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That was one of the all-time great nights for British swimming | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
swimming. Go quite decent start from Adam Peaty. His dominance set the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
town, no one was taking his title away. Adam Peaty has destroyed the | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
best in the world, absolutely obliterated them. Adam Peaty has an | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
aura now, a Bolt in the blue. It is a moment I will never forget. Ben | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Proud is world champion! Ben Proud stunned the world with that swim, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
and I think even surprised himself. I am on the verge of tears. Two gold | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
medals in one night, two incredible performances, and to think there is | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
more to come. Talk about a night to live up to, tonight has all the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
ingredients. James Guy and Duncan Scott could win medals here, no | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
doubt. In this arena, with this crowd, anything is possible. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, earlier | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
today, it happened. COMMENTATOR: Peaty normally picks it | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
up about 20 metres in, not the greatest start-up. Adam Peaty right | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
in the centre, and goodness me, not the greatest start again! Lots of | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
work to be done, but this is where he is strong, 25 metres to go, and | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
starting to power away. Look at that, he picks up another gear, the | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
world record is 26.4, it looks like he is well under! He has almost got | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
a full body length, 26.1, a new world record, quite an extraordinary | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
swim! I have no idea how he has done that, 26.1 with a terrible start, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
but he is nodding in approval, he likes it. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
So Britain has two world titles, one world record, and in the 200 metres | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
freestyle final, the two fastest are Brits. | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
Duncan Scott and James Guy qualified the top two fastest for this final, | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
breaking the British record. James Guy the defending British champion, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
this is Duncan Scott's first major final. Olympic champion Sun Yang. | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
The Chinese support team here, looking strong at this World | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Championships. But this is the defending champion, world 200 metres | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
freestyle, for the first time, I have to say, Steve, he looked pretty | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
confident in the semifinals. That is right, James Guy yesterday really, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
really good, but beaten by this fella, Duncan Scott. We expected | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
things from him in the 100 metres freestyle, he comes into this the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
fastest freestyler in the world, but these two, it gives you two bytes of | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the cherry. Absolutely unbelievable performances from them both | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
yesterday, just daring to dream a little bit that they might actually | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
take on the Olympic champion here, Sun Yang. He is going in three. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Duncan Scott and James Guy next to each other, could that help or | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
hinder? Both the Brits still have all the kit on, everybody else has | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
all like it off. Both the Brits making everybody waits, interesting | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
tactic, the other guys are looking around, what is going on? I like | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
that, a bit of needle, let's wind them up a little bit, we are in | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
charge of Lance! James Guy there, but Duncan Scott hasn't even got his | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
T-shirt off yet. Years certainly make them all wait. The Brits have | :04:46. | :04:57. | |
made the rest of them wait a long, long time. This will be interesting. | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
Scott has got to get out quick, and James Guy, he needs to do a bit of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
both if he is going to retain this title. Four lengths' freestyle, the | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
World Championship final, men's 200 free. The Brits are in the centre, | :05:19. | :05:33. | |
Scott and Guy. A good start from James Guy, the defending world | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
champion is off like a shot in five, going very well right at the top, | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
Kozma of Hungary, he has gone off very quick. It is a TV swim for him, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
he wants to build with the crowd, they have been brilliant all week, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
but look as James Guy in five, and next to him Townley Haas, the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
American, the second fastest swimmer this year. I don't want to see James | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Guy go out too fast, I want to make sure he has got plenty in the tank | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
for later in the mid two. I would like to see Duncan Scott using his | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
speed against Sun Yang. This is such a tight event, only one second is | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
celebrating the entire field. And look at that, James Guy is saying to | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
himself, look, you are not going to get my title off me easily. James | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Guy is first to turn, and now comes the Olympic champion, the pink suit | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
of Sun Yang in lane three, and that is pretty ominous. When he goes, he | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
really goes. 50 metres to go at the turn, it looks like Sun Yang might | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
be third. James Guy is fourth, Duncan Scott is sixth. Can James Guy | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
hold onto him? Townley Haas in six is starting to move as well. You can | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
throw a blanket over these guys, 15 metres to go! The medals are not | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
going to the British swimmers, but look at Sun Yang, the Olympic | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
champion will be world champion, 1:44.3, brilliant to get gold, the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
silver has gone to Townley Haas of the USA, but goodness me, the Brits | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
just outside the medals in fourth and fifth. Krasnykh of Russia gets | :07:25. | :07:37. | |
the bronze. James Guy, oh, he was back in fifth place. What a tight | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
race, but Sun Yang when so early, and when he goes, my goodness me, he | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
goes. He really turned it on with 70 metres to go, and look what it means | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
doing, having A-level barny with the pool at the end of the race. I | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
wonder if he is going to do his Pat Cash and get back in the crowd | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
again. Duncan Scott might be disappointed, he was disappointed | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
last night. It is hard to repeat the time from last night in the final, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
but that would have got a bronze medal. Both of the Brits, their | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
qualifying times, both would have won bronze, but is told in these | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
finals, a lot of cap and mouse, people going in different places, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
and the Sun Yang a slowdown that first 50. One positive thing for the | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
Brits, they are going to have a cracking freestyle relay, look at | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
that, the Olympic champion backs it up with World Championship gold. | :08:40. | :08:52. | |
Look at the reactions, he has given absolutely everything. Sun Yang, | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
world champion, men's 200 metres freestyle. And he did this in the | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
400, he is not meant to go down the pool, but he brushes past the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
referee goes and high-fives Hartlepool. -- half the pool. The | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
Australian coach sitting with some of the Chinese guys there. He used | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
to coach Australia, but he has been working with Sun Yang for a long | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
time now. He loves this, Anyang. I saw him in Shanghai, he went all the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
way around the pool and shook everybody's hand. He is back after | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
his ban, interesting character. So the results of the men's 200 | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
metres freestyle, very close indeed, Sun Yang winning it relatively | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
comfortable. But very close from second to fifth. And I believe | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
Sharron Davies can talk to James and Duncan. | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
Duncan, a little bit disappointed, I am sure. Yeah, definitely, I tried | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
my best, in the semifinal, which is not always ideal, but I stepped | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
forward, it is an experience I will remember and move on. You probably | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
surprised us by the way you swam that, we expected you to go out as a | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
sprinter but you add strength at the end of the race. It is something I | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
have been working on, trying to swim its different ways. I need to work | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
out the best ways to swim it but yeah. It is a very loud crowd, the | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
atmosphere is amazing. The crowd is amazing, yeah, great noise tonight. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
How are you feeling right now? I know you were hoping that this would | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
work for you here. I mean, absolutely devastated, I thought I | :11:08. | :11:19. | |
could 1:44.8, but I got carried away last night, took too much out of me | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
last night. On a positive note, two Brits in a fantastic position for | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
the relay. Yeah, the relay is good, good chance of a medal there. Real | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
chance of a gold medal. There really is, we are both on 1:45.0, so it is | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
good for the relay. So Duncan Scott and James Guy just | :11:42. | :11:53. | |
missing out on medals there, you can understand the frustration for them. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
We heard James say he was disappointed, went out too fast, how | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
hard is it to swim your own race? I think that is what the boys didn't | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
