Madrid

:00:25. > :00:31.in this year's world triathlon series and the start of the circuit

:00:31. > :00:35.of the European leg. Below us is the Spanish capital's largest park. The

:00:35. > :00:39.venue for this weekend's hot and hilly action. It is that challenging

:00:39. > :00:42.bike course through those hills which make this course so popular

:00:42. > :00:49.among the stronger athletes. We have got highlights coming up of the

:00:49. > :00:59.women's race and then later, a real treat as we show in full the latest

:00:59. > :01:14.

:01:14. > :01:20.instalment of Gomez versus Brownlie. will start with the women and after

:01:20. > :01:24.three races, the battle to success is getting serious and most of the

:01:24. > :01:31.leading contenders are taking part this weekend.

:01:31. > :01:38.Looking at the latest world triathlon series rankings, the

:01:38. > :01:41.American has a comfortable lead but the race is far from over four Anne

:01:41. > :01:49.Haug and her new training partner, Emma Moffat who will net 's see

:01:49. > :01:52.later. Jodie Stimpson earned her first podium by finishing third in

:01:52. > :01:58.Yokohama and the Black Country girl is confident there are plenty more

:01:59. > :02:05.to follow. Swansea's competitor may be down in the position that she has

:02:05. > :02:08.only raced once at this level so far this season. In San Diego, she beat

:02:08. > :02:12.Moffat to finish second and having won a friend Grand Prix race last

:02:12. > :02:17.weekend, it looks as though she has been able to maintain that great

:02:17. > :02:22.form coming into Madrid. And Stamford is going to finish in

:02:23. > :02:29.second for Great Britain! We have to mention your very first podium

:02:29. > :02:32.results, congratulations. How are you feeling? Thank you. It was nice

:02:32. > :02:38.to finally get there. You watch these girls and think it is really

:02:38. > :02:43.not attainable but I knew I was in good form going into the race but it

:02:43. > :02:51.is a different type of racing. And to make that successful transition

:02:51. > :02:58.was nice and it is a great way to start the season.

:02:58. > :03:01.And a dramatic finish with a Moffat? Yes, I left it until the

:03:01. > :03:05.last second! I did not think I could catch her because she was so far

:03:05. > :03:09.ahead and we started out on the run but she started coming back to me

:03:09. > :03:15.pretty quick and I thought of my coach at home and thought I cannot

:03:15. > :03:23.try not to outsprint her. COMMENTATOR: it will be tight,

:03:23. > :03:29.Moffat and Jodie Stimpson. Jodie Stimpson takes her.

:03:29. > :03:34.Jodie, how do you feel about your podium finish? I have not stopped

:03:34. > :03:40.smiling, to be honest! It is nice to be able to get on the podium and

:03:40. > :03:48.Yokohama is such a nice event. Hopefully it is the first of many.

:03:48. > :03:52.What is it like training with your rivals, Emma Moffat and Anne Haug?

:03:52. > :03:57.You know you are in good form if you stay with them in training and then

:03:57. > :04:01.it is nice to race with them. are you feeling about Madrid?

:04:01. > :04:05.confident, the sun is shining and I have raced here before so hopefully

:04:05. > :04:11.the third time I will race even better. You are raising Non this

:04:11. > :04:16.weekend, what is she like to race against? Non is in fantastic form at

:04:16. > :04:20.the moment. Things seem to be clicking into place for her and she

:04:20. > :04:27.is one of the athletes that really works hard and she deserves a good

:04:27. > :04:33.result she is getting. When, you are still series leader, have is that

:04:33. > :04:38.feel -- how does that feel? Gwen. do not really think about it, every

:04:38. > :04:43.race is a race and I am raising the best girls in the world so I have to

:04:43. > :04:47.show up and I have to know that it is a tough battle. You are now based

:04:47. > :04:52.in Spain after being based in Australia for a while. What are you

:04:52. > :04:57.enjoying most about it here? It is beautiful, and the training is

:04:57. > :05:00.awesome. It is relaxed. I never get sick of the running because it is so

:05:00. > :05:05.beautiful and there are swimming pools everywhere that we can swim

:05:05. > :05:11.in. It is great. How are you feeling ahead of the Madrid raise? I put

:05:11. > :05:14.Russia on myself every race and I try to perform at that level.

:05:14. > :05:18.put pressure on myself. I will hand you over to our

:05:18. > :05:25.commentators, Rob Walker and Steve Trew.

:05:25. > :05:27.COMMENTATOR: welcome to round four which sees us hit Europe for the

:05:27. > :05:32.first time this season having started in Auckland where it

:05:32. > :05:42.finished last year, it soaked up the sunshine of San Diego and then the

:05:42. > :05:42.

:05:42. > :05:49.reigning weather of Yokohama. The course here is described by some as

:05:49. > :05:55.one for the triathlon purists. We are doing to lapse on this fabulous

:05:55. > :06:05.course. Eight circuits on the bike. And they climb of 400 metres on

:06:05. > :06:10.

:06:10. > :06:17.every single loop, one of the single toughest bike courses. Gwen has come

:06:17. > :06:21.through brilliantly in the last two editions and then for loops, and

:06:21. > :06:31.bearing in mind how hilly the bike race is, the run course is fairly

:06:31. > :06:31.

:06:31. > :06:36.flat. Gwen goes with number one, Anne Haug, great victory in

:06:37. > :06:42.Auckland. Jodie Stimpson has her first podium finishing third in

:06:42. > :06:49.Yokohama and Non finishing second in San Diego just outsprinting Emma

:06:49. > :06:53.Moffat in the final part of the race. Lots of attention on Non in

:06:53. > :06:57.the past couple of days as they begin to line up. This is round four

:06:57. > :07:04.and there will be seven in total before we get to the grand final in

:07:04. > :07:14.London. Here we go, in the sunshine of Spain, round number four is under

:07:14. > :07:23.

:07:23. > :07:25.way here in Madrid. A fascinating another in a row? Or will Non

:07:25. > :07:32.prevent that from happening? But, Steve Trew, they must get through

:07:32. > :07:38.the water first. It wasn't a clean start by any means there. One of the

:07:38. > :07:47.swimmers there being left off but interesting, Carolina Routier had a

:07:47. > :07:52.fast start and also Aileen Reid from Ireland really seem to push out. In

:07:52. > :07:56.this early stage, there seems to be a huge impact, people trying to get

:07:56. > :08:02.away to get clear. Over 50 starters and quite crucial in this early

:08:02. > :08:06.stage for them to get a good position in the pack rather than

:08:06. > :08:14.having to sitting back and then try to work their way up. That has

:08:14. > :08:20.really spread out so early on. is Pamela Olivero, the Brazilian,

:08:20. > :08:24.15th in the grand final last year but definite moves here in the early

:08:24. > :08:28.stages and we are definitely seeing a change in tactics from previous

:08:28. > :08:32.races, all of these women are all too aware of how well I'm strongly

:08:32. > :08:39.Gwen Jorgensen came through in the last two editions of the series.

:08:39. > :08:44.There are your temperatures. Far too warm for a wetsuit but there are

:08:44. > :08:53.couple of women out there, Aileen Reid from Northern Ireland

:08:53. > :08:58.representing Ireland at the front towards the left-hand side and that

:08:58. > :09:03.is on the right side, Carolina Routier, taking some clear water and

:09:03. > :09:07.a different line as you said, Steve. There is a real move here to try to

:09:07. > :09:15.make it as hard as possible, maybe get a small group picking away at

:09:15. > :09:17.the front on that really testing bike course. Looking at how the

:09:17. > :09:25.swimming is developing, it looks like Carolina Routier chose a

:09:25. > :09:33.position to be away from the melee. Jorgensen has lost as much as 25

:09:33. > :09:37.metres already. You can see on the screen the arm/really is not very

:09:37. > :09:47.smooth by Jorgensen, it will be crucial for her to try to get in the

:09:47. > :09:51.front pack. No secrets in this, and interestingly, Non who is such a

:09:51. > :09:56.good runner has improved dramatically over the last few

:09:56. > :09:59.months on swimming and cycling and has moved from number 23 -- the

:09:59. > :10:09.under 23 to the senior ranks and I think she will be a real player here

:10:09. > :10:11.

:10:11. > :10:19.today. Carolyn , the Brazilian, and it looks like the leading three have

:10:19. > :10:29.an advantage. Aileen Reid back in eighth or ninth place. Having

:10:29. > :10:31.

:10:31. > :10:39.started very quickly. It is Olivero on the left, and then comes pretty a

:10:39. > :10:44.and Sarah with the leader of a few metres. And I know that the Brownlee

:10:44. > :10:48.brothers call this a really honest course and a pure race, you come out

:10:48. > :10:52.of transition and you are faced with a 400 metre climb, right at the

:10:52. > :10:57.beginning, there is no time for the lakes to adjust to the bike, you are

:10:57. > :11:00.straight into the hard work on this course. Will of the other things,

:11:00. > :11:06.Jessica Harrison who used to represent Great Britain and now

:11:07. > :11:10.represents France, she was saying earlier that she felt the transition

:11:10. > :11:14.here was very tight indeed. The obvious swimmers speed up the head

:11:14. > :11:18.of the field, these athletes will have a big advantage if they can get

:11:18. > :11:22.into the transition area with a bit of open space, they will take away

:11:22. > :11:27.the chances of shoes being knocked off, crashed out going and they are

:11:27. > :11:30.moving away, we have seen this forced many times before but this

:11:30. > :11:40.really does appear now that we are getting a break early in the

:11:40. > :11:46.swimmers. Olivero has a couple of metres on Routier and a feature of

:11:46. > :11:52.this course, how fantastic that as a spectator you can get that close to

:11:52. > :11:57.world class action. Normally you only see them on the 750s when they

:11:57. > :12:06.go around twice, you see them coming out but that is a fantastic view for

:12:07. > :12:12.the crowd there. 9.20 at the halfway mark so it looks like we'll be

:12:12. > :12:20.getting under 19. The level keeps on going up and up so a ten second gap,

:12:20. > :12:24.that is quite sink difficult. -- that is quite significant. We keep

:12:24. > :12:29.looking for the British athletes. Aileen Reid representing Ireland at

:12:29. > :12:37.the moment. Kate McIlroy a good runner as well just trying to get

:12:37. > :12:47.indication as to where Jodie Stimpson and Non are and also when

:12:47. > :12:48.

:12:48. > :12:56.Jorgensen and Barbara Riveros Diaz. I thought -- Anne Haug. I thought I

:12:56. > :13:06.saw her go through in that group. The Brazilian is really putting it

:13:06. > :13:11.in there. So coming into the closing stages of this win here in Madrid.

:13:11. > :13:18.And we have a line of five triathletes away and clear from the

:13:18. > :13:23.rest of the field. Alice Betto has done well but it is Olivero who set

:13:23. > :13:31.the pace right at the beginning and these five will be heading out on to

:13:31. > :13:36.one of the toughest bike courses on the triathlon courses, apart from

:13:36. > :13:45.the one course which is like a mountain. A climb of 400 metres on

:13:45. > :13:49.each and every five K circuit. look as if we are having a second

:13:49. > :13:55.group gaming to get detached as well but that will make it even more

:13:55. > :14:03.interesting and crucial. Is Anne Haug going to be up in the second

:14:03. > :14:08.group back in the third? Before the race, people were talking about Anne

:14:08. > :14:12.Haug and Gwen Jorgensen saying they had different tactics and whether

:14:12. > :14:18.Anne Haug and the rest of the field would be able to take enough out of

:14:18. > :14:28.Gwen Jorgensen's running ability to stave off her advances and she timed

:14:28. > :14:33.it to perfection in San Diego and Jorgensen in group number two, as it

:14:33. > :14:39.appears at the moment, that rings and other twist into the tactics.

:14:39. > :14:43.Anne Haug cannot sit back on the bike because if when Jorgensen will

:14:43. > :14:46.sit back with her, it means that Anne Haug will have to push on the

:14:46. > :14:50.bike. Whether she will blow some of the other athletes out of the back,

:14:50. > :14:55.whether she will manage to bridge the gap to the five leaders

:14:55. > :15:00.currently, or not, it is that sensational mix of triathlon. It

:15:00. > :15:06.looks like those are just moving away a couple of seconds which could

:15:06. > :15:11.be so important going into the second discipline. Routier leading

:15:11. > :15:18.now having taken over from the Brazilian. It will certainly get the

:15:18. > :15:25.crowd excited. Madrid is bidding to host the Olympic Games in 2020. The

:15:25. > :15:28.result of that is due early in September in buona sera ease. Madrid

:15:28. > :15:37.up against Istanbul and Tokyo so we could be looking at a potential

:15:37. > :15:43.Olympic triathlon course. They are coming to the end of this win.

:15:43. > :15:46.Routier to the delight of the Spaniards watching exits first. The

:15:46. > :15:56.Brazilian who led for such a long time, and then the fourth person in

:15:56. > :16:04.the Olympics, Groff, Nicky Samuels and Alice Betto. Those five with a

:16:04. > :16:14.clear advantage on the rest. It looks like Jessica Harrison is

:16:14. > :16:19.exiting the water that. The running into transition. Jodie Stimpson is

:16:19. > :16:29.in that second group, just 20 seconds adrift. Non Stanford is four

:16:29. > :16:30.

:16:30. > :16:40.seconds behind her. So the big names are bad. Good to see bin NASA

:16:40. > :16:42.

:16:42. > :16:50.wrought coming back to fitness. Absolutely ravaged by injuries. --

:16:50. > :16:53.good to see Vanessa Raw. These early triathletes have the advantage of

:16:53. > :17:01.getting in and out fairly quickly and not getting caught in any

:17:01. > :17:10.tangles. Now heading out on to this brutal bike course. Jodie Stimpson

:17:10. > :17:19.we just saw her in the back of the shot running towards her bike. How

:17:19. > :17:29.delighted was she to finish third in Japan? It looks like Jodie Stimpson

:17:29. > :17:34.

:17:34. > :17:38.and Non Stanford RMS. -- are in this. The critical thing is are they

:17:39. > :17:44.going to be able to close early on the bike. Aileen Reid is about 15

:17:44. > :17:54.seconds down. The NASA has been concentrating on the due Apple on

:17:54. > :18:00.

:18:00. > :18:07.recently. -- Vanessa has been focussing on the duathlon. And how

:18:07. > :18:17.is such a long way down. This will have a huge impact on the race.

:18:17. > :18:19.

:18:19. > :18:23.Jorgensen is safely onto the bike course. I wonder whether something

:18:23. > :18:27.went wrong with Anne Haug? We would not expect the Auckland winner to be

:18:27. > :18:37.that far adrift at the start of the bike. So there is a potential

:18:37. > :18:40.development. There is a long way to go, she could still be in it. She is

:18:40. > :18:45.desperate to join Gwen Jorgensen who won the last two. But she has a lot

:18:45. > :18:55.of work to do as the first five swimmers help -- had up that big

:18:55. > :18:55.

:18:55. > :19:05.incline. Jess Harrison, Non Stanford, how good is that? Two of

:19:05. > :19:12.our goals up there in that chase group. Can these five stayaway?

:19:12. > :19:16.at that. She was out of the saddle right out of transition and she has

:19:16. > :19:25.split that five. They are going to have to work hard to get back. I

:19:25. > :19:35.think Routier has been dislodged them. I love watching this. This is

:19:35. > :19:45.

:19:45. > :19:50.of the flat ground. There aren't too many places on this course where you

:19:50. > :19:54.can get liquid on board. Certainly not able to do that on the 400 metre

:19:54. > :19:58.incline or the steep descent. There we get a glimpse back to the two

:19:58. > :20:05.athletes in fourth and fifth who just looked over their shoulder and

:20:05. > :20:14.realised that a high-quality group are closing. Those chasers are going

:20:14. > :20:19.to close down on Routier and Oliveira quite soon. I know the

:20:19. > :20:27.camera foreshortened is quite a deal there but I make it about a 22nd gap

:20:27. > :20:37.between the leads three and the two groups just coming together. -- a 20

:20:37. > :20:41.

:20:41. > :20:48.second gap. They looked to be working hard. If they don't have the

:20:48. > :20:58.reworking it will be hard to stay away. Felicity Abram am now taking

:20:58. > :21:07.

:21:07. > :21:11.their tactics. You are quite a fan of that, you like to see people

:21:12. > :21:16.going for it. It didn't quite pay off for her in San Diego in the end,

:21:16. > :21:21.but she is clearly feeling confident and has decided to be aggressive,

:21:21. > :21:28.which makes it a better race to watch. It is the way the Brownlee

:21:28. > :21:31.Brothers race, isn't it? Just go for it. You're right, I love to see an

:21:31. > :21:41.honest race, people putting in the hard work and getting their just

:21:41. > :21:45.

:21:45. > :21:50.deserts. -- desserts. So we will keep our eye on the lead group and

:21:50. > :21:55.the chasers. Look at the quality of the first group. And Alice Betto has

:21:56. > :22:03.fallen. We are waiting for a replay to see what has happened, but that

:22:03. > :22:11.is so unlucky. Alice Betto is the last of the trio there. The back end

:22:11. > :22:14.just steams -- just seems to slip out. I can't see how that happened.

:22:14. > :22:22.It didn't look like there was any grease on the road. Maybe that

:22:22. > :22:25.really is bad luck. For a single chaser to try to get back on is so

:22:25. > :22:33.difficult. And it also makes it difficult for the girls in front

:22:33. > :22:43.because they've lost that third person. The workload goes up by 33%.

