BBC Coverage Monaco Diamond League 2021 HD

[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening and welcome to our live coverage of the sixth diamond league of the season i'm jane douglas and tonight we're in balmy monaco often known as the fastest track in the world it's going to be an exciting night we'll have all the action for you before nine but let's mark your card about what's coming up over the next few months the diamond league heads back to britain on tuesday gateshead hosting the final event before the olympics gabby and the team are with you from 6 30 on bbc2 and they'll continue the discussion in a special athletics forum from 9 on the iplayer the olympics are fast approaching they start with the opening ceremony on friday the 23rd of july and looking further ahead the athletics will return with live coverage from eugene on saturday august the 21st that's on bbc four at nine but plenty to get excited about in monaco first fresh from setting a new british record holly bradshaw's in action in the women's pole vault could a good performance here tonight help her to an olympic medal in a few weeks time training buddies gemma ricky and laura muir are both in the 800 meter start list with elliot giles fresh from setting his new pb in stockholm going in the men's event it'll be a fascinating fifteen hundred meters featuring stefan hassan in a stacked field and watch out for shelian fraser price against shawnee miller weibo in the 200 meters at 7 45. plus is the top two from the american trials trayvon brommell and ronnie baker in the 100 meters and he's back on the track new 400 meter hurdle world record holder carsten vorholm is preparing to go so might he go quicker tonight well let's find out from your commentators for this evening steve kram and tim hutchings [Music] [Applause] back in 1992 in lane six this could be the danger man for home alison dos santos in brazil the world number three personal best in north low and then another personal best last sunday in stockholm three days later rasmus magee maguigo's in lane five the european championship silver metals back in 2014. he was sixth in rio he's a little bit under the radar the estonia he doesn't get the credit he deserves probably 48 four this year constantin prize three times the german champion the last three seasons including this season only fifth in oslo though frustrated with that price happier wilfred happy of france the european under-23 champion two years ago and he the french champion in hong kong last week and 49.50 and chris mcallister of great britain goes in lane two only seventh in the uk championships he fell there he was so unlucky fifth in stockholm on sunday but in a new personal best of 49.16 the athletes in lanes 2 3 4 and 5 have all moved out of lane because karen mcmaster of the british virgin islands the commodore champion withdrew just a couple of hours ago at least that's the information we got he was due to be in lane five so mcallister in two papio in three constantin price in four then rasmus maggie goes in five dos santos the brazilian in such good form goes in lane six he was uh challenging var home probably about 300 meters of that world record race in oslo when he had to relinquish that challenge and let the norwegian storm to that fabulous world record dos santos in six for brazil watch him the world record of our home in seven norwich bayley junior of the usa in lane eight right benjamin the us champion was due to be here tonight he decided not to travel to europe and perhaps decided not to face farhom more pertinently who would blame him focusing on the olympic games 21 days away in tokyo the athletics gets underway so far home second from top gets off to his usual blitz start yes already up on bayley and getting away from dos santos this will be a familiar sight for dos santos their tall figure third from left down the back straight vargo has he raised his game has he has he got enough adrenaline left so soon after that a fabulous world record in oslo dos santos is not a spent force just yet maggie going well central picked as well the tall figure from estonia hard running going from happy on price they're right a picture in the headbands but farhoom comes into the straight with about a two meter lead on dos santos takes them off penultimate hurdle well del santos challenging hard but valve surely will have the strength he's always got off the final barrier look at the gap back to the rest great run for the brazilian but a win yet again for vargo 47-07 his own meeting record from last year was 47-10 he breaks it here by three 100s of a second he can't deliver a world record he can't deliver a sub 47 but this man delivers another win and a meeting record he continues to produce the goods again and again technically just about perfect great challenge from dos santos who's sort of in middle distance terms almost had a pacemakers team somebody to chase and the gap behind that pair was huge no you're right the two of them putting on another very good show i just thought valholm perhaps didn't start quite as fast i mean we're talking about tiny margins now and back to back a world record followed up with a meeting record here he must have had an incredible week to deal with at home in no way with all of the adulation that comes your way when you become a world record holder in front of a home crowd so you could forgive him for uh maybe just not going out as hard but i thought he built into the race better then and at this point if anything he looks even stronger than he did the other night just maybe he hadn't gone out quite as quick dos santos couldn't get on terms with him and he's still running in the mid 47 seconds and still looks a bit distance but distant but you're right tim these two so far ahead of everybody else maggie running 48-83 in third can't wait coming for the olympics dos santos won't be far away from valholm and benjamin i'm sure dos santos in the 47s and maggie 48 83 and in fourth place that price the german 49.49 it will be one of the events of tokyo with the 400 meter hurdles when ry benjamin decides to come out and race against the norwegian sorry if we kept you up there watching that one a little bit of a yawn from the crowd will wake you up there's plenty of excitement and that is just a taster of what's to come i said so many good meetings we've had already this year and including um uh one or two of the the meetings on the continental tour uh even this week in hungary some massive performances as athletes are really gearing up towards the olympics i mentioned it last week they're not all of course selected some big names already missed out in selection in various teams but for those athletes maybe perhaps a point to prove as well and certainly a chance to get big performances world ranking points and as ever in the principality role patronage always here and he's a big athletics fan as well the prince 8 000 fans allowed in the stadium tonight and uh over on the far side you probably see on that screen there they're looking forward to one of the big field events the women's triple jump and that was wronghouse who was on they're gonna be seeing her very shortly indeed first of all we'll take we'll move over to the women's pole vault we will the bar at 470. siddhartha already over 450 that was our opening height 450 by the way so reigning world champion from russia one here in 2018 when the women's pole vault was last held hasn't been held here for three years [Music] russian champion in a most recent competition with 475. the sid all over she is the world number two with 491 this year that was in florence the florence diamond league on the world rankings who has that uh top spot from the us championships and that's a lovely clearance yes only a second ball pops over 470 now najot has already passed at 450 just looking at this lineup several athletes have failed indeed she's the first to go clear sid or over and by what a margin that's a big vault still in history just two women over five meters and morris outdoors although jen sure has done it indoors [Music] so in the women's triple jump one of the events where we'll be having the final three all of the horizontal jumps and throws now the diamond league following that so what we get first is a [Applause] resume of how they made it into the final three well you would have been shocked if uh this young lady the second longest jumper ever outdoors the longest ever indoors in the triple jump julema rojas of venezuela still been struggling a little bit with a run-up she really is in the form of her life multiple times over 15 meters this year and this was in the second round here once again she and she's full of frustration she wants to entertain she knows she's got the world record in her sights now it's losing her balance even showing what she's not doing right i mean tim and i talked about this a lot you know we not the world's experts on triple jump but you know she's just raw ability and talent and it doesn't always perhaps pull the technique together in the way that she'd like to on a more consistent basis but 15 meters 12 nobody is getting too close you have to say shanika ricketts is jumping very well can be seeing her shortly but what a season she's having but rojas time and time again in our last competition she jumped 15 34 and the last jump was plus 2.2 wind wasn't legal but she died three jumps before that all of them in the 15 16 to 15 19 range we go to the javelin now christian hussong who's been in wonderful form the german in round four 61.65 so far 63-63 in the first round [Applause] from uh i'm not sure it's an improvement uh opened with a 6001 then a 61 65 then a 59 major effort and that one from uh no improvement 16 meters 90. but she has been in great form as i say just looking at her card fourth in the world championships who some 1690 as i said in round four but uh the winner in oslo eight days ago now yeah a sensation of the 2021 season 71 meters back in may and well there's a 20 year old was fourth in the olympics in rio and then she had a really horrendous shoulder injury and it took her best part of three years to get back she said she's only now started to really fulfill her potential so it's good to see her throwing as consistently well as she is [Applause] and that's a decent start for her still feeling that shoulder so the uh australia wasn't it sort of chilly evening and we were worrying is it not what i think it was wasn't it we've had quite a few meets through oslo stockholm etc but yeah i think it was oslo and i don't know whether that shoulder still bothers her from time to time but can't be too bad at throwing 71 meters but there you go 63 63 for aunt jacob so the triple jump final three we saw rojas a little earlier on how she made it through with the longest jump of the competition in round two and this was mamona who went out to new personal best and indeed a new national record having got very close in round two and in round five went even further the portuguese athletes a very good high con quality competition with the top five women kimberly williams 1450 only in fifth place and mamona 1466 perfect breeze just a little breeze behind the jumpers this evening so the former european champion she's 32 now i've been around since what seems like she's been around for so long and her personal best went all the way back to the rio olympics and improves it by one centimeter there shaniqua ricketts i said how good she's been jumping really has been in top form ricketts this year and another excellent series of jumps tonight 