Stockholm Highlights Triathlon: World Series

Hello, and welcome to the Penallta Matt round and this year's world

triathlon series, -- Penallta Matt round. It comes from Sweden's

capital, Stockholm. This is the last chance to amass points ahead of the

grand final in Rotterdam next month. Up first this afternoon, it's the

women's race. After her first World Series victory in Montreal this

weekend, we've been speaking to one of the hottest properties in

triathlon right now, Ozzie Ashleigh Gentle. Jodie Stimpson makes her

latest comeback from injury here in Stockholm and is hoping to enjoy

what is left of the season. I've missed a lot of time this year, I'm

happy to be back racing. I've been catching up with Johnny Brownlee

after another fourth-place finish in Montreal, and getting to know

Norwegian Kristian Blummenfelt. But first, here is Matt Chilton with a

look at the 2017 series so far. The season start saw the return to form

of Andrea Hewitt and Javier Gomez Noya both winners in Abu Dhabi. For

the first time in many years, British success has been hard to

find. Alistair Brownlee's cameo performance in Leeds the only

victory of the 2017 series. But, God Save The Queen has still been a

familiar sound. Only because it's also the album of Bermuda. Roudham

Bermuda Flora Duffy has four wins, propelling her to the top of the

women's rankings. Whilst on the men's side, Spain's Mario Mola has

topped the podium four times. But neither he nor Duffy have had at

there own way. Mola laboured over the hills of Montreal at the start

of August as his mentor Gomez and second win of his year. The fee's

expected breakaway never materialised. -- Duffy's. Ashleigh

Gentle took the honours. There are many twists and turns in the two

remaining courses, in Stockholm and in the grand final in Rotterdam on

September 16. And there may well be further twists and turns in the to

become world champion for 2016. -- 2017. Like Leeds, Stockholm has a

split transition. This is transition won by City Hall, you can see the

choppy waters behind me. Transition two is on a steep cobbled hill

outside the palace, it is a tough course suiting and all-round

triathlete like Flora Duffy, who had a resounding victory here last year.

She had talked about skipping this race, but she is here, and you can

see that she has an opportunity. She can further extend her lead if she

can get back on top of the podium today. As second place finish in

Montreal bought her Bartra race unbeaten streak to an end, but she

can go to Rotterdam with maximum points available at -- as it is the

five best placed results that count towards the World Title. A couple of

familiar faces have been missing from the women's series's Helen

Jenkins and Gwen Jorgensen. They have had a pretty good excuse, they

have both had babies. Helens -- Helen first, and then when gave

birth to Stanley Allen, both weighing in at sevenlbs. Great news

to both of them. Whilst Wayne is coming to terms with motherhood, her

coach has been working with Australia's Ashleigh Gentle to great

effect. Victory for Ashleigh Gentle, for the first time in her career.

Congratulations for Montreal. How did that feel? It was overwhelming,

to be honest. I've had a few silver medals before on the world circuit,

the win came when I least expected it. I went on to the race with a bit

of sickness. To come out for the win was a bit of a shock. But obviously

happiness and a bit of relief as well. When did you realise that this

would be your race? Not until I crushed the finish line, to be

honest. I'm told that I looked behind too many times. But I guess

that was part of the shock. I was just like, is somebody going to come

running past me now or what? It wasn't until I got to the end then I

realised that I had won. How are you feeling going into Stockholm? You've

got to be on the high? I guess I got more confidence from that. I saw

what I could tap into it when I wasn't feeling so well. I need to be

able to convert that into when I'm feeling good. And I'm feeling good

now. I've got to think about those things that I learned from Montreal

and take them with me and hold onto them and really dry and convert them

into my racing all of the time. You have been training with Jamie

Turner. What advice and support has he given new? I guess it's very

different to what I'd done in previous years. The intensity in the

training has gone up quite a bit from what I'm used to. But it's not

just the physical stuff. I guess he's trying to mentally prepare me

for these races as well. And I think that's a huge thing for me. Just

trying to combine them and keep myself well balanced and relaxed

going into a race is really important. Gwen has been out having

her baby, Stanley. There we congratulations to her. She's -- is

absolutely gorgeous, too. I can see what I can learn from her. That's

what I've been thinking of doing. Just trying to better myself to be

more like her and her she approaches the races. Tell us about what you

are working on's swimming, have you been working on that particularly?

Of course, the swim is always seems to be and has been my weakest leg.

I've been training hard for a really long time to improve my swim.

Sometimes it's of course physical, but also mentor too. It's something

that I'm going to continue to work on. That will be a big priority in

my programme. Because I've always worked so much on my swim, I feel

that I haven't really come the you know, see my full capacity on the

run. I guess that's something which I will continue to work with Jamie

with. I really look forward to trying to explore that more and

seeing how fast I can go on the run. I feel as though it is something

that I've got more to give in that area. That sounds really exciting

for Ashleigh, but quite frankly terrifying for everyone else. What

of the British team? Non Stanford isn't here, she's recovering from

injury. Vicky Holland has announced a premature end to the season after

injury, but she will be putting her vocal chords to good use helping

Matt and Annie with the commentary. He'll is going to be diving in for

Great Britain? We have Lizzie Hall, India Lee, and somebody who

absolutely loves triathlon - Jodie Stimpson. I love triathlon. I love

everything about triathlon. Well it's on TV, if I'm not supposed to

be racing, I'll be watching it. But it's been terrible watching the WTS

races, because I just want to be in them. How you feeling? Excited and

happy to be back racing. I want to talk to about two or hold you.

You've made some changes, you've moved to Loughborough. How has that

been for you? Basically, everything that I used to do before I don't do

now. On the bike... On the run, I have to run to pace. It's refreshing

in one way, but new challenges for everything in training. Everything

was going really great, going great into Abu Dhabi. And then between Abu

Dhabi and the Gold Coast, I personally got carried away. Because

Abu Dhabi's result was... Fantastic, so good, amazing. Such a big

surprise. I had no idea how it would go, a new training group. I think I

started training to quickly too hard after Abu Dhabi which flared up the

keel is a bit and then it was a knock on. It was then trying to

rehab from that as well. What are your aims next year? Number one has

got to be defending the Commonwealth title? Jodie Stimpson and England

went to be the first goal of the game. I haven't to go. It's in the

selectors' Hands. It gives me goose bumps thinking about missing it. If

I go, it's all geared towards that, of course, everything will be geared

towards that. If I was one of the selectors, what would you say?

Please, please take me! Yes, I'd love to have the opportunity to

defend the title. How much are you looking forward to Stockholm? It's

in two mindsets. I'm really happy and excited just to be here and be

healthy enough to race. But this quarter of me is like, oh, I'm not

wearing want to be. I've just got to make sure that I swim well. If I

don't swim well, I'm going to be working my backside off to get to

the front of the race. If I near the front, I'm going to be trying to get

away. I just want to go into it and go and have fun. This course is

definitely want to have it. -- one to have it. Fantastic to hear Jodi

on such good form, very good luck to her. With Jodie, Flora Duffy,

Ashleigh Gentle and the rest of the British women lining up at the

pontoon, we have the makings of a great race. Let's can do to

commentary from Matt Chilton, and the Amerson, and Olympic

bronze-medallist Vicky Holland is -- Annie Emerson.

COMMENTATOR: The weather isn't that one, it feels autumnal in the

Swedish capital as we get ready for round eight of the 20 17th world

triathlon series -- 2017 well triathlon series in this magnificent

city. This is a full distance, a 1500 metres swim, a one kilometre

lap followed by a 500 kilometre lap. Then a unique lap on the bike of 4.6

kilometres before they then write nine laps of four kilometres in and

around the city, taking in three of the different islands that make up

this waterborne Swedish capital. And then the run, which involves four

lapse of 2.5 kilometres each to bring up the 10,000 metre run

distance. So, following the full distance race in Montreal and the

sprint distance in Edmonton, it's back to full distance racing here in

Stockholm. But Rob lapse of 2.5 kilometres to conclude. -- four

lapse. Flora Duffy wears number one. The world champion looking to win

the title for the second successive year. She wears the golden number

one on Harbour on. Ashley Jensen, the Australian who came good in

Montreal, is number two. Jodie Stimpson has number 14. Jess Lamont

is also won the start list with number 11, the European champion,

won the title in Austria in the middle of June. Lucy Hall is also

involved. She wears number 18 today, a strong swimmer. And India Lee, she

is the fourth British representative in the start list this afternoon,

with number 90. It's a beautiful afternoon in the Swedish capital. We

are ready for round eight of the 2017 world triathlon series,

Stockholm playing host. Choppy water ahead. A wet suit swim. They are

lined up and ready go. And the race begins. Somebody had a very early

start. Somebody seemed to go a split second before the majority of the

field. And now they set off on this first lap of 1000 metres. They will

get out of the water at the end of that for the second, shorter lap of

500 metres. That will be followed by a 40.6 kilometre cycle. Amber Rudd

is a 10,000 metre Irfan, a full Olympic distance race this afternoon

-- and the run is the 10,000 metre affair. I'm joined by Vicky Holland

and Ami Emerson. We have justly and making a positive start to the swim

for Great Britain is that Galip no surprise to see Jess is leading the

way. She really is, on a good day, one of the strongest swimmers in the

world triathlon series that the moment. Yes, I think it would be

hard to overlook Jess is the best swimmer now in triathlon. Her and

Lucy together, Lucy Hall, have dominated the swim is that they have

been in over the last few years. Jess has a really, really good open

water stroke, a short stroke, high turnover, similar to what we see

from the Bramley Brothers. That lends it nicely to open water choppy

conditions like this one. She has been at altitude recently in Italy.

