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Hello and welcome to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park. We are here | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
for the fourth day of swimming from the European Championships, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
featuring some of the best swimmers in the world. Stay tuned because, | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
tonight, British swimmers could pick up six medals. During the Brits | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
alongside me, Rebecca Adlington and Mark Foster. You were cheering to | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
the theme song. You love it! There is what is coming up later. Jazz | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Carling is hoping to defend her European title. We have got two | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
chances of medals in the 200 metres individual medal, Hannah and | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Siobhan. Can Ross Murdoch at European gold to his Commonwealth | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
title? And Kathleen Dawson is swimming so quickly. She is in the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
100 metres extra final. First this evening, we have got the final of | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
the 800 metres freestyle. We got a lady who knows a locked alongside | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
that. Becky as an Olympic gold in that event and she is still European | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
record holder. I am begging you up. You are the European and | :01:44. | :01:44. | |
Commonwealth one. Yes You are the European and | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Carling, going for gold tonight. She hasn't been able to make the most of | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
it because you miss out on London 2012. To miss at four years ago was | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
tough. Me, my family and everyone throughout my career. A home | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Olympics as well. That only comes round once a really. I nearly walked | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
away from the sport but I gave it another shot and I thought I would | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
throw everything at it. To come at the other side, it has been four | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
ways of worry and heartache but, to finally make that team was sort of a | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
relief. How has being here, moving your training base helped? It is | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
always different when you move to a programme. You never know how you | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
will adapt, whether it will take a few months. Last year, I didn't have | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the biggest expectations, but working with my coach I knew we | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
would put together a great programme. We have got an | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
unbreakable bond now and I know, going into Rio, that will be so | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
important. We will need each other. I have got so much respect and trust | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
for him. We will work together so hard to make it a success. It will | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
be my first Olympics. That is exciting. I will be going to a | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
competition I have never been to before. I have got a drive to do | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
really well in training. Everybody has got goals but I will make sure I | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
do everything I can. The bronze goes to Jaz Carlin! Finally she has a | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
medal at the World Championships. What would an Olympic medal mean? | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Everything, just being at the Olympics is incredible. It only | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
comes round every four years. To be on that podium with the GB flag is | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
an incredible honour. Wearing the kit is an amazing feeling, | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
representing your country, but you want to be on that podium, fighting | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
for a medal. I can't wait to put everything into training and to race | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
in Rio. Before we came on air, the 800 metres freestyle got underway. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Jaz Carlin, defending her title, goes in second fastest. Boglarka | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Kapas takes lane five. Keep an eye on Sharon Van Rouwendaal. She got a | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
silver medal at the European and world open water championships. | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
Boglarka Kapas starting to make a move. Jaz Carlin can't let her get | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
too much further ahead. You don't want it to come down to a sprint | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
finish. With the 800 metres freestyle, you never quite know how | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
the race will pan out. You can't prepare. Becky, you have had races | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
where you have been out on your own but also ones where you have known | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
it will come to a sprint finish. When it is unfolding and you are | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
feeling, goodness, I will have to sprint finish, that must be a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
shocker. It is, but it is nice if you know you have got something | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
left. Jaz Carlin will be hurting. She will struggle. She doesn't have | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
easy speed from being rested and refreshed. She will be struggling | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
but she needs to hang on. Everybody swims 800 different. I used to break | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
it down, placing it as 200 metres, 400 metres and then a 200 metres. It | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
helps to break the distance down. She looks like she is following a | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
bit far behind. Hopefully she hasn't given herself too much to do at the | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
end. Certainly, Kapas is picked up the pace and started to make a move | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
at the 200 metres turn. This will be the 400 metres turn. It lengths to | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
go in this final of the women's 800 metres freestyle. Jaz Carlin is | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
moved into second place and she is moving to the field nicely. She | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
needs to stay in contention with Kapas, the leading Hungarian. Maria | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Vilas Vidal Spain just falling off the pace it. Worrying that Boglarka | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Kapas as big a metre and a half more off Jaz Carlin in that last 100. She | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
has got a really nice leg kick. Jaz Carlin has got a slower rate of leg | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
kick and she is mainly using her arms. Boglarka Kapas isn't leaving | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
anything. She is going forward on day one. That is what you have to | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
do, especially when you are facing people who are so far ahead. To | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
begin with a shout, because Katie will get gold, it is pretty much | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
certain, so everybody is battling for the silver bronze medals. Do you | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
think they will go into it thinking about that, the gold medal, don't | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
worry about what she is doing, this will be a race for the minor medals? | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
I think you have to. Even if she is having a bad day, that is somebody | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
else's amazing day. The league is now 2.2 seconds tween hungry's | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Boglarka Kapas and the swimmer in second position, Great Britain's Jaz | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Carlin. Unless she really picked something up here, she will lose | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
this title. She is in heavy training and her main focus will be on Rio. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
This is a very good training swim. A practice in process. This is all | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
about training. It is training the recovery afterwards. It is going | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
through the motions, putting the suit on, warm-ups, everything like | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
that you are training for, not just the race. Jaz Carlin didn't have an | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
amazing 800 at the Olympic trials a month ago so for her it's a great | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
opportunity to get another one under her belt. 100 metres to go. Two | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