1475 she took the early lead in the competition [Applause] and the jamaican he's coached by a husband two of them make a very very good team there just wondering about some of the sort of rules and things the monaco has set the scene last year with the covert restrictions around the uh in arena call-up room you may have seen some areas at the top of the grass area in the middle there that's the call-up room the coaches are allowed now into the arena as well just to help with maintaining many bubbles if you like and this was the job we saw earlier on from rojas she had a couple of other really good attempts at along she had two no jumps in actually three no jumps in rounds one three and five really was stretching for a little bit kind of flopped into the pit on the fourth round at 14 62 so 15 12 that one we saw from round two her best those are the three and now they'll go in reverse order so all of those distances are wiped clean i think the call room area i was just talking today got a glimpse of it so mamona fresh from that new national record new personal best which has stood for five years improved it by one centimeter and now she's the first to go so whatever you do in this final jump that counts shanika ricketts actually the last time she was involved in this uh ended up no jumping in this part of the competition and went from having jumped to 1498 in doha ended up in third place that's the risk here that's the drama of the final three so momona for portugal first to go oh okay yeah not an injury there just well when you've done a personal best in qualifying for this you might think that's enough thank you very much i'm in third i don't think i'm gonna go as far as the other two anyway so it'll be left to ricketts and then rise you see this tim i just thought for a second an ankle and turned there oh nearly yeah it just slipped from under her but i think it didn't give way completely the funny thing is steven ramona technically is very sound but because she's so much shorter than uh rojas she's just not covering the same distance and of course that doesn't count at all but rojas her middle face is almost non-existent she's just so huge that poor technique even with pawn technique she can get away with 15 midi plus jumps ricketts here with her final effort now she knows she's guaranteed at least second place because of that mamona effort which was no jump [Music] rickett's mark to come up plus [Music] 30 centimeters giving away that an awful lot on the board oh my word that is huge that is a foot exactly a foot two and a half centimeters to the inch give or take a tiny tiny hairs breadth of uh distance so ricketts 1429 that uh this gives a target for rojas steve it ought to be fairly uh straightforward well no she can really go for it can't you i mean she's won the competition she'd know she'd win anyway unless she jumped at the end and somebody had put a decent jump in so now hopefully she can relax focus on this she's fast becoming one of the big stars of the sport she's an iconic individual [Music] and now doing her best to get some support from the crowd and they certainly love this so rojas here don't forget that world record still 15 meters 50 but she's been getting closer and closer to it of venezuela [Applause] perhaps oh that's a huge jump oh she's got the red flag oh oh i thought it just looked a little over tim not by much at all surely that was a massive jump she might even ask them to measure it [Applause] maybe not it's her first phase her first place is huge she doesn't get the knee up in the middle face she's not a rhythm jumper that second phase is so rudimentary then her final phase with those long legs brilliant into the sand not even a close no jump was it that's just shame great shame and she knows it timmy on about the second phase if it was much better she'd be almost reaching the pit with with the second face i'll tell you what she'd be smashing the world record by a big champion she could get some rhythm into a jumping which he doesn't really have no you're right and uh what is shame there uh guess what that means our winner is shanika ricketts the only one in the final three to have a legal jump i'm not sure has to be too bothered either way handshake for ricketts to say congratulations well done ramona takes third but that was a huge effort from rojas ricketts michael i actually i won this i made the mistake of saying it should be a formality for rojas to win it but of course that discounted her perhaps no jumping which he did so on to the track and the women's 800 meters a mouth-watering prospect here we have a so many of the world's fastest women this year in this race pace with a vast four is 57 flat for diego meza to take them out and what a sensation or sensational last couple of weeks kate grace of the usa's head hasn't made their team but goodness me has run faster than she's ever done in her life and what about almanza another one i think she's now pushed herself right up there as a metal contender rose mary almanza of cuba more than a second or so just a bit of a change around the lane that we're seeing there was kate grace was in the wrong lane i'm not sure anyways excuse me laura muir and jamariki for talking over the top of you the two scots next to each other muir was selected for the 800 in the olympic games along with her training partner ricky but is a couple of days ago decided to concentrate only on the 1500 meters alex bell taking her place in the british team running better than ever another one latoya ghoul super season she's having the us-based jamaican and rene lamotte coming back to excellent form at just the right time in olympic year she shares the lane with the australian bishop who still lacks a little bit of experience she would see on the circuit but as a redoubtable competitor and sub two-minute clockings all over the place for her now so nakaya while nikaya the world champion can she go to the olympic games and live up to that title she won two years ago now and happy times 158 in the in hengelo seems like quite a long time ago now when the ethiopians all came to angelo for what was essentially their olympic trials so kate grace has moved i'm not quite sure why cake grace isn't in lane six because that would mean she'd have a lane to herself so she's sharing lane on the outside with a pacemaker and lane six is empty long long time being held there and uh latoya ghoul just getting left a little bit on the start line we've got ourselves moving fairly quickly laura mura is ever letting ricky start a little bit quicker sharing the lane kate grace hasn't started too quickly either and already moving up almanza looking so she might want to take charge of this she's a good front runner almanza as well and she ran the 156 in cuba before she came back with that big win in stockholm she was led through in about 57 and then just took it on herself win by an absolute mile and here the pacemaker's gone way too hard and now manza wants to go out hard wants to go out quick wants to see how fast she can do it can't she hold on but this isn't really helping this is pretty much going to end up with almanzo being left out there on her own diego mays are looking around a bit too late now yeah diego mesa well she will go through if she doesn't slow down in about 55 seconds it's not good pacemaking at all and that's very disappointing there we go 54.8 57 had been asked for that's a very very disappointing indeed for the for almanzo and the rest of the pack really well they've all committed to but in slightly different ways almanzo run a very hard first 200 ghoul now right on her back she was just outside 56 seconds through 400 kate grace moving up he said trying to hang on to the rest of them laura muir gritting her teeth nakai a little way back at the moment but she will finish strongly but look at natoya ghoul the jamaican has really struck for home here she's talked about how much confidence she's been getting from her racing in 2021 a little bit from last year as well but is this a little early kate grace as we see our mans are just going backwards jamariki and laura muir the two scots now trying to attack around the outside and latoya ghoul looks as though she's just starting to tie up a little bit but they're all tired here it's ghoul grace ricky muir trying to look for a little bit of rooms now gonna have to check out and go wide and try and get master teammate and laura here's gonna get there the 1500 strength is showing laura with a massive personal best and that for her might be something which might make her think about a decision a couple of days ago was it the right decision i think she'd probably still say yes that's not far off the british record it is a scottish record it's quicker than lindsey sharp has ever run and gemma ricky just behind her both of them inside the old scottish record but laura muir who said no i won't run the 800 of the olympics i'll just concentrate on the 1500 i think tim that was because everyone went out hard and laura was there and was able to pick them off because she's just had that bit of strength to keep going that bit of extra endurance well a fabulous run isn't it really quick times there riki personal best in second place personal best for kate grace in third place but considering what an untidy home straight run laura muir had that is some performance steve a long way under 157 a huge personal best is use it quite rightly a scottish record and a muir's 1500 prospects will be bolstered very significantly by that now that she's decided to focus on the metric mile in tokyo and not race over two laps [Music] well let's have a look at the uh women's javelin this is how three athletes got through to the sixth round potarkava 60 meters 68 in the first round for the world record holder she's 40 years old now that world record was back in 2008 throwing out to 61.65 in the second round [Music] that got her into second place after five rounds well the world number one this year second in oslo beaten in oslo was the pole but she threw 63-63 with her opener and there it is they will throw in that order now in the sixth and final rounds potaka husong and andrei chick not the force she was her season's best 61 meters just over 61 meters but she knows this stadium so well she loves coming down here to the riviera and training for a little while and competing she won here in 2009 2010 2011 and 2014 and of course she's already stamped her position as a legend in the uh sporting history the olympic champion in beijing 2008 in the bird's nest remember that can you believe that was now 13 years ago the olympic champion in london 2012 retained her title in london [Music] world record is 72 meters she's not been within 10 meters of that this year what can she do here with his sixth and final round effort well that's better that's a long way beyond 60 meters and i'll tell you what that's a significant season's best for spot arkava that's about 63 meters she hasn't thrown better than 61 38 this year and that was uh what some 12 days ago well that's a great challenge she's laid down this photographer 6308 a season's best still enjoying herself [Music] not always a great venue for javelin throwing tim and i think for her so she'll be thinking well actually monaco has just given my season the lift it needed so the next throw second in these uh the final three christine husson so she knows what she has to beat 61.65 for her in the first five rounds that was the best [Applause] [Music] i always feel as though you want to see her on with a little bit more aggression