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Linford Christie! And the British captain is the Olympic champion! | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
They are going for gold! She is getting the cheer of the games. He's | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
one nothing but admiration. Some cities can inspire. That is utterly | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
brilliant! That is a fantastic silver medal for Britain! But this | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
isn't just any city. This is Barcelona. Welcome to the World | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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highlights of the World Swimming Championships. Our BBC new girl | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Rebecca Adlington and Mark Foster have been beside me for the last | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
week or so. We look back on a great week of racing here over the next | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
hour and a half. The stars have shone brightly just as they did in | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
London a year ago, and if you need a minder of the biggest names in | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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swimming, have a look at this. -- if this! | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
One of those stars up first is coming in the 400 meter freestyle, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Sun Yang took gold in that event in London and he is looking for a | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
golden trouble here in Barcelona. Look out as well for 17-year-old | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
James Guy. This is his first major swimming Championships, could be | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
swimming Championships, could be something big. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
The 17-year-old has done a wonderful thing by getting to the final. Well | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
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pace, Sun Yang of China and his strength is the second half but | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
still going very well, the 17-year-old from Britain. But there | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
are Sun Yang in the centre. James Guy on the right-hand side of the | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
shot, and it is difficult to follow for these -- from these picture, I'm | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
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afraid. James Guy, third or fourth. The 23rd from Washington, in the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
black cap, they've been talking quite highly of that guy. They are | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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pinning some hopes on Yeager. Sun Yang comes back as a rocket. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Interestingly, he set such a hard pace. 100 metres to go in the final | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
of this freestyle. And Sun Yang is behind the world-record pace. Has he | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
gone out to quick? He is so fast coming back. Sun Yang is leading. At | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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the top, is the American. Sun Yan has spotted him. Down the bottom, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
James Guy is paying for his first hundred metres. He is an eighth | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
place, tailing off. But Sun Yang, they have taken the world record of | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
our image because he has fallen short of that now. So, he does come | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
back very fast indeed. He has a spurt. He's going to be just outside | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
the world-record. He was on pace all the way through. Hagino, a great | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
swim from him. Colin Jaeger has got the bronze. James Guy has finished | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
in fifth. His first final, very good indeed from the young Brit, 17 years | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
of age. But the champion, Sun Yang of China. That was a great swim from | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
him. He has not had the best of years, but to get to 3.41 is very | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
good indeed. The Japanese, Hagino, came through. He seems to be | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
challenging Brian Lochte for those titles. James Guy, that must have | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
hurt him, one for the future. Confirmation of the result of the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
first final. Sunny Yang wins gold, Hagino of Japan, a great medal for | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
them. Jaeger in third. James Guy in them. Jaeger in third. James Guy in | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
fifth. Sun Yang, a superstar. He has had his problems since the Olympics. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
He has had to change training camps, and this is an emotional week for | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
him. It was a huge swim and you can see how much these races mean to | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
him. Changing coaches, that can be an adaptation period, but it shows | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
you he's got everything right again. His training has one very well. It | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
is a matter of when he breaks that world-record. He is so far ahead of | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
the rest of the field, it is about him and the clock. Hagino, and name | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
to look out for. 18 years old. Our compatriots from Japanese television | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
have got a massive cutout form him. They're expecting big things. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
are comparing him to Phelps. He has got a big week as well. He's got a | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
lot of races. It would be nice to see what he can do. It is going to | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
be a good week from him, and hopefully he can get some models. | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Testing the water at these championships and seeing what it is | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
all about, it is all in the build-up. Boys of 17 or 18 are in a | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
perfect position to Rio. They are getting up there, but they are | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
probably likely to be on the podium in Rio. The other problem for him, | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
getting labelled the next Michael Phelps by your country is a tall | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
order. American teenage sensation Ledecky is also going for a golden | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
trouble. She sprang to our attention in London winning gold in the 800 | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
metres. Her first event, the 400 metres freestyle. Have a look out | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
for a resurgent Jaz Carlin, who seems to have found form once more | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
seems to have found form once more since Becky's retirement. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Katie Ledecky, the fastest qualifier, but Jaz Colin goes in | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
three, and she looked very good in the heats. -- Jaz Carlin. Coming up | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
to the halfway mark. Katie Ledecky has gone off like a shot. She is | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
under the world-record. I can tell you that Great Britain's Jaz Carlin | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
now in sixth, she is moving through the field and looking good. Becky, | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
what do you think about her? She is in a good position. Katie is next to | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
her, it is disheartening to see how far ahead she is, but she is in a | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
great position, so, hopefully, she can bring it back. She's looking | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
good. She has gone into fourth position. I think Ledecky is going | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
to probably smash this world-record. It'll be interesting to see whether | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
Jaz Carlin can get ahead of the Spanish girl, in second place. Jaz | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
Carlin, third place now. Kapas is also there. Camille Muffat down the | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
bottom has gone. So, 100 metres to go, Ledecky, ahead of world-record | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
pace and she is looking very strong indeed. Ledecky leads, second is the | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
Spaniard. Lauren Boyle is third. Jaz Carlin has moved up to fourth. This | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
is the strongest part of her race. World-record is still on there, but | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Katie Ledecky has to keep on pushing. Will it go? She looks | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
absolutely. It was always Pellegrini is, the record. But she's going very | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
strong. Jaz Carlin, she needs to dig deep, she could do it! Lauren Boyle | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
or Jaz Carlin for the bronze. Jaz Carlin, 250 metres to go, in the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
bronze medal position. She can do it, she's going to do it, I'm so | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
excited! The world-record is on. It is held by Federica Pellegrini of | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Italy. She is fit now. Can she get it? She's just outside. The | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
silver... The bronze? Oh, it has just gone to boil of New Zealand. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Oh, my goodness me. Jaz Carlin has been touched out by 14 one | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
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hundredths of a second, so close! close! Tough kick. Tough one.She's | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
the first girl in a textile suit, even though she didn't get the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