lengths to go in the final of this 800 metres freestyle European | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Championships. Bachacata as of an is first. -- Boglarka Kapas of hungry | :07:56. | :08:11. | |
macro is first. Tjasa Oder of Slovenia is trying to eat into | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
silver medal position. Comfortable from the 300-metre mark, Boglarka | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Kapas. She has swung it so well. Every time she has needed an extra | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
gear, she's been able to find something to keep Jaz Carlin at bay. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Jaz Carlin really digging deep, very proud of the effort. Her eyes will | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
be on Rio. It's a superb practice for the big one in the summer. . | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
be on Rio. It's a superb practice Bachacata as clearly has got the | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
gold but they are really attacking Jaz Carlin now. They may be three | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
metres behind. It will be gold to Boglarka Kapas of Hungary. Boglarka | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Kapas of Hungary, with silver medal to Jaz Carlin of Great Britain and | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the bronze to Tjasa Oder of Slovenia. Well, it was a tough race. | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
A little bit cat and mouse for 300 metres and then Boglarka Kapas | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
really started moving. She took off. Jaz Carlin really couldn't go with | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
her. No, and, putting it in perspective, that is a season's | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
best, four seconds quicker than at the trials. Boglarka Kapas really | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
had all the answers to step up she needed to. Jaz Carlin really fought | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
had all the answers to step up she back in those closing stages, giving | :09:39. | :09:39. | |
it absolutely everything. A good, solid, in season swim for | :09:40. | :09:59. | |
Jaz Carlin. Much quicker than trials and moving | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
in the right direction. Definitely. It is all about seeing what happens. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Today, it was silver, but I've got to take that. Looking forward to the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
400 on Sunday and the 400 by two later. How do you prepare and put | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
this into your programme leading up to Rio? When you have got a home | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
crowd in London, you want to be at your best. We are all in different | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
places in training but we came here to rate tough, to train hard and to | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
see what we get. -- to race tough. You have been doing more work in the | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
gym, You have been doing more work in the | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
400. Do you think that is helping the 800? For me, the 800 has been a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
bit up and down because I had an injury months back so my training | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
was interrupted. I missed a few weeks. It's coming down and I want | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
to keep it going for Rio. I will keep on trading. See you later. -- | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
training. Huge congratulations to Jaz Carlin. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
We can see her picking up her silver medal. How impressed were you guys | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
with that swim? She is in hard training, don't forget. She is. In | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
the Olympic trials, she is one four seconds slower than that so she will | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
be really pleased with delight. That's pretty good in hard training. | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
The contrary in national anthem is going for the winner of that one, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Boglarka Kapas. Jaz Carlin said in that interview with Sharon that it's | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
difficult because she had an injury earlier in the year. Mentally, that | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
must give you a knock. Also, when you can't swim and her arm is it | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
they -- when you can't see it and her arm isn't in a sling, you can't | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
see anything wrong. We didn't see what was going on six months ago, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
last month, so to come in here with all of the focus being on Rio, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
coming from the trials, when it wasn't great, but I feel like we | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
should be standing up! If I stand up, I go off-screen! I am stuck to | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
this chair with all of the cables! We talked a lot about Jaz Carlin and | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the fact she missed out on swimming in this pool in front of a home | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
crowd. Is that one of those things that you look back on? We couldn't | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
stand up for the national anthem, but we will at least acknowledge the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
success of Boglarka Kapas. We make a lot of the fact that she missed out | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
on swimming in this pool. Does it give her extra motivation going | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
forward? You forget that Jaz Carlin hasn't been to an Olympics. I | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
remember being on the team with her in 2009. It is crazy she hasn't been | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
to the Olympics. For her, Rio means so much to her. She didn't have a | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
successful Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. She got to experience the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
home crowd. The crowd was so loud tonight, cheering her on the whole | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
way. So many points before that race, coming in here, getting | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
silver, when you watch her swim, she just improves their turns by a tiny | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
bit, which I think she can with some extra strength work in the gym, that | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
will make a second's different and that will make the difference come | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Rio. In the nicest possible way, you want your peers to achieve their | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
best, so what is going wrong and right? I can't slack off too much | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
because I had the same issue! My Terns were horrific. You have so | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
many turns in the race. Jaz Carlin has a slow rotation, no underwater | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
off the wall. It is one of those difficult things when her swimming | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
is very good but all of her competitors take a second offer | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
every time she turns. It is something simple. Over 16 lengths, | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
that builds. We spent a lot of time, 20 hours a week, swimming up and | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
down the pool. One simple thing... It's harder than it seems! A bit of | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
streamlining, jumping. It's like trying to change the way you walk. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Trying to change it in your 20s, when you've done it for years, | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
that's really hard. As soon as you are under pressure, and you are | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
tired, you revert back to the old way. So close to the Olympics, you | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
don't want to start taking it apart. I think she will be working on her | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
turns, trying to get back to full fitness. Jaz Carlin has had a great | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
400. She has consistently been better on that event. It is like a | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
whole focus is on this one event. It is a fight for that silver and | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
bronze medal come Rio. We will see her later in the relay. | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
Let us talk about Ross Murdoch. They are having a fight of there. He | :15:18. | :15:29. | |
doesn't know how to do a turn. It is like a family up here. Ross Murdoch | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
going in the final of the 200 metres rest stroke, he has 20 to prove in a | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
big year for him, plenty to kick off about. | :15:39. | :15:50. | |
The final of the men's 200 metres Ross Murdoch is the fastest | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
qualifier. Lane seven, they are introducing the | :15:55. | :16:20. | |
swimmers to the crowd. Slowest to the fastest sixth fastest in his | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
