That'll do for today
Thanks a lot for joining us. We’ve seen Mo Farah make history, Bolt lead Jamaica home, and a mystifying collapse by the Great Britain 4 x 100m team. It’s been an eventful couple of hours, but Farah is clearly the story here – if he wasn’t in the pantheon of greats already, he surely is now. Take care, and enjoy the rest of your day.
Yes, clearly a bit of an ‘atmosphere’ there between those four. Plenty of post-mortems to come I think. Kilty has just apologised to everyone back home for not bringing a medal back.
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Kilty to the BBC: “We were in clear third, easily in the running for a bronze medal and I don’t know went on in the last change. It’s probably the fastest team we’ve ever had out and it’s just heartbreaking what happened.”
Oooh, he looks annoyed with his team-mates. Talbot is a bit more diplomatic but says “We have to sort this out”.
Piotr Malachowski wins the men's discus final
Missed that one earlier amid all the running. The Pole takes gold, Belgium’s Philip Milanov silver and another Pole, Robert Urbanek, bronze.
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Mo Farah has just received his gold medal, by the way. And a bird-shaped mascot, whose wings he playfully claps.
The USA were disqualified, too, for their messed-up change, so China are confirmed in silver! That means Canada have bronze.
Great Britain were in the top three or four going into the last change, but there is big frustration in the camp – particularly from an angry-looking Richard Kilty – as a bungled handover between Ellington and Ujah saw them disqualified! Ujah seemed to go too early and Ellington just couldn’t reach him. They’d been in with a shout too!
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Jamaica win the men's 4 x 100m final!
Of course they do, in 37.37sec! Usain Bolt leads them home ... USA seemed to be in with a massive shout going into the last change but there seemed to be a bit of a fumble that lost them time and you don’t give Bolt a chance like that. China came second, capitalising on others’ errors – it wasn’t the cleanest of races, that.
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Men's 4 x 100m final – they're off!
Can the Britons get in there with Jamaica, the US, Canada, France and the like? It’s a big ask...
And here are the Jamaicans, defending their title, headed up by you-know-who....
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Great Britain, out now, will be in lane seven.
The men’s teams are entering the arena now. They enter team by team, to cheerleaders and a slightly underwhelming attempt at glitz. The Chinese team is out first and gets a rapturous reception, of course.
This is the men’s team that runs at 2.10pm
BREAKING: Men's 4x100 Relay Final team @RKilty1 @DannyRakeTalbot @Jellington100m @Chijindu_Ujah #Beijing2015 pic.twitter.com/vZMcLYdmdu
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 29, 2015
Asha Philip tells the BBC: “We’ve worked hard as a team ... I feel like because we’ve put this all together, we’ve got a great team and a national record last year and this year shows we’ve come a long way and really improved ourselves.”
Great Britain finished in 42.10, which I believe is a new national record. Well done to them.
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Jamaica win the women's 4 x 100m!
USA second, Trinidad & Tobago third, Great Britain fourth. It was a tough, race but a brilliance late burst from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce saw Jamaica home. They didn’t make a world record but managed a championship record of 41.07sec.
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Dina Asher-Smith for Bianca Williams is the one change for Great Britain from the team that qualified. They’re up against some top opposition – including a Dafne Schippers-inspired Netherlands.
This team will be in action 10 minutes from now....
BREAKING: Women's 4x100 Relay Final team @MissAshaPhilip @dinaashersmith @JodieAlicia27 @DesireeLHenry #Beijing2015 pic.twitter.com/TEH9lw7rr1
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 29, 2015
Vlasic to the BBC: “I didn’t expect this today. I came injured, I did two jumping sessions in two months, I didn’t do anything on my right leg. I wanted to be part of this great championships and I’m glad I did. I’m so proud and grateful.”
Mariya Kuchina wins the women's high jump
The 22-year-old takes it!
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Anna Chicherova then tries to clear 2.03m but can’t. She gets the bronze though. Vlasic can’t clear it either, so it’s silver for her, which means....
Women’s high jump news: Vlasic has cleared 2.01m with ease at the first attempt, celebrating in style. Mariya Kuchina, the rather more inscrutable Russian, follows suit. It’s a personal best for her, and she holds the upper hand with no fouls so far in the competition.
