back. This is just the learning curve, it

:28:52. > :28:57.is getting those cobwebs out, he has not raced for sometime now. I think

:28:58. > :29:06.he will polish that up by the next round. But he looks pretty good.

:29:07. > :29:17.We are in the second round of the women's discus qualification. The

:29:18. > :29:29.Croatian, a fowl in the first round, water qualification is 62 metres. --

:29:30. > :29:33.it has nearly hit one of the officials, on the edge of the centre

:29:34. > :29:42.they are. It is another foul for Perkovic. She is under real pressure

:29:43. > :29:45.then, she has only one more chance, huge odds-on favourite to take the

:29:46. > :29:55.title here at the Olympics. Look at this. Only just misses this

:29:56. > :30:00.official. It was a long throw, but two crosses, two fouls. One more

:30:01. > :30:09.chance. Here is the world champion from last year, also on a fowl. The

:30:10. > :30:13.discus throwers destructed by the rain -- disrupted by the rain, as

:30:14. > :30:19.have all the Olympians this evening. The warmup was disrupted, by a good

:30:20. > :30:27.20 minutes. Caballero Wines herself up, a big shout, Wines herself up.

:30:28. > :30:39.She has hit the cage and it is also a red flag and a fowl. -- foul. To

:30:40. > :30:51.resounding favourites, Caballero and Perkovic, both on fouls. Another

:30:52. > :30:53.final that has been disrupted about to get under way to as the men's

:30:54. > :31:07.pole vaulting. There's Renaud Lavillenie. I spoke

:31:08. > :31:11.to Steve Hooker, from the Australian commentary team next to us, and he

:31:12. > :31:14.said this will go down to whoever is best at waiting. And Lavillenie is

:31:15. > :31:16.well used to doing that. Yes. You have to be patient on a

:31:17. > :32:06.night like this. Lawrence Clarke goes in the final

:32:07. > :32:12.heat in this round. He finished fourth in London but that would be a

:32:13. > :32:22.-- was a surprise. It's a tough heat he's got to make

:32:23. > :32:25.it through the first round. Lawrence Clarke is certainly capable

:32:26. > :32:29.of the speed that would get him through. He's a consistent and tidy

:32:30. > :32:34.runner. As I mentioned, it's a tough heat because there are five men in

:32:35. > :32:38.this line-up who have run quicker times this season than Lawrence

:32:39. > :32:47.Clarke and only four go through automatically. Czykier has done so,

:32:48. > :32:57.Martinot-Lagarde has done so, and Ronnie Ash there. There is Ash,

:32:58. > :33:08.second in the US trials behind Devon Allen, who we've just seen.

:33:09. > :33:16.The French look as if they're all carrying rucksacks.

:33:17. > :33:19.I'm sure they're not. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde doesn't like

:33:20. > :33:26.the start, he says. He prefers the middle of the rice when he's in

:33:27. > :33:34.autopilot as he calls it. But his team-mate has gone out. Can

:33:35. > :33:38.Lawrence Clarke get into the semifinals here?

:33:39. > :33:52.The final heat in the first round of the men's 110m hurdles.

:33:53. > :33:57.You can see Martinot-Lagarde bounds and strides to the first barrier and

:33:58. > :34:01.Lawrence Clarke is going nicely at the moment. And also going well is

:34:02. > :34:05.Ronnie Ash on the inside here. And Martinot-Lagarde and Ronnie Ash

:34:06. > :34:11.and Lawrence Clarke is there and takes third place! Some way behind

:34:12. > :34:15.Martinot-Lagarde and Ronnie Ash. I think Czykier was finishing quickly

:34:16. > :34:18.for Poland in fourth. But Ash and Martinot-Lagarde take the first two,

:34:19. > :34:21.Lawrence Clarke is safely through in third place. A round of applause for

:34:22. > :34:27.fans and for himself. Job well done. Yes. Very competent bit of Hurdling

:34:28. > :34:30.from Lawrence. He's one of these athletes who is good technically and

:34:31. > :34:35.he gets into what I call a Hurdling groove. So he gets a great rhythm

:34:36. > :34:39.that he just establishes very early and he keeps in that. That's always

:34:40. > :34:42.good to see. Hurdling groove. So he gets a great rhythm that he just

:34:43. > :34:44.establishes very early and he keeps in that. That's always good to see.

:34:45. > :34:47.That's one of the strengths that helped him make the final in 2012

:34:48. > :34:50.because he had good speed coupled with real confidence. So for me it

:34:51. > :34:57.was a good run by Lawrence and I'm happy to see him through. Actually,

:34:58. > :35:04.I'm noticing that the Brazilian, Souza got through in instead of

:35:05. > :35:08.Szykier. Brazilians are performing above their level. That's what you

:35:09. > :35:11.want to see. We've always talked about home crowd advantage and what

:35:12. > :35:15.can happen when you've get everybody in a stadium cheering for you,

:35:16. > :35:19.really. It's a good performance from him. You can see Martinot-Lagarde to

:35:20. > :35:24.the right of our screen, Lawrence Clarke to the left. Pascal always

:35:25. > :35:28.looks tense over the barriers, doesn't he? Really focused there.

:35:29. > :35:33.Lawrence just relies on a little bit more finesse.

:35:34. > :35:38.Lawrence, safely through. How was it for you? It was good. I got out

:35:39. > :35:42.remarkably well. I didn't want to take any risks. I had the same thing

:35:43. > :35:46.in London. The first round has to be clean. Someone got a false start in

:35:47. > :35:49.the race before me and it reminds you can't make mistakes. In the

:35:50. > :35:52.semifinal, anything can happen. Obviously last time I made it

:35:53. > :35:57.through as the fastest loser to the Olympic final so tomorrow night I'm

:35:58. > :36:03.coming back with my game face on and it's a die race. On paper, there are

:36:04. > :36:09.some guys who go faster than you there. It so -- it's a do-or-die

:36:10. > :36:14.race. On paper, there are guys who go faster than you there. I was

:36:15. > :36:18.outside the semifinal slot and came four. I'm 31st here, I think. It's

:36:19. > :36:21.the same really. When people get out on a semifinal startline, it's like

:36:22. > :36:26.you can't breathe. People will choke. So, you know, fingers

:36:27. > :36:30.crossed. I'm in great shape. So... It seems like you relish it. I love

:36:31. > :36:33.it. No other race matters apart from this. The Olympic semifinal, my

:36:34. > :36:37.whole family is hereafter. I couldn't be happier. Fantastic.

:36:38. > :36:41.Enjoy tomorrow. See you then. Thank you very much. See you tomorrow.

:36:42. > :36:44.There's an appreciation from Lawrence Clarke himself that he's

:36:45. > :36:47.not the quickest but if he's in the semifinals and perhaps makes the

:36:48. > :36:50.final, if he's there and he's a clean, tidy hurdler so other things

:36:51. > :36:56.can happen and he's got to be there to have a chance. He's certainly

:36:57. > :37:02.through to the semifinal. Ronnie Ash, Martinot-Lagarde, Souza going

:37:03. > :37:06.through and fastest loser from that heat in Czykier and Ristic. These

:37:07. > :37:12.are all the qualifiers for the semifinals, which are tomorrow, with

:37:13. > :37:16.the final just a few hours later. Omar McLeod was the quickest

:37:17. > :37:21.qualifier. Two Frenchmen through and two Britons through as well.

:37:22. > :37:23.A couple of Brazilians made it as well.

:37:24. > :37:27.So a good-looking event from an international point of view and from

:37:28. > :37:31.a home point of view from the Brazilian crowd, it will be a good

:37:32. > :37:35.evening for the semifinals and the final tomorrow.

:37:36. > :37:38.Well, we got there in the end, didn't we? We had a delay of 25

:37:39. > :37:47.minutes or so with the rain and the weather. The rain is definitely gone

:37:48. > :37:51.and the heats carried on and well done to the British boys Andrew

:37:52. > :37:54.Pozzi is through and Lawrence Clarke.

:37:55. > :37:58.Pascal Martinot-Lagarde was best in the world in 2014 and we're just

:37:59. > :38:01.observing his style of hurdling. It looks a bit awkward because of his

:38:02. > :38:08.height. I was saying to you that it looks

:38:09. > :38:14.like between the hurdles he doesn't lift his legs up high.

:38:15. > :38:18.What's going on with him. Because he's so tall, he has to make

:38:19. > :38:21.allowances for the hurdles. He doesn't stride out in the same way

:38:22. > :38:26.as the other guys. He has to get his feet down really quickly in order to

:38:27. > :38:29.make room for those barriers. You know, he's a world-class hurdler but

:38:30. > :38:33.what was more concerning was those, um, things on his urges. Yeah, it's

:38:34. > :38:36.not because he's cycling home in the dark. You were explaining the

:38:37. > :38:40.science behind them, Michael and perhaps we'll come back to them in a

:38:41. > :38:44.moment because Usain Bolt is in the house and you can see that look

:38:45. > :38:48.there is because the crowd have started booing again because Justin

:38:49. > :38:52.Gatlin is also in the house ready for his medal presentation, his

:38:53. > :38:56.silver medal and Seb Coe looks bemused. Usain Bolt said post-race

:38:57. > :39:00.yesterday he had never heard it before and he found it very

:39:01. > :39:04.disconcerting. Yeah. Usain Bolt said, you know, this is something

:39:05. > :39:08.he's never heard before and he kind of chuckled that it was weird and

:39:09. > :39:11.bizarre and then you saw Seb Coe there as well just kind of looking

:39:12. > :39:15.like what's going on here. It's an interesting situation when you've

:39:16. > :39:19.got a crowd booing the athletes that have tested positive and we've heard

:39:20. > :39:23.about the swimming athletes pointing fingers at athletes who have tested

:39:24. > :39:26.positive and pointing them out. It's disappointing that athletes feel

:39:27. > :39:30.that they have to do this and the fans feel that they have to start,

:39:31. > :39:33.you know, highlighting these situations and maybe that's because

:39:34. > :39:37.they feel like the governing bodies are not doing it and they have to

:39:38. > :39:41.take matters in into their own hands. They have not booed any

:39:42. > :39:44.other. It's disappointing because I think that it's not what the

:39:45. > :39:50.competition and competitive environment is supposed to be about.

:39:51. > :39:54.They seem to be selective in who they're booing. But let's go down to

:39:55. > :39:56.Steve Cram because this is a moment to enjoy, the legend that is Usain

:39:57. > :40:05.Bolt, Steve. Yes. A couple of legends presenting

:40:06. > :40:12.the medals, Seb Coe and the 1972 Olympic Champion.

:40:13. > :40:18.Andre De Grasse has shared a bronze medal and he gets one himself. Now

:40:19. > :40:23.let's listen to the crowd reaction to Justin Gatlin.

:40:24. > :40:29.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Well, a little more mixed, I would

:40:30. > :40:33.say, this time. Well, Gatlin - you heard Michael

:40:34. > :40:39.Johnson saying there - was never really on the cards. It didn't look

:40:40. > :40:44.as though he believed he could beat Bolt. After the semifinal, we

:40:45. > :40:50.thought, "That's it." For about 30 or 40 metres when Gatlin had gone

:40:51. > :41:02.out hard, as he always does, and Bolt was 1.5m behind and then... The

:41:03. > :41:05.inevitable happened. ANNOUNCER: The Olympic Champion,

:41:06. > :41:12.representing Jamaica... Usain Bolt! CHEERING

:41:13. > :41:19.Well, it's almost as though he's waiting for the cheer! Usain Bolt

:41:20. > :41:24.steps up to take his seventh Olympic gold medal, his third, an

:41:25. > :41:30.unprecedented third gold medal in the 100m. And just to add another

:41:31. > :41:40.statistic, it was the 50th time he's run under 10 seconds.

:41:41. > :41:45.And he stayed an awful long time afterwards, did all of the things he

:41:46. > :41:49.normally does with the world's media, signing autographs and

:41:50. > :41:58.keeping everybody happy. The fans, as well.

:41:59. > :42:05.And this, a very familiar sight and a very familiar tune.

:42:06. > :42:58.JAMAICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS

:42:59. > :43:04.Well, he could stop now, if he wanted to, and his place in history

:43:05. > :43:10.has been cemented, of course it has. He probably could have stopped after

:43:11. > :43:14.2008 to be honest or 2009 or 2012 or 2015 but we're all delighted he's

:43:15. > :43:19.still going in 2016 and more to come from him here in Rio. For now, he

:43:20. > :43:24.can enjoy his seventh Olympic gold medal.

:43:25. > :43:30.Not an overall tactile rostrum, that one, is it? But well done, huge

:43:31. > :43:34.congratulations, of course, to Usain Bolt. An incredible achievement,

:43:35. > :43:37.incredible getting through that bizarre medals ceremony. That was

:43:38. > :43:42.one of the strangest things I've witnessed for a while. It was and,

:43:43. > :43:47.you know, we saw Usain Bolt sitting there looking around going, "What's

:43:48. > :43:50.going on?" And he shook his head like "I'm not going to try and

:43:51. > :43:54.figure it out any more". It was bizarre. It was bizarre. There was a

:43:55. > :43:59.booing and then a cheer in a most inappropriate place. You know, um, I

:44:00. > :44:03.don't like booing. I don't like it at all. Whatever you feel about

:44:04. > :44:09.someone, don't clap. But please don't boo. Yeah, I completely agree.

:44:10. > :44:15.Completely agree. Let's head out into the field. It

:44:16. > :44:21.was delayed but the women's discus is well and truly under way and

:44:22. > :44:22.Sandra Perkovic has not had a very good expedition so far, Steve

:44:23. > :44:34.Backley. The reigning Olympic Champion will

:44:35. > :44:37.be tested in this very department with this throw because she needs to

:44:38. > :44:45.get the discus out. This is the first of two pulls so it's difficult

:44:46. > :44:49.to know exactly how far but it's on its way. There's nothing more she

:44:50. > :44:56.can do. I think she likes it. Oh, look at that. Look at that. That's

:44:57. > :45:00.why she's the champion. The pressure was on and she delivered.

:45:01. > :45:08.Probably the longest throw we've seen in this first of two pulls. The

:45:09. > :45:11.British thrower is going in the second pool. We're looking forward

:45:12. > :45:17.to seeing how she gets on. It doesn't matter how far it is. The

:45:18. > :45:22.gold line is the autoqualifying of 62m. Any athlete who goes beyond

:45:23. > :45:27.that will advance to tomorrow's final. That was modest by her own

:45:28. > :45:36.standards. The longest throw, saved it to the last round and she's in

:45:37. > :45:44.the final. But another athlete of note, Denia

:45:45. > :45:46.Caballero, also on two feels, beat Perkovic last year at the World

:45:47. > :45:52.Championships and is highly expected to qualify for the final but in

:45:53. > :45:57.exactly the same position as Perkovic was before that throw. How

:45:58. > :46:07.does Caballero deal with that pressure? Oh, like that.

:46:08. > :46:12.Well, isn't that amazing? Both athletes in that round, where it

:46:13. > :46:16.could have gone oh, so wrong, produced their best. It has dried

:46:17. > :46:19.off, mind, and it was very wet indeed. I'm sure that was part of

:46:20. > :46:24.the problem. Lots on that. Lots of forward. I think Caballero will be

:46:25. > :46:28.one to watch, possibly, to take this title.

:46:29. > :46:33.It was Perkovic four years ago, though, looking to defend. Caballero

:46:34. > :46:42.will challenge her. It's enough to advance to tomorrow's final.

:46:43. > :46:46.Well, I would say the stadium is a little over half full tonight. We

:46:47. > :46:51.slightly worried that the Monday evening session, you know, after the

:46:52. > :46:56.weekend's incredible nights, might not be as busy but I think the rain

:46:57. > :47:00.also has not helped, has it? But they're out there and they've got an

:47:01. > :47:05.interest, of course, in the pole vault to come as well, with

:47:06. > :47:08.Brasilia. So hopefully the crowds will stay for the rest of the

:47:09. > :47:13.evening. They've seen Usain Bolt take his gold medal in that

:47:14. > :47:17.presentation just there. But let's relive another incredible moment

:47:18. > :47:20.from last night. We all thought we were here building up to Usain

:47:21. > :47:24.Bolt's third Olympic gold in the 100m. We knew there was going to be

:47:25. > :47:27.a fantastic 400m final. We weren't quite sure just how electric it

:47:28. > :47:43.would be. I way they go.

:47:44. > :47:47.LaShawn Merritt will hunt them down. Kirani James will hunt them down too

:47:48. > :47:51.and Wayde van Niekerk on the far extremes. No-one outside him except

:47:52. > :47:54.for the roar of the crowd and LaShawn Merritt, LaShawn Merritt so

:47:55. > :47:58.close to Kirani James already. It's surely between these three! Matthew

:47:59. > :48:05.Hudson-Smith a long way back with the rest. Macel Cedenio will try to

:48:06. > :48:10.get there. It's these three men. Wayde van Niekerk has gone out very

:48:11. > :48:13.quickly. Can he hold on? Three men and the gold medal is waiting for

:48:14. > :48:19.one but van Niekerk is going further clear. Kirani James and LaShawn

:48:20. > :48:25.Merritt tied up. Van Niekerk takes it and it is a new world record,

:48:26. > :48:30.43.03, extraordinary, inside the Olympic Stadium in region mayor-io!

