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of the coaching staff, what was their response? And how tight was

the race? They were on schedule the whole way, that is what they were

riding too, they had no idea what the Australians would deliver, they

trusted the process and stuck to the schedule they were riding. They were

so cool, the British team, all of them, from the management, doctors,

everybody, they stick to what they do. They were nervous but they stuck

to what they do best, the Australians, I spoke afterwards,

they gave it everything. They had no answer to it. What do you suspect

Bradley, Ed, Stephen and Owain will be up to now? Right now they are

still in there talking to the press and international broadcasters. I

can guess what they'll be doing in a short space of time. I won't expect

them to be up early tomorrow morning. Mark Cavendish their

team-mate, riding the Army, said he would struggle to get any sleep

tonight. Hopefully they won't come back at all. -- riding the Omnium.

An Callum The individual sprinters looked

great. Everybody will be looking at them and know how strong they are

and that, you know, meddles with the opponents' minds. So they've not put

a foot wrong. They are on course if everything keeps going well to meet

in the gold medal race. Let's have a look at the medal table.

For British fans, it makes for good reading.

Obviously Michael Phelps is the star of the show but the United States

are having a very, very good Games. So too are China. Great Britain in

third, level on golds with Japan but more in terms of... Actually, no,

more silvers. That's what it is. Republic of Korea, South Korea, in

fifth. And Germany, Australia, France, Hungary and Russia coming up

behind. Could there be more medals to come, if not later tonight then

certainly tomorrow? The heptathlon will continue later tonight, the

shot put and the 200m. Jason Mohammad will take over at

midnight. He'll have live swimming. More Michael Phelps tonight. He was

really emotional yesterday. His 22nd gold medal. Nobody has ever seen him

react like that. And the first person ever to defend a title for

four Olympics in a row. He's beaten four generations of other swimmers.

He's going to continue that tonight. And Jason will have the first

evening session of track and field. He's going to be the Olympic

Champion! Usain Bolt is pulling away! He's

going to win the gold! The champion becomes a legend!

He's the double Olympic Champion! Have you ever seen anything like

that? Thanks to Claire and the team.

Hello. A very good evening to you. Day seven of the Olympic Games, and

the biggest and fittest sports stars on the planet are in Rio. The

athletics is under way. Four years of hard work, of blood, of sweat and

tears, and this, now, is the time of ruther Ford, of Jessica Ennis-Hill

and, of course, Usain Bolt. This is what's coming up

tonight: The defending champion, Jessica

Ennis-Hill in bronze position after a thrilling first morning of the

heptathlon. Tonight it's the shot put and 200m. But Great Britain's

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is in gold medal position in the high jump.

Rio-ready for ruther Ford. The Olympic champ gets his Games up and

running in the long jump. On the track, Laura Muir broke Kelly

Holmes British record in the anniversary Games. She goes in the

1,500m shortly. But we shall also see another Laura

in the 1,500m before that, Laura Weightman, European bronze

medallist, going very, very soon. Wayde van Niekerk begins his quest

for Olympic glory in the 400m. And GB's Matthew Hudson-Smith from

wolf Hamilton goes in heat six up against the Olympic champ.

But also, what a few days we've had in the Olympic Aquatic Stadium. This

is the scene in Baja. If you've been with us over the last couple of

evenings on BBC One, you will have enjoyed every single moment. Four

gold medals to be won this evening and this wonderful venue could yet

again witness history. You-know-who is back in the water.

A huge gold medal to Michael Phelps! A new world record! I wonder if we

have someone who will replace Spitz as the greatest swimmer ever.

# Maybe I'm foolish # Maybe I'm blind

# Thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Can Phelps go

eight golds in eight days. # But I'm only human after all...

He's trying to set Olympic history. He's trying to set swimming history!

Eight days, eight gold medals, Michael Phelps is the greatest.

These are his last Olympics. He will go out as the best ever.

# I'm only human after all... The biggest Olympic medallist in

history! No-one has won more! # Oh, some people got real problems

# Some people got to love... Michael Phelps is back. Swimming legend

Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement. US Olympic swimmer

Michael Phelps has been arrested for driving under the influence. Michael

Phelps has been arrested. He will not be allowed to represent the

United States. Banned from competing for the United States for six

months. # I'm only human after all...

Michael Phelps is heading to Rio... A showdown in Rio looms ahead.

Unbelievable from Phelps. That's his 22nd Olympic gold medal.

It has been amazing over the past couple of evenings. It's not just

about America's man of steel, though, this evening. Plenty of

other stars in action too. She's also won a silver medal in the

400m freestyle and now Jazz Carlin goes for gold in the 800m.

But USA's Katie Ledecky is going for her fourth gold of Rio 2016 in the

final in about two hours' time. There's also the final of the 50m

freestyle. France's Florent Manaudou is the reigning Olympic and World

Champion. And Great Britain need Ben Proud to recreate the form which saw

him when Commonwealth gold back in 2014. And you will also remember

Great Britain's Fran Halsall won gold in Glasgow. She's looking to

seal a place in the final. It is a packed night at the

Olympics. Day one of track and field continues with heptathlon and a

battle between Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson. We'll

update that shortly and also the heats in the men's 400m and the

women's 100m. Reigning Olympic Champion Greg ruther Ford against

his long jump defence under way in qualifying. Four golds will be

decided in the pool. Michael Phelps looking for Olympic title 23. Jazz

Carlin is a great medal chance in the 800m freestyle and there's the

finals in the women's 200m backstroke and the men's 50m

freestyle. How can you even think of going to bed? You have to stay with

us. On the Freeview red button there

will be uninterrupted coverage of track and field so if you want to

watch athletics all night and nothing else, press the red button.

Also if you want to watch the tennis, that's also available this

evening. Men's doubles, gold medal match, Spain against Romania. Rafah

Nadal in action tonight. And also on the -- Rafa Nadal in action tonight.

And also on Freeview there's live coverage of Brazil against Australia

in the quarterfinal from 2:00am. So we are going to be ducking and

diving in between the swimming and the athletics all evening. Do stay

with us. I'm delighted to say, though, let's now talk to the legend

who has joined us for the BBC team for these Rio Olympics, Mr Michael

Johnson joins us once again. Michael, hello. A very good evening.

It's great to see you. Listen, what have you made of the Games so far?

Yeah, it's been great so far. You know, once the athletics starts, the

events in the pool and then in the gym with the gymnastics and all of

the other events, archery and all of that sort of thing, all of the talk

about Rio's preparations and the Russians and whether or not they're

banned or should be or shouldn't be, all of that sort of fades into the

background and then it's all about the competition and when it's the

Olympic Games, it really doesn't matter where it is. You've got the

greatest athletes at their best and it's always compelling watching.

Michael, how do you feel about the ticket sales. Organisers are saying

that ticket sales would be pretty good ahead of the Games and yet on

the opening morning of the track and field, we see empty seats. Does that

bother you? I think this morning the weather was a mess and that may have

affected things a little bit. But look, this has been the case all

along that there was fears that the Brazilian public would not support

the Games as much as we've seen in the past, certainly in comparison to

London, um... And that was always going to be the case, I believe.

That you wouldn't see as many people turning up and coming out for the

events. I know that lots of Americans - I think the number of

Americans that were, um, planned... Or expected to come down for the

Games ended up halved in the end, about half of the people who were

supposed to come came so, you know, we could well see that over the next

few days, you know, a stadium that's not completely full and that's

unfortunate. Well, Michael, it's their loss

because they missed a world record today.

Was that a surprise for you? It was a record from 1993. Many people

wanted to see that broken over the years and now we have it. It was an

impressive race all the way through. But, you know, 14 seconds - that's

just a massive amount, but a fantastic performance. I think the

American winner won by 30 seconds I believe so it was an impressive

race. The 10,000m was tactical -- less

tactical for a change and it was impressive for the athletics. Given

what's going on in the track and field, a sport you dearly love and

we all love, is it a pretty sad state of affairs that there will be

people who are looking at what's happening with a hint of suspicion?

Absolutely. The credibility of the sport... And of the Olympic movement

itself has been dramatically hindered with -- has been hit

dramatically with all of the different allegations of recent

times, with the Russian situation unfolding, particularly what has

happened in athletics over the last year with the IAAF and allegations

of the IAAF being complicit in covering up tests and taking... .

