Day 8 Swimming: World Championships

I can't actually believe it. I am so, so happy. The final of the

women's 800 metres freestyle. into the race it was going to be a

challenge. Lotte Friis of Denmark stating her purpose immediately.

do normally have to battle with her. I tried to stick with as much as I

can and then trust go for it on the last 15. It is very close indeed!

To come away with a gold and silver, I couldn't ask for more. Rebecca

Adlington, world champion of the world -- women's 800 metres

freestyle. They are team have been absolutely fantastic. My family and

friends have fully supported me. I would not be able to do it without

them. That is a cracker! World champion 800 metres freestyle,

Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain. I have got the whole SatNav. I

can't actually believe it. I am so, so happy. The new world champions

Rebecca Adlington and Keri-Anne Payne with the team sheet the camp

showing their support for Liam Tancock, Hannah Miley, Fran Halsall

and all the other British swimmers in this Championships in Shanghai.

We have only got an hour for all the highlights, so plenty of action

to pack in. Smiley Miley is in the final of her favoured event, the

gruelling 400m individual medley. She just missed out on a medal two

years ago. Liam Tancock is the defending world champion for 50m

backstroke. Fran Halsall has had her training truncated and it has

cost her. She is out for redemption in the 50-metre freestyle. In

contrast, everything Ryan Lochte touches turns to gold. Four of them

so far. Just the 400 left. Mark Foster is alongside me for the

final time this week. We will hear from him. Let's get straight to the

action and join our Istomin team out in China. Adrian Moorhouse and

Tancock has had a very good start indeed. He looks good. He has got

about a quarter of a metre on the Lacourt. Are they going belt --

will is Zandberg. The rest of the field starting to come back now. It

is going to be really tight. It is really tight. Liam Tancock has got

it! Well done, Liam Tancock. World champion again. Successfully

defending their championship title he won in Rome. Liam Tancock is

world record holder and twice world champion. What a great swim. I was

thinking please, please, please Liam. That was all down to her --

who had their arm over when it counted against the wall. Liam

Tancock had a great start. That was quite a distance. Liam Tancock goes

in first, and that is what makes the difference. Lacourt's arms not

just -- just not long enough. So, Liam Tancock world champion again.

A brilliant swimmer from him. He won it by a mile! Followed by a

Camille Lacourt of France and Camille Lacourt of France and

Zandberg in the third. Well done, Liam Tancock. Many congratulations.

A fantastic defence of that title. It was really amazing out there.

These World Championships have been fantastic for the team. We missed

out on a couple of occasions by a few 100 so, but all in all the team

has done an amazing job. To comment on the last few, the 50 backstroke,

I was defending the 2009 title. When I made it into the final I

thought, you know, anyone could win it. It could come from any blame.

But if they want to beat me they have got to come and get me. I

needed to do everything I needed to do, get in there, get a good start

and take the race to it. It resulted in a gold and a well

turned into a muddle again. I am top of the world! -- it turned into

a world champion. Next year you have got the home crowd advantage.

The crowd out he has been fantastic. The pool is amazing. That is what

is going to be like in London. We have seen the poll now and there is

less than a year ago. But there are 1,500 1000 fans at here cheering

for the Chinese. In London they will be cheering for the Brits, and

there is no better feeling. That will really boost us. You have got

to convert that 50 into 100. Yes, I have been doing that for a number

of years. The training is working towards that. I am getting stronger

and stronger, but there are always areas to improve. I will sit down

with my coach back in Loughborough and work on a strategy to push me

forward. I have got one of the best teams around me, not just my coach

and support staff, but I am in a training circle with some good

people, all like-minded people with the same dream. It is a nice

environment. World champion for the second time in a row. Great

Britain's Liam Tancock defending that title he won in Rome. And he

in Shanghai he is world champion again in the men's 50m backstroke.