final, he is having a good meet here. The Eric Person of Sweden goes | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
in lane two. Great Britain have a fantastic history in this race, | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
David Wilkie winning the European Championship title back in 1974, 42 | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
years ago. Adrian Moorhouse denies 83, Nick Gillingham winning it three | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
times. This is the third fastest qualifier and then the big boys in | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
five, the world champion and next to him will be Ross Murdoch of Great | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
Britain. Germany have not brought a big squad with them but they have | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
quality over quantity. It must be lovely to walk out to a reception | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
like that. He was a bit like Darth Vader. Interesting to see the | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
goggles strap under the hat, he looks like a bullet fascinating he | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
didn't make the British Olympic team in the 200 metres breaststroke, you | :17:39. | :17:51. | |
think of him winning that gold, in the last two years he has been | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
delivering on the hundred but has looked in good form here. This will | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
be a fascinating race, Ross Murdoch the last to take off his | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
be a fascinating race, Ross Murdoch Slapping his chest and heightening | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
his senses and making sure he is right on top of his game behind the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
blocks. The he has to take on the fastest man in the world, the world | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
champion, Marco breaststroke of Germany in lane five. Breaststroke | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
right bind him there. Four links of ten two, the final of | :18:30. | :18:49. | |
the 200 metres in this European Championship and Ross Murdoch is | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
right in Championship and Ross Murdoch is | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
hat. Lovely slow stroke and next to Championship and Ross Murdoch is | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
him the world champion, Marco Championship and Ross Murdoch is | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
of Germany. The difference in stature of the swimmers from | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
of Germany. The difference in than the likes of Koch and | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
Matterson. But he is so efficient, that is why you think of | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Matterson. But he is so efficient, better over 200 but he is the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
silver-medallist this week over the 100 breaststroke. Some of the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
sprinters, not 100 breaststroke. Some of the | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
them try to take this race on. He was fifth in the 100, he has speed | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
but he will not have the closing stamina and strength of some of the | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
other swimmers. The long gliding stroke of the | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
other swimmers. The long gliding Murdoch in the centre. Going fast | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
other swimmers. The long gliding down the first 100, matching | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Matterson of Finland. Very effective, Murdoch just 34 | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
hundredths of a second behind. A decent turn and probably into the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
hundredths of a second behind. A lead. This is where Ross Murdoch | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
comes into his own. So strong in the second half of his race. So flat in | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the water, we talked all week second half of his race. So flat in | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
how they swim so much more flat now and we have a similar theory for the | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
breaststroke but it is unusual. Ross Murdoch just starting to speed away, | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
this is where he is at his most dangerous and he has turned ahead. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Is it possible for Koch to find anything to get back on terms? This | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
is Ross Murdoch's moment. The last 50 of this 200. The time is quite | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
extraordinary, let us pick up because they are right on European | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
record pace and Ross Murdoch of Great Britain is going really well | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
but coming through is Marco Dem Finn of Germany. Breaststroke coming back | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
in the Black cap of Germany, it will be tight and he really is coming | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
back, gold-medal, Great Britain. Ross Murdoch, what a brilliant swim. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Fabulous swim, not sure he knows yet. We do. What a fabulous first | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
75, 100 metres, then he really took it on the third 50 metres and just | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
held on at the end. European Championship gold, now he knows. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Brilliant, gold for Murdoch, silver for Koch and bronze for Italy. | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
STUDIO: You can see what it means to Ross Murdoch to get that European | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
title. Almost all the would get caught in the closing stages, his | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
stroke got faster and didn't seem to be going forward. At the touch, so | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
close. Seven hundredths of a second, Miles. LAUGHTER | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Who cares, in two weeks' time nobody will know the difference. Very | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
clearly, Great Britain, new champion of the 200 metres breaststroke is | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
Ross Murdoch. European champion. STUDIO: That was absolutely | :22:00. | :22:13. | |
incredible, you were out of your seats. That was an impressive swim. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
We set it up by saying he has a point to prove because he burst onto | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the scene at the Commonwealth Games. Since then, it has been difficult | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
and this season in particular, how impressed were you? He seemed | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
shocked by that, almost a second quicker than he did at the Olympic | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
trials. He came third at the Olympic trials and he has just won the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
European Championship. That is absolutely incredible. Let us see | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
how shocked he was. Many congratulations, I haven't seen a | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
celebration as good as that since the Commonwealth Games? I know. It | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
has been a long time coming, that swim. To be that quick and come away | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
with a gold medal I never thought that would happen here, I am | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
delighted. He was coming up on you, could you feel him? I could see the | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
splash of his hands out of the corner of my goggles and I knew I | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
had to keep my length. That is what we have been talking about, that is | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
why I am so fast, not because I am big and powerful but by and | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
streamlined. I had to stay disciplined and got to the wall | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
first. Two British ten two is in such an amazing place but so | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
difficult for selection as a result, you won't be able to go to the | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Olympics for this event? I had a few Demons my bag from a couple of weeks | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
ago at the trials. But everyone who has supported me, my family, I had a | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
bad week a few weeks ago so I wanted to prove to them that it is | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
happening and we are on course for the next cycle. Family is the most | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
important thing to people, and coaches. I have never looked back, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
we get on like a house on fire, you cannot get any way without your | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
family's support. They are all here as well. Won then they had a great | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
show, well done. Thank you very much. Absolutely lovely, he | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