Um... Taking bribes to cover up tests of athletes who have tested

positive. It's going to take some time to restore credibility in the

sport and I think that, um, you know, the recent banning of the

entire Russian team from athletics here in Rio is a step in the right

direction. But it's going to take a series of right decisions and puting

the right foot in the right place and putting things right time and

time and time again, that's what it's going to take to restore

credibility. Transparency is going to be very, very important over the

next few years. No amount of great performedances here in Rio and no

one great decision will restore credibility. It is going to take

some time and, until that time, until such time as credibility is

completely restored, you're going to see situations where you're going to

have fantastic performances and the first thing that's going to happen

is going to be speculation as to whether or not it's real. That's

unfortunate but that is the situation the sport is in as a

result of all of the misdeeds over the last few years. Yes, absolutely,

Michael. Let's concentrate on what's going on on the track. I'm urging

people to stay up this evening because we've got a fantastic battle

in the heptathlon. Who has the edge? Jess is such a tough competitor that

you can never count her out and I'm sure that Katerina has learned from

last year. She's off to a fantastic start already. As you see Jess

there, she's such a tough competitor. When you get to the

Olympic Games, the big stage, many times it's not so much what type of

physical shape you're in - all of these and it's letes are in the best

condition they could be in - but it is the athlete who is mentally tough

enough to come out here and take their lumps and also understand the

pressure that they're under and be able to balance that and deliver

their best performance on the day and be consistent about that. Jess

has proven that she can do that time and time again and, um, and so I

think that you can just never count Jess out. Katerina certainly wants

to bounce back from last year's performances and she's gotten off to

a great start as well. I think this will be a very tough competition

down to the end and it's going to be an exciting watch. These are live

pictures right now. That was Jess talking to her coach. Can I ask you

one final question, Michael, and that is Olympic experience, the fact

that Jess has been there, seen it, done it, and like other sports, that

experience counts for so much? It does count for a lot but I wouldn't

say that Katerina because she doesn't have that sort of experience

yet is an underdog. I think, that you know, the experience that

Katarina had last year is a very rich experience and a learning

opportunity and so we will see throughout this competition if she

has learned from that and if she has been able to benefit from such a

huge disappointment last year and by all accounts, so far, it appears

that she has. Michael, great to talk to you. Thank you very much indeed.

I could talk to you all night about track and field but I have some

football to report on. Top man. That is Michael Johnson.

Right, let's go and bring you right up to date with what's happening in

the football because it's a massive tournament for Brazil's men and

women. The women are taking on Australia later. You may remember in

the Fifa World Cup it was in the same location where Germany battered

Brazil 7-1 so they don't have good memories of playing there. The

Olympic champions, the United States, were looking to book their

semifinal place earlier today against Sweden.

The first of the quarterfinals of the women's Olympic football

tournament in 2016. All is set in Brasilia as the United States and

Sweden meet for a place in the semifinals.

Sweden might be in here. Is this the moment? Yes, it is!

CHEERING Sweden go in front! The substitute

has done it. It may be against the run of play but it could be an

historic moment. It's an absolute classic counterattack, great

first-time ball and she wanted it a little bit more and she won the race

against the centrebacks. Can they hold on to it? Tucked in by Morgan!

It's 1-1! The ace finisher comes up with another big goal!

There'll be a certain amount of acrimony that Sweden were down to

ten men but the United States went on and what a superb finish this is

Done still looks the player most likely to cause trouble. It's gone

in? Will it count? No. Karlie Lloyd knew, I think. She looked over her

shoulder. She kept running and celebrating but she almost knew she

would be called back. Is it offside or a pull-back on the shoulder of

the defender here? Sweden get away with it and come the

other way themselves. And they might be in? It's steered in! And that

won't count either! What an extraordinary couple of minutes of

play. The ball in the net at both ends within one minute and both

goals ruled out. Back came Sweden. The spirit

fantastic. She was on side there. Well, there's going to be some

arguing over that one, I think. And after it all, it will be penalties.

It will be a duel between the goalkeepers. And they relish it.

Morgan on the left foot. Stopped. It wasn't Morgan's best

ever penalty. It's an easy save and it's so important.

Ands, lo comes up with a magazines enough sent save this time. United

States have pegged Sweden back in the shoot-out. Solo

She's put it over the top! Sweden have a kick to win it.

The second miss by the USA. Are Sweden about to gate-crash the

big time in women's football? She kisses the ball.

She intones a prayer and she gets ready here against Solo.

She wins it for Sweden! And the United States, the reigning Olympic

champions and world champions, go out in the quarterfinals.

They miss twice in the shoot-out, Press and Morgan, and Dalqvist had

the chance, which she took, to write hear name into Swedish football

history. That is a huge shock in the women's

football tournament, USA out, between through and Hope Solo, the

goalkeeper, has come in for criticism on social media. She

decided to take off her gloves just before the final penalty and change

them. She's had a lot of criticism over the past couple of hours or so.

Let's bring you up to date with what's been happening in the

tournament because Germany were looking to join Sweden in the last

four. They took on China. Pretty tight game this one, but it's

Germany who are through, the winner coming in the 76th minute, Melanie

Behringer, with a fantastic goal, which sealings their place in the

last four. What a strike! As we know, you can never write off

the Germans in any international football tournament. So that's your

football. You're completely up to date. Now it is time for athletics.

I kind of just fell into the heptathlon, to be honest. I didn't

really know what it was. I didn't know what I was doing. I just gave

it a go. Nothing beats just going out and challenging yourself every

day and just working towards something. I love how pure athletics

is, especially with sprinting. Just run as fast as you can to the finish

line and whoever is the fastest is the winner. I obviously do think

with that moment of crossing the line in London. Hearing the National

Anthem, being on the podium, knowing you're the champion. Once you get

that feeling, it's just like... I won that. I want to be a successful

athlete and I work incredibly hard to be a successful athlete and I

live for the moments when the success is there. I would just love

to get back on the podium, defend my title and come another with another

medal. It's what we live for. Welcome to this, the first evening

session of the 2016 Rio Olympic athletics programme and if it's

anything as exciting as the morning programme was, then you are in for a

real treat. Make sure you have snocks and hot drinks at the ready

and whatever tickles your fancy - it is a Friday night - because I have

electric athletics for you this evening alongside Paula Radcliffe,

Denise Lewis and Michael Johnson is with us as well. Great to have you

hear, Michael. Earlier on, the samba band was out, I know you were

enjoying that. Now it feels like a Rio athletics meet. Yeah, it does.

Hopefully we'll get a few more people in the stands but the energy

is already pretty good in here so, um, hopefully we'll see some great

athletics tonight. That was a fantastic start this morning to the

first day of athletics, so, um, really looking forward to the 400m

tonight, 100m women as well. Getting off to a great start. This morning

we were discussing in David Rudisha's 800m meet how infrequent

world records were. And bang, about 30 minutes later, there was another

world record, but we really did not see it coming. Or in quite that

style. We saw it coming half way through the race but before the

race, no. We were talking about the finals and would the girls get up

for T the conditions were perfect but the key thing was we don't often

see everything come together like that, people in shape for a

championship, straight final ten kilometres but Alice took out the

pace in the first half. And she set it up for Ayana who blew the field

apart. It was on world record pace with

Alice Aprot Nawowuna but then she upped the piece. An impressive piece

of distance running for a woman new to ten kilometres. Hugely impressive

from Ayana. We had Vivian Cheruiyot one second outside of the old

record. She comes out of it with a bronze medal, Dibaba and she had to

fight. We had 18 PBs in the race out of 37 starters and some of the girls

probably had no idea where they were positionwise in that race. Trying to

keep track of were they running the right number of laps was

complicated. While that was going on, it was the high jump in the

heptathlon - because the race was so scattered, the girls were finding it

difficult to weave in for the high jump but in the end it didn't matter

because we had a spectacular high jump competition the likes of which,

world-class high jumping outside of the heptathlon in the end and with

Jess off to her usual good start in the hurdles, it's tantalising, the

top three. It has. The pendulum is swinging in favour of Kat, it's

swinging in favour of Jess, but, you know, the competition isn't over.

Tonight is going to be interesting. As you know, we've got the shot put

coming up, the 200m, both favour I would say a little bit of Jess for

the shot, maybe we could see a duel in the 200 -- dual in the 200 but --

duel in the 200m. A thrilling competition. The women's high

jumpers would probably be completioned with that in

qualifications. It was just -- pleased with that in qualifications.

It was just tremendous. The things about these ladies is they're often

smashing their PBs because they are so infrequently doing seven events

together. Let's look, then, at the PBs of the two British contenders,

KJT and Jessica Ennis because if they perform to their PBs, of

course, the points they can acquire would be huge but at the moment,

obviously, a PB for Johnson-Thompson, no so much for

Ennis yet. That's how it's looking and you did so your predictions this

morning, Denise, on the strength of their various events and it came to

an 800m for you. I think it could, potentially, but a lot hinges on the

two throws for Katarina. She needs to throw close to her personal best,

you know. But we've seen her throw 11m in big competitions. That won't

be good enough. She needs to be close to 13m or 14m for the shot

put. There's nothing in it for the 200m at all but the cushion that

Jess will have overnight is significant. We come back with the

long jump tomorrow. That pendulum swings back to Kat and Jess has to

be close to a PB. It's thrilling. It really is. And Thiam is a good shot

putter. Don't be surprised if she's in the lead after the shot put but

she's well off the pace for the 200m. Normal service should resume

overnight with a Brit on top of the leaderboard. Let's get down to the

track for the women's 1,500m heats that are about to get under way.

Steve Cram is calling the first one of these. It's always intriguing the

way the tactics go on the 1,500m. It's so difficult to get through the

heats, isn't it, and how to navigate them and make sure you're not there

running for a fastest time, a fastest loser's time. You have a

vested interest in this. Well, yes, Gabi.