The world record holder and double world champion. That is his 5th

He has now equalled the most successful men in the World

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Championships history for Great Liam Tancock is perfectly entitled

to say his favoured world -- word, boom! The difference in size

between those three men is amazing. Liam Tancock is 6 ft, but look at

these guys! Zandberg is 6 ft 8, and Lacourt is 6 ft 6. It almost made -

- makes Liam's achievement even more successful because their arms

are longer than his. The most impressive thing was going into

those flags on the last couple of strokes. I must admit, I thought

Zandberg and Lacourt, with the length of their arms at the end

would touch first. It is not always the biggest swimmer that wins

actually. Swimmers tend to be tall, but Liam Tancock is not small at

six foot. No, he is not. But, unfortunately, is not an Olympic

event. Can he be a factor in the 100m. He was sick in the final of

the 100m. Yes, and he came 6th in the Olympic Games. Some people come

from the 200m down to the 100m. So you have got back end swimmers and

speed some us. He has got loads of speed. He has got shorter arms and

a lot of turnover. The thing he will work gone for the next year is

working on that back end, getting up with his speed and then working

on that back end so he does not tire towards the end. Lacourt does

this very successfully, doesn't he? Yes, but I think he will be able to

do this. It was in the Olympics three years ago, so he has worked

on it before. He has worked on his speed. Speed is a natural thing.

You can work on it, but you have it naturally. He has loads of speed

but he need to work on that back end. He is genuinely excited about

it. You could hear that in his interview, he is already thinking

about that crowd and the cheering been for him. He is a big event man

and always rises to the occasion. Absolutely. Every final he has been

in, he is Commonwealth champion, European champion, he has won

everything over the 50m, but over 100, European medallist, world

medallist. He gets a medal every time, but the Olympics is the one

he needs to do. He was 6th last stand. He needs to work on

everything he does, do more cross- training. At the moment he will

walk away from their going, I am world champion. That is fantastic.

But next year there is another 50m. He made the final of the 50, he is

only a couple of tents away from winning. He loves a challenge.

it can be done. Liam Tancock will have a lot of attention focused on

him in the run-up to the Olympic Games, and rightly so. And so as

well will Hannah Miley. She is a really happy, bubbly, positive 21-

year-old. She is coached in Aberdeen shared by her father. --

Aberdeenshire. Hannah Miley wins gold at the European Championships!

She swims 80,000 metres a week. My dad has always been my coach and

I have not really known any other way. Like any other relationship

you will have your ups and downs, but in the end we always managed to

work it out. There is pressure because we are in the same house.

But the quality of information that to get his second to none.

Sometimes too much. He has worked with Ian Thorpe, lots of top

Olympic athletes. I feel he knows what he is doing. But I can't

really challenge that. OK, 37.3. This was your invention. It is

basically in two parts. The main programming unit, which is this

component here. And the pace or itself, the sounding unit which

goes underneath the swim cap on the side of the head. Each beep relates

to each entry. And it has had some high-profile users. Yes, Ian Thorpe

used it before he broke his first world record. He started to use

this and then broke the world record. It turns out that in Thorpe

is quite a fan. Hannah Miley. That is awesome, he knows my name. That

is pretty cool actually. I'm going I quite like being that bit

different. Saying I did 12 sessions a week, and they do a bit of rock

climbing, because not many other athletes do it. Have you ever been

scared of heights? Yes, my first climb, I got to halfway and then

thought, I have got to get down. I was actually quite scared. That

really hurts. The Chinese suction caps release any sort trigger

points, but it looks horrific when you see it happening. Patrick, your

schedule is not exactly easy. Father, coach, inventor and

helicopter pilot. Well, that pays the bills! That is my job, my

profession. I flew in the army, and I have been flying on the North Sea

for almost 22 years. How difficult do you find it when you see your

daughter struggling? I don't find it difficult because, as a coach,

it is information. It is pretty clinical poolside. If she does get

ill during a session, pushes herself and gets sick, that is part

of the process. I am not a fan of This is a very different setting to

those training in Loughborough would be used to. Yes, you have got

so much support behind your club and the young ones, and that's what

makes it all the more special. It is a nice get away. If you want to

come and hide somewhere and chain without being disturbed, come here.

