Day 11 Highlights

:00:55. > :01:04.It has been an amazing day here, and I will see you shortly for a

:01:05. > :01:07.round-up of what has been a magnificent day for a boxing,

:01:08. > :01:11.weightlifting and the women's football competition. Straight to

:01:12. > :01:24.the Olympic Stadium. The action has already started

:01:25. > :01:29.here and it's going to come Good evening to Denise and Michael

:01:30. > :01:33.but you'll appreciate that we're Andrew Pozzi is going in the first

:01:34. > :01:38.of the hurdles heats. Pozzi has the speed to make

:01:39. > :01:42.the final and perhaps even challenge Only two go through

:01:43. > :01:45.automatically here. Orlando Ortega is in this

:01:46. > :01:47.first semifinal as well. This is the first of three

:01:48. > :01:49.semifinals. Here it is: Andrew Pozzi

:01:50. > :01:58.in between Deuce Carter, who suffered in the monsoon

:01:59. > :02:02.and was given a re-run and managed Ronnie Ash was second in the US

:02:03. > :02:28.trials behind Devon Allen and then Ortega in lane seven ran

:02:29. > :02:30.a 13.04 this year to win at the Diamond League

:02:31. > :02:31.meeting in Monaco. There he is in the new colours of

:02:32. > :03:17.Spain. Instead coming through -

:03:18. > :03:22.the two men to go through are He had the speed but

:03:23. > :03:28.he simply didn't clear Andrew Pozzi, well,

:03:29. > :03:40.you can see it in his face. He knows what a wretched run

:03:41. > :03:43.by his standards he's put together there because he was still leading,

:03:44. > :03:45.despite clipping the He was in front

:03:46. > :03:51.and in that position. Colin will have a look

:03:52. > :03:55.at it in a moment. That's a horrible run for Andrew

:03:56. > :04:00.Pozzi. He'll be bitterly

:04:01. > :04:02.disappointed with that. That's probably the worst run I've

:04:03. > :04:05.seen him do all year. Got out of the blocks OK

:04:06. > :04:08.but he made a mistake early on. That's the time you don't

:04:09. > :04:10.want to make mistakes because, as you're accelerating,

:04:11. > :04:12.you haven't got the speed to hit the hurdles right

:04:13. > :04:15.so if you clip them, the top pulls you back and doesn't

:04:16. > :04:18.through you forward and every single time that Andrew Pozzi was trying

:04:19. > :04:20.to get into rhythm, he was clipping the barrier,

:04:21. > :04:25.which was just putting him back. He'll be really

:04:26. > :04:28.frustrated with that. Well, the barriers were flying

:04:29. > :04:30.from a few athletes. Jeffrey Julmis exploded

:04:31. > :04:39.into the first barrier there. But he caught that hurdle

:04:40. > :04:45.and that was a problem. He hit it with his lead leg

:04:46. > :04:49.because he was too short. Now acceleration comes in,

:04:50. > :04:51.he can settle into rhythm but as he starts to pick up speed,

:04:52. > :04:54.he clatters a hurdle again and that From there on in, he was trying

:04:55. > :05:03.to catch up, trying to get his body in the right position,

:05:04. > :05:05.right posture to clear Snake over them - that's the key

:05:06. > :05:09.thing and he was always short. I think we know what Andrew

:05:10. > :05:11.Pozzi's feelings will be. Andrew, I think it's fair to say

:05:12. > :05:19.you've watched that replay back and it doesn't make

:05:20. > :05:21.pleasant viewing. There are no other words

:05:22. > :05:29.to describe it, really. Straight from the blocks,

:05:30. > :05:40.I mean, you saw - I started hammering the first couple

:05:41. > :05:43.of hurdles and there's not a lot I hit another one very heavily -

:05:44. > :05:50.for what reason I can't really I just felt really out of sorts

:05:51. > :05:56.but this isn't the place for that to happen so, yeah,

:05:57. > :05:58.it's just... We rarely see you do

:05:59. > :06:03.that kind of thing. I've run terribly and still run

:06:04. > :06:15.better than that. We appreciate you

:06:16. > :06:18.stopping anyway. There's never a need to apologise

:06:19. > :06:24.when you've given your best. Nobody knows that more

:06:25. > :06:36.than Andrew Pozzi. Orlando Ortega goes

:06:37. > :06:37.through with Ronnie Ash. Two more of those 110m

:06:38. > :06:41.semifinal hurdles to come. The men's high jump competition

:06:42. > :06:44.promises to be very exciting. We've got qualification

:06:45. > :06:48.for the javelin as well and the women's long jump

:06:49. > :06:50.qualification is going with three And then it's the one-lap hurdlers,

:06:51. > :07:06.both men's and women's semifinals, the 200m semifinals take place

:07:07. > :07:10.at 2.00 in the morning and then it's the women's 1,500m final

:07:11. > :07:12.with Lauras Muir and Weightman Then the men have to get dusted down

:07:13. > :07:16.and back out here for the 110m hurdles final -

:07:17. > :07:19.not long to get ready for that So Steve Backley will be taking

:07:20. > :07:22.you through what promises what promises to be an exciting

:07:23. > :07:31.men's high jump competition. Robbie Grabarz finishes

:07:32. > :07:40.off his first attempt at 2.29m. Very, very good indeed

:07:41. > :07:44.from Robbie Grabarz. It is bronze for Britain

:07:45. > :08:01.and bronze for Grabarz. Look at that, the champion

:08:02. > :08:03.of the world in 2013, Erik Kynard, Robbie Grabarz certainly

:08:04. > :08:10.capable of getting in it. Perfect conditions here

:08:11. > :08:12.in the Olympic Stadium, 2.20m, first attempt for Robbie

:08:13. > :08:26.Grabarz. It's been a long road

:08:27. > :08:33.to recovery after knee problems A world indoor silver earlier this

:08:34. > :08:40.year and a European outdoor silver. He has a championship

:08:41. > :08:42.temperament and he's just off Andrew Pozzi already has succumbed

:08:43. > :09:11.to the Olympic atmosphere somewhat, rather bemused and Lawrence Clarke

:09:12. > :09:13.gets the chance to repeat what he did in London

:09:14. > :09:16.when he responded to the Olympic Many people didn't give him much

:09:17. > :09:39.of a chance of getting to the final. You would look at that heat

:09:40. > :09:42.there and say the same thing. It has an unpleasant odour,

:09:43. > :09:45.or a stinker, if you like. Martinot-Lagarde, Devon Allen,

:09:46. > :09:46.Omar McLeod are three He has a real challenge on his hands

:09:47. > :09:51.here, Lawrence Clarke, to advance. McLeod 12.98 this year,

:09:52. > :09:55.Devon Allen, this big new find from the USA,

:09:56. > :09:57.he's 13.03 this year. Martinot-Lagarde is finally

:09:58. > :09:59.beginning to find some form. He almost didn't get selected

:10:00. > :10:01.for the French team. And then you can throw in Trabar

:10:02. > :10:04.of Germany as well who has also run Martinot-Lagarde gets

:10:05. > :10:16.a cracking start. Also Alkana of South

:10:17. > :10:20.Africa on the far side. Omar McLeod starting

:10:21. > :10:22.to come through. It's McLeod from Martinot-Lagarde,

:10:23. > :10:25.just the top two to go through. Lawrence Clarke did

:10:26. > :10:39.as well as he could Colin, this was a tough,

:10:40. > :10:42.tough semifinal and Martinot-Lagarde - you go back to the beginning

:10:43. > :10:46.of July, as we look at Devon Allen here, and they had

:10:47. > :10:49.four hurdlers, France. One of them was sent

:10:50. > :10:56.to the Europeans. And they said, no, we're

:10:57. > :10:57.taking Martinot-Lagarde As you said, Steve, he has

:10:58. > :11:08.a goorksd solid start. As you said, Steve,

:11:09. > :11:11.he has a good solid start. He's a seven-strider,

:11:12. > :11:13.so he doesn't look explosive but those seven

:11:14. > :11:14.strides are powerful. Omar McLeod, a familiar

:11:15. > :11:17.Jamaican strip. He's always bouncy and his range

:11:18. > :11:19.over the barriers - the fastest on the flat,

:11:20. > :11:22.no doubt, because his personal best We'd expect him to do that,

:11:23. > :11:27.especially with his background. 12.98 was the fastest in the world

:11:28. > :11:30.this year so you'd expect him to win that quite, quite

:11:31. > :11:33.comfortably, which he did. Lawrence Clarke - well,

:11:34. > :11:39.let's see how Lawrence is. He's really consistent

:11:40. > :11:41.with his technique. That's one of the best

:11:42. > :11:43.things about Lawrence. He always gets into a good position,

:11:44. > :11:46.good posture, so he can If you watch his knee on this,

:11:47. > :11:50.it always comes nice and straight, which means his leg

:11:51. > :11:52.is following that knee, allows him to push down hard,

:11:53. > :11:56.put the pressure on and run well. Look at his lane, virtually clear -

:11:57. > :12:00.clips that one and it's a little bit He's got to charge off this barrier,

:12:01. > :12:06.running hard but not enough Well, Lawrence, you said yesterday

:12:07. > :12:15.you'd come with your game face on. I was up there with the world number

:12:16. > :12:23.one. But you have to get

:12:24. > :12:27.in the fastest-loser slot, so I pressed, took the risks,

:12:28. > :12:30.hit two hurdles and, you know it's not to be but it's

:12:31. > :12:33.been an amazing journey here and I can't thank people enough

:12:34. > :12:36.who have got me here, particularly British Athletics

:12:37. > :12:41.and all my sponsors. It's quite emotional

:12:42. > :12:43.because it's the last But, yeah, I've come fourth at one

:12:44. > :12:48.and semifinalist at the other. It's, it's obviously a difficult

:12:49. > :12:53.thing when you have something like this and you have to think

:12:54. > :12:55.about the future. Have you made any decision as soon

:12:56. > :12:58.as it's World Championships next You know, athletics has been my life

:12:59. > :13:06.for the last eight years and, you know, to represent my country

:13:07. > :13:09.is a real privilege and an honour I love the stage and, you know,

:13:10. > :13:17.I couldn't ask for any more. If I can go to London next year that

:13:18. > :13:20.would be great but right now, Do that and we wish you all

:13:21. > :13:25.the best going forward. Well, a new champion will be crowned

:13:26. > :13:38.here in the men's high jump because the reigning

:13:39. > :13:42.Olympic Champion, a Russian, with a blanket ban

:13:43. > :13:44.across the Russians, Bondarenko is a contender and,

:13:45. > :13:49.judging by that clearance, Eyes turn to Drouin of Canada,

:13:50. > :13:55.World Champion from last year. He's just so stable under pressure,

:13:56. > :14:05.slightly slower on the approach, Drouin stable under pressure

:14:06. > :14:21.and a perfect card so far. Robbie Grabarz is looking to join

:14:22. > :14:28.the clearances at 2.25m. The closest of shaves

:14:29. > :14:34.across the bar. OK, something to think about,

:14:35. > :14:44.but Grabarz in the early stages As I said, there'll be

:14:45. > :15:07.a few nervous moments Lawrence Clarke, that last hurdle -

:15:08. > :15:11.look at that time there, he may have lost as much as five

:15:12. > :15:14.or six hundredths. 13.36 and 13.41

:15:15. > :15:15.for third and fourth. At the minute, they're

:15:16. > :15:17.the fastest loser spots. There's one more semi to come

:15:18. > :15:20.but that was the more difficult So, sadly, no joy for

:15:21. > :15:26.Lawrence Clarke or Andrew Pozzi from Great Britain and there was no

:15:27. > :15:31.joy for Jeffrey Julmis of Haiti. He was on the far left,

:15:32. > :15:34.there he is. But how about this

:15:35. > :15:39.for Olympic spirit. He gets himself up and he decides

:15:40. > :15:43.he was going to crawl through that one but he finished the race

:15:44. > :15:46.if it was the last thing he did. I mean, we've seen some nasty falls

:15:47. > :15:56.but that was pretty horrendous, I mean he's on the Olympic

:15:57. > :16:02.track, you know. He's representing his country,

:16:03. > :16:04.you know, that's... Echoes of Derek Redmond in 1992

:16:05. > :16:18.and that kind of, you know, He got here and he got himself

:16:19. > :16:22.across the line. It's symbolic as well and your coach

:16:23. > :16:25.always tells you finish no matter And it's something that every

:16:26. > :16:29.athlete knows and they understand that and I'm sure that that

:16:30. > :16:31.had to be painful but, as he's lying there on the ground,

:16:32. > :16:34.you remember that. No matter what you do,

:16:35. > :16:36.you finish. Well, we have a third and final

:16:37. > :16:41.semifinal heat and Andrew Cotter is calling this one and Andrew,

:16:42. > :16:44.the significance of this one - we were discussing it with Colin

:16:45. > :16:47.earlier - is that obviously if you run in the third heat,

:16:48. > :16:50.you have a lot less time to get Although you want to get

:16:51. > :16:55.in the final first. News from the first semifinal -

:16:56. > :17:01.it doesn't really matter in the end of things, but Andrew Pozzi has

:17:02. > :17:05.actually been disqualified as well. Dmitri Bascou - France has a rich

:17:06. > :17:15.seam of hurdling talent Martinot-Lagarde is

:17:16. > :17:23.already safely through. Andrew Riley, won the Commonwealth

:17:24. > :17:27.title in Glasgow. Milan Trajkovic was just outside

:17:28. > :17:46.the medals in Amsterdam And some noise inside

:17:47. > :17:59.the Olympic Stadium He ran a season's best time of 13.61

:18:00. > :18:07.in his heat to earn On the inside as well,

:18:08. > :18:12.you have Antwon Hicks. Hicks runs for Nigeria,

:18:13. > :18:19.a former American. Like Ortega, a transferee

:18:20. > :18:25.from Cuba to Spain. So Hicks and Contreras,

:18:26. > :18:33.Porter and Bascou alongside Andrew Riley, Douvalidis,

:18:34. > :18:40.Trajkovic and Souza. The last of the semifinals

:18:41. > :19:00.in the men's 110m hurdles. Bascou explodes away but it's Porter

:19:01. > :19:02.to the first barrier Porter and Bascou alongside each

:19:03. > :19:07.other and Riley has to get up. Bascou and Douvalidis coming

:19:08. > :19:13.through to take second place. They were not quite as quick

:19:14. > :19:20.as the second semifinal but Dimitri Bascou moves

:19:21. > :19:22.through as Pascal Martinot-Lagarde did before him so France

:19:23. > :19:25.will have a couple of representatives in the final

:19:26. > :19:28.in a couple of hours' time Jeff Porter just began to recede

:19:29. > :19:35.in the latter stages of the race We're going to have a real change

:19:36. > :19:45.of the guard, aren't we? The World Champion can't be here,

:19:46. > :19:47.because he's Russian. Parchment of Jamaica was runner-up

:19:48. > :19:49.at the World Championships. So the French are

:19:50. > :19:54.looking pretty strong. Omar McLeod from Jamaica

:19:55. > :19:58.is looking pretty good. So this is really going to be

:19:59. > :20:01.an exciting event which will only Drives in hard with every single

:20:02. > :20:14.barrier, runs off them strongly. He swings his trail leg nice

:20:15. > :20:17.and wide and that gives him more Jeff Porter is struggling,

:20:18. > :20:27.wandering all over the place In a case of mistaken identity

:20:28. > :20:32.I said Douvalidis went through. It was Milan Trajkovic beside him

:20:33. > :20:36.from Cyprus - I don't know if it's Greek or Turkish Cyprus -

:20:37. > :20:38.but he's through in a Cypriot Well, there's a medal ceremony

:20:39. > :20:47.coming up in a few moments' time and I'm sure we're in for one

:20:48. > :20:49.of the biggest cheers this stadium has heard to date

:20:50. > :20:51.because of what happened Absolutely thrilling

:20:52. > :21:03.pole vault final. The expectation of a nation,

:21:04. > :21:08.a lifetime best for da Silva. The whole of Brazil

:21:09. > :21:15.will be egging this man, Have you ever seen drama

:21:16. > :21:26.such as this! Renaud Lavillenie,

:21:27. > :21:29.the reigning champion - The jump of his life

:21:30. > :21:45.and the place has gone wild! Look at the joy on that

:21:46. > :21:51.little boy's face! We have been making football

:21:52. > :21:56.analogies but not booing Which means Thiago Braz

:21:57. > :22:01.da Silva is confirmed You know, it's always a lot

:22:02. > :22:11.of things in it but, you know, when it's one of

:22:12. > :22:23.the biggest competitions of your... I don't believe before that I can

:22:24. > :22:31.win a medal and today I think it's my dream,

:22:32. > :22:33.like I dream in my bed, I sleep and I dream of my

:22:34. > :22:36.medal but the gold... Listen to that applause,

:22:37. > :22:49.he was magnificent under There was a slight discrepancy,

:22:50. > :22:58.let's say that, with the crowd. They almost had football chants

:22:59. > :23:03.and things going on. Maybe they didn't get that

:23:04. > :23:07.right, the crowd. I was talking to one of my friends,

:23:08. > :23:12.a Brazilian lawyer, he was saying that that is

:23:13. > :23:15.what they do at football games. But he said he's seen that

:23:16. > :23:22.as tennis events as well, where they tried to do that

:23:23. > :23:25.and they had to be shooshed and taught that you don't do that

:23:26. > :23:29.at events outside of football. It obviously caused Lavillenie

:23:30. > :23:32.to feel victimised. He didn't quite know

:23:33. > :23:34.how to handle it. He goes around the world

:23:35. > :23:37.and he's revered. You could see he was very

:23:38. > :23:41.distressed last night. It will be interesting to see how

:23:42. > :23:44.he reacts on the podium. Hopefully the crowd will give him

:23:45. > :23:47.the adulation he deserves. And Steve will be calling this medal

:23:48. > :23:51.presentation for you. I know you loved this

:23:52. > :23:54.last night, didn't you, As we see the medals presented

:23:55. > :24:00.in what was an unforgettable You heard his name there,

:24:01. > :24:06.Sam Kendricks of the USA. Has to be said, a bit of a bit-part

:24:07. > :24:14.player in what was a great drama. US champion Kendricks,

:24:15. > :24:37.Olympic bronze. The look on Lavillenie's

:24:38. > :24:53.face tells the story. He put all the pressure

:24:54. > :25:00.on to the Brazilian. And that's not a great response

:25:01. > :25:02.for a wonderful champion. The previous Olympic and world

:25:03. > :25:07.record holder, of course. A silver medal for

:25:08. > :25:09.Renault Lavillenie. But what a cheer we're about to hear

:25:10. > :25:12.for the man taking gold. ANNOUNCER: Gold medallist

:25:13. > :25:13.and Olympic champion, Well, champions over the years,

:25:14. > :25:41.every gold medallist, But when you think Cathy Freeman

:25:42. > :25:51.in Australia, Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill in London 2012,