Laura Weightman is going in heat two and Laura Muir, our two

representatives, in heat three and the heats can be tricky at times

even though on paper, you think OK, top six, but with 42 entrants and

probably at least 30 of them thinking they're going to get to the

final and we've got some big names in each of the heats. You've seen

Dibaba. That's prendia Martinez who wanted to be in the 800m. Brenda

Martinez who wanted to be in the 800m. She crossed the line in third

in the trials and made this through in this event. Mageena recently won

a medal at the European Championships for Ireland. And

Genzebe Dibaba what an interesting it's year for her and what do we

have in store from her? Not sure. The world record-holder last year

who carried everything before her and this year she's had a troubled

preparation. Here's a good young talent from

Germany. She's the European junior cross country champion, third over

3,000m at the world junior championships recently.

Maureen Koster from the Netherlands, ran sub-four minutes, exclusive club

to join. She did that last year. Hasn't been quite as quick this

year. The Australian has made a big

improve in 2016 but this is somebody who could be a big threat to Laura

Muir's chances of a medal, from Poland, who has been in a great

form. The Kenyans will always be difficult.

The Serbian is a familiar figure on thele inside. There are 14 athletes

in each of threat heats and the top six will go through. I would say

probably heat two is the toughest to come. This one, not so easy.

Laura Muir probably delighted to be in heat three. There are six fastest

losers to advance as well so the athletes in heat three have a bit of

an advantage in that sense. Away we go, then. 3.75 laps as

normal. A few more people in the stadium tonight. A little bit of an

atmosphere being created. It's a pity there aren't more. Paula

Radcliffe has raced down from the studio to be alongside me.

Let's talk about Di about, aba, Paula.

She has not had the sort of preparation she would like. Picking

up the toe injury which has prevented her making her debut.

Coming back and actually just advancing. Definitely has to have

been affected by all the turmoil that has gone down her. We will get

an idea of how she is racing, we know her family is racing well and

attract goes well for distance racing, we saw that in the 10,000

metres this morning. This has gone out very pedestrian, 72 there for

the first lap. Somebody you need to go to the front. Will it be someone

like Klosterhalfen from Germany. The young German is very strong, had a

big personal best in the 1500 this year. The Irish runner has a good

kick, Dibaba comes through now. The Dutch runner comes up now. The

Moroccan runner coming through as well. The danger of falling down and

not being able to progress from this first-round heat becomes greater and

greater, you have the likes of Brenda Martinez, we saw what

happened in the 800 metres in the US trials. She really wants to stay out

of trouble, Maureen Coster has decided she will start to move up.

Klosterhalfen from Germany, the Australian just coming up on the

inside. We will have a good last lap, the top six to go through.

Klosterhalfen leading, still plenty with a chance to get in the top

sticks -- top six. Dibaba changes gear, this will be to see what she

can do. A big gap appears, very quickly, the Irish runner decides to

just sit here and now goes back, 200 metres to go, Dibaba leading, Martin

is coming through, they are all struggling, these top six places, --

the Canadian and the Polish runner who I thought would really content

here has a lot of people to get past in the home straight. Klosterhalfen

trying to hang on. Martin as as well, -- Martinez. Four in a row,.

Go on then, Genzebe Dibaba, the she did not go hard all the way into the

last 300, what do you reckon? She does not look to me in the shape she

was last year, she does not have that change of pace, which is

setting her miles apart from the rest of the field. She reacted, the

others were slower to react certainly, and she built up that

gap. The Irish runner held it, and Klosterhalfen, she took it on and

put the work in. It will be a bit of a nervous wait now for Hillary

Stelling worth, should be with six but... Personally a class apart

their, when you look at it from that pack. Is she doing what she needs to

do, she has not raced that much humming in, she wants to probably

get a little bit of a test out there. Ciara Mageean did not finish

as quickly as she wanted to their, looking up at the screen there,

looks pretty comfortable. I have seen her go quicker, on the last

lap, but she is probably thinking ahead now, Ciara Mageean looking

very good indeed, and a blanket finish for those four after that.

The top six go through. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will go night in

the shotput. The women get three goes each on the shop thought. --

shotput. Of course these women are supreme athletes, but they threw a

lot shorter distances with the elite shotput is. Valerie Adams is going

for her third consecutive Olympic gold, and for that she will have two

throw over 20 metres. How do you throw that big? Wake cannot throw

that big? Explained to us. We are not specialists, there is only so

much time in the week that you can train. With all her height, with all

the power she exudes, we know she can high jump well and long jump

well, but she does not knew her -- use her legs efficiently in the

circle, and that results in just her not using that power. This is

Valerie Adams from New Zealand. You see how she hits that shotput. It

just catapulted out of hand. But at all comes from this action here.

Driving back that leg, she stays back on that shot and tries to hold

onto that shot as as possible, putting that weight behind the shot.

Kateryna does not do that. She is almost upright, out of the back, so

there for she is not able to use her legs. Is that physically possible?

Obviously they are massively physically different people. Valerie

Adams cannot hide jump as well as Katarina Johnson-Thompson and do

other things. If you saw Valerie Adams over 20 metres you are the

surprise, she would be pretty quick. It is a powerplay. And she can do

it, but she learns those basic things, using those legs, keeping

that shot behind her, she can easily find another 1.5 metres. Jessica is

better, of course, she is up there as one of the stronger shotput is in

the field, but still not anywhere near her best. Let's have a look at

her and the difference in technique. Jessica is five foot five, what she

does with her body, the mechanics, gives you great results, and we have

said that, 14.79 is really good for her physique and power. She uses her

legs. She uses her hips. It allows her to arrive in the correct

position, hear the foot is underneath her hips, she uses her

hips ), a little bit open, possibly, but she uses her legs effectively.

She stays behind that shot and it gives her a better result. You

worked really hard at the shotput, didn't you? It became one of your

better events. I did. They are about to get off shortly,

we will keep you up to speed with how they are doing. But don't expect

this to be one of Katarina Johnson-Thompson's high-scoring

events. Thank you, setting the shotput up nicely, third event of

the heptathlon, Jessica Ennis-Hill waiting her chance to release the

four kilograms shot. Her coach has cheered a lot of gum today. Some

tense moments through the high jump. They have worked hard, trained in

Barcelona, chose not to join the team here in Brazil until late on,

spent time with her son, performed well so far, but boy has she got her

hands full with her teammate Katarina Johnson-Thompson, she is a

better shotput. -- shot putter. Something over 14 metres would be

ideal. We will just separate on that, it is shy of 14, a tentative

start. Somewhere around 13.50 maybe. But it is a mark, she gets three

attempt. She goes one way, the shot goes the other, and there is a lot

of force being wasted there, for mine. She can correct that now, she

has got her mark in, slightly more tense hill -- slightly more tense

look on the face of Jessica Ennis-Hill. She will want more. On

to the second of three heats, in the first round of the 5000 metres. Not

the easiest of the three heats, six go through automatically. Some big

names in there as well, there is the lineup, Jenny Simpson is in their,

there are those big names. Besu Sado as well. Six athletes go through

automatically. There is the American, Jenny Simpson. World

champion five years ago. Kipyegon, quickest in the world this year.

Hassan, last year she looked outstanding, not quite as quick this

year, but still very quick. A great change of years, there is Laura

Weightman. Had that great spell in 2014, running strongly again. If she

runs at her best she should move through comfortable in. There is an

deal in a Lohalith, from the refugee team, fled the conflict in South

Sudan and now training in can you. -- Kenya. The second heat of the

women's 1500 metres. It was a slow start. The six fastest losers to go

through as well over the three heats. If you make it briskly enough

you have a far better chance, and Laura Weightman just checking

behind. Jenny Simpson sitting in there, Sado a dangerous runner to

get close to. There is talent in this race. A very strong first

round. Sado of Ethiopia coming past Laura Weightman. She is very

experienced these days. Eight the newly big games four years ago,

European medallist, and unfortunate accident last year in the World

Championship where she fell over the finish line and hit on the track,

and was unable to continue. But here she is, in an opportunity for her to

move through to the semi-final, and now the race is beginning to move a

little, Laura Weightman stretching down the back straight, looking

comfortable there, but she has got to be aware in this race, and Hassan

in the orange vest of the Netherlands, right in the back, but

watch her. Sado is going to be a bit of a danger, but Kipyegon is moving

into third place, the Kenyan, the fastest in the world this year. It

drifting towards the front. You can see that it looks a little

bit more quick - we'll get confirmation - but it looks quicker

than the first. Sado is doing well. She's in third or fourth. Watch

Hassan at the back, staying out of all the danger - well, I say that

but she had to stick out a paw to steady herself. She makes her move

on the back straight. Then she'll begin to ease past everyone.

Bunching up a little bit again and there are plenty of athletes in here

who have run similar times this season. So it could be a fierce race

come the latter stages. But six to go through automatically and

Weightman is just moving into a good position. Laura Weightman just

sitting on the outside, doing nicely, ready to move when she's got

to be. And she's got hold this position, don't let anyone past on

the outside if you can help it. Sado ahead of her. Kipyegon is in the

leading and looking strong and comfortable but when you get those

kinds of accidents, a little bump can cause a concertina effect and

Laura is free of trouble, in a good place now, coming down the straight.

All she has to do is run the last 400m as we know she can. Kipyegon is

strong and good. And Jenny Simpson is the more experienced American

ones outside. There's the bell. Weightman moving past the Coneo, the

Colombian, who did much of the early running. Coneo is hanging on and

Laura Weightman is trying to make her move. Hassan hasn't made a move

at all yet. Moving right from the back as of now, coming down the back

straight and starting to close and cut off people and Laura Weightman

has a battle. There goes Hassan in the orange. Past Laura Weightman.