Hannah Miley doesn't have a great butterfly. After that she is really

good. I am now going into the event with a bit more experience, a bit

more know how, and hopefully nothing should faze me. Hannah

Miley swam so well, but she has come up for the... For every missed

opportunity, like getting 4th again, it is a huge driving.. You don't

want that to happen again. You use it as fuel to come back fighting

faster and stronger next time this championships. Hannah Miley of

Great Britain does in Laina seven and has a chance of a medal here. A

very good chance indeed. The fastest qualifier. That was

Championships in Shanghai. Stephanie Rice at the top in that

Yellow Hat of Australia. The world record holder. She has said it

twice. Three-time Olympic champion. Expect her to go out reasonably

well on this first leg, and hopefully Hannah Miley down in a

lane seven doesn't lose too much on this leg. This is by far her

weakest leg, and then she starts coming back. Yes, Hannah does leave

a lot for the breaststroke leg. She won't impact Stephanie Rice on the

backstroke. Beisel has got a fantastic backstroke. This morning

she stormed through the field on the back straight. - Mark --

backstroke. Belmonte Garcia has been leading in this. Hannah is not

not been fit. Just two from the bottom there again, Hannah Miley.

She is in seventh position at the moment that she has a cracking

restaurant. This is not a bad position for her at all. If she is

going to win the Olympics she is going to have to improve her but of

like a bit but she is looking good at the moment. I think Stephanie

Rice is having a great swim. This is more than -- more of a lead than

I thought she would have. I am not sure if her fitness can take her

through this race. Leverenz having a bit of a shocker. So rise over

first at the halfway stage. Biesel second. Hannah Miley needs to start

moving. She is just one lane closer to us than that silver hat at the

bottom of the Czech swimmer. She is about two metres behind her. Coming

back but the rest of the field is coming back, too. She is hunting

for the bronze medal. The Czech swimmer or won her heat this

morning. Biesel's breaststroke is pretty ropey but it is effective.

This is better than this morning. I think Stephanie Rice's energy is

going. The silver medal could still be up for grabs. Biesel is in a

good position. Miley coming through into third place. You see a black

hat there and I think Stephanie Rice is there for the taking.

is very exciting indeed. Biesel in the centre for the USA but it looks

like Hannah Miley may even turn second here. She is in third. On

the right hand side here. Now the rest of the field will start coming

in and can Hannah Miley is to make a decent but the plight? Backstroke

OK and a really good breaststroke but the rest of the field is

starting to come back fast. cannot see here but the Chinese

swimmer has a great freestyle. In a lane five, Belmont he is not going

to give it up too easily. This is looking ominous. You cannot quite

see it but the 15-year-old Chinese swimmer is coming back. But still

very good from Hannah Miley and she could well get a medal. It will be

very tight. Biesel will get the gold. It is a silver for Hannah

Miley! Well done. My goodness, what a fantastic last 200 metres that

was, there, from Hannah Miley! Good swimming because she was a way back,

eighth after the flies. I think Stefanie rise to just got in and

emptied The Tank completely and Hannah Miley was going through the

wall, which is how you should always finish a race. A good swim

from Biesel who won the race. Stephanie Rice blew all her energy.

She has not been training that well. Struggled in training. But a

fantastic swimmer from Hannah Miley. We cannot see her on this shot.

They are obviously concentrating on the world champion, Elizabeth

Biesel. Hannah Miley could will her best into the breaststroke and back

strain. -- Hannah Miley put her best into the breaststroke and

backstroke. Biesel nailed the gold medal. Delighted. It is a long race,

the 400m medley. Switching all the strokes. Hannah Miley paced that

really well, Andy. What do you think? I think it is quite

extraordinary, to be honest. Biesel's team-mates might win the

400m men's medley tonight. Coming back to Hannah, if only she could

get that flyer writer. She is so good at the rest of it! 400m

women's medley, Elizabeth Biesel from the USA. A really good silver

Hannah is having some galactic have done, which is important because it

is all about getting the best performance next year. The European

Championships went awesome and then a couple of Games felt tough but I

was really glad to get a medal, but this is the next closest thing to

the Olympics, so to get a medal in this...! You deserved it, 11

hundredths as well. Poor old Stephanie Rice but well done you!

thought, I have to get a medal, even if it is a bronze. I could see

the two Chinese girls coming. My little legs could not keep any

more! It was a really good. 0.1! But my little arms are long enough.