acknowledges his family, to get to the top in this sport, you cannot do | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
it by yourself. When he gets up to the pool at 5am, he was not driving | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
himself? Know. A lot of people have got him there. Those who have made | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
the biggest sacrifice is friends and family. From an early age, without | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
your parents, you can't drive yourself and they have to get up at | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
5:30am. When you look back and they have a days work and they get up at | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
530 to take their child to a pool and sacrifice weekends and the other | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
bits and pieces. It is a huge thing and then the coach is a massive | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
thing. If you don't like training, you can have a great athlete with | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
the wrong coach and they don't perform and that makes a huge | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
difference. They talked about the depth of the field in British two | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
but all of the families were him, Adam Peaty, his mother was going | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
crackers. Earlier we had the final of the women's 200 metres individual | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
medley, the world champion was in the middle and we had Hannah Miley | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
and Siobhan O'Connor. COMMENTATOR: What a great swim that is. Her first | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
major medal. Look at this, she is miles ahead. What a week she has | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
had, finally winning Commonwealth gold. Siobhan Marie O'Connor held on | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
for the bronze. Look what it means, wonderful. You could say we have her | :26:04. | :26:15. | |
surrounded them with the great Hosszu going in lane number four, | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
right next to her in five is Siobhan Marie O'Connor of Great Britain and | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Hannah Miley of also of Great Britain and Scotland in lane three. | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
50 metres butterfly, 50 metres backstroke, 50 metres breaststroke | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
and 50 metres freestyle. The sublime Hosszu of Hungary in lane four. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Siobhan Marie O'Connor very good at butterfly. She has to make the most | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
of it. She knows that if she has any chance of beating Hosszu, she has to | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
be at the with her after the breaststroke leg. She will do | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
everything she can on this strongest stroke, fly and freestyle. She needs | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
to be in the race and a great start by Siobhan Marie O'Connor, a | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
veteran, only 20 but a veteran of an Olympic Games already. That will be | :27:08. | :27:08. | |
invaluable when she competes going there hoping for a medal. That | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
experience will count for so much. going there hoping for a medal. That | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
She is very going there hoping for a medal. That | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
extreme the good at breaststroke. Siobhan Marie O'Connor, she will | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
need to be. Hosszu has a metre and a half lead going to the halfway mark. | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
It is 1.33 seconds, the gap. I have to say it is a slightly smaller gap | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
than I thought it might be. Hosszu first, oh, second and Hannah Miley | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
is in a bad fifth or sixth but she has a great breaststroke at the | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
bottom of that shot. Shoe always works the breaststroke, the 400 | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
medley is her specialist event. The 50 goes so quickly, the | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
medley is her specialist event. The Siobhan Marie O'Connor doing | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
everything she can to get back on terms. She needs to be as close as | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
possible when they come to the wall because Hosszu is so tough in the | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
closing stages. Superb competition from Siobhan Marie O'Connor, she is | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
not giving in, she is digging deep and chasing her. Hosszu of Hungary | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
looks like she will take four in a row. Siobhan Marie O'Connor won't | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
let her go, that is great to see. They are miles ahead of the | :28:28. | :28:28. | |
let her go, that is great to see. the field, Hannah Miley just about | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
in bronze medal position at the moment. Hosszu of Hungary takes four | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
straight 200-metre individual medley titles at the European | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Championships. Gold Hosszu, and fabulous for Great Britain, silver | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
for Siobhan Marie O'Connor and bronze for Hannah Miley. Very good | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
swimming in deed but no one anywhere near the Olympic champion, the world | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
champion, the world record-holder but no Olympic medals yet. Hard to | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
believe she does not have an Olympic medal in her locker. The gap didn't | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
extend from breaststroke to freestyle. Confirmation of the | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
result, her fourth in a row, Hosszu wins golf Hungary. Siobhan Marie | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
O'Connor and Hannah Miley, very good swimming indeed. Congratulations | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
O'Connor and Hannah Miley, very good everything at her and you are going | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
after her on the breaststroke? Reid I am happy with that to be honest. | :29:34. | :29:42. | |
Just trying to chase her down. I am re-happy with the time I went. It is | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
great that we got two medals. Second and third, you are both | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
multitalented but this and third, you are both | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
that matters to you? This is the one that is my favourite event. Closest | :29:58. | :30:07. | |
to my heart. We only have a few months until the 70 have to train | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
hard and get a lot of confidence. We look forward to the next time you | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
race. A few weeks away, something like that. We have you | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
race. A few weeks away, something how pleased are you with that bonus | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
medal? Isn't 200 to short the year? It is a broken because when do need | :30:28. | :30:42. | |
some speed. I need to see where things are and it is good to | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
identify the strokes that are good and those that aren't and be relaxed | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
with it, to get a medal is an added bonus. | :30:50. | :30:57. | |
Bronze for Hannah Miley. Her second medal of the week. And they silver | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
Bronze for Hannah Miley. Her second the same event. Huge congratulations | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
to Hannah Miley and should Vaughan picking up her silver. She got a | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
medal earlier in the week. We will see her again a bit later. We heard | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
Sharon talking about looking ahead to be Olympics but, given the | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
tactics of this race as well, as a race it is tactical and the season | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
as well, what will they take from tonight estimate it was great for | :31:28. | :31:36. | |
Siobhan. It is her main event. For Hannah, it is the 400. This is the | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
Siobhan. She wanted to scrape past that 208 mark, her personal best. It | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
is about fighting for the medal. I think Siobhan deserves to be on the | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
podium in Rio. Would you rather be Siobhan chasing or being the one | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
being chased? She is like a metronome. She's got one place and | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
she stayed at it. Siobhan is to concentrate on her own tactics. Time | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
for the women's 100 metres backstroke finals. Georgia Davies | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
and Kathleen Dawson swimming out of their skin this week. | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
The finalists of the women's 100 metres backstroke, Georgia Davies, | :32:26. | :32:34. | |
and Kathleen Dawson, second fastest qualifier for this final. Champions | :32:35. | :32:43. | |