:25:52. > :25:55.and Tiago da Silva receive the ultimate prize in sport -

:25:56. > :26:10.Olympic champion. He looks heartbroken,

:26:11. > :28:19.with that silver medal. Well, we had Super Saturday

:28:20. > :28:22.four years ago. And Tiago da Silva takes his gold

:28:23. > :28:25.on what may be coined as Magic Well, that was a very emotional

:28:26. > :28:39.medal ceremony there. And to see Renault Lavillenie

:28:40. > :28:42.so distraught, with so many tears falling from his eyes

:28:43. > :28:44.there in that very long version I'm sure we only got half a verse

:28:45. > :28:50.of God Save The Queen when Mo Farah All kinds much stuff going on there,

:28:51. > :28:58.with the boos at the beginning? That has very much to do

:28:59. > :29:01.with the tears. I think all of us who know Renault,

:29:02. > :29:03.he's not like that. I think he was really taken aback

:29:04. > :29:18.by the level of the boos, The tears are not for losing

:29:19. > :29:26.to an Olympic crowd? The tears are not for

:29:27. > :29:28.losing an Olympic crown? I think booing at the start

:29:29. > :29:33.of his final attempt at 6.03, And I think it's taken him to this

:29:34. > :29:37.moment to just get it It also is, though,

:29:38. > :29:42.the end of, you know, an era of dominance for him,

:29:43. > :29:45.I guess in his mind. To win a silver, it's not

:29:46. > :29:47.the gold he came here for. Would he be looking ahead thinking,

:29:48. > :29:50."Have I got another Those tears were tears

:29:51. > :29:54.of disappointment in this crowd. That's just not how -

:29:55. > :29:59.that's not what competition The fans, you know, support

:30:00. > :30:09.the person that you want to support, but you don't boo someone else

:30:10. > :30:11.simply because but you don't boo someone else simply

:30:12. > :30:13.because they're competing They started that last night

:30:14. > :30:17.during the competition. We've seen that in other situations

:30:18. > :30:21.here, with the crowds not being quiet when they

:30:22. > :30:23.should be quiet. And for them to then boo as he's

:30:24. > :30:28.getting on the medal stand, for having not learned

:30:29. > :30:31.from the lesson to begin with... I'm so surprised that the press

:30:32. > :30:33.today, the Brazilian news didn't say, "Look,

:30:34. > :30:35.this is not what we do, this is not how we behave

:30:36. > :30:38.in this situation." There was not some kind of national

:30:39. > :30:41.debate and conversation about it. I can imagine it would be in the UK,

:30:42. > :30:44.if something like that happened. But some that I talked

:30:45. > :30:53.to, they knew. They're like they're saying,

:30:54. > :30:56."That's not what you do." And these are Brazilians who have

:30:57. > :30:58.said, "We've seen it before where we're at events

:30:59. > :31:00.where we don't do that, and some of our people just don't

:31:01. > :31:12.know to not do that." Strange, because it's

:31:13. > :31:13.such a global event. I'm pretty sure they've seen medal

:31:14. > :31:15.presentations and But that's not the way

:31:16. > :31:20.to treat a great champion, Sadly not really with positivity,

:31:21. > :31:25.because Britain have lost both their athletes there

:31:26. > :31:27.in Lawrence Clarke and Andrew Pozzi. Some people said he could have

:31:28. > :31:35.deliberately hit hurdles, He was getting pulled back

:31:36. > :31:39.all the time. You get a groove, a rhythm, and he

:31:40. > :31:42.was never making the distance. That was the reason he was hitting

:31:43. > :31:55.it with his lead leg. He will have nightmares over this

:31:56. > :31:58.race until he gets to next season and gets on that track at a major

:31:59. > :32:00.championships again. And we've discussed it a lot,

:32:01. > :32:05.though, that it's not the victories that can improve

:32:06. > :32:06.you, it's defeats. And that's what he's got to draw on,

:32:07. > :32:10.he's got to draw on today But he's arriving at these

:32:11. > :32:13.championships with a healthy body. So, for him, he may not

:32:14. > :32:19.have a great winter. This was a golden opportunity

:32:20. > :32:21.that is going to pain We are expecting her to make it

:32:22. > :32:30.through to the final She has to navigate the semifinals,

:32:31. > :32:42.going off very soon It was actually far

:32:43. > :32:50.from effort, actually. They had a decision

:32:51. > :32:53.that they were going to just change the pattern a little bit,

:32:54. > :32:56.to make it more comfortable Athletes always try to conserve

:32:57. > :33:00.a little bit of energy this And when you're working

:33:01. > :33:04.on your new stride pattern, you should really work

:33:05. > :33:06.on that stride pattern. It doesn't matter what is around

:33:07. > :33:08.or available to you. So, everything is going

:33:09. > :33:10.really well now. But what happens, she adds

:33:11. > :33:12.an extra stride here It may be uncomfortable

:33:13. > :33:18.taking these barriers now. Every single time she's on the wrong

:33:19. > :33:26.foot, going around the bend. Coming down the home straight,

:33:27. > :33:28.she has to work a little bit. She sticks to the same plan that

:33:29. > :33:31.she's put herself in, So, she throws in an extra stride

:33:32. > :33:36.here again to put her on her strong leg so she can run

:33:37. > :33:38.off the barrier well. Let's hope she only managed to do

:33:39. > :33:41.that, just because she's If that's the reason,

:33:42. > :33:44.we should see her go back to her normal stride pattern and be

:33:45. > :33:47.close to that 54-second mark You think so much of what you do

:33:48. > :33:57.is muscle memory and you try and make things as automatic

:33:58. > :34:00.as possible, why does stride pattern Because presumably you're trying

:34:01. > :34:12.to get the same speed in every race? You can go a little bit too far

:34:13. > :34:17.with one stride and that throws you completely,

:34:18. > :34:20.or you can land a little bit quicker, which shortens your

:34:21. > :34:21.landing off a barrier, It's a very precise art,

:34:22. > :34:29.getting this right. Best of luck to Doyle,

:34:30. > :34:32.who's going in the next heat. Signs that the double world champion

:34:33. > :34:45.was maybe showing some sort of form. She ran her 300 hurdle race

:34:46. > :34:50.in the Czech Republic just She's done that each

:34:51. > :34:59.of the last three seasons. It wasn't one of her fastest but it

:35:00. > :35:01.just gave an indication, as she did in the heats,

:35:02. > :35:04.that she might, still could be She's got a fairly -

:35:05. > :35:10.I wouldn't say any of these semis are obviously easy -

:35:11. > :35:13.but she's in lane four. You just saw Tracey of Jamaica,

:35:14. > :35:17.who's in 5, outside of her. And then inside, she's got in lane

:35:18. > :35:38.3, Noelle Montcalm of Canada. Yes, 17-year-old, and that was just

:35:39. > :35:44.only a week ago, she turned 17. So, I'm really curious here to see

:35:45. > :36:15.whether Hejnova can keep improving. If she goes under 55 here,

:36:16. > :36:18.then we might start thinking But she hasn't come here

:36:19. > :36:29.in the best of form. Only two races this year

:36:30. > :36:35.over 400 hurdles. Tracey of Jamaica, who should be

:36:36. > :36:41.going better, is in lane 5. And also the young American,

:36:42. > :36:44.Sydney McLaughlin in lane 2. And going well through the first two

:36:45. > :36:53.flights is Montcalm of Canada. And these three moving away a little

:36:54. > :36:58.bit from the American Look at Hejnova starting

:36:59. > :37:02.to come back into this now, at Montcalm checks down and watches

:37:03. > :37:07.Hejnova move on and up to Tracey. Hejnova perhaps leading

:37:08. > :37:11.this one at the moment. And the world champion

:37:12. > :37:14.is starting to show some form. But if you've lost fitness,

:37:15. > :37:16.this is where you're gonna lose it. The world champion beginning

:37:17. > :37:24.to look good again. And this is a very impressive

:37:25. > :37:28.performance from Hejnova. I said she's only done two races,

:37:29. > :37:32.one of them was in the heats. And that, Colin, is

:37:33. > :37:37.a massive season's best. Well, I was just thought,

:37:38. > :37:39.you know, I was coming to this tonight on the bus and thinking

:37:40. > :37:43.about Hejnova and I was just looking at that race that she ran,

:37:44. > :37:46.the 300 hurdle race two weeks ago, I looked at the time and I thought,

:37:47. > :37:49."Uh-oh." And that's just

:37:50. > :37:52.proven it, hasn't it? And I think yesterday,

:37:53. > :37:55.Steve, in the heats, I think she went off a little bit

:37:56. > :37:58.too hard, a little And I think now she's honed herself

:37:59. > :38:02.back and she's reined And you know in the 400m hurdles

:38:03. > :38:07.you only need to take your foot perhaps half a percent off the gas

:38:08. > :38:10.and that will be enough for you to get the correct stride

:38:11. > :38:13.pattern and have the right energy system working that you can tap

:38:14. > :38:17.on when it's necessary. And I think Hejnova,

:38:18. > :38:20.the fact that she's a world champion, she's been

:38:21. > :38:21.at these big competitions Knows what she needs

:38:22. > :38:28.to get her to the magic, isn't it? That real opportunity of climbing

:38:29. > :38:30.on that rostrum again. And I think she may

:38:31. > :38:37.even go quite quick. Yeah, that's gotta be a worry

:38:38. > :38:41.for everybody, to be honest. And she looks very,

:38:42. > :38:44.very good, indeed. So, Hejnova, the two-time world

:38:45. > :38:46.champion, looking very close to getting back to the sort of form

:38:47. > :38:49.where we could see her A little while ago we saw this

:38:50. > :39:01.second attempt after that failure The first was a foul,

:39:02. > :39:19.in what can be described So, that's how he should have done

:39:20. > :39:24.it the first time, carry the foul. So, now we've caught up,

:39:25. > :39:28.it's 2.29, the bar is at. Drouin jumping from

:39:29. > :39:37.the opposite side at 29. Well, he's the world

:39:38. > :39:42.champion from last year. And I know many fancy him to take

:39:43. > :39:46.the title here. It's slightly slower, and a perfect

:39:47. > :39:52.card so far for Drouin. Grabarz, then, looking to match

:39:53. > :40:01.the Canadian. That's the height he

:40:02. > :40:13.cleared in qualification. It's also the height that took him

:40:14. > :40:19.to a bronze medal four years ago. As we see the back,

:40:20. > :40:22.a familiar sight Well, made that look

:40:23. > :40:34.fairly comfortable. So, all the main contenders

:40:35. > :40:38.are involved in what is set up to be Barshim shared bronze

:40:39. > :40:51.with Grabarz four years ago. Next up on the track,

:40:52. > :40:54.it's the second of the 400m She has been running

:40:55. > :41:07.really, really well. He stressed on areas

:41:08. > :41:14.she could improve, Michael. That's what I was looking

:41:15. > :41:30.at earlier today. This is the toughest field

:41:31. > :41:33.of the three semifinal heats. She finds herself in there

:41:34. > :41:36.with Russell from Jamaica and Ashley Both of those athletes have run

:41:37. > :41:39.faster than her this year. She's methodical about

:41:40. > :41:45.what she does. Just gets out there

:41:46. > :41:49.and runs the race. Those adjustments that

:41:50. > :41:50.Colin talked about, she's What she lacks in flat speed,

:41:51. > :41:57.compared to the other two athletes that Michael just spoke about,

:41:58. > :41:59.she gives in heart. If she can just nail that technique,

:42:00. > :42:02.do enough, fingers crossed She's looking for a place

:42:03. > :42:13.in the final. Plenty of other strong

:42:14. > :42:19.contenders in this semifinal, though Doyle has two women

:42:20. > :42:21.outside her who have run There's Doyle being

:42:22. > :42:26.introduced to the crowd. It's the women outside her

:42:27. > :42:28.who are the major factors, This is the start list

:42:29. > :42:36.for this semifinal. Russell has a quicker

:42:37. > :42:50.time this season. Not anywhere close to her

:42:51. > :43:05.best at the moment. One quick time,

:43:06. > :43:07.that was before June. She hasn't run or hadn't run

:43:08. > :43:10.coming into Rio since June So, might be able to take her

:43:11. > :43:14.out of the equation, Wasn't too impressive

:43:15. > :43:30.in her first round. Has worked so hard

:43:31. > :43:32.on her stride pattern. It's that strength that enables

:43:33. > :43:35.you to keep that stride pattern. Russell, I mentioned

:43:36. > :43:44.her injury problems. Then Nel, the South African,

:43:45. > :43:47.has gone out quickly. A more steady pace from

:43:48. > :43:49.Ashley Spencer, the American Eilidh Doyle in a very good position

:43:50. > :44:00.at the moment. Doyle should just about lead them

:44:01. > :44:08.around the bend. And Russell there, oh,

:44:09. > :44:11.there's a stumble from the Jamaican. What ground Ashley

:44:12. > :44:14.Spencer has made up. And suddenly Spencer

:44:15. > :44:16.is all over the place. Spencer, we talked about her raw

:44:17. > :44:29.speed. Even with that mistake

:44:30. > :44:32.she came through at the end. Spencer was there, Russell finds

:44:33. > :44:34.something, despite And Eilidh Doyle was caught

:44:35. > :44:40.on the line, so she will look, But still, but still

:44:41. > :44:48.a sign of what she's up against even if she were to go

:44:49. > :44:50.through to the final, which she might well

:44:51. > :44:52.do with that time. There is plenty of

:44:53. > :44:54.competition for her. That was a bit of a shock

:44:55. > :44:57.on the line for Eilidh Doyle. When someone makes a mistake

:44:58. > :45:02.like that, you very rarely see them come back, because there's so much

:45:03. > :45:05.fatigue that's in your legs. But she managed to do that,

:45:06. > :45:12.didn't she? But what was good for me, Andrew,

:45:13. > :45:15.is that Eilidh absolutely nailed her stride

:45:16. > :45:17.pattern at that time. It was good to see she committed

:45:18. > :45:19.herself and made it happen in a major championship,

:45:20. > :45:22.which will fill her with a little An amazing run down

:45:23. > :45:30.the home straight. She has that great speed

:45:31. > :45:34.Incredible effort, as you said, when you lose that momentum.

:45:35. > :45:37.I don't know if you remember me saying yesterday, she always

:45:38. > :45:40.scrapes over the barrier, Ashley.

:45:41. > :45:43.And I always worry that if she catches it with her toe,

:45:44. > :45:45.as she does there, it will throw her off.

:45:46. > :45:47.It will make it a really difficult thing.

:45:48. > :45:50.So, every single time, as fatigue sets in, throw

:45:51. > :45:54.these rounds, especially, just be more and more careful.

:45:55. > :46:00.Because she just literally sneaks over the barriers.

:46:01. > :46:03.When you've got the foot speed that she demonstrated

:46:04. > :46:11.coming into the end, you can get over those issues.

:46:12. > :46:16.But that time is in the fastest losers at the moment.

:46:17. > :46:21.Spencer and Janieve Russell taking the automatic places.

:46:22. > :46:37.But certainly Eilidh Doyle in third place.

:46:38. > :46:49.She comits herself to this stride pattern now.

:46:50. > :46:51.She has to work hard into this barrier.

:46:52. > :46:54.She has to do the stride, manages to do that.

:46:55. > :46:56.Most probably pats herself on the back and now

:46:57. > :47:03.Two of the previously injured and struggling athletes,

:47:04. > :47:07.Russell and another, have shown they're contenders here.

:47:08. > :47:12.And Eilidh Doyle, well, she may still be in that final.

:47:13. > :47:14.With that time, I think she might be all right.

:47:15. > :47:18.Well, we're all fairly confident that time

:47:19. > :47:25.Obviously I would have liked to have got the automatic qualification,

:47:26. > :47:29.But I'm actually really happy with the way the race went.

:47:30. > :47:36.I felt I gave it everything there, so I just hope it's enough

:47:37. > :47:43.A certain amount of kudos to Ashley Spencer to respond

:47:44. > :47:50.I was just trying to focus on my own race and try

:47:51. > :47:53.to get to the finish line as soon as possible.

:47:54. > :47:58.It just shows you nothing is easy on the Olympic stage.

:47:59. > :48:02.There are so many out there, you're all in the mix.

:48:03. > :48:05.Anything could happen come the final, should you make it?

:48:06. > :48:08.There's a lot of us very close together.

:48:09. > :48:11.So, yeah, I'm just hoping that's enough.

:48:12. > :48:14.But I feel like I gave it a really good shot there.

:48:15. > :48:31.Confirmation of that here, behind the automatic qualifiers.

:48:32. > :48:42.Ashley Spencer - that was impressive from the American.

:48:43. > :48:44.And Russell, 54.99 is the fastest of the losers.

:48:45. > :48:46.One more semifinal to come, just a few moments away.

:48:47. > :48:49.Women's long jump qualifying under way.

:48:50. > :48:57.A Russian competing, a Court of Arbitration appeal

:48:58. > :49:07.She lives in the United States and is drug-tested

:49:08. > :49:11.in the United States, and therefore proves she wasn't part

:49:12. > :49:17.And has been allowed to compete under appeal.

:49:18. > :49:20.And it looks as though she may have just got herself into the final

:49:21. > :49:23.based on what's happening in this first round of women's long

:49:24. > :49:45.Well, we've seen two good stories, comeback stories.

:49:46. > :49:53.And then we come to the third semifinal.

:49:54. > :50:11.We've seen Muhammad, in lane 3, who has had

:50:12. > :50:14.her own injury problems over the years as well.