I watched your warm-up with your father. A very meticulous. You have

a great relationship. You are as, as anything. I know he knows what

he's talking about so I fully trust him. And just backed family bond

runs the -- deep between us. When he has the time to coach, because

half the time he is flying helicopters, so it is a fantastic

we can produce these results. It shows sometimes it is not about the

best facilities but the coaching. Also hard work. I have never known

anyone work as hard as you. You judge -- you do put the hard work

and Arras in. Yes. I am very CLARE BALDING Isn't she just lovely,

Smiley Miley, Hannah Miley? She gets the M glamourous into the

because of the Test and being don't on her ear. When you watch that

feature earlier, you are thinking, a plumber -- oh, please, with a

medal this time. And she has a silver medal and she has beaten the

Australian Stephanie Rice, who was walking behind, saying one one-

hundredth. Yes, Miley's fly is not a very strong. Biesel's fly is not

very strong either. You have always got a weakness to work on. But like

Hannah says, she does not want to work too much on her flight. That

is the balance to get right. Do you consolidate on what you are good at

all really work on your weaknesses? You do not want to miss any one of

them but if you spend a little bit more time on the butterfly and make

a big improvement, and try not to lose too much on the breaststroke

as well. She is not a big girl. It is not a cows -- case of pounding

more weights in the gym. In the water at you think and swimmers

have a good core but they actually float in the water. She does rock-

climbing. I love the relationship between here -- her and her father,

Patrick. I trained with him in Beijing. I found them such a

calming influence to be behind. Hannah was always smiling. Palming

-- Patrick was that calming influence around the pool. Just

explain to me, that was the British doctor coming in to take blood from

her ear. It is to test -- to test what you produce went Huke swim.

Short distance swimmers previews it and are able to push it and very

quickly. It went up and as she stopped swimming they wanted to see

how it slowly it was going back down. So the best thing is too not

produce very much? Sprinters produce a lot and longer distance

swimmers produce smaller amounts... Becky Adlington, when she swims,

reduces and flushes at the same time. That is what she does long-

distance. Sprinters produce a lot very quickly. You learn so much.

That feature beforehand was made for us by our Olympic dreams team.

We are very grateful to them for Next Saturday at 1pm on BBC One,

there will be a follow-up with Hannah and her father and exclusive

access to Jessica Ennis and her team and the triathlon athletes

ahead of London Olympics. The title of some of the year is pretty much

sewn up for the second year running. You would have to put Your Money on

Ryan Lochte. He has been phenomenal. Four gold medals so far in this

Championships and he has beaten Michael Phelps into second place in

two of them. To round of the week he had the 400m individual medley.

And also in this race for Britain in the centre. My goodness.

