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our coverage of the 2013 world swimming Championships. | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
So far, Great Britain are yet to get amongst the medals but that could | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
change tonight. It is Robert rhetoric looking to make it onto the | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
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Barcelona. The third night of finals at the Palau Sant Jordi, in the | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
world swimming Championships. Kit Adlington and Mark Foster are | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
alongside me, as excited as everybody else, expecting four world | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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records could go. That is a real possibility. Katie looked amazing | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
earlier in the week. The fastest woman in a textile suit. I think the | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
record will go tonight and I'm looking forward to that race. | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
Gemma Spofforth 's world record could go to Franklin. , yes, icy | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Franklin got a medal the other night. Everything needs to go right | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
for a record to go. When someone is in form, we love watching people | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
break records. If you were going to put any money on it, Rueter admitted | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
type T. Last night she looked like she was easing up, and then she took | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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the world record. Yes, a lot of us are expecting it to go. And the | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
first race of the evening, Robbie Renwick, fourth fastest in | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
qualifying. How realistic are we in expecting him to go one better? | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
be honest, I do not think he will end up in the medals. Ryan Lochte is | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
in there, she gone it is in there. They probably have too much for him. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Let's see if he can do it. Huge sport for him from the British | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
contingent and does as well. Let's join our inimitable pairing of Andy | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
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Jamieson and Adrian Moorhouse to Renwick is in six, next to Ryan | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
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Lochte in five. A clean start. Robbie when make -- Renwick has got | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
a good start. As expected, right at the top in lane two there, the | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
Olympic champion is going for it. Interesting tactics. Yes, Agnelli is | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
trying to assert himself at the beginning of the race. A heck of a | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
lead right now but Ryan Lochte has probably seen him on the turn. Still | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
in a dominating position, though. This is fascinating. Poor old | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
Britain's Robin Rigg wake, in lane six, next to Ryan Lochte. -- Robert | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
Renwick. Now Robert Renwick has got to move if he's going to have the | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
chance of a medal. The Australian on the outside, on the bottom there, | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
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also going well. Can Yannick Agnel hold this lead? We know Renwick can | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
come back on the third part, though, so I would not write him off | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
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just yet. On the left hand side is Yannick Agnel, the Olympic champion. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Also coming back is done Neil is at in the centre. Can they catch | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Yannick Agnel? I do not think they can. Yannick Agnel gets the gold. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
This silver goes to Conor Dwyer of the USA and done Neil Izotov gets | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
the bronze. That is a huge surprise. -- Danila Izotov. That was the | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
nominal swimming. He did that in the Olympics and he shocked everyone | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
with his start. He never let the race go. Ryan Lochte came in fourth | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
in the end. What a wonderful performance. Huge support here. We | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
saw it in the relay when the guys one the four x 100 relay in the | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
first evening here. I am not sure if he can walk! He will be hurting. | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
Ryan Lochte was fourth by five hundredths of a second. That has | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
hurt him. What a great way to attack a World Championship final. He is | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
going to have had better strength and training than the media reports | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
have had. They have said he has had a troubled year, splitting from his | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
French coach, just starting with Michael Phelps' coach. We should not | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
write off anyone training with him even if it has only been a few | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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weeks. That is ridiculous, the clear water, on a 200m freestyle. It is | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
not bad. If you get rid of Michael Phelps it must be a massive hole and | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
then you add these two. I have to admire the bravery. So Olympic | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
champion becomes world champion on this men's 200m freestyle. One: | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