world-record, she's the first one to it. World champion Katie Ledecky | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
wins. Extraordinary. Melanie Costa-Schmid was second, Lauren | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Boyle third, and Jaz Carlin, it has set up for the 1500 metres | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
set up for the 1500 metres freestyle, still | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
First Lady to go under four minutes without wearing one of those super | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
suits. It's crazy. My coach has joked around when we are doing | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
pace, if I'm going 29, he says, under four minutes! I always thought | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
it was a joke, but he must have known that I could do it. I didn't. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Well done, we will see you later in the week. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
We know from London what she is capable of over the long distances, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
but to see her in 400 metres, how impressed were you? It was an | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
unbelievable race. She is the fastest woman in a textile suit, so | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
even though she didn't get the world-record, she is the fastest | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
woman who has done that without the new suit. I like that she has come | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
down to the forum. She's got a big programme with the 1500 and 800 | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
metres. But I think she will try to do the shorter distances. She could | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
be one of the great swimmers of all time. Without a doubt! Definitely. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
I've had the privilege of racing her, and she is an unbelievable | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
athlete and she's so lovely as well which is so endearing. She's | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
obviously on form, so it is going to be a very good week for her. Let's | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
be a very good week for her. Let's move on. It's the men's 100 meter | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
be a very good week for her. Let's move on. It's the men's 100 final | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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next. The | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
The yellow | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
The yellow hat | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
The yellow hat of | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
The yellow hat of Australia and Kitajima of Japan, those are the | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
ones to watch. Anderberg going out very strongly. It's whether he has | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
got the energy and training behind him to hold onto the pace. Kitajima | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
down the bottom going well. Under world-record, quarter of a second. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
He had to do this, but it is a question of whether he can do it. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
The rest of the pool, apart from lanes one and two and three and | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
four... This is fascinating. Surely he can't come back! He is holding | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
well in that green cap of South Africa. It looks like it is -- it is | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
going to be sprang. Is it? It is! Right on the touch. The gold goes to | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Springer, the Silver ghost of Vandenberg and the bronze goes to | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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Lima. World champion. He deserves that one. All year, he'd been half a | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
second faster than the rest of the field. The limbic champion had | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
patchy year. Sprenger were saying it is Van De Burgh was Mac to lose. He | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
was trying to take the pressure off him but he knew that Van De Burgh | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
was going to go out quickly. Sprenger, , Lima third. Kitajima was | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
six! Now, the women's 100 metres by, | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
followed by the hundred metre sprint of the men's. | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
What a field. Alysia Coutts in three, Sarah Sjostrom in fourth. | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
Dana Vollmer in sixth. The final of the women's butterfly. Heavens | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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above, that was close. The tactic we know so well and just run is staying | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
with her. That red line is the world-record pace. Bianchi is going | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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well. Not sure she can hold that race. Still run comes back well. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
thought it's your strong was within four tenths of a second at the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
turn, I thought she would win this. She is not coming back as quick as I | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
thought she would be. This is very, very tired indeed. Just run of | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Sweden right in the centre with the yellow hat. It is gold medal, four | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
years after Rome, it ghost is your strong. Diana Vollmer, she has been | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
ill, and she has to take bronze, the Olympic champion. That was a | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
textbook swim from Sjostrom. Those tactics have worked for her. She has | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
talked about being more relaxed in the competition, had a few changes | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
in her life since the Olympic Games, going from a fourth in the | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
Olympics to a first in the World Championships. You can see she is | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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excited! That was a very well paced race from her. | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
This is the men's 50m butterfly final. This is going to be a | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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cracker. Very big men and a Cesar Cielo Fiho from Brazil, my | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
goodness! Defending his champion. Nowhere near as quick as I thought | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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it was going to be. He wins it. Silver for the USA. A very exciting | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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Cesar Cielo Fiho not perhaps the most popular winner there are. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
Explain why? A grey cloud over his head. A few years ago, he tested | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
positive for an masking agent. Nobody in sport bikes cheat and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
because there is a grey area over his head, people are still not happy | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
about it. For me, I am used to a tight finish. Taking nothing away | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
from his performance because I truly believe you are innocent until | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
proven guilty. Heading towards real, here's looking to be a star in his | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
own home game. He has a PR exercise to do. Yes, he is a huge name. He | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
will be the big name leading into real itself. That was a good race | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
there, but swimmers do not like seeing other cheats. We have two | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
British women at the beginnings of their careers will stop this is the | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
200 metres medley, we have Sophie 200 metres medley, we have Sophie | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
Allen and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor. have two Brits in this race. What a | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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great opportunity for both of them. Really interesting. Great Britain in | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
lanes six and eight. Siobhan-Marie O'Connor normally goes out very | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
quickly. They really have to try and work hard. Out of the blocks, they | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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are going very well. Under the world record at the moment. She is really | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
trying to put some distance between her and the lady closest to the | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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camera. She is really going to have to drive it home. Look at the | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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bottom, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor is doing very well. She has got a good | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
breaststroke as well, so now the race is on. They will now try to | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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catch the Hungary. -- the Hungary. The yellow card of the Australian | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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summer coming back now. What a great race! I cannot see her losing this | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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one now. I cannot believe she will give it up now. I don't think they | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
have enough. Finally, she is going to win the big one. She has become | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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world champion! Goodness me, that is her third silver medal of these | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
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championships. What a fantastic swim. You can hear the crowd. You | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