Unfortunately, you cannot really see with these pictures we are

getting from Chinese television because look at that, that is 30

metres on a 400m medley. swimmer in a lane Fife was in the

same heat as Lochte. The two people dominate this. It is a great

procession. It will become his fifth gold medals. What a great way

awesome. He wriggles down the straight a little bit. Look at his

hips. When you have a stronger leg kick, it makes it keeps a little

bit more stable. When you are moving one arm contrary to the

other arm, it will leave the hips out. When you have a very strong

kick, it just keeps your balance. So there is the world record line

and that is Michael Phelps' world record pace in. Phelps was not

quite so good on the breaststroke so Lochte, I think, will start

working it fairly sure it. Look at this, the halfway stage of the

men's 400m medley. Ryan Lochte, apart from his team-mate, is about

40 metres a head of the rest of the world. It is interesting cleric

staying close to him. I think the breaststroke might sort him out. --

it is interesting Clary staying close to him. Lochte has a strong

the restaurant and Clary. A bit stronger than Michael Phelps, not a

lot but I had always thought Lochte was quite strong on the

breaststroke. He has a fantastic freestyle comeback. Phelps was very

good indeed when he set that world record in the freestyle. It looks

like Ryan Lochte is winding it up. Great Britain's Roberto Pavoni,

seventh after the flight, eighth after the backstroke. He is going

again. The pictures will not show him at the moment. It is all about

Ryan Lochte or of the USA in the three or four seconds ahead of the

rest of them. Look at his legs! He is really quick down the second 50

metres of the 100m. He is getting further away from the world record.

Great discipline under water, though. Fantastic discipline when

he is so tired. Look at the dominance he is showing to the rest

of the world. What a great victory celebration he will have. Sir Ryan

Lochte of the USA is going to take the gold medal in the 400m medley.

That is 12 gold medals in total from the World Championships for

Ryan Lochte. Silver to Garrett for the USA and the bronze medal for

Horihata or of Japan. This chap actually E -- absolutely wonderful.

And at 26 years of age he's getting faster and faster. Lochte has put

the yards in, put the training in, born and brought up there.

team-mate Elizabeth Beisel is in the final of the women's 400-metre

medley. What a team that would be! the 5th time here in Shanghai. This

time, the men's 400m individual medley. A very tough programme he

medley. A very tough programme he has had, but a brilliant swimming.

Well done. It has been a long before you, hasn't it? Yes, I was

waiting around for my chance to have a race. I was pleased to get

into the final this morning. I am not so pleased with that. I felt

really tired going into it. I was hoping for a lot better. But taking

depositors out of the meet, this is my first World Championships, so I

can't be too upset. There were a few people expected to make that

final who were shocked this one. Yes, but it has been so close all

week. It has been fingernails on the touch. I shaved my head

yesterday thank God I did because I made it by 0.05. Just to be in

there was a real positive for me. I'm looking forward to next year.

Thank you. I suppose it really is a very

different experience, being in your first to final at a major

competition. Yes, being there with Ryan Lochte, his role model, that

is the person he aims to be, in a sense. Going through those nations.

He had a heart heat this morning. His best time actually would have

put him in 4th place. There are lots of positive to take away from

it. It is one of those things, at the end of a long week, he has

waited eight days for that moment, it can sometimes get tiring. Just

sum up the performance of Ryan Lochte this week, for people who

may be our only tuning in for the first time today. Just how good is

this guy and how much of him will we see in London? The guide is

phenomenal. Not just a fact he has won five gold medals. He is a

second Michael Phelps, in a sense. And to beat Michael Phelps on two

events, he has been dominating. And having those two from America. It

makes swimming exciting. Bringing in a few other people. We won some

exciting races. When you see the footage, you see how to swim, how

the best in the world do it. He is at his peak at the moment. It has

been a privilege to watch him. But it has been a frustrating year for

Fran Halsall. The British swimmer has only had four months of

training after an ankle operation just before Christmas, and it has

been a bit of a nearly week for her. She was 4th in the 400-metre

freestyle. Now she lines up in the final of the 50m freestyle. So, one

length of the poor. -- Cole. -- very fast start indeed. A good

Very good! Very, very good. Well done. The Swedish crowd have jumped

up and shouted for joy. And so they should. Finally, she has won the

one! Finally! Alshammar wins that. Kromowidjojo gets silver and

Veldhuis get bronze. Francesca Halsall came in 4th. There is one

excited lady. She got it from the start. A great start, kept her head

down. I'm not sure she breathed at all during that race. It was a good

victory. Fran Halsall just a little seven times at the World

Championships. She has got one gold, five silvers and one bronze. Now it

is too cold. To raise as a mark, while champion in the women's 50m

while champion in the women's 50m freestyle. -- to raise Alshammar. I

know you're not happy with 4th place, but there are always good

lessons to learn. I am really happy with that actually. I can't

complain. Normally you are not happy with anything unless it is a

medal. Usually I'm not but I didn't expect a medal coming into this

meet, so getting a 4th on the 50m is a big surprise. I came in 9th,

so it's a pretty good step up, I think. What are you going to do for

next year? It is a building block. I put my name in the hat for both.