there don't you she on her approach looked a little bit matter of fact there [Music] that one tails away yeah she knew it she knew the second of release didn't she she got that angle of attack wrong it was too flat [Music] she's been fairly consistent though you know with it with th there have been the big throws this season andre the the best case in point but you just get the feeling you know if you're at the olympics you you it might not need something particularly long in the women's javelin to win on that occasion who knows but could it be spatuka but could still do it well the challenge is there and it's a substantial challenge 6308 remember andrei chick here who is the world number one this year with uh 71 meters that was in split back in early may could only muster 63-63 with her opener she only had two valid throws in the first five and here she throws around 58 meters and can you believe at the age of 40 has won on the riviera she's won here at hercules she almost looks embarrassed but that is quite something i'll tell you what steve i'd put a few quid on that thing the oldest victor at hercules in all the years it's been held a 40 year old winning any discipline diamond league no at this meeting [Music] [Applause] [Music] fools you should know this but anyways but spectacularly producing the goods in the final round of the javelin 6308 when it came down to the final three situation her calmness may be her experience giving her that victory and jade raching 5801 for a second husong 57-17 [Applause] women's javelin completed then surprise win perhaps there what will we get in the men's 1500 once more in monaco a brilliant feel lined up there timothy cherry at the world champion and tim he's still with a little bit of a point to prove i think well he has steve yes although no normal surface resumed in stockholm when he won easily and only his fourth race of the summer timothy chariot he is uh let's not forget chariot about the seventh fastest man ever the fastest man in recent seasons only fourth in those kenyan trials although we understand he has been added to that team stewie mcswain the winner of that uh fabulous mile in oslo on thursday last week so what eight days ago with an in a new australian record only second in the australian championships to jai edwards who also goes here the youngster 23 years old edwards who was third in that oslo mile hadn't broken 340 before this year jai edwards and he's now running a 333 this year such a field katya remember winner of that uh gateshead 5000 meters on the 23rd of may and then fourth in rome in an italian national record of uh 1250 it's fabulously strong it's a strong field here it really is and i wonder if the monaco magic will give us a great race here again remember a fast win from far valhalla a meeting record huge personal best from muir to win that 800. so we're looking for a quick tempo here eric sewinski who was the pacemaker in shakespeare in hungary on tuesday over 800 has been tasked with going out in 54 seconds then 150.5 he does some have some help from timothy sane of kenya who slots in to second place chariot is so easily spotted isn't he there he is in third place with that forward lean it's a almost unique running style mcswain moves around the outside into equal fourth i suppose behind moose up there yakko binga britson i haven't even mentioned him yet he's been ill for a month he was fifth in the oslo his brother was fifth in the oslo three thousand eight days ago philip but jakob well hasn't raised since florence back in early june that was a 5000 a european record so what will jakobinga britain produce here he's back at about seventh at the moment as they go through 400 stephen it is quick it is but the uh chariot wants to take it out hard he always does deferra mcswain right up there jakob has just sat off it a little bit but uh we've seen him do that many times and he's just run his own pace race there he was about 56 seconds cherry at about 55 low 55 so yes very quick start tim but this is what they asked for and uh jacob just needs to get back on that group fairly quickly he wouldn't want to leave it too long or to let that gap get any bigger than it is at the moment so they come down with uh two laps to go zawinski and sane then cherrio mcswain in fourth place watching the uh form of chariot almost hanging onto his coattails katie in the light blue back in about eighth or ninth at the moment the gaps have closed up now but yeah singer brits in a little way off the front end at the moment and uh sawinski pushing hard there through to 800 meters 150.75 56.55 really good pacemaking stands in stark contrast to the job done in the women's 800. inga britson just beginning to make his move and he's been perfectly even paced 152 for him through 800 meters so chariot we know what he'll do and what he did the other night tim was he he almost sucked them in on the third lap where everyone thought we were getting on his shoulder he's not running away from us and then he kicked so hard over the last 200. can he do this or can he do that on a slightly quicker pace tonight and with better athletes around him coming around to the bell cherry up then where he likes to be he likes to make the long run from home take this thing out of their legs but swain they're behind him i might have preferred max wayne to be in the front actually brixton in third this is not going to be a world record race or anything particularly special but it is quick nonetheless chariot mcswain ingebrixton to ferret dropping back now the world indoor record holder moving up is the uh pole levandoski into about seventh place philip and bradson is still there katya having a good run using that five thousand meter runner's strength and simulto moving up along the outside as well sumatra looking strong as chariot kicks with 200 to go they're always right now because he has this ability this knack of winding it up and what a run from katya the spaniard kicking hard there around the final bend to try and stay on the shoulder of chariot has he got the strength as mcswain looks spent so is inga brits and coming back from that sid cough that throat infection as chariot stays clear goes further clear wins by three meters 3 28 28 katya surely there has run around 329 flat maybe quicker and mcswain and inga bricks and i think have probably gone under 330 as well a mass race of athletes going under 330 fabulous stuff well this is his new tactic tim isn't it 39.7 i made his last 300 he really did kick off at 300 to go and then another bursted 200 katia came up on his shoulder an incredible performance from him what a season he's having a real break through yeah and chariot though new tactics instead of going hard on a third lap he's bunching them up and then bang he really hits it hard and doesn't stop and when you're in the front and you can run as hard for that for the last 300 off that sort of pace you've got to be something really special to come around him and come past him yes inga britson looked a little bit off and you could understand if he's had a few days missed training mcswain again another massive performance from him but look at that times we're going inga britain a little bit off 329. i mean we're measuring these guys by incredible standards but i'm so impressed by chariot uh i hope somehow there is a ways in the kenyan team just because he should be at the olympics well mcswain sets an australian record until the australasian record 329.51 in fourth place simoto 330.3 the best of the rest in fifth place not to break 330. but katya well that was a spanish record 328.76 that would be great confirming cacho's record i think steve [Applause] yeah some of us are moving down that list quite swiftly these days holly bradshaw the women's pole vault a very very high quality competition here bradshaw going clear and with a new british record to name or to add to her growing list of big performances over the last two years and she's kind of going well i kind of dug that one out there yeah well holly's talked a lot about you're trying to obviously what she wants to do is produce the big vaults when it when it matters and british championships great place to do that 490 and now she wants to then translate that as she heads towards tokyo in the diamond league and olympic performances as well a little bit of trouble preparation tim for sandy morris uh no polls again arriving problems with them so borrowed polls here third attempt 470. yes andy morris are really frustrated found out that uh in the last 24 hours that her polls were still back in the usa back in newark airport just outside new york and it is a constant worry for the pole vaulters will their poles get to the other end if they do will they be in one piece because they have been uh sawn in half driven over bent the point of snapping and uh all sorts of other things happened to poles they've gone missing completely sets of pulses over the years and it's really frustrating for them catalina stephanie has a happy knack of always getting herself right for the big championships i haven't seen too much of her during this season but there you go 480 season's best when they're going gets and all that sort of thing yeah she's she knows when to hit her best form and even with all of her experience and all of her wins and olympic champion and everything else he's still delighted to be clearing 480 here in a very high quality competition and that will put pressure on the others as well first time clearance at 480 for stephanie been a month or so since we've seen her that was good [Music] [Applause] i'll sit it over clear at 470. clear at 450 first time as well now first attempt for her at 480. [Music] very very calm unemotional deadpan features that's part of what they're coached as she goes up 480 here there's another massive fall [Music] relief written across that face more than elation siddharov was a lifetime best well she's the best brother 491 that was in the uh florence diamond league a month ago lifetime best was 495 when she is 495 when she took the world title in doha that's that big time temperament and three balls and she's still out in front the russian 480 then starting to sort them out and i wonder well that pole vault is right at that top end of the track and the women's 200 meters well they won't be looking at that at all of course but it means that eyes as spectators can turn to the track just for a few minutes on the outside tamara clark the usa 21-98 and still didn't make the american team fourth in their trials shawnee milo weibo while she was beaten by sharika jackson the other night in hungary i think probably a bit of a surprise to her jackson in incredible form the medalist behind milo weibo in 2016 in the 400 now concentrating on the 100 the 200 and miller weibo herself looking still we're not quite 100 sure will she just run the 400 will she take on the double you think shelly on fraser price will be doubling up of course 100 and two hundred in tokyo talu herself fourth on both occasions five years ago we have to save five years ago at the olympics now it looks as though to be honest she's heading for perhaps one of the minor places but she'll be trying to prove that wrong akakbari still absolutely flying perhaps a little better at the 100 meters under 11 seconds again during the week 200 just hovering around the 22 flat mark u.s based nigerian and then kambunji from switzerland bronze medalist in doha at this event [Music] smith she'll be in the next diamond league in gateshead in a few days time and then jazeera bryant sixth