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did not take its normal pattern of an arrow head. Was it hard to | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
understand what was going on. usually stick to my own race plan. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
It does not matter what the other people do. It is something I can | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
look into for next season and maybe work on that and the homecoming | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
world championships next year so I have to be excited about that. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
consistent swims, though. That is pleasing in itself. Yes. Obviously, | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
I would have loved to have gone a bit faster. There is another chance | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
on Friday. How are the relay guys feeling? That is the only British | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
relay we have actually brought? Everyone is doing pretty good. The | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
last 48 hours have been amply wrapped up in my own head. I am just | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
taking it one event at a time and now my focus is going to be the | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
relay on Friday. How about next year? It will be a very special year | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
for you and I have fond memories of a few years ago. Great to have it in | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Glasgow, the Commonwealth Games. Yes, it will be a great event. There | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
are a couple of things I know I need to work on for next season as well. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
I am looking forward to trying to get my Commonwealth title back. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Robbie, understandably there, you can send his disappointment. It did | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
not go as he had imagined that I imagine in his head he was on the | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
rostrum in the last two days. definitely, but he came back strong | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
and stuck to his own race plan, which you have got to do. But he did | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
swim faster. It is really good to improve from semifinals to finals. | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
We have got a good relay. Hopefully they can swim a good one later on in | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
the week. It was an extraordinary race. It was all over the place and | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Rennick Agnelli, who we said yesterday what is going to happen | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
with him with his change of coach... -- Yannick Agnel. Some | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
people have said he's out of sorts. He's not a 100m swimmer but suddenly | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
went it is called upon and he needs to do it he can do it. He knew he | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
had an awful lot more, as did the others. I do not think Robbie should | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
be to disappointed. I would like to watch him work more on his | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
underwater phase. If he can improved that... He is number one in the | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Commonwealth and we have a lot of Commonwealth races coming up next | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
year. If you think about Yannick Agnel's decision to move to America, | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
as Olympic champion, it says a lot about a guy. Having an Olympic medal | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
is not enough, he wants more. always risky, moving coach. You | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
trust your coach so much and it takes time to build up that | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
relationship but he is obviously so talented and works so hard. But he | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
just raised it. He just went and straightaway. No one was really | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
going to touch him there. -- raced it. The women's one is backed next. | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
The Brit holds the record for this. But there is Missy Franklin also. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Missy Franklin, she's only 18 years of age. Look how hard she is working | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
in that rat cap. -- in that black swimming cap. The medal goes to the | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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USA! Said the final of the women's Franklin. A decent start, not the | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
best. She has probably come up seventh or so but in a line. It was | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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quite a ropey start. It must be pace. This is definitely on. Gemma | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
Sopwith came back but Missy Franklin is going well. Also the Australian | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
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in lane five and also Pelton in lane .42. Gold to Franklin, these silver | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
has gone to Emily Seebohm of Australia. The is appointing thing | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
is some of the... The way she swam that, I was surprised she did not go | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
out a little bit harder. The start was a bit ropey. The first 10m. I | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
would like to have a look at that again. She maybe does not have the | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
confidence of the start. She starts with two feet separated so she does | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
not have them together. One down. And it was that what like that | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
slipped last night and she looked a bit shaky. She popped up seventh. We | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
will have a look at the replay. You have to be happy with a gold medal. | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
I weep be surprised if she did not have the world record. That is not | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
helpful, is it? She was right in the middle of that lot. Emily Seebohm | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