Laura has too many in front of her. She's got to dig deep. She really

does. Hassan coming through like a train. Six to go through. There are

six or seven in front of her and Weightman begins to kick in. She

might get Coneo and Jenny Simpson is having to work hard. Weightman is

having to dig for a time. It's Kipyegon and there's Jenny Simpson.

First four across the line and Laura Weightman in seventh place. A

quicker heat than the first one. But it is all about now clock-watching

for Laura Weightman. Certainly is. She struggled in the back straight

for a moment. As Hassan came past her, I thought it was the chance to

follow Hassan but that was a fast last lap. It was a strong and

powerful run. Laura swapping notes with Jenny Simpson. Jenny Simpson

qualified comfortably. Laura is the fastest loser on my calculation so

far but we have to wait to see what happens in the last heat. First of

the six fastest losers. And there they G Kipyegon looking strong. Sado

on the outside. And here comes Hassan who hasn't been anywhere near

it so far, there suddenly accelerating. This was when Laura

should have tried to go with her but there wasn't any response. Into the

home straight with six athletes ahead of Laura Weightman. There's

Kipyegon looking good, Hassan getting better, Sado fading a

little, Jenny Simpson in the blue vest from the United States on the

outside and the Ethiopian athlete, Sado, drifting there. There's five

athletes in the leading group. One of the surprising athletes was

Akkaoui of Morocco coming through for the qualifying places. Weightman

couldn't quite get through there. And there in seventh place, Laura

Weightman closing down on Sado but we know at the moment she's the

fastest of the losers. She'll have a nervous sweat but I think she'll be

confident that there won't be six athletes who run faster than her in

the last round. She's got to wait. A little bit off it, a little bit of

strain in the back straight. I just thought she could have pulled it

onto Hassan but she's now downstairs and will explain it to us.

Thanks, Brendan. Laura, you said as you were coming off you felt you

should have qualified from that race. It's a waiting game now,

though. Fingers crossed, I should get through in that time. It's silly

not to get automatic qualifying but it's messy, a messy, scrappy race. I

put myself in a few bad positions so it's partly my own fault, getting in

and out and pushed around but that's championship racing. Hopefully that

puts me through. We saw you reach the final in 2012 and obviously

since then you've won medals at Europeans, Commonwealths, what's the

biggest difference between the Laura Weightman now and then? I'm four

years stronger and four years more experienced and that's a massive

difference coming through the rounds. You stay calm and not worry

and hopefully I'll get in the semifinal and I'll be fine. What

will you do now? Do you go and look at the next race? Do you keep your

head down until you know the result? I'm looking at the semifinal and

that should be enough to get me through. I won't stress and worry

too much. A few silly mistakes in that race but I know I'm in good

shape to run well. I probably made a 4:07 look a bit too hard there but

everything is all right and hopefully I'll be in the semifinal.

We hope to see you in the semis, all the best. Thank

you: Well, sounds confident there, Laura Weightman. I think she's

probably right. She's in prime position in the fastest losers at

the moment. Six to go through automatically. Hassan did what she

does, coming through to take it ahead of Kipyegon. And those who are

are further down the running order but I think Laura Weightman should

be OK. Back to the track we go for the

third and final heat in Round 1 of the women's 1,500m. Well, confidence

is based on the result of the first heat, in which they went off much

slower. And therefore it was the fast last

lap in that one which brought it down a bit but not as quick as the

second heat. Certainly at the moment all of the fastest losers come from

the second heat. We've seen Jess Ennis-Hill throw

13.44. There's two pools and Katarina Johnson-Thompson is in the

other pool. This is damage limitation time for

Johnson-Thompson. She is needs to throw ideally somewhere beyond or at

least close to 13m. That's what she's done this year. First round,

though. Left foot never came down. Did she

save it? No, that's way down. We saw her warm up quite nicely. That's a

foul. She fell out of the front of that by the looks of it. It's a foul

in the first round for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Two throws

remaining. Heat three, then. Laura Muir will

have looked at the start list here and thought with the form she's in,

it should be no problem whatsoever. We've got one non-starter in this

from the United Arab Emirates. That's Betlhem Desalegn. We've got

one from East Timor and -- in Nelia Martins so maybe Laura Weightman is

more confident than me about fastest-loser spots. I think they're

all fast here. Zoe Buckman, a fast Australian and

Laura Muir is confident enough to sit on the back. Why not? She's in

dominant farm. The coach has done a great job with Laura. Both laufrias

have been part of the endurance squad who prepared with Moe Farah

and everybody else. This is the biggest endurance squad we've had in

the Olympic Games for a long time. That's good to see. Laura look to

get through without problems. She'll be looking to keep out of trouble in

the first couple of laps. We saw a marvellous performance by Laura Muir

in the Anniversary Games when she beat Hassan, the world indoor

champion in year. And Laura Muir comes into this event with new and

renewed confidence and, not surprisingly, when she broke Kelly

Holmes's record, she was staggered herself: And I spoke to Kelly last

night who said she's looking forward to seeing Laura Muir, not lickty

tonight because it's no more than a formality but it isn't. You've got

to do it, get there, get in the first six to go through but she's

running so confidently. When you're good and when you're strong and when

you've just run personal bests, when you've just beaten the record by the

great Kelly Holmes, then you can afford to run with confidence here

and that means, you know, I'm the boss, I'm controlling this, you can

do what you want to do but eventually I'll be joining you. Now

they come down, two laps to go, Laura Muir is now going to start

taking closer order. So Laura Muir content to be at the

back. There are 11 people here in this group and the pace they're

going, Bre, all 11 could qualify, which would -- Bren, all 11 sko

qualify which would make Laura Weightman... Sorry... The pace

they're goings. Oh, Bahta took a stumble there. All

of these women could, if they worked together, all go through. So Laura

Muir is not bothered about that. She's straight at the front.

Seyaum, for me, is another threat. She's a very good Ethiopian runner.

Well, the way Laura Muir strode down the back straight, the power she

showed when she was doing that, the confidence she exudes today, it's a

new Laura Muir. She was fifth in the World Championships last year and

we're ready to see even better things from Laura Muir. As she comes

down, she'll hear the bell and really, at this point now, it's

about concentration. We know she's strong. We know she's fast enough.

We know she's got the power to drive at any point here, but we know that

any athlete, including Laura Muir, hat got to concentrate now, as she

comes up with 300m to go, three laps, 320m, so they can keep going

at this pace. It's a little threat to Laura Weightman but Laura Muir

looks impressive. Laura Muir has to do something about that Ethiopian

striding out. Seyaum kicks away. Top six to go through but all 11, even

Magnani at the back, can go through here. Zoe Buckman, the Australian,

tried to get around Arafi of Morocco. Bahta, a former Ethiopian

now running for Sweden, is moving away. Laura Muir lets Seyaum move

away. Top six are going through but anything under 4:08 and they'll all

go through. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... Well, one or two

at the back will have to wait and see. No problems for Laura Muir and,

in fact, we can confirm that both Lauras qualify, Laura Weightman is

the fastest loser, Laura Muir qualifying by rights, both of them

through to the semifinals. All the big names through. No real surprises

there for me. Didn't really learn a lot, Bren, except that everybody,

including coaches, get nervous in semifinals with people falling over.

Seyaum kicked away but Laura let her do that. She certainly did. That was

an impressive performance by Laura Muir. It's a new confidence that you

get when you're running as well as she is. Allowing Seyaum to run away.

She's just settling and relaxing. She's so, so impressive this year. I

think she's going to have great chances in the next few days and

Laura Weightman, as the coach has just said, he was more nervous than

her R but Seyaum will be a bit of a threat. Arafi, Shannon Rowbury -

that's the six. Laura Muir more impressive than any of them in that

one. She's downstairs now with Phil. Brendan talking on commentary how

good a season it's been, how good you looked out there, how in control

you are. Yeah, no, I just wanted to get the job done basically, top six.

A lot of girls wanted to be at the front. Make sure I didn't get boxed

in and job done and rest up for the semis now. At the Anniversary Games,

you were impressive. How high is your confidence? To finish that race

you couldn't cope for anything better. I'm taking confidence from

that and using it here. It's paying off. You can't get ahead of

yourself. People are talking about you contending for a medal here but

you've got to negotiate the rounds. What mind-set are you in? You take

it one round at a time. Getting to the final is not easy. My focus is

now on the semis and once I get to the final, I'll focus on that. It's

the Olympics. Anything can happen. We wish you well for the semis.

Thank you. Well done. Thank you very much.

Two PBs in the first two events in the heptathlon for Thiam. First

round of the shot put. It's a big throw! Wow! She's

produced two fantastic performances in the hurdles and the high jump.

She's matching Katarina Johnson-Thompson. You can see the

look in her face. She got into that. We've seen Jess Ennis-Hill just

under 14m. She can touch the front part of that board and nothing else.

