London 2017: Day 2 Evening Session

of day two here at the 2017 I double AF World Athletics Championships we have already seen some great moments here in the Olympic Stadium five years on from the Olympic Games of 2012 a new track but it is just as fast as the one that witnessed so much drama so much heartache and glory and tonight the Jamaican flags will be waving for the man who says goodbye to the sport he has lit up for the last decade Usain Bolt will be coming out on track very soon for the semi finals and then all being well the final and maybe the last individual gold medal of a glittering career this is where the individual excellence comes to a close and then it will just be the relay for him next week [Music] so many people packed into the stadium and many still making their way in towards their seats this is what we've got coming up tonight then three semi finals in the men's hundred we've got two super competitive semi finals in the women's 15 finals for the men's discus throwers the big men and a long jump South African hoping to make a piece of history we've got the third installment of heptathlon drama the men's 100 meter final and the women's 10,000 meter final and if it's half as good as the fabulous farah from last night then we're in for another treat alongside me in the commentary box this evening Peter Mathews Catherine Mary and Steve over all four of us are really looking forward to the drama this evening in no particular order who who's looking forward to what the most well of course I'm going to be following the heptathlon I'm not saying looking forward to the most we've got some fantastic finals but the head captain will be the first action we see and we have already had a scintillating morning from the favorite Olympic champion nappy tiem although she only has an eight-point lead over Rodriguez of Cuba attention to look forward in that event and the fields packed as well isn't it but in particular the men's discus it's going to be an absolute cracker Malakoff skis they're Harting to their stalls there as well in Sweden and stalls going into the world top 10 now of all time and the weather partly cloudy here this evening but at the moment Steve the sun is shining and that's what we like and we've we see the athletes in the warm-up area that makes a massive difference doesn't it for the athletes because tonight's program goes quite late so we want it to stay as warm as possible especially for that man there by the same vault just relaxing taking photographs at the moment well that's the that's the race everybody's waiting for obviously that hundred meters and we all hope that this man can pull it off yet again he is so relaxed I think there's no question really he's in great shape obviously great ten thousand meters later on with the Tourister barber and now there's a yarder to clash there's the man that might upset look at Africa Justin Gatlin well as the American got the sort of form that he needs I'm not sure he has he has five successive Silver's behind bolts on the global stage surely if he was ever going to beat Usain it would have been two years ago in Beijing when he was ripping up tracks running nine seven and nine eighths and he couldn't beat him despite the fact that he was in much better shape so I don't think it will be Gatlin Catherine ders Blake have a chance well I didn't show us anything in the heats myself and Steve we were debating whether he was just being a little bit cautious and potentially a bit lazy or is he not in the shape that we thought is the world number two this year so the semi-finals are going to show us everything cart they and your litt you're looking at this guy here of as a potential outside chance of a medal as well the South African maybe yes although the issue for symbian a despite the fact that he's been super consistent in running subtends on multiple occasions this year all of his good times have come way back towards the spring and he didn't look particularly impressive in qualification nonetheless there is an opportunity and what will Kristian Coleman produce he's so inexperienced he's the fastest man in the world this year but do you read much significance into the fact that he got tight in the US trials and lost to Gatlin by three hundredths there comes a point in every athlete's career when you hope the penny drops it could drop for Kristian Coleman here he's lining up against Usain Bolt in the third semi-final that's going to show us a lot later [Music] well this morning we had a marvelous start to the heptathlon not least by this young lady for 22 year old naffy TM of Belgium the Olympic champion started off with a decent hurdles 13 54 and they're thrilled the crowd with some high jumping she got right up to one metre 95 but she was matched on that in fact iose lightly surprised athlete this young lady go Gilles Rodriguez who set personal bests at 189 and then went on to 192 and 195 what a fantastic breakthrough and she's just eight points behind TM in the standing the great surprise of the high jump of course was that Katrina Johnson Thompson failed at 186 and that height was cleared by Carolyn Shaffer of Germany very solid consistent competitor she's warming up for the shot there it looks like who also matched her personal best at 186 she lies third to 165 points that's just a 40 odd points behind the top two and then there's a bet a big gap behind those three those three are for me the favourites but of course in a heptathlon a lot can happen with five events still to come two of them this evening we're going to start with the shot and there's Nadine Visser who was the best hurdler and the very first event this morning at the invisi clocking 1285 in the heptathlon 100-meter hurdles getting some last-minute advice on the shot put one of her weaker events I have to say she's had a good run and we'll see how she fares she'd fought 2088 points the long jump also a big event on the field and this man man younger the world leader this year looked very good in qualifying not a lot of athletes that you produced their best results in that long jump so we'll have to wait and see really because I think the conditions or maybe even the run-up wasn't to their liking and when this man gets a jump in he can really lift everybody [Music] the heptathlon shop but they're in two groups most of the best competitors are in Group A so they start with that better and Shaffer who we've already seen and also look out there for TM seventh in the order Bresson's had a good start the Dutch have got a good collection of kept athletes the young Ukrainian the youngest in the field Alena shook on the World Youth for the last year no no GMO perhaps the most experienced but had a relatively poor start to this competition so that's group a there are in fact altogether 30 competitors we've lost louder Ignacio at Medina who pulled the hamstring in the hurdles so she won't be competing Rodriguez this exciting young Cuban goes fought in the order in this second pool and Vissel who we also saw lying overall in 4th place is also completing the lineup in group beef they'll each have three throws measured of course against the international scoring tables as usual so about five minutes away then from that start of the shotput and we're also beginning our track action underway in a moment as well justin gatlin goes in the first of the three semi finals along with ben youssef mighty very useful athlete from the Ivory Coast who made the Olympic final last year Gatlin looking relatively relaxed he's been around for such a long time now Nick he's 35 years of age as catherine was saying bolt goes in the bird julian fought barely cameras focusing in on him next to justin gatlin bolt goes into third and in the second we have Yohan Blake and Christopher Belcher Justin Gatlin's season's best is nine point nine five as we were saying a few minutes ago that is by his standards quite slow coming into a championship certainly but odds with what is produced in Rio and Beijing but he is a great performer on the big stage and he will want to push the big man close well now the shot thought would be the first to get underway and the first thrower in the a group will be Anouk Vetter now she's lying ninth overall 2019 points but a shot is a very good event for she has already fought exactly 16 metres this season just two of the competitors at best at 16 meters or more the other being antoinette nada Jima EDA and and it varies to only just over 12 metres but Vetter will be seeking to add very useful points to her to event standing of 201 9th and that in itself is 196 points behind the lead TM when we come to her well she's got a vest indoors of 1535 D 24 outdoors so first put of the woman's shop foot in the heptathlon the third event is a cattle and competition well there's lines drawn there at 14 meters and 16 meters and this was probably just a little short of the 15 meter area so a decent start for Vetter although some way short of that personal best this is an appointment which will certainly be looking for an excellent to a point score must be measured at the moment by the electronic data measuring equipment and quickly that will be translated into points when we get the couch [Music] better waiting just to see what that distance will be longer than usual in fact she's gonna be followed by one of the other favorites Carolyn Schaeffer he's got the best just under 15 meters unexpectedly long time in getting that measurement sorted out at the moment slightly anxious moments as cific make sure they've actually recorded the mark probably trust they have as we're still waiting for that they said shaker will be next TM will be seventh in the trailer holder and then Rodriguez goes in the other group bring the score one we can get it meanwhile we prepare for the first of the three semi finals and the men's 100 meters that is a Carney Symbian 1/5 last year in Rio Julian for right of picture there James Stasi Oulu alongside him Jones the solo European champion back in 2014 but it's gambling and perhaps ben youssef mighty outside Gatling to his left the man from the Ivory Coast who also made the Olympic final last year [Music] five consecutive global silver medals behind Usain Bolt for Justin gas 995 he's here to put the big man under pressure in the final you same bolt of course the world record holder the fastest man in the world this year his Christian Coleman he goes in that third semi final alongside Usain Bolt here's how it works then of course across the three heats it's the first two plus two fastest losers overall the lineup for the first of three semi-finals for the men's 100 meters Justin Gatlin in six wants to give himself every opportunity for one last attempt to beat Usain Bolt in tonight's final first he's got to get there he starts in six [Applause] absolutely packed in here again tonight how could it not be for the curtain coming down on the individual career of the greatest sprinter that's in being a into the South African really good performer but has he already peaked this season Oscar Cambridge got a real a silver with the Japanese quartet last year then listen to the reception for Great Britain's former European champion James toss Iowa he will know this quality outside him Julian for equal his PB with 999 in the heat looked really good the Jamaican second in their chance justin gatlin from the united states one of the most consistent performers over the last five or six years he will not be intimidated by crowd or opponent then use of my teeth the really really nice guy spoke to him after the Rio Olympics he said making the final was my gold has he changed that mindset he's been excellent this season maybe he can get in the shake-up of the medals cook young Kim four times a Korean national champion knocked out in the heats last year in Rio he's already gone better gen-y easy got a real a silver as part of that Chinese quartet farms home turf in Beijing two years ago [Music] Symbian a Cambridge da solu port gatlin mighty Kim G that's in being a the South African he's in to watch Gatlin in six matey of the Ivory Coast in seven first of the three semi-finals only the first two guaranteed a place in what could be one of the most memorable 100-meter finals of all time [Applause] and it's a fairly even start Akari Savino going well on the far side and now justin gatlin coming through with mighty closing in as well and Simbi mate gets there 1006 what a run on the far side while we were talking about the fact that he may well a peaked earlier this season that was an excellent run from the South African rounded down to 10:05 Gatlin just getting the nod I think ahead of 90 Gatlin second at 10:09 so ben youssef mighty will have to wait to see if he can go through as one of the two fastest losers he's been running quick times consistently all throughout this season well he's answered the questions he didn't peak in May he's ready to go great run from him really he never was headed good start there he is furthest from us on the inside lane there short strides to get going Justin Gatlin I thought was very slow at the blocks and looks really a little bit sluggish at the moment if she's gonna challenge bolt in the final but you can just see they're relaxed Sabini coming through günther tape you can't ask for more than that in 100 meters and I think Gatlin even though he's gone through there I think he'll be disappointed with that we've seen him strutting and puffing his chest out in previous semi-finals he did enough but only just well we saw in there hates that to some of the athletes were holding back I think in the semi finals here we're seeing the true colors if that's the case that just the gap that really is as you say Rob not in the sort of home we would want to be in I don't think first to to go through so he was living very dangerously there at some stages gettin in making the final impressive running from the South African your IT was never headed it was a good staff you britannians day james dance a look at Gatlin remember as Steve mentioned it was just the top - so he got himself in a qualifying position but he had to work hard for that the American Idol symbian a well that was impressive wasn't it Brandis own race the form to London we questioned whether he could do it and he's now in the World Championship final I thought Gatlin was tight there so a car nice in Binay and Justin Gatlin will be in tonight's final matey and fourth we'll have to wait and see surely they'll be quicker men for the fastest looser spots in the second and third semi-finals well now back to the heptathlon that's the standings after the two morning events TMAO rodriguez over 2200 Shaffer Visser Johnson Thompson and Vetter there in ninth place and in fact her opening foot did come through eventually on the measurement and that was the 1392 so that's the full standings there of the competitors in this event big field 30 athletes left in having just lost the Latvian to hamstring fall in the first event [Music] there we are that was bettors distance a little less than I thought actually that 1392 but now we can look at one of the other favorites the third placer overall after the two events the very consistent German Carolyn Schaefer well she's got a personal best in this a discipline of 14 meters 79 and see whether she can get close to that [Music] that's pretty good again I do admire this athlete she's so consistently good performance she never seems to have a poor event not particularly brilliant in any of the individual disciplines but just solid throughout and that must challenge her personal best see there from the delight of expression on her face yeah it's confirmed it is a new personal best 1484 and she's still well in contention then for a major medal back now to this fascinating semi finals this is the second of those and we have perhaps one of the favorites going in lane four new Yohan Blake of Jamaica well we were arguing in the heats where the Blake was in the sort of form that he could produce a result and he didn't really show it he's got a second chance there in the semi-final we'll have to wait and see on his outside sandy brown from Japan had a marvelous run in his qualifying and a lot of people are saying this is the new talent coming through it's a big part for a young man to come through these days old sunny velvet us wait and see but indeed there is in lane two of Liberia the African bonds members that for two out of eight is dropping down to the shorter distance here but he has run ten one nine this year just on his outside Alex Wilson of Switzerland transferee from Jamaica soda can opens honestly I've got this man I suppose in a different best but here's the man there's the contingent of Jamaicans waiting obviously for the success but this man was really impressive in qualifying he won his heat too and if this is something that's going to go through to the final in Tokyo 2019 might have something very better the weights bingen soup of China also very very strong one heat one [Applause] Johnny Harvey I've turkey another transferring from Jamaica Jamaica in one way or another I've got quite a few members in this semi-final because I'm a voucher in the United States he was jumping around looking very nervous before the start pumping his chest yet again then experience really the man himself into the team the third place at their championships and then obviously a big favorite from the local crowd least Fred Phoebe in the heat dropping down from 1009 to 1003 ETD Wilson Blake sunny brown sue Harvey belch up Prescott just to to go through it's very very cutthroat a lot of nervous tension now in the second semi-final [Music] their right flank got a good stop sunny bouncy not runny my brother's bike is running on the outside but TV gaga 10:04 very very country windy well on the inside there I think Prescott may have just got through to the Florida we'll have to wait and see break back from the Britney but play really showed his true form in this semi-final prevent write about it in the eights yes he got a good start this time diddly but the crowds