has had a good race. I thought she was coming back towards the end, | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
just before the five metres. Closer than I thought. Much closer. That | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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surprises me. Beautiful. Lovely, still head will stop -- lovely, | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
still head. She burst on the scene last year with four Olympic gold | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
medals. We all wanted to see another superstar, I guess. So it Missy | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Franklin has the World Championship title and adds it to the title she | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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but she did take the gold. Gemma Spofforth still holds that world | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
record. It looks like it will come in time. Yes, someone of her | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
calibre, you think she would start coming up ahead of everyone else. If | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
she gets it underwater, the dolphin phase, we call it, if she gets that | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
right and goes to 50m like you see Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte do, | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
there is a lot more to come. There was only going to be one winner from | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
the start, really. You do not have someone pushing you the whole way, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
do you feel a bit comfortable? not think she would go out that | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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world record will go. But it was an amazing race. I am really looking | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
forward to her 200. From the British perspective they are not a | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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million miles away from making the We have three semi-finals for you | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
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Murphy has got away pretty good, but he has got some work to do. The | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
big guys are in the centre. Look how powerful they are. This is | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
really impressive stuff. Damir Dugonjic is going well. He is going | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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to get it. Barry Murphy finished in Cameron van der Burgh. I think he | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
might do it. The crowd were not quiet, but he got off to a great | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
start. Cameron van der Burgh is often an absolute blinder. It is | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
his own world record. Look at the speed of those legs going through a. | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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Also going really well is the Swede. Just outside again. He is going to | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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qualify in one of the centre lanes That was probably the least likely | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
of the four potential world records, she says, covering herself. Cameron | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
van der Burgh is looking good and could go even quicker in the final. | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
The world record is 26.6. 26.7 this morning and 26.8 tonight. The | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
timing is so much more important. The boys were saying in the | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
commentary if it is slightly out, it does not work. His timing is | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
spot on and he is trying to break his world record because he knows | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
he is in a league of his own. the women's 1,500m freestyle. And | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
Jazmin Carlin did not qualify for this. After her disappointment in | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
the 400 we were hoping she would get back into the water and give | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
herself a chance. I know you have a spoken to her directly, but how is | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
she? I spoke to build and it was a big race for her. She is | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
disappointed, she has come 4th and 9th. I think she is looking at the | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
positive. She has got the 800 to come. It might work in her favour. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
She might get a bit more rest than the other girls and hopefully get a | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
medal in the eight hundreds. Katie Ledecky is the one to watch and | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
there is the world record again. What are you feeling about the | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
1500? I think the world record will go. She swam amazingly in the 400. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
She looked in control and did not look that tired at the end of it. | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
She is more suited to the distance. It will be interesting to see how | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
she goes out and how she paces it. I know you enjoyed your time in the | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
commentary box, so I am going to let you go and have a good time | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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with the boys. Let's state in the be. This is a battle royal. Katie | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Ledecky of the USA is closest to us and she is starting to make a move | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
on Lotte Friis. She made that move at 300 metres. She is starting to | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
go again. This is real cat and mouse, Adrian. Yes, it is. Lotte | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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Friis has dropped the pace. She has dropped half a second. Katie | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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Ledecky is consistent. What do you think? Becky? It seems like she has | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