in the american olympic trials [Music] so seven women lane one is empty shawnee miloweebo the olympic four nimitz champion against the olympic 100 meter champion and multiple world champion and in the form the sort of form that many people would not have expected to see the 34 year old then miller weibo yes for her of course the 400 by no means a foregone conclusion will she still consider doubling up it would mean her having to run two races in the same day first round of the 400 on the morning of the final of the 200. [Applause] perhaps more that later milo weibo in lane seven towers over shelly unfreezer price of course in terms of height but at this event the two very well matched milo weibo actually gets out not too bad at all but shelian fraser price has already taken a couple of meters out of ventalus started very quickly as well in lane five and milo weeble's got a lot of work to do to get back on terms but she will charge down the home straight shelly on fraser price and talu who have the lead but here comes milo weeble shelly and fraser price in a scrap with talu tis takes the lead but it's gonna be miloweebo perhaps no or did she tim sin yes she needed to lean at the end there didn't she she really did need to little lean i think she just about got it not by much not the quickest of times we don't always get super fast times here but those two went off so hard shelly on fraser price and tallu i don't know whether they just ran the legs out of each other was a little surprised that shelian fraser price couldn't hold tallu and indeed neither of them could hang on to milo weibo when she charged down the last 20 30 meters well i'll tell you what fraser price has improved at 200 this year and she and telugu very similar in build but miller weibo unwinds those long legs for the full 200 meters doesn't she really uses the last 50 keeps coming she knows they will slow she knows she can keep running hard as a 400 meter runner she's got that strength and endurance and boy does she use it and uh not too soon did she reach the end of the track or the end of the the line she wins by 2 100 of a second and actually steve talu given second place yep not much in it at all in the end she didn't feel as though she needed a lean just use the momentum but that cut it very fine 200th of a second there you go not the quickest of races it has to be said with a slight following wind as well and some fairly slow times behind the likes of kambunji and nakagbari will be delighted to have come away with a win there well to the men's high jump where prosecco has had two failures at 225. the ukrainian came in at 2 16. popped over that first time 221 was no problem but 225 proving a bit of an obstacle well not that time that was lovely very smooth didn't waste any energy did he he is very experienced he knows how to uh use what is needed and no more and when the pressure was on he goes clear doesn't touch the bar lovely clearance he will fight on can tell that uh athletes have gone clear already at this height first time akimenko love it they're dasical [Music] [Applause] evanyuk then he funny on the third attempt for him exactly the same card as prosenko and he goes clear the russian [Music] they're able to raise their game if you'll forgive the pun when the screw is really being tightened [Applause] the bronze medalist in the last world championships second in the russian championships with 231 a few problems given a few problems at 225 but able to smile i can now reset take a deep breath yeah i think we all need to uh it's been coming out you thick and fast here already with some incredible performances at wednesday the men's 1500 what about the steeplechase women will finish the program on the track of the stupid chase but it's the men's turn right now it is indeed and it is a strong field this one meeting record incidentally very tough 753.64 by brimming only one 100th of the world record kibruta ran that here in 2011. pedrani second in the french championships he's an 805 man at his best hillary ball well us champion this year 31 years old now poor very experienced won the gates of diamond league what some five or six weeks ago maybe more that was on the 23rd of may and lemma well the ethiopians growing in stature all the time in this discipline he's only 20. he's run 801 a couple of years ago but he's not even in the ethiopian olympic team germa he's an athlete who ran 727 for 3000 on the flat in the avon back in february he hasn't been able to produce that sort of form or anything like it over the barriers this year and the fellow alexis fellow french their champion their uh own championships last week couple of weeks ago in orange air one recent personal best over 1500 meters but he shouldn't frankly trouble the best in this race he's an 818 performer the field though does include five from the top eight at the last world championships it's a really good feel in depth and the pace that's been asked for well around 805 806 tempo so we're looking for around 242 for the first kilometer from the pacemaker amos kirui former world junior champion and the commonwealth bronze medalist actually pretty high caliber pacemaker for obvious reasons coming off but medalist in on the gold coast fellow into second place kibby what in third at these uh early stages could be what the commonwealth's silver medalist in 2018 he's a nato 5 performer at his best it's a discipline which this year as yet hasn't really come alive the steeplechase only three men under eight ten so far this year you uh feel there's an inevitability to a domination from the kenyans and the ethiopians come tokyo it'll be pretty unexpected frankly if anybody can get amongst them in the battle for the medals keegan is also there benjamin keegan has good speed a 336 performer there is about fifth place in the blacktop third in the kenyan olympic trials he will be going to tokyo yeah you wouldn't expect to see leading the pack here would you but uh really interested uh you've been talking about the ethiopians there tim and achilles here and i think you know he's only 18 and somebody who they obviously think it's got a big future uh but guillermo you know why is why did we not see him he's obviously had problems not racing he just comes up around the outside here you would have been amazed if you'd said two years ago he's not going to be in the olympic team for steeplechase he would have been amazed if he'd said that after the indoor season that he's had so for the first time he moves up but they're not interested in the pace whatsoever and just happy to let the pacemaker head off on his own they're not are they and it's a little disappointing because conditions are really good we know that the first four in that 1500 meters what 10 minutes ago going under 3 30 national records in that one and the pacemaker probably 25 28 meters ahead now hey mosquitoes he's an 808 performer himself although not been that sort of form this year 824 is his best this he was fourth in stockholm in 830 fairly modest 8 30 and then uh came forth in the kenyan trials brilliantly named django love it in the men's high jump canadian no derek drewen who uh served canadian high jumping so well and it finally gave way to injuries this year and django with his last jump at the canadian trials achieved the olympic qualifier 233 oh and that's very nice indeed [Applause] i think he's dad named him after a jazz guitarist tim will know who it is [Music] just the right time made the olympic team for the first time nice clearance at 229. [Music] akimenko all smiles as well the men's high jump we've seen there was a great competition this week in uh hungarian that tim was talking about 237. tim talked about that earlier on the overall standard has been very good or started to get very good in the men's hygiene this season as we just popped back now to the steeper chairs german now leading or leading the pack well the reason they weren't going with the pacemaker is because he was much too fast for 239 for the first kilometer from amos karui and he's still there he's let the pack catch up with him germa just a touch moving along behind him in the silver medal position back in the world championships in 2019 but as i said not selected for the ethiopian olympic team what we have got here steve if not a lightning fast race is a good race to hand two four six eight in that lead pack at the moment kirui that just moves aside down the back straight and uh slows to a jog as the race continues but nobody really looks determined to attack this do they and they take the water jump there and this middle kilometer i don't think will have picked up katie najat the winner of the american trials actually was a record height achieved to the american trials and attempting 490 here already seen a few go out she herself had three attempts at 480. oh she's done it in the form of her life at the moment katie najar had covered [Music] december of uh last year recovered and has just kept improving and building into 2021 in superb style as tim was mentioning i think she had her poles broken as well by an airline in may and so they've all had to experience the trials and tribulations of being on the circuit as a pole vaulter but she could not be coming into a form of her life at a better time first time clearance that will put her into the lead 527.1 at 2k in this uh steeplechase and now it's beginning to wind up keegan hits the front the man who i said has run at 336 1500 meters he has good speed he only started the steeplechase back in 2017 a member of the kenyan defense forces so many of the kenyan top athletes are in the police or the customs all the defense forces the army for example they have that semi-sponsorship tim the bells ringing and i'm pretty sure they've got two laps to go and he's sprinting away as though this is the last lap bless him you're dead they're ringing the bell this is terrible this is not the athlete's fault keegan will respond to bell all athletes respond to a bell and look at the clock 6 26 but the athletes trust it you know they go into a sort of zone of focus mentally he thinks this is his final water job i think they all do these first three surely those behind must have realized when he comes down the straight he'll see the clock it'll be about eight minutes when he crossed seven minutes when he crosses the line and surely he'll realize that this reminds me see for the ten thousand meters of the 1987 world championships in rome where they rang the bell a lot too soon look at this he realizes now he hears the no it's all right the official saying keep going you know you that that's just totally unfair on the athletes that's terrible in fact it's a disgrace you know the the officials have to do the job and counting laps is the simplest of jobs it's pointless ringing the bell louder you know these poor guys have given their everything yes you should know where you are in the race of course you do but it's automatic to respond to the bell and i think most of the athletes have done that germa to his credit has managed to try and keep something going but keegan who was completely flat out and the others as well a long way behind here they're trying to get going how on earth can that happen well germa with 200 meters to run kibby what and keegan second and third ball back and forth maybe runner smarter penultimate lap realizing that the belt was wrong you'd have to have real confidence to uh glance at the clock and take it all in and ignore what everybody else was doing wouldn't you it sounds so simple to look at the clock and