:01:02. > :01:06.Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, Michael
:01:06. > :01:10.Phelps his back. But is he the same unbeatable force that took eight
:01:10. > :01:14.gold medals in Beijing, the highest amount by any individual or at a
:01:14. > :01:21.single Olympic Games. We are going to see him in the week's most
:01:21. > :01:25.anticipated event, the 200m freestyle. It pictures Phelps
:01:25. > :01:31.against Ryan Lochte, that is a highlight. We have plenty of
:01:31. > :01:36.interest closer to home as well. Jemma Lowe lines up for the final
:01:36. > :01:39.of the 100 metre butterfly the 30 made, Ellen Gandy. If either of to
:01:40. > :01:43.get a medal they will have to smash the British record. Anna Miley will
:01:43. > :01:49.be putting all the strokes to good effect in the final of the 200m
:01:49. > :01:52.individual medley. Liam Tancock is the world champion for 50 metre
:01:52. > :01:57.backstroke. It's twice that distance today in the semi-finals
:01:57. > :02:01.of the 100m. Lizzie Simmonds and usually has the company of Jemma
:02:01. > :02:06.Spofforth, but she's out on her own in today's semi-finals. The reason
:02:06. > :02:11.for that is that Jemma Spofforth failed to qualify for the semi-
:02:11. > :02:17.finals this morning. I think she's had a very difficult year. She
:02:17. > :02:20.sounded very hard to motivate herself. She's reigning world
:02:20. > :02:24.champion and world record holder. She was nearly four seconds off her
:02:24. > :02:28.best. Over an event which takes a minute is a huge gap. She said
:02:29. > :02:32.afterwards it was a huge kick up the backside. She's had problems
:02:32. > :02:37.with motivation, we'll talk about it when we get to the semi-finals,
:02:37. > :02:41.but the other thing to look out for his Phelps against Lochte. I think
:02:41. > :02:46.Ryan Lochte is such a cool guy, he seems very laid-back. Phelps is a
:02:46. > :02:50.very big, aggressive guide. Who is the one right on the crest of the
:02:50. > :02:54.wave right now? I would say Lochte. Michael Phelps and went for those
:02:54. > :02:57.eight gold medals at the Olympics and did it and achieve it. Where
:02:57. > :03:00.does the motivation come for him apart from his going to come into
:03:01. > :03:06.London, he's reigning champion and he's got this huge amount of pride.
:03:06. > :03:10.But Lochte is the one who's always come second best. Lochte, surfer,
:03:10. > :03:15.laid-back kind of guy, and Michael Phelps who is a bit more pumped up.
:03:15. > :03:22.We've also got the 50m butterfly final, which was one of your
:03:22. > :03:26.reoffends. The S. It's always an exciting one. All of the 50m of the
:03:26. > :03:31.shortest sprint events. You've got a good match up to date. I think
:03:31. > :03:38.there will be half a second separating all swimmers. Geoff
:03:38. > :03:41.Huegill is in there. We have the women's 100m butterfly. Two British
:03:41. > :03:45.swimmers have qualified for the final. One of them, Ellen Gandy,
:03:46. > :03:49.has relocated to Melbourne, and that's where she is based. Among
:03:49. > :03:53.her training partners now is the Australian superstar Leisel Jones,
:03:53. > :03:57.who as part of the Australian team press conference was asked, when it
:03:57. > :04:03.comes to the final, will you be cheering on Ellen Gandy or one of
:04:03. > :04:10.your Australian team-mates, Jessicah Schipper or Pellissier
:04:10. > :04:14.goods. In terms of who and going for, obviously Jessicah Schipper.
:04:14. > :04:18.Of course we are going for the Australian team. I love Ellen, I
:04:18. > :04:23.love training with her. I've got one of my main competitors who also
:04:23. > :04:27.trains with me from the UK, Kate Haywood. Keep it down! It's always
:04:27. > :04:31.hard, you see people training and they are your friends but I've also
:04:31. > :04:35.got friends of the team, you have to cheer for both of them as well.
:04:35. > :04:39.It can be quite difficult but I do love training with Ellen Gandy, she
:04:39. > :04:45.brings this new, fresh, vibrant energy to training and is always
:04:45. > :04:50.very enthusiastic. She is the ultimate athlete. She always lives
:04:50. > :04:56.and breathes swimming. It will be very interesting to watch. I've got
:04:56. > :05:00.my debts spread across on that one. That is the diplomatic answer from
:05:00. > :05:04.Leisel Jones. We will see her swimming in the 100m breaststroke
:05:04. > :05:09.this afternoon. In terms of Ellen Gandy's moving to Australia, is a
:05:09. > :05:13.very different training there to here? Its coaching techniques.
:05:13. > :05:17.There's a lot of people nowadays that train all around the world.
:05:17. > :05:20.When you think of the collegiate system in the States, a lot of
:05:20. > :05:25.swimmers go to America. The Australian system is probably the
:05:25. > :05:29.best behind America. Kate Haywood and Ellen Gandy are now training in
:05:29. > :05:32.Australia. It's kind of different in a sense that it's always a sunny
:05:32. > :05:37.and it's an outdoor lifestyle. There is this gung ho attitude.
:05:37. > :05:41.It's a bit like the Americans, it's all about we can do, not we can't
:05:41. > :05:45.do. Be it might be asking a lot of Ellen Gandy or Jemma Lowe to win a
:05:45. > :05:51.medal in this final but there's an added incentive to who slimmed
:05:51. > :05:57.fastest. Yes, or whoever is the fastest stroke swimmer. In the
:05:57. > :06:02.medley read play -- relay, the fastest swimmer gets that spot on
:06:02. > :06:08.the relay. They've got an opportunity to win a medal.
:06:08. > :06:14.favourite for this has to be the American competitor. She was
:06:14. > :06:19.phenomenal in the semi-finals. She is about half a second ahead of the
:06:19. > :06:24.rest. Its first to lose it in the final anything can happen. Our two
:06:24. > :06:28.girls are in there and they have a chance. Fran Halsall, we've got
:06:28. > :06:38.three girls in the top 10 in the world, which is special. Let's have
:06:38. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :06:56.a look at the full line-up with well be a relatively slow race.
:06:56. > :07:06.Without being mean, if it is a little slow the Brits have got a
:07:06. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:14.the crowd for this final, the women's 100m butterfly. The first
:07:14. > :07:21.out his Ellen Gandy, the 19-year- old now training in Melbourne. Her
:07:21. > :07:24.family moved out there. British record holder of the 200m butterfly.
:07:24. > :07:31.Normally likes to be in the middle, amongst it, but it's a pretty good
:07:31. > :07:41.lane for her. Jessicah Schipper also on the outside. Olympic bronze
:07:41. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:54.medallist. Jessicah Schipper, a about for the first Chinese as
:07:54. > :08:01.wormer out. Jemma Lowe, 21-year-old, training in Swansea. Commonwealth
:08:01. > :08:06.bronze medallist on the 100m five. She's seven fastest in history on
:08:06. > :08:09.Taylor fly as well. There is a great chance here. If both the
:08:09. > :08:13.British women can get down in two and eight, just knuckle down,
:08:14. > :08:17.they've got a really good chance of something here. Five times
:08:17. > :08:26.Commonwealth gold medallist in Delhi, Alicia Coutts of Australia.
:08:26. > :08:33.She's also a swimming in the 200m medley final tonight. Yes, the
:08:33. > :08:42.world record holder there. She improves every round. She normally
:08:42. > :08:52.gets better. She swam really well in Rome. Her heat was 10th fastest
:08:52. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:13.swim in history. This young lady, the final, the American record
:09:13. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:24.holder, she broke her own record to qualify for this final. -- Vollmer.
:09:24. > :09:25.
:09:25. > :09:35.butterfly. The world record holder and world champion in lane three
:09:35. > :09:45.for Sweden. Britain in two and eight. Two is Jemma Lowe and ate
:09:45. > :09:53.
:09:53. > :09:57.turns of becoming hugely important at these world championships. Jemma
:09:57. > :10:02.Lowe has come a pretty much right in front. Right next to her is the
:10:02. > :10:05.defending world champion, the world record holder. She tends to go out
:10:05. > :10:08.reasonably comfortably and then comes back really quickly.
:10:08. > :10:18.Absolutely, Jemma Lowe couldn't have put it down any better than
:10:18. > :10:26.that. Could this is up there as well. -- Pellissier Coutts is up
:10:26. > :10:35.there as well. Coutts is taking the lead. I wonder if she's going to
:10:35. > :10:45.pay for this speed? Coming back in the centre is Vollmer. It's going
:10:45. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:55.stroke. The world champion in the women's 100m butterfly. The time
:10:55. > :11:05.surprisingly slow. I can tell you Ellen Gandy was 5th and Jemma Lowe
:11:05. > :11:19.
:11:19. > :11:29.was eighth. But Vollmer only won it Coutts and the water. A quick look
:11:29. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:42.over, looking over to her left to down. She got the finish, spotted
:11:42. > :11:59.