got into a group. Completely. I think it will stay this way and | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
sell the very last minute. Katie Ledecky is going to go for it with | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
about 200 to go. Whether Lotte Friis sticks with her or not, we do | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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not know yet. And who has the best sprint? I would say Katie. Lotte | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
Friis pulled out of the 400m early in the week because she was more | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
focused on the distance events. But Katie Ledecky has got that next | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
step, but it is just whether she has got it after 1,500m. They are | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
still five seconds ahead of the world record. And less anything | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
significant happens, the world record will go. Also in lane seven | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
is Lauren boil. Mireia Belmonte Garcia has got some way to go it | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
she wants to get a medal. She always comes back strong, so it | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
will be interesting to see what happens. It will be difficult for | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
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her to catch Lauren boil. 1,000m in the file of the 1,500m and it has | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
been like this all the way through. Lotte Friis of Denmark, in the | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
white cap, and Katie Ledecky closest to us, of the USA, in the | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
black cap. Only the second woman in history to go under four minutes in | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
that 400m freestyle. That gap is so tight. It seems like Katie Ledecky | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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caught up with Lotte Friis and matched the pace. She is not taking | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
it on to the next level. It must be hard when you catch somebody up to | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
keep driving ahead. I think it is a little too soon to make the break | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
to try and go. They have still got 400m to go, so maybe in about 200m | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
we will see one of them try and break. It is Lotte Friis and Katie | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
Ledecky, as they have from the gun, absolutely gone neck-and-neck. I | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
think the gap between the gold and the silver and the bronze, Lauren | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Boyle, is getting slightly smaller. I do not think she will catch the | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
two leaders, but it is definitely getting shorter. Definitely. Lauren | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Boyle is closing the gap. But I think she has got to fight to catch | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
up. There will be a fantastic sprint at the end. It is going to | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
come down to the last 50. excited can we get here? Very. | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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a little! There are 300 metres to go. First over his Lotte Friis. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Hardly one hundredth of a second has changed between these two when | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
all the way through this race. It is really quite extraordinary. The | :25:01. | :25:10. | |
fastest qualifier was Lotte Friis. Behind there was Katie Ledecky, 81 | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
hundredths of a second. I worry a little bit for Lotte Friis because | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
I think this print of Katie Ledecky is a bit better. Lauren Boyle is in | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
the bronze-medal position. What do you think Becky? When she breeds | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
the opposite way to Lotte Friis, she drops off a bit and Lotte Friis | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
tries to go for it a bit more. are both breathing away from each | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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other. Katie Ledecky has finally taken over. I wonder if this is | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
where she makes her move? Lotte Friis has led for the past 1200 | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
metres. Lotte Friis of Denmark is in the white hat. It looks like | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
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Katie Ledecky is making a move. be honest it is the right time. She | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
deals she has got enough left. have to save something for the end. | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
In distance events you do not see a lot of kicking. But Lotte Friis is | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
hanging on. They have got equal terms. Nobody is gaining over the | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
turns. It is going to be interesting. With 100m to go, the | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
final turn of the final of the 1,500m freestyle. It looks like | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
Katie Ledecky has made her big move. Can she hold on? The world record | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
is going to be shattered. Katie Ledecky of the USA is starting to | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
us were aware from Denmark's Lotte Friis. What an amazing swimmer she | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
has been. She has made the move and I am not sure Lotte Friis can | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
respond to this. I think Katie is a clear winner here. She is more | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
focused on the distance. Look at her. What an unbelievable race this | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
has been. She looks so powerful. This is really impressive stuff. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