realize but it's much much easier to say than to do it is how ever going to be garma from kibby what look at kibby what the lactic these guys must be experiencing after racing and it's going to be guess who is it at the line oh come on girl i thought give me what was going to get there the time 807 the fastest time in the world this year in spite of a rather disastrous moment for one of the officials it's a it's a very very sad thing the officials give their time freely but one of them has messed up royally here tonight and he'll have his head in his hands as he walks home pity the fella actually germa does get the win by very very small margin the rest of the field come across the line i suspect many of them fell for that early belt what a shame wow a world leads and you know poor keegan you know he he's ended up way down the field here but hats off to gurma and could be what pulled it back together again and even could be what managed to get a second sprint going germa's gone he's spent just manages to react at the end and rewarded with a world lead and it begs the question again tim where why was germa i can only presume i don't know that he was injured and wasn't able to contest the ethiopian trials he's not going the olympics he's one of the best stipple chasers in the world if if not you know right right up there in the top two or three he's shown he's in back in good shape he's produced a world lead with a sprinting penultimate lap but he's not going to be at the olympics i know great shame but that's the nature of selection and a lot of these nations that take the first three a win for gomer and ethiopia 807.75 in this team which is in monaco world leading time kibby what second for kenya a season's best for him with 807 as well but drani taking third for france with 80 11. the phenomenal maxim needed second attempt 229 just to keep him honest and when you've jumped 237 indoors and outdoors oh no well a bit of pressure now for the belarus i was about to say when you've got that confidence of in top form i'm i'm hitting the heights every week and then all of a sudden here on the biggest stage or one of the biggest stages before we get to the olympics his third attempt now might be less of a surprise for he not to get over this but certainly the sakau is a man in form but go no never look near so he's out he's gone ivanyuk passed at this height 229. i'm not sure if he's got some sort of problem stock out tamberrio fazinotti the two italians shame to see tambury not going higher than 221 here tonight the scene of his one of his greatest triumphs only indeed greatest tragedies wasn't it was here where he ruptured his achilles a good few years ago just at the wrong time stephanie then third attempt at 490 for the olympic champion 480 first time no not on this occasion [Music] third in florence back on in early june the rio olympic champion the world champion in 2017 but uh she had an early failure at 470 then popped over got over it second time popped over 480 first time one of only two athletes to do that indeed only three athletes went clear at 480. that's a 490 a third and final attempter is a failure now katy najard has gone clear sid all over took one attempt at 490 failed it and then there was no point in going on as she saw it so she kept her first last two attempts for this height 496. [Applause] no frustrating verb perfect card up to and including 480. [Music] najib the only athlete clear at 490. beginning to look steve like uh quite some prospect for the gold in tokyo if it's not sandy morris if it's not gen shore and the americans will produce somebody else they have got such strength in depth and and it's just shifting the balance isn't it you know a lot for a lot of people see the rover it was definitely one of the favorites if uh for the gold if not the favorite but the balance just shifting back on the track men's 800. we had a spectacular women's 800 meters what some 20 minutes or so ago it feels like about five minutes ago laura muir remember setting up a personal best head of gemariki the brits both running 156. kate grace won 57-20 fabulous run that was ameltuka just oozes experience this fella now he had his breakthrough race here in monaco six years ago world championship silver medalist two years ago as well 144 already this year inside him was a seransky who would be the pacemaker he's not been asked for 49 dead that's very fast marco rob pan american games champion couple of years ago second in stockholm and a really good 144 the canadian clayton murphy the world number one third in hungary on tuesday 145 20 but uh the american champion and rio bronze medalist in great form patrick dobeck he's a 48.4 400 meter hurdler but he's world number two the polish champion this year big win in short so back in uh church off in late june 143.7 he shares that lane with nigel amos so experienced damos been around a long time now but short of racing how will he go here more of him in a minute emmanuel korea korea third in kenyan olympic trials he will be going to uh tokyo lane three shared by elliot giles third in stockholm on sunday and a personal best and then he won in hungary on tuesday and against a very strong field and bryce hopple fourth in the last world championships third in the us championships he too has got his ticket to tokyo it's his first race since those u.s championships some three weeks back now ferguson chariot rotates the winner in stockholm in a season's best but only fifth in hungary on tuesday he might have been tired there with only 48 hours to recover the world championship bronze medalist tool of france second in their championship shares lane one with his compatriot the french champion benjamin robert from uh a couple of weeks back in anger so the french gold and silver medalist from their championships lanes one and two nigel amos i mentioned he holds the meeting record at 141.89 that by amos was back in 2019 he has one 44 9 for 800 amos he is an extraordinary talent remember him taking the silver medal in london 2012 and he was uh what was he 17 years old then i think behind that world record of ruedesha so the pacemaker on the outside in the white cuts across 49 seconds for 400 is very very quick anything around 50 50.5 is normally okay of course the pack will be half a second or so down but this he's been asked for a very quick tempo here elliot giles back in sixth place at the moment for the brits behind rotic and uh coming into the straight the tempo going well second in stockholm in 144 losing confidence single file steve it's quick yeah very quick and those who like to get out harder up there are all uh leading career amos has gone in there then a bit of a gap now have they got it right in the front can they hang out there or of these guys here elliot giles if clayton murphy wrote inch and others are they going to judge it right but that's a big gap tim with just 250 to go around looks pretty strong at this point a rock then out in front amos in third in the green and they're looking strong still with 200 to run there's a lot of strength and experience in that pack clayton murphy fastest man in the world this year is a 351 miler he's in sixth at the moment elliot giles has run a recent 333 he's got 1500 meters strength but have they let the crap grow too big to these three surely all three won't come back to them as they drive for the line now rotates pushing hard in fourth place but look at amos he's in fine form and he's going to take this one down the outside amos is back and back with a bang 142.91 it's the fastest time in the world this year you cannot write this man off he's turning into a great racer maturing so well sounds a bit silly to say that when he's been around for well best part of a decade but steve he's had his ups and downs he's had injury problems too as nigel amos but that is another very very big win at just the right time and in a quick time too and to come back after a perfect uh tempo laid down by the pacemaker remember he's asked for 49 dead congratulations to sieradski 48-96 these three aren't you surprised how well they hung on yeah i i said you know iraq was looking strong the other two are right there with them though i'm so pleased though for amos you know he's as you said ups and downs he's a photographer's dream as well you know because the head-on shot you would have of this man every sinew strains here they're all working hard but look at him break these teeth the head back the arms pushing forward driving himself to the line nigel amos one of the great fighters down the home straight and then arrow trying to keep it going brave run for him for 700 meters the others are all finishing fast and finishing with good times as well but but nigel amos now is right back and he's back him with a real chance if he can run sub 143 like this he's got that in his bag and he's also got the experience of the games and we know he's the quickest of all of them over 400 flat so he has the finishing speed in a tactical race as well there's the result of that 800 amos korea arop the rest of them cast adrift rotich was trying to get back to that leading trio but the time's spectacular cedrova then this essentially her third attempt having passed it 491 failure then and then one failure already at 496. kaitlyn the only one that went clear at 490. the american winner of the american trials this the cedar over oh that's a good attempt no well i said she's uh one of the gold medal favorites or was only 10 russian athletes going to the olympics in track and field under the ana banner she is one of them every single one of the athletes they're taking being allowed to take be hoping to get amongst medals but i think she was definitely lazad's gay and as cinderova have been top of the tree no not this time so katie nunjot knows that it's just her now bradshaw went out at 470. stephanie at 480 sid rover at four essentially four ninety [Applause] ninja then third and final attempt for her for 96. [Music] as the competition won scenes it over failed twice this one a job a new personal best no no not to be 495 is her lifetime best it does top the world rankings she's delighted with her evening's work the us champion seven two years ago in darha at the world championships but i rather feel she'll go considerably better than that come tokyo yeah she looks happy with it doesn't she [Music] that's a name to the list of great champions here including stephanie sidalova who won it three years ago fabiana remember svetlana fiorfanova of russia one here in 2002 hating that job now [Applause] [Music] hercules [Music] we saw this a little earlier apologies [Music] this was stephanie 480. [Music] i'm just going back to the overall field if you like tim for in the pole vault i mean in the same way that your duplantis has and kendricks have helped get everybody watching but but you know he's he's a bit above everybody else at the minute and despite katie legend tonight you know there are still five six seven eight women who might think you know they're all balding 85 90 and higher i could win the gold medal even stephanie yeah it's wide open it's wide open sitting over her first attempt at 418 having had just two votes prior to this at 450 and 470 both of those successful first time clearances [Music] it's just a chance to see where the competition unfolded for the top three [Applause] which is just concluded that was her best height 480 first time she went on to take one attempt at 490. two attempts at 496 to try and catch the jot who had cleared 490 first time but a field brimming with cap