Day 11 BBC Two: 12.50-13.45 Olympics

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Step right up, step right up.

You won't believe your eyes, behind this curtain, it is something you

will have never seen before. The most amazing show on earth. It is

the most amazing show on Earth. Mark Cavendish has the silver medal.

Charlotte Doody are Jane has done it. Yes, the most amazing show on

Earth, step right up for day 11 in Rio. Has been great for Britain so

far, but let's hear it for some of the other nations. Six Nations have

claimed their very first Olympic gold in these games, so Fiji,

Singapore, Puerto Rico, Vietnam and Bahrain, special games for them. And

let's hear it for Brazil, because yesterday was their best day so far,

with a goal, a silver and a bronze. The medals have been trickling in

for Brazil, they had targeted a total of 34. They are currently at

nine but there was lots to celebrate last night at the Olympic Stadium.

The men's pole vault vinyl, an Olympic record, to beat the

defending champion from France. So a lot of headlines, jump of gold that

makes history. And they talk about the medals that came in throughout

the day. Arthur Zanetti with a splendid silver on the rings. He

said it definitely surpassed the gold he won in London four years

ago, simply because of the feeling he got from the home crowd. It was a

wonderful sporting arena last night. As if to dampen things here in

Brazil, there is obviously, we are in the grip of the worst recession

in this country since the 1930s. The top headline proposes that women's

retirement age will have to go up from 60, to 62. Somebody will have

to pay for these games down the track. That is the reality of life

in Olympic sport. Brazil have great chances in team sports going

forward. And the big man is back today... Usain Bolt, is back in the

200 metres heats today. The defending triple jump champion,

Christian Taylor, says watch out Johnathan Edwards. The American is

after our Jonathan's record. But Nicola Adams won't settle for

anything less. She was the first female boxer ever to win an Olympic

gold medal, now she has one flyweight quarterfinal live. Don't

stop them now, Marcus LSI Chris Langridge have made it to the men's

doubles semifinal, bidding for Britain's badminton medal for 12

years. We will wave them off in the men's marathon swimming shortly.

Throughout the afternoon we will be visiting the Olympic Stadium for the

early session of athletics. And then later on after the triple jump

final, at 3:50 p.m., Usain Bolt setting out after another gold

medal. Nicola Adams is had to wait 11 days for her chance in the ring

and it is a Ukrainian fighter she will come up against first at three

p.m.. It is the last day in the velodrome. Becky James, Jason Kenny,

Callum Skinner and Laura Trott all have serious medal chances. And the

gymnastics starting at six p.m.. If you are looking at the Olympics when

you should be doing other things, you will want to know when to make

your excuses. Laura and Jason could help to

redefine the meaning of power couple because Laura is going for a fourth

gold medal and Jason Kenney looking to = Chris Hoy's six gold. They

could have ten goals between them tonight. You can see the centre

spread now. Lapping it up in the Jason Kenney leisure Centre in

Bolton, they will be watching that today. But lapping it up here by

this beautiful Copacabana beach, we are about to go marathon swimming

once again. We saw a controversial finish to the women's race

yesterday, and we will see how this one goes. We had Jack Purnell,

23-year-old first-time Olympian going for Great Britain and this is

the man who has waited longer than anyone else in the British team for

his chance because he was the first to qualify last year with a good

place in the World Championships. He is keen, all right. Open water and

pool swimming is our different sports. The race is ten kilometres,

you finish in a row two hours. In terms of brutality and length, it is

there. You then thrown into the mix, everyone is trying to climb on top

you, hitting you, push you back, under the water, anything goes.

Being kicked and punched, if the referee cannot see it, they get away

with it. They could be hot, wavy and windy. We like to think the race

organisers have made sure there is no sharks and deadly things. But

jellyfish, they are fair game. It is one of the reasons I love it. You

have said open water can be tough, but it is not all hard work, this is

a nice place to come? Look at the backdrop to this beautiful race in

Majorca. We do get to travel the world and see some beautiful places

and it is an advantage. Can this help with Rio in mind, are the

conditions similar to what you can expect? One element we are here, is

the conditions. It is about performing on the day in Rio.