It's a valid throw. It will be measured. Thiam 14.41 fm. That could

take her into the lead. Well! Theisen-Eaton, the Canadian

has been solid so far, without being fantastic. Her first-round effort is

justunder 13m. A lifetime best for her is 13.71m. So that's another

decent performance. She is reliable, consistent. I just wonder whether

she's got the firepower to challenge the Brits and indeed Thiam who is

producing a great heptathlon at the early stages.

Jessica Ennis-Hill in round two of the shotput. 13.44 was the opener.

She can let loose now. She has thrown over 14 metres in the past.

Just came away from that as well, elbow dropped, it is below 14 metres

again. She threw 13.73 en route to her gold medal in the World

Championship last year, she is just shy of that. You can just see it

going out sideways from her neck. Once wrote to improve on that

first-round effort. 13.44 her best so far. No improvement in the second

round. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, round two after a foul. Has to get a

mark in here, no messing about. She really went around that again, it

looked as though it is going to be measured, maybe not quite even 12

metres. She has produced a brilliant high jump, we saw earlier, a British

record, she is in the lead, but she is going to get swallowed up if she

does not improve on that market. -- that mark. As she waits for it to be

measured, she will not be happy with that, but she will be happy that is

a mark. 11.6 eight. Down on what she needs. -- 11.60 eight. We can tie up

the 1500 metre qualifiers. The quickest heat was that last one,

Seyaum winning it. The fastest losers came from heat to MP3, which

means that Laura Weightman goes through as the fastest loser, also

-- peaks two and three. 16 in total, those semifinals, as

Laura Muir alluded to, will be difficult. But have a little look in

close detail at this shotput is. Because you analysed both athletes,

Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and compare them

to the very elite, the best of the best in Valerie Adams. What you

showed earlier, Katarina Johnson-Thompson has thrown worse

and her technique has been poorer. What you think is going on with her,

she is down on her personal best and what she can do. I'm not sure what

is going on, but I'm sure the break has something to do with it, I'm

sure there is something just by misfiring, they are not particular

tired, so that is hard, suggest is not brain what we normally would

expect to see, she is a 14 metre throw at worst. So technically, she

is just miss firing out of her hands, we talked about the

separation between her body and the shot, at this point she is just not

opening up -- she is just opening up our arm, and it is causing the shot

to go out at an angle, shows she is losing distance. Let's have a look

at this one again. This is her second attempt. That is is very

flat. Really did not use her... No trajectory at all. But also she did

not get her right leg underneath her, which you really do need to get

the impetus through the shot. She will be really disappointed with

that. Katarina Johnson-Thompson with a foul on her first throw, and then

her body in her second throw, had technique appeared to be all over

the place really, she did not seem to have any strength at all. At the

moment you can imagine what is going through her head. I can't mess up,

so easily she could have three fouls in the shotput and that would be a

disaster. I think she was just very cautious about, she just needed to

get one in, technically, it is not great, not great at all. 11.68, not

using her legs again, throwing is about the legs, whether it is

javelin, Hama, shot up they need to do that. -- shot. They have won

three left, and hopefully they can give it all they have got. 400 metre

hits coming up next on the track, Michael Johnson, are you excited

about that? 400 was arguably the final of the World Championships

last year, the most electrifying race. Yes, and it will live up to

the same heights. This year has shaped up to be a fantastic year for

the 400 metres, I know who is going to win the medals, I believe, but

the order could be anyway, so when we get under way here today, the

world champion in the last championships. Will we see a top

three under 44 in the final? There are a couple of people who have run

under 44 in the final. This is one we will see it, at this early round,

it will get some of the kinks out, it has been a few weeks since they

have race, it will be interesting to see. Let's see how they go. Fitzroy

Dunkley, second in the Jamaican championships, just outside, was Gil

Roberts, there is Cedenio of Trinidad Tobago, two hundredths

inside the British record of Ewan Thomas. Alex Sampao in lane one,

from Kenya. There is the European champion, he has a bit of an

Achilles injury obviously something to be concerned about, the macro --

the Borlee siblings will all be in these Olympics.

The first of seven heats in the men's 400 metres.

Cleanly away, three to go through automatically, plus the next fastest

three to the semifinals. Roberts making great progress, pulling away

from Fitzroy Dunkley at the moment. Roberts is a powerful runner, just

settling back into things, things even in up a little bit more, it is

quite even between five or six athletes. Dunkley going well. Bravo

is going well from Venezuela. Cedenio looking strong and looking

smooth. The Cuban is in third at the moment. Cedenio takes it, vowing to

the line, 44.99, Roberts takes a second, inside 45 seconds, but I

think he gave that pretty much everything, Cedenio, he was not

easing up, he was tying up a little bit, Cedenio, I am Cedenio, and I

have gone below 45 seconds. Roberts went out very quickly, but just

eased through the middle of the race and had to work quite hard towards

the end, but three to go through automatically, and Gill Roberts and

Cedenio go through. He runs a very smart race, Roberts, the Kenyan goes

quickly backwards in lane one, but Cedenio could see everybody, and

really moves through, it is not always easy in lane two but the

others have gone out quickly, you can see him just easing around this

top end, and all of a sudden on the home straight years into half metre

lead. He has had a great season so far, Cedenio, the big three other

favourites to win the medals, and there are one of two really good new

talent coming through, this guy is only 20 years of age, just

struggling a little towards the end, reaching to the line, not like

Roberts, Roberts looking across, and qualifies OK. Cedenio, it will see

on the outside, but what do you make of Cedenio? When Cedenio stumbled

badly out of the rocks, that this may be why he ran his first 200 so

quickly, overcoming that stumble. This was not running by Roberts out

in lane seven because he was effectively on the outside lane with

the 17-year-old from new from Niger on the outside. Knowing that

everybody else was on the inside, you see Dunkley coming up, it was

smart to get out and run quickly through the first 200, and then just

hold on, he does start to tie up at the end, but he manages it well, he

is holding form and quite good form, leaning back a little bit as the

fatigue starts to set in. It still able to hold, and that will hold him

in good stead, that was a pretty good time under 45 seconds for the

opening round, Cedenio, a great young talent, I have worked with him

a little bit over the last couple of years, and he is a very studious

runner, loves to study other 400 metre runners, and that has helped

in to be very consistent this year, 44 seconds, so he has a very good

chance here at these championships, and has a very good opening right

there with a 45 second, under 45 seconds, going down a little bit of

a marker. Machel Cedenio led them home, Roberts and Lescay from Cuba

are the three fastest, Fitzroy Dunkley coming in fourth. Theisen

Eaton then, 13.36 in the third round, she is the world leader, it

is all going on around her. Looking to improve on her first-round throw,

here in the second round, in the shot put. Quick with the feet as

ever. Around the Simla sort of mark as her first-round throw. She just

seems very consistent, but it does not convince me that she can really

drop the Hama and punted out -- the hammer. You just wonder what she can

do to fight off the British. A wonderful added so far for the

Canadian, Brianne Theisen Eaton. Jessica Ennis-Hill has had two

throws already in the 13 metres, she needs something beyond 14, she is

capable of it, 14 metres plus, please, Jessica Ennis-Hill, it is on

the 14 metre line, maybe just shy of it. It is an improvement, though.

Her head in her hands, she knows that is not quite what she is

capable of. Just unwound a little early there. Jedinak. The face tells

a story. -- yeah. Her face tells the story. It is the best of her three

attempts. But it is over for Jessica Ennis-Hill. And the attention turns

to Thiam. That is better, that is very much better, that is close to

15 metres, and Thiam is absolutely putting together a brilliant first

day, it is going to be a huge first score, first-day score, her 200

metres maybe not the likes of Anna 's Hill and Johnson Thomson, --

Jessica Ennis-Hill, but look at her reaction. And what it means to her.

14.91, that will take the lead over all after three events, foreshore.

-- for sure. Look at the start list of this second heat, the British

athlete had to withdraw, he will be in the relay, we are told, here is

the starting this for heat two. The first three to go through, we

have Cedenio do 44.99, it is the fastest

three to go through. The 4-man if you like, Brenes, from Costa Rica,

still producing fast times. That is Brenes, who will be with his

teammate in the relay. Brenes has started very quickly in lane two.

Look how much ground he's taken out from Taplin. The young runner from

Botswana, Sibanda is a massive tal in. The 18-year-old is leading them

but Tapli and Brenes - who might just pay for the fast start. At the

moment the two big names are pulling away. Brenes is holding form but

look at Taplin. The youngster, Sibanda, moving into the third spot,

finishing well and easing over the line in 45.16. Brenes gives his

thighs a slap and they are big thighs. You can't miss them. Taplin,

easy winner there. No sub-45 clocking for him.

He was very comfortable on the end. That's the look of a man at ease.

Perhaps not quite the quality of some of the other heats but Taplin

had did what he had to do and able to ease down and conserve vital

energy. That was very, very comfortable from Bralon Taplin.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has one final attempt in this third event,

the shot put. She may have seen Thiam in the consecutive pool just

to her right, throw a huge effort, 14.91m.

Johnson-Thompson's best so far is 11.68m. She needs something over 12m

here. Oh, no. She pun out of that again.

That's not good and she knows it. That's an absolute mess. She'd have

better doing a standing throw. I have to say. She looks a completely

different athlete to what we saw in the high jump. The look in her eyes

- you can see it - she just is lost. And her third attempt has unravelled

what was a really good start to this heptathlon. 11.19m, no improvement.