quality sandy morris jumping on borrowed poles clear 450 in this competition herbals not arriving in the uh south of france safely katie najjot well steve she's adding achievements to her cv so does but you build confidence don't you an assuredness and consistency she's putting a layer upon layer to that yeah you're brad walker in a camp great set up now and that consistency is so important that's almost the thing that as you approach in the games would you want that more than anything rather than the one odd really good clearance i mean obviously it looks great when it says you've played a 495 or a 490 but if you're if you're hitting those heights regularly surely that's going to be better i mean we all know i mean look back to thiago brazil's olympics in in 2016 you know the one night when it all comes together can can win for you well that was her first time clearance at 490 which ultimately won the competition we've seen a few minutes earlier that she had three goes at 496. and now on the track the women's 1500 meters now chanel price has got an interesting job here because stefan hassan has asked for an incredibly quick 61 seconds i mean i've seen 800 races at decent meets for women not quite that quick uh more of that in a second faith kip jaegon the two great 1500 meter champions here world in olympic and kip on back to her best but hassan world record at 10 000 meters said yesterday i haven't even quite made up my mind i was going to do the 5 000 10 000 double at the olympics i'm running so well lord 1500 i love the 1500 it's my it's where a heart is if you like and that she says could i might even think about all three i think she's teasing there a little bit but let's see what she has in store tonight keep the aegon really i've been impressed with her the olympic champion coming back a great 800 meter race as well early in the season you may have watched that in the diamond league and then plenty of others there who are having great seasons corian mcgee and heather mclean who made the us team perhaps a little surprisingly but they are going i have to say this are going to be a long way behind through the first five hundred meters maybe eight hundred meters maybe the hallway who knows will kipp jaegon go with sifan hassan here will the two of them produce one of the greatest 1500 meter races we're likely ever to see let's find out well i remember indoors uh tim might and others watching might when cigar went out and she broke the world record indoors for 1500 meters off of 58 first 400 meters and then slowed down and then picked it up again at the end they're not quite asking for as quick as that but look at stefan hassan remember the days when she used to hang at the back and wait and see what happened not anymore this is a woman full of confidence in her own ability to go out hard and keep going and why wouldn't you if you've broken the world record for 10 000 meters let's just get out hard and see how fast i can go let's see if i can keep running 61 62 second laps so they're gonna go through the first 300 meters around about 45 they need and it's a little slower than that that's probably a good thing tim i reckon if they can set it up at about 2-4 at 800 for hassan then she's going to be going to be not too far away from the three the very low 350s well she's uh not taking any prisoners is she aegon has a daunting prospect here but she knows what the challenge is it's just to hang on to the coattails of her son and kippy aegon is a spectacularly successful racist team she always manages to outlast people over the last 200 meters she has the strength to uh out kick as sam i just wonder whether she has the strength to go with her through these middle stages of the race the second and third laps i think will be very telling hassan here herself struggling to stay with chanel price yeah hassan will be left out and hats off as well to the young ethiopian freeway who we didn't see or haven't seen too much of this year with 357 athlete herself she's latched on to the back of the sun and kept jaegon and so she's thought why not i'm going to get left in no man's land if i don't get onto them let's see how long i can hang on and that price just a little bit ahead of hassan who probably herself is thinking this is quick i just need to make sure it's not too quick kip jaegon right there halo there they're going to go through 800 i said they want to be aiming about 2-4 perhaps 23.55 almost perfect it is it's fast i got that lap up to uh two laps to go steve with a 62.2 so good steady running about 354 355 temp as they go through with 600 meters to run these three lead by probably 30 35 meters i'd love to see laura muir in this race in the form she's in but she will keep them guessing i think it looks like after that grade 800 earlier hassan won the world title with an incredible 351.95 that's the sort of time she's aiming at the world record is still that remarkable run by ganza de barber here in 2015 350.07 she's going to take the bell and an incredible 250 are there there abouts it would have to be a 60 last lap for a world record at 61 and bits for her to break a personal best but she's got to think about winning this now because kipp jaegon is right there hailu just starting to tire a little bit 300 to go hassan striking for home three six through 1200 meters almost unheard of but hassan gritting her teeth still looks like she's got more to give but has she got the pace kip jaegon just a stride behind ready to pounce if hassan falters in any way these two great champions the world champion the olympic champion together locked in battle running one of the fastest 1500 meters ever here in monaco and lee kip jaegon has got something extra and hassan's got no response and kept yeagon kicking into the home straight it's going to be absolutely superb kip yangon puts daylight between her and hassan watch the clock it's going to be just outside the world record 351.07 that will make her the fourth fastest of all time it's a world lead it's a big big big personal best but it's also a message to every other 1500 meter runner and it might just it might just have made up stefan hassan's mind about which event to take on at the olympic games and it might not be the 1500 because this woman looks absolutely unbeatable [Music] on our sans uh suggesting even that there was a possibility of doing the treble surely has just become a little less likely steve you're right this might have made her mind up i mean there's an ex a very clear acceleration there from aegon at 351 tempo it's absolutely fantastic i got their last three laps at 304.6 kip jaegon here has blown away her sand down the home straight now sand did all the work let's not just not acknowledge that failed to acknowledge that because she was a pacemaker effectively through that second half with a very difficult second half look how she goes past with these you know what i loved about this tim her reaction at the end she was running to win this race she was hanging onto her son like you said acting almost as a superb pacemaker then was like can i connect yes and get head down go for it go for the line win the race and only then she seems to be aware of how fast she was running because the clock was pointed out to and she ran over and a second celebration when she realized 3 51 0 7 uh of course uh a record a kenyan record not an african record of course because the world record is held by an ethiopian but kipp jaegon she's a lovely looking runner and that 800 pace that we saw right at the beginning of the season should have been a hint of what was to come and with hassan leading you out like that and then you're able to just kick hard faith keep ya going top of the world fifty one zero seven hassan with only a season's best three fifty three sixty hailu gets better again three fifty six twenty eight was tired she did commit hard a few seasons best uh behind there's your gold medal favorite for tokyo without a doubt and the fourth fastest time in history steve i mean it is spectacularly quick let's take a look at this men's high jump now jungle love it third attempt at 2 32. now love it deeply focused first time clearances 216 221 225 229 but has he met his match here oh that was a superb effort too from the canadian commonwealth bronze medalist three years ago his lifetime best 233 was only uh 10 days or so ago in montreal so it was asking a lot normally a soccer player says his favorite athlete is javier sotomayor there's a degree of logic to that when the cuban still holds the world record from that 245 jump back in 1993 but love it there goes out it's been a great come from him he has guaranteed himself second place that's a cow and two attempts at 229 and then saved one for 232 which he he failed i don't know if he mentioned tim but uh ivanya did retire [Applause] himself keeping himself involved great competition for him tonight but not you know what not quite the high jump we were expecting is it we were hoping we might get something specialized [Music] ago [Applause] jump good competition in stockholm in front of his uh home crowd improving his first the best a little bit on that occasion good jump from the swede now the bad news is uh we've had uh pulling out injured in the high jump and uh echovaria is a non-starter in the long jump so not quite sure why get some news on that i think it's fair to say that a lot of athletes as they approach these last couple of meets before the olympic games they're not going to take any chances we have like one or two withdrawals in the last 24 hours scenario is something that people are very well aware of as well everyone has to be tested as soon as they arrive in tokyo and uh nobody wants to get that far and find they've had a positive test or indeed risk any injuries so montclair good start from him tentacle champion see if he can respond kinda slightly punched style on his approach doesn't he european champion berlin seems so long ago now [Applause] championships 8 21 in the second round [Music] behind six centimeters between first and [Applause] second well just one event left on the track after this uh next straight sprint it's the penultimate race then men's 100 meters the athletes are battling for the crown of uh in the shadow of bolt's career 2017 he retired now seems a long time ago doesn't it torture philip of italy his last race was a 10 27 in madrid but he is a 9.99 performer at his best the italian beside him andre de grasse 9-9-0 his personal best that was in 2019 he was the bronze medalist in rio took the silver in the 200 there and one very impressively over 200 on tuesday in hungary with 19.97 there's ronnie baker second in the u.s championships in 985 baker the uh world number four this year he goes in three akane simbine in fabulous form a spectacular african record of 9.84 on tuesday in that uh meeting the south african goes in for travon bromell won the u.s olympic trials he's the world number one hasn't raced since those us championships comes here relatively fresh world indoor champion back in 2016 in portland over 16 meters quick start to watch him fred curley well he can't back up his mind what to do one hundred two hundred or four three or four hundred he was uh third in the u.s championships fourth in the 200 he's the bronze medalist though in the world championships 400. jacobs european indoor champion this year the italian he goes in lane seven watch him second in stockholm in 10-05 last weekend and jimmy vico equal european record holder remember with 9.86 although that was six years ago the frenchman's best this