:50:15. > :50:20.And the other athletes in this, Watson, the Canadian,

:50:21. > :50:30.She's right in the middle, in lane four, between Muhammad and Petersen.

:50:31. > :50:38.Petersen has got faster in her races leading into Rio.

:50:39. > :50:44.Nugent from Jamaica, disqualified this morning,

:50:45. > :50:56.Muhammad, then, the American champion, coached by

:50:57. > :51:00.Lawrence Johnson, same coach as Brianna Rollins,

:51:01. > :51:03.A good technique, Muhammad, and 52.88 this year.

:51:04. > :51:14.Petersen, the European champion, is in five.

:51:15. > :51:19.Only two to go through, and that time we're looking at.

:51:20. > :51:24.As long as two people don't go quicker than that.

:51:25. > :51:27.If three and four dorks then she will be out.

:51:28. > :51:38.If three and four do then she will be out.

:51:39. > :51:56.There's Muhammad looking serene down through 200m.

:51:57. > :52:02.So is Petersen, she's chasing the European champion

:52:03. > :52:06.A lot of daylight between them and the rest of the field.

:52:07. > :52:10.So, Muhammad, then, watch how she takes these last two hurdles.

:52:11. > :52:12.Left leg lead, and Petersen under some pressure now from Nugent.

:52:13. > :52:15.It's gonna be the expecteded one-two.

:52:16. > :52:16.Watch the clock here.

:52:17. > :52:20.I definitely think Nugent has a chance of fastest loser.

:52:21. > :52:22.But fingers crossed the fourth-placed athlete I don't

:52:23. > :52:36.See Eilidh watching that clock, like us all.

:52:37. > :52:41.Because I've just seen what third place is, which is 54.98,

:52:42. > :52:43.which means that Eilidh is definitely gonna be

:52:44. > :52:47.But you can really tell, can't you, Steve, why Muhammad

:52:48. > :52:54.She's so aggressive off these barriers.

:52:55. > :52:56.A good runner, snappy over them all the time.

:52:57. > :52:59.She's got a really nice, level, even paced stride pattern,

:53:00. > :53:00.which allows her to use her biggest strength,

:53:01. > :53:04.And she hurdles quite nicely off both legs as well.

:53:05. > :53:08.That's why she's very aggressive into them all the time.

:53:09. > :53:11.She feels, I think, that any hurdle that comes to her whatever leg

:53:12. > :53:13.she reaches, is good enough and skilful enough

:53:14. > :53:22.If you're gonna have that type of confidence, wowee.

:53:23. > :53:25.As she runs in, she's gonna take a little glance.

:53:26. > :53:34.And what a great, great, great race there.

:53:35. > :53:42.For me, Steve, she starts in the clear favourite.

:53:43. > :53:49.She's there, hopefully, having a chat with Phil.

:53:50. > :53:51.Can we get a quick reaction from you?

:53:52. > :54:01.I've got into the final and I apologise to my coach

:54:02. > :54:04.and my family and my poor husband for putting them through that

:54:05. > :54:07.but I'm delighted I've got there now and now that I'm in there,

:54:08. > :54:09.hopefully I can go there and do something.

:54:10. > :54:24.There was not a lot wrong in terms of her execution, Denise.

:54:25. > :54:29.I mean, like she said, "I didn't put a foot

:54:30. > :54:34.This is the kind of hurdling that we have come to expect

:54:35. > :54:41.And she's making up good ground there and, you know, personally,

:54:42. > :54:44.I think she really deserved to get through at this stage because she's

:54:45. > :54:48.worked so hard, um, and, as I said, just a little bit of error in those

:54:49. > :54:56.final stages nearly cost her getting through to the final.

:54:57. > :54:59.Yeah, the execution was flawless and it looks like she made those...

:55:00. > :55:02.Those adjustments that Colin talked about.

:55:03. > :55:06.This is where Eilidh comes into her own, like...

:55:07. > :55:13.Denise you were talking about it earlier, what she lax in speed,

:55:14. > :55:16.Denise you were talking about it earlier, what she lacks in speed,

:55:17. > :55:19.she's able to maintain that sort of strength and with that strength

:55:20. > :55:24.Nobody is really going to catch her in the last 100m or so other

:55:25. > :55:28.It must be disconcerting for the rest of the field

:55:29. > :55:30.to see her stumble and recover the way she does.

:55:31. > :55:32.Even with when she makes a mistake...

:55:33. > :55:36.The good thing about Eilidh is she focuses on her own race,

:55:37. > :55:39.which is what you need to do in this sort of setting.

:55:40. > :55:48.Let's see how the high jump is going with Steve Backley.

:55:49. > :56:06.Well, Bondarenko, the third best ever.

:56:07. > :56:08.He is on the world list equal with Patrick Schoberg,

:56:09. > :56:10.arguably the greatest, or most successful in terms

:56:11. > :56:27.So, then, Grabarz looking to join Bondarenko, a height

:56:28. > :56:32.that he has cleared in the past, not this year.

:56:33. > :56:48.Well, I was just celebrating for him.

:56:49. > :56:52.The white flag went up is what he's saying.

:56:53. > :56:58.So let's have a look if we can see the official just to the left-hand

:56:59. > :57:07.The white flag goes up, which means it's a successful jump.

:57:08. > :57:09.He's celebrating and that's his reaction to the bar

:57:10. > :57:20.It's come up as a cross on the system.

:57:21. > :57:22.I don't think he's got much to argue about, unfortunately.

:57:23. > :57:28.It's a failure at the first time of asking at 2.33m

:57:29. > :57:40.He's got to go away and compose himself here because he's capable

:57:41. > :57:43.of getting back in it if he can stay calm.

:57:44. > :57:45.On to the men's 400m hurdles and the first of three semifinals,

:57:46. > :57:51.Here's the start list for you: Jack Green is trying out

:57:52. > :58:11.a new stride pattern we he tried in the Anniversary Games last month.

:58:12. > :58:17.He said he didn't quite nail it but he finished quickly.

:58:18. > :58:21.What a great run Nozawa had in the first round,

:58:22. > :58:29.Jaheel Hyde, just 19 and twice world junior champion, enormous talent.

:58:30. > :58:31.Sergio Fernandez has gone close to an age-old Spanish record

:58:32. > :58:49.Outside Green you've got Lahoulou of Algeria, Bonn fast Mucheru

:58:50. > :58:51.of Kenya, Eric Cray of the Philippines and Kerron Clement

:58:52. > :58:56.The quickest man in the world came unstuck at the US trials.

:58:57. > :58:59.So this is a very open event and it's an open semifinal here.

:59:00. > :59:06.Two go through automatically and two fastest losers.

:59:07. > :59:08.All behind Clement are pretty evenly matched.

:59:09. > :59:11.Green in lane four with Lahoulou of Algeria outside him

:59:12. > :59:26.It's a quick, quick start by Jaheel Hyde and Jack Green gets

:59:27. > :59:31.He's got a lot to do as Nozawa comes alongside and passes him.

:59:32. > :59:34.He's got great strength, Jack Green and he finishes strongly

:59:35. > :59:36.but he's left himself an enormous amount to do

:59:37. > :59:43.Clement now beginning to assert his authority alongside

:59:44. > :59:53.Jack Green trying to work his way through into this.

:59:54. > :00:04.Clement, of course, strong out in lane eight.

:00:05. > :00:15.Just on the line from Sergio Fernandez.

:00:16. > :00:17.The two go through, Clement, a distant winner and, well,

:00:18. > :00:21.Jack Green didn't have a fast finish this time but it really went wrong.

:00:22. > :00:29.And he will not be going through to the final.

:00:30. > :00:31.He didn't deliver tonight.

:00:32. > :00:35.He'll be really frustrated with that.

:00:36. > :00:38.I know Jack well and he'll be quite irritated with the way his

:00:39. > :00:41.performance has panned out because he was a little bit

:00:42. > :00:44.sketchy at the beginning of the race as well.

:00:45. > :00:46.He didn't really set himself up to get into this

:00:47. > :00:50.And I think, from there on in, he was...

:00:51. > :00:52.He was caught in the middle because he was thinking,

:00:53. > :00:56."Well, do I chase, race them and chase them?

:00:57. > :00:59.Or do I settle into the groove of my rhythm?"

:01:00. > :01:03.I think he lost his way a little bit in what he was going to do.

:01:04. > :01:05.I thought he'd brought himself back into it but,

:01:06. > :01:07.of course, clattering that barrier when you're exhausted

:01:08. > :01:10.makes a huge difference, saps your energy and all he can see

:01:11. > :01:15.is bodies all around him and that makes tension happen for you.

:01:16. > :01:31.It wasn't a good start over the first barrier.

:01:32. > :01:36.He was aggressive out of the blocks, which is what you want to see.

:01:37. > :01:38.He sights his barrier well, takes it cleanly, sits back off it.

:01:39. > :01:41.Now he's going to start about thinking that he's got over it

:01:42. > :01:43.well and he needs to get into this pattern.

:01:44. > :01:46.He was very nice around there and he comes into this home

:01:47. > :01:49.straight and this is where he starts to get a little bit...

:01:50. > :01:52.Unaware of what's going to go on and he's tried to go

:01:53. > :01:59.But he's a strong athlete and Jack knows that the best part of his race

:02:00. > :02:02.He's really strong usually coming down the home straight.

:02:03. > :02:03.Unfortunately for him, he makes the mistake

:02:04. > :02:09.Clatters this barrier - watch this now - bang and that

:02:10. > :02:13.sends him out of the way and that is so much...

:02:14. > :02:15.You want to talk about how strength-sapping it is.

:02:16. > :02:18.It's incredible and you land heavily off the next hurdle.

:02:19. > :02:21.I think he'll still have a part to play in this Olympic Games.

:02:22. > :02:24.He's an outstanding relay runner but individually, in the hurdles,

:02:25. > :02:26.he's not going through to Thursday's final and so, so frustrating

:02:27. > :02:38.Well, Jack's just watched the race back with me down here.

:02:39. > :02:42.It seemed like when you clipped the hurdle you were still

:02:43. > :02:46.in contention and didn't quite get it right near the end.

:02:47. > :02:49.Definitely the best I've run in seven but I missed a stride

:02:50. > :02:51.going into hurdle eight and I lost everything.

:02:52. > :03:03.You're never sure what will happen on any given night.

:03:04. > :03:06.Yesterday you said you would give it everything.

:03:07. > :03:15.Definitely the best I've committed to a race and I missed that

:03:16. > :03:17.hurdle eight by half a stride and at this level,

:03:18. > :03:19.you can't do that and, unfortunately, I did.

:03:20. > :03:23.It's just part of it and obviously I'm going to be a bit

:03:24. > :03:38.Well, eventually, he might play a part.

:03:39. > :03:42.He's run 44.4 in legs in 4 X 400m so he may play a part in that

:03:43. > :03:44.but down in eighth place in the semifinal.

:03:45. > :03:47.Well, good news for Robbie Grabarz because we saw him being given

:03:48. > :03:50.a foul for that jump across 2.33m that rattled and fell off,

:03:51. > :03:56.but it's been reversed and it's a first-time clearance.

:03:57. > :04:12.He's in it and the next height, 2.36m.

:04:13. > :04:15.Before that height, there's a bit of tidying up to do, Barshim,

:04:16. > :04:28.It was billed as a showdown between those two athletes.

:04:29. > :04:31.I suspect there may be others who fancy their chances of getting

:04:32. > :04:44.Fuzz Ahmed is offering advice to Grabarz there.

:04:45. > :04:56.You'd never know that Fuzz has done a bit of acting in his time!

:04:57. > :05:34.Van Zyl, a familiar figure, as is this man here, Javier Culson.

:05:35. > :05:38.I wonder if it could be his time, finally, to win a big global title.

:05:39. > :05:40.So wide open, the men's 400m hurdles.

:05:41. > :05:50.Magi of Estonia had a great qualification run.

:05:51. > :05:59.We're looking to Whyte, to Culson, to van Zy,

:06:00. > :06:01.are also cheering Suguimati in lane nine.

:06:02. > :06:10.Although Culson and Whyte are moving up, as is van Zyl,

:06:11. > :06:13.they may come into it, particularly Copello who has skill

:06:14. > :06:21.Former Cuban, now running for Turkey.

:06:22. > :06:24.There are four with chances as they come into the home straight.

:06:25. > :06:44.He was really rewarded by running the best kind of planned race,

:06:45. > :06:51.Culson, as ever - we never quite know what we're going

:06:52. > :07:09.But Whyte didn't panic, judged it well.

:07:10. > :07:12.Magi finishing quickly and Copello surprising one or two as well.

:07:13. > :07:15.Do you know - I was looking at this whole line-up before the start

:07:16. > :07:18.tonight and I couldn't have called who would qualify from this,

:07:19. > :07:22.But in the end, Whyte was dominant, wasn't he?

:07:23. > :07:24.He got away well, kept a cool head, as you said.

:07:25. > :07:27.A lot going on around him but he didn't worry, whatsoever.

:07:28. > :07:32.Worked hard into the line and made sure - he guaranteed himself

:07:33. > :07:33.Well, women's long jump qualification.

:07:34. > :08:02.Difficult to see into the pit on those angles there.

:08:03. > :08:05.Two parallel runways, loads of athletes involved,

:08:06. > :08:08.19 in each, 38 in total, whittled down to 12 in the next 30

:08:09. > :08:10.minutes or so to come back for tomorrow's final.

:08:11. > :08:27.6.55m, an improvement for Lorraine Ugen in sixth place

:08:28. > :08:30.in the pool on the cusp of making it into the final.

:08:31. > :08:42.Proctor won silver at the worlds last year.

:08:43. > :08:56.Slight deceleration there for me, ever so subtle.

:08:57. > :09:03.Good height off that, way behind the board.

:09:04. > :09:11.Maybe that's what it was that didn't give it the zest.

:09:12. > :09:26.Shara Proctor, 6.34m - she's going to need more.

:09:27. > :09:29.Not far away from the last of the semifinals of

:09:30. > :09:38.As Steve was saying, it's a very open event.

:09:39. > :09:40.We're not too far away from the start here.

:09:41. > :09:42.Just general milling around and getting ready

:09:43. > :09:53.So here's a look back at a jump from earlier,

:09:54. > :10:10.And I'm just looking at the summary as we get towards the end of this

:10:11. > :10:16.qualification and at the moment, Jazmin Sawyers is in 12th place.

:10:17. > :10:29.So the Brits at the moment, two to qualify, and Jazmin Sawyers,

:10:30. > :10:39.So to the last semifinal in the men's 400m hurdles.

:10:40. > :10:42.Thomas Barr goes here, the 24-year-old from Waterford,

:10:43. > :10:46.World Student Games champion last year.

:10:47. > :10:48.A season blighted by a hip and then a groin injury.

:10:49. > :10:51.So a great effort to get to the semifinal.

:10:52. > :10:59.Andres Silva, from Uruguay, goes in lane eight.

:11:00. > :11:08.He's served a drug ban in his recent past.

:11:09. > :11:10.Inside him, Byron Robinson, something of a surprise

:11:11. > :11:26.Hadn't broken 50 seconds before this year.

:11:27. > :11:30.A different name, but he's the older brother of Nicholas Bett who won

:11:31. > :11:32.the world title this year but has disappointed this season.

:11:33. > :11:36.Karsten Warholm, former decathlete, has now found his event, it seems.

:11:37. > :11:38.And there is Thomas Barr, 48.93, a season's best

:11:39. > :11:50.He's struggled with hip and groin problems, as I mentioned.

:11:51. > :12:04.Roxroy Cato in lane two, third at the Jamaican Championships.

:12:05. > :12:07.Jaheel Hyde has gone out this evening.

:12:08. > :12:09.Whyte looked good a few moments ago, though.

:12:10. > :12:15.And Michael Bultheel, a doctor from just east of Brussels.

:12:16. > :12:20.Five times the Belgian champion and Dr Bultheel goes in lane one.

:12:21. > :12:22.Bultheel, Cato, Alejandro, Thomas Barr in four,

:12:23. > :12:24.Karsten Warholm, 21-year-old Norwegian - he really is one

:12:25. > :12:46.to watch for tonight and future - in five.

:12:47. > :12:49.Haron Koech of Kenya in six, Byron Robinson of the United States

:12:50. > :12:51.in seven and Andres Silva in lane eight.

:12:52. > :13:01.Magi, the Estonian is hanging on as the second-fastest loser

:13:02. > :13:03.Can Thomas Barr make it to the final?

:13:04. > :13:13.Haron Koech, the Kenyan and Warholm has the power of a decathlete.

:13:14. > :13:15.He's now committed to the hurdles and looking good here

:13:16. > :13:20.Koech trying to keep pace and he's responded well, the Kenyan.

:13:21. > :13:22.Thomas Barr in a decent position but there's a gap between him

:13:23. > :13:33.Bultheel, the Belgian, is running strongly

:13:34. > :13:36.Koech brings them into the home straight.

:13:37. > :13:40.Byron Robinson is finishing strongly.

:13:41. > :13:43.Thomas Barr, if he can win this barrier.

:13:44. > :13:59.The smile of disbelief and celebration and celebration

:14:00. > :14:19.He had the strength coming down the final stretch to keep it cool.

:14:20. > :14:21.Keep the cool head and rely on the stride pattern.

:14:22. > :14:34.You're in a groove and you've already got, of course,

:14:35. > :14:36.your speed, your endurance, you know the work

:14:37. > :14:43.I said it was a season's best time and it's a big Irish record as well,

:14:44. > :14:46.That's an amazing run from Thomas Barr.

:14:47. > :14:56.We have a visitor in the studio, none other than Thiago Braz da

:14:57. > :15:11.Silva, the womener of the gold medal for the pole vault.

:15:12. > :15:13.What's today been like for you today?

:15:14. > :15:19.I just sleep one hour and a half and many interviews today.

:15:20. > :15:38.We had difficult situations, rain, wind and this work.

:15:39. > :15:40.Six metres was my dream and I'm really happy.

:15:41. > :15:43.What were you thinking - obviously I'm sure you knew all year

:15:44. > :15:46.long that the Olympics were coming to your home country.

:15:47. > :15:47.What did you think your chances were?

