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think she can. It is a golden hat-trick in Rio, sensational | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
cycling, brilliant stuff. It genuinely | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
You Most medals won, to Jason Kenny joining Chris Hoy at the top of the | :00:10. | :00:21. | |
all-time medal list. To Laura Trott now, indeed now on that list of most | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
successful Olympians. And these are the people who have to put up with | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
it, week in, week out. I am now joined by Jameses, Kennies, and | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Trotts. Glenda, what you have to go through! Yes, it's nerve-racking, | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
sitting on the site there, watching her. You shake, you sweat. As you | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
can see by our clothes and our hair. But it's all worth it. It's | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
absolutely amazing. And what sheds achieved, like, she's 24 years old | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
and she's so young still. And you're the one that got her cycling? Yeah, | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
I am. I lost 8.5 stone, but I took up exercising on a bike and on my | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
wedding track, and, unknown to me, at the call of my eyes, them two | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
were up on the track, riding around the top of the track, there we were, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Adrian and me, on the ground, going around, toolingding around, because | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
there's no brakes on there, no gears. That's how she got into it, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
bless her. Adrian, did you have any idea she could become this | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
successful? Was she competitive from an early age? I think she was | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
competitive, but no more than most children are. And then as we went | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
on, people said she was good on a bike. She still amazes us, how easy | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
she made it look today. And I know it's not easy. But she's just so | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
comfortable, so natural. Yeah. She actually looked more distressed | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
watching Jason than she was doing her own thing. I think we were all | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
distressed watching Jason today! Because, as I'm sure Michael and | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Lorain will say, he never makes it easy for us. I will jump around to | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Jason Kenny's parents. The tension for you watching that? It's | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
horrendous. I can't explain, especially not today with all the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
restarts. I mean, it was just horrendous. And as you can tell, my | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
voice, I have been doing a little bit of shouting and things. Luckily, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Michael, Jason remained very cool, even when it looked actually as if | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
he might be dids qualified. Yeah, he did. I mean, we weren't. To get | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
three starts at one race is pretty bad, to be fair. But once he got | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
going, were you ever in doubt? Uh, maybe a little bit. You know, he's | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
done lots of racing. So, you don't know what's left in the legs at the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
end of it. And how do you feel about him now joining Sir Chris Hoy at the | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
very top of the tree in terms of British Olympians? His brother is | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
shaking his head? It's amazing. Chris is great. They were great | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
team-mates. I think he will be very proud. I think they're good friends. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Yeah, brilliant. I know how proud Chris is. His brother-in-law to be, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
I should say. What about the James family? Becky James came into these | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Olympic Games having gone through real health and injury issues cious | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
and all of the family are keen cyclists. Nan and graverps are here. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Also Mum and Dad -- Gramps are here. Also Mum and Dad. The whole of Great | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Britain is proud. What about you? Yeah, incredibly proud. At one time | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
we never thought she'd ride a bike again. What she's achieved, two | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
silvers feels like four golds, really, because we didn't expect to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
be here. We only booked a fortnight ago, because you couldn't prepare. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
And she sort of begged us to come. And we're so glad we made the trip | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
across. And it's not often that you get to watch her, is it? Very, very | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
rarely. It's the first time myself, my wife and I, have been abroad | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
together, really, isn't it, Kris? Since our disabled daughter has been | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
born. So, we haven't seen Beck yes race. And only once or twice in the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
UK, really. So, I can't really describe what it feels like at the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
moment. It's not gonna sink in for a while yet. And in terms of the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
positive effects, Kris, of her being part of this extraordinary team - | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
and I know you've got younger daughters as well who are champing | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
at the bit to be a part of this - what do you say to other parents | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
watching? What does being part of it mean to your kids? I think it's | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
really special. Becky has always thrived in this situation and | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
atmosphere and everything. The help, they're behind you all the way. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Yeah, I think it's great. And Becky would say the same as well. And | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
obviously this lot here have got a wedding to plan, because it's not | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
very long now before Laura Trott and Jason Kenny get married. George | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
North is here, supporting Becky. I suddenly realise, now I've put you | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
in an awkward situation. LAUGHTER | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
It has been an Olympics of proposals. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
LAUGHTER Um, yeah, well, you know, uh... | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Super proud and all that. No, I'm only joshing with you. I don't want | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
to put you under pressure. Your reaction to what Becky has done | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
today. Um, yeah, massively proud. As they said then, well, 18 months ago | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
she didn't think she would ride a bike again. And to come here and | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
take two silvers is huge. You know? And just very, very proud of her, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
what she's achieved, really. Well, it's just wonderful for all of you | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
to be here to have seen what your kids have done, what your other | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
harvs have done as well. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
to us. A great way to finish the action here at the velodrome. I'm | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
going to sit somewhere and have a little cry now. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
I would move away from George North as well, if I was you, Claire. Thank | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
you very much. We're just gonna put the medal table up for you, just to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
show how dominant the Great Britain the medal table up for you, just to | :05:46. | :05:46. | |
show how dominant the Great Britain Team has been in the velodrome this | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
week. Six gold, four silver, one bronze. 11 medals. Nine ahead of | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
anybody else. So, the Dutch and the Germans. We spoke a couple much | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
times, Chris, about them being there to be shot at. And although we're | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
very positive and very happy, they will | :06:04. | :06:03. | |
to be shot at. And although we're very positive and very happy, they | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
will have to deal, won't they, with fingers being pointed at them? They | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
say it has started a little bit? A little bit, yeah. But you've also | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
gotta look at the teams that underperformed. The French didn't | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
get a single medal. They were going slower than the World Championships. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Why would you not expect the team to come to the Olympic Games with the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
form of their life. A lot of teams have been quite disappointing, and | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
that has exaggerated the gap with Britain, who have timed it | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
perfectly. They're going off for a drink now. You're gonna have a | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
lie-down? It has been exhausting. A nerve-racking six days. Very proud | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
to be part of the broadcasting team. We've enjoyed having you. Thank you | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
very much, Sir Chris Hoy. We're gonna show you some action now, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
because we're getting to the semifinal stages of lots of the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
boxing, weight divisions. And one of them involves our very own Joshua. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
This is in the light heavyweight. He had a semifinal. This means you're | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
guaranteed a bronze medal anyhow. This is basically to get through to | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the final, when he would fight for a gold or silver medal. He had a very | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
difficult opponent from Kazakhstan. He actually won silver in London | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
2012. And your commentary team here, Ron McIntosh and Richie Waddle from | :07:20. | :07:20. | |
the start of the second round. So, into the second round, then. And | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
Joshua, the man in red, representing Great Britain, has conceded the | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
opening round across the board. 10-9 for all three judges against this | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
accomplished Kazakhstan boxer. Two third-round stoppages in his opening | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
two bouts. A fantastic display against a boxer | :07:47. | :08:02. | |
from Algeria at the quarterfinal stage. Gave the man two standing | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
counts. But the Algerian boxer, to his credit, took all of the heavy | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
leather. Joshua Buatsi fought back in the final round. | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Buatsi just starting to find a range. They've said to their man, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
"Don't stand and hold your feet against this guy. He is a big | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
puncher." And they are concerned of the power. No question. That's why | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
he decided to keep it long. He doesn't want to get involved. He's | :08:35. | :08:57. | |
staying on the outside. Buatsi has gotta keep that poker face. He has | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
been a relentless stalker of his opposition. When he's setting up | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
with the jab, he's scored really well, particularly with the body. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
This is a fleet-footed Kazakh boxer he's facing. A terrific atmosphere | :09:10. | :09:25. | |
here at Rio Central Pavilion 6. Buatsi just betraying a few signs of | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
frustration here. Gotta keep his mind on the job and his focus on | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Niyazymbetov. That can slow down a fleet-footed boxer if you continue | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
to target those body shots. Buatsi being spoken about voicing | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
his frustration to the referee. Gotta keep his mind on the man in | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
front of him here. The feet, he's gotta quicken up the feet here, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Buatsi. Just a little bit too slow. He's waiting probably a little bit | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
too long. He's gotta sustain a little bit of pressure, but he's | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
gotta be sensible. Hands eye. The feet have definitely gotta be | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
quicker here. Niyazymbetov, he seems to be controlling the pace better | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
now, the man in blue. And this is a pace that suits the boxer in blue. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Look at how he's able to work in the space of the ring, just using the | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
ropes metropolitanarily, before he clumsy walks back out to centre | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
ring. But it's been a round in which the man in blue has dictated the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
terms, and they are terms that suit him. Buatsi showed a few signs of | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
frustration there. But he was all manned out in that second round, in | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
many ways. All of this man's experience coming to the fore. And | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
the scores again across the board for Niyazymbetov. So, a tough job | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
for Buatsi now. But having said that, we know that this guy in red, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Joshua Buatsi, has got the power to maybe, you know, cause an upset | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
here. As we move into the third and final | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
round, Great Britain's Joshua Buatsi, the man in red, is trailing | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
by two points for all three judges. He scored two stoppage victories in | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
his three contests so far, and he's going to need to produce some of | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
that precise power punching to get himself back into this contest. But | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
that's going to be a difficult proposition against this Kazakh, who | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
glieds around the boxing ring as fluidly -- glides around the boxing | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
ring as fluidly as mercury. Cracking right hand. And Niyazymbetov | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
intelligently ties his man up to get himself out of the corner and back | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
to the ring. Now, that's a stern talking-to in the direction of | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
Niyazymbetov from the ref re. And then he walks Buatsi on to a | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
cracking one-two combination. Just gotta stick to his left a little bit | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
more as he's throwing the right hand, Buatsi. The odd one-two here. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
As he's going forward. Gotta try and slip to the left. Then he can come | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
back maybe with a left up to the body or a left up to the head. He's | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
gotta have a little more head movement, Buatsi, as he going | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
forward. He's going forward too straight, Ron. A little bit static | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
there. With his head. So, he's gotta move it to the left. And throw that | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
right hand. And again the movement from the waist down with the feet | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
from Niyazymbetov, he's making him a very difficult proposition to pin | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
down. But Joshua Buatsi, at the midpoint of this third round, has | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
got a minute and a half in which to find the finishing punch or the | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
finishing salvo. Time is on the side of the man in blue. Now he's got him | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
in the corner. But look at the matter in which Niyazymbetov is keen | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
to initiate a clinch. Joshua Buatsi clearly frustrated. Come on, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
referee. Never mind the shoulder. What about the holding upon?! Josh | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
Buatsi needs a massive round a. Buatsi can't afford to demonstrate | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
this type of frustration. He's got to remain focused and go in search | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
of that finishing shot. Inside the final minute. The clock is | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Niyazymbetov's friend. And despite being told no holding, Niyazymbetov | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
initiates a clinch once again and walks his man back across the ring | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
in a rather gruesome waltz. Niyazymbetov just on the outside | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
now. He knows he's winning the contest, just protecting the lead. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
But he's also concerned. He knows that Buatsi has got a big punch | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
about him. He's doing everything to stifle that, and just grab Buatsi on | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
the inside. He's not gonna be, unless he can find it in these last | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
ten seconds or so, Josh Buatsi. Well, he knows how to navigate his | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
way around a ring wonderfully, does Adilbek Niyazymbetov. And that | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
qualify came to the fore, particularly in this third and final | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
round. But it was a feature throughout the contest, and going | :14:01. | :14:01. | |
through to the gold medal bout. So, Adilbek Niyazymbetov goes | :14:02. | :14:26. | |
through to the gold medal bout, where he will face off against his | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
familiar rival, Julio La Cruz of Cuba. So, it is a bronze for Buatsi. | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
We're gonna move you up now to the superheavyweight division, won by | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Antony Joshua four years ago in London. Joe Joyce our man in this | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
division here in Rio. And this is a quarterfinal bout you're about to | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
watch. And his opponent was from Uzbekistan. And he was a bronze | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
medal winner at last year's worlds. So, if Joe Joyce was to get through | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
this, he'd guarantee himself at least a bronze. | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
So, we go into the second round of this 91kg-plus Superheavyweight | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
quarterfinal. Joe Joyce begun the second session on the front foot | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
with a marauding attack against a man who is now struggling to keep | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
him off. That's what I told you, Ronald. Once you show this man | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
you're hurt downstairs, he will keep coming. Joyce is just getting warmed | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
up. He's got a terrific engine. Great sustained pressure. Most | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
certainly. And the counters, as a good left hand goes through from | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Joyce, the count frrs his opponent becoming more pedestrian now, a | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
little bit slower. He's running into big shots from the form of Joe | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Joyce. He has been hurt. This is gonna test his character, the man in | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
blue. Joyce has just gotta steady himself. But just keep that work | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
rate going. Looking to his corner, the man in blue, perhaps betraying | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
sight of negative body language already. Driving the man back to his | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
own corner. Joe Joyce is feasting on that long, slender torso of the | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
22-year-old. In and out with the feet. Ceefting a bit of space for | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
himself, getting through with quality shots. Again, switches | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
downstairs, good performance up to now. Gotta keep it going. | :16:23. | :16:35. | |
A furtherive glance to his corner. Looking for inspiration. Looking for | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
encouragement. Hurt by a hard left hand. Shot to the body once again. | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
And the opponent showing signs of desperation here. The referee is | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
giving him every chance to recover in these exchanges here, the referee | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
is. I think it's delaying the inevitable here. He's tiring by the | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
second, the young fella from Uzbekistan. He still keeps coming, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Mr Joyce. Doubled over by body shots from both the left and the right | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
flank from Joe Joyce. And the opponent in real trouble, almost | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
entering the survival mode. But his fighter's pride sees him poking out | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
shots, trying to keep this man at bay. And a hard right hand to the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
body. He goes to the canvas for the second time. No count given by the | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
referee. But Joyce will be encouraged by the fact that he can | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
hurt this man, and he's got 30 seconds. Here in Round 2 to put him | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
on the floor and possibly keep him there. The opponent in desperate | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
trouble. He deserves immense credit for continuing to compete. But every | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
shot that Joyce lands is affecting him more and more. Ronald, if ever I | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
have seen a 10-8 round without a count, this is it. Clearly a 10-8 | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
round for Joyce, total domination here from the man in red. A great | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
round of boxing. Front-foot pressure and he's hurt his opponent several | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
times. And if this isn't a 10-8, I will be amazed. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Joe Joyce with an utterly dominant three minutes of boxing. And his | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
opponent, the 22-year-old from Uzbekistan, this man so highly | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
regarded, but he appeared to have little left in his gas tank. And his | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
corner trying to encourage and inspire him, but they've not been on | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
the receiving end of the pumplegs from this 6'6" term -- punches from | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
this 6'6" terminator. We have a saying back in GB, it's, "Go get | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
him, Joe." He certainly did it there. Nazarov looking concerned for | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
his team-mate. Well he might. 10-9. Make no mistake, it was a dominant | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
round for Joe Joyce. A painful round for his opponent. He will do well to | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
hear the final bell in this contest. Hands in prayer. Perhaps divine | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
intervention the only thing that can help this man now. Third and final | :19:08. | :19:21. | |
round. Joe Joyce begins to walk down his man. The opponent betraying | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
signs that he's hurt. He's doubling up in the corner. He's holding his | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
eye. He's caught a thumb. I don't think he wants much more of this. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
The referee doing the mandatory eight count. I think this is it. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Well, he's stepping back into the bridge. He deserves immense kudos. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
But all he's doing is taking further punishment. But his fighter's pride | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
won't allow him to concede. The man is increasingly becoming a | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
stationary target. Joyce keeps coming. If I was in the Uzbeky | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
corner, I would be thinking about throwing the towel in. This bloke is | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
struggling, he has been hurt. And I know this is an Olympic | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
quarterfinal, but this young man, he's in a bit of trouble here. He's | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
gonna get hurt. Joe Joyce trying to cut off the ring | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
and prevent, cut off the escape route that his opponent is trying to | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
fashion. His opponent so highly thought of that he was Uzbekistan's | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
flag-bearer at these Olympic Games, one of nine boxers to be bestowed | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
with that honour. But it looks as though his Olympic Games is coming | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
to an end before the medal stages. He's trailing by two points for all | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
three judges. And a reigning World Championship bronze medallist, in | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
blue, is being dominated by the other reigning World Championship | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
bronze medallist, Joe Joyce, with his marauding attacks, has | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
completely overwhelmed and dominated this man. But his opponent trying to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
find something with which to fight back. But he's weary. He's | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
exhausted. This is a wiefl mission for him now. Again, Joe -- a | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
survival mission for him now. Again, Joe Joyce goes with the upper cut, | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
hurting his opponent. Hard left hand to the body with the man in the | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
neutral corner. His opponent walking back to centre ring. But Joe Joyce | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
continuing to stalk his man. The referee again, giving him plenty of | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
time, isn't he? Which is gonna help him. But Joe Joyce just keeps | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
coming. Nothing will deny him. He wants to get on that medal roster, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Ronald. And he's just 30 seconds separating him from a place on | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
thattile medal podium. And despite the best -- on that medal podium. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
And despite the best efforts of his opponent to escape the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
incountriesant pressure of this man -- incessant pressure of this man, | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
there is no escape. Joe Joyce just keeps on coming and he issues a | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
second eight-count. His opponent has been utterly dominated for the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
entire three three-minute rounds. Joe Joyce, Great Britain's | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
superheavyweight, who will be going through to the final four. And a | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
guaranteed Olympic bronze in the Superheavyweight division. And Great | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Britain's outstanding record in this, the biggest of all weight | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
classes in the Olympic tournament continues. Every time a British | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
boxer has entered, they come away with Olympic hardware. Starting with | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
Robert Weld in 1984, the inaugural Superheavyweight tournament in Los | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
Angeles. Tremendous stuff from Joyce there in | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
that last round. ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the | :22:45. | :22:58. | |
winner by unanimous decision... Joe Joyce. Great Britain's Joe Joyce | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
makes it through to the bronze medal podium at least in the 91kg-plus | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
superheavyweight division with a terrific display of nonstop punching | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
to eliminate the 22-year-old opponent. And how about that for | :23:15. | :23:31. | |
some capoire? Joe Joyce demonstrating his supreme ath let | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
six that serves him so well in the boxing ring. | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
Great noise for Joe Joyce. But the biggest cheer of the night was | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
reserved for Brazil's first-ever boxing gold in the men's light | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
weight. And look at the Brazilian fans in the boxing arena. Brazil's | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
first Olympic gold boxing medal. A couple of other stories from the | :23:53. | :24:07. | |
boxing. Nicola Adams, a gold medallist at London 2012, made her | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Rio debut, and she is through to the semifinals. She beat Tatiana Cobb | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
from the Ukraine. And that means that she's through, as I say, to the | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
semifinals. So, that will be a bronze medal at the very least for | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
her. And the most controversial story of | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
the day concerned the Irish boxer, Michael Conlin, who was defeated by | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
a Russian, and thought the judges had made a mistake. He gestured | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
towards them as he left the ring. He made some furious comments as well | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
in post-fight interviews against the governing body, which we can't | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