:48:31. > :48:34.And Michael Johnson's record has gone! Olympic gold! And the fastest

:48:35. > :48:46.400m of all time! An incredible race, an incredible

:48:47. > :48:50.new world record for Wayde van Niekerk, who, um, who really blew

:48:51. > :48:54.this event epart, anyway, last year, running in the first 400m final in a

:48:55. > :48:57.major championship with three runners under 44 seconds and then

:48:58. > :49:03.last night he went one better and that was him getting his medal a

:49:04. > :49:09.little bit earlier on this evening. And has the phone stopped ringing

:49:10. > :49:11.now, Michael? Still a little bit of ringing and texting and all of that

:49:12. > :49:15.sort of thing but, um, you know, more and more people are wanting to

:49:16. > :49:19.hear more and more about how did he do it, which is what I'm more

:49:20. > :49:24.interested in talking about. Because it was such an impressive race. He

:49:25. > :49:28.did it by running through the first 200m in 20.5, I mean just

:49:29. > :49:32.unbelievable pace and what was most important, as someone said, he broke

:49:33. > :49:36.the world record by running so fast through the first 200m. He run the

:49:37. > :49:41.world record by running faster in the first 200m and then being able

:49:42. > :49:45.to sustain that. Because what you do on the front end, takes its pace on

:49:46. > :49:49.the back end. We're going to get back down to the track because it's

:49:50. > :49:54.the women's 400m hurdles heat which will be under way for you and Andrew

:49:55. > :50:06.Cotter and Colin Jackson are calling the first one.

:50:07. > :50:14.I'm interesting to see how she runs. The real medal contenders will

:50:15. > :50:23.probably come in later heats but I'm interesting to see how this prodigy

:50:24. > :50:28.goes. This was the first woman to retain a

:50:29. > :50:33.world title in this event, having also won in this event. But Sydney

:50:34. > :50:41.McLaughlin, as I say, an extraordinary talent.

:50:42. > :50:47.Youngest US Olympic athlete since Munich in 1972. And if she's nervous

:50:48. > :50:55.at this stage, she's not showing it. Another youngster inside her in the

:50:56. > :50:58.Italian, 19, finished fourth in the recent World Championships,

:50:59. > :51:04.Folorunso. And we have Tracey from Jamaica in

:51:05. > :51:12.seven. We have Fontanive of Switzerland in three. Hejnova of the

:51:13. > :51:20.can Czech Republic in four. Maiyo of Kenya in lane five. Troest from

:51:21. > :51:25.Denmark in six, Tracy from Jamaica in seven and Hechavarria of Cuba in

:51:26. > :51:31.eight. Three will go through automatically to the semifinals.

:51:32. > :51:36.Hejnova has been hampered by Achilles injuries and is not the

:51:37. > :51:42.force she was. Sydney McLaughlin, a steady start,

:51:43. > :51:47.looking towards Petra Fontanive of Switzerland outside her.

:51:48. > :51:53.We look now at Sydney McLaughlin, the 17-year-old, just turned 17, and

:51:54. > :52:06.now she's trying to trace down Hejnova, who has picked up pace and

:52:07. > :52:12.is looking strong. Folorunso is trying to get on terms with

:52:13. > :52:16.McLaughlin and Folorunso passes her, the 19-year-old and 17-year-old. A

:52:17. > :52:24.good finish too but it's the Jamaican, Ristananna Tracey, who

:52:25. > :52:27.takes it, Hejnova over the line, Folorunso third and McLaughlin was

:52:28. > :52:31.run out of it there. She promised so much after her efforts at the US

:52:32. > :52:35.trials, but she didn't quite deliver. Sometimes that does happen

:52:36. > :52:39.for the American athletes on a world stage who have delivered so much

:52:40. > :52:44.domestically and a quizzical look on her face. It just wasn't happening

:52:45. > :52:48.for her in the final 100m. Look at this, Colin. She's 17. Remember just

:52:49. > :52:52.getting here was a huge challenge for her and she managed to do that.

:52:53. > :52:56.Once she's arrived, lots of things will change around you, of course,

:52:57. > :52:59.from the conditions to the circumstances you live in so you've

:53:00. > :53:03.got to get used to it and that comes with maturity. As a 17-year-old,

:53:04. > :53:07.she's done very well to be part of this US team and no doubt she'll

:53:08. > :53:13.gain so much experience from it. Hejnova is returning to form. She

:53:14. > :53:17.ran a fast 300m hurdles recently and now she's got to reassess her

:53:18. > :53:20.fitness levels and what she's comfortable in doing.

:53:21. > :53:23.And of course, the Jamaican taking the victory there in quite a

:53:24. > :53:33.comfortable performance of 54.88. You look at McLaughlin on the

:53:34. > :53:37.outside. She ran 54.15 this season. She was outstanding in the trials

:53:38. > :53:41.but it's a different thing coming to a major championships. You've really

:53:42. > :53:43.got to learn how things work in the Olympic Games, in the Olympic

:53:44. > :53:47.Village. It's very different. Queueing up for basic stuff like

:53:48. > :53:50.your food, etc, etc, going to the warm-up track. All these things can

:53:51. > :53:54.upset your rhythm, especially if you don't have the experience. It's

:53:55. > :54:01.going to come. We already clearly know she's talented. I'm impressed

:54:02. > :54:03.by Zuzana Hejnova, she has some experience and coming back to form

:54:04. > :54:11.with injuries behind her perhaps. Ristananna Tracey took the win and

:54:12. > :54:14.Folorunso came through to take the third automatic place.

:54:15. > :54:23.The pole vault was a restart in the end, dry conditions now.

:54:24. > :54:30.Xue Changrui of China. Oh, came down on that, didn't he? Oh, dear.

:54:31. > :54:36.Is he OK? Oh, they didn't really keep the mat very dry, I think,

:54:37. > :54:41.during... The athletes were allowed to go indoors but the mat was left

:54:42. > :54:46.out in the elements as the Chinese athlete has just found out.

:54:47. > :54:51.Yeah, but, unfortunately he came down on that. But his troubles are

:54:52. > :54:56.only just beginning as he landed in, um, a bit of a slap in the face when

:54:57. > :54:58.you've just knocked the bar off, when you're just thinking it can't

:54:59. > :55:11.get any worse... He'll not try that one again.

:55:12. > :55:22.Hopefully the pole has been cleared. The Chinese athlete has done that.

:55:23. > :55:28.Shawn Barber is expecting to make light work of this but no. Well,

:55:29. > :55:31.Barber, first-time failure. The athletes are just finding their feet

:55:32. > :55:36.again with the disruptions and everything. I spoke to Steve Hooker

:55:37. > :55:40.earlier and he said the athlete who is best at waiting around - and

:55:41. > :55:44.there's only one guy who does that week in week out and that's Renaud

:55:45. > :55:48.Lavillenie, because he comes in so high - he's opted to pass at this

:55:49. > :55:52.height - and that's very wise indeed. Barber goes back ready to

:55:53. > :55:56.take a second attempt in a while. Well, we said that one of the events

:55:57. > :56:00.which is going to be hampered most by the weather is the pole vault

:56:01. > :56:05.and, um, Xue there had a different kind of problem. It wasn't that the

:56:06. > :56:09.pole slipped at either end, but that's harsh, Denise. You said you

:56:10. > :56:13.know what this feels like. I do know what this feels like. I took part in

:56:14. > :56:18.a heptathlon in the high jump and this pool of water just gathered on

:56:19. > :56:24.the high jump bed and I landed in it and it was like taking a bath. It

:56:25. > :56:28.was so cold and wet... His face says it all, doesn't it? I mean that's

:56:29. > :56:32.just horrendous. We're not laughing at him. We're laughing with him.

:56:33. > :56:36.He'll find it funny in about a week but right now he's definitely livid.

:56:37. > :56:39.It's also, you know, keeping warm after that is a real problem, you

:56:40. > :56:43.know, getting your clothes dry - that's not going to dry. He'll have

:56:44. > :56:48.to put on a tracksuit and that's really the issue here. If he'd

:56:49. > :56:55.stayed on the bar, he might have found it funnier. When you see the

:56:56. > :56:59.bar fall as well... Shawnacy Barbar looked like a gymnast when he came

:57:00. > :57:03.over the bar and we thought it was impressive but enknocked it off. We

:57:04. > :57:07.don't get marks for execution in the pole vault in the pole vault. No

:57:08. > :57:10.style points. They're coming thick and fast on the track tonight

:57:11. > :57:13.because we're trying to catch up with events that were delayed

:57:14. > :57:22.because of the weather. Steve Cram, it's heat two of the women's 400m

:57:23. > :57:33.hurdles. This young lady here, Jackie Baumann

:57:34. > :57:36.of Germany, daughter of Dieter Baumann, Olympic 5,000m champion in

:57:37. > :57:40.1992. His daughter says she's proud of her dad but she's ploughing her

:57:41. > :57:44.own fur-io. He did end his career with a drug suspension, I think,

:57:45. > :57:50.towards the end of his career anyway. And question marks about

:57:51. > :57:57.this young lady here. Would have probably been - or should be one of

:57:58. > :58:00.the contenders for this title here, but real question marks as to

:58:01. > :58:08.whether she was actually going to compete. Her coach said after she

:58:09. > :58:11.missed the trials with a foot injury, and he said they'd decide.

:58:12. > :58:15.She had to go through a fitness test with the Jamaican team. She had a

:58:16. > :58:21.medical exemption from the trials. So she's here. And we weren't sure

:58:22. > :58:26.if she was going to be, but she's lining up, the 22-year-old, who has

:58:27. > :58:38.run sub-54 this year but has not raced for a while.

:58:39. > :58:47.We got Chanice Chase, Sparking mck knight, Janieve Russell, Jackie

:58:48. > :59:00.Baumann, Drita Islami, Grace Claxton, Joanna, Linkiewicz and

:59:01. > :59:08.Tia-Adane Belle. Chanice Chase, 22 herself, Canadian who can also -

:59:09. > :59:12.she's also good at the 100m hurdles. Just to reiterate, it's first three

:59:13. > :59:17.and the six fastest losers through to the semifinals and, of course,

:59:18. > :59:29.Child will be eagerly awaiting her chance to get out here. You'll see

:59:30. > :59:31.her shortly. So what sort of shape is Russell in

:59:32. > :00:12.here? Now having gone past has got a

:00:13. > :00:18.little bit of daylight between her. And Claxton there. Hits that one

:00:19. > :00:23.hard. And start on the outside. Belle of Barbados going well. So

:00:24. > :00:27.Russell going well. Chased awful over that particular hurdle and

:00:28. > :00:33.she's gone backwards there. Just the top three there. She's finishing

:00:34. > :00:37.well there. Gets over it there. And indeed, Chase is gone down there.

:00:38. > :00:59.Linkovitz there. She's run 54.94 there. Never really

:01:00. > :01:03.looked like it was there. I'm not sure what to make of Russell. It

:01:04. > :01:08.looked like it was OK for the fer 200. What do you reckon? You're spot

:01:09. > :01:12.on. It's really interesting to see that out of all of the women here.

:01:13. > :01:16.Let's have a look at this fall here. Let's see what happened to the

:01:17. > :01:19.Canadian. Chase is way too close to the barrier and because you have

:01:20. > :01:23.that sense of fatigue again, of course, when you clip the hurdle

:01:24. > :01:28.like that because you're already exhausted, it is just... Woah, a

:01:29. > :01:31.nightmare, true nightmare. But as you said, Steve, there was a lot

:01:32. > :01:34.going on in this race. And I think that all of the women were trying to

:01:35. > :01:38.fine their rhythm and get into the groove of the race and I don't think

:01:39. > :01:42.that any of them hit it right. On some stages they would come through

:01:43. > :01:46.and other places they were working hard. Russell from Jamaica, I was

:01:47. > :01:50.looking at the change stale there from right leg to left leg and even

:01:51. > :01:54.then, it was inconsistent in what she was doing. You can see that

:01:55. > :01:57.she's still in the lead here but I'm pretty sure that once they get these

:01:58. > :02:02.early rounds out of the way. Remember I said this about the high

:02:03. > :02:05.hurdles. The guys need to have the clear blow out of the system so they

:02:06. > :02:18.can settle into the groove of it. So this race for me is pretty slow. And

:02:19. > :02:21.pretty scrappy. Colin, Mark Butler saying that Chase didn't finish in

:02:22. > :02:25.the Commonwealth Games falling badly on that occasion so that's something

:02:26. > :02:29.that she's good to eradicate. Major championships. She's not even

:02:30. > :02:33.getting over the hurdles. Anyway, Russell looking at the clock and

:02:34. > :02:42.looks like she was comfortable. Very slow. 56.13 in second place as

:02:43. > :03:04.Linkovitch took the win. Confirm all of that. It was Claxton

:03:05. > :03:09.who got ahead of Belle there. This is Sam condition kendricks in

:03:10. > :03:12.the pole vault. Oh, that's very competent indeed and just as he did

:03:13. > :03:33.in qualification he's looked the best so far at least. Look how high

:03:34. > :03:41.over 5.50. The nation have dominated this in the past and won it 17 times

:03:42. > :03:53.in the past. Poitr Lisek of Poland. 5.50 first attempt. Another

:03:54. > :04:05.impressive result there. Lisek, also 23 years of age. European indoor

:04:06. > :04:09.bronze medal last year and outdoor at the World Championships last

:04:10. > :04:15.year. A consistent championships performer. Still wet that mat,

:04:16. > :04:24.though, and it's going to be tough to stay dry. Steve Hooper was also

:04:25. > :04:29.saying - look at Xue of China who saw the first jump of his... Oh, my

:04:30. > :04:39.word. That nearly went horribly wrong. Hooker was saying about the

:04:40. > :04:45.logistics in the pole vault, staying dry. Almost like a caddie would keep

:04:46. > :04:49.the bag and the umbrella and look at this, this is nearly horribly wrong.

:04:50. > :05:10.He's got to try to get feet first and turn. This is two fouls here.

:05:11. > :05:22.Sarah Barrow World Champion here from 2015. We saw the foul a little

:05:23. > :05:31.while ago. That was a much better effort from the Canadian. Maybe not

:05:32. > :05:35.looking quite as sharp there but he has a good temperament and in many

:05:36. > :05:45.ways, forget what's gone on before the champs. It's about who deals

:05:46. > :05:53.with the pressure. It will be a good competition here. We're just getting

:05:54. > :05:56.ready of the third of the heats in the women's 400 metres hurdles but

:05:57. > :06:01.interesting news that we've been told that going back to the men's

:06:02. > :06:05.110 metres hurdles and the second heat was won in dreadful conditions

:06:06. > :06:08.and the other one was late. But we are told that those who didn't make

:06:09. > :06:12.it automatically through from the first two heats, they're going to

:06:13. > :06:16.give them another run at 11:15 to make it through as fastest losers.

:06:17. > :06:21.Which is curious. The first heat was OK. A strange decision, Steve? Yeah,

:06:22. > :06:24.I've heard of athletes being given the chance to come back,

:06:25. > :06:28.individually come back. And I remember, I can't remember the name

:06:29. > :06:32.of the Irish runner in Munich and the camera got in the way I think.

:06:33. > :06:36.But the interesting one, you'll do the 400 metres hurdles now. We'll

:06:37. > :06:41.come back to it because Deuce Carter was disqualified and I don't know if

:06:42. > :06:45.he'll be allowed to run again. So that is supposed to go at 11:15 our

:06:46. > :06:54.time so they're sticking that on in the end. There's the line-up for

:06:55. > :07:01.this one. Look out here for Ashley Spencer and Lea Sprunger there on

:07:02. > :07:06.the outside for Switzerland. There is Ashley Spencer, took silver at

:07:07. > :07:11.the world indoors over the flat. Ran both the 400 metres and 400 metres

:07:12. > :07:13.hurdles there. Sprunger on the inside for Switzerland. Armenia in

:07:14. > :07:32.two. Yul of Norway in three. Perhaps the strongest of the heats.

:07:33. > :07:37.But we will look out for Ashley Spencer. Made the final of the 400

:07:38. > :07:43.flat at the US trials but couldn't come through there. But sadly, good

:07:44. > :07:51.prospects over the hurdles although the US athletes, perhaps not looking

:07:52. > :07:55.that strong so far. And Nugent of Jamaica is going well. And Sprunger

:07:56. > :08:00.from the inside has a little bit to do at the moment but moving along

:08:01. > :08:13.pretty well. Three to go through automatically.