The 16 year-old, the Olympic champion, she is going to destroy | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
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the world record on this 1500. The world champion and the new world | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
record holder is Katie Ledecky of the USA. Lotte Friis of Denmark | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
gets up the silver, also under the world record pace. The bronze medal | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
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goes to Lauren boyo of New Zealand. What a superb race it was. She led | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
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with 200m to go. Sheet at two seconds out of Lotte Friis. Lotte | :28:28. | :28:38. | |
Friis is just above her. A new world record. She destroyed the old | :28:38. | :28:48. | |
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world record. A good bronze from That is two for your collection, a | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
few more to come. Definitely, I am taking each race at a time, but so | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
far I am very happy. Did that one go to plan? Lotte Friis put in some | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
speed early on. She was very impressive yesterday in the | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
preliminaries and I knew she was going to be very tough. We pushed | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
each other all the way and it was a matter of toughness at the end. | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
you enjoy swimming at 1500? Is there any fun in that hard work? | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Yes, it is fun swimming in an international race with the world's | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
best. It is good to know your swimming is the best in the world. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
They are such good people and you meet them afterwards at the medal | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
ceremony. The world record means something special. I have been | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
pretty close in a number of events, so to finally get one means the | :29:45. | :29:55. | |
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perfect. She let Lotte Friis do all the hard work and then pick it up at | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
the perfect opportunity. She knew she had enough. A bit more sprint | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
than Lotte Friis, so she picked it up with 200m to go. It was the right | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
decision as well. She just smashed that world record. And it had stood | :30:29. | :30:37. | |
for some time as well. She is an absolute star of the sport. Yes, she | :30:37. | :30:44. | |
is going to take distance soaring to another level again. It is | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
interesting to see what she does at the end of the freestyle. We had | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
all, in inverted commas, written off Lotte Friis a little bit, well, we | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
thought she would come second. When he watched Katie | :30:59. | :31:09. | |
:31:09. | :31:11. | ||
Ledeckypossess-mac/, it is almost like a -- when you watch her | :31:11. | :31:20. | |
movements it is like Michael Phelps. Watch out Jazmin Carlin, they knew | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
world record could be coming. towards the end of the week, I do | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
not know how Boyle will cope with doing the 400m eccentric. She did | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
not make the final here at it may be a bit of a positive in that she may | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
have a bit more left in her tank than the other girls. But I think | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
Katie Ledecky will smash my world record! And you have a smiling face | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
saying that because it is about the progress of the sport. Yes, five | :31:55. | :32:05. | |
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years is a long time. It is the men's 100m that stroke. -- | :32:05. | :32:15. | |
:32:15. | :32:38. | ||
three from the Frenchman. He has got about three or four tenths right | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
:32:48. | :32:56. | ||
from the start. Absolutely. Stravius is on form. A great turn from | :32:56. | :33:06. | |
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Grevers. He burst out. Fantastic. to the USA as well. The bronze medal | :33:20. | :33:30. | |
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has gone to the Frenchman, Jeremy Stravius. That is the first USA 1-2 | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
and it is a big one. We were not sure whether Grevers was going to | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
come here in the first place or whether he would be on form to break | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
the world record, but he's world champion. The Lowe yes. Not the | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
fastest race. A second of the world record but Matt Grevers dug in deep | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
there. Stravius had a good turn as well, I thought. He just did not | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
quite have it in the last five metres. He will be relieved to get | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
the gold medal. World champion, Olympic champion in two consecutive | :34:12. | :34:21. | |
years. It is a good place to be. When he was tying up inside these | :34:21. | :34:31. | |
:34:31. | :34:40. | ||
turn, and Stravius, too. His turn was great when he burst up to the | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
surface and have the next two strokes all in one. Just a little | :34:47. | :34:57. | |
:34:57. | :35:10. | ||
following Olympic title but he won last year in London, Matt Grevers of | :35:10. | :35:20. | |
:35:20. | :35:26. | ||
the USA, David Plummer with silver, is how I swim. The harder I train, | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
the slower I go. So when I rest a tonne, that means I can usually show | :35:31. | :35:40. | |
up. Are you aware of how much you swim up on everybody else. I have to | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
see the video. I have been struggling the last couple of months | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
so it is good to know I have my old stuff back. | :35:48. | :35:51. | |