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can see that the Spanish girl got a medal by the reaction of this crowd. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
She has had a huge schedule. She has prepared herself for raising tough | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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all the way through this wants to improve after the | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
semifinal, you always want to get faster but it was amazing race. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Everyone was so close, there was still little between second and | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
third place. It just wasn't in me tonight. A lovely surprise for you | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
to be in there? Definitely, it was a crazy ten minutes. I was absolutely | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
gutted not to have made the final. When I got told that someone had | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
pulled out, it was unbelievable. is the men's 200 metres free now, | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
one of the most eagerly anticipated races of the event. Olympic | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
champion, Yannick Agnel, has had a mixed year. He was not even going to | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
swim before it all started. Ryan locked swimming in this as well and | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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locked swimming in this as well and our very own Robbie Renwick. | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
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A good, clean start. Robbie Renwick in lanes six has not bad start. As | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
expected, right at the top, the Olympic champion, Yannick Agnel. He | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
is really going for it. Interesting tactics to go for it from the gun. | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
Trying to assert himself from the beginning of the race. He knows that | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Ryan locked likes to use the turn. Still in a dominating position, | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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though. This is fascinating and poor old Robbie Renwick, he was on Ryan | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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locked 's feet. Robbie Renwick has to move if he wants a chance of a | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
medal. Australia is going well, they are all over the place on this one. | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
The question now is whether Yannick Agnel can hold its lead? We know | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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Robbie Renwick can come back in the last 50m. Coming back in the centre | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
in the blackout of America, it is Ryan locked. He looks very good | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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indeed. Can they catch you next in Jill. I don't think they can. | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
Yannick Agnel gets the gold medal. That is a massive surprise! What a | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
huge surprise. He went from the gun and that is how to win a world | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
championship title! That was a phenomenal swimmer. He did it in the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
in big games, he shocked everybody from the start and never let the | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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race go. Ryan locked coming in fourth in the end. What a wonderful | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
performance. Huge French support here. The Olympic champion becomes | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
here. The Olympic champion becomes the world champion. That race was | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
all over the place, it didn't take its normal pattern, was it hard to | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
understand what was going on? guess. I always stick to my own race | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
plan, it doesn't really matter what the other people do. Unfortunately, | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
I just came up a bit short tonight. It is certainly something I can look | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
into for next season. I will now work on that and come the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Commonwealth games next year. I have got to be excited about that. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
he be disappointed with his performance this year? Definitely | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
not, the timing is good for him. He did well to make the final and he | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
has a home Commonwealth Games next year. I love about him is that he | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
sticks to his own race plan, he does not get intimidated by being next to | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Yannick Agnel, he sticks to his own plan and that is what you have to do | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
in that situation. Yannick Agnel release a prized us, not looking | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
over Lee impressed in the semifinals and the heats and then he pulled it | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
out of the bag. Did he time it to perfection? In the heats and | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
semifinals, the bigger swims like to leave something for the finals. He | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
still had to deliver. He has changed swimming groups this year and it | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
doesn't just happen, you don't suddenly find improvements and is a | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
worry that you come into major championship with another coach and | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
different training and it doesn't happen so hats off to him. He was | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
not even thinking of swimming this but the French seemed to have | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
forgiven him because there were plenty of French support here. Next | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
up we have the women's 100m backstroke. Britain 's Gemma | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
Spofforth holds the world record but it is fair to say America 's | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
received the missile Franklin as it firmly in her sights. -- Missy the | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
firmly in her sights. -- Missy the Missile Franklin. Goodness, she has | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
:28:25. | :28:27. | ||
worked hard. The gold medal goes to the USA! Missy Franklin, will she | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
break the world record? She goes in lane number four. A much better | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
:28:47. | :28:50. | ||
start from Missy Franklin. This fresh 25, she is working hard. Her | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
second 50m is very strong indeed. The strata must have been playing on | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
her mind quite a lot. We have China in Lane to really leading the pace. | :29:00. | :29:10. | |
:29:10. | :29:12. | ||
The world-record line is there and they are right on it. This is | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
definitely on. Gemma Spofforth came back very fast but this is Missy | :29:18. | :29:28. | |
:29:28. | :29:35. | ||
Franklin 's watcher. Missy Franklin looks very, very good. She has just | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
missed the world-record. But it is gold to Missy Franklin. The silver | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
has gone to Emily Seebohm from Australia. That was pretty much the | :29:46. | :29:53. | |
order we expected. The disappointing thing was the way she swam that, I | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
was surprised she didn't go out any harder. Missy Franklin adds the | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
harder. Missy Franklin adds the world championship title to what she | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
world championship title to what That was her second gold of the | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
championships, we will see later of -- more of her later in the | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
programme. If there is one woman who can steal her thunder, it is Katie | :30:17. | :30:27. | |
:30:27. | :30:28. | ||
Ledecky. Next up, the 1500m. What a fool this will be. -- | :30:28. | :30:38. | |
:30:38. | :30:44. | ||
quarterback told this will be. This Ledecky, absolutely neck and neck. I | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
think the gap between the gold and silver is starting to get slightly | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
smaller. I don't think they're going to catch the two leaders, but it is | :30:56. | :31:06. | |
:31:06. | :31:07. | ||
getting shorter. Lauren Boyle is closing the gap every single stroke. | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
I think she has got a bit too far to catch up. It has been a fantastic | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
sprint. It is going to come down to the last 50. How excited are you? | :31:22. | :31:30. | |
Just a little! 300 metres to go in this final of the women's 1500 | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
metres freestyle. Hardly 100th of a second has changed between these two | :31:37. | :31:47. | |
:31:47. | :31:59. | ||
women all the way through this race. worry for Lotte Friis, I worry for | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
her because I do think the sprint of Katie Ledecky is probably looking | :32:03. | :32:13. | |
:32:13. | :32:19. | ||
good. Still five seconds ahead of world-record pace. I think she is | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
trying to breathe the opposite way to Lotte Friis. Lotte Friis is going | :32:22. | :32:32. | |
:32:32. | :32:34. | ||
for it more. It's interesting, they are breathing away from each other. | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
Ledecky has finally taken over, it has taken her 1300 metres to do so. | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
I wonder if this is where lead to key makes a move? She has let Lotte | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
Friis lead for the last 200 metres or so. But she is making her move | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
now. To be honest, it is the right time for her to move, the right | :32:59. | :33:08. | |