:08:14. > :08:20.Risolovo of the Czech Republic to go through and now the American, Ashley

:08:21. > :08:28.Spencer, clear with Lea Nugent. They're the first two. Ukraine is

:08:29. > :08:33.going to get it. 55.12. The winning time. That's safe enough. Perhaps

:08:34. > :08:37.wasn't the strongest of the heats. I think that that is fair enough to

:08:38. > :08:43.say but it was a fairly straight forward win for Ashley Spencer and

:08:44. > :08:47.Lea Nugent going through with her. Ashley Spencer, you can tell that

:08:48. > :08:52.she's a lady who has a lot of speed, a lot of track speed in that sense.

:08:53. > :08:55.Sneaks over the barriers and if I'm honest, Andrew, when she goes to

:08:56. > :08:59.each and every one of the hurdles I I slightly shut my eyes because if

:09:00. > :09:02.she clips one, it will be messy. Look how she just literally gets

:09:03. > :09:08.over this hurdle now. You'll just see it there. She just scrapes over

:09:09. > :09:12.it. That is so close. And one timing mistake at this level when you have

:09:13. > :09:16.the fatigue factor in, and unfortunately for her, she will hit

:09:17. > :09:19.the deck. Let's keep the fingers crossed that she hits the barriers

:09:20. > :09:26.there because we don't want to see any more mess on the track.

:09:27. > :09:33.Here's ou new friend, Xue Changrui. Got a soaking on the first effort.

:09:34. > :09:41.Salvaged the second and he's gone clear. Oh, we're rooting for this

:09:42. > :09:48.young man. He's had a bit of a rough time already in this early stage of

:09:49. > :09:53.the men's pole vault final. But Xue of China advances. He had to go

:09:54. > :09:59.clear there. Three fouls and you're out, just to remind you. Three

:10:00. > :10:03.consecutive fouls. He was chuffed with that, as he should be. 5:50.

:10:04. > :10:10.Good clearance by the way. Really good clearance. The best this season

:10:11. > :10:12.5.75. No real major championships honours but he will continue in the

:10:13. > :10:24.competition. I can't tell you the collective

:10:25. > :10:28.applause and delight from the studio that Xue got that pole vault there.

:10:29. > :10:33.Let's just clarify what's happened with the earlier heats at the 110

:10:34. > :10:38.metre hurdles. The first two were run in torrential rain so the four

:10:39. > :10:40.slowest runners in either race who haven't qualified automatically will

:10:41. > :10:44.go into a race together and it will be up to them to get the times to

:10:45. > :10:54.become one of the four fastest losers. However, each of the races

:10:55. > :10:56.had somebody who first of all the disqualification there and we're now

:10:57. > :11:00.down to six. Is that how you understand it? I'm following. That

:11:01. > :11:06.was almost a question. I'm going to trust you on that. That's how I

:11:07. > :11:10.understand it. Let's have a little look at Carter and see why he was

:11:11. > :11:13.DQed earlier on. He was one of the athletes disgusted with the weather

:11:14. > :11:16.and he didn't seem to think that it was fair. Completely, and have to

:11:17. > :11:20.say, it does seem quite fair. But let's have a look at where he

:11:21. > :11:24.actually got this DQ because I didn't notice it when we were

:11:25. > :11:28.watching the race earlier on. But let's see here. Coming up! I think

:11:29. > :11:35.that it was the previous hurdle to that. But the thing is, I don't see

:11:36. > :11:39.where he can be DQed. He hit the hurdle, just a genuine technical

:11:40. > :11:44.error on his behalf. I'm assuming that that is the reason why they're

:11:45. > :11:48.rerunning it? No. They're rerunning it because of the error that he made

:11:49. > :11:51.which... So he should be in. This is the very reason that they're

:11:52. > :11:55.rerunning it because the rain affected his ability to clear the

:11:56. > :11:58.hurdle the way that he should have. And therefore he should be

:11:59. > :12:02.reinstated. There's no reason to disqualify him and not allow him to

:12:03. > :12:06.come back into the race. Absolutely, but you just saw there on the piece

:12:07. > :12:09.of footage there. He seemed to go into the other lane and whether

:12:10. > :12:12.they've deemed that to impede the other... Because of the weather? But

:12:13. > :12:19.it's because of the weather, again. So I just don't see how they cannot

:12:20. > :12:22.allow him back in given that anything that happened here,

:12:23. > :12:26.presumably, happened because of the weather and that is why it is the

:12:27. > :12:30.very reason that they're having the rerun and to not allow him back in

:12:31. > :12:34.is there. It would be unfair, wouldn't it? If you think about it,

:12:35. > :12:39.they saw the rain. It would have been forecasted. They could have

:12:40. > :12:42.easily delayed the start of the competition by 30 minutes to give

:12:43. > :12:46.everyone a fair opportunity. Instead, we're going on half an hour

:12:47. > :12:49.extra at the end to accommodate the athletes as we understand it. At the

:12:50. > :12:53.moment, there will be six of them who are looking for the time to get

:12:54. > :12:56.them through as fastest losers. It's quite an extraordinary thing. I've

:12:57. > :13:00.never experienced it at a major championships before, but they have

:13:01. > :13:04.another role of the dice. You don't get that very often in an Olympic

:13:05. > :13:08.Games in heats? No, you don't. And I would wonder, what will the other

:13:09. > :13:12.athletes think? The other athletes who have qualified on time, because

:13:13. > :13:16.do these athletes have the ability to sur plant some of those athletes

:13:17. > :13:21.from entering into the semifinal? Is that the way that you see it? Well,

:13:22. > :13:23.that's the situation. Right, but those athletes are going to say -

:13:24. > :13:27.wait a minute, they have another opportunity? I don't have another

:13:28. > :13:30.opportunity. But you had a chance to run in the drier weather, which is

:13:31. > :13:35.what they'll say? But under different circumstances? So they

:13:36. > :13:38.were running against... In a normal race, with eight athletes in there

:13:39. > :13:42.and at the time that they were supposed to. And now the athletes

:13:43. > :13:46.are coming back in the second race which is always faster. And they

:13:47. > :13:49.also know what they have to do. The slightly worrying thing is the

:13:50. > :13:54.precedent that it sets and the weather changes and you'll get that

:13:55. > :13:58.again in major championships. Hopefully it gets the competition

:13:59. > :14:02.committee for the IAAF saying that we need a hard and fast rule for

:14:03. > :14:05.when it is raining and this is what we do and you actually make a

:14:06. > :14:08.decision saying that they're probably doing this because they sat

:14:09. > :14:13.there on it for so long when we were all saying - make a decision, go or

:14:14. > :14:16.don't go. Do you think that this is perhaps, you know, the best way that

:14:17. > :14:20.they can make out of what was really a mess, that they feel that they

:14:21. > :14:23.should have perhaps suspended the competition a little bit earlier and

:14:24. > :14:26.they've obviously had protestations from athletes and the kind of

:14:27. > :14:31.fudging it up a little bit now because they're sticking a flaster

:14:32. > :14:36.over it? You know, right at the beginning, I tried to look at the

:14:37. > :14:39.winning times and we realised that the women's times were virtually

:14:40. > :14:42.identical and we all discussed this and it was more about a state of

:14:43. > :14:50.mind more than conditions in that sense. So I think you know, that it

:14:51. > :14:53.was fair as it has. And perhaps should stay the same because it will

:14:54. > :14:57.cause problems, some of the athletes who have gone through. They'll be

:14:58. > :15:00.waiting to see if they've gone through as fastest losers or not so

:15:01. > :15:13.it makes it a really messy situation for everybody involved.

:15:14. > :15:19.Let's get back on with the action. The athletes are out on the track.

:15:20. > :15:24.It's the fourth heat of the women's 400 metres hurdles.

:15:25. > :15:28.And news of a disqualification from the previous heat. We'll bring you

:15:29. > :15:33.up to date with that because it does affect qualifiers and here we've got

:15:34. > :15:39.a pretty good heat here. We've got Nel right on the inside. Pedersen

:15:40. > :15:51.from Denmark on lane five. Will be hoping to qualify. Pedroso there,

:15:52. > :15:58.running for Italy. And Belanovic of Belarus there.

:15:59. > :16:06.The European champion coming in in good form here. Sub-54 seconds and

:16:07. > :16:12.starting to rediscover some of the form there. There she is and the

:16:13. > :16:18.Dane has definitely built up a big lead here. Nel right on the inside.

:16:19. > :16:22.Belilliele of Trinidad Tobago there. Belgium right on the outside.

:16:23. > :16:25.Three to go through. She's got this all to herself at the moment and

:16:26. > :16:33.needs to negotiate the last two places fairly safely herself. And

:16:34. > :16:41.Nel, well clear. Nel of Trinidad Tobago there. Now, Pedroso will come

:16:42. > :16:48.through. Will she hang on to third? She might or might not. No doubt at

:16:49. > :16:52.all about this young lady here. That was fairly easy and straight forward

:16:53. > :16:57.for her. Won it nice and hard. Got into a good rhythm and was able to

:16:58. > :17:02.back off a little bit in the ol straight over the last flight.

:17:03. > :17:06.Colin? What did you make of her? She really is rounding in form in the

:17:07. > :17:09.right time? Yeah, I've watched her at the European Championships take

:17:10. > :17:12.that title and here again. What she's demonstrating is to be

:17:13. > :17:15.confident in what your abilities are over the barrier. Look how she

:17:16. > :17:19.strides out so comfortably. She's not even concerned where the hurdle

:17:20. > :17:23.it will be. She knows she'll be able to take it on whatever leg and she

:17:24. > :17:28.works hard into every single one of the barriers. Even when she's tired,

:17:29. > :17:31.she doesn't back off. She's confident wherever the hurdle lands,

:17:32. > :17:34.she'll take it. Whatever stride is there before, she'll take it cleanly

:17:35. > :17:38.and that always sets us up beautifully to run into the barrier.

:17:39. > :17:43.Don't be shocked by the time of 55.2. She is absolutely walking this

:17:44. > :17:48.as she crosses this line. And I'm thinking already, we're looking at

:17:49. > :17:52.somebody who is most like going to go under 54 seconds in the later

:17:53. > :17:57.rounds. She nipped under 53 last year. 53.99. Just missed out on a

:17:58. > :18:03.medal at the World Championships but looking very, very good here at the

:18:04. > :18:07.moment. Actually, if you were with us this morn, the men's 400 metres

:18:08. > :18:11.hurdles, we can bring you news after we left. Roger went through at the

:18:12. > :18:15.sixth fastest loser because there was a disqualification in the very

:18:16. > :18:21.last heat of the men's 400 metres there. The athlete, forgive me, his

:18:22. > :18:26.name escapes me but Seb Roger did go through to the semifinal of the

:18:27. > :18:31.men's 400 metres hurdles and will be hoping that Amy Child can do the

:18:32. > :18:38.same in another couple of heats. Two more heats to come. Nel through no

:18:39. > :18:44.problem. 55.55. Annekewicz did get on the line there. But Pedroso's

:18:45. > :18:50.time looking good for fastest loser spot. And before that, heat three

:18:51. > :18:55.and the interesting news from there was that Nugent seemed to be an

:18:56. > :19:00.automatic qualifier. But she's dn disqualifiered. A trail leg

:19:01. > :19:03.violation around the barrier rather than over so the Jamaican

:19:04. > :19:07.disqualification there. Sydney McLaughlin, the talented young

:19:08. > :19:11.American is still in one of the fastest loser positions at the

:19:12. > :19:14.moment. Which just shows you actually that

:19:15. > :19:18.the heats have been. That Sydney McLaughlin is in a fastest loser

:19:19. > :19:21.position because she was about three and a half seconds outside her

:19:22. > :19:25.personal best this year. Not been the highest quality so far, have

:19:26. > :19:28.they? Well, we've been all debating what's been going on down there. Is

:19:29. > :19:31.it because of the delay and the women have spent a lot of time

:19:32. > :19:35.warming up and completely cooled down and a little bit of

:19:36. > :19:37.uncertainty. Because this is a technical event and when you hold

:19:38. > :19:41.your technical there, you want to get out there and get it done. And I

:19:42. > :19:45.think that a that has perhaps irritated and set a little bit into

:19:46. > :19:50.the mine set. Again it is all about mind set in the circumstances and

:19:51. > :19:53.situations. Mohammed there, one of the fastest in the competition,

:19:54. > :20:01.52.88. But I want to talk to you about the heat after that because

:20:02. > :20:05.Doyle of, Eilidh Doyle of Great Britain has won some of the fastest

:20:06. > :20:09.times in the world. She seems to be in the shape of her life? She is in

:20:10. > :20:13.the shape of her life, no doubt about it. And even her foot speed

:20:14. > :20:17.and how quick she can run has changed and she's more confident

:20:18. > :20:21.there. What we're looking at now is the Diamond League victory in Monaco

:20:22. > :20:24.and she was aggressive in the early part of the stages and what she

:20:25. > :20:29.wanted to do was leak at the stride pattern now. Counting the strides as

:20:30. > :20:32.we go into the barrier and it still costs her time. The 18 strike

:20:33. > :20:37.pattern, which we don't want to see. We wanted to see her come home on

:20:38. > :20:39.70s. I know she's been working hard with her coach on getting this

:20:40. > :20:44.stride pattern right. They've changed it a little bit for the

:20:45. > :20:48.competitions now so that she'll keep her cadence going all the way.

:20:49. > :20:51.She'll drop down to there a little bit earlier than before but here

:20:52. > :20:55.again in London, this will demonstrate it before. In Monaco

:20:56. > :20:59.when she was in full flight there, she was fine stuttering into the

:21:00. > :21:03.final barrier. Here, when she can be really aggressive and go hard at it,

:21:04. > :21:07.look at that, crashes out and saps all of the energy out of her legs in

:21:08. > :21:11.both the take-off and the landing phase and it causes her to go right

:21:12. > :21:16.back in the field. And this genuinely could be the difference

:21:17. > :21:19.between her and if she goes through successfully with the rounds. A

:21:20. > :21:25.medal? It could really cost her? Absolutely. I was speaking to Sally

:21:26. > :21:29.Gunnell about Eilidh Doyle saying, what is she doing right now? And

:21:30. > :21:33.sally said - absolutely right. She has faith that she can go about 53.7

:21:34. > :21:37.if she nails that final barrier and allows it to run off. I mean,

:21:38. > :21:43.Michael, you know yourself exactly what it is like and how tired your

:21:44. > :21:48.legs are in the final 20 metres. Stay with us, one more heat before

:21:49. > :21:52.her heat and there Muhammad of the United States going in there. She is

:21:53. > :21:55.by far and away the quickest this here. Perhaps starting to see the

:21:56. > :21:59.best of her because she is fit and healthy. She missed most of 2014

:22:00. > :22:05.with a virus and hampered last year by a knee injury. This is the full

:22:06. > :22:15.line-up for you. Lauren Wells of Australia going in there. Again a

:22:16. > :22:18.ninth time Australian title. The three strongest go through

:22:19. > :22:23.automatically. No great times so far. So if you can run close to your

:22:24. > :22:27.best, if you're a decent athlete, you might have a chance of going

:22:28. > :22:34.through as one of the fastest losers. Six in total. The

:22:35. > :22:43.penultimate heat in the first round. Eilidh Doyle to come. And Muhammad

:22:44. > :22:47.here cruising past Barbosa of Portugal and Muhammad really with an

:22:48. > :22:57.astounding hurdler and she's shown that this year. Clear of the

:22:58. > :23:05.injuries now. Muhammad looking strong at the moment. Going well is

:23:06. > :23:10.Lauren Wells of Australia. And Muhammad, easy and comfortable, out

:23:11. > :23:18.in front at the moment but it's been a good run there. A good battle

:23:19. > :23:22.behind Muhammad. And a little stumble and stutter there. Finishing

:23:23. > :23:29.strongly. Titimets from Ukraine there. It will be Muhammad to get

:23:30. > :23:35.the victory. And Moncar and Wells into there with a very close one for

:23:36. > :23:43.the third automatic place. Right on the line. 55.33. Again, that is

:23:44. > :23:50.very, very easy for Muhammad. She's run 52.88 this season and the times

:23:51. > :23:56.have been pretty slow there but Muhammad, a class apart on this one.

:23:57. > :24:01.Yes, absolutely and you know when you've looked at someone under 53,

:24:02. > :24:05.you scrutinise how they do that but you can see that she's a beautiful

:24:06. > :24:09.and rangy runner. So relaxed in the final barrier and knows the event

:24:10. > :24:12.very well indeed and is very confident in every angle of this

:24:13. > :24:16.event. She gets out of the blocks well. She runs the back straight

:24:17. > :24:20.well. Comfortable in the change there when she goes around the

:24:21. > :24:24.corner and coming home here in a lovely, easy relaxed manner. She is

:24:25. > :24:28.looking at the screen there and just thinking - well, I've got another

:24:29. > :24:37.round to do soon enough but let me just qualify sweetly. And she

:24:38. > :24:40.certainly managed to do that. So Muhammad through with Moncalm and

:24:41. > :24:41.Titimets there given the place ahead of Lauren Wells but I think that

:24:42. > :24:54.Wells might go through. So I can well imagine that this is

:24:55. > :24:57.causing debate at home about the unprecedented decision to run

:24:58. > :25:02.another race post all of the events scheduled for this evening to see if

:25:03. > :25:07.there can be any more fastest losers in the 110 metres hurdles because of

:25:08. > :25:11.the rain and Di Green on Twitter said, "The track looks like it would

:25:12. > :25:16.drain on the outside and that would favour the athletes on the outer

:25:17. > :25:20.lanes". I guess he's saying it is not literally a level playing field.