year 10.17 back in late april in jacksonville florida [Music] so the americans coming out here gloves off so to speak bromell and curly look for degrasse two over in lane two simbina in spectacular form in hungary on tuesday just three days ago he stepped up to a new level breaking that african record the previous record was held by fasuba and had been held since 2006. so tour to win one degrasse for canada goes in two watch him ronnie baker in three the winner in stockholm sabine goes in four the in four man bromell in five curly six jacob seven fico eight [Applause] that might have been zimbinate that might have been simbinate but on the near side jimmy vico as well oh that would be such a shame the african record holder up against the best of the north americans against the european record holder in v co oh that would be such a shame to see any disqualification here well it would but uh it was a very obvious uh jump from uh vico but you're right the other question is about i guess zambini whether it'll be one or two maybe one and it is vico i think steve you're right oh that's a shame effectively in front of the home crowd jimmy v disqualifies himself most recently a winner in marseille in a fairly modest 1036 hasn't really hit his straps yet this year his best he's the best there it is left a picture sees the best 10-17 as i said that's a enormous shame he he's got nothing to argue about tim um it was a very clear false start i mean he might be saying i thought you were holding us a bit longer but that's not the time to do it [Applause] well if you show somebody that you're disqualified and unless there's something technically not gone not happened there i'm pretty sure he can't run under protest so well jimmy v back in i've just scribbled right through his uh line his name and details but he's back in into the blocks for the second time then this men's 100 meters philippo torto of italy goes in one andre de grasse the olympic bronze medalist goes in two for canada ronnie baker goes in lane three simbina or south africa in four watch him in great form bromell and curly for the usa in five and six jacobs in seven vico and eight away this time spectacular start there from trayvon bramel it looked like full started almost but look at ronnie baker as well in three bakers running away with this one surely they can't get back through baker takes it by half a meter nine nine one dozen threading the meeting record of justin gatlin from six years ago 978 but it is quick nonetheless wow spectacular comfortable win steve against a really top field yes i mean he's for me is beginning to look like the one with a bit of authority the one thing you have to say about bromel you know he never comes to race in europe i think the last time he was here was actually when he got disqualified here in monaco it's not he stumbles out the blocks doesn't he but but he's such a good starter never really got hold of this race jacobs was coming but baker though got himself a good half meter sabine gets ahead of him you know you need to of course he's raced these guys before and that was always the thing for me with bromell you know if you want to be the world number one and you want to win the olympic games you've got to run in the circuit a bit as well you know because it's just a bit different it's cause it's different than running at home so baker who does we know starts wells but he's just at the top of his form at the right time again degrasse once more not too far away there's your winner baker nine nine one simbile nine nine eight jacobs nine nine nine that's a marvelous run from uh jacobs it's only a couple of clicks outside his lifetime best for the italians take third place against the field of that caliber aficionados have confirmed earlier 233 the canadian trials the third attempt he had to get over it to make the olympic team and he did it so he's obviously somebody who can produce the jump when he needs to at the right time he's in the position here where he could grab hold of this diamond league high jump as i said earlier it was a little bit disappointing tonight because we were hoping with the likes of tom barry certainly up into the mid 230s but nobody yet akimenko then [Applause] [Applause] had his three failures at 232 but his card was identical to akimenko's perfect up to the tweets went up to an including 229 and then three failures at 232 so love it went first failed his attempt akimenko in what is a sudden death situation definitely penalties in the high jump and um yes my uh my apologies i thought that was a we hadn't seen the third attempt of uh love it but um they jumped straight to the jump off as it were because the bar is still at the same height 232 had he not gone clear there thankfully he did we would have dropped the bar again but he's high fourth attempt essentially time [Laughter] absolutely yes and steve this an event that has a rather special history here in monaco the women's steeple chase the world record set here not too long ago that's the person who set it is in this race beatrice chuck three years ago 8 44 32 she's not in that sort of form at the moment but lots of other women on the world all-time list including kieng although she is just outside minutes nine point zero one that her personal best was back to 2016 bringing that really good form again emma coburn javi krauser all in actually has five of the world's top 11 of all time all in this race they see those names and they're going to go out pretty hard 259 they've been asked for emma coburn the world champion in 17 silver medal in 2019 would love an olympic medal to add to that uh winfred jarvie still just 21. prodigious child uh nearly said childhood almost was you know she changed allegiance when she was just 15. prodigious childhood yes it's a producer's young talent yes she produced well it's only had a couple of races so far this year but i think she's in good form as indeed as lizzie bird of the of great britain best over 1500 and the stupid chase this year lizzie bird based in colorado in boulder same as emma coburn multitude for most of the year so 259 for the first kilometer as i said with church toronto has been asked to go out but the problem here really is there's no pacemaker after that so i guess where the coach does what she just keeps doing she just cannot resist getting out there and running hard and kien has taken advantage of that beat her in the kenyan trials beat her again last week by letting chet koetsch burn herself out because even though her head might think she can still run in the well under nine minutes and their body's not quite up to it yet tonight perhaps a little different as chip coach allows kiang just to slot in behind the pacemaker javi coburn not too far away important racist steve for the us champion emma coburn she's looked very very competent this last few weeks a fabulous win at the us championship center pretty relaxed looking 909 and i think emma who is frustrated and not yet having broken that nine minute barrier we've got to remember that it is a a very very select group of athletes what some five athletes ever have broken nine minutes i think she's frustrated not to be a member of that club because her steeple chasing over what the last five six years or more has been absolutely superb and she's gradually chipped away at her best times and maybe this will be her year but this is a big test [Music] yeah and i think you know you always have to admire corbin because she always gives herself the chance doesn't she when she's in top shape she can stay with the pace occasionally she's going to drop off the last 600 or so but she's always going to give herself the chance that's how she became a world champion only for eric's of course right up there with her at the time and silver medal two years ago but you're right the it's a very competitive women's stupid chase we're looking at the minute chuck koch not ever going to run 844 we don't think kiang certainly capable of perhaps going under nine minutes can coburn match that and then krauser always just you know at the back they're never going to trouble oh and there's a fall oh and that may have been peru i think who purity kuru excuse me who was there leading the second group i'll check on that in a second but she's up on her feet lizzie bird and gregson uh negotiating their way around that but yeah i was about to say uh crows are happy at the back at the moment so then in this men's long jump now that's an 801 for gail coming in the third round over the no jump then sort of run through 656. this is fifth attempt that looks better that looks better [Music] gail good speed world champion of course the jamaican great height too [Music] he reaches for that one won the jamaican championships recently with 8 23 and then a winner in stockholm last weekend with a windy 855 just gives away a little ground on the board there but lovely technician [Applause] improved well the well stretched out in this women's stupid chase and why not because the pace has been good it's been strong and look at this kiang means business she's now thinking right okay i've taken over if you like it's the woman to beat and it's not about chet coach how hard she can go can you stay with me 258 was very good pacemaking by chirono just outside just inside 259 which was asked for keeping it going and as ever as we said coburn will throw herself in there she'll commit she'll go with it she'll hang on as long as she can check coach just sitting off it a little bit and javi these the big four surely these four all will be thinking in tokyo they've got a chance it's keying at the minute setting the pace steve the early pace was fairly modest it slowed in the second and third laps and in fact krauser who's quite a way down after the first 400 or 600 was able to close up on them and then the pacers it's sort of see-sawing at the front it speeded up again here we go into the second half of the race and trousers had to let them go it's been a strange race with what appears to be inconsistent lapse yeah i i think it's more that crowds are really committed with these i mean the 258 first kilometer you know that's that's 8 55 pace so you know assuming you finished quick as well so you know kiang is keeping that going here and i think just krause had kind of went with it because she's run nine nine recently our third fastest ever and thought yeah let's give it a go like cobra and just see what happens but what's happened is she can't keep going at this place i think it's just slowed a little now kieren coburn chap coach yarby four of them knocked together coburn just as ever good technique through the water jump just landing in front but let's kian come round again oh she's been in this position many times coburn 2017 world champion which looks strong who's confident i think kian's really tested so yeah you're right that first kilometer was super fast it's just the pace has been inconsistent as kian goes through that with three laps to run back to this uh long jump competition and kevin meyer the world record holder in the decathlon having a little uh run out in this one jump out i should say that's a shame no jump for meyer he opened for 7 33 then a no jump and then a 7 35. [Applause] that's another no jump for mine that's [Applause] frustrating he's a bit of a legend of course the world decathlon champion in 2017 world record holder on the european indoor head tattling title in march he's wintered well that one from meyer looked about 7 25 7 30. didn't it [Applause] no jump [Music] not a happy fella well