opportunity, she's got enough left. How hard are the terms now? Maybe | :33:08. | :33:18. | |
:33:18. | :33:20. | ||
you want to save something for the end? They've both got quite equal | :33:21. | :33:30. | |
:33:31. | :33:32. | ||
terms. They've both got very strong terms. -- turns. With 100 metres to | :33:32. | :33:39. | |
go, the final turn. It looks like Katie Ledecky has made her big | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
move. Can she hold on? They are under the world-record pace. It is | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
going to be shattered. It looks like Katie Ledecky is starting to swim | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
away from Lotte Friis. What an amazing swim this has been. She took | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
half a second off Lotte Friis. I don't know that she can respond. I | :34:00. | :34:09. | |
think the race is over. Katie is the clear winner. She is more focused on | :34:09. | :34:19. | |
the distance. At Friis has been able to kick it up. This has been | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
unbelievable. This is very impressive stuff. The Olympic | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
champion on the 800 metres freestyle, she is going to destroy | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
the world record on this 1500 metres. The world-record stand at | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
15.42.54. The world champion, the new world-record holder is Katie | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
Ledecky of the USA. The Silver ghost to Lotte Friis of Denmark, also well | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
under the world-record pace. The bronze goes to the Australian. What | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
a superb race it was. She left 200 metres to go and then made her move | :34:54. | :35:04. | |
:35:04. | :35:07. | ||
and it was decisive. She took to Mexicans out of Lotte Friis. -- she | :35:07. | :35:17. | |
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Ledecky, destroyed the old world record. The Silver ghost to Lotte | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
Friis, a good bronze the Lauren Friis, a good bronze the Lauren | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
Boyle. Very impressive stuff. What an impressive swim. Six seconds | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
off the world-record! It is not swum at the Olympics, so we shouldn't be | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
too surprised she broke it, but she did it in some style. It was such a | :35:42. | :35:47. | |
brilliant race! It was head-to-head between her and Lotte Friis. Yes, we | :35:47. | :35:54. | |
want to see the whole field up with them, but it was nice to see them | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
fighting it out. She paced it out, she took off at the right time. The | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
last 200 metres, she didn't leave it to the last 50. That is why it was | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
six seconds under. Unbelievable. 16, she cannot be at the peak of her | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
powers. Funny, it was a huge surprise seeing have beat Becky last | :36:16. | :36:22. | |
year and to get to Becky's record. I didn't suddenly expect to see that | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
much of an improvement. Improve so much one yet and improve coming to | :36:27. | :36:34. | |
these championships, she has got a bright future. She looks very | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
strong, she's got a lot of speed at the same time. She has got a lot | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
bigger as well, compared to last year. She has balked up, even in the | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
gym, got stronger. It will be good to see how she progresses that. | :36:48. | :36:56. | |
golds for the US star. She put -- she took time out to meet up with | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
Sharron. Katie Ledecky of the USA, | :36:58. | :37:06. | |
international debut. Katie Ledecky, a big shock, she's going to win the | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
gold in 800 freestyle! I bet your life has changed | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
massively, what is different than 18 months ago? Not much. I got back | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
into school after last summer, and back to normal. So, all your mates | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
have treated you exactly the same? Oh, yes. They were welcoming and | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
excited for me to come back. I shared my experience with them as | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
much as I could the first week, and then after that it was back to | :37:38. | :37:47. | |
normal. Hugely busy trials. 200, 400, 800, 1500. You dropped 200. | :37:47. | :37:55. | |
Taking it in your stride? Definitely more than I have done. I've prepared | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
for it this year. I know I have the opportunity to swim all those | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
events. I am so honoured to have the opportunity to swim all these events | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
on the international stage. Does it faze you? That 1500 metres was such | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
a tough race. I do better as the week goes along. So getting some | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
races out of the way, that is helping me. The 800 metres, the | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
world record is held by Becky Adlington. You wrote a letter to | :38:26. | :38:30. | |
her, why did you do that? I wanted to tell her how can she was after | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
the race. After she announced her retirement, I thought that was a | :38:35. | :38:41. | |
good opportunity to thank her. I didn't get that much time to talk to | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
her after the race, so I wanted to thank her for being so kind and just | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
for a great race. Having smashed the world-record 1500 metres, have you | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
got a target for this one? necessarily. I want to do all my | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
best, like all the other races. If it brings the Bates -- brings the | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
best time, then it is great. Thank you very much. | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
On Monday, we were treated to something very special in the | :39:08. | :39:15. | |
women's semifinal of the 100 metres. | :39:15. | :39:25. | |
:39:25. | :39:31. | ||
But an 80 day of Plymouth and fascinating! She can go even faster. | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
What a great swing that was. The Olympic champion is now the | :39:36. | :39:46. | |
:39:46. | :39:56. | ||
world-record holder on the 100 breast wrote. The green hat of the | :39:56. | :40:06. | |
:40:06. | :40:20. | ||
Mytilene and -- the green hat of the to the gun. She's going to have to | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
come back quite strongly. I don't think the field can challenge her. | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
Efimova and Hardy to the right of her. They are certainly trying. | :40:31. | :40:38. | |
Efimova in that hat is not letting it go. It looks like it is going to | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
be Meilutyte, she is right on world-record pace. We'll should | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
become world champion as well? -- will she become? She is just | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
outside! Seven tenths of a second outside the world-record. But she is | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
the world champion and I think she is delighted. Absolutely brilliant | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
swimming. Good heavens. She went out much more measured than her first | :41:06. | :41:16. | |
50, but, goodness me, can she bring it back. Meilutyte of Lithuania wins | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
the breaststroke. Efimova come second. | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
Olympic champion, Bob Champion, world-record holder, put it into | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
some perspective. It is quite something. She's only 16 years of | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
age. There is an awful lot more to come. We've got the 50 breast | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
wrote, it wouldn't surprise me if she dominated that as well. -- we've | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
got the 50 breaststroke. She was 12 years old when she came to Britain | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
from Lithuania. Her mum passed away when she was only four years old. | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
She was knocked over in a traffic accident. She was brought up I had | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
grandmother. She sends most of her winnings back to Lithuania to look | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
after the family. The question that a lot of people are asking, she is | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
based in Britain, she trains with a British coach, so why are we not | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
seen more British youngsters coming through? Well, that is very | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
frustrating. There have been good results at Olympic youth | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
Championships, but we don't seem to be able to change those into senior | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
successes. That is the big question, rather than why are we not | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
producing the youngsters, because we are producing youngsters. More to | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
come from Meilutyte and from the British youngsters who are coming | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
through, hopefully. Let's move on to a man who has | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
achieved it already on the world stage. It is the 200 meter fly. Of | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
course, the outstanding favourite took gold in London, but he is more | :42:45. | :42:53. | |
famous for the person he beat last year, or his larger-than-life dad. | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
Chad Le Clos, so famously beating Michael Phelps in London in 2012. | :43:00. | :43:08. | |
is not trying very hard on this one. Very easy. He's looking around. | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
Heavens above. He put his head down for three strokes and won it. | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
very happy with the time. I am number one qualifier, that's good | :43:17. | :43:26. | |