do, you saw Duncan in the Semites, he had easy speed and looked | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
relaxed, but tonight he swam it completely differently. Same with | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
James, I don't know if they just thought that was the way that the | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
rest of the field were going, but you have to stick to your own race, | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
that is what we saw Ben do last night, and if they had done that, we | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
could have taken a bronze medal. Exactly, it is as if James tried to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
break the rest of the field to get away from them, but it is | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
confidence, and adrenaline gets the better of you. When you are on form, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
and he was last night, he probably thought he could do the best time | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
and take the title, but you have to stick to your race plan. Sun Yang | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
was a little away from him, he couldn't see what he was doing, I | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
thought Duncan did a good job in his first major final, not his main | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
event. Two consecutive fourths, Rio and here, he must really feel like | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
he needs to get on the podium. Let's have a look at the final 25 metres, | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Sun Yang is so dominant. You knew it was really over by the third, | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
because when he goes, there is no stopping him. I think James didn't | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
have that extra gear that you step it up to. Duncan, like we saw in the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
semis, had easy speed and swam its differently. But it is great for the | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
relay, and especially for Duncan's 100 metres freestyle, I think that | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
will be very special. So it wasn't to be in the first event, but a | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
successful day for British swimming. Earlier this morning, in the heat of | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
the 50 metres breaststroke, we saw Adam Peaty, and it is there to say | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
he was in phenomenal form, wasn't he? What did you make of that world | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
record? You could see it last night, he went 26.5 for the first 100, only | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
0.1 off his world record. I'd thought he would be a bit tired and | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
would save it for tonight. The pressure was off this morning, he | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
said himself that he didn't even really get up for it, he just wanted | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
to make it through the rounds. But Adam will always swim past, he has | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
that natural ability and speed and competitiveness, he had seen that | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Cameron van der Burgh had swam a great time in the previous heat, so | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
he wanted to get the prime lane position for the semifinals. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
I think it's fair to say he was survived and was speaking to us | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
after the heat and admitted he wasn't even trying his hardest. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
A fantastic nod of had to say, take that, Cameronette. Last night, I | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
came in obviously, lots of energy involved and last night I couldn't | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
get to sleep. Thankfully I'm working with the team now and I have nailed | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
sleeping pattern. Switch my phone off, go to bed and my performance | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
showed this morning. I am not here to get the world record but I'm here | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
to get it in the finals so hopefully I can build a game for tomorrow. At | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
fantastic world-record and sometimes being relaxed as an important. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Breaststroke, wanting to go faster, do go slower, the last ten years of | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
experience there, it's great to give the crowd and early wake-up call. | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Camera and did not appear in his 100 metres. Putting its eggs in one | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
basket with a 50. Yes, those are his tactics. And extremely proud to | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
stand up there and get the world-record in the name of my | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
country and hopefully inspire millions back home. 25 coming? Never | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
say never. That was this morning. Still to come this evening... But | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
the world-record underworld title already in the bag, so far this | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
week, what will Adam Peaty do next? Dawson goes into final in the 100 | :16:21. | :16:32. | |
metre backstroke. And let's go crazy for Sarah Vasey in the Women's 100m | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Breast Stroke final. One of the most dominant summers of our generation | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
out there in the pool now in the 1500, talk through what we can | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
expect to see from Katie Ledecky this week. Pure dominance. I think | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
her biggest task this week is probably the 200 metres freestyle. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
That is where she has the stiffest competition but the distance events, | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
the 800, 1500 metres, it will be hurt against the clock. How many | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
gold medals can she get? Let's see how Katie Ledecky gets on in this | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
one. Let's dine Andy and Steve. -- let's join. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
COMMENTATOR: The final of the Women's 1500m Freestyle is all about | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Katie Ledecky. A best time, 22 seconds faster than anyone else. 26 | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
seconds faster than anyone else this year. Quite extraordinary. Versus | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
the 400 metre term, she has done eight lengths, 1100 left, 22 lengths | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
left. The final of the Women's 1500m Freestyle, so Katie Ledecky leading, | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
sagging at the moment there's Simona Quadarella from Italy. Third, Mireia | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Belmonte from Spain. Three, four, five, six, seven, very close. From | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
the start, Katie Ledecky looks strong. Six metres ahead after the | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
first term, quite extraordinary. Steve, you have seen her go. Do you | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
think she is going to lap them? It's interesting because Katie Ledecky | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
has the 200 metres freestyle, only one hour away later in the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
programme. We are watching two different races here. The other five | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
guys are racing for the bronze and silver medal so I'm more interested | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
at this date in the medal race because there are five girls in | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
their having a right old ding-dong for the medals. You can just see | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
them now. They are just coming into view at the moment but here is Katie | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Ledecky, just outside her world-record pace, 2.5 seconds, but | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
I wonder what Rebecca Adlington thinks of this? It's ridiculous, | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
isn't it? It is insane. You can't even see the other guys on the | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
screen most of the time because they are that far behind. I don't think | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
she will want to go for the world-record. If it happens, it | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
happens, of course, but for her, the 200 metres is the toughest challenge | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
for her. She came into this noting the gold medal would be around her | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
neck and has not broken the world-record in this event since | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
2015, so, for her, that's quite a long time to not break the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
world-record. In 2015, she actually said, I have done that by accident, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
broken the world-record, did not mean to do it. She did it in the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
heats, such was her dominance. She has broken this record five times | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
already and we know she can break at a game of. She looks different this | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
week, I think. It looks like she has more power. I think she knows, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
coming into this, the distance events are hers and the challenge | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
for her shorter distances. She has moved programmes and here it is | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
different tactics to easy speed I think which it has want to do so I | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
think her stroke look at the different. In the heats, I was | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
watching all of the heats, and it was interesting because she got to | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
the 500 metre turn and then for the next five 100, she picked up by a | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
whole second 100, which I think she is in quicker. Two seconds above | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
world-record pace. Let's just see what she is here. You will see on | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
the bottom left of the screen, just to see how far she is, 2.1. She has | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
let it go for two seconds. May be starting to pick the pace up a | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
little bit? She's got to play a game, and entertain herself because | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
she's got nobody else to raise. It must be hard to swim on your own and | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
never have somebody pushing you, so she is wobbly saying: I either tried | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
to lap them entertain myself or she will try to see what she has got in | :21:14. | :21:25. | |
the bag. -- probably saving. I mean, she has got to want to break the | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
world-record every single time she gets in the pool and this is the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
longest I could she has not broken for a while so why not? Often 1500 | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
metres swimmers do it in blocks of 500 so she could build into this, | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
but I'm interested in the silver and bronze medal place. Boglarka Kapas, | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
the hon Mary, got the bronze medal at the last championships and is | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
starting to wind it up now and every time she touches the wall, the crowd | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
gets very excited. There are still four people in it for the minor | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