:22:43. > :22:46.

:22:46. > :22:51.Alice Betto looks to be in trouble on the climate. -- the climb.

:22:51. > :22:55.do you do if you are Alice in that context? Do you say, OK, the chances

:22:55. > :22:59.are I'm going to get swallowed by the group, and you can serve a bit

:22:59. > :23:04.of energy, or do you go as hard as you can to be attached to the

:23:04. > :23:08.group? Well, Alice 's strength is the swim. She is an improving

:23:08. > :23:15.athlete on the bike and the run, but I have that sort of thing happen,

:23:15. > :23:19.it's not just the physical aspect, but mentally, I had done so well so

:23:19. > :23:26.early on and now it has been taken away from me. That is the sort of

:23:26. > :23:36.thing that goes through your mind. Aileen Reid is now on the third

:23:36. > :23:41.chase and still no sign of Anne Haug. That is the unknown, to me.

:23:41. > :23:51.Needless to say, this is a downhill section of the cause as we get a

:23:51. > :23:51.

:23:51. > :23:54.glimpse of the chasers. -- the course. British contenders are still

:23:54. > :24:03.keen to share the pace and the workload. I think it was Jodie

:24:03. > :24:10.Stimpson just going to the front of that group. Sarah Groff, seventh in

:24:11. > :24:19.Madrid two is ago, she -- two years ago so she knows her way around the

:24:19. > :24:25.course. But no shortage of bravery, and the way she attacked the first

:24:25. > :24:31.lap of the run in San Diego, I guess that is the other subplot that is

:24:31. > :24:38.playing out -- what is happening between Anne Haug and Gwen

:24:38. > :24:48.Jorgensen. That is hugely disappointing. Kate Mcilroy, her

:24:48. > :24:49.

:24:50. > :24:52.race comes to an end. Perhaps a nasty fall. There is a very hard

:24:53. > :25:00.early 400 metre climb, and then on the descent and the flat they really

:25:00. > :25:09.are a lot of turns. We saw poor Alice Betto come down, which makes

:25:09. > :25:17.you think maybe the service is a bit rougher than one would hope. -- the

:25:17. > :25:22.surface. So maybe that is a factor we need to take into consideration

:25:22. > :25:32.when we talk about closing the gaps, and the care that needs to be

:25:32. > :25:34.

:25:34. > :25:43.taken on the corners. Anne Haug and thinly closing that gap. -- and

:25:43. > :25:50.Findlay. Look at how hard they're working. They are going to rejoin

:25:50. > :25:59.that group. That is a great effort by Anne Haug. I think she did the

:25:59. > :26:02.majority of the work there. The last 400 metres, that's a huge effort,

:26:03. > :26:09.and Anne Haug is going to join this second group in the next few hundred

:26:09. > :26:14.metres. All credit to Paula Findlay coming back from those long-term

:26:14. > :26:17.injuries. She was very upset after the Olympic Games, she must be so

:26:17. > :26:27.pleased after the results last week and now to be back featuring in

:26:27. > :26:28.

:26:28. > :26:31.this. You can see with your own eyes that the gap is getting narrower and

:26:31. > :26:41.narrower from art to long-term leaders. Sarah Groff just takes an

:26:41. > :26:44.

:26:44. > :26:50.anxious look. The chase group are bearing down and doing so in fine

:26:50. > :26:55.style and with some fine athletes in amongst a group of about 12 or 15.

:26:55. > :27:01.Possibly even more than that. I think that gap is down to 15 seconds

:27:01. > :27:06.and just over two laps to go. I'm sure that will be closed. What is

:27:06. > :27:08.going to happen with the third group? That is the one with Gwen

:27:09. > :27:16.Jorgensen which could make the difference with our running ability

:27:16. > :27:22.and be ability of the athletes in this meaning -- in this middle pack.

:27:22. > :27:29.Sarah Groff is going to be thinking, what should I do? This is where the

:27:29. > :27:33.mind games come in and where the mind games and confidence becomes so

:27:33. > :27:41.powerful, overriding, almost. It is a question of making a decision and

:27:41. > :27:49.sticking with it. Whatever you decide, that is the right thing to

:27:49. > :27:59.do. I was just watching Sarah as you were talking and she looked across

:27:59. > :27:59.

:27:59. > :28:04.at the gap. It is down to seven seconds. She looked across and

:28:04. > :28:10.muttered something to herself. I'm not sure it was repeatable, but she

:28:10. > :28:17.obviously didn't like what she was seeing! They are now fully aware

:28:17. > :28:21.that the girls are right behind them, and all that hard work to get

:28:21. > :28:29.away has not resulted in a positive outcome as they had on to the last

:28:29. > :28:39.two laps. That group with Gwen Jorgensen, I believe, we just saw

:28:39. > :28:39.

:28:39. > :28:47.them going through. They are only 33 seconds adrift. Gwen Jorgensen is

:28:47. > :28:55.also being pulled back into the story and into this race. Don't we

:28:55. > :29:02.love it! The athletes will prove as wrong time and time again. It is

:29:03. > :29:12.absolutely fascinating. Credit Alice Betto, because it would have been so

:29:13. > :29:21.

:29:21. > :29:25.easy for her after the shock of the fall, to full-back. -- to fall back.

:29:25. > :29:34.Gwen Jorgensen is aiming for three and a road, trying to close in on

:29:34. > :29:44.something only done twice before by women in the world triathlon series.

:29:44. > :29:45.

:29:45. > :29:55.-- three in a row. But can the likes of Non Stanford get their hands on a

:29:55. > :30:04.

:30:04. > :30:12.Non Stanford and all the other athletes in this group, second at

:30:12. > :30:20.San Diego, Gwen Jorgensen was first at San Diego. What will be the final

:30:20. > :30:26.distance in the final lap. That will be critical. Gwen Jorgensen will

:30:26. > :30:36.certainly come out of transitions so quickly. It looks as if that time

:30:36. > :30:38.

:30:38. > :30:44.has really slipped away. We thought it was down to under 30 seconds.

:30:44. > :30:48.That is as much as 200 metres down going into the run. That is a tough

:30:48. > :30:54.one to call. It is not an unbridgeable gap the Gwen

:30:54. > :31:04.Jorgensen, as she has demonstrated twice so far this year. But there

:31:04. > :31:11.

:31:12. > :31:20.are some really, really classy there and put the hammer down and

:31:20. > :31:25.the Canadian must be relieved to be healthy and fit and in contention

:31:25. > :31:31.once again after some really difficult spells in the doldrums.

:31:31. > :31:35.is lovely to see Paula there and Vanessa as well, great news, just

:31:35. > :31:39.the depth of talent in Great Britain. We talked about the running

:31:39. > :31:43.strength and we did not mention Anne Haug. She has made sure that

:31:43. > :31:47.everybody has worked hard on the bike from her group and that will be

:31:47. > :31:52.another critical factor. Running off a tough bike course is one of her

:31:52. > :31:56.strengths. It is still quite open from this group and from the chase

:31:56. > :32:06.group, to kill you with Gwen Jorgensen in that group. --

:32:06. > :32:09.particularly with when Jorgensen. Having cycled so well, all of the

:32:09. > :32:16.girls in the lead group would want to get out and quickly and safely

:32:16. > :32:24.ready to negotiate the last element of what so far has been an

:32:24. > :32:34.absolutely fascinating race. Anne Haug, Non Stanford, Jodie Stimpson,

:32:34. > :32:37.the big names are there. And I guess do things -- guest to things

:32:37. > :32:46.happening, getting out unscathed and as the clock ticks by, we will need

:32:46. > :32:52.to keep an eye out on how much time Gwen Jorgensen must make up on these

:32:52. > :33:01.leaders and a group of some 25 triathletes are now out onto the

:33:01. > :33:08.run, shaking off the lactic acid. I think this is the athlete who was

:33:08. > :33:12.lapped just a moment ago. Maybe her race is over. Jodie Stimpson,

:33:12. > :33:18.Stamford right up there for Great Britain and Non Stanford has gone

:33:18. > :33:21.straight past Anne Haug and into the lead. Such confidence for the

:33:21. > :33:27.triathlete based in Leeds who so far this year touch wood does not seem

:33:27. > :33:34.to be putting a foot wrong. Jodie Stimpson right on the shoulder

:33:34. > :33:38.of Anne Haug. Great Britain go out one and three there. I don't know

:33:38. > :33:43.what happened to Aileen Reid there, she seemed to be a few seconds back

:33:43. > :33:51.so maybe a trip or a fall that we did not sleep. Non Stanford has

:33:51. > :33:54.released these -- has really seized it there. Jodie Stimpson forget

:33:54. > :33:58.about the second half of the race, just relies on the pure guts and

:33:58. > :34:04.determination that she has had I think if we would have thought of

:34:04. > :34:14.the three athletes leading out, it would not have been that far to say

:34:14. > :34:20.

:34:20. > :34:24.that before. Anne Haug, Jodie Stimpson and Non Stanford. Non

:34:24. > :34:31.Stanford flying away now, getting away from Jodie Stimpson and from

:34:31. > :34:36.Anne Haug. We still have not got a report yet as to how far behind Gwen

:34:36. > :34:42.Jorgensen is at the end of the cycle but so far, it is Stamford for Great

:34:42. > :34:49.Britain, Jodie Stimpson for Great Britain and Anne Haug the German in

:34:49. > :34:52.third place. And those three already have an advantage on the rest of the

:34:52. > :34:58.field. Very Gwen Jorgensen on the left, the taller athletes in the

:34:58. > :35:03.back of shot coming through. Is that a slight grimace on her face? She

:35:03. > :35:08.has a lots of distance to make up against a world-class ten K runner

:35:08. > :35:11.in the form of Non Stanford and Anne Haug in third place keeping Jodie

:35:11. > :35:18.Stimpson company. It is a huge margin for the American to make up

:35:18. > :35:23.and Non Stanford will be doing absolutely everything she can to

:35:23. > :35:27.ensure that the American is disheartened after the first of our

:35:28. > :35:32.four loops and look at that, not only is she leading Anne Haug and

:35:32. > :35:37.Jodie Stimpson, who has decided to put the hammer down. She has taken

:35:37. > :35:42.maybe 20 metres out of the German and her team-mate, Jodie. Such a

:35:42. > :35:47.sign of confidence here in the early stages of the run from Non Stanford.

:35:47. > :35:50.There was a lot spoken about Non when she was a teenager about her

:35:50. > :35:54.running progress. People were talking about her becoming

:35:54. > :35:57.potentially be next Paula Radcliffe and then came the injuries and then

:35:57. > :36:04.university and fortunately for the sport of triathlon, she found it or

:36:04. > :36:13.it found her and the world under 23 champion is looking very, very good

:36:13. > :36:17.here in the early stages. We have to remind ourselves in the early stages

:36:17. > :36:25.of this run. Anne Haug now taking it on, Jodie Stimpson needs to hang

:36:25. > :36:29.onto the German and she should be confident, and let's take nothing

:36:29. > :36:34.away from Jodie Stimpson's performance so far, what a year she

:36:34. > :36:39.has had? To have hypothermia in Auckland and then she was fifth hind

:36:39. > :36:46.Gwen Jorgensen and Non Stanford in San Diego and then a great third

:36:46. > :36:49.place in Yokohama and she is having a battle royal with Anne Haug in

:36:49. > :36:53.second place and not totally out of contention here, it is the early

:36:53. > :36:59.stages. Is it possible that this by the fact that Non Stanford is such a

:36:59. > :37:02.good runner, is it feasible that she may well have gone too early? At the

:37:02. > :37:09.moment, she is looking very good indeed. And we still don't yet have

:37:09. > :37:12.a clocking four Gwen Jorgensen. The gap was sizeable when she headed out

:37:12. > :37:17.onto the run and it will be fascinating to see how soon her name

:37:17. > :37:23.comes along the bottom of your screen on the ticker. How big is the

:37:23. > :37:33.gap she has got to make up? She now only has 7.5 K to close down on Non

:37:33. > :37:39.

:37:39. > :37:43.some of the athletes that started out on the run with her. We are

:37:44. > :37:53.getting an indication, it is over one minute, Aileen Reid, a minute

:37:54. > :38:02.

:38:02. > :38:07.down on that, so when Jorgensen is no doubt that her ten K run

:38:07. > :38:12.helped her to those victories in San Diego and Yokohama and even though

:38:12. > :38:18.she ran 32.44 in Japan, we know this young woman can also run that fast.

:38:19. > :38:26.So Non Stanford, such confidence. The shoulders look relaxed, she

:38:26. > :38:32.looks focused. Everything about this run so far is composure. She has got

:38:32. > :38:36.it under control and she is closing in on what would be a huge victory

:38:36. > :38:42.here in the Spanish capital. would be stunning. And looking at

:38:42. > :38:45.Jodie Stimpson running in front of her team-mate in Darren Smith's

:38:45. > :38:50.training group, that will give her the confidence to stay up with her

:38:50. > :38:56.now. Coming into the season, she said she was learning an awful lot

:38:56. > :39:02.from Anne Haug but now beginning to duel with her. Non Stanford now

:39:02. > :39:07.looks like a 1500 metre runner. The speed of turnover, the drive and

:39:07. > :39:11.thrust of the elbows, I don't think her head has moved at all. She is

:39:11. > :39:21.looking forward, slightly up, she really does have her sights set on

:39:21. > :39:23.

:39:23. > :39:29.through the shot, Jodie Stimpson and Anne Haug in second and third, in

:39:29. > :39:35.the distance, shadowy figures of Sarah Groff and you read a train to

:39:36. > :39:44.close down on Felicity Abram. Gwen Jorgensen, the winner from earlier

:39:44. > :39:47.in the season in the background and you can see she is coming so Gwen

:39:47. > :39:51.Jorgensen has got herself up into seventh place all of a Southern so

:39:51. > :39:57.she has taken some distance at the athletes immediately ahead of her

:39:57. > :40:04.but as far as the lead is concerned, it is still a sizeable advantage for

:40:05. > :40:10.Great Britain's Non Stanford but what a competitor, Gwen Jorgensen.

:40:10. > :40:13.It would have been so easy for her to give up. She is still pushing and

:40:13. > :40:19.knowing how competitive she is, she will want to get ahead of her

:40:19. > :40:23.compatriot, Sarah Groff and the Japanese athlete. She is really

:40:23. > :40:29.pushing herself into that that surely this is too big an advantage

:40:29. > :40:32.for Non Stanford on this occasion? You have got to say, particularly on

:40:32. > :40:39.this lap, the way that Gwen Jorgensen has come through, she is

:40:39. > :40:42.within grasp of fourth, fifth or sixth place. The she might not be

:40:42. > :40:46.aware of what sort of time gap there is between second and third because

:40:46. > :40:49.she is such a great competitor, she has got on the podium twice as she

:40:50. > :40:54.would look to be there again and what a sensational run that would be

:40:54. > :41:00.issue could close down on Anne Haug and Jodie Stimpson. Non Stanford, I

:41:00. > :41:05.don't think so because she slowed a bit on lap number three but the

:41:05. > :41:09.amount of distance and time that she put in prior to that was really

:41:09. > :41:19.sensational. Around 30 seconds, we will get a time check shortly on

:41:19. > :41:19.

:41:19. > :41:26.second and third. She has increased the lead, Steve. Jodie looking up.

:41:26. > :41:29.It is up to 39, 40 seconds so she has put another ten or 11 seconds

:41:29. > :41:36.between her and Jodie Stimpson and Anne Haug but the subplot continues

:41:36. > :41:43.here. Gwen Jorgensen was streaking through the field and at one stage,

:41:43. > :41:51.element and then up to seventh place with graft in her sights and Abram

:41:51. > :41:54.running in fourth place and graft took a little look over her shoulder

:41:54. > :42:01.and the loping figure of Gwen Jorgensen should be the next round

:42:01. > :42:06.the corner and it is. That is the second story of the race, just how

:42:06. > :42:13.much Gwen Jorgensen is catching up. Felicity Abram has been aware that

:42:13. > :42:18.Ide and Sarah Groff are turning round and it will be a bit about

:42:18. > :42:22.fear and how she reacts to that. Gwen Jorgensen, one minute and 24

:42:22. > :42:28.seconds down. Non Stanford has increased her lead over Gwen

:42:28. > :42:33.Jorgensen that is outstanding. over two kilometres now separates

:42:34. > :42:41.Non Stanford from what would be a fantastic victory here in the

:42:41. > :42:48.sunshine in Madrid. She is making the transition from under 23 to the

:42:48. > :42:58.senior ranks look absolutely seamless. Jodie Stimpson, could she

:42:58. > :43:04.

