Day 8 BBC One: 23.55-04.00 Olympics

Could this be the greatest night in British athletes' history. The

stadium erupted! has been four years since a synphony

of sound resonated around the Olympic Stadium. They called it

Super Saturday. Three athletes... COMMENTATOR: Rudderford leads at the

moment. ..And 45 minutes later, three golds. It is a perfect day for

Jessica Ennis. He is the Olympic champion. It is gold! Oh, yes! That

night, in our minds, they became super humans. Three gold medals for

Great Britain, what a night! But three are just like you and me. Day

in, day out, working hard at their jobs. Training like they mean it.

And now, four years on, this every day graft, this routine, might just

result in the most magical of repeats.

The unmistakable Michael Johnson setting the scene for what could be

an historic night at these, the Games, of the 31st Olympiad in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil. That is the Olympic Stadium where so much drama

will be played out tonight. We are in for a real treat. Hello. A very

good evening to you. Welcome back to the Copacabana. This could be if

biggest night of the greatest show on earth so far. Four years on after

London 2012, our athletes go for gold in just another Super Saturday.

Jessica Ennis-Hill proved last night she is the Queen of multi-athletics

winning the title 13 months after giving birth to a baby boy. She has

shown when the competition is on, she is ruthless, striking fear into

the rivals. She enters final two events in the help together long

just five points behind the leader. If she wins tonight, Jess becomes

the first British female track and field athlete to retain an limb tick

title but Katrina Johnson-Thompson is also in the mix and lies third.

As for Greg Rutherford, he qualified in 10th place for tonight's long

jump final, but Greg, too, is a big game player. He's won every title

going. He, like Jess, raises his game. He's got a brilliant smile. He

delivers when it matters. His rivals also fear him. He is the most

determined competitor. And, as for Mo Farah - unbeatable since 2012.

He's run everything. He's won everything, the aura of

invincibility, the aura of a world-class athlete. His rivals have

not found a way to beat him. No matter how hard they have tried, mo

has simply run away from them. He is simply one of the best athletes that

Great Britain has ever produced. He striefrs to retain his title and

become once more, the Olympic champion. So this is how we are

lining up for you tonight. These are the times you needs a Super Saturday

approaches. Katrina Johnson-Thompson goes into the javelin.

Significantly, she's in an earlier group than Jess. Jess on paper has a

stronger throw than Kat. 12: 50 Greg Rutherford begins his chase for the

title. It will be close. At 1:25 Mo Farah could win a third gold of his

Olympic career as he races as the favourite in a 10,000 metre final.

You need to be awake for the final event of the heptathlon. The 800m

could be a golden double for Jess. It could be a win also for KJT. It

will be tense. It will be quite a night. It will be another great

chapter in British sporting history. We could be talking about this for

years to come. This is what the Olympic Games are

all about. We dream about nights like this. Sit back, relax and enjoy

it with us. Not just track and field, of course. It is also a very

big night in the swimming. So, just after 2am the 50m freestyle

final. Blink and you will miss it. Then the men's 1,500 metre freestyle

on the red button. The women's 4x100 metre medley relay and the last race

in the pool the men's 4 x 1600 metre medley relay. Golden boy Adam Peaty

- good see him back in the poochlt if you want to watch uninterrupted

swimming, push the red button. What a night. So that is your viewing for

this evening. Before we go to the track and field, let's bring you a

reminder of tonight's headlines. Great Britain's men's eight claimed

their first gold in Sydney 2000 after a dominant performance. For

the women's eight, silver medal, Great Britain's first ever. They

ended the Rio regatta with five medals, three silvers and two golds.

Meanwhile, at the Velodrome Laura Trott became the first British

female Olympian to win three Olympic gold medals when she and her

team-mates took a dominant victory over the US. Becky James claimed

silver. Reigning champion Andy Murray secured his spot in the men's

single final with a dominant victory over Japan's Kei Nishikori. Juan

Martin del Potro is the man who will stand in Andy Murray's way. The

Argentinian 2009 US Open champion beating Rafael Nadal in today's

other semifinal. What a day we've had here in Rio. Britain's World

Championship bronze medallist Joe Joyce has a fine art degree. His

super heavyweight campaign finished in style. He is en route to a

dominant Round 16 victory. And Great Britain's Justin Rose will head into

the fourth and final round of the golf tomorrow with a one-shot lead

from Stenson. He enjoyed a hole-in-one in the first round as he

carded two eagles and three holes to end the Day 12-under par. So you are

completely up-to-date with the Olympic Games here in Rio de

Janeiro. It is time for track and field and Super Saturday mark 2.

When I meet people for the first time a lot of people tell me where

they were on Super Saturday. People want to be a part of that night.

That moment crossing the line, it just happened - my family and the

crowd. The atmosphere was incredible. It is something I have

never experienced and never will again in my entire life. Just know

in all of the events together it had all gone right. An amazing feeling.

That gold medal! Did that really happen? It did and we still talk

about it four years on. People still ask, where were you? How did you see

it? How did you foal? What did you think? We may be in for more of

those feelings this evening. Stay with us for the next few hours

because it promises to be an electric athletes' meet. We have so

much to look forward to. I just wonder how nights like this affect

you guys? Does it help you tap into your own golden and wonderful

Olympic moments, Michael? Any time the Olympics come around you start

to think about those days and for me this is the 20th anniversary of the

1996 Olympics so there have been a lot of revisiting those days over

the last few months. Then you get here and you sort of look out and

see what these athletes are going through and, yeah, it does take you

back to those days and those tense moments, but then, of course, all

the celebration as well. Yeah, the hard work. The late nights, the

early mornings, the pain that you have to endure to get here.

LAUGHS . We used to miss that? I think we

have a saying, Paula, once an Olympian, always an Olympian, and

that is really the feeling that you get when you are back in the arena.

No matter where you are in the world, just that you are connected.

That emotion. First time Olympians, what they go through. The agony, the

excitement. The more experienced athletes that could this be their

last one? It is just so much emotion. We are just privileged to

be - I am just enjoying it. The race you will be most across this

evening, Paula. Mo Farah will make history. Yes. We say that quite a

lot and then someone comes along the next week and makes their own

history. This is something that will take a long, long time to eclipse.

This is huge. Just because of what he has achieved so far we think it

is a given Mo will come out and no-one will beat him. He will stroll

around the 5k and 10 k and it will be easy. It won't. Mo doesn't have

to run heats, but it is still a huge, huge thing to just hold that

position for that long. Let's bring you up to speed with the heptathlon.

Of course, after Day 1 it was a fantastic day and we had the one and

two with Jess and KJT and thyme thyme of Belgium was putting up a

fantastic fight with PBs op her own. Here is what has got us to where we

are right now. Katrina Johnson-Thompson had a

lifetime best first day yesterday. She's in fourth place. First event,

the long jump. Oh, that is a decent jump for Katrina Johnson-Thompson.

The white flag is raised. 6.51 in Round 1. Not great. She is capable

of better. This is a decent jump into a strong wind. Good stuff for

Jessica Ennis-Hill, the reigning Olympic champion. It is massive!

Look at. That that must be over the board. Indeed it is. Round 2. It is

a valid jump. 6.48, decent jump for the Canadian. Katrina

Johnson-Thompson in the second round. Oh, that is a big effort but

it is a foul unfortunately. Johnson-Thompson last round. Well,

it isn't quite what we would have wanted. Jessica Ennis-Hill, third

jump in the long jump. She needs a big jump here but the feet came down

early. Here is Tony's Minichiello's reaction. Not happy. He knew that

was a chance to put daylight between her and the rest of the world.

Nafissatou Thiam. That is better. Oh, she likes it. It is 6.58 and

that will give Jessica Ennis-Hill something to think about. That

really changed things, didn't it, Denise, because thyme thyme's jump

at the end of the long jump session has put the cat amongst the pigeons.

There we can see the story so far and the personal best for their

events tonight, Denise. The javelin speaks volumes there, doesn't it?

Thyme thyme has got a lifetime best of 52.62 metres, far in excess of

anything that Jess or Kat has done. That will swing the pendulum in her

favour. Remind ourselves she is only 5 points ahead of Jess at the

moment. 800m this week, you would expect Jessica Ennis-Hill and

Caterina to do damage. Let's have a look. What would happen - obviously

a lot of thes, buts and makes - if they all performed to their PBs. The

points total would be thus. That means they have to be giving it

their max. Of course that is possible but for thyme thyme she's

been pushing the PBs while she's been here. She's been throwing and

jumping around the field. She's eclipsed the British field. Kat

hasn't. She's been below par where we expected her to score points.

Things can change, though. Things can swing throughout the evening.

Let's hand over to Steve now who is out there across the javelin

competition and of course Katrina Johnson-Thompson going in the first

group. Yeah, first up in this first pool,

Katrina Johnson-Thompson. The leaders will go in the second pool,

the better javelin throwers. Pretty much all the main contenders other

than Katrina Johnson-Thompson is in the second pool. It is a chance for

Kat to get her mark on the board and get a distance out this and give the

leaders something to think about. She is a 40-metre-plus javelin

thrower at her best. Something like this would be good. That looked

deliberate. It stalled badly and it is below 40 metres. The point went

away from her head and showed all of the javelin to the oncoming air. It

didn't fly. Look at. This the point went up in the air almost vertical.