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.@AshtonJEaton breaks decathlon world record with 4:17.52 time in the 1,500m. His wife, @btheiseneaton, won heptathlon silver last weekend.
— Simon Peach (@SimonPeach) August 29, 2015
I neglected to mention Brianne – my oversight. What a partnership!
He can! Ashton Eaton wins decathlon gold and breaks his world record!
He finishes second behind Bourrada, finishing in about 4:17.5 I think – and his final tally of 9,045 points is a world record. We’ve just seen Farah, but the American is another truly outstanding sportsman.
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Eaton is second in the race behind the Algerian, Bourrada. He may not win it but can he take the record?
Eaton is just short of that pace with 500m to go....
They’re off. Eaton would need 69-second laps to be at world record pace (for the decathlon itself, not for this distance).
Men's decathlon 1,500m
This is it. Ashton Eaton has all but got the gold but could break his own record if he runs 4:18.21 or better. That would be these championships’ first world record, so there’s plenty to gun for. It starts shortly...
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Daley Thompson isn’t having this “best ever” chat. Wants Farah to go on longer and get a few more world records first. Paula Radcliffe looks slightly incredulously at the old curmudgeon.
Now here is Sean’s first take from the Bird’s Nest. He’ll be back with plenty more, too:
“The next step is the Great North Run and hopefully after that I’ll take a holiday.” He’ll get quite a reception up there...
“To all the kids out there, the message is that you can be like me and hopefully we can find the next Mo.” Some wonderfully humble words at the moment from a clearly emotional Farah, who says he just wants to go home and be with his family now.
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Farah talks to the BBC: “It’s great to make history. I didn’t feel great, I had a little bit where I almost went down, my hammy was playing up a little bit. But tonight to make a double it means so much to me ... I was kind of a bit nervous, for the first time in a little while.”
Even the best are afflicted by nerves. You’d never have known. What a man.
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@Mo_Farah Nothing Mo to prove... The greatest of them all...arise Sir ....
— Linford Christie (@ChristieLinford) August 29, 2015
Decent shout, Linford....
Here’s an early wire take on Farah’s win, but we’ll have Sean Ingle’s report for you soon:
I assume we’ll get a glimpse of the men’s decathlon 1,500m in 10 minutes or so, even if the overall outcome seems a formality as discussed earlier. At the moment we’re watching Farah take his sweet time circling the track, posing for photos, happily taking selfies with fans’ phones, making sure everyone gets a piece of one of the greatest champions ever.
A visual
Ladies and Gentlemen, your TRIPLE DOUBLE GOLD medallist over 5000m and 10000m...@Mo_Farah #Beijing2015 pic.twitter.com/HOK2DUKPN6
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 29, 2015
So what do you think of Farah? The commentators are putting him up there as the best British sportsman of all time. Agree? It’d be hard to state a case against him at the moment.
Farah won that in 13:40.38. It would be remiss not to mention Farrell, who finished back in 15th in 14:08.87 but can be very happy with what he has achieved here.
The inevitability of that was quite something. You just knew that, whatever the others did, Farah was in control. He was perhaps run a bit closer to the wire than he’d have liked, but he always had that extra bit of class in him and eventually won comfortably. He wraps himself in the Union Jack and celebrates. He comes first, Ndiku second, and Gebrhiwet gets bronze. But the story is all about Farah’s ‘triple-double’.
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Mo Farah wins the 5,000m!
What a perfectly, perfectly-timed response to what was a fine race from the ‘Buffalo’, Ndiku! Farah takes it in the final 80m. Wow!
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He’s going to do it!
Now here comes Farah, it’s a straight run with Ndiku in the final 100m!
Did Ndiku go too early? 400 to go and it’s Ndiku, Farah, Gebrhiwet....
Ndiku makes his move and Farah responds – but Ndiku is really going for this with 700m to go, and suddenly he’s out in front!
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Farah is completely calling the tune here. Neither of the Ethiopians directly behind him is applying too much pressure, although Ndiku is starting to show his hand.
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Now Farah stretches this out and, with four laps to go, starts extending a lead.