this is set up nicely if they can muster a bit of a finish here because they went through 2k right on six minutes 6-1 for colburn and look talking about mustering a finish kiang's not going to leave it to chance here she realized that the other three were sitting on her and kieng having allowed them to bunch now wants to get it moving again but look at colburn not letting her get away too easily and she knows tim talked about she was so desperately wants to get under nine minutes she's within range here but she's got to finish strong and we'll have to have a big last lap if she's to get close to nine minutes but kyung striking out still over 600 to go yes brave running from king isn't it a little stutter at that barrier she's feeling the pressure too but she looks to be running almost with an urgency she's desperate to get away from the others not leaving to uh make it a kicker's race i like this sort of distance racing i like the honesty of it and keying the water jump for the month pronouncement time skips over that one coburn has been dragged clear of the others though if she can just maintain this tempo coburn for the next 500 meters she's gonna take some important scalps and she's running quick as well because at the front kien she was the olympic silver medalist last time the bell rung at the right time this time sounds for her 7 45 or stutters really badly there now did she misjudge it she slowed right down to him i just wonder whether she misjudged the lapse here completely because that looked like an athlete sprinting to me and was disappointed to hear the bell surely she couldn't have got it that wrong she's completely gone here and coburn senses it 300 meters to go the american chasing kiang down what with all of the experience she has how has she got this wrong i know i don't know steve i don't think there was a bell wrong this time coburn went through the bell in exactly 7.50 she's got to cover this last lap in 70 seconds to get under nine minutes has she got the win in her sights here kiang rallying it's very very tough running this from the canyon kiang finds something she's had to respond both mentally and physically just at the wrong time she had that within a grasp and she can't pick it up well drama everywhere in the stupid chase both men and women's and coburn when perhaps she had the chance to get close to nine minutes has to watch as kiang for the second time sprints for the line [Applause] completely tired completely spent but she has enough to get over the line in 9-3 jeff koetz takes second ahead of yarvey and coburn finishes in around 9-8 after hitting the deck with full force in that water jump well what a couple of races we've seen there the bell rang on the wrong lap for the men kiang misjudged it herself in the women's race unbelievable performance set to come back and win it though steve i can hardly believe that shades of evan jager in the paris diamond league somewhat five six years ago when he fell at the final barrier when he had a sub eight minute performance in his sights and koban slaps the track there in frustration well she's normally so good tim especially on the water jump you know in the hurdling through just wonder whether i need to go back and just check whether she went off on the other leg just seemed to misjudge what did of course she misjudged it but you have to say that kiang rallied in fine style and a 9-3 clocking when you've when you've pretty much kicked harder within the penultimate lap and then found somebody right on your shoulder they fall you've got to keep going but the only thing for coburn is she knows it's close but you don't get too many opportunities dude don't get too many you don't but if she's not injured her pride is hurt it's frustrating but tokyo is still dangling a national record for lizzie bird of great britain in seventh place lots of good times behind but kiang big win despite all the problems there well let's take a look at the final three build up in this men's long jump competition coming into the uh sixth round tentoglou is in third place this is him in round two the greek the european champion from 2018 has been in fabulous form this year european indoor title in toronto with 8 35 back in march the greek title just recently with 848 that one 8 21 the best of his first five rounds tobias over sweden european indoor not only this year but back in 2019 he was silver medalist as well his best coming in round two with eight 27. touch a gail we'll see if he saved his best till almost last round five this was gail coming down at 8 29 reigning world champion just easing into the lead with that fifth round effort and they will jump in that reverse order tentoglou third place up to five rounds then montclair second place with run one round to go and then gail suddenly jump off it is glue will be the first to go all eyes on them all events are finished except this long jump final three monthler has uh suffered at the hands of this format a couple of years ago actually last summer wasn't it stockholm when it was trial for one of the first times a good week or so for him just improving his personal investment complications not by much a couple of centimeters each time 827 for him except mistake eight centimeters between these three men but those marks do not count now about what they do here i mentioned earlier [Music] has really been in such good form [Applause] [Music] [Applause] as well here he goes eyes on the board and then the head lifts and away goes now does he get the white flag he does and that might just be a decent mark to lay down won't be far off his best of the competition just watch there how he just lifts there and then the big stretch comes because he knows he's hitting the board well [Music] it is his best to the competition what a time to do at 8 24 for tentogly [Applause] the european champion gives the others something to think about here particularly montclair that's right on the edge of his ability we know tajay gayle has a happy knack in producing the big jumps just when he needs to can he do it again here the first month so here's modler third in the stockholm in 823. on sunday has been in fine form he's a 10.49 sprinter of course there's a strong correlation between the sprint speed and the potential as a long jumper [Applause] that was a personal best at 8 23 in stockholm from one player target 8 24. a new personal best from the swede oh it looks big that's a shame that's an enormous shame because that looks big how well it's a fairly big foul what does he six or eight centimeters into the plaster scene there but nonetheless it was a big jump i suspect from takeoff to landing a personal best which is what was required [Music] so he will finish no better than third one he's whittling away isn't it isn't it tonias who's still the swedish record holder and that you're right tim i think had that been legal it might have been another personal best but of course had that been legal is the key thing eight 24 to beat in this final three round he's just so calm and cool sometimes uh to his own disadvantage he almost didn't make the final in gohan straight through and then he's superb in the final and he's been doing that all year can he do it again here again the world champion from jamaica final jump that might be a red and it wasn't far enough anyway it is indeed a red so the world champion in similar fashion to rojas has to give way in the final three set up tentoglu will take the victory he does indeed yes with that uh final round 8 24 the best of his series and all credit to the greek for raising his game with that one final opportunity something neither of his rivals could do when they were stretching it all three of them jumped big it's a very unforgiving discipline you have to keep behind the front edge of the marcus dendi by the way in fourth place was 799 and rusev south africa fifth with 795. only those first three going beyond eight meters although a long way beyond it [Music] so montler coming second there and the diamond league will head back to britain on tuesday with gabby and all the team live from gateshead from 6 30 on bbc two they'll then move over to the iplayer from 9pm for an athletics forum looking ahead to the olympics featuring some special guests and of course tokyo is just two weeks away coverage begins on friday the 23rd with the opening ceremony live looking further ahead the diamond league is back live from eugene on august the 21st on bbc four from nine pm and away from athletics don't forget it's the women's final at wimbledon tomorrow our coverage begins at 1pm and as if i need to remind you for the first time in 55 years england men are in a final of a football major they play italy on sunday build up begins on bbc one at 6 20. now one of the most impressive performances of the night of course was britain's laura muir in the 800 meters let's watch it again with steve kram and tim hutchins yeah take a mesa well she will go through if she doesn't slow down in about 55 seconds it's not good pacemaking at all and that's very disappointing there we go 54.8 57 had been asked for that's a very very disappointing indeed for the for almanzo and the rest of the pack really well they've all committed to but in slightly different ways almanzo run a very hard first 200 ghoul now right on her back she was just outside 56 seconds through 400 kate grace moving up he said trying to hang on to the rest of them laura muir gritting her teeth nakai a little way back at the moment but she will finish strongly but look at natoya ghoul the jamaican has really struck for home here she's talked about how much confidence she's been getting from her racing in 2021 a little bit from last year as well but is this a little early kate grace as we see our mans are just going backwards gemma ricky and laura muir the two scots now trying to attack around the outside and latoya ghoul looks as though she's just starting to tie up a little bit but they're all tight in here it's ghoul grace ricky muir trying to look for a little bit of room now gonna have to check out and go wide and try and get master teammate and laura here's gonna get there the 1500 strength is showing laura muir with a massive personal best and that for her might be something which might make her think about a decision a couple of days ago was it the right decision i think she'd probably still say yes that's not far off the british record what an impressive performance wasn't it from laura muir in the 800 meters quite an emotional night for the scot and her training partner of course gemma ricky not far behind her either it was a very surprising performance from her after she decided not to compete in that discipline in tokyo instead it'll be alexandra bell who'll take her place but a first for laura muir in the 800 meters so joy from her and big hugs from her training partner gemma ricky too now on a warm night in monaco with great conditions for the small crowds to watch on as world record holder carsten varhom broke his own meeting records in the 400 meters he wasn't able to improve on his time but he gave the crowd first place in the 400 meters hurdles it was a win just for shawnee miller weibo pushing shelly and fraser price into third place for the 200 meters while the fast track surprised even laura muir the brit with a personal best for the 800 meters gemma ricky not far behind her so that's it from a fascinating night in monaco we'll see you in gateshead on tuesday [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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