:43:04. > :43:10.make this a British one, two? She finished off last season with

:43:10. > :43:14.victory in New Zealand, fourth in San Diego and she will want to claim

:43:14. > :43:17.second place for herself but at the moment, it is Non Stanford with the

:43:17. > :43:25.shoulders which are still not working or rolling. The head looks

:43:25. > :43:30.steady. It is composed and this is a really classy way for her to secure

:43:30. > :43:35.her first senior world triathlon series victory. Jodie Stimpson,

:43:35. > :43:38.third in Yokohama, she has never finished higher than third in a

:43:38. > :43:42.world triathlon series event and how she would love to build on that

:43:42. > :43:45.Japanese momentum and take second here but she will have to earn it

:43:45. > :43:53.because Anne Haug will not want to concede ground to her long-term

:43:53. > :44:00.training partner. Non Stanford, this must be over a kilometre to go now,

:44:00. > :44:02.it is getting close indeed so as we say unless anything absolutely

:44:03. > :44:09.untoward happens, we will see a great big smile as she crosses the

:44:09. > :44:16.line. But then the drama oh, my goodness me, Felicity Abram in

:44:16. > :44:20.fourth, Gwen Jorgensen now opt into -- now up into fifth place but

:44:20. > :44:23.perhaps with the running ability of Gwen Jorgensen, perhaps not soon

:44:23. > :44:30.enough for Felicity Abram who has been the hunted rabbits throughout

:44:30. > :44:38.this run in on fourth place. Stamford still looking bright and

:44:38. > :44:46.smooth -- Non Stanford still looking smooth. Knowing now that it will be

:44:46. > :44:52.her first top slot on the podium. As a senior. What is going through her

:44:53. > :44:58.mind and the mind of Jodie Stimpson and Anne Haug? They have been less

:44:58. > :45:05.than a metre apart for the entire run. Overtaking Gomez from Spain, on

:45:05. > :45:10.the third lap rather than the fourth. And I would suggest that it

:45:10. > :45:16.is a number of athletes who have been lapped here. That is not usual

:45:16. > :45:21.at all, another mark of how strong the running is of the sharp end with

:45:21. > :45:29.Non Stanford, Anne Haug, Gwen Jorgensen and Jodie Stimpson. We

:45:29. > :45:38.think she has overtaken Felicity Abram. The face of a winner, Non

:45:38. > :45:48.Stanford. There hasn't been the beginning of a grimace, even. And

:45:48. > :45:49.

:45:49. > :45:52.the damage her pace has done. Gwen Jorgensen is into fourth place but

:45:52. > :45:57.unlike a dramatic efforts in San Diego and Yokohama, her charge

:45:57. > :46:02.through the field will not end up with the American taking a third

:46:02. > :46:06.consecutive world triathlon series victory. Can she close the gap on

:46:06. > :46:09.Anne Haug and Jodie Stimpson? Not too far to go but it has been a

:46:09. > :46:12.spirited performance from the American, it would have been easy

:46:12. > :46:18.for her to have given up when the news filtered through to her at the

:46:18. > :46:24.start of the run that she had one minute and a half or so to make up

:46:24. > :46:34.on this woman, Non Stanford. It is closing in. A fabulous maiden

:46:34. > :46:36.

:46:36. > :46:40.victory, it would be. There was a lot of talk about her potential to

:46:40. > :46:49.do something special here in the Spanish capital, and hopefully the

:46:49. > :46:54.smile is coming now. Now the emotion comes forward. The world under 23

:46:54. > :46:59.champion has taken everything by storm so far this year. A win in

:46:59. > :47:06.Portugal in April, a second place in San Diego. Now, she picks up the

:47:06. > :47:13.Welsh flag. Non Stanford takes her first victory in the senior ranks.

:47:13. > :47:22.Second in San Diego, it is first in Madrid on one of the hardest courses

:47:22. > :47:30.there is on the circuit. That is a fantastic victory. Anne Haug has got

:47:30. > :47:38.the better of Jodie Stimpson. The German who won the first event in

:47:38. > :47:44.Auckland sat on Jodie Stimpson's shoulder for so long. Second in

:47:44. > :47:51.Spain. She is absolutely exhausted. Jodie Stimpson, for the second

:47:51. > :48:01.consecutive time, finishers in third place. A big smile and hug. Another

:48:01. > :48:07.

:48:07. > :48:17.world-class performance. She is also growing with aplomb this year. A

:48:17. > :48:24.

:48:24. > :48:34.brave run from Gwen Jorgensen. performance that from Non Stanford.

:48:34. > :48:34.

:48:34. > :48:38.She won by almost half a minute. She works and works and works. She will

:48:38. > :48:43.be delighted not just with the finishing position, but also with

:48:44. > :48:52.the amount of effort she put on. And Sarah Groff is just hanging on their

:48:52. > :49:02.in seventh position. What a result, what a victory for Non Stanford of

:49:02. > :49:10.Great Britain. What a great race and what brilliant scenes for the

:49:10. > :49:13.British team. Non Stanford with her maiden victory, and in some style.

:49:13. > :49:20.Jodie Stimpson with her second successive podium finish, an

:49:20. > :49:30.excellent day for her. And the rest of the field is left trailing in the

:49:30. > :49:31.

:49:31. > :49:37.wake of Non Stanford. Here are the series rankings as we head towards

:49:37. > :49:47.the business end of the year. Gwen Jorgensen, first in San Diego, first

:49:47. > :49:48.

:49:48. > :49:53.in Yokohama. Jodie Stimpson is working her way up the leaderboard.

:49:53. > :50:00.Congratulations, your first ever World Triathlon Series win.

:50:00. > :50:05.actually have no words right now. I won't lie, the second lap, I thought

:50:05. > :50:12.I'd really overdone it. I was hurting really bad but I kept

:50:12. > :50:21.getting feedback that I was still moving away from them. It was nice

:50:21. > :50:26.being told to slow down by my coach on the last lap. There was a real

:50:26. > :50:29.look of determination on your face at the start of the run. I think if

:50:29. > :50:35.you can psychologically hurt people on the first lap, it is hard for

:50:35. > :50:41.them to come back. Gwen Jorgensen proves that she can come back in the

:50:41. > :50:45.second half. It will be interesting to know her second half split.

:50:45. > :50:53.You've really backed up your silver that you one in San Diego. Yes, I

:50:53. > :50:57.think I need some rest and recovery now! I wanted to be a consistent

:50:57. > :51:05.athlete. It is starting to come together. That was the main goal.

:51:05. > :51:10.Just to be consistent in my performances. There was a real

:51:10. > :51:15.battle with Anne Haug the silver. What was going through your mind?

:51:15. > :51:23.tried to work together for the start. I just didn't want when to

:51:23. > :51:31.catch up. I just had to keep pushing to be honest. I could see Non

:51:31. > :51:36.Stanford in the distance and that just kept me going. I felt a bit

:51:36. > :51:43.sorry because it wasn't the nicest running. I try to help her but I

:51:43. > :51:52.couldn't, I was so flat-out from the bike. I feel a bit sorry for her

:51:52. > :51:58.because she did all the work. But that is sport. Gwen, fourth place

:51:58. > :52:04.here in Madrid. Are you pleased? think this race really proved that I

:52:04. > :52:09.have a lot of work to do. Those girls really rode hard and I need to

:52:09. > :52:14.keep improving on my swim and my bike. How frustrating was that,

:52:14. > :52:18.especially when you could say -- when you could see Paula Findlay and

:52:18. > :52:24.Anne Haug making a break for it? Yes, it shows how strong those other

:52:24. > :52:34.goals are. Don't go anywhere, there is even more excitement coming up as

:52:34. > :52:38.

:52:38. > :52:45.Johnny Brownlee lines up against his main opponent. While we get ready

:52:45. > :52:50.for that, let's hear from them. After Johnny 's started the season

:52:50. > :52:56.was delayed by injury, it now Alistair's turned to be hampered by

:52:56. > :53:01.ankle problems, so he is sitting Madrid out. We are expecting to see

:53:01. > :53:04.him for next months race, but missing Madrid means he has to also

:53:04. > :53:13.race in Hamburg and Stockholm ahead of London's grand final in

:53:13. > :53:23.September. So not quite the line-up we were hoping for here. But this

:53:23. > :53:33.

:53:33. > :53:37.Brownlee Gomez rivalry is still his home soil? He has raced in

:53:37. > :53:41.England a lot of times. He beat me in the Olympics and obviously the

:53:41. > :53:51.Spanish people are very proud. The support for Spanish athlete is very

:53:51. > :53:55.big here. If I could beat him in Spain, it would be great. I know how

:53:55. > :53:59.hard it is to beat him on any course, but at home it's always

:53:59. > :54:03.better. This race is probably one of the most important for others here

:54:03. > :54:08.in Spain. The Brownlee's have dominated this for the past few

:54:08. > :54:14.years. What was your reaction when you heard Alistair was missing

:54:14. > :54:22.Madrid? It is probably better for everyone else. There is more

:54:22. > :54:26.opportunity to win the race. But I like to raise the best. Your main

:54:26. > :54:31.rival has got to be Johnny. Do you think he is better than he's ever

:54:32. > :54:38.been? I think so. I was surprised in Japan because he had an injury. But

:54:38. > :54:44.he ran very well. How satisfying was beating Gomez in the way that you

:54:44. > :54:51.did in Yokohama so comprehensively? Yokohama was a great race for me. I

:54:51. > :54:57.went into it not knowing what to expect, which is very unusually --

:54:57. > :55:07.very unusual for me. To beat him by 30 seconds was great and I felt

:55:07. > :55:09.

:55:09. > :55:17.good, but I know that had the was an incredible athlete. -- Javier was

:55:17. > :55:21.incredible. He is able to run very quickly on the first lap and it is

:55:21. > :55:28.not easy to follow him. He is young and will probably improve in the

:55:28. > :55:35.next these years. Gomez, you know he's got no weakness, so it is very

:55:35. > :55:42.difficult. He's a great swimmer, a bit -- a great cycler, a great

:55:42. > :55:47.runner. You are certainly a man that likes a challenge. Just last weekend

:55:47. > :55:51.you performed in your first half Ironman. What made you decide to do

:55:51. > :55:58.that middle-distance race? I always wanted to try it so I went for it.

:55:58. > :56:04.It's a different type of racing. I had fun. So you're not feeling too

:56:04. > :56:10.tired going into Madrid? I'm tired not only from that race but from

:56:10. > :56:17.racing a lot. So I don't know what to expect. I've been racing year

:56:17. > :56:22.since 2004 and I'm really happy to be here again. It's a really special

:56:22. > :56:27.course, very challenging, so I look forward to having a good one. I love

:56:27. > :56:32.racing this cause. It is a pure triathlon course. The swimming is

:56:32. > :56:39.fast, the bike is fast and the run is fast. I'm really pleased to be

:56:39. > :56:44.here. Looking at the standings, both the Brownlee 's had some standing to

:56:44. > :56:51.make up. That is because they've only raced once each so far this

:56:51. > :56:56.season, with five races so far, including Madrid. From a British

:56:56. > :57:01.perspective, the rankings look healthy, with five athletes in the

:57:01. > :57:11.top 20. Of those five, one is not competing this weekend as he

:57:11. > :57:12.

:57:12. > :57:21.competes for the European champions in Turkey. But Matthew Sharp is here

:57:21. > :57:28.and is alongside David Mcnamee. Now, let's cover to raise

:57:28. > :57:34.commentators Rob Walker and Steve Trew. What a week it has been. We

:57:34. > :57:37.now turn our attention to the elite men. Round four of the World

:57:37. > :57:41.Triathlon Series incorporates two of the three winners so far this season

:57:41. > :57:48.and without doubt two of the three biggest stars of the sport. Alistair

:57:48. > :57:55.Brownlee is not here this time. We are told that it is more a caution

:57:55. > :58:05.rather than a cause for alarm. Gomez is number one. Richard Murray from

:58:05. > :58:07.

:58:07. > :58:15.South Africa is in second. Jonathan Brownlee is wearing number nine.

:58:15. > :58:21.Keep an eye out for Matthew Sharp as well. Gomez, the Olympic silver

:58:21. > :58:31.medallist, and Johnny Brownlee who recovered from that injury so well.

:58:31. > :58:34.

:58:34. > :58:38.He was almost emotional at the finish line in Yokohama. It was a

:58:38. > :58:45.brilliant run. Perhaps in some ways that injury did him a failure -- a

:58:45. > :58:50.favour. There have been rumours here that Javier Gomez has been over

:58:50. > :58:57.racing. He's done all three of the World Triathlon Series events. He

:58:57. > :59:03.was feeling a bit off-colour in San Diego. He finished second in

:59:03. > :59:10.Yokohama but since then he's gone on and completed a half Ironman, which

:59:10. > :59:16.he won by some margin. Safety people feeling perhaps as though that

:59:16. > :59:22.longer course could still be in the Spaniard's legs. He has won twice

:59:22. > :59:28.here in Madrid, in 2006 and 2008, but it's the Brownlee brothers who

:59:29. > :59:38.have secured victory in the last four editions of this race. Alistair

:59:39. > :59:39.

:59:39. > :59:43.won up to 2011, and Johnny won emphatically a year ago. There is

:59:43. > :59:52.Javier Gomez. He's won everything in this sport apart from the Olympic

:59:52. > :59:59.title. World senior champion in 2010. His rivalry with the Brownlee

:59:59. > :00:07.brothers has electrified this sport. There is Johnny going for a second

:00:07. > :00:17.consecutive victory. No signs of any lack of form after that injury. A

:00:17. > :00:24.

:00:24. > :00:29.great run in Yokohama. Some talented Russians in this race. Mario Mola

:00:29. > :00:33.has promised great performances for so long. Perhaps this year he is

:00:33. > :00:43.starting to deliver. He came second in Auckland, running the ten K in

:00:43. > :00:45.

:00:45. > :00:51.under 30 minutes. Here we go. The men's race is under way. It's a very

:00:51. > :00:55.wide start. We have over 60 athletes competing. If it's anything like the

:00:55. > :01:02.women's swim in their race, there will be one or two keen to avoid a

:01:02. > :01:12.huge bottleneck at the top end of the lake. It is two laps. What a

:01:12. > :01:24.

:01:24. > :01:30.in with a chance will go for it. We can see the impact, he has got away

:01:30. > :01:36.from the other chasers and we saw with the women's race, and people

:01:36. > :01:40.got themselves into trouble so I think that side, interesting Jarrod

:01:40. > :01:45.Shoemaker, not the greatest women from the standing right next to him

:01:45. > :01:53.but Jarrod Shoemaker has been lost off the first of hundred meters. It

:01:53. > :01:58.is a fascinating race and when we watch that women's race, I think the

:01:58. > :02:02.men's will be just the same. Ivan Vasiliev setting the pace in the

:02:02. > :02:07.middle pack and they are spread out. Look how wide the swimmer on the

:02:07. > :02:12.left-hand side has gone having to cut in but got clean water. And it

:02:12. > :02:15.really does narrow down this course. This course is brilliant for

:02:15. > :02:20.spectators because there are various sections where you get very close to

:02:20. > :02:26.the triathletes. But is not always the case in the first discipline.

:02:26. > :02:29.Javier Gomez, not usually a leader when it comes to the swim but he is

:02:29. > :02:35.usually there or thereabouts when he gets on the feet as he does so

:02:35. > :02:45.there. We see them closing in and coming together as they approach the

:02:45. > :02:46.

:02:46. > :02:51.first turn. I think Tommy Zaferes has begun to move in and over. Quite

:02:51. > :02:56.a lot of ground to cover on that. Quite a novice triathlete if I can

:02:56. > :03:01.use this term at this level. An extraordinary college swimming

:03:01. > :03:06.background and they are just coming through from the US but he will

:03:06. > :03:12.feature in this swim, certainly. He was involved with setting the pace

:03:12. > :03:15.in San Diego, lovely, warm conditions there. I am sure many of

:03:15. > :03:21.these triathletes will be enjoying the fact that the weather is good

:03:21. > :03:26.here again. A bit cold in Yokohama but warm enough here for a

:03:26. > :03:36.non-wetsuit swim and Ivan Vasiliev is in the centre of our picture

:03:36. > :03:37.

:03:37. > :03:41.there. One to just coming wide and look how spread out they are. That's

:03:41. > :03:49.what we were talking about -- one or two just coming wide. We can see on

:03:49. > :03:58.this, quite a big disadvantage and Tommy Zaferes is closed in, he was

:03:58. > :04:03.almost content to let the swimmers in the middle, Ivan Vasiliev, and he

:04:03. > :04:09.has made in close and put himself in a strong position, taking no risk at

:04:09. > :04:13.all getting the goggles taken off but we always see it, it is the

:04:13. > :04:21.natural triathlon, the tight turns, things like that will happen, the

:04:21. > :04:27.athletes that cope with that will come through. We are beginning to

:04:27. > :04:31.see developments, the first 12 of 15 and almost a gap of perhaps four

:04:31. > :04:34.metres and then a huge wide pack up the back, nobody willing to give any

:04:34. > :04:40.time at all and choosing to go wide rather than going the middle of the

:04:40. > :04:44.melee there and take that risk of having the goggles knocked off.

:04:44. > :04:51.can see how close the spectators are on this course, it really is a

:04:51. > :05:00.fabulous place to watch world-class triathlon. Just outside the centre

:05:00. > :05:05.of Madrid, the Casa de Campo. loose leading pack of about 15 there

:05:05. > :05:08.and just desperate writ trying to hang onto it. That might just trying

:05:08. > :05:18.to desperately hang onto it. Jan Frodeno with the long lazy/ leading

:05:18. > :05:18.

:05:18. > :05:28.up the back -- the long, lazy swimming place. No reason to doubt

:05:28. > :05:33.