attention now is on this man Reese Prescott a local man who came through very strongly a very tall taffey built guy and he got second place there in 10025 and he is through our bothers run for Blake Dred Scott just outside his first offense coming through in the end that's some impressive performance he and semi-final Nell for that man he's gone from strength to strength this young British man full of races before he started to take the sport seriously sorry Scott through to the final but look at the replay we questioned well some of us questioned Yohan Blake yesterday in terms of what form he had but look at that Steve he started he's delivered is the turnover and the snap quite they're not at the moment but it might be in the final but look at press calling the outside to run from the young britain the 21 year old great run for christophe but as you see there it was a massive start they're really from blake he got a meter or so on everybody else we never saw that in the heats and that's what he's good at that power start he hung on there you can see sue there are China died at the end of Prescott just coming through there on the outside late for that second place well he's now the 8th British man to make a World Championship final 3 spread Cod absolutely superb but Yohan Blake slow is labored as you like yesterday back with the 1004 twin only a - naught point to win so maybe not the fastest of times would expect so far in the first two semi finals we have no real sort of but dipping under the 10 seconds so far at week and that's good for someone like Bob because if Bo can run nine eight for something in the final then I think that's gonna be good enough from what we've seen so far I think it's playing in two bolts hands with the one caveat that he is in the third semi-final that the fastest man in the world this year but what a stage but Christopher Coleman to try and take on new same bolt it is absolutely packed here but it's all playing into bolts hands from what we've seen so far surely this third semi-final we're going to see something here and what I mean by that is this is a huge opportunity for the youngster the new professional in the Athletic circuit of Christian Coleman to potentially deliver a huge performance in a semi-final against the guy who is trying to dethrone in just a couple of hours time Christian Coleman the world leader from the USA when he'll start in lane for that Usain Bolt the man that's done everything the man that has everything will start in lane number six it's gonna be fascinating this because what we've seen like you say Rob in the first two semi-finals has been nothing special with the no disrespect to any of the other athletes the spikes say forever on will at this moment in time but of in fact in a Blake walked out of that semi pardon with a bit of a bounce in his stride as if to say well I'm actually getting into shape because I think in the heat he was really down the Americans share on Damen Row one of the very best shot for Jesus as evidenced by that personal best of 1562 she goes with her first foot already saying that personal best by shaper oh that's the best we've seen yet it's possibly over 50 meters but burn Rhoda is well she's well down she's only 20 first understandings with 1907 points after the first two events of the heptathlon she said he needs a good shot to move her way up and she does and that's the best so far 15 meters 14 a Christian over had a good couple of verse first events she's like six 2028 but again she is a 15-meter shop footer at best again one of these athletes who is very consistent across the whole range of heptathlon disciplines just think staying on balance simply circle there and it again it's midway between those two center lines drawn at fourteen meters and fifteen meters so she's pleased with her start opportunity to course to improve in the next two throws throughout a pointer to but that's what she was looking for and a season's best 1482 her credit now then it's the turn of Daffy satu known as just now feat TM good personal best 1535 did that indoors also has done an outdoor foot well over 15 meters she leads the competition the Olympic champion the twenty two-year-old third on the all-time list very tall just again holding a balance there are as an excellent start very good start there for Tia and she really is excelling she started today with a hurdles in 1354 she then did one meter 95 in the high jump which is her best event and now she's got the shot foot to add to that 1517 takes her over 3,000 points already [Music] so the third and final semi-final in the men's 100 meters target of Japan will start in lane number 2 [Music] every safer bars representing Turkey a transferee from Jamaica 1022 to qualify for this semi-final but here's the world leader with 9.8 two seconds 21 year old Christian Coleman dipped under 10 seconds 6 times this season Andrew Fisher from Bahrain another transferee from Jamaica he'll line up to Lane number 5 between Christian Coleman's and the greatest of all time the roar for Usain Bolt there's only two individual races potentially left in this man's career 11 World Championship golds 8 Olympic golds looking for one more before me retires CJ pooja from Great Britain and Northern Ireland is in good form this year the British athletes just missed the place in the Olympic final last year he's ready and bouncing in lane number 7 and then Jimmy because of France the co holder of the european 100-meter record with francis abba Quileute 986 at his best under 10 seconds this season in lane number 9 green of Antigua and Barbuda at Florida State University the 21 year old occupies lane number nine in semi-final number three there's you full lineup top two guaranteed a place in the final at 9:45 UK time tonight the crowd goes silent the Jamaican contingent is massive in the London stadium tonight they've come to see their man Usain Bolt aim to make another and his last or championship final [Applause] as a clean start Coleman out reasonably well in lane number 4 boats go to get away to do at the Merman Christian Coleman's lead to his left Kristian Coleman looks to his right unofficially nine point nine seven seconds well the American he got a good start the world leader he's admitted in previous races and a couple of losses in the last two years to Justin Gatlin that he hasn't got it right mentally he's now turned professional he started like an absolute bollocks nine point nine seven seconds that's what it's come out officially the new same valves looking at the screen because at the moment they've put up the top four places and he's not on the board at the moment but we can assure everybody is right now he's wrong second don't worry everyone Usain Bolt is definitely in tonight's final did what he needed to do a little bit of a slow start from bolt came through nicely and then there was a a little bolt on Drake grass moment where they were looking at one another we're still waiting for ticks but Katherine that was impressive from Christian Coleman because there were question marks over whether he'd have the temperament not the talent for an occasion as big as this I thought he conducted himself well in that semi-final he did and he's got to do it again at 9:45 UK time when it really matters he got out wonderfully well didn't he but look at bolt it's a lot left in the tank there from the Jamaican Jimmy Vico was dipping with Britain CJ you jur looking for a time obviously we want to non automatic qualifiers and Jimmy Vico well he's plot 10.09 second beating CJ you J by 3/100 and that 1009 will get him through into the final yeah along with Bing chance you and I think actually Steve and I were just talking before you were commentating there Catherine it's a mark of how open the battle is for the medals that 10:09 and Tenten is been good enough to go through as a fastest loser in previous worlds and Olympics you'd have been looking at nine nine five nine nine six to go through as a fastest loser doesn't mean the standards any worse though it's cool conditions slide head when sometimes as well this is not a conducive to very fast times I think the most important thing about that race was calm and run almost of the line almost the bolt is down slightly calm and just looked across at one stage and saw that yellow vests coming up and I think that's gonna be a big big worry when it comes to the final and what will be interesting is the lane draw for the final at quarter to 10:00 tonight UK time because there was Fischer the bahraini an asset was between these two athletes this time what's gonna happen at 9:45 is that the rest of the world once again are going to try and come and beat the greatest of all time it's that classic situation I think with Coleman is that he'll probably be in front there's like he starts faster the vault I think but will he tense up when he sees both start coming at him in the last 20 meters or so we will see because the final will be set later and there's your two automatic qualifiers Christian Coleman and Usain Bolt 9 97 and 998 only two athletes in the semi finals that went under the 10-second barrier and there's confirmation the USA at the moment going into the final heading the two Jamaican athletes wonderful running from recent Prescott from Great Britain and Northern Ireland Gavin's their V goes there for 210 UK time the men's 100-meter finals [Music] so from the fast guys on the track to the discus throwing strong men of the field the men's discus throw final that's Mason Finley of the USA an Olympic cyclist last year but this is the guy who's looking for world gold Daniel store of Sweden 71 meters and 29 this season's the world leader andreas Casillas yes 26 years old over 68 meters Lithuanians and his good cancer this is his eighth World Championships he's got a full set of World Championship medals a 38 year old federalists of Cyprus Commonwealth Games silver medalist in 2014 Olympic finalist in Rio trickle of Jamaica an astonishing improvement in his first year as a senior five years ago but is a three-time world champion Robert hearting of Germany Simon president of Sweden just under 65 metres this world championship season [Music] Robert Irvine X of Poland the bronze metal two years ago in Beijing looking for more the same here in London Newcastle by shedding of Austria six at the Rio Olympics last year sixty three and a half meters to qualify for this final vedric Dacres of jamaica having a great season the jamaican one of the athletes in a hunt for a medal in this men's discus throw the pointer Malakoff steep the defending world champion fit on the all-time list and to me rounding into shape at the right time actually liner for 12 athletes for the men's discus throw final really should be a good battle the defending champion Malachowski parting the three-time world champion style of sweden now in the top ten of all time will be starting very very shortly this could be a clash of the generations there as we now look at Katrina Johnson Thompson open with a pretty modest 1201 all we know is she's had some difficulties with their throws with the mais last year got much better well then he is better still not really approaching her personal best which is 1301 but not the catastrophe almost that was they seen when she was throwing last year but of course she has got that very very disappointing high jump at only clearing her opening height of 1 meter a tea shop with a week event for her she'll end the evening I trust in good form with the 200 meters who's possibly even the best in the field at that and has improved to 12 47 now Rodriguez the Cuban buying second after the first two disciplines after brilliant high jumping now in the shot she started with a fairly modest foot 1249 she has gone over 14 meters and that's better because it's getting close to the 14 meter line still a what a little way short because she certainly moved in to medal contention with the absence of akane etsy at the renina and johnson thompson the low form and Rodriguez with a super start in the hurdles and above all the high jump with those three personal bests so this is an improvement yes 13 45 she's now up to 2 9 6 4 points I look better in the first round she was a little below par really at 1392 and she's a 16 meter putter exactly that this year as her seasons vest oh that's better yeah that looks like a 15 meter foot the best we've seen of course being a T Armand de Monroe getting over 15 meters and better as the third athlete I think that is over that distance so far check on the distance as we look again good polish technique by better which is not big for a shot butter but she's got good technique rewarded with 1509 she stays in fourth place so the opening throws the men's discus throat final Finley Mason Mason Finley excuse me Finley first throw in the final oh well that's an impressive Road from Finley his personal best is 66 meters and 72 which he set last year so the American the US champion this year through just on the 65 meters to qualify [Music] has opened up with a very good throw indeed twice now the US Champion well indeed he should be pleased Mason Finley 60 707 opens the final with a personal best good Sears the Lithuania for the speed early this Ward's the left of the sector everybody chasing that early throw the opening throw of Mason Finley would see us the lithuanian looked around about 67 and a half meters is thrown over 68 meters three times this season our 67 meters and 52 he now stops himself into the early lead in the men's discus final [Music] canter the Olympic champion back in 2008 medals from five World Championships just missed one though a couple of years ago in Beijing opening his account 63-61 to qualify for this discus final who's eight world champs now he's gonna drop just over there or around the 60 meter line for his opener [Music] Estonian Post Office issued a stamp in his honor this guy has been such a stalwart of discus throwing a world-class level just for Estonia but for the world of athletics so it's gonna be around the 60 meter line with his first throw 59 meters and 72 the semi finals are done and the big man and the rest of the fielding that men's 100 meter final back to the warm-up area for just a little bit of time to tick over you don't really do much between semies and finals when it's so close on a timetable you're warm you stay warm you're relaxed then you get your mind ready well please don't go out wherever you are in the world you only have to wait about another 1 hour and 10 minutes to watch the very last individual race of Usain Bolt's career now to the first of the semi finals in the women's 1500 meters and this is arguably one of the most competitive events of the 2017 either Belaya world championship conservador barber world record holder the defending champion Olympic silver medalist she goes in this one this is brutal qualification as it always is in the 15 the first five plus two fastest losers across the two of the semi-finals there's the official lineup then caster Semenya a massive season's best from the 800 meter specialist in the heats looked really good just jug with a TV to qualify for the semi for Great Britain and gains Aveda barber the world record holder 350 is amazing performance in Monaco Tony lura Muir of Great Britain many people here certainly hope she can get in the mix for a medal but this is a really really competitive event place grace on the outside and they find on the 800 last year then who - seg a world indoor bronze medalist last year well junior silver medalist back in 2014 inside four minutes this year Laura mirror is sure to get a massive reception Nashville record holder seventh last year she said she got her tactics right in Rio she just didn't quite have the place defending champion the world record holder the Olympic silver medalist multiple record holder and World Indoor champion this is the Barbara's chance to get in the final and lay down a big marker gestured fabulous run in the heats 403 she took it out gave herself every opportunity of making the semies can she do so again and go one further for the final rafi of morocco then Zoe Buckman of Australia climb talented German caster Semenya hate Oscar of Poland Sifuentes Panamera consultant list for Canada and then on the inside talk about a load in heat you've got the world record holder in the defending champion in to bother how about the comma world champion and Olympic champion faith kPa goes silvers free Heinze barber two years ago in Beijing they swapped the one to last year in Rio so if you said keep the egg on and de Barber were favourites to go through that only leaves three spots from the others gathered here tough qualification first of the two semi finals in the women's 1500 meters are underway will it be tactical or will it be fast and it looks as though it's Great Britain's Jessica Judd who has decided to go for the blood cake grace is coming wide the outside the barber in seg a just shoulders there but it's the world record holder whose only britain's shoulder kate graces running wide on the outside for the united states and despite the fact that judges at the crunch this looks pretty steady steve-o game yeah she's doing a good job wrist keeping out of trouble she's not going as fast as you did in the meet but she really went hard for that first 400 meters also she's taking it easy keeping out of trouble remember it's the first at five to go through they might just leave it from the last four hundred meters that's okay she's got to be at the front you make sure that you're there because when everybody starts bringing you don't I lose two or three meters on the rest of the field it's going down now at the circuit of Ethiopia caught the heels of a teammate I think as like crashing into the track yes it was Shea gate who went down the barber world record-holder the defending champion she stayed on her feet say gay is way off the pace in but it is possible that some miracle might happen if it stays this slowed maybe maybe she could call her way back to the group but that just shows what happens when the