The word on the street is that she is swimming even better than she

normally does. It's no surprise for me to see her leading the swim. Lucy

Hall on her feet, the shot we had a double of minutes ago showed Flora

Duffy just next to Lucy. I'm not surprised to see those three girls

at the front earlier on. Looking back to Hamburg, Lucy raced there.

She had an uncharacteristically slow swim for her. I would imagine that

she is bringing her best swim here to Stockholm, isn't she?

Yes, in a lot of ways comforting for those of us not at the front of the

swim to see someone having a bad day because it shows we are human. She

is second place to Jess. This is the Lucy we are used to seeing.

Hamburger is a very short distance to the first buoy, and if Lucy is

off her pace she may have ended up in the crash run, and for someone so

used to being at the front of races, they are never in that crash, never

in the melee with the masses. She is so used to being out front with

clean water and not having to fight that when she is in that position it

is quite hard, something she will not have practised often. We now

have two swimmers on the right side, confusing for people looking on, are

they in the same race? Of course they are but they have chosen to go

wide. I have a feeling that is Flora Duffy on the outside. I think that

is floral on Lucy Hall's feet, I think I can see the number one on

the cap. On the far side, that is rootsy air, coming across from the

far side, who may have had a pontoon position and may well have held her

line. Approaching the first turn, they have installed underwater

cameras this weekend, such is the concern with the authorities at the

ITU about the danger of the tight turns and the injuries the racers

can pick up. There are underwater cameras. They are well strung out

now and I am not sure if we will see drama and incident here. It may be a

different story for the men's race later. Jess Learmonth Way ahead, on

the return leg while the last of the swimmers are still approaching the

turning point. All Great Britain leading them through, halfway

through the opening lap, a lap of 1000 metres to start with, after

that they will exit the water, dived back in for the second shorter lap

of 500 metres. British triathletes in prominent positions here. 1000

metres done, 500 metres still to swim, and Learmonth is first to rise

out of the water and make a way forward and round to begin the

second lap. Team-mate Lucy Hall follows her up the steps and along

the pontoon. Difficult to spot the numbers in the bright sunshine.

Zaferes was there as well. They will dive back in before they start the

second lap. Hopefully the graphic will show us who is doing what. It

hasn't worked so far, so a bit of guesswork. We know about Learmonth

and Hall. Flora Duffy not far away last time we got a name check so we

will assume Duffy is amongst the leaders as well. I think it was

Flora inferred, the Faroes in fourth -- Flora in third, Zaferes in

fourth. I didn't see Jodie or India. This was Learmonth first out of the

water followed by Lucy Hall, Duffy not far behind scrambling up the

steps, and backing for the start of the second lap. I think that is

Kirsten Kasper. . I think in fairness, it is difficult for the

viewer to see, looking at the swim, it all looks peaceful and easy but

when you are in the mix it is tough. It is quite disorientating. It can

be. When you are on somebody's feet you tend to be following them and

not looking all the time at the buoy. The siting of the buoy is

advised, you don't want to be too far off course, but you don't want

to expend too much energy by constantly looking for it rather

than getting into your rhythm. There can be times when you are not sure

how close you are to be end of the swim or the next buoy. And the

swimmers around you. And the swimmers around you! Stimpson has

been given a 15 second penalty. We saw somebody executed. False start.

I was hoping it wouldn't be a British triathlete, but

unfortunately Jodie Stimpson will have a stop- go penalty to undertake

later in the race. We know she was excited to get back racing! I think

she was too excited to get back on the start line. Look to the right,

there she goes. She falls a little bit in but that will incur a

penalty. We have news of Stimpson's performance in the water following

the false start, or the early start. At the end of lap one she was not

far behind, only 12 seconds down, so after she takes the stop - go

penalty in transition one, she will be getting on for 30 seconds down.

So Stimpson is by no means out of this race despite the 15 second

penalty coming her way that she is about to discover as she exits the

water. First of all, it will be fellow British triathlete Jess

Learmonth. What a stunning swim from Learmonth. Out of the water, starts

to creep out of the wet suit as Learmonth leads them through

followed by Lucy Hall, world champion. World leader Flora Duffy

next, then the first of the Americans out, Katie Zaferes.

Stimpson on the blue carpet, but she has bad news awaiting her when she

reaches her bike. Routier further removed from the leaders than she

would normally expect, 21 seconds down. Let's watch this, as they

arrive in this autumnal scene with leaves scattered over the blue

carpet in transition. Nobody waiting to penalised Jodie Stimpson. Yes

varies. Stimpson is about to get the bad news. Awful for Jodie, such a

fantastic swimmers well, and she will find out she has a stop and go.

She hasn't realised. There we go. Now she is having her stop and go.

This is awful. She had a fantastic swim, the best swim we have seen

Jodie have in years, and she is still standing there. This is

agonising to watch. She has improved her swim which was a weakness. We

know she will ride had now but I hope she can get back into the race.

15 seconds must have seemed like a lifetime for Stimpson. Gentle, the

Montreal winner, one minute 18 seconds off the pace, and now

Stimpson has taken her punishment and is on her bike. Let's hope from

her point of view that she can find decent riders to team up with and

maybe do some damage to the Learmonth group's lead. They are

already on the way on lap one. I don't know what was going through

Jodie's mine but she was very calm. She took it well. That is crucial,

that she keeps calm, gets the heart rate down. Andrea Hewitt going down,

she had a disaster in the swim, as did Ashleigh Gentle as you

mentioned, one minute 18 down. At least Jodie knows she has strong

cyclist behind but she is in no man's land because the front runners

are way up the road and the good bikers are down the road so she will

have to do quite a bit of work by herself. There is no way Jodie will

be waiting for those girls behind her. She said no matter where she

came out of the swim she would ride had the whole time. Lap one of the

bike, the first unique lap from City Hall to the royal Palace. The lead

group is controlled at the moment by world champion Flora Duffy, the

Bermudan in the familiar red top out in front with Jessica Learmonth and

Katie Zaferes for company. Lucy Hall in the background not too far away

from the group but an awful position to be in, dangling 5-10 seconds of

the group, and that group will work now. We know Flora will not hang

around. The Faroes will be motivated and Jess will want to right the

wrongs of other races. She is racing for herself and has free rein, and I

think she races tactically we will see a fantastic results. Stimpson,

number 12, 32 seconds behind after incurring the 15 second penalty she

got for jump-starting. She was incredibly keen to race but perhaps

a little too keen. It is marginal but the rules are the rules. This

race is already fascinating, with Learmonth in contention in front

along with Zaferes, and Flora Duffy and the trials and tribulations

suffered by Jodie Stimpson, who will now try to make amends, there is all

sorts of twists and turns to enjoy as this race unfolds, and they climb

over the cobbles with the blue carpet making life a little more

comfortable under the wheels, to the top of the hill, in front of the

Royal palace to complete the first unique lap, the bike intro they are

calling it, the first lap into transition one out of the water to

transition two by the Palace. That is the chase group, the chaste pair,

Lucy Hall alongside Alice Betto, and three on their tails trying to close

the gap. Taylor Spidey, we saw with the second place result in Leeds,

Kirsten Kasper virgin Yokohama -- third in Yokohama. . Jodie Stimpson

is 53 seconds down on Flora Duffy. Just about 20 seconds down on the

pack in front, so if Jodie keeps bogus and keeps working, we know she

is strong on the bike and the swimming and has had time out with

the Achilles injury. She has been working on the bike, so she is bike

fit. India Lee coming through one minute 16 off the pace. Jodie

Stimpson leading that group of seven in total. Can they do damage to the

Duffy group's lead? Looking at the other athletes in her group, trying

to pick out somebody who will help her on the bike, but it is tough,

she is doing all the work at the moment and thinks, if I sit in we

will lose more time. She has Joanna Brown from Canada, who has had

decent races, a breakthrough year for Joanna, fourth in Montreal on a

tough bike or so we know she can ride. Hopefully that is good company

for Jodie Stimpson. Back with the leaders, Duffy, the Faroes and

Learmonth, clean break in transition, Duffy put the hammer

down in the early stages as she always does, Best biker on the tour,

and they climb again. We will get a check on timings, they are in front

of the Royal palace for the second time at the end of the intro lap.