:05:33. > :05:42.that Jonny Brownlee is in that in the shot there. And great things

:05:42. > :05:50.have been expected from Mario Mola for a long time here in Spain. Aaron

:05:50. > :05:53.Royle wearing number 12. It shows you how difficult it can be, if you

:05:53. > :05:59.have not managed to get yourself clear water as these leaders have

:05:59. > :06:03.certainly managed to do and a carbon copy of the women's race. Why we

:06:03. > :06:09.have seen the strong swimmers very keen to get out front and give

:06:09. > :06:17.themselves the space and the momentum to dominate. Ivan

:06:17. > :06:27.Vasiliev, his season has improved, he was 20th in Auckland, 13th in San

:06:27. > :06:28.

:06:28. > :06:33.Diego and fourth in Yokohama and he was perhaps spurred on by the

:06:33. > :06:37.interest of places in the Russian Olympic team. We always say with the

:06:37. > :06:41.Brownlee brothers and Gomez, it is always an honest race. And you can

:06:41. > :06:45.say that right across the board with the three sets of Russian brothers,

:06:45. > :06:48.they are willing to give it everything early on. If anybody sets

:06:48. > :06:52.a hard place, they will be willing to go from the front and do their

:06:52. > :06:58.share of work. The only weakness of the moment is that it does not seem

:06:59. > :07:06.to hold together for any of them on the run but they are still learning.

:07:06. > :07:16.And at this top level, a bit of and experience in them may come through.

:07:16. > :07:17.

:07:17. > :07:25.We have got the silly of -- Ivan Vasiliev leading, Richard Varga from

:07:25. > :07:31.the Slovak Republic and Igor Polyanskiy and you can see how

:07:31. > :07:41.spread out this field is. Some arms and shoulders when they negotiate

:07:41. > :07:41.

:07:41. > :07:45.that floating device. No quarter asked or given. Lots of extra

:07:45. > :07:55.distance to be swum if you are not on the inside, and that is the risk

:07:55. > :07:59.you run of being impeded. -- not being impeded. It is a calculated

:07:59. > :08:04.risk. Much better to be at the front with the free water. That looks like

:08:04. > :08:10.Jonny Brownlee, right in the middle, a battle at the front, isn't

:08:10. > :08:14.it, it looks like Jonny Brownlee has got a grin on his face! And he is

:08:14. > :08:20.right next to Javier Gomez so Olympic silver against Olympic

:08:20. > :08:26.bronze and Johnny right up on the shoulder of Javier, saying "anything

:08:26. > :08:34.you can do, I can do just as well". It is not just a jewel, we have got

:08:34. > :08:38.other world-class triathletes here -- not just a duel. The rivalry has

:08:38. > :08:43.ignited the past couple of seasons, it is fantastic for the sport of

:08:43. > :08:48.triathlon but unlike London, almost 12 months ago, it will be Gomez who

:08:48. > :08:56.gets the bulk of the crowd support here. He missed a race last year and

:08:57. > :09:03.was disappointed to have done so. Years back here but he has got the

:09:03. > :09:08.British winner from Yokohama Chalet Brownlee right on the shoulder --

:09:08. > :09:14.Jonny Brownlee right on his shoulder. Richard Varga also setting

:09:14. > :09:19.the pace here as they come towards the halfway stage of this swim.

:09:19. > :09:24.Olympic distance, 1500 metres in the water, 40 kilometres on the bike and

:09:24. > :09:28.the ten kilometre run to finish. you were going to write the script

:09:28. > :09:32.before this race started to unfold, it would follow this exactly, get

:09:32. > :09:37.one of the Russians in front and have Gomez or Brownlee side-by-side.

:09:37. > :09:41.That is what we are seeing. I think the subplot has been written and

:09:41. > :09:50.there are gaps beginning to develop. The second lap of the swim

:09:50. > :09:54.will be critical in defining how the single pack develops. It is a tough

:09:54. > :09:59.white course and when you have Gomez and Brownlee and the Russians more

:09:59. > :10:07.than prepared to put themselves on the limit, we will see that early

:10:07. > :10:10.on. David McNamee, the boyfriend of Non Stanford who has already

:10:10. > :10:18.registered a tremendous victory here in Madrid. David has had a good

:10:18. > :10:24.season, based in Leeds. He has had two top-10 finishes with a bit of

:10:24. > :10:28.distance to make up here in the water as Ivan Vasiliev continues to

:10:28. > :10:32.dominate here. Such a powerful looking man. Always impressed as to

:10:32. > :10:39.how well he runs. He is not as quick as the likes of Alistair Brownlee,

:10:39. > :10:42.or Johnny or Gomez but he is a huge man. He is not look like 810

:10:42. > :10:48.kilometre run. You almost have images of him like a pic athlete

:10:48. > :10:58.lumbering around the 1500 metres but Ivan Vasiliev is strong and

:10:58. > :11:01.

:11:01. > :11:05.determined -- like eight pic athlete -- and athlete of the decathlon.

:11:05. > :11:09.he comes off the bike in a good position, he will work so hard on

:11:09. > :11:13.the run but it is when we get to about 3.5 kilometres, that is when

:11:13. > :11:19.it sits in for him and he has two work hard trying to maintain that.

:11:19. > :11:29.But that has two be his tactics. If you sit back on the swim, then you

:11:29. > :11:31.

:11:31. > :11:35.triathletes make swimming look. It is so much harder when you are in

:11:35. > :11:39.there doing it yourself. Television cameras take away the majesty of

:11:39. > :11:49.what these guys are doing. Absolutely superb power in the water

:11:49. > :11:53.

:11:53. > :11:59.as Mario Mola tries to hang on, a really good runner as he proved with

:11:59. > :12:05.his early season's performance. think the standard has shot up, you

:12:05. > :12:10.think you get to the ultimate level and with every ill, it redefines the

:12:10. > :12:16.standards. Everybody has to attain that in the top athletes will be

:12:16. > :12:23.lucky to change in pace -- will be looking at a change in pace. Richard

:12:23. > :12:30.Varga has taken the lead. Richard Varga now setting the pace, coming

:12:30. > :12:33.through on the inside of Ivan Vasiliev. Ivan moved over from the

:12:33. > :12:42.left-hand side to the right, I thought it was for breathing,

:12:42. > :12:52.breathing on the left but, no, he is a bilateral breather. I am not sure

:12:52. > :12:55.

:12:55. > :13:05.of the strategy there. Almost wrote 4/ there. Fantastic to watch. --

:13:05. > :13:10.

:13:10. > :13:17.almost stroke for stroke there. is really stretched right the way

:13:17. > :13:27.through. It must almost be a minute with no big gaps in skewing. The

:13:27. > :13:31.

:13:31. > :13:35.start of the bike section will be behind the leaders. And there is an

:13:35. > :13:45.arm of a shoulder there and always a danger when they are so tightly

:13:45. > :14:02.

:14:02. > :14:12.packed going round these tight aquathlon last year. Always a

:14:12. > :14:29.

:14:29. > :14:39.familiar figure at the front of the Dennis is also competing here today.

:14:39. > :14:45.

:14:45. > :14:55.And Igor Polyanskiy... Started the season well. Ninth in one of the

:14:55. > :15:07.

:15:07. > :15:11.earlier races but then only 21st in last couple of hundred metres in

:15:11. > :15:14.Yokohama. He almost looked a bit emotional in his winning interview

:15:14. > :15:24.because he said at one point he thought he would lose an entire

:15:24. > :15:28.season to injury. He felt something wasn't right with his ankle, but he

:15:28. > :15:32.said a lot of children had turned out to watch them and that he

:15:32. > :15:38.decided to run because it wouldn't be fair to them if he decided to

:15:38. > :15:45.pull out. That was a decision he came to regret. He is such a nice

:15:45. > :15:52.guy, but at this elite level you have to put yourself first. You feel

:15:52. > :15:58.as though you are on stage but I think essentially, you have to be

:15:58. > :16:04.selfish as a top athlete. Very often, it is that ability to be

:16:04. > :16:09.purely selfish as a competing athlete and a nice guy when you are

:16:09. > :16:19.away from that. A lot of these athletes have that perfect balance.

:16:19. > :16:23.They are fiercely competitive. Absolutely single-minded when

:16:23. > :16:29.racing, but away from the arena they are the nicest guys in the world.

:16:29. > :16:38.The Brownlee brothers are very happy to have a laugh, but on the race,

:16:38. > :16:46.that race-based goes on and takes over. We do have a split, don't we?

:16:46. > :16:52.Maybe 20 athletes. Less than two minutes till the end of this swim.

:16:52. > :17:02.It will be interesting to see what the time is. We thought around 17

:17:02. > :17:13.

:17:13. > :17:17.minutes judging from the split online act on lap number one. We

:17:17. > :17:25.talk about going to a new level, but I think the swimming for both men

:17:25. > :17:29.and women this year has got to a new level. Back in 2000, the swimmers

:17:29. > :17:39.for women were dominated by five or six swimmers with Olympic

:17:39. > :17:44.

:17:44. > :17:49.experience. That is now beginning to happen again this year. Vasiliev is

:17:49. > :17:56.leading for a while. He will be the first to exit the water. Stage one

:17:56. > :18:04.is almost complete for the leaders, but this bike course is a real test.

:18:04. > :18:13.There is no time to settle into a rhythm. That 400 metre climb awaits

:18:14. > :18:17.all these guys when they get out. We did hear their rights -- the likes

:18:17. > :18:27.of Jess Harrison talking about the fact that transition was a bit too

:18:27. > :18:33.

:18:33. > :18:37.cosy. There is Johnny Brownlee safely out. Harrison was talking

:18:37. > :18:42.about how she felt there was room for the odd accident in transition

:18:42. > :18:52.when it is tight, so it's good these guys are getting out with a bit of

:18:52. > :18:53.

:18:53. > :19:03.distance between themselves and the chase pack. Jan Frodeno is looking a

:19:03. > :19:06.

:19:06. > :19:15.bit tired as he exits the water. good swim by Phil Wolfe, just a few

:19:15. > :19:20.seconds off the pace there. You will be delighted by that. A lot of

:19:20. > :19:30.people have turned out to support. It is packed on both sides of the

:19:30. > :19:38.

:19:38. > :19:45.transition, many of them hoping to they head out onto their first of

:19:45. > :19:51.eight circuits. Five kilometres per each loop and that big hill awaits.

:19:51. > :20:01.David Mcnamee mounting his bike there. How quickly will this big

:20:01. > :20:15.

:20:15. > :20:21.pack get themselves away? Jan He spends a lot of time training in

:20:21. > :20:26.New Zealand. Mario Mola has not had a particularly good swim. There is a

:20:26. > :20:36.lot of pressure on him to challenge his compatriot Gomez and Brownlee as

:20:36. > :20:45.

:20:45. > :20:48.well. Helmets slightly skewed to the left on Brownlee there! The two

:20:48. > :20:54.favourites, side-by-side as they go around the beginning of this bike

:20:54. > :21:01.course to tackle the hill for the first time. It is playing out so far

:21:01. > :21:11.exactly as was predicted in terms of this great rivalry. It is our little

:21:11. > :21:14.

:21:14. > :21:21.subplot, isn't it! Thanks, guys, it's fabulous. Someone has struck

:21:21. > :21:26.some bad luck very early on. I can't believe it. Alexander Bryukhankov

:21:26. > :21:31.again. This guy has such bad luck on the bike. He didn't finish in

:21:31. > :21:35.Auckland at the start of this year or last year either. And there was a

:21:35. > :21:38.problem in San Diego. He is a really classy competitor and was second in

:21:38. > :21:46.this race last year, so that is hugely disappointing for the

:21:46. > :21:53.Russian. He must be wondering what he has to do to finish a race this

:21:53. > :22:02.season. Desperately unlucky for him. He is now running out of

:22:02. > :22:12.opportunities to raise. -- to race. A good position for Phil Wolfe bad.

:22:12. > :22:20.

:22:20. > :22:25.He is looking around, thinking what you should be doing. Look at that.

:22:25. > :22:33.That critical gap, ten metres perhaps. You are going to have to

:22:33. > :22:40.work if you're going to stay with us. So Ivan Vasiliev, who was

:22:40. > :22:47.leading the swim, is taking it on here. This big pack has been

:22:47. > :22:53.separated for the time being. That is hugely, hugely disappointing that

:22:53. > :23:01.Alexander Bryukhankov. Is it mechanical? He looks like he is not

:23:01. > :23:06.walking very well. I don't know. had been holding his right hamstring

:23:06. > :23:09.as he was walking away from the bike. But bearing in mind the

:23:09. > :23:14.difficulties he had in Auckland and San Diego, desperately disappointing

:23:14. > :23:24.for him. He will hope his brother has better fortune as the race

:23:24. > :23:25.

:23:25. > :23:31.continues. There are three sets of brothers racing here. Johnny is

:23:31. > :23:37.doing his share of the work there. Richard Varga is there as we would

:23:37. > :23:42.expect. I thought Tommy Zaferes might make the front of the pack. He

:23:42. > :23:46.really went for it on the first straight of the swim. Then he seemed

:23:46. > :23:51.happy just to sit back in the second pack, allow the others to do the

:23:51. > :23:55.work. But he hasn't made the jump to the first four. Let's see if using

:23:55. > :24:02.this chase pack. If these could get together, that would be a viable

:24:02. > :24:12.working pack. Richard Varga having to work to hang onto the back wheel

:24:12. > :24:16.

:24:16. > :24:24.of the lead three. They have been aggressive here. They have. Already

:24:24. > :24:28.that initial pack of 20 as split into four. The aggressive attitude

:24:28. > :24:38.by Gomez and Brownlee on the first climb has really struck the whole

:24:38. > :24:47.

:24:47. > :24:50.unusual incident in Madrid. He was brilliantly going on the bike 12

:24:50. > :24:55.months ago but one of the marshals took his running shoes and it took

:24:55. > :25:02.30 seconds for them to be found. He will be hoping the same stroke of

:25:02. > :25:11.misfortune does not apply here. Those three seem to be joining

:25:11. > :25:15.together well to get back on the pace. Richard Varga seems to be

:25:15. > :25:25.struggling a bit to stay on that lead pack. It's going to be easier

:25:25. > :25:28.

:25:28. > :25:32.now as we get seven together. The cap is closed. -- the gap. I'm sure

:25:32. > :25:36.exactly what Javier Gomez and Jonathan Brownlee would've wanted. A

:25:36. > :25:39.working group together. Already, they will be looking around,

:25:39. > :25:43.deciding who the strong runners are and how much to put in on the early

:25:43. > :25:53.stages. It seems like Johnny Brownlee is prepared to put

:25:53. > :25:53.

:25:53. > :25:58.absolutely everything on. The two men who produced a thrilling climax

:25:58. > :26:01.to the final last year in Auckland. Johnny was world champion but it was

:26:01. > :26:11.Javier Gomez who outstripped the Britain in New Zealand. Some

:26:11. > :26:12.

:26:12. > :26:16.dialogue going on there. -- the Briton. I make the gap unofficially

:26:17. > :26:22.about 15 seconds. That is easily closed with consistent effort. But

:26:22. > :26:32.already on this first lap people will be anticipating the climb on

:26:32. > :26:33.

:26:33. > :26:43.the second lap. The Brazilian leading the charge on that chase

:26:43. > :26:53.

:26:53. > :26:57.champion, does a lot of his training with Matthew Sharp who was fifth in

:26:57. > :27:05.Auckland. The Australian has got himself in this front back at the

:27:05. > :27:09.early stage. One lap completed here, seven more to go. I don't think we

:27:09. > :27:15.would have been surprised by this lead group. What is surprising is

:27:15. > :27:22.how the in Tyre field is split. It's not one chase pack, there are twos,

:27:22. > :27:32.threes, fives, split right the way down the course. An indication of

:27:32. > :27:46.

:27:46. > :27:53.the laps ticked down. It was 23 seconds at the end of the first lap.

:27:53. > :28:01.Kyle Jones and Igor Polyanskiy will do their best to catch up. Being

:28:02. > :28:06.part of a big group is a lot easier than being in a pair. We saw how

:28:06. > :28:11.difficult it was the Sarah Groff and her partner to stay out the front

:28:11. > :28:19.when it was just the two of them after Alice Betto got knocked off

:28:19. > :28:27.her bike. We just saw Kyle Jones shaking his head, I don't know if

:28:27. > :28:33.that was in frustration. Again, we're going up the hill. You can

:28:34. > :28:39.immediately see a split beginning to develop in that front back. Richard

:28:39. > :28:45.Varga, my goodness me. A tremendous athlete at world level, and really

:28:45. > :28:49.finding it hard on the second climb. Beginning to look behind. What is he

:28:49. > :28:56.thinking? Is somebody else going to come and help me? Because that is

:28:56. > :29:02.not going to happen. What a gap, just the two of them. As soon is the

:29:02. > :29:08.hard work comes in, they really take it to a new level. It is fracturing

:29:08. > :29:13.is so early on. That was amazing, to see how much distance Gomez and

:29:13. > :29:19.Brownlee took from the rest of the lead group. Denis Vasiliev, the

:29:19. > :29:27.younger of the two brothers, he has been dropped. Richard Varga is

:29:27. > :29:30.struggling. And this is older brother Ivan Vasiliev looking over

:29:30. > :29:39.his shoulder to see where his younger brother is, and the answer

:29:39. > :29:44.is, he is struggling. Alessandro Fabian, who had a good finish last

:29:44. > :29:54.year despite those missing shoes, but this is at the moment turning

:29:54. > :29:55.

:29:55. > :29:59.into the jewel in the sun. -- the dual. I don't know if those front

:29:59. > :30:09.two will be surprised by the speed at which that group was fractured by

:30:09. > :30:09.