:12:00. > :12:03.it just right. How much does it from you. I'm happy with that, it's
:12:03. > :12:06.my first world final. I'm glad I could keep my cool and progress
:12:06. > :12:10.with the rounds and end up with that. You've done some great times
:12:10. > :12:19.this year, they must give you good confidence. Yes, I've up my
:12:19. > :12:23.training a lot this year. Looking forward to the 200m? On Wednesday.
:12:23. > :12:28.Not as fast as you would have liked to have gone. It was my first world
:12:28. > :12:32.final so I'm just glad I got in it tonight. I gave it my best shot but
:12:32. > :12:35.it didn't work out. I'm just happy I was there swimming. It's been the
:12:35. > :12:39.best competition for a couple of years, it's nice to be competing on
:12:39. > :12:42.this sort of stage for next year. Yes, it's really exciting with the
:12:42. > :12:49.Olympics next year. I'm really excited to start training again at
:12:49. > :12:53.the end of this month. We'll see It looks as though that is a world
:12:53. > :12:58.record which might go sooner rather than later. Why would the suits not
:12:58. > :13:02.have been so effective in that? Men's to women's in a sense that
:13:02. > :13:06.women always wore suits and guys always wore trunks. They are used
:13:06. > :13:10.to being covered up. With a suit, it tightens your call up and helps
:13:10. > :13:15.your body position. On the way out they were on it, or very close to
:13:15. > :13:19.it. On the way back its started going away. The suits help you when
:13:19. > :13:23.you got fatigue towards the end of the race. The breaststroke event it
:13:23. > :13:27.helped an awful lot in the men's breaststroke and less so in other
:13:27. > :13:31.events. Because it was helping you float, it tended to help bigger
:13:31. > :13:34.people more than smaller people. Absolutely. That's what you see
:13:34. > :13:42.when you come to people like Hannah Miley, and later on when you see
:13:42. > :13:47.our boys doing the freestyle. Our guys were its smaller. What did you
:13:47. > :13:51.make of the performances of Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe? I did that --
:13:51. > :13:58.I think they did fantastic. Right at the beginning, we said about
:13:58. > :14:01.Ellen in particular, she gets faster every round. It's great. We
:14:02. > :14:07.want her coming in and progressing and getting faster. But I think
:14:07. > :14:10.that helps for the 200m later on. My big thing for her and a lot of
:14:10. > :14:16.the other swimmers is to do a lot more stand-up swimmers on training.
:14:16. > :14:21.Do a lot more race pace stuff. What we tend to do is a lot of training
:14:21. > :14:25.in training and not a lot of races. In one of those sessions you need
:14:25. > :14:29.to get as much as possible and race. I think that her start in
:14:29. > :14:32.particular almost putter a second behind the others, and that's how
:14:32. > :14:37.much she basically lost by. Great atmosphere, and that is helping a
:14:37. > :14:40.lot of the swimmers. It looks to be absolutely packed their. The world
:14:40. > :14:43.championships are taking place in Shanghai, which translates
:14:43. > :14:50.literally as above the sea. It's on the eastern coastline of China,
:14:50. > :14:55.it's a very busy port. It's hugely intense in terms of population, an
:14:55. > :14:58.awful lot of people live there. For this week at least, Shanghai Sharon
:14:58. > :15:02.is one of them. The World Championships are in
:15:02. > :15:07.China for the first time and this is Shanghai, their most populated
:15:07. > :15:17.city with 23 million people. So the swimmers have chosen here for a
:15:17. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :16:02.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:16:03. > :16:09.quiet life and they picked the I would love to go there one day.
:16:09. > :16:16.We are watching it from a far. They seem to be very keen if there is a
:16:16. > :16:23.very big sporting event in that city. It will be packed. I was
:16:23. > :16:30.there in 2006 and the arena was packed. Swimming and diving are
:16:30. > :16:37.sports that they are very good at. The mind boggles, doesn't it? How
:16:37. > :16:44.are the facilities at their compared to London? From a swimming
:16:44. > :16:53.perspective the pool is very impressive. It is a 50 metres long
:16:53. > :17:00.and it has to hold 10,000 people. What we have got gearing in the
:17:00. > :17:04.home Games is that our people have the opportunity to swim lot. Our
:17:04. > :17:10.swimmers are very confident and comfortable swimming there. Have
:17:10. > :17:20.fully London will give us that advantage. And we will be there on
:17:20. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:30.Wednesday. We have got the 100m backstroke finals coming up. It is
:17:30. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:41.about getting it right. 10 times of of 10 whenever Liam performs he
:17:41. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:48.always comes in second or third. There are not amount of -- a large
:17:48. > :17:53.amount of people who get close to their best times. But Liam will get
:17:53. > :18:03.in close with his best. And we were talking about how they needed to do
:18:03. > :18:05.
:18:05. > :18:12.more or training. Tommy about some of the training methods. -- tell me
:18:12. > :18:20.about some of the training methods. I used to train 20 hours a week in
:18:20. > :18:26.the pool. There is a lot of cross training. They ran as well. They
:18:26. > :18:33.have started doing rock climbing and dancing. It is all about your
:18:33. > :18:39.core a. It is about balance. You are getting fit and stronger but
:18:39. > :18:49.not just in the pool all of the time. So they do wall climbing and
:18:49. > :18:54.kick-boxing and a lot of swimming. Let's hear from him. I thrive on
:18:54. > :19:00.this situation. I like to compete against the top guys in the field.
:19:00. > :19:04.If I have the opportunity to go out and race a good group of swimmers I
:19:04. > :19:14.will always pick the best group because they will put me under
:19:14. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:25.pressure and I really enjoyed it. Every year brings a new rivalry.
:19:25. > :19:32.Yes, Camille has been doing a very good job over the last 10 years. I
:19:32. > :19:38.do not look at it like a rivalry. He has posted the fastest times in
:19:38. > :19:42.the world this year and is doing a great job. There have been lots of
:19:42. > :19:46.different guys are from Japan and Spain and Russia and Germany,
:19:46. > :19:52.literally all over the world, and the Australians and the Americans
:19:52. > :20:02.as well. I do not look at it as an individual rivalries. When someone
:20:02. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:22.posts a world polity time -- finals second fastest and fastest.
:20:22. > :20:32.The first semi-finals had someone who qualified second-fastest in the
:20:32. > :20:42.heats. Camille is the second highest record holder. He goes in
:20:42. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:52.lane of four in the second semi- final. One of the Japanese swimmers
:20:52. > :20:58.has a very slow turnover. Normally they bash it. But it looks like
:20:58. > :21:06.they are going very slow. It shows that the guy can really hold on to
:21:06. > :21:10.the water and make it count. If you put those two guys in the water
:21:10. > :21:17.together and watch them, a big difference in stroke. Look at lane
:21:17. > :21:27.six when he comes out. He looks like a Y shape when he comes into
:21:27. > :21:30.
:21:30. > :21:40.the water. The slowest qualifier for this semi-final is from China.
:21:40. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:53.I imagine he will be quick down the first 50. This some there is a back
:21:53. > :22:00.from his second European Championships. It is important to
:22:00. > :22:09.remember people even if they are 26. He has got a lot of experience and
:22:09. > :22:19.his grandfather swam in the 1940s. Expect Nicholas Thompson to start
:22:19. > :22:20.
:22:20. > :22:25.out of very fast. He is quick as a flash. Here is another Japanese
:22:26. > :22:31.swimmer with a beautiful stroke. Now we have the 19-year-old
:22:31. > :22:37.Australian. He was a junior champion on the 50 backstroke a
:22:37. > :22:47.couple of years ago. Liam and Hancock has got a good start.
:22:47. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:57.Probably the best one for the British team. And here is a swimmer
:22:57. > :23:06.
:23:06. > :23:12.from France. He has been a silver retired this year. He decided he
:23:12. > :23:20.could not make it to 2012. Liam just needs to make it as fast as
:23:20. > :23:25.one of those times. Liam is taking his time getting his kit off as he
:23:25. > :23:29.is allowed to do. The other guys are looking a little bit and see.
:23:29. > :23:39.He is just walking up to the blocks but the other guys had been there
:23:39. > :24:12.
:24:12. > :24:19.quite a while. It is great backstroke for men. Someone went 45
:24:20. > :24:29.metres all of the way under water. There is a terrible start their. A
:24:30. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :24:42.very poor start. Liam is in second place. A big return here. The whole
:24:42. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:48.50 metres. Liam is coming closer to as and needs to hold on. The rest
:24:48. > :24:58.of the field is starting to overtake him. It is all about
:24:58. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:13.position here. He was 5th. 53.60. Liam's Hancock taking a bit of a
:25:13. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:26.risk of their. That is pretty quick, you know. His mouth is open. What
:25:26. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:33.is he doing? There was a personal best to their by nearly a quarter
:25:33. > :25:43.of a second. It was beautiful. He was a really holding the water well
:25:43. > :25:46.
:25:47. > :25:56.there. This was a fantastic swimmer. He will struggle against his team-
:25:57. > :26:01.
:26:01. > :26:06.mate Camille. Liam Tancock in 5th It is always difficult being the
:26:06. > :26:13.first of the two heats, isn't it? To make the final you have to give
:26:13. > :26:21.it your all. I did give it my all but it might not have been good
:26:21. > :26:30.enough today. It is always nice to race on the world stage. Lessons
:26:30. > :26:35.learned constantly? Yes, I try to learn from every race. I learned
:26:35. > :26:45.what I should do before and after what I should do before and after
:26:45. > :27:06.