:15:48. > :15:51.For the Olympics - what was your goal?

:15:52. > :16:11.What were you hoping for prior to the Olympics?

:16:12. > :16:16.For the Olympics - what was your goal?

:16:17. > :16:18.What were you hoping for prior to the Olympics?

:16:19. > :16:28.Thinking before just to come to the competition, do our best,

:16:29. > :16:42.I say just thank God because this for me is a surprise,

:16:43. > :16:56.Hopefully we'll see you in London next year

:16:57. > :17:14.We've got to get back outside because there is a very,

:17:15. > :17:16.very hot men's high jump competition and the women's long jump,

:17:17. > :17:21.The event is coming to a head, Gabi.

:17:22. > :17:23.Derek Drouin of Canada gets first dibs at clearing this height.

:17:24. > :17:26.He hasn't failed anything yet so far in this Olympic final.

:17:27. > :17:31.Derek Drouin, as anticipated, solid under pressure.

:17:32. > :17:39.He's amassing an impressive series of medals - gold last year

:17:40. > :17:57.Grabarz then after that reinstated previous jump.

:17:58. > :18:04.I don't think he's going to get that one reinstated, is he?

:18:05. > :18:09.That wasn't quite the rhythm that we'd seen on previous attempts.

:18:10. > :18:15.For me, he just needed to trust the curve.

:18:16. > :18:21.And a failure at the first time of asking at this height of 2.36m.

:18:22. > :18:24.Barshim, world leader, he's seen Drouin go clear.

:18:25. > :18:39.Well, there's legs left in this competition.

:18:40. > :18:41.Barshim, fourth last year in the World Championships,

:18:42. > :18:46.third four years ago, shared that bronze medal

:18:47. > :18:54.Second best ever, 2.43 is his lifetime best

:18:55. > :19:00.Barshim, perfect sheet and a clearance at 2.36m.

:19:01. > :19:03.So Jazmin Sawyers in 12th spot as it stands.

:19:04. > :19:07.She will progress to tomorrow's final but she will maybe think

:19:08. > :19:09.she needs more because some athletes can follow

:19:10. > :19:14.Sawyers, well, that green line is the automatic

:19:15. > :19:22.It's probably a jump of around a similar

:19:23. > :19:28.She's such a great Champs competitor.

:19:29. > :19:34.She loves the pressure and thrives when it matters most.

:19:35. > :19:39.Squeezed everything out of that, as she always does.

:19:40. > :19:50.That maybe gives her the breathing space.

:19:51. > :19:52.So, then, great field event action, Brits involved at either side

:19:53. > :19:58.Robbie Grabarz, second attempt, 2.36m.

:19:59. > :20:04.His take-off foot spent longer on the floor than it should

:20:05. > :20:19.We've seen two athletes go clear and it's a failure the second time.

:20:20. > :20:25.He'll have one more attempt at 2.36m.

:20:26. > :20:30.Next up on the track, it's the women's semifinals for the 200m,

:20:31. > :20:32.three heats and Smith goes in the first and, Denise,

:20:33. > :20:51.She'll have to come into her own in this semi and I think

:20:52. > :20:59.There's one thing, Steve Cram, if there's so much talent in there,

:21:00. > :21:02.it will be quick and it comes down to a fastest loser,

:21:03. > :21:06.there's more chance of this heat being the quickest.

:21:07. > :21:17.Obviously when she saw the draw, it's a long, hard swallow.

:21:18. > :21:18.It's the Olympic Games and Dina, no matter

:21:19. > :21:21.who is in your semifinal, it's tough.

:21:22. > :21:31.Some are easier than others but you still have to run flat-out.

:21:32. > :21:34.If she runs her personal best, which is obviously what she's

:21:35. > :21:47.So Elaine Thompson and Dafne Schippers,

:21:48. > :21:56.The fact that Okagbare beat Asher-Smith in that heat

:21:57. > :22:04.They were both together in heat five.

:22:05. > :22:08.So she has not only Okagbare, she nows that Thompson

:22:09. > :22:24.Gaither of Bahamas inside her and the other is Mayer

:22:25. > :22:27.Another 20-year-old, full of talent as well.

:22:28. > :22:32.Get out as well as she did on the bend in the heats.

:22:33. > :22:36.She ran a great bend and then seemed to kind of relax just a tad too much

:22:37. > :22:41.So this time, it's the same bend and keep going, keep going,

:22:42. > :22:50.Schippers, the world champion.

:22:51. > :23:02.The new Olympic champion in Lane four.

:23:03. > :23:07.Dina Asher-Smith gets out of the blocks quickly.

:23:08. > :23:13.Elaine Thompson and Schippers are giving chase.

:23:14. > :23:22.Stevens of the United States is coming up.

:23:23. > :23:25.Thompson is second then Dina Asher-Smith.

:23:26. > :23:35.Well, she just may have all but overcooked the bend a little bit

:23:36. > :23:43.She had to go out hard and she had no choice.

:23:44. > :23:47.She looks at the clock and she sees 22 point 13 for Thompson

:23:48. > :24:09.If you get it perfect you finish strong but if you go a little bit

:24:10. > :24:18.You only need to crank it up a couple of percent and the amount

:24:19. > :24:21.of fatigue that is created in your legs is something you cannot

:24:22. > :24:24.turn around and I think that is what happened to Dina.

:24:25. > :24:26.But the quality of that meant that she had to commit.

:24:27. > :24:29.She would not be able to chase them down.

:24:30. > :24:33.When you look at the mark, perhaps she did not overcooked it.

:24:34. > :24:45.She will see in her peripheral vision Dafne Schippers.

:24:46. > :25:11.You can see she sways from side to side which is not unusual

:25:12. > :25:14.- sorry, not usual for Dina Asher-Smith.

:25:15. > :25:17.It is experience, an Olympic experience, and let us

:25:18. > :25:19.keep our fingers crossed that she is healthy

:25:20. > :25:35.Dina we know it is not over until it is over

:25:36. > :25:38.but for now you are obviously a little bit disappointed.

:25:39. > :25:46.I know I can do better than what I did right there.

:25:47. > :25:50.The bend was good but then I got into the wrong body position

:25:51. > :25:53.and it is difficult to correct and that makes you slow down quicker

:25:54. > :26:04.I don't know if it is good enough to be in the final which is very

:26:05. > :26:06.disappointing because I feel like I am in good shape.

:26:07. > :26:09.Stephen said at the beginning of the race in the commentary

:26:10. > :26:14.that there are no easy Olympic finals.

:26:15. > :26:21.I saw the list of names and I thought it was more

:26:22. > :26:31.And we will keep our fingers crossed.

:26:32. > :26:42.You just think something around 22.1...

:26:43. > :26:54.And she pointed out that the last 50 metres cost her time and a place.

:26:55. > :27:01.Robbie Grabarz his final attempt he must now clear

:27:02. > :27:18.That is the end of Robert Grabarz's bid to get back on the podium.

:27:19. > :27:45.That does not look like any sort of improvement either.

:27:46. > :27:48.Proctor, she has had her problems this year, but that does not look

:27:49. > :27:53.as if she is able to reach the final.

:27:54. > :28:35.21st place and disappointment for her.

:28:36. > :28:56.Stevens is one of the two fastest loser positions.

:28:57. > :29:05.The Ukrainian runner goes in lane five.

:29:06. > :29:30.She pulled out of the semifinal and she needed a valid medical reason.

:29:31. > :29:38.Angela Tenorio of Ecuador, 22.94 this season.

:29:39. > :29:47.An outstanding junior who was unbeaten for five years.

:29:48. > :29:54.As a 20-year-old she took silver in the Commonwealth Games.

:29:55. > :29:56.But also has a few hamstring injuries which almost

:29:57. > :30:18.Hackett was the one athlete we didn't see in lane eight.

:30:19. > :30:42.Two will go through automatically to tomorrow's final.

:30:43. > :31:00.Look out for Ta Lou and the Americans.

:31:01. > :31:02.It is Lalova-Collio and they are being run out

:31:03. > :31:12.Lalova-Collio and Ta Lou will go through.

:31:13. > :31:14.And those times mean that Dina Asher-Smith, unfortunately,

:31:15. > :31:20.will be out before the semifinal has even been run.

:31:21. > :31:34.At the moment I am looking at the times.

:31:35. > :31:36.At the moment, we have changed our minds and

:31:37. > :31:44.Let us have a look at Jodie Williams here.

:31:45. > :31:47.She is in the inside lane and she works hard around the term

:31:48. > :31:58.but she will always be under a lot of pressure.

:31:59. > :32:01.She is quite short and a little bit of a pocket rocket.

:32:02. > :32:03.Good maintenance of speed which is always paramount

:32:04. > :32:19.She struggled getting her fitness levels up and getting her speed work

:32:20. > :32:26.These are the things you need to be a good 200 metre runner.

:32:27. > :32:28.You do not want to spend time recovering, you want to work

:32:29. > :32:36.on the bits and pieces of the race that you think will improve it.

:32:37. > :32:38.Because, remember, just because you are injured

:32:39. > :32:42.and you cannot put the work in does not mean you are a bad athlete.

:32:43. > :32:43.She will get healthy and she will return,

:32:44. > :32:53.back to the top of her sprinting best soon enough.

:32:54. > :32:56.You cannot hide from a lack of training.

:32:57. > :33:02.Ta Lou, not too far from the Ivory Coast record.

:33:03. > :33:10.Those times as you see there, Ella Nelson is 22.50,

:33:11. > :33:27.As we heard in an interview with Dina, no semifinals are easy

:33:28. > :33:33.How would you assess the way that you went?

:33:34. > :33:43.That is not what I wanted to come out and do bite,

:33:44. > :33:46.That is not what I wanted to come out and do but,

:33:47. > :33:49.you know, it is a semifinal and they will not be easy.

:33:50. > :33:52.What will you take forward from the experience?

:33:53. > :33:55.You have been through quite a lot to return to this point.

:33:56. > :34:03.To be honest I feel quite lucky to even be here.

:34:04. > :34:07.My coach told me before to remember that I have done it and I have

:34:08. > :34:14.Only 24 people in the world every four years make a semifinal

:34:15. > :34:20.so in hindsight I will be OK with it but right now I am disappointed.

:34:21. > :35:04.Derek Drouin Of Canada, look at the face stop the Canadians

:35:05. > :35:07.-- Derek Drouin Of Canada, look at the face.

:35:08. > :35:08.The Canadians are celebrating already.

:35:09. > :35:13.The way he goes over this bar has been a pleasure to watch.

:35:14. > :35:38.Long jump qualifying is done and dusted.

:35:39. > :35:45.Jazmin Sawyers also in 12th place and progressing to tomorrow's final.

:35:46. > :35:57.Well, we saw this a little while ago.

:35:58. > :36:05.This was the Qatari jumper's response.

:36:06. > :36:17.Bondarenko took his Ukrainian flag of his head.

:36:18. > :36:20.It looks as if he has got away with a silver medal

:36:21. > :36:30.Bondarenko, however, it can push him because he has

:36:31. > :37:04.He needs to go with the time allotted and he needs

:37:05. > :37:16.Derek Drouin is in gold-medal spot at the moment and it is only

:37:17. > :37:27.Bondarenko will be under pressure from the clock.

:37:28. > :37:28.Pressure mounting upon capable

:37:29. > :37:38.The smile on the face of Derek Drouin, the realisation

:37:39. > :37:46.He has not failed across any height.

:37:47. > :38:03.I think that means he doesn't want them.

:38:04. > :38:17.It's gold for Canada and Derek Drouin.

:38:18. > :38:30.And, um, that will be a popular win, Bondarenko with silver.

:38:31. > :38:31.Sadly for Robbie Grabarz, joint fourth place.

:38:32. > :38:37.So we move to the last semifinal of this 200m.

:38:38. > :38:43.These are the ones you expect to contend -

:38:44. > :38:52.of course we do - Michelle-Lee Ahye from Trinidad and Tobago,

:38:53. > :38:54.better at the 100m really, but is still very good at 200m.

:38:55. > :38:57.Murielle Ahoure, again best event is the 100m but,

:38:58. > :39:02.of course, can run a good 200m, but can they run quick enough -

:39:03. > :39:08.22.49 - Dina Ashwood hanging on to the fastest loser fast.

:39:09. > :39:34.I expect Tori Bowie to win this one, the American champion this year.

:39:35. > :39:36.Scipione, Elaine Thompson and this young lady,

:39:37. > :39:38.Odiong, are expected to be the medals.

:39:39. > :39:39.Germany got another young sprinter, Gina Lueckenkemper, 19-year-old.

:39:40. > :39:43.Again, she would have to run a personal best here to go faster

:39:44. > :39:49.And then Crystal Emmanuel on the inside.

:39:50. > :39:52.So I think this is going to be about whether whoever comes third -

:39:53. > :39:55.it's a massive assumption of course trying to give a result

:39:56. > :39:58.before they've even run - but Bowie in lane four should be

:39:59. > :40:05.the winner here, such a good 200m runner, and then Ahoure, Ahye -

:40:06. > :40:25.Times haven't been super quick in the 200m tonight.

:40:26. > :40:27.So the final semifinal, last one, first two...

:40:28. > :40:31.And then the so important two fastest loser spots are available.

:40:32. > :40:35.Ahoure starts quickly, as she always does.

:40:36. > :40:39.Ahoure leading, Bowie out the top bend but the American coming

:40:40. > :40:46.Ahye is trying to go with her and Ahoure trying to stay.

:40:47. > :40:48.If these move away, the gap to the third one is important.

:40:49. > :40:51.Facey finishing quickly nearest us, Bowie wins it, Ahye,

:40:52. > :41:06.I think Facey got third, 22.13 is the winning time.

:41:07. > :41:15.Dina Asher-Smith will be in the final!

:41:16. > :41:19.Sadly, she'll be in lane one or two because of the fastest-loser spot.

:41:20. > :41:22.They get the inside two lanes, but she does make the final, Colin,

:41:23. > :41:26.so a little bit of good news to come out of what was not a good

:41:27. > :41:30.No doubt about our winners, they are the big names,

:41:31. > :41:31.the big contenders are safely through, Bowie,

:41:32. > :41:42.That will be an epic final with quality athletes.

:41:43. > :41:47.It wouldn't surprise me if three of those ladies ran at 22.

:41:48. > :41:52.Ahye sets a national record in second place in 22.25.

:41:53. > :41:58.Still, though, Steve, I was thinking that these times

:41:59. > :42:00.are nowhere near as quick as we expected after

:42:01. > :42:11.And Dina Asher-Smith is going to be part of it.

:42:12. > :42:21.The winning time there had a slight following wind.

:42:22. > :42:25.They have everything in their favour, really.

:42:26. > :42:27.It's a new national record for Michelle-Lee Ahye.

:42:28. > :42:30.A season's best for Simone Facey, but sadly it wasn't quite understood

:42:31. > :42:32.enough, but that is good news for Dina Asher-Smith,

:42:33. > :42:35.because she will be in an Olympic final, albeit it in one

:42:36. > :42:43.of the tough inside lanes when the draw is eventually made.

:42:44. > :42:52.That's the fate that befalls the two fastest losers.

:42:53. > :42:55.Michelle-Lee Ahye might pick up the pieces if the top three falters.

:42:56. > :43:07.Well done to Dina Asher-Smith getting in by the skin of her teeth.

:43:08. > :43:10.We saw the same thing for Eilidh Doyle in her 400m hurdles

:43:11. > :43:12.and Jazmin Sawyers qualifying in 12th for the long jump final.

:43:13. > :43:15.There is something in the air today but they get to live

:43:16. > :43:25.Up next is the two Lauras, Weightman and Muir, lining up.

:43:26. > :43:27.For Laura Muir, it's been an interesting few years for her.

:43:28. > :43:30.Earlier this summer at the Anniversary Games,

:43:31. > :43:33.she broke Kelly Holmes's long-standing record.

:43:34. > :43:51.Somebody clipped my heel and I couldn't get in my stride...

:43:52. > :43:54.Probably one of the toughest moments of my year but I think

:43:55. > :44:04.As much as I wish it didn't happen, the fact that it did happen

:44:05. > :44:06.toughened me up a bit and, um, yeah, I'm ready

:44:07. > :44:17.This really is punishing running from Laura Muir.

:44:18. > :44:28.That's where it tends to slow down and dig in for the last little

:44:29. > :44:35.I was so shocked when I crossed the line.

:44:36. > :44:46.In a last race, to win like that on home soil with a record,

:44:47. > :44:50.it's the best prep I could ask for Rio.

:44:51. > :44:54.Before, people knew I was fast but not that I was a contender.

:44:55. > :45:00.Now they'll watch it and look out for me.

:45:01. > :45:02.The races will be slower and there'll be more bunched

:45:03. > :45:07.It's a matter of positioning well so you're not running wide

:45:08. > :45:12.Make sure you're in the top group at the front to

:45:13. > :45:17.It's about saving energy and getting through the rounds.

:45:18. > :45:21.Running the Olympics is something but to come away with proof, as it

:45:22. > :45:26.I don't think you could really put into words what that

:45:27. > :45:28.means for an athlete to get an Olympic medal.

:45:29. > :45:30.It's the pinnacle of what you train for every day

:45:31. > :45:36.She's come a long way in the last couple of years

:45:37. > :45:40.and looks impressive, Paula.

:45:41. > :45:43.She talked about navigating the heats and semifinals.

:45:44. > :45:45.She's got to the final but, as she mentioned there,

:45:46. > :45:56.She likes to run aggressively, how will she approach this?

:45:57. > :46:00.She'll need to decide does she, basically, gamble everything and go

:46:01. > :46:04.Or does she go to try and get a medal, which she's

:46:05. > :46:08.She knows she's very capable of that, and then try

:46:09. > :46:16.To lead an Olympic final from gun to tape is pretty much

:46:17. > :46:21.So she really needs one of the other girls to decide to take it out hard

:46:22. > :46:24.and then she could take it on after the first 600m

:46:25. > :46:26.but she needs somebody to set that up for her.

:46:27. > :46:29.You've looked at a few of her races this season for us and you've

:46:30. > :46:34.I think the biggest thing is - she said herself how much she's

:46:35. > :46:36.matured over the last couple of years, how much stronger

:46:37. > :46:40.This is a race in Stockholm early in the season.