So Matt Grevers, the Olympic champion, is now the world champion. | :35:51. | :35:59. | |
Just as a little bonus as well, it is USA 3-1 France and the night. -- | :35:59. | :36:08. | |
on the night. Michael Phelps gave up and he is the linchpin. All of a | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
sudden you have got other people that step into his boots. They have | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
had great performances. That was all about the race. It was not a fast | :36:17. | :36:27. | |
:36:27. | :36:27. | ||
time. Even Lacourt, who was European champion in 2009... He is a big lie. | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
How much does it help having your compatriots swimming alongside you. | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
It was interesting, the line-up there. You have the two Frenchman, | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
the two Japanese, the two Americans there. I just think it gives you | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
that lift. You are comfortable resting them. I used to love racing | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
Joe Jackson. We knew each other, we knew our styles and we pushed each | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
other on and inspired each other. They would have given each other | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
that beast and lift am especially if they do work together a lot in | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
training. They will definitely be competitive with each other, not | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
just anyone else. Let's move on. It is the women's 200m freestyle | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
:37:19. | :37:37. | ||
semifinals. The one that you say is these ladies, I probably should have | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
said it before they started, be very careful because in the second | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
semifinal, the top five grams women this year of all in the second | :37:46. | :37:53. | |
semifinal. Yes, it is a completely different semifinal. But we have a | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
lot of people here who got their best times to modify, but the best | :37:59. | :38:08. | |
swimmers in the world are in the next final. It is based on time. The | :38:08. | :38:15. | |
15-year-old Chinese swimmer is going for it, head of record pace. | :38:15. | :38:22. | |
Federica Pellegrini set the world record. She goes unbelievably slow | :38:22. | :38:29. | |
for the first 100 and ridiculously fast for the second. The halfway | :38:29. | :38:39. | |
:38:39. | :38:42. | ||
turn in the first semifinal. And Katina Hosszu looks good. -- Katinka | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
:38:52. | :38:53. | ||
Hosszu. And Costa-Schmid is starting to take the lead. She has moved over | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
to the other side of the lane as well to get away from Katinka | :38:56. | :39:05. | |
Hosszu. She is leaning away from Katinka Hosszu now, which will not | :39:05. | :39:15. | |
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help. We need 1.57 to make final. There are five very fast women in | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
the second semi. This will be really tight and extremely important that | :39:23. | :39:31. | |
they get may be one of the first two positions. Schmidt wins it. Second, | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
Palmer, Bonnet third. I tell you what, this is going to be really | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
tough to make the final because that was a very good semifinal. | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
Costa-Schmid winning the first semifinal, pretty quick. Kylie | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
Palmer second. Katinka Hosszu is in a dangerous position in four. Here | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
is the league second semifinal. The fastest five women in the world are | :40:01. | :40:11. | |
in two, three, four, five and six. The fastest qualifier is the Olympic | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
:40:21. | :40:22. | ||
champion in lane four. With the blackout of Italy, -- with the black | :40:22. | :40:32. | |
:40:32. | :40:36. | ||
swimming hat of Italy, Federica Pellegrini. She comes back quickly. | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
Franklin in second place. Interesting to see how much energy | :40:43. | :40:52. | |
she has after that final. So there is the white hat of France and the | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
black hat of the USA. Federica Pellegrini is not as far behind as | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
she normally is at the 100m. She has been super quiet this year. She is | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
in a good position. She would normally be a little further down | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
the map. She will have to make a move on this 50m though. Missy | :41:16. | :41:23. | |
Franklin making a bit of a move there. The field is closing up. It | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
:41:33. | :41:34. | ||
looks like the race to the top of the picture... The Swedish swimmer | :41:34. | :41:44. | |
:41:44. | :41:44. | ||
looks good. It looks like Camille Muffat of France in the centre with | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
the black hat is starting to come back. We saw a really quick first | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
semifinal. These women have got to get in. Pellegrini coming in in the | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
black hat in the centre. This is good. She will go in the final, | :42:04. | :42:14. | |
:42:14. | :42:16. | ||
fastest. Franklin second, Muffat heard. A fast semifinal. | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
Confirmation of the result of that second semifinal. The world record | :42:19. | :42:27. | |
holder, Pellegrini, winning it. Shannon Vreeland of the USA has made | :42:27. | :42:37. | |
:42:37. | :42:41. | ||
from the second, led by the world record-holder. Missy Franklin is in | :42:41. | :42:51. | |
:42:51. | :42:52. | ||
it so far here in Barcelona. But next it is the semifinals of the | :42:52. | :43:00. | |
men's 200m fly and Roberto Pavoni of Great Britain is looking for a fast | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
time to get him through to the final. Do you remember Chad Le | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
:43:17. | :43:29. | ||
Clos? If you do not, you will men's 200m fly. -- first semifinal | :43:29. | :43:39. | |
:43:39. | :43:45. | ||
far to the side to breathe on butterfly. A lot of the guys this | :43:45. | :43:51. | |