for me. The finalist of the 200 metres butterfly, Chad Le Clos, | :43:26. | :43:36. | |
:43:36. | :43:53. | ||
looking around a lot. I think we will see him concentrate far more on | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
:44:03. | :44:04. | ||
his own race. Very, very relaxed. is good to be relaxed. Underneath, I | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
bet he is working hard. Korzeniowski is in good shape. He won the world | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
University games. It's not the guest of competitions, but he did a great | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
job. I am surprised paying is not here with them. He did struggle in | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
:44:31. | :44:34. | ||
the semis. Le Clos is more determined than he was. At six | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
tenths of a second outside the time that he won in the Olympic Games. He | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
does look reasonably strong but the field has not disappeared yet, | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
that's for certain. He looked left and right again! He is looking | :44:49. | :44:55. | |
right, he's seeing where they are, if he is not careful, Korzeniowski, | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
the world champion from 2005, he's going to take this race to him. | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
Well, Korzeniowski is turning first. Chad Le Clos, stop looking around, | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
just do the job! Stop looking again! Nothing you can do. Concentrate on | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
your own race. This is amazing. I've never seen anyone look around so | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
hard. Look at him looking around. This is ridiculous. Go forward! Go | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
forward! It looks like he's going to win but only just. Goodness me. He | :45:28. | :45:38. | |
:45:38. | :45:50. | ||
does win. Oh my goodness, do not swim like that! Chad Le Clos, world | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
champion. A different way of doing champion. A different way of doing | :45:53. | :46:02. | |
it. Congratulations! Tell us about the looking will stop people are | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
going crazy watching you are going across the pill. I just get very | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
nervous and I look around and make sure I am in the right position. I | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
have done it from a right -- a young age but it fuelled my motivation to | :46:17. | :46:25. | |
get better. You're not going to change it? Like to know where I am | :46:25. | :46:33. | |
in the field and make sure I am ahead. That was my game plan | :46:33. | :46:39. | |
tonight, to make sure I was there. guess your dad is here? Yes he is | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
here. Andy in particular, you are really frustrated by the way that | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
Chad Le Clos seems to lift his head and look around at his opposition | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
until the very end? I think it is utterly ridiculous, to be honest. If | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
you do look sideways like that, you get unbalanced and you have to try | :47:02. | :47:10. | |
and stay as flat as possible. It is not an efficient stroke at all. If I | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
am going like this and then I look at that, if he is ahead of me, what | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
am I going to do? Faster or slower? Concentrate on what you are doing, | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
going straight forward. Can you tell he is irritated? Me to. As | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
ex-swimmers, we get irritated by it. I was hoping he would lose one of | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
these races. How much quicker could he go because this was much slower | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
than last year. He did not have Michael Phelps pushing him, that | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
motivation, but if he is doing that, how much quicker can he go? He needs | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
to go another second to break the world-record he oozes talent, but I | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
think he could break it if he concentrated properly. In the | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
Olympics last year, he was a second of Michael Phelps -- Michael Phelps | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
's record. If you want to be one of the best in the world, to get in | :48:12. | :48:17. | |
that pantheon of great, he has to mature a bit. Hopefully, he will | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
take heed that advice! Let's move on to the women's 200 metres free | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
final. We have the American sweetheart, Missy Franklin, and the | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
world record holder from Italy, Francesca Pellegrini, the only | :48:31. | :48:32. | |
Francesca Pellegrini, the only decided to swim this event a few | :48:33. | :48:42. | |
:48:43. | :48:54. | ||
Well, Missy Franklin had a fairly slow start. She has come up in the | :48:54. | :49:04. | |
:49:04. | :49:07. | ||
lead but her reaction to the gun is relatively slow. This is the one | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
final I have been really looking forward to tonight, when I saw the | :49:11. | :49:18. | |
list and saw who was in it. Francesca Pellegrini always comes | :49:18. | :49:28. | |
:49:28. | :49:36. | ||
back strongly. She is off the pace at the moment. She will not be able | :49:36. | :49:46. | |
:49:46. | :49:47. | ||
to catch them on this distance. Very interesting tactics. At 75 metres, | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
Missy Franklin has started going. She really put on a huge sprint and | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
it looks like the Olympic champion is trying to go with her in that | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
white hat. It is Missy Franklin leading just behind the | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
world-record. Francesca Pellegrini is about three metres behind but she | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
will come back very fast. Francesca Pellegrini is currently in fifth but | :50:10. | :50:18. | |
I would expect her to get a medal. Missy Franklin is having a great | :50:18. | :50:28. | |
:50:28. | :50:28. | ||
swimmer. Francesca Pellegrini is coming back like a rocket. The | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
18-year-old from Colorado, Missy Franklin, is currently leading but | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
look how fast Francesca Pellegrini is coming back. She is coming back | :50:35. | :50:42. | |
superfast, it will be mighty tide. Missy Franklin is the world | :50:42. | :50:49. | |
champion. The world-record holder gets the silver medal. What an | :50:49. | :50:55. | |
amazing race! Perfect tactics from this young lady, Missy Franklin, | :50:55. | :51:05. | |
:51:05. | :51:08. | ||
this young lady, Missy Franklin, from the USA. It is 35 years since | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
an American lady one that medal? did not know that actually! Well | :51:13. | :51:22. | |
done! Did you plan those tactics? knew I was going to have two B eyed | :51:22. | :51:29. | |
fast because Federica Pellegrini is very fast. In the last 25 metres, I | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
could see her creeping up. Missy Franklin, still on track. She is | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
only 18, where can she go from here? Who knows? Freestyler has deftly | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
come on this year. The good thing about her is that she does so many | :51:45. | :51:55. | |
events. She can do anything she puts her mind to. She has got a big | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
programme so as she gets older, she may cut it down. She is on form and | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
I am glad to see her freestyle has come on so much. This intrigues me | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
about swimming from the outside, but as you get older, you would cut your | :52:11. | :52:18. | |
programme down and for example with Katie Ledecky, the younger swimmer | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
seems to do better at distance and it seems at first to athletics? | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
they all start swimming, the younger you are, the more distance you do. | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
Then you choose your events. At a younger age, because you do not have | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
as much muscle mass, you can do more races. That is why people start to | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
come down the distances when they get bigger and stronger. Strength | :52:42. | :52:51. | |
means speed rather than in Germans. If Rebecca had carried on, she would | :52:51. | :53:01. | |
:53:01. | :53:03. | ||
have been a 15 metre swimmer eventually! China 's Sun Yang is up | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
eventually! China 's Sun Yang is up next with the 800m. I am really, | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
really looking forward to this one. Sun Yang of China is only the second | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
fastest qualifier. Goodness me, this is going to be a cracker. Six | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
lengths to go and Sun Yang of China looks comfortable. He is starting to | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
pick up the pace a little bit. Michael Brown of the USA is behind | :53:29. | :53:39. | |
:53:39. | :53:52. | ||
him. Conor Yeager in the black cat. Sun Yang is doing really well. I | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
think he is in great shape. Great technique. He is starting to kick | :53:58. | :54:07. | |
the legs are little bit more. I hate to say it but I think he wants -- I | :54:07. | :54:17. | |
:54:17. | :54:18. | ||
think he has got them where he wants them, I hope. 200 metres left in | :54:18. | :54:26. | |
this race. Sun Yang, I think, playing with them. Look at his | :54:26. | :54:32. | |
fingers, slightly open. Such a long stroke. Goodness, he builds the | :54:32. | :54:42. | |
:54:42. | :54:45. | ||
water all the way through to his feet. The two Americans are swimming | :54:45. | :54:55. | |
:54:55. | :54:58. | ||
very well. Cochran has a decent sprint. It would be a phenomenal | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
thing to get on the podium here. Sun Yang now starting to put a kick on | :55:03. | :55:09. | |
and are starting to go. I don't think the rest are going to go with | :55:09. | :55:18. | |
him. 100m to go, two lengths left. Soon a gang of China leading and he | :55:18. | :55:28. | |
:55:28. | :55:28. | ||