It doesn't go forward when it is like that. That is fixable is the

good news. The bad news is it is identical to all of her warm-up

throws. So Katrina Johnson-Thompson 36 metres and 36cm. She will need

more to get 36 metres and 36cm. She will need

more to get on the rostrum, I suspect. There is Mike Holmes. He

keeps saying to glue it. Get it going forward. That is it, Mike.

Johnson-Thompsonon can fix that. She's got two more goes to do it. So

Mike Holmes, his words, he's said his piece. Kat returns and she will

have, what, between 5-8 minutes. She will rattle around quite quickly. A

small group of throws and she will need more. An Olympic medal is the

prize if she gets it rights. -- right. So things started for the ja

Lynn. I wouldn't say they started particularly well for her. She knew

she could throw further than that. You were wincing, Denise. Tell us

why? It is not good enough at the moment. We heard Steve talk about

the technical points. She needs to moment. We heard Steve talk about

the technical points. She needs to three through the jv Lynn. She is

not utilising any momentum she's creationed on the runway. The

javelin is hitting the air and stalling. She is bouncing a down.

She needs to be attacking that javelin to get any sort of drive, to

get it out over that 40-metre line. She can do this. It is not like this

is a difficult event for her. But all of the emotion, the technical

elements are just not quite right. But I am hoping that she'll go back

and sit down and really visualise what she has to do. The javelin is

an event that Jess has worked really, really hard at. She's

actually improved and given herself a chance of putting on some points

for the javelin. She just put a stocking on that she didn't have on

this morning. Is that to help? It is probably with bad technique. It

happens with the girl. They are not particularly strong upper body and

they get themselves into that position, the separation, between

the upper body and the jv Lynn. What Kat needs to do, for me, is move

herself back to allow her the swa space at the end of the runway. She

needs about a metre-and-a-half and she can drive through the javelin.

She is coming to the end and stopping. That is something that

Mick Hill has been working on with Jess to increase her run-up. Yes. It

is a confidence thing. Known likes to throw from that far back. You

watch the women's javelin when they come through in the next couple of

days, they are throwing about 2 metres away because they are

driving, trying to chase the javelin out. Jess is working with Mick Hill

and he texted earlier and said she can three 47 tonight. He expects her

to do that, the kind of shape she is in. You have to work hard at the

throws. There is no sort of getting around it. There will come a point

in your heptathlon career where your throws will save you and give you

medals. I know it sounds silly and you say what about the other events?

But the work you can do for javelin and shot, particularly, they don't

hurt the other events, if that makes sense. Jess is invested in it. They

don't counter what you are doing to work on your speed or hinder what

you are doing to work on your endurance. So there is no reason why

you wouldn't do a bit of work on them. Exactly. That is what I am

saying. She is saying, here, take 150 points, sometimes 200 points,

and run with it. She is giving it away for free. I know her body

language, Michael, is something you are quite a student of. Do you think

she is locking nervous tonight, a little bit apprehensive? I don't

think it is nervous. I think it is down. It is a lack of confidence and

real drive that, hey, I know what to do, I have worked on this and gotten

it right before, so that means I can. Now I have to impose my will on

myself and this javelin to get the technique right. I was talking with

Steve about this earlier and I think he was talking about the same thing

that Denise said. This doesn't take away from your training for other

things, so why wouldn't you do it more often? I thought, that makes so

much sense that I would imagine that she is doing it more often. She's

working on it. What happens with many athletes is they get to the

championships and once they are in a pressure situation they go back to,

"I am just going to throw it. I got to throw it harder." The safe place.

Yes. They go back to what great athletes know and trust, their

athleticism. In this case it is not your athleticism that gets the

javelin out where you need it. It is the technique. You have to trust the

technique. What she is doing now is not throwing the technique. She

needs to do more in competitions and she doesn't do that. She is next up

to throw shortly. Steve, if you are just there to lend us a bit of your

expertise, you can tell from what we have been talking about, we have

been bending your ear about this. Your thoughts on the first throw. I

think the guys have said it all. I just want to see a bit of fight. The

Katrina Johnson-Thompson we see in the high jump bouncing around

looking optimistic. There is a downess and a questioning in her

eyes. You can see she doubts herself before she even takes to the

runwayment I want to see her run in and give it a lash. Throw the

technical stuff away and give it an absolute all mighty lash. That is

kind of what a javelin thrower can do. They can go to the safe police,

as Michael was talking about, because they have one. Katrina

Johnson-Thompson looking to improve on the 36

Johnson-Thompson looking to improve on the 36 metres. The right elbow

strapped. Another deliberate throw and a huge stall there. She knew

that everything we all have been talking about so far. She knows it.

She is struggling to do it. There is the frustration. She fouled it with

her feet. That won't be measured. She's so frustrated right now

because a bronze medal - she is in the bronze medal going into this

penultimate event of the heptathlon, let's remember that. It is slipping

from her grasp. She will need more than 36 metres she got on her first

throw. That just stalled badly. That means that the point went straight

up in the air and came straight back down again without going forwards

and, Mike, that must be frustrating for him as well. They have worked so

hard to get this right, but, as Michael was saying, under pressure

is when the small cracks turn into crevices. I don't know where she

goes in the third round to salvage this javelin competition. It puts so

much pressure on her 800m. Maybe too much pressure. The technical point

is - crikey, do they work? Questioning, doubting? Difficult

situation for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She doesn't have

long. It is moving quickly. She has a conversation going ob there with

Mike. She will go away presumably and have a think. You said lashing,

but it did the opposite. It went up and down. What can she do? It is an

instinctive thing for an instinctive, natural thrower. The

challenging thing is if you are independent, if you are doing it

deliberately, like Kat, it is not like Nafissatou Thiam, another

contender for the title here. Her tleg - she is a natural thrower.

When the chips are down you can draw on that instinctive throwing, those

movement patterns that just come naturally. Nothing is coming

naturally to Katrina Johnson-Thompson because it just

doesn't to her. It is really tricky. This is awful for her. The second

three was way worse than the first. Maybe she is protecting something

that is adding even more complications to her going on inside

with her elbow. I desperately feel for her. She will need more. We

don't know how much more because the contenders for the bronze medal are

likely to be in the second pool. They are in the second pool. Closer

to 40 metres, we suspect, is needed. Nafissatou Thiam and Jessica

Ennis-Hill in the second group that goes at about 1:15. One more three,

Denise, to salvage something hopefully over 40 metres. She is

capable of doing that. Anything to add to what Steve has suggested she

can do in this time. You have been there and waiting for your third

throw and wanting to put some distance on. What is going through

your head? I was such a different sort of animal in the jav lip. It

was my strength. I could trust my technique. What Steve is really

saying, when you don't really feel an event, it is hard for you to

really just try and lash it - to quote Steve - you capital. You are

constantly thinking a technical point that might give you something.

Give you hope and, for me, I think she tried to three harder in the

second throw and you have got a bigger separation with the javelin.

It went straight up in the air. She needs to go - she really does need

to think about throwing almost parallel to the -- Let's have a

little look at the second throw to see where she released it and where

everything went wrong. For me, I would like to see her have a bit of

a longer run up anyway. She literally just - she is just slowing

down. That is the first thing, she is throwing down into the throw so

she is not carrying don't momentum through this javelin. She is very

close. You know, it is just - it is all in the arms. She's got to keep

that point close to her head. You see her coach signalling to that.

She's got to throw forward. She is feeling the championship slipping

away from her right now. Her emotions seem to get the better of

her. She wears her heart on her sleeve. You can see the emotion on

her face. How do you control that? It is hard because she knows she is

fighting to get on that podium now. She is in a real battle and

everything she's been through, Commonwealth Games missing that. The

disappointment of the World Championships last year, three fouls

and she needs to be on that podium, I think, for just her morale going

forward in the heptathlon. A long way from the high jump competition

yesterday, Michael, isn't it? Yes. This is what makes it really tough

for athletes and I am sure tough for Kat right now. She is also thinking

about last year and all of those things so you start to go into a

defensive mode where you are thinking, "How do I survive now?" As

opposed to what you need at an Olympics. How do I go out and win? I

need to go out and win. Now she is trying to protect and salvage

something and salvage a reputation and keep from having to read the

headlines that "Oh, she's done it again" and once that starts to cents

in, that is a dangerous place to be. You don't want that to become your

thing, do you, Paula? No. It looks like she is overthinking it. She

knows what she really wants to do but she is overanalysing it. As

Steve said, it is sow hard, when you have an instinct and natural ability

to fall back on and block out everything that is happening, it is

the Olympic Games and where it is, and just throw the thing. If this

was high jump, this wouldn't be happening. She would know exactly

what to do with her run-up and what to do with the bar. But she hasn't

got the feeling so, yes, you are right, in a way. She's thinking,

will my run-up make a difference? Will my arms make a difference? It

is just too much. Let's bring Steve in, please. It is tough. I am

feeling for her right now P Just a thought, Gaby. There is a bigger

picture. Season best is only a metre further than she threw in the first

round. I don't want to make out she is having an awful Games. It is what

she's been doing all season. If she's going to be the champion in

four years' time in Tokyo she needs to sort her shot put and javelin way

before. Sorting it between now and the final throw is one thing, but

the basic principles of throwing well and getting consistently into

the 40 metres. She has thrown over 40 metres in the past, not this

year. The point I am making, she is about where we would have expected

her to be. We were hoping that she would have raised her game in this

because of the importance of it. That isn't happening, but I just

wanted to make that point - it is around what she has been doing all

year. Which is a very good point, but the disappointment that is

certainly on the face has come after that second throw because she

obviously felt, OK, that first three was dent. It is near what I have

been doing. I can go better than that. Then, all of the demons seem

to erupt, don't they? She probably thinks she tried. She listened the

Mike, she went and did that and it was worse. "Oh, my God, what

happened? That didn't help at all." Just to give people a sense of what

I think the problem is here, all that we have been talking about over

the last few minutes ad nauseum and analysing and overanalysing - I just

thought about when you said Paula she is overanalysing. Well, we are

up here. We can do it in the safety of this space but when it happens

down there on the field of play, that becomes a huge problem and I

think that is what is happening with her. It is what has happened before

and it appears that is the lesson unfortunately was not learnt and

carried forward from last year. She has pretended to throw na bottle

thereabout 15 times while we have been sitting here. She's going

through her motions. She is going through the repeating of the muscle

memory. Would she be better sitting down for a minute, Denise - she has

done just then as I said that - and having a bit of quiet time.