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The first 3,000m have been run in 8:47.29 by the leader Merga.
Farah and Merga still up there, Rupp in third...
Yes, Farah heads to the front and then Merga, the Ethiopian, makes a sprint ahead of him and now things begin to heat up.
Still little movement here, at the 2,000m mark. Six minutes in. It’s very, very cagey – Farah’s presence at the back can only be unsettling to the rest of the pack. Farrell still leads ... and now Farah is moving up....
They’ve now realised the drinks were placed too wide, on the outside lane, and moved them arguably too close in to the fourth lane!
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Now Mo makes a move, pulling out wide and grabbing a drink of water. That took something of a detour but at this speed it really doesn’t matter.
Looks like a jog in the park at the moment for Farah, still at the back, as we pass the three-minute mark. It’s a slow one right now.
Farrell is still in front here although he’s effectively a pace-setter I expect.
Farah is happy to hang deep early on, right at the back, while Farrell starts out in front.
The 5,000m is underway
Twelve and a half laps from more Mo Farah glory ... and a word for the other Briton in the race, Tom Farrell, too. Can he spring a surprise in this 15-strong field that includes Farah’s training partner, Galen Rupp, and a typically talented set of Ethiopians and Kenyans? Hagos Gebrhiwet has beaten Farah before, and he cannot be discounted.
Don’t forget – nobody has EVER completed the triple-double Farah is going after....
Anyway, just the five minutes or so from Mo Farah now. He’s on the track as we speak. Caleb Ndiku – the Kenyan nicknamed “the Buffalo” is an obvious threat but really it’s hard to see him falling short today.
Arzamasova won it in 1:58.03, from Bishop (1:58.12) and Sum (1:58.18).
Oskan-Clarke tells the BBC: “I wanted to push on the home straight but I didn’t have enough to stay with them. But I’ve run two PBs so that’s good. I’m just so happy and that’s all I can really say.”
Marina Arzamasova wins the 800m!
The European champion, from Belarus, is one of those quick finishers I mentioned and she did exactly that here! She overtook Sum in the final 200m and pipped her to the title – she is ecstatic! Sum has to settle for third, with the Canadian Melissa Bishop a surprise silver medalist. Oskan-Clarke? Fifth place, and a very creditable run.
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Oskan-Clarke hanging in there, currently fifth going into the final 200m....
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Eunice Sum, the defending champion, has gone out straight in front. But she’s in a field of quick finishers....
Women's 800m final
It’s about to get underway. Shelayna Oskan-Clarke lines up for Great Britain but is very much an outsider for a medal. The 25-year-old qualified well with a personal best though, so you never know. They’re off!
A reminder that the first event this blog will be covering is the women’s 800m final in the next 10 minutes or so. Expectation is building inside the Bird’s Nest...
The women’s high jump final is underway as we speak. Blanka Vlasic, of Croatia, has just cleared 1.92m and looks in good shape for her third title.
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Ashton Eaton has 8216 points in the decathlon ahead of the 1,500m and looks a dead cert for the gold, and a title defence. There’s a bit of chat that he might fancy a crack at the world record...
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Good afternoon
And it should be a good afternoon – or at least one that starts off full of excitement. The big hitters line up early today and they don’t come much bigger than Mo Farah, who is on the brink of achieving something remarkable. Should he prevail in the 5,000m – as expected – he will have landed a ‘triple-double’ of three 5,000m and 10,000m, and he says he is in the shape of his life after easing to the 10k.
And there will be plenty more where that came from. The 4 x 100m finals will be well worth a watch, and Great Britain have qualified for both – the men finishing second in their heat to a Justin Gatlin-powered USA. We’ll also see Shelayna Oskan-Clarke in the women’s 800m final and there will be some men’s decathlon action too.
The times you need to know (all UK):
Women’s 800m final – 12.15pm
Men’s 5,000m final – 12.30pm
Men’s discus final – 12.50pm
Men’s decathlon 1,500m – 1.10pm
Women’s 4 x 100m relay final – 1.50pm
Men’s 4 x 100m relay final – 2.10pm
There you go. Now enjoy, and do get in touch with your thoughts, hopes, fears and observations.