has taken two metres out of the field. That is Sun Yang and he looks | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
really good. Look at that, he was only about four tenths of a second | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
two lengths go and look at that! The silver and bronze is really, great | :55:38. | :55:47. | |
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tit. -- really tight. Here he goes again, America and Canada where are | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
the next two medals going to go? looks like the gold medal and | :56:01. | :56:11. | |
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championship title will go to Sun Yang of China. He is the world | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
champion. An amazing swim, he just played with them for 600 metres and | :56:18. | :56:28. | |
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blew them away in the end. He is so, blew them away in the end. He is so, | :56:42. | :56:50. | |
so impressive. The emotion from sin Yang, that was his second gold, and | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
it all came out. He had been building up all week? We do not know | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
what goes on behind-the-scenes. We heard he changed his coach and his | :56:59. | :57:07. | |
training tactics. Maybe he came in for a lot of criticism, I don't | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
know. Those emotions or it may be meant just that much to him. He | :57:11. | :57:21. | |
absolutely dominates the race. It is a beautiful thing to watch. Only the | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
great Grant Hackett has achieved this in the past. Rightly so, I love | :57:28. | :57:35. | |
that his emotion comes out after the race. It is nice to see that. We | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
dedicate 50 weeks a year to this and we put our bodies to the limit every | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
day so you cannot help but get emotional and it is nice because it | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
means so much to him. He does the work and that is why it means so | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
much to him. The final leg of this trilogy is the 1500m and you can see | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
how he gets on in our coverage tomorrow. Next, the men's 200 metres | :57:59. | :58:06. | |
tomorrow. Next, the men's 200 metres individual medley. Ryan looked he | :58:06. | :58:16. | |
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starts as a favourite. -- Ryan locked. If the start is anything to | :58:25. | :58:35. | |
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great world-record split. I'm surprised that he is so far behind. | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
Could this be the time when he finally wins and medal? Fourth in | :59:20. | :59:30. | |
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three consecutive world Championships. Ryan 's rest/is | :59:31. | :59:41. | |
:59:41. | :59:50. | ||
superb. He made such an impact in the semifinals last night. Ryan is | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
the first to turn. The charge is now going to come from the whole field | :59:54. | :59:59. | |
from these guys but surely they will not catch this guy, Ryan? He has | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
worked hard so far. Look at the rest of the field coming back. The gold | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
is definitely going to go to Ryan. He won two years ago and he looks | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
very tired indeed that it is going to be a world title number two for | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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him. The silver has gone to Hagino. him. The silver has gone to Hagino. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
What a last 50 that was. Finally Pereira has got a bronze. Hagino | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
finished so strongly. But Ryan Lochte, world champion, repeating | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
what Michael Phelps dead from 2003, 2005 and 2007. Three world titles in | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
a row in this men's 200 medley. Three consecutive titles, pretty | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
impressive. Makes you an old man, really! And say that, I'm still | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
young! I wasn't really knowing what to expect out of these World | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Championships. My trainer hasn't really been there this year. But I | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
do know how to race. It was a tough do know how to race. It was a tough | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
race and I am You won it very convincingly. Tough year. You are a | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
reality TV star! Taking girls to dinners, I've heard. Same | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
restaurant, I've heard. No good! know, I had the honour of doing a | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
lot of unique and different things. But, you know, when it comes down to | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
it, I am an Olympic athlete, and I am going to 2016 or longer. Right | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
now my focus is 2016. Well, he did it, in spite of his new life as a | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
reality star. And very little training. How difficult is it to not | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
have the kind of intensity that he would normally have? Massive. He | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
would have done a lead-in to the Olympic Games. The training in one | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
year, it doesn't go overnight, but he hasn't focused that much as he | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
has done. But he can have an easy year, a part-time year, and dominate | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
this race. He can't afford to keep his foot off the gas for the next | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
three years. He wants to be the Phelps dominating figure, but to be | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
that in Rio, year is going to have to knuckle down. He must do that but | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
I think he did the right time. Swimmers do run on a four year | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
cycle, so he chose the right time to do the same, to do something | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
different. But he knows he is famous because of what he does in the pool. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
And he still managed to win. So he will build it up over the next three | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
years and he will cut down on the reality TV. We can't blame him for | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
enjoying the fine! It is good for the sport. We need characters in the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
sport. It is one of those great events now, the men's 100 metres | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
free. This was the closest race in London, one of the closest head to | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
heads ever. Nathan Adrian beat Australia's James Magnusson by one | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
100th of a second. Could the Australian get revenge on | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
Australian get revenge on Watch lane six, James Magnusson. | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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This is going to be tight. They are away very cleanly. The final of the | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
:03:57. | :03:58. | ||
100 metres freestyle. Good start by Nathan Adrian. Also going very well | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
is Morozov. Morozov is a champion. He did this before. Great 50 | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
:04:18. | :04:20. | ||
freestyle. Zero point 23 -- 0.23 under the world record. Can he hold | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
on? Also going well is McAvoy. Can he hold on, Morozov, is he going to | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
steal it? James Magnusson, is he going to get it? Magnusson gets the | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
gold. He defends the title he won two years ago. He has done it again. | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
The silver has gone too I think it was Nathan Adrian of the USA. | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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think it was Feigen. And then McAvoy was third. Morozov was fifth! | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Magnussen has successfully defended Magnussen has successfully defended | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
his championship. You said there was a bit more in the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
tank. Was that something to prove? think there was a lot of emotion in | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
the swim for me. I have had a lot of tough times in the last year. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
us about them because maybe the Brits don't know, although we like | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
to relish in a bit of Australian bashing, don't we? My confidence got | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
knocked, there was a lot of controversy around swimming in | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
Australia. And I just wanted to get back to the top. I have done that. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Hopefully the Aussie cricketers can follow suit! | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
We had two women in the final of the 50 meter backstroke. Maura Quigley | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
50 meter backstroke. Maura Quigley and Georgia Davies. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
Laura Quigley is in one and Georgia Davies is innate. Manchester's Laura | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
Quigley right on top, and Georgia Davies is at the bottom. A very good | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
start in lane two from the Brazilian. This is very tight down | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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this first 25 metres. The Chinese are doing very well. Who is it going | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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to be? Fu? No, Zhao wins. The silver goes to Fu and it is the Chinese 12. | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
So, Zhao wins the final of the 50 metres backstroke. It is a 1-2 for | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
China. Great Britain in sixth and eighth, good swim from the British | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