Sometimes. It does vary. We often see athletes sort of drilling. That

is what she is trying to do. Drill. Think about where her hand needs to

be, her arm position. I think maybe you are right and Paula made a good

point. She probably needs to lie down, empty her mind and just get

that javelin and throw it now. She's got nothing to lose at this point.

She really doesn't. OK. We are reading out on the track. The first

event on the track tonight is the men's 400 metre semifinals which

Michael will be expertly viewing for us from up here. Down on the track

it will be Andrew who will call first of those semifinals. Good

evening, Andrew. Good evening. Good conditions again. It is dry and warm

and not too much breeze around. Some of the times in the races have been

down. Not a particularly quick track here in Rio. I think three athletes

have established themselves as the men to beat in the 400 metres in

recent years and two of them go here and this man Leshon Merit. This is

the full line up. There is the bronze medallist from

London. He looked good winning his first-round heat. Again, the calibre

of athletes here and only two go through automatically. He's not

quite had the same success since London. He watched Merritt take the

world title. The Dutch record holder runs for the

Netherlands. Not recognised by the IAC or IFF. He did a very fast heat

in Beijing in the World Championships and a lot of people

are wondering if they will see similar types of times, but it

hasn't been like that here. He has been struggling relatively

this season, almost a second-and-a-half away from his best

times. Again, they look strong in his first-round heat. There is

Merritt. The only man to have again below 40 seconds. He lost to James

in to meeting at the end of May. Haven't raced each other too many

times. Did a perm best in Madrid in June. Here is Kirani James i still

only 23. Again, this season he does look good. Seven wins from seven

after his first-round heat. A bronze in London in 2012 but also the

Commonwealth Games in 2 014 Londe Gordon. Botswana has three very good

400-metre men. This man only turned 18 a couple of months ago, already

close to sub-45. The Jamaican champion, a great relay man. He's

run some exceptional legs in the last few championships. He has great

support, again, inside this stadium. So the first of three semifinals in

the men's 400. The first two go through automatically and the next

two fastest to the final. Britain is represented in the 30 by Matthew

Hudson-Smith. Here is a Showdown between Merritt and Kirani James.

There will be an element of up manship of getting the best lane for

the final or simply making sure you go through. It is by no means

guaranteed, even for two athletes like Merritt and James. They will

certainly be the favourite to take the two automatic places.

To the blocks for the first semifinal in the men's 400 metres.

Away they go. Lashawn Merritt delayed for a moment in the blocks.

Let's see how quickly he moves now. Kirani James in blue and green and

red. He's started strongly, indeed. Move ing up alongside Lashawn

Merritt. He is alongside Luguelin Santos. It is Kirani James. Merritt

just pulling clear now. It is these two also trying to get there

Botswana. It is Kirani James by three or four paces. That looked

good and comfortable. He could have gone quicker. No doubt about that.

Lashawn Merritt, a smile. He goes through automatically, but he was

best there and the psychological advantage belongs to Kirani James.

He looks very, very good. Merritt is through but an interesting race.

Kirani James locked very strong. Andrew, he did but I am not sure if

the psychological advantage went to Kirani here. He has the advantage.

Lashawn knows he's just got to finish in the first two positions. I

will relax and let Kirani do more work than I have to do. Lashawn

Merritt is thinking, "I have to shut it down now. I don't have to do

anymore." He doesn't want Lashawn Merritt to come back. He ran a very

good race. We are all disappointed we had this situation with the two

of the three favourites in the race here in the semifinal, but Lashawn

Merritt on the outside. He's watching on the big screen I am sure

and sees that Kirani James is on his inside and he's just relaxed here.

He is running relaxed. You look at Lashawn Merritt, no tension in the

shoulders and he is able to continue that, which you would expect. If

this were a final and he comes off the kerb with Kirani James coming

around the bend this way with a 2-3 metre lead here, he would tighten

up. But he doesn't. He remains relaxed. Checking the big screen now

to make sure his position is safe. He doesn't have the use as much

energy. Focusing on Kirani James a little bit. Kirani James has cleaned

up his technique in the last 100m. We have seen him rarely get up even

when he won his medal. That is a worry for the rest of the field

because he is a major threat. That was a massive perm best for the

18-year-old in Botswana. They will have a fantastic relay team. That

may see him through to the final. Kirani James and Lashawn Merritt

through automatically. Katarina ononthird and final throw in the

javelin. Only the 800m remaining. She's had 36 metres in the first

round, a poor throw in the second round. We know you want this, Kat.

You just got to believe. If you think you can, if you think you

can't, you are absolutely right. It's fallen short. She knows it. No

gain. You can see she tried to get over the top. It didn't happen. Look

at it pointing straight up in the air. Stalls almost immediately and

falls to the ground. Good on the floor. The hip strikes and the point

just pops up in the air. Maybe linked to that elbow that is heavily

strapped. No improvement for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. 36 is her

best. A few moments ago Kirani James straight through to the final

defending champion and he is talking to Phil.

straight through to the final defending champion and he is talking

to Phil. Kirani, that was putting down some sort of statement, wasn't

it? No. It is always tough. Fortunately enough I had the inside

lane on Lashawn. So I could see what he was doing. I am trying to get

ready for the finals. It is a tough race. I will get some rest and relax

a bit and get ready for tomorrow. This could be one of the finals of

the whole Olympics. What is it like to be part of that dynamic trio? It

is fantastic. When you have three athletes in the same event, having

the kind of performance that we have, it is only good for the sport.

That is all we look at. When you see people on the message commenting on

who got better technique and stuff, that is what you want. We are

generating more interest. I am glad we are doing our part. A tremendous

performance tonight. Thank you for talking to us. All right. Thank you.

So, two of the big names are through. Will they be joined by the

others. The start list. If you look to the bottom. Andrew's point about

the talented bots wantean relay team may have taken a knock. Just got

sent men in this. The world champion will be in lane 3. He's got good

athletes. Cedenio ran well in qualifying. Botswanian relay team

Van Niekerk has seen merit. Kirani James just going a bit quicker.

Maybe Lashawn Merritt holding back somewhat. The two of them running

low 94s. Maslak looked slow to me. He is normally better in the rounds.

Right on the inside DavidVerburgof the USA. A couple we haven't seen

there. There was a man who was disqualified in the World Junior

Championships held in July. Not long before these Olympic Games so Haroum

took that title. A man from Qatar. 19 years of age. McDonald. First two

will reach the final and then the two fastest losers.

Houran ragged out of the blocks, all over the shop. He's got that

exaggerated arm action. You contrast that with Cedenia in lane 5. At 400

we expect him to domestic fit here, but he will be chasing down the

youngsters there. The 20-year-old. Van Niekerk going well. Verburg

starting to come in from the USA in lane 1. Van Niekerk the South

African with second second -- Cedenio. Running better here. These

two contesting this a little bit. Van Niekerk looks across at him and

says, "You can have it." He had a little check to his left and right.

He realised that Cedenio was more interested in winning the semi than

Van Niekerk. 44.4. He is looking good. That was very, very close to

the perm best I mentioned he set in Monaco. Very, very close indeed just

a few seconds off. Van Niekerk always looks like he is extending

himself a little bit more than the others tend to, Michael. Is that

your observation. He had to work quit hard? He actually looked pretty

relaxed to me, Steve. Look at him around this bend, he looked in

control of the race. He was able to work off Cedenio who ran fast down

the back street. He relaxed on the bend, which was odd but worked for

him with the 44.40. It is just off his personal best set earlier this

year. Cedenio is trying to put himself in a position for a medal as

well, but I thought that he ran a good race. He has strapping on his

leg but doesn't look like it is bothering him. He gets up to race

pace quickly, which is what you want to do. He relaxes down the back

stretch. What you notice is he runs the exact same pace for the entire

race. When you can do that in a semifinal without having to shift

gears, which takes a lot more effort, that bodes well for your

chances of recovery for the final tomorrow. I see here just no

struggle at all. Very relaxed. Look at the face. Very relaxed. No

labouring in the breathing and just again decided, "I'll let Cedenio get

this. Just need first or second." Looks to his left. It looks like an

easy qualification. If you look at Merritt in the previous heat. Van

Niekerk. James will need more recovery and regeneration between

today and tomorrow than those two guys will. All you lock so relaxed

out there. If you can possibly reach a final, look like you can conserve

something, you have done that today. I am grateful. Another injury-free

race. I am grateful. The body slowly and surely catching up. It feels

positive and, yeah, I feel good. After all of the anticipation we

have finally got yourself, Lashawn and Kirani for the final. It will be

one of THE finals of the Games, we all know that. What did you expect?