repeat. He also tweeted, "Vladimir Putin, the Russian President," with | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
some accusations as well. And you'ller be hearing a lot more of | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
that over the coming days. Right, from boxing to gymnastics, the final | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
day of competition there. Three gold medals up for grabs. It's been a | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
great tournament for Britain, as you know. And they were in the hunt for | :25:09. | :25:27. | |
medals again. Well, Great Britain, Amy Tinkler, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
youngest member of Team GB as a whole. She's the British floor | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
champion. And watch out, some very big tumbles are gonna be coming up | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
in this routine. Starts off very cleanly. And great music. The crowd | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
are already clapping along to it. Here's the big first tumble. | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Really sells this routine. Straight back down the diagonal with the | :25:55. | :26:09. | |
double twisting, double back. Fantastic first two tumbles from | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Amy. And now has her chance to show that great choreography. There's the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
leap. Change leg. Into the 1.5 turning leap. | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
And she's building up to her third tumble. She's uses a combination | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
tumble. The 1.5 walk-out, into the double tuck. Very cleanly performed. | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
And there's another big jump. And she's building up to the final | :26:46. | :26:46. | |
tumble. A very short run. Such a powerful | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
gymnast. There's the double pike, and a fantastic landing to finish | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
off. A great routine. Amy Tinkler! Looking very at home in | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
this quimp floor final. She could not that -- Olympic floor final. She | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
could not have done that better. Well, the score is in, and it's | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
enormous. Amy Tinkler is in with a very good shot. Simone Biles now | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
going for her fourth gold medal. And a totally exceptional gymnast. Make | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
sure you keep your eyes open. How high is that tumble? | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
Effortless leaps. So, another big tumble on the way. And such an easy | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
jump out of it. It's the height on everything she | :27:53. | :28:18. | |
does that sets her apart. They've all done fantastic tumbling, but | :28:19. | :28:19. | |
this is so high. So easy to land. The final move of her Olympic | :28:20. | :28:46. | |
championships. Full twisting double back. | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
How does she do it? It's 15.966. Well ahead of the rest of the world | :28:55. | :29:05. | |
so far. Great Britain's Amy Tinkler takes the bronze in this women's | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
Olympic floor final. Aly Raisman takes silver but the champion is | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
Simone Biles. I used to compete in front of big crowds as well, it's | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
just incredible. I'm just so shocked. | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
So, a double twist. In the double straight somersault. The finish of a | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
very secure routine. And that is certainly a tough, tough score to | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
beat A 15.766. 30 years old. Olympic champion in London. Two times world | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
champion. His routine is full of risk. And this is the heart-stopping | :29:50. | :29:58. | |
moment, the routine starts. Builds up for this first important release. | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
Let's go. Connected with another... Oh! He's off. | :30:06. | :30:16. | |
He's up off the mat. Niall Wilson. Current European high bar champion. | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
Commonwealth champion. What can he achieve here? In this men's Olympic | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
high bar final. Winding up. Into a big release. He catches almost | :30:28. | :30:37. | |
perfectly. And again. High. Full twisting. Now settle down. Really | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
nice 1.5 turn. Just slightly offhand stand. Squat | :30:44. | :30:59. | |
with half turn. Here's the big catch. And another release and | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
catch. Big wind-up, just the dismount left. | :31:04. | :31:22. | |
Double twisting, double straight. Good lad! Wow! What a routine! That | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
is going to challenge! He was building the difficulty all the way | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
through and that was a very, very strong bid for an Olympic medal. | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
15.466 for Nile Wilson, in second at the moment. | :31:42. | :31:49. | |
Well, keep your eye on the scoreboard. Nile Wilson is | :31:50. | :31:57. | |
guaranteed at least a bronze. The last gymnast is high-bar final, | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
Danell Leyva. Needs to land this on his feet. | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
Popped back. Well, he got through without a fall. We already know Nile | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
is guaranteed a medal. It's just whether it's silver or bronze. 15.5, | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
so he does go into silver medal position. Nile Wilson, for Great | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
Britain, will take the bronze medal. The Olympic Champion is Fabian | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
Hambuechen, but Nile Wilson makes his dream for Great Britain as the | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
first ever gymnast to medal at the Olympics on high bar. | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
What an Olympics Great Britain have had! I was fortunate enough to have | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
the opportunity to be an Olympic medallist and I took the | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
opportunity. I'm so happy. I know everyone at home will be proud and I | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
want to say to Joanna, mum and dad - we did it! British gymnastics has | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
made such impressive improvements over the last eight to ten years and | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
as you can see, thanks to Nile Wilson and Amy Tinkler, Britain end | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
second on the artistic gymnastics medals table with a total of six and | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
you see that one silver there - just to clarify the silver in the | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
trampolining doesn't come under the artistic gymnastic category so that | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
is not included on that medal table. Right, sailing wanted to join the | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
British medal party and Shirley Robertson can round up everything | :33:33. | :33:43. | |
that happened there. After the drama of yesterday's | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
storms there are four medal races scheduled at the sailing venue and | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
it promises to be a golden day for Team GB. Scott did enough to secure | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
a gold medal two days ago on the oceans of Copacabana. | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
It was an emotional moment here for -- shared for his coach. | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
The start for the men's heavyweight gets under way. Today was a | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
celebration of that moment, in front of the crowds on the shores. Scott | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
showed what has made him great, competing and finishing the medal | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
race second. Giles Scott of Great Britain - | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
four-time finn World Champion. It's been an incredibly long road, an | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
agonising wait, but now the 29-year-old world number one is | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
confirmed as the gold medal-winner in Rio 2016. | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
I mean it is just incredible. I'm just so happy with the way I sailed | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
this week. Um... That and the campaign that my coach and I put | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
together over the past three years is, um, you know, everything has | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
been geared towards this... I suppose this one moment and to be | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
successful and kind of put to rest all those crucial decisions we made | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
early on is just fantastic. Job done tour Scott. The chance to | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
do the same for Hannah Mills and Saskia Clarke in the 470 | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
double-handed women's dinghy. Mills and Clarke had three races to sail | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
and if they could extend their lead to 20 points they could secure gold | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
ahead of their medal race tomorrow. 20 points needed. 20 points the | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
difference when they crossed the finish line of their last race of | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
the day in third place. It took a quick check, with their coach, on | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
the maths and then celebration. British gold number two in the | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
sailing. 2016 gold medallists! I haven't | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
stopped smiling! I feel like I'm grinning like an idiot! | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
I didn't cry. I whooped. I know the two of you are the best of friends. | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
This has been five years in the making to share this moment before | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
you head ashore together. What's that like. It's been amazing. We've | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
had a hard few years. I've had two bits of surgery and at times I | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
didn't think I'd make it back and Han waited for me, not to make me | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
panic or anything, and she's been an amazing best friend and team-mate. | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
That's a great cuddle. Hannah and Sas, 2016 gold medallists! | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
Congratulations. Allyson Young won the laser raidial | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
medal race to end up eighth and disappointed. Nick Thompson couldn't | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
improve on sixth and the Ben sacks tonne and Nicola Groves rounded up | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
an Olympics that began in great style back in ninth. Tomorrow is | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
Ladies' Day. A gold medal final for Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark when | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
they race in front of the beach before stepping on to the top step | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
of the Olympic podium. And that gold medal for Mills and | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
Clark will be added to the medal table tomorrow. There is so much to | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
fit in on what has been another remarkable day for Britain. There is | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
no time to talk to anybody or get any reaction whatsoever. We'll just | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
keep bringing you the action. Next to the men's three metres sprint | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
board final. We'll show you a couple of his dives in this. | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
Just 0.1 down on his highest dive which we've got. | :37:28. | :37:38. | |
Forward 4.5 for Jack Laugher. Yes! Outstanding! Again - just when he | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
needed it, he digs to the bottom of his toy box, or wherever he needed | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
to go to pick that one out. This is superb stuff from Jack. Jumping | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
Jack. Look how high he goes, up into the air, disappearing into the | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
water. This is way over 90 points and Jack is in the medals with a | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
dive to go. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
but, my word, he's finally settled down after the prelims in the | :38:07. | :38:08. | |
semifinals and look at those scores. Yes! That is an Olympic medal for | :38:09. | :38:26. | |
Jack Laugher! He has put that out of reach, I'm pretty sure. This is good | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
enough by Haugher. Hasuding can't catch him. He was all over the place | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
in the prelims and the semis, but that doesn't matter. We don't care. | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
He's come out here this evening and he delivers. He's a mailman. He | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
always delivers. That's two medals. Yes! Well done, Jack Laugher. He has | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
to wait ages for his marks. They haven't come up yet. Now they come | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
up on our screen and that's the best he's done in three rounds, on that | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
dive, his favourite dive, 88.20. Yuan Cao took gold in that event for | :39:02. | :39:12. | |
China but a great Olympics for Jack Laugher with a gold and a silver, | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
gold in the men's synchro pairs and silver in the event you've just | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
seen. Britain is on 50 medals. So it's already beaten the target of 48 | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
that was set by UK Sport. And it's also ahead of the game as regards | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
where Britain was in London at this stage. And also, with day 12 coming | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
up, in London Britain didn't win a medal on that day. We will get a | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
medal tomorrow thanks to the sailing. Jason, the action has been | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
frenetic. I haven't had a chance to talk to anybody but you can't | :39:43. | :39:44. | |
complain when you're watching what we have been watching today. | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
Mark Chapman, another brilliant day for Team GB. Thank you very much | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
indeed. Welcome back to the Copacabana. So it's been an amazing | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
day in Brazil at the 2016 Rio Games. I'll see you shortly, where we'll | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
round out what has been a magnificent day for boxing, | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
weightlifting and a big story in the women's football competition. But it | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
is time to head you straight to the Olympic Stadium. A very good | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
evening, Gabby Logan. Good evening, Jason. The action has | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
already started here and it's going to come thick and fast. Good evening | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
to Denise and Michael but you'll appreciate that we're going to get | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
straight out there. There he is. Andrew Pozzi is going in the first | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
of the hurdles heats. He's alongside Ronnie Ash. Pozzi has the speed to | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
make the final and perhaps even challenge for the medal. | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
Only two go through automatically here. Orlando Ortega is in this | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
first semifinal as well. This is the first of three semifinals. Here it | :40:48. | :40:49. | |
is: Andrew Pozzi in between Deuce | :40:50. | :41:16. | |
Carter, who suffered in the monsoon and was given a re-run and managed a | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
quick enough time to move through. Ronnie Ash was second in the US | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
trials behind Devon Allen and then Ortega in lane seven ran a 13.04 | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
this year to win at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco. There he | :41:33. | :41:34. | |
is in the new colours of Spain. This needs a clean run with only two | :41:35. | :41:53. | |
going through automatically and then the two fastest | :41:54. | :42:12. | |
Pozzi hits the barrier and the second. A man down on the outside. | :42:13. | :42:20. | |
Julmis. Pozzi is going backwards. He's all over the place. Instead | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
coming through - the two men to go through are Ronnie Ash and Orlando | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
Ortega. The race was there for Andrew Pozzi. He had the speed but | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
he simply didn't clear the barriers well enough. Costly, costly. Andrew | :42:33. | :42:41. | |
Pozzi, well, you can see it in his face. He knows what a wretched run | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
by his standards he's put together there because he was still leading, | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
despite clipping the earlier barriers. He was in front and in | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
that position. Perhaps the rhythm was not. Colin will have a look at | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
it in a moment. That's a horrible run for Andrew Pozzi. He'll be | :42:58. | :43:05. | |
bitterly disappointed with that. That's probably the worst run I've | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
seen him do all year. Got out of the blocks OK but he made a mistake | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
early on. That's the time you don't want to make mistakes because, as | :43:14. | :43:15. | |
you're accelerating, you haven't got the speed to hit the hurdles right | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
so if you clip them, the top pulls you back and doesn't through you | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
forward and every single time that Andrew Pozzi was trying to get into | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
rhythm, he was clipping the barrier, which was just putting him back. | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
He'll be really frustrated with that. Well, the barriers were flying | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
from a few athletes. Jeffrey Julmis exploded into the first barrier | :43:37. | :43:46. | |
there. He approached this first one OK. But he caught that hurdle and | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
that was a problem. He hit it with his lead leg because he was too | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
short. Now acceleration comes in, he can settle into rhythm but as he | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
starts to pick up speed, he clatters a hurdle again and that knocked him | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
back. From there on in, he was trying to catch up, trying to get | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
his body in the right position, right posture to clear these hurdles | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
well. Snake over them - that's the key thing and he was always short. I | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
think we know what Andrew Pozzi's feelings will be. He's with Phil | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
Jones now. Andrew, I think it's fair to say | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
you've watched that replay back and it doesn't make pleasant viewing. | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
No, it's just... It's just abysmal. Um... I know... There are no other | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
words to describe it, really. Um... Yeah. I... Just absolutely awful. | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
Um... Straight from the blocks, I mean, you saw - I started hammering | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
the first couple of hurdles and there's not a lot of chance of that. | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
I hit another one very heavily - for what reason I can't really describe. | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
I can't put my finger on it. It just felt -- I just felt really out of | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
sorts but this isn't the place for that to happen so, yeah, it's | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
just... Just awful. It's an anomaly for you as well. We rarely see you | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
do that kind of thing. Yeah, I think that's why I'm... I just don't quite | :45:05. | :45:12. | |
understand that. I'll season I've been consistent. I've run terribly | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
and still run better than that. It's terrible viewing. I can only | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
apologise. We appreciate you stopping anyway. Thanks. Cheers. | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
Thank you. There's never a need to apologise | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
when you've given your best. It just wasn't enough tonight. Nobody knows | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
that more than Andrew Pozzi. Orlando Ortega goes through with Ronnie Ash. | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
So we're under way on the track. Two more of those 110m semifinal hurdles | :45:39. | :45:46. | |
to come. The men's high jump competition promises to be very | :45:47. | :45:48. | |
exciting. It's just about getting under way. We've got qualification | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
for the javelin as well and the women's long jump qualification is | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
going with three British women going in that. And then it's the one-lap | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
hurdlers, both men's and women's semifinals, the 200m semifinals take | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
place at 2.00 in the morning and then it's the women's 1,500m final | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
with Lauras Muir and Weightman going in that one. Then the men have to | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
get dusted down and back out here for the 110m hurdles final - not | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
long to get ready for that after the semifinals, at 2:45am. So Steve | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
Backley will be taking you through what promises what promises to be an | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
exciting men's high jump competition. | :46:31. | :46:41. | |
Robbie Grabarz finishes off his first attempt at 2.29m. | :46:42. | :46:48. | |
Very, very good indeed from Robbie Grabarz. It is bronze for Britain | :46:49. | :46:50. | |
and bronze for Grabarz. High-class final it has to be said. | :46:51. | :47:16. | |
Look at that, the champion of the world in 2013, Erik Kynard, silver | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
medallist in the worlds. Robbie Grabarz certainly capable of getting | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
in it. Perfect conditions here in the Olympic Stadium, mid-20s, no | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
wind. 2.20m, first attempt for Robbie Grabarz. | :47:35. | :47:35. | |
Skied it. Great start. | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
Exactly what he would have wanted. It's been a long road to recovery | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
after knee problems between these two Olympic Games. And he's back. A | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
world indoor silver earlier this year and a European outdoor silver. | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
He has a championship temperament and he's just off to the perfect | :47:55. | :47:56. | |
start. It's a nervous night all round. | :47:57. | :48:17. | |
Andrew Pozzi already has succumbed to the Olympic atmosphere swhasmt | :48:18. | :48:24. | |
rather bemused and Lawrence Clarke gets the chance to repeat what he | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
did in London when he responded to the Olympic atmosphere, finishing | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
fourth. Many people didn't give him much of a chance of getting to the | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
final. You would look at that heat there and say the same thing. It has | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
an unpleasant odour, or a stinker, if you like. Martinot-Lagarde, Devon | :48:40. | :48:49. | |
Allen, Omar McLeod are three of the the big names in this one. He has a | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
real challenge on his hands here, Lawrence Clarke, to advance. Top two | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
to go through. McLeod 12.98 this year, Devon Allen, this big new find | :48:59. | :49:04. | |
from the USA, he's 13.03 this year. Martinot-Lagarde is finally | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
beginning to find some form. He almost didn't get selected for the | :49:08. | :49:09. | |
French team. And then you can throw in Trabar of | :49:10. | :49:16. | |
Germany as well who has also run much quicker than Clarke. | :49:17. | :49:23. | |
Not forgeting de Oliveira of Brazil. He'll get a cheer. He's in three. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
Martinot-Lagarde gets a cracking start. | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
Also Alkana of South Africa on the far side. Omar McLeod starting to | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
come through. It's McLeod from Martinot-Lagarde, just the top two | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
to go through. There they are. Devon Allen takes third! 13.16. That's | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
more like it. It was a horrible first semifinal. That was a bit more | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
like it. Lawrence Clarke did as well as he could have done really. Colin, | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
this was a tough, tough semifinal and Martinot-Lagarde - you go back | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
to the beginning of July, as we look at Devon Allen here, and they had | :49:59. | :50:07. | |
four hurdlers, France. One of them was sent to the Europeans. And they | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
said, no, we're taking Martinot-Lagarde and he's proved | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
them right. Absolutely. He's got himself into the final. As you said, | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
Steve, he has a goorksd solid start. He's a seven-strider, so he doesn't | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
look explosive but those seven strides are powerful. Omar McLeod, a | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
familiar Jamaican strip. He's always bouncy and his range over the | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
barriers - the fastest on the flat, no doubt, because his personal best | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
for 100m is under 10 seconds. We'd expect him to do that, especially | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
with his background. 12.98 was the fastest in the world this year so | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
you'd expect him to win that quite, quite comfortably, which he did. | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
Lawrence Clarke - well, let's see how Lawrence is. He's really | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
consistent with his technique. That's one of the best things about | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
Lawrence. He always gets into a good position, good posture, so he can | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
run off the barriers. If you watch his knee on this, it always comes | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
nice and straight, which means his leg is following that knee, allows | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
him to push down hard, put the pressure on and run well. Look at | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
his lane, virtually clear - clips that one and it's a little bit of | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
fatigue and tightness. He recovers well. He's got to charge off this | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
barrier, running hard but not enough today, unfortunately. | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
Well, Lawrence, you said yesterday you'd come with your game face on. | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
You gave it everything there. You certainly did. I had a go for it. I | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
was up there with the world number one. He got out. I was going well. | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
But you have to get in the fastest-loser slot, so I pressed, | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
took the risks, hit two hurdles and, you know it's not to be but it's | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
been an amazing journey here and I can't thank people enough who have | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
got me here, particularly British Athletics and all my sponsors. It's | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
quite emotional because it's the last Olympics I'll come to. But, | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
yeah, I've come fourth at one and semifinalist at the other. I can't | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
complain. It's, it's obviously a difficult thing when you have | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
something like this and you have to think about the future. Have you | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
made any decision as soon as it's World Championships next year? You | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
know, athletics has been my life for the last eight years and, you know, | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
to represent my country is a real privilege and an honour and, yeah, I | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
just... I love this place. I love the stage and, you know, I couldn't | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
ask for any more. If I can go to London next year that would be great | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
but right now, I'm going to enjoy the moment. Do that and we wish you | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
all the best going forward. We'll see you next year. Thanks very much. | :52:38. | :52:47. | |
Bondarenko, 2.25m. Comfortable. Well, a new champion will be crowned | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
here in the men's high jump because the reigning Olympic Champion, a | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
Russian, with a blanket ban across the Russians, they won't be | :52:57. | :53:03. | |
involved, of course. Bondarenko is a contender and, | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
judging by that clearance, set his stall out nicely. Eyes turn to | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
Drouin of Canada, World Champion from last year. For me, he's one of | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
the favourites. He's just so stable under pressure, slightly slower on | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
the approach, but watch this double arm action. | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
It's quite unique. Drouin stable under pressure and a perfect card so | :53:28. | :53:34. | |
far. Robbie Grabarz is looking to join | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
the clearances at 2.25m. Oh, that was... The closest of shaves across | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
the bar. Oh, it looked well clear. I'd like | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
to see this from the side. He's well clear. He came down on that. | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
OK, something to think about, but Grabarz in the early stages is | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
carrying at foul at 2.25m. His coach is looking on. He won't be | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
pleased with that. It's all on countback, possibly. | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
As I said, there'll be a few nervous moment throughout the evening. | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
Lawrence Clarke, that last hurdle - look at that time there, he may have | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