morning while holding back, not least Chad Le Clos. We watched him | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
right through to the last two metres of the race just checking on | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
everybody else, on their whereabouts. You have to play it a | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
bit more seriously here. Very easy. Chad Le Clos is not trying very | :44:07. | :44:17. | |
:44:17. | :44:18. | ||
hard. He's going to go 1.55 or something. He is taking it steady. | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
Lane four, third position, way off world record. They are not going | :44:23. | :44:31. | |
quickly. Always dangerous. There is a huge world record by Michael | :44:31. | :44:40. | |
Phelps. He is looking around again. What do you think of this? He is | :44:40. | :44:48. | |
going, OK, I am going to turn it on at this turn. He is turning in | :44:48. | :44:58. | |
:44:58. | :45:28. | ||
second position but it is just it? He put his head down for three | :45:28. | :45:35. | |
strokes. That was the laziest semi- final I have ever seen. He has got | :45:35. | :45:45. | |
:45:45. | :45:46. | ||
another few seconds on that. looked comfortable. The second | :45:46. | :45:56. | |
:45:56. | :46:00. | ||
semi-final. The two big Americans are right in the centre. Tyler | :46:00. | :46:10. | |
:46:10. | :46:17. | ||
Clary is the fastest qualifier. The world champion from 2005. The | :46:17. | :46:27. | |
:46:27. | :46:28. | ||
Chinese men in the first semi-final took it out very hard. Yin Chen's | :46:28. | :46:35. | |
best time is 54.438. I think this will be a faster semi-final. In the | :46:35. | :46:41. | |
first one they were messing around a little bit. Well, maybe the rest | :46:41. | :46:51. | |
:46:51. | :46:55. | ||
weren't, but Chad Le Clos was. A very interesting line-up at this | :46:55. | :47:03. | |
100m. They are a bit quicker. They are all in a line and they will | :47:03. | :47:12. | |
have to work pretty hard to make a break. It looks like Tom looks | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
:47:22. | :47:32. | ||
saner is going well. His first ever Korzeniowski had a bit look around | :47:32. | :47:42. | |
as well. -- a big look. It was very noticeable. He is looking to see | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
where they are. He is going to have to keep ongoing. That is | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
:47:59. | :48:01. | ||
fascinating. Not particularly fast. Chad Le Clos is going to go into | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
:48:11. | :48:30. | ||
the final fastest and Korzeniowski You looked as if you were out for a | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
bit of a stroll to date. No, that is the way I race. I always get a | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
bit nervous and I wanted to make sure I was in the right position. | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
Sometimes I have to look over to see where I am, but I am happy with | :48:46. | :48:52. | |
the time. I am excited. What has your year been like a Stimac it | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
must be very depressed with a change of life from last year. | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
After the Olympics last year I came back to South Africa and had a huge | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
welcome and having the support of everybody back home and new fans | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
around the world helped me get better. We bump into you back at | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
the stadium and with Mark Foster and we had a good chat with him. | :49:17. | :49:27. | |
:49:27. | :49:28. | ||
has an arm problem and he tore his bicep. Did you beat him?Not yet. | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
Tell us about the sharks. Yes, next month we are going to dive with | :49:34. | :49:41. | |
Michael Phelps in the shark cage diving. Good luck with that one. | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
The men's 200m fly, the man who made it look very easy in | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
qualifying for the final. The Olympic champion, this layer of | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos. saw him in the last length looking | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
around, almost played with the others. When it comes to the final | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
it will be a different story. He was relaxed and confident and | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
nobody ever saw him beating Michael Phelps at the Olympics and suddenly | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
now he is the main man to beat. He is immensely talented. He looked | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
very easy and very comfortable. How regular is it that you look around | :50:22. | :50:28. | |
like that? The it is very rare. He is a few seconds off what he did | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
last year and I think he has got more to come. It looked so easy. I | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
am excited to see what more there is and if he can beat what he did | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
last year. We have a very exciting finale. Last night we saw something | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
very special indeed from the Lithuanian Plymouth-based swimmer | :50:48. | :50:55. | |
Ruta Meilutyte. Ruta Meilutyte of Plymouth and Lithuania, the 16 | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
year-old a champion. That was extraordinarily fast. Look at that. | :51:01. | :51:08. | |
This is fascinating. She has got it. She can go even faster. What a | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
great swim that was. The Olympic champion is now the world record | :51:12. | :51:22. | |
:51:22. | :51:34. | ||
with a green hat, from Lithuania. A wonderful start from the new world | :51:34. | :51:44. | |
:51:44. | :51:44. | ||
record holder. 29.97. Going West her his Jessica Hardy in the black | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
hat. She has the best reactions. I have never seen anyone react so | :51:50. | :51:57. | |
well to the gun. Actually that was quite slow. She has to come back | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
quite strongly, I do not think the field can challenge her. Jessica | :52:03. | :52:12. | |
Hardy is to the right of her, and Yulia Efrimova. Jessica Hardy is | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
trying to come back, but it looks like it is going to be Ruta | :52:16. | :52:25. | |
Meilutyte. Is she going to become the world champion as well? Just | :52:25. | :52:33. | |
outside again. Seven-tenths of a second outside the world record, | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