:27:06. > :27:12.final when he is defending world champion? He won the 50 with his
:27:12. > :27:22.backstroke last year. Maybe he did not win -- Wake up very well this
:27:22. > :27:35.
:27:35. > :27:45.morning. And here is the swimwear for Greece. -- swimmer for Greece.
:27:45. > :27:47.
:27:47. > :27:57.This Spanish swimmer was a gold medallist in eight. He was also a
:27:57. > :27:57.
:27:57. > :28:07.bronze medallist in seven. This is absolutely stacked. I think Lee and
:28:07. > :28:10.
:28:10. > :28:17.Hancock might be in a bit of trouble. This is a brilliant a
:28:17. > :28:27.short course swim or from Russia. He has double number turns. He has
:28:27. > :28:32.
:28:32. > :28:40.not quite translated it. Here's David Plummer the US champion. Now
:28:40. > :28:49.we have Camille again. He is a backstroke specialist and as skinny
:28:49. > :28:57.as a rake. He is incredibly thin. He can swim backstroke though.
:28:57. > :29:07.David Plummer is in five. He is the second fastest. You kind of want to
:29:07. > :29:07.
:29:07. > :29:13.feed Camille! Cheer he is. He is pretty strong. -- There he is. He
:29:13. > :29:23.is pretty strong. He enters the water backwards. We saw that in the
:29:23. > :29:26.
:29:26. > :29:36.last semi-final. And what does he do that for? I do not know. Ask him.
:29:36. > :29:47.
:29:47. > :29:53.Camilla is the second fastest heats and the slowest of everybody.
:29:53. > :30:03.He has a shocking reaction but once he gets going he is brilliant. He
:30:03. > :30:03.
:30:03. > :30:12.has got some serious work to do, Japan down in eight. He has made up
:30:12. > :30:19.for it. Pretty much bent on world records but. Look how long his arms
:30:19. > :30:29.are. Beautiful and still. Fantastic. A fantastic the shape from the
:30:29. > :30:31.
:30:31. > :30:40.semi-finalist. He is not kicking his legs were going for it at all.
:30:41. > :30:50.The European record holder finishes at 53.09. I think he might be all
:30:51. > :30:57.
:30:57. > :31:04.going to be very quick, but it was a cruise. This man pretty much gave
:31:04. > :31:09.in. He stopped about 30 metres out and decided to save himself. Very
:31:09. > :31:14.impressive swimming. Not using his legs are hardly at all. Look at his
:31:15. > :31:24.head. You could balance all sorts of stuff on there and it wouldn't
:31:25. > :31:44.
:31:44. > :31:51.Finishing 5th in the semi-final really puts you at the mercy of the
:31:51. > :32:01.speed of the second semi. I just wonder... You swim your own race in
:32:01. > :32:05.
:32:05. > :32:08.these things, you wouldn't be A nervous wait for Liam Tancock,
:32:08. > :32:14.but he made it into the final. And it's pretty important that the 100m
:32:14. > :32:18.does become stronger for him. it's his focus in a sense. The 50m
:32:18. > :32:22.backstroke, of which he is world champion, is not an Olympic event,
:32:22. > :32:28.so he has to be good at the 100m. He was world bronze medallist two
:32:28. > :32:32.years ago. If you watch his ways, he's always out fast and ties up a
:32:32. > :32:37.little bit towards the end. A lot of the other boys, the solar Court
:32:37. > :32:41.in particular, he is 6 ft 7, Liam is not small but if you look at the
:32:41. > :32:48.length of their arms when they are going over, Liam turns over a lot
:32:49. > :32:58.more than a quarter. -- than Lacourt. Let's have a look at Liam
:32:59. > :32:59.
:32:59. > :33:04.cakes. It's almost like a dolphin movement and beneath the water.
:33:04. > :33:07.What you probably see here is a lot of hip movement taking place. When
:33:07. > :33:14.their bombs come back at the end of the stroke, they are rotating an
:33:14. > :33:18.awful lot from the hips. The hips move an awful lot. On the
:33:18. > :33:23.backstroke start they dive off and it's almost like it backwards dive.
:33:23. > :33:32.The underwater in every stroke is critical. It's not just a neat kick,
:33:32. > :33:36.it all comes from the core. It all comes from the stomach. If you
:33:36. > :33:42.watch the stroke when they are finishing, when the bomb goes past
:33:42. > :33:44.the hips, there's a lot of rotation. the hips, there's a lot of rotation.
:33:45. > :33:49.It's almost a little bit like all of your power comes from your hips.
:33:49. > :33:53.You watch a boxer. When their arm comes past year and gets to hear,
:33:53. > :33:59.they do this move. It's not only the hand making the movement, there
:33:59. > :34:02.Hicks give them that extra power. A boxer when they planned, they hit
:34:02. > :34:05.Sceux, golfer, or your strength comes from your hips. You see it in
:34:05. > :34:12.freestyle and backstroke in particular. It what you always talk
:34:12. > :34:15.about when you are learning to swim, your hand comes out by your hips.
:34:15. > :34:19.You not only get to see all the racing but you get a swimming
:34:19. > :34:26.lesson as well. The one stroke you are not going to use the Hicks is
:34:26. > :34:29.breaststroke. Yes, and the flies. You are sort of using it. For a
:34:29. > :34:32.stroke is one of these things that technically I would say is the
:34:33. > :34:37.hardest strokes. It's all about your timing. I can't stand up and
:34:37. > :34:41.do a breaststroke demonstration very well. It's all timing in a
:34:41. > :34:45.sense, but breaststroke, you stretch out together, you come in
:34:45. > :34:48.together. That is it in the basics but when that timing is slightly
:34:48. > :34:52.off it makes a huge difference. of the best in terms of technique
:34:52. > :34:55.but breaststroke is Leisel Jones. It's a textbook stroke. When you
:34:55. > :34:59.were taught to swim breaststroke you were taught to swim like Leisel
:34:59. > :35:03.Jones. Then you talk about diving forwards and diving underneath the
:35:03. > :35:09.water. You see a lot of different strokes in every stroke but in
:35:09. > :35:13.breaststroke it's very evident. She stays flat across the water. She is
:35:13. > :35:19.25 now, which means she's been at the very top of this sport for 10
:35:19. > :35:26.years. How does she do that? Since being 14, things have to change
:35:26. > :35:29.dramatically. I was sometimes to ring up to 100 K weeks. As you get
:35:29. > :35:33.older you really can't do that anymore, you really need to find
:35:33. > :35:38.different ways of doing things. New and interesting ways. As you get
:35:38. > :35:41.older, as a woman, they say you don't really reach your peak until
:35:41. > :35:46.about 27. You've got to find new ways of doing strength training and
:35:46. > :35:50.weight loss training. Things change. You've also got to keep it
:35:50. > :35:53.interesting. It gets really boring sometimes just doing the same old
:35:53. > :35:57.training all the time. For us to find different ways of doing things,
:35:57. > :36:02.we just try and do a lot more dry land training to keep it
:36:02. > :36:05.interesting. Rolling your arms over in training is not always the best
:36:05. > :36:09.thing, you get into sloppy techniques. We've really tried to
:36:09. > :36:13.mix it up with different things. The secrets to Leisel Jones'
:36:13. > :36:18.longevity. She's at in the first of the two semi-finals you are about
:36:18. > :36:21.to see. Look out for Rebecca Soni, who took gold in this event at the
:36:21. > :36:31.last world championships in Rome and had a clean sweep at the world
:36:31. > :36:32.
:36:32. > :36:41.women's 100m breaststroke. The Olympic champion those in lane
:36:41. > :36:51.three. Leisel Jones has got a beautiful stroke, almost in slow
:36:51. > :37:01.motion. Amanda Beard is in eight. She got medals in each of the last
:37:01. > :37:19.
:37:19. > :37:25.got two silver medals in the 96 Olympics at the age of 15. -- going
:37:25. > :37:31.back to Amanda Beard. Leisel Jones had a year off in 2009, missed the
:37:31. > :37:35.last world championships. A year of international swimming, not
:37:35. > :37:45.completely off swimming. She will be a big threat when they get
:37:45. > :37:51.through to the finals. Suzuki looked very good this morning. As
:37:51. > :37:59.did this young lady. She is the Asian Games champion. Haven't seen
:37:59. > :38:07.too much of her outside of Asia. She is being coached by David Liles,
:38:07. > :38:17.the British coach. He's been here six years. He used to train with me
:38:17. > :38:41.
:38:41. > :38:45.of surprise the qualifying only 7th fastest for this semi-final. Not
:38:45. > :38:51.the greatest start there. In the heats this morning, Leisel Jones
:38:51. > :38:56.had a very slow turnover. She's starting to move now. That's Suzuki
:38:56. > :39:01.in the white hat in the centre, and now Jones is moving. She sort of
:39:01. > :39:07.dives into it and glides. Jones is doing a Betty -- a better semi-
:39:07. > :39:17.final here. She was very lazy and long this morning. Suzuki kept very
:39:17. > :39:24.strong at the end, very long. Men and women are allowed to fly kick
:39:24. > :39:27.now on breaststroke. Jones really meaning business now. She didn't
:39:27. > :39:37.really stand out this morning but she is trying to lay down her mark
:39:37. > :39:53.