:25:21. > :25:25.Even though it was raining for everybody, it was raining harder for

:25:26. > :25:29.some than for others. I don't know, Deuce Carter, who expressed some...

:25:30. > :25:34.Visual distress. Visual distress at the beginning of the race, he

:25:35. > :25:38.actually ran in lane seven. And all of the problems for him were... It

:25:39. > :25:46.was the same for everybody. But I don't really see how the lanes could

:25:47. > :25:51.be an issue Didn't Andrew Pozi have a problem there in lane eight and

:25:52. > :25:59.nine. Who else was up there? Ronnie Ash, he had a few problems out

:26:00. > :26:02.there. And also Devon Allen. He hit two hurdles, that's right. The

:26:03. > :26:10.problems were on the outside of the track, rather than the inside of the

:26:11. > :26:14.track. We're looking at about 13.64, 13.62 and 13.63 for the athletes

:26:15. > :26:18.there. That's the kind of time they'd have to get to get themselves

:26:19. > :26:21.up there. And it wouldn't surprise me if everybody in that field ran

:26:22. > :26:24.under those times because they've got another race under their belt

:26:25. > :26:28.and that makes a huge difference again in high hurdles. You get used

:26:29. > :26:31.to the track and the circumstances of the situation and your warm-up

:26:32. > :26:35.better. You won't have the interruptions and you talk about it

:26:36. > :26:39.trying to be a fair playing field and fortunately, it's definitely not

:26:40. > :26:45.going to be a fair playing field. Let's get back on to the 400 metres

:26:46. > :26:50.hurdles because Child is back out on the track. They've not been the most

:26:51. > :26:53.scintillating of heats so far and certainly the times haven't. And

:26:54. > :26:57.that is probably a reflection of perhaps where the world is at the

:26:58. > :27:01.moment. Is this an opportunity for Eilidh Doyle in this event? A

:27:02. > :27:07.genuine opportunity for her. I think she's ranked fifth in the world.

:27:08. > :27:11.54.09 is her PB this year. She's progressed so nicely in the last few

:27:12. > :27:15.years. I think that she came of age, you know those nights that we

:27:16. > :27:17.witnessed her in Zurich, the European Championships, the

:27:18. > :27:20.Commonwealth Games where she finished second but she's grown in

:27:21. > :27:24.stature since then. The experience has favoured her. She's done really

:27:25. > :27:28.well and made all of the changes. She's a better athlete this year, I

:27:29. > :27:33.would say. And she knows what she's got to a she just needs to execute

:27:34. > :27:37.and get those small, the tiniest, tiniest errors that have been

:27:38. > :27:45.creeping into those last few races out of her system. She has a genuine

:27:46. > :27:55.opportunity to sneak a medal there. Is this one of the most difficult

:27:56. > :28:00.event to pick a clear winner. I think in the USA, with the sub-53

:28:01. > :28:04.block there. Sydney McLaughlin hasn't made it through necessarily

:28:05. > :28:08.yet. Good point here. Also further to the point about Eilidh Doyle

:28:09. > :28:12.being ranked number five, two of the people ranked ahead of her are not

:28:13. > :28:15.here. She did not make the team. That's the point that I was going to

:28:16. > :28:18.make to you earlier about Sydney McLaughlin who comes through the

:28:19. > :28:22.brutal American trials and leaves behind two American athletes who

:28:23. > :28:26.were above her in the world rankings and her experience has shown here

:28:27. > :28:29.hasn't it in that heat? Yeah. But you could also make the argument as

:28:30. > :28:33.well that the US championships is a high pressure event and if you can't

:28:34. > :28:36.get it done there, what's to say that you could get it done here?

:28:37. > :28:40.Well, we shall see if Sydney McLaughlin makes it through because

:28:41. > :28:44.at the moment, she's one of the fastest loser and we don't want

:28:45. > :28:49.Child to be in that position. Top three in each heat and the next six

:28:50. > :28:57.fastest to the semifinals. She is more than capable of that. You would

:28:58. > :29:02.think? Yeah, I think that... If it goes wrong at this stage, then

:29:03. > :29:06.something pretty horrendous has happened so yeah, this should be

:29:07. > :29:10.straight forward for Eilidh Doyle. There will always be nerves but

:29:11. > :29:14.she's hugely experienced now, of course. The last two World

:29:15. > :29:17.Championships in the final, fifth and six and that just builds

:29:18. > :29:21.confidence. You know first of all, getting through the rounds. You

:29:22. > :29:26.negotiate that as smoothly as you possibly can. And let's hope that

:29:27. > :29:30.she does that here. Just quick confirmation of the result from the

:29:31. > :29:34.previous heat. Muhammad winning it comfortably and Titimets going

:29:35. > :29:35.through and Montcalm and that will be quick enough for Lauren Wells to

:29:36. > :29:52.progress as well. If you're not in the top three

:29:53. > :29:55.here... She has one or two interesting athletes against her

:29:56. > :30:04.here. Certainly one or two I haven't seen too much of. Right on the

:30:05. > :30:13.inside on lane one, Sage Watson for Canada, she's run 54.82. Amaka

:30:14. > :30:22.Ogoegbunam of Nigeria. Romanova from Kazakhstan. Kubokura of Japan, Doyle

:30:23. > :30:34.in six, Scott in seven and Caravelli of Italy on the outside.

:30:35. > :30:38.She's run against some of those on many occasion, Caravelli in

:30:39. > :30:42.particular. Eilidh looking focused. Sage Watson, 22, second in the

:30:43. > :30:53.Canadian championships. But, as I said, big progression this year.

:30:54. > :31:00.She's run a new personal best this season, Watson. Eilidh Doyle has

:31:01. > :31:04.decent flat speed as well at 400m. Just need to get the technique and

:31:05. > :31:09.the stride pattern sorted out. We'll get Colin to analyse it afterwards.

:31:10. > :31:15.That's the problem with heats. So many times we've said this in the

:31:16. > :31:23.hurdles. We can ease down as we saw Peterson do once you're over the

:31:24. > :31:27.tenth hurdle. You've got to keep your rhythm right

:31:28. > :31:35.before that. Last heat of the first round of the

:31:36. > :31:39.women's 400m hurdles. So Eilidh Doyle in sixth looking for a good

:31:40. > :31:43.safe, solid run here. Sage Watson started quickly and rises first but

:31:44. > :31:46.Eilidh Doyle also starleted pretty quickly and solidly. Caravelli going

:31:47. > :31:56.well for Italy on the outside. Top three will qualify and they're the

:31:57. > :32:00.three who are leading at the moment. Oily Doyle is looking smooth. No

:32:01. > :32:04.problems so far. Still leading at the moment just

:32:05. > :32:07.from the Canadian. Watson and Caravelli in the two other

:32:08. > :32:11.qualifying spots at the moment but Eilidh Doyle is coming into the home

:32:12. > :32:14.straight here well in control and looking good.

:32:15. > :32:18.And she can start to just concentrate on these last two

:32:19. > :32:21.flights. She does it well. Sage Watson almost high jumped that

:32:22. > :32:25.flight there and Eilidh just checking into the last one and gets

:32:26. > :32:29.the strike pattern right and now she can ease back a tad but that's a

:32:30. > :32:34.good, solid run, one of the quicker races there. Watson ran well also

:32:35. > :32:38.right on the inside. No problems at all, a sigh of relief for everybody.

:32:39. > :32:43.You just want to get this out of the way, move into the semifinal. She's

:32:44. > :32:49.one of the winners so that will stand her in good stead and, um, as

:32:50. > :32:55.I said, Sage Watson there, lane one, negotiated pretty well. And we'll

:32:56. > :33:03.get Colin to kast his eye over her. What about Eilidh first, Colin? I

:33:04. > :33:07.know the stride pattern she was trying to work on today and it went

:33:08. > :33:11.well until hurdle ten. She needs to work on that. She stuttered into

:33:12. > :33:15.that one because she's making adjustments all the way round and in

:33:16. > :33:22.this stride pattern, she's working on 17s. Again, that's the 17th

:33:23. > :33:26.stride. We want her to come home in 17 but she throws in an extra, makes

:33:27. > :33:31.it an 18 and she has to work it in. In her mind, I think she'll go, "I

:33:32. > :33:34.need to break up that," and when this pressure is on, she may do

:33:35. > :33:38.that. Watch it from the gun. Out really well. You can never, ever,

:33:39. > :33:41.ever dispute Eilidh's commitment over the beginning parts of the

:33:42. > :33:45.race. She's really good and competent over this section and

:33:46. > :33:50.she's got to try 15 vides for the first five hurdles. She'll take this

:33:51. > :33:55.with her. Left leg. This will be another left leg.

:33:56. > :33:59.She'll be psyched in the hurdle and deciding she needs to change down

:34:00. > :34:03.after this one. That's another 15-strider.

:34:04. > :34:08.Now she's doing 16 strides and alternating. This one, again, should

:34:09. > :34:12.be a 16, but she threw in a 17 there early which is not what she really

:34:13. > :34:17.wanted to do but she decides now to settle into the race and just bring

:34:18. > :34:22.it home in a 17-stride pattern, taking it on the right leg all the

:34:23. > :34:25.way but then the adjustment happens again, little shake, trots over to

:34:26. > :34:29.an 18. There could be lots of reasons for that, Steve. One could

:34:30. > :34:31.be that she's switching down and cruising and she's happy with the

:34:32. > :34:41.result and that will be absolutely fine. But next race on, we need her

:34:42. > :34:46.to push on. Eilidh, that looked comfortable.

:34:47. > :34:50.Yeah, I mean, it was comfortable but not a great race. A couple of, like,

:34:51. > :34:55.stutters into the hurdles but it's difficult in the heat. You want to

:34:56. > :34:58.try and conserve as much energy as possible but you can't take the foot

:34:59. > :35:01.off the gas because you've got to get your stride pattern right. I'm

:35:02. > :35:06.comfortably through to the next round. Steve Cram said it was like a

:35:07. > :35:11.sigh of IRA leaf to get it out of the way. Yeah, I -- sigh of relief

:35:12. > :35:13.to get it out of the way. You're sitting in the village watching

:35:14. > :35:19.everybody compete and you want to get it out of the way. I'm glad now.

:35:20. > :35:24.You step it up for the semis and the final. What stride pattern are you

:35:25. > :35:30.working to? I'm going back to my normal which is 15s to five, 16s to

:35:31. > :35:35.seven and then 17s home and that's a good solid pattern. I did that in

:35:36. > :35:39.Monaco for my PB. You talk about that PB and it's been such a stellar

:35:40. > :35:43.season for you to this point, you must be coming in with confidence

:35:44. > :35:51.high and dare we say medal hopes high? I never think about medals. I

:35:52. > :35:54.want to go out there and give a good performance and just come off the

:35:55. > :35:58.track having given it everything. If I finish 12th or the podium, I just

:35:59. > :36:01.want to make sure I gave it everything. Well done on negotiating

:36:02. > :36:09.the first round. We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks very much, cheers.

:36:10. > :36:17.A happy Eilidh Doyle is through to the semifinal, winning her heat with

:36:18. > :36:23.something to spare. Sage Watson may be a talent going

:36:24. > :36:26.forward. And it was Kolesnychenko who came

:36:27. > :36:45.third with a good finish there. Jade Lally, here at the Olympic

:36:46. > :36:54.Games, first throw of Group B. Oh, she just leaned on that and it's

:36:55. > :36:59.come down short. She's ranked ten in the world. Did

:37:00. > :37:02.she slip on this. Possibly just seemed to lean through that, very

:37:03. > :37:08.low, got no height. You can see the rain is starting to come down again.

:37:09. > :37:12.That's not good news. A one kilogram discus, 18cm in

:37:13. > :37:17.diameter, you've got to get a grip on it. That's not enough. Two throws

:37:18. > :37:21.remain for Jade Lally. Well, this is a little bit earlier.

:37:22. > :37:25.We had the drama with the rain for the pole vaulters and no-one has

:37:26. > :37:28.jumped for the last 10 or 15 minutes because there seems to be a problem

:37:29. > :37:32.with the mechanism - two uprights, you can see there, supposed to be

:37:33. > :37:35.raised and these officials have been working hard to trying to fix this.

:37:36. > :37:40.This is the last thing the vaulters need. This is turning into less of a

:37:41. > :37:44.pole vaulting competition and more of a war of attrition.

:37:45. > :37:49.The bar has been raised. You can see there, down to the far side of the

:37:50. > :37:57.track. But, um, the competition is only just beginning two hours after

:37:58. > :38:01.it was supposed to start. You work your socks off all winter,

:38:02. > :38:05.you do your training, you compete, you qualify, you get here and then a

:38:06. > :38:11.mechanical fault after a massive rain delay means your competition is

:38:12. > :38:16.held up. It's not ideal for these pole vault egg. -- vaulters. It's

:38:17. > :38:19.gone back up to the height it should be so hopefully they'll get under

:38:20. > :38:23.way soon. If you're doing anything tomorrow, cancel it. We could still

:38:24. > :38:27.be here at breakfast. Good evening, pall yasmt Good evening. The next

:38:28. > :38:34.event on the track is the men's 800m and if this final is anything like

:38:35. > :38:40.the final we saw in London in 2012, it promises to be scintillating.

:38:41. > :38:56.The 800m final. The record world-holder and World Champion is

:38:57. > :39:01.attempting to Olympic Champion, David Rudisha. He loves to be in the

:39:02. > :39:07.front. The others have been sucked into

:39:08. > :39:10.this. That might help Andrew and we'll find out later in the last

:39:11. > :39:15.100m. It's Rudisha in the front as we

:39:16. > :39:21.expected. He's stretching it out there. Fast-opening 300m. Coming

:39:22. > :39:27.down the home straight he's looking for a decent, solid 50-secondish

:39:28. > :39:31.kind of time. The medals may be decided by the people who don't

:39:32. > :39:36.follow him. 49.2 is a phenomenal opening and he knows about

:39:37. > :39:41.performances. There have been world records set in the Olympic Games at

:39:42. > :39:45.the 800m. Asagi was through in 50 seconds.

:39:46. > :39:50.That's quick for him. David Rudisha, great athlete that he

:39:51. > :39:54.is. And they're sucked into going with

:39:55. > :39:59.him down the back straight. They're all starting to fade. That's really,

:40:00. > :40:11.really quick through 600m. Amos moves into second place.

:40:12. > :40:14.David Rudisha, already the world record-holder, already the World

:40:15. > :40:18.Champion, striding away to become the Olympic Champion, how quick will

:40:19. > :40:27.it be? Watch the clock? That's a world record! Unbelievable!

:40:28. > :40:32.An incredible moment, wasn't it, Paula? And matched, I guess, by last

:40:33. > :40:36.night's 400m world record. It had the same feel, didn't it, inside the

:40:37. > :40:39.stadium because, while he was exemplary and leading the world, not

:40:40. > :40:44.many people predicted that he would do it that night. No, to come out

:40:45. > :40:48.and attack and get a world record in an Olympic final, it doesn't... It's

:40:49. > :40:51.extremely rare, especially in events where you normally have a pacemaker.

:40:52. > :40:54.In the 10,000m, it's a different situation the other night because we

:40:55. > :40:59.had somebody to take it on really hard in the opening laps. In the

:41:00. > :41:04.800m, Rudisha went out and he did it all on his own. He was untouchable

:41:05. > :41:08.in that year. Different story coming in this year. There have been chinks

:41:09. > :41:12.appeared. He doesn't have the same aura of invincibility about him that

:41:13. > :41:15.he did have then. He was beaten in the Kenyan trials. But I think he's

:41:16. > :41:20.rounding into form and I still think he'll be the one that most of those

:41:21. > :41:24.guys there will think in is the main threat in the race tonight. We'll

:41:25. > :41:28.talk about the rest of the field and who the threats might be but as we

:41:29. > :41:32.went into that race, an enormous cheer rang out inside the athletics

:41:33. > :41:37.stadium and Steve Backley will tell you why.

:41:38. > :41:44.Huge cheer, Gabi, because it was this man, Da Silva of Brazil. He

:41:45. > :41:47.went clear. Listen to this! CHEERING

:41:48. > :41:55.He only got through qualification by the skin of his teeth, Thiago Braz

:41:56. > :41:57.Da Silva. A plucky last-attempt jump of 5.70m got him through

:41:58. > :42:02.qualification. And here he is in the final. And

:42:03. > :42:09.he's one of only two athletes who've gone clear at this height of 5.65m.

:42:10. > :42:16.The Czech is the other one and it's a good clearance for Da Silva.