pace is too slow early up 65 1 3 and 400 much slower than John run yesterday Chuck leads a rappy on the inside then too far the cake braces there and no move yet STIs from caster Semenya yes well it's just faster boy than the line up there to the TV cameras went paths are very quickly but they shouldn't do it because this is a woman that could cause real dangerous countries especially in a slow race she has very very fast speed when it comes to the last lap but jut doing as best she can now keeping it's a really honest race there's seg a that's a real shame for the World Indoor spend less she looks as though she's emotional here she's not going to catch this group she's going through the motions but all credit to her for deciding to get up and finish the race meanwhile 66.7 for that lap a wrap ease on the inside to Barbour on the outside Semenya the muscle he's powerful looking South African chuck tips around about halfway through that groove and she looks comfortable take race in the United States also running well there Rob she's about fourth place she's run everything right so far keeping out of trouble it's a slow race and that's where you want to be right at the front on the last lap there just to give you to stretch out a little bit judge has got a great job here how does she keep it going in the inevitable burn up to the top five a wrapping still sticking like glue suggests judge and the big names are coming on the outside Kip Jaeger and Laura newer they take the bell in the first of the semi-finals in the women's 1500 meters jump the long-term leader has been put back in the pack and he's the gold and silver medalists from Rio consider your father on the outside remember it's only by Pastor semenya going well down the backstraight nakata and a Raffi trying to find a way through on the inside this is good running from Laura Mira semenya looks a little bit tired there two farmers going backwards we'll have to keep an eye on that keep the Avon leads from Northern Europe a Raffi hit caster Semenya coming wide conservative farmers blocked at the moment and that would be a real shock if the defending champion didn't make the final tip yo gongs looking good so - Laura Muir and again now as Kokoschka comes through into third place the menu is four and two barber is well beaten here faith Kim yang-gon and more a new a great run from the Briton here in second place keep ya Gong Muir Selenia de Kostner those are the first four that is an excellent run from the Britain but what on earth happened there chickens they're beta father she looked a shadow of the athlete who won the title two years ago well great run for the kid yoga we knew that she was going to be a danger she won't did everything right there I've sorta think to debar but she got herself a bit blocked with about 200 metres to go and she started a panic she was looking around she was trying to find a gap and there was no gap because in a fast race or fast last lap of a slow race everybody is there lorem you run really well the Great Britain athlete coming on the outside and in the end taking that second place that's just absent obviously for so ago she hit the track very hard I think there's no way she was going to get back the Kenyan a perfect run from her ready to Barber I think now will have to wait I'm not sure whether that's going to be good enough Rob really very slow race for the first part they did pick it up but the time might be significant well again separated father has finished in sixth so she is at the moment the quickest of the fastest losers with 405 33 a wrapping was seventh in 405 75 and actually could run from Hannah Cline the German to come through for the fifth automatic spot the athletes in the second semi-final will know what they have to do to get 7 through to the final ohit's hoppy tosses are coming through in third but also the menacing figure I think there of some Minya coming through right at the end as she did in the heat she's taking her time just making sure that she qualifies as easy as possible that's another one they've got to watch out for in the final really good run from Laura Muir because I think from a British point if you Steve too many people are hanging medals around her neck and bats they don't realize how competitive this event is but that was a great tactical awareness from you to go through on Kitty egg on shoulder yeah great run from you and I think the fact that maybe one of the big favourites going out in Gazette eager Babbitt was going to be a major factor for most of these athletes here we see really I think this is Sergei going down yes just catching the hills of a teammate of all people I think and heading the track pretty hard there it goes it was Kip the AEGON actually I think keep the AEGON just courts a gate and once she went down you thought perhaps there might be some heroics and she could get back in but she looked visibly upset that what had happened Kip yeag on the Commonwealth champion the Olympic champion only has one medal missing from her collection she wants the world title and she's got herself into the final looking very good indeed Laura Muir will get massive support come the big showdown first group are through faith kPa GaN Laura Muir caster Semenya he touched her look really good Klein to bother the defending champion will have to wait to see if she can go through as one of the two fastest losers so back into the field round number two Mason Finley from the USA opened with that 67 meters and seven centimeters finds himself still in a medal position at the end of the first round and that's going to be another improvement for the American well good see as the Lithuanian in the first round through the 67 52 meter lead and Wow well this American was it the University of Wyoming his father was a thrower but he's already increased his personal best in the first round 260 707 and another personal best by nearly a metre of 6803 so Daniel style second round well normal service is being resumed for the Swedish star he's been so consistent this season he's won twelve out of his 16 competitions he threw that huge 71 29 knife on the all-time list back on the 29th of June 69 meters of 19 shots himself into the gold medal position it's yes and it gives that a Yale open with 67 meters and 52 oh well this is turning out to be the discus final we were hoping for here in London remember stall just through 69 meters and nineteen this is gonna challenge the lead of the Swedish athlete Oh 69 meters and 21 a personal best he now goes into the gold medal position well add this up this is a fairly modest event for her but she can probably put a little further than 1296 let's see if in our last attempt she can indeed managed to do just that Nanook Bisset has got a best of 1389 [Applause] that's as good a footer as better but yeah that son that certainly adds a little I say certainly I think it adds a little it's not quite as far as you'd like she just the love to have another meter on this particular foot we've still got three women over 15 meters here in this shop book the third event of the heptathlon TM comfortably in the lead now this er yeah it just was the best of the day 1296 and she's lying sixth overall drama are plenty with the first heat of the women's 400 meters Ethiopians there will have to wait now to Barba watching this second semi-final with great interest to the fact that she's in the position where she might not even make the final if the fastest visa went pass tonight four minutes 533 so Donald about this DeBeers Laura Whiteman coached by my old running I suppose partner Steve Cram two successive finals at the 5000 meters well this woman really is a find this year really constant cuts the happen she run really well in qualifying this after taking up all the way through the one that I think is the perhaps technically the most superior in this field Jennifer sips never really puts a foot wrong she's got a great running mind the bombs metal from the Olympics and the gold medalist back in 2011 I watched her in the qualified she didn't look as good as I thought she was going to be the world ingo champion at surf Kadena meters she left herself a little bit to make up on the last lap and that was 12 athletes just five to qualify they've just watched that first semi-final they know what they've got to do to make this a fair race as they say they break let's just see who wants to take up the rhythm of this first lap to make it fair race has jutted in the first of these semi-finals just on the inside they're chebet of kenya maybe just moving ahead I think it's waiting and now that comes through the British just on the shoulder our vanilla the Kenyan on the inside don't get this places as fast perhaps as the first semi-final but wait from now maybe you're starting to move through making an honest face Simpson just saw her outside there the American in the blue vest we see them there so to go it's wait to see why Steve it will be interesting to watch the clock at 400 meters because I was looking at the personal bests and 11 of the 12 athletes here have run faster than the 405 33 they would need to feed them dents every to bother so surely if you don't think you've got the sprint to kick it's in your interest to be grave go as hard as possible because you might go through as one of the two fastest losers but it's slower they're not doing it and they should do sixty seven one seven one point to note a Sun right at the back of the field as she tends to run too often as Steve would say yeah this is this is a strange way of running this race Whiteman may be doing the right thing just keeping out in front but in this sort of slow race it could be anybody over the last 400 meters so they just kept the way they are over that first lap right than just leaning Simpson just behind her just on the inside there you can see chebet the tiny diminutive little finger of the Kenyan athlete the outside cluster - just coming through look you could throw a blanket over the whole field here this sort of place and and this is silly in one sense in regard that if you think you might get out sprinted that by the likes of Gloucester Halpern and Jenny Simpson ooh such a tactical campaigner in Sardo then you're missing out on an opportunity and as soon as we say that there goes Koster Halpern and what an exciting young talent she really is Steve she's grown under four minutes a couple of times this year once at the German champs where she ran solo 359 she's decided enough enough yeah the Hammers got down because the housing is a great frontrunner she's obviously knows she hasn't got the speed over the last lap she doesn't look like a fast happy but look at the way she's ripping through this field at the moment 20 metre gap in the space of 200 meters just behind your bet just hanging in there with Simpson just behind her they are they've got the problem if that man if that means that one of the places is gone there's only four more now for these athletes to fight for a SAN has decided that she's got to come through she knows that because the pace is moving fast up the front bar top she ran well in the qualifying - just on the outside there from Sweden just coming through the yellow vest but there's a gap now of 20 meters as Buster Houston really is pushing it on brake work to see such brave front running in a race that was heading into a sprint finish they are beginning to close on Cluster happen as the share now pours on the pace with barter in bird and main street with a gap and suddenly there are only a couple of spots available and it's all stringing out down the back straight of course the house it is faltering a little bit of sands coming hard now with twenty metres to go and aside from the Netherlands takes up the lead with 200 meters to go just behind her bar top Sweden also there these two may be up can pass the housing hang on for their own important fifth place rest behind Simpson as always making the right move not doing too much but doing enough to get through maybe but they're closing down behind her as well Tibet also and inside coming foolish Tibet coming for the inside Simpson thou is holding the more and it's going to be really in the end of close finish the winning time Oh 403 his Imams performance and sad good good run from her well as we said before in the heat she left it too late but she knew in the final she just had to get in front and keep that rhythm going yeah good run from her san and the crowd were getting excited because Laura Whiteman managed to come through on the inside for fourth place I think Jenny Simpson made sure we 405 Plus change you might be able to hear the crowd responding and it was Ocoee who hung on for fifth place the Moroccan in a hurry of Poland was in fifth place with 405 and then chebet in 406 just waiting for the confirmation and can semi to bother the defending champion will go through to the final as one of the fastest losers put my goodness me she was really living dangerously there great run for sad we thought that maybe she would be a big danger in this race but she was lingering too long at the back that's the housing I think did the main damage I think by doing that she really strung the other athletes up they thought right we've got to start moving now and that's exactly what I sounded just behind her though also running really well but if butter sweep those two clear and away Simpson always doing enough to just qualify there she is in third place and just behind her you can see Laura Weightman coming through just in the end for fourth place in qualifying I suppose you could say easily but it was pretty tough there's an awful lot of women coming through that line at the same time I guess it's just a shame from the point of view of those trying to get those fastest looser spots that by the time they've done the first lap in 67 and a half they were already putting themselves under pressure so it was brave from Kloster Halpin but you might say it was even too late at that point if she felt she was going to get out sprinted for the top five watch wait man they're just behind Jenny Simpson grimacing pushing trying to find a way through and she does coming past Ocoee who just shaded our noe on her right hand side good run there by Weightman who is a two-time Olympic finalist and she's made the world final here behind Jenny Simpson what a great final that's going to be well there it is the result of that second semi-final Hassan coming through in the end over the last 20 meters for 377 bar to just behind her Simpson I think is a good runner and I think in the final might be up there in the Milvian again or a weight one a good run from her she did everything she had to do and I could taking that all-important fifth place Mazzilli de Baba will breathe a major sigh of relief there's the qualifiers for the women's 1500 meters Kip yeah girl I think the Olympic champion does look very good she did everything she had to do Laura Muir I thought also run well so mania is the big I suppose hidden factor in that 5000 meters if she can produce a result and the talent that she's got she will be a danger to anybody because Evita barber there she is qualified way we didn't thought that as one is the slowest of the finishers in those semi-finals I agree with you Steve I think it'd be a gan arguably the favorite for that one it should be a fantastic final second round of the men's discus final takers of Jamaica opened with a 65 meters and 62 well it's over the 65 meter line again remember good CEA's of Lithuania leading the way with his throw in the second round of 69 meters and 21 2 centimeters ahead Oh star of Sweden Finlay from the USA currently in the bronze medal position but 65 meters and 70 it's a small improvement in 4th place malinovski of Poland [Music] 63 meters and 96 in the first round between himself and robber karting they've won the last four world titles the history their backers over the last few years in discus have been pretty epic the Polish athlete well it's going to be an improvement on his first round throw doesn't look particularly happy though does he the defending champion twice an Olympic silver medalist so he's gotta get near out over the 68 meter line which he hasn't done in that second round throw to get onto the podium at the moment Cal Universal third put last chance for her to improve on 1391 lying seventh you can see on that caption overall so far and maybe about it's just about 14 meters there so her there's probably coming at the last we've seen all three of the Dutch competitors here really challenging for a medal but certainly well up in the top 10 places each of them really no major change in this competition but person 1409 her best coming at the last so maintain a good competition for her there's the result of the shot TM the best of the day so increasing a lead with at 15 17 day Munro and better also over 1509 personal bests there for Shaffer so just looking further down the young Ukrainian shoot close to her best 1375 as well but two of the big names coming into this competition not amongst those top competitors Katrina Johnson Thompson only just around 12:40 there it is trough 47 she'll drop further back in the overall standings in trade the TM is having a really splendid competition Lee Young Belgian won the Olympic title came here as favorite and is doing everything possible to justify that so that conveyed three events in the heptathlon they'll be back for one more today 200 meters with TM leading at 308 7 from Schaefer 301 5 Rodriguez 2 9 6 ball on right now those looked the favourites the young Dutch competitors for sixth and seventh overall Johnson Thompson indeed has slipped way back suffering of course from that high jump and also the Americans not doing so well Boogaard they're back in 22nd place that's disappointing for her as we finally complete the 30 competitors in the women's heptathlon vyjit inga of austria round number three is in ninth position remember all athletes in these builder bent finals get three attempts so in this case three throws to get into a top eight position to get three