equal two years ago. What an opportunity this is. Dawson, 18 | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
years of age, in lane five. This is special for her. What a story it | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
would be here, as part of the squad looking ahead to Tokyo. Not Rio. | :32:55. | :33:04. | |
Georgia Davies at the bottom for Great Britain. Dawson of Great | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
Britain in five. The favourites go in three and four, though, in this | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
final of the women's 100 metres backstroke at the European | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
Championships. A very good start in three from Katinka Hosszu. Going | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
with her is Mie Nielsen of Denmark. Nielsen and Katinka Hosszu tied for | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
this two years ago. Katinka Hosszu is always taking this race on. What | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
form Mie Nielsen is in. A beautiful backstroke swimmer, head lovely and | :33:45. | :33:51. | |
still. Georgia Davies having a fantastic swim closest to us. It | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
would be great to see her dip under the one minute mark. When you are in | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
heavy training, this is the bit which hurts. Georgia Davies still | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
going well. This is great from her. In four, Mie Nielsen. Mie Nielsen | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
gets the touch. It is gold to Mie Nielsen, silver to Katinka Hosszu, | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
and what an unbelievable performance in lane five from the 18-year-old | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
from Warrington, Kathleen Dawson, with a bronze medal in the women's | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
100 metres backstroke. That time, 58.6. Another lifetime best. | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
Extraordinary! Kathleen Dawson, take a bow! She timed that so well, she | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
was coming back, she went past Georgia in the price -- in the last | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
few strokes. She is beaming. Excellent start coming from Katinka | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
Hosszu. Got away well, in the white hat. Mie Nielsen, head perfectly | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
still. You can see at the top of the screen, Kathleen Dawson coming | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
through. She got the bronze. I simply can't believe that. What an | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
amazing performance from the 18-year-old! It is gold to Mie | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
Nielsen of Denmark. A new championship record. Katinka Hosszu | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
gets the silver. And Kathleen Dawson from Warrington get the bronze. | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
Georgia Davies is fifth. Kathleen Dawson has been the | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
surprise start of the championships. For our non-dedicated swimming | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
viewers, put into context how impressive it is to go under a | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
minute in that. Very impressive, the world record is 58.1 but not many | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
people go under a minute. Three goals in British history have gone | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
and a minute, and two years ago she was 10th at the Commonwealth Games. | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
She has had a great job. Her stroke looked quite small, and she isn't | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
very powerful, but her skills are unbelievable. Underwater, | :36:01. | :36:03. | |
phenomenal. So much more to come from her. I think her interview will | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
be pretty smiley! She isn't going to the Olympics so it means her | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
preparation has been different coming into this. You can't compare | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
her to Georgia. Both girls have swung really well. A huge PB for | :36:19. | :36:26. | |
Kathleen full stop but Georgia, this is the one we will see her in Rio. | :36:27. | :36:34. | |
I have got both girls with me and they are both smiling, but | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
particularly Kathleen. Well done, did you think you could come here | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
and win a medal? That is definitely not what I aimed for when I came | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
here. I haven't stopped smiling since I broke the minute yesterday, | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
but to come away with a medal... I am overwhelmed. Every time you get | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
in you are knocking that time down. It's kind of unbelievable for me. I | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
put in so much effort in the training that it had to happen. What | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
everybody would realise is that you are not going to be at Grillo but | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
you will be at Tokyo, won't you? -- you are not going to be at Rio. | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
That's what I'm aiming for. Georgia, to go under a minute would be | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
special, and that is in the middle of hard training. I've not been | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
under a minute of hard training. I've not been | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
when I am in the middle of training that was unexpected. I am pleased. | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
It shows that my training is going in the right direction and hopefully | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
I will be to drop it down and get a personal best in Rio. | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
Well done, ladies. Talk us through how different it is for those girls | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
coming into this. Georgia is hard training, Kathleen is coming here | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
for the experience, and even their body language was different. In | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
Kathleen pop -- Kathleen's position, I would have wrested back. Her first | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
competition at a proper stage. She went to the Commonwealth Games that | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
didn't make the finals. An amazing opportunity for her, whereas Georgia | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
is, Rio, hard training. It is different. They are both really | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
happy with that swim. We will see more of Kathleen. Especially | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
happy with that swim. We will see she did a great swim of the 200 | :38:29. | :38:29. | |
back. I think she did a great swim of the 200 | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
backstroke swimmer as well as 100. For Kathleen, it's an | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
backstroke swimmer as well as 100. get more experience on Danny Simpson | :38:43. | :38:42. | |
-- on get more experience on Danny Simpson | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
do it in front of your home crowd and friends, without pressure... | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
There was no pressure on her coming into these championships. Georgia is | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
Britain's number one and she is going to Rio, so she has got | :38:57. | :39:02. | |
something to lose. So she is -- but she is British champion. Kathleen | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
took her opportunity. That isn't the last of her. We have seen the | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
amazing improvement she has made. If you look at the difference in the | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
interviews, Georgia is so much more physically strong, and Kathleen has | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
that to come. When she starts getting that right, that is the next | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
part of training, we will see a lot more of her. 59.6 is quick. Kathleen | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
might have been overwhelmed. We were overjoyed. Now let's cross over to | :39:33. | :39:40. | |
the men's 200 metres butterfly, featuring the legend that is Laszlo | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
Cseh. Just coming into the halfway turn in | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
this final of the men's 200 metres butterfly. The world champion and | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
European record-holder, Laszlo Cseh, head of the defending champion, | :40:00. | :40:01. | |
Viktor Bromer Denmark in lane five. 53 point seven, I think he is trying | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
new stuff. That is just suicide case! The 200 butterfly, so much is | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
about your place. If you go out too fast, you pay for it exponentially | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
in the closing stages. He will be starting to feel it. He is 30, for | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
God 's sake! Nothing wrong with that! Laszlo Cseh, 1.6 seconds | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
ahead. I am sure it will not be that at the end because the rest of the | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