Nothing less. Quality guys. I will have the dig deep and put up the

best performance I can to bet these guys. That is part of the game. How

much does last year's performance winning the gold have a bearing on

tomorrow? I would love to say it plays a big role. It means nothing.

It is a new competition, new final, new challengers and I have to take

it as a new day and put my best foot forward tomorrow. Good luck with it,

thank you. Well, he came second there and obviously Cedeno winning.

Maslak and Janezic not quick enough at the moment to go through. Next

Matthew Hudson-Smith. Greg Rutherford getting himself ready for

potentially making history, defending his Olympic title. He is

the reigning Olympic champion of course from Super Saturday four

years ago. He struggled a little bit in qualifying, it has to be said. He

said in his post-qualifying interview, forget what he did

yesterday. It is a new day. While he gets ready, we will get ready for

the third of the semifinals. Matt Hudson-Smith. It is a tall, tall

order for Hudson-Smith. Simply to make a semifinal in an Olympic Games

is quite an achievement, but he will have to go close to better his

personal best, the quickest of the fastest losers at the moment. 44.71

of Santos is hanging on in the second of the fastest losers. There

is Gil Roberts. He Hageled his way in a false start. Haggled his way in

a false start. The 21-year-old there. He doesn't appear too often

on the international circuit. The polish racer. There is Isaac

Makwala. Makwala, the African Games champion guess in on 1. There is

Steven Gardiner. Hudson-Smith doesn't mind lane 8.

He's run well from there. The others are running blind. Judge that pace.

We will see if he can go close to his personal best and see where that

gets him. The final heat in the semifinals of the men's 400 metres.

Away they go. Matthew Hudson-Smith on the far outside in the white

vessel. There will be quick men in lanes 3, 4, 5 and 6 chasing him

down. They are moving along nicely at the moment. A tall, elegant

figure of Steven Gardiner. A bit of work to do. He's gone out quickly

here. Around the bend. The runner in lane 3 is locking strong again.

Roberts from the United States has a bit to do. Matthew Hudson-Smith

being left. Will he finish strongly? Roberts is trying to get there. Matt

Hudson-Smith with a late charge. Can't quite get there on the line,

so close. Taplin got the victory. What a fast, fast finish from Matt

Hudson-Smith. We will look for the times a well. The time of the winner

44.44. So that is quick. That is quick for Matt Hudson-Smith. I think

he may well have qualified. He's seen the time. Smiles for Matt. He

got second, in fact. He doesn't need the time. What a run! He got him on

the line. He has denied Ali of Bahrain. What a run here, Michael.

Talk about judging 400 metres and with 100 to go Matt Hudson-Smith had

so much to do, but didn't he judge it well? He judged it well because

he made a mistake at the start from 200 but corrected it. I thought he

got off the gas a bit too much around the bend, but he ran tight in

the first 200 so that allowed him to have something in the end. A great

adjustment. That was an adjustment by Matthew Hudson-Smith right there

after a mistake in the first 200 pleaters, given he was on the

outside. He was able to conserve a bit from 200 to 300 which is where

you normally make a move and get himself back into this from 300 to

400. Here he is on the outside and knows he's got speed and heat on his

inside. He gets out tough. This is where you would normally start to

relax, but he doesn't ever really relax. He is still pushing. At this

point you can't run 400 metres pushing the entire way. He is

starting to let off the gos. I thought why let off the gas there,

don't do this? That was a great adjustment that he didn't listen to

me because he was able to now put himself into position to come off of

this bend and have enough finish to get himself back into this race and

finish strong with a personal best. So fantastic adjustment by the young

400-metre runner there who is starting to establish himself with

his consistency this year at mid-44 seconds, 44.5, 44.4, that puts him

in the final where anything can happen. He could end up in the

middle with all of the greats in a great lane. You are starting to see

some of these guys, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Cedeno from Trinidad

and Tobago say, "I want a piece of this too." It is not just about the

big three. A great run from Matthew Hudson-Smith. Great to see him come

to these championships, make the adjustment and show some experience

and do good. Nice job. He got second place by one-hundredth of a second.

He is 21. You can see his reaction. He's done a personal best and now he

is talking to Phil Jones. It was clear for all to see, but

understandable, too. A huge personal best. You are in an Olympic final. I

don't think you can quit believe it. LAUGHS

. That was crazy. Tell us about the race. It seemed like Michael was

talking about how you almost consciously took a step back a

little bit, took it easy around the top end. You came home strong. I

messed up on the transition in the top end, but I have no idea what

just happened here. So it wasn't an intentional thing you weren't

telling me? No. It was an improvisation. My coach and

team-mates also told us to control your emotions. When I felt them go

past I thought, "I'll have enough left, I have another gear" so I just

started kicking and I was getting closer and closer. I wasn't sure if

I made it when I saw the time. Then I saw I came second and made the

final I was really happy because it wasn't the best of runs. Michael

just said it and we all did really, it is one of those things once you

are in the final, who knows what can happen. I am in the final. I said at

the end it is about the right time. I proved it. Next race is final.

Perform on the day. I have still got a lot to learn. A lot to work on

still. 44.48. Its whatn't the best of runs. So there is a lot to work

on and I am really exciter for the final now. Congratulations.

Fantastic. See you there. Thank you. It wasn't the best of runs, a lot to

work on. He's taken four-tenths of a second off his personal best and

made the final of the Olympics and that is what it means. What a run to

get it right on the line as well. Just one-hundredth of a second ahead

of Khamis. An extremely good run for Matthew Hudson-Smith through to the

final. And Kirani James just about going below 44 seconds. Lashawn

Merritt and Machel Cedeno are the big three. That is your line up for

the big final. Greg Rutherford getting himself ready to start the

defence of his Olympic title in the long jump competition and he got

here by the skin of his teeth. Two no jumps. Tenth place last night,

but if there is anything that Greg Rutherford can do, we mow is pull

out a big jump when it counts. Will he do that here tonight and make

history? We have to have a line about Matthew Hudson-Smith and we

have kind of adored him from the beginning. I feel like

have kind of adored him from the beginning. I feel like we are early

adopters. That night in Glasgow, remember when he stormed through. He

has been a favourite of ours. He loves you. You gave him some advice

last year and I think you like him. It was grat to have him in the

studio last year. What I liked about the interview is he spoke about that

wasn't the best race. What I like about him and it bodes well for his

future, he understands that. He gets it. He understood exactly what he

did. He said he didn't transition well on top of the bend and he

didn't, but that worked to his benefit at the end of his day. Great

move and I think he learned from that. Seeing an athlete come out

with a personal best and say that wasn't the best race and I know

exactly why. That is the kind of athlete, especially in a race like

the 400 metres, where it is very strategic. You have to know what you

are doing and where you are. You have to come off the end of that

race and know why you won it or why you lost it. That is what great

400-metre runners do. He has a bright future ahead of him. He

talked about learning a lot in the future and he's still a lot to

learn. He needs to learn that between now and the final because

he's a great opportunity to do something good and potentially bring

home a medal. You never know what is going to happen with the big three.

Merritt Kirani James. Those guys could start to focus on each other.

Hudson-Smith could sneak in and get a medal. I agree with exactly what

you are saying, but the beauty with Matthew is he doesn't know and that

makes him fearless. He is prepared to run his own race and just listen

to his body "Whatever I have got, I am going to give." He's made a

massive personal best. Absolutely massive personal best. When you look

at the British record, 44.36 Ewan Thomas's record, it is exciting.

Let's look at the track. I know you had a close look at the women.

Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce looking to make history. You've had three in

particular you have taken a close look at for us. Yeah, we looked at

Tory Bowie, Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Daphne Shivers. Look at the

difference in turnover. That is due to the difference in size. Compact

and powerful is Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce leading at the

beginning of the race. Opened up a huge gap. Watch the quickness. She

sits high up on the blocks. Watch the quickness. Out and done. It is

over. As long as she is patient and she closes that gap quickly at the

end. She is able to take advantage of the longer stride and the fact

that she is able to, she has endurance. She was a heptathlete.

She has the endurance she can hold that speed longer than Shelley-Ann

Fraser-Pryce is able to de. This year Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce has

not been able to run like that. We haven't seen her put that No. 1 up

three metres from the finish like she did there. This year she's had

to be much more careful and she will be tonight much more careful. This

could be a great match-up and then you see Tory on the left of the

screen who has been running - she has been on fire this year. Didn't

win the US files but she was second. This could be very interesting. And

then you have the other Americans. You have got, who else do we have,

Denise? Who is the other 100 metre runner? You just asked me. We have

got a great thing with Gardener who did win the English championships so

this should be interesting. Thank you, Michael. We will go back out to

the long jump now with Steve. We are moments away with Greg

Rutherford taking to the runway in the first time in the men's final,

but before that we will see his training partner, the Australian.

One of two Australians who have made this final. A real mix from around

the world. First up it is Fabrice, the world's silver medallist indoors

and out in the first round of the final. That looked like a foul. Was

it? It is beyond 8 metres, but it won't be measured. It is a quick

runway. We have seen a few fouls. Greg Rutherford produced a couple

himself in qualification. I tell you what, he has been chomping at the

bit. He's a completely different demeanour about him than he had

yesterday in qualification. He looked focused. He looks eager. He

is up for this and he knows that if he gets this right, he can go away

with another Olympic title. It is a big mountain to climb when you think

he is not on the top in the world list. He wasn't one of the best

qualifiers. In fact, he was one of the worst. They know he's got

something special about him. He almost puts a spell on the

opposition. They look to him because they know his competitive mettle is

something special. World Champion, Olympic Champion, double European

champion, every major outdoor title available to him, he has. Greg

Rutherford on the runway, ready to leap the jump of his life. First

round of the men's long jump final. Greg Rutherford!