:39:53. > :39:56.China is second and third. Amanda Beard was eighth. That's a shocker.
:39:56. > :40:06.The Americans picking their team last year, they didn't have trials
:40:06. > :40:11.last year. They picked them from the Pan Pacific Games last summer.
:40:11. > :40:21.Jones doing a better job here. at that first stroke up. Very
:40:21. > :40:51.
:40:51. > :41:01.touch Rebecca Soni on the form she is on. She qualified one-and-a-half
:41:01. > :41:09.
:41:09. > :41:19.four. The silver medallist two years ago is in St two. -- in Lane
:41:19. > :41:58.
:41:58. > :42:08.European record holder. She has got a great stroke but this morning I
:42:08. > :42:35.
:42:35. > :42:41.wonderful in the heats in everything she did, apart from the
:42:41. > :42:48.start which looked a problem. She almost fell off the blocks and
:42:48. > :42:52.popped up. First start in the centre and also has stroke is to
:42:52. > :43:01.watch for. She almost as a freestyle poll at the front. It's
:43:01. > :43:08.not that wide sweep. It's a bit like five. It's a higher elbow.
:43:08. > :43:18.Soni, her struggle rate is so much quicker than the rest of them. --
:43:18. > :43:30.
:43:30. > :43:40.everything she's done has been fantastic. She is leading the semi-
:43:40. > :43:47.
:43:47. > :43:55.final now by a good half a second, I love the way she attacks it. Also
:43:55. > :44:05.going very well is Pedersen, of Denmark. Look at this, it's a real
:44:05. > :44:20.
:44:20. > :44:24.to the world record. That was a brilliant swim. The first person
:44:25. > :44:34.under 65 seconds without those shiny suits. That was an amazing
:44:35. > :44:48.
:44:48. > :44:58.swim. She won by about 400m on the That should help in terms of times
:44:58. > :44:59.
:44:59. > :45:09.as well. How can you win a semi- final at the World Championships by
:45:09. > :45:32.
:45:32. > :45:39.make it. I think she has got in in the 7th fastest. They should be
:45:39. > :45:49.confirmed on the next screen. Not making her 2010 form count this
:45:49. > :45:51.
:45:51. > :46:01.year. Rebecca Soni is the fastest qualifier by a streak. A bit of a
:46:01. > :46:03.
:46:03. > :46:10.Soni some faster than Liesel Jones haves ever swum in her life. -- has
:46:10. > :46:14.ever swam in her life. She has taken nearly two seconds off. She
:46:14. > :46:20.has got the back end. Looking at the pictures in the semi-final it
:46:20. > :46:26.did not seem to flow as much as it has in the past. Do you think for
:46:26. > :46:30.Soni that a world record is in her grasp? We have topped before about
:46:30. > :46:40.how long it will take to get these suit Time's up. She is very close
:46:40. > :46:50.to it. She was at an event last year in her old suit but she is now
:46:50. > :46:51.
:46:51. > :46:56.going faster with pert new suit. Let's go back to the man. Cesar
:46:56. > :47:06.Cielo Filho was the first one to win a medal in Sir Terry Leahy in
:47:06. > :47:25.
:47:25. > :47:31.Beijing. -- Inn in Sir Terry Leahy Why is a full-time athlete taking a
:47:31. > :47:35.diet supplement? I do not get that part. But he said that it was a
:47:36. > :47:40.cross contamination and it was beyond his control. I think it is
:47:40. > :47:46.one of these things that, it is down to you what you put in your
:47:46. > :47:52.body. There are testing labs and lists of substances that have been
:47:52. > :47:59.tested before and they let you know that they are clean. It is up to
:47:59. > :48:03.the athlete to take full responsibility for themselves.
:48:03. > :48:13.Cesar Cielo Filho gets very emotional when he wins gold medals.
:48:13. > :48:25.
:48:25. > :48:32.Let's look at what happened in the the defending championship. --
:48:32. > :48:42.white hat. Any of these guys, they are all capable. You cannot make a
:48:42. > :48:42.
:48:42. > :48:52.mistake on these 15 years. -- 50 metres. Jason dumb third of a Kenya.
:48:52. > :49:03.
:49:03. > :49:13.It is Hugo. -- it is Geoff Huegill. He took a bad at the 30-metre mark
:49:13. > :49:13.
:49:13. > :49:19.and then put his head back again. - - a breath. Without the full body
:49:19. > :49:27.suits the swimmers tend to forget to shave. I don't know if it feels
:49:27. > :49:37.any better. It feels fantastic after you shave your legs. U-shaped
:49:37. > :49:45.
:49:45. > :49:55.more than that, don't you? -- due final. Jason dumb third comes in
:49:55. > :49:57.
:49:57. > :50:07.second. James has a great start for Great Britain. It is going well so
:50:07. > :50:12.far. It looks like at the moment the 20-year-old a Frenchman in the
:50:12. > :50:22.centre and the Brazilian are doing well. A terrible finish again but
:50:22. > :50:24.
:50:24. > :50:34.he gets it. So Cesar Cielo Filho wins for Brazil. The time is a
:50:34. > :50:44.
:50:44. > :50:54.23.19. The Ukrainian and the German finished in 7th and 8 place. -- 8th
:50:54. > :51:08.
:51:08. > :51:16.finish. A shocking finish but he wins it. Cesar Cielo Filho from
:51:16. > :51:26.Brazil. It is a really competitive race here. Lots of controversy
:51:26. > :51:27.
:51:27. > :51:37.about him being let off. Geoff Huegill second and Florent Manaudou
:51:37. > :51:46.
:51:46. > :51:51.third. This is going to be Cesar Cielo Filho through fast us.
:51:51. > :52:01.Here is the final of the men's 50 metres butterfly. It is one length
:52:01. > :52:07.
:52:07. > :52:17.of the pool and there will be lots so far has been Cesar Cielo Filho.
:52:17. > :52:30.
:52:30. > :52:39.He is the fastest human being in the far end of the pool. They just
:52:39. > :52:48.go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Here is Matthew Targett of Australia. Then we have
:52:48. > :52:58.the swimmer from Germany. He is a European champion in the freestyle.
:52:58. > :53:00.
:53:00. > :53:07.We have Mark Foster. Here comes Florent Manaudou. He is a world
:53:07. > :53:17.champion making a comeback. He has been over in the States making a
:53:17. > :53:18.
:53:18. > :53:28.comeback. And here he is, the fastest man in the water. He is the
:53:28. > :53:34.
:53:34. > :53:44.you saying bolt of the swimming holder here. Here is the
:53:44. > :54:15.
:54:15. > :54:25.Whoever touches first! Frederick Bousquet is a winner as well.
:54:25. > :54:26.
:54:26. > :54:33.from Kenya and... The emotional favoured would be Geoff Huegill. --
:54:33. > :54:43.favourite. That would be true because Cesar Cielo Filho has
:54:43. > :54:55.
:54:55. > :55:00.recently failed a drug test. Cesar What a powerful stroke in the
:55:00. > :55:07.centre. It looks like it is going to be Cesar Cielo Filho at the
:55:07. > :55:12.moment. It may be the Brazilian. The Brazilian has got to get this
:55:12. > :55:22.stroke to be world champion. In the end it looked pretty comfortable
:55:22. > :55:32.for me. Caesar Arab has -- Cesar Cielo Filho is now world champion
:55:32. > :55:33.
:55:33. > :55:41.on the 50 flights and he looks pretty comfortable. -- 50 fly.
:55:41. > :55:47.suggested that, with the doping issue, it was a dietary supplement.
:55:47. > :55:55.I imagine the pressure got too much for him. He gets a bit emotional
:55:55. > :56:02.about his racing. He nailed that one from start to finish. He tends
:56:02. > :56:12.to cry a lot after his races. has had a huge amount of pressure.
:56:12. > :56:15.
:56:15. > :56:21.He did drug test positive. He was giving a pardon as it were. It was
:56:21. > :56:31.challenged by the World Swimming Federation. They challenged the
:56:31. > :56:31.
:56:31. > :56:37.warning that Brazil gave and asked for a three-month ban. The swimmers
:56:37. > :56:45.are unhappy about it around the pools side. That is because a lot
:56:45. > :56:52.of them didn't want him to be allowed to swim. He was not sure
:56:52. > :57:02.there. Those are the biggest shoulders I have ever seen. Fastest
:57:02. > :57:20.
:57:20. > :57:25.man in history in the water. World Eight years and you are here again!
:57:25. > :57:30.Yes, it is quite exciting. To be surrounded with all of these guys
:57:30. > :57:35.and do what you love doing is a dream come true for me. What is it
:57:35. > :57:40.that is pulling everyone back into swimming? I think in my case it is
:57:40. > :57:45.that I have a passion for it. If you do not have a passion then it
:57:45. > :57:54.makes training a lot harder. You have to have a balance outside of
:57:54. > :57:58.the pool. I have a great business and a beautiful family. For me it
:57:58. > :58:06.is a last chance opportunity. most amazing comeback story for
:58:06. > :58:10.Geoff Huegill. I raced with him for many years and always came second.