Anything we can emulate as to what will be there, is perfect. This kind

of scenery and the weather is key for that. Open water only came into

the Olympics in 2008 and GB have achieved great things, how did that

inspire you down this route? We had great success with David Davis,

Keri-Anne Payne, medals galore in the event. For me, it was something

I looked up to and wanted to emulate and achieve. I have been working

with open water now for 15 years and watched David Davis win the Olympic

medal. Whenever Jack has got on the podium, it has been because he has

slumped tactically great races. He wants to win and has set his mind

set on winning. He has a very, very good chance. All I am there to do is

perform and win an Olympic gold medal. It is my only goal, dream and

aspiration. Any obstacle in the way, in terms of the venue not being

right, the water not being right, has no relevance in what I want to

achieve. Everyone is in the same boat and it is a case of who can

swim for its fastest. My hope that is me. You could win a gold medal?

Without a doubt, the pressure is what I feed off, no second chances.

I cannot wait to get out there. Jack hits the water very shortly, but

Matt Pinsent was there yesterday by the beach to see the women's race.

There was a controversial conclusion to that. What has been the fallout

from that women's race? Was a controversial last seconds between

silver and gold. It was the Italian, who was originally positioned in

third place. Aurelie Muller from France touched second, but it was a

clear that the French woman had pushed the Italian back. I am

reading the quote now from the Italian. We were side by side and

when we came close to the finish line, she went over me and pushed me

down with her arm on my shoulder so I wasn't able to touch the Finnish

board. The French athlete was taken away and no press conference for

her. It is rough and tumble, but not so much with the calm conditions. I

just wonder to what extent these conditions will benefit summers like

Jack? It is much calmer. We are hearing from Jack in his piece, how

they are prepared for a range of conditions. I think it will favour,

just as it did yesterday, it will favour the athletes who have got an

indoor pool pedigree as well as crossing over into the open water

event. You are right to pick out the defending champion, Oussama Mellouli

from Tunisia. Jack's pedigree, he has come on a tonne in the last

while and has a good number of World Cup finishes to his credit, how do

you think he will 30 day? Listen, I have stood here and talk to you over

the last ten days and tried to predict medals and I have had egg on

my face, more often than I can count. He has a fantastic attitude,

talking very positively that this is the day, nothing will get in his

way, no conditions, no scenario he is not prepared for mentally. We

have just seen him introduced to the crowd. He is looking focused, he

looks in great shape, as they all do. I am going to sit on the fence

and say, he is in the mix, let's keep our fingers crossed. This

event, probably more than many others, it is a lottery Alberta,

there is some bumping and barging. A very long way to go, and it is a

journey that will test everyone in this field today. Lovely to see you,

we will chat to you at the end. They sell this job yesterday to the

commentators yesterday, as two hours by the sea and Coca put down a

beach. But they spent it in a Portakabin with their back to the

sea. But they have come back.

COMMENTATOR: We did, but there is the start line of this 10,000

metres. Take just under two hours and the current, not an awful lot.

Hardly any surf height. Just the general swell. The starter trying to

get them to bunch up. Some of them choosing to sit at the back, only 25

swimmers, some of the world's best. You expect them to be wanting to be

getting. For the first time, they all stay together pretty much on the

first lap. Yesterday, the starter raised his red flag and then he kept

his red flag waved. And they kept going. Here they go. He has taken

the red flag out. The start of the men's 10,000 metres open water

Olympic title up for grabs in about an hour and 50. The defending

Olympic champion, Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia is in there. There is

about ten of white hats and ten black hats and three Red hats. I am

looking out for the red one, Andy is looking for black and white. The

Australian at the bottom was a bit of a glory swim at the beginning. He

will not keep this pace up. It is interesting to see him haring off,

Jarrett to it. I think this is a shot for his friends and family. A

field I would imagine, would come back to him. He is swimming through

the waves. Going straight out from the beach to start with. So the

first leg, if you will, is 385 metres. He is working very hard.

They turned sharp left. They turned to our rights, their sharp left. It

is going to be a good turnaround. They go about 775 metres along the

beach, out in the sea. Then they turn left again and go 325 back to

the beach. There is a long straight with a kink in it after about 700

metres where they go to the finishing lap.

He is a swimming pool swimmer as well. He was 18 in London in the

1500 metres. This is 10,000. This is interesting, maybe he is trying to

get away from the field, but they do not close up quickly in open water

swimming. After five or ten minutes they will settle into a pace. I

imagine he will try and hold the pace, maybe he is confident he can

hold the stronger pace. Maybe after doing a Sprint he feels he can hold

the pace. But I would imagine a group would work together. They said

it was 0.03 of a swell, but that looks like more than three metres,

swimming into the oncoming waves. I am slightly surprised how hard he is

working only two and a half minutes in. He is working extremely hard.