lost as much as five or six hundredths. 13.36 and 13.41 for | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
third and fourth. At the minute, they're the fastest loser spots. | :54:27. | :54:29. | |
There's one more semi to come but that was the more difficult of the | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
three semifinals. So, sadly, no joy for Lawrence | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
Clarke or Andrew Pozzi from Great Britain but there was no joy for | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
Jeffrey July miss of -- Julmis of Haiti. He was on the far left, there | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
he is. He had a terrible, terrible fall. But how about this for Olympic | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
spirit. He gets himself up and he decides he was going to crawl | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
through that one but he finished the race if it was the last thing he | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
did. He came over in 25.56. I mean, we've | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
seen some nasty falls but that was pretty horrendous, but fair play to | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
the man to finish! I mean he's on the Olympic track, you know. He's | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
representing his country, you know, that's... It's painful, painful. | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
Yeah. Ebbingose of Derek Redmond in 1992 and that kind of, you know, | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
desire to complete the journey. He got here and he got himself across | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
the line. It's symbolic as well and your coach always tells you finish | :55:33. | :55:35. | |
no matter what, you finish. And it's something that every athlete knows | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
and they understand that and I'm sure that that had to be painful | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
but, as he's lying there on the ground, you remember that. Finish. | :55:43. | :55:45. | |
No matter what you do, you finish. Absolutely. OK. Well, we have a | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
third and final semifinal heat and Andrew Cotter is calling this one | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
and Andrew, the significance of this one - we were discussing it with | :55:54. | :55:59. | |
Colin earlier - is that obviously if you run in the third heat, you have | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
a lot less time to get ready for the final. Although you want to get in | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
the final first. Yes, the final in a couple of hours. Perhaps less than | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
that now. News from the first semifinal - it doesn't really matter | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
in the end of things, but Andrew Pozzi has actually been disqualified | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
as well. So we'll find out what that was for. Here's Jeff Porter. | :56:20. | :56:33. | |
Dmitri Bascou - France has a rich seam of hurdling talent at the | :56:34. | :56:35. | |
moment. Martinot-Lagarde is already safely through. Andrew Riley, won | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
the Commonwealth title in Glasgow. A PB in the 100m of 10.02. | :56:42. | :57:05. | |
Milan Trajkovic was just outside the medals in Amsterdam three weeks ago. | :57:06. | :57:14. | |
And some noise inside the Olympic Stadium for Eder Antonio Souza. He | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
ran a season's best time of 13.61 in his heat to earn a place in the | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
semifinal. On the inside as well, you have Antwon Hicks. | :57:23. | :57:31. | |
Hicks runs for Nigeria, a former American. | :57:32. | :57:39. | |
Like Ortega, a transferee from Cuba to Spain. It's a running theme at | :57:40. | :57:49. | |
the moment. So Hicks and Contreras, Porter and Bascou alongside Andrew | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
Riley, Douvalidis, Trajkovic and Souza. The last of the semifinals in | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
the men's 110m hurdles. Bascou explodes away but it's Porter | :57:57. | :58:16. | |
to the first barrier in front of him. Porter and Bascou alongside | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
each other and Riley has to get up. Bascou moving so well. Porter | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
heading backwards. Bascou and Douvalidis coming through to take | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
second place. So Riley and Porter run out of it. They were not quite | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
as quick as the second semifinal but Dimitri Bascou moves through as | :58:34. | :58:35. | |
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde did before him so France will have a couple of | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
representatives in the final in a couple of hours' time and Dimitri | :58:42. | :58:44. | |
Bascou looked very good. Jeff Porter just began to recede in the latter | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
stages of the race and he will not go through. | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
We're going to have a real change of the guard, aren't we? The World | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
Champion can't be here, because he's Russian. | :58:58. | :59:00. | |
Parchment of Jamaica was runner-up at the World Championships. He's not | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
starting here. So the French are looking pretty strong. Omar McLeod | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
from Jamaica is looking pretty good. So this is really going to be an | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
exciting event which will only happen in a couple of hours. That's | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
good to see. Let's look at Bascou. Why has he won this race? Well, | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
watch how he's concentrating. Look how he's focusing. Drives in hard | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
with every single barrier, runs off them strongly. He swings his trail | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
leg nice and wide and that gives him more time to sight the barriers. | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
It's not a tight one. It's a really tight trail leg. That's absolutely | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
fine. Jeff Porter is struggling, wandering all over the place but | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
Bascou is looking good. In a case of mistaken identity I said Douvalidis | :59:46. | :59:47. | |
went through. It was Milan Trajkovic beside him from Cyprus - I don't | :59:48. | :59:54. | |
know if it's Greek or Turkish Cyprus - but he's through in a Cypriot | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
record. Well, there's a medal ceremony | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
coming up in a few moments' time and I'm sure we're in for one of the | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
biggest cheers this stadium has heard to date because of what | :00:05. | :00:06. | |
happened in here late last night. Absolutely thrilling pole vault | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
final. Just two athletes remain. The expectation of a nation, a | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
lifetime best for da Silva. The Frenchman in first place... The | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
whole of Brazil will be egging this man, da Silva, to go clear. Oh, he's | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
got it! No way! In your life! Have you ever seen drama such as this! | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Thiago Braz da Silva takes it to Renaud Lavillenie, the reigning | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
champion - a new Olympic record! The jump of his life and the place has | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
gone wild! Home crowd! Home boy! Higher than ever! Better than ever! | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Look at the joy on that little boy's face! He is on fire! It ain't over | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
till it's over... We have been making football analogies but not | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
booing in athletics for the competitors. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Renaud Lavillenie - no. He's knocked it off. Which means Thiago Braz da | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Silva is confirmed as the new Olympic Champion. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
That's life and, um... You know, it's always a lot of things in it | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
but, you know, when it's one of the biggest competitions of your... Of | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
your life, you're not:ment you can't be very happy about that. It's an | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
amazing day for me. I don't believe before that I can win a medal and | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
today I think it's my dream, like I dream in my bed, I sleep and I dream | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
of my medal but the gold... It's incredible! | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
Toptop Listen to that a he was magnificent under pressure last | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
night. There was a slight discrepancy, let's say that, with | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
the crowd. They were booing Lavillenie. They almost had football | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
chants and things going on. Maybe they didn't get that right, the | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
crowd. Right. I was talking to one of my friends, a Brazilian lawyer, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
he was saying that that is what they do at football games. But he said | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
he's seen that as tennis events as well, where they tried to do that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and they had to be shooshed and taught that you don't do that at | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
events outside of football. Yeah. It obviously caused Lavillenie to feel | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
victimised. He didn't quite know how to handle it. It's not normal. He | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
goes around the world and he's revered. He's been a great champion. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
He was very upset. You could see he was very distressed last night. It | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
will be interesting to see how he reacts on the podium. Hopefully the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
crowd will give him the adulation he deserves. A great ambassador for the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
sport. And Steve will be calling this medal presentation for you. I | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
know you loved this last night, didn't you, Steve? It was great fun. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
As we see the medals presented in what was an unforgettable pole vault | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
competition. You heard his name there, Sam Kendricks of the USA. Has | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
to be said, a bit of a bait-part player in what was a great drama. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
Receives his -- a bit-part player in what was a great drama. US champion, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Kennedy restriction, Olympic bronze. -- Kendricks, Olympic bronze. | :03:39. | :03:55. | |
Well e boos around the Olympic Stadium. It's a partisan crowd. | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
Boisterous last night. The look on Lavillenie's face tells the story. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
He jumped superbly well. He put all the pressure on to the Brazilian. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
And that's not a great response for a wonderful champion. The previous | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Olympic and world record holder, of course. A silver medal for Renault | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Lavillenie. But what a cheer we're about to hear for the man taking | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
gold. ANNOUNCER: Gold medallist and | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Olympic champion, representing Brazil. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Tiago da Silva! | :04:32. | :04:52. | |
Well, champions over the years, every gold medallist, of course, are | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
memorable. But when you think Cathy Freeman in Australia, month Farah, | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Jessica ens-Hill in London 2012 -- Ennis-Hill in London 2012, and Tiago | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
da Silva previous the ultimate prize in sport - Olympic champion. | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
Well, a massive cheer for Tiago da Silva. Tears for Renault Lavillenie. | :05:20. | :07:24. | |
He looks heartbroken, with that silver medal. Well, we had Super | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
Saturday four years ago. And Tiago da Silva takes his gold on what may | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
be coined as Magic Monday. Well, that was a very emotional | :07:36. | :07:51. | |
medal ceremony there. And to see Renault Lavillenie so distraught, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
with so many tears falling from his eyes there in that very long version | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
of the Brazilian anthem. I'm sure we only got half a verse of God Save | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
The Queen when Mo Farah was up there the other day. All kinds much stuff | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
going on there, with the boos at the beginning? That has very much to do | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
with the tears. I think all of us who know Renault, he's not like | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
that. It looked like sour grapes there. But that's not his penalty. I | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
think he was really taken aback by the level of the boos, which as | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
you've said, is pantomime. The tears are not for losing to an Olympic | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
crowd? I don't think so. I really I don't think so. I think booing at | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the start of his final attempt at 6.03, I think it's really shocking. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
And I think it's taken him to this moment to just get it out of his | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
system. And that was hard to see. It also is, though, the end of, you | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
know, an era of dominance for him, I guess in his mind. To win a silver, | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
it's not the gold he came here for. Would he be looking ahead thinking, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
"Have I got another Olympic cycle in me?" I agree completely with Denise. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Those tears were tears of disappointment in this crowd. And | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
they should be ashamed. I can't let that go. That's just not how - | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
that's not what competition is about. The fans, you know e support | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the person that you want to support, but you don't boo someone else | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
simply because they're competing against a person you support. And | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
they have done that. They started that last night during the | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
competition. There wasn't proper etiquette. We've seen that in other | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
situations here, with the crowds not being quiet when they should be | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
quiet. It's really a shame. I think he was really hurt. And for them to | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
then boo as he's getting on the medal stand, for having not learned | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
from the lesson to begin with... I'm so surprised that the press today, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the Brazilian news didn't say, "Look, this is not what we do, this | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
is not how we behave in this situation." There was not some kind | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
of national debate and conversation about it. I can imagine it would be | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
in the UK, if something like that happened. They don't know any | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
better, do they? I think you're right. I think some don't know | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
better. But some that I talked to, they knew. They're like they're | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
saying, "That's not what you do." And these are Brazilians who have | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
said, "We've seen it before where we're at events where we don't do | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
that, and some of our people just don't know to not do that." Strange, | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
because it's such a global event. I'm pretty sure they've seen medal | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
presentations and Olympic Games before. Maybe it's passed them by. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
But that's not the way to treat a great champion, like Renault | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Lavillenie. Let's talk about the 110m hurdles. Sadly not really with | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
positivity, because Britain have lost both their athletes there in | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Lawrence Clarke and Andrew Pozzi. Andrew Pozzi disqualified? Yeah. I'm | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
still trying to work out why. Some people said he could have | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
deliberately hit hurdles, but he was always getting short. He was getting | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
pulled back all the time. You get a groove, a rhythm, and he was never | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
making the distance. That was the reason he was hitting it with his | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
lead leg. He will have nightmares over this race until he gets to next | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
season and gets on that track at a major championships again. It will | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
haunt him for a long time. And we've discussed it a lot, though, that | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
it's not the victories that can improve you, it's defeats. And | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
that's what he's got to draw on, he's got to draw on today and his | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
disappointment from today. But he's arriving at these championships with | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
a healthy body. For Andrew, it's been rare thus far. You're right. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
So, for him, he may not have a great winter. This was a golden | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
opportunity that is going to pain him for a long time. Let's hope he | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
can dig himself out. Doyle has had a positive season. We are expecting | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
her to make it through to the final of the 400m hurdles. She has to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
navigate the semifinals, going off very soon for the women and men. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Let's have a look at her heat. It wasn't | :11:49. | :11:48. | |
very soon for the women and men. Let's have a look at her heat. It | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
wasn't perfect, was it? It was actually far from effort, actually. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
They had a decision that they were going to just change the pattern a | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
little bit, to make it more comfortable for her 678915 strides | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
--: 15 strides. She managed to do that. Athletes always try to | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
conserve a little bit of energy this these circumstances. And when you're | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
working on your new stride pattern, you should really work on that | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
stride pattern. It doesn't matter what is around or available to you. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
So, everything is going really well now. But what happens, she adds an | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
stra stride here which wasn't in the plan -- an extra stride here which | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
wasn't in the plan at all. It may be uncomfortable taking these barriers | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
now. Every single time she's on the wrong foot, going around the bend. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
No, sir what you want to do. Coming down the home straight, she has to | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
work a little bit. She sticks to the same plan that she's put herself in, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
which is not the right one. So, she throws in an extra stride here again | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
to put her on her strong leg so she can run off the barrier well. Let's | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
hope she only managed to do that, just because she's trying to | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
conserve energy. If that's the reason, we should see her go back to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
her normal stride pattern and be close to that 54-second mark to see | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
her in the final. I was thinking about this. You think so much of | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
what you do is muscle memory and you try and make things as automatic as | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
possible, why does stride pattern get distorted through a race? | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Something you've worked so hard on? Is it adrenaline? Because presume | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
yaebl you're trying to get the same -- presumably you're trying to get | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
the same speed in every race? You can literally stride out. You can go | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
a little bit too far with one stride and that throws you completely, or | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
you can land a little bit quicker, which shortens your landing off a | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
barrier, which makes a difference. So, that's what can be the cause. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
It's a very precise art, getting this right. Best of luck to Doyle, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
who's going in the next heat. This is the first one up now. | :13:45. | :13:57. | |
Signs that the double world champion was maybe showing some sort of form. | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
All sorts of injury problems. She ran her 300 hurdle race in the Czech | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Republic just before this Olympic Games. She's done that each of the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
last three seasons. It wasn't one of her fastest but it just gave an | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
indication, as she did in the heats, that she might, still could be | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
somebody to be reckoned with. She's got a fairly - I wouldn't say any of | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
these semis are obviously easy - but she's in lane four. You just saw | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Tracey of Jamaica, who's in 5, outside of her. And then inside, | :14:31. | :14:44. | |
she's got in lane 3, Noelle Montcalm of Canada. And Sydney McLaughlin can | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
put herself in that category. The 17-year-old. Yes, 17-year-old, and | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
that was just only a week ago, she turned 17. 54.15 this year. Stina | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
Troest, great talent. Still only 22. And then the others on the outside. | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
Linkiewicz from Poland. Folorunso of Italy. And Kolesnychenko of Ukraine. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
So, I'm really curious here to see whether Hejnova can keep improving. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
If she goes under 55 here, then we might start thinking about watching | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
out come the final. But she hasn't come here in the best of form. Only | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
two races this year over 400 hurdles. | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
So, Hejnova is in lane 4. Tracey of Jamaica, who should be going better, | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
is in lane 5. And also the young American, Sydney McLaughlin in lane | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
2. And going well through the first two flights is Montcalm of Canada. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Hejnova in touch. And these three moving away a little bit from the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
American youngster, McLaughlin. Look at Hejnova starting to come back | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
into this now, at Montcalm checks down and watches Hejnova move on and | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
up to Tracey. Hejnova perhaps leading this one at the moment. And | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
the world champion is starting to show some form. But if you've lost | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
fitness, this is where you're gonna lose it. Last two places, well | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
clear. And Hejnova continues to go away! The world champion beginning | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
to look good again. And this is a very impressive performance from | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Hejnova. I said she's only done two races, one of them was in the heats. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
And that, Colin, is a massive season's best. Well, I was just | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
thought, you know, I was coming to this tonight on the bus and thinking | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
about Hejnova and I was just looking at that race that she ran, the 300 | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
hurdle race two weeks ago, I looked at the time and I thought, "Uh-oh." | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
And that's just proven it, hasn't it? Yeah, that's exactly right. And | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
I think yesterday, Steve, in the heats, I think she went off a little | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
bit too hard, a little bit too committed. And I think now she's | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
honed herself back and she's reined in the performance just slightly. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
And you know in the 400m hurdles you only need to take your foot perhaps | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
half a percent off the gas and that will be enough for you to get the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
correct stride pattern and have the right energy system working that you | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
can tap on when it's necessary. And I think Hejnova, the fact that she's | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
a world champion, she's been at these big competitions before and | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
she's won them. Knows what she needs to get her to the magic, isn't it? | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
That real opportunity of climbing on that rostrum again. It's gonna be | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
good. It's gonna be exciting. And I think she may even go quite quick. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Yeah, that's gotta be a worry for everybody, to be honest. And she | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
looks very, very good, indeed. So, Hejnova, the two-time world | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
champion, looking very close to getting back to the sort of form | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
where we could see her become a medal contender. Tracey the other | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
qualifier. A little while ago we saw this | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
second attempt after that failure at the first feament of Grabarz. The | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
first was a foul, in what can be described as an unforced error. This | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
looked much better. So, that's how he should have done it the first | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
time, carry the foul. But his event continues. So, now we've caught up, | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
it's 2.29, the bar is at. This is Drouin of Canada. Drouin jumping | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
from the opposite side at 29. Oh, look at that. Well, he's the world | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
champion from last year. And I know many fabsy him to take the title | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
here -- fancy him to take the title here. Double-arm shift. We've | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
mentioned that before. It is unique. It's slightly slower, and a perfect | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
card so far for Drouin. Grabarz, then, looking to match the Canadian. | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
2.29. Yes! Better. Well, that's a much better effort. That's the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
height he cleared in qualification. It's also the height that took him | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
to a bronze medal four years ago. Great stuff from Grabarz. As we see | :19:29. | :19:42. | |
the back, a familiar sight of Barshim of Qatar. 2.29. Well, made | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
that look fairly comfortable. So, all the main contenders are involved | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
in what is set up to be a real tussle for theile medals. Barshim | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
shared bronze with Grabarz four years ago. | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
Next up on the track, it's the second of the 400m hurdle semifinal | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
heats. Eilidh Doyle going in this one. She's had a great season. She | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
has been running really, really well. Colin's had a look at her | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
heat. He stressed on areas she could improve, Michael. She will need to. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
It's a strong field? That's what I was looking at the other day. She | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
will need to. This is the toughest field of the three semifinal heats. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
She finds herself in there with Russell from Jamaica and Ashley | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Spencer. Both of those athletes have run faster than her this year. But | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Doyle is coming around faster. She's a fierce competitor. Reminds me a | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
lot of Jess Ennis. She's methodical about what she does. Gets it done. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
No drama, no extra. Just gets out there and runs the race. Those | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
adjustments that Colin talked about, she's probably already aware of. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
Absolutely. What she lacks in flat speed, compared to the other two | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
athletes that Michael just spoke about, she gives in heart. If she | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
can just nail that technique, do enough, fingers crossed she will | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
make it through. She's looking for a place in the final. Andrew Kowter. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Plenty of other strong contenders in this semifinal, though P Doyle has | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
two women outside her who have run quicker times this season. We'll get | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
a chance to show you them. There's Doyle being introduced to the crowd. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
It's the women outside her who are the major factors, the major | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
competition for Doyle. This is the start list for this semifinal. | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
Russell has a quicker time this season. | :21:52. | :22:04. | |