Now I can get a good train -- Cheney ever Christmas, it will make

a big difference. I'm sure you're not going to give this up easily.

No, I broke my British record is still there, and no one has gone

faster than me in that, so I will come back on that next year. I will

have wanted to perform a 100m freestyle to relax me a bit texted.

Do you think the British crowd shouting and screaming will help?

Definitely. We have had a lot of close calls this meet. Quite a few

of us have just been outside the medals. If we can convert next year

will stop many congratulations. looked extremely happy. Yes, I am

over the moon. I managed Diss and a whole race without thinking about

the end result, which is hard when you are racing for medals. I tried

to focus and my start was better tonight. I couldn't be happier,

expressly after missing the gold yesterday. The start was great, but

the finish was really good this time. Yes, it was. That is the

important thing. You have just got to get back up there again. Luckily

I had the chance. I was over the moon. Just so happy. This should

give you great confidence going into next year. Will this be your

swansong, or will we wait and see? I don't know, I made my personal

best today. There is motivation and joy in the sport. See you this time

next year. Thank you. It is so much more fun when you are

winning. I know you are thrilled with that. Yes, we were training

friends for ages. We went to Germany together and she won a

silver medal in the Sydney Olympics in 2000. She is nearly 34 years of

age. The fact that we trained together, she is still improving.

That is one of her best times. Like Fran Halsall said, her best time in

a texted. She had the opportunity today to put it right.

In terms of Fran Halsall, potentially she has got another 12

years at this if out to mark his 34. Yes, one swimmer won a gold medal

at the age of 41. That is extraordinary. You just told me

that you can break your fingers when you finish. Yes, very much so.

When you try to spot the finish, when your arm is coming over, what

you see a lot of people during his finishing like this. The difference

between this and this is a hand length. You want to jab the ball

with your fingers. -- the wall. When you finish with a pointed hand,

you can bruise your hands. perfect freestyle technique looks

like what? OK, a masterclass! What a lot of people don't think is you

do this. What you actually do is when this arm comes back, your hips

go. Your arms come in at the top and then the kids go. York power

comes from your hips. He will sit on the 1,500. You will see the body

shape changed. That is where all the power comes from stock --.. It

is the same with golf and dancing. Now, there are world records and

then there are world records that are just so special, and everyone

in the swimming world has huge respect for the oldest world record

of the lot, which is Grant Hackett's 1500m. It was said way

back in 2001, and no one has been able to touch it, even through that

period of high tech suits. But, could be Chinese crowd lift their

man some young to break it? We join him with a two lengths to go. --

Kis of hungry is really motoring. The crowd are really hoping he can

wind up down this last few metres. A fantastic swim. He has broken the

field from the very beginning. He is the man of the moment. Sun Yang

will be there in London. You will be seeing this again. He may well

still get it. He looks absolutely brilliant. Oh, he has got the world

record! Unbelievable! Oh, my goodness! That is just incredible.

I can't believe he came back so fast. He must have come back in a

54! 54.1. My goodness! Why did he leave so much best -- left? He

could go so much faster than. Sun Yang of China has just broken the

oldest world record in the book. It was held by Grant Hackett of

Australia set more than 12 years ago. I just can't believe what I

have seen. Astonishing. Well, Grant Hackett knew that this world record

would go at some point, but I bet even he didn't think it would be

broken quite like this. Sun Yang made up two seconds, it was like he

pressed a button. Then the outboard motor came on. It is this whole

pacing thing. He goes out quite slowly and then just turns it on

and brings it back at the end. That last 50m, just to put it into

context, 25.9 seconds for that last 50m. A good 100 freestyler comes

back in 25 point zero seconds. That back in 25 point zero seconds. That

is phenomenal. Amazing. We love these World Championships

for these brilliant performances. I particularly loved to see a home

nation having something to roar about. And my word, they did there.