Greg Rutherford is in the stadium. The men's long jump qualification is

coming up in five minutes' time. The defending Olympic Champion, World

Champion, European and Commonwealth Games champion. He's won it all in

the last four years. We caught up with him earlier.

It's a process of feelings. You get into a rhythm so as you accelerate

down the runway, it's all by feel. Your mind is in a Zen area, if you

like, of doing what needs to be done to jump as far as you possibly can.

Can you ever have imagined that we would have a night like this? That

gold medal changed everything. It definitely gave me that the believe

that I can win major championships. Before that, I'd been under the

assumption fa if anything went well, there was a chance. Greg Rutherford

is the Olympic Champion. I went from somebody who nobody knew at all in

my local town really to that ginger guy that won that gold medal. That's

fantastic. I'm happy to be remembered as the ginger guy. That's

great. What a picture. What a night. Still to this day, when I meet

somebody for the first time, they'll tell me where they were on

super-Saturday. Once you take off, generally, if

it's a good jump, you feel it straightaway. That's probably what

all field eventers chase, is that one feeling of, "I've got it right"

and I had that in London on the fourth round when I jumped the 31. I

had it in the 41 at the worlds. Rutherford completes the grand slam.

Last year, I wasn't the longest jumper in the world but I was the

most consistent. I take that into the Olympics with a lot of

confidence because consistency wins medals. I've come here nothing but

to win again. It comes down to doing it when it matters and that's all

I'm focused on. It's all about what happens in the Majors. I'm always a

massive advocate of being happy away from the track. That's the biggest

influence of being good at the track. Yay! To have what I have now,

a lovely little boy that I can sort of go home to after sessions that

have gone wrong and a very understanding partner in Susie who

gets the fact that I can probably be a selfish, angry so-and-so at times.

Hello, Milo. I try and have two separate parts of me, the part at

the track which is serious when I'm getting the work done and the part

of me at home which is very different. I don't want to talk

about or thinking about long jump. I want to have fun with my son and I

do and I love that and that's one of the greatest things for me. I'm

probably in a better place than I've ever been now because I've got a

real reason to go out and perform. I want my son to look back when he's

old err and say, "Yeah, my dad was pretty cool!"

Very good indeed and as usual, Greg has a unique way of preparing

himself at these events. He seems to take himself away from everybody

else and has his own little set-up, gets his towel out, lies down and

gets into the zone and when he comes in, he's one of those athletes,

Michael Johnson, whose Game face visibly turns on, doesn't it? I

think there's two sides to Greg but he lives in his game face to me.

You've got to say, I mean, what a cute kid. All out of sight. He's as

quite as I -- cute as I don't know what. He's done well with Milo. I

know you're going to keep interested in track items now because Wayde van

Niekerk is on the track and he is the World Champion at 400m and

Andrew Carter is calling this one. There he is.

Outstanding athletes across all sprints and Michael Johnson would

appreciate that. He's an extraordinary talent, the

man from South Africa. This is the full behind-up for the third of

seven heats. Luguelin Santos is in there.

Jonathan Borlee. Javon Francis, the Jamaican champion there as well.

Santos might have to run a season's best to go through. Five men in

these heat have gone quicker than him this year.

You've got Kishoyian, the Kenyan champion, in there as well and Wayde

van Niekerk two from the outside. Should be comfortable enough here.

Set... So three to go through

automatically. Plus three fastest losers over the seven heats and

Wayde van Niekerk already strolling, it seems, past Javon Francis, the

Jamaican champion, the 21-year-old, who will try and respond now but

Wayde van Niekerk makes it look so easy. Jonathan Borlee is beginning

to struggle a little bit with Brandon Valentine-Parri is from St

Vincent and the Grenadines running well.

Alonso Russell running sharply. Keerk keerk keerk and just about

alongside and now beginning to pull away from the about Heyman Russell

and on the inside, Luguelin Santos has responded and will take one of

the three places. He started strongly.

He responded when he had to towards the finish but Wayde van Niekerk is

the third quickest the world this year and he's a real medal contender

in the final. Coming through easily, Michael.

Yeah, absolutely. You know, Wayde van Niekerk knows that this is going

to be a tough championships. He's got to get through these rounds. He

did this pretty easily here, very smooth throughout the enture 400m.

This is how you run the early rounds. You see there he hasn't

expended much energy at all. This is the end of the race and he is not

struggling. You see Santos struggling on the inside. But Wayde

van Niekerk, that sub-10-second 100m, sub-20-second 200m this year

has really, um, sent a message to the rest of the 400m runners that he

has the speed, an incredible weapon at 400m. A very long stride, as you

so there, for such a short 400m runner. He's not quite six feet tall

but very relaxed here on the back stretch. This is exactly what you

want. This is textbook preliminary-round running, very nice

and easy get up to speed quickly and then maintain that. So you see right

here he never looks like he's struggling at all in this 45:27

early round, very nice and relaxed. It will put him in good stead for

the rest of the rounds. The 400m is a difficult race, tough race, so you

want to conserve as much energy as you possibly can in these rounds. He

was fortunate to be able to do that. Santos, silver medallist in the 2012

Olympics, by the way, starting in good shape. He hasn't been in that

sort of form lately but he gave no problems at all. Wayde van Niekerk

is talking now to Phil. Michael Johnson says it's a great

qualification. You gave a great performance at the worlds. What's it

like on the Olympic stage? Starting from scratch now, going through the

rounds and grateful I'm through the heats healthy and feeling good.

Everyone is excited about this event. Three of you could go head to

head to head in the final. What's it like for you having to kind of keep

in the present and not get too ahead of yourself? I'm just enjoying the

blessing and the opportunity. I'm inspired to compete against

world-class athletes and it's a blessing to be here. It's always

great to see you. We appreciate you stopping. Thank you. Thank you so

much. Thank you. Here's the standings in the women's heptathlon

and the news is that Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who was leading,

has slipped to sixth place after a bit of a shocker in the shot put.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is in second place. So the youngsters are doing

well, especially Nafissatou Thiam. So watch out for Akela Jones of

Barbados. She's a very good long-jumper. That's tomorrow

morning. Only the 200m to come. Thank you, Steve. What a difference

an evening can make. We were full of positivity and joy at the

performances this morning from Katarina Johnson-Thompson in

particular in the high jump. That was a really, really poor shot put

for her. Um, I'm not sure - I know you were saying this morning that it

didn't make too much difference, you didn't feel, the high jump

competition went on a long time because she was going right up to

2.01m. Would she be fatigued at all? This day is two hours longer than

the first day in London. They started at 9:30 this morning and

they'll push to 11 o'clock tonight, two hours longer than day one in

2012. It's a long schedule. Regardless of what happened in the

high jump, it's a long programme for the heptathletes, which is

challenging because you never really switch off. You're always thinking

about the event and what might you need to do next. The ability to

switch off is what you need to do but it's not easy. So I think she is

suffering a little bit but let's be clear that her shot put needs work.

We know that and that's why she was affected today. This is why she's

down in sixth place after being top after her high all-purpose. This is

her third throw, Denise. What always bothers me is her body language. She

knows she's not good at the event and I need to see her being a bit

more dynamic. What she needs to do at this point is really drive that

but she opens up to that left-hand side, which gives the right leg no

work to do she can't push off it, it's enactive and that is why she's

not able to get any purchase on that shot and Steve Backley called it.

She might as well as have done a standing shot at that point.

Contrast that with Thiam, who had an excellent high jump as well and has

built on that with the shot put here. Two PBs already today. She is

a good shot putter. She's a great thrower. You'll see that in the

javelin tomorrow. She is dynamic. She uses her legs. She looks slight

but she's nearly 6'. She's one of the tallest women in the high jump

but she is excellent and you can see what that throw meant to her. She

knows she's put herself right in contention. She's a good second or

so slower than both Jess and Katarina in the 200m, though, so

they have it get up some points there, don't they? They have to go

eyeballs out in the 200m, which there, don't they? They have to go

later on this evening. Next up on the track, the European champion,

later on this evening. Next up on Martin Rooney, is out there and he's

ready for his heat in the 400m. Steve cram.

-- Cram. Martyn has not the easiest of heats

and he has to be on his game here. He has two or three experienced guys

in there, a couple of speernls guys with Lalonde Gordon of Trinidad and

Tobago and Chris Brown inside him there. But the big new talent from

Botswana, the man who - I watched him running in the world junior

championships, Baboloki Thebe who ran excellently but was disqualified

for not sticking in his lane. People from Botswana have got a good 4 x

400m team as well. Chris Brown, Martyn Rooney and then James

Chiengjiek, running for the Olympic refugee team, formally from South

Sudan. Janezic from Slovenia, then Gordon, Thebe, Walsh from Japan and

Cuesta from the dommin can republic. To be safe, Rooney needs to be in

the mid-40s what we've seen so far, certainly 45.6, 45.7 at least if

he's not in the top three but he's off to a good start.