There's Janieve Russell. Noz anywhere close to her best at the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
moment. That was before June. She hasn't run or hadn't run coming into | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Rio since June because of an injury, a foot injury. So, might be able to | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
take her out of the equation, unless she finds something here. Wasn't too | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
impressive in her first round. Has worked so hard on her stride | :22:23. | :22:46. | |
pattern. It's that strength that enables you to keep that stride | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
pattern. Doyle moving steadily at the moment. Russell, I mentioned her | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
injury problems. Then Nel, the South African, has gone out quickly. A | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
more steady pace from Ashley Spencer, the American world indoor | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
silver. Raw speed between the barriers. Doyle moving nicely and | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
strongly. So too Nel, the South African. Eilidh Doyle in a very good | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
position at the moment. Two to go through automatically. Doyle should | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
just about lead them around the bend. | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
And Russell there, oh, there's a stumble from the Jamaican. Didn't | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
look comfortable at all. What ground Ashley Spencer has made up. And | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
suddenly Spencer is all over the place. Two to go through | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
automatically. Doyle over the final barrier. Eilidh Doyle towards the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
line. Fast-finishing Spencer, though! Oh, she's run out of it! | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
She's run out of it on the line. Spencer, we talked about her raw | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
speed. Even with that mistake she came through at the end. Spencer was | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
there, Russell finds something, despite her injury problems. And | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Eilidh Doyle was caught on the line, so she will look, and we will look, | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
for her time. It might well be quick enough. But still, but still a sign | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
of what she's up against even if she were to go through to the final, | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
which she might well do with that time. There is plenty of competition | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
for her. That was a bit of a shock on the line for Eilidh Doyle. A | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
massive shock. When someone makes a mistake like that, you very rarely | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
see them come back, because there's so much fatigue that's in your legs. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
But she managed to do that, didn't she? Ashley. But what was good for | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
me, Andrew, is that Eilidh absolutely nailed her stride pattern | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
at that time. It was good to see she committed herself and made it happen | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
in a major championship, which will fill her with a little bit of | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
confidence. An amazing run down the home straight. She has that great | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
speed over the flat. She has won titles over the flat. Incredible | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
effort, as you said, when you lose that momentum. I don't know if you | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
remember me saying yesterday, she always scrapes over the barrier, | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Ashley. And I always worry that if she catches it with her toe, as she | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
does there, it will throw her off. It will make it a really difficult | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
thing. So, every single time, as fatigue sets in, throw these rounds, | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
especially, just be more and more kaix. Because she just literally | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
sneaks over the -- careful. Because she just literally sneaks over the | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
barriers. When you've got the foot speed that she demonstrated coming | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
into the end, you can get over those issues. Doyle out of the automatic | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
places. But that time is in the fastest losers at the moment. One | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
more semifinal to come. How about this for a finish? Spencer and | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Janieve Russell taking the automatic places. And Doyle will wait. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
That was pretty close on the line. There we are. But certainly Eilidh | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
Doyle in third place. Fastest loser at the moment. | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
Here she is. You can see she really focuses. She comits herself to this | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
stride pattern now. She has to work hard into this barrier. She has to | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
do the stride, manages to do that. Most probably pats herself on the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
back and now she can work off it well. Two of the previously injured | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
and struggling athletes, Russell and another, have shown they're | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
contenders here. And Eilidh Doyle, well, she may still be in that | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
final. With that time, I think she might be all right. Just below 55 | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
seconds. She's with Phil. Well, we're all fairly confident that time | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
is gonna get you through. How about you? I hope so. I really do. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Obviously I would have liked to have got the automatic qualification, to | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
not be in this position. But I'm actually really happy with the way | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
the race went. There were no errors like yesterday. I felt I gave it | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
everything there, so I just hope it's enough to get to the final. A | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
certain amount of kudos to Ashley Spencer to respond from clattering | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
that hurdle. She showed her raw speed? Absolutely. I was aware | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
something happened. I was just trying to focus on my own race and | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
try to get to the finish line as soon as possible. Fingers crossed | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
it's enough. It just shows you nothing is easy on the Olympic | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
stage. We talk of you as a contender. There are so many out | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
there, you're all in the mix. Anything could happen come the | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
final, should you make it? It's wide open this year. There's a lot of us | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
very close together. So, yeah, I'm just hoping that's enough. But I | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
feel like I gave it a really good shot there. So, yeah, fingers | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
crossed now. Everything crossed. We wish you all the best. Thanks very | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
much. Cheers. Hmm. That's a face that says it all. But 54.99 her | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
time. Confirmation of that here, behind the automatic qualifiers. | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
Ashley Spencer - that was impressive from the American. And Russell, | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
54ant 99 is the fastest of the losers. One more semifinal to come, | :27:53. | :27:53. | |
just a few moments away. Women's long jump qualifying under | :27:54. | :28:13. | |
way. This is Darra. A Russian competing, a Court of Arbitration | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
appeal that she successfully went through. A good jump in that first | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
round. She lives in the United States and is drug-tested in the | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
United States, and therefore proves she wasn't part of what's been going | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
on in Russia. And has been allowed to compete under appeal. And it | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
looks as though she may have just got herself into the final based on | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
what's happening in this first round of women's long jump qualifications. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Three Brits involved. 6.75 sl automatic qualification. Maybe not | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
quite that. 6.64. Third place overall. | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
Well, we've seen two good stories, comeback stories. Hejnova and | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
Russell. Big surprises. And then we come to the third semifinal. Some | :29:00. | :29:19. | |
real threats here. Muhammad. Belille in two. We've seen Muhammad, in lane | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
3, who has had her own injury problems over the years as well. | :29:28. | :29:36. | |
And the other athletes in this, Watson, the Canadian, who's | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
improving quickly as well. She's right in the middle, in lane four, | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
between Muhammad and Petersen. Petersen has got faster in her races | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
leading into Rio. I think she's a threat as well. So, that one there | :29:49. | :29:58. | |
is Sage Watson. Nugent from Jamaica, disqualified this morning, has been | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
reinstated. Grace Claxton in lane 7. Tkachuk on the outside. Muhammad, | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
then, the American champion, coached by Lawrence Johnson, same coach as | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
Brianna Rollins, the high hurdler. A good technique, Muhammad, and 52.88 | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
this year. Leads the world. Petersen, the European champion, is | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
in five. Only two to go through, and that time we're looking at. 54.99, | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
run by Child. As long as two people don't go quicker than that. If three | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
and four dorks then she will be out. So, Muhammad started quickly, as | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
expected. Already up on Watson. Petersen going well. There's | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
Muhammad looking serene down through 200m. Hurdles well and going quick. | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
So is Petersen, she's chasing the European champion around the top | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
bend. A lot of daylight between them and the rest of the field. Only good | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
news for Eilidh Doyle. So, Muhammad, then, watch how she takes these last | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
two hurdles. Left leg lead, and Petersen under some pressure now | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
from Nugent. She rallies off the last hurdle. It's gonna be the | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
expecteded one-two. Watch the clock here. 53. 09. I definitely think | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
Nugent has a chance of fastest loser. But fingers crossed the | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
fourtsd-placed athlete, I don't think -- fourth-placed athlete I | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
don't think is quicker than 54.99. That's my best look at that. Colin, | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
would you agree? I think you're right. See Eilidh watching that | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
clock, like us all. And I think she will be all right. Because I've just | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
seen what third place is, which is 54.98, which means that Eilidh is | :31:51. | :31:52. | |
definitely gonna be in that final. Wonderful news. But you can really | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
tell, can't you, Steve, why Muhammad is the world leader. She's so | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
aggressive off these barriers. A good runner, snappy over them all | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
the time. She's got a really nice, level, even paced stride pattern, | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
which allows her to use her biggest strength, which is her running | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
speed, well. And she hurdles quite nicely off both legs as well. She | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
seems very comfortable. That's why she's very aggressive into them all | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
the time. She feels, I think, that any hurdle that comes to her | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
whatever leg she reaches, is good enough and skilful enough to take | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
the barrier. If you're gonna have that type of confidence, wowee. | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
Let's have a look. As she runs in, she's gonna take a little glance. | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
See what's happening. Nothing's happening behind you. Completely | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
free there. And what a great, great, great race there. For me, Steve, she | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
starts in the clear favourite. There's Eilidh's reaction. She's | :32:47. | :33:04. | |
big-smiling. She's there, hopefully, having a chat with Phil. | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
Can we get a quick reaction from you? That's fantastic. You're | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
through. That was very close. I thought phew. I've got into the | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
final and I apologise to my coach and my family and my poor husband | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
for putting them through that but I'm delighted I've got there now and | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
now that I'm in there, hopefully I can go there and do something. I | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
hope so. All the very best for tomorrow. Or a couple of days. Yeah. | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
Thanks very much, cheers. Thank you. Well done, Eilidh. And this is how | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
she did it. There was not a lot wrong in terms of her execution, | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
Denise. Absolutely. I mean, like she said, "I didn't put a foot wrong | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
here," you know. She took the barriers really well. This is the | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
kind of hurdling that we have come to expect from Eilidh this season. | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
She's smooth. She's relaxed. And she's making up good ground there | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
and, you know, personally, I think she really deserved to get through | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
at this stage because she's worked so hard, um, and, as I said, just a | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
little bit of error in those final stages nearly cost her getting | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
through to the final. Yeah, the execution was flawless and | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
it looks like she made those... Those adjustments that Colin talked | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
about. This is where Eilidh comes into her own, like... Denise you | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
were talking about it earlier, what she lax in speed, she's able to | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
maintain that sort of strength and with that strength she's able to | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
maintain pace. Nobody is really going to catch her in the last 100m | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
or so other than Ashley Spencer. That was just unbelievable. It must | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
be disconcerting for the rest of the field to see her stumble and recover | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
the way she does. Even with when she makes a mistake... What can they do? | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
The good thing about Eilidh is she focuses on her own race, which is | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
what you need to do in this sort of setting. Tunnel vision. OK. Let's | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
see how the high jump is going with Steve Backley. | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
The event is progressing nicely. Bondarenko chose to pass at 2.29. | :35:10. | :35:23. | |
First attempt at 2.33m. Easily. Well, Bondarenko, the third best | :35:24. | :35:31. | |
ever. He is on the world list equal with Patrick Schoberg, arguably the | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
greatest, or most successful in terms of Olympics points and medals. | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
Bondarenko - a perfect card. Just two clearances. 2.33m, looking | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
really good. So, then, Grabarz looking to join | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
Bondarenko, a height that he has cleared in the past, not this year. | :35:53. | :35:59. | |
He's... Got it. Has he? Yes, he gave it a big rattle but... Oh, no! Well, | :36:00. | :36:09. | |
I was just celebrating for him. The white flag went up is what he's | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
saying. So let's have a look if we can see the official just to the | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
left-hand side of the mat here in the chair. The white flag goes up, | :36:18. | :36:25. | |
which means it's a successful jump. He's celebrating and that's his | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
reaction to the bar falling off but... Well... He's arguing with | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
this. He's saying the white flag went up. It's come up as a cross on | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
the system. I don't think he's got much to argue | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
about, unfortunately. It was a mistake to raise that flag. | :36:43. | :36:50. | |
It's a failure at the first time of asking at 2.33m from Robbie Grabarz. | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
He's in good shape, though. He's got to go away and compose himself here | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
because he's capable of getting back in it if he can stay calm. | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
On to the men's 400m hurdles and the first of three semifinals, one which | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
contains Jack Green. Here's the start list for | :37:10. | :37:10. | |
you: Jack Green is trying out a new | :37:11. | :37:31. | |
stride pattern we he tried in the Anniversary Games last month. He | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
said he didn't quite nail it but he finished quickly. He says there is | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
more to come. What a great run Nozawa had in the first round, a new | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
personal best. Jaheel Hyde, just 19 and twice world junior champion, | :37:47. | :37:56. | |
enormous talent. Sergio Fernandez has gone close to an age-old Spanish | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
record from 1987 this year. Outside Green you've got Lahoulou of | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
Algeria, Bonn fast Mucheru of Kenya, Eric Cray of the Philippines and | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
Kerron Clement of the United States. The quickest man in the world came | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
unstuck at the US trials. So this is a very open event and it's an open | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
semifinal here. Two go through automatically and two fastest | :38:24. | :38:33. | |
losers. All behind Clement are pretty evenly matched. | :38:34. | :38:44. | |
Green in lane four with Lahoulou of Algeria outside him and Clement on | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
the far outside. It's a quick, quick start by Jaheel Hyde and Jack Green | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
gets knocked back already. He's got a lot to do as Nozawa comes | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
alongside and passes him. He's got great strength, Jack Green and he | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
finishes strongly but he's left himself an enormous amount to do | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
with Nozawa out so quickly. Clement now beginning to assert his | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
authority alongside Eric Cray of the Philippines. Jack Green trying to | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
work his way through into this. Only two go through automatically. No | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
ask, awa looking good. Clement, of course, strong out in lane eight. | :39:18. | :39:29. | |
Nozawa is tying up a bit. Bonn fast Mucheru takes is just on the line | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
from Sergio Fernandez. The two go through, Clement, a distant winner | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
and, well, Jack Green didn't have a fast finish this time but it really | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
went wrong. Much earlier in the race for Green. Didn't work... And he | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
will not be going through to the final. He's got better than that. He | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
didn't deliver tonight. Yeah. He'll be really frustrated with that. I | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
know Jack well and he'll be quite irritated with the way his | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
performance has panned out because he was a little bit sketchy at the | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
beginning of the race as well. He didn't really set himself up to get | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
into this back straight well. And I think, from there on in, he was... | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
He was caught in the middle because he was thinking, "Well, do I chase, | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
race them and chase them? Or do I settle into the groove of my | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
rhythm?" I think he lost his way a little bit in what he was going to | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
do. I thought he'd brought himself back into it but, of course, | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
clattering that barrier when you're exhausted makes a huge difference, | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
saps your energy and all he can see is bodies all around him and that | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
makes tension happen for you. He'll be really furious with that. | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
Let's look at it from the start. It wasn't a good start over the first | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
barrier. Yeah. He was aggressive out of the blocks, which is what you | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
want to see. He sights his barrier well, takes it cleanly, sits back | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
off it. Now he's going to start about thinking that he's got over it | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
well and he needs to get into this pattern. He was very nice around | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
there and he comes into this home straight and this is where he starts | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
to get a little bit... Unaware of what's going to go on and he's tried | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
to go a little bit... Astray is the word I want to use. But he's a | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
strong athlete and Jack knows that the best part of his race is the | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
back end. He's really strong usually coming down the home straight. | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
Unfortunately for him, he makes the mistake as he comes off this turn. | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
Clatters this barrier - watch this now - bang and that sends him out of | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
the way and that is so much... You want to talk about how | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
strength-sapping it is. It's incredible and you land heavily off | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
the next hurdle. I think he'll still have a part to play in this Olympic | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
Games. He's an outstanding relay runner but individually, in the | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
hurdles, he's not going through to Thursday's final and so, so | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
frustrating for Jack Green. He's talking to Phil now. | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
Well, Jack's just watched the race back with me down here. You could | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
see the mistakes you made. It seemed like when you clipped the hurdle you | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
were still in contention and didn't quite get it right near the end. | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
Definitely the best I've run in seven but I missed a stride going | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
into hurdle eight and I lost everything. What a wasted | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
opportunity. It was only 48.8 to go through. It's such a waste. It's a | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
shame but welcome to sport. That's it exactly isn't it? You're never | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
sure what will happen on any given night. Yesterday you said you would | :42:25. | :42:26. | |
give it everything. You certainly did that. You attack it. Yeah, I | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
really committed. Definitely the best I've committed to a race and I | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
missed that hurdle eight by half a stride and at this level, you can't | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
do that and, unfortunately, I did. But... It's just part of it and | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
obviously I'm going to be a bit disappointed but what can I do? | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
Thanks for talking to us, Jack. Thank you. | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
Well, eventually, he might play a part. He's run 44.4 in legs in 4 X | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
400m so he may play a part in that but down in eighth place in the | :42:58. | :42:59. | |
semifinal. Well, good news for Robbie Grabarz | :43:00. | :43:08. | |
because we saw him being given a foul for that jump across 2.33m that | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
rattled and fell off, but it's been reversed and it's a first-time | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
clearance. There's his coach. That's great news for Robbie. He's | :43:23. | :43:33. | |
in it and the next height, 2.36m. Before that height, there's a bit of | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
tidying up to do, Barshim, 2.33m, first attempt. He's the world-leader | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
with 2.40m. There's Bondarenko looking on. It was billed as a | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
showdown between those two athletes. I suspect there may be others who | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
fancy their chances of getting in it as well. | :43:55. | :44:07. | |
Barshim of Qatar, perfect so far. Fuzz Ahmed is offering advice to | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
Grabarz there. He's looking good. You'd never know that Fuzz has done | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
a bit of acting in his time! Very deprons traitive instructions. Good | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
news in the high jump and now we're -- de-Mondays trative instructions. | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
Good news in the -- demonstrative instructions. Good news in the men's | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
high jump. Now we're in the second semifinal. | :44:33. | :44:44. | |
Annsert Whyte in lane four. Van Zyl, a familiar figure, as is | :44:45. | :44:53. | |
this man here, Javier Culson. I wonder if it could be his time, | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
finally, to win a big global title. So wide open, the men's 400m | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
hurdles. First two will go through. Watch out for Capello as well. | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
Copello is in lane six. Magi of Estonia had a great qualification | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
run. He's in lane seven. We're looking to Whyte, to Culson, to van | :45:15. | :45:20. | |
Zy, will, the familiar names if you like but the Brazilians are also | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
cheering Suguimati in lane nine. Magi finished fast in qualification. | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
Although Culson and Whyte are moving up, as is van Zyl, they may come | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
into it, particularly Copello who has skill in hanging in there. | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
Former Cuban, now running for Turkey. There are four with chances | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
as they come into the home straight. Whyte holding van Zyl. Look at Magi. | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
I said he would finish fast. Can he get into the top two? He won't be | :45:50. | :45:57. | |
far away. It's Whyte, Culson, Copellos Magi. #7 -- Copello, Magi. | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
He was really rewarded by running the best kind of planned race, if | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
you know what I mean, Colin. Culson, as ever - we never quite know what | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
we're going to get from him at times. He's got so much experience. | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
But Whyte didn't panic, judged it well. Magi finishing quickly and | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
Copello surprising one or two as well. Do you know - I was looking at | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
this whole line-up before the start tonight and I couldn't have called | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
who would qualify from this, it was going to be that tight. But in the | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
end, Whyte was dominant, wasn't he? He got away well, kept a cool head, | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
as you said. A lot going on around him but he didn't worry, whatsoever. | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
Worked hard into the line and made sure - he guaranteed himself a good | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
lane in that final. Good run, Mr Whyte. | :46:46. | :46:53. | |
Well, women's long jump qualification. 6.75m is automatic. | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
Lorraine. Gen of Great Britain, 6.44 in the first round. | :47:01. | :47:11. | |
Fast on the approach. Good height off that. Difficult to see into the | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
pit on those angles there. Ugen, 24 years of age. Two parallel | :47:18. | :47:27. | |
runways, loads of athletes involved, 19 in each, 38 in total, whittled | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
down to 12 in the next 30 minutes or so to come back for tomorrow's | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
final. Ugen, 6.44m in the first round. Waiting for the measurement. | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
96.55m, an improvement for Lorraine Ugen in sixth place in the pool on | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
the cusp of making it into the final. | :47:50. | :48:03. | |
Procter won silver at the worlds last year. Slight deceleration there | :48:04. | :48:18. | |
for me, ever so subtle. Good height off that, way behind the | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
board. Maybe that's what it was that didn't give it the zest. | :48:24. | :48:36. | |
Shara Proctor, 6.34m - she's going to need more. | :48:37. | :48:54. | |
Not far away from the last of the semifinals of the men's 400m | :48:55. | :48:57. | |
hurdles. As Steve was saying, it's a very open event. We're not too far | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