more he's got to improve he's got to get himself into the top eight his best to date 63 meters and seventy six but the red flags been raised or so the Austrian athlete well he walked out the front of the circle in the end he's not going to finish in a top eight position so the athlete that was six in the Rio Olympics last year finished his campaign here in London vedric takers of Jamaica now he's thrown 68 meters and 88 this season you know he's got the talent but he's whacked the side of the cage you can see his frustration as he walks out the front he is in fourth place overall so he will get another three throws in this men's discus final but it's not clicking just yet for the Jamaican two Jamaicans in this men's discus throw final Michael and Akers leading the way for the Jamaicans in the field but 65 meters and 70 stays in fourth place Guatemala Koski then of Poland to Olympic Silver's I mentioned what was in Beijing in 2008 it took silver in Rio I'm surprised if I tell you as a former nightclub bouncer and a fireman big chap strong chap super at the discus as well to Malachowski well the big thick white line of 65 meters it's not going to be an improvement it's probably just gonna fall shy of is 65 meters and 14 best so fifth position a couple of places off the podium sitting at the moment behind acres the Jamaican so would see us star Finley no improvement 64 meters an 88 stays in fear we go from the throws to the big other field event final the men's long jump over the far side of the stadium and everybody will be looking at the South Africans in this event I think and young goat who is produced the biggest jump this year that massive 865 and it won't be easy for him all the athletes really had a lot of problems really in qualifying [Applause] what is the fanfare that all the athletes have just before the final you just love it bit of pageantry gotta have it over here [Applause] while the men's long jump just being introduced to the crowd now well the Australia memories lucky year former World Indoor champion 33 years of age now sees his best of eight two zero three then the big man in South Louisville may your gun come off record holder on 865 by comeso mokuba's fourth in the world and the youth TD championships still a junior now he's at the 18 years of age Jerry and Lawson United States a former speaker one that hundred two hundred longer and that blonde Jeff and the triple jump in and collegiate championships while the other good South Africa that could produce an upset I suppose or get one and two in this as well Stram i this man produced the biggest jump in qualifying 8:24 Radek percent [Music] from China run as a field of the Chinese athletes that actually qualify their three but only one make this final Wayne's bronze medalist in 2013 there are thoughts of Jamaica four times the Jamaicans Chadwicks and as and I'm a cop repeating as one of the authorized neutral athletes one of the other big favorites from Sweden McDowell toniest fourth at the London Games missing a bronze participants showed Sita Emiliano last up as you require sorry there's the other Chinese I think I forgot about here really the junior Laotian qualified that jump of 8:06 I said that the qualifiers were a little bit low in their performances the jumpers in qualifying it's yet to see whether they can actually bring their form back into this final verse Steve Batman younger could be one of these stories in the championship as we look at lamp year because a lot of people are very excited about what he might produce I mean he's jumped 865 this year as we watched Lapierre and just to put that into context no one in the world has jumped further than 865 since dwight phillips in 2009 that is how good man younger can be if he gets it right well the tractors are coming off it's starting they ought to get down to the serious business of producing the goods every slip year as I said the former World Indoor champion through the European circuit he was 10th in stock [Music] Austin there's his coach on the inside of the track over there at the facts straight all the cases watching intently as athletes Fugees the good news media talent that year but instantly be produced in in the last thirteen years always that runs up with his own cave in his teeth laughter no mama oh that's a good reasonable first jump close to the water not over the 8 meter mark obviously we expect to see much bigger than that sometime in this competition but that's not a bad start a comfortable start remember they've got to get a good jump in in the first three jumps to forward onto the next six do to the board just behind you you have height this man just a little bit of speed will be in his approach to the board there it is just below that 8 meters 789 just to Shay but really too much to worry these I think they're little junkies well here we go what an exciting as man is surfing this man is when he gets it right a little bit of a problem with his run-up in the qualifying but he is capable of a massive jump and younger this could be a big event for the South Africans really this could be very very special Steve if it all clicks let's see oh it's clicked that's a massive jump but the red flag goes up Wow he's laughing but that was again just showing you what this man can do that was close I think do about 8:50 look at that oh well it's not just a marginal foul it's a 5 centimeters over so yes it's subject which wasn't nearly debatable but there it is good speed high he's looking at the sand already leg shoe comes out there it is perfect technique well in switch very quickly from the long jump to this other major file the great race there 35 women coming up now for the 10,000 meters final a really intriguing race this one it's so hard to pick a winner yesterday was all about what the field could do to one man Mo Farah to try and deed thrown him but we will get to that start there a couple of minutes away from getting going just beneath this meanwhile the long jump runway is occupied once again when we come back Scott I'm Kira one of the possible medalist comes in very fast and that's a massive jump again and the red flag goes up well they are really coming good at this final after disappointing qualifying rounds he shakes he said let's just see how far that was he's looking at the fastest oh yeah another one though that was again while over the board Wow it shows the intent though doesn't his Steve in this men's long jump final the athletes trying to get a good one early doors in the first round put the pressure on the other athletes but he's such a young athlete just 18 years of age is Cuban I mean he's got a real talent he came down that runway really fast hit the board and Josh does he say six centimeters over it Wow next up is going better and better Jerry and Lawson the United States he won the hundred meters and turna meters and long jump defeated championships so he's fast and obviously he's got the ability to produce a big jump if he has to but this in what's been going on just in the last two or three jumps in front of him his best season fest as well 833 yeah let's get the crowd going come on this is a great competition over there and they're starting to enjoy Wilson now charging down the runway the big American oh another jump is the red flag going up or not with snow it's right this time he knows it's good wow this is really stuff to set them the line over the back straight that's the matter this should be a personal best is to wait and see absolutely perfect on the board Steve they've all been threatening big jumps Lawson has landed a legal one but how big is it I just like to seen there that is a good good job Taiwan 837 Wow a massive performance seasons best for this big man and that's going to set the tone for the rest of the athletes in this long jump now to the final of the women's 10,000 meters a huge field assemble here sneezes there is massive challenge especially from the usual nations of Ethiopia and Kenya that's Alice a prot Narwhal wound up she's usually known as a prot she was fourth last year in Rio with one of the quickest times in the world this year Emily Infeld got a bronze medal a surprise prompts a couple of years ago Beth Potter two lines of course and tear initiative father to the greatest 10,000 meter runner in history double Olympic champion triple world champion is there one more moment of magic for her out as I honor scorched to a new world record in one of the stunning Rio performances last year winning the 10,000 but she hasn't raced at all in 2017 Agnes Tarak world cross country champion two years ago earlier this year in camp corner 31:56 at altitude in the trials to run that back in Nairobi that is very good running indeed Jasmine can she's former representing 36 last year in the 5000 in Rio done a very useful European under-23 double over the five-and-ten just the month or so ago when we haru and word act and irene chips i their cameras just flashing plasters she's the reigning world class country champion and then there a dealer on the inside Ethiopia's national champion over ten thousand meters and cross country a huge field the drama of 25 laps is about to unfold so they are underway and i guess the biggest question here is what kind of ball is out as i honor in because she was absolutely incredible she didn't just break the world record last year she smashed it by 14 seconds so the story with her is she was supposed to do to 5,000 at the Rome diamond league who was injured she was then back for Monaco but the Ethiopian Federation refused her the opportunity to run so we have absolutely no clue as to what if any kind of form she brings here to London well that's very true but you can never underestimate this woman because she is a serious town really is natural talent too we saw in the Glivec games what you could do is she just gets it right she is a beautiful runner and I think for the 10,000 meters as opposed to some of the shorter distances you can get that strength in training you know you don't need to repeat it in races too often they don't run too many ten-thousands when they're in the best of shape so really that's probably livia major factor because what if she's fit she's gonna be a major danger tarnished ababa Wow let's beg Maryland the London Bantam that's obviously going to be in her legs she's now moving towards and longer distances and she's only run really 110 10k and that was on the roads so for her as well she's unknown at the distance on the track while the Romantics might think that one more moment of magic from tarnish the barber would be absolutely incredible she in fact emulated the great derartu tulu last year because to Loon was a double Olympic champion over 10,000 and got the bronze in her quest to make it three and that was exactly what tarnishing to barber produced last year when let's not forget on roots of that bronze she said a lifetime best in what was the fourth fastest time in history so if de Barber has managed to add a little bit of speed work to her profile to complement the sub 218 marathon which by the way puts her third on the all-time list an Ethiopian record holder over the marathon there is to bother running on the outside of body humble if she's managed to get a bit of speed working you can't rule tarnish to bother out from producing yet another golden moment over a distance at which she has dominated for a decade but as Ayane but one way to go yet in the men in the women's 10000 I should say to the track final they're just being replaced by the London salmon are the other very very good South African in this long jump there it is that 849 ma there's been some massive junk foul so far what can he do faster to the ball could jump oh that's another one sailing over that eight meter mark he's happy with that so far the lead by the American Jarrod Lawson 837 this could be close or somewhere near in anyway first of all jobs at the moment are really going well for his efforts Wow just behind the board eight centimeters or so but that's not too bad let's just wait and see what the sort of length he's got he a good shoot look at this perfect technique coaches discussing the problems there is what 825 well he moves into second place just behind Lawson now we go to one of the really good Chinese way this person 8:29 [Applause] I'm moving fast onto the board I think that's a another good clearance on the board let's just see not as big as some of the jumps in the other white flag goes up but he was having a little bit of problems in qualifying there's he's nodding his head it's happy that it's set a good jump in the first round because these jumps will matter after the first three rounds [Music] while I dined abroad 15 centimeters but it doesn't matter because he was well over the 8 meter mark bronze medallist back in 2015 well there it is 840 well again he moves up into that into third place Malachowski men's discus throw final round number five in fifth position the Polish athlete with that best of 65 meters and 14 in the second round have been no movers or shakers in this men's discus final since the second round bronze at the moment 6803 for Finlay we're on the defending champion he's not having a happy evening so far he gives a little shake of his head it's got a find now nearly three meters to get another world championship medal and defend his title it's gonna have one more throat to do it there might be a slight improvement on his second round throw would see us stall Finley well 65 meters and 24 he stays in fit one more throw for the Polish athlete back into rel one exam done mate cough sneaky partners one of the authorized neutral athletes has got the capability of producing a big jump 8:32 sees his best that's the clock ticking away saying how much time he's got left here he comes that's a good job too white flag goes up again around about the 8 20 maybe that's gonna be another good jump impassive as he walks back but much better than these previous jumps in the qualifying we was all over the place good height [Music] good let's shoot you watch from this TV you can just see the height that they get by judging it by the stands over the far side well that's 827 well that's moved him ahead really of semi into second place behind Lawson Daniel Shaw the Sweden round number five currently in the silver medal position well that's a no throat you saw just as we watched the flight to the discus he fell out the front of the circle so the world leader the man that sits in the world top ten now with that throw in excess of 71 meters will have one more throw in this men's discus throw competition to try and upgrade from the silver medal position that is in monthly to the next Michael toniest now in the long jump for the London Games here when he missed bronze by just one centimeter [Applause] oh look like this foot may have touched the white flag goes up there's just wait and see about the distance not happy no technique not good but he says he just slipped through yep let's watch it again as long stride comes it gets the height but lost it a little bit there the state centimeters behind that purse to see the big man can be careful though because the arms sometimes go down just behind where your land and if it's a measured from that loose sniffing Utley on 880 good jump from Tony us keeps him in the mix moves him up into fourth meanwhile the lap stick-on in this woman's 10,000 meters and it's Satori coming over he's better known as a marathon runner 54th in the tough conditions of Rio last year she leads with Allen as Ayane in second place but you can tell by the size of the group that it is still pretty comfortable this pace to Enosh to Barbara's running in a round about eight for ninth place comfortably towards the front of that group there's as Ayane in second place as to bother comes shooting past to join her compassion on her shoulder but by their standards this is pretty steady and clearly I honor isn't feeling as though she wants to go for a world record as she did in Rio last year she's in second robber parting he's down in sixth position his final throw of the men's discus competition and the red flag is raised so he walks out the circle an athlete there's been three times the world champion well it's not to be today for the German he'll finish with his best throw in the first round of 65 meters and 10 centimeters the next six position for the athletes that lifted has lifted the gold medal here many times before so sixth place for the German in this final round of this men's discus throw and entering the circle for his final effort pointer Malachowski of poland enters the circle after his great rival he has one more throw he is in fifth position bronze currently is Mason Finley of the USA 68 meters and three centimeters silver is storm 69 meters and 19 lúcia split away Lea leaves the way was 69 meters in 21 so Troy to malikov ski the defending champion the two-time Olympic silver medallist well it flies but it doesn't fly far enough and the 34 year old well it just didn't click tonight he was arriving here in London in wonderful form with that 67 meter and 68 sees as best he's thrown in he's 70 two meters as a lifetime best but the three athletes ahead of him indeed takers as well what made it possible for the Polish athlete to finish on the podium he finishes in fifth so Frederic Baker's of Jamaica is in fourth place 65 meters and 83 in the fourth round he's thrown 68 meters and 88 this year if he could do that he'd get himself on the podium final attempt then for the Jamaican can he elevate himself onto the podium here in London well he gives it everything but it's gonna land slap-bang in the middle of the 65 meter live world youth champion 2009 the world junior champion in 2012 but that bronze medal position of Mason Finley of 68 meters and 3 centimeters is safe the Dakers from Jamaica 64 meters in 67 finishes in fourth position so the final 3 throws in the men's discus competition Mason Finley of the USA has bronze guaranteed 68 meters and 3 centimeters a lifetime vest it's a medal for the USA in the men's discus can he improve