:46:41. > :46:43.She'd come down from altitude, put in hard block of training

:46:44. > :46:46.and you could see, how she's running, she looks

:46:47. > :46:53.She's carrying a lot of hard work into that and this wasn't

:46:54. > :46:56.She's still battling in the home straight.

:46:57. > :46:59.You see there that the athlete who wasn't hasn't qualified

:47:00. > :47:09.She didn't worry about that race, Laura.

:47:10. > :47:12.She went away, put her head down, trained hard and did

:47:13. > :47:14.outstanding training, ran personal bests in training

:47:15. > :47:26.She was right behind the pacemaker, almost urging her on during the race

:47:27. > :47:30.and what was so impressive was the way she took it

:47:31. > :47:32.on after the pacemaker stepped aside and maintained her form, made Hassan

:47:33. > :47:35.look like she was struggling and Sifan Hassan is one

:47:36. > :47:43.She's also moved on since London so don't underestimate her.

:47:44. > :47:47.Laura went back up and beat that personal best again so she knows

:47:48. > :47:49.that she's in shape coming here today.

:47:50. > :48:00.Steve Cram and Brendan Foster will call this one.

:48:01. > :48:02.Well, this really is a mouth-watering 1,500m final.

:48:03. > :48:09.Her coach, Andy Young, is just along here he's in the Radio

:48:10. > :48:17.5 Live seats to get a better view down the home straight.

:48:18. > :48:20.Laura Weightman, of course, making the final as well.

:48:21. > :48:31.She had five stitches in her leg after the semifinal, um,

:48:32. > :48:35.but her leg is OK I'm pleased to say.

:48:36. > :48:40.So she's looking forward to this as well.

:48:41. > :48:43.This might be one of the best final fields we've ever be one of the best

:48:44. > :49:00.This might be one of the best final fields we've ever seen.

:49:01. > :49:02.Eight of these women were After this season finishes,

:49:03. > :49:05.Laura Muir has to do her placement in the Dog Trust in Darlington.

:49:06. > :49:09.That can wait for now because she has a chance to make

:49:10. > :49:33.Sado and Arafi are delighted to be in this final, I'm sure,

:49:34. > :49:40.Jenny Simpson, won the world title in 2011, a silver medal

:49:41. > :49:42.at the World Championships in 2013, doesn't have an Olympic medal.

:49:43. > :49:48.A lot of these women have run well under four minutes.

:49:49. > :49:51.I like Faith Kipyegon, a great little runner,

:49:52. > :49:53.Commonwealth champion, still just 22 years of age.

:49:54. > :50:02.Bahta chose to run the 1,500m rather than the 5,000m.

:50:03. > :50:05.She's European champion he longer distance.

:50:06. > :50:10.Former Ethiopian, running for Sweden.

:50:11. > :50:15.Laura Weightman, European bronze medallist,

:50:16. > :50:23.There's her sister and younger brother.

:50:24. > :50:33.Sifan Hassan - there's no love lost between Sifan Hassan and Genzebe

:50:34. > :50:39.She would love to beat this young lady here.

:50:40. > :50:43.Dibaba, in many ways, a bit of a controversial figure.

:50:44. > :50:45.Certainly some of the other 1,500m runners.

:50:46. > :50:48.Her coach recently involved in a doping controversy.

:50:49. > :50:51.Ennaoui of Poland - done very well to make it

:50:52. > :50:55.Probably her team-mate was more fancied to do that,

:50:56. > :51:03.Shannon Rowbury, former world bronze medallist.

:51:04. > :51:06.And a world indoor bronze medallist at 3,000m.

:51:07. > :51:13.World junior champion, world indoor silver medallist,

:51:14. > :51:17.Seyaum, as if there wasn't enough quality already in this.

:51:18. > :51:19.Quick word, Brendan, before the go?

:51:20. > :51:20.It certainly is a field of champions.

:51:21. > :51:26.World Championships this year and an interesting tactical approach.

:51:27. > :51:31.Because it's all about tactics today.

:51:32. > :51:32.The Olympic 1,500m final gets under way.

:51:33. > :51:36.And the nerves, which I'm sure are being felt as much by those

:51:37. > :51:38.watching, as though out there, can now disappear for

:51:39. > :51:46.The one thing you can sure of - it won't be that quick early on.

:51:47. > :51:51.The question, I think, is when will this catch fire?

:51:52. > :51:55.At the World Championships last year, Dibaba,

:51:56. > :52:02.who was in world-record shape, attacked with 800m to go,

:52:03. > :52:08.destroyed the field pretty much, caught Hassan unawares,

:52:09. > :52:11.ran 1:57 for the last 800m and nobody really caught them.

:52:12. > :52:14.Laura Muir was in the second group, if you like, and came

:52:15. > :52:16.through for a very good and a very credible fifth.

:52:17. > :52:17.But they're jogging, Rowbury, Weightman,

:52:18. > :52:20.Simpson but the big names - Kipyegon is just in the pack there.

:52:21. > :52:24.This is a saunter, a real jog and, of course, 1,500m running is not

:52:25. > :52:27.A lot of these women have fast times.

:52:28. > :52:30.It's tactics and knowing what to do and when to do it and executing it

:52:31. > :52:33.in a way which you hope will take you to the medals.

:52:34. > :52:36.It's a 1,200m race and less now because they literally are jogging

:52:37. > :52:39.and, quite sensibly and wisely, Laura Weightman goes to the front.

:52:40. > :52:43.But she hasn't done anything about her pace.

:52:44. > :52:50.Three of the favourites are in last, second last and third last place.

:52:51. > :52:53.Laura Muir, Hassan, and Genzebe Dibaba and they're

:52:54. > :52:56.going down the back straight with a very slow opening lap.

:52:57. > :52:58.I said at the start this is about tactics.

:52:59. > :53:00.Well, these athletes have run it as a distance race.

:53:01. > :53:03.They're making it a short distance race and somebody - is it Dibaba?

:53:04. > :53:10.- maybe Laura Muir has got something in her mind about going out

:53:11. > :53:16.We've seen her do that before in Oslo in the Anniversary Games.

:53:17. > :53:20.She's going to think about making a run for home.

:53:21. > :53:22.But Laura Weightman, Steve, in the lead, a reluctant leader

:53:23. > :53:25.I must say, looking anxiously around, looking up at the screen.

:53:26. > :53:28.None of them are relaxed at this point and here comes

:53:29. > :53:31.Laura Muir on the outside as they see the lap scorer,

:53:32. > :53:39.She knows it will be a move from this far out and she knows

:53:40. > :53:41.she's going to be it when they move.

:53:42. > :54:07.Can she go as hard as she did last year?

:54:08. > :54:09.She does not have the shock element that she achieved

:54:10. > :54:18.This is not as fast nor as hard that it but it

:54:19. > :54:21.This is not as fast nor as hard but it but it

:54:22. > :54:25.She needs to get closer and Seyaum is trying to get around.

:54:26. > :54:32.That was a fast 200 metres and I am not sure if Dibaba is as good

:54:33. > :54:45.She needs to aim for higher than a bronze medal because that

:54:46. > :55:01.Down the back straight goes the world record holder.

:55:02. > :55:03.Is she on her way to be the champion?

:55:04. > :55:05.Laura Muir needs to stick to her task.

:55:06. > :55:07.She is going to chase down Laura Muir.

:55:08. > :55:10.She burned hard to try and stay with Kipyegon.

:55:11. > :55:13.Dibaba has been caught up from behind.

:55:14. > :55:16.Laura Muir's race looks run and at the front it is Kipyegon

:55:17. > :55:24.Kipyegon of Kenya is streaking away down the home straight.

:55:25. > :55:30.This is a brilliant piece of running from the Commonwealth champion.

:55:31. > :55:35.She will become the Olympic champion.

:55:36. > :55:46.As scrap after that for the lower places.

:55:47. > :56:03.These two are so good, they make you go so hard.

:56:04. > :56:06.Poor Laura Muir gave everything and in so doing,

:56:07. > :56:09.her chances of winning a medal disappeared with those of two

:56:10. > :56:12.and others who sat off a little bit were able to come

:56:13. > :56:23.Simpson being congratulated by Laura Muir.

:56:24. > :56:28.And, you know, sometimes in going for gold, she went for gold.

:56:29. > :56:36.She went for something she believed she could get but in so doing

:56:37. > :56:39.she probably gave up her chance of hanging around and

:56:40. > :56:49.Laura Muir has given it everything and put herself in the right place.

:56:50. > :56:57.They have run an exceptional last 800 metres.

:56:58. > :57:13.They have run 1.57 for the last 400 metres.

:57:14. > :57:15.They have run 1.57 for the last 800 metres.

:57:16. > :57:19.The world record holder not as good as she was last year.

:57:20. > :57:23.She has attacked, Laura Muir, given herself every chance.

:57:24. > :57:34.Hassan, not as good as she was last year.

:57:35. > :57:39.The fading champion and world record holder coming in second place.

:57:40. > :57:48.Looking down the field, Jenny Simpson of the United States

:57:49. > :57:56.chasing down the world record holder.

:57:57. > :58:03.She was happy that Dibaba tried to win it.

:58:04. > :58:08.Kipyegon just working at it while Dibaba looking up at the screen.

:58:09. > :58:20.A silver medal and then a bronze medal for the United States.

:58:21. > :58:26.She tried to win it and sometimes if you go for gold you end up

:58:27. > :58:34.You said at the start that you liked Kipyegon.

:58:35. > :58:40.She has been running well and you were absolutely correct.

:58:41. > :58:47.We were talking in the bus on the way down that sometimes

:58:48. > :58:52.And you said that is how you run, you go for it.

:58:53. > :58:57.And sometimes when you do that you give up your chance for a medal.

:58:58. > :59:01.But just to sit back, that is what Simpson did.

:59:02. > :59:04.She knew this push would come and she came through

:59:05. > :59:21.Hassan just gave up her chance of a medal as she

:59:22. > :59:25.Laura Muir gave it absolutely everything and she tried to stay

:59:26. > :59:44.Jenny Simpson may have had a little bit more maturity just to sit

:59:45. > :59:47.back in the semifinal and save a bit of energy.

:59:48. > :59:51.Maybe that is what she had left in her tank.

:59:52. > :59:58.Laura Muir, that is how tired she is because she gambled everything.

:59:59. > :00:10.Laura, it was interesting listening link to Paula in commentary.

:00:11. > :00:13.I knew I was in great shape to do everything.

:00:14. > :00:27.But you were tracking two of the favourites.

:00:28. > :00:35.I was expecting it to be slow and then for them to come around.

:00:36. > :00:38.I was waiting for them and when they did I was

:00:39. > :00:41.on the straightaway and I follow them around but I could not hold on.

:00:42. > :00:47.Thank you to everybody at home for your support.

:00:48. > :00:51.You need to be proud of what you achieved this season.

:00:52. > :00:55.You are in contention and that shows how far you have come and how

:00:56. > :01:07.Thank you to my school and my club who provide me with

:01:08. > :01:29.The London marathon as well who funded my trips abroad.

:01:30. > :01:32.And my coach who has been with me through thick and thin.

:01:33. > :01:34.This is just a start for you, surely?

:01:35. > :01:36.It is my first Olympics and I gave it everything I could

:01:37. > :01:39.but that was just not enough there on the day.

:01:40. > :01:56.What a year she has had on there will be more to come.

:01:57. > :01:59.I know Andy will be feeling it a little bit more than Laura

:02:00. > :02:01.because they obviously knew they had an opportunity

:02:02. > :02:04.here and she could not have done anything more in terms

:02:05. > :02:08.She ran so hard for the last 800 metres.

:02:09. > :02:14.Dibaba not as good as last year, tried to do the same thing but had

:02:15. > :02:26.And a brilliant bronze medal for Jenny Simpson.

:02:27. > :02:30.But we salute both of them for flying the flag for

:02:31. > :02:53.So slow when pedestrian in the early stages and for somebody with such

:02:54. > :02:55.an aggressive runner that was quite frustrating.

:02:56. > :02:57.She wanted to take it on and she should be commended

:02:58. > :03:00.for that because she definitely put it all out there.

:03:01. > :03:04.She can hold her head high full she has the speed for a slow race

:03:05. > :03:08.and she could have reacted to that she could have run a race

:03:09. > :03:13.But there is nothing you can do, no matter how much you want to keep

:03:14. > :03:15.going, she could not will herself down the home straight.

:03:16. > :03:41.She is very young and she has learnt from this.

:03:42. > :03:43.wondering if that is the right approach to go for gold

:03:44. > :03:47.If you have not won a World Championship medal,

:03:48. > :03:50.if the opportunity is there if you take the opportunity to grab

:03:51. > :03:53.a medal will build confidence and there is always a possibility

:03:54. > :04:01.that that opportunity may never come again.

:04:02. > :04:03.Not that she will never make a World Championship

:04:04. > :04:05.or Olympic team again, but there was a door open

:04:06. > :04:23.And that was a decision where she sat down with her coach

:04:24. > :04:32.They decided to run this race no matter what.

:04:33. > :04:34.And when Dibaba went, you had to decide like that.

:04:35. > :04:39.I am not an expert at distance margin, but that is the margin

:04:40. > :04:43.You make a decision and once you are committed,

:04:44. > :04:58.I think she has had a phenomenal seas what she has shown over

:04:59. > :05:02.I think she has had a phenomenal season, she has shown over

:05:03. > :05:05.the last two seasons, her growth, it has been massive

:05:06. > :05:07.I remember sitting outside, she was crying her eyes out.

:05:08. > :05:12.The person who should be kicking themselves is Hassan.

:05:13. > :05:21.She can see what is going on ahead that she is shadowing Dibaba

:05:22. > :05:26.Kipyegon has been the world leader this year and has what it possesses

:05:27. > :05:39.to defeat Dibaba when Dibaba is not fully on.

:05:40. > :05:42.She has been struggling with an injury and other things

:05:43. > :05:44.around her and keep guided her time, Laura Muir covered the move.

:05:45. > :05:53.She looks as if she is comfortable and is feeling good.

:05:54. > :05:54.She can feel Kipyegon on her shoulder.

:05:55. > :05:57.Hassan is not even in the picture at this minute.

:05:58. > :06:00.And by not reacting sooner or moving up quickly enough she probably gave

:06:01. > :06:05.away the chance to go away with that as well.

:06:06. > :06:08.The difference between running on the diamond league circuit

:06:09. > :06:11.or places where there are pacemakers and competition element like this,

:06:12. > :06:15.it is tactics and it is difficult to practise tactics

:06:16. > :06:27.if you are running in a race with a pacemaker.

:06:28. > :06:30.You can only practise tactics in a World Championship or Olympic final.

:06:31. > :06:32.And that is what Laura Muir tried to do.

:06:33. > :06:35.She knew she was up against Dibaba's time of last year.

:06:36. > :06:38.She did not think Dibaba was capable of that, but Kipyegon was.

:06:39. > :06:40.If she could have kept going, but she cannot because

:06:41. > :06:54.And burned so much of her pace and speed to get to that point.

:06:55. > :07:00.She really is treading water and hanging on.

:07:01. > :07:03.You can feel athletes coming past you and you just desperately

:07:04. > :07:06.What does that feel like physically?

:07:07. > :07:16.Down your back, in your arms, you just really feel it.

:07:17. > :07:35.That is why you see her fall to the line and why she had

:07:36. > :07:58.an emotional interview afterwards because she is so exhausted.

:07:59. > :08:03.Ronnie Ash, second at the US trials behind Devon Allen,

:08:04. > :08:18.And Dimitri Bascou, the second of the French athletes.

:08:19. > :08:22.Montreal, 1976, the only French winner of this title.

:08:23. > :08:41.Orlando Ortega, a Cuban who now runs for Spain -

:08:42. > :08:43.there's a great Cuban history at this event.

:08:44. > :08:47.But Omar McLeod may well be the man to beat, the only man to go below

:08:48. > :08:53.A couple of falls in the build-up to Rio, a sign of what can go wrong

:08:54. > :08:55.in the hurledles, but we'll give you a full look

:08:56. > :09:12.Cabral of Canada in two, then Devon Allen, Pascal

:09:13. > :09:13.Martinot-Lagarde, Omar McLeod, Dimitri Bascou, Ortega,

:09:14. > :09:32.Colin Jackson alongside me for this one.

:09:33. > :09:34.He's a man who tried - and you know what can

:09:35. > :09:38.You were a World Champion who was a chance in the Olympics.

:09:39. > :09:46.We don't have the defending champion.

:09:47. > :09:50.David Oliver, the World Champion, suffered an injury at the US trials

:09:51. > :10:19.You're looking at five or six who could win here.

:10:20. > :10:22.I was looking at your notes and you've got so many things lined

:10:23. > :10:24.up because so many different things-and-could happen but I think

:10:25. > :10:26.the favourite is there, Omar McLeod.

:10:27. > :10:30.As long as he keeps his head - this is the most important thing,

:10:31. > :10:32.because he's the fastest in his field.

:10:33. > :10:35.He can absolutely run anybody down off that last hurdle.

:10:36. > :10:38.He only needs to be even with the whole pack

:10:39. > :10:41.and with his general leg speed, it will take him clear of the field.

:10:42. > :10:43.Bascou from France, I think he's coming of age.

:10:44. > :10:46.He's won a couple of championships now and he's getting more and more

:10:47. > :10:49.confident in what he can do in these circumstances and I think

:10:50. > :10:52.here at the Olympic Games, that will put him in good stead.

:10:53. > :10:55.He's gone for a racy sawn-off sleeve number, Dimitri Bascou.

:10:56. > :10:58.He's the European champion and, again, both he and Pascal

:10:59. > :11:00.Martinot-Lagarde will present a serious threat for France.

:11:01. > :11:02.A handshake and arm round the shoulder from

:11:03. > :11:05.McLeod won in Doha in the Diamond League, in Shanghai,

:11:06. > :11:08.and then fell in Monaco in the Diamond League meeting

:11:09. > :11:21.His last two races into Rio were not confidence-boos terse.

:11:22. > :11:24.His last two races into Rio were not confidence-boosters.