We have talked about home advantage in London for us, and you have seen

it with the Chinese team over here. This time, they have won 14 of 15

medals, twice what they won three years ago in the Olympics. There

are a few people who will be stars of next year, people to look out

for. Sun Yang will be going in the 15, before and possibly the two as

well. He will be another one to throw into the mix with in thought

and Michael Phelps. He has made an awful lot of difference for this.

Talking about Michael Phelps, the final race of this world swimming

championships, and the final race in his extraordinary career was the

4x100 medley relay. Michael Phelps said this will be his last World

Championships. He was on the butterfly leg in leg three. Great

World Championships. So 100m backstroke, bent breaststroke, then

fly, then freestyle. In lane number five is the German. He goes off

quickly always and do has not managed to bring it back

particularly fast. Liam Tancock is second to turn. We will see how

much he has got left because it think the medal ceremony has taken

it out of him. I cannot imagine now fantastic breaststroke in him. If

he can get this in 58 seconds or something like that, this will be a

great need for the Japanese. Look at this, Germany. Fascinating. I

thought America would be further ahead but they are now nearly two

metres behind. Japan go in first. Their summer has gone off like an

absolute rocket. -- swimmer. He is in lane six. Very quick indeed. And

the Americans struggling. Phelps there. The Japanese Soarer was

struggling a little bit there. -- swimmer. Japan, a real surprise is,

in first place. Germany next to. America only in fourth. Britain in

sixth. Going well. Michael Phelps in the black hat in the centre now.

He has a huge amount of work to do to give America a medal here. Japan

1, Germany two, Australia are still three. Australia have James

Magnussen on the back end, the 100m swim there. A very tight takeover

for the Japanese. Look at Nathan Adrian go. I am not sure if mad

descent can get a second and Adrian here. -- if Magnussen can get a

second on Adrian here. Magnussen is having a go. Adrian has absolutely

blown off. He is going to tire a little bit. Australia have only got

two medals so far and he has been part of both of them. He is coming

very fast. Nathan Adrian has got it. How close was that? He gets the

gold medal for the USA and finishes Michael Phelps' World Championship

career in wonderful style but heavens above, that was so close

that title for a second there that team Australia was going to get it.

The gold medal to the USA, silver to Australia, Germany get the

bronze and Britain did really well to get sixth. My Maghaberry Prison

did 47 at flat. -- Magnussen did 47 flat. Phelps on the left-hand side

shaking everybody's and as he well might. The greatest swimmer in

history and he has now got 33 World Championship medals. 33. But for a

long, long time, you have to say, not mucking about but nowhere near

where I expected them to be. the Japanese had a great start.

They did not have the freestyle. This is coming up to the end of the

flight. Phelps gave Adrian what we thought was a chance but in the end

that the great swim for him was over-stroked by Magnussen. It is

always a team effort. Team USA winning the gold medal. The men's

4X100m medley relay. And in doing so, more history made. Michael

Phelps finishing with four gold medals, two silver medals and one

good swim for them. CLARE BALDING So Michael Phelps

with his team-mates stepping up on to that podium for the last time at

a World Championships. A great career. The greatest swimmer the

world has ever known. 33 medals in total for him. The Olympics next

year will be his final event. And his coach has been talking to

Brilliant to see you. A different target next year than you did for

Beijing? A bit different. It will be a different experience. What

sort of things have been learnt here? It is extremely tough to stay

at the top. Exactly. What we have learned here is that Michael is

still competitive and he is still at or near the top so we are

pleased with where he is and we have plenty of time to get him

ready for next year. Is it good for Michael and for swimming that it

becomes more competitive now? Bryant brings at the best in

Michael and vice versa. Competition is always a good thing. -- Brian.

What will the competition be? will tell you soon.