away from the start here. Just general milling around and getting | :49:02. | :49:03. | |
ready but the long jump continues. So here's a look back at a jump from | :49:04. | :49:17. | |
earlier, the first round for Jazmin Sawyers. | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
Well, it was a jump of 6.49m. And I'm just looking at the summary as | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
we get towards the end of this qualification and at the moment, | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
Jazmin Sawyers is in 12th place. 12 to qualify, remember. | :49:37. | :49:43. | |
Ugen in eighth place. And Proctor needing more. So the Brits at the | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
moment, two to qualify, and Jazmin Sawyers, right on the cusp. That's | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
her best at this point. We're in the third round. | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
So to the last semifinal in the men's 400m hurdles. Thomas Barr goes | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
here, the 24-year-old from Waterford, World Student Games | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
champion last year. A season blighted by a hip and then a groin | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
injury. So a great effort to get to the semifinal. Ran well in the first | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
round. Andres Silva, from Uruguay, goes in lane eight. He's served a | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
drug ban in his recent past. Inside him, Byron Robinson, | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
something of a surprise qualifier for the US trials. Hadn't broken 50 | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
seconds before this year. He is still just 21. A different name, but | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
he's the older brother of Nicholas Bett who won the world title this | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
year but has disappointed this season. | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
Karsten Warholm, former decathlete, has now found his event, it seems. | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
And there is Thomas Barr, 48.93, a season's best time in the first | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
round. He's struggled with hip and groin problems, as I mentioned. | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
Eric Alejandro of Puerto Rico. A cheeky wink. He goes in lane | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
three. Roxroy Cato in lane two, third at | :51:16. | :51:18. | |
the Jamaican Championships. All three made it to the semifinals. | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
Jaheel Hyde has gone out this evening. Whyte looked good a few | :51:24. | :51:32. | |
moments ago, though. And Michael Bultheel, a doctor from just east of | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
Brussels. Five times the Belgian champion and Dr Bultheel goes in | :51:38. | :51:44. | |
lane one. Bultheel, Cato, Alejandro, Thomas Barr in four, Karsten | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
Warholm, 21-year-old Norwegian - he really is one to watch for tonight | :51:49. | :51:55. | |
and future - in five. Haron Koech of Kenya in six, Byron Robinson of the | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
United States in seven and Andres Silva in lane eight. | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
Magi, the Estonian is hanging on as the second-fastest loser at the | :52:07. | :52:07. | |
moment at 48.64. Can Thomas Barr make it to the | :52:08. | :52:20. | |
final? That would be quite an achievement. | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
Warho will, m outside him is quickly away. Haron Koech, the Kenyan and | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
Warholm has the power of a decathlete. He's now committed to | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
the hurdles and looking good here leading them out. Koech trying to | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
keep pace and he's responded well, the Kenyan. Thomas Barr in a decent | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
position but there's a gap between him and Warholm on the inside. | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
Bultheel, the Belgian, is running strongly alongside Roxroy Cato. | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
Koech brings them into the home straight. Two go through | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
automatically. Thomas Barr is in a good position. Byron Robinson is | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
finishing strongly. Thomas Barr, if he can win this barrier. He takes | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
the victory ahead of Koech. That's a great run. | :53:09. | :53:11. | |
The smile of disbelief and celebration and celebration says it | :53:12. | :53:13. | |
all! Owe has been! Blighted by injury | :53:14. | :53:27. | |
this season! He is in Thursday's final now. | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
He timed it. He judged it. He had the strength coming down the final | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
stretch to keep it cool. Keep the cool head and rely on the stride | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
pattern. All the things you've worked on. You know it. You feel | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
comfortable. You're in a gruf and you've already got, of course, your | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
speed, your endurance, you know the work you've put together. It's just | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
a brilliant run for him. It is a brilliant run! | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
I said it was a season's best time and it's a big Irish record as well, | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
his own Irish record. That's an amazing run from Thomas Barr. 48.39! | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
Through to the final. Face says it all! | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
We have a visitor in the studio, none other than Thiago Braz da | :54:14. | :54:20. | |
Silva, the womener of the gold medal for the pole vault. | :54:21. | :54:32. | |
What's today been likes for you today? I just sleep one hour and a | :54:33. | :54:48. | |
half and many interviews today. What it was like for you yesterday? | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
It seemed incredible? For me it was an incredible night. I tried to | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
prove my best and... We had difficult situations, rain, wind and | :55:03. | :55:14. | |
this work. Six metres was my drim and I'm | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
really happy. What were you thinking - obviously | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
I'm sure you knew all year long that the Olympics were coming to your | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
home country. What did you think your chances were? What was your | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
goal? For the gold. For the Olympics - what was your goal? What were you | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
hoping for prior to the Olympics? Before the Olympics? Ah, before the | :55:37. | :55:43. | |
Olympics. Um... Thinking before just to come to the competition, do our | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
best, OK and then try to get one medal. I don't know which colour. | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
But one medal for Brazil. It's enough. | :55:52. | :56:01. | |
And then it becomes gold! I say just thank God because this | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
for me is a surprise, best result, Olympic record. Amazing night. Well, | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
congratulationless. Huge congratulations. Hopefully we'll see | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
you in London next year for the World Championships. Enjoy your | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
success. Thanks for coming to see us. | :56:19. | :56:20. | |
We've got to get back outside because there is a very, very hot | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
men's high jump competition and the women's long jump, qualification, | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
going on. Steve Backley, what are you across? The event is coming to a | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
head, Gabi. Derek Drouin of Canada gets first dibs at clearing this | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
height. He hasn't failed anything yet so far in this Olympic final. | :56:40. | :56:49. | |
Oh, look at that! Derek Drouin, as anticipated, solid under pressure. | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
Yet again. He's amassing an impressive series | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
of medals - gold last year at the World Championships. Gold at the | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
Commonwealth Games. A good clearance at 2.36m that is. Made it look easy, | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
didn't he? Grabarz then after that reinstated previous jump. | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
2.36m, first attempt. Oh, no. He gave that one a proper | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
whack. I don't think he's going to get that one reinstated, is he? That | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
wasn't quite the rhythm that we'd seen on previous attempts. | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
Just cut the corner off there. For me, he just needed to trust the | :57:33. | :57:35. | |
curve. And a failure at the first time of asking at this height of | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
2.36m. Barshim, world leader, he's seen Drouin go clear. Can he match | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
him? Yes, question. CHEERING | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
Well, there's legs left in this competition. | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
Barshim, fourth last year in the World Championships, third four | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
years ago, shared that bronze medal with Robbie Grabarz. Boy, has he | :58:05. | :58:11. | |
moved on since then. Second best ever to, 2. -- 2.43 is his lifetime | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
best from two years ago. Barshim, perfect sheet and a clearance at | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
2.36m. So Jazmin Sawyers in 12th spot as it stands. She will progress | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
to tomorrow's final but she will maybe think she needs more because | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
some athletes can follow and improve their situation. Sawyers, well, that | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
green line is the automatic qualification of 6.75m. It's | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
probably a jump of around a similar distance for Sawyers. She's such a | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
great Champs competitor. She loves the pressure and thrives when it | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
matters most. Squeezed everything out of that, as | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
she always does. It felt flat. It felt flat. She says | :58:59. | :59:05. | |
it felt flat. She's up to tenth. That maybe gives her the breathing | :59:06. | :59:08. | |
space. So, then, great field event action, | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
Brits involved at either side of this Olympic Stadium. Robbie | :59:13. | :59:18. | |
Grabarz, second attempt, 2.36m. Oh, no. He got stuck on that. His | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
take-off foot spent longer on the floor than it should have done. | :59:25. | :59:33. | |
If right. He'll have one more try. We've seen two athletes go clear and | :59:34. | :59:36. | |
it's a failure the second time. He'll have one more attempt at | :59:37. | :59:44. | |
2.36m. Next up on the track, it's the women's semifinals for the 200m, | :59:45. | :59:52. | |
three heats and Smith goes in the first and, Denise, it is absolutely | :59:53. | :00:01. | |
loaded. Schippers, Asher-Smith. It's the | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
race of her life. She'll have to come into her own in this semi and I | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
think that she's able. There's one thing, Steve Cram, if | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
there's so much talent in there, it will be quick and it comes down to a | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
fastest loser, there's more chance of this heat being the quickest. She | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
has to run her own race here. Obviously when she saw the draw, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
it's a long, hard swallow. It's the Olympic Games and Dina, no matter | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
who is in your semifinal, it's tough. Olympic semifinals are really | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
hard. You never get an easy one. Some are easier than others but you | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
still have to run flat-out. If she runs her personal best, which is | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
obviously what she's capable of, she won't be far away. So Elaine | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Thompson and Dafne Schippers, the two big names here. The fact that | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Okagbare beat Asher-Smith in that heat means she's in this one. They | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
were both together in heat five. So she has not only Okagbare, she nows | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
that Thompson and Schippars to deal with. Kambundji is in lane two. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Gaither of Bahamas inside her and the other is Mayer of Germany on the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
outside. Another 20-year-old, full of talent as well. Did you Dina | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Asher-Smith... Just has to... Get out as well as she did on the bend | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
in the heats. She ran a great bend and then seemed to kind of relax | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
just a tad too much and then tried to come back again. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
So this time, it's the same bend and keep going, keep going, doesn't | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
matter who comes by. Schippers, the world champion. 21 | :01:50. | :02:19. | |
three. -- 21.63. The new Olympic champion in Lane four. Dina | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Asher-Smith gets out of the blocks quickly. Elaine Thompson and | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
Schippers are giving chase. Level with Schippers. Elaine Thompson | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
needs to maintain. Stevens of the United States is coming up. Thompson | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
is second then Dina Asher-Smith. Well, she just may have all but | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
overcooked the bend a little bit but that is what she needed to do. She | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
had to go out hard and she had no choice. She looks at the clock and | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
she sees 22 point 13 for Thompson in second place. There was some tied | :03:06. | :03:20. | |
legs there. -- tired. If you get it perfect to finish strong but if you | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
go a little bit too hard and that is what happens. You only need to crank | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
it up a couple of% and the amount of fatigue that is created in your legs | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
is something you cannot turn around and I think that is what happened to | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Dina. But the quality of that meant that she had to commit. She would | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
not be able to chase them down. When you look at the mark, perhaps she | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
did not overcooked it. Let us have a look. Out of the blocks. Quickly | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
indeed. Who will come from the inside? She will see in her career | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
vision, Dafne Schippers. -- peripheral vision. She is low in the | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
hips. You can see she sways from side to side which is not unusual at | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
sorry, that is not usual for Dina Asher-Smith. But, you know what? It | :04:24. | :04:35. | |
is experience, an Olympic experience, and let us keep our | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
fingers crossed that she is healthy and will learn from this. | :04:40. | :04:51. | |
Dina we know it is not over until it is over but for now you are | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
obviously a little bit disappointed. I am not happy with that. I know I | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
can do better than what I did right there. The bend was good but then I | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
got into the wrong body position and it is difficult to correct and that | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
makes you slow down quicker than everybody else. I am quite | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
disappointed. I don't know if it is good enough to be in the final which | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
is very disappointing because I feel like I am in good shape. Stephen | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
said at the beginning of the race in the commentary that there are no | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
easy Olympic finals. Yes, it was difficult. I saw the list of names | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
and I thought it was more like a final than a semifinal. But I did my | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
best. We will have to wait and see. We wish you well. And we will keep | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
our fingers crossed. Thank you very much. You just think much you | :05:53. | :06:04. | |
something around 22.1... She is capable of that. And she pointed out | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
that the last 50 metres cost her time and a place. Robbie Grabarz his | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
final attempt he must now clear to stay in the competition. Ooh, no. | :06:25. | :06:36. | |
That is the end of Robert Grabarz's bid to get back on the podium. A | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
credible performance. He looks disappointed, doesn't he? Time to | :06:45. | :06:58. | |
reflect. Two was good. 2.33 was good. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
That does not look like any sort of improvement either. Proctor, she has | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
had her problems this year, but that does not look as if she is able to | :07:16. | :07:28. | |
reach the final. She needs 6.53. I think it is less than that. Indeed, | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
her best was at the start. 20 First Place and disappointment for her. -- | :07:38. | :07:49. | |
mac three place. -- mac Stevens is one of the two fastest | :07:50. | :08:21. | |
loser positions. The Ukrainian runner goes in lane five. There is | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
Lalova-Collio. She pulled out of the semifinal and she needed a valid | :08:31. | :08:57. | |
medical reason. Angela Tenorio of Ecuador, 22.94 this season. An | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
outstanding junior who was unbeaten for five years. As a 20-year-old she | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
took silver in the Commonwealth Games. But also has a few hamstring | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
injuries which almost cost her two leave the sport. Williams on the | :09:19. | :09:33. | |
inside. Tenorio, Ta Lou... Hackett was the one athlete we didn't see in | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
lane eight. Two will go through automatically to tomorrow's final. | :09:40. | :09:59. | |
Away they go. Look out for Ta Lou and the Americans. Lalova-Collio is | :10:00. | :10:15. | |
already past. Jodie Williams has a bit to do. It is Lalova-Collio and | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
they are being run out by the Australian as well. Lalova-Collio | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
and Ta Lou will go through. And those times mean that Dina | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
Asher-Smith, unfortunately, will be out before the semifinal has even | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
been run. At the moment I am looking at the times. At the moment, we have | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
changed our minds and the times have come in. Let us have a look at Jodie | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Williams here. She is in the inside lane and she works hard around the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
term but she will always be under a lot of pressure. Look at Dominici | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
years. She is quite short and a little bit of a pocket rocket. Good | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
maintenance of speed which is always paramount for the 200 metres. A | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
personal best for her. Let us have a look now at Jodie. She struggled | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
getting her fitness levels up and getting her speed work and power | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
work in. These are the things you need to be a good 200 metre runner. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
You do not want to spend time recovering, you want to work on the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
bits and pieces of the race that you think will improve it. Because, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
remember, just because you are injured and you cannot put the work | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
in does not mean you are a bad athlete. She will get healthy and | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
she will return, back to the top of her sprinting best soon enough. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
You cannot hide from a lack of training. Ta Lou, not too far from | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
the Ivory Coast record. Very quickly from her. Those times as you see | :12:22. | :12:36. | |
there, Ella Nelson is 22.50, not that far from Asher-Smith. One | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
semifinal to go. As we heard and an interview with Dina, no semifinals | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
are easy on the Olympic stage. How would you assess the way that you | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
went? I am quite disappointed with that. That is not what I wanted to | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
come out and do bite, you know, it is a semifinal and they will not be | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
easy. I am disappointed in really. What will you take forward from the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
experience? You have been through quite a lot to return to this point. | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
To be honest I feel quite lucky to even be here. My coach told me | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
before to remember that I have done it and I have accomplished what I | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
wanted to. Only 24 people in the world every four years make a | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
semifinal so in hindsight I will be OK with it but right now I am | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
disappointed. All the best going forward. Thank you. Derek Drouin | :13:40. | :14:00. | |
here. Look at that! Derek Drouin Of Canada, look at the face stop the | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
Canadians are celebrating already. That may be a gold-medal chump. | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
Quite superb. -- gold-medal jump. The way he goes over this bar has | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
been a pleasure to watch. Derek Drouin goes in to first place. Long | :14:34. | :14:47. | |
jump qualifying is done and dusted. Dougan is seventh place overall. | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
Jazmin Sawyers also in 12th place and progressing to tomorrow's final. | :14:58. | :15:11. | |
Proctor unable to join her. Well, we saw this a little while ago. This | :15:12. | :15:25. | |
was the Qatari jumpers response. His third attempt and it was a foul. | :15:26. | :15:37. | |
Bondarenko took his Ukrainian flag of his head. It looks as if he has | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
got away with a silver medal for Qatar at the moment. An improvement | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
on four years ago. Bondarenko, however, it can push him because he | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
has won jump left. -- one mac jump left. | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
Bondarenko... Ooh, he has aborted. The bar is set two metres and 40. He | :16:10. | :16:25. | |
needs to go with the time allotted and he needs to start his run-up. He | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
has 26 seconds. Derek Drouin is in gold-medal spot at the moment and it | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
is only Bondarenko who can stop this man. Bondarenko will be under | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
pressure from the clock. Pressure mounting upon capable shoulders, | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
however. No. Not even close. The smile on the face of Derek Drouin, | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
the realisation of a dream. He has not failed across any hide. | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Bondarenko is out. -- failed across any height. | :17:11. | :17:28. | |
celebrating yet. He may be thinking about more jumps. I think that means | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
he doesn't want them. It's gold for Canada and Derek Drouin. | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
Gold for Canada then. And, um, that will be a popular win, | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
Bondarenko with siller verthere. Sadly for Robbie Grabarz, joint | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
fourth place. So we move to the last semifinal of this 200m. Facey and | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
then the big names inside. These are the ones you expect to | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
contend - of course we do - Michelle-Lee Ahye from Trinidad and | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Tobago, better at the 100m really but is still very good at 200m. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Murielle Ahoure, again best event is the 100m but, of course, can run a | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
good 200m, but can they run quick enough - 22.49 - Dina Ashwood | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
hanging on to the fastest loser fast. I expect Tori Bowie to win | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
this one, the American champion this year. Er-Smith hanging on to the | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
fastest loser fast. I expect Tori Bowie to win this one, the American | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
champion this year. Scipione, Elaine Thompson and this young lady, | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Odiong, are expected to be the medals. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Germany got another young sprinter, Gina Lueckenkemper, 19-year-old. | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Again, she would have to run a personal best here to go faster than | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Dina Asher-Smith. And then Crystal Emmanuel on the inside. | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
So I think this is going to be about whether whoever comes third - it's a | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
massive assumption of course trying to give a result before they've even | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
run - but Bowie in lane four should be the winner here, such a good 200m | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
runner, and then Ahoure, Ahye - have they got it in their legs here? | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Times haven't been super quick in the 200m tonight. | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
So the final semifinal, last one, first two... And then the so | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
important two fastest loser spots are available. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Bowie gets out really well. Ahoure starts quickly, as she always does. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Ahye outside her as well. Ahoure leading, Bowie out the top bend but | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
the American coming through and into the lead. Ahye is trying to go with | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
her and Ahoure trying to stay. If these move away, the gap to the | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
third one is important. Facey finishing quickly nearest us, Bowie | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
wins it, Ahye, let's look at the clock. Oh, well! I think Facey got | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
third, 22.13 is the winning time. This is going to be so tight! Watch | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
with us. 22.25 is second. We're waiting for it to come up. It's | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
22.57. Dina Asher-Smith will be in the final! Sadly, she'll be in lane | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
one or two because of the fastest-loser spot. They get the | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
inside two lanes, but she does make the final, Colin, so a little bit of | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
good news to come out of what was not a good run for her. No doubt | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
about our winners, they are the big names, the big contenders are safely | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
through, Bowie, Schippers and Thompson. That will be an epic final | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
with quality athletes. It wouldn't surprise me if three of those ladies | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
ran at 22. Ahye sets a national record in second place in 22.25. So | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
this will be a red-hot 200m. Still, though, Steve, I was thinking that | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
these times are nowhere near as quick as we expected after what we | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
saw yesterday. But never mind. We've got an epic final in prospect. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
And Dina Asher-Smith is going to be part of it. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Well, let's confirm all of that. The winning time there had a slight | :21:33. | :21:44. | |
following wind. They have everything in their favour, really. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
It's a new national record for Michelle-Lee Ahye. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
A season's best for Simone Facey, but sadly it wasn't quite understood | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
enough, but that is good news for Dina Asher-Smith, because she will | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
be in an Olympic final, albeit it in one of the tough inside lanes when | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the draw is eventually made. That's the fate that befalls the two | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
fastest losers. Michelle-Lee Ahye might pick up the | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
pieces if the top three falters. Only Schippers was under 22 seconds. | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Well done to Dina Asher-Smith getting in by the skin of her teeth. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
We saw the same thing for Eilidh Doyle in her 400m hurdles and Jazmin | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Sawyers qualifying in 12th for the long jump final. There is something | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
in the air today but they get to live and fight another day. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
Up next is the two Lauras, Weightman and Muir, lining up. For Laura Muir, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
it's been an interesting few years for her. Earlier this summer at the | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
Anniversary Games, she broke Kelly Holmes's long-standing record. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Let's find out more about her. Somebody clipped my heel and I | :22:59. | :23:13. | |
couldn't get in my stride... Probably one of the toughest moments | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
of my year but I think it will be a feature. I'm more mentally strong | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
now. As much as I wish it didn't happen, the fact that it did happen | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
toughened me up a bit and, um, yeah, I'm ready to attack every race now. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
This really is punishing running from Laura Muir. Look at her grit. I | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
knew I would go for it. I knew I had to push the third lap. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
That's where it tends to slow down and dig in for the last little bit | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and, yeah... And that is a new British record! I | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