field will come at him. He was out in 53 for the first 100. The rest of | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
the field are not catching as quickly as I thought. Is a European | :40:43. | :40:54. | |
record, that record is 152.7. With ten weeks to Rio, a really good | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
swim. Two tenths of a second outside his best time but, in heavy | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
training, impressive. Look what it means to him. He went rested, fully | :41:04. | :41:13. | |
rested, ready to go, 1:52.7. That was six years ago, eight years ago, | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
excuse me, in Beijing. He has just gone to tenths slower in heavy | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
training. Barely got the energy to celebrate that. He was just in a | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
different class in that race. Great 50 butterfly. He has got years of | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
background, 400 medley swimmer, in the bank. He was just on his own. | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
That must have hurt. Well, I thought he was going to tie | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
up. He certainly didn't. Laszlo Cseh, a brilliant swimmer of fly, | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
gold medal for Hungary. A new championship record. Viktor Bromer | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
get the silver. Tamas Kenderesi the bronze. Next up, | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
the semifinals of the men's 100 metres freestyle. No Ben Prout but | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
Duncan Scott goes in the first semifinal. | :42:09. | :42:17. | |
Duncan Scott is in eighth, not a bad lane on the 100 metres freestyle. | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
First semifinal of the men's 100 metres freestyle, Duncan Scott at | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
the top, not a bad start, but a great start in three for the | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
ex-world extra champion, Jeremy Stravius of France. Unusual to see a | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
backstroke -- backstroke concentrating on freestyle. Superb | :42:39. | :42:53. | |
first 50 will stop they will need to start to reel him in. This is | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
fascinating. Kristian Gkolomeev of Greece really going well. He trained | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
at Alabama. This is how the Americans go. The rest of the field | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
really caught him up. Extraordinarily tight. Look at that. | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
It really was close. Stjepanovic got Velimir the touch in 48.6 and then | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
there was Glenn Surgeloose, 48.8, Jeremy Stravius, 48.8. Oh, my word! | :43:24. | :43:36. | |
It was the sprinters at first. The 200 specialist coming through. | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
Velimir Stjepanovic got caught up and turned his tables in the 100. | :43:42. | :43:50. | |
Velimir Stjepanovic wins that first semifinal, and then the next five | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
split by nine one hundredths of a second. Duncan Scott, equal second. | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
Not a bad swim for him. This one is the second semifinal of the men's | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
100 metres freestyle. They are going to come from everywhere here. | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
Clement Mignon in number four. The starter held them quite a while. The | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
second semifinal of the men's 100 metres freestyle. These boys are | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
huge. The waves behind them is massive. Don't get caught in that. | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
At the turn, they've got to go underneath and burst to the surface. | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
You don't want to hit the wave that hit the wall after them. Luca Dotto | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
has gone out very fast. Marius Radu in lane one as well. Sorry, lane | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
eight at the far side. Now, maybe Sebastiaan Verschuren, the | :44:50. | :44:51. | |
experienced distance specialist, will start to come through. Luca | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
Dotto looking good. The Italians could well win the 1500, the 800, | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
the 400 and possibly even this. Extraordinary. Great swim from Luca | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
Dotto, look at that. 48.3 wins it. It's going to be so tight to make | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
this final. It really is. They hate being held at the start. A | :45:13. | :45:33. | |
good finish and a full is rich from Dotto. With the first semifinal | :45:34. | :45:42. | |
being so fast, Dotto wins Italy. He will be through. As for the rest of | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
them, it will be tight. It is going to be awfully tight, this one. Let | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
us see the finalists. There was 86, 87, 88, 89. Goodness | :45:55. | :46:15. | |
me. What a moment for this young man, Ross Murdoch of Great Britain. | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
Gold in the men's 200 metres breaststroke. Really went for it at | :46:21. | :46:28. | |
100 but did so well, beating the world champion of Germany. Fastest | :46:29. | :46:43. | |
man in the world this year as well. The bronze medal for the man from | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
Italy, in lane eight. He got a silver medal in the | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
Italy, in lane eight. He got a in 200, what a meet he is having. | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
Ten weeks' time, the Olympic Games, what can he do in the 100 | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
breaststroke? STUDIO: Huge congratulations to Ross | :47:01. | :48:02. | |
Murdoch, his second medal of the week and he is European champion in | :48:03. | :48:04. | |
Murdoch, his second medal of the the 200 metres breaststroke. He was | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
surprised in the best possible way and we were surprised and the best | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
possible way because he is in hard training. We all corrected him to | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
get a medal but the time he got was seriously impressive, in hard | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
training. It is nearly a second quicker than he went a month ago at | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
the Olympic trials. It was so tight at the end, but did anyone expect it | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
to be as dramatic as this in the last 25? At the Europeans | :48:32. | :48:38. | |
to be as dramatic as this in the ago in Berlin, it was neck and neck. | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
I think the surprise and not a surprise to us because we know what | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
he is like a 200 metres, the surprise is that he is not doing the | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
200 metres in Rio. On that sort of form, that is a great medal | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
opportunity which he has not qualified for. In terms of the men | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
and breaststroke, we have such a big field. It is a great problem to have | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
but it does pose a challenge. It does. It is so tough because the | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
Olympic trials are a reason. He came third and on paper it is what it is | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
and it is fair. And then he puts in a performance like this and | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
everybody wants him to swim it. It will be frustrating for him as well. | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
He knows what he is capable of. He will be disappointed but he can | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
concentrate on the 100. He has the back end for the 100 to get onto the | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
podium. I think that is something we will talk about for the rest of the | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
weekend and the weeks to come. I want us to come back and celebrate | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
this moment because a swimmer's career, they don't go on for decades | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
so you have to make the most of the opportunities. He spoke about how | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
important it was for him for his family to be here and enjoy the | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
moment and it means the world to him. It is a huge opportunity and he | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
took it. If we had only two entries for that race is in the Olympic | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
qualifiers, he wouldn't have done the race. The fact that the European | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
Championships allow us to enter four people, he had a point to prove a | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
above everybody to himself. He knows that in Scotland a few weeks ago he | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
got it wrong. Whether him and his coach, the preparation, the race, I | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
don't know. But he has proved now that he can do it. He will be gutted | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