The gap to the next group then was 36 seconds so we will keep an eye on

how that has changed now they have completed the first of the familiar

laps around the streets of Stockholm. Eight laps to go in

total. As Zaferes, Duffy and Learmonth head off into the cobbled

streets of the old town of beautiful Stockholm. Lots out enjoying the

Saturday afternoon sunshine and watching the World Triathlon Series

unfold. 36 seconds was their lead at the end of the intro lap, I think it

will be much greater now at the end of the first of the normal laps

around the city. The next group making the turn. Kasper, Hall,

better oh and Claire Michel, 55 seconds down. 36 seconds against 55

seconds, a lot of damage done by Learmonth, Duffy and Zaferes on the

first of the regular laps around the city. And it is now officially

called the Jodie Stimpson group, the comeback triathlete. She is

potentially about to dictate the pace of this group. She will hope to

run this race on her turn. Mixed bag so far today for Stimpson. Started

early, punished with a 15 second stop- go penalty in T1, worked hard

to get back into contention, in control of this group of ten. That

stumble at the start will haunt Jodie I think a little in this race

because she is riding fantastically and the swim cannot be

underestimated, it is something Jodie has struggled with over the

years and worked so hard on. She has really improved and I am impressed

with her swim today. Zaferes is down. Goodness me! Heartbreaking.

Hopefully we will see what happened to Katie Zaferes. Her race is over,

doesn't look like she will continue any time soon. She has picked up a

nasty bump on my left shoulder, helped away from the scene of the

crash, and that leaves Flora Duffy and just Learmonth in front. We are

just seeing her go around the corner. She wiped out a little too

much, maybe didn't have enough pressure on the outside leg it looks

like, and that is the same corner Stanford crashed on last year so

this corner has form, people have crashed here before. I was about to

say how impressed I have been with her cornering and technical ability

today. She was right at the front, in that group, but that is a nasty

crash. Learmonth thankfully able to steer clear of the prone Katie

Zaferes on the tarmac. Zaferes DNS today. Three laps to go for this

pair, Learmonth and Duffy. The last time they were in front of the Royal

palace their advantage over the Stimpson group was one minute 45.

Let's see how that changes shortly as the Stimpson group approaches the

turn and makes the climb to the Royal Palace.

Jodie won't be the first that week to have faced the stop and go and

trying to get herself onto the podium. We don't know how her

running is yet, so that is speculation. But where she took her

penalty was more disadvantageous than the Olympics. There is very

little advantage to be gained at that point from being in a pack,

whereas Joty missed the pack because of the stop- go she had to take so

early in the race. In a run, you can choose on which lap you take it?

That is right, you can choose on any of the laps you take it. It does

seem a little harsh, but lessons learned, I guess. She was easy to

get back, it shows how excited she was. Just a rush of blood to the

head as the countdown continued to start. They're making the turn up

the hill, almost two minutes. 1.58 now. They have done more damage.

Nearly two minutes, Flora Duffy is overtake the Jodie Stimpson group.

This has become a lead that increases Jess's chance of her

holding on for the second place, and definitely a podium point. A couple

of girls in that group he will argue at runners. Those girls are probably

going to make a bit of inroads into Jess on the run. But I don't think

they will make two minutes. These guys are further down the road. The

second chase group, if they can minimise the deficit going on until

the main chase with your Jodie Stimpson group. That is really good

light -- for the likes of Ashley Jensen. They can really run

themselves into a top ten, maybe even a top five position at the end

of the day. If they make it onto the chase group, a couple of podiums are

up for grabs, potentially. That group has all of the incentive now.

One more lap to go. A great performance from these two. They

were three for a while until Katie is a vera is and her bike parted

company, bashing down on her belly onto the tarmac on the street of

Stockholm, a nasty crash. The American tried briefly to get back

into the race before eventually calling it quits. That opened up the

transfer somebody to come from the chase group and potentially get onto

the podium. -- that opened up the chance. We are hoping that Jodie

Stimpson can get involved after taking a Stoppard and go penalty at

the end of the swim. Stimpson has kept her cool and kept herself into

contention. Potentially Learmonth of Great Britain or potentially

Stimpson of Great Britain could be on the podium this afternoon. It is

hard to see anybody winning this race apart from Flora Duffy. The two

leaders prepare for transition now. So, the pace is reduced

significantly. They steer clear of each other. Feet out of the shoes,

rest the shoes on top as they get set for the final climb. One hour

and 24 minutes since this triathlon began with a 1500 metres swim. The

dismount lying is approaching. Just got herself to the front

convincingly down the last straight and put herself in the right

position going into the -- into T2. Learmonth for Great Britain kept out

of trouble. They were with Katie Zaferes, who had the crash.

Learmonth keeping her cool in transition. And Duffy getting it

done sharply. They break again. Learmonth and Duffy on their way at

the end of the -- D two. 10,000 metres ahead of them now, Duffy is

on her way, the world leader goes on the hunt for yet another world

triathlon series win. She won in Yokohama, she won in Leeds and

Hamburg, she won again in Edmonton. By the looking for her fifth win of

the season. Learmonth in the hunt for her first world triathlon series

podium. The leaders are on their way. Next group, with Jodie Stimpson

fully involved, second to arrive at the dismount line. Stimpson on her

way up the hill, looking out for her position in T2. Some athletes have

further to go up the hill with their bikes. Everybody hoping to get this

right. Keep our eyes on number 14, Jodie Stimpson. Nothing wrong with

that, she is away. Solid transition, need -- neat and tidy for Jodie

Stimpson. The chase group lost some time, disappointing for them,

especially the ones are hoping to keep someone like death in their

sights. I'm backing Jess for the second-place -- someone like Jeff.

They will have wanted to keep that gap down just a bit more. At this

point, every second matters. Gentle is sprinting up the hill, she means

business here. She arrives at position number two. She needs to

get this right. Nothing wrong with this so far, the winner in Montreal.

Of underway. First to arrive and first to depart commode Andrea

Hewitt for company. They go in pursuit of the Jodie Stimpson group

now. Flora Duffy, potentially on course for a world triathlon series

victory number five this season. And she's got nobody for company, she's

all on her own, good transition for Duffy, good speed across the cobbled

of Stockholm. There is just Learmonth. There is no doubt the

ride will have taken something out of her. But it will have taken

something out of everybody. Jeff isn't the only one suffering here a

little bit, a lot of the girls struggled to find their legs. It was

an unrelenting course. I am hopeful that Jess will find a bit of

routine, I'd love to see her get on the podium today. Good runners in

that group. Jodie Stimpson making her way towards the front of the

pack. Distin Casper, familiar upright start. Brown of Canada just

behind her. Stimpson with a bit of daylight, a bit of work to do is

Stimpson settles into the rhythm of this run. They are on the flat part

of the course now. Temperatures have just fallen off in the last couple

of days in Stockholm, making it a much more manageable 18 degrees, the

temperature of the air in the Swedish capital, as Duffy reaches

the blue carpet and climbs for the first time at the end of her first

lap of four with three to go. Jess has been in this position a couple

of times when she's been up the road in a breakaway situation, and she

hasn't quite held on for a podium. Here she is coming up the hill into

transition, 34 seconds down on Flora Duffy. I'm not surprised to see the

gap go down like that. Flora is good in transition, getting her rhythm

quickly. Jeff has time to play with, to catch her breath and get into a

routine. She has lost 34 seconds on the gap. More interestingly, what is

the gap to the chasers? You can see Jodie Stimpson, who was yet to

really find her race pace in the early stages of this run. The way

things stand, Stimpson is down in eighth position. And here comes

Ashleigh Gentle on a charge. In order for Gentle to improve her

ranking and score some points, she has to finish in at least seventh

position today. Gentle has gone past Stimpson and is now hooked onto the

back of this group of four, which includes Casper and Yuko Takahashi,

two athletes who have raced in every world triathlon series race so far

this season. Gentle Mao hits the front, she is an outright third

position. She has caught that chase pack within one lap, that is an

impressive performance. You're watching the world number one, the

world champion, Flora Duffy, pushing hard to the top of the hill, in

front of the Royal Palace, where she becomes a stage closer to being

crowned world champion in 2017, as she was in 2016. If Duffy wins and

Gentle finishes third, Duffy will only have to finish seventh or

better to win the title in Rotterdam. If of the winds and

double finishes second, then Duffy will have to finish sixth or better

to secure the title at the grand final in Rotterdam. Those are the

stakes. Just looking at the time from last year when Flora Duffy won

when she won her first world triathlon series event, it was

2:03.38, it looks like she will smash that today. It looks to me

like she is going to be inside two hours today, which is phenomenal

racing on this course, because this is not a fast course, is it? It is

not a fast course. The difference we are noticing between this year and

last year, Flora rode the whole thing on her own last year. You

could say that was our fault in the chase pack for not catching her, but

you read the whole thing on her own, and this year she has done that with

someone else, she has had that advantage. And she is a better

runner this year than she was last year, no doubt. Jess Learmonth will

take the bell, one minute and 22 seconds off the pace of Flora Duffy.