:11:25. > :11:26.No, they weren't but, you know, for him, the most important thing

:11:27. > :11:29.is not to make those mistakes in the training.

:11:30. > :11:30.That's where you get your confidence.

:11:31. > :11:32.The young Spaniard, Ortega, is one to watch too.

:11:33. > :11:36.Johnathan Cabral took advantage when Lawrence Clarke hit the final

:11:37. > :11:38.There's Devon Allen, 21-year-old US champion.

:11:39. > :11:43.His first international meeting, the Olympic Games.

:11:44. > :11:53.Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, a history of not managing to live up

:11:54. > :11:55.to his huge talent in major championships.

:11:56. > :12:03.So McLeod flanked by the two French athletes and Orlando Ortega

:12:04. > :12:06.wearing the vest of spab - he fell out with the Cuban

:12:07. > :12:15.Think of all the American hurdlers who have won this

:12:16. > :12:20.in Roger Kingdom and Alan Johnson, Merritt in London.

:12:21. > :12:42.We will have a new Olympic Champion with Merritt not here.

:12:43. > :12:44.We have Cabral and we have Devon Allen, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde,

:12:45. > :12:47.Omar McLeod, Dimitri Bascou, there in lane six, Orlando Ortega,

:12:48. > :13:10.And we are ready for the final of the men's 110m hurdles.

:13:11. > :13:12.Cleanly away, Omar McLeod out so quickly.

:13:13. > :13:14.Bascou alongside and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde trying to get

:13:15. > :13:17.those long legs moving, clipping a barrier.

:13:18. > :13:20.Omar McLeod rocked back but McLeod coming through now.

:13:21. > :13:23.He has that speed and McLeod to the line and to the title ahead

:13:24. > :13:35.But it's not about the time, it is about the gold

:13:36. > :13:39.Ortega came through so quickly for the silver as well.

:13:40. > :13:54.Omar McLeod the favourite and when the favourite

:13:55. > :13:56.delivers you have to applaud because all the pressure,

:13:57. > :13:59.all the things that can go wrong in the hurdles...

:14:00. > :14:03.It's great to see him do that really.

:14:04. > :14:06.He's been in the shadows of the runner-up last year

:14:07. > :14:19.After all the injury problems he's had because he's had countless

:14:20. > :14:26.When you get a season behind you of a good winter where you can

:14:27. > :14:30.prepare properly with no real major issues...

:14:31. > :14:32.And that's what happened to Omar this year and he's

:14:33. > :14:37.Personal best in the sprint with that sub-10-second run,

:14:38. > :14:39.the only sprint hurdlers to have done that, actually.

:14:40. > :14:52.But for me, I'm kind of thinking I'm pleased that I see two

:14:53. > :14:57.That is a real good sign for European sprint

:14:58. > :15:10.hurdling which means we're in the mix now again.

:15:11. > :15:12.Let's have a look at the race itself.

:15:13. > :15:20.I was slightly anxious because he came off the first Hurd

:15:21. > :15:23.well a bit of imbalance but he settled quickly.

:15:24. > :15:32.He sinks down and then goes just stay there, no pressure.

:15:33. > :15:36.There's no rush, no urgency with the hurdling and that's

:15:37. > :15:50.what you want to do when you want to try and win a major title.

:15:51. > :16:00.Bascou good enough for a bronze medal.

:16:01. > :16:07.This is now the traditional way to finish a sprint.

:16:08. > :16:14.The hurl across the line didn't quite work for Ronnie Ash there.

:16:15. > :16:23.Oh, you see there - Omar skied that barrier

:16:24. > :16:29.but he settles back into the rhythm quite quickly.

:16:30. > :16:32.Because he's been unchallenged most of the year, he didn't have to test

:16:33. > :16:43.Early on he had to decide what to do.

:16:44. > :16:49.He got over the barriers nice and clean and won the gold.

:16:50. > :16:51.It was the fifth barrier which did for Bascou actually.

:16:52. > :16:54.That rocked him back and lost him a bit of momentum for the second

:16:55. > :17:04.So it's McLeod with a victory, Ortega - you saw what it

:17:05. > :17:09.meant to him to get the silver medal for Spain.

:17:10. > :17:11.And Dimitri Bascou held on for the bronze

:17:12. > :17:14.but that is the face, the dance, the celebration of a man

:17:15. > :17:21.A good race, a great win for Omar McLeod.

:17:22. > :17:24.Ortega, silver, Bascou the bronze, just edging out his fellow

:17:25. > :17:27.countryman, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, he finished just outside

:17:28. > :17:34.Not to be for the Americans, Allen and Ronnie Ash down

:17:35. > :17:42.They're calling it lane eight there but it's lane nine that seems

:17:43. > :17:45.to have become the demon lane that seems to be ruining a lot

:17:46. > :17:55.He was running well and then it just Omar McLeod what had the huge gap

:17:56. > :18:01.between him and the rest of the field.

:18:02. > :18:11.The hurdles has been wide open all season and,

:18:12. > :18:14.you know, he just needed to get out there and run his race

:18:15. > :18:30.It's been a mixed night for British athletes this evening.

:18:31. > :18:32.Bronze medallist from London, Robbie Grabarz, was going

:18:33. > :18:47.He was pointing to say, hold on, the official put the white flag up

:18:48. > :19:03.And so what we understand is that the reason why

:19:04. > :19:06.he was allowed to negate that jump was because it was the official's

:19:07. > :19:11.fault because the rules say you've got to get off the mat and that's

:19:12. > :19:14.the time when you measure the jump so it was the organisers going, OK,

:19:15. > :19:23.I think it was because Robbie sold it and said, "It's your

:19:24. > :19:36.He would clearly make a good barrister.

:19:37. > :19:41.It's the cruellest place to finish, fourth, obviously in

:19:42. > :19:44.an Olympic Games and you know a medal was so, so close.

:19:45. > :19:48.Yeah, I made one fatal error at 2.25m and it cost me a medal.

:19:49. > :19:50.I'm really proud of that, fourth place in an Olympic Games is

:19:51. > :20:01.I just want to know at 2.33m what was going on.

:20:02. > :20:03.You cleared the height, the bar fell off...

:20:04. > :20:07.It was a technicality that they held up the white flag which means

:20:08. > :20:17.that's the end of your go and the bar was cleared.

:20:18. > :20:19.It did fall off but technically they'd given me the clearance.

:20:20. > :20:22.Um, and then I explained the rules to them and then they had

:20:23. > :20:26.It was a little bit stressful there but, um, yeah,

:20:27. > :20:29.you don't want to clear a bar by a technicality but they made

:20:30. > :20:32.a mistake or they ended the jump too soon and I got the clearance.

:20:33. > :20:36.With that, you'd equalled your season's best.

:20:37. > :20:39.Are you then thinking you could go on and grab that medal that

:20:40. > :20:45.If they didn't give me the pass, I was going to, you know,

:20:46. > :20:48.pass the next bar and go for broke at 2.35m but unfortunately it wasn't

:20:49. > :20:52.What about the man that did take it in the end, Derek Drouin?

:20:53. > :21:00.There's great camaraderie between you all?

:21:01. > :21:03.He's one of the greatest guys to jump against and I'm happy

:21:04. > :21:11.Derek Drouin of Canada won that in 2.38m and here

:21:12. > :21:18.Ireland in the 400m semifinal and he came

:21:19. > :21:22.through with a new national record and has sent himself and,

:21:23. > :21:24.no doubt, a delighted Ireland at this result here,

:21:25. > :21:33.Textbook racing when you come to the Olympics.

:21:34. > :21:36.You need to get into the final so you run

:21:37. > :21:41.And he should be very, very proud of himself.

:21:42. > :21:50.What a time to set a national record and win a place

:21:51. > :22:01.Literally couldn't have been any more perfectly timed.

:22:02. > :22:04.Um, genuinely, I cannot believe this because I've had a very mishap year

:22:05. > :22:06.with injuries so, I mean, this is amazing, to come...

:22:07. > :22:09.Winning not only a place in the final, winning my semifinal

:22:10. > :22:18.So on the block, seriously, what did you hope to achieve?

:22:19. > :22:20.To be honest, actually, I felt really good today,

:22:21. > :22:23.a lot better than I did yesterday, so I was hoping, you know,

:22:24. > :22:25.secretly hoping to make it to a final, but I...

:22:26. > :22:35.I was coming through the tunnel to come down to the track,

:22:36. > :22:39.I saw that the times were in around 48-mid to get through so I thought

:22:40. > :22:45.it was manageable if I could pull out a PB and I did just that.

:22:46. > :22:47.You actually nailed the race, didn't you?

:22:48. > :22:49.Yeah, I just felt really comfortable, yeah.

:22:50. > :22:51.It was - I absolutely got my stride pattern spot on.

:22:52. > :22:55.I may have had to reach a little bit for hurdle six but that's the only

:22:56. > :22:58.thing that sticks out in my mind that I didn't do right.

:22:59. > :23:00.In a final, who knows what can happen?

:23:01. > :23:27.A quick look at the table after five days:

:23:28. > :23:32.to come for Great Britain, and it was a day of just getting

:23:33. > :23:37.through things by the skin of your teeth.

:23:38. > :23:39.We saw Dina Asher-Smith hanging on, praying nervously...

:23:40. > :23:50.She made it through as fast as loser in that 200 metre final.

:23:51. > :23:54.And in the long jump, well, they both qualified automatically,

:23:55. > :23:56.but Jasmine Sawyers was in 12th place, so again,

:23:57. > :24:00.I'm so used to seeing Jasmine doing that.

:24:01. > :24:05.She manages to just raise her game every time she competes.

:24:06. > :24:08.We saw it in the trials, getting that qualification to be

:24:09. > :24:10.actually here, and the person for me that's most

:24:11. > :24:17.It's the second time her Olympics have gone to tatters with that

:24:18. > :24:19.wonderful silver medal last year at the World Championships.

:24:20. > :24:22.I was expecting her to take that forward, and unfortunately

:24:23. > :24:33.A really disappointing series, and on the third and final jump,

:24:34. > :24:36.all she needed was 6.60, which she is more than capable of doing.

:24:37. > :24:41.She got the white flag but the distance did not appear,

:24:42. > :24:48.and you can tell by her face she is very disappointed.

:24:49. > :24:52.The Soviet athlete did compete as the only Russian athlete

:24:53. > :24:55.here in this athletics meet in Rio and did qualify.

:24:56. > :24:59.There was a bit of controversy about the fact that she was the only

:25:00. > :25:02.one, and by virtue of the fact that she was the only Russian,

:25:03. > :25:06.she trains and gets her drug testing done in America,

:25:07. > :25:17.so therefore she is classed as being an American almost.

:25:18. > :25:22.Yeah, she brought her case to the Court of Arbitration

:25:23. > :25:25.for Sport and the IAAF, and was able to substantiate her situation,

:25:26. > :25:28.that she trains in the US, she has trained in the US

:25:29. > :25:31.Others like LaShawn Merritt down in Florida.

:25:32. > :25:35.Those athletes are testing on a regular basis in the US,

:25:36. > :25:38.and so they brought her case and decided that she hadn't been

:25:39. > :25:41.in Russia subject to that situation where athletes were being allowed

:25:42. > :25:48.She had to appeal at the last minute to take part because the IAAF

:25:49. > :25:52.They got extra information from McLaren, who carried

:25:53. > :25:55.out the McLaren report and investigation, which they felt

:25:56. > :26:01.Under the IOC rules, she could come and compete,

:26:02. > :26:07.And within the competitive community here, would she be welcomed?

:26:08. > :26:09.Is there any sense that it's a slight anomaly,

:26:10. > :26:17.I think everyone, at least when they step back,

:26:18. > :26:21.everyone has put all the Russians into one box,

:26:22. > :26:23.because of the system, not necessarily because of

:26:24. > :26:30.The system allowed them to do that, so I think everyone

:26:31. > :26:38.Once the athletes start competing, they are not thinking about,

:26:39. > :26:40.that's the Russian athlete, they are just competing.

:26:41. > :26:43.I think they recognise as well, once you are outside of the system,

:26:44. > :26:49.no one wanted to see an innocent athlete get punished.

:26:50. > :26:52.Russia needed to be punished as a country but there are innocent

:26:53. > :26:54.athletes who have suffered and haven't been able to come

:26:55. > :26:57.to an Olympic Games, and, when you satisfy the criteria

:26:58. > :26:59.and you are outside, and I think she has probably been

:27:00. > :27:01.tested more than some athletes from other countries that

:27:02. > :27:05.don't have that testing, and it's not a level playing

:27:06. > :27:10.field on that front, so they probably do recognise,

:27:11. > :27:12.if you are based outside, you have a right to come

:27:13. > :27:15.here and compete because you have complied with the system.

:27:16. > :27:20.She has got through to that final anyway.

:27:21. > :27:23.Just another word on Laura as well, Laura Muir, and Laura Weightman

:27:24. > :27:26.The brutality, we talked about it in terms of qualifying,

:27:27. > :27:28.but those races are so difficult to navigate.

:27:29. > :27:36.I was looking at a comment from Kelly Holmes saying she forgot

:27:37. > :27:41.how hard it was out there, and sometimes you are on and can

:27:42. > :27:47.do it, but sometimes the response is unfair,

:27:48. > :27:51.and you don't have the response to be able to come back and fight,

:27:52. > :27:53.and Laura didn't quite have what you thought she had

:27:54. > :27:58.We are going to hear now from the new Olympic high

:27:59. > :28:04.jump champion, described as one of the good guys.

:28:05. > :28:07.Derek, Olympic champion - it's got to sound so sweet right now.

:28:08. > :28:10.Obviously this is something I've been dreaming about for the last

:28:11. > :28:16.I've been thinking it's a possibility, but for it

:28:17. > :28:19.to come true, I don't think it's sunk in yet.

:28:20. > :28:21.I remember reading that you value your bronze medal

:28:22. > :28:24.from London above your World Championships gold medal.

:28:25. > :28:27.That's how much the Olympics means to you.

:28:28. > :28:30.Now you have that prized gold medal and no one can take

:28:31. > :28:36.It's something I've been dreaming of my entire life, and it's

:28:37. > :28:42.going to be really, really tough to top this.

:28:43. > :28:45.I guess I'll try to match it in four years.

:28:46. > :28:47.Also can you take in right now what you've achieved?

:28:48. > :28:51.I feel like I don't even have the emotions to properly deal

:28:52. > :29:01.How will it be received back at home by family and friends?

:29:02. > :29:06.I was upset I wasn't able to get up in the crowd to hug my family

:29:07. > :29:09.but they were right there, right in the front row,

:29:10. > :29:11.so I'm happy they were here to watch it.

:29:12. > :29:17.Well done to Derek Drouin because there was disappointment

:29:18. > :29:19.for Shawn Barber last night in the pole vault,

:29:20. > :29:33.They've had the bronze medals from Degrasse and Tyson Eaton.

:29:34. > :29:43.Before we go, though, we just have one little extra piece

:29:44. > :29:52.of analysis which we think you might like to see.

:29:53. > :30:06.What you didn't see was when I finally got it,

:30:07. > :30:18.I'm not staring at you but I look like I'm demonically staring at you.

:30:19. > :30:39.When I chase something, I chase it to the end!

:30:40. > :30:43.I don't know what the last part was...

:30:44. > :30:49.Probably not one of my better moments...

:30:50. > :30:56.It's all about the small victories, and you had a big victory

:30:57. > :31:06.OK, it's heading into the witching hour now, the silly hour.

:31:07. > :31:09.The athletics is over but there's so much more to come tomorrow.

:31:10. > :31:13.Mo Farah is back on the track in the morning for the 5000 metre

:31:14. > :31:16.heats, which of course will be around two o'clock your time,

:31:17. > :31:19.so make sure you are with us for that one, but I'm

:31:20. > :31:21.going to hand you back now to Jason Mohammad.

:31:22. > :31:27.We could have done with Michael Johnson in the Stade de

:31:28. > :31:31.France on the eve of the Euro 2016 final when it was invaded by moths.

:31:32. > :31:34.That's the moment of the games so far for me.

:31:35. > :31:40.Another cracking day in track and field, another

:31:41. > :31:50.Britain's Laura Trott becomes the first British woman to win

:31:51. > :31:53.four Olympic gold medals after retaining her title.

:31:54. > :32:01.Two golds in London, two more in Rio, and she's only 24.

:32:02. > :32:04.Not to be outdone, Jason Kenny followed his fiancee on to the top

:32:05. > :32:07.step of the velodrome podium for the third time in Brazil.

:32:08. > :32:10.Another gold means Kenny joins former teammate Sir Chris Hoy

:32:11. > :32:13.as a six-time Olympic gold-medallist, also

:32:14. > :32:23.The cycling medals didn't stop there.

:32:24. > :32:26.Becky James and Katie Marchand took silver and bronze respectively

:32:27. > :32:31.Four medals on the final day capping off a dominant

:32:32. > :32:34.display in the velodrome, 11 medals in total, nine more

:32:35. > :32:43.Confirmation today that Giles Scott has secured gold in

:32:44. > :32:54.Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark also all but guaranteed gold,

:32:55. > :33:02.although that will not be confirmed until after Wednesday's medal race.

:33:03. > :33:06.Gymnast Amy Tinkler won a brilliant bronze on the floor.

:33:07. > :33:10.The 16-year-old is Team GB's youngest athlete and has had

:33:11. > :33:24.And there was another GB gymnastics bronze in the men's horizontal bar

:33:25. > :33:31.That saw the team round out an amazing campaign with seven

:33:32. > :33:42.These headlines keep coming and coming.

:33:43. > :33:45.Diving now, and Jack Laugher claimed the second medal of the games

:33:46. > :33:47.after gold in the synchronised three metre springboard last week.

:33:48. > :34:05.The final medal of the day was bronze for Joshua Buatsi

:34:06. > :34:08.in the light heavyweight category, while Joe Joyce and Nicola Adams

:34:09. > :34:14.both guaranteed themselves a bronze at least with wins today.

:34:15. > :34:17.All in all, nine medals mean Great Britain exceeded their UK

:34:18. > :34:20.sport medal target of 48 with five days to spare.