Not helping him is the fact that the Olympic refugee representative is in

lane three. He's passed him already so he needs to set his sights on

those outside him in lanes four and five.

this at the moment. Gordon leading from Thebe, the Slovenian in third

and Rooney is coming, and he is challenging, and so is Chris Brown,

will it be enough? He is not going to do that, he will not even be

fourth. Chris Brown gets fourth. 45.24 the winning time for Gordon,

that was good, we saw Martin at the training track, he was trying to run

his race as not going out too hard, well Martin has done well, coming

back quickly, in days gone by, but that was not one of those. I don't

think he was helped by that empty lane in lane three. Nonetheless, he

let Chris Brown passed him right at the end, and that could be really,

really critical to him. As you said, he had a long way to look at the

Slovenian athlete, and for someone who tries to finish strongly it was

a long way to come back. I'm not sure that time is going to be quick

enough. Thebe the Botswanan, he seemed to be struggling. Lalonde

Gordon and Martyn Rooney, again, it did not look too comfortable in the

latter stages of the race. I think the mistake was made earlier in the,

when you know you have got to run your outside the refugee runner who

is not to provide you any sort of competition, you have most of the

field farther up ahead, and this is where Martin Gordon loses it. He is

not really pushing down that back straight, and he lost contact with

the rest of the field, the athletes that he was going to need to compete

with for those top three places, and what you will see now, he realises

that, that they are gone, now you see him actually starting to

accelerate. You should not be able to accelerate the last 100 metres or

400 metres -- of a 400 metres. That is poor running by Martyn Rooney. He

is a much more experienced athlete than that. He has been inconsistent

of the last couple of years, false starting at the London games, those

are the sort of things we get from Martyn Rooney. It is unfortunate,

because he is in the shape to be able to get through to that next

round, but it is now doubtful that he will it is a massive mistake here

in terms of how he actually executed this race, and that is unfortunate.

Understandable disappointment, Michael, from Martyn Rooney,

realising you are the second fastest loser at the moment. Still have a

chance with one race to go, but describe your frustration. ... You

come to the Olympics to perform at your best, I feel like I am in PD

shape, and I don't know what I was doing in the first 250 I thought I

would come home or right, but I must have gone through 23 seconds, I

don't know. I am just gutted for myself. Everybody supporting me,

hopefully if I sneak through then I will sort it out tomorrow, and try

and do some damage. But I am just gutted. We appreciate your talking

to us, thanks a lot. His description was not that wrong.

Pretty concise analysis. 45.60, he is in with a chance of qualifying, I

think the fact that he let Chris Brown by him probably annoys him of

anything else. Greg Rutherford is in the stadium, he is about to jump in

the first round of the long jump qualification, 8.15 to progress to

the final on Saturday. Geoffrey Henderson is a contender. He has one

of the longest jumps in the world this year, was not great last year

in Beijing. First attempt, 8.15 or better, which that is, which gets

you into Saturday's final. Henderson has jumped a pretty good jump there,

it would seem. He does not look happy with it. But that is how they

do it. The first round qualification, go beyond auto

qualifying, you can walk out of the stadium and let the others battle

on. Greg Rutherford had not even started yet, and it looks like

Henderson has already booked a place. It is 8.205 Henderson. Be on

autopilot lying. -- beyond auto qualifying. Heat five of the men's

400 metres. What a lineup, some big names here. Lashawn Merritt in this

race. There is Lashawn Merritt, for Malaga champion, fastest man this

year, the only man this year to have gone below 44 seconds, quickest over

200 as well. Isaac Makwala, fifth in the World Championships, he had run

faster in the semi-final and just dropped off a little bit the final.

Harouni, from Qatar, formerly from Saddam. -- Saddam. -- Sudan.

Estefani of Brazil is in lane seven, a bit of a buzz for him. Let's see

how Lashawn Merritt runs this, on the outside, so they want to work

off, but still should not present a problem for him. Away they go.

Keeping an eye on Haroun, the world junior champion. On the outside,

Lashawn Merritt ambling down the back straight, he looks to be

building a decent lead. Makwala has to work a bit. Haroun in lane three

with a lot to do. Another look to his left, nobody there, Lashawn

Merritt looking straight and looking very comfortable, it is Makwala

coming through, Haroun is struggling, finishing strongly was

Butrym from Ukraine, for the third fastest place. Lashawn Merritt

pretty comfortable, no one else but him in that race really. They were

all chasing Lashawn Merritt, a lot of people not running particular

well there, I know that Haroun finish quickly, Makwala has just

held on, Lashawn Merritt looking good, the big three, he is one of

them, he is looking very easy. Lashawn Merritt looking very good

there through this early qualification. This is how you would

want to run the early rounds, opposite to what we just saw with

Martyn Rooney, you want to get up to speed, which is what he does very

well, and then just relax. On the outside of the track year with no

wonder what, he does have the benefit of the big screens at either

end to see what his position is in relation to the other runners, which

would allow him to run very relaxed, as you see here, just very relaxed

running. He has got fantastic 200 metre speeds, fastest man in the

world this year over 200 metres, and will contest that later. But right

now just very relaxed in this early round of the 400 metres, 2008

Olympic champion, will look to regain that from James who won that

in 2012. Looking very consistent and healthy, and that bodes well for his

chances of this fantastic 400 metres, that we will see here in Rio

this week. Great qualification thereby Lashawn Merritt. Talking

over that replay their, Michael Johnson saying how control you look.

You come into dealing pigs as one of this favourite, had you feel about

that? -- these Olympics. It felt so good. I was running as smooth as

possible, 45.2 first round, it is good. You bring so much experience

to these Olympic Games, you have been here before, you've done it

before, is that some kind of benefit to you ahead of your other rivals

here, do you think? It is. I was not able to compete in 2012, so I am

here to win it. And not just this, you are going for a 200- 400 double.

I will just focus on each round. Thank you for talking to us. We have

seen two of the big three,, Lashawn Merritt there. The good news Martyn

Rooney is that his 45.60 still leaves him with two heats to go,

still leaves him one of the fastest loser places. Here is Greg

Rutherford. Start his bid to retain his Allenby title, the first round

of qualifying, the first step in that direction, 8.15 or better, is

what is needed to get into Saturday's final. We have already

seen Henderson, the American, go out to 8.2 zero. Rutherford, round one,

he is fast on the approach, it is a big jump, just on that... On that

8.20 mark, but it will not be measured. He was over the board. An

uncharacteristic start, quite significantly beyond that red line,

you can see the start of the plasticine, Rutherford, usually so

meticulous, but he will need to adjust his run-up. Wang of China,

bronze in Beijing, last year, the teenager, taking the bronze last

year -- Huang. What can he do in this round of qualification? That is

a big jump from Huang. That is quite a big statement to him. He is

clearly up to this. It is going to be a really interesting final, we

hope, fingers crossed, that Greg Rutherford will be involved, of

course, but he has to go beyond that 8.20, or be in the top 12. Huang

looks like he has booked a place, Henderson looks like he is in, 8.24

to Huang. A good jump. There is great, he will need to move his

checkmark back. The athletes have a mark on the runway, he will move it

back, maybe just ten or 15 centimetres. Make that adjustment,

and get ready for round two. Three attempts to make the final. Let's

hope he makes adjustments, a view suggested there, and he can get

through safely. I'm sure he will. Talking about getting through

safely, Matt Hudson Smith with just two make heats to come, Martyn

Rooney still hanging on by his fingertips, the two fastest losers,

Matt Hudson Smith has Kirani James to content with. The UK champion,

the man who burst onto the scene in 2014, it European silver-medallist,

and has shown superb ability in big races, often, although it has to be

said in the European Championships which were held just before these

Olympic Games, on the final leg, it looked as though he did what he

normally does, and he did fade rather and end up with the bronze.

But he bounced back really well in the London Diamond league, good

performance from him there. Kirani James, we talk about the big three,

we have seen Lashawn Merritt, now it is Kirani James, the defending

champion, looking to get his defence under way here. Verburg from the

United States will be a good challenge for Matthew Hudson Smith.

We have MacDonald from Jamaica, George of Guiana, the top three go

through, and the three fastest loser spots available, I certainly hope

that Matt Hudson Smith should be OK year. -- here.

Season's best, personal bests, as ever, in the Olympic Games, that all

goes out the window. But Matt Hudson-Smith is certainly

in good enough form to contend with what's ahead of him here.

So heat six. Hudson-Smith in lane two.

Safely away, Kirani James ambles out of the blocks and gets that huge

frame of his moving nicely. David Verburg has started quickly, as he

often does. He needs to hang on to the American's shirt tails, Matt

Hudson-Smith. Kirani James is watching Winston George of Guyana in

the yellow going well. Now the long legs of Kirani James are starting to

really move. Rusheen McDonald going well for Jamaica. Matt Hudson-Smith

is running a good bend. The Brit looks strong here. He has to stay

strong in the home straight because the Jamaican, Rusheen McDonald.