:42:17. > :42:20.He's one of only a couple of athletes in - Brazilian athletes

:42:21. > :42:24.that they're hoping might challenge for medals.

:42:25. > :42:28.A lot of excitement in the Olympic Stadium with the pole vaulters and a

:42:29. > :42:32.lot of them are wanting and waiting to see the great man, the great

:42:33. > :42:36.David Rudisha of Kenya. Already one of the all-time greats, partly

:42:37. > :42:49.because of that performance in the Olympic Games four years ago in

:42:50. > :42:54.London. Anyone who was there will remember it was a great athletic

:42:55. > :43:00.feat. David Rudisha attempting to be the first man since Peter Snell to

:43:01. > :43:04.defend his title successfully. He did it in 1960, 1964. The great

:43:05. > :43:08.thing is they have the same birthday, December 17. Snel was a

:43:09. > :43:12.great athlete, Brendan, and here is another one. L was a great athlete,

:43:13. > :43:16.Brendan, and here is another one. Peter Snell was a fantastic athlete.

:43:17. > :43:21.He got me interested when I was a young kid back in the '60s. But this

:43:22. > :43:26.man inspired everyone in 2012 and Seb Coe, the chairman of the London

:43:27. > :43:30.organising committee and now the president of the IAAF, said it was

:43:31. > :43:36.the best performance of the whole Games, this man, world record in the

:43:37. > :43:40.800m. That was Seb's event is so he was biased. I agree. I think we're

:43:41. > :43:46.going to see great performance tonight. It may not be exactly the

:43:47. > :43:50.same manner, Steve. No, there are some question marks. We'll maybe

:43:51. > :43:57.come on to that in a second. I don't know whether - Paula, you've watched

:43:58. > :44:02.him run this season, everybody has. Early season, the question marks

:44:03. > :44:06.were getting quite big. Absolutely. He was beaten by Kipketer in the

:44:07. > :44:14.trials and beaten on the circuit. He came out recently and ran a 1:43

:44:15. > :44:20.which boosted his confidence and put him back in contention. So, too, did

:44:21. > :44:23.Makhloufi and he's the 1,500m defending Olympic Champion from

:44:24. > :44:29.2012. There's a huge danger to come from him. Makhloufi has a lot of

:44:30. > :44:39.support in this stadium here tonight as we go through the lane line-ups.

:44:40. > :44:44.This is borian Berian, the world indoor champion. Two Americans here.

:44:45. > :44:49.There's Makhloufi, Olympic Champion in 1,500m taking on the Olympic

:44:50. > :44:54.Champion at 800m. We'll see him in the 1,500m here as well. A lot of

:44:55. > :45:00.Algerian support here for him. The man who beat Rudisha in the Kenyan

:45:01. > :45:03.trials, this young, prodigious talent, former world junior

:45:04. > :45:08.champion, still just 19, won in Monaco as well in the Diamond

:45:09. > :45:16.League, the last big Diamond League race before here, Alfred Kipketer.

:45:17. > :45:19.Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, French world-holder, only made the

:45:20. > :45:32.semifinal in London but in good form. Big cheer for him and so there

:45:33. > :45:46.should be. He's a big hero of athletics. A lot of people will hope

:45:47. > :45:51.he'll get his second gold medal. But Lewandowski is always a danger. What

:45:52. > :45:56.about this man, Clayton Murphy from a pig farm in the north of

:45:57. > :46:01.Cincinnati, Ohio? He's been compared to the great Dave Wattle who won in

:46:02. > :46:06.1972 in terms of his kick. He's a real talent, 21 years old. He was

:46:07. > :46:14.originally trying to make the 1,500m team but finds himself in the

:46:15. > :46:15.Olympic 800m final. That's Ferguson Rotich on the

:46:16. > :46:31.outside. The Olympic 800m title, David

:46:32. > :46:35.Rudisha defending his title. He loves front running, he always

:46:36. > :46:38.has. It's how he likes to do it but everybody knows that and everybody

:46:39. > :46:42.knows what's supposed to happen here. Alfred Kipketer has gone off

:46:43. > :46:45.very quickly already and will come in front of Rudisha and might just

:46:46. > :46:49.squeeze him a little built but just gives him a little bit of room or

:46:50. > :46:54.Rudisha asks for the room and this is a race to the first 200m and

:46:55. > :46:57.Rudisha has to give up. This is silly from Alfred Kipketer unless

:46:58. > :47:01.he's trying for the world record. He's going crazy fast through the

:47:02. > :47:05.first 300m. He looks as though he's going far too fast here. It was

:47:06. > :47:10.almost a race to the 200m point. David Rudisha trying to get in the

:47:11. > :47:15.lead and dominate the race has he has done before. Kipketer, the young

:47:16. > :47:19.man from Kenya who won the trials, goes through in 49 and I think he's

:47:20. > :47:24.gone too quickly and Rudisha now wants to be in the lead. He wants to

:47:25. > :47:28.stake that position. He wants to hold him up but, again, Kipketer

:47:29. > :47:32.won't let him past. The great David Rudisha is now being run out of his

:47:33. > :47:35.own style, so he accelerates down the back straight and this is his

:47:36. > :47:38.drive for him. He's -- home. He's going to try and hold his position.

:47:39. > :47:44.He looks magnificent in full flow. He's a proud man. He's a great

:47:45. > :47:48.athlete and Bosse is attacking him. So is Makhloufi. He's a danger in

:47:49. > :47:54.the home straight. Rudisha has not got a big lead here. Kipketer messed

:47:55. > :47:58.this race up for him. Can he still win it his way? Bosse and Makhloufi

:47:59. > :48:01.hard down the home straight and Rudisha stretching away. He may well

:48:02. > :48:07.have it here. Rudisha continues to go away. He's going to win his

:48:08. > :48:12.second Olympic gold! Murphy coming for the bronze! Rudisha wins it.

:48:13. > :48:22.Makhloufi takes the silver. Murphy gets the bronze. 1:42.16. Imperious

:48:23. > :48:26.David Rudisha. His team-mate did everything he could to mess this

:48:27. > :48:32.race up for him but he wasn't having it. He grabbed it by the scruff of

:48:33. > :48:36.the neck in the last 300m. Hard down the back straight. That's what he

:48:37. > :48:40.does better than anybody else, from 300m to go to 200m to go and he asks

:48:41. > :48:43.the questions of everybody - come with me, stay with me. Sometimes

:48:44. > :48:47.it's because he's been out the front all the way. Bosse tried to do that.

:48:48. > :48:51.He knew that would happen but if you try to go with Rudisha, you may well

:48:52. > :48:56.pay for it later on. Makhloufi was probably just a little bit further

:48:57. > :48:59.back and was able to last it out a little bit better. Rewarded with a

:49:00. > :49:03.silver medal and the man who sat right at the back, sat off it,

:49:04. > :49:09.finished quickly, rewarded with a bronze medal, Clayton Murphy of the

:49:10. > :49:13.United States. Well done to him. But Rudisha, 1:42.15 for anyone else

:49:14. > :49:17.would be brilliant. For him, well, it's not ordinary, because it was

:49:18. > :49:21.still a great performance and a very fast race for him, given the fact

:49:22. > :49:24.that, of course, he broke the world record in the Olympic final four

:49:25. > :49:29.years ago. That doesn't matter. I don't think he'll care about the

:49:30. > :49:34.time today. It is pretty quick. I've no idea what Alfred Kipketer was up

:49:35. > :49:38.to. He could have been a big danger, threw his own race away and almost

:49:39. > :49:40.messed it up for Rudisha. He's just too good, better than everybody

:49:41. > :49:45.else, miles better than everybody else and he proved it. I agree with

:49:46. > :49:50.that, Steve. I think the young man came here so enthusiastically. He's

:49:51. > :49:58.heard about all the admiration that we all have for David Rudisha. David

:49:59. > :50:04.Rudisha used his experience there. He didn't respond but if you look at

:50:05. > :50:11.it on the first lap, that was absolutely amazing, it really was.

:50:12. > :50:15.And here... There they are now on the top bend and Rudisha... Just

:50:16. > :50:20.allowed his team-mate, Kipketer, to run away from him and I've just got

:50:21. > :50:25.the split times from Mark Butler. They ran the first 200m in 23

:50:26. > :50:29.seconds and that's exactly why Kipketer wasn't able to keep going

:50:30. > :50:33.and that is why David Rudisha backed off, let him go away a little and

:50:34. > :50:38.now in the back straight, we're looking at a bit of an odd position

:50:39. > :50:42.here but there is Kipketer, trying to hold on and there goes David

:50:43. > :50:48.Rudisha. He's stretching now. David Rudisha, the champion. He wants to

:50:49. > :50:53.defend this title. He was inspired to become an Olympian by his father,

:50:54. > :51:00.who won a silver medal in the 4 X 400m in 1968. He's been nurtured by

:51:01. > :51:02.his brother, Colin O'Connell, the -- by Brother Colin O'Connell, the

:51:03. > :51:07.Irish teaching brother who taught him when he was a young man, but

:51:08. > :51:09.he's brought himself to the world level, world record-holder and

:51:10. > :51:14.two-times Olympic Champion. The great Peter Snell was the last one

:51:15. > :51:20.to do it and a Great British athlete defended his title in the '20s but

:51:21. > :51:25.this man is impressive, a proud Masai warrior. There he is and today

:51:26. > :51:29.he was in a battle but I tell you what, experience was what won it for

:51:30. > :51:33.him. He didn't allow anything to disturb him. The young Kipketer

:51:34. > :51:38.almost spoiled the race, but he couldn't spoil it for the Great One,

:51:39. > :51:44.the great David Rudisha retains the Olympic title. The 1,500m champion

:51:45. > :51:50.from London crosses the line and there is Rudisha in full flow, a

:51:51. > :51:55.magnificent sight, one of the great sights of athletics is David

:51:56. > :51:57.Rudisha, two-times Olympic Champion, a great performance, a pleasure to

:51:58. > :52:09.behold, that one. So if we look back from the start of

:52:10. > :52:12.this race - and I don't know whether there was any type of chatting

:52:13. > :52:16.beforehand or information passed between Kipketer and Rudisha that he

:52:17. > :52:19.was going to take this on like this. It didn't look like it and it

:52:20. > :52:22.certainly looked like Rudisha thought he was going to be allowed

:52:23. > :52:29.to come through on the inside. Didn't happen. His team-mate checked

:52:30. > :52:32.in at 23 for the first 200m. It's crazy and Rudisha realises that. It

:52:33. > :52:37.looks like he's jogging now, scaled back to just running 26 seconds for

:52:38. > :52:41.this 200m. The others sitting behind him and Steve said earlier that, you

:52:42. > :52:45.know, when you expect the way that Rudisha is going to race, right now

:52:46. > :52:48.in his mind, he was reformulating all of that and throwing something

:52:49. > :52:51.totally different into the mix and I don't think they expected it to

:52:52. > :52:54.happen like this in the second lap. Right now, I was thinking

:52:55. > :52:59.Lewandowski was going to be the one coming through because he was the

:53:00. > :53:03.one who sat back the most on that first lap and probably had the best

:53:04. > :53:07.left in his legs coming into the last lap but it was Clayton Murphy

:53:08. > :53:11.who is now third from the back, just trying to check out behind

:53:12. > :53:16.Makhloufi, who stumbled a little bit there. Alfred Kipketer now is just

:53:17. > :53:20.carrying so much lactate in his legs. He can't keep moving forwards

:53:21. > :53:25.and they're all going to sweep past him. Bosse maybe made his move a

:53:26. > :53:29.little bit early in second place. Makhloufi, he can feel him coming up

:53:30. > :53:32.on his shoulder and he knows he's probably running to hang on to the

:53:33. > :53:37.bronze medal because David Rudisha has thrown in another surge and

:53:38. > :53:40.looked away and back to his very best, moving clear. Makhloufi

:53:41. > :53:45.chasing hard but he doesn't have another gear. Clayton Murphy maybe

:53:46. > :53:51.if he'd started sooner, he might have been able to challenge for the

:53:52. > :53:55.silver medal. Well, a brilliant performance and

:53:56. > :53:58.what a great run from Clayton Murphy to take the bronze medal. Just one

:53:59. > :54:04.of another host - you know, when David Rudisha runs, when you see a

:54:05. > :54:08.result after his... When he wins, there's all these other little

:54:09. > :54:13.letters come after the other people - they're usually NRs, national

:54:14. > :54:16.records, PBs, personal bests or season's bests, because that's what

:54:17. > :54:22.he does. He makes everybody else run fast as well. I loved what he did -

:54:23. > :54:26.Martyn Rooney is saying it there - 300m to go. He does something better

:54:27. > :54:30.than anyone in history has done at 800m. Even when he's at the front is

:54:31. > :54:33.that people don't realise he wins the race in the back straight. He

:54:34. > :54:37.doesn't wait, even when he's running very, very fast. He wins the race in

:54:38. > :54:42.the back straight. I'll tell you what, Steve, it would

:54:43. > :54:47.have been faster if it hn so messy in the first 200m. When they run 23

:54:48. > :54:50.for the first 200m, that can really, really damage and that's where the

:54:51. > :54:52.wise move from David Rudisha where he switched it off and said he

:54:53. > :55:00.wasn't going to race Kipketer for the lead. He just let him go. And

:55:01. > :55:09.that result, Kipketer couldn't even finish properly. 1:46 he did over 23

:55:10. > :55:14.first 200. Well, that was crazy. Well, another word on Clayton

:55:15. > :55:19.Murphy, that he's run an incredibly fast time as well. And... I'm just

:55:20. > :55:24.trying to see whether or not he's broken the American record. Not

:55:25. > :55:29.quite. Johnny Grey, the last American medallist, and Johnny Grey

:55:30. > :55:34.is still - only just though - the American record-holder, 1:42 of 60

:55:35. > :55:46.was his time. Let's just clarify the result: retaining his Olympic title,

:55:47. > :55:51.David Rudisha of Kenya, Makhloufi with a new national record for

:55:52. > :55:57.Nigeria follows up his gold medal in the 1,500m in London geghts a silver

:55:58. > :56:02.in the 800m. And a new name really, 21-year-old Clayton Murphy of the

:56:03. > :56:05.USA takes the bronze. Ts a silver in the 800m. And a new

:56:06. > :56:08.name really, 21-year-old Clayton Murphy of the USA takes the bronze.

:56:09. > :56:11.Poss boss went out of it, big season's best for him but fourth

:56:12. > :56:15.place, jogged across it's line really, disconsolate he didn't hang

:56:16. > :56:18.on for bronze. Rotich, Lewandowski finished quickly and Alfred Kipketer

:56:19. > :56:22.will have to go away and somebody should sit down and say, "You're a

:56:23. > :56:29.great talent but that's not how to run a time of the 800m." Well,

:56:30. > :56:33.coming up next in the athletics stadium here tonight is the medal

:56:34. > :56:38.ceremony for the women's hammer. Sophie Hitchon of Great Britain will

:56:39. > :56:41.be presented with her bronze medal, which is the first medal for

:56:42. > :56:47.throwing for a British female athlete since 1988. And the heady

:56:48. > :56:50.days of Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson and, Steve, the hope is

:56:51. > :56:58.from everybody who loves this sport that this might be kind of a Beth

:56:59. > :57:01.Tweddel moment in gymnastics, that will spark success where people want

:57:02. > :57:05.to dip in and try it. Not that people were trying gymnastics, but

:57:06. > :57:09.it led to more success in the sport, didn't it? It did and she's such an

:57:10. > :57:14.inspiration to many, Sophie Hitchon taking a bronze medal here. She had

:57:15. > :57:19.no real role model as such. No-one has done what she's done today in

:57:20. > :57:32.getting on to an Olympic rostrum in the women's hammer and that's what

:57:33. > :57:38.makes this so impressive for me. Sophie Hitchon performed brilliantly

:57:39. > :57:47.this morning in the women's discus final, receiving her bronze medal.

:57:48. > :57:52.CHEERING. It was a last-ditch attempt. It took

:57:53. > :57:59.her sixth-round throw to come into third place and earn the bronze

:58:00. > :58:04.medal. 92 years ago, Malcolm Noakes took a bronze medal in the Olympic

:58:05. > :58:08.Games in 1924 and she receives the award from a big figure in European

:58:09. > :58:15.athletics. Sophie Hitchon, a wonderful bronze medal, first time

:58:16. > :58:18.ever. -- that a British thrower has stood

:58:19. > :58:34.on a hammer rostrum. The Chinese thrower, to be fair, was

:58:35. > :58:37.in second place in the early stages and looked untroubled. The battle

:58:38. > :58:45.was behind her for the bronze medal place. She threw... 76.75m.

:58:46. > :59:04.So a comfortable silver medal for her.