One lap to go for Learmonth. Looking for her first-ever world round one

series podium. The danger comes from Ashleigh Gentle. A remarkable race

so far from Gentle. He was 25th coming out of the water. She stormed

her way through the fields or she was 25th. She now sits in third

position with just over one lap to go. No sign of Ashleigh in the

background just yet, which is always good news. We don't want to see that

Australian figure hunting down Jess. The longer that goes on, the greater

the chances she will hold onto silver. Lets not forget, there's

another part of the race to come, the race up the hill to the finish

line. You don't want passed the sprint up the hill if you can avoid

it. Looking for her seventh world triathlon series win today and her

12 Aubel UTS podium. Lots of support for Flora Duffy. Acknowledgement of

the crowd. 500 metres left to run, on her way to the fifth win of the

season. Only Gwen Jorgensen has done that. She will begin to relax a bit

now. She's not want to put her foot of the gas, but she will be

beginning to enjoy the atmosphere a bit now and soak it up. It is

becoming the Flora show. We are seeing this time and time again.

This is an incredible season. The likes are. You have to mention that

we are missing quite a few people. From the top ten in the Olympics

last year, we only have two athletes racing, it has left some gaping

holes. But detract from what Flora is doing, she has been phenomenal.

That's not to say that she would have done this if everyone had been

racing, but she is cleaning up this year. Yes, she certainly is. With

just over 150 metres to go now, she makes her way up the blue carpet for

the final time. She will be relieved, I think, to see the back

of that blue carpet. But it's certainly going to be another

victory for the outstanding athlete from Bermuda. On the climb for the

final time, Flora Duffy has demolished the opposition once

again. With a display of magnificent triathlon. Round eight in the

Swedish capital of Stockholm will go to Flora Duffy of Bermuda. She lifts

her sunglasses and knowledge as the crowd. She's dropping home. She'll

move across to her left and take a high five or two from the supporters

here. Time to ease up and enjoy the moment is Duffy wins in Stockholm.

Just over two hours. Two hours and nine seconds for Flora Duffy for her

fifth win of the season. Surely now she is a shoo-in for the World

Title. It would need some freaky results in Rotterdam to deny Duffy

her second successive world triathlon series title. Next onto

the blue carpet, on her way to her first ever world triathlon series

podium, will be Jessica Learmonth of Great Britain. Still waiting for

Jess to come into shot. We don't know where Ashleigh is, but it looks

like Jess is not letting up. She has raised so hard from start to finish,

she made a tactically perfect swim and bike. I'm delighted to see that

Jeff is going to bring home a podium result. This is so well-deserved, a

strong all-round athlete. We've all known it's coming. Ashleigh Gentle

is coming up behind her but I think she's going to run out of time. Jess

isn't going to let up, she's going to hold on and get that

well-deserved single medal today. Learmonth has no time to stop and

enjoy the moment. She needs to secure their second place. It will

be a personal best for Jessica Learmonth of Great Britain. She's

home in second position in the world triathlon series, behind Flora

Duffy. And a brilliant finish for Ashleigh Gentle. 25th out of the

water, comes home on the podium in third, magnificent run again from

the Australian. Jess hasn't even celebrated yet. She

seems to have collapsed into a barrier, barely able to give Flora a

hug. She will not believe it has happened yet but I know she will be

over the moon with that result, as she deserves to be. The novel from

Jess, so impressed. Another World Triathlon Series victory for Flora

Duffy, her fifth of the season. Just Learmonth on the podium for the

first time with Ashleigh Gentle in third. Jodie Stimpson finished 13th,

Lucy Hall 17, India Lee came home in 19th position. And Flora Duffy wins

again. Massive congratulations, how was it for you today? Thank you. A

pretty good day for me, I won and the race worked out to my strengths.

The swim is always full gas and it set the race up perfectly, great

working on the bike, shame about Katie crashing. On the run about

what you have left. There were three of you, Katie Zaferes had a nasty

fall. What goes through your mind when that happens? Obviously Katie

is a friend so I heard that buying and thought, gosh. You see her in

the floor and it is horrible but you are racing, so you have to quickly

focus again. It is great riding with Jess, we have done a lot of riding

off the front together and I knew she had a chance of the podium today

so I was hoping we could set that up for her. Fantastic for her. Jess,

congratulations, fabulous race. Tell us how you feel. I can't believe it.

A shock really, but great fun. I am delighted. Talk us through the swim,

you came out first, how was that? Had, a choppy swim. I struggled a

bit too site and when it is so windy it is so difficult to get a rhythm

going, but I wanted to push it on to get a break on the bike because I

knew obviously it is very technical, so it is good to be in a small pack.

It worked out well. When you started the run you knew you were far ahead.

What were you thinking and how did you keep ahead of the pack? I

treated it like a time trial. It is all for having people chasing you

down. You have to do your own running, not get too excited or go

too fast. I think I just timed it right, but it was nerve-racking on

the last lap, I was absolutely shocked and I knew she was coming up

behind me. Where you checking behind you as well? I wanted to but people

kept saying, don't look round! I knew she was coming, she's like a

gazelle! Huge congratulations, Ashley, it was all about the run for

you today, wasn't it? I didn't have the best start in the water and its

split up. A hard place to be that I rode as hard as I could in that

group, and ran as fast as I could to see what could happen. I think you

ran the fastest run of the day, Jessica called you a gazelle.

LAUGHTER. But she is fierce, so if we combine our powers that will be

pretty cool. I am stoked that Jess got a first World Series podium.

Jodie, a tough day, Witty want to start? I tell you what, I'll take

it. Minus the penalty I had a good swim. I must have gone before

because literally I... I was, like, was it? It must have been just in

front but I had a good swim, I'll take that, with the swimmers there.

I think I biked well. It got little annoying when I reached up to them

in the chase back because Ben two of them started to try and break and I

was, like, you are interrupting my rhythm. You were working hard on the

bike. Yes, that was the plan. I knew I hadn't done the run training said

the plan going into it was the swim and the bike as hard as possible,

the running is what it is that the minute, but it was hard. We were

standing near you for the 15 seconds, what was going through your

head? You seemed very calm. It is like slow motion but when I see

their backsides in transition I'll take that.

Just over a week to go until the first British triathlon mixed relay

cup. One of the star turns will doubtless be Johnny Brownlee, who is

also racing here in Stockholm and hoping to get back on the podium.

How are you feeling? I think I'm feeling pretty good. My training has

gone very well since Montreal. My sessions have been good but it has

been strange for me this year, kind of an off year so far. A fun year

during the racing but I don't find it fun when I'm not racing well. As

an athlete you want to be on the podium. To not be in that situation

is tough to take sometimes. After Montreal use said a tough day, body

not firing, tactical perfect. Can you explain why or is it just that's

what's been going on? I was injured at the start of the year and try to

come back to quit, maybe overdid my training early in the season to try

to become world champion. It has taken a couple of months to get out

of that. In Montreal and Edmonton when you add in long haul travel it

adds another element, and there is no excuse in Stockholm, a couple of

hours from Leeds and a good course so hopefully my body will be in good

form. You clearly enjoy being here and did well here. Tell us about the

course. Stockholm is different to many other courses, very technical.