Kirani James at a cannoter, then Rusheen McDonald and Matt

Hudson-Smith safely through. That's the questioningest so far. Kirani

James just dipped a few hundredths inside the fastest so far. He was

easing back nicely, watching the times coming in and I think Martyn

Rooney is still just about OK but we'll tidy all that up for you. A

contrast of styles in there as well. Matthew Hudson-Smith is an elegant

runner, working well off Verburg and Rusheen McDonald is ungayly, a

muscular upper-body start. They were talking about Wayde van Niekerk,

LaShawn Merritt and Kirani James, the big three, who looked so

impressive this season and didn't Kirani James look so impressive,

able to look all around him, take in his surroundings, well aware he's a

long way clear. All the others were fighting so hard behind

Well, Matthew Hudson-Smith here with the nice easy run here. He's gotten

up to speed. He's a little bit... If you contrast him to what we saw with

LaShawn Merritt and some of the others, he's a little bit tight in

the upper body there, you see him kind of lurching ahead. He wants to

relax that a little bit if he wants to get down below 45 seconds. That

will have to happen. I thought he executed this race very well for the

early rounds and did exactly what he needed to do to put himself into

contention right here coming off of this bend. I see David Verburg from

the USA starting to struggle again. Kirani James relaxed. It's tough to

run the inside of the lane as well. He's not in contact with the likes

of Kirani James on the outside. But Matthew looking a little bit relaxed

here on the home stretch. That's good. That's a good sign that he's

got a little bit left for the next round, which he will need, because

the times will certainly drop and require him to run a little bit

faster to get into that final but he certainly has the potential to get

into that final. He's run consistent this year. He had a good race at the

Anniversary Games and started his campaign here in Rio well also.

Michael Johnson says you've got the potential to make the final. That

run backs that off? It was difficult in lane two. Everyone told me to

treat it like a time and I thought I had second. I made a radioingy

mistake in the fact that the Ru -- Rusheen McDonald take second. I got

through. That's all I could do. When you qualified for the team back in

Birmingham, I remember the look on your face. You couldn't believe you

were an Olympian. Now you're here, has it lived up to expectations? Um,

yeah. It's very, um... Still very surreal. And... I'm just taking it

round by round. The semifinals will be really tough and, you you've just

got to take every round like a final really so I'm excited.

I suppose it is the balance of being excited and enjoying the moment, but

getting the job done, like you just have. Yeah, definitely. The first

part's done now. Onto the next round. Everyone here is very close,

as you can tell by this round. It's who wants it more, really. We wish

you well for the semis, Matt. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, Kirani James looking very, very good indeed. Matt Hudson-Smith

just getting a congratulatory high-five from him. We'll just tidy

the result up and, as I said, Martyn Rooney is still hanging on. David

Verburg moves ahead of him but Winston George was not quicker than

Rooney. Martline Rooney is currently third of the fastest losers with one

more heat to come. This this is Manyonga of South

Africa. Foul in the first round in the long jump qualification. Greg

Rutherford also had a foul. It looks as though Manyonga has done

something... Oh, actually, they'll look at. This he needs a white flag

here and he's got one, so the runner-up from the African

Championships he slightly chopped there, didn't he? Just shortened his

stride, looking down at the distance boards. You can see that wonderful

shot on the side of the pit. Wonderful shot and agility in the

air, reaching as much as he can. His measurement is just shy of

autoqualifying but it's likely to be enough.

Rutherford is 13th to jump. I hope he's not superstitious. But it means

he's got a long time to wait. And that's a tough thing in qualifying.

He'll have a good - what? - maybe 15 to 20 minutes to wait. But he knows

what to do. I'm sure he'll get it right next time. So the final heat -

we've seen some outstanding athletes so far but it's perhaps not packed

with the greatest talent, this one. Certainly some very quick men in

there. Steven Gardnor in lane one, the young Bahamian, can go very,

very quickly. Ali Khamis of Bahrain goes in lane

seven. Pav yell Maslak and his familiar arm-conversation. El Maslak

and his familiar arm-conversation. Pavel Maslak has been outstanding

indoors this season. Steven Gardinor, not yet 21, ran 44.27 last

year. Outside him, you've got Eraiyokan of

Nigeria, Kanemaru of Japan in three, Maslak goes in four there, Rafal

Omelko of Poland in lane five, Anas of India, the new Indian

record-holder, in lane six, Khamis of Bahrain in lane seven and

Liemarvin Bonevacia from the Netherlands here but imagine also a

phantom Martyn Rooney, third of the fastest losers, going around this

one too. This is the final Three to go through automatically

and Steven Gardiner working from the sometimes-difficult lane one. He's

got it all outside him but it's pretty tight as well. N Maslak-man

gone off quickly, working off Omelko, the Polish athlete, who was

bronze behind him in the European Championships last season when

Maslak was so dominant, as he always is.

Steven Gardiner is working well in lane one. Three to go through

automatically and also going strongly is Liemarvin Bonevacia of

the Netherlands on the outside. Abbas has done all he can now.

Behind him it's a fierce battle for the other two places and Bonevacia

and Gardiner will take it. 45.13m for -- for the winner and the rest

some way behind so I think Martyn Rooney will be fine, absolutely

fine, despite running poorly, as he put it.

Certainly Ali Khamis Abbas of Bahrain went out pretty strongly

there and was able to, again, look around and see that he'd done the

job but actually I'm looking at the times now... You and I both looking.

Sadly, you were right, it was right on it but it means Martyn Rooney is

out and so is... Well, they're going to have to work this out because

Maslak and Omelko have been given exactly the same time in fourth and

fifth. Either way, whichever of those two get through, the news is

that Rooney is not through because his time was 45.60. He runs well

here, Khamis for Bahrain. He attacked this. I thought Gardiner

would come certificate genely through. He just held it together

nicely on the inside. Look at Maslak. He was coming and then just

stopped. That's not normal for him. He normally comes nicely through and

he finishes in fifth place. He's been given fifth, the same time as

Omelko in fourth. We'll tidy it all up for you but sadly, the news is

that Martyn Rooney will not go through to the semifinal. I thought

that was enough of a gap back there but he's out by 0.06 seconds.

Omelko and Maslak both go through as fastest losers. Ali KhamisAbbas goes

through there. Well, this session not necessarily

going quite the way we'd hoped, certainly for British athletes

today. We've seen disappointing throws from Jessica Ennis-Hill and

Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptathlon. The women's 200m is

coming up but that, for Martyn Rooney, Michael, he obviously was

really devastated with his performance and he's out. He's gone.

As he should be, he should be disappointed in that because it

wasn't the type of performance that he would have known he needed to put

in. He didn't execute the race properly at all. But he's been in

this position before. OK. We're going straight back to Steve Backley

because maybe, Michael, we'll get some joy now. Greg Rutherford is out

on the runway. Steve Backley. He's out. He looks keen in this second

round. A foul in the first round. Just encroached on to the

Plasticine. The jump wasn't measured.

I've got to say no-one's setting the world alight out of all the 32

competitors in this qualification round. Only 12 will advance to

tomorrow's final. And at the moment, in the early

stages - it's only the second round - but at the moment that's a jump of

7.79m, that's the 12th place. Greg Rutherford looking to make

small adjustments. He's moved his run-up back. You can see the check

mark of exactly where he'll start. He'll have measured that to the

millimetre. Rutherford, Olympic Champion, Round 2 of long jump

qualification. Oh, he hit that board hard that

time. He likes it. No. Another foul for Rutherford. So it wasn't - he

knew he was over the wood... By the smallest of margins and the

pressure's on for Rutherford. He did make an adjustment but it

wasn't enough. Two fouls. Only one more attempt... Well, Rutherford

under immense pressure now in this. He has another ten-minute or

15-minute wait for his next attempt, one more remaining. All those hours

and hours of hard work, of sweat and toil. He comes here to defend his

Olympic title. He has one jump to salvage his Olympic Games. We're

going to leave the stadium right now and hand you back to Jason Mohammad

for some swimming action but we will be back here later.

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further details. Right. Over the past couple of nights, we've had

some fantastic moments in the Olympic swimming pool. We've had

tears and we've had dancing. And that's just from the presenters.

Evening, all! Olympians in the final site, the

crowd is going to be out tonight. We have Michael Phelps, in a 100

metre butterfly, last time there was a pretty serious stare off,. The

whole box, Michael Phelps staring, there will probably a bit less of

that, a lot of different athletes. Michael Phelps has such an army of

fans that somebody got his face tattooed on their arm, that stare.

If we can find that on Twitter, it is a woman from Canada who actually

got his serious face tattooed onto her arm. It came out about two days

ago, and someone has done that already? That is dedication. But

plenty of people decide to get their idols tattooed on them, don't they.

Not that kind of moody shot! Their idle? Like me? Laughing Mac.

There is nothing wrong with a bit of love for your idle. (LAUGHS). She

was going to draw it on me. I went "You'd better stick to picture on

me." Talking of idols, the 200 metre backstroke is at first, Nowell

champion, now a first, Nowell champion, Noarlunga champion Emma...

-- no Olympic champion in this. It is going to be for the minor places.

Just because... She won the 100 metre and just keeps going. The

other girls have their work cut out. Keep your eye on Hosu.

Is going to be interesting. I am slightly worried. I am missing Emily

C bomb, with those two out -- Emily Seebohm. With them out, it will be

up for anyone. A really historic night with Ledecky. With those two

out, I can't... The final women's 200 metres

backstroke, Hosszu straight up into, she looks very powerful already. She

will attack it from the front, Caldwell does come back, she has a

ready won the 400 medley, difficult to see past her in this 200. Hosszu

had a stunning turn there. Dirado was with her for the first 50

metres. She is just punishing, she blasted out and the rest of the