Well, it's beyond eight metres. Is it a foul? It was close if it wasn't

over the board. It is a valid jump. It is a mark that will go into the

lead because Emiliano Lasa of Uruguay was 7.93m first up. Took the

lead. Perfect on the board. He's made exactly the adjustment. That

bodes well. I was talking to Colin Jackson earlier about the importance

of getting a first-round jump in. It's 8.18m, take the lead. First of

three semifinals in the women's 100m.

Michelle-Lee Ahye is out quickly in lane six.

Tori Bowie alongside her. Two to go through automatically and it's the

American and the Trinidadian, Michelle-Lee Ahye and Tori Bowie

running Murielle Ahoure out of things. And initial-Lee Ahye came

through so strongly. They're the automatic qualifiers.

That was quick. Colin Jackson having a look at this one. It was brilliant

to see. Of course, Ahoure exploded out of the blocks but Ahye and Bowie

bided their time, raced each other through to haul themselves into the

automatic selection position. They get right through into the final.

Great racing now. Look at those times. Three ladies already under 11

seconds. This is looking exciting, Andrew. Absolutely.

The Jamaican has run an -- personal best, Christania Williams. We're

talking about times not being particularly quick but in the 400m

and 100m we've seen quick times this evening. Everybody is stepping up

now. The semifinal is what it's all about. You need to get to the final.

Everybody is sharp, focused, looking for the final spot. So the times are

going to improve. There it is. There's the photo

finish. Little to separate them. It doesn't look like Tori Bowie got it

there. But they were given the same times to the thousandth of a second.

And Michelle-Lee Ahye with a season's best and Christania

Williams, 10.96. Two fastest losers go through and that stands her in

very good stead with two semifinals to come with British involvement.

We're well into the first-round long jump. This is Shaun McMahon of South

Africa. Very quick on -- this is Luvo

Manyonga. That's over eight metres and will challenge for the lead.

He's jumped 8.30 this year. That's his lifetime best. Luvo Manyonga of

South Africa. Very quick on -- this is Luvo

Manyonga. That's over eight metres and will challenge for the lead.

He's jumped 8.30 this year. That's his lifetime best. 4 years of age,

the South African. He seemed to adjust there. Maybe more to come.

He's one to watch. 11cm behind the Plasticine.

Manyonga, it's 8.16, two centimetres behind Rutherford, goes into second

place. Perfect conditions in the Olympic

Stadium. Around 23 degrees, not much wind to speak of.

So Jeffrey Henderson took the US Championships, the US title, with a

huge jump. He's capable of jumping beyond 8.50m and possibly is the

biggest threat to Greg Rutherford for the gold medal.

Certainly on paper. He wasn't good last year at the

World Championships, though. It all got to him a bit much and ended in

tears there. What's he going to do here in the Olympic Games. Oh, it's

a big, big jump for Jeff Henderson! And it's a white flag. Well, it

really kicked off in this first round, a subtle frown on the brow of

Rutherford. He'll know that Henderson is the map to watch. He's

capable of a big jump. It's 8.20m, goes into the lead.

But Rutherford, well, he knows he's capable of fighting back for that.

This is going to be a brilliant competition.

Al Joyner watching on, Olympic triple jump champion, coach to

Henderson. This will be some competition. Wow.

I bet Rutherford can't wait to get out for his second jump, can he?

Well, a real great atmosphere in the stadium. Rutherford will love this.

He's got a good jump in so the pressure's off a little and he can

relax and use the energy here in the Olympic Stadium as we see Rushwahl

Samaai, 8.38 this year and he has, or has he? No. I thought I saw the

mark of his feet there beyond the leading mark... It won't take the

lead, though. Super-Saturday already warming up,

isn't it? Greg Rutherford in second place now.

Asha Phillip now in the second semifinal of the 100m. Doesn't get

any bigger, really. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price attempting to be the

first to win three gold medals consecutively. Talou is on her

right. In lane seven, Tianna Bartoletta, second in the American

championships in this event and in the long jump, where she is the

World Champion. 30 years of age, Bartoletta. But

running faster in the 100m than ever. Pohrebnyak from Ukraine in

lane eight. And one on the outside will get a huge cheer, more than

anybody else, Rosangela Santos. CHEERING

Funnily enough, she's from Brazil. This is Dafne Schippars. Landazuri

from Ecuador is over in the far side. So Dafne Schippers and

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, two favourites for the gold medal and

Asha Philip trying to take them on. We've seen three women go sub-11 in

the first semifinal. The wind is slightly behind them.

Well, Schippers gets out reasonably quick. Philip starts fast.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is right there. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce goes

away! Schippers takes second! 10.89! Ho ho ho! Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is

getting faster and faster and faster. This quest to become the

first to win three Olympic titles. Some tears there. Is she limping,

Colin? Yeah, I was just looking at that to see her reaction then. I

tried to say down the track and see... She's not happy at all, is

she? Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. But she should be with the run itself.

Because it was very good. It was explosive, everything we know about

Shelly-Ann Pryce, we saw her cruise off there. I wonder if she nicked a

muscle. I'm hoping she hasn't done any damage because we truly want to

see her in the final. No answer from anybody else in this

field. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce out hard. She extends the lead in the

middle part of the race with the great magical turnover that she's

got. She's a pocket rocket. And Dafne Schippers couldn't quite get

to the line, 10.89 is the time, Steve. She's in good shape.

It's literally just as she goes over the line. I don't foe if we'll see

it in this head-on. As Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce goes over the line, she

pops in the air a little bit. It's not something major, I think, you're

right, but the tears came. She knew, didn't she? Yeah, she knows there's

something wrong with her and she can't quite put a hand on it. This

will be frustrating for us all because if she doesn't make it

through to the final because of this injury, it would be so disappointing

for her. Remember she is going for the triple.

Let's keep our fingers crossed but she has qualified. Asha Philip was

in a tough semifinal there and, well, I guess time will tell. She

hasn't got too much time. It's due, that race, in an hour and 20

minutes, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, winning in 10.88. Schippers 10.90.

They're qualified. Talou running very fast. Of course, there is

another semifinal to come but at the minute that would be quick enough

for a fastest-loser spot but not for part Bartoletta. So is Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce going to be able to run the final? We're getting towards the

end of the first round of the long jump final and this is one of the

most talented in the field. Jarrion Lawson is the world leader

in the first round. It's a big effort.

Well, Lawson, the Americans have come with a very different attitude

than they did a year ago. It's good on the board. Lawson, this may even

threaten the lead. A little dip and drive there. He just lost his

height. It's perfect on the board and Lawson will be a handful. Greg

Rutherford has a mountain to climb. 8.19, just one centimetre of his

team-mate and it's a moment - it's USA one-two at the moment.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is out and getting herself ready for the second

group in this heptathlon. The javelin starts in five minutes'

time. She's a 48.33 PB in the javelin. We showed you the stats

earlier on. If they all throw their PBs and run their PBs tonight, she

would take gold. We've seen Katarina Johnson-Thompson below her best.

What can Jess produce tonight to retain her Olympic title? And what

an incredible story and achievement that would be.

And of course, in about ten minutes' time, you'll see one of Great

Britain's greatest ever athletes, Mo Farah enter the arena. The countdown

is on. He'll be striding out the back

somewhere near here underneath the stadium, in the bowels of the

stadium, getting himself physically and mentally ready for what could be

an incredible moment in athletics history. Will let's get back down on

to the track and the next semifinal in the women's 100m.

Well, they are ready down there for the third semifinal and what

semifinals we've seen so far. What a run from Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce. Her fellow countrywoman, Elaine Thompson, is in

great form this year. Desiree Henry has one of the guest lanes as one of

the quickest qualifiers. She didn't leave a lot out there, perhaps, but

I'm sure she can threaten her personal best of 11.06. Very, very

good conditions. Just a slight breeze behind the sprinters.

Blessing Okagbare perhaps not quite as fast as she was a couple of years

ago. If she starts well, her top end speed stands her a good chance of

going through. And the American champion, the intense star of

English Gardnor, took the US title for a second time in Oregon last

month with 10.74 which only Elaine Thompson has bettered this season.

And on the outside, Tatjana Pinto ran 11 seconds dead two weeks ago in

Germany. A meeting in-man I'm when everyone was going very quickly. And

there is Carina Horn of South Africa.

She holds the South African 100m record. She ran 11.32 in the first

round so she has her work cut out here.

Ivet Lalova is a non-starter. Semoy Hackett, who has searched -- served

a couple of drug bans, is in lane three. We've seen Shelly-Ann

Fraser-Pryce go through. What state is she in? Is it a recurrence of a

toe injury which has troubled her throughout the season? The final is

in just over 1:20. Elaine Thompson was flying up a month or so ago,

perhaps more than that, but she's been troubled with a hamstring

problem. Two to go through automatically. And the two fastest

losers, but we have seen some very quick times so far.

Desiree Henry trying to keep pace with Elaine Thompson at the moment

and doing so. Elaine Thompson out well. Here comes English Gardner.