though on the bronze position well you saw the rattle you saw the flight it drops well below the 60 metre line but Mason Finley of the USA the Olympic finalist last year 25 stone in weight and absolute our house the American wins a bronze medal for the USA in the men's discus throw that's a good day at the office you've increased your lifetime best if you've won a world medal but now into the circle 71 meters and 2915 Beijing two years ago he won the Diamond League event here just a few weeks ago Daniel Stoll of Sweden 69 meters and 19 last attempt now he gave it a little bit too much to the Swedish athlete it's going to end with a silver medal here in London which means andreas Casillas of Lithuania by 2 centimeters is the world champion in the men's discus throw your stall is extremely happy silver medal at the World Championships upgrading as I mentioned from the fifth place in Beijing but here's your world champion what a wonderful feeling for andreas Casillas of Lithuania he enters the circle as the new world champion 69 metres and 21 in the second round he's fought off all the competition in the world to take gold has he got a little bit more left in him sectional final round oh well when the Gold's in the bag it doesn't matter where there's a few fireworks going up in the stadium because he's become the champion the world champion in the men's discus throw he awaits his final distance 67 meters an 89 but look at that 69 meters and 21 a lifetime best in the second round he's your world champion and here is the answer to the question what kind of fall is the Olympic champion and world record holder in town as I hit the front was 16 laps to go and we are now very close to the halfway stage and she has decimated the field in a matter of five or six laps the Aspen can he Canyon who now represents Turkey is in no man's land in second place she was the only athlete to go with Ayane early on but she has now been dropped my honor reaches halfway in 1551 and now with a 249 kilometer that has helped to do the damage and now it is her again the clock Steve wow what a performance this woman has never raced this year she's coming to these championships and not a single sister stood against her but that doesn't mean that she hasn't got the capability and the talent to do just what she's doing now getting up there and running the sort of race that destroys the rest of the field she did it Olympics she did exactly the same thing here okay the pace wasn't fast up until this point but from now on in all those athletes will suffer as she starts pushing harder and harder [Applause] big gaps back to the rest that's Yasmine can then the three Kenyans are all together Irene Chet I act mister off they're being led by Nava Runa who's the tallest of the three figures and as we look at my honor the only other athlete still in contention is to burnish the barber at the back of the group of Kenyans okay let's get back to the action in the long jump men's first round disappointing from a younger because he did literally sail over that eight meter mark what can he do in this second round here he comes again bang OH yep that's a biggie it really is white flag is time looks down impassive but that is a massive jump lead at the moment was held by Lawson 837 he's looking he's looking he coming fast whoa that yellow line I think is the as the father's it's anyone's job to the competition Lawson's buck and I think he was well over that arranging coming into the pit what sand hits the camera coach telling him what he should do but wall he doesn't really need to that's and massive 8:48 and he sails in the first place there Lawson has to respond he city's lead go the American now in second place in the second round working the ground as well he should for Olympics shaking those legs tension building up spring is being cold [Music] 'i'm just cover the other note here we go and that's another jump wow what a competition Simona the white flag goes up again is it gonna be further than youngest 848 it's gonna be close al awesome response [Applause] Wow must've spare on the board there perfect in fact Lawson waiting and waiting for confirmation of the distance coach 843 a season's best just behind there and second place so far but Wow fireworks on the long jump and this one really accenting things alight on the track she certainly is Steve I've just gone over the numbers and checked my maths she ran the first 3k well they all did together in a round about 10 minutes kid we'll take a second she's just completed the second three kilometers in 842 she is absolutely flying now she's left it too late to go for the world record that's the group of athletes battling for silver and bronze at the moment all these athletes that I honor is catching up she's actually laughing in that chase group you have the a spin can of turkey as we watch Ayanna pour it on down the backstraight also all three Kenyans are still in that group and to relation to bother who can't be ruled out Hernandez steps aside and let's Ayana take the inside line she's doing exactly what she did last year Steve it's not quite as fast and because she did it in Rio it's not quite as unexpected but in a season where she hasn't raced at war at all internationally she's taking a world-class field this is the chase [Applause] behind Ayanna look at the style just watch this is his perfect distance running beautifully smooth look at her she's relaxed looking up at score were checking where they're well she probably County the cedar because they're not even in the picture yet she's laughing runners world class policies actually means that be the differential between her and the rest of the other athletes that's the speed the barber now starting to realize that maybe if she's going to get a medal she's gonna start having to race these three Killians I think the barber can definitely get a medal from that position I honor by the way is halfway down the backstraight the chase group had just gone round with eight laps to go Yasmin can looked as though she was struggling with that chase group just for a moment as we watch can going through another great kilometer split there she had a a 249 that was a 252 and still we have a chase group of five and five into two doesn't go and as I honor just pouring on the pace there one of the prettiest athletes there is that chase group gasping can is the Turkish athlete in the white vest she was struggling off the back of that group but it's normal one of the biggest of the three Kenyans leading the chasers but the barber is still there but it's a separate race deep metaphorically and literally it's a machine really this woman really is absolutely perfect that doing what she does she hasn't had any races we keep saying if imagine that no preparation whatsoever from a race point of view coming into a World Championships the fact she's had a little problems really with her Federation stopping your races when she wanted to coming back now and taking this world class field including the barber and the three Kenyans now a one-up tear up and check tie apart nearly is a magnificent performance and table beat underestimated she just had to check her stride there he cross those two athletes usually you'd expect the back markers to move out into lane to any club athletes will know if you hear the words track track track you get out the way and get out the way quickly but I don't know how to go wide on the outside on that occasion she's coming round with six laps to go and Yasmin can I cat confirm has been dropped by the chase group so there are now only four and the moment in contention for the silver and the bronze medalist it's the three Kenyans and there's Turin Escobar that ought to be the greatest 10,000 meter runner in history well she's handed her mantle on to our NASA Ayana and it's being carried with real quality by the Ethiopian woman who as they enter the home straight has gone past the 1500 meter star point [Music] beautiful relaxed rhythm I'm carried slightly high really but that's sudden actually style we saw in the Olympics that wonderful way she literally just decimated everybody they just couldn't go with her she has that natural ability to set her own face didn't want to wait anymore it was a slow tightening race as we said at the beginning and she doesn't like that she doesn't really like being in a group she's a consummate solo runner and that's hard in the 10,000 it really is hard for you laughing time and time again and you're looking up at the scoreboard and sometimes the distance doesn't seem to get any less well while we continue watching the clock for hours I honor that's the real intrigue and the uncertainty now it is just a question of how fast for I honor assuming she doesn't have any problems in tricks that was the battle for the silver and bronze three Kenyan and one Ethiopian in the battle to get on the podium alongside Al masih i ra it's just a majestic performance here a totally different type of grace to that which we saw last night in the men's 10,000 meters with all sorts of cat and mouse going on with Mo Farah chapter guy the ugandan falter new edu the Kenyan and Jeffrey Cameron they all were chewing and throwing and the lead changed hands many times but look at this from out as Ayanna she's over taking genuinely world-class distance runners and she's making them look like Club athletes which they're not though they're certainly not but that's the differential in the true talent we're seeing here at display tonight she's going further and further away from that chase people for so they're not really making any dead you know advantage in fact she's actually pulling further and further away just to give you a marker Nala Luna is the tallest of the three Kenyans she then got Terrapin second place in that group I reject I is the Kenyan athlete Stryper take down her leg and then you've got tarnish the barber off the back that's second third fourth and fifth because the leader well there's no doubt who that is it's calm as I honor who is storming down the backstraight and closing in on an absolutely incredible performance and how nice team I was there I had the privilege of commentating on Ayanna's world record over the 10000 in Rio last year she was the first athlete to win a gold on the track she did so in the morning and there were only about 10 or 12 thousand athletes in the stadium this time her great talents have got the crowd and a setting that they deserve the Olympic Stadium absolutely packed to the rafters and they will give her a heroines reception when she eventually gets for the finish line it's been a hard race hasn't it any race that you lived in the 10,000 from the distance that she took it up and tore it on you're working hard you're not taking it easy you're not like well so moto didn't take it easy but he actually had all the others to try and take this thing out of him by leading him through this woman it's decided that she doesn't want any of that he just wants to get out run around race and really it's a war of attrition behind because I think maybe if the barber to just hold herself together she's running these mountains she's got all the distance in the legs but she is incredibly fast over the last 400 meters she might maybe just sneak the silver medal as well for Ethiopia when Irene JEP tight the reigning world cross country champion is just on the left of picture there and she has been dropped by what was the quartet of chasers who now become three agnes tara we Oona syrup was the world cross country champion two years ago she heads the chasers with Narwhal whoo no and tyrannous the father in for I agree with you Steve I think from this position tarnished a barber will fancy she can't get yet another global medal over 10,000 meters it won't be the gold but she'll want to make it an Ethiopian one too two naps to go in the pilot that remains 10,000 meters out as I honor the world record holder the Olympic champion hit the front with 16 to go and her injection of pace has absolutely decimated this field it has been a fabulous performance of grunt running and now Steve over it is simply a question of how fast and by how far will she win this gold medal beautiful demonstration of distance running ayianna she's actually lucky in a sense because she's been acting the athletes all the time there's a target in front of that all the time but the way that she goes passing as an indication as we said before of how well this woman is running from these now world-class 10,000 needle rolls and they expect I suppose not to be lapped as quickly and as fast as this woman is doing at the moment [Applause] my honor coming into the home straight here it's an absolutely staggering performance the announcers on the PA system are helping to reinforce just what a great run this is from the Ethiopian Olympic champion Palmas I honor takes the bell in the four the next 10,000 meters it is going to be an absolutely sensational win at mr. OTT Alice Noah Luna and Jimenez could bother battling for silver and bronze but they are a country mile away from Alma's high honor going down the backstraight the Olympic champion on her way to becoming the world champion and in so doing she is going to add her name to a rich rich list of female great even after that really really slow start we're going to see the fastest time of the world this year how much I honor in a class of her own and she is being greeted with an incredible reception here in the Olympic Stadium the crowd are on their feet they're responding to the world-class performance they're seeing she was Olympic champion in Rio and net well she had always be able to say she was world champion in London what a performance we may not see a victory of such dominance ever again in this 10,000 meter context and look at the father now she's streaking home she's got Agnes to rock the company the ward cross country champion from two years ago it's a great run from two father she's now a marathon specialist but she's showing here she still has what it takes to get on the podium on a global race of huge importance over 10,000 meters to father the German Olympic champion the triple world champion the core fastest woman in history once again showing her class over 10,000 meters she takes the silver it's gold one two three Theo Pia and Agnes Tara coming home for the bronze what an extraordinary race great credit to DES Barbara and Terrell for turning that on on the final lap that that race the applause and the standing ovation of over 50,000 people in the crowd belonged to Al masih on well just saw the world's best time this year by 25 seconds that was after that very very pedestrian first part of the race so if she had gone all the way god knows what she would have done absolutely beautiful one and two fifi OPA well we had a great 10,000 meters yesterday and a sprint finish really from moe but this has an individual performance I think in a 10,000 meters is in a way perhaps a little bit better because this woman took this race by the scruff of the neck and it's so so hard to run as far as she did on your own in a 10k just fantastic there from Allen as I honor she joins the likes of Ingrid Christensen who was the inaugural 10,000 meter world champion in 1987 Liz McColgan Fernando Ribeiro of Portugal derartu tulu in Edmonton in 2001 tarnished two barbers three titles while she's added yet another global medal this time it's silver and I think she can take great delight in following home the younger compat rien to whom she has passed the mantle of the greatest 10,000 meter runner in the world at the moment just amazing our celebrations in the Ethiopian camp I think the barber did all she could there really she lit a yard ago because I think she knew she wasn't in the same sort of class and she just clung on then to the three of the Kenyans cheer not charging hard at the end but to de Baba that speed that she's still got in the legs even though running marathons stays gave other year silver medal in the end a nice moment for the Ethiopians their first medals at the 2017 London World Championship gold and silver magna steyr up by the way securing that bronze with a lifetime best at a time steep they were so far behind I honor it was hard to keep track of where that where the leader and the group of chasers were on the track because the whole 400 meter circuit was littered with athletes had been locked there's a great performance it really was I mean a Jana Nikki a Jana you get the feeling that she could be man this could be the woman that could really set the world marathon record if she really wanted to because she's got that beautiful style very very thin very light very compact and she loves solo running perfect well she was just mercurial they're storming home leaving everybody trailing in her weight and how nice that the crowd responded with a standing ovation it was a perfect way to salute a brave brilliant piece of front running [Applause] you see [Music] so relaxed that's the hard 10,000 just said 25 seconds faster than any woman who's run this year she didn't have any competitions coming into the world cheddar no competitions at all that's the talent of this woman well as the Sun sets on Saturday night there is more drama to come in the stadium here we go Maseo of Cuba second round 8:11 young Cuban all that looks a bit better than he's eight eleven the white flag goes up the third round now all these distances are going to be significant for these jumpers 18:11 so far in that second round a no job in the first [Applause] just 18 years of age former wealth a new and junior champion fatty still give a junior at the end of this year Oh 822 so is in sixth place that's a good performance moving himself up the leaderboard there [Applause] so confirmation of that good men's discus throw final gold to Lithuania and the Reyes Casillas a personal best of 69 meters and 21 Daniel star the world leader on this occasion from Sweden picked up a silver medal and Mason Finlay from the USA a personal best of 6803 for bronze well many people had this man down as a potential gold medal