:30:09. > :30:13.their injection of pace. But this is world-class cycling. These are two

:30:13. > :30:23.of the best three in the world. They are demonstrating that here in the

:30:23. > :30:29.

:30:29. > :30:32.early stages on this second climb on wrenched apart. The big group and

:30:32. > :30:37.then the small group away of seven and they are splitting already. Well

:30:37. > :30:47.done to Aaron Royle, to getting back in that. I'm Jonny Brownlee is

:30:47. > :30:50.

:30:50. > :30:56.relentless. -- Geneva Jonny Brownlee is relentless. Vasiliev is finding

:30:56. > :31:04.it hard on the flat. So seven becomes five and we have lost

:31:04. > :31:09.Richard Varga. The next climb will be critical, receive the ability of

:31:09. > :31:13.Brownlee and Gomez to move away almost at will and it is the early

:31:13. > :31:17.stages on the bike and what is happening here today, somebody

:31:17. > :31:26.else? Carlos Peres from Venezuela. 13th in one of the Pan-American

:31:26. > :31:30.cubs, not the most experienced campaigner -- cup 's. And another

:31:30. > :31:36.casualty, alongside Alexander Bryukhankov, clutching his

:31:36. > :31:40.hamstring. One or two falling by the wayside and look at these two, this

:31:40. > :31:50.will be Richard Varga and the younger of the Vasiliev brothers,

:31:50. > :31:51.

:31:51. > :31:59.Dennis Vasiliev but seven has become five-year. As Ivan Vasiliev looks

:31:59. > :32:03.over his shoulder to try to work out where his brother was put Denis and

:32:03. > :32:13.Richard Varga have been left behind by that injection of pace by Jonny

:32:13. > :32:23.Brownlee and Javier Gomez. And they are making lots of world-class

:32:23. > :32:24.

:32:24. > :32:29.triathletes work really hard. Gomez particularly, when he comes

:32:29. > :32:32.off the hill, he is very aggressive going into the turns and he is

:32:32. > :32:37.prepared to take it to the limits. Jonny Brownlee will follow him and

:32:37. > :32:40.the other three will appreciate. They are lucky to be up there

:32:40. > :32:46.because if it continues like this, we are almost a quarter of the way

:32:46. > :32:56.through the bike, it will put them in a very strong position in the

:32:56. > :33:03.

:33:03. > :33:08.run. The gaps keep on stretching. this group of which Ben Anne -- then

:33:08. > :33:14.Shaw is involved with, they are trying to chase down others and they

:33:14. > :33:17.have been left behind by a quintet who have been driven on by the

:33:17. > :33:24.reigning world champion from great written, Jonny Brownlee who once

:33:24. > :33:34.again goes to the front who dictate the terms -- and Dick hates the

:33:34. > :33:35.

:33:35. > :33:38.terms. -- and dictates. The same professional cycle team, the way

:33:38. > :33:46.they work together, and they have got used to it, they know the way

:33:46. > :33:54.they race. Again, maybe we will get a better idea or me get away from

:33:54. > :34:01.that front camera shot. And Richard Varga and Vasiliev have been

:34:01. > :34:06.swallowed up by that pack which now includes Sven Riederer who also

:34:06. > :34:10.knows his way around this course, Gomez looked over his shoulder as

:34:10. > :34:15.well as Brownlee and they are all trying to take stock here as to how

:34:15. > :34:21.much damage their place has done and hopefully from their perspective,

:34:21. > :34:28.they will like what they are seeing. Closing into the end of the second

:34:28. > :34:34.lap, we will get an official time split as they come through. But the

:34:34. > :34:43.chase pack coming through now. But what is the gap before the third

:34:43. > :34:47.group? The gap that the leaders had, the seven of them at the end of

:34:47. > :34:54.the first lap, there are advantage over the chase group was 23 seconds.

:34:54. > :35:00.And we will keep our eye out as Gomez soaks up the applause as well

:35:01. > :35:09.as the sunshine here in Madrid. And the chase group led by Sven Riederer

:35:09. > :35:14.having absorbed Richard Varga and Ivan Vasiliev, 23 seconds so they

:35:14. > :35:24.have stayed around the same, the personnel may have changed but they

:35:24. > :35:28.are still there. It will be interesting to see whether Gomez and

:35:28. > :35:34.Brownlee inject the pace going up this 400 metre climb because that is

:35:34. > :35:38.what did the damage for Richard Varga and one of the Russians at the

:35:38. > :35:41.same stage on the previous lap. can almost sense Aaron Royle

:35:41. > :35:49.preparing for the climb in the position looking for a wheel to

:35:49. > :35:56.follow and the third group, almost one down, including Jan Frodeno and

:35:56. > :36:01.Laurent Vidal there as well, my goodness! Aaron Harris and David

:36:02. > :36:06.McNamee but Richard Murray as well. Richard Murray's running strengths,

:36:06. > :36:16.if he will try to claw back a minute... Early stages on the bike

:36:16. > :36:19.as you say, Rob, but the third big hit on the climb. When you look at

:36:19. > :36:25.the facial expression of Jonny Brownlee, he is concentrating but

:36:25. > :36:30.there is no grimace. He looks fresh and I know he was worried as we look

:36:30. > :36:40.back to the chasers led now by then Shaw. You get an impression that

:36:40. > :36:47.

:36:47. > :36:51.some of the officials moving some of the keen observers. Some legendary

:36:51. > :36:58.story about the injury about not a single day of running being missed

:36:58. > :37:03.for three years. That much training and that many miles in the bank does

:37:03. > :37:08.not disappear in the space of a couple of months and the manner with

:37:08. > :37:14.which he won in Japan would suggest, as we get this aerial shots here,

:37:14. > :37:18.the lead group in blue and the chasers in red as they negotiate the

:37:18. > :37:23.400 metre climb at the manner of that victory in Japan suggests he

:37:23. > :37:26.did not lose any sharpness at all. think Sebastien Coe said the life of

:37:26. > :37:31.a professional athlete is a life of being perpetually tired apart from a

:37:31. > :37:36.couple of times a year and I guess it is. If you have that injury, it

:37:36. > :37:40.is just an opportunity to stick at and maybe look at the big picture

:37:40. > :37:50.and as you say, with Alistair Brownlee as well, both coming back

:37:50. > :37:54.from injury they have been stunning in their race performances. Just

:37:54. > :37:59.getting a few more pieces of information as we look at the super

:37:59. > :38:04.slow picture, Ivan Vasiliev looked like he was enjoying that heading

:38:04. > :38:12.out onto the course. Mario Mola, he has got some work to do to head back

:38:12. > :38:15.into contention. And also the champion, Jan Frodeno -- also the

:38:15. > :38:19.Beijing champion. An update on Bryukhankov who has had so much bad

:38:19. > :38:25.luck in the last 12 months, he has had a crush, that is why he was off

:38:25. > :38:29.the bike and he was in the medical tents receiving some treatment and

:38:29. > :38:34.we very much hope that the Russian who finished second here in Madrid

:38:34. > :38:42.12 months ago will be back for Kitzbuehel and then later in the

:38:42. > :38:45.season in Stockholm. One of the Russian companions still in the

:38:45. > :38:54.Leeds quintet, Ivan Vasiliev as well as at the lead quintet, Ivan

:38:54. > :39:04.Vasiliev as well as Abbey chases -- as we look at the chasers, Denis

:39:04. > :39:11.

:39:11. > :39:16.Vasiliev and Richard Varga spat out that they would be a lots of

:39:16. > :39:21.strength and dynamism going on the hills and both the Russians in

:39:21. > :39:25.there, you would think there would be some attack in there. I must say

:39:25. > :39:30.I was surprised that that time gap had not gone out by any more. For

:39:30. > :39:34.that to stay consistent demonstrates that there is a lot of work going in

:39:34. > :39:41.in the second gap and the addition of the two athletes who dropped out

:39:41. > :39:45.of the original early leaders might help that a bit. We talked about

:39:45. > :39:49.Gomez and his cornering abilities, watching him sweep down there and

:39:49. > :39:54.taking a beautiful line going wide into the corner, coming out narrow

:39:54. > :40:04.and even then, just moving your head a couple of metres with no real

:40:04. > :40:06.

:40:06. > :40:16.effort. -- moving ahead. enjoying the downhill section,

:40:16. > :40:21.stretching the legs. At the Casa de Campo Park here. Aaron Royle of

:40:21. > :40:24.Australia, Ivan Vasiliev, Jonny Brownlee of Great Britain, Fabian

:40:24. > :40:32.who ran well here 12 months ago and have your Gomez and that chase group

:40:32. > :40:34.are now 28 seconds adrift and that means that the leading five have

:40:34. > :40:44.added five seconds to their lead here, still in these fairly early

:40:44. > :40:55.

:40:55. > :40:58.anticipating something else. We thought it would be happier Gomez

:40:58. > :41:02.and Jonny Brownlee but now they have established themselves as a leading

:41:02. > :41:06.five, there is a big turnaround and certainly that will be one of the

:41:06. > :41:16.reasons that that time gap has stretched out those few extra

:41:16. > :41:19.

:41:19. > :41:25.seconds. Jonny Brownlee looks over again, to see who is coming through.

:41:25. > :41:29.Moving that extra bit, taking the two opportunity to have a breather

:41:29. > :41:33.as they go through and as they get to the front, they don't put any

:41:33. > :41:37.extra effort in in terms of speed, it is the total focus concentration

:41:37. > :41:41.so really sharing the workload out, 20% each time going through rather

:41:41. > :41:45.than having to sit at the front, totally by yourself and taking the

:41:45. > :41:50.whole brunt of the wind resistance and the pressure and the focus and

:41:50. > :42:00.concentration of staying in the front position. That is a glint of

:42:00. > :42:02.

:42:03. > :42:12.the chasing group. -- glimpse. And then the third pack coming through,

:42:12. > :42:20.Mario Mola to the left-hand side and now somewhat obscured. But Fabian

:42:20. > :42:28.with Gomez and Jonny Brownlee, with the rest of the leading five. Five

:42:28. > :42:31.laps to go on the bike and the Spanish home crowd excitement still

:42:31. > :42:37.very much in evidence, Mario Mola, the other Spaniard who they were

:42:37. > :42:44.hoping would feature, they had two up in Auckland, they were

:42:44. > :42:52.high-fiving each other on the cause, but only one Spaniard in the hunt

:42:52. > :42:57.for the victory but it is the one we would have expected. I will update

:42:57. > :43:07.their shows that our predictions were accurate. The advantage is

:43:07. > :43:22.

:43:22. > :43:27.well in this group, it looks like it is David McNamee and Aaron Harris.

:43:27. > :43:33.Just about a minute adrift now. you have Richard Murray, Steffen

:43:33. > :43:43.Justus, Jan Frodeno in the third pack, it wakes you really appreciate

:43:43. > :43:45.

:43:45. > :43:50.how fast and solid it is at the the bike, out of the saddle apart

:43:50. > :43:58.from Jonny Brownlee who says, "I can choose my gears and do this sitting

:43:58. > :44:02.down". And have a look round and say come on, guys, who else is helping?

:44:02. > :44:08.Now, he is out of the saddle. As we look at the chase group, Richard

:44:08. > :44:16.Varga is still hanging on there. Polly and ski, Sven Riederer tried

:44:16. > :44:19.to do some work to minimise the advantage of the lead five. Almost

:44:19. > :44:24.eight Tour de France real as they take on the incline. Last year, I

:44:24. > :44:31.remember somebody had written Richard Varga's name in chalk, there

:44:31. > :44:37.it is again! He has obviously got some friends here in Spain. And

:44:37. > :44:43.people lining the Park here in Casa de Campo, all treated to a great

:44:43. > :44:47.race and so far, it is turning into just that. It is that climb, very

:44:47. > :44:52.similar to the Tour de France, the spectators coming and we see that in

:44:52. > :44:56.the other triathlon races, it almost becomes single file within the

:44:56. > :44:59.spectators coming in and urging Yuan and that will lift the athletes no

:44:59. > :45:05.end especially when they are feeling tired about halfway through the bike

:45:05. > :45:11.and thinking like that. It is only 30 seconds and we thought it might

:45:11. > :45:15.extend early on, but it has not and the second group are working hard to

:45:15. > :45:25.maintain that gap as it is. However, it will take a lot of pressure on to

:45:25. > :45:26.

:45:26. > :45:29.their legs as well. Another climber of, another Russian. A real shame

:45:29. > :45:34.for Igor Polyanskiy, started the season well, didn't finish in Madrid

:45:34. > :45:39.last year and he will have paid did not finish by his name again this

:45:39. > :45:48.year, Alexander Bryukhankov, one of the Venezuelan athletes has dropped

:45:48. > :45:54.out as well, Igor Polyanskiy. Not a good day for the Russians, for some

:45:54. > :45:59.of them anyway, but even Vasiliev still here -- Ivan Vasiliev as Gomez

:45:59. > :46:05.cranks up the pressure and the pace. Fabian is cycling here very well,

:46:05. > :46:08.the Italian in second place. Aaron Royle, the world under 23 champion

:46:08. > :46:15.trying to copy the smooth transition that Great Britain's Non Stanford

:46:15. > :46:25.made from world under 23 champion to senior contender. And senior winner

:46:25. > :46:29.

:46:29. > :46:36.here in the women's race in fine, fine style. This is the chase group.

:46:36. > :46:43.As you said, Steve, it is only a few seconds, but irrespective of whether

:46:43. > :46:53.this group reached the five lead or not, on paper, the two best runners

:46:53. > :46:56.

:46:56. > :47:06.are in the lead five. It is Javier Gomez and Johnny Brownlee. They will

:47:06. > :47:08.

:47:08. > :47:11.be aware that Richard Murray is a minute down. Jan is a great

:47:11. > :47:16.all-round triathlete but I don't think he has the ability to catch

:47:16. > :47:21.Javier Gomez by one minute. It is a different mindset as well. At the

:47:21. > :47:31.front, it is challenging, exciting. If you are in the third pack, it is

:47:31. > :47:38.

:47:38. > :47:42.total frustration. Is it worth going on? The mind games once again begin.

:47:42. > :47:48.We just saw Aaron Royle taking the opportunity to have a drink. Johnny

:47:48. > :47:53.Brownlee does the same. It is such an undulate in cause there on that

:47:53. > :47:57.many places on the five K bike loop where these triathletes can safely

:47:57. > :48:05.reach for their water bottles and get the necessary hydration on

:48:05. > :48:09.board. These last couple of moments are pretty much the only chance.

:48:09. > :48:19.There are so many twists and downhill sections that concentration

:48:19. > :48:20.

:48:20. > :48:30.is needed throughout. You see that athletes take the opportunity when

:48:30. > :48:33.they are at the back of their pack. Alessandro Fabian. The Italian

:48:33. > :48:40.sometimes disappears under the radar as Johnny Brownlee moves onto the

:48:40. > :48:47.shoulder of the Australian. He was 10th in the Olympic Games last year.

:48:47. > :48:55.A really excellent performance here. So the Italian is in good company

:48:55. > :49:00.here. I think that's a fair comment. We talk about some athletes

:49:00. > :49:04.falling under the radar. We haven't even mentioned the French athletes

:49:04. > :49:11.today and yet they came fourth and fifth at the Olympic Games. Perhaps

:49:11. > :49:14.it is a measure of what we've come to expect from Gomez and the

:49:14. > :49:20.Brownlee Brothers. The focus is on them because we expect them to be in

:49:20. > :49:25.the winning positions. Certainly that is the case in Spain and

:49:25. > :49:30.Britain. We talk about Mario Mola coming through but he has yet to

:49:30. > :49:40.bridge that gap. There are some tremendous athletes out there, and

:49:40. > :49:49.

:49:49. > :49:55.perhaps they don't get the the pace. Time is ticking along and

:49:55. > :50:00.all of a sudden where halfway through this 40 kilometre bike. And

:50:00. > :50:06.once again, the all-important time factors, as we get an indication as

:50:06. > :50:16.to whether the chase group are making any inroads at all into the

:50:16. > :50:19.

:50:19. > :50:29.lead group. Last time it was around 27 seconds. Marco Van Der Stel from

:50:29. > :50:40.

:50:40. > :50:47.the Netherlands takes up the chase, the lead. It's gone from 22nd

:50:47. > :50:55.seconds to 40. So on that lap alone, the lead five have extended their

:50:55. > :51:04.advantage by 13 seconds. It's the dog days, that middle section of the

:51:04. > :51:12.bike. Concentration goes a bit, the emphasis is on continued hard work.

:51:12. > :51:16.40 seconds, that is a big call now. And interesting, this huge second

:51:16. > :51:24.chase pack, as it were, containing the likes of Aaron Harris and David

:51:24. > :51:30.McNamee. They are now within 17 seconds of the first chase pack, so

:51:30. > :51:34.perhaps they will merge and come together as one. But will they be

:51:34. > :51:44.able to take anything out of the likes of Javier Gomez and Jonathan

:51:44. > :51:46.

:51:46. > :51:50.Brownlee? It is the two Olympic medallists, the two men who have

:51:50. > :51:56.registered victories so far on this World Triathlon Series who we are

:51:56. > :52:04.looking at. A win for Gomez in Auckland, and the Brownlee -- and

:52:04. > :52:10.four Brownlee in Japan. Alistair Brownlee was the other victorious

:52:10. > :52:18.athlete this season, sitting this one out. The second group are

:52:18. > :52:22.definitely reeling these guys in. can't believe it, looking at a time

:52:22. > :52:32.gaps were being fed. I can't believe the third group are moving that much

:52:32. > :52:33.