was so shocked when I crossed the line. It's not just any British | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
record. It's Kelly's British record. I'm honoured to have broken that. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Hopefully I'll do it justice. In a last race, to win like that on home | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
soil with a record, it's the best prep I could ask for really. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
-- for Rio. Before, people knew I was fast but not that I was a | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
contender. Now they'll watch it and look out for me. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
The races will be slower and there'll be more bunched because | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
there's no pacer. It's a matter of positioning well so you're not | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
running wide and further the whole way. Make sure you're in the top | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
group at the front to qualify for the next run. It's about saving | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
energy and getting through the rounds. Running the Olympics is | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
something but to come away with proof, as it were, would be very, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
very special. I don't think you could really put into words what | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
that means for an athlete to get an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
what you train for every day for years and years. So, yeah, fingers | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
crossed. She's come a long way in the last | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
couple of years and looks impressive, Paula. She talked about | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
navigating the heats and semifinals. She's got to the final but, as she | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
mentioned there, there's no pacemaker. She likes to run | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
aggressively, how will she approach this? It's being to be difficult. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
She'll need to decide does she, basically, gamble everything and go | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
to try and win the race? Or does she go to try and get a medal, which | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
she's extremely capable of. She knows she's very capable of that, | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
and then try and win it from there? Or does she risk it all? To lead an | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Olympic final from gun to tape is pretty much impossible in a 1,500m | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
race. So she really needs one of the other girls to decide to take it out | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
hard and then she could take it on after the first 600m but she needs | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
somebody to set that up for her. You've looked at a few of her races | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
this season for us and you've spotted some things. I think the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
biggest thing is - she said herself how much she's matured over the last | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
couple of years, how much stronger she is mentally and physically. This | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
is a race in Stockholm early in the season. She'd come down from | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
altitude, put in hard block of training and you could see, how | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
she's running, she looks heavy on her feet. She's not bouncy. She's | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
carrying a lot of hard work into that and this wasn't a particularly | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
good run from her. She's still battling in the home straight. You | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
see there that the athlete who wasn't hasn't qualified for the | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
final today. She didn't worry about that race, Laura. She went away, put | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
her head down, trained hard and did outstanding raining -- training, ran | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
personal bests in training for this race in London. She was brimming | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
with confidence. The race was set up perfectly. She was right behind the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
pacemaker, almost urging her on during the race and what was so | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
impressive was the way she took it on after the pacemaker stepped aside | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
and maintained her form, made Hassan look like she was struggling and | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
Sifan Hassan is one of the main contenders tonight. She's also moved | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
on since London so don't underestimate her. Laura went back | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
up and beat that personal best again so she knows that she's in shape | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
coming here today. She's in incredible shape. She's | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
confident. She's a gutsy, brave runner. Steve Cram and Brendan | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Foster will call this one. Well, this really is a | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
mouth-watering 1,500m final. Laura Muir with a great chance. Her coach, | :27:24. | :27:36. | |
Andy Young, is just along here he's in the Radio 5 Live seats to get a | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
better view down the home straight. Laura Weightman, of course, making | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
the final as well. And Laura, her second Olympic final. You can see | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
her plaster on her leg. She had five stitches in her leg after the | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
semifinal, um, but her leg is OK I'm pleased to say. So she's looking | :27:54. | :28:03. | |
forward to this as well. This might be one of the best final fields | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
we've ever seen. be one of the best final fields | :28:06. | :28:06. | |
we've ever seen. Eight of these women were | :28:07. | :28:31. | |
After this season finishes, Laura Muir has to do her placement in the | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
Dog Trust in Darlington. She's studying to be a vet. That can wait | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
for now because she has a chance to make a bit of history here. Can she | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
win a medal in this race? It's going to be really tough. | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
Sado and Arafi are delighted to be in this final, I'm sure, as we go | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
down the line here. Jenny Simpson, won the world title in 2011, a | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
silver medal at the World Championships in 2013, doesn't have | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
an Olympic medal. A lot of these women have run well under four | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
minutes. I like Faith Kipyegon, a great little runner, Commonwealth | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
champion, still just 22 years of age. The Kenyan national | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
record-holder. Bahta chose to run the 1,500m rather than the 5,000m. | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
She's European champion he longer distance. Former Ethiopian, running | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
for Sweden. Laura Weightman, European bronze | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
medallist, Commonwealth silver medallist. There's her sister and | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
younger brother. He should stop picking his nose! They're here to | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
support. Sifan Hassan - there's no love lost between Sifan Hassan and | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
Genzebe Dibaba. She would love to beat this young lady here. Dibaba, | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
in many ways, a bit of a controversial figure. Certainly some | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
of the other 1,500m runners. Her coach recently involved in a doping | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
controversy. Ennaoui of Poland - done very well | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
to make it through to the final. Probably her team-mate was more | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
fancied to do that, the European champion. #7 Shannon Rowbury, former | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
world bronze medallist. And a world indoor bronze medallist at 3,000m. | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
That tells you how strong she is. World junior champion, world indoor | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
silver medallist, Seyaum, as if there wasn't enough quality already | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
in this. Quick word, Brendan, before the go? | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
It certainly is a field of champions. The first five from the | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
World Championships this year and an interesting tactical approach. Let's | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
see how this works out. Because it's all about tactics today. | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
The Olympic 1,500m final gets under way. | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
And the nerves, which I'm sure are being felt as much by those | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
watching, as though out there, can now disappear for the runners at the | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
very least. The one thing you can sure of - it won't be that quick | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
early on. The question, I think, is when will this catch fire? At the | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
World Championships last year, Dibaba, who was in world-record | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
shape, attacked with 800m to go, destroyed the field prey much, | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
caught Hassan unawares, ran 1:57 for the last 800m and nobody really | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
caught them. Laura Muir was in the second group, if you like, and scale | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
through for a very good and a very credible fifth. But they're jogging, | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
Rowbury, Weightman, Simpson but the big names - Kipyegon is just in the | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
pack there. This is a saunter, a real jog and, of course, 1,500m | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
running is not just about fast times. A lot of these women have | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
fast times. It's tactics and knowing what to do and when to do it and | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
executing it in a way which you hope will take you to the medals. It's a | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
1,200m race and less now because they literally are jogging and, | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
quite sensibly and wisely, Laura Weightman goes to the front. But she | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
hasn't done anything about her pace. She's jogging from the front. But | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
look at the back. Three of the favourites are in last, second last | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
and third last place. Laura Muir, Hassan, and Genzebe Dibaba and | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
they're going down the back straight with a very slow opening lap. I said | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
at the start this is about tactics. Well, these athletes have run it as | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
a distance race. They're making it a short distance race and somebody - | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
is it Dibaba? Is it Hassan? Maybe it's Laura Muir? - maybe Laura Muir | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
has got something in her mind about going out there and being brave. | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
We've seen her do that -- seen her do that before in Oslo in the | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
Anniversary Games. She's going to think about making a run for home. | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
But Laura Weightman, Steve, in the lead, a reluctant leader I must say, | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
looking anxiously around, looking up at the screen. None of them are | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
relaxed at this point and here comes Laura Muir on the outside as they | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
see the lap scorer, it will say two laps to go. She's positioning | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
herself. She knows it will be a move from this far out and she knows | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
she's going to be it when they move. this. This is what she did last | :32:59. | :33:23. | |
year. Is she as good as last year? Can she go as hard as she did last | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
year? She does not have the shock element that she achieved at the | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
World Championships. This is not as fast nor as hard that it but it will | :33:32. | :33:43. | |
be a long run home. She needs to get closer and Seyaum is trying to get | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
around. But it is Dibaba and Seyaum. That was a fast 200 metres and I am | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
not sure if Dibaba is as good as she was last year. Now Laura Mewar is a | :33:55. | :34:03. | |
chance. -- Laura Muir is a chance. She needs to aim for higher than a | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
bronze medal because that could help her through. Down the back straight | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
goes the world record holder. Is she on her way to the BA champion full? | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
Laura Muir needs to stick to her task. She is going to chase down | :34:19. | :34:26. | |
Laura Muir. She burned hard to try and stay with Kipyegon. Dibaba has | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
been caught up from behind. Laura Muir's race looks run and at the | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
front it is Kipyegon who has gotten away. Dibaba has broken as well. | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
Kipyegon of Kenya is streaking away down the home straight. This is a | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
brilliant piece of running from the Commonwealth champion. She will | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
become the Olympic champion. There is a fight on for the silver. Dibaba | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
hangs on. And Simpson takes the bronze. As scrap after that for the | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
lower places. Poor Laura Muir. She went with it. These two are so good, | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
they make you go so hard. Kipyegon was so good they are. Poor Laura | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
Muir gave everything and in so doing, her chances of winning a | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
medal disappeared with those of two and others who sat off a little bit | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
were able to come through much quicker. Simpson being congratulated | :35:33. | :35:48. | |
by Laura Muir. And, you know, sometimes in going for gold, she | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
went for gold. She went for something she believed she could get | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
but in so doing she probably gave up her chance of hanging around and | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
picking up a medal. Laura Muir has given it everything and put herself | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
in the right place. Kipyegon is chasing down Dibaba. They have run | :36:10. | :36:21. | |
an exceptional last 800 metres. 58.9 for the last lap. They have run 1.57 | :36:22. | :36:37. | |
for the last 400 metres. The world record holder not as good as she was | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
last year. She has attacked, Laura Muir, given herself every chance. | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
Hassan, not as good as she was last year. The fading champion and world | :36:50. | :36:56. | |
record holder coming in second place. But there, a champion from | :36:57. | :37:09. | |
Kenya. Looking down the field, Jenny Simpson of the United States chasing | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
down the world record holder. Kipyegon looked controlled. She was | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
happy that Dibaba tried to win it. Kipyegon just working at it while | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
Dibaba looking up at the screen. A gold-medal for Kenya. A silver medal | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
and then a bronze medal for the United States. Laura Muir ran a | :37:39. | :37:46. | |
great race there. She tried to win it and sometimes if you go for gold | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
you end up with nothing at all. You said at the start that you liked | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
Kipyegon. She has been running well and you were absolutely correct. I | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
think that would be a popular win. We were talking in the bus on the | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
way down that sometimes you go for gold and I said... And you said that | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
is how you run, you go for it. And sometimes when you do that you give | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
up your chance for a medal. But just to sit back, that is what Simpson | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
did. She knew this push would come and she came through for the bronze. | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
Laura Muir are definitely went for it. Hassan just gave up her chance | :38:29. | :38:38. | |
of a medal Cauchy was not close enough. Laura Muir gave it | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
absolutely everything and she tried to stay with Kipyegon and Dibaba. | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
That is really difficult. Jenny Simpson may have had a little bit | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
more material see just to sit back in the semifinal and save a bit of | :38:58. | :39:06. | |
energy. Maybe that is what she had left in her tank. Laura Muir, that | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
is how tired she is because she gambled everything. Laura, it was | :39:14. | :39:27. | |
interesting listening link to Paula in commentary. I knew I was in great | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
shape to do everything. It just was not quite in me. I gave absolutely | :39:35. | :39:42. | |
everything. You began at a pedestrian pace. But you were | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
tracking two of the favourites. What were you thinking at the time? I was | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
expecting it to be slow and then for them to come around. I was waiting | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
for them and when they did I was on the straightaway and I follow them | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
around but I could not hold on. Thank you to everybody at home for | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
your support. I know it is emotional for you. You need to be proud of | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
what you achieved this season. You are in contention and that shows how | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
far you have come and how much there is to come. Thank you to my school | :40:20. | :40:28. | |
and my club who provide me with training and support. The London | :40:29. | :40:40. | |
marathon as well who funded my trips abroad. And my partner who has in | :40:41. | :40:48. | |
with me through thick and thin. This is just a start for you, surely? It | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
is my first Olympics and I gave it everything I could but that was just | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
not enough there on the day. She should be quite proud. What a year | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
she has had on there will be more to come. I now he will be feeling it a | :41:04. | :41:11. | |
little bit more than Laura because they obviously knew they had an | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
opportunity here and she could not have done anything more in terms of | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
chasing the medal. But Kipyegon, hats off to her. She ran so hard for | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
the last 800 metres. Well under two minutes. And that is the difference. | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
Dibaba not as good as last year, tried to do the same thing but had | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
to concede to the Kenyan. And a brilliant bronze medal for Jenny | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
Simpson. Laura Weightmann in 11th place. But we salute both of them | :41:45. | :41:53. | |
for flying the flag for Great Britain in 1500 metre running. It | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
was a fascinating race. So slow when pedestrian in the early stages and | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
for somebody with such an aggressive runner that was quite frustrating. | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
She wanted to take it on and she should be commended for that because | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
she definitely put it all out there. Definitely. She can hold her head | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
high full she has the speed for a slow race and she could have reacted | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
to that she could have run a race like Jenny Simpson and won bronze. | :42:26. | :42:37. | |
But there is nothing you can do, no matter how much you want to keep | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
going, she could not will herself down the home straight. She could | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
not get back in there. She is very young and she has learnt from this. | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
She will move on and she gave it her best shot full of I am just | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
wondering if that is the right approach to go for gold if you have | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
the opportunity? If you have not won a World Championship medal, if the | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
opportunity is there if you take the opportunity to grab a medal will | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
build confidence and there is always a possibility that that opportunity | :43:17. | :43:22. | |
may never come again. Not that she will never make a World Championship | :43:23. | :43:31. | |
or Olympic team again, but there was a door open there for a moment. It | :43:32. | :43:38. | |
was an emotional performance. She ran from the heart. And that was a | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
decision where she sat down with her coach and that is what they decided | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
to do. They decided to run this race no matter what. And when Dibaba | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
went, you had to decide like that. It is not easy. I am not an expert | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
at distance margin, but that is the margin in sport. You make a decision | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
and once you are committed, you must go for it. I think she has had a | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
phenomenal seas what she has shown over the last two seasons, her | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
growth, it has been massive I remember sitting outside, she was | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
crying her eyes out. She can be very proud. The person who should be | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
kicking themselves is Hassan. Right at the back there. She can see what | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
is going on a head that she is shadowing Dibaba because Dibaba is | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
the main danger. Kipyegon has been the world leader this year and has | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
what it possesses to defeat Dibaba when Dibaba is not fully on. She has | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
been struggling with fatal injury and other things around her and keep | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
guided her time, Laura Muir covered the move. Already she is working | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
hard. She looks good. She looks as if she is comfortable and is feeling | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
good. She can feel Kipyegon on her shoulder. Hassan is not even in the | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
picture at this minute. And by not reacting sooner or moving up quickly | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
enough she probably gave away the chance to go away with that as well. | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
The difference between running on the diamond league circuit or places | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
where there are pacemakers and competition element like this, it is | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
tactics and it is difficult to practise tactics if you are running | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
in a race with a pacemaker. You can only practised tactics in a World | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
Championship or Olympic final. And that is what Laura Muir tried to do. | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
She knew she was up against Dibaba's time of last year. She did not think | :45:54. | :46:00. | |
Dibaba was capable of that, but Kipyegon was. If she could have kept | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
going, but she cannot because she has gone so hard. And burned so much | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
of her pace and speed to get to that point. She really is treading water | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
and hanging on. You can feel athletes coming past you and you | :46:20. | :46:21. | |
just desperately want to reach the finish line. What does that feel | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
like physically? Pain in the legs? It hurts a lot. Everywhere. Down | :46:28. | :46:35. | |
your back, in your arms, you just really feel it. You cannot move. | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
That is why you see her for towards the line and why she had an | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
emotional interview afterwards because she is so exhausted. | :46:47. | :47:19. | |
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde is here. Two Americans are here as well. Ronnie | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
Ash, second at the US trials behind Devon Allen, who is already out. | :47:26. | :47:33. | |
And Dimitri Bascou, the second of the French athletes. And France have | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
high hopes here. Montreal, 1976, the only French | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
winner of this title. They have two chances here. Orlando Ortega, a | :47:44. | :47:53. | |
Cuban who now runs for Spain - there's a great Cuban history at | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
this event. But Omar McLeod may well be the man to beat, the only man to | :47:58. | :48:07. | |
go below 13 seconds this year. He's had such a good season. A couple of | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
falls in the build-up to Rio, a sign of what can go wrong in the | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
hurledles, but we'll give you a full look at the line-up for the final | :48:17. | :48:33. | |
here. It's still very warm here. Cabral of Canada in two, then Devon | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
Allen, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, Omar McLeod, Dimitri Bascou, Ortega, | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
Trajkovic of Cyprus and Ronnie Ash. Colin Jackson alongside me for this | :48:49. | :48:50. | |
one. He's a man who tried - and you know | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
what can happen in the hurdles. You were a World Champion who was a | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
chance in the Olympics. It's an open field in this one. We don't have the | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
defending champion. He has health issues. David Oliver, the World | :49:05. | :49:12. | |
Champion, suffered an injury at the US trials with a hamstring. It's | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
open for somebody to step up. You're looking at five or six who could win | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
here. I was looking at your notes and you've got so many things lined | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
up because so many different things-and-could happen but I think | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
the favourite is there, Omar McLeod. He's qualified very well. As long as | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
he keeps his head - this is the most important thing, because he's the | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
fastest in his field. He doesn't have to stress. He can absolutely | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
run anybody down off that last hurdle. He only needs to be even | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
with the whole pack and with his general leg speed, it will take him | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
clear of the field. Bascou from France, I think he's coming of age. | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
He's won a couple of championships now and he's getting more and more | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
confident in what he can do in these circumstances and I think here at | :49:58. | :50:00. | |
the Olympic Games, that will put him in good stead. | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
He's gone for a racy sawn-off sleeve number, Dimitri Bascou. He's the | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
French champion. He's the European champion and, again, both he and | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde will present a serious threat for France. A | :50:13. | :50:22. | |
handshake and arm round the shoulder from Martinot-Lagarde to Omar | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
McLeod. McLeod won in Doha in the Diamond League, in Shanghai, and | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
then fell in Monaco in the Diamond League meeting there and then fell | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
in Hungary. His last two races into Rio were not confidence-boos terse. | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
No, they weren't but, you know, for him, the most important thing is not | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
to make those mistakes in the training. That's where you get your | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
confidence. The young Spaniard, Ortega, is one to watch too. Over to | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
Andrew. Johnathan Cabral took advantage when Lawrence Clarke hit | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
the final barrier in the semifinal. There's Devon Allen, 21-year-old US | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
champion. His first international meeting, the Olympic Games. Pascal | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
Martinot-Lagarde, a history of not managing to live up to his huge | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
talent in major choims. A smile from Omar McLeod. Dimitri Bascou. | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
Ampionships. A smile from Omar McLeod. Dimitri Bascou. So McLeod | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
flanked by the two French athletes and Orlando Ortega wearing the vest | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
of spab - he fell out with the Cuban Federation three years ago. Milan | :51:24. | :51:31. | |
Trajkovic, sip Ron -- from Cyprus. Think of all the American hurdlers | :51:32. | :51:39. | |
who have won this in Roger Kingdom and Alan Johnson, Merritt in London. | :51:40. | :51:47. | |
But the favourite is Omar McLeod. He's | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
We will have a new Olympic Champion with Merritt not here. | :51:55. | :52:05. | |
We have Cabral and we have Devon Allen, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, Omar | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
McLeod, Dimitri Bascou, there in lane six, Orlando Ortega, Milan | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
Trajkovic and Ronnie Ash. And we are ready for the final of the men's | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
110m hurdles. Cleanly away, Omar McLeod out so | :52:20. | :52:33. | |
quickly. Bascou alongside and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde trying to get those | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
long legs moving, clipping a barrier. Omar McLeod rocked back but | :52:37. | :52:39. | |