Absolutely and the waves are coming off the edge of the fort. You cannot

see it here. You can see them going over now, blowing the swimmers. As

they turn around the buoy, those waves will take them along the

perpendicular parallel to the beach. The leader after three minutes.

Andy? It is the Australian. I am slightly surprised, that is an

understatement. I am not sure that is the best thing. There is that

promontory and the tides come whipping around there and the

alignment is so important. They have a flotilla of boats around them to

our left. And also the life-saving canoeists. It sweeps them all the

way around into an anti clockwise circle into the beach and then along

the beach. We have been talking to the swimmers and the British

swimmers have been talking to the British sailing team. The sailing

team have been matching and watching the tides and the winds and the

conditions and they will be able to find good information to help them,

they share information. He will be going on his left of the buoy.

Because he is not in a big bunch, it is easier to get around. When it is

a group it gets a bit hectic. Sometimes some of them swim into it!

Look at that, a bit of bashing there. A bit of barging going on in

the centre. Jack Burnell is one of the two read hats who got round. The

Australian is setting a pace that is quite outstanding actually. Well, he

has gone and the rest of the field will have to work quite hard to

catch him up. It will be a raise of attrition and whether he can hold

on. But he has made a definite and decisive move. I guess the question

is whether it is brilliant or suicide? This is not a short

distance. Most people's local swimming pools are 25 metres long,

so it is about 400 lengths of your local swimming pool. I wish him

well, he has gone off like a shot, but that is awfully early. I thought

it was only yesterday in the women's race that one of them started

sprinting after 160 lengths! He started straight from the beach.

Oussama Mellouli is leading that trailing group. Well, he came

seventh in the qualifiers in Portugal this year. The chasing

group now, I imagine they cannot see him. When you look up and you look

for the buoys, they look like pinpricks. One small hat, the

distance he is away now, will not be easy to see. I guess they will work

together on the pace and hope that that pays will eat away at the lead.

When you are in a swimming pool you watch the swimmers in a swimming

pool and you can crop the time. We watch them every 100 metres. If the

pack behind him can eat away maybe half a second to 100 metres, they

will catch him. That is the principle anyway. Sounds good to me.

We heard the referee blowing his whistle. They have a yellow card and

a red card system for minor and major misdemeanours. You do not see

too often people being kicked out of the race, but you can go straight

red basically for pulling somebody's leg and swimming over the top of

them and drowning them. You can hear it again. The guy in the boat is

saying separate. If he is not happy coming he can get his yellow card

out. He is trying to get them spread out, but it is difficult to do that.