medals so it is a cat and mouse things. Minor medals? I can say | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
that. I think it's interesting. We've already seen Mireia Belmonte | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
this week, not on her greatest form coming into this. For her, she has | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
had shoulder injuries, and she is a butterfly swimmer who adds distance | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
events in but the crowd have been so fantastical ready this week. The | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
crowd have put on an incredible show. They've got behind every | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
single event and really encouraged their athletes as well, so I think | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
hope the crowd can pull through Boglarka Kapas, especially in the | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
last couple of metres when accounts. Very sick and the gun here, Andy, | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
because Katie Ledecky just turning, three seconds off world-record pace, | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
a significant race for her, currently tied with Missy Franklin | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
on 11 gold medals, so if she wins gold here, she will be the top | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
female. How great for her to be out there on her own with 12 gold medals | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
and still only halfway through. It's a significant stroke rates increase | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
their from Katie Ledecky. She seems to be winding it up here now. She's | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
pulling close of the world-record line. Yes, nothing is ever in doubt | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
when it comes to Katie Ledecky. Anything is possible but her because | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
she is such a unique athlete, a bit of Michael Phelps character, very | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
rare. Unless she breaks her records, no one else is touching them for | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
many, many years. This is a 1000 metre turn, 20 lengths of down, 40 | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
lengths of most local pools. 20 here in this Olympic length April. Tend | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
to go in the Women's 1500m Freestyle. The rest of the field, | :24:06. | :24:17. | |
led by Boglarka Kapas. Mireia Belmonte going with her. They have | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
dropped the other two and the 18-year-old from China, Yawen Hou, | :24:23. | :24:34. | |
in third. Simona Quadarella, it looks like Mireia Belmonte are | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
starting to catch. She starts quite slowly and then really picks it up. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
She's got a massive programme. Yes, Mireia Belmonte this week will be | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
racing 7000 metres which is ridiculous. If you count her | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
warm-ups, she will probably swim close to 50,000 metres. Mireia | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Belmonte swam against Rebecca Adlington in the Olympic Games. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Becky, I was jumping up and down because she came back so strongly | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
against you. You more than anyone know how good she is at the end of | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
her races. Yes, she got so much endurance Mireia Belmonte and she | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
got silver in London and I got the bronze. I know she's a good swimmer. | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
Because she races so much, and the amount of metres, as you have just | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
said, she has the pace to take it. If you go head-to-head with Mireia | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Belmonte, it's fair to say Mireia Belmonte will probably always get | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
the touch. There is the pink suit of Mireia Belmonte against the Black | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
suit of the Italian, Simona Quadarella but no doubt about the | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
lead at the moment. This is a 1200 metres turn coming up now, 50 metres | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
time. The 1200 metres turn, fixed length is left in this final of the | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Women's 1500m Freestyle. That is Katie Ledecky and she is such a long | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
way ahead, going for the double quadruple. Triple triple is also on. | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
It's ridiculous. She didn't swim the 200 freestyle in 2013. She could | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
have had a chance of the triple quad. It's absolutely ridiculous. We | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
have not ever seen a talent like this in middle distance swimming. To | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
be able to do the two, four and eight and 15 is ridiculous. There is | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
not a reward she has not won a. US athlete of the year, global swimmer | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
of the year, she has cleaned up. I found out that her hobbies include | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
volunteering, Scrabble, Cheshunt piano. -- chess and piano. She is a | :26:45. | :26:56. | |
distance swimmer. We just stare at the black line all day so it doesn't | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
take much to entertain as. Mireia Belmonte name five is looking | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
really, really strong. She looks good for the silver. Kristel Kobrich | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
has settled. Katie Ledecky has definitely got the ability to take | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
on the world-record. I think she is swimming smarter here and has the | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
experience. She doesn't have to break the world-record every time | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
she gets into the water. Look what Mireia Belmonte has done to Simona | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Quadarella. She has taken two metres out of the world junior champion and | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
that its great experience shown because she's waited long time to | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
take that and now she is really, really going for it. Katie Ledecky | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
going the other way. The 1500-metre mark. She is 30 metres ahead. | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
Goodness gracious me. Katie Ledecky. She is a class unto herself. She has | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
100 metres to go at this turn coming up. There is a fight for the silver | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
and the bronze and it looks like Mireia Belmonte on the 200 fly, the | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Olympic champion, will take the silver but no doubt about the gold, | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
she is 27 metres in the lead, Katie Ledecky of the USA. The world-record | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
holder on the 1500 metres freestyle, the world-record holder on the 800 | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
metres freestyle, and the 400 metres freestyle and world champion. It is | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
no easy feat, this, Andy. She is swimming against the best eight | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
swimmers in the world over this distance and she is actually going | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
to finish a full 1.5 lengths ahead of the person coming second. I often | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
think Katie Ledecky is in the wrong race and should be swimming against | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
the men and that's what she does in training which is why she is so good | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
and she is pushing this event forward and the whole of female | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
swimming. Look at her there. She really does look quite easy. She is | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
just starting to pick up a little bit of a grandstand finish in this | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
last 50 metres. But this gold medal in this Women's 1500m Freestyle | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
makes Katie Ledecky the most successful female in the World | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
Championship swimming history. That is her 12th World Championship gold | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
medal and the time does not matter too much. Six seconds outside her | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
own world-record, but with more swims this evening, she has paced it | :29:20. | :29:28. | |
extremely well. Silver to Mireia Belmonte from Spain and a fabulous | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
bronze to Simona Quadarella from Italy. No wonder Mireia Belmonte | :29:32. | :29:40. | |
look surprised. A time of eight seconds, she knows how to do it when | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
it counts and a made up for the Italian Junior world champion, | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
Simona Quadarella, really performing on their senior stage. The story is | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
really about one lady and that is Katie Ledecky, a pedestrian swim for | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
pay about we will see her back in action in one hour at the other end | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
of the spectrum, the 200 metres freestyle. She is saying, it's too | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
easy. Give me some more. Oh my goodness me. She has won that race | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
by 19 seconds in the end. Katie Ledecky of the USA, 12 World | :30:13. | :30:24. | |
Championship gold medals, it is her third one here, she did not break | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
the world record on the 400 freestyle, but that is the second | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
fastest time in the history. Didn't break the record in the 1500 metres | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
freestyle but did win gold. She has just swam 60 lengths of the local | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
bats and is not even out of breath, I would like to see you do that! You | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
might need one of those sundial clocks for me, I think! Phenomenal, | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
absolutely phenomenal. She is so cool behind the blocks, right in the | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
centre, I hope they show pictures, not quite, she was about half a | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
metre air just after the start, five metres pared after 100. Amazing. -- | :31:10. | :31:24. | |
ahead. It looks like she has put a lot of muscle on, she is technically | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
superb, always has been, but that looks like she probably wants to | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
perform in the sprint events, get on the American relays and make sure | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
she wraps up the 200 freestyle, because she is not dominant on the | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
200 free, so that is where she needs to focus. That is not going to be an | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
easy goal at all. Saluting the crowd very good indeed. Belmonte has just | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
seen the time, Maria Belmonte, huge lifetime best. She is hardly | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
breathing, goodness gracious me! Phenomenal. So confirmation of the | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
result of the women's 1500 metres freestyle, Katie Ledecky wins gold | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
and with and becomes the most successful female in World | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
Championship swimming history, her 12th individual gold medal. Katie | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