It has cobbles, basically we swim out of the town, normally quite

rough water, riding to Stockholm city centre than the real technical

circuit, the best thing to do is confident. Going into the corner not

worrying about them, getting your breaking done before the corners so

you don't slip out, make sure you pick your lines and you have looked

at the course beforehand so you know where the harsher cobbles are and

the smoother ones. Just be brave. If you are worried about a corner you

want more likely to crash and fall off whereas if you go in with

confidence you are more likely to go off the corner -- round the corner.

Are you hoping for a podium? This year I want a podium, I have only

had one in lead so far so if I have another good race here and get a

podium that would be great. I go into most races wanting to win and

if I can win here it will go a long way towards turning my season

around. What are your hopes for next year?

You have the Commonwealth Games which makes it an exciting year,

doesn't it? Next year is an incredibly exciting year. I love

targeting the big one-day races and Alistair may or may not be there so

it may be a chance to beat him on a big one-day race. Then trying to

become world champion next year is a big game and be competitive in the

World Series. Much to look forward to next year

but back to this year and the two fourth-place finishes in Canada mean

Johnny is moving up the rankings, now the leading Brit but not by

much. Tom Bishop is also hoping for a strong result today after spending

the past month training at altitude in the Italian Alps. The top four

represented by Mario Mola and Fernando Alarza, but hoping to

leapfrog at least one of those two is a young Norwegian currently in

fourth position who is becoming tougher to beat. Really focused. I

love the training. I like to be in training camps. It is the way I like

to be, racing. Hungry for more. What's it like racing in Sweden? You

are from Norway, do you feel like a local lad? The Swedish crowd at

sharing in this so it is the closest I have two racing at home. I am

always looking forward to it is. Tell us about Montreal. You came

second. How did that feel? It obviously felt good to be on the

podium again but in Montreal I could have pushed a little further or gone

a little further down in the basement and dug deeper. So I will

try to go even harder. Who is your biggest competitor? Johnny. He is

really motivated after two fourth-place finishes in Canada. I

guess he has been training well since then. If it comes to it on the

run, where would you be looking to make it hurt for him? I think I will

not wait for the last 200 because of the hill. Maybe I am a few kilos

heavier than him, and that will show on the Hill, so maybe I to go or

something. You have trained with the Brownlee Brothers. What was that

like? What did you learn from the? That was awesome. I joined them for

two weeks in Spain two years ago, and it was a fun challenge is. What

do you think about the way they race? Their racing style has been

inspiring me since I was a junior. Since then I tried to push hard on

the bike and try to make the people around me suffer before the run.

Maybe try to copy them a little bit. Your message to Johnny? Wait for me

on the swim! Will Johnny wait for Blummenfelt and

what part will Mario Mola and Tom Bishop as well as the other Brits

racing today, Bowden and Austin, play? It is time to find out. Let's

get back to Matt, Vicky and Danny. COMMENTATOR: The athletes will line

up as follows. No Javier Gomez in Stockholm, he has

opted out of this one. The Olympic bronze-medallist Schoeman returns

with number six today. Round eight of the 2017 World Triathlon Series

here in Stockholm, under a cloudless sky but with plenty of shop on the

water ahead. They are way, looked like a clean start. The women's race

involved a false start for Jodie Stimpson of Great Britain, penalised

with a 15 seconds stop-go penalty. And even break for the men and look

at the bottom of your screen, the familiar figure of the best swimmer

in the field, the Slovakian, having made an informed choice by starting

from that position and is leading them out. That is no shock to

anyone. An interesting field here, smaller as well compared to what we

are used to. In terms of swimmers, Schoeman from South Africa, Bago,

Brownlee, a couple of French athletes as well, and Aaron Royal

from Australia as well, all decent swimmers. This swim favours the

strong swimmers. Yes, this swim with the choppiness they face and the

wind, it means as soon as they go it is harder to draft. You have a

drafting benefit being on someone's feet but as soon as a gap goes it

lessens dramatically and on a course like this in water like this, it is

so much harder to get that same benefit you would get on a flat

swim, so when gaps start to open up you can see them go. The shot we

right now, that leads women there is dropping the person behind him. They

will have to concentrate not to let the feet go because the gap is

already over a metre and extending. Good to see now Johnny Brownlee

making his way onto the feet of Varga. They spend a lot of trying

training together, Varga was a partner for the Brownlee brothers in

Leeds and decided to spend more time with them.

We have a false start, I think. That's what we are looking at. I

thought it was a clean start. Looking at it again somebody on the

Johnny Brownlee side of the pontoon might have gone a fraction early,

we'll keep an eye on that. News coming up, it is Schoeman who has

been given a 15 second penalty for going over early on the start.

Schoeman, one of the best swimmers in the field, the Olympic

bronze-medallist, will have to do what Simpson did in the women's

race. He won't know about it yet but he will soon, at the end of the

second lap, he will find out when he gets to transition, and he will be

near or possibly with the leaders, he will have to stand still for 15

seconds while he gets the countdown. The end of lap one. They will climb

out of the water before starting the shorter lap two, which is just 500

metres. We are not getting the list of who is where at the end of each

lap so we will rely on the naked eye to spot who is coming out in what

position, that we do know Varga and Johnny Brownlee were first out of

the water and first to return. I think Kristian Blummenfelt just

came through our screens out, he is a bit off the pace if that was him.

So, a shorter second lap now. We had a 1,000-metre lap to start with, a

500-metre lap coming up. No sightings of Tommy Bishop or Mark

Austin just yet. It is difficult to do so when they are all in wet suits

and we don't have any live splits. But we know that Johnny Brownlee is

having another characteristically fantastic swim, sitting in second

place. Myler 30 seconds down, not where he wanted to find himself. But

we know that his swim has improved -- Mario Mola. The swim is always

going to be the point where Mario's weakness is going to show. But he is

still at the back of that pack came on, he is not completely isolated.

That's something that these other athletes will have tried to do, it

is the tactic they played by not allowing him to have any of the

strong suits next to him on the starting line. It has affected him,

but at the moment he is in damage limitation, still capable of being

in that main pack. And if he's in that main pack, anything can happen

for Mario. The swim is almost done. It was around 18 minutes, compared

to the quickest swim this season so far, in Leeds, 16.5 minutes. We are

getting on for 18 minutes, as Wagner exits with Johnny Brownlee preparing

for his arrival in transition. Next out of the water is Aaron Royle,

another Leeds -based athlete. Mark Austin, the second of the

British quartet, he is in 11th position. And they make their way to

transition number one. Adam Boulton has come out, 25 seconds down, a

decent start for him, British veteran Tom Bishop is nine seconds

back, 23rd. And still no luck for Mario Mola. He comes out 42 seconds

down. A couple of extra seconds lost for Mario Mola between the end of

the first lap and the start of the second. Taking out of his wet suit,

putting on his helmet at the same time. He's his way. Schoeman takes

the penalty, didn't know it was coming, now he knows all about it,

the 15 second stop - start penalty from a. In the water. It is a slow

15 seconds, isn't it, for the Olympic bronze-medallist, who won

the final event of the 2016 campaign in Mexico. Last September. Kristian

Blummenfelt, and Mario Mola, they are on their way. Right at the back

of that group. A long way behind. There is a worse wheel to have to

follow them Kristian Blummenfelt for Mario Mola. Kristian Blummenfelt is

so strong with the bike and work so hard. Mario Mola will be slightly

disappointed with that swim. I think you will be very disappointed with

that swim, but he will be thanking his lucky stars that he has just

squeaked into that group at the back there. He is the last athlete in.

That will really help him. Going out onto the road, finding the leaders.

No surprise, Brownlee and Royle and filed out in front. These guys have

formed a working party of around half a dozen here. That may well

grow in numbers. It might be slightly more than that. Seven, I

think. Well, they're going to work really hard. This is the time in the

race, isn't it, where you've got to give it everything, just as Duffy

and Ali Brownlee and Johnny Brownlee always do, get that gap and be

prepared to go into a really dark place. Once you've got that gap, you

can start looking forward and think about working the breakaway. This

unique introduction lap is 4.6 kilometres. When you ride this

course once, it takes them onto the main circuit in and around the Royal

Palace, where they will ride a further nine times, nine laps of

four kilometres each to bring up the distance of 40.6 K. The chase group

numbers about a dozen. You can see the leaders coming around the

roundabout in the opposite direction. So, the chase is now

exactly what they have to do. They are around about behind. One of the

Spanish athletes just at the back of the front pack, I think it's got to

be Fernando Alarza, because the other Spaniard in there is Fernandez

and he was quite a way back. He is desperately trying to get onto this

front pack. Alarza has had so many consistent results, he has become

the. You rarely see him outside the top ten in any race. But he did have

those below par races recently. For him to have dropped out of this

group, he will be really devastated if that's the case, because this is

a fantastic opportunity for him to get back to where he wants to,

accrue some more points coming into the grand final. The front group of

seven now, a full check on exactly who is in this pack as they crossed

the start- finish line at the top of the hill by the Royal Palace. We

know that Johnny Brownlee is in there, desperate to score his first

win of the season. He is second behind his brother Alister in Leeds.