If you are swimming in the middle, how do you spread out? If they have

got a line and they are holding, as long as they do not get a yellow

card... Very interesting, Andy. The interesting thing to me, going back

to the yellow card is that right at the figures yesterday in the women's

race they were going into the final finishing final and it got narrower

and narrower and the French lady was caught going along as it got more

narrow and had to swim into the Italian lady and to finish they had

to stick their hand up onto the time pad just above the arch you go

through to finish on to complete the race. She actually grabbed her and

she had her arm around one neck and it went around the neck of the

Italian and she sang her and used her to go. It was almost like water

polo, it was very impressive. It was absolutely not allowed. She finished

second and got disqualified. Imagine doing ten kilometres and getting

disqualified at the end. We spotted this yesterday. They are called

citing buoys, but they are not in line, so they are not helpful. You

can see the chasing pack. The two boat either side they were

effectively working as guiding the swimmers and they were funnelling

them towards the point they should have been swimming. But Poort is on

his own and he is having to cite himself more. The main pack are

being funnelled. You would swim where the boat was taking you. He is

over to our left, over to the right of where the main field are. Because

we cannot see the yellow turning buoy, we have no idea which of them

is online. They are swimming a couple of thousand metres off the

beach at the moment. The referee is getting agitated again with the

pack. The pack is just starting to stretch out a little bit. The

Australian, Poort, has gone off at quite a shot. He is still building a

lead. Come on. As a swimming pool swimmer and somebody who is

relishing calmer conditions, and as an Australian he will have done some

surf life-saving in his time, I don't know. I do wonder whether he

can hold it. 1500 metres in the pool, Jordan Wilimovsky came fourth

in 14.40 five. Just about below a minute. So it is about a minute for

every 100 metres. So he is setting a pace that is just over that. Is that

Oussama Mellouli chasing him? That is the current Olympic champion. He

is number nine. The scoring system has been telling as it is Oussama

Mellouli. It is. With the Black Hat. He is chasing. He has decided quite

clearly he is not happy with this 55-65 metre lead. It must be at

least the length of a 50 metre swimming pool after just about 20

minutes. When you think about it, what a great thing to do mentally if

you can hold the pace. He has taken a big lead and the field has got to

work and catch him up. That is certainly true, but some of the

swimmers he is swimming against, unfortunately we missed them going

around the turning buoy. That is halfway around the course. There is

a big water factory in the harbour, we cannot see that. Now they swim

325 metres straight into the beach. Can you see Jack? There are two red

caps and the first one I think is Jack. Behind him we also have the

Chinese athlete who is 16. The first Red Hat is Jack Burnell, so that is

good news. He is in the trailing pack, but towards the front of it.

Some of the coaches were saying that if you catch the wave is right here,

you can surf a little on them. They are not big. They are coming in anti

clockwise of the promontory and there is a little moment where you

can get a bit of swell that helps you come back towards the beach. The

Australians will be very used to that. They are going straight into

the short at the moment. This is a different situation from the women's

race yesterday, for those of you die-hards who are watching both of

them. The women's race was wrapped up pretty much from 6000 metres.

What has happened now from the very beginning they are stringing out.

You have got Poort, the Australian, taking the lead from the beginning,

and you have got the field headed by the defending Olympic champion

Oussama Mellouli, who has decided to push the pace. He is taking control

over what he can get hold of. The others will have to chase him. Poort

is breathing to his left and his right. An interesting way he is

doing it. Just having a little look, a very efficient way of looking. He

does not stop and lift his head up, just part of his stroke he lifts his

head as he presses down. He presses down with one arm and uses that to

lift his head a little bit. Look at the alignment. It is very different.

On the right-hand side is Poort leading by about 60 metres from

Oussama Mellouli. It is something like that. He is way off to the

site. You can see the swell coming at him. There is Oussama Mellouli

heading the field. We have also got a white cap. Which one is that?

Fourth in the chasing group, it looked like it was Jack. So Oussama

Mellouli is chasing. Maldonado and the Russian as well. That is a

surprise. But still way out in front, I cannot believe he can keep

this up for a very long. It is still really the settling in phase,

getting used to the salt water and everything that comes with it.

Absolutely. Getting used to the fish, nibbling

at your feet. It wasn't the fish I was thinking about, but there you

go. Coming to the next turn and Poort has gone round there. It is a

beautiful setting for an open water. In 2008 and 2012 were in lakes. The

2006 were in the Bay of periods in Greece. In that Olympics, they took

them out on a boat, in this raging sea and basically be Olympic event

was, first to the shore. It is funny now, we can love, but not sure how

strong swimmers there were at the time. 12 foot high waves and they

had to swim to the shore. Slightly different Olympic event, but it

wasn't the very first,, it is one of the very few Olympic sports that has

been in every Olympics. Oussama Mellouli is heading up the chase,

but Poort is increasing that lead, must be up to 100 metres. I think it

must be. He might lose his hat during this race, it is already

coming. He has just under an hour and a half. I cannot imagine Poort

is going to keep his hat on. It might cool him down. Sometimes they

trap the heat in. The swimmer veering off to the left of the pack

has lined up again and going through the green ring. Is it Playschool?

Through the round window. Poort has lost his hat. Through the round,

green window. Poort is heading towards the beach, heading towards

us. Going to be a good ten minutes before he completes the first lap.

He is a very brave man, has gone out very fast. His lead is increasing.

He still looks strong. There is the marker, the red one. There is at

least the leader-macro decent distance between the turning one. 25

metres in towards the beach. The way you qualify for this Olympic Games,

top ten from the World Championships last year get a place in the Olympic

Games. Then they have a qualifier for the next 15. If he qualified at

the World Championships, you don't go to the qualification because you

are already in. Then the next 15, went to the qualification meet in

Portugal. Poort was seventh in the qualification meet. It is quite

outstanding, but having said that, Oussama Mellouli had to go through

the qualification meet, wasn't strong enough at the World

Championships. He had a poor 2015, so he had to go and do the

qualification and he was fifth and Poort was seventh. Jack Purnell is

doing well, he is about six down. That is a brilliant shot. This is

Copacabana beach in front of you. It is beautiful. We did a bit of a

recce the other day to make sure we knew what was going on. Make sure

everything was in order. Yes, it was, the sand was in order, the

volleyball. We didn't take part in. There are very talented volleyball

players in this country, playing with their heads, feet, shoulders.