It's Elaine Thompson and English Gardner. Blessing Okagbare perhaps.

The two Jamaicans set the quickest times, 10.88 for Thompson, 10.89 for

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. They are throwing down the challenge to the

Americans. Another good run from Desiree Henry. She's been pipped on

the line for third place by Blessing Okagbare but what a run from Elaine

Thompson. I question whether, you know, her hamstring problems that

she's been talking about - well, no sign of any problems there.

She won the Jamaican Championships with a magical time of 10.70, with a

dodgy hamstring. Here I think there's so much more to come. That

is the easiest 10.88 I've seen so far today. Let's have a look at this

head-on. Out of the blocks well. Very accurate. She's right of our

screen remember in the yellow and black Jamaican strip. Focus down

there. She comes to that lovely upright run. She's gentle. She's

bouncing and right now she's going to shut down, engine's going to calm

down. She knows she's through to the final, easy and smooth. Desiree enry

working hard to get there and, unfortunately, she's only run 11.09.

She'll be disappointed, I know, Desiree, because she wants to get

the 11-second barrier under her belt. It will come. Be patient.

She's 20 and gone close to an Olympic final but it ends here in

the semifinal, at least individually, for Desiree Henry but,

again, look at the times. Elaine Thompson 10.88, English Gardner

10.90. Eight go through to the final and all eight have run below 11

seconds and that final is in one hour and 20 minutes.

Well, the action is coming thick and fast this evening. Greg Rutherford

is on the runway. His second attempt in this long jump

final. The lead - Henderson 8.20m. Just four centimetres covering the

top four athletes and at the moment Rutherford is in third place. Oh,

it's another jump beyond eight metres. You can see the white line

is the lead. This is going to come down to... Absolutely tiny margins.

There's dad. Greg's coach, worked so hard on his run-up. Perfect on the

board on the first round. That bodes well for him to just compete. It's

good again. Four jumps remaining. It doesn't

look as though it's going to improve on the 8.18m. He's just two

centimetres off Henderson's lead of 8.20m.

Rutherford in third place behind the two Americans. No improvement in the

second round. Right then, Brianne Theisen-Eaton -

she's been a little outclassed over the last two days of this heptathlon

it has to be said. She came in as the world leader and

may exit with nothing unless she can produce a big throw in the javelin

and run the 800m of her life. Ooh, that's a good throw. She's got

on to that and that's a big effort for the Canadian. Her husband like

it, Ashton Eton there, arms in the air. -- Eaton, there, arms in the

air. He really likes T that's probably the best throw we've seen

so far. We saw Katarina Johnson-Thompson earlier throw 36m.

This is close to 50m. She has a lifetime best of 47.74m. She may

threaten that and Theisen-Eaton has just swallowed up some of the

athletes above her. She's gone into third place.

It's just shy of her lifetime best. Right then. Take a breath because

Jessica Ennis-Hill is on the runway. She has gone about her business

quietly and competently across the previous five events. We're at the

sixth. A slightly different look on the face of Tony Minicelo.

Mick Hill, the javelin specialist coach has produced a fairly stable

technique. It's a big effort. It's a huge effort! It's a massive throw

for Jessica Ennis-Hill! Wow! That may have just clinched her another

Olympic gold medal because if this is beyond 45m, I don't think anyone

can catch her. She's exceptional over 800m. The right foot goes

forward. She committed the hip. That is wonderful! I know Mick Hill back

home will have hit the roof with that, #4r57 91m and two throws

remaining -- 45.91m and two throws remaining.

Well, that is just what she would have wanted. I'll be honest, I

thought it was a little further. Here's Toni. Well, that's about as

enthusiastic as we've seen as a reaction across all the events from

Toni Minichiello. That's Toni celebrating inside, trust me. I was

nervous there. The warm-ups weren't great but it's a good start for

Jess. Saturday night is all right for

fighting for your Olympic gold title. And Jessica Ennis-Hill has

absolutely punched through there with her first throw because that

will totally settle the nerves, Denise, won't it? Calm her down? She

did everything what she's been coached to do and you were saying,

that's it, that's the block, that's where her hip should be. It was a

beautiful example of how to throw a jave Lynn. It was a really --

javelin. It was a really, really good throw. Everything, as you said,

you want to see in the technique, steady on the runway, kept the arm

back nicely so she's given herself, you know, a long range to throw

through. She blocked that left leg which acts as a pivot. It's almost

like, um, you know, a sling shot. You block hard and sling the javelin

and she did it brilliantly. Just what you need for the first round.

We saw a of Thiam there, who was a leader by five points going in to

this. She's just sat to the left of her actually and she looked

concerned because Thiam's 800m is nowhere near as good as hers. Mo

time is coming up thick and fast. We knew that when we sat down in the

studio that we'd be treated to some fantastic athletics already.

Mo is heading out to the track to hopefully make history.

What a journey he's been on. A story of human movement, this

looks easy. It has been anything but. 1983, the start - twin boys are

born in Mogadishu, Somalia. Eight years later, one twin moves to

London. He loves football, running. Running wins. There are setbacks.

That was a disappointing performance by Mo Farah. Successes. He's

destroying them in the home straight! Double European champion!

He must change, change routine, change coach, change everything. He

must move to move faster. Catch him, man! There's no denying Farah. Is he

ready now? Is this the time? Is this the place? He's kicking again! Farah

is going for it! It's gold! It is. He's the double Olympic Champion!

These are Mo nights and this is Mo-town. This is world domination

for Farah! And if becomes the Mo-tion picture of the age to be

repeated and appreciated time after time. Sticking away, as expected.

Our monumental Mo. Mo Farah is best. Mo Farah is the

World Champion again! Five world titles. Simply sensational! What

comes next in this story of human movement? Already the greats, can he

now pull clear? Rio Mo. Go Mo! Here they come - the 10,000m athletes

making their way out into the arena, all 34 of them there and it was

Geoffrey Kamworor who led the way there, arguably the man who many

feel can put up the biggest fight for Mo. Look at him giving the crowd

what they want, telling them to get behind him. He's here for not just a

shot at glory but he wants this crowd to be with him. He wants them

to enjoy the spectacle, Paula. He wants the support. He knows he's

ready. He's excited. Part of the reason they brought the run-on for

the finals - we didn't see it in the morning finals, probably just

because it wasn't dark then - but as they come out, they get that

entrance to the arena and he'll really play it today in the arena.

He knows he's in shape. He knows the others will bring it to to him but

he knows he's ready. We're just going to catch Thiam in the javelin

before this race. Steve Backley is ready. Let's not

forget Jessica Ennis-Hill has still work to do because Nafissatou Thiam,

a slender lead of five points ahead of Jess. Thiam just 21 years of age.

And she's a brilliant javelin thrower.

She's starting from a short approach. I'm surprised to see this

because she needs to throw far. It's a long throw. Oh, she's produced

something massive! But she's hurt her elbow, has she? It probably

doesn't matter. That's over 50m. Well... This is drama.

Jess watching on, knows that the 45m she's just thrown is a decent throw

for her but look at the flight on that. It could be a new lifetime

best for the Belgian. And at 21 years of age, Nafissatou

Thiam produced something very special. It's 53.13m and that's

close to a lifetime best. But now it's Mo time, the first part

of the trilogy that is super-Saturday. This is the one that

could be completed first, Mo Farah going for gold. Brendan Foster and

Steve Cram, take it away. Well, it's Saturday, it's the

Olympic Games. Time for some gold. Mo Farah, the first to have his

opportunity on super-Saturday. His big rival in this race - he's not

only one but may be the biggest one - Geoffrey Kamworor from Kenya. Ross

Millington and Andy Vernon will be joining Mo Farah wearing the British

vest. Wearing the vest of Kenya is Bedan Karoki Muchiri. The same three

Kenyans who tried to pull the finish out of Mo Farah in the World

Championships last year, and weren't able to do it, are here again

tonight. Demelash, from Ethiopia, world junior champion in 2012 when

far for far won his Olympic title. We go a little further down the line

and the familiar face of Zersenay Tadese, on a couple of occasions

himself in his younger days tried to wrest this title from some of the

great names of the past which we'll go through in a minute like Haile

Gebrselassie. Big cheer for Mo Farah.

Ready to go. Greg Rutherford watching on the big

screen as well. Mo's training partner, Abdi, and

Tola behind, trying to look for a bit of room. It's a big field in

this 10,000m. Cheptegei is one to watch as well, Arikan of Turkey.

There are two lines lining up. There's Paul Tanui, who qualified by

rights at the Kenyan Olympic trials. The other two big names, neither of

them finished the race incidentally. We might get a chance to chat about

that a little bit more later. Embaye is not a familiar name but if

you're wearing the vest from Ethiopia in an Olympic final, you're

good. Galen Rupp is contesting the

marathon as well a week on Sunday. So can Mo Farah retain his 10,000m

title? Can he win his third Olympic gold medal? No British athlete has

ever been able to do that. The Olympic Games four years ago was two

golds. So here we go. The 10,000m final, 25 laps of the

track. Well, I know everybody in this

stadium and I hope people sitting at home are full of anticipation for

what's going to happen in this race. We had a world record in the women's

10,000m final, Brendan and that might be the one thing that's

probably not going to happen here? Yeah, we might have said the same

about the women's, Steve. But look at this, familiar sight, Mo Farah,

Olympic Games, right at the back of the field, just relaxing, just

getting into his running, just letting them do whatever they want

to do and Mo Farah, the defending Olympic Champion, from Great

Britain, at super-Saturday, you can't really believe it was only

four years ago. Tonight we've got Jess throwing the javelin, Greg

Rutherford in the long jump and Mo has embarked on his journey. The

three from super-Saturday are all in action right now. There's what we

expected to happen. The Kenyan team have decided over many years they

weren't able to beat Mo Farah if they left the pace slow, so they've

decided to try and do something about it. And there's Greg

Rutherford. Yeah, it's all kicking off here, the Brits in full flow.