winner not many to be fair because the form of Daniel style of Sweden all seasons been superb but this guy was consistent consistent over 68 meters and when it mattered toward a 69 meter and 21 personal bests out the bag great to see all three medallist delighted with what they've achieved here in London doing a lap of honour of the London Stadium a good competition three more medals handed out here in London no beat the big guys are going as fast as our yard are there were they run the track but nevertheless excited just to say meanwhile back in the long jump yawning rank coming into his third round oh well it's peppering the 8 meter mark the white flag goes up that's a big jump so far just to recap that second round jump of my younger 848 still leads just behind him Lawson's 843 and in third place make cops jump of 827 so competition is still there for everybody really there's still a possibility my younger obviously with that big job 848 hard to beat but never underestimate any of these jumpers at the moment well not as good as he's second round 795 for Wang they might Forbes now on the runway only got a torso and he got 791 to his credit in the second round leaving him in 12th place so he's gonna produce a good jump here Jamaicans giving him as much encouragement as they can from the stands [Applause] oh I don't think that's going to do much really four times Jamaican champion might have to settle for a jump which is very close to his previous before [Music] disappointing isn't in the long term you know you can do better you just don't produce it on the day well he's gone 829 on his lifetime best this year Steve which at the moment in this competition would be good enough to have him on the pinna podium position just ahead of Maine cough on 827 that he hasn't been able to do it exactly when he needs it no look at that I didn't think was as good as his second round 785 this is the man that is in third position at the moment and Xander men cough that 8:27 in the first round with all those big jobs were going around for fouling this man produce that 827 he's not happy with the start there there's the clock 35 34 seconds to go he's got to get back quick Walt Weiss neutral happy initializes a and sometimes it comes up as a national record from twisting until a national record and such it's just a performance but they've achieved in these championships the main top running out of time a little bit seven seconds he's gonna start going here he goes third place at the moment with that jump as I said 827 no I don't think that's gonna put the red flag goes up anyway so he's still in third place [Music] Crowder really enjoying that competition down the backstraight Steve absolutely packed as it is everywhere around this incredible arena and they're giving those guys huge support it's got the makings of a great second half of this competition and you get the feeling there's a monstrous jump in man younger still to come out well it's really turned up and not chatting it as Steve mentioned before in terms of the qualifying being a bit of a damp squib this final is absolutely bubbling along nicely it really is look at the history books and the Americans have won this title many times before of course Jerry Lewis in a good position but man younger for South Africa where you have to go back to one medal in one that was by Molina many years ago in this event so they're on the verge of something potentially special well this week now we Cal toniest could confuse a jump which gets him into the middle positions oh that's a massive jump for him that's good but an old off the flag goes up again what you've got to go for it you really have in the World Championship final you really got to push all the possibilities and maybe sometimes you just push it just a little bit too much let's just see if we can see as he comes in oh wow point seven of a centimeter and that was a big big jump it really was and he's in seventh place at the moment well that 818 in seventh place Wow that was a major disappointment while Uruguay Emilio NASA earlier I suppose with an 806 not really up to the other standards that being said around him the Univ he dumps is it season's best at 8:19 it might not keep him in this competition for much longer oh that's a good job though that's around about 30 specialist season the white flag goes up I know six is best so far this is a good job from this man as we've said the quality standard anyway of this jut long jump farmer has gone way past expectations from those qualifying rounds saving the best for last definitely Melissa just looking just looking Oh 811 well just a slightly improvement but in ninth unfortunately so he's clapping to the crowd and saying thank you remember it's just the first six that go through to the next sorry the first aided his side that goes through to the next three jumps he just got a glimpse of man younger they're looking very very relaxed TV but he's not over the line yet is he on the last of the locked chapters in this third well you have sheep of China oh that's a good job if I can see a red flag yet again well I've got to try it coach is pleased with his performance and he won't be going any further now in the long jump competition [Music] marginal but unfortunately that's all you need so 11 hours after they entered the arena for the first event of the day here's the summary of the women's heptathlon with just the 200 meters to count daffy TM leading at 308 7 from Carolyn Schaeffer 301 5 and then Rodriguez a clear third as we look down the competitors as some disappointments there like Johnson Thompson Brooks tool started very well the Americans not performing up to par as we trace down this big field of 30 competitors who will be running very shortly in four separate races in the final event of this day one of the competition there will be the 200 meters that it is seeded as they usually are so we've got these athletes who on paper our slowest in this very first race barman of India Jaworski Farkas of Hungary de Monroe of USA Chrisann of Hungary charisma of Portugal shook of Ukraine person of Netherlands let's go through them from the outside in the mrs. Nadine Gerson Dutch athlete who's having a pretty useful day just over below far in the high scale which is her best event though and the youngest competitor in this lineup are they no shoot well 25 97 she's got a got a long way to improve to 40 really gets him to top senior class junior champion let me have that ESMA of Portugal her best 2498 then Chris on the Hungarian who is a strong competitor this one of the weaker events were the best of 24.7 to beside her de Monroe hood a very disappointing I just thought the dishes usually her forte only jumping 174 there but she came good in the shot and she's got a vest of 24:02 but that was a year to back and then we've got Chbosky podcasts well she's a little bit down again expectation so far 25.2 one her best and then the Indian competitor youngster 20 years of age Swapna barman the best of 25:59 well I said this is the slowest group of the habit a fleet and to gradually build in intensity until we get some very speedy ladies indeed who will go in the fourth and final race of this competition tomorrow of course they'll come back for the final three events the long jump javelin and 800 meters at the moment naffy TM who will see later is the clear leader so first race barman tchaikovsky parkas day Munro christen charisma shook Brussels so away they go but start by the Gonski podcast the Hungarians second from the inside and right on the outside of these brush and leaves Dutch up later he was going to come into the straight here in the leaves a strong run also by the American Damon Road now powering ahead of this field Sharon de Monroe is going to win this gross and holding on for second place and Chris Antley Hungarian in third 2498 as per expectations I daresay de Mauro zárate pick up us that's very close to her season's best to be happy still completed just over 11 hours Nadine in action today for events and confirmed in fact at 24 97 on the photo finish as opposed to the initial time which is a photocell single beam across the track three races to come in this 200 meters sound of hungry useful run by her as we just recap this race do not ski far Cass was off well but faded a little bit and look in the center lane now the powerful figure of the American day Munro coming through brushing had got a lead but now he's going to have to settle for second place and just confirmation there that day Monroe wins it from lessons and three sack three races to go then in the 200 meters we can just check on the times in this particular race Damon row winning in 2497 as worth 890 points one ahead of Britain in Kazan and the rest following so the bottom left of your screen is the warm-up track it's so close to the main stadium which really does help the athletes it's a short walk across well on the Left Usain Bolt on the right Yohan Blake the men's 100 meter final the last preparations are being made to Jamaicans to Americans and as we can China Great Britain South Africa and France will battle it out a new Saint Bob will battle it out one last time in an individual world final or just looking at the beanies are on and the track suits are on and the helmets are on in the hats on it's cold over there at the warm-up track and I think that's going to be maybe a little bit of a factor coming into this final is Christian Colburn potentially the biggest threat to you say bolt and then another beanie hat we're up Justin Gatlin from the USA former world champion Hill started lane number 8 in the final but it'll be fall Coleman in lanes four and five we're expecting the biggest challenge and the fastest legs to come from yes and be me well he looked pretty good in the semi finals despite the fact that he was less than impressive in the heat he's been performing at a very consistent level this year but because of the South African seasons his best times have come back in March and April he's in Lane six and what a great last 20 meters from Rhys prescod towards the end of that heat of that semi-final he was absolutely flying as he came towards the line he'll view this as a massive opportunity and what about Jimmy Vico 9 8 6 joint European record holder he's gone 9 9 7 this year we haven't spoken much about the Frenchman that he's had a good season but they will all you suspect be playing second fiddle to Usain Bolt Bing Chang soo he came through as a fastest Newser he'll start in lane 2 thought of a very useful Chinese 4x1 quartet we've got a medal on home soil back in 2015 that's the view across East London the stadium looking as magnificent as it did five years ago playing host to the Olympic Games and it will be a very special climax to the evening Alma's high honor adding World Championship gold to her Olympic gold the fastest time in the world this year by miles an enormous winning margin cheer initiative father three times the world champion this time the silver and Agnes cheer up with a lifetime vest coming home with the bronze I doubt we'll see a more emphatic victory of margin in any event still to come in this world championship and just to recap as well 14:24 for the second 5000 meters in that race and very few athletes had ever run quicker than that 14:24 after a slow 15:57 opener well she'd come back with a navy t- split in the Olympics as well she's capable of doing now the toughest way to run any race really and it was so good to see the crowd responding with a standing ovation Carmen Martinez who came last with a national record meanwhile we still have three more heats to come in the women's heptathlon before the men's 100-meter fine yes thank you rob so there they are lining up for their final race of the day this is the second group that we've seen actually getting quicker and of course it includes the leader nappy tiem who will go in Lane eight part of Lee week event for her 24 for so it'll be good to see that she can get close to that perhaps in these cold conditions not conducive to really fast time sprinting all the athletes here have best in the mostly low ish 24 second range so from the outside here because the double South American champions tomorrow D'Souza from Brazil to South American title this year then we've got the tall figure of Navi TIA the Olympic champion well clear in the heptathlon might just lose a little bit of ground to her chasers in this event we shall see some of them have rather cooker times in TM on previous personal bests katarina catch over watches the world youth champion ten years ago which is gradually improving steadily the Czech Republic athlete survey code listed ICO is the Estonian record holder and the European under-23 champion back in 2011 Elsbeth feelings the dropout the people were tariqa who was the I Peru American champion last year so most these athletes have titles to their credit in this Kurt through Cena ver versus T giving a strong performance here the Czech got a personal best in the heptathlon with six four six Oh points Brooke start rest by her with a personal best in the hurdles to start the day and she's the European junior champion this year and then the very experienced and to an etiology Medea the French half meters twice been European champion outdoors twice indoors at the pintuck games [Applause] [Music] fastest in the field the personal bests of 24 one osa dico and Catawba who go in Lane seven but not much to choose on form between this whole field Dhananjay Madea Brooks tau Flutie Nova Felix zydeco catch over TR and de Sousa Nova Thanks big interest obviously here and TR in Lane eight see how she goes he seems to made up a little ground on D'Souza two legs inside her those Sadako is going well he and and there isn't indeed much to choose between these at so their Co being challenged now by cap server of the Czech Republic it's he I'm finishing a bit faster now and will give up all she might even snatch them from catch a bird is pretty close on the line the winning time 24:57 routine over there they're looking at the quote I don't think there was much to choose between them I'm going to wait for the photo finish to determine exactly what that result was but the main point is of course not who won worth of times you get and there wasn't much to choose between them Tiamo our personal best of 24 40 and she wasn't too far away catch avert did indeed get the verdict 24:56 on the photo finish pops that's an exhausting whole day of action gap in the middle of course for a bit of lunch showing the ex a gurney of the four events of day one let's have a look again TM as I said got off pretty slowly in Lane eight but to finished well Sadako was in Lane six and catch over in lane seven and I think yesterday come may have had the doctor but the red vested check the black shorts coming through very nice sleep and TM passing D'Souza with ace very strong late burst and this is a an impressive run really I think by the Belgian showing her strength in an event which is not one of her best yeah she's only lost out there by a hundredth of a second she just seems such a good competitor Peter in terms of always managing to respond with something exactly when it's needed and that surely in an event like this is what marks the champions out from the silver and bronze medalists and the fourth places Shirley does and no mistakes and you can't afford a mistake in a multi event and she hasn't done whether this will be enough to retain her lead I think it probably will be depending on what times you see him the next races but whatever she's had an excellent first day and of course she's got a terrific second day to come good long jump brilliant javelin on an all day eight hundred isn't special and she showed when she won the Olympic title and she smashed the personal bests in that event that she can again rice the occasion when it matters gotcha ver 24:56 TM ads 927 points to her total one hundredth of a second behind in second place Sadako D'Souza Cucina the RIP star not much to choose between but nan og mo e du losing a bit more ground we go back now to the men's long jump starting to heat up this is the fifth round victorious he said three failures in that second third and fourth rounds at 8:18 still his best jump and he's going to improve he's gonna jump around about eight 22 or better because Maseo is in front of that sort of lead [Music] I don't think I mean if over the white flag goes up so far enough third realms there wasn't any improvement really on the lead we've reversed the order so it goes first and then we finish off with an young goat that looks around about the eight meter mark maybe a little bit more he's explaining maybe that he's not getting the sort of speed he needs and then the leg shoot this rehearsal the mind as well as the body really [Music] tor Gnaeus no that's not as good as I say he's first-round 792 he stays in seventh place well on the runway this young Cuban become a soap who's jumped 822 in the third round gonna jump 823 just one sending me to catch Wang just in front of it oh that's a big jump and if he knows it the white flag goes up the Cubans they're right at the for look they're saying yeah that's a big one small but he's so fast and look at the height those white lines there I think the yellow and the white are the first two placings I think in the vault at least close to those he's got a beat 8:23 to go ahead of Wang and then 8:25 to go ahead of semi and he's done it 8:26 he moves that into fourth [Music] [Applause] the third of the four races of the heptathlon 200 meters this is the lineup so this doesn't include mostly the major contenders a little bit better certainly has been going well so look out for her in lane four got mountains Agnew better over Rodriguez of course that was missing her and the cheese has a splendid day in second place at Wheeler who won one who trainer and chip has been Ola this Jeff has been Ola twice the South American champion representing Brazil obviously with great pride to European under 23 medalists who have come out here she was the silver