eighth, good swim from the British women. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
So, they didn't get medals this time, but how good is that the | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
British swimming to have that strength and depth in an event and | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
have those girls pushing each other in the way that you had a rivalry | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
between Joe Jackson? This is Lauren's first competition so she | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
will appreciate having Georgia in the pool, and helping out with | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
anything she is uncertain with. But they are so close on everything. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
They came joint on the semifinals, and it would be brilliant if they | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
can train a bit together over the next few years, help each other and | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
push each other on. It is nice they get on as well, because it is | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
friendly rivalry. They spend so much time together, it would be nice to | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
have that camaraderie. They definitely do. It is the 100 metres | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
free now, Missy Franklin in the race. But we will be watching Kate | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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Kate Campbell the fastest in the world is in five. Good start up in | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
three. Look at that. A good start from Cate Campbell, right in the | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
centre with a yellow hat. Look at that, she has got a body length over | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
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everybody else. 0.6 under the world-record pace. And she comes | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
back, Cate Campbell. The charge of the light Brigade, Missy Franklin | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
:08:53. | :08:54. | ||
coming back. Underneath the world-record. The world-record is. | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
Falling off it now. Come on, get in! 52.34. A very good swim and a new | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
world champion in the women's 100 metres freestyle is Australia's Cate | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
Campbell. The silver has gone to Sarah Sjostrom. What a swim. That | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
was stunning. She did what she did in the relay and used her natural | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
speed to get out. She was a body length ahead of the field. She | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
couldn't hold on for the world-record. So, these are the | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
results. Cate Campbell is the Bob Champion. A great silver for Sarah | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
Champion. A great silver for Sarah Sjostrom. Missy Franklin is for. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
You have a lovely collection of bronze medals, nice to add that | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
gold? It means so much to me. I really owe this to my friends and | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
family, and coach, who have really stuck by me, and it is then I will | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
be thinking of one I am singing my national anthem. Not everybody | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
realises you been around for a long time. So much experience. You | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Australia and is now have 100 guys and 100 girls, so you must be very | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
pleased. And they are bringing in mixed relays in the next World | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Championships, the world had better watch out because the Aussies are on | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
their way! Cate Campbell with a fabulous swim, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
she blew them away. What's interesting about her is she didn't | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
compete at the Olympic games last year. It is nice to see a new face | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
coming through. She had a fantastic race, she wasn't going to let anyone | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
touch out there. That world-record is under threat if she can keep the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
last 25 as strong as the first 75. Very much so. When she looks at the | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
way she swam her race, when she gets stronger, works on the speed and | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
insurance, a lot of people were surprised that Missy Franklin didn't | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
come back, but she doesn't have so much speed. The race is too short | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
for her. Cate will take that record, it is a matter of time. It is the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
men's 200 metres backstroke next. We have representation in the shape of | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Craig McNally. The real contenders for this, Tyler Clary, fastest | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
qualifier, and the Japanese have two swimmers on whom they are putting a | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
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he has had a good start. He has had the best start of the whole | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
Championships. Lochte had a good one, too. He has been shaking off | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
the cobwebs a little bit through the heats and semis before this one. We | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
haven't seen the best of him yet on the backstroke. He is a real fighter | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
on the backend. If he is anywhere near the medals position. These | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
Americans are so good at the turns. Look at Lochte. Interesting tactic, | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
this. He normally goes out relatively comfortably, and then | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
works the last turn. We have to see how he does on this one. Watch his | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
underwater phase, utterly brilliant. He's got to come up before the red | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
:12:49. | :12:52. | ||
marker. Look at that! McNally is doing very well. McNally's /rate is | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
a lot slower than Lochte. The 21-year-old from Poland is | :12:59. | :13:09. | |
:13:09. | :13:12. | ||
challenging Lochte. This is fascinating Kubecki is so good | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
underwater. Poland is looking very good. I bet Lochte didn't expect | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
this! Yes, he's going to have to come back very strong but I think | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
Lochte has got the strength, but the youngster, Kubecki has got a lot of | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
strength. The gold goes to Lochte, successfully defending that title he | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
:13:44. | :13:45. | ||
won two eMac years ago -- two years ago, but the bronze goes -- the | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
silver goes to Kubecki. An awesome swim. Craig McNally breaks the | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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Scottish record! Ryan Lochte of the USA wins the 200 metres backstroke. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
USA wins the 200 metres backstroke. We will see a lot more of Craig | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
We will see a Not far off the British record, a | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
:14:22. | :14:23. | ||
really exciting talent that you are. Yes, I'm happy with that swim. I | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
couldn't be more happy with that. What have you been doing in the last | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
year? How have you adapted your training to make such a big | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
improvement? I have had such a slightly -- I have had a slightly | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
different approach, focusing on building up my strength, trying to | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
transfer that from the gym into a stronger and more powerful | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
technique. I don't know what it is about breaststroke about these | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
championships but the women can't stop breaking world records. | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
Pedersen broke the 200 metres record in the semifinals by half a second. | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
The year to the day that it was set at the London 2012 Olympics. This | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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in the white hat. It looks like they are really going from the start. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
19-year-old Spanish is going right through her. That will give the | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
:15:58. | :15:59. | ||
crowd something to cheer for. Lauren is in third place is a threat for | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
:16:09. | :16:15. | ||
the medals. When she broke the world record last night, she is down on | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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the first 50. The pink cap is a very dangerous position. Rikke Pedersen | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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is leading at the first half. Pedersen is having to do all the | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
work. It is not over, though, because Rikke Pedersen is very | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
strong in the last 50m. I read to know how to call this. A quarter of | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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the second splitting them at the moment. Could she steal the gold | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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medal? She is giving everything. She is on the world-record pace at the | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
moment. Just outside the world record. She takes the gold! Goodness | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