because he would like to be on the block in Rio but he has proved | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
something. He is still 21 and he has a few years to come. I wrote world | :50:38. | :50:45. | |
record down, he did not break it but I think he could. I'd like it. Two | :50:46. | :50:54. | |
people in form, so it often and Molly Renshaw going in the | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
semifinals of the women's 200 metres breaststroke. COMMENTATOR: Chloe | :50:58. | :51:06. | |
Tutton the fastest to qualify for this semifinal. Wonderful bronze | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
medal she got in the individual 100, next to the silver-medallist in that | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
race, from Iceland. Seventh fastest qualifier in the | :51:16. | :51:27. | |
semifinal, Fangio of Italy, Italians in one and two. Then, some | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
interesting teenagers. The world junior champion from Turkey. 17 | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
years of age. In Britain's teenagers, 19-year-old Chloe Tutton, | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
British record-holder and a wonderful bronze in the individual | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
100. I am sure that will set her up for the rest of her life in | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
breaststroke swimming. It really was a great performance. She is riding a | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
wave at the moment, superb swim at the Olympic trials and she seems to | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
be bouncing from race to race like teenagers can. Do you remember those | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
days? It really is lots of fun where you get in and every time you swim | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
it just goes right. Ericsson of Sweden in seven. | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
I am delighted to say that the fastest women in the centre and the | :52:25. | :52:32. | |
fastest after the heats, Chloe Tutton of Great Britain and the | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
British record stands at 2:22.3 four. That might be a little bit out | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
of her grasp, she is in heavy training so we don't expect her to | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
go that quick but after the 100 final, who knows? One of those | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
things, just unexpected. Not quite sure what she will be able to | :52:57. | :52:58. | |
deliver tonight. Four lengths of breaststroke, the | :52:59. | :53:12. | |
first semifinal of the 200 metres. Chloe Tutton of Great Britain right | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
in the centre. She has a very good start down this first 25 and going | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
with her, the silver-medallist from the 100, Luthersdottir of Iceland. | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
You don't know what Chloe Tutton can do because she is improving so | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
rapidly. Even though she will be in heavy training, you are not quite | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
sure how her body will be responding to it because she is getting so much | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
stronger. Bigger and physically stronger and mentally stronger with | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
every race she is doing. You are never quite sure what she will be | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
capable of, she looked superb in the heat is this morning up until the | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
last turn. Which she messed up straight into the wall and lost | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
momentum. Molly Renshaw was able to pull away from her but at that | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
point, superb. The Welsh will be happy because at the Commonwealth | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
Games, she will be representing Wales. At the moment, almost stroke. | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
Four and five, Chloe Tutton of Great Britain closest to us on the | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
right-hand side of the shot in the pink suit. Luthersdottir of Iceland | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
is a 10th of a second behind Chloe Tutton. Looking good, starting to | :54:26. | :54:34. | |
really power on the left-hand side there. Almost stroke for stroke in | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
terms of the rate they are going at, long glide at the front of this | :54:40. | :54:43. | |
joke, no need to rush it, they make the most of them are meant from the | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
late kick. Chloe Tutton starting to turn it on now. She has taken a | :54:49. | :54:56. | |
metre of the rest of the field. She got her turn right, she took six | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
tenths of a second out of Luthersdottir. What has she got in | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
the closing stages? When you are in heavy training, that is when it can | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
start to hurt. In breaststroke, that stroke rate, going up and down and | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
not forward. Just keep stretching. Closest to us is the swimmer from | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
Turkey, the world junior champion in the 50, 100 and 200. She is having a | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
go at Chloe Tutton but I think Chloe Tutton might hold on, if she times | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
it right, yes she will. She wins the first semifinal and that is really | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
impressive in heavy training. Two full seconds faster than the time | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
she set to qualify for this semifinal. Look at that, waving to | :55:42. | :55:49. | |
the fans, not too bad, semifinalist, centre lane for the final tomorrow | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
night, job done. She is executing her races so well, challenging | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
herself by pushing the third 50. And then to see what she is doing down | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
the closing stages, then to see what she is doing down | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
gold medal and pride, amazing what you can do to finish a race. I don't | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
want to be picky but she can tighten up that glide. One hand on top of | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
the other but a bit of daylight between her arms. Exciting. Chloe | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
Tutton wins the first semifinal of the women's 200 breaststroke. Three | :56:25. | :56:32. | |
very high quality swimmers through to the final I am sure. | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
The quality of swimmers here at this European Championships is incredibly | :56:41. | :56:48. | |
high. Molly Renshaw has qualified fastest of all from the heats this | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
morning. She goes in lane four but Nicky Molla Pedersen Denmark is the | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
world record holder and she is in five. I wonder how Molly Renshaw is | :56:58. | :57:09. | |
feeling now because she is right next to the world-record holder. | :57:10. | :57:16. | |
Quite extraordinary. Molly Renshaw just about to swim but I think | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
Sharron Davies has Chloe Tutton. Emma Croker congratulations, another | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
fantastic swim, knocking out world-class limbs every time you get | :57:26. | :57:29. | |
in the water? Thank you, that is the fastest I have been. Everyday I just | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
keep amazing in a way. Karen will be pleased you didn't mess up your last | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
turn to night. I know, that was atrocious this morning. I carried | :57:44. | :57:52. | |
on. I kept to my race plan. We hope you perfectly execute it tomorrow | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
night. Thank you. There is Molly Renshaw fastest qualifier and to the | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
right of her, the world-record holder, what a semifinal this is. | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
There she is, Molly Pedersen of Denmark. This is going to be | :58:12. | :58:20. | |
fascinating. The second semifinal of the women's 200 metres breaststroke. | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
Fiona Doyle of Ireland. At the University of the Greek billion to | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
fourth position in the individual 100 breaststroke. | :58:32. | :58:40. | |
What a great opportunity this is for some fantastic experience. There is | :58:41. | :58:48. | |
the world-record holder in five. Right next to her, what a wonderful | :58:49. | :58:56. | |
experience, Molly Renshaw in lane four. You cannot ask for better | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
preparation than swimming side-by-side with Pedersen. Great | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
opportunity to go for a fast time. The second semifinal in the women's | :59:07. | :59:21. | |
200 metres breaststroke, they also Chloe Tutton do a good time to win | :59:22. | :59:26. | |
the first semi. I think Molly Renshaw will be looking forward to a | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
good one here but she is right next to the world-record holder and | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