:58:10. > :58:16.He is a lovely guy. He always gets it right at the right time. I would
:58:16. > :58:21.have loved to see him win the race. Pretty difficult for him and Matt
:58:21. > :58:27.Targett finishing behind a guy that has failed a drugs test. There are
:58:27. > :58:32.some great areas here. If he took it and knowingly, and I hope that
:58:32. > :58:40.he did, you'd say that could have ended his career or he could have
:58:41. > :58:46.been banned, but I maintain that it is up to the athlete that -- to
:58:46. > :58:49.know what is being put in your body. Should he have been able to raise?
:58:50. > :58:54.The feeling around the pool from the other athletes is that they are
:58:54. > :59:00.upset. But they are not crying like Cesar Cielo Filho! That was
:59:00. > :59:10.extraordinary. He is a man that finds it very difficult to control
:59:10. > :59:13.his emotions. Were there not this huge cloud over him you would think
:59:13. > :59:21.it was fantastic and lovely. think we will hear more about this
:59:21. > :59:28.later. There were tears of genuine sadness this morning after the
:59:28. > :59:35.heats from Gemma spot for if because she did not all five. --
:59:35. > :59:45.Jemma Spoforth. She did well in Beijing in 2008 and was a world
:59:45. > :59:51.champion in 2009. She is very good and talented. I suppose her
:59:51. > :59:57.motivation is coming 4th. What else has happened? Her mum died just
:59:57. > :00:03.before the Olympics in 2007. Earlier this year her dad's
:00:03. > :00:09.girlfriend died. It is difficult. We all deal with things in
:00:09. > :00:13.different ways. And the other aspect is that she has had food
:00:13. > :00:17.poisoning. Yes she has also been sick. This has not been her best
:00:17. > :00:24.year. Last year was not a bad year but this year has not been that
:00:24. > :00:29.great. These things happen. said this morning that she has had
:00:29. > :00:39.a bad year and that she has not been feeling too motivated so she
:00:39. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:49.hopes that she will be motivated Let's hear from Lizzie Simmonds.
:00:49. > :00:53.World championships can change things. RRV is particularly
:00:53. > :00:58.special? Definitely. It will be my third world championships. Every
:00:58. > :01:01.major competition you go to is a special experience. The fact they
:01:01. > :01:06.are all in different countries with different people, different team, a
:01:06. > :01:11.different set of people you'll be racing against. You take a lot of
:01:11. > :01:17.memories away. Your aspirations for Shanghai, what can you do out
:01:17. > :01:21.there? It's going to be a very fast event. To get too caught up and
:01:21. > :01:29.over analyse exactly where you should be coming is probably not
:01:29. > :01:33.the best thing for me. You quite enjoyed the Beijing experience in
:01:33. > :01:38.2008, didn't you? Yes, it was fantastic. The Chinese couldn't
:01:38. > :01:42.have put on a better show. Making sure that we were so well
:01:42. > :01:52.accommodated and the competition run so smoothly as well. If that's
:01:52. > :02:21.
:02:21. > :02:31.anything to go by, Shanghai is swimming club in west London. She
:02:31. > :02:46.
:02:46. > :02:50.set a new Bulgarian record to swimmers a huge ovation. This of
:02:50. > :02:56.the world champion on the 50m backstroke on short and long course.
:02:56. > :03:04.Here is Great Britain's Lizzie Simmonds. European champion on the
:03:04. > :03:11.200m. I think she has a chance at the medley. The job is to qualify.
:03:11. > :03:21.She should be capable of getting in the top eight. Jemma Spofforth not
:03:21. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:39.swim in the heats. Only 18, but she competed in the last world
:03:39. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :05:51.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:05:51. > :06:01.good, but whether it's going to be finish. Just a few tenths off,
:06:01. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :07:32.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:07:32. > :07:42.which would have counted. The start in Delhi. Some really young women
:07:42. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:10.Elizabeth Pelton. Emily sebum, she's in five. Natalie Coughlin,
:08:10. > :08:14.she has three Olympic gold medals. She is the Olympic champion.
:08:14. > :08:19.Talking about underwater rating, you were saying how good she is.
:08:19. > :08:29.Yes, I think it's mainly Third turbans. You have to see at the
:08:29. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:02.start. -- you will see its mainly women's 100m backstroke. A decent
:09:02. > :09:12.start, but we do talk about Coughlin's starts being the best in
:09:12. > :09:12.
:09:12. > :09:55.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:09:55. > :10:05.the world. She didn't get that much going to make it in, only the first
:10:05. > :10:33.
:10:33. > :10:43.rest of the girls crutching ind. -- minute for the backstroke. She's
:10:43. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :11:25.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:11:25. > :11:29.through to the final. That's highly We are going to be a bit like Liam
:11:29. > :11:35.with our fingers crossed for the next semi. Definitely. The time was
:11:35. > :11:39.good but the event was pretty tough. Touch wood, I might sneak in. It
:11:39. > :11:43.was a good swim none the less. been a really weird year for you.
:11:43. > :11:48.It's so nice to see you coming back into form. Yes, it's been up and
:11:48. > :11:52.down. I wasn't swimming so great at the start of the year and wasn't
:11:52. > :11:56.making the trials at the first opportunity. Luckily, I had a
:11:56. > :12:00.second opportunity and turned it round between men. I'm just glad to
:12:00. > :12:06.be swimming back at my best. I'm really glad to be here. It's always
:12:06. > :12:11.a nice bonus for you, the 100m. Are you looking forward to the 200m?
:12:11. > :12:16.Definitely. This is to get the cobwebs out and have a good bash at
:12:16. > :12:24.it, but the 200m is a bit more my race. You can get more into it,
:12:24. > :12:29.it's a bit longer. Hopefully the 200m for later in the week. How is
:12:29. > :12:32.Jemma? She's going to be disappointed. But there's UPS and
:12:32. > :12:36.downs with this game. Everybody goes through that and it's
:12:36. > :12:41.something you can't control. She can't be disappointed with herself.
:12:41. > :12:45.She's just got to look towards the future now. The future with her if
:12:45. > :12:49.she's got the 50m backstroke coming up later in the week. Lizzie
:12:49. > :12:53.talking their about the 200m, which is more her thing. The cheese into
:12:53. > :12:56.the final. She's got a chance. We've seen in some of the other
:12:56. > :13:01.finals as well. She's hopefully going to get in one of the outside
:13:01. > :13:08.lanes. Billion Tancock when into line one macro. Becky Adlington got
:13:08. > :13:11.a silver medal from line one macro. If you are in your lane, you got
:13:11. > :13:15.your opportunity. With swimming in particular, just do your own race.
:13:15. > :13:18.In the longer distance events you can pace yourself off each other
:13:18. > :13:22.but in the sprint events you just got to get your head down or up and
:13:22. > :13:25.do your own thing. She's an interesting swimmer to watch,
:13:25. > :13:31.Lizzie Simmonds, because she's got this hyper extension, double-
:13:31. > :13:37.jointed elbows. I can demonstrate again. When your arm enters the
:13:37. > :13:43.water, her arm high that extends backwards. I'm very flexible,
:13:43. > :13:48.swimmers are generally flexible. But with Lizzie herself and
:13:48. > :13:52.backstroke swimmers, it actually helps you catch more water. In
:13:52. > :13:59.swimming terms, when we are catching water you don't just pull
:13:59. > :14:04.your hand, you pull your forehand - - your forearm as well. You've got
:14:04. > :14:11.to try and catch all this water. If you think about where your hand
:14:11. > :14:14.enters, you want to pull yourself past that point. We are about to
:14:15. > :14:20.see two of the very best at this. We will be seeing them on their
:14:20. > :14:24.front, but the big clash is coming up. Michael Phelps is the biggest
:14:24. > :14:29.fish in the swimming pool, winner of a record eight gold medals at
:14:29. > :14:34.the last Olympics. But the new star on the scene is Ryan Lochte, a
:14:34. > :14:38.laid-back, fun-loving Floridian, whose the swim of 2010 with 12
:14:38. > :14:42.championship gold medals. It does feel as if the tide is turning.
:14:42. > :14:47.Very much so. Michael Phelps has done it and been there. Other
:14:47. > :14:51.things to take over. I know with Le Court of France, he had this huge
:14:51. > :14:55.success, a lot of sponsors, they are giving you a lot of money, and
:14:55. > :14:58.you get distracted away from what you're doing in the pool. The it's
:14:58. > :15:03.the same with any sport, the more successful you get, the more
:15:03. > :15:09.invitations to get to go to certain things. It's really difficult.