Ledecky is so far ahead of the rest of the field, what is going through | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
your mind in those last few lengths? Issue chasing down the world record? | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
That was just a warm up for the 200! She didn't even seem out of breath, | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
19 seconds add of the rest of the field, absolutely crazy. I think it | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
is in the back of her mind, because she is more than capable of breaking | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
the world record, but it will be a tough battle, just a semifinal, but | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
she has to give it everything. It will be on the back of her mind, I | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
am sure. How often do we see the freestyle is so good at all the | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
different distances? Not so often, you normally get 800 and 1500, then | :33:13. | :33:20. | |
the middle distance, so going back to what you said about the last | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
three lengths, I was going, don't ask me, I only did one length! He | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
cannot turn! You do not get someone whose brands two minutes up to 15 | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
minutes, and that is why she is such a special specimen. A lot of people | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
might think it is just a question of making the swimmer train harder, no, | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
she is special, that much different to everybody else. When she races | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
and produces lactic, she flushes it out at the same time, and you cannot | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
teach that, that is what you and I have got. You cannot change your | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
busy between races, Anne Shirley sprinters and distance runners are | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
normally builds differently. -- and surely. It is like putting Mo Farah | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
with Usain Bolt to race, it is unheard of, and she is so good and | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
so dominant. As Steve said, she does look like she has got a bit more | :34:17. | :34:24. | |
power this time, so I think she can probably relax on the distance. She | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
knows that is a good area, so she is working on the speed, we saw her in | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
the 4x100 relay, and we're going to see her in the 200 semifinal | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
tonight, and I think she is trying to work on the easy speed that you | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
need as a sprinter. And she is not with her old coach anymore, and now | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
she is at college, the training is different, different coach, | :34:53. | :34:54. | |
different training, different emphasis, focus more on the shorter | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
events, because you have got the long ones wrapped up. We are going | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
to see Katie Ledecky again, and the mighty Adam Peaty is going in the 50 | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
metres breaststroke finals later, but let's just relive what happened | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
last night when he took the world title in the 100 metres | :35:12. | :35:12. | |
breaststroke. COMMENTATOR: Good, clean starred in | :35:13. | :35:26. | |
this final of the men's 100 metres breaststroke, decent start from Adam | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
Peaty, the defending world champion, he set a world record and he said he | :35:32. | :35:41. | |
would go out pretty quick, he may break the 50 metres record. He is | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
already a class above, and in 26.5, just off the individual world record | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
but under 100 metres world record pace, but he has not lost Kevin | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
Cordes at this stage, it could be about winning gold and the world | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
record. The power coming for Adam Peaty, look at it go away from the | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
rest of the world, this is the greatest field in the world at 100 | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
metres breaststroke, and there is clear water between Adam Peaty and | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
the rest of the world. The world record is 57.13, just outside, but | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
good as me, the margin of victory was phenomenal, it is a sprint, Adam | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
Peaty has destroyed the best in the world, absolutely obliterated them. | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
STUDIO: Huge congratulations to Adam Peaty, we will see in action in the | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
semifinals this evening. The medal ceremony for the two were good | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
metres freestyle is going on the eye and us, the goals taken by Sun Yang. | :36:42. | :36:50. | |
-- is going on behind us comedy gold taken by Sun Yang. No place on the | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
podium for Duncan Scott or James Guy. Let's carry on talking about | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
Adam Peaty, in terms of his times and what he has done in the last | :37:03. | :37:07. | |
couple of years, let's remember he is only 22, he really is ripping up | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
the history books. Across 50 metres as well as the 100 | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
metres, he has got Project 56 in the back of his mind, but now it is | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
Project 25, whether he can break that world record! He wasn't even | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
trying this morning, so it is going to be fascinating to say Cameron van | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
der Burgh coming, see how fast he is going, because he pulled out of the | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
100 metres to focus on this. I am interested to see how much he wants | :37:39. | :37:47. | |
to challenge Adam. It is a couple in to add, let's look at the best ever | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
times and see who has got every single one! | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
-- it is a compliment to Adam. He talks a lot about legacy and | :37:55. | :38:06. | |
responsibility, what kind of confidence will and give him? The | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
bottom line is that line is only going to get longer, 58.3 will | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
probably turn into 57.3, because he is improving so much, and not just | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
because of how confident he is and how hard he drains, but they are | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
constantly looking for improvement, and what inspires you when you are | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
world champion, Olympic champion, world record holder, he wants to go | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
faster. As a kid, as a child, every time you step on the block, you want | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
to do a best time. I don't mean that it is childlike, but you have to | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
have something to interest you, and he wants to rewrite the record | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
books. He has taken breaststroke to a place it has never been before. | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
Mel B described him as a lion that you have to keep putting meet in | :38:56. | :38:56. | |
front of. Goodness me, Peaty wins the gold, oh | :38:57. | :39:06. | |
yes, oh yes indeed! I know you don't like talking about | :39:07. | :39:17. | |
defending titles. Nothing to defend, it is all up for grabs. For me, | :39:18. | :39:28. | |
going to Kazan, I was not defending anything, I was attacking. Defending | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
just seems a little bit relaxed, whereas attacking, you are attacking | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
your times, attacking your world records. It seems a little bit more | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
aggressive, that is what is going to push me on in the pool every day. | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
Do you feel like a leader in this team? Yeah, 100%, especially after | :39:46. | :39:55. | |
the Olympics, I didn't know about that, the team has never been as | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
strong and had so much cohesion, we are here and there for each other. | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
Olympic champion, gold medal, Adam Peaty of Great Britain. I have | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
achieved my lifetime dream, but I want more, a lot of people would be | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
happy with Olympic gold, but I am not happy with that, I am happy that | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
I have got it, but I want more, to leave a legacy, break the world | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
record again, and I want to get to where no-one has been before. It is | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
going to take a very fast time, I think. | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
For me, his body language is really interesting after the heats this | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
morning, he was a little bit surprised, he said, I had loads more | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
in the tank, I didn't mean to do that, whereas normally he is very | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
focused, you know when he will break the world record. You do, but when | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
he spoke to Sharron after this morning, he said, you cannot rush | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
breaststroke, and sprinting in general, like with Ben, over 50 | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
metres, you cannot rush it. His weakness is his start, the other | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
guys are very strong there, but he takes off and is just so natural, so | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
easy, so powerful, you can see the power from above. It is incredible | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
to watch. His start and is finish this morning, when he broke that | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
world record, went his best. So how fast can he go if he gets it right? | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
Talking about whether he could do the perfect race, if you get every | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
element right, there is 0.1 at the start and 0.1 at the finish, and | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
everyone always, a swimmer will tell you that you always get faster in | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
the evening, no matter what it is, you are more awake, and you do more | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
of your fast training in the evenings. So your body is ready. So | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
expect in not just to get every element right but the fact that he | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
is more awake. Steeve Barry was beside himself, so let's see how | :41:58. | :41:59. | |
hyper he gets for the semifinals. Great Britain's Adam Peaty is in the | :42:00. | :42:17. | |
second semifinal, and only one other man has got a fastest time, Cameron | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
van der Burgh. This young man, 28 years of age! You don't often see | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
swimmers at 28 swimming personal bests, but he swam a lifetime best | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
in the heats to make this semifinal. He won a world champion silver medal | :42:33. | :42:43. | |
six years ago. Cordes, silver in the 100s, bronze two years ago in the | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
50. All he needs to do is make the final. Ears on a different planet, | :42:48. | :42:56. | |
Peaty, plan and breaststroke, and he lives there all by himself. -- he is | :42:57. | :43:06. | |