medalist on that occasion when they're held about three weeks ago then seven this is a deal ahoo and one who the venon athlete national record holder was based in France and person the French championship nearly agreed or another record holder the South American record holder in this case for the Columbia whose personal best at 2362 bar charges the fastest in the sphere now you're gonna soil Regas terrific talent seven Olympics getting better all the time wonderful high jump competition earlier today there Nanook better the European champion from last year and at 2317 one of the women who've broken 24 seconds in this race six six two six the dutch record she has for the rent Carolyn Agnew very promising European junior champion two years ago European under-23 champion this year and Cana modulus now the youngster who's third in the world juniors last year so that's the lineup but just the very fastest tennis contenders in the 200 to come in the final race take to their marks then mountains of Belgium Agnew of Switzerland better the Netherlands Rodriguez of Cuba Aquila Colombia ahoo and one who of been in trainer of Austria and chef Espanola of Brazil this is better European champion we enjoy dressing and trying to run down rodriguez outside every human is talented and is holding our offshore choose the game between them he been in athlete also running go dominantly indeed a two and one oh and I think she's just got the lead a little bit the better finishing strongly these two and if wheeler coming up ahead of Rodriguez but as the Bennion athletes who had won oh that's that Bragg is at the end that she held on to win 24:11 shown as the time on the plot she can celebrate our personal best was twenty four twenty four coming into this race she just smashed it and that's a traumatic thing to do in for an unexperienced athlete and a World Championships competition for the first time that even quicker on but he finished 2409 for the youngsters roster they mean I'm looking out for mostly to see is what the point self closed Rodriguez she ran pretty well as indeed did better [Applause] there's Rodriguez there's fantastic high jumping competitions with three personal bests 189 190 to 195 earlier in the day and Rodriguez was running in Lane five here with better in the inside lane third from the inside but all the way through I think it was really ahoo and one who who had the advantage and she was strong enough to hold on and it really take took strength because she finished looking a pretty ragged but enough to take the victory and to take it it's a fairly substantial margin off her personal best so there we go 2409 they confirm winning time then a guerrilla then Vetter who gets 946 points Rodriguez who gets 941 so narrowing the gap on Tia just a little not enough to take the lead though and then prema Agnew Shepard and mountains [Music] back in the long jump was our Sam I it was in fifth place at the moment with that jump of 825 oh and I bet jumped not the same as before the white flag goes up Wow 825 is 2 centimeters behind main cough is this an improvement 827 man coughs distance it's gonna be close to what it was before some way back behind the board samurais I said in fifth place at the moment out of the medals South Africa would love to have one and two in this event at the scoreboard Wow 820 70 is the same distance as Maine cough but he's got a better jump Bangkok hasn't got any other jumps he's fouled and everything else so he moves now into the third what can men calm haven't seen that what can he now do he's seen that medal slip away he's in Falls to place oh I don't think it's gonna be good like the red flag goes up anyway so disappointment makeup moves into fall awesome round 5 second place with that second round 843 it's getting preciously close amongst these jumpers centimetres separating everybody he's five centimeters back from man younger shaking leg does this every time leans back there it goes here he comes the American champion faster to the board oh it's a big jump but I don't think it's gonna threaten many younger we'll have to wait and see the white flag goes up coach is looking anxious see those marks in the side you can't really be 100% they're accurate that's a long way back from the board that could be precious distance that he's lost really when it comes on 8:31 though who stays in second position just behind when younger the big man can he produce a massive jump he's been looking so so good he comes in he charges all no not as good as he thought he was going to do white flag that won't improve on these 8:48 in the second round doesn't matter still there in first place at the moment and if he wins he'll be the well the first South African champion in this event for Africa again fit back from that plasticine there's his coach he knows there's a big jump there somewhere but it's still not as the moment being poured out he's closing in on the world title and what a story it would be he's his life has taken him down some colorful difficult routes and he's bouncing back and look at the big man please don't go out wherever you're watching this in the world don't miss the last individual race in Usain Bolt's career it is coming up very very soon just one raised before then that's this final race of the heptathlon daddy H William Shaffer Boogaard Johnson Thompson V sir and Salman Ralph 22 seconds this is Nadine Ibiza and we started the day with the best time in the hundred meter hurdles [Applause] Katrina Johnson Thompson disaster in the high jump only one a deep cut she could win this and 2279 and make her way up a little bit in the standings now it could regard another who disappointed in the high jump but she's a good runner of this event 23:28 second in the American Championships at heptathlon this year the consistent Carolyn Chaffetz be well in contention for a medal another good event for her former world junior champion fifth in the Olympics she's on 23 27 then Kendall Williams on the world junior champion at the hurdles she's won no less than six American collegiate titles finally Donna damaged the European so bronze medalist from last year the Austrian who improved her personal best friend enormous margin when she excelled with at European roses so it's daddy of Austria Williams of us a share for Germany Boogaard USA Johnson Thompson Great Britain visa of the Netherlands and Salman wrath of Germany to complete the action of day one for women's heptathlon day two of the IAAF World Championships that [Applause] come into the home straight and the crowd roar as they appreciate that and on their favorite stunts and Thompson is coming through to win this by a big margin no question about that he's showing what you can do Shafer doing very well to get second place Boogaard is third and a splendid time by Johnson Thompson well it hasn't all gone right for her today but it ended in style she's broken 23 seconds in these cold conditions here the clock showing 22 88 and this just shows what this young lady can do even quicker 2286 a fine ending let's just hope she can start tomorrow with a cracking longer because he is one of the top international and shaker continuing to head for a medal American it's going to be a wonderful second day I'm quite sure TM remains the favorite but these women running much quicker than TM did and Johnson Thompson's third from the left here powering her way to a splendid victory she's got a lead of some two or three meters here and just watch as she goes away from the field just showing what a superlative sprinters years because certainly a time that she did would qualify her with ease to run in the 200 meters if she were to do that event and look she's winning by weight meters or so well ahead of Schaefer and boog are just inside her splendid piece of running it was very impressive we know at her best she runs under 23 seconds it was done with Drive and desire wasn't it p2 the frustration of the disappointment of the high jump earlier every single out was put into that event here the final event today one little smile at the end as well she knows it's been a tough day for up and as you mentioned hopefully can come back tomorrow one of her more favorite events but his world-class running a nice smile at the end as well Johnson Thompson winning in twenty two point eight six for a thousand of 93 points Schaefer taking second in 2358 then du gard pisser Salman Roth danach and Kendall Williams our final event of their top level giving the final standings shortly back to the final four in the long jump the last round this man now in Bronzeville position after his fifth round jump of 827 he's capable of going much further he really as this is his last attempt now for rush a my oh it's a good job it really is the white flag goes up he's thanking the crowd it's a great competition looking at his job 8:27 he's got at the moment he's got to get close to 843 I'm not sure that's gonna be anywhere near that route to wait and see it's a good good jump though on the last attempt through sin amis behind the board good leg chute [Applause] 8:32 Wow marvelous that's his best performance so far best jump so far but he's still in third place and that's the bronze medal at the moment [Music] while this is the only man who can deny him a place on the podium Steve but what an inconsistent card he's produced I 27th he's first around and then for no jobs and those four no jumps have cost him dearly really up until now up until that last jump really of samurai because up until then defeat him had a decent jump he was still been in bronze metal position so now he's got to jump better than 832 to unsettle samurai in that third place at the moment make off this would be a season's best of you does it oh it's a good job but I don't think it's gone the red flag goes up fourth place for men cough the worst position I think sometimes in the competition because it's so close to all that todya and he was almost there really until the last couple of rounds [Music] so we are nailed down to the decision between gold and silver in the men's long jump there it is horse place for Alexander bang cough having to nail watch Darien Lawson of the United States 8:43 in the second round he's five centimetres adrift of my younger but then when younger could produce an even bigger jump if he has to Lawson's got it all before him here for the gold shaking legs as he always does the head goes back hits the crowd garlic they've had a wonderful competition over there in the long jump soon some great performers man younger helping him out well that's true sportsmanship really Jarrod Lawson last attempt in the men's Ranjha is in silver medal position at the moment fast down the runway it's a ball that it's a big jump but wow this is gonna be the white flag goes that this is going to be preciously close what a great last jump it's just looking Scott again 848 and are looking they're looking for - for Wow a big big jump for centimeters short rap my younger wasn't even looking at that Sam I got the bronze a younger couldn't bear to look it was so so close he's crying Steve Lawson can be rightly proud of his performance with the silver medal and the pyrotechnics are going off in the stadium of fine effort from Lawson but Lou though man younger has turned his life around with athletics he's shot as a junior winning the World Junior title back in 2010 then came the silver medal in the Olympics last year but can he finish with a bang oh it's always awkward isn't it if you've won the competition to produce a good jumper this man possibly could it's wait and see this massive oh no they really did he did finish with a bag oh wow wonderful wonderful competition a great gold medal for South Africa here the Younger came in as the favorite and he really did produce the goods well that's the wonder what that joke would have been they're not even showing maybe or are they what the distance over the plasticine was but it doesn't matter you come here to win the competition and he's done just that well gold and bronze for South Africa what a wonderful championship in the long jump their first two medals and one of the moments between the two teammates and the two good friends and than younger story shows you are never too late to turn your life around he made some bad decisions he spent some time in jail after looking as though he was going to emerge on the global stage after finishing 5th in Daegu he went back to the drawing board he went back to athletics what he loved what drove him and there he is raising the flag for the rainbow nation the Olympic silver medallist is the world champion and what a story of redemption well what a way to end the field events here in the Olympic Stadium with just one more event to come and what do you think that is well there you are if you can't see and recognize that face you haven't been involved in sport in the last 10 years the athletes are prowling this is the time in the poolroom when you're waiting to come into the stadium you don't look at anybody you're concentrating look at anybody's eyes because the moment has arrived for you to come and deliver well just before then we can catch up with what else has happened and in fact Schaffer has taken the lead from TM in the heptathlon by just 22 points both over 4,000 Rodriguez is in third Johnson Thompson moves all the way back up into the top ten in fourth place then better and visa the Dutch athletes who see never damage as we run through the whole perspective quite a lot of changes with the results that came through from the 200 meters and quite a gap obviously between the top competitors over 4000 and the others just over 3,000 there those are the 30 women who will see again tomorrow while there's confirmation of that wonderful long jump new home and younger the Gardner x-48 Jaron Larson tried his best he killed in the season's best 8:44 in silver medal in Russia Sam I getting that all-important bronze medal for South Africa gotta go great performance in the long jump for South Africa just one more event to come on the track the big man congratulating everybody one by one they're in the warm-up call off area we should say shouldn't we before we get into this race wherever you are take the next 15 minutes to enjoy every second of what's about to unfold because we will never see an athlete with the charisma and the talent combined that Usain brought the Usain Bolt has brought to the global stage for the last 10 years who would have thought a decade ago as he has a chat with a carny symbian a who's racing against him the good friends who would have thought when he took the silver in Osaka and broked on Cory's 200-meter national record ten years ago that a decade on he would quite simply be regarded as the greatest he is there is one last individual race there is one last medal to come surely it deserves to be it has to be gold well is potentially or hoping to anchor Jamaica to the four by one relay but you're right rob individually it's the last chance for Usain Bolt to shine the crowd weights but the greatest of all time to enter the stadium a huge contingent of Jamaican fans there always is every time is competed in London the Jamaican fans have turned out to support their man and very shortly they're gonna watch you lineup for the final time over a 100 meter race [Applause] well I don't think there's a seat really in this massive stadium that hasn't been bought because they wanted to see Usain Bolt they're all they're already standing Steve it's already a standing ovation all around the stadium the final walk for these eight athletes who line up in this men's 100 meter final there Jimmy Vick over France leading the way you line up in lane number three mascot hero doing a headstand [Applause] causing some amusements for the men's 100-meter finalists the crowd have already started Youth same Pollock is already beginning to be chanted around the London stadium many of this crowd may have witnessed his gold medal winning performances in London 2012 many wouldn't but as Steve said millions around the world are tuning in to watch the final individual race of the fastest man of all time he says it's going to be an emotional time for him and that's understandable in athletics we've known of him for a long time the World Junior Title II took at 15 years old in 2002 seems a lifetime ago now in track and field doesn't it but look what he's achieved since in our sport and it indeed he was a superstar before he even ran his first ever 100 meters race and this of course is this distance and what a superstar he proved immediately when he turned to that distance following his early successes at 400 and at 200 now his big moment I think it's pretty courageous to to say you're going out after you've taken part in the bed like this you could say it excited sucked before taking part you could say after when you win but he said it now so he's really got to put a threshold stuff to do well so the ban was 100 meter final the glitz and glamour of the athletes being introduced to lane number nine in massive law for the 21 year old Rhys Prescott from break Brits in Northern Ireland and outstanding championships with his British new athlete whatever happens he's a world finalist soup of China [Applause] [Music] Jimmy Beeker frogs 986 at his best [Music] just in getting from the USA five successive elliptical World Championships silvers behind Usain Bolt yo [Applause] the second Jamaica in this final Telugu finally former world champion a carnation beanie of South Africa 15 Ryo the South African record holder Christian Coleman the fastest man in the world this year from the USA the sparse disqualified from the semi-finals you listen to the wrong the fire Elite the flash bulbs are going mad the the fastest man who's ever seen the chanting starts again Boult will line up in number four [Applause] how ice what's gonna miss in aren't we a really it's a massive massive gap when he goes it really is well they'll do their final preparations blocks will be put in place Paul himself wasn't happy after the first round proper with the starting blocks