:52:33. > :52:39.faster. Good news for the Brits, I would say. Just an opportunity to

:52:39. > :52:47.sit back and maybe recover a bit on the legs. We've had some good

:52:47. > :52:55.British results already this season. The juniors, the under 23

:52:55. > :52:58.is, are coming through and beginning to pose some serious results.

:52:58. > :53:05.been a really good start to the season for the British elite men.

:53:05. > :53:15.Not just the Brownlee brothers. David McNamee has had two top-10

:53:15. > :53:16.

:53:16. > :53:24.finishes. In fact, there are five British athletes ranked in the top

:53:24. > :53:32.20. Matthew Sharp, fifth in Auckland as well. So tremendous strength in

:53:32. > :53:37.depth in British triathlon, headed of course by the Brownlee brothers,

:53:37. > :53:46.setting the standard, as Gomez has done in Spain, for the last five or

:53:46. > :53:52.six seasons. The only medal missing from the mid--- the collection of

:53:52. > :53:58.Javier Gomez is the Olympic one. isn't that the one you want? It's

:53:58. > :54:06.almost a cliche. How many other medals would you give up for the

:54:06. > :54:10.Olympic one. It's a big call when you get to grips amalgamating and

:54:10. > :54:13.coming together. There will be a lack of incentive to take the work

:54:14. > :54:18.on at the front. People will be there sitting that the group is big

:54:18. > :54:28.enough for me to hide. It very often high -- turns out that nobody is

:54:28. > :54:35.

:54:35. > :54:38.prepared to but themselves forward. -- put themselves. Just looking at

:54:38. > :54:47.the ability, the chance to sit at the back of this big pack, it does

:54:47. > :54:50.tell a story. Sometimes the aerial time checks are not as accurate as

:54:50. > :54:56.the ones we get at the end of the lap, but if that is the case, then

:54:56. > :55:02.it is a number -- another eight seconds they have taken out on that

:55:02. > :55:05.climb. And still at the moment no sign of any weakness from the lead

:55:05. > :55:12.five. Denis Vasiliev was dropped, Richard Varga was dropped, seven

:55:12. > :55:20.became five. They look as if they have been sharing the workload

:55:20. > :55:24.really well. Johnny just momentarily up out of the saddle. So, as we

:55:24. > :55:28.said, sometimes these aerial time checks are not quite as accurate,

:55:28. > :55:31.but if that is the case, and suddenly it's jumped to over a

:55:31. > :55:35.minute, although we do have to take into account that the chase group

:55:35. > :55:43.have only just started the descent, so that could account for a few

:55:43. > :55:48.seconds there. But there is no doubt that the lead five on moving further

:55:48. > :55:58.and further away from a huge chase pack where two packs have now become

:55:58. > :56:03.

:56:03. > :56:13.one but they have to start working Brownlee who were doing all the

:56:13. > :56:23.

:56:23. > :56:27.work. Now it looks like they are working together. In terms of

:56:27. > :56:36.difference, it will probably be about 300 metres before the second

:56:36. > :56:42.pack even get close to transition. It is still Johnny Brownlee and

:56:42. > :56:49.Javier Gomez right there. Too early for them to start thinking about the

:56:49. > :56:55.run just yet, but they will so be acutely aware that the great rival

:56:55. > :56:59.is right there alongside them. This is a massive chase pack now.

:56:59. > :57:03.Sometimes hard to tell from those angles, but they didn't look as

:57:03. > :57:07.though they were particularly moving hard or trying to chase down.

:57:07. > :57:16.Different body language and different rotation here among the

:57:16. > :57:22.lead five. We saw Aaron Royle take the lead there. Immediately Johnny

:57:22. > :57:26.Brownlee comes over. They've established a rhythm, and they've

:57:26. > :57:30.almost become accustomed to the pressure and the hard work. They are

:57:30. > :57:38.prepared to accept it, to keep improving and increasing this lead

:57:38. > :57:41.over the chase pack. A few shakes of the head there, almost size of

:57:41. > :57:51.resignation as they come through. Now, the next official time check

:57:51. > :58:01.

:58:01. > :58:09.with just three laps to go. Just outside the hour for this tough,

:58:09. > :58:19.climbing and very twisted course. Let's keep our eye on the clock as

:58:19. > :58:20.

:58:20. > :58:25.it ticks on. At the end of the last lap, the lead was 40 seconds. Jan

:58:25. > :58:31.Frodeno trying to do some of the work. Denis Vasiliev, who was

:58:31. > :58:41.dropped from the lead five, an awful lot of triathletes here in this

:58:41. > :58:46.

:58:46. > :58:51.group. And the gap is over a minute. So on that last lap, the five

:58:51. > :58:58.leaders have added over 20 seconds to their advantage. Richard Murray

:58:58. > :59:02.is in there, Aaron Harris, great work from him. Mario Mola, who ran

:59:02. > :59:07.so well but beat his run split in Dunkirk a week ago. With the best

:59:07. > :59:11.will in the world, if you have runners of the quality of Johnny

:59:11. > :59:21.Brownlee and Javier Gomez over a minute art at the start of the ten

:59:21. > :59:24.

:59:24. > :59:34.Kate, you would have to be Mo Farah to start -- to close that gap. --

:59:34. > :59:35.

:59:35. > :59:40.the start of the 10km. Just that maintenance of the speed, the hard

:59:40. > :59:45.work, the effort at the front, comparing to almost sitting back and

:59:45. > :59:49.easing off a bit. It is understandable. That sort of pack

:59:49. > :59:54.mentality takes over and people say, why should I go to the front

:59:54. > :59:58.and do any work? I need to save my legs. There will almost be that self

:59:58. > :00:03.reassurance that what you are doing is right. Is anybody going to be

:00:03. > :00:07.brave enough to try to break away from the pack? Very unlikely,

:00:07. > :00:17.because if they do, their legs will suffer, and somebody will come along

:00:17. > :00:26.

:00:26. > :00:36.on. Superb support here in the afternoon sunshine of Madrid. It

:00:36. > :00:39.looked like a mini previews Ayla -- a mini South African horn from one

:00:39. > :00:48.of the spectators there. Will we see a lone break away from this chase

:00:48. > :00:52.pack? Meanwhile, the lead five. We have got Alessandro Fabian of

:00:52. > :00:59.Italy, 10th in the Olympic Games last year, but in Madrid, a great

:00:59. > :01:06.run. Ivan Vasiliev fourth in Yokohama, a season that has improved

:01:06. > :01:16.from a slotted two sluggish start. Javier Gomez who beat Jonny Brownlee

:01:16. > :01:17.

:01:17. > :01:25.in the 's rent finish in Auckland. Johnny got the advantage in

:01:25. > :01:30.Yokohama, Brownlee finishing first in Japan, Gomez second. Aaron Royle,

:01:30. > :01:36.world under 23 champion. Real quality in that league quintet. And

:01:37. > :01:45.the chase group have a huge amount of work to do, they trailed by over

:01:45. > :01:54.a minute. -- they trail. As the leaders prepare for the sharp

:01:54. > :01:59.left-hand turn having successfully negotiated that 400 metre climb.

:01:59. > :02:04.This is a city that sits 700 metres above sea level, so this is a real

:02:04. > :02:10.physiological test as well as the usual mental and physical stamina.

:02:10. > :02:16.The small matter of the altitude to take account of as well. Yes, and I

:02:16. > :02:25.don't think people appreciate that. We don't think of Madrid being like

:02:25. > :02:30.Mexico City in terms of altitude but it certainly does play a part.

:02:30. > :02:35.Steve, let's talk about Gomez for a moment. He went away after finishing

:02:35. > :02:39.second to Alistair in the Olympic Games and decided that his tactics

:02:39. > :02:44.for closing the gap and trying to assert his dominance was to train

:02:44. > :02:48.harder and race more often as we look at the chase group but is there

:02:48. > :02:54.a danger that Gomez has already raised so much this year, that he

:02:54. > :02:59.will start suffering from fatigue before it gets to the big climax in

:02:59. > :03:03.London? There has to be a danger but Javier Gomez is possibly the most

:03:03. > :03:08.experienced athlete on the circuit, he has been around for such a long

:03:08. > :03:11.time, world level are coming through the junior ranks, he will not take a

:03:11. > :03:17.decision like that without thinking through. He will have much advice

:03:17. > :03:21.from his coaches, the exercise physiologist, the psychologists, the

:03:21. > :03:26.medical team, the whole of the Spanish structure will be geared

:03:26. > :03:30.around him and if he is in a position of power, and he is such a

:03:30. > :03:34.great athlete, he would not do something without really looking

:03:34. > :03:37.into it and taking the advice. Perhaps this is part of a long-term

:03:38. > :03:41.strategy, perhaps that they will race through the early part of the

:03:41. > :03:46.season doing everything. We do not know what his plans are for the

:03:46. > :03:50.second part. He has already said he knows he will be in London for the

:03:50. > :03:57.grand final. Maybe he will take some time off and do some specific

:03:57. > :04:01.training, takeaway perhaps he has seen Johnny and Alistair Brownlee

:04:01. > :04:04.improve and come away with that. From the outside, we will be looking

:04:04. > :04:08.at it and saying that it is a dangerous strategy but we do not

:04:08. > :04:12.know what is going on and the other athletes, the other national teams

:04:12. > :04:22.will not know what is going on as well. He will be taking a lot of

:04:22. > :04:26.advice on deciding what is the best for himself. Confirmation of the

:04:26. > :04:31.Olympic bronze medal, the wind in Yokohama, and the world champion

:04:31. > :04:37.despite finishing second in that rent in New Zealand last autumn. --

:04:38. > :04:42.in that sprint. Good to see Jonny Brownlee back in form and fitness.

:04:42. > :04:45.He was worried the cross country aggravated injury at the beginning

:04:46. > :04:52.of this year would cause him some problems moving into the summer but

:04:53. > :05:02.so far, he seems OK touch wood. Certainly no ill effects from the

:05:03. > :05:03.

:05:03. > :05:08.great run in Yokohama. 29.21 he ran in Japan, quite amazing of the back

:05:08. > :05:15.of a 1500 metres swim and 40 kilometres on the bike working the

:05:15. > :05:23.different thigh muscles. Two laps to go for the lead five and in the last

:05:23. > :05:29.couple of laps, they have taken even more time out of a huge chase pack,

:05:29. > :05:33.ten kilometres to go on the bike and ten kilometres to go on the run and

:05:34. > :05:43.at what stage do Jonny Brownlee and Javier Gomez start thinking about

:05:44. > :05:50.

:05:50. > :05:55.two hours, four minutes for Non Stanford, and looking at the split

:05:55. > :05:58.times we are getting on the mend's race, I think we are likely to be

:05:58. > :06:04.about one hour and 50 minutes, that is a stunning performance in

:06:04. > :06:09.conditions like this. It is not an easy bike course but some people

:06:09. > :06:13.will say oh, it is only a 400 metres climb, but taking the stress out of

:06:13. > :06:18.the legs every time on that and going into the run with tired legs,

:06:18. > :06:23.certainly we saw with Non Stanford, just what she can do now and how she

:06:23. > :06:33.has moved up to that top level and there is no reason to doubt that

:06:33. > :06:35.

:06:35. > :06:42.Johnny and Javier will be able to do even though we have got the likes of

:06:42. > :06:48.Mario Mola and Richard Murray, this one it and the South African, to

:06:48. > :06:53.really world-class runners coming off the bike -- the Spaniard and the

:06:53. > :07:00.South African, but the deficit is too big at this stage. David McNamee

:07:00. > :07:06.going well, no reason why he can't potentially close in on a third

:07:06. > :07:09.top-10 finish on the World Triathlon Series. Based in Leeds, some banter

:07:09. > :07:16.going around about the intensity of the training sessions with him

:07:16. > :07:22.having to work hard to finish the 400 rats and the one kilometre burn

:07:22. > :07:29.ups ahead of his girlfriend, Non Stanford as Johnny looks over his

:07:29. > :07:32.shoulder and Fabian comes through, Gomez is still there. As you say,

:07:32. > :07:38.there is no reason to doubt that some of the people in that second

:07:38. > :07:42.pack could close down, we have got five out in front and looking at

:07:42. > :07:47.what Gwen Jorgensen was able to do in the women's race, there is no

:07:47. > :07:53.reason to doubt that some of these athletes will be thinking that they

:07:53. > :07:58.may not be able to get first or second but maybe get third. Jan

:07:58. > :08:01.Frodeno Sven Riederer will, there he will think there is an opportunity

:08:01. > :08:05.and David McNamee and the other Britons will think they can do it

:08:05. > :08:15.too, they have proved they can do it with the very best and maybe this is

:08:15. > :08:16.

:08:16. > :08:26.the day to get on the podium to how steep the ink line is as

:08:26. > :08:30.

:08:30. > :08:38.Mario Mola takes up the reins -- the incline. Benjamin Shaw, 13th in

:08:38. > :08:48.Yokohama. Trying to hang on and good to see Aaron Royle showing

:08:48. > :08:48.

:08:48. > :08:56.aggressive tactics here. Johnny was looking like he was reaching for a

:08:56. > :08:59.drink. We heard one of the coaches shouting from the sidelines there,

:09:00. > :09:03."this is great" so if we can hear that then so can the cyclists and

:09:03. > :09:09.they are getting all this information and every lap that goes

:09:09. > :09:18.past, Gomez and Fabian, Vasiliev and Jonny Brownlee and Aaron Royle will

:09:18. > :09:26.be informed that their hard work is paying off and the lead is growing.

:09:26. > :09:33.Rafael, so disappointing for him, he had a great race in Dunkirk and the

:09:33. > :09:40.Polish athlete, Maciej Chmura. Here in the sunshine and humidity of

:09:41. > :09:50.Madrid, some really decent athletes coming up short. Before we have even

:09:51. > :09:54.

:09:54. > :09:58.course is tough and taking its toll on the athletes, it is just five

:09:58. > :10:03.weeks to Kitzbuehel and that is almost like a mountain time trial on

:10:03. > :10:09.the bike and on the run so if we are seeing the effects on this course

:10:09. > :10:19.which is tough but there's no com Paris and -- there's no comparison

:10:19. > :10:20.

:10:20. > :10:26.to Kitzbuehel, it is that. Denis Vasiliev taking a drink, part of the

:10:26. > :10:34.saddle, trying to close the gap. He was part of the lead group in the

:10:34. > :10:41.early stages of the bike. But still the lead five have the edge of this

:10:41. > :10:51.big pack of chaise triathletes. When they come round into transition at

:10:51. > :10:52.

:10:52. > :10:59.the next time of asking they will hear the bell and their thoughts. To

:10:59. > :11:09.turn -- and their thoughts will start to turn towards the run on a

:11:09. > :11:13.

:11:13. > :11:19.largely shady and somewhat flat runners in this group although

:11:19. > :11:24.Fabian did well in the hot conditions here in Spain 12 months

:11:24. > :11:27.ago. Aaron Royle is the world under 23 champion and if things stay as

:11:27. > :11:35.they are, we might expect Jonny Brownlee and Javier Gomez to head

:11:35. > :11:40.out onto that run. Jonny Brownlee with the winning momentum having

:11:41. > :11:46.beaten the Spaniard in Japan in fine style but this is home turf for

:11:47. > :11:51.Gomez who has won twice here when it was a World Cup event in 2006, and

:11:51. > :12:01.2008. And how he would dearly love to wreak revenge on Jonny Brownlee

:12:01. > :12:05.

:12:06. > :12:10.in front of what would be a very excited home crowd. We must not

:12:10. > :12:14.discount the other three, Aaron Royle, world under 23 champion,

:12:14. > :12:19.Fabian, 10th in the Olympics. The focus has to be on Jonny Brownlee

:12:19. > :12:23.and Gomez but it is not assured, we could see something special coming

:12:23. > :12:27.out. I don't think before the race, people would have expected Non

:12:27. > :12:35.Stanford to be as dominant as she did but she demonstrated that she

:12:35. > :12:45.has gone up to that next level. We may see that in this men's race as

:12:45. > :12:48.

:12:48. > :12:58.who went so well in Auckland at the start of this year, he is about five

:12:58. > :13:05.minutes down at this stage from the lead men as Jonny Brownlee,

:13:05. > :13:07.Vasiliev, Gomez, Aaron Royle and Fabian take the bell with just five

:13:07. > :13:15.kilometres left, just one more agonising ascent of this 400 metre

:13:15. > :13:21.climb. Matt Sharp having a tough job today despite the great start to the

:13:21. > :13:29.season and we also have the likes of David McNamee, Aaron Harris, Phil

:13:29. > :13:35.Wolff who has a great nickname of Hungry! Richard Murray, the South

:13:36. > :13:40.African wearing number two, he ran behind Alistair Brownlee as runner

:13:40. > :13:48.up in San Diego as his confidence of a decent finish will be growing as

:13:48. > :13:52.the race begins to unfold. But they are still a long way behind the

:13:52. > :14:02.leading five who are already tackling that Hill for the last

:14:02. > :14:13.