It was like football volleyball, two on each side. What they were doing

was genius. That, instead of... I have got to keep the leader-macro be

careful what I say about some of these sports, but they were amazing

athletes. If darts made it into the Olympics, I would pick that instead

of darts. Poort, heading to the beach. In the pack, they are all

spread out. Imagine what is going through their minds. People who

would know somebody has gone ahead. Thinking has the gold medal gone, I

want the gold medal, or I will settle for a different medal. They

have got to stick to their own pace. Then they have to see if that pace

will catch on because he slows down. The chasing pack is clearly split in

two. On the third of the four quarters of this rather beautiful

course, 2500 metres round. And as we have seen, Poort of Australia went

off like a shot, has about 100 metre lead from this chasing pack. An

awful long way to go here at Copacabana. Decent start.

I am the type of person that if you tell me I can't, you better believe

it I will. It has never mattered to me I am a female doing and male

dominated sport. Rules are meant to be broken. I have been through hard

times, struggles. It is not how you go down, it is how you get back up.

The doubts are there, it is how you deal with them that matters. Being

the first and making history, meant absolutely everything to me. Nicola

Adams has just made history. On top of the podium with a gold medal, was

a dream come true. I like the fact opponents are all coming for me.

Nicola Adams is the world champion. They want to be the next champion,

that is what motivates me. They don't say, she is good for a girl,

they just say yes, she is a good boxer. It is all I have ever wanted.

She is a great boxer and one of the best loved sports stars in our

country and Nicola Adams, the smile is never far from her face. At three

o'clock she will be in the ring at the start of her defence of her

title she won four years ago. She is up against a Ukrainian opponent.

After Katie Taylor, Ireland's great hope yesterday going out in her

first bout. She will be taking nothing for granted. But we have a

date with Gaby at the athletics. A little bit drier for you today, that

was a monsoon last night? I don't know where you wear when it came

down. Good morning. It took us by surprise, had been such a glorious

morning, 35 degrees in the infield, and then this deluge, which forced

everybody to go indoors. The officials, the start of the heats

for the 110 metre hurdles, the pole vault competition going on and it

shifted the whole schedule back about 45 minutes. We got out about

midnight. These athletes are competing so late, but last night it

was quite extraordinary. Denise Lewis and Michael Johnson beside me,

we were treated to the most pole vault final. We couldn't have

scripted a better head to head, Michael Jackson with Diego De Silva

of Brazil about to win their first gold medal. It was like a movie. It

was a fantastic competition, everything about it was amazing, the

hometown hero that nobody expected to win gold. It was an outside

chance for a medal. On top of that you have this fantastic competition,

similar to what we saw in the long jump, trading the lead back and

forth. An amazing competition. The crowd really got into it. They

needed this, they hadn't won any medals in athletics to this point

and it was always going to be tough for them. They may not get any more,

but that solidified this was a good thing for the country and I think

the public really got behind that. They will have that as a lasting

memory. He will be a hero for ever. Only their second gold in these

games, people were booing, chanting football chants, it felt like they

had got this athletics think now, and they will come in and hopefully

we will see the crowds in the evenings inspired by that? I hope

so, the ones that have been here have been very vocal and fantastic.

It is what the sport needs, it was great energy in here and they got

behind their man. We are starting on the track and heading straight down

for the women's 5,000m needs. Laura Whittle of Great Britain, the

31-year-old going in this first heat against the likes of Yasmin Khan,

the European champion over five and 10,000 metres. Let's go down to

Andrew Cotter and Paula Radcliffe who we'll call this one for us.

COMMENTATOR: Not quite as warm as yesterday, but 28 degrees and Laura

Whittle, when she came out, had bags of ice cubes and was mopping herself

down with them. A few other athletes were wondering what was going on,

but from the fair Isles, where it is cooler. Shelby Houlihan behind Molly

Huddle. She goes in the second heat. Helen on Sando of beery.