:15:09. > :15:13.they've done on the way up, I always talk about this being the
:15:13. > :15:17.hunters being the hundred. You are very hungry, but there are a lot of
:15:17. > :15:21.demands put on you. When one of your sponsors pay you a huge amount
:15:21. > :15:27.of money and they ask you to do various things, there's a lot of
:15:27. > :15:33.time away from what you normally do. Lochte has been able to come in
:15:33. > :15:37.under the radar. We saw him in Manchester. He was fabulous. He was
:15:38. > :15:41.so great with the crowd. He seemed a really likeable guy. He is as
:15:41. > :15:45.good as Michael Phelps. When you watch them race and you watch them
:15:45. > :15:49.and the water, he is as good as Michael Phelps. What Michael Phelps
:15:49. > :15:52.did against everybody else, on every turn at the start he will
:15:52. > :15:56.take six to eight inches off other people. It doesn't seem an awful
:15:56. > :16:00.lot of times that by three or four macro and it makes a huge
:16:00. > :16:05.difference. The British coaches have been doing a lot of work on
:16:05. > :16:10.this. The 5th stroke. There is Phelps staying and the water away
:16:10. > :16:16.longer than anybody else. Dolphin boy. The underwater kick, it's like
:16:16. > :16:19.a hula-hoop. If you are good at it, you don't see it so much on the
:16:19. > :16:23.100m when you are given everything on the surface. It's not that much
:16:23. > :16:28.faster underneath the water, if any faster whatsoever. But when you see
:16:28. > :16:32.the slower events, the butterfly or the 200m events, it makes a huge
:16:32. > :16:42.difference. You see it more in the 200. The have become up by the red
:16:42. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:48.mark. That's 15 metres. Technically, 15 metres underwater, 15 metres
:16:48. > :16:52.underwater... That's 60m of the 200m underwater. A third of the
:16:52. > :16:56.race is underneath the water. It makes a huge difference. Lizzie
:16:56. > :17:01.Simmonds is good at it, Tancock is good at it. Becky Adlington doesn't
:17:01. > :17:11.do any kick underneath whatsoever. She can get a little bit better
:17:11. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:19.than it - Matt Baggott and that We have got the main personalities
:17:19. > :17:29.coming up. We have also got two British swimmers in the semi-finals
:17:29. > :17:54.
:17:54. > :18:04.at here is the line-up for the today by all of the big boys in the
:18:04. > :18:07.
:18:07. > :18:17.heats today. -- looking around. have at the Australian leading the
:18:17. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:34.pack. He was a champion in 2008 in the freestyle. Here we have the as
:18:34. > :18:44.
:18:44. > :18:51.really is the mayor. His again is a name right. -- Israeli swimmer.
:18:51. > :18:59.Here is Ross Davenport from Great Britain. He was a champion in the
:18:59. > :19:09.freestyle in 2006. He looked so good this morning. The French
:19:09. > :19:22.
:19:22. > :19:30.cinema is a late 19th. -- swim or possibly getting their medal. It
:19:30. > :19:40.might not show on the first hundred metres. There are some great times
:19:40. > :19:47.
:19:47. > :19:57.to watch out for. Lane one will be going out pretty fast. Then he will
:19:57. > :20:10.
:20:10. > :20:18.and there is a Willie Hay stacked second final would Michael Phelps
:20:18. > :20:23.in there. -- a really stacked second final with Michael Phelps in
:20:23. > :20:28.there. These boys need to go quickly. Number three is going fast,
:20:28. > :20:38.from France. He was a little bit slower up the first hundred this
:20:38. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:52.morning and then really pushed it. This morning there was a lot of
:20:52. > :21:00.easing back. Now they are trying to go with the rest of the field. Some
:21:00. > :21:09.different tactics from this morning. Davenport is in good position here.
:21:09. > :21:16.It is playing into his hands. The blue hat is swimming for Great
:21:16. > :21:26.Britain. It would be stunning if he could make this final. He is about
:21:26. > :21:27.
:21:27. > :21:33.4th or 5th at the moment. Now the white hat is slightly closer to us.
:21:33. > :21:43.The French swimmer has gone out very quickly. He has got some work
:21:43. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:56.to do if he wants to make this final. This is a good position to
:21:56. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:18.be in. So the time for the winner qualification this morning. It is
:22:18. > :22:28.looking like his best time so far. He is a 19-year-old and is
:22:28. > :22:32.improving every year. For he was the European junior last year. I
:22:32. > :22:42.think he was smash his record tomorrow. He looked very good
:22:42. > :22:42.
:22:42. > :22:52.indeed. He went for it. Davenport came in 5th. Michael Phelps is the
:22:52. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:10.third fastest qualifier for this the challenger from Great Britain.
:23:11. > :23:20.If Michael Phelps is locked in and then two Brits get in it could be
:23:21. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:47.someone else playing the spoiler on There is a lot of looking around
:23:47. > :23:47.
:23:47. > :23:55.going on in the freestyle. We have some swimmers who have really been
:23:55. > :24:05.caught looking around at each other. Here we have the Brazilian. The
:24:05. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:18.slowest qualifier for the second semi-final. Now we have a young 17-
:24:18. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:28.year-old from Japan. He is a tough aggressor. We have Robert Renwick
:24:28. > :24:33.
:24:34. > :24:43.from Great Britain. He won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games. We
:24:44. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:49.have Switzerland in at six and then come the big boys. Here he is, 27
:24:49. > :24:57.medals in championships, 22 of them gold, he got his first bronze medal
:24:57. > :25:07.ever last night in the free relay. It is Michael Phelps. Now we have
:25:07. > :25:17.Paul be an end. And the other US challenger, he looks very good in
:25:17. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:21.the heats, but his first major championships are in the freestyle.
:25:21. > :25:31.Michael Phelps might just be letting some of these challengers
:25:31. > :25:41.get away with it. We will find out. You never bet against Michael
:25:41. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:54.Phelps in a race. Robert Unwin seven -- on Laina seven, if he
:25:54. > :26:16.
:26:17. > :26:24.finals and that wise a stinker of a start. -- and that was a stinker of
:26:24. > :26:29.a start for lane No. 5. The boys have got out fast. We do not
:26:29. > :26:39.normally see Michael Phelps swim for so fast sow's ear. He is really
:26:39. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:47.going for it. -- swim and so fast so early. He is really going for it.
:26:47. > :26:53.This is going to be a really good race. I have been looking forward
:26:53. > :27:03.to it. Watch these turns. The Black cats in the centre, at the
:27:03. > :27:08.Americans. A butterfly kick under water. The white hat is in the
:27:08. > :27:18.centre now. I wonder whether Michael Phelps has gone at it a
:27:18. > :27:19.
:27:19. > :27:27.little bit too quickly. He did not like his record being taking. He is
:27:27. > :27:37.tailing off a little bit. He is going to have to dig deep. Michael
:27:37. > :27:38.
:27:38. > :27:48.Phelps came up well but the last turn there are of his American
:27:48. > :27:49.
:27:49. > :27:58.challenger was really good. He looks the best of this bunch. I
:27:58. > :28:08.think they have eased back a little bit. Ryan is in sight Ghent. -- is
:28:08. > :28:22.
:28:22. > :28:32.the Brits to get into the final. I am just checking these were words.
:28:32. > :28:37.
:28:37. > :28:43.Davenport in the 10th. Robert in a in the turn. I think Ryan could
:28:44. > :28:53.have wanted -- won this if he wanted to. It was the touch Andy
:28:54. > :28:58.
:28:58. > :29:08.Todd laughed. Michael Phelps is a third. -- it was the touch ing the
:29:08. > :29:11.
:29:11. > :29:18.guns from all of the guys in yet. I think some of them will have to do
:29:18. > :29:27.something slightly different or it will be their last 15-metre sprint.
:29:27. > :29:37.Who on this bunch will win it? would have gone with Michael Phelps
:29:37. > :29:39.
:29:39. > :29:43.but I think the Frenchman will get Close but no cigar. I knew it would
:29:43. > :29:49.be incredibly difficult to make the semi-final. We cannot cruise the
:29:49. > :29:59.heat yet. We will have to put our love our eggs in one basket just to
:29:59. > :30:01.
:30:01. > :30:06.make the semi-final tomorrow. -- all of our eggs. I was ranked 20th
:30:06. > :30:16.and I am surprised I came in so much better. We delivered some good
:30:16. > :30:18.
:30:18. > :30:18.swimming. It is always fantastic for a relay to have two in there.
:30:19. > :30:28.Having two of us in there is a good thing. It should be a good one on
:30:28. > :30:33.Friday. What is the top tip for the final? You cannot look too far
:30:33. > :30:38.beyond Ryan and also Paul. What does he do on his turns to make him
:30:38. > :30:44.so fast? He is just phenomenal under water and everyone is trying
:30:44. > :30:50.to catch him up at the moment. He is very tough. They should bring in
:30:50. > :30:59.a room where you can actually go five metres. It is cheating. -- a
:30:59. > :31:03.You look superb. What do you do on those returns? I don't know, I'd
:31:04. > :31:11.take a deep breath and kick until I can't kick any more. Change of
:31:11. > :31:17.image, your hair has gone! No more Coles, a new look. Streamlined?
:31:17. > :31:21.like to think so. It's going to be one of the races of the meat.
:31:21. > :31:27.200m free is always a deeper race. They are so many good competitors.