:59:05. > :59:26.It was an enthralling competition. Sophie has been filing all day but

:59:27. > :59:32.the gold medal about to be awarded. Well, the biggest cheer of all goes

:59:33. > :59:36.to this athlete, an historic performance for Anita Wlodarczyk,

:59:37. > :59:40.you heard it there, an Olympic record, a world record, 82.29m. She

:59:41. > :59:49.had three throws in the end over 80m. A comfortable winner,

:59:50. > :59:57.absolutely goes down as the greatest ever silver medallist four years

:59:58. > :00:07.ago, likely to be promoted to gold. Close to tears and a gold medal for

:00:08. > :00:16.Poland. Wlodarczyk - one of the performances of the Games so far.

:00:17. > :01:44.POLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS So gold for Anita

:01:45. > :01:48.Wlodarczyk. Third record of the Games. What a Games it's turning out

:01:49. > :01:50.to be and a British record for Sophie Hitchon, the start of

:01:51. > :02:06.hopefully many more to come. Shawnacy Barber under pressure here.

:02:07. > :02:11.The World Champion from last year has to go clear. Oh, he's not really

:02:12. > :02:18.got much back from that and Barber is out. The Canadian... Well, that's

:02:19. > :02:22.a big shock. There's the reaction from

:02:23. > :02:26.Lavillenie. That put a spring in his step because he was one of the

:02:27. > :02:29.threats, certainly, for the title here.

:02:30. > :02:33.He seemed to get nothing back from this. He worked hard. The pole just

:02:34. > :02:42.didn't seem to be doing anything for him.

:02:43. > :02:48.Barber is out at this height of 5.65m, a height he's way capable of.

:02:49. > :02:52.He's nowhere in front of that. He came down on it. His high point was

:02:53. > :02:57.well in front of the bars. Too much error. It's been a tough night,

:02:58. > :03:01.though. It's a good two-and-a-half hours

:03:02. > :03:05.since the competition was due to start. Barber is gone.

:03:06. > :03:09.I wonder how much the early disrumgs to the -- disruption to the pole

:03:10. > :03:13.vault competition has unsettled those athletes. It's going along

:03:14. > :03:17.very slowly. Sophie Hitchon has got her medal around her neck. She said

:03:18. > :03:19.it hadn't sunk in earlier because she was in the studio at the

:03:20. > :03:23.beginning of the evening, because she didn't have the medal yet and

:03:24. > :03:28.now she's hanging on to it because it's real. You never forget that

:03:29. > :03:32.feeling when you get your first Olympic medal. A bit surreal. Her

:03:33. > :03:36.stomach is probably just turning over and she's dancing inside. It's

:03:37. > :03:41.just great, great to see, you know, one of these medals, a surprise

:03:42. > :03:44.medal I think it's fair to say. She might have thought there was a

:03:45. > :03:48.chance but for the rest of us it's such a brilliant performance. The

:03:49. > :04:01.last event on the track tonight will be the women's 400m final. Sadly for

:04:02. > :04:08.Great Britain, no representatives. We've been blessed British athletes

:04:09. > :04:11.before in this. Two athletes in particular, Miller from The Bahamas

:04:12. > :04:15.and Felix and the United States appeared in different semifinals so

:04:16. > :04:21.unusually we've got a chance to see them together. Do you expect Felix

:04:22. > :04:32.to take this out? Allyson Felix has been taking it out all year. We saw

:04:33. > :04:35.them in this race yesterday in the same semifinal with Shaunae Miller

:04:36. > :04:40.ahead of Felix. She took it out early rather than drafting along.

:04:41. > :04:45.Allyson Felix extended the drive, pushed it all the way out to 120m.

:04:46. > :04:50.Miller was already into her relaxation. This was very aggressive

:04:51. > :04:55.running from Allyson Felix, especial lip given that she's a speed runner

:04:56. > :05:03.up from the 200m running against a strength runner like Shaunae Miller.

:05:04. > :05:07.Allyson took control of the race. We don't know if Shaunae had reserve to

:05:08. > :05:13.respond to this or if that was all she had. It was not enough to pass

:05:14. > :05:16.here to take the victory from Allyson Felix. She didn't need to

:05:17. > :05:19.though because it's not the objective of the semifinal. What's

:05:20. > :05:23.interesting into tonight's final is to see if Allyson Felix does this

:05:24. > :05:30.again. This is her... You see her pushing and pushing and pushing.

:05:31. > :05:39.At this point, you'd expect she's relaxing. She was able to push.

:05:40. > :05:42.It didn't take too much of a toll on her. It will be interesting tonight

:05:43. > :05:47.to see whether or not Allyson takes it out again because she is behind

:05:48. > :05:57.Shaunae Miller by two lanes. She's in lane four. The other interesting

:05:58. > :06:00.thing is Natasha Hastings, the other American, always goes out large and

:06:01. > :06:04.she's in front of Allyson Felix as well in lane six. So it will be

:06:05. > :06:07.interesting to see if Allyson is more tactical and plays off the

:06:08. > :06:11.other athletes or whether she takes it out and takes control of the race

:06:12. > :06:16.again. Shaunae Miller is on basically what was effectively the

:06:17. > :06:19.outside in lane seven. She'll have leaned from van Niekerk last night

:06:20. > :06:28.that if she just goes out and runs her race, great things can happen.

:06:29. > :06:32.This is the final final of the evening, the women's 400m. A delayed

:06:33. > :06:37.start because of the earlier weather. Andrew Cotter is your

:06:38. > :06:41.commentator. There is Stephenie Ann McPherson in

:06:42. > :06:48.lane at, won the Commonwealth title in Glasgow. Inside her is one of the

:06:49. > :06:53.real threats for the gold medal, unbeaten over 200m and 400m this

:06:54. > :07:00.year until she came up against Felix in that semifinal.

:07:01. > :07:03.Hastings will believe. And Shericka Jackson, who we're about to see,

:07:04. > :07:07.will will believe that she can threaten. What a run this

:07:08. > :07:20.22-year-old produced to win her semifinal. There is the great

:07:21. > :07:25.Allyson Felix. Not able to defend her Olympic title in the 200m.

:07:26. > :07:29.Finished fourth in the US trials but this is the one title across World

:07:30. > :07:38.Championships and Olympics that she does not have. This is her

:07:39. > :07:42.team-mate, Phyllis Francis, who gave her a good race in the US trials.

:07:43. > :07:49.And so you've got the Americans and Caribbeans in the outside lanes and

:07:50. > :07:53.inside, two yaurns, in Libania Grenot, a former Cuban who runs for

:07:54. > :07:59.Italy. Europeans, in Libania Grenot, a former Cuban who runs for Italy.

:08:00. > :08:02.And on the extreme end side, is Olha Zemlyak, who run a personal best in

:08:03. > :08:08.her semifinal to make it through. Silver medallist at the European

:08:09. > :08:12.Championships in Zurich two years ago behind Libania Grenot. The men's

:08:13. > :08:21.400m final of last night is hard act to follow. The world record will not

:08:22. > :08:24.go here. But we'll see Allyson Felix flying to win the one title she

:08:25. > :08:33.really craves. Shaunae Miller expected to be the major threat but,

:08:34. > :08:48.again, look for Shericka Jackson for Natasha Hastings, for Stephenie Ann

:08:49. > :08:51.McPherson, for Phyllis Francis. Zemlyak, Grenot, Francis, Felix,

:08:52. > :08:52.Jackson, Natasha Hastings, Shaunae Miller and Stephenie Ann McPherson.

:08:53. > :09:14.It is the final of the women's 400m. So Hastings will fly in lane six

:09:15. > :09:17.with her blonde hair going out so quickly. Inside her Shericka

:09:18. > :09:21.Jackson. In lane four, Allyson Felix just flowing down the track but

:09:22. > :09:24.there is Hastings doing what she does, almost up alongside Shaunae

:09:25. > :09:30.Miller who carries herself out with that long stride. Natasha Hastings

:09:31. > :09:33.up alongside her just now and inside her, Shericka Jackson is trying to

:09:34. > :09:37.keep pace. Allyson Felix going strongly. Shaunae Miller is trying

:09:38. > :09:41.to use her power and Natasha Hastings is left for a moment.

:09:42. > :09:44.Shericka Jackson in lane five going strongly and these four are just

:09:45. > :09:49.beginning to separate themselves. Phyllis Francis trying to keep pace.

:09:50. > :09:54.Allyson Felix is there. Shaunae Miller has the lead just now. Does

:09:55. > :09:58.Felix is something lift. Miller gritting her teeth but here comes

:09:59. > :10:02.Allyson Felix. It's Shaunae Miller but it's Allyson Felix on the line.

:10:03. > :10:07.Oh, Shaunae Miller hurls herself at the line! Has she won it with that?

:10:08. > :10:10.Has she taken the title? I think she has.

:10:11. > :10:15.Allyson Felix gave it everything to try and get there. She looks to the

:10:16. > :10:22.screen. We all do. But Shaunae Miller has the title! She is the

:10:23. > :10:27.champion! And that is giving it absolutely everything for a gold at

:10:28. > :10:34.the Olympic Games, Shaunae Miller holds off and denies Allyson Felix.

:10:35. > :10:38.What a run from Shaunae Miller to become Olympic Champion and Felix

:10:39. > :10:41.and Shericka Jackson come to congratulate her. But that was an

:10:42. > :10:50.astonishing run from Shaunae Miller. And that... Into is how to finish a

:10:51. > :10:54.race and become an Olympic Champion! Well, it's not textbook, is it? But

:10:55. > :10:58.it is guts. It's fighting all the way. Looking at that, she genuinely

:10:59. > :11:04.stumbles. That's not here going I'm doing going to take a dive to see if

:11:05. > :11:07.I can win it. I mean you do reach for the line. All the way down the

:11:08. > :11:12.home straight I was thinking Miller had it, Felix is coming, Miller is

:11:13. > :11:18.rallying, Felix is going to get there, Miller is rallying again and

:11:19. > :11:25.then Felix looked as though she might just have the momentum and

:11:26. > :11:29.Miller was hoping and hoping the line would come. She eventually fell

:11:30. > :11:34.across it and by falling over the line she becomes the Olympic

:11:35. > :11:37.Champion. Shericka Jackson got bronze but that is lactic-filling

:11:38. > :11:43.and no more to give from Shaunae Miller, no more to give, but she has

:11:44. > :11:46.got it all now, Olympic Champion and still she lies on the track and

:11:47. > :11:50.tries to take in what she's done and tries to recover and Michael Johnson

:11:51. > :11:57.was watching this as well. Just a great race? A fantastic race, Andrew

:11:58. > :12:00.and it unfolded in much the way that I expected it to with Natasha

:12:01. > :12:04.Hastings taking it out very quickly. Allyson, I believe she had the race

:12:05. > :12:10.strategy here to lay back a little bit and not take control of the

:12:11. > :12:14.race. But what she didn't do was really control it from 200m to 300m.

:12:15. > :12:18.You've got to put yourself in position and she may have misjudged

:12:19. > :12:22.a little bit of how far Shaunae Miller was out ahead of her because

:12:23. > :12:27.she was three lanes ahead. That's just an amazing effort from a

:12:28. > :12:32.world-class athlete, stumbling and you can go down but she just lunged

:12:33. > :12:36.for the finish line after the stumble. Allyson Felix will be very

:12:37. > :12:40.disappointed because she needed a couple of more metres, maybe one

:12:41. > :12:46.more metre, in order to make this happen but unfortunately, the

:12:47. > :12:50.mistake she made was from 200m to 3 hundred am am just not making sure

:12:51. > :12:54.that she kept the contact with Shaunae Miller, the race leader, as

:12:55. > :12:58.she needed to. This is where Allyson Felix realised she was in a little

:12:59. > :13:01.bit of trouble but she was going to be patient. That's the right thing

:13:02. > :13:06.to do but Shaunae Miller has already opened up a lead here and, and,

:13:07. > :13:09.Allyson Felix was probably a little bit thrown off by the pace of

:13:10. > :13:13.Natasha Hastings, knowing that Natasha was going to take it out

:13:14. > :13:17.hard, but you are following her, do you keep contact with her or with

:13:18. > :13:21.Shaunae. You've got to keep contact with somebody that's out there in

:13:22. > :13:29.the front and that's a little bit confusing when your main competition

:13:30. > :13:32.is so far out ahead of you. Amazing effort there, just tithing across

:13:33. > :13:36.the finish line, sell advantaging what could have been a disaster for

:13:37. > :13:41.Shaunae Miller. Great effort. I think Shaunae Miller is will have

:13:42. > :13:44.that photo finish framed and put in her room forever more, the moment

:13:45. > :13:48.she won the Olympic Games. It's just a little stumble towards the end.

:13:49. > :13:53.The legs had nothing, nothing left at all in them. It was an incredible

:13:54. > :14:00.finish. It's becoming a little bit of a fad

:14:01. > :14:04.here, isn't it? If you've never run the 400m - let's face it, probably

:14:05. > :14:08.many of you haven't - but it's the one event where your legs go, they

:14:09. > :14:11.really go from you, and you know, you're just trying to keep moving

:14:12. > :14:15.forward and that's all she's done here. She's just used momentum to

:14:16. > :14:19.get her over the line. A brilliant race. I do feel a little bit sorry

:14:20. > :14:24.for Allyson Felix. She's a great champion and, um, but the Olympics

:14:25. > :14:28.isn't about being sympathetic. It isn't about the nice people having

:14:29. > :14:32.to win. Shaunae Miller is a perfectly great athlete, a lovely -

:14:33. > :14:35.you know, a great junior champion and coming through into senior ranks

:14:36. > :14:39.as well. It's a real shame that Allyson Felix was not able to wrest

:14:40. > :14:45.this title but in Shaunae Miller, she's a great champion to give it up

:14:46. > :14:49.to. Please take a photo of me on the ground while I recover but there it

:14:50. > :14:56.is. Gold medal ahead of Allyson Felix in football her last Olympics,

:14:57. > :15:00.realistically so the 400m Olympic title might forever elude her.

:15:01. > :15:11.Shericka Jackson fast-finishing to take bronze.

:15:12. > :15:16.Well, two-and-a-half hours since the start of the men's pole vault final

:15:17. > :15:20.and Renaud Lavillenie has taken to the runway for the first time of

:15:21. > :15:29.asking at 5.75m. Oh, look at that!

:15:30. > :15:32.He's absolutely nailed that. What a pressure jump. Mental toughness

:15:33. > :15:38.personified. Two-and-a-half hours, as I say. He could have watched a

:15:39. > :15:42.film in that time. Good plant, rocks back, drives up and a comfortable

:15:43. > :15:48.clearance at a height that has eliminated more than half of theory

:15:49. > :15:52.finalists. Torrid conditions two-and-a-half

:15:53. > :15:56.hours ago. Lavillenie kept his powder dry, quite literally, because

:15:57. > :16:00.he does use chalk, the powder, on the grip.

:16:01. > :16:05.He doesn't like jumping in the rain. Fortunately, it dried up and

:16:06. > :16:13.Lavillenie is off to a good start in pursuit of his Olympic title

:16:14. > :16:18.defence. Kudliicka looking to join him, the Czech. He just got over

:16:19. > :16:24.that. We have two men clear of 5.75m and the drier conditions now are

:16:25. > :16:29.more conducive and the athletes who have remained strong of mind and

:16:30. > :16:34.body and stayed involved will be rewarded across the next half an

:16:35. > :16:41.hour or so. We've only got about half a dozen

:16:42. > :16:47.left in the competition. Kudliicka, good clearance for him.

:16:48. > :16:55.5.75m. He'll be pleased with that. Lisek of Poland, 23-year-old. Clean

:16:56. > :17:00.sheet so far. Jumping well. Very aggressive on the approach.

:17:01. > :17:04.Committed. The Polish athletes jump with bigger pole vaults. They always

:17:05. > :17:10.have. And a good clearance for Lisek.

:17:11. > :17:21.So this is what dry weather brings you. All of a sudden, the

:17:22. > :17:25.competition has come to life and Lisek, 23 years of age, will attempt

:17:26. > :17:31.the next height. He'll have to wait, though. He can wait patiently for

:17:32. > :17:38.5.85m. There are other athletes, including this man... Thiago Braz Da

:17:39. > :17:43.Silva, huge home support for the Brazilian. If he goes clear, what a

:17:44. > :17:49.roar we're going to hear from the crowd.

:17:50. > :17:59.Second attempt. CHEERING

:18:00. > :18:06.The roar from the crowd tells you all you need to know. Da Silva, 22

:18:07. > :18:19.years of age. Might he be Brazil's first medal in the athletics? Well,

:18:20. > :18:22.he's jumped 5.92m, 5.90m in his last competition prior to these Games, so

:18:23. > :18:33.he's the man in form. He's capable of more.

:18:34. > :18:35.Congratulations from Kendricks, the American.

:18:36. > :18:43.Right, then, Xue of China. He's had the bar raised to 5.85m. He's chosen

:18:44. > :18:47.to part. He's carrying two fouls. He has to go clear, even though it's

:18:48. > :18:51.his first attempt. It's his third potential failure and, indeed, it

:18:52. > :18:56.is. And that's three consecutive fouls.

:18:57. > :19:01.And the end of his competition. He's had a bit of a bumpy ride this

:19:02. > :19:06.evening, it has to be said. He took a bit of a bath early on.