on a different planet, Peaty, planet breaststroke. He was saying, I can | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
see your 26.5, how do you like 26.1?! It was utterly ridiculous. | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
But fair play to Cameron van der Burgh, he has won medals at this | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
event five times, and he pulled out of the 100 to concentrate on this, | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
and Adam Peaty is still smashing him, I cannot get my head around it. | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
Probably the right decision, pulling out of the 100, I am not sure he is | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
fit enough to go three rounds of both of them, but this 50, I would | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
have thought that 26.5 would have been a cracking chance for gold. But | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
when somebody goes 26.1, goodness me! Bundaberg in four for South | :43:50. | :44:08. | |
Africa. -- Van der Burgh. Skills only on the left-hand side, the | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
28-year-old Italian. -- Scottzoli. Also going well in three is Lima of | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
Brazil. It looks like he will get it on the touch, yes, 26.6. Van der | :44:22. | :44:28. | |
Burgh second, two tends slower than in the heats this morning. Third was | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
called airs, and all was Scottzoli. So only four under 27, a little bit | :44:35. | :44:43. | |
surprising? They were all up for it this morning, and that is a big | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
shock for me, Van der Burgh, 26.5 this morning, I think he has had the | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
stuffing knocked out of him. He has seen Adam Peaty swim and thought, I | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
cannot get close to that kid. The veteran started well in the middle, | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
but he didn't have his natural finish at the end. I just think Van | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
der Burgh, the race is gone for him, and he will struggle to get in the | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
medals. You know that he cannot beat Peaty, and that is what he wanted to | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
do, win gold. That is what 50 breaststroke should look like, | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
everyone finishing together, but in a minute we will say Adam Peaty a | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
body length add, that is how much better he is. Cameron van der Burgh | :45:24. | :45:30. | |
jammed the finish, so that led to this guy, Lima, winning. | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
In normal circumstances, a very quick semifinal but after this | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
morning, a little bit pedestrian. Felipe Lima wins it. Kevin Cordes, | :45:42. | :45:51. | |
third. And the second semifinal and a new superstar, Adam Peaty, 26.1. A | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
broke his own world record by over three tenths of a second this | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
morning with an average start and a very average finish. Yet, you know | :46:00. | :46:06. | |
what, it did appear to be average. He glided into his finish but I | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
think we can give them a break on the start because, although it's a | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
weakness, his strength outweighs it. Is swimming speed is absolutely | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
phenomenal. What you will see is a lot of the guys touring the 50, | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
starting to slow down, they can't keep up their velocity whereas he | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
does not slow down for the whole 50 so where it looks like he is pulling | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
away, is actually not, here's just keeping up the same speed from start | :46:37. | :46:44. | |
to finish. There is the 17-year-old from Italy, the world junior record | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
holder of the 100 metres breaststroke. This guy did really | :46:49. | :47:00. | |
well on the 100 metres breast oak. From the outside, the Russians | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
having a good week so far here. The big thing for me, in the freestyle | :47:08. | :47:16. | |
gold. Gomes Junior, the 31-year-old. He's never won a major medal but | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
Adam Peaty, what can you do? He's already won the gold on the | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
breaststroke and set the world-record this, the 50. I think | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
my head will blow off if he goes 25 because that is a butterfly time. I | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
think you may have struggled to grow 25 a few times but maybe you can | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
tell us about that a bit later but we want to see him and not rushing | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
the first couple of strokes. He wants to make sure he is grabbing | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
the water. He's thinking about that at the moment, an absolute beast, | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
isn't he, but he's got the mindset to match it. We want 90% effort from | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
Adam Peaty, 100% speed. Can he go 25? Here's prowling around at the | :48:04. | :48:19. | |
start. A big lion cat to -- tap to. -- tap to. That's a very good start | :48:20. | :48:31. | |
from Prigoda on the right-hand side there. He's looking very strong | :48:32. | :48:40. | |
indeed. Looking well as Gomes from Brazil. Adam Peaty starting to | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
streak ahead. Look at this. 26.10 is the world-record. 25.95! There goes | :48:48. | :48:58. | |
Project 25. Oh my goodness me! I never thought I would see the day | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
when a breast stroke swimmer would do that. That is phenomenal! He | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
can't believe it and I can't believe it. In my life, I have never seen | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
swimming like that. This is not only good for breaststroke but butterfly | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
as well. 25 is a butterfly time. This kid is absolutely unbelievable. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
Does he know any boundaries whatsoever? I don't think he does. | :49:30. | :49:36. | |
Still only 22. We are going to be critical. If there is an area he can | :49:37. | :49:44. | |
improve it is the start. As you said, he gives so much. This is 50 | :49:45. | :49:52. | |
metres, and he won that by nine tenths. He's almost got clear water | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
between him and the rest of the field on 50. He's almost taken a | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
second out of everybody else, over a 50-metre --. I don't think you can | :50:02. | :50:10. | |
believe it himself. It's not about gold medals for him any more, but | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
about how much he can move on the sport. He was behind and it's | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
impossible to be critical at this stage but their skill of the dive is | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
something he could still improve on but we've never seen swimming speeds | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
like this on breaststroke before. He got his whole margin of victory in | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
the last 50 metres. Confirmation of the most extraordinary result, | :50:36. | :50:42. | |
semifinal two. He wins the world-record, 25.95. He's talking to | :50:43. | :50:44. | |
Sharron Davies. Yes, Andy, he's talking to me. How | :50:45. | :50:57. | |
are you feeling because it's almost like you can't believe it? Honestly, | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
this morning I knew it was going to be hard to beat that. Coming out | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
tonight, I was a bit down because it's been such an emotional last few | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
days. I'm not going to waste an opportunity because I don't know if | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
it will be my last, I said. I just went out there and did what I do. I | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
can't see this being your last. You are just improving and growing in | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
confidence all the time. What are you doing to produce these fantastic | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
races? I don't know, day in, day out, hard work. January, full-time, | :51:34. | :51:41. | |
since then we have set up a culture I am proud of. In three or four | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
years' time, we will have some strong young ones coming through. | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
Hopefully improving British swimming but it's looking very good. Are you | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
doing what in the gym because you are more cut than many swimmers and | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
that is gymnasium based, isn't it? Yes, I can't believe it. A lot of | :52:01. | :52:08. | |
hard work has gone into the gym now. I've lost my older gym coach | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
unfortunately but he's doing great in new career now but hopefully I | :52:12. | :52:21. | |
can improve. At fantastic swim, Adam, congratulations. See you | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
tomorrow. Thank you very much. That sums up Adam Peaty, two world-record | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
on Monday. He just said hopefully he can go further. He is unstoppable, | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
and unbelievable machine. Let's look at that racer game. Put into context | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
what he has just done. He shocked himself. Is the first time I've seen | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
him genuinely shocked at what has just happened. What a great reaction | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
but his start was better than this morning. He still has room to | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
improve. He just built through it. Like Mark said early on, you do swim | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
faster in the evening. He have that mentality. He saw the guys in the | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
first heat and he was not going to lose that for a second, was he? We | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
will talk about Adam Peaty in the next couple of days and rightly so | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
because he's a machine. No doubt we will see him on top of that podium. | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
A fist pump in the air. Let's go to the Women's 100m Backstroke | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
featuring Britain's Kathleen Dawson. Kylie Jacqueline Masse, the fastest | :53:31. | :53:46. | |
qualifier for this final, in Lane four. Deliberate silver medallist, | :53:47. | :53:57. | |
Kathleen Baker from the USA and Olivia Smoliga from Australia, the | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
yellow Hat. The world-record must be under threat, Gemma Spofforth's | :54:03. | :54:13. | |
world-record. The final of the Women's 100m Backstroke. The | :54:14. | :54:14. | |
favourite in the centre. Kylie Jacqueline Masse from Canada with | :54:15. | :54:23. | |
the white hat. A black hat, Kathleen Baker from the USA. And Olivia | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
Smoliga in the yellow Hat from Australia. She did come back strong | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
on the 750 but Kathleen Baker, an Olympic medallist, won't let this | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
one go likely. Of course, Emily Seebohm, the reigning world Champion | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
one down from her. They are under the pace by half a second. Three are | :54:45. | :54:52. | |
in with a shout here. That would be fantastic. Kathleen Dawson in fifth. | :54:53. | :54:54. | |
On the left-hand side of the shot, closer to us, but the race in the | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
centre, the white hat of Kylie Jacqueline Masse and the yellow hat | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
of Emily Seebohm. The world-record belongs to Gemma Spofforth. 58.10. | :55:07. | :55:14. | |