:31:27. > :31:31.It's going to be a good race tomorrow. This is my second time
:31:31. > :31:38.doing it internationally. We will see how that goes tomorrow. Good
:31:38. > :31:41.You see how coolly is, but everybody talking about the
:31:41. > :31:47.underwater. Let's have a look at underwater. Let's have a look at
:31:47. > :31:56.Lochte Yngling four. When he comes off the wall and he's turning over,
:31:56. > :31:59.that's the underwater dolphin we are talking about. Phelps went in
:31:59. > :32:08.half-a-length behind so he didn't take too much more of him. Half a
:32:08. > :32:12.The British swimmers need to practise it an awful lot more. I
:32:12. > :32:18.wasn't very good at it but I did 50m so it wasn't very important.
:32:18. > :32:22.But in the longer events it is very important. You can gain 100th of a
:32:22. > :32:25.second on the Turner. A lot of work is being done with the British
:32:25. > :32:30.swimmers but the Americans have been doing it for so much longer.
:32:30. > :32:34.The technical stuff the Americans do so well. It comes on the back of
:32:34. > :32:43.the collegiate system. Every university in the States is almost
:32:43. > :32:47.like a mini country. The collegiate racing is done in 25 metre pools.
:32:47. > :32:50.The science of swimming is really important. The it's moved on an
:32:50. > :32:54.awful lot. You see the underwater footage there, a lot of people have
:32:54. > :32:58.that technology in the training poll. We have it in Loughborough.
:32:58. > :33:02.They will be recording themselves underneath the water. You say to a
:33:02. > :33:07.swimmer, do this. They can do it and they can look at themselves on
:33:07. > :33:14.the screen and change it. Swimmers swim with feet that are like this.
:33:14. > :33:19.We don't swim, a lot of people tried to do it straight up. They
:33:19. > :33:25.put their legs there and kick like this. Swimmers kick with Haifa
:33:25. > :33:28.extended ankles. Our legs are really flexible. The most difficult
:33:28. > :33:32.of it all has to put all four strokes together and Hannah Miley
:33:32. > :33:36.manages to do that in the medley. The weakest link is the butterfly.
:33:36. > :33:41.That comes from strength. When you watch her swim in the water, she
:33:41. > :33:45.looks so much smaller physically than the other girls in height and
:33:45. > :33:49.body posture. She's not a big go macro. But technically she's
:33:49. > :33:53.amazing. Because she's technically good and smaller, she should be one
:33:53. > :33:58.of those that will benefit from the fact they are not all in it suits.
:33:58. > :34:02.Very much so. It used to help the bigger people more. Hamed is small
:34:02. > :34:06.and slight. Her technical aspects are so much better. Breaststroke is
:34:06. > :34:12.a very technical event. You will really see her come through on that.
:34:12. > :34:15.She needs a bit more work on the butterfly. And because she's not so
:34:15. > :34:20.powerful the 400 is her better event. She has incredible stamina.
:34:20. > :34:26.But she is into the final of the 200 individual medley. A medal here
:34:26. > :34:30.would be a real bonus. There's quite a few people talking, saying
:34:30. > :34:34.they are going to bypass the world all the world and as important. But
:34:34. > :34:39.it's the next closest event competition wise to the Olympics.
:34:39. > :34:41.It's the only opportunity you get to race against the whole world.
:34:41. > :34:45.Everybody in your event that qualifies any weight. Nine times
:34:45. > :34:53.out of 10 it is probably going to be the same people who will race
:34:53. > :34:57.against at the Olympics. Atmosphere wise, it will be slightly different
:34:57. > :35:00.but competition Why's it is very similar. It's almost like a
:35:00. > :35:06.practice run against your competitors. This year, you always
:35:06. > :35:12.find that the years out from the Olympics is going to be a surprise,
:35:12. > :35:16.there will be some younger and who has come out of the woodwork. It's
:35:16. > :35:26.getting that experience and taking advantage of the opportunity to
:35:26. > :35:45.
:35:45. > :35:53.Olympic champion, Stephanie Rice is change in it suits is going to
:35:53. > :36:03.affect them. Pellissier Coutts is on fire at the moment as well. --
:36:03. > :36:05.
:36:05. > :36:09.a backstroke specialist. The Hungarian competitor is very
:36:09. > :36:19.important. She's the European champion on this event. She's right
:36:19. > :36:40.
:36:40. > :36:50.next to Hannah Miley, who is not a Flybe is strong enough to get her a
:36:50. > :37:02.
:37:02. > :37:12.Commonwealth Games last year. The 15-year-old from China. Watch her
:37:12. > :37:29.
:37:29. > :37:35.Olympic champion and the 204 hundred medley. Silver medal two
:37:35. > :37:40.years ago in Rome will. Commonwealth champion. This is
:37:40. > :37:45.going to be very interesting indeed. The unpredictability of this world
:37:45. > :37:50.championships right here. Australia are re-emerging. China, be 15-year-
:37:50. > :37:56.old, we've no idea how quickly can be. The Americans picked their team
:37:56. > :38:03.12 months ago. Are they on form or not? We have China in three,
:38:03. > :38:11.Australia in four, USA in five, Australia in six, USA in seven.
:38:11. > :38:16.Great Britain's Hannah Miley, maybe a little bit of a short race for
:38:16. > :38:20.her, the medley. I think it will be tough. When you've got a weak
:38:20. > :38:25.stroke in this, it does make a difference on the 200. Some of
:38:26. > :38:30.these girls are good at freestyle, but at breaststroke, they will make
:38:30. > :38:40.their marks on this race. But Stephanie Rice is the one that's on
:38:40. > :38:45.
:38:45. > :38:48.off on the blocks on the first whistle. You are meant to wait for
:38:48. > :38:58.the second whistle. I'm not sure she quite knows the order of how
:38:58. > :39:17.
:39:17. > :39:27.swimmers here. Stephanie Rice a bit off the pace. Hannah Miley will
:39:27. > :39:27.
:39:27. > :40:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:40:33. > :40:43.I'm thinking that's a really good champion on the 100m freestyle, but
:40:43. > :40:51.
:40:52. > :41:01.It's going to be so close. She's got it! My goodness, that was
:41:02. > :41:04.
:41:04. > :41:14.incredible. That last 50, she came from nowhere, the 15-year-old.
:41:14. > :41:27.
:41:27. > :41:31.get it. -- I thought Coutts was in the heats on the freestyle leg,
:41:31. > :41:41.she came back very fast indeed. At age 15, you just don't know what
:41:41. > :41:47.
:41:47. > :41:52.they are going to do. Heavens above, a massive ovation. You've got to
:41:52. > :42:02.feel sorry for Alicia Coutts, though, she lost the gold medal in
:42:02. > :42:02.
:42:02. > :42:43.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:42:43. > :42:47.How do you feel about that? It was fine. To get into the final was
:42:47. > :42:53.what I was aiming for. I would have liked to have gone faster in the
:42:53. > :42:56.final, in the Europeans that happened. The heats had to be very
:42:56. > :43:00.fast because they were almost like a final. I'm a little bit
:43:00. > :43:05.disappointed at not going faster but coming in 7th, it's only one
:43:05. > :43:09.place down from what I did last year in the suits. It's still my
:43:09. > :43:14.second fastest time I've done this season, I can't knock that.
:43:14. > :43:19.just looking at your ear, they have been doing a lactic test on your
:43:19. > :43:24.ear. The 400 is the most important for you. The rising star that we
:43:24. > :43:28.don't know too much about. The 400 is the one I'm focusing on. This is
:43:28. > :43:33.kind of a fun event. It's a completely different event to the
:43:33. > :43:37.400. You have to have speed. I'd much faster in my sleep and I do in
:43:37. > :43:47.training. This is a good I'll Be there, but there's a lot of good
:43:47. > :43:47.
:43:47. > :43:52.talent coming through. I'm really honoured to be in the same race. I
:43:52. > :43:56.certainly can learn a lot from that and look at the analysis and take
:43:56. > :43:59.it from there. Head down in the game for the 400 now. It's good to
:43:59. > :44:04.see what talent they can bring through and I will hopefully get my
:44:04. > :44:08.tactics right for the last day. She is going to be up against it in
:44:09. > :44:12.that medley. Quite extraordinary that medley. Quite extraordinary
:44:12. > :44:20.race. We can have a look again at where she comes from. Going into
:44:20. > :44:28.the last length, she is free from the top of this green, white cap. -
:44:28. > :44:33.- she is three from the top of the screen, white cap. Look at this.
:44:33. > :44:37.You are still thinking there is no way she can get to her. 25 metres
:44:37. > :44:44.to go, you still think there's no way she can get back on that. She's
:44:44. > :44:48.15, first major international made last year at 14. At 15 you are
:44:48. > :44:53.still a child. But technically she is amazing. What she does is keep
:44:53. > :44:57.coming back and coming back. In the medley you have four strokes. Some
:44:57. > :45:03.people are good at one, some people are good at three. She took 1.7
:45:03. > :45:13.seconds off Coutts on one length. That's massive. That's because
:45:13. > :45:16.
:45:16. > :45:19.goods gave too much too early and Sprint has produced an awful lot of
:45:19. > :45:26.lactate which then tyres you. Someone like Rebecca Adlington or
:45:26. > :45:31.Paula Radcliffe don't produce lactic. -- lactate. They will test
:45:31. > :45:35.her lactate, she will have 12 men are Moles. The coach won't let them
:45:35. > :45:41.get out until the lactate come out of their body so they know their
:45:41. > :45:46.body has recovered. It's the recovery protests -- process.