:14:13. > :14:18.quite happy at the back there. 1.18, so it has grown by another

:14:18. > :14:24.couple of seconds on the penultimate lap. But now these guys will also

:14:24. > :14:30.hear the bell and it will be a very busy transition when they come in

:14:31. > :14:35.unless there is a breakaway on this last lap. That is a quarter of a

:14:35. > :14:45.mile in running distance terms, to be that far down, that is a huge

:14:45. > :14:53.

:14:53. > :14:56.Mario Mola, Richard Murray, David McNamee in their and as we said, no

:14:56. > :15:03.reason at all why David McNamee cannot produce another top-10

:15:04. > :15:13.finish. Ninth in Yokohama and yet another one of the contingent from

:15:14. > :15:24.

:15:24. > :15:29.Leeds who is enjoying a sterling -- guys have had. Aaron Royle, Ivan

:15:29. > :15:36.Vasiliev, Johnny Brownlee, the world champion, Javier Gomez, the Olympic

:15:36. > :15:42.silver medallist. Alessandro Fabian, a top five finish here last

:15:42. > :15:48.year. So far, the chasers have not been able to make any impact on the

:15:48. > :15:58.lead. In fact, it has been the opposite. The five outfront have

:15:58. > :16:06.

:16:06. > :16:15.continually extended their from the chase pack on this final

:16:15. > :16:24.stretch. They will know what the time gap is going through the

:16:25. > :16:34.transition each time. There is not a huge opportunity for many athletes

:16:35. > :16:41.

:16:41. > :16:47.to close that one minute 22nd gap. -- 20 second gap. Gomez and

:16:47. > :16:52.Brownlee. How many times have we seen those two names and those

:16:52. > :17:02.familiar styles at the front of these world-class racers? Pushing

:17:02. > :17:04.

:17:04. > :17:07.the boundaries, classic style. Asserting the dominance on the 1st

:17:07. > :17:16.and two thirds of this race with just that tank along at a run to

:17:16. > :17:26.come. That is the Hill done for the last time on the bike. They move on

:17:26. > :17:30.

:17:30. > :17:37.the downhill section. Over 400 metres ahead, on the basis of how

:17:37. > :17:42.fast they will run. Great credit to the other three here because they

:17:43. > :17:47.really have contributed. After the first couple of laps of getting

:17:47. > :17:55.sorted, it really has been a five-man effort. Each one has taken

:17:55. > :18:00.a turn on the front on the hill and the distant -- the descent. Gomez

:18:00. > :18:08.seems to be happy to lead on the descent but it really has been a

:18:08. > :18:13.team effort. You almost hope these five will be taking the top five

:18:13. > :18:16.positions because of that strategic teamwork going through. It is so

:18:16. > :18:23.difficult. You have to work with people on the bike knowing that as

:18:23. > :18:31.soon as you start the run, you are direct enemies again! How many times

:18:31. > :18:41.have Brownlee and Gomez been in this situation? They will come of this

:18:41. > :18:42.

:18:42. > :18:50.sort of pace and Brian -- and run 30 minutes for ten kilometres. That is

:18:50. > :18:54.stunning. That's what we're anticipating, anyway. Many very

:18:54. > :19:00.capable club athletes would be absolutely over the moon with

:19:00. > :19:10.anything under 32 or 31 minutes, and that is running fresh without a 40

:19:10. > :19:15.care element -- a 40 kilometre bike course. So, heading towards

:19:15. > :19:25.transition for a second time. Don't worry about the South African on the

:19:25. > :19:27.

:19:27. > :19:33.left. He is in the process of being lapped. At Yokohama if you weeks

:19:33. > :19:36.ago, Johnny Brownlee headed out onto the run cause. Gomez stayed with him

:19:36. > :19:41.for the first couple of kilometres, and then when the gap started to

:19:41. > :19:46.show, Gomez had no answer. Is this Spaniard fresh enough to challenge

:19:46. > :19:50.Johnny Brownlee, and does he believe that he could once again secure a

:19:50. > :19:56.victory here in Madrid? That would be his third, but Johnny Brownlee

:19:56. > :20:06.won here 12 months ago. His brother was victorious three times before

:20:06. > :20:10.

:20:10. > :20:20.that. A fascinating race. It is the Britain and the Spaniard, but, as

:20:20. > :20:22.

:20:22. > :20:26.you said, Steve, as Gomez just and does his feet, they are ready for

:20:26. > :20:36.the all-important disk mount as quickly as possible here --

:20:36. > :20:41.

:20:41. > :20:51.dismount. Shake off that lactic acid. It is so much harder than they

:20:51. > :20:55.

:20:55. > :20:58.make it look. The five who done sterling work together on the 40 K,

:20:58. > :21:03.and it is Jonathan Brownlee who comes out of transition the

:21:04. > :21:12.quickest. Look at the way he is aggressively starting this run.

:21:12. > :21:16.Gomez is in for a real battle here. That was a fantastic transition from

:21:16. > :21:21.Johnny Brownlee. Let's think back to the Olympic Games last year, the

:21:21. > :21:28.transition involving the bike. He got docked 15 seconds and yet he

:21:28. > :21:32.comes into this race with all the pressure and he is off the bike

:21:32. > :21:38.literally a millimetre before the crunch line. The absolute confidence

:21:38. > :21:48.of that athlete to be doing that. OK, it is a leader is, but he has a

:21:48. > :21:50.

:21:50. > :21:55.ten metre gap in front of Gomez. -- it is early days. He has laid down

:21:55. > :22:05.the challenge. He is saying, OK guys, this is what I can do. If you

:22:05. > :22:07.

:22:07. > :22:12.want to be me, you will have to come at me. -- to beat me. Of course,

:22:12. > :22:15.this run is a lot flatter than the cycle was. Gomez is a brilliant

:22:15. > :22:25.performer over ten kilometres. This is a mark of Johnny Brownlee's

:22:25. > :22:26.

:22:26. > :22:36.confidence. Unless something goes wrong, this chase group will not be

:22:36. > :22:42.making up the one minute 40 seconds. Unless something goes badly wrong

:22:42. > :22:48.with that lead quintet, this will be a gap that is far too big for the

:22:48. > :22:58.chase group to close down, even the likes and the calibre of the 2008

:22:58. > :23:01.

:23:01. > :23:08.Olympic champion, Jan Rodino from Germany. -- Jan Frodeno. Brownlee is

:23:08. > :23:13.first, Gomez second, the same as it was in Yokohama. But look at the

:23:13. > :23:18.people lining this course. Gomez is a hero in Spain and he will do

:23:18. > :23:23.absolutely everything he can to close this gap and to take the sting

:23:23. > :23:29.out of Johnny Brownlee in the last few hundred metres, as he did

:23:29. > :23:34.successfully in autumn last Auckland. We looked at Non Stanford

:23:34. > :23:38.running in the women's race and we said she looked more like a 1500

:23:38. > :23:47.metre runner. You have to say exactly the same thing about

:23:48. > :23:54.Jonathan Brownlee. The turnover is very fast indeed. Just the tiniest

:23:54. > :24:03.of inclines going up there. I would love to see the 800 metres split. It

:24:03. > :24:07.looked as though there was five seconds between him and Gomez.

:24:07. > :24:14.Perhaps later on we may get that split when we start to analyse the

:24:14. > :24:24.results. If that was five seconds at 400 metres, that has thrown down a

:24:24. > :24:25.

:24:25. > :24:29.marker. How can you do that so early on? He is by himself. There is

:24:29. > :24:35.nobody else in this race at the moment. Is he going to crash and

:24:35. > :24:39.burn? I don't think so. I can't see that. He looks strong, confident.

:24:39. > :24:49.There is no movement of the head at all, the knee lift is great, the

:24:49. > :24:49.

:24:50. > :24:56.feet are in contact with a grant for the tiniest second. Ten miles an

:24:56. > :25:02.hour. Fantastic. Absolutely superb. Most people couldn't maintain that

:25:02. > :25:07.momentum even if the run was 2.5 kilometres. We look at Vasiliev

:25:07. > :25:13.trying to grind out the miles. He is a big man, not necessarily the

:25:13. > :25:19.physique you would associate with a fast ten kilometre run. All of these

:25:19. > :25:23.men are classy runners, but none more so than Jonathan Brownlee. He

:25:23. > :25:33.will be aware of how much time in years taken out of Gomez at the

:25:33. > :25:33.

:25:33. > :25:38.halfway stage of this, the first of four 2.5 kilometre loops. Fabian is

:25:39. > :25:45.in fifth, which is where he finished 12 months ago here in Madrid. At the

:25:45. > :25:55.moment, Gomez has no answer. At the moment, between 12 and 15 seconds

:25:55. > :25:56.

:25:56. > :26:06.gap. That is believed Brownlee has. -- the lead. He will be aware of

:26:06. > :26:07.

:26:07. > :26:15.that. Do I hold this pace? Do I start increasing early on? Confident

:26:15. > :26:23.in front, where he wants to be, knowing it is his race to lose.

:26:23. > :26:30.at the way he is on his toes. That's fantastic. This is 6.25 miles. That

:26:30. > :26:35.takes some going, to run on your toes. Maybe on a 1500 metre on a

:26:35. > :26:39.track, the average athlete would be on his toes the whole way round. But

:26:39. > :26:43.the leg turnover, the speed. Using different muscles on the run to

:26:43. > :26:50.those which have been heavily used on the bike. It is so difficult for

:26:50. > :26:56.mere mortals to make that transfer and get the right muscles working.

:26:56. > :27:00.Vasiliev is working very well indeed. The other two will have to

:27:00. > :27:10.work together to try to take him on. Johnny covering himself with water

:27:10. > :27:11.

:27:11. > :27:16.there. It is still the early stages, but he is covering himself

:27:16. > :27:23.with glory as well as water. Non Stanford did say, when she won the

:27:23. > :27:28.women's race, she said she went too hard on the second lap but she was

:27:28. > :27:33.OK because she was aware of how much time she'd taken out of the rest of

:27:33. > :27:37.them. Johnny is a hugely experienced campaigner. It is possible that he

:27:37. > :27:46.is hurting and that he could have gone to early, but at the moment it

:27:46. > :27:49.looks as though he has timed this race to perfection. I make that spot

:27:49. > :27:54.on 15 seconds. Interestingly, Alistair Brownlee was reported

:27:54. > :28:01.earlier this week as saying in training, they rarely run at

:28:01. > :28:07.anything less than race pace. So everything is geared, the classic

:28:07. > :28:10.interval sessions work that little bit faster so that when you do get

:28:10. > :28:14.into a race, you are almost in comfort zone, knowing you can keep

:28:14. > :28:21.up that race pace all the way through because it is a bit slower

:28:21. > :28:28.than what you have been training at. The applause rings out for Javier

:28:28. > :28:32.Gomez, just at the top of your shot there. This crowd would dearly love

:28:32. > :28:39.him to close down on one of his two long-term rivals, Johnny and

:28:39. > :28:44.Alistair Brownlee. But it is Johnny who has the edge at the moment.

:28:44. > :28:49.Gomez has been around for a long time. We talk about how Alistair

:28:49. > :28:55.made a brave bid for a medal in Beijing back in 2008. Gomez was

:28:55. > :29:00.fourth in that Olympic race. It is now 16 seconds, and Gomez has had to

:29:00. > :29:10.watch Alistair and brought -- and Johnny Brownlee come through in fine

:29:10. > :29:20.style and with flying colours in the last few years. Another 12 seconds

:29:20. > :29:21.

:29:21. > :29:26.between Gomez and Vasiliev. These three could end up getting locked in

:29:26. > :29:30.a fascinating battle for the third spot on the podium. But at the

:29:30. > :29:35.moment, it looks for all the world is both first and second will go to

:29:35. > :29:39.Jonathan Brownlee and Javier Gomez. But are we calling this to early?

:29:39. > :29:45.Javier Gomez is an Olympic silver medallist, a brilliant performer. He

:29:45. > :29:52.beat Johnny in Auckland last autumn. Can you find something from

:29:52. > :30:02.somewhere to delight his home crowd bands in the Madrid Sunshine? --

:30:02. > :30:03.

:30:03. > :30:10.fans. I think Johnny has really set his mark down and he is going for

:30:10. > :30:14.it. If we disregard the 16 seconds between himself and Javier Gomez, he

:30:14. > :30:24.has half a minute between himself and the other athletes just a

:30:24. > :30:25.

:30:25. > :30:29.quarter of the run in. That is the indication at the moment. You can

:30:29. > :30:33.see the times there, that is not far off two minutes. So running

:30:33. > :30:43.absolutely faster than anybody, despite that time of sitting back on

:30:43. > :30:54.

:30:54. > :31:02.the bike, nobody is running faster at the lead of that back group and

:31:02. > :31:05.we might expect them to get somewhere, another big splash of

:31:05. > :31:09.water for Jonny Brownlee, he does know this course and he understands

:31:09. > :31:15.exact what is required, hitting another time update there, 20

:31:15. > :31:19.seconds. He knows the advantage he has got. Javier Gomez did not

:31:19. > :31:22.compete against Johnny here last year, he was ill but it was a

:31:22. > :31:29.fabulous victory for Jonny Brownlee on exactly the same course in

:31:29. > :31:34.similar conditions 12 months ago and how amazing to think that earlier on

:31:34. > :31:38.this season, the Olympic bronze medallist was contemplating a year

:31:38. > :31:46.with no major competitions, such what is the severity of the injury

:31:46. > :31:51.with which he is seeming to bounce back from. -- such was the severity.

:31:51. > :31:56.Gomez is not running slowly though. Johnny is going tremendously there.

:31:56. > :32:04.The time gap will be interesting on the next one. If it has stretched

:32:04. > :32:14.out more, and we are pre-empting this. 23 seconds so a further seven

:32:14. > :32:16.

:32:16. > :32:21.or eight seconds put in in a about seven kilometres. -- in about one

:32:21. > :32:24.kilometre. That was 30 seconds on that number one, that will be

:32:24. > :32:31.stretching and stretching, if he is taking time out of Gomez, I don't

:32:31. > :32:36.think the other three will be catching Gomez after the first lap.

:32:36. > :32:41.This is the handy turn point on the course, more appreciated if you are

:32:41. > :32:48.in Jonny Brownlee's position, grabs hold of the railing, swings himself

:32:48. > :32:53.around and he will get a glimpse of Javier Gomez. Wow, already around

:32:53. > :32:58.the corner and I know Gomez is a great competitor but in the back of

:32:58. > :33:07.his mind, he must already be thinking, that he is not sure if you

:33:07. > :33:12.can do it. Is that Matt Sharp of Vasiliev? I was watching Vasiliev

:33:12. > :33:20.earlier on, they are so similar, not in their running style, there is

:33:20. > :33:27.Vasiliev now, so Matt Sharp is a lap down on the run so that has been a

:33:27. > :33:31.tough call format. But I saw Vasiliev coming through and I

:33:31. > :33:35.thought it is Matt Sharp, what a fantastic run but I think that is

:33:35. > :33:40.proof that might have a tough day out there on the bike and all

:33:40. > :33:45.credit, he has stayed in the run, he has not given in, to see what he can

:33:45. > :33:49.do on the run section. And as Jonny Brownlee continues to enjoy the

:33:49. > :33:54.shade and the lead in momentum here, that could be quite a strain

:33:54. > :33:57.scenario because Matt Sharp is so good on the ten kilometre run that

:33:57. > :34:04.he will not do what normal lap runners do witches disappear, he

:34:04. > :34:09.might be able to maintain his position and use the momentum of the

:34:09. > :34:17.athletes ahead of him -- what's normal lap runners do which is

:34:17. > :34:20.disappear. Looking at Gomez, he must be beginning to wonder what he must

:34:20. > :34:25.do to beat the likes of Jonny Brownlee, an athlete who he must

:34:25. > :34:31.have thought he had a great chance of beating in Yokohama with Johnny

:34:31. > :34:36.coming back from a long-term injury but it has been a great race for

:34:36. > :34:45.Gomez. He has not been poor but at the moment, he has no answer to the

:34:45. > :34:51.power in the legs that have come over here from Yorkshire. My last

:34:51. > :34:59.unofficial times but was 32 seconds -- unofficial times split, just

:34:59. > :35:04.before the halfway mark. And there is Matt Sharp. There is Ivan

:35:04. > :35:13.Vasiliev behind him. My apologies if I misled people, but the hair and

:35:13. > :35:22.face very similar going through. . . Jonny Brownlee represented by the

:35:22. > :35:25.blue dot and he is out front and 200 metres. 40 seconds, perhaps? That

:35:25. > :35:35.would give credence to what we were taking an officially in the split

:35:35. > :35:49.

:35:49. > :35:53.times. -- taking an officially -- Royle, the world Under-23 champion,

:35:53. > :35:59.and the others in the chasing group, hoping to get themselves on the

:35:59. > :36:09.podium. More athletes being lapped. So five kilometres to go for Jonny

:36:09. > :36:12.