defending champion, Molla Pedersen of Denmark. Renshaw going with | :59:36. | :59:45. | |
Pedersen, they are in the middle, nothing much between all eight | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
swimmers there. It is the very early stages. It is the Belgian up of the | :59:50. | :59:59. | |
top who is leading. A similar, long glide. They really make the most of | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
their late kick, very smooth, very chilled and relaxed. Don't get too | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
impatient. I love watching this, so smooth and long, but a massive flow | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
in lane for in that blue hat. And again, lovely glide, so if fish and | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
and it looks like Molly Renshaw is going to turn first at the 100 | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
metres. Just 19 one hundredths splitting | :00:26. | :00:43. | |
these women. It looks like Molly Renshaw starting to take it. | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
Technically superb. Of the two British women's -- British swimmers | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
this morning, she was the one who made the best start and best turns. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
At a time like this, when it is so close, it comes down to tiny | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
margins, though important not to waste the turns, underwater work. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Rikke Moeller Pedersen, such experience. Had a difficult | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Rikke Moeller Pedersen, such last year but getting herself into | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
really good form with just ten weeks to go till Rio. She had a bit of a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
rest here, only swimming this event 's. Molly Renshaw chasing her. Also | :01:20. | :01:34. | |
coming back fast is Jessica Vall Montero Spain. Rikke Moeller | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Pedersen looks like she has just eased through. Rikke Moeller | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Pedersen get the touch, Jessica Vall Montero second, Molly Renshaw third. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
I am pretty sure all three of those will go through to the final. It was | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
a pretty fast first semifinal, I've got to say. Chloe Tutton did really | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
well. We might have two British women through to the final of the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
women's 200 metres breaststroke. That would be fantastic. We didn't | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
have breaststroke swimmers for quite a while for Great Britain and | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
suddenly we have got two. All that underwater work they have to do. So | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
high out of the water. Look at that hour in the upper body. Glide into | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
the wall. -- look at that power in the upper body. Fantastic to see the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
greatest in the world, the greatest in history, Rikke Moeller Pedersen | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
winning that second semifinal. Great swimming from the British women. | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
Let's see who is in the final. I believe is the British women will | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
make it. Chloe Tutton fastest into the final. Molly Renshaw in sixth. | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
Sharon Davies now talking to Molly Renshaw. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
I certainly am. Great to see you swimming so well. You have missed | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
out so many times on teams. It must be great to see you here, showing | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
what you can do. I've been training very hard for the Olympics, but | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
getting back into it now will make a medal much easier. The breaststroke | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
was going to be tough. If I can relax into it more tomorrow night, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
it will be a lot better. What sort of time will win it? The fastest | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
time! It's a fair point, who's going to | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
win it, the fastest! I think Sharon hit the nail on the head when she | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
said both Chloe and Molly seemed to be on the crest of a swimming wave. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Both of them are either but a second off their personal best times. They | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
are really good in all the gym sessions. Even here, they go into | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the pool after here, doing a lot of metres, not just going and getting a | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
massage. They are still doing serious hard work. Next, the final | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
of the men's 50 metres backstroke. Keep your eye on lane four, the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Frenchman Camille Lacourt. There are the eight finalists, only | :04:26. | :04:37. | |
four tenths of a second splitting all eight of them coming into this | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
final. The fastest and favourite, the world champion in four, Camille | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Lacourt of France. Well, all eyes on Camille Lacourt, a 31-year-old | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Frenchman. He is a big chap, very fast. Your eyes on him as well, | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
aren't they? Of course, because he will be in the centre of the pool. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
For that reason only! As well... Sorry, only! Oh, dear... In every, | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
he should win comfortably. A big tattoo. He has got a nose clip. You | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
don't see many swimmers putting those on now. He will go up to 15 | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
metres underwater and some swimmers prefer a nose clip to stop the water | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
going up the nose rather than to be breathing out through the nose. You | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
used to use those. I did, so much easier to hold your breath using | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
that and to try and club your nose using your lips. -- plug your nose. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
The final of the men's 50 backstroke. The world champion in | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
four, Camille Lacourt of France. Fascinating start from Tomasz | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Polewka of Poland. He had the best start of all of them. The European | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
short-course champion in this 50 metres backstroke. The world | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
champion is Camille Lacourt, but he's got some work to do in the | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
centre. Guy Barnea of Israel going well. It may well be Camille | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Lacourt. He has got the gold, Camille Lacourt. The world champion | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
wins it. The silver goes to Richard Bohus of Hungary. That's a surprise. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
When you are six foot seven, if you want to beat him, you've got to be | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
ahead. He's got the reach. His arms are so long. If | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
ahead. He's got the reach. His arms touch, as he did there. He's got | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
such a huge reach. touch, as he did there. He's got | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
reached down rather than out. It was good enough, 24.7 takes gold in the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
50 metres backstroke for Camille Lacourt of France. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Halfway through the competition, it's a case of so far, so good for | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Team GB. Let's be honest, we've been awesome. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Silver medal goes to Hannah Miley of Great Britain. It's something I can | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
work on, but pretty good. Is silver, very close indeed. I | :07:18. | :07:31. | |
think Benjamin Proud might well have got a bronze medal, Britain's first | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
medal of a two. A gold, bronze to Fran Halsall. A very good time | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
indeed. It's going to be a wonderful gold medal. Gold and silver to | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
Britain. One of the best races I've ever had. TV support. Great. Great | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Britain are going to win their second gold medal of the | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
championships, and its gold to team Great Britain. He's going well. I've | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
got to say, that's a very, very impressive gold medal for James Guy. | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
Happy with that one. What a brilliant sprint, 1.7, -- 1:7.5. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
Took the bronze. It looks like it's going to be gold to Hungary, | :08:28. | :08:32. |