:34:21. > :34:22.They now have 50 - that's a Great Britain record

:34:23. > :34:28.The United States lead the way with 28 golds,

:34:29. > :34:31.28 silvers, 28 bronze, a total of 84, but Great Britain,

:34:32. > :34:45.We've got lots of sport going on right now.

:34:46. > :34:48.If you fancy a little bit of beach volleyball,

:34:49. > :34:50.this is a cracking game, Italy against Russia

:34:51. > :34:53.in the men's semi-final, the iconic venue of

:34:54. > :35:04.A good crowd considering it is 11:13 p.m.

:35:05. > :35:06.Also on the red button, the women's quarter-final

:35:07. > :35:20.in the basketball, France taking on Canada.

:35:21. > :35:22.Lots of great sport, but Brazil has been waiting a long

:35:23. > :35:34.Could it come to light in the light heavyweight?

:35:35. > :35:48.The 60kg lightweight gold-medal bout contested between boxers

:35:49. > :35:57.27 years of age, competing in his third Olympic Games here,

:35:58. > :36:01.and inspired by the home support, he has booked his place in this

:36:02. > :36:05.gold-medal contest with some terrific performances.

:36:06. > :36:10.The man wearing blue has been razor sharp all tournament long,

:36:11. > :36:14.the 21-year-old from France, ranked number six in the world,

:36:15. > :36:18.the tournament number seven seed, the man trying to spoil

:36:19. > :36:25.Who is going to get their tactics right?

:36:26. > :36:29.Both good long-range men but Conceicao on the front foot,

:36:30. > :36:35.very dominant indeed, and he has the crowd behind him.

:36:36. > :36:38.But make no mistake, this Frenchman is a class

:36:39. > :36:44.These men were scheduled to meet at a tournament in Cuba just

:36:45. > :36:52.The record will show Robson Conceicao won,

:36:53. > :36:55.but that was a walkover as the Frenchman was unable

:36:56. > :37:01.to take his place in the semi-final stage.

:37:02. > :37:08.The atmosphere here is really incredible.

:37:09. > :37:14.Conceicao used this atmosphere to produce a win over Alvarez,

:37:15. > :37:25.the reigning gold-medallist, to book his place.

:37:26. > :37:28.Just made a mistake, landing shots and going back

:37:29. > :37:30.to try to get back to safety with the safety distance,

:37:31. > :37:34.Conceicao for me, this jab of his has been

:37:35. > :37:45.This is a good start from the Brazilian here.

:37:46. > :37:48.Look at that single jab, in and out with the feet,

:37:49. > :37:55.good timing, measuring the distance, Conceicao.

:37:56. > :38:16.Conceicao picked up a cut in that semi-final win.

:38:17. > :38:18.Good movement from the waist to avoid those punches.

:38:19. > :38:21.He is boxing very well indeed, hitting without being hit in reply.

:38:22. > :38:22.Sofiane Oumiha gets caught going out.

:38:23. > :38:25.Funny, the Brazilian is slightly better.

:38:26. > :38:45.Good movement on the retreat once again from Conceicao.

:38:46. > :38:48.For me, the Brazilian is slightly better.

:38:49. > :38:50.An opening round full of thought and concentration

:38:51. > :38:54.In stark contrast to the party that's happening up

:38:55. > :39:00.Both parties deciding to stand and not sit.

:39:01. > :39:04.This fellow for me had the better start here on the front foot.

:39:05. > :39:13.The crowd really playing their part here.

:39:14. > :39:15.Look, just making your opponent miss by inches

:39:16. > :39:30.And it's 10-9 across the board in favour of the man in red.

:39:31. > :39:45.So into the second round we go, and the man wearing red,

:39:46. > :39:48.Robson Conceicao, the fifth-ranked boxer in the world,

:39:49. > :39:56.the number four seed, has worked his way wonderfully

:39:57. > :40:04.Good tactics from Conceicao here, on the front foot.

:40:05. > :40:15.He started quickly, but again Oumiha trying to land that left hook.

:40:16. > :40:17.It's just not getting home, and that right hand of his,

:40:18. > :40:21.accuracy is not there compared to his opponent.

:40:22. > :40:28.Conceicao working better with the jab and the right hand.

:40:29. > :40:31.Oumiha had a terrific run through to this semi-final stage

:40:32. > :40:52.eliminating the only man to defeat Lomichenko.

:40:53. > :40:56.He produced a fantastic display against the tournament number three

:40:57. > :41:00.seed to book his place here in this gold-medal bout.

:41:01. > :41:03.He is coping with the occasion well, Oumiha, but struggling to find

:41:04. > :41:07.the range consistently for his own shots, and Conceicao

:41:08. > :41:13.appearing preternaturally calm, helping himself to a good one too.

:41:14. > :41:15.Two quality performers here, but in this cat

:41:16. > :41:21.Look at Conceicao, on the ball, 100% concentration, and beating

:41:22. > :41:31.The concentration levels are very high for the man in red.

:41:32. > :41:51.But better quality is coming from the Brazilian.

:41:52. > :41:53.Oumiha with a sneaking glance to his corner.

:41:54. > :41:56.Evidence of that eye injury that Conceicao picked up in his

:41:57. > :42:01.Both boxers having to work so hard for their openings, but look at that

:42:02. > :42:04.left hand from Conceicao once again, and a left jab causes Oumiha

:42:05. > :42:10.The referee ruled it a slip but for my money the most

:42:11. > :42:12.fundamental of all boxing punches got through and aided him

:42:13. > :42:18.They saw that, and also the judges, so again a dominant

:42:19. > :42:22.Lovely punch picking, straight punches, basic

:42:23. > :42:24.work by the Brazilian, but it's working very

:42:25. > :42:50.And these men know that their boxer is surely just three minutes away

:42:51. > :42:52.in terms of action in a ring from being crowned Olympic

:42:53. > :42:58.gold-medallist at this, his home Olympics.

:42:59. > :43:05.Concentration is the name of the game in a contest like this,

:43:06. > :43:09.and it's been demonstrated in abundance here by Conceicao.

:43:10. > :43:12.He is in and out with the work, using the basic punches,

:43:13. > :43:30.But I just think he's been beaten to the punch, and again it's

:43:31. > :43:33.the judges that matter, so let's take a look.

:43:34. > :43:35.And Robson Conceicao has swept the board

:43:36. > :43:41.He leads by two points from all three judges.

:43:42. > :43:45.So into the third and final round we go.

:43:46. > :43:49.The boxer wearing red, Robson Conceicao of Brazil,

:43:50. > :43:52.a man who has been a poster boy not just for the boxing tournament

:43:53. > :43:55.but for the entire Olympic Games, has the two points advantage

:43:56. > :44:05.His concentration has been absolute, he has demonstrated a laserlike

:44:06. > :44:11.focus to repel the advances of Oumiha, who has had moments

:44:12. > :44:17.The reigning European games silver-medallist,

:44:18. > :44:20.but now the man in blue has a mountain to climb to overcome

:44:21. > :44:28.He needs a 10-8 round just get back to parity.

:44:29. > :44:31.Oumiha needs the round of his life because he has put his

:44:32. > :44:40.It's an all or nothing approach from Oumiha.

:44:41. > :44:50.He will have to take risks to land that power shot.

:44:51. > :44:53.He will have to be in that zone to land that bent arm shot that

:44:54. > :44:56.could cause an upset here, but by doing that he is in a zone

:44:57. > :44:59.and an area where he could get caught himself.

:45:00. > :45:03.Oumiha has to go for broke but he is facing an educated,

:45:04. > :45:05.intelligent boxer in the form of Robson Conceicao.

:45:06. > :45:09.Former World Championship silver-medallist in 2013.

:45:10. > :45:12.And this man, who was a street vendor on the streets of Salvador

:45:13. > :45:15.as a child, calls himself a survivor.

:45:16. > :45:17.Used to hawk vegetables, knocking on car windows

:45:18. > :45:21.when they came to traffic lights, and he said his personality,

:45:22. > :45:25.what he euphemistically called quarrelsome...

:45:26. > :45:30.He had an uncle who was quarrelsome too, a fighter by personality,

:45:31. > :45:33.and Robson Conceicao wanted to be just like him, so he used

:45:34. > :45:38.to sneak down to the gym, watch his uncle ply his trade,

:45:39. > :45:43.Couldn't afford hand wraps, used a fake injury, got

:45:44. > :45:47.treatment from the hospital, took the same bandages the hospital

:45:48. > :45:51.would give him and turned them into hand wraps.

:45:52. > :45:56.That's how much this young man who grew up poor in Brazil

:45:57. > :46:00.wanted to be a boxer, and now, here at his home Olympics,

:46:01. > :46:03.he is on the cusp of being crowned Olympic champion, which would be

:46:04. > :46:06.an historic title for a Brazilian boxer, because to this point no

:46:07. > :46:22.Brazilian has occupied top spot on the podium in the boxing ring.

:46:23. > :46:25.The hard work for Conceicao has been done in those two rounds.

:46:26. > :46:27.He knows he's just protecting his lead now.

:46:28. > :46:29.That's why he has taken his foot off the gas.

:46:30. > :46:32.Just 12 seconds away from being Olympic champion.

:46:33. > :46:36.Watch this place erupt as the bell goes.

:46:37. > :46:42.The crowd counting down the final seconds.

:46:43. > :46:45.And Robson Conceicao raises his arms as he wanders his way back

:46:46. > :46:54.Because the crowd knows, and he knows, he is just about to be

:46:55. > :47:00.crowned Olympic gold-medallist in the 60kg lightweight division.

:47:01. > :47:03.What an intelligent display to keep the talented Sofiane Oumiha at bay

:47:04. > :47:13.The French corner know that it's not going to be their night,

:47:14. > :47:20.but Sofiane Oumiha, the 21-year-old representing France,

:47:21. > :47:23.playing his part in a terrific contest, but Robson Conceicao

:47:24. > :47:30.The first two rounds were his best rounds.

:47:31. > :47:32.He concentrated very, very well, started very quickly.

:47:33. > :47:36.The straight punches, the speed was there.

:47:37. > :47:41.It's a real Rocky story that you've explained, Ronald, and again,

:47:42. > :47:50.Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by unanimous decision...

:47:51. > :48:17.A cacophony of noise and a carnival of colour.

:48:18. > :48:21.It's just erupted into celebration in acknowledgement of the fact

:48:22. > :48:24.that Robson Conceicao, the boy who grew up poor

:48:25. > :48:29.on the streets of Salvador, has just been crowned

:48:30. > :48:35.Olympic champion in the 60kg lightweight division.

:48:36. > :48:37.To become Brazil's first-ever Olympic champion

:48:38. > :48:42.He dealt with the pressure of expectation, he dealt

:48:43. > :48:46.with the reputation and the talents of all of the boxers

:48:47. > :48:49.who were in front of him, never more so than in the final

:48:50. > :48:54.when he eliminated the talented young Frenchman, Sofiane Oumiha,

:48:55. > :48:58.and he is drinking in the applause from the crowd here,

:48:59. > :49:01.who are in absolute rapture at what this man

:49:02. > :49:07.27-year-old Robson Conceicao is the Olympic champion of the 60kg

:49:08. > :49:36.In his third Olympic Games, Robson Conceicao has just

:49:37. > :49:45.claimed his first Olympic medal, and it is pure gold.

:49:46. > :49:48.The first-ever gold medal for Brazil in the boxing ring has been

:49:49. > :49:53.won by a man inspired to top spot on the podium

:49:54. > :50:10.What a wonderful evening for Robson Conceicao.

:50:11. > :50:17.But the day started with Brazil's women hoping to book their place

:50:18. > :50:19.in the final of the women's football tournament.

:50:20. > :50:23.Goalless after 90 minutes, goalless after extra time.

:50:24. > :50:32.Brazil and Sweden will both face a penalty shootout to decide

:50:33. > :50:36.who goes through to the gold-medal game.

:50:37. > :50:40.The first penalty, and Marta just about scores.

:50:41. > :50:50.That's a terrific penalty to silence the Maracena.

:50:51. > :51:03.You can sense the noise being sucked out of the Maracena.

:51:04. > :51:21.big players, epitomised by the way she took that penalty.

:51:22. > :51:26.And here is Raphael, and another very good penalty.

:51:27. > :51:39.Well, this is effectively sudden death, and it's the youngster.

:51:40. > :52:07.Brazil's quest for Olympic gold is over.

:52:08. > :52:13.So Sweden cause a massive upset but who would they play

:52:14. > :52:44.I don't think she can have too many complaints.

:52:45. > :52:59.Melanie Behringer looking to score for her third successive game.

:53:00. > :53:11.She showed all her experience, didn't let the occasion get to her.

:53:12. > :53:36.The goalkeeper had absolutely no chance.

:53:37. > :53:42.The shot's gone in and that could be the clinching goal!

:53:43. > :53:49.Sara Dabritz may have sent Germany into the gold medal game.

:53:50. > :53:52.Such a shame for Canada because this was their best spell of the game

:53:53. > :53:57.They're clinical and when they get the chance, when they get

:53:58. > :54:04.They are into the final and they will face Sweden

:54:05. > :54:13.Yes, Germany bronze medallists in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

:54:14. > :54:19.The decider will be the coach's last game at the helm after

:54:20. > :54:27.And for Sweden, their boss is looking for a third consecutive

:54:28. > :54:30.Olympic triumph having guided the United States to

:54:31. > :54:45.Germany reach the final of yet another football tournament.

:54:46. > :54:50.Well, one of the sports we've absolutely loved covering

:54:51. > :54:53.here at Rio 2016, especially on the late-night show,

:54:54. > :54:55.is the weightlifting and tonight the unofficial coronation

:54:56. > :54:59.of the world's strongest man, the 105kg category.

:55:00. > :55:10.He held the world record in the snatch for barely a minute.

:55:11. > :55:16.He's beginning his clean and jerk at 262kg.

:55:17. > :55:19.He's beginning his clean and jerk at 242kg.

:55:20. > :55:32.242kg, the record, the Olympic record.

:55:33. > :55:48.I think right about now the focus needs to be on winning gold medals.

:55:49. > :55:51.Look at the position under the bar, so straight.

:55:52. > :55:58.That line down vertically from the bar spot on.

:55:59. > :56:10.This will be a new PB for him of one kilogram.

:56:11. > :56:18.Well, he's been a thriller on the scene for a long time,

:56:19. > :56:26.You've got to wonder if this might just be his last competition.

:56:27. > :56:30.At the age of 34, he's been around for a long, long time.

:56:31. > :56:34.He gave it everything he had, just not enough on the day.

:56:35. > :56:45.So Velagic, his best lift in this competition was 232kg.

:56:46. > :56:50.His combined total - 420kg.

:56:51. > :56:53.Now our first look in the clean and jark at Mart Seim, down

:56:54. > :57:27.He's lifted 248kg in competition before.

:57:28. > :57:41.A bit soft in the arms but it looked all right to me.

:57:42. > :57:44.Just to put this in perspective, he placed third at the European

:57:45. > :57:46.Championships earlier this year but he only managed 239kg

:57:47. > :57:51.there, so clearly in better shape here in Rio.

:57:52. > :58:01.Well, Seim - he's an interesting lifter, this fellow.

:58:02. > :58:04.He seems to have a better clean and jerk record compared

:58:05. > :58:12.The clean and jerk is a little more forgiving but he's more compact

:58:13. > :58:16.Some of these guys in comparison have got a lot further

:58:17. > :58:23.Each lifter has their own preference.

:58:24. > :58:31.Here's Jiri Orsag of the Czech Republic again.

:58:32. > :58:35.This is his last lift in the clean and jerk.

:58:36. > :59:07.He'll want to get the bar off his airways.

:59:08. > :59:13.Just didn't have the legs after that heavy clean.

:59:14. > :59:16.Well, Jiri Orsag has been a joy to watch in this competition.

:59:17. > :59:33.He's going to lock away 240kg, his combined total will be 425kg.

:59:34. > :59:36.We're waiting for Aleksanyan of Armenia and now we're going

:59:37. > :59:42.Just look at Orsag just one more time.

:59:43. > :59:58.He's gone for the shirt over the shoulders this time.

:59:59. > :00:01.We saw some serious taping over his shoulders

:00:02. > :00:40.It's just one off the Armenian's personal best.

:00:41. > :00:48.Well, you see the bar whipping on his shoulders, that was natural

:00:49. > :00:50.whip, by the looks of it, not deliberate oscillation.

:00:51. > :00:57.As soon as he was on the bar, he was off.

:00:58. > :01:17.These weights are far too heavy to place it on your shoulders.

:01:18. > :01:20.It literally lands, the elbows need to be fairly high so it stays

:01:21. > :01:28.And now our first look at our last lifter.

:01:29. > :01:31.It is the Olympic Champion entering the competition

:01:32. > :01:53.This will put him in first place if he succeeds.

:01:54. > :01:56.What are the referees going to make of that?

:01:57. > :02:10.He was the leader and world record-holder after the snatch

:02:11. > :02:24.The noise in the stadium means only one thing...

:02:25. > :02:31.Oh, it's the Brazilian, Fernando Reis.

:02:32. > :02:40.This would put him into fifth place if he completes this.

:02:41. > :03:06.He was 25kg behind the leader after the snatch.

:03:07. > :03:15.Split really wide, gave everything, dropped as low as he could

:03:16. > :03:20.That was an attempt at a 15kg personal best.

:03:21. > :03:45.Fernando Reis fails at 245kg with one more lift to come.

:03:46. > :03:51.We're back now with the Iranian, Behdad, Kordasiabi.

:03:52. > :03:56.Watching in the warm-up area will be the Georgian,

:03:57. > :04:03.It's harder than the first attempt.

:04:04. > :04:09.No, I don't think he's going to get that.

:04:10. > :04:20.We've got movement at the jury table.

:04:21. > :04:29.They're asking to stop the clock, stop the competition and this

:04:30. > :04:43.Well, I thought those elbows were super soft again.

:04:44. > :04:45.I think this could be overturned by the jury.

:04:46. > :04:55.Well, the referees have just had the discussion with the jury.

:04:56. > :04:58.Now, if this is overturned, this really does put him under some

:04:59. > :05:02.Does he come out for the same weight again?

:05:03. > :05:05.And probably, what, guarantee maybe, maybe only just a medal.