:19:07. > :19:18.Whacked it on the way up. So Xue, three consecutive fouls and

:19:19. > :19:24.he's out. Kendricks looking on as the reigning

:19:25. > :19:36.Olympic Champion, Renaud Lavillenie of France, raises the bar to 5.85m.

:19:37. > :19:46.Oh! Yes! How about that? Two jumps, two clearances. No-one else clear at

:19:47. > :19:52.this height. A nod from Lavillenie. He knows the significance of

:19:53. > :19:57.first-time clearances at these upper heights. Another comfortable

:19:58. > :20:04.clearance from the Flying Frenchman. Wonderful shots. A real test of

:20:05. > :20:18.character in what he's been asked to do tonight. That may be enough to

:20:19. > :20:25.win. So, then, this pole vault really hotting up. We have a

:20:26. > :20:32.Frenchman. -- a Frenchman out in front at the

:20:33. > :20:40.moment. Thiago Braz da Silva, 5.85m, looking

:20:41. > :20:47.to match the jump of Lavillenie. Oh, he's got it!

:20:48. > :20:52.CHEERING Thiago Braz da Silva clear at a

:20:53. > :20:57.height that only the reigning Olympic Champion has cleared! And as

:20:58. > :21:04.it stands, he's in second place. Wow. There's six athletes still

:21:05. > :21:11.involved. Two of them have gone clear at this height of 5.85m.

:21:12. > :21:17.Two of them have fouled. And two of them have yet to attempt it.

:21:18. > :21:26.So da Silva in fantastic shape. Good chance of a medal with that

:21:27. > :21:29.jump. That's exactly what this stadium

:21:30. > :21:34.needs and what the athletics programme needs. We had a full

:21:35. > :21:39.stadium last night, of course, for Bolt. And, um, Shaunae Miller, David

:21:40. > :21:44.Rudisha, two great champions have done their work for the night but

:21:45. > :21:53.these guys have had to come back. These are the 110m hurdlers who have

:21:54. > :21:57.been given another chance. Deuce Carter was disqualified.

:21:58. > :22:01.Two athletes have not bothered coming back. They know that they

:22:02. > :22:07.wouldn't really have a chance because they have to go faster than

:22:08. > :22:13.the current fastest losers. There are four fastest-loser spots

:22:14. > :22:16.available to these athletes. So Ali hasn't conAum and Anousone hasn't

:22:17. > :22:19.come out. They run 14 seconds or more. All of the others at some

:22:20. > :22:28.point this year have gone quicker than what is required. The

:22:29. > :22:33.fastest-loser spots at the minute are 13.62, 13.63, 13.64 and 13.66 so

:22:34. > :22:38.essentially 13.6. If four of these men can run quicker than that here,

:22:39. > :22:48.they go through as the fastest loser representatives in the next round.

:22:49. > :22:56.So, Carter, Buhler, Portilla and Riva in four and Alexander John of

:22:57. > :23:03.Germany in lane two on his own. It's the rerun heat of the 110m

:23:04. > :23:09.hurdles. Carter gets away quickly. Portilla

:23:10. > :23:13.going well. Not much to choose between them. Deuce Carter of

:23:14. > :23:19.Jamaica is starting to come away. This is all about time. Deuce Carter

:23:20. > :23:25.gets it. He's through. The others, I don't think so because

:23:26. > :23:32.he was quite a long way ahead of the others and so deuce Carter, having

:23:33. > :23:38.been disqualified in heat two, he hit the hurdles and he will say that

:23:39. > :23:42.the fact that he was able or wasn't able to run a clean race because of

:23:43. > :23:46.the weather but, to be honest, others did around him. But he's been

:23:47. > :23:51.a fairly lucky man in my view to be able to come back. So he is through

:23:52. > :23:58.and the others are too slow, Colin. Yes. Steve, I'm trying to look on

:23:59. > :24:01.the scoreboard to see who he will replace of the fastest losers.

:24:02. > :24:04.Carter was much sweeter, wasn't he, this time around.

:24:05. > :24:10.Dry conditions, virtually perfect. He's already had a race, a run-out,

:24:11. > :24:15.a run through, a feel of the track. And he's literally just taken off.

:24:16. > :24:20.He is the class of the field, remember his season's best. You

:24:21. > :24:26.would expect him to have an easy qualification in relative terms and

:24:27. > :24:35.the others have all missed out. Let's look at him from the blocks.

:24:36. > :24:49.Hard into the first hurdle. No distractions around him.

:24:50. > :24:55.He can relax and think to himself, "Am I a lucky man? Bad conditions to

:24:56. > :25:02.disqualified to not running well, to run a time of 13.51 and see myself

:25:03. > :25:17.ease - and I mean ease - into the next round?" Well, a swip of

:25:18. > :25:21.positionings here because we've got Sam Kendricks on the runway with

:25:22. > :25:27.Lavillenie looking on. Oh, Kendricks has joined the two that are clear

:25:28. > :25:36.already. Lavillenie clear, da Silva of Brazil clear, and now Sam

:25:37. > :25:40.Kendricks the American champion thumps his chest because that may be

:25:41. > :25:44.a jump that gets him on the rostrum. We've just got to sort out in which

:25:45. > :25:49.position, which may take a little bit of doing.

:25:50. > :25:54.What athleticism that is at nearly six metres up in the air. Wonderful

:25:55. > :26:03.clearance for Sam Kendricks of 5.85m.

:26:04. > :26:08.Jumped 5.92 this year. Well, the bar has been raised again

:26:09. > :26:17.to 5.93m. First attempt for the reigning

:26:18. > :26:23.Olympic Champion, Lavillenie. CHEERING

:26:24. > :26:27.Easily! Oh, my word! What a statement from Lavillenie! The

:26:28. > :26:37.French are going wild. His coach is delighted.

:26:38. > :26:43.And Lavillenie stamps his authority. He is a massive favourite.

:26:44. > :26:46.He's brilliant when he gets it right and he's won 15 of his 17

:26:47. > :26:48.competitions this year. The only glitch was the European

:26:49. > :26:54.Championships. The American applauding. Lavillenie goes into the

:26:55. > :27:01.lead, the only athlete clear at 5.93m.

:27:02. > :27:14.Right then. What an electric atmosphere. It's very late in the

:27:15. > :27:24.evening here. It's nearly 11:30 at night but da Silva is looking

:27:25. > :27:28.focused with the support of a nation. There was talk of the

:27:29. > :27:32.possibility of him being involved in the medals. I'm not sure many

:27:33. > :27:36.believed it. It's beginning to come through. If he clears this height,

:27:37. > :27:42.we'd start to believe. Oh, that was nearly over. It looked as though he

:27:43. > :27:45.had his body half over that. It would have given him confidence

:27:46. > :27:50.for his next two attempts. Let's have a look at this from the

:27:51. > :27:57.side. Drives up hard. He's over, isn't he? Wow! Da Silva first-time

:27:58. > :28:01.failure. Only Lavillenie to have gone clear

:28:02. > :28:09.at this height. So at the moment, as it stands, da

:28:10. > :28:12.Silva is in silver medal position. And Lavillenie keeping his poles out

:28:13. > :28:18.of the way. He's a very organised man. You need to be in this event,

:28:19. > :28:24.especially this evening with it being so wet.

:28:25. > :28:32.Well, Sam Kendricks looked really good at the lower heights it has to

:28:33. > :28:36.be said here. Massive margins of clearance in the

:28:37. > :28:38.early stages. But he's carrying some fails.

:28:39. > :28:43.That said, it was a very good clearance at the previous height of

:28:44. > :28:49.5.85m. For Kendricks, this would be a new

:28:50. > :28:53.lifetime best should he go clear. The Americans - well, in the 28

:28:54. > :28:57.times the pole vault has been contested over the last 120 years at

:28:58. > :29:02.the Olympics, America have won it 17 times. They've been that dominant.

:29:03. > :29:08.Can Kendricks... Join a long list of champions?

:29:09. > :29:11.Well... Again, it seemed to come obvious on that. It will be

:29:12. > :29:16.interesting to see this from the side. He seemed to have the height.

:29:17. > :29:21.It's really bubbling up into being one of the great competitions. We've

:29:22. > :29:24.seen some wonderful field events so far at these Olympics games and the

:29:25. > :29:34.men's pole vault final here this evening is one of them. 5.93m foul

:29:35. > :29:36.you can see there for Kendricks. He's currently in bronze medal

:29:37. > :29:50.position if it stays as is. We'll tidy up the 110m hurdles for

:29:51. > :29:56.you. One of the athletes was disqualified in that one as well.

:29:57. > :29:59.Duce Carter does qualify. The unlucky athlete who wasn't allowed

:30:00. > :30:03.to run against these is Milan Ristic of Serbia. He thought he was in the

:30:04. > :30:08.semifinal and now he's not. Carter is in instead.

:30:09. > :30:13.An extraordinary turn of events in the 110m hurdles. It shows you what

:30:14. > :30:22.the rain can do. Carter has got what he wanted and he's

:30:23. > :30:29.Felix was coming. She had another metre, it would've been herself. We

:30:30. > :30:33.knew it was going to be a tight race. Those 2 were the class of the

:30:34. > :30:38.field. You see Natasha Hastings going out hard, up on Shaunae Miller

:30:39. > :30:41.already. Miller out in lane 7, probably took the same ploch to

:30:42. > :30:46.Wayde van Niekerk last night. I'm not going to worry about what is

:30:47. > :30:53.going on, on the inside, because I can't see Felix, I can't compete

:30:54. > :30:58.with her, so I run the race and hope it's enough. She executed very well

:30:59. > :31:04.here. Just a very even pace. She's not the fastest athlete in the

:31:05. > :31:10.field. This is Allyson Felix. Felix expected that Shaunae would try to

:31:11. > :31:15.run her down. But here, she left it a little bit too late, allowed

:31:16. > :31:22.Shaunae Miller to get too big of a gap. An amazing effort by Shaunae

:31:23. > :31:27.Miller. The fatigue is setting in. The legs don't want to come up as

:31:28. > :31:33.high as they used to. She is trying to position herself to lean at the

:31:34. > :31:39.finish line, because she knew she had a race on her hands, to the

:31:40. > :31:44.tape. She knew she would have a tough race with Allyson Felix to the

:31:45. > :31:49.tape. You will see her, what Shaunae Miller will do at the end of this,

:31:50. > :31:53.she is going to try to position herself to out lean, out lean

:31:54. > :32:00.Allyson Felix. And when she does that, and gets her body in position,

:32:01. > :32:07.she gets a bit too far forward and stumbles and at this point, she is

:32:08. > :32:08.stumbling a great effort and recovery by Shaunae Miller to dive

:32:09. > :32:21.across the finishline. What a great... I don't know what

:32:22. > :32:28.that was! That was an amazing finish. Just such a close finish.

:32:29. > :32:34.That's the finish we expected in the men's 400 and got something better.

:32:35. > :32:42.We are going to get out there because Da Silva is going again.

:32:43. > :32:49.Da Silva of Brazil. The crowd go quiet. The concentration all on this

:32:50. > :32:56.man. Man in 9. Knee three metres and he's got it! The crowd go wild!

:32:57. > :33:02.Lavillenie looking on. And thinkinga Da Silva, at the second time of

:33:03. > :33:11.asking, look at the delight of the crowd. Have a look at this! With the

:33:12. > :33:18.pressure on, the expectation of a nation, no medals so far and

:33:19. > :33:28.possibly only one of two chances across the whole of these athletics

:33:29. > :33:35.events at the Olympics. And Da Silva, very likely, only 4 athletes

:33:36. > :33:42.still in the competition, not guaranteed yet. But an absolute

:33:43. > :33:52.brilliant clearance. A lifetime best for Da Silva. Just one centimetre on

:33:53. > :33:56.his Brazilian national record. Kendricks looking to build on the

:33:57. > :34:06.energy, excitement and focus. Kendricks, second time. He looked

:34:07. > :34:11.high enough again. He can adjust these uprights. Remember, the

:34:12. > :34:15.supports at the side of the bed, are in the position that he requests.

:34:16. > :34:19.They can be moved away from him and towards him. If you have a look at

:34:20. > :34:28.this closely, he's coming down on that.

:34:29. > :34:52.I don't know how much of you are aficionados of the pole vault, but

:34:53. > :34:56.if Lisek fails, he's in next one to go at this height. So the guaranteed

:34:57. > :34:59.medal for the Brazilian. We don't know what colour it is. I wonder if

:35:00. > :35:08.they release it. Lavillenie knows as well. If Lisek fails here, there's a

:35:09. > :35:12.Brazilian medal. As you say, failure at the previous height, it's 3

:35:13. > :35:23.consecutive, regardless of what heights they are. Lisek failed once

:35:24. > :35:27.at 5.85, he chose to pass at this height. This would be a third

:35:28. > :35:32.failure, or indeed, a clearance, a big scream from Lisek. As he attacks

:35:33. > :35:43.this hard. Very aggressive jump. And it's a failure. Do the crowd know?

:35:44. > :35:57.They are suspecting... And we can confirm... That Thiago Braz da Silva

:35:58. > :36:00.is guaranteed a medal. Noughts a crosses, it's a complex thing, in

:36:01. > :36:10.some regards, pole vaulting. Lisek out. It would've been a lifetime

:36:11. > :36:16.best. And a height way beyond anything he cleared in the past.

:36:17. > :36:23.5.82 is his best ever. They know, they know. Top corner, where the

:36:24. > :36:31.Brazil flags are, they have been dancing and jumping and holding

:36:32. > :36:37.their breath as Sam Kendricks has 1 last attempt at 5.93 to go clear, to

:36:38. > :36:46.stay in the competition. The 3 medallists are decided. Just a

:36:47. > :36:53.question of who gets what. He doesn't improve his position.

:36:54. > :36:59.Daville have had a -- Da Silva had a clearance at his second time of

:37:00. > :37:05.asking. It's all on countback. If he goes clear, new heights will be

:37:06. > :37:09.attempted and the next height will be 5.98, which no man in the world

:37:10. > :37:16.this year, including Lavillenie, has cleared. The world record holder. He

:37:17. > :37:21.has in the past, 6.16, his world record from February 2014. So the

:37:22. > :37:29.higher it goes the more it goes in favour of the Frenchman. But

:37:30. > :37:35.Kendricks, will the support of his competitors, third attempt at 5.93

:37:36. > :37:43.to stay in the competition. Oh! Very close! Possibly his best. But it's 3

:37:44. > :37:48.failures for Sam Kendricks. A bronze medal for the USA. Cheers from the

:37:49. > :37:55.crowd because they know the significance of that means they have

:37:56. > :38:05.got a guaranteed silver medal for Brazil. And Thiago Da Silva and

:38:06. > :38:09.possibly even more. Wonderful shots from the side there of Kendricks

:38:10. > :38:17.trying to manoeuvre himself over that very high bar. Unley, as it

:38:18. > :38:23.turned out. -- unsuccessfully, as it turned out. Just 2 athletes remain.

:38:24. > :38:29.Well, it was delayed by half an hour, but what a pole vault

:38:30. > :38:36.competition we have. David Rudisha, champion from London, world record

:38:37. > :38:40.holder, retaining his Olympic title in an absolutely fascinating race

:38:41. > :38:46.with all kinds of twists and turns. But he came through. And we caught

:38:47. > :38:49.up with him afterwards. Well, David, congratulations, another fantastic

:38:50. > :38:55.performance. You lit up the track 4 years ago. How does this golden

:38:56. > :39:03.moment compare? Today, I think, I'm super happy. I'm very happy top

:39:04. > :39:09.defended this title, after I did it in London. Doing it in a special

:39:10. > :39:14.way, like today, it's just fantastic. The times you had this

:39:15. > :39:19.year, you didn't win the Kenyan trials, for example, people were

:39:20. > :39:25.questioning you. They proved foolish to begin to doubt you? I don't want

:39:26. > :39:31.to get discouraged, to doubt myself. I know my training was great and

:39:32. > :39:35.I've been having really good sessions since I was injured and I

:39:36. > :39:39.had no doubt with my form and even when I was running in Stockholm, the

:39:40. > :39:44.weather was terrible, you never doubted myself. I just continued

:39:45. > :39:52.training because I knew I was feeling my body is good, I just need

:39:53. > :39:59.to get a good opportunity. In the four years between London and now, a

:40:00. > :40:05.few doubts. How did you manage to overcome the obstacles and become --

:40:06. > :40:10.obstacles and become champion again? This is one of my fastest times

:40:11. > :40:15.since London. To do it in an Olympic final, it's great. Nothing so

:40:16. > :40:18.important than to run well and win such a big competition and win my

:40:19. > :40:22.second gold in the Olympics is a great moment for me. You're a great

:40:23. > :40:32.champion, a legend of the sport. Well done. Thank you.