McLeod coming through now. He has that speed and McLeod to the line | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
and to the title ahead of Ortega and Bascou! Omar McLeod, 13.05! | :52:45. | :52:46. | |
CHEERING But it's not about the time, it is | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
about the gold medal that belongs to Omar McLeod! Ortega came through so | :52:53. | :53:01. | |
quickly for the silver as well. And Dimitri Bascou gets the bronze. | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
But the gold for that man... He seems reasonably happy. | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
Winner of the 110m hurdles. Omar McLeod the favourite and when the | :53:12. | :53:14. | |
favourite delivers you have to applaud because all the pressure, | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
all the things that can go wrong in the hurdles... Not so for Omar | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
McLeod. The gold medal is his. It's great to see him do that really. | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
He's been in the shadows of the runner-up last year at the World | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
Championships. After all the injury problems he's | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
had because he's had countless injury troubles for years. It's one | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
of these things. We always talk about this. When you get a season | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
behind you of a good winter where you can prepare properly with no | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
real major issues... And that's what happened to Omar this year and he's | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
managed to take this title. Personal best in the sprint with that | :53:57. | :54:03. | |
sub-10-second run, the only sprint hurdlers to have done that, | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
actually. And now the Olympic title. Great run. Huge relief for him. But | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
for me, I'm kind of thinking I'm pleased that I see two Europeans on | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
the rostrum. That is a real good sign for | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
European sprint hurdling which means we're in the mix now again. Do you | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
want to read through some of the results there. Let's have a look at | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
the race itself. Omar McLeod is such a great starter. He blasted out to | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
the blocks. I was slightly anxious because he came off the first Hurd | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
well a bit of imbalance but he settled quickly. | :54:40. | :54:54. | |
That was the key - don't press. He sinks down and then goes just | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
stay there, no pressure. Take my time. | :54:58. | :55:04. | |
I'll move through the field. There's no rush, no urgency with the | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
hurdling and that's what you want to do when you want to try and win a | :55:09. | :55:18. | |
major title. Bascou good enough for a bronze | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
medal. Poor old Ronnie Ash. This is now the traditional way to finish a | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
sprint. The hurl across the line didn't | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
quite work for Ronnie Ash there. Have a look here. Three medallists. | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
Gold going to Jamaica. Oh, you see there - Omar skied that barrier but | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
he settles back into the rhythm quite quickly. | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
Because he's been unchallenged most of the year, he didn't have to test | :55:51. | :56:01. | |
himself or push himself. Early on he had to decide what to | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
do. He got over the barriers nice and clean and won the gold. | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
It was the fifth barrier which did for Bascou actually. That rocked him | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
back and lost him a bit of momentum for the second half of the race. | :56:13. | :56:21. | |
Celebrations there for Omar McLeod. So it's McLeod with a victory, | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
Ortega - you saw what it meant to him to get the silver medal for | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
Spain. And Dimitri Bascou held on for the bronze but that is the face, | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
the dance, the celebration of a man who has a gold medal. | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
A good race, a great win for Omar McLeod. Ortega, silver, Bascou the | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
bronze, just edging out his fellow countryman, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
he finished just outside the medals again. Not to be for the Americans, | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
Allen and Ronnie Ash down in fifth and eighth. | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
They're calling it lane eight there but it's lane nine that seems to | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
have become the demon lane that seems to be ruining a lot of | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
people's Olympic Games. Yeah, Ronnie Ash. That was tough. He was in it. | :57:07. | :57:17. | |
He was running well and then it just Omar McLeod what had the huge gap | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
between him and the rest of the field. Short, stocky but quick. It | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
just goes like that. The hurdles has been wide open all season and, you | :57:27. | :57:34. | |
know, he just needed to get out there and run his race and it's | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
great for Jamaica. It's fantastic for the country. | :57:42. | :57:51. | |
It's been a mixed night for British athletes this evening. Bronze | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
medallist from London, Robbie Grabarz, was going in the high jump | :57:55. | :58:17. | |
final. He was pointing to say, hold on, the | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
official put the white flag up and the bar fell off. And so what we | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
understand is that the reason why he was allowed to negate that jump was | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
because it was the official's fault because the rules say you've got to | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
get off the mat and that's the time when you measure the jump so it was | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
the organisers going, OK, our fault, our fault. | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
I think it was because Robbie sold it and said, "It's your fault, it's | :58:43. | :58:50. | |
your fault." Good on him. He said, "YOU put the flag up." He would | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
clearly make a good barrister. He targd his case very well there. | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
Here he is with Phil. It's the cruellest place to finish, | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
fourth, obviously in an Olympic Games and you know a medal was so, | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
so close. Yeah, I made one fatal error at 2.25m and it cost me a | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
medal. I'm really proud of that, fourth place in an Olympic Games is | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
something to be so proud of, yeah. It's a punishing place to finish. | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
It's the cruellest place to finish. I just want to know at 2.33m what | :59:21. | :59:26. | |
was going on. You cleared the height, the bar fell off... It was a | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
technicality that they held up the white flag which means that's the | :59:31. | :59:33. | |
end of your go and the bar was cleared. It did fall off but | :59:34. | :59:36. | |
technically they'd given me the clearance. Um, and then I explained | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
the rules to them and then they had to double-check, double-check. It | :59:42. | :59:44. | |
was a little bit stressful there but, um, yeah, you don't want to | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
clear a bar by a technicality but they made a mistake or they ended | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
the jump too soon and I got the clearance. With that, you'd equalled | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
your season's best. Are you then thinking you could go on and grab | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
that medal that you hold from London? That was it, yeah, I just | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
regrouped. If they didn't give me the pass, I was going to, you know, | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
pass the next bar and go for broke at 2.35m but unfortunately it wasn't | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
to be there. What about the man that did take it in the end, Derek | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Drouin? I saw you hug him. There's great camaraderie you all? He's one | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
of the greatest guys to jump against and I'm happy and proud of him to do | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
that. It was an amazing performance. Well done to you as well. Cheers. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Thanks. Cheers. Derek Drouin of Canada won that in | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
2.38m and here comes Thomas Barr of Ireland in the 400m semifinal and he | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
came through with a new national record and has sent himself and, no | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
doubt, a delighted Ireland at this result here, Paula, into that final. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Yeah, I mean it's just... Textbook racing when you come to the | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Olympics. You need to get into the final so you run a personal best out | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
there. And he should be very, very proud of himself. He just ran really | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
well. Phil caught up with him afterwards. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Thomas, congratulations. What a time for to set a national record and win | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
a place in an Olympic final? Literally couldn't have been any | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
more perfectly timed. Um, genuinely, I cannot believe this because I've | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
had a very mishap year with injuries so, I mean, this is amazing, to come | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
- winning not only a place in the final, winning my semifinal and also | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
a national record, like. I mean it's incredible. I'm absolutely | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
delighted. So on the block, seriously, what did you hope to | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
achieve? To be honest, actually, I felt really good today, a lot better | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
than I did yesterday, so I was hoping, you know, secretly hoping to | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
make it to a final, but I... When I saw the... I was coming through the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
tunnel to come down to the track, I saw that the times were in around | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
48-mid-to get through so I thought it was manageable if I could pull | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
out a PB and I did just that. You actually nailed the race, didn't | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
you? Yeah, I just felt really comfortable, yeah. It was - I | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
absolutely got my stride pattern spot on. I may have had to reach a | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
little bit for hurdle six but that's the only thing that sticks out in my | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
mind that I didn't do right. In a final, who knows what can happen? | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Anything can happen, yeah, yeah. Cheers, thank you. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
A quick look at the table after five days: | :02:31. | :02:50. | |
But there is plenty more to come for Great Britain, and it was a day of | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
just getting through things by the skin of your teeth. We saw diner | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
Asha Smith hanging on, praying nervously... Welcome metaphorically. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
She made it through as fast as loser in that 200 metre final. And in the | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
long jump, well, they both qualified automatically, but Jasmine Sawyers | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
was in 12th place, so again, by the skin of her teeth. I'm so used to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
seeing Jasmine doing that. She manages to just raise her game every | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
time she competes. We saw it in the trials, getting that qualification | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
to be actually here, and the person for me that's most disappointing was | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Proctor. It's the second time her Olympics have gone to tatters with | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
that wonderful silver medal last year at the World Championships. I | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
was expecting her to take that forward, and unfortunately she | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
didn't do that. I really disappointing series, and on the | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
third and final jump, all she needed was 6.60, which she is more than | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
capable of doing. She can do that in her sleep. She got the whitefly but | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the distance did not appear, and you can tell by her face she is very | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
disappointed. The Soviet athlete did compete as the only Russian athlete | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
here in this athletics meet in Rio and did qualify. There was a bit of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
controversy about the fact that she was the only one, and by virtue of | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the fact that she was the only Russian, she trains and gets her | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
drug testing done in America, so therefore she is classed as being an | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
American almost. Yeah, she brought her case to the Court of arbitration | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
for sport and the IAAF, and was able to substantiate her situation, that | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
she trains in the US, she has trained in the US with a group of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
other athletes. Others like LaShawn Merritt down in Florida. Those | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
athletes are testing on a regular basis in the US, and so they bought | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
her case and decided that she hadn't been in Russia subject to that | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
situation where athletes were being allowed to cheat the system. She had | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
to appeal at the last minute to take part because the IAAF tried to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
revoke that. They got extra information from McLaren, who | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
carried out the McLaren report and investigation, which they felt | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
stopped her competing. Under the IOC rules, she could come and compete, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
so she is here competing. And within the competitive community here, | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
would she be welcomed? Is there any sense that it's a slight anomaly, or | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
is it business as usual? I think everyone - at least when they step | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
back, everyone has put all the Russians into one box, because of | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the system, not necessarily because of the athletes themselves. The | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
system allowed them to do that, so I think everyone puts them in one box. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Once the athletes start competing, they are not thinking about, that's | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the Russian athlete, they are just competing. I think they recognise as | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
well, once you are outside of the system, no one wanted to see an | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
innocent athlete get punished. Russia needed to be punished as a | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
country but there are innocent athletes who have suffered and | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
haven't been able to come to an Olympic Games, and, when you satisfy | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
the criteria and you are outside, and I think she has probably been | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
tested more than some athletes from other countries that don't have that | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
testing, and it's not a level playing field on that front, so they | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
probably do recognise, if you are based outside, you have a right to | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
come here and compete because you have complied with the system. She | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
has got through to that final anyway. Just another word on Laura | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
as well, Laura Muir, and Laura Weightman in that 1500 metres. The | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
brutality, we talked about it in terms of qualifying, but those races | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
are so difficult to navigate. Yeah. I was looking at a comment from | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
Kelly Holmes saying she forgot how hard it was out there, and sometimes | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
you are on and can do it, but sometimes the response is unfair, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
and you don't have the response to be able to come back and fight, and | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Laura didn't quite have what you thought she had in the tank on the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
last lap. We are going to hear now from the new Olympic high jump | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
champion, described as one of the good guys. Derek, Olympic champion - | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
it's got to sound so sweet right now. Obviously this is something | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
I've been dreaming about for the last few weeks specifically. I've | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
been thinking it's a possibility, but for it to come true, I don't | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
think it's sunk in yet. I remember reading that you value your bronze | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
medal from London above your World Championships gold medal. That's how | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
much deal and fix means to you. Now you have that prized gold medal and | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
no one can take it away from you. It's something I've been dreaming of | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
my entire life, and it's going to be really, really tough to top this. I | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
guess I'll try to match it in four years. Also did take in right now | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
what you've achieved. I feel like I don't even have the emotions to | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
properly deal with this right now. How will it be received back at home | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
by family and friends? Have you got family here tonight? I was upset I | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
wasn't able to get up in the crowd to hug my family but they were right | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
there, right in the front row, so I'm happy they were here to watch | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
it. Enjoy the celebrations tonight. Thank you so much. Well done to | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Derek Drouin because there was disappointment for Shawn Barber last | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
night in the polevault, the world champion. He didn't make it to the | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
rostrum. They've had the bronze medals from Degrasse and Tyson | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
Eaton. Great to get the gold tonight. Thank you so much. It's | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
been great. Before we go, though, we just have one little extra piece of | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
analysis which we think you might like to see. Oh, you didn't... That | :09:11. | :09:25. | |
is hilarious! Look at that skill! Did you get it? What you didn't see | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
was when I finally got it, and Denise goes... Teamwork! Denise is | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
oblivious to it. I'm not staring at you but I look like I'm demonically | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
staring at you. It's the scoreboard! Left, Right, left, right... Yeah. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
When I chase something, I chase it to the end! I don't know what the | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
last part was... It's the... I think Denise gave you a well done. That's | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
right, that's me. Probably not one of my better moment... I don't know. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
You were successful in the end. It's all about the small victories, and | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
you had a big victory over that tiny moth. Show it who's boss! OK, it's | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
heading into the witching hour now, the silly hour. The athletics is | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
over but there's so much more to come tomorrow. Mo Farah is back on | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
the track in the morning for the 5000 metre heats, which of course | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
will be around two o'clock your time, so make sure you are with us | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
for that one, but I'm going to hand you back now to Jason Mohammad. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Good evening. Thank you very much indeed. We could have done with | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Michael Johnson in the Stade de France on the eve of the Euro 2016 | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
final when it was invaded by moths. That's the moment of the games so | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
far for me. Fabulous work. Another cracking day in track and field, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
another great day for Team GB. These are tonight's headlines. Britain's | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
Laura Trott becomes the first British woman to win four Olympic | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
gold medals after retaining her title. Two gold in London, two more | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
in Rio, and she's only 24. Not to be outdone, Jason Kenny followed his | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
fiancee on to the top step of the velodrome podium for the third time | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
in Brazil. Another gold means Kenny joins former teammate Sir Chris Hoyt | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
is a six time Olympic gold-medallist, also a great British | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
record. Great scenes. The cycling medals didn't stop | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
there. Becky James and Katie Marchand took silver and bronze | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
respectively in the women's individual sprint. Four medals on | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
the final day capping off a dominant display in the velodrome, 11 medals | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
in total, nine more than their nearest rivals. Confirmation today | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
that Giles Scott has secured gold in sailing's Finn class. Hannah Mills | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
and Saskia Clark also all but guaranteed gold, although that will | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
not be confirmed until after Wednesday's medal race. It doesn't | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
stop there. Gymnast a meeting club won a brilliant bronze on the floor. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
The 16-year-old is Team GB's youngest athlete and has had to | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
combine training with her GCSEs. Definitely an a star performance | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
today. Well done. And there was another GB gymnastics bronze in the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
men's horizontal bar for Nigel Wilson. That saw the team round out | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
an amazing campaign with seven medals in total. These headlines | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
keep coming and coming. Diving now, and Jack Laugher claimed the second | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
medal of the games after gold in the synchronised three metre springboard | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
last week. He took individual silver today. | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
The final middle of the day was bronze for Joshua Buatsi in the | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
light heavyweight category, while Joe Joyce and Nicola Adams both | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
guaranteed themselves a bronze at least with wins today. All in all, | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
nine medals mean in Great Britain exceeded their UK sport medal target | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
of 48 with five days to spare. They now have 50 - that's a Great Britain | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
record for an overseas games. The United States lead the way with 28 | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
golds, 28 silvers, 28 bronze, a total of 84, but Great Britain, how | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
good does that look? We've got lots of sport going on | :13:59. | :14:11. | |
right now. If you fancy a little bit of beach volleyball, this is a | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
cracking game, Italy against Russia in the men's semi-final, the iconic | :14:15. | :14:26. | |
venue of Copacabana Beach. A good crowd considering it is 11:13 p.m.. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Also on the red button, the women's quarter-final in the basketball, | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
France taking on Canada. Lots of great sport, but Brazil has | :14:33. | :14:48. | |
been waiting a long time for a gold-medal in boxing. Could it come | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
to light in the light heavyweight? All eyes on Ronald Conceicao. | :14:52. | :15:06. | |
And we are under way. The 60 kg lightweight gold-medal bout | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
contested between boxers from France and Brazil. The man in red is Robson | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
Conceicao. 27 years of age, competing in his third Olympic Games | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
here, and inspired by the home support, he has booked his place in | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
this gold-medal contest with some terrific performances. The man | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
wearing blue has been razor sharp all tournament long, the 21-year-old | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
from France, ranked number six in the world, the tournament number | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
seven seed, the man trying to spoil the Brazilian party. Fantastic | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
atmosphere. Who is going to get their tactics right? Both good | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
long-range men but Conceicao on the front foot, very dominant indeed, | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
and he has the crowd behind him. But make no mistake, this Frenchman is a | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
class act as well. These men were scheduled to meet at a tournament in | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Cuba just before the Olympics. The record will show Robson Conceicao | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
won, but that was a walkover as the Frenchman was unable to take his | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
place in the semi-final stage. The atmosphere here is really | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
incredible. Conceicao used this atmosphere to produce a win over | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Alvarez, the reigning gold-medallist, to book his place. | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
Just made a mistake, landing shots and going back to try to get back to | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
safety with the safety distance, but he is dropping his hands. Conceicao | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
for me, this jab of his has been brilliant in this round. Good timing | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
and accurate. This is a good start from the Brazilian here. Look at | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
that single jab, in and out with the feet, good timing, measuring the | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
distance, Conceicao. Conceicao picked up a cut in that semi-final | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
win. Good movement from the waist to avoid that punishment. He is boxing | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
very well indeed, hitting without being hit in reply. Sofiane Oumiha | :17:34. | :17:50. | |
gets caught going out. Funny, the Brazilian is slightly better. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Good movement on the retreat once again from Conceicao. | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
An opening round full of thought and concentration between the two boxes. | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
In stark contrast to the party that's happening up in the stands | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
here. Both parties deciding to stand and not set. This fellow for me had | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
the better start here on the front foot. Catches up as he is moving | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
away. Tension in the air. The crowd really playing their part here. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Look, just making your opponent missed by inches and going back and | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
scoring. That's what Conceicao did there. But will he get the scores? | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
Let's have a look. And it's 10- nine across the board in favour of the | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
men in red. Good scoring, good judging. | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
So into the second round we go, and the man wearing red, Robson | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
Conceicao, the fifth-ranked boxer in the world, the number four seed, has | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
worked his way wonderfully behind that educated left hand. Good | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
tactics from Conceicao here, on the front foot. He's not giving ground, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
is he? Very sharp. He started quickly, but again Oumiha trying to | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
land that left hook. It's just not getting home, and that right hand of | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
his comedy accuracy is not there compared his opponent. Conceicao | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
working better with the jab and the right hand. Oumiha had a terrific | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
run through to this semi-final stage in a series of seed slaying | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
performances by the man in blue, eliminating the only man to defeat | :20:03. | :20:18. | |
Lomichenko. He produced a fantastic display against the tournament | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
number three seed to book his place here in this gold-medal bout. He is | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
coping with the occasion well, Oumiha, but struggling to find the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