Greg Rutherford, I'm sure, will be buoyed by the fact that Mo, his

friend and colleague, who went to gold four years ago, is in the

stadium. Rutherford, round 3 of the long jump in third place behind the

Americans. Well... Difficult to tell without

the lines there. He's been perfect on the board so far. The atmosphere

electric here in the Olympic Stadium this evening. He's working hard.

8.18 his best, slight forward rotation there.

Maybe slightly too far back. It's 8.22m. Rutherford's taken the lead!

Wow! Unbelievable stuff! Rutherford, at the halfway stage nearly, is in

gold medal position. Look at this. 8.22m in the third round. Sure,

there's more drama to come, though. Talking to his coach. He fought his

way back into the lead, having seen Henderson and Lawson. This is going

to be tight. Back to the race, though.

Early stages of the 10,000m. We started with a 67.5 lap and just had

a 71, much slower for the second lap. Mo Farah content to be at the

back and watch what's going on. Ross milling tonne and Andy Vernon

are ahead of him. Millington and Andy Vernon are ahead of him.

Kamworor and Tanui is at the front. You need confidence to do what Mo is

doing. He's sitting at the back of the field. Mo Farah is saying, "Come

on, then. You've been talking all year about running the lead and

running the finish out of me." You have to test me in the middle of the

race but it's not unveiling itself yet. The Kenyan team, three athletes

who finished behind Mo Farah. There's Kamworor in second place and

there's Mo Farah at the back. There's Ross Millington, coached by

Steve Vernon in there and just ahead of him, Andy Vernon, the other

British athlete. So the three British athletes, Mo, setting the

pace from the back but they're just waiting to see something happen.

Now, Mo is a long way behind and I would imagine in the next few laps,

he'll do something about it. Here's Jessica Ennis-Hill. Her best 45.91m

in the first round. We're in Round 2.

Oh, she just decelerated on that but it's another big throw. Well, this

may even be an improvement. We saw that huge throw from Thiam. We've

worked out that it's about 140 points that Thiam is ahead and that

equates to about 10 seconds in the 800m, the last event later on this

evening. And that's about the difference between the both of their

prospective bests. Oh, this is going to be close. 46.06m for Jessica

Ennis-Hill and she's improved in the second round with one throw

remaining. And I tell you what, if she can just nick away at points

here, she's going to save herself valuable tenths or possibly seconds

come that final two-lap race. That was a couple of tenths slower

she needs to run the 800m. Every little bit helps and Mo Farah just

for the first time moving out to have a look up and see what's going

on at the front. He'll sense that it's picked up. We had a couple of

slow laps and the pace has just got moving a little bit, not really

going too fast. It was a 67 lap and Mo just kind of looking to see who

it is at the front. He won't be too worried, expect that Geoffrey

Kamworor is very close to the front and although we haven't had a fast

first mile or so here, first four laps or so, you sense that they are

close enough to the front that it won't be long before they try

something. Obviously not from the very beginning but I suspect the

very fact that they're close to the front there might mean that it won't

be long before they start to force it.

Mo will be delighted. He's won five laps, 70 seconds a lap and for him

that's like a morning jog, it really is. For him, to be able to get those

five laps behind him means the race is shorter moving into his zone. If

anything, these other distance runners are more accomplished over

longer distances, half marathon and marathon. Mo is the king on the

track and now he's decided, five laps behind him, that's enough. Two

British athletes ahead of him, Ross Millington and Andy Vernon and Mo

just relaxing, looks comfortable and perfectly controlled. Not doing

anything about it but nobody is and the longer this goes on, the happier

Mo will be. He's decided, though, that's enough. He's letting them

know he's around, moving gradually through the field. Passing Muchiri,

the Kenyan athlete, who will follow him, I'm sure. He's done that,

Muchiri. He's the guy they're aiming to beat to ever do anything. They

did it in the half marathon in Cardiff. Can they do it in the

10,000m? We'll find out later. Well, in that race in Cardiff, which seems

such a long time ago now, in March, on a rainy, blustery - and that's

putting it politely - day, Geoffrey Kamworor run one of the most

incredible pieces of distance running you might see. Fell at the

start, ran a blistering first mile to get himself back in the race,

having practically been trampled by a bunch of people behind him and Mo

Farah wasn't able to live with that. That's half marathon. That's on the

roads and everyone said, can Kamworor do the same on the track

where it's a different story. Very different indeed and Kamworor will

now, for the first time, if he has a little look over his shoulder, will

see that Mo Farah has got himself involved in this race. He took about

a lap to get up there. Look at the confusion he's caused behind him.

Everybody says the game is on, Mo is up, they want to push and shove and

go with him. Muchiri is pushing. Tola chipping at his heels. Mo is

naughty like that, goes to the front and slows it down. But Steve, that's

brilliant. He's letting them know he's there. He's moved to the front,

let them know who's the boss and that's a little bit of psychological

warfare. He can't believe it's happening at this pace after we've

all been reading how they're going to take him on and run the finish

out of him and everything like that. Mo has been reading that too. He's

adjusted his training slightly so he feels he's a bit stronger. We know

how fast he is. He feels a little bit stronger and there is Geoffrey

Kamworor just going past Mo Farah and now the Kenyan three are

surrounding Mo Farah but they're not doing anything serious, not doing

anything that is going to trouble Mo Farah. Mo looks absolutely fantastic

tonight. He's so light on his feet these days. He said to me in some of

the photographers when he was wrung younger, he looks a bit fatter than

this. He says he's now at a weight that he's happy about and he's ready

to run tonight, ready to run his race. He's alongside Galen Rupp who

is getting poised in case anything happens. That was the quickest lap

of the race so far, 65.1 seconds. And Mo, well, I was up with the

endurance squad for a week or so and you're right, he's so relaxed going

into training. You said he's light on his feet. When you watch his

track workouts and he builds and builds and builds and I can tell you

at the end of one of his sessions, he ran a 49.9 400m and I don't know

if the others know that. I would have publicised that to the world.

I'm telling people now. That is frightening speed at the end of a

session by the way where he did a lot of, you know, miles and

kilometres and things. Nobody has that ability and I'm not sure any

10,000m, even the greats, could run that 400m time. You're absolutely

right. That's staggering. We saw him run just over 50m in the last lap of

a 5,000m when he'd been really slow. I think he'll be happy. The pace of

one lap has got a move on. That's another 65-second lap so it's

beginning to get a little bit faster and it's beginning to move along.

But Mo is on the journey here. He's one of only three athletes with two

Olympic gold medals and he's on the journey to a third. Seb Coe tried to

win three medals and didn't make the team on the third time. Daley

Thompson tried to win three gold medals and finished fourth in 1988

in Seoul after having won in '80 and '84. This is Mo's chance to try and

become the first British athlete to win three gold medals in an Olympic

Games and you know what? It's looking good for Mo so far.

Mo has fallen. He's quickly up. He got a little clip there and it's the

one thing they feared, you know. The whole Mo team on numerous

occasions, the conversation often comes round to what if, what if he

falls. We jokingly said that he if he fell

on the last lap, he'd get up and win. Is it Galen? Mo was relaxing

and it may have been Galen that caught the back of his heat and he's

quickly up, not hurt, doesn't look bad but that's not good.

Getting your rhythm upset. It was his training partner

sometimes, Galen Rupp. I've seen them happen in 1972 in the Olympic

final of the 10,000m and the runner who took the title and broke the

world record did take a tumble. I'm not worried. I'm laughing now

because I said everything was looking OK for Mo Farah and then

suddenly he was tripped over. I would say to you, Mo, keep away from

Galen Rupp. It sends your heart rate shooting

high for a little bit and he needs to settle down a little bit. A 64

lap. They're winding it up at the front. It's not the Kenyans, it's

the Ethiopians. Two of them at the front, Tola the

tallest one there, Demelash the youngest won -- one, now being

passed as the Kenyans take the invitation. Mo Farah just happily,

as they stretch out a little bit now, a few gaps are starting to

appear, the little injection of pace is beginning to take a little bit of

effect here and again, look at that, it's Kamworor just checking in

behind Muchiri, saying keep off my heels, please.

They've seen what happened to Mo. Muchiri saying to Cheptagegei to be

careful. We're not too far from the halfway point. It's getting quicker.

It's getting faster. It's getting stretched and the tension starts to

build a little bit. Another 64-second lap and 64 laps are like

30-20 pace. That's quick for 10,000m but they didn't start at that pace.

They started very, very slowly and that was to Mo's advantage. Now I

think he's got over the fall. He's relaxing now and it's safer now when

you've got opening gaps and I think Mo will now be a bit more conscious

and be careful. That's what you've got to do. You've got to get

yourself over the next couple of lapse. When they're tired, you get

-- laps. When they're tired, you get less trouble and little gaps appear.

The pace is strong but not phenomenal. It's not testing the

likes of Mo Farah, but Galen Rupp took a move through the field and

now you can sense it's building a little.