:40:33. > :40:36.Well, back to this... Absolutely thrilling pole vault final. Renaud

:40:37. > :40:45.Lavillenie of France, a clean sheet so far. The bar is 5.98. First

:40:46. > :40:57.attempt. Oh, look at that! A fist pump from the Frenchman. In first

:40:58. > :41:07.place. His coach smiles. I think he knows of that even that may be too

:41:08. > :41:12.much, may be too much for Da Silva. It would be a massive lifetime best

:41:13. > :41:16.if the Brazilian can match the flying Frenchman, Lavillenie, when

:41:17. > :41:21.he's in this kind of shape. He knew, he was celebrating as he went over

:41:22. > :41:31.that. And Lavillenie, when he gets it right, he is almost unbeatable.

:41:32. > :41:39.Well, it has just come up on the screen that Braz da Silva has passed

:41:40. > :41:46.at this height. And what a brave strategic move that is. Brave,

:41:47. > :41:51.Steve? Well, I was being optimistic for him. If you're going to get it

:41:52. > :41:58.right, he may as well get it really right. What are you thinking? Well,

:41:59. > :42:02.first of all, Lavillenie, let's hand it to him, he's brilliant under this

:42:03. > :42:10.sort of pressure. He's been here before. Da Silva, I guess, he's

:42:11. > :42:14.thinking, gold. He's got the silver. 5.98 wouldn't improve things for

:42:15. > :42:20.him. It's just going to the next height anyway. So he's thinking, all

:42:21. > :42:28.right, bring it on! I'm up against Lavillenie, the world's best, the

:42:29. > :42:40.world's number number one. Let's go six. It would be a massive lifetime

:42:41. > :42:45.best. 5.92 his best ever. 5-90 he jumped coming into this competition.

:42:46. > :42:53.In this situation, he believes. You can't question his confidence. His

:42:54. > :42:58.commitment. He may go down in a ball of flames. There's no point matching

:42:59. > :43:07.it. It wouldn't have improved his medal. Did I pass that? Sorry, I

:43:08. > :43:14.didn't mean to say pass. Just that little look of puddlement on his

:43:15. > :43:20.face. What height? 6.3! ? Sorry, right, let's go for it. It may be a

:43:21. > :43:25.change of poles that you can see there. The pole vaulters carry a

:43:26. > :43:32.number of jumping... He hasn't got one that long. He's looking for a

:43:33. > :43:36.longer one to propel him up in the air. I'm loving this. This is what

:43:37. > :43:41.the athletics programme so needs. If Brazil have won a medal here

:43:42. > :43:47.tonight, and this guy will be lauded all over the country. He'll be on TV

:43:48. > :43:52.here. I have to say, it's 20 to midnight, I know it's very late at

:43:53. > :43:55.home, but it's 20 to midnight here, and we are in the pole vault final.

:43:56. > :43:59.But this is what I hope will bring people for the rest of the week. It

:44:00. > :44:03.was great when Bolt was here last night, but we want a full stadium,

:44:04. > :44:07.and this will certainly help. An interesting look on the face of

:44:08. > :44:12.Lavillenie there. What do you think is going through his mind? I think

:44:13. > :44:22.he's confident. He's probably thinking this is great, I'm loving

:44:23. > :44:29.this, I'm up against a local but I've cleared 77, 93, 98. He's on

:44:30. > :44:36.form. He's probably a little surprised that Da Silva cleared

:44:37. > :44:40.5.93. It's a new question. And when he passed at 5.98, but he'll

:44:41. > :44:47.understand why this happened. This is a chance for him. These

:44:48. > :44:51.competitive juices are flowing. He has to go 6.03 against this young

:44:52. > :45:04.man. Lavillenie has to jump first. That's the order. Quite a doning,

:45:05. > :45:08.strategic move. If he then has to get that 1 jump chance, should

:45:09. > :45:12.Lavillenie fail. Should he get it, it goes in favour of the Frenchman,

:45:13. > :45:20.which Lavillenie, 6.03. He knocked it off

:45:21. > :45:37.on the way down. Boy, the crowd, a lot of noise, a

:45:38. > :45:48.lot of French flags. He was over, wasn't he? Head in his hands. Look

:45:49. > :45:54.at this. He's come down on that. Remember 9198, World Cup final,

:45:55. > :46:00.France versus Brazil. Brings back the memories. French came out on to

:46:01. > :46:04.there. He almost dislodged that bar, almost for it to rerest itself on

:46:05. > :46:18.the upright. It's quite light, fibre glass. Well... This next jump... Is

:46:19. > :46:23.the most important jump of the competition. If he goes clear, he's

:46:24. > :46:27.not handed the victory, but it makes him a massive favourite. It would

:46:28. > :46:34.mean that Lavillenie would have to go at a higher height, carrying that

:46:35. > :46:38.foul. So if ever you're going to muster everyone you have ever

:46:39. > :46:44.trained for, dreamed of, and committed your life to, it's now.

:46:45. > :46:51.With the support of a home nation, we know what that feels like from 4

:46:52. > :47:11.years ago. Put as bit of extra spark in you. Daville have, 6.03. Possibly

:47:12. > :47:17.to take gold. No! Too much. Da Silva, 6.03. Possibly to take gold.

:47:18. > :47:23.No! Too much. Not sure he practises with this 1. He must have dreamed of

:47:24. > :47:31.this opportunity. How about that? He still has 2 more goes. You can say

:47:32. > :47:41.whatever happens here, I was going down this runway for the gold medal

:47:42. > :47:47.against Lavillenie. 6.03. And so the pole vault poles that the athletes

:47:48. > :47:53.jump from have a length rating. A weight rating and a flex rating. A

:47:54. > :47:59.bunch of gings that athletes become familiar with as they jump through

:48:00. > :48:03.the season that. Longer pole, he may have never jumped on it before. It's

:48:04. > :48:09.the sort of thing he carries for this moment. When you're on, the

:48:10. > :48:17.wind's on your back, the crowd's on your side, well, most of them,

:48:18. > :48:24.anyway. We'll be very football songs now, we'll be having "Da Silva's on

:48:25. > :48:28.fire" you watch, it won't be long. What are you thinking? Lavillenie to

:48:29. > :48:39.go clear? Yes. I tend to feel the same. He's the only man in the

:48:40. > :48:45.competition that's been up at this kind of height. Lots of memories,

:48:46. > :48:53.many clearances. Had a series of them indoors, not outdoors this

:48:54. > :48:57.year. Jumped an record 4 years ago. He's the Olympic holder from that

:48:58. > :49:04.very jump. On the third time of asking, I seem to remember. 6.03

:49:05. > :49:14.this time. To almost guarantee gold. Second attempt. Lavillenie... Has he

:49:15. > :49:23.got it? No! Seemed to have come down on that again. An exasperated look.

:49:24. > :49:29.What is he doing here? Surely not! Has he passed again? He's having a

:49:30. > :49:34.bit of fun now, surely. When he went over and did you see the X against

:49:35. > :49:43.my name? Just rub that out. No, is he? No, a clearances here would put

:49:44. > :49:53.him in the lead. So he has to go at this height of 6' 03. Da Silva would

:49:54. > :49:59.have to go in the lead. Da Silva has just the one. He is coming down on

:50:00. > :50:05.it. He is desperately trying to get his body, very little he can do. His

:50:06. > :50:09.centre of gravity is on a predetermined path. All he can do is

:50:10. > :50:15.push and bid around. That's the reaction of the French support, they

:50:16. > :50:21.thought yes, no, maybe, no. Just that high point. The penetration to

:50:22. > :50:30.get him exactly over that bar with his high point. He had the height.

:50:31. > :50:36.Now then, here we go. So then... The whole of Brazil will be egging this

:50:37. > :50:43.man, Da Silva to go clear. A national record beckons. 6.03,

:50:44. > :50:55.second attempt. He's got it! No way! ! In your life! Have you ever seen

:50:56. > :51:00.drama such as this. Thiago Da Silva, takes it to Lavillenie, the reigning

:51:01. > :51:09.champion. It goes clear, a new national record! Many doubted, he

:51:10. > :51:18.believed. Oh, my word! ! And the place has gone wild. The crowd

:51:19. > :51:29.erupts as Da Silva goes clear with a new Brazilian record. How on earth

:51:30. > :51:32.has he done that, Steve!? Well, I've seen some things in my years

:51:33. > :51:37.competing and watching athletics. That is going to be one of the best

:51:38. > :51:45.moments, home crowd, home boy, higher than ever. Better than ever.

:51:46. > :51:51.Has he won it, though? Has he won the gold? Look at that! Look at the

:51:52. > :51:57.joy on that little boy's face. Congratulations from Sam Kendricks

:51:58. > :52:06.as well. He is on fire! Thiago Braz da Silva, a new Olympic record. The

:52:07. > :52:09.jump of his life. Look at the reaction of the Brazilian crowd with

:52:10. > :52:18.the French holding their heads behind them.

:52:19. > :52:27.Almost a golden goal. Lavillenie has passed his third attempt at this

:52:28. > :52:39.height. And if ever there was a man capable of going higher, it is

:52:40. > :52:43.Lavillenie. Wow! What a competition! I mean, it was Muirered, people

:52:44. > :52:51.whispered about the possibly contenders. Kendricks, second on the

:52:52. > :52:55.world list. Shaun barber of Canada, and then fifth or sixth, they

:52:56. > :53:06.measured in a whisper. He's in the lead. A new Olympic record. 6.03.

:53:07. > :53:10.Who knew that Brazil's new national sport, pole vaulting. 4 Olympic

:53:11. > :53:18.champions in the history of the athletics. Cruz in 1984, Da Silva in

:53:19. > :53:26.the triple jump, Maggie in the long jump. Has Thiago Braz da Silva

:53:27. > :53:36.joined them? He would only be the fifth man, the fourth person, I

:53:37. > :53:39.should say, the fifth gold medal in the history of Brazilian Olympic

:53:40. > :53:45.athletics. It's not over yet. Most of the field events went down to the

:53:46. > :53:49.wire. In the dis cuss, the last throw of the competition. He is not

:53:50. > :54:01.happy. Thumbs down for Lavillenie. It's not right. That is not right.

:54:02. > :54:07.Booing is now right. -- not right. Surprised that Da Silva don't go and

:54:08. > :54:15.ask the crowd to be quiet. Looks as though they have got to him. Well...

:54:16. > :54:23.All the composure that he's ever been asked for is needed right now.

:54:24. > :54:31.Renaud Lavillenie.....6.08. First attempt. No, he's knocked it off!

:54:32. > :54:34.And Lavillenie is out! Which means that Thiago Braz da Silva is

:54:35. > :54:44.confirmed as the new Olympic champion. Oh, my word! What drama!

:54:45. > :54:56.What an incredible performance! Gold to Brazil. Thoroughly deserved.

:54:57. > :55:01.Strategically brave. Athletically incredible! A gold medal rewarded

:55:02. > :55:17.for one of the performances of the championships. The new superstar, a

:55:18. > :55:23.home gold... Steve, don't let anyone say to you that being at home

:55:24. > :55:32.doesn't help. Of course it helps! It's driven this young man upwards

:55:33. > :55:37.and over to a gold medal for Brazil. And we keep talking during this

:55:38. > :55:42.Olympics here in the stadium, that when this sport get it is right,

:55:43. > :55:45.when it gets it right, when you have people like this, the stories, who

:55:46. > :55:51.knew the defending champion, Lavillenie, the number one in the

:55:52. > :55:58.world, coming all the way to Rio and they find a local boy to beat him.

:55:59. > :56:06.Incredible! Thiago Braz da Silva, Olympic champion, and you know what?

:56:07. > :56:15.He's just put 11cm on his lifetime best. Olympic record. Great drama.

:56:16. > :56:22.And let's not forget how difficult these conditions are. It's a full

:56:23. > :56:27.3.5 hours, nearly, since the start of the competition. Disruption

:56:28. > :56:33.through rain, the athletes were removed from the stadium, taken into

:56:34. > :56:43.the bowels to stay warm. And dry. Lavillenie cannot believe it. He

:56:44. > :56:53.looks flawless in the early heights. It looked like it was all going to

:56:54. > :57:00.his favour. We saw Barber go out. But here he is... The biggest name

:57:01. > :57:05.of the moment, the hour, the Brazilian, Olympic champion, Thiago

:57:06. > :57:09.Braz da Silva. Front page news. Lavillenie is one of the most

:57:10. > :57:17.popular men in athletics. Everyone loves him. He's a great athlete. I

:57:18. > :57:22.was looking along the line, amongst all the media as usual, competing on

:57:23. > :57:29.Da Silva, and when he went over, everyone was up. We love that sort

:57:30. > :57:34.of story. Of course you do, allow can you not? It's nothing against

:57:35. > :57:39.Lavillenie. He's a great champion. But this man, the moment of his

:57:40. > :57:44.life, and maybe the moment of athletics at the moment. World

:57:45. > :57:51.records, but locally, locally, this is what will make the headlines. Oh,

:57:52. > :58:01.the romance of the under to go beating a raining -- under dog

:58:02. > :58:06.beating a rainering Olympic champion and -- a reigning Olympic champion.

:58:07. > :58:11.He had a clean card right through to 95.98. Maybe would have thought that

:58:12. > :58:17.would've been enough to win. And we were smiling at him. When he had the

:58:18. > :58:26.bar raised to 6.03. You said brave, incredibly brave. And yeah, you

:58:27. > :58:31.thought, you are brave in brackets, stupid in question mark. He had the

:58:32. > :58:36.failure on countback. He couldn't win the gold medal, and he was

:58:37. > :58:42.guaranteed the silver, through your lot in, let's give it a go. This

:58:43. > :58:48.will never happen again in mislife. And my home track, home crowd, home

:58:49. > :58:49.games, a chance of a gold medal, a chance of sporting immortality, and

:58:50. > :59:05.he has achieved it. Well, the celebrations go on for Da

:59:06. > :59:14.Silva. Many have stayed. Here is the confirmation. Olympic record, Thiago

:59:15. > :59:18.Da Silva, 6. Zo 3. The gold medal, ahead of the previous Olympic

:59:19. > :59:27.champion, Renaud Lavillenie of France, and Sam Kendricks, a bronze,

:59:28. > :59:34.in what was the most thrilling of competitions so far in my book at

:59:35. > :59:40.least. Absolutely fantastic. Somebody 1 day may well make a

:59:41. > :59:45.Hollywood movie about the whole competition tonight. It was Biblical

:59:46. > :59:49.in terms of the rain coming on. That feels like another day, when that

:59:50. > :59:58.happened. They were sent inside, and they came back out again, and never

:59:59. > :00:03.in our wildest dreams, the bar was crawling up, we would ever see a

:00:04. > :00:08.competition like that. Just sensational. Fantastic. This is why

:00:09. > :00:13.we love sport. This is why as a child I waxed athletics. Because

:00:14. > :00:17.it's thrilling. Da Silva has beaten the master of composure, the man of

:00:18. > :00:23.the moment, and this is what this athletics crowd has stayed for. Into

:00:24. > :00:29.the wee hours. And now almost into Tuesday. We are, aren't we? They

:00:30. > :00:33.stayed for a moment like this. What will this do for these Olympics?

:00:34. > :00:40.Brazil was not blessed with medal winners so far. They haven't been

:00:41. > :00:46.blessed with much positive press about the Games period. Already been

:00:47. > :00:50.talk of not leaving a legacy or doing anything good for the country.

:00:51. > :00:55.And there wasn't much public support. This will get people behind

:00:56. > :01:02.the Games and get the Brazilian public saying, hey, you know what,

:01:03. > :01:05.this is fantastic. It can be very uplifting for the Brazilian public.

:01:06. > :01:12.This will be the lasting image of the Games. And that's great. Because

:01:13. > :01:17.they are having a very hard time in this country, a lot of felt like

:01:18. > :01:21.there's no need for us, why are we hosting the Olympics? They'll feel

:01:22. > :01:27.it was worth it after this moment. Their second gold. They got a judo

:01:28. > :01:31.gold as well. It's the head to head, the nature of that beautiful contest

:01:32. > :01:37.that panned out. With Lavillenie, the Olympic champion, if you're

:01:38. > :01:42.going to win an Olympics at home, beat the reigning champion! It's the

:01:43. > :01:50.evidence of the advantage of home support, and the chance to have your

:01:51. > :01:56.home Olympics. We talk about the legacy of 2012, and what super

:01:57. > :02:02.Saturday inspired. Tan talsising Tuesday, something like that. He

:02:03. > :02:06.puts the bar up to 6-03. A new Olympic record. And nails it! He

:02:07. > :02:14.nailed it! By some margin as well. Just sensational. And the reaction

:02:15. > :02:20.from the crowd was, crying. There were tears, tears of joy. Such great

:02:21. > :02:24.celebrations. A beautiful shot of a woman feeding her baby, it looked to

:02:25. > :02:29.be 3 months old. She's not going home. The baby's not going to bed.

:02:30. > :02:33.She's going to win a gold medal in athletics. It's truly a global

:02:34. > :02:36.sport. This sport, that brings together people from every country

:02:37. > :02:44.of the world, and there they are, with a gold medal at a home Games.