:17:55. | :17:58. | ||
me! Rikke Pedersen takes the silver. I think we called it. It was the | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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first 100m, she swam it so well. was purely about the gold medal. She | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
knows exactly what to do and she looks so calm and relaxed. She has a | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
:18:25. | :18:30. | ||
lot of experience, even though she lot of experience, even though she | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
is three years younger. world-record but it lived up to | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
their billing, what a race! pasted absolutely perfectly. It was | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
bittersweet because she still has the world-record so even though she | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
didn't get the gold, she still has the record. Coming from yesterday, | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
she must have felt invincible but the boys said in a commentary that | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
they felt she was the most relaxed. Could it be a burden, having raced | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
so well yesterday? I don't think so, just paste it better. She went out | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
so relaxed and had much more to give on the last 50m. You could see the | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
:19:23. | :19:27. | ||
gear? It became more of a sprint, the way her legs were. She turned it | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
on and went for a bit of a sprint. They obviously know each other 's | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
:19:43. | :19:49. | ||
split. It was a bit of mind games as well. We have saved the best until | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
last. We had such a strong tradition in Great Britain in the breaststroke | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
and it is the men's 200 metres breaststroke final with two Brits | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
are going. Andrew Willis and Michael Jamieson who got silver in London | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
:20:12. | :20:28. | ||
Jamieson who got silver in London last year. Best of British, boys! | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
The best start of the whole field, the white cap in lane three is Great | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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Britain 's Andrew Willis. He did this in the semifinal last night. He | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
has stepped his stroke up. Great Britain, first and second to turn. | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
:21:05. | :21:06. | ||
It would be a great way to finish the final if that could be the end. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
The Russian in the Black hat also looking very good. This is really | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
:21:20. | :21:22. | ||
cat and mouse. Choose between that and not! The two Britons are looking | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
:21:32. | :21:36. | ||
good. The Japanese at the bottom of the screen is in third place. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
right on the world-record pace, they are really going very much very | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
:21:48. | :22:01. | ||
quickly. Fantastic swim. A quarter of a second ahead with one length to | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
go and they will all come charging now. Michael Jamieson is still going | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
well. He still has a pretty good stroke on the left-hand side. The | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
main guys are coming through and they are really charging. The | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
:22:27. | :22:28. | ||
world-record is currently held by the Japanese swimmer. Oh, just | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
:22:38. | :22:43. | ||
outside the record. What a brilliant swimmer! Rid Britain, fourth and | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
fifth. So close. Masterful swimming from him. This guy was in the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Olympics in 2004 at the age of 15 and got a silver medal. He swam that | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
:23:06. | :23:06. | ||
so well. A new world championship so well. A new world championship | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
record for him. I know that you both tried 100% but a lot of people at | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
home will be saying, why can't we reproduce what happened a few weeks | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
ago? I am not one for excuses but I have done one weeks training at the | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
last 11. I think those times when you're not 100%, your head can throw | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
you around. There are also times when it is just beyond you. My | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
strength is my back end and I just don't have the fitness here. I just | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
feel it has been taken out of my hand a little bit. I have managed as | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
well as I could and I got faster every round but I just don't have | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
the fitness just now. I have missed too much. It is hard to take. | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
compared to the track, what is the plan now is Mike touchwood, this is | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
only my second real injury, I have been very lucky over the years. | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
is just part and parcel of sport, unfortunately. I am not planning on | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
having much of a break of the summer, I need to get back to the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
gym and get back the strength that I had lost in the last couple of | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
months. There is only one way to do it and get back into it and start | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
again. YouTube be back to training again, 100th separating you? That | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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was cutting for me. I would have been very disappointed if I had come | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
last. I was hoping for a medal so it was disappointing. A little bit of | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
light at the end of the tunnel is, after the first round of the | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
trials, we were not sure if he would be here at all? Added scary. That | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
was my year at in smoke at that point. It has been an interesting | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
journey and I am disappointed but I should have been quicker. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Two very disappointed British swimmers, there. We are disappointed | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
for them, too. Michael has deliberately not revealed the extent | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
of his injury issues. One week training out of 11 leading up to | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
this explaining the lack of speed? Is always hard getting injuries as a | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
swimmer. He has done well to be here and just go through the heats and | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
the semifinals and the final. I am so glad he didn't pull out and that | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
he stuck with it. He would have gained so much experience and here. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Andrew went through such an ordeal to get here so he was unsure that he | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
would even be here. Other them will be disappointed but they will be | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
wanting to get back in for a new start. You get the sense from Andrew | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
that he felt this was his moment, his opportunity and he probably did | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
take more time mentally to get back. The sheer disappointment of | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
missing out is always cruel? Coming eighth in the final in the | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
Olympics, he saw his partner Michael Jamieson getting a silver medal. He | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
knew that Michael was not on former so he thought the bronze or silver | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
would be up for grabs. More disappointing from the fact is that | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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from the trials, his time would have been second. My question is, why are | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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they resting off for the trials? of the disappointments is no British | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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medal. Huge hopes that she will get a huge -- middle of some sort? | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
is flowing across the water really well. High hopes, then she will be | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
on the podium tomorrow night. she feel the pressure that there has | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
been no success this week in terms of medal for Britain and everybody | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
is now looking at her to deliver? Now, I don't think so. She is | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
experienced enough to know that she has to stick to her own race plan. | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
She chose not to do the 100m freestyle in the week and she did | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
make the right decision. Even if she whizzes out on the 15th fly, she has | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
the freestyle to back it up with, hopefully. Somebody who will no | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
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doubt deliver is Katie Ledecky. She is going for your 800m world record. | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
She has had a fantastic week. I am pretty sure my world-record will go | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
as well. I hope she does because she is just a lovely girl and she | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
obviously works hard. She is in great form and she has got a lot | :28:26. | :28:33. |