:05:06. > :05:14.Or does he try and put the weight up and go for it and gamble everything?

:05:15. > :05:17.Well, we've just heard word that that 245kg lift has been overturned

:05:18. > :05:24.What drama we've got here in the men's

:05:25. > :05:30.The reigning Olympic Champion now under severe pressure

:05:31. > :05:37.He would have known what it felt like.

:05:38. > :05:41.He would have known that it was soft.

:05:42. > :05:44.Now we've got arguments between lifter and coach.

:05:45. > :05:52.I guess they have seen what we've seen.

:05:53. > :05:58.There's no video analysis in weightlifting yet.

:05:59. > :06:08.He's going to have to come out, surely, for the same weight again.

:06:09. > :06:11.This would be enough to put him into the lead but how long

:06:12. > :06:18.He if he fails, he doesn't get a medal.

:06:19. > :06:22.He could be the world record-holder with no medal.

:06:23. > :06:38.Talakhadze, the Georgian, is just sitting back

:06:39. > :06:49.He could virtually walk into the gold medal if he...

:06:50. > :06:54.If Salimikordasiabi here fails at this weight.

:06:55. > :06:58.What a twist in this competition that we have been witnessing here.

:06:59. > :07:01.Remember half an hour ago, this man set a world record

:07:02. > :07:12.in the snatch and now he faces do-or-die with one lift.

:07:13. > :07:15.He's still blowing hard after that previous attempt.

:07:16. > :07:47.A world record not that long ago and now he is going home

:07:48. > :07:59.A staggering fall from grace for the Olympic champion.

:08:00. > :08:03.He is clearly not happy with the decision of the jury.

:08:04. > :08:10.I believe the decision of the jury was correct.

:08:11. > :08:13.They will agree once they see the replay at a later date.

:08:14. > :08:32.The competition is still on and it is all to play for now.

:08:33. > :08:39.On the stage is Fernando Reis of Brazil but he has been called off

:08:40. > :08:45.the stage because Talakhadze is back on.

:08:46. > :08:52.At the moment, Talakhadze is the leader.

:08:53. > :09:01.He has a six kilogram lead over Minasyan.

:09:02. > :09:08.Talakhadze still has two lifts to come.

:09:09. > :09:20.The gold medal should be for this man, especially

:09:21. > :09:33.if he succeeds with this lift in the clean and jerk.

:09:34. > :09:42.I tell you what, it is disappointing to see or to hear the booing

:09:43. > :09:50.He is coming out here and doing his job.

:09:51. > :09:55.We need a little more respect from the crowd.

:09:56. > :10:00.That has drawn a line in the sand for the rest of the weightlifters.

:10:01. > :10:27.So Reis with his third and final attempt.

:10:28. > :10:46.He is asking the crowd for quiet and they respect that.

:10:47. > :10:56.Even if he had stood up, I believe the referees would have

:10:57. > :11:01.It must go to the top of your shoulders and stay there.

:11:02. > :11:26.From there, watch the adjustment there.

:11:27. > :11:38.And Mart Seim will be looking to move up the rankings

:11:39. > :12:16.If he succeeds, he will move into fifth position.

:12:17. > :12:43.You need to be more convincing than this.

:12:44. > :12:58.That would have been a new personal best for him.

:12:59. > :13:02.Mart Seim stands up quite well, just in front.

:13:03. > :13:12.Was it elbows, shoulders, was he unlucky?

:13:13. > :13:21.Difficult refereeing here tonight but great decisions have been made.

:13:22. > :13:24.This is becoming more and more controversial.

:13:25. > :13:44.Well, we have just seen one walkout and question

:13:45. > :13:51.As a weightlifter you need to accept the decision of the referees.

:13:52. > :13:54.It is difficult and he is distraught but there are other weightlifters

:13:55. > :13:57.coming out to the platform and he needs to take his

:13:58. > :13:59.argument outside and allow the competition to continue.

:14:00. > :14:04.That allows this man, Aleksanyan of Armenia.

:14:05. > :14:09.This lift could be for a bronze medal.

:14:10. > :14:13.He is not happy with the noise that has been

:14:14. > :14:39.Once he is on the bar he will be quick.

:14:40. > :14:43.He manages to get underneath.

:14:44. > :14:59.We still have Talakhadze in the lead with one attempt still remaining.

:15:00. > :15:13.He's 11kg clear of Minasyan of Armenia

:15:14. > :15:24.An aggressive effort and he pushes himself away from the bar.

:15:25. > :15:28.You need to drive with the legs and drop to catch

:15:29. > :15:39.You cannot do that kind of weight with your arms.

:15:40. > :15:42.I think there are a few weightlifters in the warmup

:15:43. > :15:52.We still have three weightlifters left in the competition.

:15:53. > :15:59.Mart Seim, here, is the only one who will need to lift...

:16:00. > :16:10.I don't think anyone can catch Talakhadze.

:16:11. > :16:19.The Armenian camp is calling for quiet.

:16:20. > :16:59.So Aleksanyan comes out at 254 kilograms again.

:17:00. > :17:09.He has been a popular competitor here.

:17:10. > :17:12.Ooh, a very angry man on stage at the moment and he is angry

:17:13. > :17:28.because of the lack of respect from some of the supporters.

:17:29. > :17:33.They have worked so hard for this moment but at the same time

:17:34. > :17:35.they need to learn to focus and shut out everything else

:17:36. > :18:08.An announcement to ask the crowd for quiet

:18:09. > :18:16.Mart Seim is lifting for fourth place.

:18:17. > :18:24.Despite some good lifting in the clean and jerk he is too far

:18:25. > :18:44.back after the snatch for medal contention.

:18:45. > :18:55.That would have been good enough for fourth.

:18:56. > :19:09.When you think about the snatch competition, think of how exciting

:19:10. > :19:14.The clean and jerk has been different.

:19:15. > :19:18.It is still competitive but we have gone from consistency

:19:19. > :19:25.in the snatch to inconsistency in the clean and jerk.

:19:26. > :19:29.And Talakhadze at the moment has got five out of five lifts.

:19:30. > :19:31.He has not allowed anything to affect him, he has

:19:32. > :19:39.Right now he is antagonising the crowd.

:19:40. > :19:49.It does not matter if this lift goes off or not, he has won.

:19:50. > :19:53.He is lifting an extraordinary weight.

:19:54. > :20:03.This will be a world record in the combined.

:20:04. > :20:29.Fantastic lifting and you can thank the crowd for winding him up.

:20:30. > :20:35.That is some lifting from Talakhadze of Georgia.

:20:36. > :20:48.He has added one kilogram to the world record.

:20:49. > :20:58.An extraordinary night of lifting here at Rio 2016.

:20:59. > :21:05.That bar was sagging because of the weight on either end.

:21:06. > :21:08.Brilliant and well done to Talakhadze for setting

:21:09. > :21:24.The champion Christian Taylor retained his title.

:21:25. > :21:27.They top the table with 28 gold medals, however,

:21:28. > :22:13.This is the Beach Volleyball Arena. The floodlights are on in

:22:14. > :22:17.Copacabana. Set two underway. Brazil took the first set. Cannot find the

:22:18. > :22:42.spike. April Ross. Not out by much. It did

:22:43. > :22:56.look out. Therein lies the difference. Small margins. Barbara's

:22:57. > :23:01.drops in and Ross' drops allowed. I really want is April Ross to stay

:23:02. > :23:09.loose and aggressive and go for it. Eventually, those will create a lot

:23:10. > :23:18.of pressure for Brazil. Barbara is in inspired form right now in the

:23:19. > :23:23.back court. She has got herself into a great defensive rhythm. Once that

:23:24. > :23:29.happens, you almost want to go away from them when you are serving that.

:23:30. > :23:38.Does that make sense? When the USA gets a chance to serve, it might be

:23:39. > :23:43.an idea to go after Agatha. There is Barbara at the service line. Again,

:23:44. > :23:54.they go towards Jennings and again she cannot control it.

:23:55. > :24:07.It is like there is a rise on it. It happens within the last maybe metre.

:24:08. > :24:12.A very, very difficult. Five aces, four of them have come off Jennings

:24:13. > :24:16.at not being able to return and the other was down the middle to win the

:24:17. > :24:29.set. That was better from the American perspective. At the moment,

:24:30. > :24:35.Agatha and Barbara are dealing with the pressure just fine. Good work

:24:36. > :24:53.from Ross. Wow! They are playing inspired Beach

:24:54. > :25:02.Volleyball Arena are Barbara and Agatha. They are winning it. There

:25:03. > :25:10.is so much information on both these teams. So many times have they taken

:25:11. > :25:15.the court, they are so experienced all the way around that both of

:25:16. > :25:23.these teams are prepared for one another. It is going to be Hugh

:25:24. > :25:27.takes away some on's comfort zone the most often and who can execute

:25:28. > :25:37.outside that comfort zone more often. Agatha's turn two joined the

:25:38. > :25:39.party. It just keeps the pressure on the American pair and they take that

:25:40. > :26:07.side switch 5-2. She is there again. Wow! Agatha is six feet and

:26:08. > :26:15.Walsh-Jennings is six foot three. But that skill right there, has less

:26:16. > :26:26.to do with size, and more to do with timing and taking away space and

:26:27. > :26:35.area. Walsh-Jennings, finally gets the scoreboard ticking once again

:26:36. > :26:38.for the USA. You can tell the experience of Ross and

:26:39. > :26:43.Walsh-Jennings, they are not ruffled and gone for a time-out. A lot of

:26:44. > :26:48.players would have gone for a time-out. They would have known

:26:49. > :26:53.things will get a bit hairy later on in this set. Exactly, each team

:26:54. > :27:01.plays their time-out uniquely and it depends on the pair. Barbara gets

:27:02. > :27:09.the dig and gets it back over the net. Good patients by team USA, to

:27:10. > :27:16.just stay in the play and chip away at it. What a great layouts by April

:27:17. > :27:27.Ross. Takes a quick look, sees Barbara jumped to that angled ball.

:27:28. > :27:38.Brazilian colours on the nail varnish. Almost, it is by not taking

:27:39. > :27:43.the time outs, you are saying to your opponents, OK, we are under the

:27:44. > :27:50.cosh, but we are fine with it, we can live with it. We are concerned,

:27:51. > :27:55.but not in dire straits. Not pressing the panic button.

:27:56. > :28:02.Definitely, not breaking the glass this early and now they have made

:28:03. > :28:08.the switch and gone after Agatha. Walsh-Jennings couldn't get there.

:28:09. > :28:16.They are back to within two. Fascinating to watch this pendulum

:28:17. > :28:24.swinging one way and then the other. Both these pairs, under so much

:28:25. > :28:39.pressure. They are dealing with it in remarkable fashion.

:28:40. > :28:48.April Ross, handling her area of responsibility extremely well.

:28:49. > :28:49.Taking the pressure of Walsh-Jennings a bit. She has seen

:28:50. > :29:24.every serve this far. Barbara goes to the service line.

:29:25. > :29:49.The Brazilians are in front by a certain. That is a better leave.

:29:50. > :29:59.Fantastic play, fantastic play from both sets of players. It is what he

:30:00. > :30:14.would expect from an Olympic Games semifinal.

:30:15. > :30:23.That was perfect placement for a short line ball. She cleared

:30:24. > :30:28.Walsh-Jennings and just got it out the reach of April Ross, who had a

:30:29. > :30:34.jump on it and was coming full speed. But USA has not gotten the

:30:35. > :30:44.Brazilians into too much passing trouble.

:30:45. > :30:53.That was almost an over set. Walsh Jennings has to change things up.

:30:54. > :30:57.That is where the sides make a difference. She just out reached

:30:58. > :31:16.her. Two standing service errors by Kerri

:31:17. > :31:18.Walsh in a row. And the game is tight and you just want your

:31:19. > :31:27.opponents to play one more touchy because you never know. You know you

:31:28. > :31:32.are losing the point. A long ball is better than a short ball because

:31:33. > :31:38.there is the chance they touch it. It still gives them the opportunity

:31:39. > :31:44.to play at. Having got back on level terms two errors have allowed Brazil

:31:45. > :31:54.to open up a 2-point lead again. In a match of very fine margins it

:31:55. > :32:02.could be enough. Walsh Jennings is being peppered with the serve. That

:32:03. > :32:10.is a technical time-out. 11-10 to Brazil, as it was in the first set.

:32:11. > :32:27.Barbara couldn't make that one. This has got sticky. They find

:32:28. > :32:32.themselves in quite a pickle. That type of serving is exactly what they

:32:33. > :32:36.need in this moment. They have not put a lot of pressure on the

:32:37. > :32:42.Brazilians up to that point with their serving. The Brazilians have

:32:43. > :32:46.been in rhythm and they have been able to run back bold and they have

:32:47. > :32:51.been doing different set plays out of service received. It is the first

:32:52. > :33:03.time the Americans have been a set down in the tournament.

:33:04. > :33:12.This is Kerri Walsh Jennings' fourth Olympics, fourth beach volleyball.

:33:13. > :33:26.She did have a Olympics in door in Sydney. It is an incredible career,

:33:27. > :33:31.whatever the outcome of this matter. She wanted to continue and finish on

:33:32. > :33:43.a gold note, but there is some inspired play going on here. She

:33:44. > :33:47.cannot do anything wrong right now. You are right, she cannot do

:33:48. > :33:53.anything wrong. Credit to the Americans because they are so close.

:33:54. > :34:04.That is absolutely outrageous. To have that much one hand control. I

:34:05. > :34:11.don't know what the answer is. Hang in there because they are only two

:34:12. > :34:16.points off. She is playing inspired beach volleyball and they are only

:34:17. > :34:20.within a point. And that is why the Americans are who they are, the gold

:34:21. > :34:28.medallists, the silver medallists, returning for more.

:34:29. > :34:59.I don't believe it. I do not believe that rally one bit, that is just

:35:00. > :35:07.silly. What a point. Wow. That is one of the most ridiculous point you

:35:08. > :35:11.are ever likely to see on a beach volleyball court and once again

:35:12. > :35:22.Barbara is there. Stretching as far as she can. Ross was trying to play

:35:23. > :35:33.a part. Everybody is getting dirty. Even Agatha got dirty. This is nuts.

:35:34. > :35:44.A nice turn up, but you would never guess who was there again. Wow. In

:35:45. > :35:58.fact it was actually Agatha who went for the first dig. What? It is a

:35:59. > :36:03.melting pot of nations at the Copacabana. You have got to love it.

:36:04. > :36:09.The party is definitely here tonight. Who said the British were

:36:10. > :36:29.reserved.? We saw Tulita and Marisa earlier on

:36:30. > :37:15.and able to cope with the pressure. Man! That is just so impressive. She

:37:16. > :37:22.gets just under that puts enough and placement. She is staying loose and

:37:23. > :37:34.fluid, it is not guided. She is not pushing it. That is trouble.

:37:35. > :37:43.Every time they get it over the net it comes back and Barbara is usually

:37:44. > :37:52.there. The Americans have had to work so hard just to get a point.

:37:53. > :37:57.Oh, Agatha and Barbara, take a bow, this is magnificent. Now they have

:37:58. > :38:04.broken the glass. They have taken a time out here, the Americans. Any

:38:05. > :38:23.think the Americans are up against it, it is coming back. Wow.

:38:24. > :38:37.Brazil is just playing out of their minds. And it is a 2-point game. I

:38:38. > :38:39.think the Americans would rather have it the other way round, having

:38:40. > :39:01.lost the first set 22-20. 14 Agatha again, but the Brazilians

:39:02. > :39:09.are in such a zone. Their ball control is so impressive. They have

:39:10. > :39:26.not been extended that I can remember in this match.

:39:27. > :39:33.The USA need to start winning points on their serve. They do not want to

:39:34. > :39:40.start winning points when they get to 20. They have got to win at least

:39:41. > :39:49.one, but if they can do two, that would be better. But it is a big ask

:39:50. > :39:54.against a side who are firing on all cylinders. That is another example

:39:55. > :40:01.of the scale of Barbara and Agatha. They are showing real unity. Every

:40:02. > :40:08.time they go for a side switch, they walk hand in hand to the other side.

:40:09. > :40:11.They are very good friends, them and their husbands and everybody in

:40:12. > :40:16.their camp are very close. It goes to show. When you go to war you want

:40:17. > :40:31.to have your account tight. -- camp. The Americans are not going to go

:40:32. > :40:46.quietly, but this is getting to last chance saloon.

:40:47. > :41:00.April Ross needs to find something from somewhere. Wow! She was there

:41:01. > :41:09.and decided to go tactical. It has been effective. It has been

:41:10. > :41:14.effective in matches past, but Agatha and Barbara are in the zone.

:41:15. > :41:27.Three match points for the Brazilian number two seeds.

:41:28. > :41:33.Walsh Jennings saves the first one. But this one is on the Americans

:41:34. > :41:57.serve. Yes, well done. Wow. Congratulations

:41:58. > :42:01.to Agatha and Barbara, they were stupendous, they were absolutely

:42:02. > :42:09.brilliant, and they had to be because they have only just won it.

:42:10. > :42:14.For Walsh Jennings and Ross it was not to be. But they can have no

:42:15. > :42:17.complaint about the outcome of this game, it will be bitter

:42:18. > :42:28.disappointment, but they were beaten by the better side. Let's enjoy

:42:29. > :42:39.these pictures of the triumphant Brazilians. They are going to enjoy

:42:40. > :42:43.it here on Copacabana. We were hoping for an all Brazilian gold

:42:44. > :42:51.medal match, but we have not got it. But they have got one team in there.

:42:52. > :42:59.Agatha and Barbara will be playing against Germany for the gold medal.

:43:00. > :43:01.We cannot leave you without showing you this again,

:43:02. > :43:05.Michael Johnson this evening, the legend taking on a fly.

:43:06. > :43:08.There is only one winner when Michael Johnson takes on a fly.

:43:09. > :43:27.The games get greater and greater for Britain, especially for the

:43:28. > :43:37.golden couple of Kenny and Laura Trott.

:43:38. > :43:57.# Come on, baby, let the good times roll. # Rolling along. # Command,

:43:58. > :43:58.baby, this is something I cannot mess. # Come on, baby, let the good