Just under. A new world record for Kylie Jacqueline Masse from Canada. | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
The silver to Kathleen Baker from the USA and the bronze goes to | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
Australia's Emily Seebohm. What a wonderful swim and so fast. Held it | :55:29. | :55:35. | |
really well. The 80-year-old world-record set by Gemma Spofforth | :55:36. | :55:43. | |
in 2009 in Rome has just gone. Kylie Jacqueline Masse, world champion. | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
New world-record holder. She is known on the team for not letting | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
the occasion get to her, for being able to shut out all expectations. | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
She's a young woman but is doing it all. A World Championship gold medal | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
as well. Her competitors got the better of her on the start but some | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
work for her to do here but it was these last 50 metres where she was | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
able to come through and put the hammer down and her finish, | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
absolutely fantastic. Look at that picture perfect finish and that's | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
what got her the world-record and where those seconds came from from | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
last night. A big win from Canada. They have not been good this week. | :56:28. | :56:33. | |
She was third with 25 metres to go. Clapping the new world-record for | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
the Women's 100m Backstroke. She can't believe it. Taking in the | :56:41. | :56:46. | |
plaudits. There were high expectations on her this week. She | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
swam well all year. She was top three times this year and this young | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
Canadian team, so much expected of them on the way in. Kylie Jacqueline | :56:54. | :57:05. | |
Masse. A new world-record holder in the Women's 100m Backstroke, from | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
Canada. Kathleen Baker, silver, and Emily Seebohm, the bronze. | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
Huge congratulations to Kylie Jacqueline Masse but a shame for | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
Britain because it was a British world-record which is for so long. | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
Credit to Gemma because it was a fantastic swim at the time but it's | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
good to see world-record go because it shows it's moving on. It's a | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
shame for Kathleen Dawson who came eighth and did not get near her | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
personal best. She went out too fast. It was all about the middle | :57:42. | :57:49. | |
three lanes. For Kathleen, it's just experience. She dropped 1.5 seconds | :57:50. | :57:58. | |
on the second but that will recover. We talk about doing your own race | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
and that's what Kylie did in the middle there. She stuck to her own | :58:03. | :58:05. | |
race plan which was to come back the last 25 metres and then she won the | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
race. Let's hear from Kathleen because she's talking to Sharron | :58:11. | :58:11. | |
Davies. A big step up for you, great | :58:12. | :58:20. | |
experience on the way to Tokyo for you. I'm just taking each race as it | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
comes and I'm loving it. What have you been able to take from this. | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
Your dad is doing interviews next door, a fantastic example for the | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
team. I know. Just to be here and experience it. It's a step up from | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
Europeans such as those for them it's been amazing. I'm completely in | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
awe of everything. I can't stop smiling I've had such a great time. | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
Well done for that. I'm sure it's great experience for you. Thank you. | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
Left not forget last day was quite frustrating for her. She didn't do | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
the time she needed it trials but she would have been thinking I could | :59:04. | :59:07. | |
have done Rio. Yes, of course, that was on the back of her mind and for | :59:08. | :59:10. | |
the European Championships getting that bronze medal was a huge | :59:11. | :59:13. | |
experience for her and she is one of the Tokyo athlete we should be | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
looking out for. One of those athletes we can't stop looking at is | :59:18. | :59:24. | |
Katie Ledecky was about to get her 12th World Championship gold medal | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
because she of course took the Women's 1500m Freestyle in | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
phenomenal form. We will look at her schedule because as it goes, she is | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
one busy, busy lady. In terms of what she has taken on this week, it | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
is 60 lengths of her normal swimming pool to get to the 1500. Add to | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
that, the rest of the week, how hectic is that? If she does not swim | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
at the heats, it is 6300 metres and that's just racing, not swim downs | :59:56. | :00:01. | |
and everything else on top of that so it is a huge schedule for her. | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
This is what we find every time at Hungarian athlete comes out, this | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
place goes absolutely ballistic. I did not share a word you said. All | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
we can hear is Hungary, Hungary. They are proud swimming nation. So | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
why don't they have a bit of a celebration? Who can blame them? We | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
have a busy schedule and next on BBC Two, the final of the Agarwal, Katie | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Ledecky again, she does not get time to enjoy her moment on the podium | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
because she has got to get her tracksuit off and get back in the | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
pool. She will go in the first semifinal of the 200 metres | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
freestyle. At 6pm, if you want to stay with live swimming action, | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
press your red button to see the Men's 200m Butterfly semifinals. No | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Michael Phelps so who will pinch his crown? You would get your Hungary, | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
Hungary. You can join in. We will then go to go crazy for Sarah Vasey. | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
She goes in the Women's 100m Breast Stroke. We have talked a lot about | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Katie Ledecky, but now let's talk about a Swedish swimming superstar. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
I managed that. She has been talking to us. | :01:32. | :01:46. | |
Sarah Sjoestroem, gold again, Sarah Sjoestroem of Sweden gets the gold. | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
Am really happy with it so far. Working more on your freestyle than | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
butterfly at the moment? I decided to work more on my technique to | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
become a better sprinter, 100 free, and it worked out pretty well. You | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
started very young. Eight years ago I took my first gold medal in the | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
World Championships, so yesterday was my fourth gold medal in the 100 | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
fly, which I am very happy about. What keeps you sow inspired? I love | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
being an athlete, it is more fun now than it was when I was 15, I am | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
enjoying being a swimmer more than ever at the moment, and I am doing | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
really well, but I outside competing, all these things that I | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
really enjoy. Often in track and field, people go up distances, but | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
in swimming you go down the distance. Yeah, because in swimming | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
we have to train so much more than track and field, we train for two | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
hours but only swim for 25 seconds! More world records to come this | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
week? I have been very close many times in the 50 freestyle, like we | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
saw on the first day of the meet, I was very fast in the 100 free, so if | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
I do a fast start, I am sure I can be close to the world record, I will | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
see. STUDIO: She has got a busy week | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
dared, she has got the 100 metres freestyle heats on Thursday, back in | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the pool on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, talk us through what we can | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
expect to see from her this week. Don't be fooled by the fifth in the | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
relay, I think we will see gold, gold, gold, apart from the medley | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
relay, I think she will win four, and I would not be surprised if she | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
breaks the 50 free world record. She is focusing more on her freestyle | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
technique, she trains in Sweden with a guy who used to train the Olympic | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
silver medallist in 50 freestyle, so she is focusing more on freestyle. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Being around as printers and being in that environment means she will | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
get faster. -- being around sprinters. There is an elite group | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
training in Turkey at the moment. There is a professional programme | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
where lots of different people from around Europe, and train in one | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
place, and they are paid to swim in that place. It is becoming | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
professional in that sense, a bit like footballers, but they are not | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
paid the same amount of money, they are paid to swim for a particular | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
club and company. Is it a shame for British swimming? It is a shame that | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Gibson is training over there, he was our sprint coach out until last | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
year, I would like to see another space made available for him in the | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
UK to have a sprint programme in the UK. Whether there was not space for | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
him, I don't know, but when you have got somebody with that knowledge, we | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
should be having sprinters in the programme in our country. Back to | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
Sarah, you mentioned the relay, she set a world record, she took her | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
first world title in 2009, and there is no sign of her dominance leading | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
up. She openly speaks about the fact that she wants to continue, and most | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
athletes are saying, yeah, I will go to the next Olympics, but she wants | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
to be in the sport another ten or 12 years possibly, and she definitely | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