:45:46. > :45:51.Sprinters produce a lot more very quickly. She produces more lactate
:45:51. > :45:56.in her sleep. We have one more final to go, the men's 100m
:45:56. > :46:00.breaststroke. Alexander Dale Owen of Norway is the favourite. He's 26
:46:00. > :46:04.years old, just a little bit older than all those who got shot at over
:46:04. > :46:08.the weekend. That is an event which has affected his preparation for
:46:08. > :46:18.this mentally. He's been trying to concentrate on the swimming as much
:46:18. > :46:36.
:46:37. > :46:45.five and is a favourite. I am looking forward to this one. For me,
:46:45. > :46:53.lane four looks for a stronger than anyone. He is one of the heroes of
:46:54. > :47:03.the men's breaststroke swimming. He is still around and still on form.
:47:03. > :47:10.Dale Owen is two years younger. He is about a foot taller than the
:47:10. > :47:20.Japanese swimmer. Here is a Mexican wave. The people in Shanghai are
:47:20. > :47:23.
:47:23. > :47:30.excited about the last medal. they should be. It was brilliant.
:47:30. > :47:37.Maybe you can see as in the stand. We are being urged to do the waiver.
:47:37. > :47:43.Let's do the Mexican wave. For a rather reserved nation they are
:47:43. > :47:53.having a cracking time. I can only described this as a basketball
:47:53. > :47:53.
:47:53. > :48:01.stadium. -- described this as a basketball stadium. This event is
:48:01. > :48:11.going to be very interesting. We have the 28th-year-old who has
:48:11. > :48:15.
:48:15. > :48:18.already wind four medals in the Olympic Games. -- 28-year-old.
:48:18. > :48:28.missed the World Championships the year after he won the gold medal
:48:28. > :48:28.
:48:28. > :48:34.and took it easy. Michael Phelps has talked about motivation. You
:48:34. > :48:43.ask him how he keeps going and he will tell you just do not put
:48:43. > :48:48.pressure on yourself and to take it easy. Here is the world champion on
:48:48. > :48:58.the breaststroke. He is from Hungary and he is the 7th fastest
:48:58. > :49:00.
:49:00. > :49:09.qualifier for this final. We have one of the older men in this field
:49:09. > :49:19.from the USA. He won the 50m breaststroke in Rome. From Russia
:49:19. > :49:20.
:49:20. > :49:30.we have a world record holder. We have the world champion in this
:49:30. > :49:33.
:49:33. > :49:43.kind of breaststroke from Australia. He is absolutely stacked. This
:49:43. > :49:45.
:49:45. > :49:55.whole race will be stacked with winners. In May A two and also in
:49:55. > :50:02.
:50:02. > :50:12.the three, -- in La A two and also in three you will have quite a go.
:50:12. > :50:13.
:50:13. > :50:16.This man from Japan might have something to say about that. This
:50:16. > :50:23.man is a touch in the national flag of no way. They are having a
:50:23. > :50:33.difficult time. -- touching the national flag. He will go Elaine
:50:33. > :50:37.
:50:37. > :50:43.four. -- in lane four. It will be difficult to call this one. The
:50:43. > :50:53.fastest man m breaststroke history in lane two. -- man in a
:50:53. > :51:11.
:51:11. > :51:21.Alexander Dale Alleyne is in the centre and has a decent start. --
:51:21. > :51:32.
:51:32. > :51:37.which he is doing, he will go with them and it is phenomenal. Nearly
:51:37. > :51:44.half a second under the world record split. Can he hold on? You
:51:44. > :51:51.get very tired in the breaststroke. It hurts a lot. If Dale Owen can
:51:51. > :52:01.hold this it will be surprising. He is holding on at the moment. He has
:52:01. > :52:01.
:52:01. > :52:06.got to keep his strength. Will he make it? Has he got it? Just
:52:06. > :52:16.outside the world record for Alexander Dale Owen of an away. He
:52:16. > :52:16.
:52:16. > :52:23.wins his first ever gold in the pool. -- of Norway. I am so pleased
:52:23. > :52:30.for no way. What an attack that wise. -- gnaw away. He knew exactly
:52:30. > :52:38.what he was doing. He decided to go with them. He knew he had the power
:52:38. > :52:44.at the back end. It does hurt. You have to hold your stroke Larne and
:52:44. > :52:50.grip the water and it is a difficult thing to do. The world
:52:50. > :53:00.record is going to go. I am so pleased to say that. We thought the
:53:00. > :53:01.
:53:01. > :53:11.world records would never be broken again. The first Norwegian man to
:53:11. > :53:15.
:53:15. > :53:22.win at these championships and it Alexander Dale Owen was pointing to
:53:22. > :53:26.his flag and it is an emotional day. We have been getting technical tips
:53:26. > :53:36.from Mark Foster. What if you cannot swim at the the Med? What if
:53:36. > :53:41.you are frightened of what if? -- at the moment? We have someone from
:53:41. > :53:46.Blue Peter here to tell us of his own experience. Getting into the
:53:46. > :53:51.water before that was unbearable. I was lucky with Blue Peter, it was
:53:51. > :53:56.my final challenge, and I knew the BBC were doing something called the
:53:56. > :54:01.Big Splash. It is here to get more people in the country swimming.
:54:01. > :54:07.What better example than someone who cannot swim? This was up in
:54:07. > :54:12.London. I had a coach who was amazing. He was a phenomenal coach.
:54:12. > :54:17.He taught me for 10 weeks to learn to swim. When did you think that
:54:17. > :54:24.you had cracked it? I still do not think I am comfortable in the water.
:54:25. > :54:28.I can swim but it is all mind over matter. It is one thing is swimming
:54:28. > :54:34.in the swimming pool where you can see the bottom. It is another to go
:54:34. > :54:39.into the ocean. There are l'art of stages in between that. I had --
:54:40. > :54:44.there are a lot of stages in between that. I had to learn to
:54:44. > :54:49.swim for many miles. You were surrounded by a load of other
:54:49. > :54:55.swimmers who were probably tugging all over you. This was a real test
:54:55. > :55:00.for me. I do not like deep water. I do not like anyone around me in the
:55:00. > :55:06.water. This was a test to see if I could hold minor. The final
:55:06. > :55:11.challenge was to swim out in the ocean. -- hold my a enough. I did
:55:11. > :55:21.this to try to get more ethnic minorities in the wider. I have
:55:21. > :55:23.
:55:23. > :55:27.never had a black or Asian role model who was swimming out there. I
:55:27. > :55:32.spoke to one swimmer who won in the 2000 Olympics. I bought it was
:55:32. > :55:39.amazing and he looked like me. I thought we should get more kids in
:55:39. > :55:45.the water. If you are an ethnic minority you need to know how to
:55:45. > :55:51.swim. That is not lack of opportunity? People have been
:55:51. > :55:57.asking me, what is it about people and the water? I can only speak for
:55:57. > :56:01.myself. My family never really went swimming. It was not something we
:56:01. > :56:06.did recreationally. I developed an inherent fear because my mother
:56:06. > :56:11.told me to stay away from the water. I came to this country when I was
:56:11. > :56:17.eight years old and everyone in my class was swimming and I was the
:56:17. > :56:21.kid in the corner with floats on my arms and legs. If you had pushed me
:56:21. > :56:30.I would have floated a cross. I decided that I would stick to
:56:30. > :56:35.football. Her final challenge was to go out and swim in the ocean. --
:56:35. > :56:43.your final challenge. You were frightened of the water. For me to
:56:43. > :56:51.look back at this video. I just cannot believe what I have achieved.
:56:51. > :56:55.I now hold the world record for the deepest open water swim. I was
:56:56. > :57:02.talking to Mark about this and he was flabbergasted because I did it
:57:02. > :57:07.all in breaststroke. My coach came to a decision that I only had 10
:57:07. > :57:12.weeks to do this and my freestyle was so embarrassing. My hands and
:57:12. > :57:17.legs were everywhere. My coach said that I should just do the most
:57:17. > :57:23.efficient stroke and my most confident was the breaststroke. I
:57:23. > :57:31.stayed focus and stayed -- stayed a streamlined and kept my mind on the
:57:31. > :57:38.water. Mentioned -- you mentioned the big splash campaign. Tell us
:57:38. > :57:44.more about that. It is about trying to get more people in this country
:57:44. > :57:49.in the water. My motivation was to try and be a role model for ethnic
:57:49. > :57:54.minorities and people in general. There was a young girl who I gave a
:57:54. > :57:59.gold badge to last year and she saved her friend from drowning. I
:57:59. > :58:05.thought that I could not do that and I cannot say a relative if they
:58:05. > :58:12.were drowning so I had to do something about it. It is great for
:58:12. > :58:20.finesse as well. Look at these babies or stop -- look at these
:58:20. > :58:25.babies. Look at this guy. He is still stacked from swimming. If you
:58:25. > :58:35.are watching this and you want to get in the pool, then go to the big
:58:35. > :58:37.