range consistently for his own shots, and Conceicao appearing | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
preternaturally calm, helping himself to a good one too. Two | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
quality performers here, but in this cat and mouse type of boxing... Look | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
at Conceicao, on the ball, 100% concentration, and beating Oumiha to | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
the punch. The concentration levels are very high for the man in red. | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Oumiha is definitely in it. There's not a lot in this contest. But | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
better quality is coming from the Brazilian. Oumiha with a sneaking | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
glance to his forehead. Evidence of that eye injury that Conceicao | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
picked up in his contest against Alvarez. Both boxers having to work | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
so hard for their openings, but look at that left hand from Conceicao | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
once again, and a left jab causes Oumiha to touch down. The referee | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
ruled it a slip but for my money the most fundamental of all boxing | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
punches got through and aided him on his way to the canvas. They saw | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
that, and also the judges, so again a dominant display by the Brazilian. | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Lovely punch picking, straight punches, basic work by the | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Brazilian, but it's working very effectively for him. | :21:50. | :22:07. | |
Concentration absolute throughout. And these men know that their boxer | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
is surely just three minutes away in terms of action in a ring from being | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
crowned Olympic gold-medallist at this, his home Olympics. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Concentration is the name of the game in a contest like this, and | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
it's been demonstrated in abundance here by Conceicao. He is in and out | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
with the work, using the basic punches, the straight punches, much | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
better. The jab, the straight right hand. Oumiha is having some success. | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
It's not all 1-way traffic. Look at that for a long left hook. But I | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
just think he's been beaten to the punch, and again it's the judges | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
that matter, so let's take a look. And Robson Conceicao has swept the | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
board for the second successive round. He leads by two points from | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
all three judges. So into the third and final round we go. The boxer | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
wearing red, Robson Conceicao of Brazil, a man who has been a poster | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
boy not just for the boxing tournament but for the entire | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Olympic Games, has the two points advantage from judges A, B and C. | :23:22. | :23:33. | |
His concentration has been absolute, he has demonstrated a laserlike | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
focus to repel the advances of Oumiha, who has had moments of | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
success of his own. The reigning European games silver-medallist, but | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
now the man in blue has a mountain to climb to overcome that 2-point | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
deficit. He needs a 10- eight round just get back to parity. Oumiha | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
needs the round of his life because he has to his opponent on the floor. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
He just has to go for it. It's an all or nothing approach from Oumiha. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
He will have to take risks to land that power shot. He will have to be | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
in that zone to land that bedtime shot that could cause an upset here, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
but by doing that he is in a zone and an area where he could get | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
caught himself. But he needs the punch of his life. Oumiha has to go | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
for broke that he is facing an educated, intelligent boxer in the | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
form of Robson Conceicao. Former World Championship silver-medallist | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
in 2013. And this man, who was a street vendor on the streets of | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Salvador as a child, calls himself a survivor. Used to hawk vegetables, | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
knocking on car windows when they came to traffic lights, and he said | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
his personality, what he euphemistically called | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
quarrelsome... He had an uncle who was quarrelsome to, a fighter by | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
personality, and Robson Conceicao wanted to be just like him, so he | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
used to sneak down to the gym, watch his uncle ply his trade, watch the | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
older fighters. Couldn't afford hand wraps, used a fake injury, get | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
treatment from the hospital, sectors -- take the same bandages the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
hospital would give him and turned them into hand wraps. That's how | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
much this young man who grew up poor in Brazil wanted to be a boxer, and | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
now, here at his home Olympics, he is on the cusp of being crowned | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
Olympic champion, which would be an historic title for a Brazilian | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
boxer, because to this point no Brazilian has occupied top spot on | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
the podium in the boxing ring. The hard work for Conceicao has been | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
done in those two rounds. He knows he's just protecting his lead now. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
That's why he has taken his foot off the gas. Just 12 seconds away from | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
being Olympic champion. Watch this place erupt as the bell goes. The | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
crowd counting down the final seconds. And Robson Conceicao raises | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
his arms as he wanders his way back we to his red corner. Because the | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
crowd knows, and he knows, he is just about to be crowned Olympic | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
gold-medallist in the 60 kg lightweight division. What an | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
intelligent display to keep the talented Sofiane Oumiha at bay and | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
out of punching range. The French corner know that it's not going to | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
be their night, but Sofiane Oumiha, the 23-year-old representing France, | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
playing his part in a terrific contest, but Robson Conceicao would | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
not be denied. Tremendous stuff. The first two rounds where his best | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
rounds. He concentrated very, very well, started very quickly. That was | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
important. The straight punches, the speed was there. It's a real Rocky | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
story that you've explained, Ronald, and again, tremendous stuff for this | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
young man. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
unanimous decision... A cacophony of noise and a carnival | :27:14. | :27:46. | |
of colour. It's just erupted into celebration in acknowledgement of | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
the fact that Robson Conceicao, the boy who grew up poor on the streets | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
of Salvador, has just been crowned Olympic champion in the 60 kg | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
lightweight division. To become Brazil's first-ever Olympic champion | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
inside the boxing ring. He dealt with the pressure of expectation, he | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
dealt with the reputation and the talents of all of the boxers who | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
were in front of him, never more so than in the final when he eliminated | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
the talented young Frenchman, Sofiane Oumiha, and he is drinking | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
in the applause from the crowd here, who are in absolute rapture at what | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
this man has just accomplished. 27-year-old Robson Conceicao is the | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
Olympic champion of the 60 kg lightweight division. | :28:35. | :28:52. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. In his third Olympic Games, Robson | :28:53. | :29:02. | |
Conceicao has just claimed his first Olympic medal, and it is pure gold. | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
The first-ever gold medal for Brazil in the boxing ring has been won by a | :29:11. | :29:19. | |
man inspired to top spot on the podium by these passionate | :29:20. | :29:20. | |
supporters. What a wonderful evening for Robson | :29:21. | :29:34. | |
Conceicao. He led from start to finish. Terrific evening in the | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
boxing. But the day started with Brazil's women hoping to book their | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
place in the final of the women's football tournament. They took on | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
Sweden earlier today. Goalless after 90 minutes, goalless after extra | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
time. That meant the dreaded penalties. | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
Brazil and Sweden will both face a penalty shootout to decide who goes | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
through to the gold-medal game. The first penalty, and Marta just about | :29:59. | :30:08. | |
scores. You can see what it means. That's a terrific penalty to silence | :30:09. | :30:20. | |
the Maracena. You can sense the noise being sucked out of the | :30:21. | :30:33. | |
Maracena. So it's as you were. Alvez of Barcelona. Terrific penalty. | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
Seger, another rough Sweden's really big players, epitomised by the way | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
she took that penalty. And here is Raphael, and another very good | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
penalty. Fischer is being sent forward. Well, this is effectively | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
sudden death, and it's the youngster. And Sweden one penalty | :30:59. | :31:06. | |
away. The cheers have already started. Dahlkvist... And she's done | :31:07. | :31:21. | |
it! Sweden are into the final. Brazil's quest for Olympic gold is | :31:22. | :31:22. | |
over. Braziliant football and semifinals? | :31:23. | :31:38. | |
So Sweden cause a massive upset but who would they play in the final? | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
Germany? Or Canada? This time the penalty is given. | :31:41. | :32:02. | |
It's the right decision. A yellow card is flourished as well. | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
I don't think she can have too many complaints. | :32:09. | :32:18. | |
She knew straightaway. Melanie Behringer looking to score for her | :32:19. | :32:29. | |
third successive game. Decisive penalty and Germany lead. | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
What a penalty that was. She showed all her experience, didn't let the | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
occasion get to her. What a strike! The goalkeeper had absolutely no | :32:42. | :32:43. | |
chance. The shot's gone in and that could be | :32:44. | :33:13. | |
the clinching goal! Sara Dabritz may have sent Germany into the gold | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
medal game. Such a shame for Canada because this was their best spell of | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
the game but that's what Germany do. They're clinical and when they get | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
the chance, when they get the opportunity, they score. Germany can | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
celebrate. They are into the final and they will face Sweden in the | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
gold medal game on Friday. Yes, Germany bronze medallists in | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
2000, 2004 and 2008. Into the final for the first time. The decider will | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
be the coach's last game at the helm after 11 years in charge. Utter | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
devastation for can ga da. And for Sweden, their boss is looking for a | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
third consecutive Olympic triumph having guided the United States to | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
gold in 2008 and 2012. Germany reach the final of yet another football | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
tournament. Oh, utter tears. | :34:04. | :34:14. | |
Well, one of the sports we've absolutely loved covering here at | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
Rio to 16, especially on the late-night show, is the | :34:19. | :34:20. | |
weightlifting and tonight the unofficial coronation of the world's | :34:21. | :34:28. | |
strongest man, the 105kg category. Let's enjoy | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
. He held the world record in the snatch for barely a minute. He's | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
beginning his clean and jerk at 262ing. Well, he makes it look easy. | :34:45. | :34:53. | |
He does make it look easy. 242kg, the record, the Olympic record. | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
The Olympic record stands at 2.63kg. Are we going to get close to that? I | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
don't know. I think right about now the focus needs to be on winning | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
gold medals. Look at the position under the bar, so straight. | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
That line down vertically from the bar spot on. | :35:20. | :35:30. | |
This will be a new PB for him of one kilogram. | :35:31. | :35:38. | |
No. Well, he's been a thriller on the | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
scene for a long time, Velagic. You've got to wonder if this might | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
just be his last competition. At the age of 34, he's been around for a | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
long, long time. He gave it everything he had, just | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
not enough on the day. So Velagic, his best lift in this | :36:03. | :36:10. | |
competition was 232kg. His combined total - 420kg. | :36:11. | :36:18. | |
Now our first look in the clean and jark at Mart Seim, down a fraction | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
in the snatch at 187kg. He's starting off with 243kg. | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
He's lifted 248kg in competition before. | :36:32. | :36:51. | |
Very fast. And I think that's OK. A bit soft in | :36:52. | :37:02. | |
the arms but it looked all right to me. | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
Just to put this in perspective, he placed third at the European | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
Championships earlier this year but he only managed 239kg there so | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
clearly in better shape here in Rio. 243kg on the board. He's got to be | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
happy with that. Well, Seim - he's an interesting lifter, this fellow. | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
He seems to have a better clean and jerk record compared with his | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
snatch. Why do you think that would be? The clean and jerk is a little | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
more forgiving but he's more compact than most lifters. Some of these | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
guys in comparison have got a lot further to shift the bar. | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
Each lifter has their own preference. For me, I used to prefer | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
the snatch. It was over quicker. It didn't hurt as much. Here's Jiri | :37:51. | :37:58. | |
Orsag of the Czech Republic again. This is his last lift in the clean | :37:59. | :38:00. | |
and jerk. He's going for 243kg here. He'll want to get the bar off his | :38:01. | :38:30. | |
airways. No. Gone. Just didn't have the legs after that | :38:31. | :38:38. | |
heavy clean. Well, Jiri Orsag has been a joy to | :38:39. | :38:45. | |
watch in this competition. He's going to lock away 240kg, his | :38:46. | :38:57. | |
combined total will be 425kg. We're waiting for Aleksanyan of | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
Armenia and now we're going to get our first look at this man. Just | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
look at Orsag just one more time. Over the back it goes. Not quite to | :39:06. | :39:22. | |
arm's length, was it? He's gone for the shirt over the shoulders this | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
time. We saw some serious taping over his shoulders during the | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
snatch. 245kg. | :39:29. | :39:44. | |
The it's just one off the Armenian's personal best. | :39:45. | :40:03. | |
It's good. Mmm. Well, you see the bar whipping on his shoulders, that | :40:04. | :40:13. | |
was natural whip, by the looks of it, not deliberate oscillation. No | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
messing around, though. As soon as he was on the bar, he was off. | :40:17. | :40:32. | |
Really solid opening attempt. 245kg. Catches the bar on his shoulders. | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
These weights are far too heavy to place it on your shoulders. It | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
literally lands, the elbows need to be fairly high so it stays on top of | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
your shoulders. And now our first look at our last | :40:47. | :40:56. | |
lifter. It is the Olympic Champion entering | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
the competition in the clean and jerk at 245kg. | :41:03. | :41:13. | |
This will put him in first place if he succeeds. Oh, he drifted forward. | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
What are the referees going to make of that? Well, you've picked it | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
again. Two #red lights. Soft in the elbows. It's not good enough. He | :41:22. | :41:23. | |
knew it swlt. #red tab red. That's That's opened up the competition. He | :41:24. | :41:36. | |
was the leader and world record-holder after the snatch but | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
he's under pressure. Watch the elbows. Both of them. Red | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
That's opened up the competition. He was the leader and world | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
record-holder after the snatch but he's under pressure. | :41:48. | :41:49. | |
Watch the elbows. Both of them. The noise in the stadium means only one | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
thing... Yes. We do wonder who's on the stage? Oh, it's the Brazilian, | :41:54. | :42:06. | |
Fernando Reis. Who else could it be? This would put him into fifth place | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
if he completes this. He's right up with the leaders. He was 25kg behind | :42:13. | :42:33. | |
the leader after the snatch. Can he recover? No. Split really | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
wide, gave everything, dropped as low as he could underneath the bar. | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
That was an attempt at a 15kg personal best. | :42:44. | :42:57. | |
Unbelievable. Fernando Reis fails at 245kg with | :42:58. | :43:13. | |
one more lift to come. We're back now with the Iranian, | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
Behdad, Kordasiabi. He stayed at 245kg. Watching in the warm-up area | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
will be the Georgian, Talakhadze. The clean is OK. It's harder than | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
the first attempt. Drip... No, I don't think he's going | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
to get that. My word. Goodness me. Let's have a look. Oh, he's got it. | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
I think he held that on bent arms. We've got movement of the jury -- at | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
the jury table. One of the jury members... Is very, | :43:47. | :43:55. | |
very interested about that. They're asking to stop the clock, | :43:56. | :43:58. | |
stop the competition and this means only one thing. Well, I thought | :43:59. | :44:08. | |
those elbows were super soft again. I think this could be overturned by | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
the jury. I stand by what I said. Well, the referees have just had the | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
discussion with the jury. Now, if this is overturned, this really does | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
put him under some ridiculous pressure now. Does he come out for | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
the same weight again? And probably, what, guarantee maybe, maybe only | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
just a medal. We don't know what colour? Or does he try and put the | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
weight up and go for it and gamble everything? Well, we've just heard | :44:37. | :44:43. | |
word that that 245kg lift has been overturned by the jury. | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
Wow! What drama we've got here in the men's plus-105kg category. The | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
reigning Olympic Champion now under severe pressure to retain his title. | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
He would have known what it felt like. He would have known that it | :45:02. | :45:12. | |
was soft. Now we've got arguments between lifter and coach. We've got | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
the crowd booing. The trouble is... I guess they have seen what we've | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
seen. Nobody gets the luck of the replay. There's no video analysis in | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
weightlifting yet. That is soft as. He's going to have to come out, | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
surely, for the same weight again. This would be enough to put him into | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
the lead but how long can he stay there for? Only time will tell. | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
Well, this is do or die. Let's emphasise this next lift. He if he | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
fails, he doesn't get a medal. Correct. He could be the world | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
record helicopterer with no medal - how -- world record helicopterer | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
with no medal. How disa -- world record-holder with no medal. How | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
disappointing would that be? There is unbelievable pressure here. | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
Talakhadze, the Georgian, is just sitting back and watching with | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
interest. He could virtually walk into the | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
gold medal if he... If Salimikordasiabi here fails at this | :46:17. | :46:18. | |
wait. My word. What a twist in this | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
competition that we have been witnessing here. Remember half an | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
hour ago, this man set a world record in the snatch and now he | :46:27. | :46:36. | |
faces do-or-die with one lift. He's still blowing hard after that | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
previous attempt. Two minutes is not long to recover. | :46:42. | :46:54. | |
Last chance. Come on. Everybody in here wants to see this. | :46:55. | :47:17. | |
word. A world record not that long ago and now he is going home without | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
a medal. A staggering fall from grace for the Olympic champion. He | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
is clearly not happy with the decision of the jury. I believe the | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
decision of the jury was correct. They will agree once they see the | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
replay at a later date. That is not the way to do it. It is not what we | :47:42. | :47:50. | |
expected. The competition is still on and it is all to play for now. We | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
have got more confusion here. On the stage is Fernando Reis of Brazil but | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
he has been called off the stage because Talakhadze is back on. Let | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
us free cap. At the moment, Talakhadze is the leader. He has a | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
six kilogram lead over Minasyan. Talakhadze still has two lifts to | :48:25. | :48:37. | |
come. Up here goes to 200 kilograms. The gold-medal -- 247 kilograms. The | :48:38. | :48:50. | |
gold medal should be for this man, a specially if he succeeds with this | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
lift in the clean and jerk. Superb lifting. I tell you what, it is | :48:57. | :49:05. | |
disappointing to see or to hear the booing from the crowd as he emerges. | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
It is not his problem. He is coming out here and doing his job. We need | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
a little more respect from the crowd. That has drawn a line in the | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
sand for the rest of the weightlifters. Started out so | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
strong. Lost a little support. So rife with his third and final | :49:27. | :49:54. | |
attempt. -- Reis. He is asking the crowd for quiet and they respect | :49:55. | :49:55. | |
that. Ooh, that is a failure. That is a | :49:56. | :50:15. | |
failure. Even if he had stood up, I believe the referees would have | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
asked him to put it down. It is called an adjustment. It must go to | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
the top of your shoulders and stayed there. 240 kilograms is what he | :50:24. | :50:31. | |
lifted. He is now in fifth place. From there, watch the adjustment | :50:32. | :50:48. | |
there. That is not allowed. And would have been flagged. | :50:49. | :51:01. | |
And Mart Seim will be looking to move up the rankings with this lift. | :51:02. | :51:11. | |
If he succeeds, he will move into fifth position. | :51:12. | :51:39. | |
That was a strong clean. No, I don't know what... Will he hold it? What | :51:40. | :51:56. | |
do the referees think? He was so close, wasn't he? Once again, soft | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
elbows. You need to be more convincing than this. That would | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
have been a new personal best for him. | :52:10. | :52:21. | |
Mart Seim stands up quite well, just in front. Ooh, I don't know. I still | :52:22. | :52:36. | |
think... Was it elbows, shoulders, was the unlucky? Difficult | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
refereeing here tonight but great decisions have been made. This is | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
becoming more and more controversial. We just had the | :52:47. | :52:55. | |
Iranian officials... Well, we have just seen one lift a walkout and | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
question the officials. Extraordinary scenes here. As a | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
weightlifter in need to accept the decision of the referees. It is | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
difficult and he is distraught but there are other weightlifters coming | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
out to the platform and he needs to take his argument outside and allow | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
the competition to continue. That allows this man, Aleksanyan of | :53:21. | :53:30. | |
Armenia. This lift could be for a bronze medal. He is not happy with | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
the noise that has been generated by the crowd here. I am not surprised. | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
It is quite a negative atmosphere. Once he is on the bar he will be | :53:41. | :53:55. | |
quick. He manages to get underneath. No. | :53:56. | :54:21. | |
Well. We still have Talakhadze in the lead with one attempt still | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
remaining. He does have a healthy lead. Here's the 11 kg clear of | :54:28. | :54:41. | |
Minasyan of Armenia and the Georgian is in third place. An aggressive | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
effort and he pushes himself away from the bar. You need to drive with | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
the legs and drop to catch the weight overhead. You cannot do that | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
kind of weight with your arms. I think there are a few weightlifters | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
in the warmup room watching anxiously. We still have three | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
weightlifters left in the competition. Mart Seim, here, is the | :55:12. | :55:22. | |
only one who will need to lift... I don't think anyone in -- can catch | :55:23. | :55:37. | |
Talakhadze. The Armenian camp is calling for quiet. So Aleksanyan | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
comes out at 254 kilograms again. That is beyond him. He has been a | :55:45. | :56:36. | |
popular competitor here. Ooh, a very angry man on stage at the moment and | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
he is angry because of the lack of respect from some of the supporters. | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
Let us give these guys a chance. They have worked so hard for this | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
moment but at the same time they need to learn to focus and shut out | :56:56. | :57:06. | |
everything else that is going on. He drops his chest. We have an | :57:07. | :57:26. | |
announcement... (Laughs). That confirms the medallists. An | :57:27. | :57:35. | |
announcement to ask the crowd for quiet and to respect the | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
weightlifters. About time. Mart Seim is lifting for fourth place. 255 | :57:42. | :57:51. | |
kilograms. Despite some good lifting in the clean and jerk he is too file | :57:52. | :58:04. | |
back after the snatch -- too far back after the snatch for medal | :58:05. | :58:14. | |
contention. That is good. Does he have the legs? No, not today. That | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
would have been good enough for fourth. He gave it everything he | :58:19. | :58:27. | |
had. When you think about the snatch competition, think of how exciting | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
and competitive bout was. The clean and jerk has been different. It is | :58:32. | :58:38. | |
still competitive but we have gone from consistency in the snatch to | :58:39. | :58:50. | |
inconsistency in the clean and jerk. And Talakhadze at the moment has | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
gotten five out of five lifts. He has not allowed anything to affect | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
him he has just focused on himself. Right now he is antagonising the | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
crowd. He is already the Olympic champion. It does not matter if this | :59:06. | :59:14. | |
lift those off or not he has won. He is lifting an extraordinary weight. | :59:15. | :59:24. | |
258 kilograms. This will be a world record in the combined. A world | :59:25. | :59:35. | |
record attempt here. Oh, you are joking! Look at that! Fantastic | :59:36. | :59:45. | |
lifting and you can thank the crowd for winding him up. | :59:46. | :59:54. | |
That is some lifting from Talakhadze of George. -- Georgia. He has added | :59:55. | :00:13. | |
one kilogram to the world record. An extraordinary night of lifting here | :00:14. | :00:27. | |
at Rio 2016. That bar was sagging because of the weight on either end. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Brilliant and well done to Talakhadze for setting a new world | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
record. We enjoyed that. The champion Christian Taylor retained | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
his title. They top the table with 28 gold-medal however Great Britain | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
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