but she is the world champion, and I think she is delighted. Good | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
heavens. She went out much more measured. But goodness me, she can | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
bring it back. It was a very strong race. It is very difficult to say, | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
can you break another world record, please? The point of a world record | :52:57. | :53:06. | |
is that nobody has ever swam quicker than the record. She has | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
got the world championship gold medal and the world record in the | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
same meet. That is fine. She won the Olympic Games one seconds | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
slower than that. Gold medallist at the Olympics, won four seconds | :53:21. | :53:29. | |
slower. She has improved one second. Where is she going? At that age | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
improvement is consistent. You would assume sea has got more time | :53:33. | :53:38. | |
in her. John her coach in Plymouth has been talking about how she can | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
improve. She herself has been saying she can improve as she is | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
hungry to understand where she can improve. I do not know how her | :53:47. | :53:54. | |
pacing went today. She is may be slower than she or John would have | :53:54. | :54:04. | |
:54:04. | :54:13. | ||
hoped her to be. 0.13 at the 50 and 0.07. Such fine margins. It is | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
pretty much right on the best time she set last night. When she | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
reflects back on this tomorrow she will be pretty happy with her | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
performance in the three races. will be utterly delighted. She has | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
come to the world championships in Barcelona one year after winning | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
:54:41. | :54:45. | ||
the Olympics. Ruta Meilutyte of Weld's Champion to add to your list | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
of world record holder and Olympic champion. You get used to this? | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
really, because there is always a big surprise. We were talking about | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
the fact that grandma got in last year, but that did not. Is he here | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
today? Yes, my dad and my grandmother and my brother. | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
what about you coach Christie might he is here with the team, so he is | :55:12. | :55:20. | |
always here all the time with me. Why were his instructions to you? | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
know the strategy, just go out there, do my own race and not think | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
about anyone else and not let anyone go past me. And you have got | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
all your mates at home in Plymouth. Say hello to them. They are | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
cheering you on. Fantastic and well done to you and we are very proud | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
of you as well. What comes through from that interview is just how | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
young she is. She is a prodigious talent with the world at her feet. | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
She definitely is, she is really shy and it is nice to see that. But | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
she is an unbelievable athlete and we feel she is a little bit British | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
and I am sure people at home will be watching her and cheering her on. | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
A school friends and people she lives with art in Plymouth. She has | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
got a British coach and she is based in Britain and where are the | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
Brits coming through in that area? We have not seen many Brits getting | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
into finals. It has been a bit disappointing across the board. | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
There are another five days to go and some big names to go like | :56:24. | :56:31. | |
Hannah Miley and Fran Halsall, but historically we have been put at | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
the Junior European Championships. We win races and do a lot better | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
than other European countries like France. But they turn their junior | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
athletes into world beaters and that is what we have to do. We have | :56:45. | :56:50. | |
the talent. What is missing?If they go to the right coaches, | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
whether they are getting the right training. How do you keep them in | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
the sport when they are 15 or 16? The normal things like distractions | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
in life? In if we did it, other people can do it. There is some | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
ingredient missing, I do not know what it is. I do not know quite | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
what. I'd guess having had you at the forefront of British swimming | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
in recent years and there as a role model, they know it can be done, | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
Britain can be a winner on a world stage. These championships were | :57:26. | :57:33. | |
always going to be weird because the head coaches have only been in | :57:33. | :57:40. | |
since April. They have not a hand or had the time to introduce the | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
things they want to put into place, but I think they can. We have got | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
good junior people coming up, but it will take a bit of time to do | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
that. There will be a gradual build-up to rear. We have got lots | :57:55. | :58:05. | |
:58:05. | :58:11. | ||
If you are looking at the semi- finals I would go with Federica | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
Pellegrini and Missy Franklin, but in a final people find a bit of an | :58:16. | :58:24. | |
extra bit. Cameron van der Burgh chasing his own record. Coverage on | :58:24. | :58:29. |