He had a couple of fourth places in Canada, Edmonton, and Montreal. Last

time he won a world triathlon series was in Edmonton last year in 2016.

Johnny has talked about how this has been an off year for him. You know,

very, very high standards, as you would imagine. But this year just

hasn't really brought the result that he was hoping for, that he is

accustomed to. And I think that's been quite tough for him, as you

would imagine it would be. For him to be at the front of the race here

pushing on, I'm not surprised to see it at all, he will desperately be

wanting to write wrongs of the season for him. Front group of

seven, somebody trying to join in to make it eight. Badgers Fernando

Alarza. He is dangling between the two groups at the moment -- that is

Fernando Alarza. It will be difficult for him to get back on his

own. The likelihood is that he will get swallowed up into the chase

pack. Hopefully for him, he can utilise that pack and work with them

to catch back onto the leaders. Johnny Brownlee is really cracking

on here. He wants to open up a decent lead over the chase pack.

He's got plenty of guys who can help him out. Richard Wagner will

probably feel, I've done enough, I will do what I've done, the pace is

much more pedestrian from this group here compared to the urgent scene we

just saw from Johnny Brownlee at the front of the leaders group. This is

the second chase pack we're looking at here, they are only a matter of a

couple of seconds behind the main chase pack. So we've got Mario Mola

in that group, Kristian Blummenfelt. From a British interest, we've got

Thomas Bishop in that group. Kristian Blummenfelt is the athlete

with the camera on-board, that's the reason why we're getting these great

shots of the athletes. Mario Mola there, working really hard, he knows

he's got to do something produce partial now if he's going to get

back into this group -- something pretty special.

The leaders, the numbers fell off a little, it went down to five for a

moment, I think it's now six. I think Richard Wagner is the one who

has struggled to make the pace being dictated by Jonathan Brownlee here

-- Richard Varga. Aaron Royle is right behind him in number 50.

So, a front group of six dictated the pace here. They're working hard.

Down on the bars, working really hard to stay with these guys. Aaron

Wills doing a great job. He's yet to have a really decent result this

year, really, isn't the? Varga is sitting up and waiting for the chase

pack, by the looks of things. I wouldn't be surprised if he's

realised that he can't get back into that pack on his own. He's a great

rider, but he's not as strong as the might of the six guys up the road.

He's catching his breath, waiting for the chasers to come through and

going again. They're going to swallow him up any second here.

Varga hasn't got much longer to wait before he becomes part of this

enormous group of riders. Bowed and sweeps past Richard Varga, and first

-- Varga becomes part of this pack of riders who are the chase group

right now. Adam Bugden has had a fantastic career, he's been very

steady, -- Adam Bowden. He is one of the oldest guys, but he is our third

most successful Brit in the world triathlon series. He has had over

ten top tens. It's great to see at his age how well he raised in Leeds.

He just missed out on the podium, finishing in fourth place just

behind Tom Bishop. Adam Bowden, the great thing to see at his age, he's

still got a great desire to go out there and race well. This is the end

of the first of the radio laps around the city. And the leaders are

on the climb. Now, they will stop the timing

system shortly, at the end of the first lap their advantage was a

healthy 44 seconds. They were seven, they've now become six. The next

group, led by Kristian Blummenfelt, on the left of your screen with the

Norwegian flag on his side. They're making the turn and the climb now.

And the gap hasn't changed significantly. It's 36 seconds. So,

still a healthy lead for the Johnny Brownlee group. Adam Bowden, Tom

Bishop, both in this pack. Mario Mola sitting it out near the back.

Richard Varga has joined in that group recently.

A huge pack of riders. And plenty of British interest in there. Did you

see Johnny Brownlee that, had a word with Bowden and Bishop and Austin,

who I think are all in that chase group, had a scream at them, I don't

know what exactly he said, but he clocked his fellow British

triathletes and had a quiet word. Yes, I mean, if he did, I'm not sure

if that is there. I think Bowden and Bishop Arthur Lee's, I mean, Bowden

is an excellent athlete, Bishop has really proved himself when he ran

side-by-side with have it Gomez Cora about seven kilometres in Abu Dhabi.

Those guys have a right to be wanting the chase for the podium as

well. Certainly Tom Bishop does. He's been there and has done it

before. The chase group are sharing the workload at the front. The

Frenchman yellow core forcing the pace at the moment with Kristian

Blummenfelt, the Norwegian, in second position -- Pierre Le Corre.

At the end of that, Brown is out of the saddle again, pushing the pace,

making his way to the summit, alongside the Royal Palace. The last

time they crossed this pass of the course, they were 34 seconds in

front. They haven't quite reached the summit yet. Off into the shade

under the inflatable arch, flattens out before they drop down on the

cobbles. The chase group have lost a bit of time now. They were 34

seconds down at the end of lap three. It's going to be up in the

mid-40s, I think, by the time they've stopped the clock very

shortly. So, the Brownlee group moving further clear. Another nine

seconds added by the Brownlee group over the chase group. Out to 43

seconds at the end of lap four of ten. Adam Bowden, still in there.

Lots of international triathletes involved. We have that solid,

hard-working group of six, who continued to dominate this

competition. Dorian collects is in close order. Now, the third group up

the hill. Richard Varga has gone all the way back to the third group now.

His race has been all about going backwards after such a

characteristically strong start in the water. I wondered if he had some

sort of mechanical... It's a very decent cyclist, he doesn't have any

problems normally stained with the front group. Mark Austin, really

struggling. Mark is an another athlete, he had a really good swim.

He was just outside of the top ten, Y twerk he needed to be. -- right

where he needed to be. He wasn't quite able to go with that. He is

suffering a bit now, as we get later run into the bike. -- later on into

the bike. They have just under 17 Ks still to write. This leading group

of six, Jonathan Brownlee catching a breather at the back. Third in that

group, or Iain Conn inks, the Frenchman, the junior world champion

in 2013. And the under 23 world champion the following year. As we

pick up the action at the back of the chase group, with Adam Bowden,

still out the back just keeping himself out of trouble.

Walrond I'd like to see Adam just move up the pack a little. I'm not

saying he should be on the front of the group. Other athletes like Mario

Mola, the onus is on them to bring the gap backed down, but I would

like to see Adam bring himself a little further forward, like Tom,

sitting in sixth or seventh, that is a great place for Tom Bishop to be,

not in a place where he has to do the work, he can watch what is going

on, cover the brakes, near the front for the technical sections which

makes life easier, and Adam will have to put a bigger exhilaration

and after every corner, round every U-turn, he will need more power to

stay on the back of that group. Tom Bishop has a twin brother, David,

who is also a triathlete based at Loughborough. They are climbing

again. Jonathan Brownlee leads them up Bay Hill to complete lap six of

ten. Last time it was a 42nd lead they enjoyed, exactly halfway

through the bike leg of today's Olympic distance triathlon. How has

the chase group fared this time? Have they made a dent in the

advantage of just under 15 seconds. This group of six on the downward

stretch now, and shortly be Bowden and Bishop group, which also

contains Mola and Blummenfelt, they are 49 seconds down and haven't made

the turn to climb, so it will be closer to a minute this time. The

gap has widen further, the Brownlee group have strengthened their lead,

54 second advantage at the pose of lap six. Fantastic news for Jonny

Brownlee. He is having an off year today on his very -- this year on

his very high standards and to be going towards the end of the bike

leg with a minute gap on Mola, that is what you can hope for in this

racing and I'm sure he will capitalise on it. It has been a

difficult year for him. Pigs would have been difficult without the

crash in Yokohama. He was a good place and strong and then had that

crash and then went to Leeds and had Alistair with him. That was a

fantastic race, one of the most exciting races I have seen and to

see what the Brownlee brothers did, particularly Alistair saying they

would not give up, they would keep on going, and they did, finished

first and second. It must be an impact for Jonny not to have his

brother on the circuit. Blummenfelt has had an attempt at trying to open

up some daylight, I think he is finding the pace a little pedestrian

for his liking, and Blummenfelt wants to take it on. He has moved to

the front, with Van Der Stel of Belgium for company. Mola in fifth

place in this group at the moment. It will be tough for Kristian

Blummenfelt today, on the podium behind Gomez over the full Olympic

distance a couple of weeks ago in Montreal. But a much tougher asked

today, having to come from a minute behind with some very strong runners

out in front. Blummenfelt has worked hard today, he has been on the front

for the majority of this 40 kilometre ride, so you can see him

now, waving his hands, come round, come round, but whether they can't

or don't want to, at this stage in the race, sometimes you think, stay

roundabout that, let Blummenfelt do the work and save the legs for the

run, which we have talked about previously. I don't know how

sensible because of the big backers riding hard they can get off the

bike and find themselves 40 seconds down, then it is a different game.