has the capability of doing that. This was her last night in flight, | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
what is it that is so good about her technique? When it comes to | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
technique in butterfly, well, butterfly and breaststroke in | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
particular, it is all down to timing, how much water you can hold | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
but the timing element. She just gets it perfect, and when you get | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
the perfect motion, you get so much more of a shoot forward, but she is | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
also stronger than everybody else. Next up, the men's 100 metres | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
backstroke final, we talked a lot about Chris Walker-Hebborn, we are | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
hoping we will see him in the relays later in the week, fingers crossed | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
he will be fighting fit and on form, but now over to Andy and Steve to | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
take us through the men's 100 metres backstroke final. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
COMMENTATOR: And what a line-up it is, the Olympic champion in five, | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
the world record holder is not the favourite. The Olympic champion in | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
2012, Grevers, number three. The defending world champion, Mitchell | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Larkin, is not the favourite. It is Xu of China in four. Quite | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
extraordinary, Xu of China, the world record-holder is held by the | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
man in lane five, Xu has 51.86 this year. For me, Andy, we have a battle | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
between the technicians and the power boys, and this is one of the | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
power colours, Matt Grevers, the Olympic champion in 2012, an | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
absolute monster of a human being, six foot six, weighing in at 15 | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
stone, he is huge, but this is the current Olympic champion, also world | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
record, Ryan Murphy, very casual there! I have never seen a guy | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
coming out with his hands in his pockets before he comes out to race. | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
And here is another technician, Xu, 0.01 off the world record earlier | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
this year at the Chinese trials, and he absolutely shuts down yesterday. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
He only swam to about 60 metres and then turned the afterburner is on | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
and coasted in and still the fastest qualifier. The very confidence that | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
this guy is going to tear these other fellas apart, but just watch, | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
for any age group swimmers, what a beautiful technique that Xu has got, | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
and here we go in lane six. There is the defending world | :08:33. | :08:45. | |
champion, Mitchell Larkin, there is Irie of Japan in lane six. The quick | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
guys are in three, four, five and seven. Grevers, Xu, Murphy and | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
Larkin. Where do the medals go? I think we are going to see a changing | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
of the guard, America has been dominant for so many years in 100 | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
metres backstroke. I feel like the dominance is going to switch to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Asia, Xu just looks in superb form to me. But it is all going to be | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
about the start, they have got to get away. | :09:19. | :09:32. | |
That was interesting, Irie very slow up in six, what a fantastic start, | :09:33. | :09:44. | |
though, from Xu of China, that is amazing. Normally Ryan Murphy is a | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
super starter, but Xu killed him on the start. Very rare you see the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Americans being beaten on the start, and this is not the best part of | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
Xu's race, that is still to come. He has turned well, 0.01 and a world | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
record pace, Ryan Murphy, not only is he going to lose, but he might | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
see his world record go down. This is where Xu gets strong, 25 metres | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
to go, but Matt Grevers and Ryan Murphy are saying no! Definitely not | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
over here, Murphy is one lane closed to us than Xu in the yellow hat in | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the centre, Grevers in three, Murphy in five, but it is Xu, Xu is the | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
world champion, 52.4 or from Matt Grevers of the USA. Grevers gets the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
silver, the bronze goes to Murphy of the USA. Xu of China takes gold, a | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
little bit slower than I thought, I have to say. What a race that was, | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
though. Xu won it at the start. It looked so easy yesterday, I cannot | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
believe he has only got 52.44, exactly the same time as he went | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
yesterday. But he swam it so differently, really went out as hard | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
as he could, didn't seem to have it on the back end, but there is a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
reason the Americans are both Olympic champions, and that is | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
because they do not quit. They didn't want to concede that title, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
but look what it means to Xu there. His start was amazing, Andy, I think | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
five might have gone a little bit earlier, but the result has been | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
confirmed, no challenge. But to be beating the Americans to 50, highly | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
and usual. Just look at that stroke, though, Andy, really fantastic | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
rotation, beautifully still head position. Confidence down the first | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
50, he actually ended up losing by a smaller margin. He must have had his | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
heart in his mouth with five metres to go, in absolute agony, but only | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
thinking about spotting the finish, and that is what he did, and touched | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Grevers. That is not easy to do, six foot six Grevers is a monster! But | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Xu is the new world champion of the 100 metres men's backstroke after | :12:03. | :12:13. | |
silver in Rio. I have to say, that time, 52.4, a fascinating results. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
We have talked an awful lot at these games about technique, the amount of | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
technique that swimmers are doing in training now, much more so than in | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
the past. We doing enough in Great Britain, I wonder? So the result of | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
the men's 100 metres backstroke, Xu wins gold for China, great gold for | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
them. Silver and bronze go to the USA, the last two Olympic champions. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
We got a bit excited, we thought we might see another world record | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
toppled. It was slower than the semifinals, surprisingly, but a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
fantastic race, we were on the edge of our seats, we had no clue who was | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
going to take that. Let's look at the start again, you noticed | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
something, Mark. The first 25 metres is where Xu won the race, and we are | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
used to the Americans being best on the first length, there he is in the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
top of the yellow lanes, and he was a good good ahead of the others, and | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
you never see the Americans coming behind. That is not normally the way | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
he runs a race, he normally comes from the back, so surprise into see | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
him do that. Earlier in the year, the only missed the world record by | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
0.01, so you thought he was going to take it down, but he got a little | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
bit tight towards the end here. Incredible to see Grevers comeback, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
he has had a challenging year, should you say? Not making Rio and | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
things. He is six foot eight! You just think, he is huge, you think | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
his arms oh so long he would be able to get to the wall first anyway. It | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
was just an incredible race, one that was slightly disappointing | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
timewise, I am not going to lie. As a race goes, what a great race, so | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
tight towards the end, we have seen Adam Peaty destroy people, which we | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
love, but that was cat and mouse. Adam Peaty has boiled us, hasn't | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
he?! Talking of Ledecky, she is back in the pool once again, time for the | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
women's 200 metres freestyle semifinal. And the first semifinal | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
this is, absolutely stacked, Leah Smith and Emma McKeon both very | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
quick, but Katie Ledecky, the most successful female swimmer in World | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Championship history, goes in four for the USA. Katerine Savard of | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
Canada, Canada have not had the greatest meet so far, but China | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
having a very good meet. The bronze in the fourth of metres freestyle | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
was a big surprise. And if the Chinese are having a good meet, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
France are not. We have hardly seen anything from France, over the last | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
few World Championships they have dominated, but this is one of the | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
first French contenders I can remember. They have had glum faces | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
all week! We have a plenty to smile about, I am OK with that! | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
This is quite a field. It was gold in the 400 metres to Katie Ledecky, | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
silver to Smith and bronze to Li of China. McKeon swam the 100 final. | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
This is going to be quite an interesting race. I think it's going | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
to be very fast indeed. She has swum the Women's 1500m Freestyle already, | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
just outside her world-record, the defending champion, but if there is | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
one she is in danger of losing, Steve, could it be this one? For | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
sure, this is a her weakest event. If you could call it that. The older | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