the adjustments would have been made the practice is no doubt on the warm-up track would have been made with the blocks the bright spikes the flashy spikes inside these spikes on the insole every major gold medal performance is printed the place the event the winning time so good job he's got big feet right this is a lot to fit in those pair of shoes all the global medals eleven world goals eight Olympic golds and this is it individually this is it the very last time in a competitive context that Usain Bolt will explode hopefully from the blocks just the relay to come after this and that is why so many people have made their way in to this stadium what a privilege for the tens of thousands gathered here nobody will ever forget they were here and saw the very last individual down in front of us to our left do you look at a shot of beautiful shot at the London stadium Usain Bolt pushes out Tessa's blocks and gives the crowd around of applause as Christian Coleman the lineup in lane number five as the American got the mental strength to dethrone on his last individual race enough that once again name of Usain Bolt in an individual lane the atmosphere here in London is electric so here's your lineup for the men's 100 meter final thing jiangsu of China starts in lane number 2 Jimmy B Club of France 7th in Rio last year 8th in Beijing two years ago the French athlete starts in lane number 3 he's 31 years old in a couple of weeks the greatest of all time 9.5 eight over one hundred 1921 nine over two hundred eleven times all champion goes in for lane five Christian Coleman world leader nine point eight two seconds its fastest to qualify for this finals in Lane six the carnation beanie of South Africa would have been buoyed by the two medals of his teammates just one in a long journey to proceed play number seven Yohan Blake the equal second fastest of all time nine point six nine seconds [Applause] lay number eight the medalist in Rio last year a world champion over the one and 200 meters in 2005 Justin Gatlin from the USA incurs leting the line up a wonderful reception Rhys Prescott the Great Britain the UK champions personal best in his heat at 10:03 qualifying for the men's 100 meter final the final individual race from the greatest of all time can the ending of his amazing journey have the fairytale finish [Applause] the vinyl are the men's 100 meters for one last time Usain Bolt settles in his blocks over the 100 meter distance [Applause] he's gonna be cool unofficially nine point nine four seconds well was it Gatlin in late number eight was it common in lane number five the crowd drops Justin getting with a time at 9:00 two seconds is the world champion here in London the fifth fastest a little time at 9:27 for marry kinetics [Applause] whose control to picks up the Silva for us they built in his violence individual race rooms nine point nine five seconds four prongs the fairy tale in the individual [Applause] welcome to the fairy town was all through his career really as far as I'm concern wonderful finish a gold medal but in the end it's a tough race he came into this race knowing he wasn't in the best shape because he wanted to be here in London he wanted to be here and be in front of his power the Phillies of his event and look at the way that he's giving a reception from their son in fantastic the whole stadium and stunned justin gatlin successive silver medals pointing Usain Bolt's is the champion eldest nerve brilliantly such an inexperienced athlete internationally meet at the silver it's not the fairytale we were expecting but we should still celebrate commemorate and revel in all that Usain Bolt has brought to our sport for the last 10 years there will never be another like him even if at the end it reads the last individual level as once instead of God still the biggest mother mansik a medal winner in the history of men's real Jaffa chicks this is his fourteenth and of course every chance to win another and he ties Merlino to an abandoned truck of his world and their cattle now most medals at 100 meters in World Championships history report well I mentioned Usain Bolt burst onto the world stage winning that World Junior title that 15 years old leave with sprint times that may stand the test of time to potentially many many years to come you say instantly a volt we thank you for everything you've done for over the last few years sports still to come hopefully but Wow it was it was a race that Bolton called them were battling in their own little battle work they Steve in the center of the track and justin gatlin dragged on all his experience to pull it out the back here in London and grab the gold in a workable world titled some 12 years after he won it in 2005 while we were just watching the middle of the field I suppose and it looked at one stage as if Yusei was coming through strong perhaps over the last two or three meters the strike that he didn't have at his legs let him down a little bit look at how much ground Usain Bolt had to make up from that poor start Coleman was putting him under huge pressure he was sensing Vico as well this is the section of the race at which for the last 10 years we've seen him saw past everyone it just wasn't there tonight and maybe maybe he really is bowing out at the right time however there's one more chance for gold not individually but the relay still to come well he's talking to the crowd here thanking them for the support that they've given him he does love racing in London and let's not forget he did talk about retiring after the Rio Olympic Games and then had a change of heart and concentrating just on the single event that he said is easiest to train for which was the 100 meters so to even have him here in London and talking about him for another season of course has been a pleasure but the tightness in his shoulders Peter we never see the same bolt tight like that do we no we'd hoped I think perhaps above hoped after the semi finals that he really was back to something near the sort of form which would take him to gold it wasn't to be I suppose that's a bit of an anti-climax I suppose there'd be a lot of sadness among the crowd but it is time to pay tribute to a superlative wonderful career which has transcended athletics as one of the great superstars of world sport that we've ever seen you've only got a short life I think on this earth and it's going to experience something like that this man and his career over the time that you've been here I think you've been very privileged indeed indeed as an athlete you only have a small window of opportunity don't you to perform at a high level whether you'll stop through injury or illness sometimes the windows not open as long as you'd like but for Usain Bolt since 2008 when he burst on the scene and in world terms for the public and broke the world records his list the endless than it's been a pleasure for all of us to witness the career of the greatest of all time and hopefully equals in the relay towards the end of the championships but every single person here tonight as you said work this in Usain Bolt won his last individual race and gets a chance to say thank you as well you hit the nail on the head Catherine because yes it's the result that none of us expected least of all him I should think he still goes down as the greatest sprinter in history even if he's finishing with an individual bronze medal over the 100 meters he has absolutely transcended the boundaries of sport he says he wants to be remembered as someone who could be considered in a conversation alongside the likes of the late great Muhammad Ali and Pele well he is in those conversations and when he's seen around the world in whatever guys it may be in the future as an ambassador for athletics as an actor as a footballer whatever it is he wants to do next he will be revered he will be treasured not just by Jamaica but by sports fans all around the world because he's done it right from the very start with an incredible sense of fun and he's taken everyone with him on a journey that none of us will ever forget and if you look at individually in his season of 2017 it's not been an easy one for him even to get to this point to race and challenge for a medal injury problems the passing of his close friend Olympic silver medalist high jumper Jermaine Mason who lost three weeks of training mourning the loss of his good friend so such is the level the talent and the testament - you say invoked that he's come can delivered another major championship medal and a word on Christian Coleman as well though picking up the silver medal the young American it's forfeited his last year at the University of Tennessee's term professional he's - signed a seven-figure three-year contract with the sportswear company is he the future when you look at Gatlin's age as well now because gatlings getting older and older and he's not going to be around for a long time I think that Christian Corwin actually committed himself and performed above and beyond where his experience should have normally allowed him to have done what particularly after the extremely hectic demands of a collegiate see which he's faced all through this year to maintain that form in the ultimate challenge with the World Championship with the eyes of the world on that particular race yes that's testing super stars every time you go to make sure this man has been so entertaining I can't see how we can replace it now that charisma can never be replaced I'm sure they'll be great athletes but to the combination look at the scenes that are really I'm sure that was his mum his mother under the scrub there she is in the center there his mum and dad have travelled of course and we bestow c42 throughout his whole career how proud thus they be as a little boy your little boy yeah but he's actually he's actually changed the way people look at 100 metres it used to be thought that this was a a race for short squat men who could get away quickly most of it relatively short and rescreen say 5 foot 10 or whatever but boats height some people said well you can't run 100 meters if you're as tall as that he can has done the only point we haven't made and we haven't made it because we haven't seen him lose in a major championship since osaka ten years ago look at how gracious he is in defeat look at how much time he's giving everyone with the selfies Roger Kipling said if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two Impostors still the same then you'll be a man my son and how proud his parents must be yes it's a bronze and it's not the gold he's still bringing joy to everyone who has paid money to be here and in history tonight and history it still is not the history we planned on seeing not the history we hoped would that would be written that its history nonetheless between myself and Steve we get in emotion I can't look at Steve Oh better the moment is going to set me off bro it is emotional though isn't it because as you say Steve its it is it's emotional either we've been blessed to watch him for so many years he's become such a big part as Peter said of our sport I'm sure and I hope he'll stay involved in some shape or form II just I wonder how much relief he has of him now though because he's he's done what he wanted to do he's now going to bow out and think it's fair to say he enjoys his life off the track and quite rightly so as well when you've worked as hard as he has over the years and there's still thousands in here isn't there still chanting Usain Bolt's name because they know it's the last time individually they're going to see him to say that you said get him sort of quiet motion as is rare for me trust me and cat well cats and tears drop these different ears but I think he's a compliant which I think for walk is something that really I can't say much more than that I guess like everyone else I'm stunned that it was the golden finish we were all expecting I'm sure what we're feeling in the commentary box is exactly what people are feeling in bars in their homes in sports clubs all around the world no matter what the time difference perhaps you'd have to stay up into the middle of the night to watch this last individual race from Usain Bolt he's shown a touch of humanity humility and class this evening despite the fact that he is no longer the world champion over 100 meters so they chant again and they will do until they lose sight of him they're gonna still chance his name the conformation end of the result of the men's 100 meters gold to the USA we justin gatlin silver also to the USA with christian coleman Usain Bolt picks up a bronze it's a season's best it's another medal for the collection the Yohan Blake from Jamaica comes in fourth in that final and the times are good a headwind still under 10 seconds still on this cold night because we had wondered whether they would be slowed a lot put that in a hot weather conditions and all the rest of it that would be very quick indeed these celebrations could go on and on and on and so they should we've got to be positive tonight to focus on the grace and fun that he has brought to this world for more than 10 years and I think we've spoken about this off microphone a couple of times how nice that you say that miss Katie memory and we're hearing this from an eighth time Olympic champion his number one memory is winning the World Juniors at the age of 15 in Kingston in 2002 that says a lot about the man I was actually there for that we're right I actually saw this gangly well I say knows told you is there but Gangu sort of individual this young boy come around the 200 meters and it was something quite special it really was and from there on in he's just got better and better boxer David Haye ringside seat track-and-field wise of course so many people a nice guy on the track but a lovely guy off the track this isn't so I think the public and you know outside of his athletic achievement he's just not just well respected but really well liked because he is just a nice guy yeah it's a nice guy though you don't mean oh he's not he's not there's no airs and graces what you see is what you get he believes Italy genuinely appreciates his wonder what his expectations really were coming to this race because he must have known he wasn't absolute it is T he must have wanted to win but look at him now that the snow oh if only I'd won or whatever like that he's just carrying on in it he's recognized the end of his career he can probably look back on the whole thing I suppose he would have loved to gone out with a goal but he doesn't really seem to matter - it still delivery say get out the way let people see me there is I think he's achieved everything if you had said to him probably even before he became world junior champion in 2002 you will be the first man in history and who knows that the first and only man in history to do the treadle double over one and two hundred meters he would have taken that and I think we ought to mention Catherine's touched on the fact that he lost his great friend Jemaine Mason earlier this year as he was getting towards this last season of competitive action perhaps that loss has further reinforced his understanding that there is a life outside athletics and to lose someone so close to you in the manner in which he did has probably given him a sense of perspective that he didn't have before the tragic incident that took Jemaine Mason's life I hope he just enjoys his retirement and enjoys maybe just enjoys a rest from all the attention and all the publicity and all the training but all the training just a time to reflect on the sheer hard work that he's put in over the years as well it's easy to take the sheer brilliance of such an athlete but he's worked for it and now he can thankfully arrest for it well here we go he started the Q's of interviews the lap of honour understandably took a long time but all the three medalists Usain Bolt Justin Gatlin and Christian Colburn have got a few interviews ahead of them after that men's 100 meter final well those still here will always be able to say they saw Usain Bolt for the last time in an individual race not the outcome bot was expecting but it has been a very memorable night here in the Olympic Stadium [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there is the medal table the United States on top thanks in part to that gold and silver one too for them in the 100 meters Alma's I honor and tarnished a bother going 1 & 2 in the 10,000 meters and that's why they're second in the table many changes still to come between now and the end of the championship we are two days in and there is still a lot to look forward to and I'm sure there will be more than a solitary bronze for the Jamaicans by the end of the championship a new same bolt will hope to be part of a gold in the fall by one final reflections from everybody on a night that we weren't expecting really but it's still a real privilege isn't it to be a real championship action some things don't go right but we're seeing the absolute apex of the sport and we're really privileged to be here at such an event and it's been a privilege tonight what can you say the greatest of all time is bowed out of individual athletics it's been a pleasure it wasn't the story that he wanted all the fans wanted but it was a great night a track-and-field lots of medals won South Africa's superb men's discus was brilliant as well and we said goodbye to the greatest of all time goodbye yes indeed but some great performance mustn't forget that Ayana in the 10,000 meters were younger in the in the men's long jump but this man obviously even though in defeat has become the king yet again Usain Bolt will always be treasured and never be forgotten good night [Music] [Music]

Channel: World Athletics

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Keywords: IAAF, world, championships, champion, Athletisme, 2017, Bolt, London, livestream, live, London 2017, athletics, Usain Bolt, World Championships

Id: aWA-Cohn_Ng

Length: 198min 29sec (11909 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 05 2017