When will the tellers? The American trials are the latest. They have

there's a month before the Olympics, June or July next year. You have

been on the phone this morning to the one person who is missing from

the jigsaw out there in Shanghai but will be back for London, Ian

Thorpe. He is training in Switzerland. What was his reaction

to what has been going on? He loved to the racing and the

competitiveness. That was probably aimed at the Lochte race and the

200m. How he is going to fit back into the relay team. It is a

challenge. He is down their training at the moment so while

everyone is at the World Championships, he is in Switzerland,

training as hard as he can. He is not taking this lightly. Add 15

years of age he was the world champion, then retired at 21 and

back at 28. He will make the team stronger. Is he happy with his

weight loss? He is shedding a lot of pounds. He has not competed

internationally for a lot of time. He is trained as hard as he can. He

is training with Aleksandr Popov's X coach. We will see what he comes

out with technically. He was always doing lots of 100m and now he is

doing a lot more sprint work which we have not seen before. He always

wanted to be a sprinter and not a middle distance swimmer. It is just

going to be so excited to see him come back! Team to be have done is

this World Championships with three gold medals, three silvers and

probably three or more swimmers thinking they could have done

better. Let's hear the reaction of the national performance director,

Michael Scott. Congratulations to you and your

team. A week of highs and lows but at the end we finished off very

strong and our strength as a team really came to the 4th. Irish unity

and helping us through the days of not so good performance. -- our

unity. We finished very strongly. Three gold medals and three silver

medals. Can we match that next year or meet the -- maybe do better?

had three fourth places that were 2.7 seconds away from the podium.

Our focus now is clear. The results of swimming have now become global

and it is a game of inches. We have to convert that going forward. Our

focus will be on those inches, and making sure we can but next year.

There were a lot of races won by hundredths of a second and

sometimes swimmers need to be reminded that every little

technique makes a difference? It is global and it is the World

Championships. We respect the opposition. All countries had their

highs and lows. What encourages us as a team is the depth of our

performances. FINA have a championship trophy. We finished

fourth on that, behind the USA, Australia and China. Top European

country. That is all positive for next year. We have a lot of

momentum going forward but we do do -- have to do the little things

table. 29 medals in total for the USA. China in second, Brazil had a

very good meet, Australia Pradeep poor by their standards. And Great

Britain there, not on there is carried -- Keri-Anne Payne's medal

from the open water, because these Mark, how would you rate that as a

performance? Like Michael said, they have done really well. There

are a lot of people we would expect to perform. Gemma Spofforth went in,

we knew she was demotivated, she had not had the best year. Frant

back in force. That could be turned into podiums. Lizzie Simmonds could

do better. Yes, James Goddard came fourth as well. There are a lot of

positives. There are a few things where we say, we could have done

better. That comes at every Championships. With a team of 40

people, the idea of getting all 45 in that the same time does not

happen. You have one or two that are off. Pavoni, six seconds off

his best. You have to welcome the positive side. And one of the big

areas that we have heard they have specific investments to work on his

the turns. Quite why that should be expensive to work on, I do not

know! Loughborough is where baby -- British swimming is based and there

they have a tracking system with a camera. Someone will move the

camera along and get the underwater at shots. They will get your

technique under water, video at the turns and the starts. They just

need to work on it an awful lot more. And they can have a look at

the slow motions of the man of the meet, Lochte. The positive things

is, like Becky says, there are still the buildings she can put

of years ago at the World Championships, we had 15, forget

the medals, 15 finalists. This time we had 22 finalist. That is a 50%

improvement on a couple of years ago. People making the top eight

and Beijing finals. They have a chance of picking something up.

six of the women were in two finals that our Olympic events. Thanks to

Mark for his impact of -- input this week and his demonstrations,

which ANA were popular. Thank you to our team in Shanghai. I do hope

you have enjoyed it. Roll on 2012. Athletics coverage is coming up

next on BBC Two. From all of us, Tancock! World champion again.

is going to be Franklin... A gold medal... Keri-anne Payne but it is

first and takes the gold medal. World champion... This is Michael