Jarrion Lawson on the runway for the third time of asking. The young

American, 22 years of age. His best so far 8.19m. Third attempt. Oh,

that's big. Lawson... He's jumped something to challenge the lead here

I believe. The young American... He is the world leader with 8.58m. He

is a danger man. We know that. Did he nick the sand further back there?

I don't know if that's been... This may not come up as far as it looks.

His hand may have just dropped back into the sand there, the closest

point to the board will be the measurement.

As Lawson waits anxiously, he likes it, I haven't seen it yet. It's

8.25m and Lawson takes the lead away from Greg Rutherford in the third

round of the halfway stage. So Jarrion Lawson is now in the

lead. And the lead changes in the long jump. So it does in the 10,000m

and now we have the three Kenyans. The race is now on.

Tanui the first to throw the gauntlet down to Mo Farah and Mo

Farah realising that this is meaningful, that the Ethiopians

pushed it on a little bit, picked the pace up, stretched the field out

but this is serious now. We're past halfway. We've gone through 5 now

thousandm in 13.53. Not superfast, not superslow. It's been the last

two kilometres which have been fairly quick and that, now, is

enabling the Kenyans to build on that a little bit here. So Paul

Tanui and we thought he would be the one of the three who would push it

on to help Kamworor. Well, the plan was clearly to let

alone for the first 5,000m but going through 5,000m in 13.53 means that

Mo Farah is moving into his territory. He can handle 13:53 in

training sessions quite honestly so he won't be tested over 10,000m.

He'll be tested over a little bit more than 5,000m and that's very

much to Mo's advantage. Tanui leading, Kamworor, who has not been

well recently. He's not the same Geoffrey Kamworor that we saw in the

world half Marathon Championships. I thought earlier in the season he was

going to test Mo Farah over 10,000m as we look at Andy Vernon coming

down the home straight, detached from the field and having a hard

time. It's a bit warm for them and he seems to be sweating up quite a

lot. Going back to the lead, the three Kenyans are there. Galen Rupp

has drifted towards the back again. Mo has athletes around him and after

the shock he had earlier, he wants to try and move out a little and

just give himself a bit of clearance. That's what I would be

worried about. But Tanui stretching on. Here's Jessica Ennis-Hill. She's

off the run-up, close to the line, though and that was a downfall...

That's a shame. She did run up but got close to the

line and had to almost just bail out of that. Look at this. She's really

close to the line. Difficult to tell from that angle.

But she had to decelerate but it was a good effort in that second round.

But, boy, is that going to be exciting. The 800m between herself

and Nafissatou Thiam. 30 years of age, Jess, just 21 Nafissatou Thiam,

with a sorrel bow, hasn't thrown again after the big throw in the

first round. Ennis-Hill, then, still in second place overall.

Chopping and changing, slowed a little bit, Paul Tanui, and that

means that it's Muchiri's front. Paul, Brendan and I both saying

13.53 is slower this time round. We know what happened in Beijing but

Muchiri has taken off at the front, Paula. It looks like the plan is to

do a little bit of a faster... I was surprised when Mo took the tumble

that they didn't seize that moment then to really make it tough and to

take off and start injecting the pace earlier and take advantage of

the fact that Mo was ruffled for a little bit. Now looking at him -

I've been watching his style - he doesn't seem to have been affected

by the fall. Nothing... Not carrying any limp or anything there. So

thankfully he seems to have come through that OK. I think the jolt of

adrenaline might have given him an extra boost of energy even.

They're bypassing the drinks. It's not a particularly warm night and a

pretty good night for 10,000m running. You don't grab a drink when

the race is on. 63 the previous lap, the fastest kilometre 2:41.88,

roughly the same as the sixth one. So Muchiri now. Brendan, I think

surging is good but Mo has so much pace to burn compared to most people

that the surges, they won't seem like surges as much to him. He's

working, you know. As good as you are, even if you're as good as Mo

Farah, you're still working. Of course he's working but he wants to

get on with it now. He's very happy to have three athletes changing the

pace and him just following them. The race is getting going now. There

are less athletes to trouble him. And he's literally them all and

he'll be happy if they just keep pressing, keep going, keep moving it

forward and he's just absolutely where he wants to be. And as the lap

scorers now is down in the very... In the single figures, that really

helps you. There's Kamworor for the first time.

He's the one that was thought to be the danger. But he's had a tough

couple of weeks. He hant been at all well recently. I'm not sure he's

100%. He's giving it his best shot you I don't think there's a cha

muchion out there. Kamworor has shown how good he is on the roads

and Mo Farah has shown he good he is on the track. On a half marathon he

was beaten by Muchiri and Kamworor but tonight he looks as though he's

coasting. He looks comfortable. He's probably thinking, six laps to go,

what are you going to do? This is Mo Farah territory. They're making it

easy for him. The last couple of laps have been a little bit tough

but not exceptionally so. Demelash now, the best of the Ethiopians and

Tola are alongside him. The Kenyan plan has not evolved at all. If

you're going to have to a plan that will rip the heart out of Mo Farah,

it has to be long, hard running. Ross Millington has to step aside,

which didn't happen in the men's 10,000m. At least Ross is well aware

of the guys coming through. He's had a troubled preparation, Ross, but

here in the Olympics and getting his tuvent to be in this great arena,

but moves -- opportunity to be in this great arena but moves out. The

two Ethiopians, who have looked spritely from the beginning,

Demelash and Tola, with Tanui there. Chem chem is still looking laboured

-- Kamworor is still looking laboured as Brendan was saying.

Galen Rupp, as you expect, will come into this well prepared and well

conditioned. And now Demelash is having a little look at the screen.

He's looked relaxed throughout this and just a bit of a stretch on here.

He is doing his share now and there's... 62, that's the fastest

lap and the 10,000m is entering the closest stages. Luvo Manyonga, the

24-year-old South African. 8.16 in the first round, two fouls since

then, is in fifth place behind the two Americans. Rutherford all ahead

of him. Chasing down that lead and that's a big jump for Manyonga!

Well, we didn't expect him to challenge for medals but it looks as

though in the latter stages - we're into the second half of this men's

long jump final and at the moment, it's Lawson's lead of 8.25m that's

being challenged by the South African. It's 8.28m! Manyonga of

South Africa goes into the lead! It's Ethiopia who are taking on Mo

Farah here. Another 62-second lap from Demelash. Tola there for

support. Only Paul Tanui of the Kenyans looking like he's any chance

of hanging with this. Mo Farah, Cheptegei, Galen Rupp. Geoffrey

Kamworor's medal quest looks to be disappearing as he loses touch with

this group. Now whittling quickly down to five and Galen Rupp of the

USA hanging on to Mo Farah, hanging on to the two Ethiopians and the

Kenyan and Farah realises the danger is not from Kenya. It's from

Ethiopia. It certainly is. The Kenyan threat, the Kenyan challenge

to run the finish out of Mo Farah certainly hasn't happened. Geoffrey

Kamworor wasn't very welcoming into the race and clearly he isn't abling

to do it. Now it's Tanui, Mo Farah, Tola, Demelash and behind Mo Farah

is Galen Rupp. Now Mo has got to be careful now. Three laps to go. This

is winnable for Mo Farah from this point.

He's been stretched a little in the last few laps but Mo has got the

ability, he's got the stamina, he's got the speed of the finish and now

it's a case of positioning yourself, Mo. Just get yourself ready, don't

give any more chances. We don't want any more spills. We don't want any

more accidents and from here, the reigning Olympic Champion is in a

position where he's dreamt about being. Coming up to 1,000m, the pace

has not been excessive. It's been powerful in the latter stages.

Looking over his shoulder, moves alongside the leader and for the

first time, Mo at the serious end of the race is now in control. He's in

the lead. He's got Tanui for company. He's got Tola or to

company. He's got his team-mate in America, Galen Rupp, for company,

and Demelash of Ethiopia, but there's no great champions in there

apart from Mo Farah. So now Mo concentrate on the race. Two laps to

go for Mo Farah. Can he come and do what no British athlete has ever

done before, by winning a third Olympic gold medal? Things are

looking good for him. Another 62-second lap, Mo looking

comfortable. A group of five, almost six athletes here. He's going to be

attacked, not undoubtedly, but I'm sure he'll fend them off easily,

atementding to win his eighth global -- attempting to win his eighth

global gold medal. Mo Farah down the back straight with just over 600m to

go. Tanui has a little look behind. We have two Ethiopians, demolish and

-- Demelash and Tola. You can almost throw a blanket over the five of

them here. Mo Farah, though, just wants to control this. We've been

here before. We've seen this before. We know what happens from here. Now

it's about determination. It's about Mo Farah. Don't give up the lead,

Mo. Just hold them off if you can. He's got Tanui, who has been there

before, Galen Rupp, silver medallist from London, Tola coming with the

rush. Demelash looks to be in a little bit of trouble. Has Mo got

the power? Has he got the strength? Has he got the speed to defend this

title which the great ones have done before him? He's passing his

team-mate on the outside, Andy Vernon but Mo has to try and hold

off Tanui a second time. Gather yourself again, Mo. He's got to dig

deep. Looking over his shoulder. That's not the thing to do. You've

got to look ahead of yourself. Tanui going hard. Going as fast as he can.

Mo Farah having to work hard. Tola is still there. There's danger here

in front. There's danger behind. He has a look behind. He just checks

what's there. Mo Farah attempting to retain his 10,000m Olympic title,