:36:12. > :36:18.Brownlee. This is stunning, sometimes we see the leading athlete

:36:18. > :36:22.lapping some athletes but that is three already. Let's keep an eye on

:36:22. > :36:28.the clock, 16 seconds at the end of the previous lap and it is growing

:36:28. > :36:34.despite the applause, despite the support from the packed grandstands

:36:35. > :36:39.here. It is half a minute now and that surely, unless Johnny runs into

:36:39. > :36:47.a problem in the last five kilometres or experiences a cramp,

:36:47. > :36:51.that is surely too much for even the likes of Javier Gomez to close down

:36:51. > :36:56.in five kilometres. That is stunning. Half a minute, great

:36:56. > :37:01.performers by Vasiliev, he has not dropped anything on Gomez in that

:37:01. > :37:04.lap. That would be an upset if Gomez has gone off too fast, trying to

:37:04. > :37:13.chase down Johnny and the gap literally doubled from lap one to

:37:13. > :37:18.the second, Vasiliev moved away from Aaron Royle, a cushion there are 12

:37:19. > :37:22.seconds, about 60 or 70 metres perhaps. That would be a good

:37:23. > :37:27.performance from Vasiliev. He was fourth in Yokohama and he will be

:37:27. > :37:33.desperate to go one better and get himself on the podium and if he can

:37:33. > :37:37.potentially challenge Gomez, at what stage does the 30 seconds that

:37:37. > :37:46.Brownlee has taken out of him start to cause a problem? Mario Mola, we

:37:47. > :37:53.knew he was in good running form and Richard Murray as well. Mario Mola

:37:53. > :37:59.beats the split time in Dunkirk but Richard Murray and it looks like

:38:00. > :38:03.Laurent Vidal who was fifth in the Olympics just behind him so some

:38:03. > :38:10.really classy triathletes and good runners now starting to make an

:38:10. > :38:17.impact towards the back end of this race but they have all been left

:38:17. > :38:23.behind by the world-class performance from this man, Jonny

:38:23. > :38:28.Brownlee. The Spanish crowd looking at their clocks and club triathletes

:38:28. > :38:33.they will know how impressive the performance is that they are

:38:33. > :38:37.witnessing, the cameras are out. There is respect here from Jonathan

:38:37. > :38:46.Brownlee even though most of the crowd would love to see their man,

:38:46. > :38:54.Gomez, overtake the Olympic bronze medallist. But try as he might, he

:38:54. > :38:58.cannot claw this lead back. You look at Jonny Brownlee and thinking he's

:38:58. > :39:03.on his first lap coming out of transition, there has not been any

:39:03. > :39:07.change whatsoever. That lovely, lovely high action, powerful arms

:39:07. > :39:12.and equally, Gomez, if you minute earlier, I thought he might have

:39:12. > :39:14.eased off but he seems to have got that back on now. The split in

:39:14. > :39:20.front, Vasiliev through the transition and that bit of focus

:39:20. > :39:26.that he will work to hold onto the silver medal. If indeed the gold is

:39:26. > :39:30.now out of reach. And there is the man we were talking about, Vasiliev,

:39:30. > :39:34.20 seconds down, he looked powerful, he is working hard for it

:39:34. > :39:39.and if he just the inner belief, he may be able to catch Gomez. Great

:39:39. > :39:49.run from such a big guy, not a natural shape for a ten kilometre

:39:49. > :39:51.

:39:51. > :39:55.run at all. Gomez doing everything he can hear to close this gap --

:39:55. > :40:02.everything he can do here. But he would have to reduce the deficit and

:40:02. > :40:12.start doing it now but the gap, if these rare real-time checks are

:40:12. > :40:20.accurate, the gap is continuing to grow. Phil Wolff coming through, the

:40:20. > :40:29.British athlete, he will keep on grinding -- Phil Wolfe. He will know

:40:29. > :40:34.that his compatriot is in the lead. Still no sign of Gomez and the

:40:34. > :40:41.applause tells you he may be coming... There he is. But the gap

:40:41. > :40:46.looks like it is getting bigger. Johnny is edging closer and closer

:40:47. > :40:56.to a second successive World Triathlon Series win here in Madrid

:40:57. > :41:07.

:41:07. > :41:13.following a great performance in am a big powerful performer. He will

:41:13. > :41:18.certainly enjoy the site he will get because he will be getting a good

:41:18. > :41:21.indication there as to how far ahead he is of Aaron Royle, the Australian

:41:21. > :41:27.who looked as though he might break away from the Italian. But having

:41:27. > :41:31.said that, while, Fabian has managed to come back on the Australian so

:41:31. > :41:35.these two having a real dingdong in fourth and fifth, Aaron Royle

:41:35. > :41:41.managed to get about five seconds on Fabian but the Italian closing down

:41:41. > :41:45.again. And you don't get what you deserve in sport all the time but

:41:45. > :41:50.the way those five brilliantly worked together on the bike, it

:41:50. > :41:54.would be fantastic if they occupied the first five spots. But Mario Mola

:41:55. > :42:01.and Murray and Vidal will do their best to ensure they get in the mix

:42:02. > :42:05.for the top five places. Johnny, less than two minutes away from that

:42:05. > :42:12.final entry and exit of transition, I think. That is where we will get

:42:12. > :42:15.the accurate time splits. The last we were told was just staying at 30

:42:15. > :42:25.seconds with Gomez but I thought but have stretched now by another five

:42:25. > :42:26.

:42:26. > :42:30.seconds or so. -- I thought that have stretched. If that has come

:42:30. > :42:38.down with the chasers from that big second pack, if they are beginning

:42:38. > :42:48.to make inroads on that top 5... they start to come through in groups

:42:48. > :42:52.

:42:52. > :42:57.of three or four. Sven Riederer is that place. Gomez in third on

:42:57. > :43:00.another occasion previously, that may have been a year when Alistair

:43:00. > :43:06.Brownlee stopped and waited for Johnny and they enjoyed their

:43:06. > :43:13.celebrations and last year the absence of his brother, Johnny was

:43:13. > :43:22.victorious here. So many of these top-class athletes are being lapped.

:43:22. > :43:27.So many of them. Jarrod Shoemaker, he is a brilliant runner. But the

:43:27. > :43:34.savage place on the bike course has caused more than a few casualties

:43:34. > :43:43.and this time, Jonny Brownlee is the welcome listen to the sound of the

:43:43. > :43:47.bell and he will watch that clock ticked away. -- click away. His lead

:43:47. > :43:50.is growing rather than diminishing, all these athletes you are seeing

:43:50. > :43:57.around Jonny Brownlee are and have been lapped. So we definitely still

:43:57. > :44:01.have a case of Jonny Brownlee leading. This man, the Olympic

:44:01. > :44:11.silver medallist, Javier Gomez, is in second place so don't worry if

:44:11. > :44:12.

:44:12. > :44:16.you are seeing a few athletes around them. Phil Wolfe is in their and you

:44:16. > :44:21.can hear the noise but this is surely an insurmountable margin.

:44:21. > :44:25.Jonny Brownlee's lead is growing all the time. Great performance, we will

:44:25. > :44:28.know more when we look at the split times but it seems like the

:44:28. > :44:34.absolutely steady pace from Johnny at the front there and just 15

:44:34. > :44:44.seconds, 30 seconds, a further nine seconds on that. What will be the

:44:44. > :44:50.

:44:50. > :44:53.time gap for Vasiliev? Beginning to just seek away from him. And maybe a

:44:53. > :45:00.Vasiliev is starting to feel the pain, maybe he has to start thinking

:45:00. > :45:04.about the battle between Aaron Royle and Fabian, fourth and fifth. Could

:45:04. > :45:10.they put themselves back up? But that would take a huge effort to

:45:10. > :45:15.pull back 20 seconds. Fabian is grimacing, he has got a couple of

:45:15. > :45:20.seconds on Aaron Royle. It was the other way round but look at Mario

:45:20. > :45:25.Mola coming through. So perhaps looking and running on slightly

:45:25. > :45:28.fresher legs, not having done as much brutal work on the bike, Mario

:45:28. > :45:36.Mola was second behind Gomez in Auckland, could he come through and

:45:36. > :45:39.get in amongst the top five? He has got the leave and the mental but

:45:40. > :45:44.those are all the battles for the minor placings because Great

:45:44. > :45:51.Britain's Jonathan Brownlee is grinding out another truly

:45:51. > :45:57.world-class performance here in Spain. I thought Aaron Royle began

:45:58. > :46:03.to look very fatigued coming into that final lap and you said, he

:46:03. > :46:07.managed to lose that place again and it could be very interesting for

:46:07. > :46:17.fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh place is assuming that Vasiliev

:46:17. > :46:33.

:46:33. > :46:43.from the very beginning. Johnny is saying hello there, just checking it

:46:43. > :46:48.

:46:48. > :46:51.wasn't Gomez! I think he was saying hello! The lap runners almost come

:46:51. > :46:57.along for a ride. We saw that in the world series final last year. I have

:46:57. > :47:02.mixed feelings about that. It is almost a bit of bad grace. If you

:47:02. > :47:07.are trying to hang on for a free ride, as it were, even if you do

:47:07. > :47:11.want to run quickly, perhaps you could run on the other side of the

:47:11. > :47:16.road and not invade the space of the athlete who is trying to focus on

:47:16. > :47:21.finishing first. At least if you are running level with him, you would

:47:21. > :47:28.give him two or three metres of personal space. Yes, it is that

:47:28. > :47:32.element of respect. No lack of respect for the achievements, effort

:47:32. > :47:41.and desire of Javier Gomez and all years done for the Spanish triathlon

:47:41. > :47:47.over the years. -- all he has done. But these battles with the Brownlee

:47:47. > :47:50.brothers are too much for him sometimes. Johnny, with that

:47:50. > :48:00.sizeable lead, we'll see Javier Gomez as he makes his way back

:48:00. > :48:05.

:48:05. > :48:10.towards the finish. He knows victory is his. There they are, the two

:48:10. > :48:15.passing each other. Brownlee heading towards victory, Gomez towards

:48:15. > :48:20.second place. It is a massive lead now for Johnny Brownlee, and for a

:48:20. > :48:28.man who is still on his way back to full form and fitness from injury,

:48:28. > :48:38.that is fantastic. Gomez has picked up and moved away from what was a

:48:38. > :48:41.

:48:41. > :48:51.closing Vasiliev. Are the chase is going to be able to make inroads? --

:48:51. > :48:53.

:48:53. > :48:58.the chasers. The coaches are calling to Johnny and telling him to relax.

:48:58. > :49:03.Phil Wolfe is still grinding it out. He will keep giving it everything.

:49:03. > :49:06.The Russian is still in third at the moment. Brownlee looks as though he

:49:07. > :49:13.has moved away from the lapped Brazilian athlete who was tagging

:49:13. > :49:23.along. These two should move aside and let Johnny through if they are

:49:23. > :49:23.

:49:24. > :49:29.aware. The gap is now 42 seconds. Mario Mola is chasing very hard

:49:29. > :49:35.indeed. We thought Aaron Royle was going through a tough time going

:49:35. > :49:41.through transition, and so it has proved. Mario Mola could be honing

:49:41. > :49:45.in on fourth place, even. A good run from the Spaniard. Much has been

:49:45. > :49:55.expected of him over the years and as of yet he has not yet stepped out

:49:55. > :49:59.

:49:59. > :50:07.of the shadow of Gomez. But this man has. Jonathan Brownlee. Once again,

:50:07. > :50:15.he is out front and in control. What a good run by Vasiliev. He was

:50:15. > :50:25.involved in leading that swim. A big, powerful man. He has done this

:50:25. > :50:27.

:50:27. > :50:31.courtesy of that minute plus advantage the big lead five had.

:50:31. > :50:37.Vasiliev has done this on strength and guts. He's really gone for it. I

:50:37. > :50:45.want him to get on the podium now, I really do. He was hurting on the

:50:45. > :50:52.bike for the first couple of laps, he came back. Jonathan Brownlee has

:50:52. > :50:59.once again produced a demonstration of excellence here in Madrid. Now he

:50:59. > :51:04.allows himself the high fives. This is an athlete who was injured last

:51:04. > :51:09.year and at one stage thought he would not compete this year at all.

:51:09. > :51:14.Here he is, in the sunshine of Spain, taking the adulation of the

:51:14. > :51:19.crowd, who have to show him respect even though he has beaten their

:51:19. > :51:23.home-grown hero Javier Gomez. Jonathan Brownlee from left to right

:51:23. > :51:33.with his second victory. A big Yorkshire smile commonly grabs the

:51:33. > :51:34.

:51:34. > :51:39.tape. -- a big Yorkshire smile, he grabs the tape. He brings supreme.

:51:40. > :51:46.At the moment, he is number one. Gomez coming home, and he too

:51:46. > :51:52.deserves the applause. He wasn't able to go with the pace of Jonathan

:51:52. > :51:58.Brownlee at the start of the tank element run. -- the ten kilometre

:51:58. > :52:06.run. He is one of the main reasons there are hundreds of people lining

:52:06. > :52:09.this course here in the park outside the Spanish capital. But, for the

:52:09. > :52:16.second consecutive race, it is second place for Javier Gomez,

:52:16. > :52:23.beside Jonathan Brownlee. He will come back. There will be an embrace

:52:23. > :52:26.of respect and affection. They do know each other's races inside out.

:52:26. > :52:33.Sometimes it goes to Gomez, as it did in the final last year in

:52:33. > :52:38.Auckland. And Vasiliev, the big Russian, who was so brave on the

:52:38. > :52:48.swim and hung on on the run after a brilliant cycle, he was fourth last

:52:48. > :52:49.

:52:49. > :52:54.year, and very much deserves his step onto the podium. And it is

:52:54. > :53:02.Mario Mola who comes storming into fourth place. A really good

:53:02. > :53:08.performance by him. Another good run here from Fabian, the Italian, once

:53:08. > :53:17.again finishing in fifth, as he did 12 months ago. Richard Murray coming

:53:17. > :53:22.into sixth place, so he got ahead of Aaron Royle, as did Laurent Vidal.

:53:22. > :53:30.Aaron Royle was very, very tired. He played his part in a great race and

:53:30. > :53:40.is rewarded with a top-10 finish. Finishing two minutes behind

:53:40. > :53:44.

:53:44. > :53:53.Jonathan Brownlee. Franz Loeschke, the German, lumbering into the final

:53:53. > :53:59.top ten. It is a brutal course, big hills on the bike. All these men are

:53:59. > :54:09.in the top ten can be pleased with their day's work. A brilliant

:54:09. > :54:12.weekend for Britain's triathlon. Confirmation then, what a victory

:54:12. > :54:22.for Jonathan Brownlee. Almost one minute up from the man who beat him

:54:22. > :54:23.

:54:23. > :54:29.to the Olympic silver last year. A good result for David Mcnamee,

:54:30. > :54:35.continuing a brilliant season for the Scot based in Leeds.

:54:35. > :54:43.Confirmation of the overall series rankings. Gomez goes into the lead.

:54:43. > :54:52.First in Auckland and runner-up in Japan. But watch out for Jonathan

:54:52. > :54:57.and Alistair Brownlee. Johnny, congratulations. To paraphrase your

:54:57. > :55:05.brother who was watching, you killed it. Did he watch it? He doesn't,

:55:05. > :55:12.usually. It was a fair triathlon, I think. Gomez was incredible on the

:55:12. > :55:16.bike. I'm very happy. Both of you were leading from the start. We

:55:16. > :55:26.trying to make some decisions on the bike, whether to break away, the two

:55:26. > :55:26.

:55:26. > :55:32.of you? I said, what should we do. I said, let's go for it, and he said,

:55:32. > :55:39.let's wait. And I'm pleased we waited. He saved me a little bit

:55:39. > :55:43.there. When did you know you are safe on the bike? When those two

:55:43. > :55:48.groups came together, I knew they would stop working as hard. We were

:55:48. > :55:55.working well. We had a good group. You didn't even look that tired on

:55:55. > :56:02.the run. This run is difficult after the bike and you never feel that

:56:02. > :56:08.good. But I got the gap early on and I had to keep pouring water on me.

:56:08. > :56:14.Javier Gomez, well done. On the podium at home, how does it feel?

:56:14. > :56:20.think I did the best I could today. I knew it would be very difficult to

:56:20. > :56:24.beat Jonathan. We were proud of our hard work on the bike. A home race

:56:24. > :56:34.is always special. You and Johnny Brearley did set the pace from the

:56:34. > :56:35.

:56:35. > :56:42.start, especially on the bike. -- really did set the pace. Yes, we

:56:42. > :56:48.managed to make a big gap. Congratulations, your first World

:56:48. > :56:56.Triathlon Series podium place. feel great. I like Madrid, good

:56:56. > :57:02.people here. A long way from when you thought you might not race this

:57:02. > :57:07.season. Yes, if you months ago, I thought I wouldn't race and I've

:57:07. > :57:13.raced twice and won them both. That ankle injury feels like it was ages

:57:13. > :57:20.ago. I'm trying to enjoy this year after last year. Well, what a

:57:20. > :57:24.weekend in Spain for the Brits. The girls made history with two British

:57:24. > :57:34.women on a world series podium for the first time ever. Next up for the

:57:34. > :57:34.

:57:34. > :57:39.Brownlee brothers, the action will get a bit vertical. It is probably

:57:39. > :57:49.one of the hardest mountains to ever climb. It will be such a challenging

:57:49. > :58:00.

:58:00. > :58:05.course to every -- for everybody. before all that, here are a couple

:58:05. > :58:10.more BBC sports shows for you to look out for next weekend. Tune into

:58:10. > :58:14.BBC One on Saturday the 8th of June at 3pm to see members of Great

:58:14. > :58:21.Britain's Olympic showjumping team take part in the London leg of the

:58:21. > :58:24.global champions tour. The next day at 4pm on BBC Two, highlights of the

:58:25. > :58:28.European amateur boxing Championships, where Andrew Selby is