The way to look at it at this point if they are still in the race, an

minute down but still in the race, it is by no means game over. Someone

like Blummenfelt understands that and knows at this point every second

counts. If you can galvanise the group interactivity it will not take

many of them to pull an odd turn here and that group will come down

by ten or 15 seconds. Then that makes it even easier for them to

achieve these top ten positions, potentially to run into top five,

maybe even a podium. So I think Kristian has the right idea, he

needs to keep this group going. He will be motivated and will be trying

to encourage as gently as possible, or maybe more forcefully, some of

these other athletes to do some work. We can see the core and Bishop

having a discussion there. Tom won't be willing to do much work here with

a team-mate up the road. Le Corre will be keener to see the pack move

along together. He was 30 last year so one has good form on the scores

and will want to see the Packers close to the lead group as possible.

There was French body language going on there. It was clear that Le Corre

was unhappy with the way Bishop was hanging about in the middle of the

pack, but it is not in Bishop or the British team's interest for him to

force the pace and close the gap to Jonny Brownlee, out in front with

this group as Aaron O'Brien takes them to the bell. The bell will

sound and there will be one lap around the streets of Stockholm on

their bikes before the ten K run. The group of six, strong work so

far. 58 seconds at the end of lap seven, 56 seconds by the end of lap

eight, has the chase group managed to get it down to a more manageable

52, 51 seconds or thereabouts? There seems to be a bit of urgency

particularly from Kristian Blummenfelt. I think he might have

done a bit of damage to the Brownlee group's lead. Blummenfelt makes the

turn. It will be in the 40s, I think, so good work from

Blummenfelt, down to 46 seconds, another ten seconds taken out of the

Brownlee group's lead, and a word or two between Mola and Blummenfelt up

Bay Hill. This gives Mola a fighting chance of a place on the podium. --

up the hill. So, here we go, the arrival at T2, the dismount line

marked across the road, and they make the left-hand turn and try to

get save space between each other as they make the climb to their places

on the hill in transition. Same-sex, Brownlee, Aaron Royle, Nieschlag,

Coninx, Schomburg and Salvisberg together. Brownlee, a bit of pace in

those legs as he arrives at the top of transition. Sweet, fast and

quick. But he is not the first to leave. Coninx got out first, no,

Nieschlag, the German, he was first to strike, but Jonny has him in his

sights and leaves transition in second place. The Irishman Russell

White has done what he set out to do. He has arrived in transition and

42 seconds behind the leaders, opening up a gap to the Mola pack,

who have arrived at the bottom of Bay Hill en masse now. -- bottom of

the hill. This is where we will find out what Mola is made up this

afternoon. He is in this group. Russell White ahead of the rest of

the pack, Mola at the top right of your screen heading towards his

position. We will pick up Mola here. Normally one of the best in and out

of transition, wastes no time, gets it done, in and out in a flash, Mola

on his way, Blummenfelt not quite so quick and leaves himself three or

four seconds behind Mario Mola. So the chase group spread themselves

out, the familiar White visor on the head of Mario Mola, starts to pick

them off one the buy one, he has already taken out a couple.

Nieschlag caught by Brownlee, and the British triathlete and the

German are on their way. Lap one under way.

Brownlee looks relaxed and confident. Perhaps a little bit warm

but I think he has put some water on his head and drank some which will

make Matt happy because he pointed out he was not drinking water. We

know he didn't drink enough because we know what happened in Montreal.

Great to see Bishop alongside Le Corre and Mola, who is leading this

chase pack. Tom Bishop in a strong position. He may have got a mouthful

from Le Corre during the bike leg about his staying mid-pack and not

sharing the workload, but he won't care about that now. He is running

with Mola out in front. Brownlee cruising through this opening lap.

Mola was about 40 seconds down at T2. I think the greatest margin Mola

has overcome over Olympic distance after the bike is about 41 seconds,

so it's not beyond the realms of possibility for Mola to win this

today but with Jonny in this form, assuming he stays healthy and on his

feet, it looks like he is in good shape, and he could be on his way to

his first victory of the season. If Jonny Brownlee goes on to win to

date he will have won a World Series event every year since 2011. That is

some record for Jonny Brownlee, one of the French athletes, I think,

limping off in the opposite direction may be in need of

attention shortly. Looking at that little crossover point back there

with the athletes get a look at one another, it looked to me like Jonny

Brownlee was running away with it, further ahead than we saw him on the

last lap from that group containing Bishop and Mola, Nieschlag and Aaron

Royle. Running well together and I think it is important they stay

together. Don't look back! You are doing great. With every step, every

need to Jonny covers now, he will be more and more confident and putting

to bed some of the Demons of the last year hopefully, and I am

thinking we will see him striding away to a victory to day. Let's keep

our fingers crossed. At some point I guess Brownlee can lean back off a

little bit. When he comes through halfway and sees the time difference

still growing, he might get into comfortable zone. That is ridiculous

but he will keep pushing but from our point of you watching, we think,

don't do anything stupid because we have seen it happen before. It is

great to see him back to his winning ways. There is the Tom Bishop group,

Mola at the front now, Kristian Blummenfelt just shadowing him, Tom

Bishop in that group as well, Henry Schoeman, the Olympic

bronze-medallist, a little further down, and he has picked up a 15

second stop-go penalty as well at T1, so he is in good shape

considering he has had to stand still and take his punishment.

Schomburg was with the leaders and is about to be caught and will be

going backwards from here on in. With the leaders through the 40 K

bike but Schomburg now overtaken by Mola, and there is only one way

Schomburg is going as Mola kicks forward, injects some pace. Seems to

have found his legs, found his rhythm in the last couple of

kilometres. Not that surprised to see that. He hasn't completely

shaken the company he has got but he has decimated that group a little.

That group of nine athletes is now down to five with four hanging off

the back, so he is down to five and I wouldn't be surprised to see him

push on from here. Jonny Brownlee almost halfway through this run

stage now, 5.52 kilometres left to run. No signs of any issues so far,

touch wood, for Jonny Brownlee. Looks to be in control of this one.

Jonny Wilkinson shortly complete the second lap. One hour 32 minutes,

almost 33 minutes, since he dived into the Stockholm water and began

this triathlon. Up egos, up this hill, ended a lap, you have to grit

your teeth and climb. Now, this is half distance on the run. At the end

of the first lap he was 12 seconds ahead of the next best placed man,

Aaron Royle. I think he would have extended their lead considerably

now. A lot of noise. It has been all about the Brownlee brothers in these

parts. And the lead will be closer to 30 seconds now between Brownlee

and R Royal. 31 seconds. Jonny has made a move in the right direction.

-- between Brownlee and Aaron Royal. Who is next to appear on the climb,

will it be Mola? I think so, Mola with Blummenfelt and Bishop. Things

starting to warm up here as RM Royal moves into clear second position.

Mola leads this chase pack up the climb. -- Aaron Royal moves into

clear second position. Mola is cruising along now, taking

Blummenfelt, Bishop, one two others with him. That little pack of five

will shortly be joining Aaron Royal and Nieschlag, who currently share

second and third position, with Jonny Brownlee way out in front, and

Brownlee wins again today he will be the first man to win three times

here in Stockholm. He and Alistair have won twice on this course over

various distances but Jonny looking to be the first to win it three

times in the city. Nieschlag and Royle still away from the pack but

Mola threatening now, and Mola seems to be getting quicker with every

stride. Jonny has company. I don't think that is allowed, pacing the

athletes, I don't know if there is too much danger of him carrying on.