she gets, I know she is only 20, but the turnaround she has to do in | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
these World Championships is ridiculously tough. She was in the | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
water no more than an hour ago swimming 30 lengths. She's had to | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
put her tracksuit back on, get her medal and now get ready to do this. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
A great PB from McKeon by one second early in the week. Can she transfer | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
her form to her 200 metre freestyle? If she does, she will give Katie | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Ledecky a scare. The first semifinal of the 200 metres freestyle. Katie | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
Ledecky in fourth for the USA. She has been outstanding, Katie Ledecky. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
May be the first time we've seen something relatively average. She is | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
working really hard down the first 25 metres. The Black hat in the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
centre, third or fourth at the moment. She has got to be tired. She | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
is not Superwoman. She has got to work here. She's got to make sure | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
she gets flew to the final tonight in one of the centre lanes. Emma | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
McKeon fancies this. An incredible world-record set by Federico | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
Pellegrini in Rome in 2009. I think she will pay for this. She is, of | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
course, having Katie Ledecky behind her. She already looks to me like | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
she might be starting to tire. Well, in Lane number five, McKeon in | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
Australia, turning first. They do have a team, France, but the French | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
swimmers are in short supply at the moment. Katie Ledecky now starting | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
to move. Viewed said she did 30 lengths in the pool freestyle and | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
won the gold medal and then did another 30 just to swim down and she | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
is now starting to move and get into her rib. She is looking really | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
strong, just taking the lead, second behind McKeon. She's an Olympic | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
medallist but it looks like she is starting to tire. She may get second | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
but I think she's doing what she has to do. Her legs are starting to kick | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
to get her home. The pain she going through now must be extraordinary. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
She the Women's 1500m Freestyle and she is digging in. That is tough. | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
After a freestyler 15 minutes 30. That is just amazing. She is | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
superhuman. She is going for the double quadruple. She won them all | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
at the World Championships two years ago and has already won the 400 | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
metres and the 1500 metres here. Are you going to take the 200 metres off | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
her, Steve? Not on that form. What Adam Peaty is doing in the sprint | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
events, she is matching in the women's in during freestyle. She's | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
got the fastest time in the world this year after winning a 1500 metre | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
freestyle. She won't have it all her own way because if anybody will | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
pressure back it'll be the world record holder Frederica Pellegrini, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
who goes in the second semifinal. An absolute masterclass. She allowed | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
McKeon to go out and just turned it on when she needed to. I didn't | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
think we would see a date when a woman would dominate in all the | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
races full stop I think she could do it again. It's extraordinary. Most | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
local pools are 25 metres. Katie Ledecky, the first semifinal, very | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
quick time. Very quick for those two. The second semifinal is fast. | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
Here they are. Frederica Pellegrini goes in for. Her gold medal is on | :20:28. | :20:42. | |
2009 and 2011. It is just phenomenal. Of course, she's opted | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
not to do 200 metres freestyle and has a very tough sprint programme, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
but it leaves the door open. She got the silver medals in the Olympic | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Games, Sarah, but there's plenty of high quality swimmers here who could | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
take this away. She's never got a major games medal here on the 200 | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
metres freestyle. She has stepped up, Garashi, in front of this home | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
crowd and wants to bring home some more hardware. The crowd here I | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
think is the loudest I've ever had, maybe only beaten by London 2012 at | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
the Olympics. It's a very similar style, they go nuts for their | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
players. Swimming the third fastest into the second semifinal after the | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
heats. An Olympic semifinalist. Sheer she is. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
CROWD CHEERS Listen to that. You can hardly hear | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
yourself think. Hosszu won the individual medley here and the crowd | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
went absolutely bananas. Next to her, the greatest woman in history, | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
Pellegrini, the world-record holder. 1:52.9. That's a crazy time, Andy. | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
Alway back in 2009, eight years ago. She 28 years of age but she's been | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
hit countless times, always here. It was set when those shiny suits were | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
allowed which have now been banned. They've now gone back to text file | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
suits and it's made a difference. It really did. -- text file suits. -- | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
textile suits. Katie Ledecky when the first | :22:49. | :23:03. | |
semifinal. -- won the first semifinal. The second semifinal now. | :23:04. | :23:17. | |
Pellegrini looked good on that start. Underwater maybe not quite as | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
good. But very much in line. Hosszu in the centre may be getting the | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
best start in the Red Hat. Hosszu using the full 15 butterfly legs all | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
the way. Look at them they are. Nobody breaking away, six of them. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
The Hong Kong swimmer at the top there. Coleman got a personal best | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
in Stockholm. She has the second fastest time in the world, so we | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
might see a race here across the whole sum improve. Pellegrini has | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
not settled here at all, Andy. Even from the start. -- the whole | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
swimming pool. It's not happening at this stage. She does tend to go off | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
slower and rented up about now. She's got some work to do simple to | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
make sure she gets through to the final. It's just a semifinal. I | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
would imagine 75 metres, up still looking around, Pellegrini, playing | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
cat and mouse. Letting a lot of the other women doing a lot of the work. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Hosszu in the white hat in the centre. Hosszu cannot win this, | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
surely. I know she is tough as old boots, but it's not meant to be her | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
event. Coleman and Ai also digging in at this stage. Pellegrini in the | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
middle of the poll does not like Hosszu. She's on the record as | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
saying that. She is showing her class in the last 15. This will be | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
pretty tight. Pellegrini, tracking him now is Hosszu. Not bad. Hosszu | :25:05. | :25:22. | |
second. She may well make the final. That will be something special. | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Katie Ledecky will go the fastest. A little bit of cat and mouse. A | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
little bit slow down the first 100. They've got to be careful because | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
the first semifinal was really strong. Katie Ledecky dragging | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
everyone along. She's only going in fourth now, Pellegrini, so those | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
guys were taking a chance. Pellegrini, right after blocks. That | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
it was Hosszu who came up I had of her, really good butterfly legs | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
underwater. Let's see what's going on with Hosszu on the turn of. Akiva | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
is not spending any time on the wall. Maintaining that speed on the | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
way out. Look at this finish. They've had some needle outside of | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
the water, Hosszu and Pellegrini. It's important to get the hand on | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
the wall and that's what Pellegrini do well. She fancies it, doesn't | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
she, Hosszu? I think she gave a wry smile to Pellegrini. But Pellegrini | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
is having none of it. Confirmation of the result of a second semifinal, | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Pellegrini wins it. The fastest three from the first semifinal will | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
go into the final. Pellegrini will only be forth, I believe. Let's just | :26:47. | :26:58. | |
check. Two Americans in the final. Pellegrini and Hosszu, fourth and | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
fifth. A French swimmer in the final. That final tomorrow night | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
will be pretty hectic. It's one of my most excited races, | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
I'm not going to lie because the 200 metres is just so tight and close | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
and I'm so excited to see who can get on the podium. The headline act | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
for the Hungarians is clearly Hosszu but Adam Peaty in action tomorrow | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
night. How excited are you? Extremely excited. It's whether he | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
will break his own world record again. Complete dominance and a | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
masterclass. The swimming coverage continues on the red button if you | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
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action. Press your red button in a minute. Tomorrow night from 4:30pm | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
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Peaty. Two world-record in the bag. You can see him tomorrow night and | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
join us if you can. Bye-bye. | :28:05. | :28:09. |