Yasmin Chan, she had a personal best, and the former Kenyan. Now

Yasmin Can. There is a Mercy Cherono. Some of the names to look

out for. Everyone just a bit excited over the 5,000m. Getting off to a

flyer. How often do you see false starts in the 5,000m? Not often, I

wonder if they will disqualify someone. Technically, we don't even

have reaction time is coming up in the 5,000m. We don't have reaction

is! This is very true. It might just have been a technical fault. Just

while we are waiting, let's show you the start list for this one, give

you the names of the runners and riders.

Ready to go again. Laura Whittle, on the outside. Nobody disqualified. I

am almost likely disappointed, it would have been a rare honour for

somebody in the 5,000m. Japanese athletes like to front run. The way

they train, this leave the marathon is a huge thing in Japan but the

long-distance races, they don't have huge changes of pace. It is a bit of

mentality and armour thing with the Japanese, they want to come here and

run as fast as they are capable of doing. If that is good to advance to

the final, it is. They don't want to jog around and have a poor last lap

and not do themselves justice. She has gone out fast, Uehara, it is a

decent lead. Some of the other contenders, two contenders, Shelby

Houlihan who finished behind Molly Huddle. The other one to look out

for is Yasmine Cannon and Obiri. -- Can. It is tough, the Japanese

athlete, Uehara, is giving them a fighting chance of going through

with those fastest losers. It is not a crazy pace she is running. She is

aiming the just outside 1.45, so it is not stunningly fast. They are

capable of going with that and sitting back, but they are sitting

in the group. The Dutch athlete, Susan Cook June. She did not set a

personal best. What would you expect and what would you think Laura

Whittle would be hoping for in terms of pace and has she got a kick if it

maintains a slowish pace? Laura isn't a slouch over the closing lap,

but she wouldn't be able to compete with the likes of Susan Kuijken and

Obiri. She will be happy the pace has gone out reasonably fast. The

pack is waking up and they are not moving along too slowly. 2.35 coming

up to 800 metres, so it isn't really quick. The Japanese athletes, almost

80 metres ahead now. She is giving herself a really good chance of

being able to run even paced and maintaining it through the 5,000m

and advanced to the final. A clear tactic from Uehara. But that

is a big lead. In her personal best is 15.30, she is going through it

pretty much bang on there. It is warm in the arena, but there is a

breeze here today and we saw yesterday how quickly that weather

could change. It was humid and stormy and Chile by the evening.

Even in the warm up to this raise clouds have been coming across,

although I do not think it is terrible conditions for this race.