Lap and a bit to go, shortly to take the bell on the climb for the

ultimate time. The next time he comes up here, he will be, barring

an accident, he will be the champion of Stockholm, winning his first race

in just over one year. One hour, 41 minutes and seven seconds since his

triathlon began. Taking the bell at the top of the hill in front of the

Royal Palace. Mario Mola, Blummenfelt, Bishop, they have

joined in. Second and third will come from two of these men here. He

has not given up. He was caught, but he is pushing on. I'm interested to

see how much of these two have given. Whether they can just give

everything to hold onto that group now. Blummenfelt is an outright

second. Bishop in third. Then the core alongside Mario Mola. If he was

to finish second here today, he would only need to finish ninth in

Rotterdam to secure the World Title for the second year in a row at the

grand final. Second is by no means a foregone conclusion. Blummenfelt is

the closest they've got to a local lad here in Stockholm and he has got

lots of support. Here is another burst of speed from Kristian

Blummenfelt. He wants second position. He was matching him here?

It looks as if Tom Bishop can't go with him. Pierre Le Corre is the

only one who has responded seriously. Mario looks a little

fragile in that position. We have heard Blummenfelt talk about how he

wanted to make it a one-mile race, the last mile was where he was

looking to push on. Some of the athletes have not burned through all

of their candles, they can really come through in the end. The threat

posed by Blummenfelt here, Mario Mola is losing out. He has lost

another place. With one kilometre left to run, Jonathan Brownlee is in

total control. Well, he certainly is, and hopefully he can just enjoy

this last kilometre little bit. It's been a tough year from him, since

Rio, really, it's been very, very tough for Johnny Brownlee. It's

great to see him back to his winning ways. Le Corre is not giving up,

that's for sure. Sissons from New Zealand, Bishop dropped off the pace

a little bit. Mola if the casualty here, though. He was on the podium

here in Stockholm one year ago in the race that was won by Alistair

Brownlee with Johnny Brownlee second. Le Corre joined the brothers

on the podium. He is currently in third position, with Blummenfelt

leading the Scandinavian charge here. Sissons is up into fourth

position. Bishop down to fifth. It looks as if Mola's race has run. The

Spaniard seems to have run out of steam, and he's languishing down the

field. That are elastic is just beginning to go between Ryan Sissons

and Tom Bishop. We're willing him back on. Women4Tech is really gone

for this early. It will be interesting to see if he has used up

all of his energy here -- Blummenfelt has really gone for it

early. The Frenchman has stolen second place from Kristian

Blummenfelt. Pierre Le Corre up into outright second. Can Blummenfelt

respond? More energy from Blummenfelt. He hasn't left it all

behind on the streets of Stockholm. What a response from the Norwegian.

Out into second. It looks like there may be a sprint finish between two,

maybe three guys. In position here. They're glancing back. Bishop is of

contention now. Mola is getting further and further removed as

Blummenfelt grits his teeth and goes for second place. Meanwhile, Johnny

Brownlee is about to take the win. All of the action going on behind

him, but he is cruising up the hill for the final time. He will win a

world triathlon series race again, as he has done every year since

2011. His first victory of the year. And he's savouring every second of

it. A terrific day for the British team, with Jessica Lee and first

podium. But this is the highlight, Jonathan Brownlee, back to his

brilliant best. About to win the World Series in Stockholm. And he

does so in style. One hour 49 minutes and ten seconds. Brownlee is

the champion. The battle goes on for second. Blummenfelt is clear. Will

there be some Scandinavian success? Le Corre desperately trying, but

Blummenfelt holds on for second. What a run, what a race for Kristian

Blummenfelt. With Pierre Le Corre into third. Ryan Sissons is for. For

New Zealand, another good result for Tom Bishop in six. An unfamiliar

position, seven. And an absolutely shattered Mario Mola. He collapses

across the line. There is our champion. It's been a while. It's

been a long wait, but the wait is over. Johnny Brownlee has won a

world triathlon series event again. Jonathan Brownlee takes the gold in

the Stockholm world triathlon series event, with the silver to Kristian

Blummenfelt of Norway. And France's Pierre Le Corre taking the bronze.

Adam Bowden was 13, and Mark Austin failed to finish. With one round to

go, Mario Mola leads the way, with Javier Colomo is in second and

Richard Murray third. Jonathan Brownlee is in six was issued. It

will all be decided in Rotterdam on the 16th of September. Johnny,

massive congratulations, you must be chuffed. I'm really happy. It's been

a tough few months, I'm not sure what's going on with my body. But

finally I felt normal. I guess that's what it feels like to feel

normal and feel good. To be honest, I was waiting for it to start

hurting. I was thinking, it's not been hurting yet. That was

brilliant, you know, I felt really good. In the end, it only started to

hurt with two paid to go. I had a hard swim -- two K. Then finished it

off on the run. When you have bad races, you dream of running on the

finish line about to celebrate. I took it in today. A great time to do

that. You don't often have races where you have time to take it in

down the finishing straight, but I did that today. What about the grand

final? It's just another race, really. I'm out of the series is for

us winning it goes, but I've never won a grand final. I was very close

last year. I just hope it's not hot. I got a podium again, I'm pleased

with that. I'm super happy with my run, I guess, maybe the fastest run

of the day. I should have been in the first group. But it's so hard to

catch Johnny. If you even have ten seconds, he's usually gone. Out of

the run, you were a good pack in the run, you had Mola in the pack with

you. It's hard, know, we were five or six guys into the last mile of

spring. To finish second or seventh, that's a huge difference at the end

of the day. I'm just super pleased to win that kind of spread. How

would the crowd for you? You almost a local lad, and Cuba? They were

awesome. -- aren't you. Johnny here was so strong today. The podium was

there, just about. The final maybe 400 metres, I couldn't quite get on

the podium. But I'm fairly happy with six. It solidifies my top ten

ranking. It's great to see. Johnny on the podium. Where did it go wrong

for you? I tried to work as hard as I good for as long as I could, as

long as I have the energy I was in the group on the bike. We were

working, not everyone worked, but most of us did a decent job and we

managed to state 45-50 seconds to the front of the group. They were

working very well. In the end, the ended up running with me, we were

stronger today and just happy for it. Of course, Donovan did a great

race from the start of the end, so I congratulate him. -- Jonathan Byrd.

Hopefully we will have a great chance in Rotterdam.

And he keeps up the trend of winning at least one WTS race every year

since 2011. His first for a while, his first of the season. Jonathan

Brownlee is the champion in Stockholm.

CHEERING So, at the end of a terrific day's

racing, Louise Minchin caught up with British triathlon's head coach,

Ben Bright. It has been the Johnny and Jess show. Fantastic result for

her, and something you think was coming for a while? Yes, all year

she has been in very good shape. She had a bike crash in Yokohama when

she injured her knee. That set her back a bit. But a few weeks later

she has come back and won a European title. She put together a great

race, really pleased. Right from the start, she came out of the swim

first. She played to her strengths and she knew what she needed to do

and she went out and did it. She knew that she needed to get her grip

awake. It must have been great for her to be working with Flora Duffy

on the bike, too. Not only for today's outcome but for the future,

to understand that that is what it takes. Because the difference on the

run that you see is not just the run, it is the amount easier flora

is riding that bike. You watch her going around the corner, and she is

just doing it easier and technically better. The learning will be

massive. Tell us about Jodie Stimpson? She had the 15 second

penalty but it was a really good swim for her. The outcome there was

quite relevant. Her to get out of the water so close in a really fast

swim, a rough swim, it is a massive step forward, really positive. Let's

talk about jolly. Fabulous to see him back on form, isn't it? Yes, you

know what he's capable of. And I think everyone has seen the last few

races and you just think, that's not Johnny. I think from his own, you

know, just his perspective, it's good to feel normal. That's all we

want. Normal for Johnny is something else but everybody else, isn't it?

Tom Bishop also has a good race. When you look at what Tom has done

this year, it's phenomenal. You know, the one missing part of the

puzzle is just the top end speed on the swim, he was a bit down out of

the water which meant that the podium was going to be tough. But he

is sixth in the field and he has been very, very consistent all year,

that again is how you learn. What are your hopes looking ahead at the

grand final in Rotterdam? We just want the athletes to go and race and

be committed, race smart, use their heads. For us, it's always build

towards the next Olympics. So we tend not to get excited and

disappointed in a post-Olympic year. The biggest thing is, are we

learning and putting it into practice? I think that cause will

suit a lot of our athletes, it's tough. We're just looking forward to

some good racing. What an amazing day of racing here in this beautiful

city of Stockholm. Fantastic to see two Brits on the podium and to see

Johnny back on form again with his first win of the season. And he says

that just feels normal. If you want more triathlon, don't forget you can

watch the mix relay cup next Saturday at TV DBM on BBC One. The

grand final is on Saturday the 16th of September from Rotterdam -- at

TPM. The sport this afternoon is all about the equestrian. That's it from

us here in Stockholm, I hope you've enjoyed it.

Jonathan Brownlee, back to his brilliant best!