She is not incapable of running a personal best here. Laura Whittle is

sitting there just about at the front alongside the two Americans,

Shelby Houlihan and Kim Conley. But Uehara is running a quick pace at

the moment and from the shade into the sunshine. There is a big

contrast because it is much cooler in the shade. But Uehara continues

to run along at this decent pace. It is 30 seconds quicker than her

personal best. It is a decent pace for her. Laura Whittle has now gone

to the front of that pack and is working hard, but she may as well be

in a different race because she is getting no advantage out of the fact

that Uehara is so far ahead. She has decided to quit her head down and

closed that pays. The gap is beginning to close just a little bit

on Uehara. She has the American athletes for company, but Laura

Whittle is doing the right thing here. The pace continues to lift

from the chasing pack. Five to go through automatically. Uehara is a

long way in front, but I think she will be chased down. The gap is

already down to 50 or 60 metres from almost 8200 at one point. Dashed

almost 80 to 100. There will be some girls in there who will not be able

to stay with this pace, so if Laura could whittle this down, that could

do her some favours. The really high quality athletes are coming past

now. Uehara is being chased down and the gap continues to close. For

Laura Whittle, she had a calf injury which ended her hopes of competing

at London and she missed last year's World Championships by a couple of

seconds. So it is a great opportunity for her here, but she

has been swallowed up by the pack. Again it is still eat tied and close

in there and they are all bunched together. They continue to eat into

the lead of Uehara. Yasemin Can has gone to the front of the chasing

pack and Laura will be happy with that, she can settle back into the

pack and maybe gather herself a little bit. She had a very good

battle with Eilish McColgan in Stanford earlier this year when she

ran a personal best of 15.08. Eilish McColgan is very quick and Laura was

able to stay close to her, so she does have a chance if it comes down

to the last lap, but not with the likes of Helen Obiri. The gap is

holding at about 50 metres. Uehara continues her lonely run. But the

gap is inching a little bit closer and Laura Whittle is right in the

main body of the Kirk, the chasing peloton. Uehara did slow that Darren

to 3.08 per kilometre, which is giving her a bit of a chance to set

up and it has not negated that gap too much and she has the advantage

of lapping the first lap runner and that will give her something to aim

for. So Uehara moves on, another lap just about complete and the gap is

still about 60 metres or so. There is the chasing pack and Yasemin Can

at the front of it and Helen Obiri and Mercy Jarreau known. Alongside

as well is O Connell, the Canadian athlete. Laura Whittle is still in

there, her head is still bobbing a little bit. That group is stretching

out a little bit. But it is not quite as bunched as it was. Little

gaps are starting to open up a bit. There was confusion as they passed

the lap runner and there was an official on the track trying to tell

the runner to move into lanes two or three, but it was probably better

that she stayed on the rail because if she had moved out it could have

been dangerous. You can see Yasemin Can is sticking her hand out and

O'Connell is going a bit wider. So Helena Beery and Mercy Cherono are

still involved. Susan Kuijken is in the orange vest of the Netherlands.

Lucy Oliver is in there, and the gap certainly has close, down to 40

metres. She goes through once again in the last kilometre and her pace

is dropping, Uehara. Shelby Houlihan finish second behind Molly Huddle.

Molly Huddle will go in the next heat along with a Eilish McColgan.

Stephanie Twell is the third British athlete represented here. It is not

long before Uehara is eaten up by the pack. Now there is a fracture in

that group and Susan Kuijken notices. The main contenders are

there in that first pack and Susan Kuijken has to bridge that. She was

sitting at the back of the pack and conserving energy and then she

noticed that group. The five automatic qualifiers were starting

to get away and she has locked onto the back of that pack. Laura Whittle

was blocked for a moment and now she has to try and dig in. That is going

to be a very hard group to try and get onto. That is a pack of six

about to reel in and pass Uehara now. A little bit of a gap back to

Marilyn Hills who is running a little bit on her own and she has to

maintain contact with the back of that breakaway group and have a

chance as the fastest loser. It is a good run so far by Susan Kuijken.

You cannot overstate how difficult it is to bridge a gap when a move

starts. She knows what she has to do to try and hang on. Five go through

automatically and the five fastest losers. In terms of the fastest

losers, what do we think of this group? The pays was good to begin

with, but the second heat have a huge advantage because they can go

out and aim to be just and the time of the first fastest loser and they

will or advance. But that is easier said than done. They need to have

got that information and they need to be able to work together when

they come out. Uehara has rallied again. It is impressive from her

because she is not that quick. She is young, she did run 15.20 last

season, but she is in lofty company year. She is alongside the two

American athletes and it is beginning to stretch out even more

now as the pays less. Laura Whittle has moved up in the pack of four

that she was running in and she has slotted in behind Kim Connolly and

Shelby Houlihan. So they could work together and run as fast as they

can. She has to finish this as fast as she can and keep running right

through that line. Susan Kuijken has to find something to move behind the

Ethiopian. Out in front is Yasemin Can and Helen Obiri and Mercy

Cherono. They are moving at a quicker pace. Laura has not lost too

much ground. The one thing you have to try and do is run as fast as you

can, but you are inside the top ten you still have an outside chance of

making it through to the final. Uehara knows she cannot compete with

the likes of Susan Kuijken on her shoulder. Madeline Hills can also

close fast and Uehara is trying to keep that pays moving. She has

looked up at the screen and she realises she is not going to finish

in the first five, but she has given her a self a chance of being one of

the first five fastest losers. It is a good run by Madeline Hills

considering the steeplechase she has just run. She was straight back out

here less than 24 hours later and she is moving up and giving herself

a very good line of sight and position to defend from. Wider group

fractured so much was that it was 2.58 by the chasing group. But Laura

Whittle is moving ahead of Kim Connolly.

Susan Kuijken is hanging on in there and it is very impressive from the

Australian, Madeline Hills. A move is being made by the American

athlete trying to get back. Only five go through automatically. Susan

Kuijken makes her move. Six athletes here and five go through

automatically. The one who misses out maybe Madeline Hills because

Shelby Houlihan has found something. Madeline Hills has to dig in. Across

the line they welcome and those are the qualifiers. We are heading for a

channel change. We are enjoying the morning session of athletics in Rio

with the promise of the men's triple jump final to come and the

appearance of Usain Bolt in the 200 metres. We continue this coverage on

BBC One. If you are watching us on BBC Two, you know the drill by now,

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